prosperous and democratic. belgium beats favorites brazil two to one in cars on to book a place in the world cup semifinals. plus earlier on friday france knocked out your wife with a two nil victory and you know it girl. and france is on cloud nine following their poured her final victory as fans way flags and climbed on cars in celebration. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r.t. h.q. in moscow we start with our special coverage of the world cup or a crunch not a football on friday saw france and belgium go through to the last four of the championship teams across all the excitement. i

am quick and. welcome back to football it's a few of you 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 wife 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 what. i

do i thought i was amazing with what we did today i think we did game. we were technically really good and. we keep pressing on on the contrary. to there was more defensive end than i used to be but i think i did it with joe and i like like all the team and. big victory for us because we we did this. and what a game it was belgium opening the scoring in the thirteenth minute nasser chadli the ball in great form for taking off in a demeo straight past allison into the net embarrassment for the experience the fun is there and really that set the mood for the whole game. doubling the lead

a little while later a star striker. powerhouse picking the ball up in the belgium is half powering forward straight through the midfield the defense passing out wanted to get took a shot put it very powerful allowed time and space on the ball while a solo into the bottom left corner no chance for the keeper there douglas course they came on forward to 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 their defensive masterclass their aside from one for brazil brazil's renault. reviving hopes just three minutes after coming on to the pitch bearing this header right into the bottom right corner after a force from zero two you could just see their splitting the difference was enough for the brazilians the attack largely looking unimpressive throughout the whole much really shot down by the belgians at all their star striker 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 and 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 there from moscow because the last quarter final would be russia the house up against croatia one to look forward see but plenty to talk about before then because we watched that game belgium really stuffed in. 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 problems for anyone in the squad they have the players have got available it's no surprise no one can be surprised about this 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 on the first

goal it's just got a little flick of calm. company which then hit c i'm a fan indian your goes in and it's what happens in football they didn't really become a from and then they find themselves to know they are at halftime. but i have to say you know what it's saying goodbye to to one of the better teams now where you can think of some of the other teams of still in the tournament maybe you know we get swept 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 it'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 meet outside the post so t.v. changed it a bit he took. his new stuff put doctors caster on it to polling yours and

put the story 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 it would in many cities cause all sorts of problems all the free stuff that you sions worked so so most of what happened good that happened in the second half was to be 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 insight he passes inside the box if you mean you from mean you have a shot because just over and name auser had a shot in in one thousand minutes plus three which people quotes was 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 town madam in the quarter finals. i've been very impressed by. i've been very

impressed by. having had no support absolutely no support when i travel around in. russia to do stories on all the eleven cities all the host cities i had very. optimistic about the russian team and i think the thing with with the team is that they didn't have to qualify so there's no competitive matches for needed to us. 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 that we don't know if nineteen in this book 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 tactic he. changed things he had so many

experiments in all these preparations he won three of them back then he went for the then he went five at the back and everything seemed not to work 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 so he's been retired for comeback and he's been absolutely admissions it doesn't he looks i think 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 much and then it's there of course with the support in the first game the way the whole thing evolve and develop you know it slowly being build 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 east of predictive might think even if you want to but that's a big problem for your boy so so. was on his own he's

a good striker providing on his own he's a good strike up a c'mon you know suarez together is decent and that wasn't after your wife and i'm not but i've been very consistent with kev on the i actually think that he's been the best player in the your mind and i also think he was what he's been one of the best performing players in the whole of the world started off and tactically well didn't score but we you know contributed would say and then he scored two goals and that this was a system so. you know that fact 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 stand up was a light 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 that period so he would you call them to train france and belgium that's i mean i think very similar things that they said they were you know it's the potency in the house that brought 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 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 an individual brew. and they will play against each

other in the i don't like pretty much the nature of this gang the point but here you get them all together and 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 a from from football it's a way for this about the possibility of winning in russia semifinal how that would be a crock of a game would not 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 arguably the biggest game for belgium i had a little chat with the face of president jonny 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's. problem this result. goes with us that's your.

i think the russian team has has been great as good as made. already a great achievement but as we know once you start. you know getting the upper tide and you always want more and i think russia and the russian people have to be proud for what their team 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. now over and john in france you know said that i was an amazing atmosphere amazing experience to be in the city which is now saying goodbye to the world cup obviously were 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 first semifinalist. and then a two mil win for blues goals from. the french fans into ecstasy all over france that someone look at the gods of that game.

oh. i. i. i do the such a positive move for those fans globally even those that have left the tournament i've crossed out so it hasn't dampened their spirits or stop the party rolling on

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you're watching are to international welcome back to the program britain's home secretary is calling on russia to come clean after the nerve agent number choke was again detected in the south of england says she 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 offer a couple was reportedly poisoned by no we took in the town of amesbury they're now hospitalized in critical condition police say they show signs of nerve agent exposure. 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 that seventy and screwball works post to insult barry poisoning in march but precautionary measures have still been introduced public health officials in england have urged people in nearby salisbury 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 salisbury have reacted to the measures. you should do that you really want to clear. the baby was the right thing to do it i mean maybe why so i wouldn't use them i'm sticking to its ridiculous you're right about. anything they say will always remain that fly about and he says she says and people know somebody that see them at the hospital down and but i thought every minute one of the remains is that yeah it was something that was disregarded it was picked up and you thinking it was a recreational drug. following the amesbury incident. some british media outlets have indulged in scare mongering they claim an assassination attempt or cyber attack on critical national infrastructure by russia is imminent artie's 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 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 street. 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 you can. home secretary have

headlines such as moscow is using britain as a 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 international affairs commentator mark. the 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 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 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 western backed government began their own campaigns for example towards south a seizure all those years ago. signatories of the iran nuclear deal have agreed to stay committed to the agreement as well as protect you companies doing business with iran from the us thank sions the announcement was made at a meeting in vienna called 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 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 their economic relations with the protection of companies from the extraterritorial effects of u.s. sanctions the country has also agreed to purchase oil and gas from tehran international oil economist dr mom do salomé warns the move could spark u.s. retaliation against the. deal don't pan your money on with already elitism cannot give protection to every single company that is affected by american sanctions on iran but they get it extends the threat of the thirty ation by the european union could be ten of president from four thinking stiff measures eg is european companies continuing to deal with iran i think it is in their

interest of iran do you open your own and. that the it on the end you get a deal continuing to function that's a wrap up of the day's top headlines and your world cup highlights for this hour i'll be back in about thirty minutes with more thanks for tuning in. i.

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