year ago i too nearly nizhny novgorod to go through to the semifinals of the world cup. and france will face the winner between brazil and belgium that match kicks off in cars and in just under an hour. and in other news the u.k.'s media and politicians go into speculation overdrive on the latest nerve agent incident on british soil with many convinced russia is involved.

is r.t. international coming to live from moscow on cape partridge thank you for joining us well and you are going buyouts and is a blur as france march on off to bow to no victory but they face in the semifinals for a lot match on the build up to brazil against belgium that's cross live now to dan and he said with our special coverage in some petersburg. eleven . summer abby was no small welcome back to st peter's got a prussian skeeball cup quarter final time i'm going to hold his head with the sun for seems we'll have how it's probably going on in the next few days before stay in seattle for the title of the post saw all the quarterfinals between false and euro

why has ended with a two new win lose goals from iran and i'm talking greaseman sendings the french support to interact see. you. great scenes there on the streets of france now we can take a look at the goals that broke you will go in the hearts midfielder roderigo benton cook picked up a yellow card after a reckless talk about quarantine toledo the french midfielder and then just before half time about five minutes before half time rafael. with the last head into the

bottom left hand corner from griezmann free kick it was quite a good delivery into the box from those really hard ones to to find against and he managed to get across the fund of iran and head in. to have their chances though done absolutely save the tournament i think one of them from you can already see keeping out marching to satirise with this stunning stop diving fingertip save to the right that make yourself big putting most of the legs out wide to stop go dean getting out all of just a couple yards out of you look at that you think that would be easier to almost get in then going over the ball but you know responded to make yourself big put him off and he's a defender off to a lot of striker so to be expected perhaps that was followed by anton griezmann shot on sixty four minutes what a howler that was amazing that people were really disappointed with this i mean that we can see this shot here now it's our fault it moves a little bit in the air it does work to the left but it's not about to call us and

you know that free kick almost twenty years ago more than twenty years ago this is a bit but it's not you know the keeper should be dealing with that and he's gone down he's moved too far to his left and really actually a reminder of that goal we saw in the champions league final with. liverpool keep the carrier tumbling into his own goal as well so the disappointment me was very good about actually saying is that terrorists in disguise. is ruthless. and i want to do something peter schmeichel and you know our colleague neil would talk about how you know the shape of the ball has changed the design of the wolfie for want of more go. in these twenty months the ball has become alliances become more maneuverable you know the way it tracks through and through the ass perhaps changed really though i mean will it be an excuse me i've noticed something about this world cup you know the the full this is is it clean if you see some fantastic goals of impossible top of the balls i've been reading like ballooning everywhere so i don't know if we can really blame the ball but anyway. it was

a mistake that will hold the keeper for years to come to the emotions overflowing in the last minutes of the match with two minutes of normal time to go your way as jose humanist couldn't hold back his tears as he was getting ready to face a french free kick and really overcome with emotions perhaps he knew died you know . being frustrated and they weren't going to find a way back into the game you know they were huffing and puffing for the whole ninety minutes they were just overpowered in midfield midfield you know work machine contain subtle they completely have power then they isolated suarez with kamandi miss and they just like to slice in that final thought trying to get those new crosses in bulls and nobody. not really providing any threat apart from not more a save. point did the french really look troubled they were going to concede or fall behind yet a bit of a whimper out of the world cup for europe why now peter all of us he's been.

brought in he's been following all the developments from like a. break for you are quite a lay should see the french they are marching on to the choosing of the last years all the way to the semi final in st petersburg they'll find out that a little bit later on on friday inside the nizhni novgorod stadium here there was no lecture got mystere both sets of supporters singing their hearts out throughout the game i could tell you i think actually the fray tour the little outnumbered every time they played their possession football and held on to it you had whistles coming from me. the south american funds i say south american fans because one of the really interesting debates that i've seen of this game is that they were just really supporters opposing the. colombia. look to argentina shirts they feel they were going to be here for this proto final vote of argentina should also team usa should say as well as people who've come out here to enjoy the world

