july seventeenth twenty second write your part. interactive exhibition. forum dot com. this is all special coverage of the biggest football event of the year the fifo world cup final match this thursday kicks off. and it's a big one for argentina playing croatia. two games early on thursday see france eliminating peru from the tournament and australia in a vital point against denmark but it wasn't without more controversy and the video assistant referee despite that was still in party mode. and football callers from all over the world make a central street in moscow the unofficial part of the world cup with the

festivities in full swing. you're watching r t international live from moscow with me david welcome to the program and we are going to continue with our special world cup coverage and cross over to our special studio in the center of moscow with neil harvey and peter schmeichel.

well can't see the beauty and serenity of st peter's alongside me is always pictish my causality continuous coverage of the free for twenty eight scene will cut three games to the one that we most look forward to though just kicked off ology tenure against croatia and we got the team news in peter and the thing that i notice most of all some totally the somehow the coach of argentina has never picked the same team twice is a bit of a thinking man taking their time it's made three insane big changes for this team first of all these change the system in the first game play for the back of four two three one you can call it today's playing three four three he's left the media off home and big out and that is that is kind of

a surprise for me so he had to be told so you think after that last performance is this what he's doing he's being more attacking. if you as i can see if you want to get a point against iceland then then you haven't done well the whole country you think you've not done well and you have to be seen to use something. you know mickey maria was substituted that game and it didn't play particularly well so. he's he's he's the one one of them being sacrificed it's only natural i mean they're up against a really well crafted croatian team today they've made one change as well bras of each is playing this off camera each so slightly more defensively even. can say that staying with the same system the calories obviously is a striker and drummers he's the midfield player can't we sounds you know what you said slightly defensive but if you listen to the words of the creation coach just

before this much he said the pressure is off he said my team's got three points we're playing against that big a reputation to say we can do whatever we want. a passionate or coronary as i said this is going to be the easiest game for us because we have nothing to lose if we're playing against a great team but we're also a good side is going to be a match which could go either way lionel messi is the most important player assimilates look i'm not rich no national team should run in me it's very clear but it's not to play with players like them and for me it's the best player in history . to believe he's been genuine they're paid to he's saying look i've got three points in the bag we're not almost like you saying we're not expected to get too much gets argentina let's just roll the dice and go for he said told his players to play with confidence and freedom i i believe that to a certain extent i think a lot of the way that he's lined this team up today is it's a stark message from getting on the scoresheet again that's what i stand and that earned and a point can be imagined it creates a good they get

a point today that moves them on for an argentina only. two points with nigeria still to play and crayford playing i think they would fancy their chances to at least to get a point taking them to five and four and two so we talked about this a lot how you play the three games tactically from game to game in order to get through to the next stage of the tournament where everything really really matters from game to game but here you have to look at it as three games and they have the perfect start with three points in the first game do you think that is a smart approach stop messi is not enough to stop argentina they must be used to teams taking out approach. i think is pretty much like that and i think. it was quite evident that the first game i think did really well to just to the way they were you start messing it is to make him go further down the page the man sees a player that wants to have the ball if you if he can get the ball receive the ball

sort of outside the box then he's dangerous all the time but if you can force him to go twenty five yards for the bat to get the ball to be involved in the game then you come a long way to to to sort of get him out of the game but you know who came up with the first idea to do that. joe simmering you when he was into coach and played barcelona it's the first time we had a big game say a quarter final chambre semifinal of the times. and he completely stopped me from playing not by man marking just by doing that so you know a lot of play a lot of teams have tried to do that obviously failed but if you can do it do it in a game like this with obviously the best team in place if you contrast off then you've gone a long way and i can see tell you the game is just kicked off and it's straight out of the the other end. that's a different game it's all right we've got the wrong game on the. take hits it's

