after nine hours of tense deliberation the e.u. leaders have reached an agreement on the migrant crisis including the setting up of special migrant centers and the speeding up of the extradition prose there is. a prominent u.s. anti child abuse campaign and nobel peace prize nominee has been arrested by the f.b.i. over allegations of you to philly or. the group stage of the two thousand and eighteen world cup in russia resign over only sixteen teams now remain in the race to be crowned champion. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t.

international with me becky aaron good to have you with us. e.u. countries have reached a much awaited compromise on tackling the migrant crisis under pressure from italy and central european countries europe's powerhouses france and germany have agreed to tougher regulations artie's paulus leo breaks down the meetings outcomes. well after a night of long and terse discussions european leaders reached a compromise agreement but the fact of the matter is that there are some major changes that are now going to be implemented these include amongst others that migrants can no longer choose in which country they will live there will also be migrant centers that will be established in non european countries in this respect more support will be given to mediterranean countries that are also affected by the whole migrant crisis now the relocation of migrants across the european union will be done on a voluntary basis and at the same time the dublin agreement will be thoroughly reformed this is an agreement that places the response ability on the country in

which the migrants arrived in europe it places the responsibility on that country and as i say this will be performed so that what will happen is that you will have joined the european forces risk use in the mediterranean sea for example and the responsibility of this will not fall as it has done in the past almost soley on the italian forces now the european powerhouses particularly france and germany are trying to present this as a victory for european unity the french president as well as the german chancellor are pushing for this but what they fail to acknowledge is that they really have had to bow to pressure from italy and other central european countries you need to just look for example at the voluntary relocation of migrants it wasn't so long ago that the german chancellor angela merkel presented an unyielding stance on that suggesting that those countries who refused to take in new migrants would not receive the same kind of funding as those who adhere to the quota system and there

was just over a week ago that we heard the french president micron lashing out at italy's new government for refusing to take in migrants from the aquarius. the reality is that europe is not going through my group crisis like the one it turns into a demon those who see the opposites are not telling the truth but even the come. italy is not the same when it had last year because. it's all its response to the situation with aquarius is proof of a form of cynicism and a lack of responsibility on behalf of the italian government when faced with this dramatic humanitarian disaster for now it's ok seems as if italy has one forcing other countries to take into consideration its gripes the italian prime minister has hailed the outcome. that overrules weaken the rule was a long negotiation and the good from today is no longer. well on thursday italy effectively blocked a statement and issued an ultimatum to brussels the situation was extremely tense

with the european council president donald tusk warning that there was further division in store for europe what of course remains to be seen is how these new changes will be implemented on the ground and how in fact they are ultimately will pan out. to discuss this further now and bring in our guest political expert pierre emmanuel and mr tamanna thank you for joining us on the program how do you assess the e.u. summit outcome do you think we can see this is a victory for if chile which managed to get the other member states to take into consideration its concerns. well i think. this negotiations and did in a compromise but comprise is very weak. e.u.'s dispirit to show unity. of all member states disagree

and the long term the perspective of the sim migrant crisis but because of urgency. we for crisis in germany we found going to merker joe pa dies in. the german government to to survive. the e.u. . made a show of unity but. show of unity may became in e.u. and ned and then that in itself. because we are so many crises that they want to to mask the fragmentation of e.u. but at the same time. this compromise when you look at the compromise east quite tweak it out over say it's typical of e.u. like you be gritty east part of

a compromise because he's so constructive on big ricci so everybody can agree but actually the problem it is. a push to. dates and of a try to gain time but if you look at what has been agreed everything is voluntary it means on their very own terry basis there is no obligation to any decisions taken in this compromise for example. disembarkment sent to us which us who post take your. migrants in. scituate you didn't north africa so far no country accept it or to lease your all. except you to host the centaur sending over i was just about to ask you sorry for interrupting that this is one of the measures the e.u. leaders have agreed on the creation of these migrant centers outside of europe but

