so write your bar business program interactive exhibition. forum dot com. this is all and our special coverage of the biggest football event of the year the fifth world cup the final match on thursday sees croatia put in a stunning performance to beat argentina even the south americans on the brink of a shock exit from the world cup. i. and football followers from all over the world make a central street in moscow the unofficial halls of the world cup with the festivities in full swing. and in other news a potential meeting between donald trump and blood amir putin is to be discussed

during the u.s. national security advisers visit to moscow next week. you're watching r.t. international live from moscow with me in a direction welcome to the program day eight of the world cup in russia has come to a close as we continue our special coverage of the tournament teams in group c. and d. have finished their second game so now to neil harvey and peter schmeichel in auntie's world cup pub in st petersburg for the analysis.

welcome to another beautiful white night here in st petersburg the finest of russia's north. and white night ahead but a dark day for argentinian football tina found trust me on this look away now step away from the t.v. come back in five minutes you do not want to know what happened to your team tonight's three argentina nil peter schmeichel you watch it with me and it was a bit like watching a horror movie a disaster unfolding before us. i'm not sure i agree with our knowledge and tina's perspective oh yeah but why why do we care so much about argentina we should praise croatia for what they did tonight and what they did in the first game now we talked about the big players you know the big scene the big stage when when you come to these events like the world cup the big players they perform and today messing who is a big player didn't turn up again like you didn't do in the game against iceland and

when you decide your team to be around messi then you pay for it and absolutely paid for it today they were smashed by croatia today and the scoreline three you know it is a fair reflection of the game. the dirty game would you say a very very very rough game very hotly played a lot of tempers tempers flaring surprisingly enough only six yellow cards no red cards we were actually betting on that there would be at least one because that was the way it was being played. i think. the referee and you know it after the match off from was biggest and it did ok i mean at times it was it was a little bit too much that he was allowing but at the end of the day everyone got through the game and you know the only ones that are really hurt. can tina and that's completely down to their own performance. pretty much all the talk coming

into this game was that knowledge and tina needed not just wanted needed to win and it all unraveled in just a horrific fashion let's just look at the winning goal and the goalkeeper of argentina really playing with me this is what course if you don't think they put pressure on the everybody i mean they must play from the back i don't understand their cup and their bags you know. that big mistake now if there was some element of self harm about that first goal self-inflicted no questions about the second moment what a strike from lucca moderates i i was going courage in watching them to pass i didn't think he could score from here that was dynamited not right for. the big players they turn up to these tournament's look at mark which is a big player and he's turned out that was his second goal and so on and the second really good as well this was one time but again that was

a lot of the tension between the teams and not many icons in the first hour but then they started develop as argentina became more frustrated and then we saw some pretty even tick tick tackles going in and i think ultimately should not have had a you know i think he should have been sent off he. made an incredible shot to see the ice iraqis on the floor the referee is always blowing the whistle to do that you know that's that's really naughty and fortunately nothing happened and it might be one of these things that the fed will look back on retrospect and four i'm not completely sure about the rules in this tournament normally. when the referee has already dealt with that meaning giving him a yellow card i don't think that's too much to do afterwards but hopefully they will because that tackle there was definitely out of order and it's dangerous anything could have happened fortunately nothing in the sort of situation because that is not applied at the moment you don't see volumes for things like boundaries

that is he just too much of a judgment call in the moment lead to the ref i don't want thought should be used with very much in football i have to say i was. relatively upbeat about all of up until yesterday i think it's been today we've seen a very clear example on why we don't want to interfere too much i think and we've got to be fair to all the systems all the referees it's still even though it is a world cup it's still a kind of a trial period it's a system that needs to be worked on in the referees and the system and they need more experience so we are bound to see mistakes unfortunately those mistakes you know have increased the number of penalties being given in the world cup i don't think anyone regardless of loyalties or the temperament or how they like to see football i don't see i think anyone wants to see to use free fall penalties in every game if it's not what football is all about we want to see the players create