live t.v. as we always say so let's keep it alive jeff thank you for that that was a nice reminder let's go to peter all over. again for us and he's been keeping a close eye on the atmosphere and checking out who's got the better of the support that pete if you can hear it i would imagine this is a pretty excited even though initially no yes i. have to tell you right now i'm here in the final say a stereo and mission and it's absolutely packed see the only place that has any spaces is next to the exits everybody's glued to the big screens here in the fun finished i can tell you that i think the argentina fans have it when it comes to support i think a lot of the. people have adopted them of course messi a global superstar the cio when he was showing all the big screen as they went along at the unfamous was rukus one thing i was telling when i was on air last time for me it was just how loud it is a can now tell you exactly how loud it is it was one hundred sixteen decibels

because the m.c.s. on the stage as they were warming up the crowd they measured it and after i had did a quick google i can tell you that i'm supposed to be the pain threshold for the average cuban big and so a very loud evening here perhaps in store i could tell you for the i would say the room for coffee if messy school as there is no rush but i tell you what it will be quite a scene but i spoke to had two sons who come here they've been providing holiday people fighting songs up and down the city since they started arriving yesterday but i will i can tell you is both sets of supposes taking this will very seriously i'll very confident that it's their size that's going to come out and so. far are. we are croatians from canada we've come this far we've seen people from sydney australia from all over the world to succumb to support of the team i think it's really amazing yeah yeah yeah yeah

every think is fantastic the super and i'm just sorry that we came all this way and do the all these trips for a game that we already know the result so but never mind what we'll do the day to be and that's maybe a result but we know the winner so it will be crazy for sure asian rasha your show and the stars. are. there every. incredible really experience to work outside the business and this is the solution that bring the people of argentina to every place that are going to be some credible source. neither one of these you know these compare tracy i didn't you know nothing really good only. the one thing that really struck me as a team traveling around to russia during the world cup is the relationship between

the fans what we've seen here initially in the lead up to this game and elsewhere on swapping shirts singing songs together a lot of friendly rivalry between the two advocate between the creation argentinian funds today they were singing away in the in the balls up and down the center of a nation you know of one particular story shone out for me today and it's one young man he's been traveling around russia during this world cup only well the kindness of strangers. sort of been working on the world cup and it's a big thing for us but throughout everything going there was a bit of a stir obviously between english and russian tensions passmore saying everything and so there was the sentiment that you couldn't go to the world cup comfortably or safely or that russians run biting cold so i decided to challenge the whole idea by saying look i've always heard my entire life but russian hospitality so i'm going to challenge myself to do an entire world cup for free by getting on line contacting russians and living vicariously through them the entire experience of

the world cup so what stories of you got so far from now i mean it's been amazing i mean day when we arrived in moscow and made a way down to sochi that we've been bringing football kits with us everywhere we go and we've been using those football kits to exchange for food water beer tickets the first day we actually managed to exchange brazil kit for tickets to spain portugal which ended up being a tad trick for the center and i love so completely unbelievable experience. fantastic stories from that fantastic guy there what else is going to be pretty fantastic in my opinion should be this one for me the pick of the group stage games . great stuff appreciate that peter all of the fan zone in is no good for us and i would just love it to call kevin king. you know if there's a goal there just to see that crowd behind you erupt over that will happen when we speak a little later on this evening now croatia have never defeated the south american side at the world cup despite facing opponents from the continent on four different occasions and with that in mind arty's world cup co-host josie marie you know is

given us his prediction on who will finish on top. of that you know. 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 i was indiana. but i think through asia has a team is capable so give up to give them a difficult match. and emotions were running high in two games already finished this thursday denmark and australia and it up a wall all draw then france defeated proved by just one goal to nil they made it through to the next round through of going out earlier beaten i discussed the

decisive moments of groups a. group against france it ended one nothing to france to take us through how this would those not the table that is the table from before we started. before the france beat denmark they have a draw against history that needs denmark and four points. for you here we have to go so it's all about you actually a really good action from him to put over the goalkeeper and papa becomes a youngest frenchman ever to score in the world. that goal it would have been ali roger all goals for you is making his one hundredth appearance you probably would have enjoyed the. to celebrate yeah i think they're going to have words over dinner tonight don't ever do that young man that was my goal but. you know the image you always look for when something like that happens it's what ali but you it was reaction to is he celebrating with the papa and i can guarantee you that you

