the russian team there's always a bit of an air. of negativity you know they're overpaid. and not good enough who they think they are that's all changed within just a couple of weeks a few matches they've gone all out and. they held out in the us against spain although one of them to shoot out they came out on the field the bond of saying we play for you we've been for you the fans some is a question the tournament is over of course we're disappointed that we won table to get the same final we were so close it. had great support the country united around the team thanks a lot to everyone they looked to us they mean we controlled the game we didn't play well because in the towers type leave by a long. but second toss we take control in the game and play much better than first both and we deserve but they must get us to push a theme they play good if very very strong team which we had very high hopes for

this game but we couldn't achieve everything we'd hoped but we're sad about it we did well in this championship but in the end when you're here in the quarterfinals you want to go further and we couldn't get the only thing we want is to get on better and take the team to the highest possible level the fans love the appreciates you know that's been shown in the energy in the camembert they've shown to the team last season if the train was in the sochi fans on cross during the game . if it wasn't for that a miss by mario fernandez and possibly if russia were a bit more lucky this place would have been full of crazy people who would be celebrating but the d.j. is playing us tracks but the place will be deserted very soon no party tonight no party for tsotsi and i just want to show you the bowman when it all happened.

and the people here realized that russia was saying goodbye to the world cup. was. used on human rights mrs delane had democrats yes she did she not because i'm i don't need i says i'm shocked that she's not and i think brandish my legally which i'm going to use a yellow which i'm going to use nashik on monday next commandos by she a mile and feet and they've got even death. he could have loved. how do they leave proposals him with me so most of what he says the other somebody in these authority and by far not only the russians have been telling me that their team did a great job and deserved to be in the semifinals to foreigners people from other countries whose teams left the tournament long before this stage praise team

russia for this success in their game today we have has really been sad that we had to wait the in their us how we do they go to chad beyond this saturday they have very long off road and my friends are not prone to. sort of somewhere greater where do you know she's not running and i don't hear if i'm not yeah but russia make i would. be separated yeah i mean you. know if a tranq go r t v saw she found so. russia's four time tennis grand slam doubles champion. who was out that thrilling match and so she told us russians are proud of their team's effort. honestly i never been on such incredible match and i think all the people feel so thankful knowledge to our team for their commitment for their team spirit because they gave us so much positive emotions you know so much should believe and it's really incredible even though last i mean we're little bit sad but

still we're so thankful and we're just so exciting and so happy to see all of this was going on right now in the in russia and. i feel so proud for the guys here are still so proud for this team because every athlete i know how much pressure they had when they were going to play each game and at the beginning not a lot of people were believing in them and for me i feel so sad and also angry sometimes as well because i was always the living in the sting because this is sport and this kind of tournaments and yes the ranking is important the cubs is a more in the matter for him but when you're playing for your country and that team spirit is important this is number one what you can kind of show on the when you're going on the stage when you go in the stadium and everybody cheering for you and guys and seeing when they show the time spirit and that's why we're so thankful for them and very very proud of them on t.v. after the game are two seaters done it was only called street just off red square which has become the unofficial fan zone here in moscow. it has been

a nail biter of a game and a lot of dreams are being shattered to moisten i have to apologize to every with. my voice. saying. there is still a very serious. charge to be spilling and we've been one with long because they feel like they have won the game. what's a nail boy to over gave to john one one in the main job and then. again just like you did. thank you who will you when any of the fissionable talk to you first. gracious thank you yes go and then yes she's married for a night during inequality in the second half of additional time and the same mario fernandez that missed the penalty in the final shoot out for everything you

gained you have to pay only with the last rarest game yeah what do you what do you say you have watched the game i mean i'm going to try and bring in the game this is this what can you say yes it's a big mystery it's a big it's of wonderful wodge of fruit. and so wonderful what was are saying was the people i have these are russian fans they're so happy with the performance of their team up to rule they've given them everything that they could ever hope for playing the quarterfinals of the world cup this is something the russian hasn't done in force used every single russian front they did not lose their faith until the last strike until the last case by the grace of play and that i can favor the russian goalkeeper did not manage to say but again not a single russian found they have anything to say against the russian goalkeeper eager i can fade because after the game with spade he is a star he's

a hero of the russian nation of the russian sports croatia will now face and run in the semifinals at luzhniki stadium and moscow next wednesday after the three lines between internal and some are here the highlights from that match. so that's it for the quarter finals after two more dramatic matches on saturday

