today teams now left to the world cup in russia to decide the best team on the planet in friday's first quarter final favorites france face europe why. i. was. told. in other world news french prosecutors investigate the involvement of a mosque into a loose who has reportedly been fighting a church against jews. and the u.k.'s media and politicians go into speculation overdrive on the latest not the agent incident on british soil with all convinced russia's involved.

very well welcome you're watching r.t. international with me making erin look at the world news headlines coming up for you but first let's talk football. so you are fully in your life since you describe russia and it's. also. here with. means also these games or seems to be sent packing. for well of course be able to battle for the trophy schedule today.

will be going up against. suarez and his. just getting under way in the last. couple of minutes play needless to say goal is so far but given how the last game of course france. nothing the world's most expensive player brazil is neymar meanwhile has been promised land of. the condition he pulls off a trick in that city's evening clash for brazil. probably. going to. hopefully our fans gathering to see the clash. will hope to see some pictures from a little bit later of course. that emotion. to the world's best player just the last round france of course not something that matches argentina. european champs portugal.

we can actually see pictures now. getting ready to watch those who were fortunate enough to get tickets enjoying what looks like some fantastic sunshine. even though the south american supporters have been taking russia why storm at this world cup we see many europe why is today and of course brazilians an argentinian for all those french fans seem to be better represented initially at this match. can start without their last star edison vonnie defense seems to be in shape of course. humanities who pulled off

a fantastic defense this flight of the last time around no one no doubt a few clubs will be going in for him probably for transfer as they will for some of the young talents yes but i still think he's going to be a huge miss for those goals particularly the first one really under-rated he played a fantastic suarez and then busting along to get on the end of the cross and head in and then oversee the second want to beautiful finish line is going to a massive miss has been replaced by christian today but also france will be missing plays much weedy and his performance in that midfield alongside can't pull. it all match winning performance so will be a massive miss will he suspended tweedy and he's being replaced by themselves so there's both teams missing key players that bit of a case perhaps of. for speeding and we've will object to only the french sack and the run defense which has been so famed in the last in the last two games their defense of this place fantastic portugal. believe using these north brought he's

been taking a look around the city to see fans getting a bit of a grasp of the atmosphere that. the atmosphere is really heating up here get out ahead of the quarter final clash between order quite and from both sets of supporters that being. sick they songs getting the dances going is a. bond playing just behind me as an interim chief games of football being going on i would say the the chance of a blue and the mossie is have been probably hurt the loudest but the only guy in front of being a good being giving their best is well what has been interesting is the local support here an issue you know is good old seems to be mostly on side wish the french where is what we've seen is the funds from all across the americas coming together to buffalo to why that's been very nice self as a football fan to see to see people from all different nations coming together to support the team still at lest in it but i spoke to some of the founders heading into this one and asked them what their predictions were. wrong or old friends. of

zero. three zero all the friends are very devout they're. close to the root of all woven room was all over the call there are all over the nerve. to see your response to the french are saying the same thing they think that with three zero. you don't exist or count on you slurred murderers to see your her hair her your burger. or your fish just to take chins there from both sets of fans but really this is going to be a potentially i took much closer to quite them being put down as the underdogs in this one play against a french team which pay is really shown the nineteen year old striker wasn't even

born when france last win the tournament back in one thousand nine hundred eight but he was the star man as they overcame not for three thrilling i caught up with some funds who were initially here to support anjan tina but when messi and his boys were sent home they've now got on site. with their neighbors from across the river plate and the supporting you require. all funds come to the world cup hoping it's going to be a site that lifts the famous trophy after the final in order for teams to go through teams have to go out both the funds in many cases they stay out of the tournament and they maybe pick up a second team maybe move on and support somebody who they haven't thought they would be following in the past i'm joined now by two fans who had come here hoping they were going to see messi and i didn't tina go on to all of the final not to be

