from. cities across croatia erupted in celebration as the national team reaches their first ever world cup final after defeating england. nato members to ramp up their military spending at a tense summit in brussels. and ahead of her meeting with trump on friday. prime minister friesen made pledges to boost support for nato and send hundreds more troops to afghanistan. by broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international certainly glad to have you with us. has reached the fifa world cup final for the first time in the country's history they sent england

crashing out of the tournament with a trio one victory in moscow setting up a final showdown against friends actually on fifteen. was. we were was. was. we.

was. i think it's 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 so they are people like. like myself working abroad and when you work abroad i seem to feel your country even in a in a different way so for them to go back to their countries. 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. in the squad these young the majority of the players they can play the next world cup i would say probably ashley

young vardy they will be on thirty four thirty five seventy six years old no but the others they will be in the next world cup with more experience at the club level get a solid good steve holland if i was the f.a. if i was in charge no doubts that i would keep them in the job in the old give them the chance to take the team to the next uro'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 squad 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 the 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 that they the target magic it it seems like the defense which of mangi kitsch gets the crunch bill but is it the kind of wing. that is different than the others because normally you look at wingers and. just fast and creative and but is also physical very physical fantastic india so the way you win is the ball in the year in the puts the ball into that space is only possible if you are very very physical and you are dominant over the defender so it 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 do used to call the thirty calls in in your muscle because of 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 dead space and months of teachers not the most skilful player in the world but these effective when he has a chance normal humans with each 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 each month the 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 a 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 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 the 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 we. i don't know why you didn't come to manchester and i wanted him. but this voice. talent of 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 in wars dentity 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 sole source or so close that these were indeed 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 the moment france they're 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 seeing is very very unfair. i know. the broadcasters are the ones that that put the millions on the on the

table but by seeing for a world cup final icing both teams should play the semifinal in the same day bring these these in win 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 these 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 have you thought. i have to do that i want i've always wanted i always wanted i always told that i have to do it once but especially being in russia and feeling the motions around it i want to do it sense also by my experience point of view discussions of short competition i never did 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 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 for me at least now but one day we will be because i really want to go to pool and i want to do a little. 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 phones doing so like saying it was a thrilling game for so many different reasons had to be only one winner and 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 it was 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 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 on 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 want to see them go through it but the same so i'm very very proud of them to you know give sausage is for every young. i place a good football with a valuable view saved had an easy route would actually go be wishing for you will see snow we didn't but a short road up could not be no last time we got this far as before i was told i'll never seen a coach come to get a lot as soon as he won the cubs gives like it so he watches us all to miss a future so feeling of unity but he said you are 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 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 feel for who come 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 they're into the first of the world 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 dubrovnik 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 do so what exactly four million people going crazy tonight. to warm the 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 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 see we're saying 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 that they've pretty world 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 is 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 they can actually take the page those guys will strip 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 head that he'd lead to created that winning goal from and soup kitchens with with her 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

i'm 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 creation if not the winners this sunday with so bob 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 to want to pick a winner. at all that's what i'm thinking make it last as long as possible lest let's just enjoy. our days daniel hawkins was in central moscow right after the game and to get reaction from supporters of both england and croatia it's an ally ponce here on the coast gets annoyed but that's really been the case since the start of the world cups and i know it's

a special one for the croatian fans it was england's first semifinal since the year i was born in fact since one nine hundred ninety and it's the croatian team's second semifinal since ninety ninety eight that was their debut year in the world cup as an independent nation much emotion is right now how do you feel. just to put them aside see i mean i didn't buy a very well without the semifinals by some twenty five out of the five i did pretty well ok i want to go for five guys how would your emotions often escape what a fantastic game it's been yeah this is the best game i think in the race of football history guys are going to support them till the end race over the number one spot was something that i always think is disappointing to go gets about coming not me we're going to go in the square and i like to be loud when there are two issues so that fear that i'm like i hope it be a friendship issue this wolf i'm sure everyone's dream sure nice versions of being

nice. and tight. when you came to russia for the first match did you think the situation could be in the final week of so this is a. the guy so that. we also want to take the mother russia reality here it these five the people. that we are thrilled to be here look came back go where we first met care not to. care not for. years. was. switching gears to other stories making headlines this hour donald trump is meeting nato allies at a two day summit in brussels and the us president has urged the other member states to boost their military spending r t shall depend ski has more. donald trump has

tweeted that he wants countries in the nato alliance to pay two percent of g.d.p. towards the defense budget no 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 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 more we get towards stunt 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 gas fields to germany to provide guests for centuries and western europe it's long been a bone of contention in 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 of those they should follow to get rid of their call to get rid of the. march of the world and yes for russia i think it's something they are still looking at because very inappropriate. with dollars to russia and we have to defend them against russia explain to. us you. were able to say independent policy in 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 that 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 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 within thirty days or less much more to discuss this nato meeting as leaders head into talks this evening and it continues on thursday political activist david swanson told us europe would have nothing to game from meeting trumps demands and raising military spending. when president trump says you spend more on weapons and more on nato or nato will scale back and nato will pull out and nato will be here that the correct

answer from europe is yes please thank you get out this is not a european invention this is a tool of us domination when donald trump was shocked by how many u.s. troops there were in germany the answer from germany and from nato and from the world should have been get them out you can get them out of germany meanwhile now he knows that germany is still occupied by tens of thousands of u.s. troops for the past seventy years and claims that germany is is a servant and controlled by russia it don't try to make sense of it it doesn't make sense we've you know we've we've got a drop that enterprise 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 not only by me from the nato 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 and they smoke ration is around the world every day they're now saying today that we will be deploying an additional four hundred forty personnel today toes resonates with the mission in afghanistan i think that shows when they say cools the case one of the first to have to stack 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 the b. . 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 well 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 u.s. scheduled for november some are suggesting that the fate of humanity itself hinges on the outcome or his killam up and looks at the latest efforts to galvanize voters the upcoming midterm congressional elections are certainly

a crucial political of that 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 a tourist 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 cocktail parties with your friends and you sing civilization is collapsing and you nervous and worried but that is not where you personally are time energy and money than eve you don't actually think civilization is collapsing so you're not pushing yourself hard enough and i would push harder the time for a day of news this is over it is cancer midterms are america's last chance at remission register to vote we can beat this disease now film. or 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 face possibly the fate of american civilization at stake i think. and civilization is 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 a couple i don't know how many months ago there are hyper ventilating they do this all the time why would nancy pelosi say that throwing gas on the fire 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 let's not forget the vote is still months away and the hysteria will probably escalate and pick up steam cable

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