cup they'll go behind the closest thing they have to a local chain heartbreaking pool there was a year ago i phones we've seen some coming out i wouldn't say the same people in tears but the same people looking up silly devastated they believed in this team they believed in the doctor dick cheney move the community over the side could get them through against the french team i think everybody who did meet with the technically. only day as it is though relations for is a bluish they go off the same thing just good first i mean final. thing to say who france face now belgium brazil have the face to be a cracker a game star studded side very much to a lot of togetherness in the team a lot of attacks a glint of like going on that i would not only have the individual time you know as we speak about before from european side south american side south americans often you know over laws one bit of skill the flair the energy creativity european sides you know perhaps france germany more of that togetherness the tactical awareness

there's the law and the other formation from seem to have only off the game and i think as disappointing as europe why i can look to their performances being i think the french can be impressed really proud of how they play they look really strong like you said as a unit but it's interesting days between he was fantastic in their game against argentina he was suspended for the skate they didn't seem to miss and to lisa i stepped into the mix through midfield trio alongside can say and then just a solid so and as you said there it's more the unit of the team the one player comes out yes. where else can just step in and the place and they still have the strength and depth and that's why before the tournament began i said that i fancied france because there was a squad that has so much depth they've managed to leave out players like ben zimmer like black is there to shelly's injured and they still look really strong so i think going forward that they're going to be tough to beat for whoever comes through that final it's today. their record against south american teams of course

is a good they've managed to break that duck today with that win against the requirements what the table is looking like now of course really shaping up well to see how those seventy five a lot of potential final is going to look let's get the table up we can have a look depending of course on the result of brazil belgium of course a cracker a game you should know potentially facing the south americans or their european neighbors i mean who which came do you think will be more exciting i think in terms of if it's france preserve of france belgium i think france belgium is going to be a crock because you have a really good young belgian team who are coming into their prime and they've got some fantastic individual players there and i haven't been so impressed with how brazil of approach this tournament they've been functional they've been professional but they haven't really impressed me with their style of football so i think belgium france is the one that i would really like to see them and i don't head what you just said isn't that i think a lot of these big teams they've been trying to have maximum result out of minimum

effort functionality get the job done get the gold move on and they haven't really impressed that he was like brazil you normally have that amazing flair you know spain with a ticket like a football we just haven't really seen that have we it's been quite underwhelming from all these giants i think so i think perhaps one team you can look at is francis weiss are been very impressed with how they've taken to this tournament because they've been playing good football as well as winning them progressing through the later stages and into the semifinals as we know now so i think belgium were also impressive in that group dramatic game against. we've had a number of things in this tournament spain portugal france argentina japan belgium games these are some of the most classic games that we will see in welcome history and we've had many of them just in this tournament so even belgium have been impressive so that's why i'm looking forward to hopefully seeing a tie between those two but then result would be a replay of the ninety eight finals i would say something from history that was amazing of course emotions running high throughout the country throughout the fans

while some of the world's best out on the pitch backing them all the way across social media as well here's the latest from all digital t.v. . i have. have. i was the with the end.

of the whole country from. the russian president to he's on the ball as following friday he welcomed previous. president. was there. anyway recognizes faces. peter schmeichel just so much footballing. legends in the room the russian leader trying to get a bit of inside information on who they think is going home with the golden trophy . only eight teams of thirty two are left. experts maybe even that when the media leave you will share with us who win the cup this year in your opinion to believe that with him but. now that that great dane pizza schmeichel who'll be joining us for the second match of the evening maybe we'll get some from him as well not by the you're quiet keep and you'll be joining with team as belgium. who is taking place and design is

going to taste the atmosphere now in the capital here from alexina chefs been out about that. it doesn't feel like a stand 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 encounter between five time champions brazil and belgium one of the strongest teams in the tournament right now with basically every line in that team containing world class talent now if the game itself will be as good as the atmosphere and cosign 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 overtaken by the brazil fans i spoke to some of them about their match projections good luck for belgium because because you always win i

don't like. to be pessimistic i like to what to treat for because i don't like just one goal would be three one one zero so if you like that will be a really hard game i'm. really good. but as you'll see one yeah so who scores with brazil. as those as with pretty much defines all latin american fans they usually gather in you know the big masses and tens hundreds and thousands people sometimes after the belgians they roam around the city in small groups but yesterday we. a witness a rival of the belgian siege of the hotel a lot of people gather fado were chanting the. leaders names. they were very very loud that. one again i roamed the city trying to find the belgian fans could not wait to find any but i found one very famous brazilian fan he's the captain of the five 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 gaza and 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. you believe. he. wanted to.

