the u.k. says one woman exposed as a nerve agent in navi chalk this week has died another person still remains and a critical condition. croatia join angola and france and belgium and the world cup semifinals after adjuring a nailbiting panel is a shoot out against the hosts russia. despite the loss russia france is celebrated long and to the night and gave their team a hero's welcome back in moscow after they defied all expectations to reach the last eight.

coming to you live from moscow you're watching the weekly here on our national. and we started with the breaking news this hour the u.k. government says a woman who was exposed to the nerve agent in navi child consults in england has now died in hospital. brings us the latest. well we know that door instead who was exposed to the nerve agent named spree has now died in hospital in scotland yard's police have now launched a men's inquiry now charlie valley remains in a critical condition still at soulsby 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 the u.k. prime minister to reason may has also spoken about this and she's that the she's

appalled and shocked by the death of dawn stages now initially it was thought that the couple came into contact with contaminated drugs but counterterrorism police did confirm that the nerve agent was not the chalk now it's not the first time we've heard that the nerve agent know each other before it's been over four months now since you are in sick a script poisoned by the name of agents they managed to recover from its attack and it was only eight miles down the road in salt spray where that incident happened but this investigation is still on going although the u.k. pointed its thing is that russia there was no concrete evidence and russia continually denied that they had anything to do with the attack but we can now give you a quick update on the entire case so far two people being exposed to the right to tell the truth no but shock it remains deadly for long periods exposed to the nerve agent know which.

you want to know is are you safe do you have to do anything is your family going to be saying is that going to be a photo a school a show and we are going to rebuild recruits. for you or your poor children that we're there at the very you're very very rigid being took to the. money came out you know when you start small but it was much just brushing against . those red brick. you know victrola which i was promoted to the so i. can talk about it to both of

you do it so. it is now time for the russian state comes forward and explains exactly what is going on you know the all for is still there to the russian state to try the sisters to tell us what happened. to discuss this story in more details let's now cross live to former u.s. diplomat jim to address welcome to the program here on our national now after the first poisoning and evolving the nerve agent to not be chalk on british soil u.k. officials claim that they had decontaminated the area but two others have been exposed now and one has just died was your reaction to this news. what history with my reaction is is really terribly unfortunate of some woman has or has died and i certainly hope the other victim pulls through let's remember of course that sergei

screwball and his daughter yulia did recover from this after they were whatever this is after they were pronounced by the british media evidently with information from the british authorities that they were virtually gone or suddenly their live well and incommunicado nobody knows where they are so instead of just twenty more fingers or releasing partial information with the implication that these two people were poisoned with some kind of residue from the first attack how about we get a real explanation of what happened in that first attack starting with the people involved well that's true we do have very little information now the u.k. home secretary says that the area where this happened is quote beautiful part of the country to visit and the risk to the public remains a very low well isn't that contradict it at that but the death of the female victim . evidently as i say if the of the two scruples were poisoned with some agent which the british authorities say is not the truck which is

a highly deadly nerve agent why why did they recover but these people who were exposed weeks after the fact didn't it was simply a residue left over after presumably the area had been scrubbed of course this is a very nice area i'm told it's also very near horton down which is the british chemical research facility which is perfectly capable of self a baking know the choke or any other kind of nerve agent well locals in the town of flames very and the souls very area must be very concerned now what measure could be taken to protect them. i think the first thing i would do if i were a british citizen is demand that their government come clean to what they actually know look as well and i can't help but relate this to the kind of deception we've been seeing out of the british government for a long time for example they were the first to point things are at the most recent chemical called black and supposedly in syria duma through their their organization they fund the white helmets and even trying to tie it to the use of chemical

weapons on british soil by the russians as a chemical attack it turns out now there was no chemical agent in douma even the o p c w and now it is explaining that when there is a lot of lying coming from the british government and i think we need to know what the truth are and if i were british i especially would want to know what the truth is so do you think that the media will try to somehow hive this case as it did after this crippled poisoning again placing blame on russia before they fax her out oh absolutely the birth of the british media is even worse than the american media as as being total lapdogs of whatever it is the government says so i don't really expect anything from the british media well says the original script the case says not yet close to how long will this new investigation take will we average see a clear resolution to this what do you think. i don't think we will under this government and you know there are some people that are that have raised the specter

that with mr trump and mr putin about the me to meet i suspect the russian government probably has to information about what the british government has been up to including not only the scribal case and the. attack or the false flag attack but also the british government's hand in the whole russian scandal the steel dossier and all the rest of it i think there's a dossier that mr putin has to give mr trump about what to recently and her friends have been up to all right thank you so much for and signed that was jim jaharis former u.s. diplomat thank you. russia has denied any involvement with the navi chalk incidents after the first poisoning case and march in moscow reached out to london with offer a self cooperation and despite many questions still to be answered sound sanctions of the western media have been quick to accuse wash as artie's well i guess if explains. could do putin have really done it ordered secret agents to

poison a 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 look at the the evidence from the people from porton down they were absolutely categorical the guy so i said are you sure and he said there's no dark 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 our. absolutely 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 last britain's accusations with 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 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 trapped in a cave in the north of the country for over two weeks the rescue operation is scheduled to resume one monday. when the next operation council. should be. more than twenty. just like today. i'm more confident that. their group have been in the

