they say one on penalties and then they beat sweden yesterday with those goals one why and then you have that offer that you look at it and you say well they play a team again a croatia team who are probably better technically but may be struggling with fitness and you know being tired and on fatigue as well and so england are playing that game against sweden you know we can see those goals now actually they were in control of the game both goals coming from so the sira corner from the other was the coming in maguire jumping up off the fence top right hand corner of their lives the first goal is first goal and fight for the international team finds a match thank and praise they won the world cup and this not a set piece for daddy out he's got plenty of time plenty of spice does a few steps towards the goal on log those possibly defend the swedish defense three fall asleep there was a bit of a soft goalie beat the offside trap and finds england in ecstasy heartbreak for the swedes of course they've done so well to get us off now find support is of course

a huge factor in any games and the england fans who made it out to russia now urging their following this meant to do the same. with the team sixty six. to focus on either of oil i want to go to the world cup just the thing you need to go if you want to go there and so actually go that is it's surreal so walk out and there's a huge stadium full of families but the call is a different flight and lots of other noise as well.

yeah but you get to be honest maybe i was worried about was the alphabet because. i don't miss anything. absolutely miles away. had. been just a minute well we tried. but everyone speaks english it was very friendly. so the most of the best thing you could ever do and you are really. very welcoming . very friendly ok. yes to victoria and i said in a town. that has found that his wife thinks he's going fishing. go on it's going to it's a really long fishing trip always. has been. tension across

the big media social media platforms while this is one english out on a blog spencer wrote he's been drawing many photos with his coverage of the film on his offenses in russia. yeah yeah yeah yeah. yeah. yeah. yeah yeah yeah it's clearly that clash between russia and spain we caught up with him shortly after the game to get his take. on everything often flying up in trains of stayed in hotels i've stayed in apartments which had absolutely zero issues in terms of the paper with manpower. it's been the the other way i'd say

people have been so friendly and welcoming to the english and not just english. i must say that one of the things i love the world cup is the different kind of cultures you come into contact with and for everything i've seen a said that the russians have welcomed that of open arms so i have to say it's been amazing. zero complaints i just hope more people that can come out ahead. we had that golden generation before us recording. these great players the stephen generals the front paws the way it really is no doubt this to score on paper was one of our strongest ever but it didn't really perform and whether that was because of pressure or rule or. being a team of individuals and auti what we have now seems much more like that you know i think we've got manager and gaffes who me included a lot of people were skeptical as to whether he was going to have the experience the know how to get them we've paid but most importantly he's the right kind of character that we need to do right now and he's found a way of making these young players joe an easy young team is one of the youngest

teams ever one of the youngest things at this woke up as well so we didn't go into the expectations often that's one of the key reasons for doing well and we had a good group the group frustrate it was tough but we had two teams in panama no disrespect to them that we were able to get wins against and asking us for an answer. no question stuff that was full of high drama for the. good or. the was it was. the it was. it was it were the it was good. that was.

cool i. was pleased. ok this is how the semifinal is shaping up england will face. is that it was the crowd of course that knocked england all stop england going to the two thousand and eight euros hopefully a bit of a grudge match their france play just the day before right here in st petersburg they're hoping that maybe a belgium in what promises to be a real truck off again will be covering. all the action on and off the pitch cop will be with you again soon.

in the days of the soviet union people full of hope and anticipation of the upcoming changes underground news. my young musicians of the time captured the mood

perfectly what was it like to live and make music in that atmosphere. i am. still. welcome back and to the top news story from this week britain has been rocked by a second alleged case of nerve agent exposure since march the substance in question is again no big chunk prompting some to jump to conclusions. to people who have been exposed to them that i didn't know but you know that shock it remains deadly for long periods exposed to the nerve agent no bitch.

who he want to name his id safety you have to do anything is your family going to be safe is that going to be a fair it's a skill a should be there group what's going on because you. know you know your poor children career there are the parents of you live right here in the rigid being trapped and they. let me name out. when they start acting all funny and was much as i mean brushing against them right now as we read and pray.