live. in the us enough to get. special coverage but now we'll sell goodbyes to you and to europe why go out of the world cup and say low ball to the next pass so belgium decide who will be taking on in the semifinal the game about to start in just on the fourth seed from the. speaker which we decide we're going to.

thank you guys meanwhile in other news the british ime secretary is calling on russia to come clean off to another case of the nerve agent not the child was detected in the south of england a couple are in critical condition in hospital after reportedly being exposed to the substance auntie's party boyko reports on the questions raised by the latest 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 rich young 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 rear its head 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 circulate sleep. and when you see moved a few to marie claire 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 or just on 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 cleanup that was carried out. mess it 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 maybe why so i wouldn't use them i'm sticking to its ridiculous i really hate you i don't do it baby but if. anything they say they're always remains that fly about and he says she says and people know somebody that works either at the hospital or portadown but what are the remains one of the remains is that yeah it was something that was disregarded that was picked up a new thinking it was a recreational drug. or following the ames reporting some british media outlets

have indulged in scaremongering they claim an assassination attempt or cyber attack on critical national infrastructure by russia are imminent anastasio reports. well the british press is one too rarely shy away from anti russian sentiment but when it comes to this latest novel saga we've seen that speculation scaremongering and really wishful thinking seem to be battling it out with those less frenzied voices that are still calling for evidence and one example a latest piece in the times talks about alleged spies being on alert over serious threat of a russian attack this peace talks about how spy agencies in the u.k. are apparently on standby expecting some kind of attack from russia any minute now and what's the source they just say its sources and of course if that wasn't enough the piece goes on to talk about how major sporting events seem to coincide and not by accident with developments such as the south the city and war back in two

thousand and eight and the crimean referendum saying it's not by accident and russia is behind this now in contrast we've seen pieces along the likes of one in the guardian that says it would be nice to see some evidence first and that russia's involvement really hasn't been proven yet and facts really would not be a bad idea not very many people seem to know what exactly is going on in this whole saga yet of course we are also seeing british of british officials continuing to sing the same tune as they have been this whole time saying now that following the second poisoning that russia needs to come clean it is now time for 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 topics or for streets parks towns to be dumping grounds to poison you know the all for 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 very safe and of course again the british papers have been echoing those moods expressed by the u.k. . home secretary have headlines such as moscow is using britain as dumping ground for poisoned russia must come clean we have one here that says the legacy of the u.s.s.r. and last but not least something like most likely explanation is a russian state hooked on a poison as a weapon of terror and of course all this while this whole entire time for the last four months really russia has been saying has nothing to do with this it doesn't have a motive it's called for joint investigation with the u.k. multiple times and is really waiting for some actual tangible facts in all of this to be presented but let me and my colleague aaron talk to his international affairs commentator mark he believes the majority of the media are quoting unproven statements as funny. what are your thoughts on the media reaction to the incident.

i think that too much of the media seems to believe that it is national duty patriotic duty to parrot the government line on this when the government line has been contradictory but not contradicted by the media itself has been so many holes in the story i think we could. we could throw quite a lot of war down them and throw a lot of cold water on these claims because there's nothing to them as much as they change so much in very so considerably from day to day practically with the original stories and i was being given a rehash of course in the middle of a sporting event in russia what a coincidence and though and as i say too much of the media is too willing to accept too much which is unproven and in flat contradictions everything that looks like common sense these events are actually designed to draw attention away from that world cup and distract from the success of events like the social lympics similar events were occurring then there's a claim that russia would want to use the these events as smokescreens but for what