the goals and then we've seen three absolutely beautiful goals today that is at least as a football fan and that is what i want to see i don't want to see football fans of football teams two or three or four nil on. penalties that that's not right for me they will be speaking of the fans we've had our peter all of us down amongst them he's in the fan zone and he's the you know the not must of been some atmosphere bitterness and sweetness i would imagine on either side what was it like to be amongst that. right well when this game started the packers house here in the fun fest was very much a pro team a crowd what i would say that we saw there from croatia was a lesson in how to win friends and entertain people because us do skills went in the cheers the crew a ship got louder and louder and louder and at the final whistle look it's

a very very happy people a lot of the neutrals are pretty co-lead not a lot of the people from the local area who could be really looked at the the superstar status of lionel messi being behind argentina we saw them stuff to get on side with the croatians as they scored some some heat wave goes we were really some fantastic strikes particularly that moved through each goal to me that was the will not really turn the tide of opinion here in i think you'll see a little more oh misha you know good based supporters to croatia in the next game here. 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 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 the strip for a game that we already know the result so but never mind what the actual be and that's maybe a result but we know the winner so it will be crazy for sure rasha your show and restart. every. incredible really experience to work outside the business and this is a solution that bring the people of argentina to. good place to go and it's incredible. to think that these can be true i did see that movie. fans wanting to swap shirts that's just wonderful atmosphere and some swapping it for tickets i have to ask you what's the best you're that use what you have one little story. so when casper was

a kid obviously he got all this so and it's funny kept them all and funny enough those kicks on the back of most of them and then obviously the manchester united goalkeeper showed as well but i got a picture said to be a couple of months ago my grandson in one of those shirts and it's a manchester united shirt for my first year the only year when manchester night it was still playing with adidas then they changed too. and they play with that is now he's got this vintage should if you would like i did fits him i actually thought when i got the picture that was cast but that's magnificent thank you for sharing. st petersburg will play host to one of the world cup favorites brazil who will play

costa rica on friday at three pm local time the game will be a chance for the five time world champions to put one foot in the knockout rounds in artie's world cup co-host james a marina has been predicting who will take the spoils. brazil in costa rica costa rica's not just the team that did well in the past world cup is also a team that is very stable and just watch them to play a friendly against scotland and i know well organized but of course brazil is full of tellings of creativity of that and i mean i don't sing. brazil is going to have . got this three point. a week has now passed since the biggest party on the planet kicked off in russia and there are still three more weeks of the world cup to go with eleven cities hosting world cup games across russia moscow is

a hub for many of the traveling fans and one particular street has become a beacon for the supporters from around the globe leaper trenchard hits the unofficial found zone. 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 red square or the arbat street i'll have to tell you that this time the wrong. place to go in moscow might. just be that this was going. to set aside a risk where will the top of the box because political economy got to go along because guys. like wheat free the streets of the like someone i don't know on him you know you come and say joe joe. so how do you find this street with the line

i'll show you. now trust me you'll feel it when we get there. this very tempting to stay on the right square but here we have to make a life. going to. make clothes or the same. thing here i think we'll stand there no empty space uncle and aunt said.

today this sounds like nonsense but actually. that was the hard cold dark. side of the disclosure i was. away from the jubilance and festivities there the tournament has seen a few dog moments but the place have opened an investigation into a group of england fans who were allegedly seen giving nazi salutes in one of the

host cities as they say a choke 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 game where england v tunisia two to one and these chants were horribly addressed 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 national police chiefs council in a statement to us they said that this support behavior seen in video is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated they've said they're working to identify

those involved and we've also heard from the english football association of also said we strongly condemn this kind of behavior and are working to take appropriate action. in other news now the nato secretary general is warning that political disputes and infighting risk tearing the international military alliance apart the speaking in london still to insist that preserving nato is in the interests of its twenty nine member states. these disagreements or. it is written in stone that the transatlantic will survive for ever. but i believe we will preserve it. those comments on stoltenberg call for unity come ahead of next month's nato summit which will be attended by donald trump he's been a frequent critic of the alliance and its feared that the meetings could inflame

the tensions between washington and its partners some of the key points of contention are over trade attitudes toward climate change and the future of the iran nuclear deal the nato chief has also said he believes that within europe is political orientation and shifting values could have a negative impact on the strength of the alliance despite the divisions the political analyst chris bambery tell the three things nato role in containing russia is enough to ensure it will survive this is not a defensive alliance of the more it's very much an offensive lines particularly in regards to the russian federation because of that expansion i roamed russia's russian federation is borders the possibility of ukraine joining nato it's effectively part of that align our winds know the presence of nato forces in eastern europe the buildup of need to be seas right on the southern as well as the western border or of the russian federation this is a very dangerous game i think

