up to sixty four games played in eleven russian cities the twenty eighteen world cup and sweet france lifting the trophy and its players entering the pantheon of great. while celebrations are up across france softer a thrilling four two victory over croatia at moscow's luzhniki stage. and our other headline story donald trump lands in helsinki ahead of his first formal summits with limited.

play from the all the new center i'm calling bray it's one am here in moscow and midnight in france where they're likely to be causing well into the night after winning football's biggest prize here's how paris reacted after the final whistle. mum. france on the new world champions off of asphalt to victory of the croatian what proved to be a good thing for france manager did the idea shaun has just become a third person in football history to win the tournament was perfectly and a coach he sat down for a post match news conference spreading didn't go exactly as planned. any wished lease. sorry can't hold. off on a killing. off. the. i heave ahead of the evidence that i didn't

i was if i think i'm sore a tough fight back from croatia who were in their first ever final here's some of the key moments of that match and a break down from manchester united boss joe samaria. i was. lucky i. i be he the eagles i i.

i. i i i i. i. i i. i. i i i. i i. live i. twenty three croatian players as the coaching staff will be very very disappointed because. time the best team was losing and was losing because of.

in my opinion and mistake of the concept of the v a i'm not saying he's not the penalty because there can be different opinions around i'm saying that the concept of the v.a. is about important mistakes of the referee and this was not one of these cases so really really disappointed you that in the second of happened what we were expecting and then friends scored the serve the ball in the fourth and just. a mistake of that i don't even call the mistake i call extra confidence because of the four one in the game over but croatia still playing until the end of the great pride they were fantastic and they deserve all of the credit for what they did but . in football the realities. and france's little chimp in twenty

years of it's been a fantastic well kept and you would think that the final he would be a fitting climax to win it was wasn't it sure assessment of the last month of football that we've watched you know i think. many many would sings happen i think the fact that. the biggest players in the world they didn't make it with that teams i think that's also the beauty and in the power of the icing the v.a.r. gave a very good contribution when i was applied in the right stances as syncrude fronts in the final since the beginning was a good final was a really good final and i would like to see these second of starting with the one one. not to be the one and specially with a two one goal. that will be forever in the final of the.

highest scoring finals on but it was. what i think it was a fitting to what has been an absolutely fantastic welcome i'm a little bit sad that we didn't get three more goals because then they would have been superseded or we would have superseded brazil when you said now we don't see one goals were scored in brazil four years ago hundred sixty three before today we got six one hundred sixty nine which is still very very high when you said we needed nine goals i thought. actually it's getting interesting for now and let's cut to the chase here right so it was one one it was pretty even croatia started really really well and for me the whole for the first forty five minutes was they were the best team no doubt about that france didn't really play well they looked very nervous and then this referee and i have to say nesta partying of also referee the opening match between russia and saudi arabia in that stadium you also referee

crazy versus a game and i told you i was very unhappy with his performance i thought he was very one sided then today he then brings involve on a decision where i don't think it's a pound if it's a penalty then i think the games completely ruined and it takes so long he watched to so many times and you know it just shows you that he's in doubt he doesn't really think it's a penalty but he hasn't got a clue what am i to do here but this decision which for me is crazy it was not a penalty if that is a pound you would have twenty penalties in every game and you could have a class player like there is mine an opportunity like that he will convert and you can try to see if he has to be home to bowl yeah there's got to be intention he's got to be a deliberate movement of the hands of the ball happens is a guy who doesn't hit the ball and he's this distance you know and it's you know it just hits him to scrape it deserve it but what it did to chris. there was to be

flayed them and this was a moment where you know all that bravado or all the x. or and everything they showed in the previous three games is just disappeared and they'd come back is that we've said before three times in a row in the knockout stages they've done it a fourth time. and then this controversial decision not the thing out and you feel that this was just one time too many for them to go to the well in and pull it back from supporters in paris going crazy they feel that this was a win for them this is a report from our correspondent in paris show the davis king right after the final whistle was the right of all. as it's being abandoned runs and now the well champions i'm seeing a team meeting right incredible still people just don't sing with joy here on the street waving their flags for them this is an amazing opportunity to experience something of a country loss experience twenty years ago when fronts was actually the east

nations and when they won the world cup many people believed that they could win this championship going in he was very very strong here by them and they did they cheer him and of course they've done it every stage of the way the fans have been out in the streets and now they've been rewarded with this incredible moment this moment where they know that they are now the world cup champions in this weekend's is just the icing on the bank the but still they need a national celebration here in france and now this sunday the fifteenth an even bigger than a regime fronts as i nibble. on some of. the stick about russia because you know we haven't spoken about them for a few days let's not forget that's what a big part they played in this competition we said it before host nations is important might do well to keep that in the sphere. strong and vibrant and i think

