forum dot com. welcome to day nine of the world cup in our coverage of football's biggest event there's been a dramatic finish in the past couple of minutes we've got analysis of the brazil costa rica game coming right up. though cities in russia have welcomed thousands of fans from all around the world and our correspondents have been finding out about some of their journeys of world cup experiences so far. the. fifty year old volkswagen beetle has been driven by noah and his friends from brazil and other news around warns it's on the brink of accepting the hard won nuclear deal that was struck back in twenty fifteen describing the accord as being in intensive care after the u.s. pulled out.

from ati h.q. in moscow and called him to have you with us this friday on headline news on the way us three very different world cup fixtures. affable friday's got off with a bang in spain just below its heartbreak for the underdogs costa rica and group in brazil took all three points with two late goals in stoppage time to make up for the fifteen percent of my close friends. the second came from brazilian superstar neymar and the dying seconds that means brazil put one foot in the next round but costa rica after two defeats.

not only a brazil full by taking the lead in the first half however celebrations were cut short the strike and gabrielle phases after he was given offside. live to some petersburg tallies at the stadium for so we survive from costa rica but in the end not quite enough spots the made right now. well the mood here especially amongst the large brazilian contingent is overwhelmingly of relief as you said. goal disallowed in the first half and about twelve minutes from the end a dramatic incident neymar had been brought down in the box initially the referee gave a penalty and checking with the v.a.r. system he overturned his decision and the penalty was not given and that led to howls of outrage amongst the brazilian contingent in the stands and many of them getting frustrated as the assistant referee the fourth official raised the clock

caught the show six minutes of extra time left no injury time left. i didn't. see his eyes i was very doubtful you thought it would go. result. the heads of the costa rican players went down the name all managed to get his first goal of the soul of them and some of those brazilian fans we spoke to before the game had to take to the victory olby at a comfortable one that it turned out to be. the food. thing because i think it's going to be a. very large three zero not the start of the first one because you're not so excited is before you can play your game rather than i win the match i think rose is going to play much better than the first game and i think it will be two zero zero today there are so beautiful what he might want to be cheap.

now one of the signs that travel to brazil i managed to speak to earlier this week is now though he has traveled all over fifteen thousand kilometers in a fifty year old volkswagen beetle and i sat down with him in his call to catch up with his story and why he made the journey to russia. this fifty year old volkswagen beetle has been driven by mr felos and his friend colleague from brazil that shuffled through half a dozen south american countries before getting his shit out of the ocean to come here and enjoy the world cup now we're going to take me for a drive i'm going to ask him some questions about his journey. that's gone.

when i was a little boy i asked my father to take me to the world cup in argentina which is pretty close to brazil and my father told me it was impossible to get to argentina you know. it was in my childhood ever since then i've dreamt about it a lot so when i was forty i bought a new paedo and i started travelling all over america. in twenty fourteen win the world cup was in brazil brazil lost to germany one to seven then lost to the netherlands zero to three just one goal in two games i told my wife it was completely impossible for brazil to win that. so i thought about going to russia in the beadle my wife said why not so we started preparing for this trip in two thousand and fourteen and here we are in russia in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight beatles going to the beatles traveled around fifteen thousand kilometers in a ship before that we don't already done like fifty thousand kilometers in south

america and now it's going to be another ten thousand kilometers through russia will go through st petersburg moscow and sochi comes on and then st petersburg again and then we go to moscow to the big final where surely brazil will play well the weather here is the reason it isn't quite as tropical but it is brazil but these guys all the way to watch the game against costa rica they'll be hoping for a brazilian victory good luck. it's all turned out for that now also in group a serbia makes switzerland saving in kaliningrad in a way that will see the serbian secure that place in the last sixteen of its own little feet. on the. before that though the other game today is in group d. and it's a pivotal one for the hopes of nigeria and heis and that gets going in just under

an hour from now both still have a chance to make it through to the knockout stages of the tournament iceland picked up a point and gave one against argentina on nigeria fell to a two no defeat against pool leaders croatia about opening last housing damaged african found spirits though they could be same. forming traditional downs is and i think that team gets the rub of the green against iceland but they seem confident they won't need any miracles to get to the point that. i don't need any magic for it seemed like i knew where the beats i slogged would be fun no matter they got the support they need but thousands of us are ready for the city got all the support they need to play yes just need to come stronger come correct however the arsenic vikings have their own way of inspiring that team to victory as a course of donald's been finding out. the brand themselves vikings and they've invaded the russian capital in full force

