after nine hours of intense deliberations it leave leaders reach and non-binding agreement on the migrant crisis but while there's still a long way to go to solve the immigration issue. a prominent u.s. anti child abuse campaigner and nobel peace prize nominee has been arrested by the f.b.i. over allegations of the difficulty of. the group stage of the twenty eighteen world cup in russia is over only sixteen teams now remain in the race to be around. eight pm when you're watching r t international live from moscow with me in india to welcome to the program and exhausting to day and all night e.u.

summit is over with leaders finally pending a deal on migration they seem happy with the agreement but european council president on task warns the signing was just the easy part of the gold shower deal migration so it's far too early to talk about the success. we have some of the church to reach an agreement. but this is inside the easiest. comp store through h.r. from the ground as we heard there the european union leaders have reached a compromise agreement over the whole migrant issue there are some major changes that have been put forward and these include the fact that migrants can no longer choose where they will live migrant centers will be set up in non european countries at the same time there will be more support given to mediterranean countries that are affected by the whole migrant crisis the relocation of migrant.

across europe will take place on a voluntary basis and the dublin agreement that essentially says that the responsibility for care of migrants wastes on the country where that migrant into the us will this is now going to be completely revised and what it means is that we will see joint you appear in forces monitoring the rescue operations in the mediterranean sea and the responsibility for those not forming sold me on the shoulders of the italians the agreement however is non binding and it comes in an effort by europeans to show solidarity often late on thursday the italians refused to add here to agreements that had been made on other issues on military financial and digital issues until the migrant issue was solved today it is the come from are still interesting to see that you can produce a lot of things have based on the entire basis of carby gobos as soon as it was willing the whole question is essentially what does a non-binding agreement mean we are hearing from the italian prime minister who

says to quote that italy could initiate procedures against european union members who do not respect the deal now although you have the german chancellor angela merkel in the french president stressing that the shows european unity what is clear is that they've had to bow to the pressure of the italians and other central european states what we hearing from the german chancellor and that here and said this is not the end of the road and this is an important step in the right direction where of course not here to the end of the road the latest spat started when italy said it would no longer take in migrants now the new agreement states that if a migrant for example is picked up on the german austrian border but was registered in greece or spain he or she can be sent back the question remains of course how exactly this will be implemented on the ground and how this new agreement will pan out. experts told us that despite the show of unity from european leaders member

states still bitterly split from american. political troubles we don't know whether she will be chancellor in the next weeks and so she she was obliged to. reach a compromise. mccrone is not consistent i thought i mean he's keep saying that the wants are more strongly than. human europe but then he is the first the whole blocks migrants. and on the border to meet only the blocks the thoughts without me does not accept n.g.o.s vassals to arrive at french bought and this is something that really is shocking for the other counties because say that how can france keep lessons to us when they are not at all an example to follow the e.u. . made a show of unity but this show of unity became in e.u.

and then we need centers because we are so many crises but we want to to mask the fragmentation of the group but at the same time. this compromise when you look at the control mice it's quite too weak. to say it's typical of e.u. . and be gritty is part of a compromise because he saw a constructive big ricci so everybody can agree but actually the problem is. the push to over dates and of the they try to gain time but if you look at what has been agreed everything is voluntary it means on the voluntary basis for reasons no obligation to any decisions taken in this compromise.

a prominent on to child abuse campaign has been arrested by the f.b.i. over allegations of paedophilia kellett more pain report. 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 aged zero plus and has no limits davis told them because the offices that he. previously had sexual experiences with a nine month old boy a six year old go and the seven year old boy now according to the f.b.i.

davis actually asked the undercover agents to send him explicit videos and photographs of children the department of justice says they are appalled by the case of conduct alleged against children even this 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 davis is a longtime outspoken advocate of human rights organization with over five thousand people it was very well funded he gave regular media appearances 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 will reap is used to terrorize and degrade 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 you combine 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 able to mop up our t. new york. france is trying to instill patriotism in it the country's education ministry has made learning the national anthem the musée is compulsory for primary school children people 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 learn the most eighth. yes they should know this anthem because it's the anthem of the french republic since seventeen ninety two so they in general learned at school i don't know why mr macro all of

a sudden realize that all children should know it in principle all children should know it and it's a school they can learn it not somewhere else. i think it's always good to learn songs by heart as a child but personally i find the musée as a bit bloody the text is very violent. its own national anthem so it makes sense for all french people to know it yes of course it's part of the french identity just like the flag the traditional french cuisine all in all it is the french culture we should know it more we just want to the most i think the more say is a somewhat aggressive song it doesn't really represent the values of freedom equality and brotherhood if i don't. i don't want. to. i don't. even. know you know it's a revolutionary song but quite brutal if you listen to the words.

yes why not but the french republic is first of all i must say is. yes certainly when not where europeans to place it in movie after this cultural opening towards europe well it's a different thing a different issue because europe it was constructed well france existed for centuries and europe is a much more recent development. dollars well we want to do or 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 it. while learning to be french patriots children will also be reminded of the need to be good europeans as they'll also be taught to recognize the european flag and on for the ode to joy her her.

