it's. the u.k. says one woman exposed to the nerve agents not the chalk this week has died another person still remains in a critical condition. to see in world cup football news now russia found celebrated long into the night despite their loss and gave their team a hero's welcome back in moscow and after they defied all expectations to reach the last day it's. also croatia joined england france and belgium in the world cup semifinals after edging and now biting penalty shoot out against hosts russia.

a very warm welcome you watching the weekly here on r.t. international with me. now we start this hour with breaking news the u.k. government says a woman who was exposed to the nerve agents navi chalk in southern england has now died in hospital could cost lives to our correspondent in london. what do we know so far about this story. well we know that door instead jess who was exposed to the nerve agent named spree has now died in hospital in scotland yard's police have now launched a medic inquiry after the forty four year old woman died sunday evening district hospital. was a mother of three and she fell ill after being exposed along with her partner charlie rally charlie valley remains in a critical condition still a district hospital but the head of the u.k. counter-terrorism policing has said that this is shocking and tragic news and that

their thoughts and prayers are with family at this extremely difficult time and the family is still at the moment currently receiving support from offices but he went home to say that the news will only strengthen the police's will to identify and bring to justice the person responsible for this barbaric acts and he also said that detectives will continue their painstaking work really to gather all the evidence together to understand how citizens became exposed to such a deadly substance that tragically caught stored her own life but the u.k. prime minister to resign may has also spoken about this and she said that she's appalled and shocked by the death of dawn stages she says that her thoughts and condolences go to family and loved ones and that the government is committed to providing full support to the local community as it deals with this tragedy now initially it was thought that the couple came into contact with contaminated drugs but counterterrorism police did confirm that the nerve agent was north but we have

head of before of course it's been four months now since you. were exposed to it and poisoned by it's. only eight miles away but they did manage to recover those two but the kremlin house denied involvement in that attack and offered to conduct a joint investigation something that the u.k. refused and denied cooperation on but last week in press a. briefing they said that people have been asking one of the main questions that the public has been asking is about their own safety and company around one hundred detectives awaking on this case at the moment but this is an ongoing investigation i wish detectives had said could take months but we can now give the fed the information into the case a follow up. to people who feel that sometimes the right to know what you know that shall can remain deadly for long periods exposed to the nerve agent no bitch.

who he want to know his id safety has to do anything is your family going to be safe is that going to be if there's a school a show and we know what your we know to be true. or you know you have more children . there are the parents of you live right here in the wizard being took to the. living in a mound me. with a starbucks and running was not just brushing against. those red brick.

the major overthrow of charles be identified as this so you have to become terminated both of you are so strong. it is now time that the russian state comes forward and explains exactly what has gone on you know the all for is still there to the russian state to try the sisters to tell us what happened. well russia has denied any involvement with the navi child incidents of the first poisoning case in march moscow reached out to learn to and 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 more a galaxy of 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 time russian intelligence was behind this but the fact is blood amir putin has flat out denied it he's refused to cooperate with brit. and 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 the 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 and it could only have been putin just like it was last time you argue that their source of a snuff. is russia how did you manage to find it out so quickly look at the the evidence when the people from portland they were absolutely categorical 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 ide and 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 lars style britain's accusations with seemingly founded and 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 and callous 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 disinflation 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. thailand's navy seals have confirmed four boys have now been rescued from the group of twelve and their football coach chaps in a cave in the north of the country for over two weeks now the rescue operation has finished for the night and will receive on monday. and transported to the modern. if you want when is the next operation are constantly exactly where you should be in around more than twenty four hours after the conditions to make sure everything is just right today. and we're confident proceed with. the group have been in the complex of since june the twenty third after heavy rains and rising waters blocks their return to the group were found nine days after they went missing on forty's have pressed forward with the rescue operation amid 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 caird on thursday evening forty one people of the one hundred five on board were confirmed dead fifteen are still said to be missing but where there was blamed for the incident. at least ten people have been killed and more than seventy injured after a train derailed in northwest turkey more than three hundred sixty passengers were on the train came off the tracks in a district close to the greek border officials blamed a landslide which was also said to be making it difficult for emergency teams to reach the site. we're back with more news after this short break.

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welcome back let's bring you up to speed on the world cup now host nation russia lost out on sport kicks to create for a show on saturday night but despite that festivities here in moscow went on that long into saturday night the russian team is since returned from sochi and beat on stage at the fans oh and did they lose making stadiums that's where they thanked us fans for all that this is so of course. the.

use of the finest ball to play. well i'm here because the show welcomes back their heroes they may have gone out on penalties to croatia but they'd be with the most no one has done this if they'd won it with. the if they had coached on the subject so when he spoke this whole crowd in failing to be silent these amounts of stock you would. russia has

gone through the roof because this wasn't a team that was expected to do anything this was a team that was expected to go out to the opening rounds to what he produced and what they created was a team that has really caught the tarts and minds of the russian people as we look at. the state she is willing to be churchy so they go you have linked the if we look at the the big man up top i love the big man up top but we look at zouk but he has really driven by opinion driven hard to budget driven rushing forward as well him standing on the sidelines telling the fans to get up and support the team against a lot of those memories that will always stay with me. while the ballad being held up by the team there in the video said we play for you and that was much appreciated by the fans on saturday night though there was a rollercoaster of emotions across russia during that lost a game as the host nation were knocked out on penalties by croatia so you hawkins