that you know the child which has been identified as the savior they took the contaminates of both of us and said guys from. it is now time that the russian state comes forward and explains exactly what has gone on. you know the offer is still there to the russian state to try the sisters to tell us what happened or russia has denied any involvement after the first poisoning case in march moscow reached out to london with offers of cooperation despite many questions still to be answered some sections of the western media have been quick to accuse russia as r.t. is what i guess the explains. could putin have really done it ordered secret agents to poison random drug addict and his homeless girlfriend with a lethal nerve agent all in the middle of

a flawless world cup with billions watching russia yeah he could if you watch t.v. enough espionage and intrigue once again striking this sleepy corner of england that may have been left by the assailants who attacked the script files either it was left there during the preparation or after that attack russian intelligence was behind this but the fact is blood amir putin has flat out denied it he's refused to cooperate with britain. and if we don't we simply don't know how many more people can be can come into contact with this think about it it makes perfect sense a drug addict picks up no one quite knows what next he does something no one seems to know what though suddenly he's in hospital for almost a week being treated for what no one knew what with this much evidence how could

you not blame russia it could only have been putin just like it was last time you argue that their source of. edge and not the chalk is russia how did you manage to find it out so quickly i look at the the evidence from the people from from portland they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy so i said are you sure and he said there's no doubt we have not verified the precise source so to be clear you're not able at porton down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that i was being very clear i thought i was being very clear to. the german program which is that. told us in. no uncertain terms that this was a military grade. they knew what it is not the business of a porton down the i dunno i don't know whether it's even possible for them to

identify the origin in all seriousness it's an interesting narrative we have going here large britain's accusations which seemingly founded on a highly likely assessment therefore it's highly likely that it's highly likely that it's all russia's fault the decision taken by the russian government to deploy. on march the fourth was reckless because there is no cause of alternative explanation to the events in march other than the russian state was responsible we have already seen multiple explanations from state sponsored russian media regarding this latest incident we can anticipate further disinclination from the kremlin as we saw following the source we've come full circle they sat there for months ago making the same claims something happens accuse russia arguments

collapse then quiet something happens again straight away they accuse russia who can guess what comes next. six points have now been rescued from the group of twelve and their football coach you've been trapped in a cave in northern thailand for more than two weeks. well you know now tell me i'm thirteen cave diving experts into the cave and started the rescue operation to save the boys' lives the team of thirteen foreign experts and five skilled toy divers i can confirm that the condition of the boys their physical and mental health they are physically ready and they are brave and determined all thirteen were informed of the rescue operation. while the group have been trapped in the complex since june the twenty third after heavy rains and rising waters plucked their root out the group of fans nine days after they went missing all saudis have pressed forward with the rescue operation and made fears the approaching monsoon

season could cause water levels to rise and the group could be trapped for months. meanwhile another rescue operation was launched in thailand this week after a boat carrying chinese tourists fatally sank. on thursday evening forty one people of the one hundred five on board were confirmed dead and fifteen are still said to be missing bad weather was blamed for the incident. over more news features and sports stories go to r.t. dot com the wires are back in the headlines in just over half an hour when it gets . there. the. that.

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hello and welcome to pull it apart it's hard to find a more drab and more romantic period in the history of the soviet union then in one thousand eight hundred life is people knew it was falling apart then the yet there was also a growing hope that something new and exciting would rise in its place that sense of cognitive and emotional dissonance was perfectly captured by the on the ground music of the time produced by young nonconformist musicians in what was down the c.d.o. flooding dr what was it like to leave and make music in a period of 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 but it was big one of our biggest rock stars on his landline 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 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 boroscope bench coffee he's the most famous underground rocker in russia he's like the bob dylan of russia i do 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. i 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 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 the silly girl from los angeles very naive. 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. reach was a feeling in oxymoron of sorts but 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 us to open up the eyes of all of the other people the 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 the song

goodbye america about parting ways with those youthful your dreams i wonder if you ever felt that you were in some way and 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 of one. 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 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 in song that i mentioned goodbye america bridge road and nine hundred eighty five fifteen just want a year after your first visit to the soviet union he speaks to the not of us have been there and we have so. started growing out of our old gene 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 for a doc sicko 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 union in that sense but to me it seemed that you're actually found imaginative or imagine the replays 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 boris 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 a 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 landing back then but another. you also smuggled the records out you were absolutely key to releasing a russian rock music in the united states which 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 or magazine television shows morning talk shows it was everywhere so what that did which 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 success 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 fascinate you if you were twenty four years old today i think not in the same way and the difference is that now the world is connected we have the internet and no matter what our politicians are doing or if they're fighting or if they're. going to make

some conflict between us the boxes open we people american people russian people know what's going on in each other's countries through the internet we can see everything so it's a little bit different than it was in the eighty's but i was in russia two months ago for the first time since two thousand and four and i saw a few people i saw my first husband euro caspari and i loved what he was doing with his music and the same fun the keno symphony and i hung out with boris a little bit and what i love about boris he's exactly who he was thirty years ago and all he wanted to do thirty years ago was record albums and play as much as he could and he's never wavered he's never change thirty years later he's exactly the same and the amazing thing with that with group in chicago when i met him thirty or more than thirty years ago and when i would listen to him talk about philosophy and his his views on life and it just affected me the same thing happened two months ago with my daughter we were sitting is the partner and boris.