the government has concluded that it is highly likely that russia was responsible for the act against and use the script. that can be no suggestion of business as usual in relation to our interaction with russia mr speaker this action has happened against a backdrop of a well established pattern of russian state aggression. now check out of football this morning with the knockout stage of the fifth world

cup and russia just wrapped up his patients building for the big quarterfinal heat coming up this weekend in first round encounters on friday it's euro boy said to face france belgium will take on brazil. while the brazil team has been getting in some pretty much training with a junior player still in the limelight the squad star player neymar meantime brought his son along that would go showed that he could be following in his father's footsteps one day not sure with all theatrical ok as for the color of it from friday's much is there also some through the set for saturday russia takes on croatia and sweden versus england with a small gap in the playing showed you right now though peter all over went to check out some of the feed from a billion on display here in moscow. the

best players in the world gathered in woman place for the biggest football told the world we need something to play you wish on to here is the fee for museum on the street they built a replica of the original football that was used by people who are white and ninety and all of the other balls probably one of the most iconic balls one of the most important ones in the mexico nine hundred seventy boulder that was the first ones to employ the five sided shape that you see on the side of a football the thing will be probably familiar to you when it comes to it also it's interesting what's related to this current colin powell was going to tell stump the current ball also called the tell stuff. and have a look at one of my favorite ones. if you can have a look at talian ninety eight the full plate on the back. of those things with. the bowl that was used in the world cup this became the something you how it became something you wanted to play with them pods of the totem and sometimes famous

sometimes infamous we're going to come. here to south africa in twenty ten giuliani knows baseball became quite infamous because a lot of goalkeepers complained about how it moved through the air when it was hit with power so i spoke to one of the greatest procedures said to be conscious of how much of the fact of the ball place and whether sometimes it used as a scapegoat. how much of a factor does the pole actually house as a goalkeeper when you still there and how much is sometimes used as a you know a bit of an excuse for the loss but it never never use it as an excuse because you can see any replay can see if the ball does move it moves but not as much as a ball from south africa for instance if you remember how that ball when they were trying to possible over thirty it's how you sort of moving like that the ball this changed the fifteen twenty years ago because. the fifth i wanted to have more goals they started to change the ball and i get those that obviously for the

premier league and many other leagues so the ball has over the years got a little bit lighter and it flies in a different way. but it's not just about. a lot to do with the. the funds for people like myself and people like the manager and with right now what's your name same way from i'm a guy and i'm from what my life think this world cup is this people will come where somebody comes from nowhere establish themselves as one of the players i hope so yes i like surprises. never pass the first round and i hope. the work gives me the greatest of all time right now. is it when i. know.

that's what i've really. got. out of the competition thundering on artie's down hawkins caught up with a silly girl a russian opera singer and world cup twenty eighteen ambassador. well cup was a fantastic festival for russia fantastic event for some petersburg what does it mean to you to be the ambassador for the city when you present it at the time but you have no idea this is such an honor to represent our beautiful city a great country at this feast of sport a feat for world cup football i'm really proud and happy to be a part of it all is that that's what he got but i take it you're obviously supporting a russia to go as far as they can but in terms of the other teams is there anybody perhaps that you watch what's in closely some other favorites perhaps that you want to get to see do well as well as i say of course i support russia but i'm rooting for football in general because of it's passion and what is now happening in our country is absolutely amazing we are rooting for the beautiful game so if we are

rooting for all these wonderful team has that came to russia and we want to say thank you for all of this much space and do you think people's expectations of me justified for this before well first of all a lot of media perhaps reporting there may be problems of all sorts with the organization without putting in russia have they been proven right or of things gone very much to plan yesterday i've talked to many fans and you won't believe it people are amazed by our country because people here are really friendly you know fans were expecting it to be freezing cold all of that with all these dolls and bears but this is a wonderful country with wonderful people who have a big heart sick russian people are really welcoming you boy so don't be afraid to come to russia and see it for yourself he used. to do so if not i was with cities and if so that could give. him something to work out at the doors of the museum i missed you know i should back you know it's you know when you're that i. was

was was almost you saw. god so. i'm going to have you know. you know you saw. you know most of my dual so. good ah you know i had spotted a little sign. was hidden talent from down there we never knew we had first time i've heard that very nice for the tournament fans from around the globe have experienced a roller coaster emotions will supporting the national teams and that's true of fans in russia there are some supporters suv traveled here to support the nice rally join a couple of then to get a unique view simply. saying

he does budgets all you believe one of the most beautiful and picturesque cities in all of russia it's considered the capital of the north of the country and one photographer is offering people the opportunity to take in the stunning views and unique style by having photo shoots and the tour here on the rooftops. because i. just kind of going from. him some. nice side you've got a rich such as if he can just not reach the pound what i would need so much so what are. some of our shirts so use it to go to the produce to you. so guys just to the silver what do you think about this still kind of it's amazing i mean if you look around you have so many classy buildings all over the place and

