yeah that was. five oh yeah yeah it was life. yeah i. was. going to. i know. that we'll be. right. ok i always say you can never have too many legends in a studio the great. national team.

played in three will cups hundred and forty international caps is that right yeah that's right that's what i'm creating competition here how many piece of international cups only one international one twenty nine so slightly will caps one with three that's a lot of experience and you guys you've got a real history in terms of on the pitch how did you meet. my first game i do beautiful creation was one thousand years ago and it was against denmark and against one of my. mates was a one funny story. and i was you know a little bit. felt like. sad because for months i have like one of the biggest titles. of best goalkeepers in the history ask me to change my first short i replay from my neck to national country and then and then the hard feelings we change it and it was right. so you want to back where you

think you know. one of my first memories i was that was the a because we played we played the qualification met his match as well but this was a friend really it wasn't so so that because because. when we qualify for the world cup twenty years ago in france we were in the same groups we played. in the qualification yeah and wind up in a situation that was between then and greece and we played greece in the last game and we needed a draw but only a draw and they would be all right actually we could lose and go into the playoffs but if we won croatia would go in the playoffs if they if they won that match and i made a save in the last minute from from from a great player. with my foot. so when we played this game and you get back to your lineup and then you have the national anthems and and then it goes quiet in this because we like to thank our new national hero peter schmeichel for says it is right something hey could be a nice kindness you know. they presented me with

a hand he. has i have yeah it was nice but a car would have been nice. had been a hell of it and would have been even better now i called you both legends because you're both representing faith yoffie for legends part of this program you're going to be going out on to the pitch prior to kickoff for this playoff match tomorrow. croatia how do you feel representing your nation again this time but it's without being involved in the actual dates a bit different for all of course but i'm really proud that i have prato part of this program and i read it thankful for the for taking care of x player songs on such a good level and you speak to the crowd beforehand do you know what i'm going to say yeah i said that we will be in the game for sure. but the pressure. of an argument pre-match on the plaza thing is we what we have to do we have to go on the . paid to get the microphone and would then speak directly to the fans but we have

to do it in our own language so i can basically say whatever i want none of you guys will understand. and you know and you oh yeah we have we have between our countries we have we have a lot of history obviously crazy as part of the broken up he was lobby and we took over from you and i tried to and we ended up qualifying a few times again she's the other. and we had this. for ten months not the greatest game in the world in ninety six when croatia win. three zero three one i think we will see. i don't recall maybe that's why i always forget so we do have some european championship world cup history against each other so i'm going to ask you what you think's going to happen tomorrow. well of course we hope that we will win because we are very enthusiastic about our team because we play really good the

group phase we had to clean sheets on the one goal from the penalty and we are very positive about going to the next round here do you think that we in this tournament have seen the real corrosion so this is the level then that they have an over performed or and well i think for me the best player of the to him and says look almost until now because he he was supposed to be involved all this free of games he was playing and we need still a player who will make a difference in attack you know we still don't don't don't have them parishes was tremendous in the last couple of seasons but they lost zero two he was he's struggling with a really he's finishing you know every team beneath him on a top level because your defense done with defense is fantastic you know i think you have the last like eighteen games in the role and we need him on the high level so we can break your pieces do you see any weaknesses or curation sites are full. i'm not sure which. team will be our coach will pick i hope that's pro-marriage

will play because he is like floating number nine you know he plays really well behind the striker he can get to inside inside of the lines of the between between the down there mark lines and i think he's a perfect player for this gator d.c. i'm trying to help with a scouting report if we don't have. one it's not my idea making enough to come on you make the case for denmark is the place pretty confident about question he has good reasons and i think you know you you make a really good point about the danish defense which is and has been full of eighteen months now in the new generation of this a national team. that is sort of the foundation of of every performance say in every good performance they've done so in eighteen months. the team haven't lost and the goal against. australia the pendency was the first goal conceded in this year and so you know. play it play really well for in the defensive part of the

game our problem i think is the same as as as good as your gracious problem is we don't really have anyone whose political schools goals. that the game against peru was the first game in seven that person ericsson didn't score and otherwise has been delivering the goals famously scored three goals in that five one win in the playoffs in dublin against ireland to get us into the world cup. but the thing is you know we that the alcoa scores have not been firing and hopefully tomorrow is it is a game where they start fine in the back of the net is like like you know like us you have a restart at the fashionable steeping you mentioned before we came on as you know the pressure to perform really well a lot of people have talked about that this is genuine you know possible witness for this fiscal petition are you talking about the pressure that sometimes gets on top of the team that qualified very well not always producing even in the knockout stage yeah. i felt it when i was

