belgium lead favorites brazil two million cars and with the second half just about to get underway in the world cup quarter final the winner will face france. earlier the french be uruguay two nearly nizhny novgorod to go through to the last four. 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 communities russia is involved. i'm watching i'm sure to international and i think a bar church with an eye on the football and the latest headlines here it's an

international thank you for joining us so is another world cup shock on the cards and what belgium have the upper hand against brazil could roberto martínez side go straight to face france or will brazil produce their biggest wealth cup comeback for eighteen years daniel holkins appeaser ali have more in our special coverage live from some petersburg. well that speech is the second quarter final is the way the team's just coming out for that second now brazil against belgium and the winner of that will tell into place in the semifinal and it's pretty cool start for the five time world cup

winners brazil they now trail belgium two no. i. see that from brazil right now but i imagine heads and heads covered from what has been a dismal start for the president has to be said he was on the cards was a well we've been speaking about this all this week actually in all today so haven't been fantastic in this tournament they've done the job to get this far they have been impressed and not more of the same name calling a very frustrated figure they did start the game on the front first date hit the post silva getting you know that if i was but it won't really convincing and then that first goal with belgium opened the scoring in the thirteenth minute with quite a vicious corner. and it came off and cost

allison into the back of the net that. would've been a fantastic goal but you got your own and just trying to get. no coordination no team play that bouncing for defenders experience in front of you and. it's actually come off his own shell his shoulder that i think. has got in his way you haven't seen the clear vision of the ball coming to him other than the clear line of sight and he's kind of just put his head down taken it off the board and it's gone in so that was a pretty disappointing start but what about the second gold. star struck lukaku picking the ball up in belgium going off a bit of a clumsy first touch there but how would through steam train going through the pass off to the right to a given time and space on the ball was different as marcello especially the right footed ball some right corner of the goal. a quarter mile stretch for it just not enough there you mentioned that perhaps was covering the left flank expecting to

make a pass out but by doing that he's given enough time and space much reminds me of the moderates goal actually against argentina against static defense. all out of position not sure what's going on given time and space and a play like that you just cannot allow to do that you would be forgiven and that's what they've been done they've been punished absolutely and brazil with it all to do in this second half which is just got underway and it's still two nil to belgium we can now cross live to offseason peter schmeichel and. yellow the guys we thought six seven way from moscow based ourselves here in sochi ahead of the last quarter final to her russian interaction we've avoided the thunderstorms our planes were delayed but we've got here just about on time and pace let's talk about the game again one moment. everybody thought it would be a close game nobody was predicting the scoreline at half time. i don't thing many people predicted that but i i for one have not said that this is going to do that

this is going to be a brazilian type of a lot of people i hear them all brazil is going to be. i've said right from the beginning belgium they are the dark forces when you look at the squad they have played they have i mean it's an incredible score and what i really like about. martinez for this. game is when when they want you know that. against you've changed it seems to put for the laney on the chapter the on they brought the game back to both of those two to and for the score to be the equalizing goal and then charging schooled in the last minute of the last kick of the game to two three two and he's gone with the team today to chattanooga and for the starts the game and that just shows you the options that he has and the depth in the squad i don't see many squats left in this town and they have so many great players have gotten a little for me it's not a surprise ok shoulder wise if you are able but not you've been keeping

a close eye on things in terms of the way the game's going belgium looked very good on the can say very quick brazil the they've been more useful had against japan that that's a good goal was just you know appeasing about and then today again trying to draw in the schools on a breakaway and this is see you expect brazil to try and try and attack and and and again with the players you have in front of the yuan fifteen you have his use and name that they are attacking and attacking in the suits belgium it suits them it's when they sealed up the pressure and then hits them on the counter to. sign them because it's not panic stations yet is it when he looks at the squad he must be recently confident making at least get one back some point well that's a if we're playing going to look at belgium only a couple of days ago to nail down they came back and won it three two so it is possible to keep your hopes up keep your faith and work out and work to succeed and have motional you know take chances you know shoot from the distance don't always

