on t.v. i'm i'm. i'm not an. arab . cities across croatia i wrapped in celebration as the national team reached that goal well it's cup final defeat in england in the semi. so don't try nato members to ramp up their military spending that kind of comments and still. ahead of her own meeting with trump on friday britain's prime minister to resign may play just to boost support for nato and send hundreds more troops to afghanistan. very well welcome you watching aussie international with me thank you eric. well first up croatia have reached the fifo while it's cup final for the

first time in the country's history they sent england crashing out of the tournament with a hard two one victory in moscow setting up a final showdown against strong fun july the fifteenth. the the. i. was there were. the they. were was. i.

was was. i think is an incredible achievement for a country where the league is a minor league where the majority not just a majority almost one hundred percent of the players they don't play in croatia sold out people like. like myself working abroad and when you work abroad i seem to feel your country even in the earth in a different way so for them to go back to their countries and and to take a country like croatia to a world cup final is something amazing england of course they have a reason to cry but they have also a reason to be optimistic. and the team improved a lot in relation to previous appearances and the squad these young the majority of

the players they can play the next world cup i would see and probably ashley yang's our d. there will be on certain for seventy five seventy six years old no but the others there will be in the next will cope with more experience sceptical of level again he saw good steve holland if i was. the f.a.a. if i was in charge know dogs that i would keep them in the job in the old give them the chance to take the team to the next euros eventually to the next world cup so even there's a reason to cry because it was sold so close to do it but i just saying they have also reason to be optimistic and the players and the sport and everybody involved in in the world cup for england they have a reason to come back to come back home with the pride that they gave everything

and in the made a country not fully happy but they made the country proud indeed let's look at some of the just some of the key incidents particular the goal itself i mean i think that in his kind of struggle from along that left hand side we do what he said that that's where croatia would effectively take today the target man jake it it seems like the defense whichever mangi cage gets that crunch pill but is it the kind of winger that is different than the others because normally you look at wingers and they are. just fast and creative and but is also physical very physical fantastic india so the way you win is the ball in the year and it puts the ball into that space is only possible if you are very very physical and you are dominant over the defender so you was amazing by going there and winning that ball india and then let's see for t and sometimes

fatigue is not just about. what to used to call the footy cause in your muscle because of lect aids sometimes is more central for to. your way of sinking your way of looking at scenes of understanding things storms will slow was slow to read it was slow to react he didn't anticipate the space behind him and months of space and months of kid she's not the most skillful player in the world but this effective when it has a chance normal humans who could score you had the chance with a fantastic save by five pick forts where you put all these volley covering all the area of the world in front of months of kitchen months of kids had no goal we didn't see that but then in that one the heat's a little short and basically kills again and it as you say talking about creation a country of only four million people and yet this will be this there are three

today the second semifinal already they seem to produce this kind of gritty but very talented very technically a very talented very technical day they leave the country normally very very early . normally the destinations more close by is more rare player two to leave croatia and come to england for example is more they go to germany a lot they go to countries in that area where they get some some discipline where they get physically more more and more powerful it is each you went from a croatia goes to dortmund goes to valse world goes to win. i don't know why i didn't come to manchester and i wanted him. but this voice. telling to players i think they feel obviously their country in

a special way all of them their generation they know what happened in their country probably the last family in wars the identity of the country the nation elisa. they gave absolutely everything but it's not fair to to say that we dub saying the english boys they gave everything. you know again they were soulful soul so close that these were any towards you towards more tonight belongs to croatia they will go on and they will face france in the final how do you see that play you know i think it is a moment from those having a nice drink in in their rooms or in the bar not celebrating their victory but celebrating the extra time. and celebrating twenty four hours more than them to rest which i seen is very very unfair.

i know. the broadcasters are the ones that that put the millions on the on the table but i seen for a world cup final icing both teams should play the semifinal in the same day bring these these england game one hour or two hours early bring the france against belgium two hours later it happened during the competition even three matches in one day so why not two matches in one day and give both teams and all the players the same possibilities france is not celebrating at all. the world cup victory but they can celebrate twenty four hours more to rest in these moment after six matches is very very important and they can also serve brits three minutes or so to minutes extra which for them. extra times extra times

ninety minutes ninety minutes these one more match you've seen the world cup the russian world cup it's being quite an amazing world cup on so many levels has it given you a taste for something towards international management at some point he thought they have to do i want i always wanted i always wanted i always told that i have to do it once but especially being in russia and feeling the emotions around it i want to do it also by my experience point of view this kind of short competition i never did it i was always about competitions of of eleven months i was always about marathons i was never a sprinter and so i was i i want to have that feeling i lived a knockout i love the knockout i love i love the fact of you when you go through

