three acts but their spirit the spirit of it was a small country that is not expected to be there the players are ready for sure they are ready to give everything. a good month doesn't it and hopefully then for the crack at tomorrow frankie for watching t.v. will hand you back to me. it's another beautiful day we're going to miss the days when the world cup has gone the biggest the only thing which is the same it's been an emotional roller coaster anticipation for the friends tracy came on sunday first to say that is sky high day but that's tomorrow today about the fans the fans it's what that's what makes that the world cup for me and for many others as well for many of them that visit to russia when only it's really been a trip and never forget i think that was probably a pretty good atmosphere in the found zone near the st petersburg stadium on their return because let's cross over to him russia's northern capital is saying goodbye to the world cup but i'll tell you what was special after the game that just

finished there whenever i saw people coming out they were all walking towards me with smiles on their faces and it didn't matter whether they were cheering for belgium or england i think it was a big game compared to the earlier game than the one zero win it was just i think there's a more exciting game here we're. very proud of the players i think it's been a fun toss a tournament obviously the result was not what we wanted today but from this argument only going to grow now we're going to get better and i think we can really challenging it's all over well we have a beautiful team and we believe in the future so what does your team have to do to make sure that in four years you know they have a better result. good question that's all the training. what do you think. i think i should just continue as they do know it will be the best team spirit. this will make us win yet.

he would have loved to beat france obviously and be in the final i think this was a unique opportunity to get to the final. but ok well this is a nice capitulation here. which is usually if people are being absolutely fantastic with us you can move to worse my friends. thank you god. we've also had the legendary ivory coast striker didier drogba here in the studio today very exciting it's all part of our special coverage this saturday struck by played some of his best football while marino with his manager at chelsea and he had a very warm message for his old boss a couple of hours ago i thought over the years they spent working together you were one of the best managers of them of the modern era be careful what you say because we're about to go live to him in manchester in a moment. a message back. giving

. the biggest opportunity of his career to change from march to to the premier league so i gave him something very important but he gave me. every minute he was on the pitch for me. and my kid is my kid in spite of he looks older than me. to say ok good stuff this year's final it's a repeat of a classic semi from back in nineteen ninety eight another case in france from now to one witness that was on home soil and he seems gracious called quite let it go even after twenty years with the memory french defender leant around equalizing then giving france the lead still holding that they even wanted to double check that he'd surround would be playing tomorrow they posted a message on twitter the fronts national team then responded on twitter asking curation if they would leave out their foremost asked. i can't double sheikha those

teams as that benefit forward so what they hope is as the reigning final as we all are several shikhar joined as an obvious top studio today as well as didier drogba who wasted all having a little heart felt moments with joe as a marine. because it's a legendary strike as impressions about the tournament in russia. where adding a final darts i'm not sure lot of people predicted you know france against bush on . well the big the big teams they face of course the outs and i think it's good for foodborne you can see that now there's no small teams normal i hope i've got my history running scored in the champions league final yeah yeah and you assume you'll be a plane is again by new year ask the manager and that that's should be basic knowledge and. also that he scored your country's first ever goal in the world cup but i want to see how do those competitors mean this is as high as you get as a footballer how does it compare to the sensation scoring the first of

a goal for your country in a world where. we're losing to a new so i didn't really think about it but later when you do you realize that you've been the first player from my records where that's going to work for you will you say to yourself i think it's it's more than achievement you know to make you sorry for a small country like ivory coast and to be daring to speak competition with these big teams. there's a lot to be thought of. football is for dream the life is for dream and dream come true and of course all creation is exciting all people around the world from california to australia a lot of variation communities outside of creation and we really enjoy and that's time to enjoy and i'm sure tomorrow we can be tired or we can be injured but you see the players against england it's unbelievable i'm so proud of my players or my coach and my friends you played against us you could be ten minute to get to the