england knocked out sweden thanks to goals from harry maguire and delhi ali and some fantastic goalkeeping by jordan pick for all russian fans are mourning their country's spot picked defeat by croatia after an incredible run that defied expectations. and now on to other world news the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons has issued an interim report on the alleged use of chemical weapons in the syrian city of duma in april it says various chlorinated sub substances were found in samples from two sites in duma that the report also states no nerve agents or other degradation products were detected the o.p.c. w has not yet reached a final conclusion about the allegations and his work is ongoing the chemical

attack in question was allegedly carried out in duma on april the seventh a week later france the u.k. and the u.s. launched air strikes against syria accusing president assad of using chemical weapons against his own people russian military experts on the ground failed to find any trace of chemical weapons use in duma but the attack by western powers went ahead regardless. chemistry professor james tour says there ghana compounds the o.p.c. dep you found at the site are not necessarily related to any nerve agents. it means what they found are just typical or gannet compounds that would be present from an industrial cylinder it has nothing to do with nerve agents that are getting compounds that they found were corsi to gases and try to clear or see the gases and those are the types of compounds that any any organic chemistry lab or industrial site would have but those are used as skin treatment agents used for work removal

that has nothing to do with a chemical agent. some western media outlets were quick to react to the reports the b.b.c. even claimed proof of the use of chemical weapons had been found though they have since corrected their headline to reflect the fact that the opus a w has yet to reach a conclusion back in april after the alleged attack u.s. officials were also eager to jump to conclusions 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 . james tor also says he's been skeptical all long about whether that chemical attack ever took place just looking at the attack looking at the cylinders i knew that this was not a chemical weapons attack that 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 no no chemical weapons agents were found at all whether they be the nerve agent or chemical agents or mustard agents none of the agents or the by products degradation products were found in. north korea has described the attitude of the u.s. as quote regretable following high level talks with secretary of state mike pump a zero that's in stark contrast to pompous own view of the meetings we talked about what the north koreans are continuing to do and how it is the case we can get our arms around keeping what chairman kim and president proposed agreed to which was the complete denuclearization of north korea we made progress on almost all of the central issues we were expecting the u.s. to come up with constructive measures to help build confidence in the spirits of reunion in talks however the attitude of the u.s.

was indeed regrettable at their june twelfth summit in singapore donald trump and north korea's kim jong un agreed on a number of points they signed a document calling for peace and korea repatriation of u.s. soldiers remains by the north and the peninsula as total do not denuclearization however trump didn't immediately offer much in return we're not reducing anything we're not reduced very little bit early for that we have to get things moving the sanctions will remain in effect we will be stopping the war games unless and until we see that the future negotiation is not going along like it should. anti-war activist brian becker believes to make progress washington needs to change its approach to the new negotiations. my pompei always the negotiating position of john bolton and my hands to the negotiating table in pyongyang whereby the united states says that d.p. r. k.

north korea unilaterally surrender and then it may be perhaps the u.s. will change its policy of hostility and a policy whereby uses economic sanctions to deprive north koreans of food and medicine then was my pay was negotiating position that won't work for the d.p. r. k. and b b r k said it was regrettable that the us adopted this position this negotiating position but what the d.v.r. kay also said is that they still want friendly relations with the united states and the path to denuclearization in the korean peninsula was a step by step confidence building and reset for a goal synchronized approach by both sides would actually. release one palestinian was killed and twenty four injured during further protests at the gaza border on friday the demonstrations were part of the already months

long great march of return witnesses say israeli soldiers opened fire when protesters approached the fronts however israel says a militant tried to throw an explosive device at soldiers near the border but the bomb exploded inside gaza and injured several palestinians all of them israel also claims the islamic militant group hamas is feeling the protests at least one hundred and twenty five palestinians have been killed by israeli gunfire since the protests began back in march palestinians are demanding they be allowed to return to their play occupation home. meanwhile the planned demolition of a bedouin village in the west bank has been suspended by an israeli court it's all skirmishes between activists and police during that week as israeli authorities move bulldozers to the site. yes a lot of the protesters created a human chain to prevent the equipment from entering the village clashes reportedly left thirty five people injured a palestinian journalist and

a kick claimed israeli soldiers also a tactical supporter there the e.u. the un and other various christian rights groups have all come out against the demolition a spokesperson for the un relief agency for palestine where refugees says a plan may violate international law. things in the village up salutes the terrifying the bedouin themselves some of the most disadvantaged people in the middle east they and their children are living on a knife edge international humanitarian law prohibits the transfer of the population of an occupied territory without the genuinely and fully informed consent of the affected people regardless of the motives to consent is not considered genuine in an environment not by the use of pressure physical force to worship fear of violence old us so the position is very clear what we may be witnessing could be a grave breach of the fourth day of the convention and it may amount to a war crime the un the humanitarian court makes in jerusalem the director of

