and cynical on the way home so we're down to maybe the smallest of margins. and that is we have avoided the threat it's drawing at least at this point so we have a finish on top of group g. which is like saying that and belgium will play japan in an essence in a row so that's what this one is placed upon in real stuff and this is the runners up at the spa thanks take your saying these are all that is a play at the performing in moscow the making the journey can see not just those two places a little on the opposite sides of the draw but as we've seen from the teams that they picked tonight hard to see that team bothered about when they play oh here they play get in the lineups. it's too much to have four players to go on the page you know if you do this we'll and it's too much to put the managers in picking their teams having seen what has happened is probably picked the teams or they have prob pick the teams. yesterday or even even before then. they they

wouldn't like this that the manager is a taking this approach of ice i would suggest that we're going to have to beat the best teams if we're going to win this competition we'll just take it let's let the you know the colors fall where they may it will take us but again going back to the teams you might end up having five players injured for the next game that can happen in training you have to remember these players most of the players. on spec today are playing in the prime and it's the hottest leak in the world to play in he says there are no breaks it's not like other leagues where you come up to around christmas time and then you get a break so there's no pellets of matches for three weeks you can week ten days off we can rest you can completely recover from from the mental stress so you're on in anger and it carries on actually make it's worse when you get to christmas and then you play just before christmas you planned twenty six on the training and you if the if it's. fits in with the week you played before new year's eve sometimes you

play newsy and then the f.a. cup starts just after the result when you don't want to work for more than fifty years because that's the time. to be completely honest i think it's part of the problem it's not that the only problem but it's part of the problem is once you get to may and that's another thing the prime minister acts before all the other leagues and it finishes before the other leagues so once you get to may you completely drained then you get a break yes and you think oh put the breaks good for you but that's not the time you want a break if you're playing in the world cup you want to have maybe two three four days off and then you go into the training camp you have the ten days you always have prior to it's on it and then go straight into it but know you've had a big break and that means you have to sort of pick yourself up one more time do a preach what i meant trainings is the sort of regime. we call a pre-season but you have to do a lot of physical work again and at that time late may maybe even early june it's

not the time that you want and so you know it's stressful here is an opportunity today for the managers to not to rest the players but to see someone else that i might as a manager meet in again coming up could be the next one it could be the one after that you don't know if you see the previous world cups relative unknowns emerging getting their pitching z. and government both hands. headquarters that mean a day or two down we continue with our football coverage now both england and belgium are already three to the last sixteen meaning fans can relax and just enjoy the game kaliningrad but you don't have to be in kaliningrad to enjoy the atmosphere fans in moscow packed into fans and to watch the game you can see now the live pictures of how many of those fans are in the area for many of us supported him. come to russia it's the first of

a trip to the country. to. mark brown's call them for all the world born in the old song to song and so it was in my blood just to follow on from there for the fall farm for as long as i can remember really i think it was the nine hundred ninety eight world cup the reverse first i mean to go full. length. on left in the box on dreams with russia over the last four years quite frequently. so some of the signs of never seen it will load. for a hot head absolutely miles and while i'm going to live to host

back to things yes. well we tried. i don't really understand the safety concerns of come from this bill a lot of bad press stuff on so you're thinking seriously i'm going to go i think it's been happening so i. like to say when i went to the confederations cup competition all clear as a retired police officer the nominee of the police took the army's. cooperation with each other to call to the security much of. the. problem being jealous of throwing him because he's going out and you know a lot of people are freaking out trying to like safety in the trunk of the total. sun newspaper was among those reporting russia as a dangerous violent and have a big place but it's had sports reporter martin lipton who's in the country sees it differently. i think the the welcome of the russian people is being clear to

everyone the organization has been super previous they have always found russian people somewhat more reserved than they appear to be at least at this moment open and friendly. people everywhere which is great to see and also are just blown away by how brilliantly in the transport system is because the london underground really is a disaster and this place you can get anywhere in no time at all in a much bigger city down to reach of my kids and my wife i'm saying to them she's fantastic it's great i think people were i said fearful they were they were put in a position where they soon the worst was always the sure to shoot in the past. but there you go i mean it and danny danny's family have suffered racism in london in doncaster where wing them play with racing bust of a moscow or. whatever it might be they will see a part of the world they never dreamed of going to and travelled just pulled in the mind by its very nature that's got to be positive and they will go home with