iceland deployed almost ten percent of their population to support the team at their first world cup. of the. in the game against the mighty argentina that ended up in a big upset for leo messi and the rest of the nation the blue shirts shouted themselves hoarse it was time when i joined them. the. the was. the. true. the was the. first in and so we did home in a city with roughly forty times the population of the entire country the player to

come here is like nothing we've ever seen before it's not healthy games it's about this it's about own admission to their own conclusions this is why you're the world cup the idea of. the new the time i've spent. we do i salute chanting cool one thing is obvious qualifying from one of the groups of the earth doesn't faze the vikings and even if they don't win the cup they've already won everyone's hearts. of those two teams will play out the volgograd arena is the host city formerly known as starling grad and is the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the second world war delegations from both nigeria and iceland have laid flowers of the eternal flame burns in memory of those who gave their lives in battle. with the world cup getting a huge amount of attention on social media one british peer has found himself in hot water over his comments on twitter no doubt and sugar who's also the star of

the hit b.b.c. show the apprentice and a former football club chairman was forced to apologize after posting the following tweet with reference to the senegal squad the offensive tweet showed the team with photoshop bags and sunglasses and sugar making reference to big sellers after the backlash he took the tweet down but said he still thought it was funny he eventually apologized saying he had no intention of offending anyone the b.b.c. has issued a statement pointing out that alan sugar's apologized in saying that it's right that he's done so but many people including some senegalese officials are demanding that the b.b.c. sanction the minister counselor from the senegalese embassy in moscow told me last hour that the world cup should be a time for promoting unity not spreading offensive racial stereotypes. we were very choked and we were very surprised that in this twenty first century. can be expressed he can apologize but i think. the research of things we don't

have to we don't have to joke it's a very important particularly after the nice result of cynically steam in this match. the world cup is. for people to live each hour to make peace. but not to make these kind of jokes whether it's celebrating a stunning victory or coming to terms with a bitter defeat or a glass of beer is often part of the picture but in moscow when a number of other host cities demands been so high the bars are running dry although suppliers are apparently boosting deliveries as best they can and that's perhaps the only real hage the many fans been counted at the tournament in fact so far the world cup speed held a major success and with festivities in full swing long how perceptions of the host country and its people are beginning to change some western reporters are even realizing that russians can actually smile sky news has been openly shocked by the hospitality but there are others as more aghast you have explains who wanted to

spoil the party from the stuff. there is nothing quite like the world cup the scope of it the every. aspect. of ground in it for the football but before the board's even been kicked others already in the second half of a very different game here brazil there's no value in human life it will rob you and your grief believe you because with the world cup looming grades are carried out on a regular basis just minutes from iconic beaches shanty town called for village. it's always been like this headlines exposing the evils of the host country grab readers' attention and the eyes of fans but this style some say it's worse soccer

associations have threatened to boycott the next men's world cup in russia diplomatic we caught a potential world cup boycott by in lent the royal family will boycott the soccer world cup in russia this summer great britain and its media lead the eleventh hour charge to try and shrink brusha of this tournament after the failed poisoning of an ex double agent and solves bring a case muddled with inconsistency zend in which the actual perpetrators haven't yet been identified it has soured relations between russia and britain but one might ask what does that have to do with football well it turns out it doesn't matter it's highly likely russia did it q now see references yes i think the comparison with one hundred thirty six is is certainly right another political clash over syria and vala giant billboards across london

urging world cup boycott governments should strengthen the also return and she whiston part of the russian president but the twenty eight hundred fifty world cup in russia and of politics isn't enough try recycling every other old argument and leave the football itself on the bench from homophobia to raise his i'm from corruption to terrorism every grievance you can think of gets put on the pitch why even risk coming to russia shady types everywhere men with ten. to suggs that is exactly what life is like here in russia two men share a cigarette of a beer in broad daylight gosh that could never happen in britain could

it the photographer himself says that his mission was to show the darker aspects of city life everywhere from tokyo to new york but who cares there is an agenda here i think even if. it is going to look darker look i trusted this. article will be it will be a wrong move for those i deliver as soon it will be anything like this pussy riot the shock feminist performers who rose to the top of russia's protest movement years ago and have now largely been forgotten they're back again no relation to football they just don't like putin so that makes them relevant again the more you read the more outlandish the pundits get.