one of the victims allegedly exposed to a toxic substance in the u.k. town of anxiety regain consciousness but remains in a critical condition. after sure it's your life. after all you don't have. a lot of. rumors. about sun disagreements are predicted at wednesday's nato summit as brussels publicly swings back at trans criticism of a perceived lack of alliance funding by the e.u. . and the first of the world cup semifinals has just kicked off in some petersburg between belgium and france one of the sorts of manchester united manager joins i bring you in just a second. a

very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me mickey aron who's got the world news update coming up for you but first it's time for football. thank you nikki yes and welcome back to manchester and i'm joined by the manager as a marine you're just so you've seen how the teams that are lined up here france and belgium what are your thoughts how do you think the first forty five minutes is going to go first of all i think feels wrong in the diagrams in the graphics they put i wouldn't believe and now when i watch the first couple of minutes i know that that that is wrong shadley is playing right back and the room not is not think i was going back to good to play as

a wing back is too important for them to play as being broke so i think they repeat . the four in the back the they played against. against. brazil but this time with charlie on. on the right back position strong me to feel beat fellaini we'd sold them barely three very strong position our midfield players and then the three of them for the brewing and i was out to support the car chorusing they're going to give the initiative to two fronts. was that the belt they feel strong enough confident enough to to have a go or no. they decide to drop the defensive lock to compact to give the ball to two fronts and obviously they have they have players for a killing counterattack france yes with the personality assuming the game having the game in their hands trying to be to be dominant of course with the risk

of belgium be really strong in in contract talks but i think this is the profile of the profile of the game in belgium or you active more in moments of of transition after recovering the ball and and fronts trying to be proactive trying to have the ball trying to. to have a go but of course with that with that risk. but honestly we disapprove for a live game i don't see a game. we do a lot of balls unless somebody score a early goal and then creates a reaction but if that doesn't happen and the game takes a period of twenty thirty minutes we deal with this balance i don't i think that contrary to the expectations probably will be not again we. need

a lot of them so do you anticipate that they could be extra time and they could have a benefit. why not. there is a balance between the teams there is potential in both sides the three acts even to a goal and probably that the goal is the goal that all the old trolls around the walls they would want. but i don't think that's what belgium wants some belgium is is really cautious in in their approach and he's trying to learn to control the game. defensively and then and then contract out but they are really really sort of in. the difference of expert. he's one of the players before the match people think is a contender for the gold as a player is it a big incentive is it a big trophy is it something that you want to go forward and i would terry cain for england is on course for that she said no i think you few us them they want they want the gold wall or they want the gold medal of course they want the world the

world mail is what gives them. a place in the gallery of heroes in their countries is not the individual award but players this think about it players this think about it players may have the eagles there to be a selfish when these individual awards. are crossing in front of of them but honesty's is a game of alive is a game of. concrete history for them and i think they're ready for everything and even being attacking players they're ready to be defensive they're ready to help their team they're ready to do and it's impossible to be in the final and finally just before we let you go so you can see the rest of the match which teams very briefly at the world cup so far have exceeded expectations

who surprised. i think the surprises was more negative than positive would they expect krisher to be in the semifinal no but they knew that crew issue was was a good team would i expect any one of the other three teams to be in the semifinal england belgium or france of course they have potential for that so i don't see big big surprises. i think the surprise is what the negative ones everybody was expecting more from from all the other teams but. ok you can still say we lost against france or brazil can say we lost against the best belgium of the last twenty five years but. germany spain. portugal you have to look. and see what what happened for us to. leave you to watch the match thank you very much indeed and i can strike us now to studio in moscow where neil and you know are waiting. many thanks

kate and many thanks good to see you. keeping as he always does to his routine of taking off. to such a ritual now the game just to bring you up to date it's seven minutes and it's the france the belgium notice that peter schmeichel has departed he's going to watch the game as well smart man you know neal's alongside me. very capable woman think just to mention anything of note so far belgium on the ball i noticed here just seven minutes in to big game it's a balmy what sixteen degrees opposite petersburg there's a lot of running around i think just to get warm because they're not used to this kind of weather the last i've been in some are for the last number of weeks where a number of teams have been calling clearing england and brazil i was thirty five thirty six degrees at kickoff what you're seeing here what i've been seeing here is