it's a really beautiful city you can see the city's bustling with the markets and everything yeah what do you think about the tournament itself the football the strays i mean it's such an open turn in the sun there's no clear favorite or we're both rooting for i mean we're in the stadium when they play spain. it was was just crazy so i suppose before in england in particular there's been a lot of scaremongering and now back home a lot of our fans i'm good with the government and with the media because they say you told us it was going to be this and yeah no i absolutely think you have to come here we have such a cliche view about russia and the russian people when you hear you see what a wonderful country first of all it is and how nice and great the russian people are i would say the world cup just it's weird because there's always plenty of people around to know everyone from the world uniting through the football so it is just a great atmosphere. to such a great vibe here in russia so many five characters we've tried to show you is the days go on have you enjoyed it you can follow the thrill of the world cup twenty

eighteen as it continues this summer also nancy don't come on of course download are up for the latest your mobile device as it all happened. since the start of the world cup russian sports commentators have put cruelly sure on their list of teams capable of winning russians love to root for the underdog but will have sympathy for a rival impact on russia's quarterfinal time with croatia. hyperinflationary is when the interest on the debt is greater than your taxes taxable base then you have to throw down all pretenses of quantitative easing and just admit your monetizing debt such

a bank is just printing and buying back its own debt and do a little but then you get into what's called a banana republic named after a countries that want america that typically are in the butt out of business to end up doing this monetization of their own debt and have collapsed their currencies venezuela arjen. i'm delighted this is the album to be contagious and going into america. good morning from moscow there's been a second night of violent protests in the french city of now aren't over the death of a twenty two year old man shot by police this time don't choose day protesters clashed with the police or molotov cocktails and setting fires in several districts of nant investigation still underway but the police state of the young man had

a criminal record see france correspondent jonathan has more. these are more didn't have all clashes took place in this neighborhood. just hundreds of meters away from the place where that young twenty two year old man was killed trying to escape a police check there were clashes with some young people wearing balaclavas who went out on the streets to throw various objects of law enforcement but locals who went out on their balconies or just open their windows they too were throwing all kinds of things at them we even saw potatoes and peas tossed at officers who retaliated with flash bangs in tear gas these trash bins were set on fire by youth police are trying to retake the neighborhood bit by bit to calm things down but the atmosphere remains highly tense and unfortunately law enforcement expect even more

violence. german chancellor angela merkel says she can't guarantee there will not be further hiccups with the coalition partners it's after she narrowly avoided the collapse of a coalition government and the disputes over immigration policy recent polls also show merkel's losing public support in favor of the anti immigrant alternative for germany party fall asleep as the details. i can promise you that there will be renewed disputes about other topics as this is usual when the government has three parties we need to urgently return to work for the sake of those who acted us but the german chancellor angela merkel has managed to narrow of a political crisis facing just three months old coalition government now the german chancellor is trying to put on a brave face she says a coalition crises are normal but this is despite the fact that no one can deny that the stability of the coalition city has received quite

a bruising lot of germans are getting frustrated with the situation and we see this by a recent poll that shows that the germans view her coalition negatively in fact they view it more negatively then they view the a if d. the alternative for germany party that is a right wing and refugee crisis was triggered by the possible resignation of her interior minister mr horst c. hoffa who's also the leader of the christian social union now the two leaders held emergency talks and what they reached was a compromise deal over the whole migrant issue that deal states first and foremost that transit centers will be established along the germany austria border now those refugees who arrive at those transit centers and have been registered in other european countries will then be deported to the country where they first entered the e.u. and the maximum period that a migrant can be held at such a transit center is forty eight hours now this will naturally lead to

a reduction in migration in germany the social democratic party who are still not on board who say that they wanted to be done along the germany austria border and at the same time that they haven't fully agreed to this new deal so the questions that still remain are for just how much longer this coalition government will survive until the next migrant crisis and exactly how secure is this new compromised. we'll but guarding the migrant issue. on one of america's biggest holidays there's a group of people that say they're being ignored former u.s. service personnel say veteran suffering from p.t.s.d. post-traumatic stress disorder are not getting the treatment that they need similar account reports. it's fireworks may have been a must for independence day but for a number of patriotic citizens who suffer from p.t.s.d. it's the part they dread the most if somebody he has those loud and unexpected

