in. cities across croatia erupt in celebration as the national team reaches their first ever world cup final after defeating england. donald trump urges nato members to ramp up their military spending at eight summit in brussels. the head of her meeting with trump on friday britain's prime minister theresa may pledges to boost support for nato and send hundreds of more troops to afghanistan. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team international thomas certainly glad to have you with us. now croatia has reached the fifa world cup final for the first time in the country's history it sent england crashing out

of the tournament with a three one victory in moscow setting up a final showdown against france on july fifth.

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 sol they are people like. like myself working abroad and when you work abroad i think you feel your country even in a in a different way so for them to go back to their countries and and to take a country like grisha 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 say probably ashley young via the new will be on certain for seventy five seventy six years old no but the others there will be in the next will come up with more experience sceptical of level get assad good steve holland if i was. the f.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 euro's 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 world 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 their 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 kitsch gets that crunch goal but is it is 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 a ball india 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 for teak is not just about.

what to used to call the footy calls in your muscle because of lect aids sometimes is more central for teak. 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 of could score you had the chance with a fantastic save by a big force where you put all these wally covering all the area of the wall in front of mans a kitchen runs of kids had no goal we didn't see that but then in that one the heat's a little short and basically it was a good and it as you say took the recreation country of only four million people and yet this will be this there are three today the second seven final 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 are 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 dubbed saying the english boys they gave everything . you know again they were sold so so so close that these were any towards you towards more tonight belongs to croatia and 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 sink for a world cup final icing both teams should play the semifinal in the same day bring these these in win the 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 braids three minutes or so to minutes extra which for them. extra times extra times

ninety minutes ninety minutes is one more match. we see in the world cup at 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 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 discount 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 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 loved. the knockout competitions but.

discussion 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 so me at least now but one day we will be because i really want to go to i want to do it will come. 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 money to make his way out and we can see lots of fans doing so take it 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. they have 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 around the stadium chatting to english fans and one guy particular from birmingham he was alec went 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 we are 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. thing you know you don't see despair right here right these you don't see despair you see right so i mean fast times square in central london and the atmosphere is exactly that's at the moment flat and i'm with tales of defeat is anger and founds

but they're still wearing the shares unless coughs 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 give sausage is for we have a young. no i place a good football with a valuable if you say you had an easy route would actually go be with you for you know we didn't but i'm sure production will be no last time we got this far as before i was told so i'll never seen a coach come to get a lot is listening on the cubs gives like it so you want us all to visit with each other so a feeling of unity of essentially feeling hope for all it is the second hall of records out of this year not honestly first was go but this is way more important to sleep i feel crushed while a worm a show of pride and the shit was out before i was born book called morning lives 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 turn me on for who come

over again croatia they have done they stuck hard way in each of the knockout stages they have gone through extra time those players must be tired the fans they're not going to stop celebrating their into the first of the world cup final this was the scene inside. i can't help but think it neal that one of the most searched for items is going to be over the next day's 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 done better than expected as well but some the world cup's about the celebrations and it's even sweeter when you when you didn't think you'd do so what exactly four million people going crazy tonight. to warm their final score to create neal that since creature into the final of the world cup no eastern european team has ever won the world cup but from what you've seen i know you've watched a lot of creationist 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 are pretty wild in their games think 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 get it 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 to injuries permitting if no no one's so badly to take 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 racketed 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 for man souk each one with a with a very physical 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 they can now say they were beaten by. the world cup finalists if not the winners this sunday with so bob is something they can always look back 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. at all that's what i'm thinking make it last as long as possible let's let's just enjoy it so you say.

