hello from r.t. h.q. in moscow i'm colleen bray good to have you with us this friday we are full ninety minutes ahead of headline news and world cup action. and the second match of the day started and it's a pivotal one for the hopes of nigeria and iceland both still have a chance to make it through to the knockout stages of the tournament ice and picks up a point in game one against argentina nigeria fell to a two no defeat against call leaders croatia that opening loss hasn't dampened the african fans spirit for those they could be seen performing for the actual dances and i was thirteen gets the rubber green against iceland but they seem confident they won't need any miracles to get three points today. i don't need any magic so it seems like i run through our beats i slog through the no matter you got to

support the best thousands of us are ready for you so you've got all the support they need the players just need to come strong come correct. of this and the icelandic vikings who have their own way of inspiring their team to victory more on that now from a go down of. 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. 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.

who. was. christine and co felt right at home in a city with roughly forty times the population of the entire country the average american here is like nothing we've ever seen before it's not healthy james it's about this it's about own admission our own to do so this is why you will come to. the new of the time i've spent with iceland's chanting cool one thing is obvious qualifying from one of the groups of death doesn't faze the vikings and even if they don't win the cup they've already one everyone's hearts mukesh done of

now it seems. those two teams are playing at the volgograd arena cities formally known as stalingrad of course that's the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the second world war and delegations from both nigeria and iceland have laid flowers at the eternal flame which burns in memory of those who gave their lives in battle. back to the early again where things got off to a bang and some painters burkle those proved heartbreaking for underdogs costa rica in group a he sally was watching the game for us at the same petersburg stadium. well the mood here especially amongst the large brazilian contingent is overwhelmingly of relief gavriel he says how the goal disallowed in the past. about twelve minutes from the and the dramatic incident nabl had been brought down in the box and they should be the referee gave a penalty and checking with the v.a.r. says to me all the time this decision the penalty was over the 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 fact caught to show six minutes of extra time left neymar managed to get his first all of the saw them and now one of the fans that travel to brazil i managed to speak to earlier this week is now though he has travelled 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 noah and his friend count from brazil that shuffled through half a dozen south american countries before getting his ship 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 in a beatle 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 traveling all over america. in twenty fourteen when 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 the cup 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 beetle. the beetle traveled around fifteen thousand kilometers in a ship before that we don't already done like fifty thousand kilometers in south america now it's going to be another ten thousand kilometers through russia will go through st petersburg moscow and sochi. cazan and then st petersburg again and then we go to moscow to the big final where surely brazil will play. i with the world cup getting a huge amount of attention on social media one british parents found himself in hot water over his comments on twitter not alan 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

a backlash he took the tweet down but said he still thought that it was funny and he eventually apologized saying he had no intention of offending anyone. the b.b.c. he's issued a statement pointing out that alan sugar has 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. sack him the minister counselor from the senegalese embassy in moscow told me that the world cup should be a time for promoting unity not spreading offensive racial stereotypes we were already choked and we were very surprised. in this twenty first century. i do use can be expressed when he can apologize but i think. 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 ok for

people to live each hour to make peace. but not to make these kind of jokes and 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 on a number of other host cities the band's been so high the bars are running dry although suppliers say they are posting deliveries as best they can and that's perhaps the only real into the many fans been counted at this tournament in fact so far the world cup has been hailed a major success and with festivities in full swing one how perceptions of the host country and its people are beginning to change some western reporters are even realizing that russians can actually smile or sky news has been openly shocked by the hospitality but there are others as more a explains who have wanted to spoil the party from the start. there is nothing quite like the world cup the scope of it the every. day. of rounds in it for the

football but before the bulls even been kicked others are already in the second half of a very different game here because there's no value in human life it will rob you and. this will be because with the world cup looming grades are carried out on a regular basis just minutes from iconic beaches shantytown called for valor it's always been like this headlines exposing the evils of the host country grab readers' attention and the eyes of frowns but this time 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 england 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 only right another political clash over syria and while our giant billboards across london. urging a world cup boycott our government should strengthen the also 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 tattoos 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 dark

look i trust this. article will be around me it's all 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 beyond this media circus serious and legitimate issues a last hooliganism and racism among football. russia's seen its share of disgraceful fan behavior but so has poland is italy germany france a racist attack left him with a broken arm the incessant abuse from polish fans wore him down as well fine

chelsea football fans and banned from all football matches after they pushed a black man off the paris metro chanting a racist the way we like it. i . this is the most politicised world cup in decades the media's made sure of that head of us is the greatest celebration of sports and football in the world of common spirits and a love for the game that transcends borders nationality and culture but hatred and scaremongering already here brought by those who couldn't care less about football. if you care about other football is still goalless in the

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