of course i'm joined by mariano and enzo have come from los angeles but of course supporting. tell us a little bit about the told him i'm sorry for what your experience has been fantastic great they're great people in russia they treat us very well. but unfortunately outside even make it but will will will go for the four there. which is why why no no you've been watching this with the old man and you have to keep them in line at times. yeah my dad has quite a loud mouth but i'm really just happy to be. messi he's not going to be lifting the famous trophy this time around go home empty handed you guys don't have to go home empty handed it to. me i will pull we've been having a bit of a key feel throughout the tournament i can tell you that the english fans i think the highest they've got was around sixteen the panamanian fans that

a win is so far i couldn't even count how many would do it for argentina in the. whole fight thinks seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen that will to a fee. that's your gift guys you're taking that home with you thank you very much guys enjoy the rest of the tournament in the field like playing. thank you very much ed q. eighty eight is the record i feel confident i could be. about with the kickoff to see. it with this rain of rain to stop so that this case european team gets a south american team were starting to see the europeans the south american century the strongest nations getting through to the lots of rounds of the tournament i mean one of the dynamics between these two sides in particular and why do you think that seems to be european teams who have been generally dominant in the world cup

last three winners being european sides was an interesting one france and one because i mean statistically. the fortunes that i was on the side of a. france have never they've only one i believe one game in the last eight or nine against the group one is france i have never beaten one world cup matches over the last four said that france good record against south american teams they haven't lost and i believe in the last nine games to teams from south america a lot of it is down to the to the way they play i mean france is a team that have certainly the stars you know the counties the was the place but they don't have the flat the south american teams do have they still have that european tactical adamant. playing with the line you know you keep if you keep playing offside trap catching attackers offside i think they should be distinguishing because. as we said do also have a very much solid defense but they're really going to feel that missing because on the up front the way he linked up with suarez and those two goals it's like they passed the ball in and they know where the partner is on the on the field the.

missing link for them i think absolutely absolutely and now as some of the world's best players about to get out on the pitch fans have been back to them all away all the way across social media and here's the latest just from our digital. was. that. was. the was. i i. i. i i. was i i. i. was i.

was. i'm. you know football fever has of course gripped by millions across russia including the russian president myself but i was surprised because normally and see what judo and i saw his. best bit of news that he's become a football fan on friday he welcomed that previous world cup and other football staff as well i think the president johnnie's them to know it was also there was extend maki plan and you know all t. has to see this my country so much but one of the talents in the room the russian leader also tries to get the inside track of exactly will lift the coveted don't transfer. status steve to come on just those two questions only eight teams of

thirty two are left you are world class experts maybe when the media leave us you will share with us who will win the cup this year in your opinion a bulletin push button but. here are some live pictures now we can. no to see what the atmosphere what the atmosphere is like with the fans that very much people in anticipation of the see the game so far has been produced many many key moments but the found zones as you can see those a lot of pictures from from your. people back home in those countries as well as the funds ones in russia now the great day peter schmeichel who will be joining us for the second match of the evening from sochi belgium take on brazil and i'll tell you what will be interesting to see how those points up with as a goal school we're going to see the the conference the emotions one of them will be peopled flying in the pickups being thrown around on one. hand on head just

bodies but suddenly the fan of the founders that obsolete he's going off to france to one of his prosperous pops was well people are ready for a nail polish much to the top teams it's just amazing how football brings all countries together it just brings all the people in the sunshine having a good time and like you said as they would also need to be able to catch a cold in one of the scottish absolutely you know want to one of the time is that the people across the world are so riveted to the full minute by minute so quite amazing let's get a bit of a taste of that must be in the city now and we're going to hear from the next i'm going to shift. it doesn't feel like a sad anymore it feels like rio you see all that yellow green and blue behind me this is pretty much the brazilian pre-game party just a few blocks away from the stadium the game itself is promising to be a classic classic world cup and counts between five time champions brazil and belgium one of the strongest teams and it's ornamental right now with their