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that's what the full story of the people. i mean first of all the lawyers. for shit. or welcome back you are watching international now donald trump is meeting nato allies at a two day summit in brussels and the u.s. president has urged other member states to boost their military spending or to try to dubinsky as more donald trump tweeted that he wants countries in the nato alliance to pay two percent of g.d.p. towards the defense budget now a mediately 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 old garion 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 kicked the idea into the long grass i think you should first get to two percent. four goes on up now. that is what we have agreed that the pledge. and the good thing is that we are moving towards 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 nine hundred. that will see a reliable source get us transmitted directly from the russian get spiels to germany to provide get a specific trial and western europe it's long been a bone of contention the us 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 of the right as they should for the get rid of. much of the world and there was a russian i think it's something. i think is very appropriate. with dollars to russia and we have to defend against russia explained and if. you.

were able to say independent policy make our 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 a lot 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 need to would continue to respond to the change security environment as a result of that aggression by enhanced seem to terence and defense posture towards a forward presence in its eastern allies countries so essentially on the border areas 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 within thirty days or less much more to discuss this nato meeting as leader. talks this evening and it continues on thursday almost nato members are reluctant to raise their defense spending britain is demonstrating its commitment to the alliance prime minister theresa may is sending hundreds of extra troops to afghanistan we lead by example and not only by mission today 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 if they're announcing today that we will be deploying an additional four hundred forty personnel to they chose respites mission in afghanistan i think that shows when nato 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 of 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 training role and then adding some since that happened well all of this taken into account this announcement could be seen as part of the welcome out

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. it's trading when he is here in the u.k. . with midterm elections in the us scheduled for november some are suggesting that the fate of humanity itself hinges on the outcome killam up and looks at the latest efforts to galvanize for years the upcoming midterm congressional elections are certainly a crucial political event but there's way more to it than you think it courting to nancy pelosi the minority leader on capitol hill civilization as we know today is a to risk in the selection 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

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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 at all they were said kim jong un was going to blow up the world. hold a couple i don't know how many months ago there hyperventilating they do this all the time why would nancy pelosi say that for now it's hard to tell if ordinary americans are is fired up as their t.v. screens and political leaders would like them to be well 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 now that does a female back in about thirty three minutes of the full of two news you are watching our two international. this is some sort of play the sad part of his life getting taliban was that. the

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international tensions continue to rise in the small to crave for shifts in to get an even higher year who thought we could get higher what is the market impact we'll ask the founder and c.e.o. of the stock's whoosh melissa arma from our new york studios plus we do crypto right today with two great guest christy are from the tech trader fun and aretha kahn the crypto champion and c.e.o. and founder of the new himalaya capital to change lots to get to the first we had a few test on the trump administration is active yet again to place even more tariffs on chinese imports the total this time is a whopping two hundred billion dollars the goods that will be hit by the newest terrace will include things like fruits vegetables apparel and leather among other things the move represents extraordinary an. escalation of the tariffs and many observers now wonder if the united states and china are on the brink of a fundamental quality of change from a long running quarrel to an all out soiled and sour relationship between the two

largest economies on the planet china's response to the u.s. was notably firm but measured while declaring that they would take necessary countermeasures china did not immediately hit back with their own tariffs experts say china has an array of responses other than tariffs that they could deploy to retaliate against u.s. companies including regulatory crackdowns and stock exchanges in the u.k. germany france italy and spain were all down by at least one percent on the news. and president trying to continue his anti diplomatic approach to europe immediately upon arrival for a summit at nato the north atlantic treaty organization in a joint press availability with nato secretary general jens stoltenberg immediately before the summit mr trump denounced a planned pipeline for russian gas to germany well they. say when germany makes a mess of oil and gas with russia where they're supposed to be going against russia

and germany because he's billions and billions of dollars a year to russia so we're protecting germany with friends with the state of all of these countries and numerous of their cousins go out and make a pipeline deal with russia where this thing is ours is the coffers of russia. mr trump's words seem like a temper temper tantrum to some as he said that germany was quote totally controlled by russia german chancellor angela merkel beg to differ as one might expect denying the accusation and said that she did not need any lessons in dealing with foreign policy from president trump and here for more on the nato summit we go to germany an artist peter oliver peter thank you so much for joining us many of us had hoped that this nato summit would be better than last year's when mr trump was on his first foreign for a and neglected to mention that article five that mutual defense component that came.