i am. just eight nations left in the world cup in russia to decide the best team on the planet and the first quarter final face off france lead against uruguay as they kick off in the second half. thanks. and in other news french prosecutors investigate the a mom of a mosque in toulouse who's a reportedly been fighting hatred against jews. and the ukase media and politicians go into speculation overdrive on the latest and nerve agent incident on british soil with all convinced the russians involved.

a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me becky aaron the top story this hour the british home secretary is calling on russia to come clean after another case of the nerve agent novacek was detected in the south of england a couple are in a critical condition in hospital after reportedly being exposed to the substance probably boyko reports on the questions raised by the new incident. 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 talk being caught a few months to sort of thing i think you know it seems you came back to normal with the site still closed so for it to reset again it's

a bit sort of iraq is going to go away we're going to come back again. personal photos of just a trucker like. 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 lets left on 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. baby was the right thing to do anything i mean baby wipes i wouldn't use them on sticky fingers ridiculous my lady i don't want. anything like this they're 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. and it didn't take long before the u.k. authorities started pointing the finger straight at russia and urging moscow to own up it's now time that the russian state comes forward and explains exactly what has gone on it is completely unacceptable for our people to be either deliberate or accidental targets all for streets parks 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 souls very safe one of the wake of the amesbury poisoning case the british media outlets have been indulging in a spot of scaremongering claiming an assassination attempt or cyber attack on critical national infrastructure are imminent all courtesy of russia the times

alleged russia would be using the ongoing world cup to divert global attention and the most go to use this strategy in the past when 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 delayed his story from the times news so 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 the world cup is in full flux flights and everybody's having a good time people are impressed with various times you'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 welcoming. by british intelligence to put out these stories to journalists to predict them without any real checking or second guessing to 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 is no solid evidence presented three months off as after this group power attack the idea that the world cup could have a smoke screen is also being called into question meanwhile the russian president's spokesperson denied the country had any involvement in the ensigns and expressed concern the nerve agent had surfaced again with so many unknowns in the story one thing is for sure though the british media are having a field day over russia's alleged involvement as artie's wide galaxy of explains. could do putin have really done it ordered secret agents to poison 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 the 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 a snuff edge and not the chalk is russia how did you manage to find it out so quickly look at the the evidence from the people from porton down they were absolutely categorical and i asked 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. told us in our. absolutely no uncertain terms that this was

a military grade. they knew what it is not the business of putting down the ide and i don't know whether it's even possible for them to identify the origin in all seriousness an interesting narrative we have going here lars style britain's accusations which seemingly founded on a highly likely assessment therefore it's highly likely that it's highly likely that it's all russia's fault the decision taken by the russian government to deploy. on march the fourth was reckless and callous there is no cause of alternative explanation to the events in march other than the russian state was responsible we have already seen multiple explanations from state sponsored russian media regarding this latest incident we can anticipate further disinclination from the kremlin as we saw following the source we've come full circle they sat there

for months ago making the same claims something happens accuse russia arguments collapse then quiet something happens again straight away they accuse russia who can guess what comes next. well the first game of the quarter finals is now underway so without further ado let's talk football. welcome back to awful place q here in st petersburg it's world cup quarter final time in the fast time between france and the world why is the way the second half just started montana holkins here with. the all for the quarter finals four teams

of course will be sent home the other four will go on to battle for the cup and it's do or die at this stage and potentially right now are you. to lose forty one minutes. when france won a free kick griezmann whipping it into the area towards the near post area and. with a flick into the far corner keep a standing no chance really it was a fantastic scene really in the subsequent i think a lot of people affected expected rather quite a tense start perhaps a bit cagey a bit nervous but certainly both sides very much have been going for france a couple of chances with griezmann in the box by really being too good is really put on the page you see getting along of the flanks putting the ball in the box. but you know one will be comfortable getting that goal just before half time and we

can see how that goal actually went down with the fans from both sides. who. i was. i. have had their own chances in the case of french keeping hugo lawrie kept out. martinkus series with the stunning star save the one i want to thank you very likely was fantastic he managed to get all the way across to the right hand post. all the way and then get up and get rid of the rebound well a. full on a full stretch keeping it out and then stopping the the rebound as well and to be doing enough to put the keeper off really didn't need to stop the rebound digger demerit good thing if you just sort of blast it over the border but it was because leon how he makes himself so big. pieces michael will tell us i know you know but

it was his style class to make yourself as big as possible and put off strike a if possible now all over he's been following the game from the stadium in the north going to. one nil to france against uruguay here in nation you know if that old van is headed the difference between the two sides you to go i had started very brightly but they were wasteful in front of goal and as the game's gone on all fronts of come back into it has to be said there's been a lot of work to do for the argentinian referee mr patel or without this being a particularly aggressive much lots of dots of little challenges little off the ball incidents and he has handed out one yellow card to both sides if it continues like this i can't see there being twenty two left on the field though he's saying no more as the players were coming off the field he was lecturing the captains saying that they should be really hot to stop the atmosphere inside the nizhni novgorod stadium has been absolutely electric both sets of supporters adding to