how viable would you think it really is i mean do you expect north african states to actually agree to host such facilities and of course if they did they would have to be some give and take what could they are asked for in return. of course so far no country accepted these transit sentence but of course it's also probably a way to rice mistakes a reader and i could turkey which. cooperates did reveal you were too to work. to contain the migrant crises receives a lot of money from me you. probably if the center located in north africa e.u. you have to pay for be sent to us and these countries have an interest in rising the stakes also of a second decisions to have sent to us on e.u. territory tool. to make decisions on migrants between guards and economic

my grandson under refugees is on e.u. territory in means it would be very difficult to make the illegal years come back to where it come from saul and also receive on a voluntary basis so in means i figure the compromise is very reach it was an urgency to show unity but at the expense of. the implementation phase which would be very difficult and also citizens. most of us citizens deserve grevious mass immigration and the longer we wait longer. a loss of trust in e.u. and that night little like that pat manual tom and thank you so much for joining us

on r.t. and sharing your insight we appreciate it. thank you. now a prominent anti child abuse campaigner and nobel peace prize nominee has been arrested by the f.b.i. of allegations of pedophilia hellebore pain reports twenty two year old joe davis is outspoken in his activism against sexual violence that's what makes his recent arrest so disturbing joel davis has been arrested and it's alleged that he attempted to engage a minor in sexual activity and he's been distributing child pornography now beyond the basic charges the actual details of the case are pretty disturbing the f.b.i. picked up davis in a sting operation now they've revealed some of the text messages he exchanged with undercover agents what's about to follow is rather disturbing but it's actually not the most disturbing part of the correspondence during the course of the text conversations davis stated that he is into children age zero plus and has no limits

davis told him because the offices that he previously had sexual experiences with a nine month old boy a six year old go and a seven year old boy now according to the f.b.i. davis actually asked to the undercover agents to send him explicit videos and photographs of children the department of justice says they are appalled by the case conduct and edge to instill davis is unfathomable as it is sickening and as this case demonstrates to enforcement keep its watchful eye on the darkest corners of the internet to bring predators to justice and davis is for a long time been a very outspoken opponent of sexual violence and an advocate of human rights for two years he had a special position at the united nations he gave regular media appearances and his organization had over five thousand members and was very well funded around the world in order acted and respected in peacetime then you're not going to be able to protect them or respect them in conflict like you need to when you do need the rule

of law and so many conflicts across the globe children's. bodies are quickly becoming sites of violence where rape is used to terrorize and degrade entire communities now davis went on to actually give a ted talk on the subject of expertise that it was two months ago and the video is now unavailable when he was giving an interview to n.b.c. about how he combined charity work with his studies he said he feels like he's living a double life those are words that would come back to haunt him. r.t. new york. or france is trying to instill a pattern it as the minutes young the country's education ministry has made learning the national anthem the muscle a become poster me for primary school children peoples will be required to know the history of the national anthem and of the french flags creation they will need not just to learn the lyrics but also to sing the anthem at school the lion's share of the french public some ninety percent are in favor of making children.

they should know this answer because it's the anthem of the french republic since seventy nine. school i don't know when. you'll know it improves i believe children should know it and it's cool they can learn some we're really. good i think it's always good to learn songs by heart as a child but personally i find the must see is a bit bloody the text is very violent it's. its own national anthem it so it makes sense for all french people to know with us of course it's part of the french identity just like the flag the traditional french that we see all in all it is the french culture we should know we have. i think the most is a somewhat aggressive song it doesn't really represent the values of freedom equality my brother did you have to get it if i don't. i don't want.

to hear. i don't. even. know you know it's a revolutionary song that's quite brutal listen to the words. yes why not put the french republic first of all we're not yes. yes certainly when not we are europeans to a place after this cultural opening towards europe well it's a different thing a different issue with us and because europe it was constructed well france existed for centuries and europe has a much more recent development. as well we want to join yes i know it but not as the european anthem did piaf sang it in french. i don't know it. neither do i and you do you know what i think.