did so he's a good team player and i demanded a this gold has sent france through to the next round of off the world cup so do you think he really no no no that's all i know and i think we will see and ip doing a lot of that in the future is one of those go hunger strike to seek deal with all of them that's a good sign isn't it for you is an incredible talent france they have an incredible squad but there's no doubt about that the quality of france and where they are in terms of competing for that for that the actual time they're up there with the best of all the other countries in this world cup in france they say though they have the best squad but they have the wrong manager which you know t.d.'s this champs which he has he took his team to the european championship final against portugal two years ago he didn't win and in france if you don't win a final you're failure france and denmark they play in illusionary on the twenty

six and on the twenty six as well australian through play so what the situation is now that denmark as you can see got four points that can all be completely irrelevant if they don't win against france or at least get a job because australia with a win over peru gets a four points as well and since australian lost and i hear this is why it gets tricky they lost two on two fronts. on simplicity if denmark loses one just to give you an example of them and it has won a string of wins one then they will be unfold points both of them and that their score scores with australia will be three three so as three go. score three against denmark would be to score and two against and that means australia will go through on this one most court goal gap starts only needs a one no result in both those games and a massive turnaround so how is it that marker in that position on four points and

spread around want to have a look at the action from the opening game on the day it ended one one democratic the very early late this is some call by the way because i think that the best thing he's done in the world cup was to put this part to to question your ex and what a finish from christian you know it's not i'm not sure if you heard his need in the celebrations. straightaway i treated you know i won in anything other week i would take any action over neymar this is something i did six months ago as well and i got slated for it on twitter but i thought today is the day it's to do it again and they're supposed out there on my twitter account which ends tomorrow when brazil place and after that after i treated him this was immediately after go fishing if he could play that well he's kind of he's a he's in vogue at the moment a lot of people are saying i really like ericsson is this just he's five of the month or it's really not good so personally i think it's really it's really that he

is an incredible talent and so when he came from i.x. to tottenham. he came with a lot of a pedigree from the i.x. a school of. maybe you can call it the education but i suspect the special way the players are taught to play when they are in a x. even if you play in the first team the playing a certain way and that combined with having put the cino as a manager has made him and i spoke about how he came yesterday improving over a pretty team the same thing is happening to christian x. and now he's shooting important to denmark it's a tricky one for me to talk about today because it happened to denmark against denmark and. i'm really i'm trying to be as objective as it's possible i would have reacted the same i hadn't been any of the team but my my my fear here is that if you give a penalty for war over what you did today then you will have five or six pounds

with everything and i don't think that's an intention so but they appeared in the game as he did against france he stepped up to right to take the penalty and he put it to pass cash for schmeichel which i'm quite familiar with unfortunate because he didn't fave it and the the end result was that one one. hundred feet about the way about his performance today and watching him in action. as i always feel. very confident and trying not to think that he's my son i'm just enjoying it. ok if you're wondering why have we moved from moscow to st petersburg well have a listen that's just long good race at this pace as santa comes and they all she she just won the strains of a wonderful cities it's also the northern capital of the country there's always something going on here on the floor we set up agin c.d.'s i wish to do so will be

an old and welcome the taste of what lies ahead for the brazil of the costa rica sounds of becoming have a tomorrow's match on the other games but he isn't lined up with a spot in the formosa. to show you no professional. love is the key so how to get international kickabout here i got very lucky that we got fed funds for most of that will do when we got russian azerbaijan to morocco and gentle here from poland this is rough out now he explains why i'm doing this report today. is there a fan see how they got tickets to watch the games even st petersburg be watching poland it will most go because you cannot but he still wants to see st petersburg see the helmeted see the sights so what does he do when he was watching the other games they had the balls pubs restaurants around the city games being shown live

