long after the film got a little you're nothing but you look at all of the. the divisions in us society could be more dangerous than thought with a recent poll finding that nearly a third of americans believe a civil war is possible. meanwhile president donald trump refuses to rule out recognizing crimea as part of russia ahead of his summit with vladimir putin.

and the world cup in russia and terms the knockout stage with sixteen teams still in it to win it first of all for a place in the quarterfinals are france and argentina. this is arch international coming to you live from the russian capital with me thanks for tuning in this hour. deep divisions along party lines and fears over immigration have raised concerns for the ultimate fate of the u.s. almost a third of americans polled said they thought a second civil war was possible kill moppin picks up the story pretty hard to believe sounds almost like click bait or internet sensationalism but it turns out that a number of americans actually do believe that civil war is a possibility furthermore the same poll indicated that roughly sixty percent of americans believe the backlash to donald trump's policies could turn violent the

debate surrounding trump's immigration policies and the media fuming over it the gun control debate and the white house in the intelligence community not getting along that has been quite explosive it times a member of the u.s. congress recently raised eyebrows when he compared the current atmosphere to the lead up to the u.s. civil war the way he put it the usa could be headed toward fort sumpter that was the symbolic attack by slave state secessionists that launched the war back in eighteen sixty one there's even now talk of twenty four seven security for members of the trumpet ministration congresswoman maxine waters. makes no bones about the fact that she is ready to take the fight against donald trump way beyond capitol hill and the voting booth and that he. was to run. the state was. absolutely stunning should you. do you. think a vaccine waters herself has now been flooded with

a number of threats and actually cancelled several speaking events so let's see how people on the streets of new york feel about the rising polarization of american society what percent do you think said it was possible in the next five years. i would have to guess is that i've let me let me go fifty eight percent sixty six six think it was possible. thirty or forty maybe thirty percent you're very close thirty one percent what do you think they're getting at why would they think that you know that that the such a possibility thirty one percent saying there could be a civil war maybe you because of the gun controls maybe because. i mean the racial we're having a lot of problems right now with the president with foreign policy with the immigrant children just too much going on all at the same time and a lot of people are scared and a lot of people are anxious to lot of dissension among americans and

a lot of fear. and then creates. that that kind of possibility after donald trump won the highly divisive twenty sixteen presidential election he called for unity of the american people but now opposition to the president has become so uncivil that it's actually stoking fears of a new civil war. are to new york. two palestinians have been killed in protest of israel gaza border on friday that's according to palestinian officials a teenager is said to. the one of the dead. have been ongoing since late march. to. respond to. the word injury after injury and as you see sense the beginning of the beginning of the protests today

the fourteenth week of the great march of return at least twenty policies have been injured by live ammunition and tear gas canisters that israeli forces continue to use the lethal force against the policy in protesters palestinians have been protesting for more than fourteen weeks demanding demanding the right of return demanding the right of shifting the locate that has been imposed on the gaza strip by israel since the beginning of the protest says the beginning of the great march of return one hundred thirty one palestinians have been killed and more than fourteen thousand palestinians have been injured including fifty four palestinians who got limbs amputated from the upper and lower body where the israeli forces have been using explosive bullets that have been fracture and fractured completely fracture bones and tissues and causing long lasting disability i'm now standing approximately two hundred meters away only from the fence and it's very clear that

the israeli soldiers are have really stationed the protests continue palestinians continue to protest and it's very clear that they have a message to the world that they won't give up on their land they won't give up on jerusalem and they won't give up on trying to stick liberation. israel says that soldiers are acting purely in self-defense toll of you considers the palestinian based organization hamas a terrorist and says the group uses protesters to breach the border. egypt has made it clear it's not going to host and migrant centers or disembarkation platforms whose creation were proposed at friday's e.u. summit the deal on tackling the migrant crisis struck by the european leaders may look good on paper but as poll slayer explains it's anything but a silver bullet. having emerged after the nearly ten hour marathon summit e.u. leaders have been patting themselves on the back quite a lot for me this is satisfying outcome it sends out

