belgium be favorites brazil to woman in and to book a place in the world cup semifinals. earlier france not to your ago i with a to know when conditioning overawed. on france is on travel nine following their quarter final victory as fans wildly wait flags and climbed on cars to celebrate. this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate tridge thank you for joining us well after a crunch night of football that saw france and belgium go through to the last four

of the world cup and for more on this the petersburg have a special coverage. which . welcome back if you're watching us today what a day has been the first day of the quarter finals has now come to a close we know exactly who the first pair are still in the race for the trophy belgium and france all through to the last for brazil in the world why it's time to pack their bags in the game of the day belgium saw off five time world cup winners brazil two goals to one. i

. the hour on i. and what a game it was belgium opening the scoring in the thirteenth minute chadli curling the ball in straight from a foreigner taking off in a demeo straight past anderson into the net embarrassment for the experience the fun is there really that set the mood for the whole game belgium doubling their lead a little while later star striker. powerhouse picking the ball up in the belgium is off powering forward. through the midfield the fans passing out wanted to give and took a shot very powerful allowed time and space on the ball while a solo into the bottom left hand corner no chance for the keeper that douglas

course they came up. forward did change the pace of the game a bit strengthened brazil's midfield pulling out wide trying to spread the belgians didn't work their defensive masterclass their aside from one for brazil lab results were not. reviving hopes just three minutes after coming on to the pitch bearing this had a right into the bottom right corner after fourth from zero two you could just see their splitting the difference was enough so for the brazilians the attack largely looking unimpressive throughout the whole but really shot down by the belgians at all their star strikers star trek and we feel is looking pretty helpless in the face of the belgian machine without further ado let's cross live to source who's joining us there in the fall and of course the world cup host peter schmeichel guys i would say you know yes well we're based in sochi now we've upped sticks from

moscow because the last quarter final will take place tomorrow night once it plays a will be russia house up against croatia one to look forward see but plenty to talk about before then because we watch that game belgium really stuffed it didn't brazil you said it was to be fair to pacer he was saying all along he felt belgium would cause problems not for brazil i think. right from the beginning i thought they would cause a problem to anyone and it's the squad they have the players have got available it's no surprise no one can be surprised about this now brazil played better today than i've seen them in the whole tournament and ironically they go out in that form and so i thought. defensively you know they're very unlucky in the first goal it's just got a little flick of calm company which then hit a friend indeed goes in and that's what happens in football and they didn't really big problem from there and then they find themselves to know that at half time. but i have to say you know what it's saying goodbye to to one of the better teams now

where you think some of the other teams of still. in the tournament maybe you know we get swapped them all but that's the nature of the world cup i thought the second half they did well i wanted them to in the last ten minutes to push it a little bit more and they did it with the goal the goal was fantastic they went you know it was supposed into the box from the from could see new to a ghost who would just come on he's been on the pitch for three minutes scored and then again two minutes later he had another chance and everyone thought that that ball was in and it just sneak outside the post and so t.d. changed it a bit he took. his new stuff put doctors custer on it to pollin you off and put on and william came on and it came off at half time for mean you came on look at that we had a really impacted me because it would in many series cause all sorts of problems all three substitutions worked so so most of what happened good that happened in

the second half was that they were involved. look to name to say you know this is your opportunity to show how good you are you had little sniffs you had that situation where you get support and inside the passes there inside the box to for me new for me new has a shot because just over and i'm a mouse i had a shot in one thousand minutes plus three which will coach was a fantastically some rights that last quarter final stop about one russia. many people as we've been saying all along written off russian at the very start of the story not even the quarter finals. i've been very impressed by russia i've been very impressed by. having had no support absolutely no support when i travel around in. russia to do stories all the eleven cities all the host cities i had very little. optimism about the russian team and i think the thing with with