everywhere where's the best place to go is the question. the first choice yes it's no secret i'm so going to chose it because it's popular resistance being it's up to those who are in the sunshine it's family friendly and there's a great atmosphere here and it's going to be a goal of the place to enjoy. the excitement of all the football club to be located just outside the front so you could wind relax the gentle pull price and if any sympathy no. but maybe some of the sunshine fresh ever since you liking it so a little strange but i understand so let's head to auction 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 golf is a clue in the night it's called a hundred yards beyond us because it's long. and it needs to be. constantly. misleading because it's not one hundred yards it's three hundred meters long don't use in the world all you have things. this is not final and i think. it's a lot like this is a sport i am i please. come up and say some of the public life of the day this guy he's the cat and he's giving blood coming in sure.

to. keep. the. peace percy good this is the place for all the first string t.v. commentators among you know the guys the ones who just never shuts up while the game is on. what if you don't know the play 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 kitten. so that was it sounds myers like keep him please make it past the bowl so if you want you can go and train noted i thank you but never going to. solo and second of all the mixed feelings pulling faces life when some of the debates last year anybody who's ever in the booth. leave or the man. to show comes to play the full must be only thing that people in the corner.

somebody please put things in the same. place public perception something. that's nice he's an englishman this is crazy league. last day let's get a little story take. place hotel broad shouldered and see three minutes just like this to get over to the thirty second plane enough so i. put him in a safe sex a lot except my body inside politics politics. plays out.

back in moscow meanwhile there's one place that all of the football fans know to head to right in the heart of the city. we'll show you around. i'm from moscow a city of more than ten million people and i cannot believe how the world cup was able to retrieve all 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 the wrong. place to go in moscow i still. believe that there is going. to sit outside of france where will the top is in the box because once the police cars got on the books plus got. like.

three streets and the like but one of the lot of them you know you come in i don't see jo-jo. so how do you find this street with the line i'll show you. now trust me you'll feel it when we get. it is very tempting to stay on the red square but here we have to make a last. minute about. the close or the train. never even. let's see here let me close now there are no empty space shuttle and such really the to.

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know. i week has now passed since the biggest policy on the planet kicked off in russia and there are still three more weeks of the wool cup to go we'll be back with that nail if we can in st petersburg in about fifteen minutes time for a hot time talking points from the argentina crush match but before we go that's taken some of the atmospheric and nizhny novgorod. so i care so that you know lucy you. really do jump out of the take out over that goes up yes you do was he was. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only

mostly and going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers available to us but there was one more question and by the way it's going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star and the huge amount of pressure to come out you have to go i mean eighty percent of the problem here with you and we will show you all the great british you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get going let's go. alone. and i'm really happy to join us for the two thousand and thirteen world cup in russia. the special one come on. me just like the real theology team's

latest edition to make up as we go. look. at. the iranian ayatollahs have become much more aggressive after the nuclear deal twenty fifteen the only way. is with russia and the united states work together what i think share in common is much more than what separates us and i believe that the united states has realized that russia has legitimate interests in the middle east and before you know during the cold war and even after the cold war it was like a game. welcome back back to the world now way she way from the audience and festivities the scene

a few dark moments british police have opened an investigation into a group of england fans who were allegedly seen giving nazi salutes in one of the host cities and says it reports from london but an unfortunate incident seems to have unraveled in one of the host cities of the world cup in volgograd where english fans were captured giving nazi salutes singing hitler songs as well as shouting nazi slogans and this is now being looked into now it's understood that this unraveled following the england tunisia game where the two zero zero two two one these chants were heard of the address to rivaling top football club fans and the staff at this bar where this took place apparently have confirmed that english fans were in there they said they missed this moment because they were closing the bar up out of that point and we do know that british officials are indeed investigating what unraveled there we have heard from the nash.