and so right to your part business program interactive exhibition urban first the details on my servant forum dot com. this is hearty and our special coverage of the biggest football events of the year the twenty eighth seed of the felt world cup crews taking on problems in a critical group c. clash right now when you catch a bird for a chance to book their places in the knockout stage the first game of the day full source trailer a vital voice against denmark it wasn't without will control me so that video assistant referees but like marmite is there i look like oh yeah you said this but though despite that those funds were still in full talks about. that. but with funds cheering from all over the

world a street in central australia becomes the unofficial halt of the world cup and is strong with crowds as the party atmosphere continues. to. know that they are close scour the streets. right now or anywhere in the long haul to go. well there was a party they were really it was in the certainly a party going on here now behind me as we had just by red square we can see the iconic kremlin behind me i'm kate poetry which i'm going to look into welcome to today's oddities special coverage of all the twenty eighty people well well underway right now is the front sprue gave me an accounting berg when moving bases though heading to our new football h.q. in simpy just like with neil harvey and he'll go. with all the up to date coverage

and analysis trends games. and also i think. yes thanks very much dan and kate and hello and welcome to all of you at home this is our studio in st petersburg in the iconic. square we have moved here before so i didn't bring the weather with me but if you look around you'll see you know a scattering of people with bradley's luckily most of the football fans are inside because there are lots of places to watch the football here in st petersburg perfect when the weather's like this and i'll be explaining all about that a little later in our program in the meantime let's go to the second game from group c. that's just got underway literally just kicked off two minutes played it's france

nil. first work but here is there for paolo where oh this is remarkable worth mentioning a chap who was bound for testing positive for. substance for three months and it was appealed when the captains of the other three teams in peru. wrote stiffy for saying that he should be allowed to play and at the age of thirty four he's making his world there was a game played earlier today in group c. it was nicely balanced it was denmark against australia ended in a draw let's bring you the goal action. playmaker christian eriksen rifle then the opening goal it would be for take a half volley after a lot before com from your guts in the days taking the early lead in this game. then there was some control. of the referee calling back play to use the vast system which is already seen i think for penalties awarded prior to that australia got another penalty. to the one we had in the previous guy get it not once again

step it up and we can take there were plenty of chances in the second half neither side able to apply that killer touch when one it finished now whether it's a point guy or two points last month perspective the fans still in high spirits after the full time with. by . neil is in somalia right now life to catch up with some very special fans from both sides. yeah well done one not so belcher in the first place this game was an end to end for ninety minutes i really thought was the expectation going into the clash that we would get a good game here this is the same our arena and it's the second game of the world

cup so fun to locals and foreign funds alike were expecting i deem to be remembered and really it was this was what some of the fans before the march told me how listen i rushed good some are we just going to do so we have to sort of experience or there's lots of bodies on the street that have been due to die so it's gregg gradually building so result pending tonight i think it's going to be a good one but. no matter who. you. are you have let me just explain what was going on there as well local musicians from some are getting a little bit of help from our r.t.e. spanish correspondent with what my friends have told me is a modern day classic and obvious just some of the fun that was going on yeah as i mentioned i was talking to lots of different funds from denmark and australia so that was why. on the woman let me get her name right because she said thirty

important woman had thirty k. outs she's a pensioner from dying under she's been to every world cup since nineteen seventy four and she's now in russia following her beloved socceroos to what she hoped would be at least to roy and sixteen glory as she put it this is some more of what she had to tell me an extraordinary well and i was so happy to be. a lot. of people see the. past not happy but she's got to. keep the peace talks to. sad to watch it. and i have a small. piece of it but i think. oh who was it close oh. yeah so just as the funds

behind me are streaming there is a big game to look forward to up the summer arena on the twenty fifth of june we'll be doing that all over again right here russia versus europe why for supremacy but a lot of game still to come today. i don't mind just this is the night when i have my barbershop quartet round for if you sing song so please excuse the music it is a place where there's always something going on whether it's football or not you may be wondering why i'm here in st petersburg when the football is somewhere else that i had rushed at well all setting up camp in the cultural heart of russia i was treated to a warm and all the welcome and i got a taste of what is in store for the brazil and costa rica fans will be coming here for tomorrow's match and the other big games lined up for this beautiful host city .