a good message that we have eventually prepared the joint text i'm optimistic that we can cooperate further i believe that the preparatory work of presidents and the federal chancellor merkel has now brought a real breakthrough. a more responsible and more supportive europe is emerging from this european council italy is not left alone any more. but in reality the deal getting all this praise is a carefully but vaguely worded one just like so many other agreements struck by the bloc in the past but this one manages to satisfy a diverse range of views so just exactly how was it reached one challenge was to satisfy it to be who on thursday blocked all joint decisions prior to the summit in an effort to appease tensions the member states decided to stay and rescued migrants on a new territory to so-called control centers across the bloc bash and this was only to appease central european countries like the czech republic and hungary those

locations are still to be decided and can only happen in countries who volunteer to have them not surprising they're not many volunteers many leaders again pushed for responsibility to fall on first arrival countries who are already have enough migrants same tis all sides under the dublin regulation refugees have to buy in the first european country where they are right we are sticking to this rule and it follows that those countries are responsible for migration senses france is not the country's first arrival so most opensource senses obviously. we are not the first arrival country and most people jump with their if it's in an apparent lifeline for the german chancellor angela merkel this non-binding agreement says that all governments must take measure. is to stop migrants and refugees from crossing internal borders now this is something that mccall desperately needs as she's facing a two week ultimatum from her coalition partner who is threatening to impose

a new border regime against whole world and list medical finds and all you have solutions. if european solution cannot be achieved we need to act on our own we agree on the objective whatever approaches are different in the next fourteen days we will see whether we can find common ground here's another key point of the so-called breakthrough deal european leaders have also better plans to tighten the clocks borders and provide more money to countries like turkey and morocco to provide migrants from coming to europe processing centers are also being set up in countries like egypt libya niger algeria and others but these are the kind of things that have been happening since two thousand and fifteen and they haven't managed to solve the migrant crisis so perhaps these new or not so new measures are less about helping the migrants and more about saving the hits of some european leaders. in.

its day seventeen of the world cup in russia and the tournament moves into a new phase the knockout stage only sixteen teams are left and the real dramas about to begin with every game resulting in elimination will be two games a day on saturday first up france take on argentina and cousin and later on portugal your boy in sochi the winners of each match will go through to the quarterfinals. and all the teams have been training the fans have been out showing their support has been compiling the best fan videos as part of its online fans i view project here's a quick preview the rest are at r.t. dot com. the. the. of the of the i am god of the.

gun. i. i. i. the first knockout game has all the makings of a blockbuster west to have the way it's france and argentina clashing and cousin. is in the city for us.

because that is balancing a head of the big a margin scene against france this is the hotel where the argentinian team will stay lots of people are here to greet their heroes particularly leo messi but this hotel has a very funny thing going on. so this is what leo messi will be seeing out of his hotel room it's the hotels that you're right here so there's a mural on the wall but if you think that ends here follow me. see if you think that ends here follow me. so we go around the corner literally around the corner and there's another mural. that is messy archrival shot of an elbow and not only that but look i scored four goals can you beat that leo that's some way to inspire motivation with argentina as big a star. what

are you expecting of the well he's going to gain and france has a good team it's all depends how argentina wake up to that day that's my opinion ok so let's just call prediction. well he said if i buy them. once you get from. my newspaper to this shoe a one to one to one ok some ice is probably going to score one hundred the last. i'm going to work that's a good mission the. i want and who's going to score as. well as your music. have to say the french in decent numbers and but have been somewhat quieter than the argentinians what is the mood like among the liberal let's find out. we expected

a victory of friends but. one zero i think it's going to be a draw and benefit penalties and they're. quite tired so i hope i hope we can we can put them in difficulty and win the match i take the tough game but expect france we were called on. to one two one two one one zero one zero it's a good score so who's going to score. this one and one. show me show me show me this guy right man is yes all right. let's see reporting from. we spoke to key football figures from both. about their beds for the. people going to give argentina still have a long way to go but reaching the last sixteen facing such a strong side as france is an achievement in itself a team will work hard to prepare for the game argentina have plenty of experience

players and it's possible that the best is still to come from them at this tournament a good deal for the french team took the group so we're quite happy the games were difficult everyone is competing as equals there are no weak teams here football is a unique global phenomenon let's favor teams played unexpectedly well that look at what south korea and iran did among others. the world cup is now not just a sporting event it's become a real festival with a multitude of cultures giving it their all on the streets of russia.