noises that could send them into a state of flight or fight when it's in your own house and it's happening next door or when your front yard a street he can prepare for that for many vets marijuana is the most effective way of relieving p.t.s.d. symptoms this past sunday libertarians helped what they called a march of the dead veterans claiming the war on drugs is preventing some veterans from seeking treatment really and they say it's led to a number of suicides we have twenty veterans committing suicide every single day in this country and especially when democrats and republicans in power don't seem to care about this it's all the more important that we call attention to this issue and support those who are doing something about it some veterans are fed up waiting for change nearly a week ago a u.s. air force veteran wearing a vest lined with flammable devices set himself on fire to protest the treatment of veterans like a veteran that was disgruntled with the v.a. . did a personal protest in front of the capitol which involves gasoline and some

fireworks according to the department of housing and urban development forty thousand veterans are homeless on any given night and the department of justice estimates that military veterans account for eighty percent of the national prison population one of those media is the u.s. government needs to do is to stop sending young men and women to go fight in moral illegal and illegitimate wars and then when veterans are coming back there should be tens of billions of dollars spent on trying to take care of those veterans i think people generally want to do good things for veterans ninety nine percent of people have absolutely no clue about what's going on overseas and to be honest with you we can't blame the american people for that i was actually the corporate media in the united states who's done a great job and shield the u.s. citizens from what is happening up rob if the u.s. government was genuinely interested in preventing veterans suicides the u.s. government would stop creating so many u.s. veterans. it's coming up to eight twenty eight the morning here in moscow good

morning for me kevin oh and thanks for watching r.t. keeper i was having an anxiety throughout the day and also of course with a huge weekend of football coming up make sure to download the ati up keep up to that will the headlines from the action iran has it happen straight to your mobile device for now though this thursday morning thanks for watching out international have a great day. and . i wouldn't count on what he got up without a good. i

. could be a mariachi. cyber crime lord. i think it would be one of the best but they never. saw or harbor for today. something that was my great. welcome to the rock. welcome to the comic side and show from the rock of gibraltar today the second of our three part series we focus attention the peoples of the communities of this

fascinating. honestly we delve into the history of a culture of we talked to some interesting characters of course there was a socialist who was your preacher e-mails and your messages courses and ration to the breakfast show and as ever there are strong opinions and he says campbell seems to forgotten those in the majority voted for breakfast whether you agree with them or not they voted democratically so this labor not believe in democracy anymore and robbers rather uncomplimentary about the d.p. he says how laughable are they just what samuelson m.p.'s are on alex semin show that for the republic of ireland and the e.u. to resolve the irish border crisis a bit like saying my dog has to go on the pavement and that is for my neighbors to clean it up grin benson and it spawns two trees amazing lack of giving interview says has a penny ever done less in the media i can't remember one involved interview with best lady artist and i says great al examines your breakfast special celtic nations well represented and rightly they should be wide variety of guess all alike to

stick to that constant interruption a battering robert thompson alex well thank you. and then robert and sponsor alex he said three's amoebas elise disliked pm robert has released but of an understatement there alex boy robert i'm inclined to agree with you and bats the man himself in gibraltar. i'm not joined by will cain face in these bottles as a whole local historian knows just about everything that i still know about the rock to welcome to the alex salmond's show glad to be a. devil's gap which is a fantastic place to to talk about gibraltar but first i don't know a lot of places in gibraltar seem to have devils and then within that does not reflect the continent history most maybe why why not but people are very annoyed with the names that we even had to an exhibition called father level and he added everything to there was a venue as a person but yet we have about six or seven of angels point of view the heavenly

choir but we have many many churches and cathedrals to cater for that you know to think like that's what devils god i mean you can see the changes taking place i mean when you were a lad it was the sea well the sea was much much closer than the places which are for example where i live today i used to fish and swim there once upon a time. the naval grounds which is where you see those buildings that i used to go to the boulevard to watch the and figures aircraft landing around the bay there was a guy in the back of the sea of the flag the military possibility has been a a military base of one kind for thousands of years but that has changed dramatically in the last quarter of a century but tell us about that definitely i mean the roads are famous for what it is a fortress everybody knows the fortress of gibraltar and throughout the years we had people of all kinds living here from the most of the spanish to the british and with the british occupation i must tell you that it's been an f. zero point in british history remember this was the path to malta to egypt to south

africa when they open the swiss canal again a passage ships used to come here to to get coal and be chilling and things like that so it's been very very important in the in the life line of great britain to put it that way but the percentage of military spending and abroad has gone from what sixty percent to six percent you know a couple of decades definitely has the rock coped with that well we had to change from one thing to another for example what was once a dockyard is now a commercial yard and if you look in the docks. ironically you're going to see many spanish ships coming here to have refit instead of going to their own docks because we're more economic engine boat and they're in spain and i hear over the half the world shipping still comes through the straits of gibraltar i think it's the busiest. place in the world where ships come through with your in the defense forces yourself that you were thinking when you were you were doing the. let the see the day that financial services and gaming and tourism dominated the economy of