a little will survive on the balance because for the united states the need to expound to virtuous around the russian federation has been very important and the big nato presence has been built on russia's borders so for that at least they're going to be want to keep nato up and of this nato summit another crucial meeting may take place the white house has announced that u.s. national security advisor john bolton will travel to moscow next week to discuss a potential meeting between donald trump and blood amir puton where it breaks down the story. well it was all rumors up to this point but now john bolton has confirmed that he will be coming over to europe first perhaps symbolically to meet with european allies nato allies organizing the summit next month but then he'll be traveling to moscow now this is john bolton we're talking about one of the

most hawkish and militants of u.s. officials and national security adviser for donald trump he'll be organizing the details of and again this is a potential this isn't set in stone yet potential meeting between glad to meet putin and donald trump the leaders of the united states and russia two nuclear superpowers and you know the time the time is now there's a lot to talk about this terrorism is syria ukraine the united states has concerns about the poisoning of a former russian agent in in britain and of course alleged russian meddling in the u.s. election so be a lot of you know frank discussion i'm sure behind closed doors but. the media has been well it hasn't received the news as well you would have thought that you know these two countries meeting at last now that relations are at rock bottom

arguably worse than they were during the cold war you could argue that you know that makes the world a better safer place but pundits have gone into meltdown now arguing that you know any meeting with the russians will cause a lot and dismay in europe and among allies and in the west that there shouldn't be any contact at all they also said that if donald trump first goose to russia to meet with putin instead of first going to the summit in in europe the nato summit that will send the wrong messages to the ready to a european. aloes so if this meeting is indeed confirmed we can expect a firestorm among pundits. with the issue of migration now a major fault line in european politics leaders i said to hold a summit in brussels on sunday in the hope of finding new ways of dealing with the crisis artie's donald quarter has the details. well the solution to the migration

crisis is certainly at stake here and there's been a lot of debate between e.u. member states now recently in germany there was a standoff between angle of merkel and her interior minister horst see hoffer see how for wants to turn migrants away at the german border while angela merkel stressed a more european wide approach and this disagreement put the decades long government coalition here at risk and they only agreed to cease the hostilities until this summit coming up on sunday now ahead of this summit the e.u. commission released a draft document and it went over two points the first being stopping movement of migrants between e.u. member state borders and strengthening the borders of the european union itself as well as the coast guard but italy actually already said that it feels like it's getting the short end of the stick on this deal if we go to brussels to play this group who already written by friends in germany then we shouldn't even go we save

the money for the trip now the german public is also concerned apparently three quarters of germans don't think merkel can find a european wide solution to the crisis according to polls and meanwhile hungary just passed a law that would criminalize helping migrants in need so it seems like no matter how many more meetings we have of e.u. officials those alone aren't going to solve the crisis my colleague colleague spoke to cloud from it means the polity he says that it's not enough just to put people in a way to control it's needed. people have sympathy for italy and what it's having to enjoy all of the worst ends of the migrant crisis but what is happening in reality even if the problem is europe not sorting it out brussels not sorting it out your neighbors not sorting it out what is actually happening is these extremely vulnerable people are suffering even more than they have already well that's

something that we have to prevent because it is not the putting them on a boat and sand to europe and you know that many of them died during the week but so this is not due way to solve the problem the probably should be solved from where they are coming from so we have to stop. the departure of hold of who is not a refugee because you know that this that this the tell us that the most almost the more than ninety percent of the people that is coming is not a refugee but is it is a migrant a just for economy partners and this is not allowed in europe so we have to decide what we want to do we want going on we did movement of millions of people that are rooting for something better or we want to have really the refugee and fighting in other way to help them out of the economy called migrants so we are

going to put to you european union that problem what should we do we cannot going on in that way because it's not fair also for those poor people that are. suffering because the tree in the hand of this migrants is very dangerous. around top stories and world cup coverage shall be back at the top of the hour with more site to stay with us. all across the western world this so-called melting pot is melting down immigration legal and illegal is probably the most contentious and divisive issue energizing