for attacking two random people in some small town in in england as if. the russian government or mr putin has got better things to do than to go around making mischief in some obscure regional town in some unfortunately relatively obscure country it's absurd in all its tenets and we should remember that the examples given i noticed in the media for example was in georgia and so on and so will our examples which were initiated by the western backed governments in those regions so it wasn't the russians starting something in line with these events it was actually the other way around those events were happening when the western backed government began their own campaigns for example towards south a seizure all those years ago well meanwhile bloody near putin spokesperson has denied russia is involved and expressed concern the nerve agent that's just again. and donald trump said to me vladimir putin inhouse thinking on july the sixteenth

and the us president says he's sure the meeting will go smoothly and warned against scam mongering and i might even end up having a good relationship but they go in where are. they prepared you know person for this k.g.b. this you know what. we're all signed with people well i beat but they're totally prepared i think the parents of this stuff my whole life they don't say. we're following this i'm joined live now by r.t. scalable open hi kelly thanks for joining us i mean do most people you think share the u.s. presence expectations from the meeting with his russian counterpart while as you know trump statement was being made we saw a recent visit to moscow by some republican senators from the united states now in response to that visit we saw some rather high ranking officials and democrats and

others in the united states taking aim at the republicans and trying to insinuate that they are agents of russia this whole mantra that trump is an agent of russia's president vladimir putin we heard quite a bit of that coming from leaders of the democratic party and other figures and this is some of what we heard. the russians would have shopworn song repugnant as nails on the blackboard the enemies and then the bursaries attacking us but with trump praising putin to consume wriggly meeting him along with g.o.p. lawmakers visit to moscow on july fourth with republican surrendering to russia soon britannic the no longer seems to be a question that the kremlin controls the g.o.p. but eight g.o.p. senators suspending july the fourth twenty eight hundred in moscow terms preparing for his visit my working theory is the senate is making sure everyone knows exactly how putin likes to be serviced. now some forces in the united states are

clearly optimistic about the hope that there could be a restoration of good relations between the united states and russia and the two countries could start getting along again but as you saw in those tweets and on those statements there are other forces that aren't so hopeful about the two countries getting along better. kalam open thank you very much. meanwhile american lawyer and journalist glenn greenwald he's best known for publishing the documents disclosed by the whistleblower edward snowden we will this currently in moscow first find a security conference and he says much of america's political class believes russia is genuinely the number one enemy. there's an obsession in the united states with viewing russia not just as an adversary but as an actual want to me it's permeated both political parties there's actually talk a lot now about how what they regard as the interference in the twenty sixteen

election is similar to pearl harbor when the japanese attacked the united states during world war two or nine eleven and so there's this sense that russia is now an enemy on par with al-qaeda or the japanese during world war two russia is often talked about this way in the sense that any kind of connection with or interaction with russia is viewed as inherently suspicious or even worse and it's extremely dangerous and extremely toxic and it's one of the reasons why i decided to come here this morning posted a picture of myself and snowden because i think it's very important to combat that it to. signature is of the iran nuclear deal have agreed to stay committed to the agreement as well as protect you companies doing business with iran from u.s. sanctions the announcement was made as a meeting in vienna call to discuss donald trump's withdrawal from. the participants recognized that in return for the implementation of its nuclear

related commitments the lifting of sanctions including the economic dividends arising from it constitutes an essential part of the way the participants we work on the above issues through dieted bilateral efforts and through engagement with international partners in order to encourage them to follow the same policies and to establish similar mechanisms in that economic relations with the protection of companies from the extraterritorial effects of u.s. sanctions. well countries also agreed to purchase or oil and gas from tehran international or economist octomom to solomon warns the move could spark u.s. retaliation against the e.u. the european union with or realism cannot give protection to every single company that is affected by american sanctions on iran but the exit extent the

threat of retaliation by of european union could deter a president from for taking stiff measures eg is european companies continuing to deal with iran i think it is in the interest of iran the european union and the world that the. iranian nuclear deal continuing to function. the mom of the mosque in the french city of toulouse is being investigated for allegedly inciting hatred against jews that's after a video of one of his sermons sponsored trade and accusations of anti semitism. bensky 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.