just possible. have opportunities you know if you get opportunities to take opportunities which is how fucking say the game you got a. chance to cocking on the bright as we were saying the stage is set to stamp his authority on this world cup. well i've been i've been critical of name out for all you play. and you know he's not been bad at all today that's been one incident apart from that it's been good i think the way that the world has reacted to some of the things he did in the last game i think he's been thinking a lot and now sort of calming down and this is what we want to name we want him to play and be name with the talent but he has and it is you know that's an opportunity for him to now go and say i am the best player in the world and the most expensive plan in the world and the reason i am that is because with to know the answer belgian and i i took it by the scruff of the neck and i made it to one of created that you won and then shoot you but you have to do that this is what the

big players are doing and look at the guys at their playing the games and if you look at the guy who is score with the goals for four four and proposed defeating half out of the drama look today it's kevin de bruyne you know who's had a small quiet world and you'd expect from him you know the big guys are turning up for the big games and this is a moment from the amounts are going through but he is one of those guys do you think it's a natural ada when we see messiness tony had guys diamond things went down whilst you were now they had guys out rallies to traipse what sort of name outlined i think when it comes to missing missy's a natural leader in terms of the way he plays for messi needs to better its event but there was to be what next he's like you know he gets the ball a bit of one to the a dairy high pace he can process bowl you know when no one else can possible but you need you need to deceive it to understand that and that's probably why him if he's had not the best of world cups now if you look at brazil steve the play is

that name playing and i have to say it is it's a little bit sad that we always talk about him because the best player for me has been for the team right think he has improved massively. just had a big chance a good save by courts whilst he can go to cross the ball it's not even the end of it. we must settle mustn't i didn't play in the last good old days with a very cold getting on in there cost less than to spend today yes he has been fantastic for the continued he has been a fantastic casimir of who today is suspended which i think is very key to the way brazil a play has to move for me has been absolutely outstanding by having to play from india it also gives them in the mold defensive kind of a look out. because the muse been fantastic suspended today and of course got with their dues up front been a threat it's worked really hard to stop him from school girls but he's been he's been a threat and so it is but it's

a shame that we always end up talking about name who is a well class player but we you look at the players he half chill and i'm looking at the place being on the ball just recently and i just one of the few that is going tyson called causing problems for belgium tonight in the second half now do we know at this time i will play france when i beat you to draw i seen a nation of god today that again i have to say thanks to you surprised at this result no france was in one scene for me in the in the not fixing to step it up and really stepped it off where the big players play as he expects being you know dumb and like papi even though he's only nineteen years of age when you have this kind of reputation then you also need to show that he was he was incredible in the last game today he did skull but still very good. and of course his mind only we have to talk about him he is an absolute class act and today again showed that wasn't the greatest of games but i'm sure to ask anyone in the front lawn don't

care if they peed your right through the commencing performance and now they play the witness of this game between france and. belgium still in belgium and can unite belgium france. can you imagine frons well you know it's based on sat forward this . now that's an american representation is there in this world cup well that's a shame an end is going over who comes into this world called time for the i think the good those who started before the world com and they had a twenty three percent chance of think it was a winning this will call and the next one was spain sixteen and then it was german fifteen for the time the world champions you know in the in the tenth the ten percent behind them what they've done they've taken all the dates and more than a million inputs and they've sort of made a virtue of simulation of that and they came up with the with these figures of course a very very inaccurate because football is football and anything can happen but at

the moment it looks like that team is the leading the it's one of the i think belgium was around nine percent eight i and so still very high but you know nothing like twenty four twenty three children but it is i mean if i look at this belgium squad you know it is an incredible squad so you know the best knowledge doesn't really matter does it does it does rumors of brazil in terms of from a neutral standpoint is that you know the stuff i got it doesn't matter which taking place here that counts in the senate i mean that we. we said goodbye to so many big teams who say probably still end up with that kind of and you find out it's a taste of prospect i have to say you know i know we haven't even mentioned russia yet russia playing handsome or oh it would be a terrific match a terrific atmosphere i would say for the germany sweden guy yes and i love that stadium because the way it's designed the case it's a phenomenal side even i don't know what forty four thousand compared to eighty thousand at least the case for that is i don't get anything useful. it's a bit of a shape it's great for soccer you can it's great as you say for the atmosphere here

so little but you know when russia get to this stage you know it's a qualifying that is not in the losing the you can get it eighty thousand people could actually go in and experience that russia some fantastic in the chance of the way that he has. he has built the team he has changed slightly changed it for the game against spain he went from a pack full itself back three we thought that he was a bank five foot four in front and just soak up the president and head and left spain with nothing from absolutely no space to play into and spain looked very very ordinary not a game and it was well there's a lot of little caylee to get to penalties and you took an incredible favor by i can feel you have to look at russia over into the state of the tournament but you know they still managed to do that and i'm very impressed and the great thing about it is again from a neutral perspective is that the whole country now is buzzing about these games