voters in germany the government may collapse and trump has made just a signature cause can the status quo sustained. because or this is a report the show the. bars no holds holds are no bargain. oh well you seem to have lost your mind but you know what so as the u.s. in general so maybe it's you've been spending too much time there i have a headline here from c.n.n. that we haven't been able to cover while we've been here because you know we've had this stuff but i love this headline as well peter navarro says there's a special place in hell for justin trudeau that is our chief trade negotiator for john so it's quite interesting to call an ally there's

a special place in hell for him and i don't know if that was because of his eyebrow falling down of space but peter navarro has apologized for this but you know i'm not sure what the big problem is with the canadians i mean we get the maple syrup and we get the hockey players and they get the tar sands tell you what stop sending tar sands to america and be happy about that because it's extremely dangerous for people so i think justin trudeau did some sort of special tar sands deal just recently as well but nobody pays attention to them because trump is everything right but that's what everybody's paying attention to but i want to turn to another story that i promised we would cover the last episode i said we were covering this and this is finally. frets about share buybacks quote torrent of corporate training dominating the market and short term financial engineering right after the company tells the market the stock is cheap executives overwhelmingly decide to sell that's the headline and this is from wall street dot com but he's talking

about an s. e c study and they find that basically all these companies are doing is announce that they're going to do a share buyback that stuff. soaring and you know what happens the insiders dump all their shares five fold increase from the week before they'll start dumping their shares and they some of them don't even do the share buybacks because they don't have to do it all they are interested in is cashing out so it's. market manipulation stock market manipulation by insiders aided and abetted by regulators like the f.c.c. all the f.c.c. is doing here is. a look up on urban dictionary what that means all they're trying to do is cover their tracks so that when the lawsuits happen they can say oh we were aware of it we warned against it we're on top of it but they are aiding and abetting the regulators or captured the regulators or venal the regulators get payoffs ok they get money from these guys and then they go or they in the form of

they leave the government they get a job in the private sector and they get the big payoff it's it's it's highly. corrupt it is the one we've been saying for years and they're taking it all private and what's left is new feudalism tar sands so they and now it's a share buyback to happen and the study found of these like three hundred eighty five companies that they looked at that had announced share buybacks they found abnormal returns those thirty days afterward that's when they keep the executive start selling their shares so in fact twice as many companies have insider selling in the days after a buyback announcements on an ordinary day so right after the company tells the market that the stock is cheap executives overwhelmingly decide to sell explained f.c.c. commissioner robert jackson jr appointed by president tump and sworn in earlier this year they tell the market our share price is so cheap that we think the best use of our money is to buy back those shares because they're so cheap well then the

executive start dumping it so the same executives she said the share price is cheap to the market are dumping their shares right and the money that they used to buy back their share. borrowed money from essentially the fed ultimately charges them nothing to borrow that money so you're literally printing money in the form of the stock option appreciation that goes up as the share price is brought back and you are taking capital out of the economy and then there's nothing left for basic services like health care so you have millions of heroin addicts popping up all over america because it's ronte a guys at the top or just just being all this money out of the economy with the help of the regulator if you see is a purchase a painting in this if you know the problem with script is that they're not paying the f.c.c. enough bribe money hopefully that'll change soon enough he points out that this isn't necessarily illegal but he wonders whether or not it's good for america and

he says not. too many occasions companies didn't buy backs have failed to make the long term investments in innovation or their workforce that our economy so badly needs because we at the f.c.c. have not reviewed our rules governing stock buybacks in over a decade i worry whether these rules can protect investors workers and communities from the torrent of corporate trading dominating today's market what's the hold up they haven't reviewed the rules in a decade what do you do and here's five bucks i can claim here's five dollars can you please rig market for me to greedy little punk they're concerned trolling they're saying hey oh cher executives were a little bit concerned that we might have to regulate you if you don't make it if you stop making it so obvious you know we need more payoff we need more private we're going to regulate you wall street if you do the small tax money i'm too stupid to get a job at goldman sachs so i had to be a regulator. given to the public one of the regulators so is jay and all the.