though. for learning to be french patriots children will also be reminded of the need to be good europeans as well also be taught to recognize the european flag and the ode to joy. bur. it's a national movement to have it we need to learn our previous we have to sing is and i say yes' buds and i say has a need so we said no need to know anything about the so called european unseeded you know that's. not force me to. give you something and then but i was always around it forces you to accept something as you know it when you're not call friends is too small for him is a citizen of the world he's

a. big fan of blueberries and it's a big mistake and it's a very old fashioned idea i don't really time where it was in the united states italia in slovenia to ya and it would influence if you know now shown. i.d.'s back found the law think spain in the world cup update on the tournament after this short break stay with us. most people think to stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice or the biggest break in truth to stand losing distance just the dance the right questions to bend the right answer.

question. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. camera. roughly once they showed some of the new for the. future cool videos during the world cup and someone with the broccoli staring at. me down more on string i don't rightly don't t.v. . welcome back now it's time to update you on the football the group stage of the world cup is now over only sixteen teams remain in the race to be crowned champions

but first knockout games will be played on saturday argentina and fronts clash in. portugal this is a year ago i insult the loses of each match will be out of the tournament the windows through to the quarter finals. thursday's final group games that didn't have as much at stake as some of the previous ones it was more of a monster of finding out who would play whom in the knockout stage here's a recap of what happened. i. was. little. i.

was. putting i. mean. i mean my colleague lori say she. has been covering the world cup for us from st petersburg discuss the great state of the championship. but that's my first time ever being in st petersburg already been to russia once before and it was two months ago when i came to cover actually

another full story but i was only in moscow then so for the last two weeks i've been to some pizzas but it's just it's really shocked i have no idea just how cool a city it was how beautiful it was and. the past two weeks have been cool in the well how kind of people have you been meeting i mean obviously you've got your football fans but it's a huge mix of internationals that have descended upon some peter yes so the first two teams to play there were around america and there were huge numbers of sets of fans probably more right and it was just great like the russian people getting involved and they were also found some of the country so even though there's been like a number of teams playing this and. i've seen mexican fans who haven't played and a rule i would say like it's just been so much fun and actually i think we can even see like some of the probably the highlights of the last two weeks i've had. is not just. started by nigeria.

this fifty year old volkswagen beetle has been driven by mr noel and his friend from brazil that. hoffa doesn't south american countries before getting his ship over the ocean to come here and enjoy the world cup. let's go. there were so many other great players in the argentina squad you have to really perform today i'll bet you go i'll. take you guys i. know. that. we can see you got some of your friends there from across the ocean right back gave you.

leaving the st petersburg stadium very happy with that result. costa rica defending resolutely. so. very happy. here just been getting absolutely mobbed by the fans and said petersburg the world cup the energy has been absolutely amazing now ok on the serious side there the games you've covered what are some of the games you saw it was russia against egypt and it was a huge game of course because russia won and of course the host country going through to the last sixteen in the first time russia have been through to the knockout stages of the walkup since one thousand nine hundred six so yeah misfit was amazing overwhelmingly russian crowd. the other game there's brazil costa rica but also argentina nigeria and nigerians were five minutes away from going through and when argentina school the noise in the stadium i've got to i like football i go

to games in england i haven't heard a noise like that you have a. right it was crazy and so you know it's just what's been striking about the walk the football has been really good there's been one goal of straw in all of these opening games which is like one hundred of it's just great but also we've also had a good amount of drama and scandals as well germany who would have thought germany knocked out i mean i was absolutely shocked by that what about the teams that have really impressed you at the world cup so far you mentioned nigeria for example though senegal's been doing quite well any other teams yes so the goal was really really upset didn't go yesterday on a technicality they went out because they had yellow cards japanned and they were really good especially in the first game that they played a really brighten up the atmosphere the supporters were fantastic i was also impressed with a rod i'm a bit biased by bombs or radio but they played really really well against. well in spain and just relax perhaps some quality to really go through so there are some good teams not the teams you all the big teams of actually struggled you know

france just you know in their first game they struggled to be australia germany have gone out spain and portugal didn't have it easy brazil was sweating in a few of their games so it's yeah it's been good it's not really a. lot of surprises yes that is your thoughts so yesterday again you know colombia going through. such dramatic style they they were perhaps the least favored of the good teams in the group they started off and. in the other day and again japan going through on the yellow card it just shows like the margins have been so thin in some of these some of these groups and of course in the game yesterday as well that's been interesting so i think in the belgian had qualified and it was interesting because almost. wanted to lose because in a sense they had an easier run that's right the semi's so england won they were down and they didn't have that much urgency to win the game and now they've got potentially a very easy run to the semifinals whereas the other side of the draw which belgium