last penalties over one hundred twenty minutes next game also one in twenty minutes against russia and win a on the pounds and then again here in the in moscow one hundred twenty one what's the mood what's the feeling in the camp now me will say they're tired but mood is what i would like to express i'm all old inside but outside of course i'm happy and this but i need a holy day and i'm from the fee for congress here in the in you know what i mean work every day scars working but my players the style but we i feel same one thousand eight to being one trance we don't know each day when i signed out. today i don't know it's brains the side of it is the market open as that is looking good there don't go as low you know it's completely one month just focusing on food bowl and that's very important and look. have nice world cup finals france i think one of the best teams croatia beat argentina

france beat argentina we make history. it's absolute pleasure to be here and the country is welcome the world and the people are fantastic they're going to zation it's been absolutely top shelf but they set the bar pretty high for future hosts and it's it's really been a real great life experience you know about experiences and this definitely takes the box and my hats off to you know the russian people in the russian organization and. you know as president you know said the best woke up every night it's very difficult to argue with years ago you came up with the idea that canada should host the world cup you wanted to bring the u.s. and eventually you got mexico in the pit as well and you wanted on june the thirteenth you won the bid many congratulations and thank you so now you have eight years to prepare the twenty twenty six well cups it's going to be maybe covering

the biggest distances ever in a world and we've talked about that this thing says he and russia so i think the kind of lessons that you've had from from what's happened here in russia what are you going to take on to to your world cups i think one of the things as we presented with our bid we're going to have clusters so the travel won't be that difficult so they'll be very similar to what happened you know in russia i work you know it's no more than it was two hours it was really the longest flight which is pretty reasonable there always is lessons learned it doesn't matter what you put on the back but i think that. you know the first reaction is they set the bar very high.

to stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand out on the losing business you just need to ask the right questions and demand the right answer. question. i.

start back with some global news for a following this hour israel has launched its most devastating earth strikes against most since twenty fourteen forty facilities have been targeted right across council the raids began early on saturday in response to bomb laden kites being flown into israel the idea then stepped off the operation after hamas fired rockets over the border the violence has reportedly left twelve palestinians and three israelis which it. is in the forest with the latest i am now fifty meters away from the last target the israeli forces targeted with four air strikes and as you see this playground is more of a picnic people and families play here where this building was targeted with the

floor and strikes is right it claims that this building was used to train fighters and the palestinians claim that this is a place in the middle of the city where palestinian families come here as a picnic and this place is on daily bases filled with children and families and as you see there is a mosque right next to this building where all of the all the buildings next to this building are severely damaged there are a lot of airstrikes still going and we just heard another explosion. it's as collating has now and there are no information about any fire agreements to believe me a member of the cabinet is it as stated that they are going to continue targeting and attacking gaza strip but they're not willing to occupy gaza strip. will make

his confrontation comes after a fifteen year old palestinian boy was shot dead on friday during riots on the israel gaza border one i.d.f. soldier was also letter. or. i or i. was. living on the u.s. justice department has charged twelve russians with hocking offenses it's part of an investigation by special counsel robert muller into alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election. the indictment charges twelve russian military officers by name for conspiring to interfere with the twenty eight sixteen

presidential election. eleven of the defendants are charged with conspiring to hack into computers steal documents and release those documents with the intent to interfere in the election. those charges are said to be members of russian military intelligence and they're accused of hacking democratic party e-mails and hillary clinton's presidential campaign the indictments say they created on line personas to publish the stolen information the justice department added there was quote no evidence the alleged interference changed the course of the election. there's no allegation that the conspiracy changed the vote count or affected any election result. or moscow claims the united center was time to have a negative impact on monday's summit between presidents trump and putin breaking down the story now domhnall quarter. it was a mixed moment in u.s.