you lose you go home i always love. they're not called competitions but on this kind of short competition like like the euros like the world cup. i think is an experience that i want to have to play one match per month. joining two years. is not for me at least now but one day we will be because i really want to i want to do it welcome. now everybody wants the tickets and it was no different tonight for the semifinal woman who was fortunate enough to be inside the stadium for this woke up some a fun alexy or cisco correspondent now monies to make his way out and we can see lots of fans doing something like saying it was a thrilling game for so many different reasons had to be only one winner croatian founds must be absolutely thrilled to have a final. that they are indeed absolutely thrilled but i have to say

you would expect the english fans to be in despair about this result you know they went so far they were so close to reaching the final the first final in so many years yet they failed at the last hurdle but i was walking from the stadium chatting to english fans and one guy particular from birmingham he was a eloquent as you can possibly be on the matter he said we never expected to be this far in the world cup semifinal the first in twenty eight years we were that we were very close to winning were very close to getting to the final but we couldn't make it the last hurdle but we still should be proud of the way the team has performed the atmosphere here was definitely better than before and definitely better than last night in st petersburg which i witnessed france against belgium many pundits actually said it was pretty flat but we'll see what's going to be in the final. oh you don't see despair right here right these are you don't see despair you see right so i mean fast times clad in central london and the

atmosphere is exactly that's at the moment flat and i'm with tales of defeat is england fans but they're still wearing the shares unless golf with pride guys how you feeling off of the match or to see them go through it but the same so i'm very very proud of them to you know we gave short scottish will we have a young. you know and they played. good day it will be the same seventies you very well actually i will go be with you for you will see so we did it but give a short vote up and up you know last time we got this far as before i was told so i'll never see the bunch come to get a lot is listening on the cops gives like it so you want your social services for the future so a feeling of dignity besides you're feeling hope for oh it's the second hole break up out of this year not honestly first was go but this is way more important to sleep i feel crushed a worm a show of pride and the shit was out before i was born but one england so a feeling of defeat had also a little bit of feeling of optimism for next time s.

try and bring that trait i suck at you to one and you still took me on foot who called over again. croatia they have done they start hard way in each of the knockout stages they have gone through extra time those pres must be tired the fans they're not going to stop celebrating their into the first and the world cup final this was the scene inside i. i. i can't help but think it neal that one of the most searched for items is going to be over the next days direct flights to moscow from zagreb split to brawl of nick getting here as much as possible i think that's what the fans are thinking we just have to be here for our first ever world cup final incredible and you would because then would you because say that's almost the hardest way you can do it two sets of penalties a lot of extra time and most people who say they deserved it over you know the

hundred twenty minutes great players and we've seen those scenes here russia celebrated because they did better than they expected and i think it's fair to say croatia better than expected as well but some the world cup's about the celebrations and it's even sweeter when when you didn't think you do so what exactly four million people going craig. tonight to warm their final score to create new york since creature into the final of the world cup no eastern european team has ever won the world cup. from what you've seen i know you've watched a lot of creations games do they have enough to to to challenge at least france because i still say we're seeing it's one less day of rest of play one hundred twenty minutes three times in a row it's going to take a herculean effort. well first of all the same thing was said about croatia coming into this game although you know the extra time that they played was going to tire

them out says the same argument now they've pretty world in there against england they got stronger as the game went on you expected it might have been the other way round instead they were better in the second half of the stronger team in the extra thirty minutes so i think this is only peter schmeichel said. don't worry about the fatigue when you're talking about what he said for the world cup semifinal and even more so for world cup final if you can't get up for a game like this you know you won't find the energy for anything in this plenty of time after the tournament over to be tied you know injuries permitting if no no one's so badly that they can actually take the page those guys will muster up the energy and i think they will. produce what we've seen in each round really creative midfield so you know not just moderate reputation and recent showing you know as josie really was saying as far as wing is go he's a very physical winger and the header that he'd let created that winning goal from an suv which with a were physically and had a. it's

a midfield that france will be very worried about you don't ever think your way into a world cup final and the creation midfield is as good as any in this competition and not even looking tired as well after so many matches russian fans you know maybe feeling even better but getting to the quarterfinals there. say they were beaten by the world cup finalists creation if not the winners this sunday is something they can always look back on as well the locals here who really have enjoyed this tournament a few days left to go of the great party it's going to continue into the night here i think we're going to see a lot of white and red checked shirts in the coming days left if you want to pick a winner. penalties that's what i'm thinking make it last as long as possible let's let's just enjoy.

a play for many years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch to the funnel school it's about the passion from the families it's the age of the shaper money killed in a loan to spend spend be sure the twenty million plus. it's an experience like

nothing else going to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful just a great chance for. at least. welcome back to the world news headlines now and donald trump is visiting nato allies at a summit in brussels and the u.s. president has openly hit out at other member states for not paying up when it comes to defense spending r t shiela dubinsky has the details donald trump tweeted that he wants countries in the nato alliance to pay two percent of g.d.p. towards the defense budget narrow immediately he says in his tweet and not by the date that he says is twenty twenty five and he's also in that tweet accused germany

again following his tirade on wednesday morning of spending billions paying billions to russia for a guess pipeline project well that to raid it came from him after we also heard that there were claims by the bulgarian president that trump has also asked allies to increase the contributions not to two percent but up to four percent and washington has previously talked about the fact that if other countries don't pull their weight in washington the usa will actually leave the alliance with the nato secretary general was asked about that increase in the contributions of g.d.p. from two to four percent but he kick the idea into the long grass i think you should first get to two percent. for now. that is what we have agreed that the pledge. and the good thing is that we are.

