let's go spain. spain was top of its group with two drolls one win against iran you may recall russia was second in group after it was beaten by you require that much will start a five pm moscow time he's rarely found out what impact the russian team's success is. on its loyal fans. this world cup this is why so much in the way of color becoming luxury is so huge between different supporters of different countries and it's also inspired some fantastic such as this one in same pieces but by the local artist would go off all of the russian team coach chad cheer that we've got to catch up with the artist this week and ask him what inspired him to make this piece i'm not a football buzz but it turns out that i'm quite sentimental this is my so how happy everybody was or how people celebrate.

the victory was united russia and so i thought why not do it despite the fact he has a reputation for not smiling churchill saw this capture the hearts of the russian people off the guiding the team to the knockout stages of a wild cup for the first time since one thousand nine hundred six. a team performs so well this time it was really unexpected for the fans and this beautiful girl portrayed painted right after such great victories is a tribute to the fact that it's past this is portrayed we came here specifically to take a picture like true fans if they refuse to hear just to take a picture of a badly revenues thing that the receiver feeding for three very amazing coach and was rushed here to take it. of course with the world's biggest sporting events in full swing it seems russia's living breathing eating and sleeping football i'm not just. the fifi the beautiful games even made it into the households of the

russian academy of off more than forty ceremonial portraits have gone up featuring the world's greatest football stalls imagine christianity are now dug in the nineteenth century. it's sort of a vision of italian artists for brits yoga in valley we've been labeled his creations with the grand name like the gods know that. i like the fact that you you can see players as a general sense leader. nikos a jewel in the make she's doing the ninety minutes you you feel decades they are really your representative yet they're really your leader confounds i've also got in on the action and i think we've uncovered quite a few hidden talents and their inspiration football of course.

well comes first touch people from all walks of life russians continued a great foreign guest with a lot of humor trying to add something special to their experience. i. am not from the. government. rather than i think you got to. think. you know. i have a member. later

on sunday to european teams. will clash in nizhny novgorod creation won all three games in the group stage their one of the favorites in the championship in fact denmark took second place in their group after two draws and one win. team spoke to former crocheted goalkeeper. platt take costs. 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 do you think that we in this tournament have seen the real correlation so this is the level that they have an over performed or. well i think for me the best player of the to him and says look i'm all yours until now was he he was superb in the old history of games he was playing and we need still

a player who will make a difference in uptalk you know we still don't have them parishes was tremendous in the last couple of seasons but they lost zero two he was he's struggling with his finished. you know we need him on a top level because your different defense is fantastic you know i think you have it in games in the role where we need him on the high level so we can break your pieces of the match peter all of a travel a little over four hundred kilometers east of moscow where he found some modern day vikings in good voice and ready for the coming scrap. well. now i am never one to listen opportunity for a stereotype to go to waste so while we're here initially no good old for these last sixteen rounds i'm here on the dole get to meet some vikings.

ha ha. so when i'm not playing up today stereotypes of course i finish the fight some day me shuns here in the studio good to have a chance to meet about wolves going on. we are ashamed of having a bad ass. we thought that's going to russia would see the bad time but hey it's none of that has been screwed this is what i wanted to ask you because there was a lot made c.z. english was we were all told don't come to russia it's really dangerous and we're told the same thing exactly the same thing to my family my colleagues told me don't

get killed. by that and how if you found it said. it's probably should be so easy everyone has been a fan re and it's so nice of you all having a great time all the countries and nation and russians do all disabilities one big group what we have seen though as well as they amongst the five says the emotion is really going to a lot of people we've seen the panamanians they took over this town when they were here all the danes going to do the same the panamanians said they were bringing convolve to us to russia it was that they spring. we. not that many danes says it's from our own i've heard like eight hundred maybe but when we are there at the stadium we're going to chance oh ninety minutes and extend it if needed we're going to chant because you want to danes to succeed and we want the days to feel that we are here for them we want them to prove that they should be the best what is the

danish song come on let us know listen you know it but. you still thought it was third boat load. you know the great thing about she coming up more the buildup to the days to big games in the coming hours right here after this quick break some a big new stories to the last seven days that showed the world around us.

generally speaking mr trump's unilateralists i can't believe the unilateralist which we saw with regards to iran which we also saw with regards to the paris agreements regarding climate change which we saw with regards to the american embassy in jerusalem all these unilateral decisions challenge from my point of view the quality of our transatlantic relations. this is the weekly now this week it was officially announce that donald trump from plymouth putin will meet for their first official summit on the sixteenth of july in helsinki it comes after the u.s. national security adviser john bolton visited moscow and had talked to the russian

president but as more of reports next not everyone's happy about this forthcoming meeting trump is acting strange stranger than usual ease being awful nice to russia. russia continues to say that they had nothing to do with meddling now lexan taken by itself the group is sensitive might rub on the wrong way what he says next caused a storm he gave up crimea as last week with your particular. everything else we can preserve them again but i mean. that was certainly given up by. the media interpreted it as trump potentially willing to recognize crimea as russia now trump he'd be hounded out of office the same week but reacting to the summit visuals of being