belgium with the ball a lot for the first seventy eight minutes here france just trying to hold them in although i did have a good run right from the off just listening to what you see were saying. this is people who know each other very very well. in their domestic leagues they're bringing it on to the international scene here you can see it being anything but tight where they said they should know each of the well neighbors common language a lot of premier league english premier league players there just to bring up to date with the changes if you didn't catch them france of brought in to e d. he was a starter prior to being suspended in place of someone change for. boarding for the suspended morning a slight change of formation it's quite hard to see how they are lining up seems very into changeable fluid a lot of good players complained a lot of positions with ease and that's what we're seeing at the moment i'm just coming on the attack and from the stripping to get much of the ball at the moment something that will be a little concerned with tell you what i'm just so excited to actually be here

watching this because you know leading into the world cup france for one of the favorites belgium where the dark horses were really wanted to see them go at each other with their full squads full support i hope they have a lot of supporters in sin petersburg what you can see here are fans of course a lot of local tied in those funds owens on the main squares as well taking in because you know in one thousand minutes well maybe a hundred twenty minutes one of these teams is going to be in the world cup final it's a huge price at stake i mean if you watching that he looks like people just kind of watching grass grow but they're absolutely absorbed. what's going on with you know all sort of the awful lot of nerves as well i'm sure like you said it's maybe some people say the worst time to leave a match to miss out on the final i think worse than losing in the final at least you get to go to the grand finale no one wants to be disappointed at this point but the nerves i think on the pitch founds obviously from both teams are going to with

a lot of confidence you'll never hear one found say their team is going to lose when they're asked to the. french and those fans had to say they were speaking to me in st petersburg trying to get off. oh. oh oh oh oh. oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh. oh. oh oh. oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh. oh oh oh you know her oh yeah dear harry. do you own her over the god of the old so as we get ready for this seventy for you before you even have to name your first look at each chicken you get to keep frank you can. see as we get ready for this semifinal he was a petersburg between france and belgium where actually i get

a good idea this huge flag waving at the asian age of the stadium five days belgian fans of course there are others the french france who tended to have the group of the was. there the other got there the saw was the was that it was. the germans yes there are pieces back yard the area in the out there was you know you are going to have the it was covered was the the. you could tell him self an injury there by and by they had the fun of jumping all over him but that's what it's been like here the last number of weeks and i hope really people at home are getting a sense of that because fun really wanting to hold on to every crumb every every hour really of all of this excitement that's been building up to the last number of

days because here we are the last week neal it's of the world cup it's come around so fast when you have just even a couple of days as we just had without football if you care of a missing you know what do missing atmosphere looking for the next fix like please come around now still no no in st petersburg france belgium twelve minutes play a lot less open than i was expecting i think that's largely down to the belgian line up which is a bit different i think they've been a little bit well cautious moves in the sea breeze much but also down of course. bragging rights isn't it sure a border you don't want to be losing this game all because as i say some of what has been going on this march leading up to it so much fun between the fans i've been looking at this is going to be the battle between asterix tintin the belgian waffle very just the french fries a lot of this is going on but it was a serious under told because if belgium loses to france you know maybe people are

expecting that but this is their golden generation this you would expect maybe for the next thirty forty years the best team that they're going to have the next ninety minutes it's vital for their development as a footballing nation i think you can breed even more success because it's a small country and if these guys are losing in the semifinal after being built up for so long for so many years there's going to be massive disappointment but it's like you said it's neighbors and anybody will know what the competition whether it's any kind of sport actually between two neighboring countries so if one of these teams goes on to to win it and the other loses out in the semifinal it might be fifty sixty long years before as we've seen with england before they get another chance that's an awful lot of years of bragging speaking of success stories you can have success even if you don't win the competition we've seen it with russia the performances of the host nation gone down very well with their supporters even though they went out in the quarterfinals and earlier mark was on the side we've

got a fantastic opportunity to speak to the man of the moment the manager of the russian team astonish chesnoff and i think he's turned that mustache i didn't get to ask you before to see what he had so. it's really good to see you again and when i see you again that's because we share some history together we played when we were young boys we played. for you play for the soviet union you have from nine hundred eighty five are to go to the most singularly in our most stadium hold the normalcy in. your mind i feel. unfortunate. that we lost. but i'm not sure but let's let's put put that behind us and start by congratulating you on what i meant and what what are your feelings about what you and your team has achieved in this world cup. components here. and we really put up