sure you know professional. love is the key so how to get international kickabout here i got very lucky that we got five local fans from all over the world we got russian azerbaijan and morocco and gentlemen here from poland this is rough out now he explains why i'm doing this report today because the response to how the tickets to watch the games he was st petersburg be watching poland did what most. told you cannot but he still wants to see st petersburg see the hermitage see the sights so what does he do when he wants to watch all the other games they head to the polls pubs restaurants around the city games being shown live everywhere where's the best place to go is the question take a look. first choice yes it's no secret i'm so going to chose it because it's popular resistance week it's out those who are in the sunshine it's family friendly and there's a great atmosphere here and there's going to be a gulf but

a place to enjoy. the excitement of all the folks who think you located just outside the fun so you could wind relax the gentle pull price and the funny side of the no. but maybe some of the sunshine fresh ever since you like it if so a little strange but i understand so let's head to option to go to the pub. this is the way to enjoy the world cup football with a beer some chips. some salty is inspiring global cosmopolitan here. but singularly interesting because there's a clue in the night it's called a hundred yards beyond us because it's long. and it needs to be. on.

misleading because it's not a hundred fold it's three hundred pages long slow he said the well are you having fun. this is not the final and i think i am to sleep. but think this is a sport. i please. come back and say some of the pot of the day this guy he's the pot and he's giving the government sure. you. can keep. the. peace percy good this is the place for all the for strength to commentators among it you know the guys the ones who just never shuts up while the game is on. what if you don't know all the playing is how do you deal with that problem i said to be dilatory if i don't

remember the name of the player i just called him a key to. this so that was it sounds myers like keep him please make it past the bowl so if you want you can go in trail noted i thank you but never going to. solo and second of all makes the leasehold you know all things like sixty five when somebody makes last year anybody who's ever in the booth i highly recommend the show comes it plays and i could have called the most viewing things that people in the corner. too many people looking to say. place the bush position something. it's nice he's an englishman this is crazy to say by the way i am a fan of the way football you are only champions league to come out she's any special sort of it's just that it's my league.

and in arguably the pick of the games this thursday heavyweights argentina and croatia are all set for their group d. and counter its initial draw that will be kicking off a little later this evening nine pm moscow time peter schmeichel be alongside me to analyze that now kuwait have never defeated the south american side at the world cup to fight for a tense. world cup co-host josie marino has been predicting the outcome of this one . is a team with some talented experienced players have seen the best clubs in the world i don't think in the in the past two years they've had enough revolution for the next generation but they have still a group of players especially in the midfield players of the best we have in the

world as it is argentina. but i think through asia has the team is capable to give or to give them a difficult match. well he is a big name and he is an expert if you're not convinced by marina's predictions you might be better off turning to the animal kingdom it was pretty well in the past month paul the octopus and also there was a prophetic penguin a parrot everyone wants to get in on this act and now we've got clear part of the tape here peter old i went to find out some of her predictions for the upcoming games. animals predicting results a big football tournament has become ice cream and places great goals in some form . this time around we've seen a psychic elephant in stuttgart the wonderfully named mystic marcus a pig in the united kingdom but here in the you know good old they've got their own animal it's a beastie that i'm not too familiar with the south american tape she's called to.

patra and she already came up trumps for the swedish she predicted that they would win against south korea that did come true right here and she's going to now predict not only the the outcomes of the game between argentina and croatia but she's also going to protect the much for tween england and panama it's played on sunday so let's have a look and see what we can expect if she's going to be right this time it seemed like the tape here was picking croatia first then in a complete turnaround while she very firmly went for argentina could be a prediction of the game tonight obviously the fans from croatia are going to hope so but i was argentines need that win if they're try and get through to the next round became and i can see how she picks the england palomar game but there are some allegations that perhaps they could have been a bias in the tapirs choice and that argentina croatia won because the tape it does originate from south america. but not paying too much attention to

various creature predictions is the coach of crewe ation out he says he's still got three points the playing a very big name the pressure is off them together result against argentina. senator . as i said this is going to be the easiest game for us because we have nothing to lose we're playing against a great team but we're also a good team it's going to be a match which could go either way lionel messi is the most important player he's similar to luka moderate in our national team for me it's very clear he's not had to play with players like them and for me julio is the best player in history. now this is a perfect example of how foreign fans are coming and embrace the home culture fans of argentina have been turning out in force ahead of that match and they've even created a special challenge based on a famous russian song. the