a player in the national team because they always compare us with this generation who won the bronze medal in ninety eight so it's always had an influence on on our mental strength expression mean the most important games in a group phase or away we well went out from the group even in european championships we felt the same you know and we never could achieve we never could have a chance to get close to these guys because they did a magnificent result now our hopes are high because we think that this generation is a capable of getting closer to them but as he said he loved us the last twenty years we have to be very very. mentally tough to to to to get to the nation experienced players so maybe that that that is what that was what i counsel counsel when i see this group of players they they play together in the walk up most of them brazil they they had the european cup playing

together like eighty percent of the same player so he does his periods i think we can we can do something because we need to talk about the game coming up such a year why portugal so gentleman what do you think we're going to see tonight he could be defensive or going to say they think telling the strike is still on the pitch get the better of this well i hold this game we want shot this afternoon or get our hopes high because of seven goals and i hope the team will change the speed in their games goals in the group phase they will like a little bit. not so all not such a high energy inside of the game but tonight i hold that this thing what will you why we'll play a really a thoughtful bowl and they will press a little bit higher because most of the teams they play they said olenin day and they're in there in that. part of the beach and then they start to try to play on conflict are so wild that they will do. they will play with the doctor still

searching for building will see a good cigar defense yet to concede but you know that i see. i'm just looking at the lineups now i see this game pan out well you're right probably happen most of the ball. but out of civil place today for a full force of all he didn't play enough games so you know that died that's a positive but again what we've seen so far in the free game when i'll go and i'll go and i'll go and when he plays well you get three goals against spain and there are three three draw and when he doesn't play well you know he missed the pound. and he wasn't kind of wasn't booking a great portuguese performance so i see they played very much on the counter-attack i fancied and you know and i'm really looking forward to the combining and suarez again as they were they were brilliant and especially in the last game i think i'm just thinking i don't often feel short but this is one of those occasions i think i

missed the opportunity as a career as a goalkeeper behind you can you step down from the box now. ok less than forty minutes ago to kick off let's hope there's going to be lots more goals like you saw before do jordan will you rather today go the actual state without the. thanks that guys and welcome back to our moscow h.q. we're going to update you on some other news now the u.s. president donald trump has said he does not rule out recognizing crimea as russian a province rejoined russia in two thousand and fourteen but is still considered international a part of ukraine artists american takes a closer look on board air force one on friday trump spoke to reporters about his upcoming meeting with putin when. porter asked him if he'd recognize crimea as part

of russia he said quote we're going to have to see but then he blamed obama for the entire crimea debacle saying that it was a shame that obama gave up crimea now to remind the viewers of what happened in crimea back in twenty fourteen a referendum was held with international observers present and ninety seven percent of the population voted to secede from ukraine and join russia the west refuse to recognize this plebiscite and then impose sanctions on russia and then separate ones on crimea but just this week we also heard from another u.s. official john bolton who said that trump wouldn't recognize crimea as part of russia so conflicting views coming from the trump administration which seems like basic protocol at this point but these statements come a few weeks before trump's summit with putin that's scheduled for july sixteenth in helsinki finland but this isn't the first time that trump has discussed relations

with russia during the g. seven summit trump said that russia should be reinstated let's check out what he said i would rather see russia in the g. eight as opposed to the i would say that the g eight is a more meaningful group than the g seven absolutely trump also said that he'd be discussing a range of other issues with president putin including alleged election interference syria ukraine relations with china and russia to possibly deescalate the conflicts going on in the world but until july sixteenth we will know exactly what happened so we'll just have to wait until then the divisions along party lines and fears of immigration are increasingly raising talk of a second civil war in the u.s. at least according to the findings of a new opinion poll of kind of more can explain. pretty hard to believe sounds almost like click 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 that 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 states the session as it launched the war back in eight hundred sixty one there's even now talk of twenty four seventh's security for members of the trumpet ministration congresswoman maxine waters makes no bones about the fact that she's ready to take the fight against donald trump waybe on capitol hill and the voting booth in the juicy anybody. who wants.

to stay in the gas station. and use it to. satisfy you and you. ok maxine waters herself has now been flooded with a number of threats and actually canceled 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 let me let me go fifty eight percent sixty six six think it was possible. it's thirty or forty maybe thirty percent your 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 control maybe because soft. 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. this 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. r t new york thanks for joining us the international this hour we'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest news headlines and of course the football.