history as the u.k. rolled out the red carpet for president trump officials back home indicted twelve russians for allegedly election hacking but so far the f.b.i. hasn't had the best track record of looking at the hard facts of this investigation then did the d.n.c. provide access for to the f.b.i. for your technical folks to review what happened. we never got direct access to the machines themselves instead they've been taking all of their information from a third party crowd strike cyber security was the company hired by the d.n.c. to look into suspected hacking of its systems but the thing is the d.n.c. never granted the f.b.i. direct access to its physical servers and that's raised questions over the thoroughness of the investigation you did see never turn the server over to law enforcement if you're investigating either from a law enforcement or from an intelligence standpoint that hacking by foreign

hostile government would you want to serve or wouldn't that help you number one to deny who who the attacker was if they had turned the server over to either you or director komi maybe you would have no more so i guess what i'm asking you is why would the victim of a crime not turn over a server to the intelligence community or to law enforcement but that's not the only strange part of the whole situation the f.b.i. claims that those indicted are russian intelligence officers which means there's almost no chance they'd come to the u.s. for a trial with no one to defend them it seems almost like an assured victory for mahler one that leaves many questions still unanswered it looks to me as if our f.b.i. our department of justice even under president donald trump remains politicized and hostile to the trump administration so i. something this serious involving

allegations that are this profound you'd like to believe that our department of justice or f.b.i. was acting above the law without a partisan interest one way or another and this certainly seems staged to me and the timing of these indictments couldn't have been more convenient they come in the lead up to a highly anticipated summit between donald trump and vladimir putin democrats have already started to demand the meeting be canceled saying it would be an insult to democracy but the white house says the summit is still good to go so at any rate well just have to see which side will get its way if you're the victim of a crime why would you not want to hand the evidence over to the police the fact of the matter is the company they had doing their security as though it was a politically biased company that was involved involved in all sorts of things you have another thing so it is a it is a big question but the other big question really is the timing that once again we have an indictment on a friday or a week but not just any weekend this is the weekend before the much anticipated

hooten summit of the political implications of dropping the indictments the poison the waters in advance of the trumpet and so on that this is clearly the work of the u.s. . that's hard news stories look for not but next a long serving russian foreign minister sergei lavrov is the guest on today's politicking with laurie king that starts in moments. it's hard to imagine after the war a nazi don't tell was still active and rich in the nineteen seventies cretonne had as the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery and auschwitz a german company good untold develops in the divide a drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy. it turned out to have terrible side of. what has happened to my baby is anything but. you know she

said is just. minutes a little mind victims i have to this day received no compensation they never apologized for the suffering that not only want the money i want the revenge. just standing in the middle of the street and someone reaches back in the back with a waistband the cop is not going to say it did give them the benefit of the doubt it's just. a waste of bandwidth costs them guns trained on the same police still move.

one on one with russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov on this special edition of politic. welcome to politicking i'm larry king and historic summit looms which we in the united states president donald trump and russian's leader vladimir putin at a time of increased tensions between their two nations mr trump a signal that syria's sanctions military exercises election meddling may be on the agenda but what is moscow wants from this high stakes face to face to find out we now talk with russia's long time foreign minister sergei lavrov who joins us from moscow thank you for the invitation larry ok

let's get right into it a wrap up of the nato summit with. trump and other members agreed to a joint statement which among other things condemned your country's they call it legal and illegitimate an exaggeration of crimea also reaffirmed support for ukraine's aspirations to become a member of nato what mr foreign minister is your reaction to this. you know there is nothing new in these statements we have been hearing them for quite a number of years so we take it as inertia invited caldwell thinking not nothing more than that i thought the cold war was over. well that's why inertia of the cold war unfortunately still good with nato and it's

high time for nato to leave it behind. at his news conference thursday president trump said that the nato allies have stepped up like never before on defense spending he also be called the alliance of fine tuned machine how does what mr foreign minister said what are your thoughts about nato. well nato is the reality. it's obvious i'm of called what times but that is the reality and we take it as the reality we don't believe that what nato is doing by trying to expand further and further close at the russian borders. swallowing countries pool frankly do not add to the security of their alliance we don't believe that this is the way to resolve the problems of today at the day