the team is they have. they didn't have to qualify so there's no competitive matches for native two year olds. and because of your fee for ranking. you drop and i think top of my head sixty fifth russia came in a sixty fifth in the future and that's a long way down we only got thirty two teams and we don't know if you might say many spoke here but you know you you know it's it's time to take that for anything but then you know that the way the whole tournament has progressed for the mind and i think the chance of the way he's tech to be. changed things he had so many experiments in all these preparations he won three of them back then he went for the back then he went five at the back and everything seemed not to wooden once he got to the tournament and he had all the issues with the injured players as well. so it's nice to be so thirty thirty thirty eight years of age he was not suisse

been retired for come back and he's been absolutely i do think that doesn't he look something i mean this is it and this is what i really like about you know a world cup it always goes out the team like that where you don't you don't think they'll do and then it's there of course but the support in the first game the way the whole thing evolves and develop you know is slowly being built up now that beat spain i mean that russia can beat anyone off to beating spain of course account it's just a quick recap they. thought recently come into play in the end. and again that's something that you said it predicted might happen even though you're right but that's a big problem for your boy so this was on his own he's he's a good striker cavani on his own he's a good strike up a c'mon you know suarez together he's the top and that wasn't after your wife and and i'm not i've been very consistent with kev on the i actually think that he's been the best player in the you're going to be and i also think he was what he's

been one of the best performing players in the whole. well probably started off in tactical well didn't score but you know contributed would say and then he scored two goals. but this was a six so. you know that that was a really really tough. stuff for them today not to have him. and the thing is i said this before that france was a one team for me that really stepped it up they they went from being everything seeing people stem i was a white obviously i look even closer to them and on them so they were very i was the sort of slowly got through the group stages. but in that last sixteen game. against argentina to really step it up and everything to play on that page so he would you call them between france and belgium to meet i think very similar things and they said they were you know i could tell you about the potency in the house

about them to speak french you know it this is how close i you know it's two different sides of football and it's two different kinds of football teams and it's very very very different to this moment in time to separate them in terms of strength. i would say i would say that big play is and i think what will happen in this any fun is going to be a cautious affair and i'm pretty sure that because you have this close away from the final you don't want to go out there going high and then you lose on to it and france have seen belgium counter-attacking two games no you don't want to go out there so it's going to be cautious and it's going to for me i think it's going to be down to an individual skill and individual brilliance and they will play against each other in the top leagues in europe and i don't like pretty much the nature of this gang was an open point but here you get them all together in a team you have a different manager who looks at every one strength and you try to sort of make the play and right and come up with

a product that will be different and international football in the first place is different from. from from from football it's a way for the girls this time to morrow also know about the possibility of winning in russia semifinal how that would be a crock or a game wouldn't let's go. now he's been following that crucial clash brazil belgium perhaps many will be sad to see the five time world champions going home i'm guessing brazil fans disappointed where you are as well well absolutely you know i was here for the argentina france game i'm now here for the brazil belgium game and judging by how much fun both the argentinians and the brazilians add in the streets of design you would never be able to tell that this would effectively become the final stop for the both latin american teams they're both going home from cousin and all these they will see a lot of brazilian fans very sad in the streets of cars on tonight you would look at the stadium you would see it's a sea of yellow and occasional small islands of red so let me use this report as

a rallying call to all the belgians it's not too late to buy tickets to st petersburg and be there on tuesday when. their team plays against france and arguably the biggest game for belgium i had a little chat with the face of president johnny in france you know about this world cup and about russia's chances tomorrow. i will tell you after the end of the world cup but so far it's. quite top class i have to say with the president it's more russia. that's going to. help with this result. is the question that's your. question the russian team. has been great has made. already a great achievement but you know once you start. getting the. more and i think russia on the russian people have to be proud for what they're. he

is doing in this world cup this was not only the last game for brazil this was the last game focus on all the matches a walcott matches over and john in front you know said that it was an amazing atmosphere amazing experience to be in the city which is now saying goodbye to the world cup obviously we're not and i will see you all in st petersburg on tuesday was the guys we're discussing earlier today just hours ago of course we found out the name of the semifinalist. and then the two mil win for blues goals from. the french fans into ecstasy all over france that have a look at the call outs of that game.

it was. such a positive move for those fans globally even those that have left the tournament off crashed out so it hasn't dampened their spirits or stop the paltry rolling on and on and on and while of football players battle out on the pitch fans of course of backing all the way but across the streets of rush hour across social media as well its latest from artie's digital to. the author.