that oh no way tourism was always i've always culture is on the scene they're eligible so it's always been there everybody can see what they want to see the agents in the case want to see the highlights but other than that you brought us have to change through other times the situations we've been through spain causing his voters he said and i've always felt people said look it's one man's meat is another man's poison some businesses have to close other sprout as a result of what happens is he and i've always said that in gibraltar we had natural siva so much of what during the second world war the whole population was evacuated the civilians women children you know and with we went through that my dad stayed behind was a goner but we've been through many many other episodes we have been we've been hit hard but i was a he was like a catch when you got me like that and you drop it always falls on its feet so how many lives of you had there where i feel if you i mean these changes affected the people i mean you know i faced me as a community which is a service base

a bit of created shipping for men is a fundamental difference a community which is based on fairness it's financial services things of that so how are the complection of the people of gibraltar changing as the economy changes we have to change with the times and people of the rotate is a very resilient you know the what was at the moment we go for that we don't say we have to break with traditions sometimes you know we have eighty how shall i say up to two to change a subject you can adopt no we do we have to adopt it whether we like it or not we have to we have to live with the times we kind of say. living in the old colonial days you know just one of things like that things change and we have to adapt to the best means that an available i think a lot of the knows more than you about the history of the role but tell me about the future i'm confident are you of gibraltar continuing to flourish in this new world you brought us economy is very very sound we have very well founded as we like way unfortunately have

a neighbor who's always hampering us and we have to be here at their whims of whoever's governing in spain now if we had a better association with spain this would be paradise to start with look at this day. look at the iso we've got there refinery that was frank was doing that refinery was going to that although spain where they actually put in their twenty's the spanish workers you don't worry when we cross the border you've got a job sorry there's no jobs only for about eighty there reza to immigrate and that he had to land became a ghost town you know so much better when you've got spanish ancestry yourself like many many gibraltarians so that that difficult relationship with your neighbor must be a source of some grief to you not to know me not really because what happens is i try to to convince people about the truth of things that happen i give talks and i always show things i don't just talk and i look look at this treaty look at what happened here look at what happened there and when they see it with their own eyes

or where we've never been told that well i'm telling you now look how how like goebbels you say give give it a lie tell it so many many times that you do come to believe it and that's that that's our spanish friends there and some say they would even admit that they're wrong i remember one telling me of the not the only nation that doesn't do that now but i tell you one of them remember. i'm sorry for you if you will tell us what the british did us or what did to be dislodging they close the border you know it was spain no no it wasn't another thing i'm trying to to to to infiltrate is that with this coast sovereignty things that they're offering gibraltar and i said. tomorrow mexico is offering course orange is the united states so well even know that if they build the wall then present some by example babbie i want to come to you tito that the bank may get a siege in the early eighteenth century i mean it's not been an english gentleman said of a scottish general defending probably with a surrender i don't think so the pride was too much at the time. and remember we

had germans here as well we had the head of aliens fighting alongside the british here ok so that was one of the branches milestones in history at a few of the first world war both german soldiers and british soldiers had the same emblem from the siege dobro exactly the drop of a sleeve which tells us that history has a way of oh you said you attempt to the future you think the rock is standing strong we're standing strong and i hope that our neighbors. try and follow our example i mean with this new government that they've got in they need to change their laws they're still very antiquated they were traditionally a center left government in spain has been friendly towards good relations and the popular party yes it's a senior royo exactly much lamented your but these people coming because we're going in in a very nice. way you know the first time that the spanish came to gibraltar the first time other foreign secretary of usually came to the world and i think looking

good and all a sudden these people come in and they they they crush everything they had done we even had it is futile to sort of until you wrote you know they took that away as well. onus and we have to live with what happens next don't unfortunately if you do i can guarantee the future but what i can do is guarantee you and i like salman quick you know the drill oh yeah westin the queen. your many close friends but of course i need a bigger one. thank you very much i think about. the rock it's not just about high politics and high property prices that is a thriving cultural into line the gibraltar i want its cultural icons joins me now david ben tata good afternoon welcome to the examiner show thank you there's something scottish about that lame brain matter almost almost no not quite originally the name comes from rock of from the mountains if used to be been done sons of sultan on the wrong side of the bed but that's who we were and then the

family when you're born you're both here i was born here. do you think there is a genuine cultural underpinning of the rock incredibly strong thanks to franco before before the front problems and the the siege and all that we were like almost second class citizens here this is when frankel close the border that separates it's generally right. that's right and we were very concentrated and all could hear was the advertising the propaganda from from spain saying that we were. i don't know were immigrants prostitutes everything you know drug smugglers and works and suddenly we turned and said hey hey they're talking about us so that they used to broadcast across the water to lose to broadcast in spanish radio spanish television and we didn't have television in those days so we would watch spanish t.v. and it was terrible this.