andras west bank office members of the diplomatic community n.g.o.s the power to north or a team that's been oppressed for a whole visit to the bed been built what are we supposed to do we are humanitarian aid workers we are you know the diplomatic community is the diplomats what are we to do in the face of a highly equipped army using bulldozers. the demolition of the village had been approved by a court in may of this year which said the settlement was illegal under israeli law israel planned to relocate the residents to an area twelve kilometers away but activists general and you must says people will continue to resist the plan. whenever this is happened is going to be clashes people is going to stand up to give said they're not going to allow the evacuation of the people and destruction of their community and we know that this is a crime against humanity this is this is our right to see and i want to this is

autumn and we are going to defend it no matter what the price of this is a political decision and you know that is that i don't want to not just do it and displace the people of i don't know what about that is there are another twenty four locations that are under threat of expansion and displacement after. that's our wrap up of the day's top headlines and your world cup highlights for this hour but don't forget you can always had to our website r.t. dot com for the details on all of the stories and more as always thanks for tuning and.

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a lot of welcome to both parties it's hard to find a more drab and yet more of a romantic period in the. theory of the soviet union in denying to me life is people knew it was falling apart and the yet there was also a growing hope that something new and exciting would rise in its place that sons of cognitive and emotional dissonance was perfectly captured by the on the ground music of the times produced by young nonconformist musicians in what was down to c.d.o. flooding what was it like to leave and make music. hopeful despair well to discuss that i'm now joined by john a stingray an american musician and an avid chronicler of the leningrad rock scene john it's so good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you for

inviting me now you have a very interesting a very unusual and i think is a somewhat through mantic story you came to the soviet union for just one the week you called. one of our biggest rock stars bloodline and he just showed you around is that how it all began that is how it all began a friend of mine her older sister was married to a russian emigre and when he heard i was going to visit russia and he knew i was a rocker in los angeles he said you need to call off he's the most famous underground rocker in russia like the bob dylan of russia i didn't believe there was any rock in russia but i thought ok i'll go and meet him because how cool he think it will be to meet me that i'm an american rocker and i met him and we sat we were at seven partment and i played them a couple of songs off an e.p. album i had released here in the states and morris thought it was very cool and it was a little bit punk and he liked it and i i felt very proud and then i said oh can i hear something of yours and we put in a cassette and i put my headphones on and i started to hear one of his songs that

was called tonight and it was so hunting and just brilliant and powerful that i started to slink in my chair because i realized i was in the presence of somebody very important and that i was just this silly girl from los angeles very naive. and. and that he was the real rocker said that that moment changed my whole life and correct me if i'm wrong but i think you were twenty four years old at the time cali girl in drab soviet reach was i feeling in oxymoron the source and even bigger paradox was how this doll soviet reality was able to produce something that was so free spirited than so genuine as the leningrad proxy how do you yourself explain that phenomena you know it was incredible and of course our first three and half days was in moscow where we didn't know anybody so we were on the usual tours with the group and we looked around and even though there were some

interesting things the same basis because the two own things it looked very cold people didn't look happy they were wearing dark colors they were all rushing through the streets and i thought wow this is this this is not a great place you know i would never come back again what i found out later when i went to leningrad and met bourse is that behind closed doors russian people were exactly like people all over the world and they were full of color and they were full of expression and full of creativity i was in off by the whole art scene the arts and the music scene in leningrad because nobody in america was aware this could possibly be happening in russia we were so afraid of the soviet union at that time and that's why it just opened my eyes and that's what led to me deciding that i needed to bring this music and photos and videos of these bands to the u.s. to open up the eyes of all of the other people in united states because it really was something we we were not aware at all that was taking place there now rock

musicians all over the world are a pretty rowdy bunch i wonder how they react to you and your interest in them you know i think there were europeans that had come in and had met boris before so he had met foreigners but i think what was different was with me is after i met boris on that first trip and was taken by all of it and i said i'm going to come back. what can i do can i bring her equipment i think that he and seven. kind of had a feeling of course she says she's going to come back but she's not going to because i think many people before me westerners came in and said the same thing that they wanted to come back i think what surprised boris and everybody else is that i did come back and i kept coming back and i kept coming back every three months and i kept bringing them equipment and and that's why i got the nickname back then is the tractor the american tractor because i think they were amazed at how i could get things done that when i became passionate about something and had an idea i would make it happen from what i remember at least in the late soviet