we have common threats come and then in this there isn't climate change organized crime drug trafficking and none of this is being effectively addressed by nato expansion nato should certainly be taken as a reality as i said but nato should understand that it is something which cannot dictate to each and every other country how to handle the international security matters dialogue is required we have been proposing many things to nato which we can do together counter-terrorism then the discussions of military doctrines discussion of transparency measures in the military buildup all this was frozen after the events in crimea after the referendum in crimea and made the the

approach that. exactly the same approach as you took when in two thousand and eight in august and then president saakashvili of georgia launched a war against his own people in south ossetia and then we demand that the convening of nato russia council but gondoliers the rights of the secretary of state that said no way we can to discuss anything we and i dress quote unquote but then she corrected herself and all nato members agreed that nato must be all the way or that it made. the russia council must be all weather. forum and that especially at the time of crisis it should function on the basis of equality and taken into account the mutual interests of each other so after the ukrainian growth around them which was free and clear as i said and as many international observers assert the mistake was repeated once again and as of the defense expenditure even without any

further rice the current statistics is that nato together with the united states spends about twenty times more than russia spends on its defense and without the united states the european spent about four times more than russia spends on his defense budget i assume that it might be possible related to the productivity of labor to the difference in productivity of labor but this cannot be the only explanation. how did you react when when president trump said that germany is totally controlled by russia. well. my spokesman there is a kind of addressed this issue i think yesterday when she gave facts that

we. sell gas to germany which is business and the united states has dozens of thousands of military men and women on the german soil and a few dozen military bases and then any international observer having this that he sticks in front of him or her or should make their own conclusions i can only quote what the president from said when he was asked by the president put in this he is enemy or his friend he said he is a competitor a strong competitor and i believe we can get along this line and they hope one day might become friends but speaking of competition i always believed in free competition because free market is about fair competition and when speaking of gas and germany and united states secretary of energy mr perry yesterday i think said

that the north stream to pipeline. might be stopped and those european countries whose companies would be participating in this project would be sanctioned by the united states because because the united states is for competition and for the sake of competition there must be new terminals to receive american liquefied national natural gas some some competition i would say and of course the for. the russian what the riparian guess is supposed to be wars then the democratic american guest then i am all for this story but this is not economy this is not competition this is a pure ideology and unfair competition. mr foreign minister are you going to accompany mr putin to helsinki.

yes i would be there as well as secretary pun pal we had a couple of conversations with mike compel we discussed what kind of arrangements we should for see for the for the meeting and helsinki and parallel to the meeting between the two presidents which they want to start the one on one that would be meeting with mike is invested as to russia and to the united states respectively and we will discuss any issue which each of us would like to race there would be no fixed agenda but there are obvious items which would certainly pop up. the two presidents will meet alone by the way i the end of you and mr putin i know him. but a few times and when i when i've been with him he doesn't speak english are they

going to be interpreters at that private meeting between the two presidents. yes there would be interpreters present put in that chair that understands english but for the sake of better expressing his views he prefers to use the interpreters of good office. will there be there be no other aides in the room you will not be in the room well as things stand now that's what the american side proposed and to be polite to people so we agreed. what are you looking forward to from the summit what from the russian standpoint will be a successful summit. while a beginning of normal communications. all channels of commit more struggles of

communications established during the last seven eight ten years have been frozen on very important issues count that there are these and there g. drug trafficking cyber security many others afghanistan other regional conflicts and what we have now is a spare reddick meetings between diplomats and the military mostly on syria we also have a channel on ukraine where the aid of president putin and a special envoy of the united states met several times about to be is no visible progress because our american colleagues try every every time they meet was their russian counterparts to deviate radically from the meanest agreements which underlie the consensus on your trainee and crisis but

we keep trying and they hoped that we would certainly discuss this issue in helsinki but back to your question regarding the ideal outcome ideal outcome would be to agree to in gauge all the channels on all the issues which are devised if on the one hand trying to see whether we can get closer on those exact topics and also on those issues where we now can usefully cope the rate for the sake of interest of the two countries and for the sake of interest of international community like a strategic stability for example i optimistic about. well i am not paid to be optimistic or pessimistic i am paid to be realistic and really try to stick to the reality we are.