a great performance the country was united everyone was happy and we have the sports component to it. you know what sport is and the world cup is one for just for one team so morally we were in the high ground but in terms of sports we didn't win because we were one inch from the semifinals would have played against england we had a chance to compete for the title although no one believed in us so we are really sad so as a sports fan we really would like to have the title to hold a couple of our heads but it's good that we've made a great festival for the fans to about the fans it being a festival i just picked out a. complete stranger today i wanted to give them the chance to ask you a question middle aged lady i said if you could ask if anything what would it be she said i would ask him a question i just want to say to him thank you for the energy that you brought to

this country how does it feel knowing that you have united football fans non-portable fans and you really brought the whole country together just you know creates an opportunity for the energy to be throughout well certainly the team didn't perform the would have the energy so we fared from each other and that's why we managed to put out that excellent performance and. trafford's has all those moments when you're really have the drive and when you get feedback from the fans you can overcome anything and when we were. the. during the match and after the match you always see those happy fans. and we definitely played for them how did you get the mentality of playing for the public you don't often see that how to doing grain i mean a. lot. of mentality well you can't just. inspire people to have the mentality you have to

have that mentality and so we tested a lot of football players over these two years and i've been criticized a lot for that because we didn't have the stability but on the other hand we don't have the stability we don't have the players he was really two heads above others so they are basically the same level and i had to pick the right players had the winning mentality they were skewed by the picture over spain. just a monumental moment on the biggest victories the teams ever enjoyed the players went crazy about moment one of the biggest party have ever seen started here at explode around the country you lifted your hands up. really smiled you're keeping your emotions in check how did you feel about why we did you think control your emotions why why wasn't it just complete celebration. of the. coach keeper is

one of the same professions that if we talk about serious stuff you have to really concentrate you shouldn't let your emotions loose if you let emotion then you can see the goal and if you let emotions out you as a coach will start doing mistakes better knows what i mean so you have to be really focused one hundred percent. so that don't district get distracted but you have to think about the next game. right now i'm sure. i'm smiling the world cup is over for me so you can think about the different things you've gone through this you know emotional experience of the championship now there are people want to miss trash like your women want to marry you have people really changed their opinions about use as a coach and a person. how is it for you to experience this i mean the way they looked before

the way they look at you now how do you as you. well the others blind. children. so the most important thing is that we've made our fans happy i need to make the right steps going forward so that's next time. the fans. in cancer are we should be even better the fans for us let them be happy they might recall those emotions and goals. once you stop you get overtaken so we shouldn't stop and rest on our laurels i think oh i hope you will enjoy it for just five ten minutes thank you just really very much for coming up and sharing all this with this. it was an absolute honor to have you here. and you know how do i get on from. casper was a really great city it was

a fantastic. for him but he was better than you i'm sorry to say. that subjective view from a coach makes me very proud. and you know that is one of my memories of the world cup while the whole country is going up epically crazy that guy is on the touchline keeping it all in check his emotions as you say he must have been. butterflies going hundred miles an hour inside but on the touchline he managed to keep it in check and by the way you can watch the full interview it's all marry you choose page if you'd like to find out more of the insights from stanislav church. twenty minutes into the game and. if i was a betting man it's looking more like belgium the seem to have more of the game little. from france just to bring

a couple of moments while you're listening to that interview fifty minutes but has it through the offside trap pretty good chance has a drag on eighty minutes he's back into the starting line up had a shot from distance not too much trouble. after a corner for the last two minutes in the french the shot and that's a fantastic say hugo lloris in the goal. actually had the ball in the net but so many efforts out there that's a good sign for france if the poles and. after all this concerted pressure you know that's one corner. but no it's actually i think that everybody's going to you know the minute it comes in loris to like you said a succession of corners. really trying to turn the screw at this point and they had a second chance just a few months ago household with another shot this one might have gone in just flicked they had to defend for another corner so a lot of pressure if they don't get to go from this they'll be disappointed i think these are those moments when you need to kind of turn this into some kind of and we

all will be keeping a very close eye on developments in this game a place what a price of a place in sunday's final solution nicky stadium stake for france or belgium. will see the. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for him to you shouldn't let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

with the whole existence to do something that. they put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. most somewhat want to be rich. but you going to be for us this is what was before three of them or can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters about how. this should. thank you.