basically every line in that team containing world class talent now if the game itself will be as good as the atmosphere has the it over the past couple of days we're in for an absolutely phenomenal guy now it's really hard to find belgian fans in the city because. it's been overtaken by the brazil fans i spoke to some of them about their mass projections good luck for belgium because because you always win i don't like. to be best. to treat far because i don't like just one goal beat one one zero so if you like that will be a really hard game i'm. really good. for as you'll see one yeah so who scores the brazil. neymar and those as with pretty much defines all latin american fans they usually gather in you know in big masses and tens hundreds and thousands people sometimes as the belgians they roam around the city in small groups but yesterday

we also witness a rival of the belgium team to the hotel a lot of people gathered there were chanting the. leaders names. they were very very loud. but again i roamed the city trying to find the belgian fans could not really find any but i found one very famous brazilian fan he's the captain of the. brazilian fan movement here in the zone and he's been very famous in russia let's take a look at what i managed to do with him in the streets of because i know it's almost an impossible task to find belgian fans because on overtaken by the men and women and yellow and blue well you know i found one brazilian fan who is very famous in russia now.

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a cash into obedience going which would be china's social networking score and hope to get more frequent flyer miles and a freeway being down of the danger or they can go down the pinpoint path which is individual something. for us bring you up to speed on the world news headlines now the a mom of the mosque in the french city of toulouse is being investigated for allegedly inciting hatred against jews how soft a video of one of his sermons sparked outrage and accusations of anti semitism solid dubin ski picks up the story. built to serve up to eighty thousand muslims in the area the new grand mosque of toulouse was hailed as

a symbol of diversity and tolerance the grand mosque doesn't only benefit the muslim community it benefits all the people of to lose in terms of culture the mosque is proof of the respect and tolerance among all people have to lose. less than a week after its opening a senior cleric at the mosque. became embroiled in a scandal in one of these so that was posted online he's seen reciting a passage from the head which although many scholars of islam argue otherwise has been criticised as anti sematic. mollica. ok.

now who. you know who you know i'm going your. local jewish group demanded legal action and now the prosecutor's office in toulouse is investigating whether it amounts to a hate crime the perfect of region instructed to lose prosecutors office do this to get whether this constitutes hatred in speeches defused by now what makes this controversial is the question has actually been seen as a respected member of the toulouse community and he's the president of a nonprofit group which aims to promote dialogue between different religious groups he's also given interviews where he's talked about tolerance and when you. call to. preach. that you have something in mind contains

a bible you can change that. you can change the koran but you can have a new point of view on what these written both the toulouse mosque and mom taught himself so his remarks were taken out of context and did not contain an incitement to violence against jews this translation is somewhat modified as it was taken out of context this message warns us that we shouldn't commit these acts if we want to avoid the last judgment the a mom it appears it will continue his preaching at the toulouse mosque while this investigation is carried out but some members of the jewish community here in france feel he needs to be removed from his post with immediate effect. the representative council of french jewish institutions condemns with our most

firmness cause of hatred by the mom of two mohamad to tie he calls for the women nation of the jewish people and proclaims the end of israel jollity pinsky r.t. paris. the british home secretary is calling on russia to come clean after another case of the nerve agents novacek was detected in the south of england a couple are in a critical condition in hospital after reportedly being exposed to the substance boyko reports on the questions raised by the new incidence. they thought the story had finally gone away but four months on there are police cordons journalists and that strange russian back on everyone's lips no bitch i can remain deadly for long periods exposed to the nerve agent no bitch honk being caught a few months to sort of thing i think you know it seems you came back to normal

still closed so for it to reset again is a bit sort of iraq is going to go away we're going to come back again like you have a person who does it just to work relate to. him when you see nerve agent you do during the war is a bit confusing really it's not hard to see why there's a bit of confusion around these parts after the poisoning of the script pals back in march the u.k. government launched a multi-million pound cleanup decontamination hazmat suits the full bang police can't say whether the nerve agent that's left alone sturgis and charlie rally critically ill came from the same batch that the script pals were exposed to but they have said it's a keen line of the investigation and if it does turn out to be residual nerve agent it begs the question how did the big clean up that was carried out his message the government insists that the latest incident doesn't mean the cleanup after the