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alone. and i'm really happy to join us for the. meet the special one. needs to just say the reno team's latest edition to make up a bigger. current american administration is raising tariffs and drew phasing old trade agreements when america sneezes the rest of the world of value to contracting protectionist fever.

this is bone bus broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm part joan thank you for joining us coming up we speak with conservative t.v. and radio commentator steve malzberg about the accounting scandals at the big work counting firms plus earlier i spoke with artie's holland host of the big picture about the big business of speakers yes you heard right the speakers and r.t. correspondent tourney charges takes a look at just how much the fashion industry generates each year first however let's get to a few tips if you've been thinking that the pace and size of mega-mergers has that increasing it's been confirmed with some hard and hide numbers figures from thomson reuters show that global mergers and acquisitions are up sixty five percent in the first six months of this year compared to this point last year to a total of two point five trillion dollars this is a new record going back to one such things were originally calculated back in one thousand nine hundred eighty in europe the year over year increase and that metric

was ninety six percent up to a total of seven hundred sixty seven billion dollars in value this happened despite a fall in the total number of mergers by sector media mergers of course were a notable stand up the total in that category was three hundred twenty two billion dollars for the first half of the year six times the figure for admitted twenty seventeen the track tax cuts has been a big factor in fueling the buying spree and companies seeks to cheating and profitable uses for the large windfall the trend has been strong despite global trade tensions and a drastic exhalation of the trade war uncertainties may still slow it down going forward. european union officials continue to prepare for the prospect that they will be an able to reach. to deal with the u.k. over the terms of its departure from the e.u. the dreaded hard brecht's that scenario the plans informally dubbed the parachute according to the financial times would paper over gaps in law or regulation and

process to ensure that some minimal level of movement of products and capital can continue perhaps temporarily if the e.u. and u.k. are unable to agree on a new framework to guide their economic and regulatory relationships the worst case scenario looks increasingly likely times marches still concrete singly likely as time marches on and the government approach prime minister theresa may makes little headway ms may has been hobbled by infighting with her own conservative party between bracks and remain factions she has been notably reluctant to engage fully in the negotiations at least publicly for fear of offending one or perhaps both sides losing her narrow governing majority and going into a general election that opposition labor looks well positioned to win the stalled process is high on the agenda at the e.u. summit that started just today and is may is likely to be in the hot seat among her peers. and kroger is the latest big name to make

a move into delivery in this case driverless delivery the large us grocery chain will partner with neuro a company founded by former members of google's driverless car development unit to deliver groceries via vehicles resembling a very small vendor perhaps even a very large toaster in the near future kroger chief digital officer hailed the partnership pledging that the grocer and their new partner from silicon valley will provide quote access to fast and convenient delivery at a fair price nurul only service business reporting in last january that means that they've only been around for a couple of years and they have raised ninety two million dollars in capital now the company in their technology will have a high profile roll out with will surely be watch for any startup glitches and setbacks notably neuropathy. it was to develop a driverless vehicle of their own design rather than trying to make a normal full size passenger vehicle based upon somebody else's car the design choice significantly lowered cost and risk of operating the vehicles and may give

kroger a leg up in the race to capture this new market. britain's financial reporting council or f r c has started a new investigation into one of the u.k.'s storied big four accounting firms the this time it's the lawyers in the target we've talked about before the f.r.c. investigators are interested in deloitte to work for sigma sig which sells construction material said in february that they had discovered internal misrepresentations in official accounts the revelations led six shareholders to vote down what is usually a routine vote to retain deloitte as officially designated auditor three months after the revelations the white pledge full cooperation with the f.r.c. investigators that it cooperated statement and the continuing scandal of bong large and previously well regarded accounting firms already resulted in f.r.c. actions against pick a p.m.g. and pricewaterhouse coopers but some critics of the civil top watchdog have said