out of some actually believe this i say that stupidly but they believe they're going to win and get it to the final i mean i think the statistic was five percent of the country thought they gave the final at the stops of its own obviously get people out of these five percent because it's crazy they want to exhibit it i admit that but then again i do you know i wouldn't i wouldn't put across the board what russia showed us in this tournament is that the tactics the very astute big one just chess of said this is how we play and they go out and play that and not many teams can do it and many teams can do that and then they have the individual players cherry's the old zuba who has been for me incredible i can fire he really stepped it up against spain i think i think he had one oxy thing i claim but it's good to save the double so you had in the eighty six minutes often asking was first in the whole world cup and i'm always right they can he did have a save in the previous game so put one save on the no after that stop the save in the eighty six minute thing about that's fall minutes before the end of the game i

think he had seven sides so he stepped it up and he really played i and massive part in russia to get into the the quarterfinals know he's one of those players he's been heavily criticized falls very very long time. and people. after question why is he playing why is he playing this just a name. in that last sixteen games i confide showed everybody why yes playing he was a great leader in that game and this is what you need in there when you get to this stage because it's so unpredictable you need a very good leaders you need personalities and you need players on the page who can change the game yes and that's what what the russia have because russia in more than anything is it is it it's a it's a unit it's a team and if you play night out you need someone to break sort of the pattern of that because everyone will be able to read it we need someone to break out of that and russia scott and this is this is what makes it so it's exciting and for this

game tomorrow at a big surprise package on that this will cup and then just very briefly and in sweden before that getting another even i think that's very even and i lot of england fans thinking this is you know pork in the pot perhaps but on a much safer if you will if you read the english media which i do every day and i've done that for the best part of twenty five years and then you would think there will be one the world cup and this is so dangerous because when you analyze the games that and there's plenty of training in tunisia along it played against the pan am i one of the last to budget that the belgian second team you can send and then made need to feed from need a valid sense of the. squeeze past others that it was not the greatest colombian team i have to say that they squeeze by penance and now it's a big test against sweden because sweden is a great and stopping team that like russia to be friends really well and break so quickly and you need the anger need to be creative and very hard in

a patient back game and they will be left with mole most of the initial tooth and they have knocked out power from the game against time or they haven't really had a game when they've been left without so much so with one interesting. i'm worried . he said that now it's that sixty. brazil belgium still to kneel to belgium earlier today you also had a chance to be busy for us so late president takes it and president clinton and president and say you know what happened well. i think because of the world cup i try not to be everyone's loved and. i think and and the organizers and off obvious to president putin we wanted to have this march include i think can have and from some play is who has been in the game you know or to how how do we build in this how do we progress and what do we do when the world cup filled with

sold what they've done they organized these legends meeting with women and with the president and we went for the kremlin and sat down and he wanted to hear from from every one of us nothing more about. what we thought of the world problem or what he our knowledge were a phone call how much of the building this and sold out was part and on a scale for opinion about on pay might win the world cup this time around you know he was asked by the people president i was a groupie throats or i knew you know very few from i mean it could be any one of. you that was a translator as we're all right thanks very much we'll be back again full time to give you all the details on this match tonight it could be actual time belgium who are leading the thirty needs to play. the guys were discussed now thanks i need thanks pete just hours ago we did find out the name of the first three finalists france. to win

a full live blue goes from veronica griezmann the french fans into exeter said look at the holidays now. at the at the. at that the all. the.