script piles poisoning was incomplete home secretary sajid javid also said that any items that may have hobbit any residual amount of the agent was safely removed for disposal nevertheless police say the couple were exposed to the nerve agent off to handling a contaminated. officials from public health england have urged people in salzburg not to pick up any on known items they also gave detailed instructions for more precautionary measures things like using baby wipes or washing clothes at specific temperatures. well you should do that anyway wash your clothes but. the baby was the right thing to do anything i mean baby wipes i wouldn't use them on sticky fingers so ridiculous my lady i don't get baby bottles. anything like this are always rumors that fly about and he says she says and people know somebody that

works either at the hospital or portadown but there are the rumors one of the rumors is that yeah it was something that was disregarded that was picked up a new thinking it was a recreational drug it didn't take long before the u. calthorpe he started pointing the finger straight at russia and urging moscow to own up it is now time that the russian state comes forward and explains exactly what is going on it is completely unacceptable for our people to be either deliberate or accidental targets all for our streets our parks our towns to be dumping grounds for poison you know the offer is still there to the russian state to try the sisters to tell us what happened because that would definitely help keep the people of seoul very safe in the wake of the m's be poisoning case the british media our lives have been indulging in a spot of scaremongering claiming get us south a nation attempt or cyber attack on critical national infrastructure our imminence

all courtesy of russia the times that alleged russia would be using the ongoing world cup to divert global attention and that moscow had to use this strategy in the past international affairs commentator jonathan steele says the story itself was designed to undermine russia while the world's attention is on the country. different media have different stories but i think the latest story from the times . the british intelligence agencies are expecting a so-called new attack from russia as soon as the world cup is finished he's just observed there's absolutely no evidence given in the story the intelligence person himself says they have nothing specific it's just a general awareness of possibilities i mean it's just designed i seem to undermine the good image that russia has been getting over the world cup it would be madness to do it at this stage because as i say the world cup is in full flux flags and everybody's having

a good time people are impressed various times we've gone over there say it's much better than they expected and he thought it was going to be a hostile country and they find people who really went very welcome into. motion by british intelligence to put out these stories to journalists to predict them without any real checking or second guessing and that's true whether it could be true or not. but not everyone is sold on the idea that russia is the culprit some journalists are raising questions as to why there's been no solid evidence presented three months since this capello attack the idea that the world cup could serve as a smoke screen is also being called into question meanwhile the russian president's spokesperson denied the country had any involvement in the incident and expressed concern the nerve agent had surfaced again with so many other knowns in the story one thing is for so although the british media are having a field day over russia's alleged involvement as artie's margo's day of explains.

could putin have really done it ordered secret agents to poison a random drug addict and his homeless girlfriend with a lethal nerve agent all in the middle of a flawless world cup with billions watching russia yeah he could if you watch t.v. enough espionage and intrigue once again striking this sleepy corner of england that may have been left by the assailants who attacked the script files either it was left there during the preparation or after that attack russian intelligence was behind this but the fact is blood amir putin has flat out denied it he's refused to cooperate with britain. and if we don't we simply don't know how many more people can be can come into contact with this think about it it makes perfect sense a drug addict picks up no one quite knows what next he does something

no one seems to know what though suddenly he's in hospital for almost a week being treated for what no one knew what with this much evidence how could you not blame russia it could only have been putin just like it was last time you argue that their source of. edge and not the chalk is russia how did you manage to find it out so quickly look at the the evidence when the people from from portland they were absolutely categorical the guy so i said are you sure and he said there's no doubt we have not verified the precise source so to be clear you're not able at porton down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that i was being very clear i thought i was being very clear to. the german program which is that.