diplomatic. the fact the two presidents a meeting engage in insisting dialogue is something i support i believe we just have to talk to the show because to the russians of a neighbor yourself it's just we have to talk to russia to talk to to talk to strive for recognition but even then we don't have but the relationship we need to manage the difficult relationship the pundits though showed no such restraint there in meltdown we have no idea what kind of information that donald trump will say just bragging to vladimir putin may give him the knock listen tell me all the spies are because they want to prove how tough he is the russians clearly showing that they are in the driver's seat on this race dangerous we saw the last time when the russians came in visit there at the white house where he gave away classified information that is not the way to approach a summit with president putin the way approach summit is to have done your homework

and go in united in a way that doesn't play into the narrative that president xi and president putin have been working overtime to push that the president has played into that narrative in cherry very dangerous ways from. reasonable concern to outright tara but there could be another explanation for trump's behavior the known game trumps bluff your buddy has to spend more money. to me bring. something that would make the united states nato trump says his allies on spending enough trade trump says europe china have it too good he wants to change things and no one's playing bull looking at the latest decisions of president. someone could see them saying push went like that who needs enemies we must be prepared. we will have to offer low

prompts a businessman but the thing is in these jeans and if you will pals on being pals you need to get them in life and what better way than the fia then using big bad russia they get everyone to behave the fact is that it's important for the leaders of these two countries to meet their wide range of issues despite the differences between the square at those present 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 you said. i don't really address what i've written in the past or but i said on television it's all out there right now on an advisor to president trump it's his agenda that we're pursuing and that's the agenda that i intend to advance

and that john bolton amongst the most militant whole case u.s. politicians who said that russia's alleged meddling in the u.s. elections was an act of war look at it this way if trump's a russian agent he just blew his. if he isn't a russian spy he just fold the world and is likely to get all his misbehaving allies back and live. european migrant crisis has been in the headlines once again in the wake leaders of the bloc gathered in brussels in the hope of trying to patch up relations with each other and find a solution itself to some of the founding members of the union found themselves locked in a bitter dispute of a migration. and sister to 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. my duty is to defend the borders of this country which cannot become a refugee camps only those have the right to enter its world and it's there on the porch they can go see spain france malta and the netherlands. and so on it's going to be a very long night we should have a good dose of red. sox closer to the impossible for an agreement it's. fun.

the only thing european states appear to have agreed on is to block people at the doorstep of europe regardless of how vulnerable they are or what horrors the aske a pain measures that a few years ago were deemed unacceptable now are being common talk so do you think that the e.u. is bowing down to the far right let's just not the problem brides and list the problem is immigration.

it's a huge problem still but politicians next because we've heard from have got mixed opinions on whether that summit in brussels was a success or not i think that it's important that we are rejecting attacks in the european that that we are talking about how these really are wrongs managed by you and agents and i who am because it's important to give the gutter continue to. reach in a safe and we don't wait for the better of the agreement i would say it's too early to say that it's a victory because the pressure yabbies that the agreement does not really solve the problems about that it takes time to post folded solution to the problems the e.u. . made a show of unity but if this show of unity became the e.u.

and then in its centers because we have so many crises that they want to mask the fragmentation of the group. a special meeting of the international chemical weapons watchdog on wednesday ended with the organization having its powers extended speaking at the meeting british foreign secretary boris johnson stressed to the o.p.c. w. needs to have the power to assign guilt. at present. p c w g experts will say where and when an attack happened. who was responsible if we are serious about upholding the battle chemical weapons that gap must be that special session was hit by the u.k. back in may against the background of the poisoning of a former russian agent and an alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma the draft has passed with all the delegations and their allies voting in favor of

it russia opposed the move is it violates the chemical weapons convention the very agreement that the o.p.c. was created to uphold. all kinds of tricks were used including mobilizing small countries don't have any representation playing for the travel expenses when the convention. i don't think you can you can avoid the raising concern and we will try to review the situation but if this is not. repealed i believe the. w. would become the police that would not remain as a universal this is. the e.u.'s pushing to or not the new regulations as soon as possible several experts told us that the new powers put the o.p.c. at risk of becoming a political tool. as much as the o.p.c. w. needs to be respected and supported i think there's got to be really it guarantees

of objectivity an independent so it's not a political tool in the last several years we've seen a situation in syria where they rely very heavily on witnesses who are provided to them by the opposition they don't pursue evidence which contradicts the western claims so it's very valid to question the objectivity and independence of the o.p.c. w. that's the way some of the world look these last seven days thanks for watching on t.v. with me kevin ali. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics school business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

welcome to the world the party free beer and the reciprocal that's the vision of trade that the current american administration wants to implement but it's raising of tariffs and reversion of all trade agreements when america sneezes can the rest of the world avoid catching the protectionist bieber well to discuss that i'm now joined by our brand connect ria professor of economics at columbia university and a former indian share power at the g twenty summit protested so good to talk to you thank you very much for your time. now professor you have long advocated against the imposition of tariffs and other protectionist measures you believe that india should decrease trade barriers in order to be more competitive but tariffs are not