and these are they witnessed all the drama from artie's special football studio in st petersburg. i have. to feel like to be dyslexic well wherever you're watching us from today i am very well thank you from the white skew here in russia's new capsule that i will continue with the sally about last night what a roller coaster of emotions we went through during the match between russia and croatia we had a bit of a crowd with us head on the way in palace square and all of us the current career included got a little bit wild to hollywood who was

the live. and those scenes here were no exception to anything going on around the country apart from those lucky fifty thousand or so who had tickets to the such a stadium millions were watching the game glued to their screens not just here in the host country but also in croatia. you know how. i have. a head i was who who he was who was

who was i was. who was really. certainly had a thrilling charge time of it fighting spirit every minute of the game it seems one one off the normal time it was to sue extra time the players giving their all all their emotions all the energy on the football field that someone could be the table of was that sheriff goal all men is the rocket goal open the school ring. of people i've done it before croatia taken the lead with that fun and there's equalizer set in the crowd here absolutely. crazy or it wasn't it was a quite emotional scene and it was disappointing a little bit that russia couldn't just keep it tight keep it together for ten minutes initially they had to drop back so called hawking the boss which is what

you're supposed to do manage the game but i feel maybe if you understood out of the show we've discussed there's something called something a bit of soft coal to concede just before half time and then you know they can see we looked at each other and said we're also going to get back into this and then up pops fernandez to make amends for the error but it was a really really they showed a lot of fight in the hearts. i think on the balance of things like ration did have some sort of a very good chances to kill the game off ali on they gave it their all as well the players at the end you know some muscular injuries you mentioned muscle crowd are going to find it very tough against england but they certainly deserve you know a shot at getting at the final that's got the teamwork they've got the individual talent the moderate is rockish is my magic it should cetera they're going to give england a real run for their money i do feel they are and i think you mentioned right well that one of the teams you set for the tournament finds. they have a chance but i think they're going to have to manage that team really tough because

last night was really draining on the bench and so close to those penalty kicks the second game they've had to take to you carol. now of course all over for the russians marcelo they face england in the semi file in england i feel haven't really had to get out of second or third gear they're not really been challenged to the point where you think crikey they're going to lose are going to be knocked out of plays some beautiful football against on the favorites you know argentina among them this is going to be quite an interesting game isn't it i think so i think in the we'll go into that feeling very confident we've been saying all along since in the last to belgium in the group stage and came second day on the so-called easiest side of the draw by you know seeing how it shapes up they played columbia they went to penalties it was difficult but really they deserved to go if they broke the jinx at least a group of takes a one on penalties and then they beat sweden yesterday with those goals on the fly

and then you get that off of that you look at it and you say well they play a team again across a shitty rule probably better technically but maybe drug dealing with fitness and you know being tired and fatigued as well and so england you know playing that game against sweden you know we can see those goals now actually they were in control of the game with girls 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 they're going crazy they won the world cup and this other set piece for delhi out he's got plenty of time plenty of space does a few steps towards the goal on log those past three defend the swedish defense free fall asleep there was a bit of a softball to be offside trap and finds england in ecstasy heartbreak for the swedes of course they've done so well so you get past it now fan support is of course a huge factor in any games and the england fans who made it out to russia now urging

their following the schmidt to do the same. with the team six weeks. off. that's a full find you grow for your life want to go to the world cup just the thing you need to go see 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 funnies politico's i didn't fly and lots of other noises while. i have watched it to be honest the main thing i was worried about was the alphabet

because i can't touch understand anything. back. they absolutely miles away i'm trying to put my head post that's just been just a minute and for well three tries. but then everyone speaks english it was very friendly. the fans so i got to go to russia so the message on the bus things get better and you are really. it's a very welcoming. place friendly and. great food and yes to the fire and i said michelle. last found his father there is wife thinks he's going fishing. go on it's going to it's on it's a really long fishing trip almost twelve cop has been saw for example as well as from some attention across the big media social media platforms while this one

english shout out final blogger spencer wrote he's been going many followers with his coverage of the tournament. this is when she's in russia. but once the road clearly clash between russia and spain we showed off to the game to get his take on the tournament. i've done everything often flying up in on trains of stayed in hotels i've stayed in apartments we've had absolutely zero issues in terms of the people with man in fact it's been 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 i have to say it's been amazing and yeah i've gotten zero complaints i just hope more people can come out. we had that golden generation before as we called it in the. great plaza stephen generals in the front paws the way it really is no doubt this squad 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 managing to me included a lot of people were skeptical as to whether he was going to have the experience of the know how to get over 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 world cup as well so we don't go into

the expectations often that's one of the key reasons for doing well and we had a good group the group for us to approach it was tough but we had two teams in panama no disrespect to them. that we were able to get wins against and i guess and so. no question stuff that was full of high drama for the fans well that seems. the was. the you the was that was it was was

louis. was was. was. ok this is how the semifinal is shaping up england will face away shot in moscow when is that it was the crowds of course the big lendl stopping them going to the two thousand and eight euros i play a bit of a grudge match that france played just the day before right here in st petersburg hoping to prevent maybe belgium in what promises to be a real truck off again we'll be covering the whole be out soon on and off the pitch this wild card will be with you again see.

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kind of welcome to the pie. it's hard to find a more drab and more romantic period in the history of the soviet union in one thousand eight hundred life as people knew it was falling apart than the yet there was also a growing hope that something new and exciting would rise in its place sons 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 the studio 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 but it is big one of our biggest rock stars is blind 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.