this is r.t. international and i'm nicky aaron welcome back let's bring you up to speed on the latest world news headlines now from football we move to this a man exposed to a toxic substance in the u.k. town of ames brief has regained consciousness but remains in a critical condition artie's honest to see a churkin reports from london. forty five year old charlie rally's condition has been improving now that he's regained consciousness at salisbury district hospital and he was taken to the hospital back on saturday june thirtieth along with his partner forty four year old don sturgis who has died last sunday night now this is the second novacek related poisoning the way that officials here in the u.k.

have been putting it basically now forced to answer questions about how is it possible that the second couple somehow came in contact with this nerve agent that was said to have been originally used back on march fourth on sergei and yulia screw paul there's lots of questions yet to be addressed about how they could have really common contact with the substance especially given the millions and millions of pounds that have been spent here in the u.k. on decontamination operations so this investigation of course is continuing especially now with one of those people having died but there is hope that with charlie rally regaining consciousness hopefully more light could be shed on what exactly could have happened and of course this whole story with novacek has been media headlines here in the u.k. for months on end but these days it's overshadowed by the scandals that have been going on in westminster with teresa mayes cabinet of course we do know that foreign

secretary boris johnson resigned that secretary david davis had resigned in recent days along with several other cabinet ministers causing lots of concern about whether or not to reserve may's government could just be a hick up away from avoid a vote of no confidence eventually showing her the door and now none of this of course is looking very good in terms of future negotiations with brussels given the bracks a deadline is almost literally quite around the corner. ghost bridget's is the biggest problem in the. of e.u. u.k. relations and if they're of from being thought of with or without mr they fifth and the unfortunately d.a.d. a wreck that hasn't left together think they've so it's clear that with the chaos going on inside the government here in london as well as lots of questions yet still to be addressed about the novel charge saga with these two massive stories

that have really been gripping attention here in the u.k. lots of attention will now be paid to what happens next and whether or not the british government is going to be able to solve these problems taking place on its soil you know the chalk saga domenici headlines because it they are part of an overarching campaign to demonize russia or to create russians as some terrible evil of our country and a government that is intent term expansionist these are completely baseless baseless allegations this break six races has consumes delish political class it's a greatest political crisis it does and has found itself in ghost and since the second world war unless it's arrested soon it's going to morph into an economic crisis a challenge to teresa neves leadership in the coming days and weeks ahead. tensions between europe and the u.s. are causing

a massive shadow over wednesday's nato summit well donald trump continues to criticize allies for not spending more on defense brussels sent this public warning to the american president. the president trump america does not turf. turf in europe dear america appreciate your allies after all you don't have the money you have a lot of hours we should be our research is very very good very. serious so are out there you know. where are you. from our third world where our food crises maybe some of all we're saying we're sick. chum continues to insist that other members are not paying nearly enough as america bankrolls more than half of nato's budget in two thousand and fourteen nato members agree to spend two percent of their annual gross domestic product on defense by

twenty twenty four trump is angry that only five states are anywhere near that greece estonia at the u.k. poland and romania the secretary general of the brussels based military alliance says that members are paying their spending but not to please washington but independent journalist a lucrative a told is that ahead of the summit chumps unpredictability is on people's minds. everybody is very nervous here in brussels looking at the product could happen tomorrow or the day after with the the temperament with the way democracy usually does things you know use a bit reliable these bullying so they're all but afraid of what he's going to do mr truss couldn't resist by saying that you know mr trump should know who are his strategic allies and who are his problem he means probably flooding me putin but this is trump bashing it is cheap advice and they should do that everybody's not just because of this issue of finances because of the troops that are present in

europe that the americans could or could send back home because of course also off the fact that several countries are renewing their fleet of fire bombs all together it's a dangerous cocktail for the unity of nato but of course it's so good to have a common enemy russia. after years under the control of islamic state the syrian city of rocco was liberated back in twenty seventeen but freedom came as a heavy price a colleague from r.t. arabic obtained exclusive video of rocca so that even now the streets are filled strewn with bodies have invested. with a thriving city once prosperous rich and then isis came and turned it into its capital the level that the u.s. led coalition leveled it ninety percent bombed and blasted to ruin.