years america was strongly romanticized in russia it was literally perceived as the as a land of freedom so much so that. if another famous leningrad musician wrote this song goodbye america about parting ways with those youthful your dreams i wonder if you ever felt that you were in some way an unofficial ambassador for the mystical america you know what's interesting it wasn't so much the rockers because again i think they got from from the black market or other places they got music articles everything from the west but i think what was interesting was that the average russian people that i would meet through them would all say oh oh we want to be like american had that romantic wish to be free like america and i was telling them then in the eighty's you guys don't understand the price americans pay to be free and i would explain to them that most americans had

a thirty year mortgage because you would try to buy a house a thirty year mortgage that would basically make you in handcuffs because if you have a mortgage where you have to pay for thirty years it means you have to make money so i was trying to deflate that romantic vision because it wasn't so perfect i mean america is amazing and it's a free country but we do pay a high price for that freedom. what i saw in russia even though they didn't have a lot of freedoms in one sense because they didn't have all of the financial burdens of paying every month for an apartment or a house and paying a lot of money for the electricity and for the water they they felt like to me it felt like they had more time to do what interests them on the creative side every other person i met in leningrad whether they they weren't one of the main musicians was an artist or was a poet everybody seemed to have some time to spend on on their creative outlet and i think a lot of times in america back then even now we're so focused on our jobs to make

money to pay the bills that we don't have time for i guess what you could call a hobby if people have artistic hobbies that they would like to do you know like everything in the world there's good and bad about everything and being in the soviet union showed me a lot of things that was great about where i live in america and it showed me a lot of things that i wish would be different in fact sometimes they were in the two streams and i got boy the perfect life must be some kind of country that was sort of in the middle of the way america and russia was well you know it's easy to remend to size a country that you have never visited and in fact the song that i mentioned goodbye america bridge road and nine hundred eighty five i think just want a year after your first visit to the soviet union he speaks ific lee says the not of us have been there and we have sort of started growing out of our old genes simply because you know our youth was coming into contact with reality and as i was

researching for this program you know i was struck by one productive go thought and i wonder if it's actually true but it seemed to me that for you a very rare person but still for you that dahl soviet reality was also to some extent. the place where you found that freedom because the russians do not think about the later years of the soviet. but to me it seemed that the year actually followed the imaginative or imagine the replays where where it where you felt alive and free was that accurate that is very accurate you know it was all about timing and when i went to the soviet union i had just had this record out in the states but we had kind of a lawsuit with the guy that put it out because there were some issues and i was at a crossroads i wasn't sure what i was going to do and i felt a little bit lost and i was inspired and so i went to the soviet union with my sister on this week trip a school trip that she was going on and i thought it would just clear my head i can

come back and regroup and lo and behold everything that i saw there in leningrad with force and then the rest of people i met changed my life so it was just the perfect time of me being young enough not really understanding it who i was not understanding life and being very naive and all of a son i meet these people that are so inspiring i mean i think it would be similar if some young person here at that time in eighty's happened to be friend and hang out with bob dylan or david bowie you know i was just blessed to me the artist and leningrad were just as inspiring and exciting and as these these famous western musicians so for me it was just fate now john as you said just a moment ago every time you travel to the soviet union you used to bring all sorts of musical supplies which were difficult to find in letting back down but i know that you also smuggled the records out you were absolutely key to releasing russian rock music in the united states speech was mad with some interest but never made it

big is russian rock to country specific to engage western audiences you know it was big in the sense. of the purpose we put it out for and when it came out it was unbelievable the amount of press we got it exploded again it exploded because nobody ever thought this could possibly be behind the iron curtain the way that kenya looked the way that boris moved the way it would go the way that they saying was it was equal to any of the rock n roll going on in the united states it just was in russian so it became so big it was written in every kind of newspaper magazine television shows morning talk shows it was everywhere so what the acted with is what the purpose of the record was was it showed americans look there are people in russia that you can relate to that will just like people where you live and so it really was that six success on that level i think it sold maybe

fifteen or twenty thousand records which maybe in the in the big scheme isn't that many but for a record that's recorded on two track that's in the russian language it was huge but their videos were aired on m.t.v. the videos were shown on some other t.v. programs it was just written about all over the place that i think i felt that it was very successful i was totally happy with the results now fast forward thirty five years and some of those musicians that you used to hang out that used to be monitored by the k.g.b. you have now been awarded with medals for their service to their motherland we have a former k.g.b. agent as the russian president who is also such to enjoy russian rock music i wonder if you still follow russian rock. to this day what do you think about what it has become thirty five years later and do you think it would still fast.