the f.r.c.s. actions have not been commensurate to the scale of the problem and interestingly in april the government appointed sir john king meant to conduct a detailed examination of the f.r.c.s. record and decide whether the regulator the regulator itself is affected by conflicts of industries what a mess here or discuss a problem including scandals of the accounting world is conservative t.v. and radio commentator steve malls rick steves thank you so much for being with us and what do you make of this deloitte story it's a little bit nutty to me well it is but i mean it's an overall problem as you said you've discussed problems overall you know it's been found that the four big accounting firms have deteriorated in the quality of their of their audits and this speaks to business confidence and were. people being able to rely on the system and just assume that things are on the up and up if a company is audited that's supposed to be separate and apart one of the suggestions have been that these companies branch off their audit in departments

from administrative and consulting department said to avoid conflict of interest real or perceived but this speaks to two to confidence right up and down the scale and it's something that needs to be addressed now if you're if you're talking about that the f.r.g. be the f.r.c. rather is is is maybe has a conflict of interest and what do you do know i mean where do you go from there yeah it's way it's one thing when it's the regulator is going after you know a company i've been on that end of the deal but if the regulator itself is having a problem and there are examples of that we're going to be talking about one of those in the coming days actually in the states but i don't little bit about this i didn't do the legislation steve but i was working on capitol hill when the sarbanes oxley law passed in congress in the states and and that was a sensually a bill to do what you were talking about it became law and the deal was it wanted

to separate these conflicts by putting up you know fire walls between the consulting and really the d.c. firms as opposed to just the pure accounting people mostly most of those folks in new york in these accounting firms and whereas people were complaining all over the board about it says too much regulation is too too hard but i mean now we look at what's going on i wonder maybe the u.k. and others need it. yeah well they might they would they found that over all the four biggies there are in proper audit the ones that needed to be revisited and worked on the percentage went from nineteen percent in the latest study it went up to twenty seven per cent and as far as k m p g what you found was that they almost half of the audience looked at by the the f.r.c. they say needed correction and needed revisiting x. a huge percentage obviously and a story that's out today regarding camp e.g. australia back in zero sixteen the australian census got messed up and the bureau

of statistics was involved so camp e.g. audited the bureau of statistics and a whistleblower now says that that was not on the up and up that they were just caving in to everything that the bureau of statistics wanted and said and this guy claims that eventually he got fired for not letting the issue go so that's that's a horrific example and there's more as you mentioned with s i g and deloitte and that is of course misrepresenting some say their profits their earnings and deloitte was right caught up in the middle of all that and in general in general again the four big auditing companies have come under great scrutiny and this this speaks to just the confidence that everybody from the average guy in the street to the biggest biggest investors in the world need to have in the system and if the system is broken it's got to be fixed. and not i know we're going to sound to

people like we're just piling on but p.m.g. was also we've reported you know kicked out of south africa for problems there and of course we we referred to the problems in the u.k. with regard to karelian we covered that story but i'll tell you one thing i've never really said this publicly but you know i worked at a large law firm and i think. a lot of similarities between the large accounting firms and law firms and the bottom line is you know the people there that they want to get contracts they want to have a relationship with the other big i mean it's a big cabal i mean they're all together they don't want to upset each other because they want to do work with them and even if steve they don't get work this year maybe they'll get work next year and so you know it seems to me that things need to be changed but i know you're not all the way there but can i keep you at least considering it. yeah i mean separation you know is a big word now with immigration here in this country and maybe separation is the

word for these accounting firms maybe that will help solve the problem i'm open i like it when you come to my side once in a while i think if i was a very conservative t.v. and radio commentator thanks steve have a great weekend my pleasure bart. and gold futures have had a several down days at this week and have dropped about ninety dollars in the last several months training for most of the day today was it around twelve fifty area that's one thousand two hundred fifty dollars it has some analysts scratching their heads in light of two recent events one news from the commerce department this week that reduced the first quarter gross domestic product figure from two point three to two percent and second the hawkish comments from u.s. federal reserve chair jay powell who last week said that the jobs picture wasn't particularly rosy and neither of those rallied the precious metals which was odd the gold close yesterday at twelve fifty one was the lowest since december thirteenth of last year as time now for

a quick break but hang here because when we return we have a look see at the revenues of the fashion industry with our chief correspondent treat them plus i have a few thoughts about a mistake earlier today by a top trumpets in astray should a visual it involves numbers and those numbers to mean something as we go to break here are numbers at the closing bell oil up more than one percent and pushing towards seventy five dollars at the closing bell we'll be right back. and shoot camera. to me once the show and some for the. videos to come.