belgium the favorites brazil two one inches and to book a place in the world cup semifinals. earlier france not a year ago i would have to deal victory in this you know girl. and france is on cloud nine following their quarter final victory as fans waved fives and climbed on cars in celebration. this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thanks for joining

us well after a crunch not a footballer so france and belgium go straight to the last four of the world cup for more on this the team is in 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 and the game of the day belgium saw off five time world cup winners brazil two goals to one.

i mean the be with. 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 allison into the net embarrassment for the experience the friend is then really that mood for the whole game belgium doubling their lead a little while later star striker look how house picking the ball up in 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 into the bottom left corner

no chance for the keeper that douglas course they came on for the silver that did change the pace of the game a bit strengthened brazil's midfield. pulling it out wide trying to spread the belgians didn't work the defensive master class there aside from one 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 sit there splitting the difference was enough for the brazilians the attack large looking unimpressive throughout the whole but really shot down by the belgians at all their star strikers star talking with field is looking pretty helpless in the face of the belgian machine without further ado let's cross live to sources joining us there are the former and of course 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 would be russia house up against croatia that want to look forward see but plenty to talk about before then because we watched that game belgium really stuffed it in brazil you said it was to be fair to pace 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 comp company which then hit a friend indeed goes in and it's what happens in football they didn't really become a from and then they find themselves to know at half time. but i have to say you know we're saying goodbye to two one of the better teams now. i think some of

the other teams of still in the tournament maybe you know with the more but that's the nature of the world. toward 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 up in on the pitch for three minutes scored and then again two minutes later he had another chance and everyone thought that it was in and it just sneak outside the post and so t.v. changed. he took. off put doctors koester on to polynya off and put on and william came on and it came off at half time for mean you came on a little bit of that which i had a really impacted me because of it in many cities causing all sorts of problems all the threes of the two shins worked so so most of what happened good that happened

in the second half was today 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 a situation where you get support and inside the passes there inside the box if you mean used to mean you have a shot because just over and i'm a mouse i had a shot in one thousand minutes plus three which will quarter us a fantastically some rights that the last quarter final stop about one russia. many people as we've been saying all along written off russia at the very start of this tournament now them in the quarter finals. i've been very impressed by the russian 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 whole cities i had very little. optimism about the russian team i think the thing with with the

team is that they didn't have to qualify so there's no competitive matches for nearly two years. and because of that you. pfieffer 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 there we don't know if it's a mini spoke here but you know you you know it's it's time to change 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 that the 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 work in 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 actions that doesn't he look exciting i mean this is it and this is what i really like about you know a world cup it always goes out a team like that where you don't you don't think they'll do it 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 after beating spain france just a quick recap they. thought reason becomes to play in the end. and again that's something you said to predict it might happen even if you want to but that's a big problem for your boss 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. i've been very consistent with kev on the i actually think that he's been the best player in the euro and c.

and i also think he was what he's been one of the best performing players in the whole of the world probably started off fantastically well didn't scope but we you know contributed with the series and then he scored. two goals. but this was a six so. you know that that was a really really tough. start for them today not to have him. and the thing is i said this before that france was the one team for me that really stepped it up a they went from being everything seeing people stand up was a white obviously 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. against argentina to really step it up and everything to play on not play it so he would you call them between france and belgium to meet i think very similar things then it's as if you know it's 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 styles 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 and i would 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 she was 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 open to the 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 plan dried 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 tasty one i can't wait for this. i . am moving on to other news the organization for the prohibit of chemical weapons has issued a preliminary report on the alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma in april it says various chlorinated chemicals were founded samples from two local sites hit it also states no no evasions all they degradation products were detected the a.p. c.w. has not made a final conclusion about the allegations and its work is ongoing they alleged chemical attack in doing was carried out on april the seventh a week later the u.s. fronts and the u.k. carried out air strikes against syria blaming president assad for using chemical

weapons against his people that's despite russian military experts on the ground failing to find any trace of chemical weapons use into. was the i. want to discuss this further let's cross live now to chemistry professor james turner james thank you very much indeed for joining us i think looking at some of the explanations here i'm definitely going to need your expertise it says various chlorinated organic chemicals were found at the site in layman's terms what does that mean it names would be found or just typical or gaelic compounds that would be present from an industrial r. cylinder it has nothing to do with nerve agents that are going to compounds the ground we're corsi to get sued in trunk were seated those are the types of compounds that any any organic chemistry lab or industrial site would have those are used as skin treatment agents use work removal that has nothing to do with the

chemical agent so basically this type of chlorine could appear that they don't need to is no proof that these were chemical weapons. no none of this was chemical weapons when it when i spoke with r t t v in april just looking at the attack looking at the cylinders i knew that this was not a chemical weapons attack if anything there may have been some cylinders that may have been exploded but those were typical industrial cylinders of common compounds they had nothing to do with a chemical weapons attack and that's why the report has said that there are known no chemical weapons agents were found at all whether they be being nerve agents or chemical agents or mustard agents none of the agents or their byproducts their degradation products were found compounds that they found that typical organic compounds that they found have nothing to do with chemical agents and even some of the ones that they got off the table just just a bit swipe got common wood compounds heinie and core orally and so none of those