a very different image of of russia because they've experienced that they had heretofore based on hearsay it's been a real pleasure to be here not salute joy. it's not only fans from across the world catching the football fever that the mayor put in his they were strangers to sport paid a visit to the feel for world cup football park in red square a stone's throw from his crime an office he even showed off some of his footballing skills. people so. good yes well that. was clever putin was the biggest political star on the pitch that speaking of footballing legends well there's plenty of those behind me defending the post behind me for a lot of it was real madrid's goalkeeping genius because she is also one of the worst as with the world champion twenty ten with tina fey. with the elimination of germany for me spain is

a clear favorite to win this woke up there's also brazil i think the whole world wants to see here in moscow spain and brazil playing in the final however with the surprise elimination of germany anything might happen. well interestingly enough play games tim in this game was. his former national team mate. and this is how the oracle of the footballing legend on the picture for now though was also here in the role as one of the team's coaches i remember how i was chasing down you know those stickers with his photographs back in the ninety's the president jennie infantile you know it was issue here and he made us somewhat of an address i believe a great celebration great matches perfect organization hospitable country you just walk around the city you can see men women boys with different shots from different countries around the world celebrating to have this for you have off now this game of course was not broadcast to every bar and pub in moscow and rest of

russia and abroad but it is showcases how special the existing russia is liberal by the year and how deeply the world cup fever has rooted itself in russia with thousands of fans taking pictures and videos during the world cup and russia has started to compile the best of them you can check out our fans i have a project on our website r.t. dot com has some of the fun that we'll be sharing that is today. oh the.

it's confirmed that vladimir putin and donald trump will hold their first official summit in helsinki more lot after this break. surface ship is very valuable and very competitive so so far we go to do something to be competitive also as a footballer and therefore we know from when we come back to the next month which all of this knowledge is and we can perform that some.

others are they just thought is drastic to us it has taken care of our cars just please stand up for me you could function most of them from the cold being from the first car i would just. as static. the problem is that we kind of have a speed within that state they call an ice it's not part of sweden. and i want to talk to some people who have money. and know know and pacing up stuff stop stop stop stop you know. my culture is a christian country and we don't do things like that and we will tell you if you do then we hate you and someday hopefully people do something about you to stop. we cannot be naive about this to not attract more gangsters rapists and these

but it's actually that are tearing down this city and we want to be a sweep is currently and we want and most of the people who live here to go back. to. thank you welcome back to the program chief of nato has welcomed news of the first official summit between donald trump and vladimir putin which is set for next month in helsinki he says dialogue is a sign of strength his word to echoed by the european union's foreign policy chief however not everyone in the agrees with the highly anticipated meeting already

creating a ripple of anxiety according to media reports auntie's jacking as well. but we've had official statements from both the kremlin and the white house saying that the two will be meeting in helsinki finland on july the sixteenth and the statement said that the two will be discussing relations between the u.s. and russia which of course both presidents have been lamenting for quite some time the state of the the low that they're out at this point in time and it also said that they'll be talking about a range of national security issues among that they're likely to touch on topics such as syria and ukraine now as you mentioned earlier this is the first official summit between the two presidents although they have spoken on the phone several times and they have actually met in person a couple of times as well the last was on the sidelines of the economic conference in vietnam in november of last year for this who seem to get on quite well over. one.