only an economic matter they're also a political and diplomatic tool when somebody flaps you with terrorists should you just turn the other cheek. if there is a difficult. balance. one needs to also take into account the possibility of. protectionism happening against you so simply as. a matter of tactic you cannot sit back so you know if protection is being imposed on you at some point you do have to react but this is a balancing act roxanna you know because you're on that it's also the heart feel and you don't want to carry it through far now i know that you have been. a fairly complimentary of prime minister narendra modi ask he has been of you and yet i

suppose he went a little bit against your advice in reciprocating this american imposition of steel and aluminum tariffs with india's own duties on more than two dozen american goods do you think he could have done anything differently without. you know inviting more pushing from the american side. right now we're still awaiting what the government has done is to identify these products on which it says that. some in july so before that there is a standard not to happen between india and the united states so i still hope that this type of counter kind of. will bring both sides to actually a bit more same position in which neither side will actually think that action remember the china is talking of determination europe is talking of retaliation any of the united says them countering particularly the fifty billion dollars worth of

chinese goods on risk the us is saying it's going to impose tariffs i think that really is going to impact the trading system in a major because that also goes against many of the novelty rules so this is the ugly i understand what you're saying but you know what's also interesting to me is how the trumpet ministration is trying to frame this trade war because they certainly don't do not see themselves as protectionist in fact commerce secretary wilbur ross described the imposition of these tariffs as quote fixing the protectionism around the world and they seem to believe that there are acting against protectionist on the part of india on the part of china do you think they genuinely believe in that and do they have a point but this is certainly not. the longstanding this by the united states

a thing that longstanding practice by the united states has been to challenge the countries in the w t o or use other means so in deals liberalization in walking off the national security clause in the rules is as not been done for a very long time i think you know and clearly also in the various officials have made their statements. there's a clear sense that this is not purely a mission security issue so i personally think that this is contrary to the longstanding u.s. practice and therefore this is a new game that the united states in the shifted a bit professor i think you would agree with me that president trump is unorthodox in many ways and one of these ways is that he actually seems to be banned on implementing his complaint promises and i think you wrote an article about that previously you know a number of administrations would suggest something on the campaign trail but them would quietly back away from that this is not what mr trump thinks he's doing and i

wonder if you believe he has what it takes in terms of the character in terms of the presidential powers in terms of the time left in office to actually change the global trade system in dramatic ways well you know if we if he continues on the current path. then i think what we would do to the trading system is strongly damage it in a major way. and then the question really begins to get to them is does happen will we be in a position to repair it back sometime. at least in the medium term to longer term in the administration of the united states it's of changes because ultimately remember that the united states is the country of it. give the lead in establishments of the current multilateral trading system and so. this is a huge backtracking by the united states absolutely and i don't know if you've heard that but over the past few days there have been multiple rumors about trump

supposedly. floating a possibility or walking away from world trade organization all together now i just before i went to the studio i heard the denial of that by year's treasury secretary stephen newton even though he did admit that there administration does have concerns about the way w.t.f. is structured and how it is supposedly being used against the united states do you take it this possibility seriously do you think the united states under this administration could actually abandon the w.t. altogether but you know this is difficult to speculate. i would only say that i hope not i think this is not going to be lot of good to anybody at all and least of all the united states because. demented the united states. if it. created this system its oil huge benefit not just for the rest of the world but

also for itself i mean in the end remember that you know from a post second world war the united states gave the. kind of created this very video when one trading system which we. saw it's going to be you know lose lose proposition now when president trump talks about trade he doesn't only talk about it being free and fair he talks about it being reciprocal in searching this bilateral symmetrical calculus to what has been a multilayered and highly asymmetrical system of global trade do you think a free and reciprocal can really core exist when it comes to you know trading around the planet you know. super also be has been a part of our system trading system. since the beginning of the get in nineteen forty seven and afterwards but reciprocity was always used in the sense of that

look in ivan liberalism a trade if you liberal lazio's and sorious a process he was used to liberal a strain and this is a process be had a bit of a relaxed element that you know did not count go back and one for one completely but now it is being turned on its head you know and my view of that process did lead to a huge amount of liberalization by everyone the developing countries came on board a little later but they certainly came on board and you know the developing countries today are incredibly open perhaps less open then the united states but certainly in over them is quite a when actually so but now we have turned it around and we are saying that and you know if your tapes are higher than mine then i am going to reverse my past liberalization which i had actually done in response to your liberal a sufficient and that is a different game you know so this was the exactly the opposite of the spirit of this a process as we have used in the past now so far trump has been able to get his way

partially due to his bare knuckle tactics do you think there is any leverage that the rest of the world has when negotiating trade with this very pushy america is still carries a huge dad could that be used as a tool of persuasion. part of the opposition really awesome has to come from within the united states also because you know in your talk of let's esteem and the human imperative there are a number of industries that use both steel and aluminum and in so far as. their costs of production are concerned they have not gone up countries also need to be you know more tactical innovative you know that. the. human and steve areas are announced the. reactions of countries were to seek exemptions but instead i think you know the one they have to square.