have anything to do with any sort of nerve agent well as we know the political reaction but again the western officials they were quick to react to the attack back in april let's just take a listen to what they had to say the united states has excellent intelligence gathering as we saw what happened with information that led us to believe that sarin and chlorine gas were used in this most recent attack we certainly had a lot of media and social media indicators that either chlorine or sharon were used . well we had they were saying that but the i.p.c. says no no the agent was found i mean so did the western powers jumped the gun. yes no stair in was used and i said that long back in april right after the attack those who work in this area could have told you that no nerve agent was used and there had been no nerve agents found or the degradation products none of them were

found on the materials nor in the plasma of the injured people. none in the mud safely so of the hospice containing compounds the degradation products were found to be no no stair in this use was chlorine gas used problem either were chlorine cylinders there but that has nothing to do with the state actor state actors we never use chlorine gas that he claims are commonly used by terrorists it's never current never never buy by a state actor because it's so terribly inefficient so was chlorine gas exploded some of those so members sure probably but that's what terrorists do and much more many more people die from the explosion of lowering gas itself. and nation stuff chemistry professor james to thank you very much indeed thank you thank you. but meanwhile the british government is demanding russia explain how two people were poisoned with another agent in southern england that story and more funny the short break.

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a free waiting down of the danger or they can go down the claim path which is individual. welcome back britain's home secretary is calling on russia to come clean off to the nerve agent no the truck was again detected in the south of england such a job it 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 nova chalk in the town of amesbury that out in critical condition in hospital police say they show signs of nerve agent exposure. well scotland yard now says the investigation is expected to take weeks if not

months to complete due to challenges emerging during the operation police also state there is still no evidence the nerve agent came from the same batch the start again you a script our exposed to in the source reporting in march but precautionary measures have still been introduced public housing and 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 at specific temperatures here's our people in salzburg we have reacted. you should do that anyway wash your clothes. baby was the right thing to do it i mean baby wipes i wouldn't use them i'm sticking to its ridiculous my lady i don't do it baby but if. anything like this there are always some rumors that fly about and he says she says and people know somebody that works either at the hospital or portadown but there are other rumors

one of the remains is that it was something that was disregarded it was picked up unused thinking it was a recreational drug. or 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 and associates are to report. 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 that the russian state comes forward and explains exactly what is going on it is completely

unacceptable for our people to be either deliberate or accidental 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 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 legacy of the u.s.s.r. and last but not least something like most likely explanation is the 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. well international affairs commentator told my colleague aaron that mainstream media are quoting unproven statements as fact. i think too much of the media seems to believe that it's national duty pay sure security 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 smokescreen 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 several are 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 a said to me that i'm a person in helsinki on july the sixteenth and the us president says he's sure the

meeting will go smoothly and also warned against scaremongering. and i might even end up having a good relationship i think going where our president. be prepared you know person important is k.g.b. this you know what. we're all signed with people well i be prepared 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 head of the meeting now there was a response to those republican senators visiting moscow from various forces on social media among them prominent democrats. russian swing with a show board 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's slim brits like 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 eighteen in most going terms repairing first 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. well american lawyer and journalist glenn greenwald is best known for publishing the documents disclosed by

the whistleblower edward snowden greenwald is currently in moscow first cyber 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 two thousand and 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 and this morning posted a picture of myself and snowden because i think it's very important to combat the attitude. signature is of the iran nuclear deal have agreed to stay committed to the agreement as well as protect e.u. companies doing business with iran from u.s. sanctions the announcement was made as a meeting in vienna cold to discuss donald trump's withdrawal from the deal. the participants recognized that in return for the implementation by iran 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 direct bilateral efforts and through engagement with international partners in order to encourage them to follow the same policies and to establish similar mechanisms in their economic relations with

iran the protection of companies from the extraterritorial effects of u.s. sanctions while countries also agreed to purchase oil and gas from tehran international oil economist octomom do salaam or war as 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 a great extent the threat of retaliation by view. 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. in front of the imaam of the two loose mosque is being

investigated for allegedly inciting hatred against jews it comes after a video of one of his sermons sparked outrage and accusations and he semitism r.t. shallot do when he 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 of two or it's opening a senior cleric at the mosque. became embroiled in a scandal in one of these so that was posted online he's seen reciting a passage from the head which although many scholars of islam argue otherwise has

been criticised as anti sematic. mollica. you know you know i'm going your. local jewish group demanded legal action and now the prosecutor's office in toulouse is investigating whether it amounts to a hate crime the perfect of all grown region instructed to. do this to get whether this constitutes hatred in the speeches diffused by now what makes this so controversial is the question has actually been.