complex the twenty third for how the rains and rising waters block their route out the group were found nine days after they went missing authorities have pressed forward with the rescue operation amid fears the approaching. could cost 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 saying. evening forty one people of the one hundred five on board were confirmed dead fifteen are still said to be still missing but weather was blamed for the incident. and these ten people have been killed and more than seventy injured after a train derailed and northwest turkey well then three hundred sixty passengers were on that train and it came off the tracks in a district close to the border officials have blamed

a landslide which was also said to be making it difficult for emergency teams to reach the site. watching our teams or national mourning that are coming your way right after the break. corruption is everywhere in our house and so i do we still have a high rate of unemployment and we see you have a lot of fun doing this you know especially in the head of the line so i would say that our success story is how successful he wants to be is because we have achieved the putting to gave the money to go jump in but we didn't do that we didn't. succeed in achieving this economy goes. a plate for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch put

a funnel school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money just kill you narrowness and spend the trip to twenty million one playa. it's an experience like nothing else on to victory so i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy a great so well bowl chance with. a nice minute. and now a review of this weekend's the world cup action zones the host nation lost out on the spot kick so croatia the city's here in moscow went on a long into saturday night the russian team has since returned from saw a cheat and been on stage of the fans only here in the illusion to be steady on where they think the fans for their support. of.

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penalties to croatia but the. kids and most no one has done this if they for one it will. be the head coach on the subject so when he spoke this whole crowd was failing me sign that he's a monster he's still behavior in 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. they created was a team that has really cool you call it the minds of the russian people we look at . the stick to you doing the church you're so cool you. if we look at the big model talk of a big model top if we look at zouk but he has really risen opinion driven hard to budget driven growth through what is well. done to the sidelines telling the

fonz to get up and support the t.v. good space one of those memories that will always stay with me. the men are held out by the team there is sad we play for you and was much appreciated by the fans on saturday night though there was a rollo coaster of emotions across russia during that last eight game as the host nation were knocked out on penalties by croatia then you'll haakanson isa alley witness told the drama from r.t.e. special football studio anson petersburg. i have. to fight to be dyslexic well wherever you watching us from what i am very well thank you from quite a few here in russia's new capsule that i will consider with the sally how about last night what

a roller coaster of emotions we went through during the match between russia and palatial we had a bit of a crowd with us head on the way in palace square and all of us the current curry included got a little bit wild thank you ali who was the why. 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. i have. a

have. a have i was cool how he was who was good was. who was was who. certainly had a drilling 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 is the sheriff goal. of all men is the rocket goal open the school ring. if you

live but it's for croatia taking the lead with that fun and there's equalized said in the crowd here absolutely. crazy or it was that it was a quiet motion you see it was disappointing a little bit that russia couldn't just keep it tight keep it together for ten minutes and 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 self can see just before half time and then you know they can see we looked at each other and said you know if they're going to get back into this and then pop 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 chance to kill the game off on the on they gave it their all as well the players at the end you know some muscular injuries or mention 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 rock which is my magic age and cetera they're going to give england a real run for their money i do feel they are and i think you mentioned that. one of you said for the for the science. they have a chance but i think they're going to have to manage that team really just 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 kind of now. of course all over for the russians marcelo they face england in the seventies 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 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 colombia it went to penalties it was difficult but really they deserved to go if they broke the jinx at least for the james they won on penalties and then they preach we did yesterday with those goals one while and then you got me and then after that you look at it and you say well they play a team again across a shitty will probably better technically but maybe drug dealing with fitness and with you know being tired and fatigued 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 with girls coming from so the sira corner from the other was the coming in mcguire 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 the log goes 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 something like sixty six. and pasted it off. the front of my negro foil i want to go to the world cup just the thing you need to go see you want to go there and so i actually go that is it's surreal so walk out

and there's a huge stadium full of fun politicos i didn't fly and lots of other noises well please. watch it to be honest the main thing i was worried about was the alphabet because i can't touch understand anything. for a hot day absolutely miles away i need to put my head post faster than just say i'm an enforcer wellfleet tries to act but then everyone speaks english i was very friendly. wolf and so i got to go to russia and said i'm missing out on one of the best things you get and you are really. very welcoming. friendly and. great food and yes to the fire and i said mr allen.

last found his father there is wife thinks he's going fishing. go on is going to town it's a really long fishing trip almost well a cop has been saw for example as well as trouble some attention across the big media social media platforms while this one english shout out final blogger spence wrote he's been dogging many followers with his coverage of the tournament on. and she's in russia. but once the road clearly clash between russia and spain we showed off to the game

to get his take a little bit. of that everything off in flying off and 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 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 things i love the world cup is the different kind of cultures you come into contact with and everything off saina said that the russians have welcomed that of open arms so i have to say it's been amazing and yeah i've gotten zero complaints i just hope more people that can come out. we had that golden generation before as we called it in. these great plays a steven gerrard's in a friendly and positive way 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 begun 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 frustrate belgium 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 i was for the parts almost for the fans a little bit see both boys. who are. tough was. the fuel.

the was that was was was. was was. was. ok this is how the semifinal is shaping up england will face away shot in moscow on wednesday it was the cross of course the big lendl stopping them going through the two thousand and eight euros likely a bit of a grudge match that france played just the day before right here in st petersburg hoping to be the name of belgium it will promises to be a real crock of

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