so they're the two were all smiles and we have only to wait and see what will come out of this meeting and if it will be productive as well the summit has been in the works for quite a while now and it was only officially announced yesterday on wednesday during a visit by trump's national security advisor. here in moscow john bolton and at the time at a press conference after meeting with president putin john bolton stressed the importance of this meeting and what it signifies let's listen to what he had to say the fact is that it's important for the leaders of these two countries to meet there are a wide range of issues despite the differences between us where those president trump and president putin think they may be able to find constructive solutions i'd like to hear someone say that's a bad idea now that almost sounds like a challenge coming from bolton and perhaps unsurprisingly people both at home and

abroad are taking him up on it as fears are being raised over the meeting between trump and putin and the media is awash with articles on that topic most of the concerns seem to be coming from nato members who fear what trump might promise to do when the two of them get together the nato members surely fear that trump could call for a reduction in troops and equipment or even possibly the suspension of drills that are carried out in the region and back at home for trump he's likely to have criticism coming from people who'll say once again that they hold responsible for all the accusations surrounding the meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election will say that he's again not being tough enough on russia and it could also also possibly bring up the specter of collusion once again not that it ever really want to weigh but it will bring it to the forefront once again more than likely but at this point it seems like this summit is full steam ahead and it's much anticipated so we'll be watching and waiting to see what comes out of it and we'll both cars from right to marry to see why some in the international community

so i will shift about the meeting. partly because of all the investigations that are currently happening in washington about whether russia interfere in the presidential election in the united states whether indeed there was some people claim collusion between trump's team and russia in whatever form all these things created a climate in washington which is very very hostile to any idea of a trump putin meeting. the other thing is that of course the europeans have all sorts of worries about a closer relationship between russia and the united states because almost for the first time that i can remember there's very little trust between the main countries in europe and washington and specifically president trump.

the streets of paris and once again packed with protesters denouncing french president emanuel micron's labor and tax reforms as part of a mouse nation life protest over a couple. of thousands have come out onto the streets of paris. day of protests against the my government we've seen the police already trying to split up some of the protests taking place as you see some people behind us launching smoke and they have also been throwing firecrackers seems the crowd just well here to protest is what they see as the roys in social inequality is that they see the exclusion of social inequality that's been happening since micro came into power they hate you demanded an increase in wages and increasing pensions. but the general gap between men and women in terms of their wages and this is just

in to professional days. between one of the unions the c.d.g. and you know the union the f.o. sings came to power is what we have here a student teacher is other people from across the civil service as well as the railway workers who are on their last day of the continues three month strike against reorganization of the essence yes that is the railway here in france but we have seen some limited violence from a small group of protesters known they call themselves anti fascist anti capitalists we sued them actually attempting to smash and asked to host building an insurance building for free to the outside of it and it wasn't long after that that the police started to come out the c.r.s. police came out and tried to break this protest up into chose to try and manage any potential violence for the moment though all is calm of the people here say they

want president michael to hear they cools so far he hasn't unlike other french leaders he has he removed the calls he's ignored the protest in his clout on the head with his plan of government money saying that he was elected joan last year for the moment this protest is being relatively peaceful but we know that there are small contingent here who are normally hell bent on achieving some sort of violence and there is a strong police presence in geology been staying. power. british officials knew about the quote torture of u.s. detainees after the nine eleven attacks a u.k. government report has revealed controversy remains over what washington calls in hans the interrogation techniques picks up the story densely it's a very big trove of information it was eight years in the making and it's all about

british spies and their involvement in torture and rendition or. of the extent of british involvement in torture and rendition in the years after nine eleven during the so-called war on terror the report says that the u.k. tolerated inexcusable treatment of u.s. detainees and that although there was no smoking gun per se the policy of the u.k. side and pierced have been to simply close their eyes to what the u.s. was getting up to with detainees the phrase used in the report is that agency's deliberately overlooked reports of mistreatment and rendition as a matter of institutional policy not to reason may has already responded to this these reports publications she said that u.k. personnel were working in a very new and challenging environment at the time which in some cases they weren't prepared for and it took too long the prime minister said to recognize that

guidance and training for staff was inadequate and that detainee related work remains important and at times difficult but that intelligence and armed forces personnel are now much better placed to meet that challenge and also perhaps given the content of the report and how much it relates back to what was taking place in the u.s. at the time or what was being done by u.s. agencies there have been rumors swirling around this week in some of the papers that the u.s. government tried to censor the publication before it came out that was something that was denied.