. net. net. so it's been a week that has passed already doesn't time fly when you're having fun is the biggest party on the planet kicked off in russia still three more entire weeks of welcome footy action to go can you imagine the hangover there are going to be after a whole month of this eleven cities hosting welcome faction across russia moscow is the hub for the people watching matches and transiting viral lots of fans go to moscow one particular street that has become a bacon for supporters around the world. the unofficial fans i. know i'm from moscow a city of more than ten million people and i cannot believe how the world cup was able to reach draw the map of landmarks in the city if you thought it was the

kremlin possibly right square or the arbat street i'll have to tell you that this time you're wrong where. are you going to ask might. be that good is going. to set aside a red square with. the boss because because he was going to go on you go it was fun just got. like. three streets of the like someone up there on him you know you the man that knows him jo-jo. so how do you find this street with the lights i'll show you. now trust me you'll feel it when we get there. is very tempting to stay on right square but here we have to make a life. going

to see him make little skin or the phrase i will never be. coming. out see here let me close now there are no empty spaces uncle and aunt said really cut. cut cut. cut cut cut cut. cut cut cut cut cut to cut. to me this sounds like nonsense but you can get street that was full of cars full stop the car.

coming out of the. cars that is not. zero load. so when you right up to date with the school four hundred seat class to front some for ninety minutes played no goals as yet if you all think it looks a bit but still be a bit of a cast to st petersburg just remember what i ha sang the sun always shines on t.v. and things will brighten up even more british michael's going to be here later on they saving and he will be giving you expert analysis a preview of that crunch great big clash. so i should make sure you join us for that in the meantime this had but almost i had.

twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest kill people. but there was one more question and by the way who's going to be our coach. you guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star and the huge amount of pressure you have to be the center of the. great. game you are the rock at the back nobody gets to you we need you to. go.

alone. and i'm really happy to join the. meet the special one. needs to just take the radio. latest edition as we go. now welcome back to the news center a couple of our bad line stories we're across this hour claims that donald trump are planning to meet in europe next month i've got the media room mills working overtime as the details. well rumors abound the imminent meeting between the presidents of the united states and the russian federation dog donald trump and vladimir putin at a time when relations are historically low perhaps even worse than they were during

the cold war and one of trump's senior national security advisors john bolton who is very very much a wall hawk and one of the most militant officials in washington he's coming over to russia the white house issued a press statement saying that better relations between the two of the world's nuclear superpowers are in the interests of everyone but that there are pressing concerns that have to be addressed first for example the poisoning of a former russian spy in britain the events in syria in ukraine as well as alleged meddling in u.s. elections in two thousand and sixteen and that is the only part of this story that has been confirmed the meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin at this point just rumors. as far as i know mr bolton was at moscow

that's all we can say for now there have been no official statements regarding impossible knitting between president putin and trump for the time being we have nothing to say and if and when we're reading. now mainstream pundits who of been opponents of any improvement of relations between the west and russia well they've gone into meltdown over this they're saying that any sort of meeting with the russians would cause dismay and alarm and be counterproductive you'd think that these two countries the united states and russia which almost came to a military conflict in syria it would be good that they improve relations but not according to headlines they've had a field day with this saying that such a meeting would you know would ruin everything and the real beef the pundits have had with with this meeting is that if donald trump during his trip to europe meets

with vladimir putin before heading to a native summit later next month that that would send all the wrong messages and that would frighten already jittery european allies. the nato secretary general warning the political disagreements and infighting risks tearing the international military alliance apart but at a speech in london and stoltenberg did insist that preserving nato is in the interests of its twenty nine member state. these disagreements are real it is not written in stone that the transatlantic bond will survive for ever. but i believe we will preserve it those comments and stoltenberg call for unity come ahead of next month's nato summit which it's feared could lay bare the differences between a number of member states the nato chief has said that within europe the e.u.'s political orientation and shifting values could have an impact on the strength of

the alliance and the key point of contention between washington and its partners over trade attitudes towards climate change and the future of the iran nuclear deal but despite the divisions political analyst chris bambery told us he thinks the role that nato plays will ensure it survives this is not a defensive alliance anymore it's very much an offensive alliance particularly in regards to the russian federation because of that expansion i roamed russia's russian federation's borders the possibility of ukraine joining nato as effectively part of that align alliance know the presence of nato forces in eastern europe the buildup of nato bases right along the southern as well as the western border of the russian federation this is a very dangerous game i think nato will survive on balance because for the united states nato expansion to virtuous arone the russian federation has been very important and the been nato presence has been built up in russia's borders so for

that at least they're going to be want to keep nato. just a couple of main stories so online you can get the latest twenty four hours a day will be back without woke up to thirty four minutes this is all to international. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see if it. exists is harlan kentucky. the all of this group the boy says if you go to st fanny's leave.

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