we saw that in this world cup maybe more than ever before because the the the kind of energy that it generated across the country it really lifted everybody and also it made more russian fans i think go on to the subsequent matches generated an interest in the competition i don't think this world cup would have been so brilliant had russia not play that well and what what russia also created they created they can personalities stars in russia there are now stanislaus he says is a massive star he can pick and choose who can pick i want that square to be named after me and it will be cherry sestinas choses zuba. people who went on the football pitch and worked for that i think for well for the country inspired people show people that there's a different way of doing things and i think in the experiences the six months travelling here all that out there was about first of all the food after the host of that hopefully it's true. venue is good enough with people like come in here you

know how would it be can our football team play all these things but washed away when russia and saudi arabia five and from that moment on this world cup just took off. ok i was the most experienced guy in the world cup i've watched them since one thousand nine hundred eighty four and a lot of them i've been through a played one myself i've been broadcasting. but i cannot remember anything as enjoyable as being there not in most of the time this place has been since after everybody i know who works in the same kind of job that i was probably into or to russia with with all but we were told before hand that it was dangerous to be here that it wasn't going to be good stadiums were invading the same thing we heard four years ago before we went to brazil all that turned out not to be true in fact everyone thinks it's been for you know a lot of the guys have asked for a lot of yesterday things just. it was for me for most players working for

a very. good one for the trails most of the deepest if you have enjoyed it yeah but i think you have to just remember the high points and one of them from a was when russia would on terms of the tournament very following day they flew from sochi point to moscow and then medically for thousands of russian fans in the found zone here and then full of the flag that said we play for you and i think that was the key thing that the fans felt that the players were doing this with them that they were on this journey together and i'm sure that's the feeling that they'll be enjoying right now in france and you know we have to say but france really really did. but within a month and i think you know when you look at all the squats when the all the twenty three names are free you could argue look at fronting for a while lot of what you look at brazil thing was what they have spain was the same and also germany and you have to remember germany didn't finish first this time they nearly finished last i mean they really embarrassed and self finished last in

their group didn't even make it through world champions pretty sure that croatia when they had a moment of reflection they're going to be partying tonight i'm sort of a she carol get all the players out and all of the board will be celebrating and expected to get this far you know the fans they will have been dreaming the dream when they got so close that with some disappointment they won three consecutive games in extra time to the five penalties go on can say they didn't have the nerves tested we spoke to the croatian present head of this match she's a passionate football fan by the way and very proud of her national team regardless of defeat well i didn't see their team i saw the selector they're feeling fine they're feeling great what i can say is like i just played. the relax it doesn't it doesn't really matter if we're going to the gold or just silver will on the top of the world and i'm so proud of my nation it's been a bit an interesting time appear on the rooftop we've seen kind of everything haven't we we've been. with celebrities out of all the inner fright that i will get

into one of these wives and. where there's a drop made of not a nice job and i'm worried not only about the fall because it's a great. but the cost of this. plenty worried about being struck by lightning as well but that's the energy that we've heard throughout this tournament we've had our correspondents all over russia in the host cities bringing you know i hope a chance to soak up some of the atmosphere to enjoy what it's like to be part of this tremendous footballing road show some great experiences along the way i would like to take a moment now to share a few of them with you. should have been taken over by my friend fell to egypt should be sitting with the right next to the ship where he said. that he. will keep the sixty six seven.

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people use. five. thousand fans and generally most of the way to get it with the boat going up front and. i think you. would want the celebrations have been like in celebration of the host city has been a great atmosphere lots of russians enjoying this world cup and just picking a new team to support to the end after russia departed let's go to sochi downhole can see he's in st petersburg let's come to you first looks nice dry there what's it been like for you being part of the anting anting covering this world cup the football on the pitch has been fantastic and i think that final really really encapsulates the kind of tournament that we've had great individual performances fantastic goals our studio here in st peter's it's been really

a wonderful backdrop for what's been a great talk about a great personal experience for me i've managed to take kids to pieces by the wonderful people here the culture the architecture everything about this city is really been welcoming to me i even brought my family out here as well spend the last week of the tournament with me such was the amazing atmosphere here and as well of course the fans who have come from all over the wild goose travel to watch this world cup which is probably one of the greats this if not the greatest in history what an incredible month it's been just before going on so i produced how feel how i miss going back home some oscar actually if on through on us i'm really going to miss this experience what an amazing experience it has been the weather here and saucy the rain really hasn't dampened the whole experience overall the stadium the fish stadium and behind we have seen some of the brightest matches. the