are in could be because of what about what about the people you're meeting there are some people because you were talking a few moments ago just outside of the studio and i live here in moscow and so i get on the metro every day absolutely crammed with football fans and i've been speaking to some people from australia and other parts of the world who have had a really surprising experience if i had to in the metro two australian say to me we are embarrassed we are embarrassed to be here and enjoy this football world cup so much after being so convinced by the media that we are actually going to come and find trouble what was your experience i think there were a lot of people who probably felt the same way. and what i've also found interesting is that russia. was an interesting conversation with a russian yesterday actually he said that we have a big club football culture but as far as international football goes and supporting russia as a. hunchy we don't. have a great international team we're not really a big international football country but the way they've embraced the tournament the local people has been amazing i think it's good for russia i think it's opened

russia up to so many new people and cultures and ideas and those people coming to russia it's opened them up to i think outside of russia we don't see in the west and again i myself you know. i mean working for r.t. for four years i have no preconceived bias about russia which has been shaped by the media environment in in the u.k. so when i come here as well it's been a huge shock and many people have repeated the same thing they didn't expect it to be so organized they didn't expect everything to be i want to be so friendly and i think that's been key and also we've been lucky the weather's been fantastic as well so as these little things that all come together and again the football on the pitch has been fantastic as well you know all of these factors have come together i think there's going to be a lot of fans who are going home happy and probably telling their family members there was one guy who told me my family thought i was going to get stabbed killed beaten up and by the end of the conversation on what's up they were like you know i'm going to book a holiday to from so so you know there are lots of kind of intangible kind of

benefits of come out of this tournament listen i know you're a busy man before i let you go let's play a little bit of jersey you know what are your predictions for the tournament who is going to win. i think i said at the beginning of the tournament front. and i think the way england's draw sets up this is probably the best option if they've got four years of a young team no pressure so france england and that my dog of course is croatia in the back of the top of the hour with all the latest news to join us that.

not. that sort of. played golf. a g.o.p. immigration bill goes down in flames and a supreme court justice ginsburg president trump

a chance to change the court for years to come. lots to cover on this edition of. politicking on larry king on wednesday compromise g.o.p. immigration bill went down in flames and some within the president's party are blaming him so what happens next and on wednesday supreme court justice anthony kennedy announced his retirement leaving president donald trump and the opportunity to shape the court for years to come let's start first with david jolly former republican representative from florida he joins us in washington this compromise bill went down it provided for a wall it provided for the path to citizenship for the doc is why i didn't get beat david. it truly because there is no universal consensus within the republican party

or republican members on capitol hill you know it is a caucus that is dominated by hardliners those who want to build a wall frankly those who support much of the imagery we have seen in the last week or two regarding the president zero tolerance at the border and separation of families but there are just enough republicans in the caucus who want to see a pathway to legal status or even a pathway to citizenship for the dreamers for those who came in under dhaka and the reality is democrats were able to just sit on the sideline and watch republicans continue to implode through a comedy of errors in the last week or two on immigration you also have to look at larry the inconsistency of the president ited states who one week ago said don't waste your time on immigration and then just ahead of this final vote said let's pass it this is a party that is somewhat listless on immigration but probably happy to go into november with it on resolved because it it remains a very powerful issue for their base voters.

since unship the doctors who are all here not of their own volition bonin stayed in pretty good citizens. you know and in raw politics it's because they sell a message of fear that's very powerful fear often sells better than hope when it comes to an electoral base but there also are questions of whether or not we are going to create a pathway for those who came here illegally those who came here without going through the normal process while we still have those here on legal status who do not have a similar pathway you know we have several visa programs for families who came here illegally have been here for ten or twenty years their kids age out under the current system and are told they have to return the moment they close the business they're told they have to return the reality is we need a dramatic reform of our immigration laws including legal immigration laws but at the same time you know i often say we can be a nation of laws but also a nation.