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i have now become a six of course but this time tomorrow the final four potential semifinal to russia england coming up belgium france later on as well what a fantastic came that will be we'll bring you all the latest polls disappointments like this see the whole range of motions here naughty international for join us for more updates and world cup but certainly not failing to deliver we'll see you back to. a at the back of the bay i m. a l m a o m a o l

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months to complete challenges emerging during the operation police also state there is still no evidence the nerve agent came from the same batch that said again really a screwball were exposed to in the source reporting in march but precautionary measures have still been introduced public health england officials have urged people in nearby soulsby not to pick up any unknown items they also gave detailed instructions on using baby wipes or washing clothes in specific temperatures his nappy pencils we have reacted. you should do that anyway what you call a. baby was the right thing to be doing i mean maybe why so i wouldn't use them i'm sticking to it so ridiculous i really don't do it very badly. anything they say they're always remits that fly about and he says she says and people know somebody that works either at the hospital or down but what are the remus one of the remains is that that you have it was something that

was disregarded that was picked up unused thinking it was a recreational drug. following the aims reposing some british media outlets have indulged in scaremongering they claim an assassination attempt to a cyber attack on critical national infrastructure are russia are imminent. reports . well the british press is one too rarely shy away from anti russian sentiment but when it comes to this latest novacek 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 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 souls very safe and of course again the british papers have been echoing those moods expressed by the. 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 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 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 mark agassiz told my

colleague mickey aaron that mainstream media are quoting unproven statements was fact. i think too much of the media seems to believe that its national duty is 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 the 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 wars in georgia and so on and so were 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. donald trump is that to me that a mere person in helsinki on july the sixteenth in the us president says he is sure

the meeting will go smoothly and also warned against scaremongering. and i might even end up having a good relationship but they go in where our president. be prepared you know person is caged in this you know what. he's done well signed with people well i think that they're totally prepared i think the parents of this stuff my whole life they don't say. an addition to the recent comments from trump about the upcoming meeting we've seen republican senators visit moscow ahead of the meeting now there was a response to those republican senators visiting moscow from various forces on social media among them prominent democrats. russians when you 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 with g.o.p. lawmakers visit to moscow on july fourth with republican surrendering to russia

soon brew time then 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 eighteen 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 they also saw jim carrey the prominent and well known comedian getting on social media and seeming to insinuate that because this meeting may have taken place on july fourth that somehow this was an unpatriotic move and urging people to register to vote now it's pretty clear that there are some forces in the united states that are quite optimistic about the upcoming meeting in helsinki however it seems also pretty clear that there are other forces that simply don't look forward to a possible thaw in tension between the two countries. american law and janice glenn greenwald is best known for publishing the documents disclosed by whistleblower

edward snowden greenwald is currently in moscow for a security conference 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 al-qaeda and 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 post 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 queen meant as well as protect you companies doing business with iran from u.s. sanctions the announcement was made is amazing in vienna cool to discuss donald trump's withdrawal from the deal 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 will work on the above issues through diet at bilateral efforts and through engagements 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 the country's also agreed to purchase oil and gas from tehran international all economists are to monitor salama warns the move could spark u.s. retaliation against the new deal pan-european with already alison cannot give protection to every single company that is affected by american sanctions on iran but the exit it extends the threat of the thirty year him by zero three and the only i could deter a president from for thinking stiff measures eg is european companies continuing to deal with iran i think it is in the interest of iran the european ya know. that the. iranian nuclear deal continuing to function. well for more news and features guys who are i'll be back

in just under half an hour with the headlines again that. was. in the last days of the soviet union people were for.