knocking portugal out and finally that game which had over one hundred forty million russians on the edge of their seats the country to dream for one week for one day for that hundred twenty minutes and the host nation reached the quarter final before having their hearts broken by the croats of course that they came second often champions france without the files though as you were saying neal this really wouldn't be the experience it was and from means right thing with those people like came from the far field this asia south america or australia or north america i've visited multiple cities in russia from design to kaliningrad from sochi descent. and they really embrace the country in the country embrace that make time disquietude preconceived ideas and reservations preconceptions about was shattered this month and is now rationed to say we are there for the people present and you know had the best world cup ever it's hard to understate really what an experience this has been for russia we've been bringing you highlights and analysis

with some of the greatest minds in the beautiful game and we put the shot with slots of colorful visitors let's take a more than a thought it look back. welcome to our tease coverage of the twenty eight teams playing for world cup i know you're watching at home because they still will go what else would you be doing right now the best to do when you never television presenter. it's not easy or somewhere was. very unlucky the last few days you're going to moscow. we are in bracing the very english weather here in studio to been specially lined up legitimately organized whether personally. i. i. i. i wasn't as a political fam. you know those who. has been passed in england if you are an

english person when talking about the world cup you have to say it's coming home yeah let's hoping it'll get stuff by croatia story but it's that by the way the cast was absolutely amazing it is to use me i'm sorry peter but he was even better than you. fantastic partly as well the general of the supremes committee for delivery a legacy for the twenty twenty world cup. maybe for your monday vision very dramatic story in your message to. soap operas but for. my kids is my kid in spite of he looks older than me. like you. i think i think these boys from iceland since they were babies they were eating a lot of meat on breakfast immediately just to give you an idea how big these guys

are i'm not a. big big goalkeepers recyclers i do have a quick question for peter goalkeeper sorry i know it's a midfield dynamo if you fancy yourself a quick question for peace my good it's not your doing ok i think that is unfortunately the situation that will come up you can have many teams that you support the caribbean feel only one and there's only one guy with a home that is really making the most of it. but there are times when you want to look a little bit. what do you want also but. you know without that you have bragging rights go to france for four years at least are already gearing up. to catch twenty twenty i call white it's been so great to hear why. would you want to mess that thanks for staying with r.t.

it's been a real pleasure it's been quite a journey been a real i say a fantastic experience working alongside you peter i've learned a lot about football and it's has been fun and so thanks for being with us thanks for watching the unix time cease. our.

legs. are looking. for. hello again are of the headline story donald trump's arrived in helsinki for his first formal summit with the russian president but he made putin it comes on the back of a trip to brussels which seoul fractious talks with nato allies and then

a visit to the u.k. during which he also called to control the sick after undermining the prime minister's position on it and despite the poor state of relations with russia right now the u.s. leaders said that monday's talks may go more smoothly than the others he's had this past week. putin may be the easiest of them all would think he would say i hope we get along well i think we get along well hopefully some day maybe i'll be. friend it could happen but i don't i just don't know him very well in the sense we're competitors not a question of friends or enemies not my enemy well as for what might be achieved come monday the new york director of the nuclear age peace foundation told me that atomic weapons should be top of the agenda we preparing a lot of negative opinion and minimalist but i'll tell you what i'm hoping what i mean i think charm and while. that he might want to be really he campaigned saying

he wants to make a deal with russia he may deal with what korea. started back to the hostilities and i hope that. president putin can reestablish the look that is that russia was constantly making you go on the trip so they can. be said but. and it's your fault i'm not that us rejects i hope it's off the back on the table and they can come out of the meeting saying look we're going to finally get rid of nuclear weapons ok that's it for me medina cultivars here over the next few hours as we wrap up the world cup the seat from crown victoria softer a tough fight with croatia i'm calling right thanks for watching. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to us of the

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friendly. as you may know or is a pretty hectic city these days just yesterday israeli prime minister. benjamin netanyahu stopped by to watch football. palestinian leader mahmoud abbas is visiting on the same day as you but none of you tell i your visit formally to the upcoming meeting in helsinki is this just a incidence that all your schedules happen to overlap. you know any connection between your attendance. to in your country and the presence of others. mentioned so i have come here independently only for the talking with the hiring. of all of them president putin i have cherry the messages of or great.