national movement to have it we are pleased to learn that our previous we'll have to sing is a must see yes but honestly as a need there is no need to know anything about the so-called european scene you know that's probably is a mr mark or smith thought to give you something on the lead but as yours around it forces you to accept something else you know it when you're not call friends is too small for him is a citizen of the world. a big fan of globalism it's a big mistake and it's a very old fish and i didn't really time where it was in the united states in italia in slovenia in austria to influence now shown and the sure knowledge that id

is back. than twenty four hours to go till the first playoffs of the fifa world cup in russia sixteen teams have been sent packing in the group stage meaning another sixteen remain in the race to be crowned champions in the first games on saturday heavyweights argentina and france clash in cars and and then it's portugal in europe why inside the losers of each match will be out of the tournament. the winners through to the quarter finals. when portugal play impressive view of why eyes are on the cristiana rinaldo the world's best player he seemed upbeat in training ahead of the decisive game and even showed off some dancing skills meanwhile here are some numbers from the first of the largest football party on earth.

some teams and their fans have of course already started the long track home but not before catching their experiences in photos and videos taken around russia artist started to compile some of the best of these you can check out all fans eye view project online at all to dot com.

thanks. i. think i i think. i was. the. final group games didn't have as much at stake as some of the previous ones it was more a matter of finding out who to play whom in the last sixteen and the first games of the day colombia sent out with a tight one nil when japan joined the coffee growers in the last sixteen despite

losing to poland here's a recap of what happened. and my colleague rory suchet discussed how the group stages went with allie has been covering the world cup for us from st petersburg. so 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 so for the last two routes i've been the same pieces but it's just it's really sharp i have no idea just how cool

a city it was how beautiful it was and. the past two weeks have been cool and 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 international sort of descended upon some petersburg yes so the first two teams to play there were iran and morocco and there were huge numbers of sorts of probably more rain events and it was just great like the russian people getting involved and 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. no such issues not just. started by nigeria. this fifty year old volkswagen beetle has been driven by mr noah and his friend

paolo from brazil that traveled half a dozen south american. before getting his ship over the ocean to come here and enjoy the world cup. let's go. to. 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. we can see some of your friends there from across the ocean right back gave you very. good also. you see. it is leaving the same pieces that stadium very happy with that result. costa rica defending

resolutely but it's still me this is the world. that it. was always i was very happy we saw it i would go over salt here just been getting absolutely modelled by the fads and simply it is but 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 has been through to the knockout stages of walkup since one thousand nine hundred six so yeah misfit was amazing overwhelmingly russian crowd. the other game this brazil costa rica but also argentina nigeria. and the nigerians were five minutes away from going through and when argentina school the noise in the stadium of i've got i like football i go to games and in that i haven't had a noise like that you have a. cold it was right it was crazy and so you know it's just what's been striking

about the walcott the force been really good there's been one goal. straw in all of these opening games which is like unheard 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 really really upset. on a technicality they went out because they had yellow cards japanned they were really good especially in the first game that they played late really brightened 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 portugal and spain and just perhaps some quality to really go through so there were some good teams not the team all the big teams that 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 yesterday 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 in. the day and then 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. 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 have been brazil another what about what about the people you're meeting there simply describe because you we 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 it were. 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 head to the metro to australia and 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 country 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 it's 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 out they were like you know i'm going to book a holiday to film so you know there are lots of kind of intangible kind of benefits of come out of this one of the 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. i think the way in the drawer sets up this is probably the best opportunity they've got for years of our young team no pressure so my dog of course is crazy. colombia is one of the teams through to the last sixteen their fans have traveled halfway across the world to support their side and while some thought they would encounter difficulties along the way they've been left pleasantly surprised.

i believe that people dismissed. the dean of the deal unless he was mission is. used as i see that's giving you the police particular problem. but you should. be surprised at how would it be for the police. but i was just i was sweating so i didn't feel. that. we also spoke to gary in football legend wrister storage cough about his impressions of the tournament so far. so i'm not a big fan of comparisons every world cup is special every team is special in four

years a lot has happened at the last world cup in brazil spain arrived as champions but failed to reach the knockout stage today we see the current champions germany going home every day brings new surprises after that everyone thought it would take something extraordinary for colombia not to qualify they won but with difficulty brazil has not yet convinced me that they were a competitive team in my opinion namei still in shock and hasn't shown himself to be the football player i know from barcelona and it's not visible because ku. plays better because of the injury he doubted whether he'd enter we see that james rodriguez has not yet recovered so there are many factors and in addition historically europe is for the europeans. news and world cup highlights for now i'll be back at the top of the hour with more so to stay with us.

but the politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president interim. or somehow want to be rich. to do like to be press this is what the four three in the morning keep people. interested always in the waters about how. things should. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that. rather they object as he should be. one of the more so if you be in love because a lot of on. the screen what i mean are well me and i don't know but the

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the tournament and says the vital knockout rounds but first here's a look at all the action from our i must call this wake. up call it will show three days comes to the russian football museum to look at russia has contributed to the beautiful game in the city folk welcome and also praising the show classical culture have brought back connection a huge collection of much will ensure from faithful copes of the last fifty or sixty years it's going to. this is no place for manchester city next place in seville yet the lose against

spain july tenth two thousand and seven johannesburg this was born in the first world cup final. and we have yet to know that that was worn does it again what's more famous by calling the famous brazil kid. i don't think so and when you go among a lot tougher here's where it seems even paying off you can say now is off to show you. will cope and your part. so he's assured that i know very well because one of my three england caps which i treasure in this case study becker will be so noisy noisy ice and there's a lot of controversy fight against argentina he got sent off. to go see me only g.i. joe simeoni peace efforts coming to.