whole the whole spectrum of emotions that all these people all of it was following the game in that mission of growing managed to catch up with fans from both sides. heartbreak for the year required funds i lay should fold the french but what's the really interesting about the crowd that packed in to the nation you know is good old stadium is that they came from all over the world in fact i'm joined by a group of guys now where we come from. and who are you supporting from those what do you make of that i love blue. could this be france's year twenty years since they won it last killing him but they wasn't even born in one thousand nine hundred eighty which could this be the year for fronts definitely it's going to be this year of a front definitely helping us and you will hear from the first game france receives linus hopefully yeah yeah so i lay i say elation for the french fans have seen some fairly the jacketed looking very well and some fairly to check to look can you

recall i found one of the really interesting things i've seen about this game though is the people supporting due to quieten particularly well they wouldn't let any of them from your reply you'll see a lot of them with i still argentina fans who got on board with them. lumbee afonso you got on board with them some guy some guy from peru had to hear is well we're supporting you to quite you of course under percent why this is going to be nice this friendship in south america about football is very good and right now is as they are right now we're going through the i would resume and we hope they're going to wait because they are all right thanks very much enjoy it. but yes of the whole thing oh we've got some other guys to speak to here who have been supporting. we won't we why are you sad. i'm guessing it's two or enjoying the game actually all the people from you know different countries you'll get to know like each other

with different culture has no politics and all and i think just enjoying you know enjoying your time the euro quite founds you looked devastated at the end their tourism and what does it mean what does it mean for this team and for the found themselves that you've gone out to the states you know we're not they will stay there that we are happy that we are here i always say steve here we are always there most of you always posted there it was the next time the next time you get me it was a very very tough going to. be i think we play well though we good i thought it was a goal. but. the will was a border team it was a great work and i was for us all the best but this is the whole thing of the world cup in order for you to have a win as there has to be loses and they hop break that comes with seeing your team crush out of the told him and. all the stadiums are packed out those who couldn't make it to the stadiums or in the fan zones those who called make it to find zones

in the street but it's social media where i don't have a blocking is taking place fans supporting their team is that he has the right as digests from auntie's digital to. i. i was i was i was was ok. was i was was.

was. sixty five minutes played brazil belgium two nil so far to bells of those changed brazil getting more frustrated now aware that time may be running out belgium very much in the defensive masterclass managing to frustrate neymar and indeed the brazilian midfielder costas come off to bring in midfield or perhaps packed up a bit more. still to nil as we said fantastic shots from afar to make it three nil so far though no change that's it for this hour from our special coverage will say our goodbyes to folks if we can also to hear out the world cup no doubt many will miss the very colorful fans really lit up the streets of russia these last few weeks and very soon we'll find out who out of brazil and belgium will also be packing their bags and who live to fight another day in russia second off while on the way which is currently tonight will be back with updates soon here on out

international. i. welcome back to the rest of the news headlines britain's home secretary. he is calling on russia to come clean after the nerve agent nor the child was again detected in the south of england javid says russia is using the u.k. as a dumping ground for poison russia has denied any involvement and expressed concern that the nerve agent has surfaced once again the accusations emerged after a couple was reportedly poisoned by novacek in the town of amesbury they are now in critical condition in hospital police say they show signs of nerve agent exposure or police can say if the nerve agent came from the same batch that said gania script al were exposed to in salzburg poisoning in march but precautionary measures were still introduced public health officials have urged people in nearby stores

way not to pick up any unknown items they also gave detailed instructions on using baby wipes or washing clothes at specific temperatures here's how people in solsbury have reacted. you should do that anyway you want to call it the. baby was the right thing to do it i mean baby wipes i wouldn't use them on sticky fingers so ridiculous my lady i don't do it but it was. always remits that fly about and he says she says and people know somebody that works either at the hospital or down but there are the rumors one of the rumors is that it was something that was disregarded it was picked up a new thinking it was a recreational drug. well following the ngs 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 artie's anastasio

churkin a 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. towns to be dumping grounds for 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 we have headlines such as moscow is using britain as a dumping ground for a poisoned russia must come clean we have one here that says 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 it's nothing to do with this it doesn't have a motive it's called for a joint investigation with the u.k. multiple times and is really waiting for some actual tangible facts in all of this to be presented to the international affairs commentator marc gasol told my colleague here in the mainstream media are quoting unproven statements as fact what are your thoughts on the media reaction to the incident. i think that too much of the media seems to believe that it's his national duty it's patriotic duty to

parrot the government line on this one the government line has been contradictory but not contradicted by the media itself so there's been so many holes in the story i think we could. we could through quite a lot of war down them and threw a lot of cold water on these claims because there's nothing to the as much as they change so much in very so considerably from day to day practically with the original stories and i would be given a rehash of course in the middle of a sporting event in russia what a coincidence 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 impacts similar events were occurring then there's a claim that russia would want to use the these events as smoke screens but for what for attacking two random people in some small town in in england as if. the russian.