that noise generating not atmosphere as it stands at the moment it will be france that go through to the semi final so it's still one nil there in that game and done i think it's fair to say that a lot of the chances of the goal especially coming from a set piece do you think in particular you're quite perhaps missing a bit of a spark up front with medicine and you know undoubtedly. i mean the way he connected with suarez in that game you know against against france the early game as well that brace you scored against portugal. it's like you pass the ball and he knows where his partner is up front almost without looking those two really have a connection and want to really hasn't been effective stan and so far i think both teams have been reluctant perhaps to throw all that and the man forward especially after watching the you know the japan again we saw how vulnerable teams can be counterattacks now both teams looking perhaps for that little key part splitting the opposition getting

a free kick some individual master perhaps maybe one of those amazing players on the pitch to get a set piece get that goal to get a header and so far france's work so far it could have worked but we had that fantastic glory save it's anyone's game really so far i think. i think this is the only goal we're going to see. but i do think set pieces are what they're looking for what struck me as well as very briefly luis suarez's cuts and quite frustrated figure on the pitch and as you said you know the way he was you know linking up with medicine via the in the game against porch but it seems like he's perhaps trying to do it too much on his own amusement being a bit frustrated as well so be interesting to see whether he can really get into the game later on now ahead of this game or team spoke to the former director of prosenjit and now p.s.g. of course is the home of france's young superstar kid in the back pay and also your wife forward addison charles told us how far he thinks their views can grow.

your father could you can only speak highly of the griezmann the ship is specially given that he's confirmed his abilities his physical and technical potential his explosive quickness griezmann is seemingly performing worse than expected as he was presented as a stone and some commentators even assume that did the ada show organize the whole team around. i don't believe this i think he'll denies his team based on two or three elements including polgar book who for him is a sort of cool to back of the french team. prediction from the stall that the semifinal will be between france and brazil so i think france can beat europe and the winner of this semifinal between france and brazil will win the world cup. to the world's most expensive players you know in the tournament as well in this quarter finals not want to miss came about but obviously piers three strikers

hundred forty five million euro price tag neymar two hundred six million price tag and in this game i just want to know with such a star studded lineup how much these star players who we've seen not only in this team you see other teams how much are they really justified the expectations on the pressure on the price tag on them it's been all the players that often been the heroes in these games haven't i perhaps been under-rated i think definitely in the case of neymar i found that he hasn't been as influential at key moments in games as he can be has got some important goals but you look at some of the opposition and it's not exactly you know world beating opposition got i got against costa rica and you know you just feel that he has more to come from neymar but i've been very impressed with him back i think to someone so young he strikes me as having so much strength and power and confidence that run against argentina where he won the penalty just blew them away he reminded me of a mix between a young michael owen. and real as well who of course is like the icon for young french for dollars so i think neymar there's more to come from him but definitely

i've been very impressed by killian and buckley so far question is can you make the difference here like you did against against argentina pride in having a lot of runs yet you have a fantastic game but again it's a very tight affair so it's going to be difficult for either to really decide to really come out i think what a lot of the teams are also doing in terms of defense defense midfield in particular is focusing on these star players who really can make that killer ball really make that difference with a bit of individual talent a bit of individual man. just shutting them down we've seen up and with messy with perhaps not being as effective as they were predicted to be and of course the world's best bottle out on the pitch finds back in the social media and we've seen it on all forms is the latest thought just from our digital t.v. .

was. we've just got a goal coming in from france and it's a terrible goalkeeping hour agrees on the left flank about the left footed shot on the goal. deflects the shot and spills it right over here into the back of the net it's going to be a killer to watch that one back in is going to have nightmares about that if you've seen the champions league final three level for the romans it's very similar to the state that carry us made for level four shots not super powerful it's right out there when it's just. straight into the back of the net so very disappointing there

for your wife going to monopoly i would say short and really difficult for them to get back in the game although we saw with belgium and i missed that same question i want to really go over my game up now for a while just thrown out the time now to. a pretty passing fall tactical play in the arena going to have to go sorry i was trying to read it all right you try and try and get that will forward. a football is also taken over. putin's agenda russian president on friday you welcome previous world cup on our football stars as well think of president john in france you know was there as was x. denmark superstar. peter schmeichel son was full time in the room of course the russian leader trying to get the inside info on who exactly is going to lift the famous small culture of these. students to come on to those two questions only eight teams of thirty two are left you are experts but you may be on that when the media leave us you will share with us who will win the cup this year in your