the war start well that tweet by trump came after criticisms he made of germany on wednesday morning talking about germany not paying its dues and saying that it was captive to russia because of a gas pipeline project this is the nordstrom to project which is due to be completed in twenty nineteen that will see a reliable source of gas transmitted directly from the russian get spiels to germany to provide get a space center and western europe it's long been a bone of contention with the u.s. in particular trump who see this as empowering russia now he talked about the billions being spent and later the two leaders met germany is a captive over which they should move to get rid of the car to get rid of the. big exam much of the world of us from russia i think is something they are still looking at i think it's very appropriate they pay billions of dollars to russia and

we have to defend them against russia explained and if. you. were able to set independent policy in make your own decisions and that's very good following that meeting though donald trump changed his tune and said that relations between germany and the usa were great and they look forward to working together in the future there was also a joint declaration issued the need to summit by the joint heads of state and government what's contained in there in regards to russia where the need to leaders have accused russia of aggressive actions which they say undermine international order and they also said that nato would continue to respond to the change security environment as are. results of that aggression by enhanced seem to terence defense posture towards a forward presence in its eastern allies countries so essentially on the border

areas with russia and it's said that nato doesn't seek confrontation with russia while on the other hand talked about the enhanced meant of its capabilities and its rapid response force which it says will be able to be deployed in thirty days or less much more to discuss this nato meeting as leaders head into talks this evening and it continues on thursday. well nato leaders low corns over funding the military alliance of britain says it's demonstrating its commitment by boosting its presence in afghanistan prime minister to resign may sending hundreds of non-combat troops in the biggest military commitment in over a decade we lead by example and also anybody should a targets of spending two percent of our g.d.p. on defense but also twenty percent of our defense budget on equipment and in the way in which we deploy thousands of forces personnel on the operations around the

world is there an answer today that we will be deploying an additional four hundred forty personnel to they chose resonates with mission in afghanistan i think that shows when measured cools you case one of the first two were to step up certainly the timing of this announcement is quite curious there we have donald trump saying he's making it clear he wants nato allies to really step it up and here we have the u.k. pretty much almost immediately appeasing him by not just saying here we are one of the few countries contributing two percent of our g.d.p. to nato but also we're going to provide some troops well the question there is whether it's nato calling or donald trump calling because we have to understand that this is the first time in the years that the u.k. is making such a contribution indeed the number is being talked about is four hundred forty non-combat troops which will bring the total number of u.k. troops in afghanistan to eleven hundred and it's also has to be clear that this is the biggest commitment to the u.k. is stepping into in years since previous british prime minister david cameron withdrew u.k. troops from the ground after thirteen years of presence leaving just four hundred

fifty troops in a training role and then adding some since that happened all of this taken into account this announcement could be seen as part of the welcome mat being rolled out for the u.s. president as he visits the u.k. later on this week quite amid some controversy of course with protests having taken place ahead of his visit and of course the british public. indeed expected to continue demonstrating when he is here in the u.k. . with midterm elections in the us essential for november some are suggesting that the fate of humanity itself hinges on the outcome caleb orpen looks at the latest efforts to galvanize. the upcoming midterm congressional elections are certainly a crucial political event but there's way more to it than you think according to nancy pelosi the minority leader on capitol hill civilization as we know today is the to risk in this election we have to win we have to win civilization at risk

goodness that sounds quite serious now she's not the only one to think that the upcoming elections are an existential importance and no less if you one of these folks is watching cable news you know cocktail parties with your friends and you saying civilization is collapsing and you're nervous and worried but that is not what you personally do time energy and money than either you don't actually think civilization is collapsing or you're not pushing yourself hard enough and i would push harder the time for diagnosis is over it is cancer midterms are america's last chance at remission register to vote we can beat this disease now filmmaker michael moore is urging the liberal rank and file to seize the moment what are we willing to commit to what would you give your life for what would you be willing to do to actually put yourself on the line for that moment is now we are going to lose our democracy if we haven't already we have no choice my friends we all have to rise up

so is the future of human civilization really at risk at the november polling place we decided to ask people here in new york city i would say possibly the fate of american civilization at stake i think set out. civilization this well i don't know i think it's a little over the top now not. all they were said kim jong un was going to blow up the world a couple i don't know how many months ago there hyperventilating they do this all the time i would nancy pelosi say that. it's hard to tell if ordinary americans are as fired up as their t.v. screens and political leaders would like them to be so let's not forget the vote is still months away and the hysteria will probably escalate and pick up steam cable mop and r.t. new york thanks for joining us on r.t. international this hour the latest you can join my conic sean thomas at the top of

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