opinion the ability to push buttons but. now the danish goalkeeping legend peter schmeichel will be joining us for the second match of the evening assume his belgium reserve and they will actually be interesting to get his view goalkeeping mistake i'm sure will be really damning of the key for the yeah it's. certainly also reminds me of the one from from coming here a story in the in the in the audience you know game and how damaging that is to a goalkeeper psychology and he ended up being replaced but no second chance of course for four months later let's get a taste of the atmosphere in khazan now one of the key cities that i hear from you who's been out and about that. it doesn't feel like that anymore it feels like rio you see all that yellow green and blue behind me this is pretty much the brazilian the pre-game party just a few blocks away from the stadium the game itself is promising to be

a classic classic world cup and 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 been over the past couple of days we're in for an absolutely phenomenal game now it's really hard to find belgian fans in the city because it's been all. but taken by the brazil fans i spoke to some of them about their master dixon's good luck for belgium because brazil always i mean i don't like. to be best. to treat for because i don't like just one goal but we won 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. as with pretty much defines all latin american fans they usually gather in you know the big masses and tens or hundreds and thousands people

sometimes as the belgians they roam around the city in small groups but yesterday we also witnessed a rival of the belgium team to the hotel a lot of people gathered that 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 fan of the brazilian fan movement here in gaza 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 gaza and it's almost an impossible task to find belgian fans because on overtaken by the men and women and yellow and blue you know i found one brazilian fan who is very famous in russia now .

in the. i don't. see i think it. really having the father on the ball a lot more possession but you know we've been we've seen a few replays of the ball. it's not particularly powerful it's not moving or swelling a lot in the you know what's going through the keep in mind. hopefully it's

a pretty small to want to us it's hard to say that he's sort of going down to get your foot into the goal later but it's bizarrely he's gone down on one knee and should have gone off to the right instead of sort of. catching it and as a result was just loops over the back of his right shoulder looped into the net no chance to correct that this is not what he was trying to do even though it's a very bizarre decision from a keeper as experienced as muslim but. that's it from us for now join us again in the next hour from a special studio here in st petersburg where hopefully will have a final score for you from the front of your game as well as all the other thrills and spills from the wild card. challenge album it's been about this article i'm going to try to put up with that in the so i can take shots you know so this is actually. some of the smaller going. on five.

thanks to easter and down for now let's talk you through some other world news the u.s. declaration of independence house falling foul of social media censorship facebook deleted parts of the document amid fears of hate speech kellock more pain has. the facebook algorithm has been removing content that is deemed to be racist or offensive not even the us declaration of independence has escaped the crusade against hate speech check out this not so frequently quoted grievance against the british empire back in seventeen seventy six that was recently removed from the site. he has excited domestic insurrections amongst us and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our front two years the merciless indian savages whose known rule of warfare is undistinguished destruction of all ages sexes and conditions no

one thought twice about phrases like merciless indian savages back in seventeen seventy six but nowadays it's not exactly considered to be polite vocabulary however facebook sent an apology to the newspaper that posted it and overturned its ban so perhaps it's now ok so that too abrasive for a public forum you can't go and talk to talk like other people but i think you can say your own opinion that's why we have freedom of speech you'll be teaching so my language use even the measures might be the same i'm all about freedom of speech so if it's than people don't want to read it they don't have to you know where that comes from and that's from the declaration of independence really wow wow amazing but i feel like we've evolved from a place. as far as a society of how we think about each other and our backgrounds from when the declaration was written maybe if we were rewritten in today's language would be a little bit more neutral facebook incident fits

a pretty common trend in recent us politics americans just aren't sure how to deal with their own history and twenty eleven rational republicans made a big show of reading the us constitution aloud however they had to remove some key passages that were a little offensive you know things like african-americans constituting three fifths of a human being statues of george washington and thomas jefferson are now being desecrated because let's not forget they own slaves now statues of christopher columbus who slaughtered native americans are facing a similar rebuke george washington was a slave owner i don't care if it's a george washington statue or a thomas jefferson statue or robert e. lee statue they all need to come down come haven't had slaves then and i would repeat. did not need paying poll somebody. we have had that kind of background it shows the absurdity of speech codes all together this whole idea that that words are violence and that just

a false construct i think it's always ok to question your history but what the problem where we get off the rails as we like to say is when you try to apply today's standards to yesterday's standards and try to protect people from words if the words call for violence directed violence we ban those if the words are just offensive leave it alone let free speech reign and across the atlantic if it's also under way to stamp out hate speech the a mom of a mosque in the french city of toulouse the is being investigated for allegedly inciting hatred against jews that's off to a video of one of his sermons sponsored outrage and like his they shouldn't have anti semitism so deep in 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 loose in terms of culture the mosque is proof of the respect and tolerance among all people of 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 east which although many scholars of islam argue otherwise has been criticised as anti sematic. mollica. ok. for. a long. shot.