the five this was the scene of the hours after the final whistle that's the way to millions of people to the streets with their flags on fire was right in front of us he was in the midst of. the right of all the rest as it is being abandoned drunks and now the world cup champions two thousand and eighteen this is an amazing opportunity to experience something of the country loss experienced twenty years ago when fronts was actually the host nation than when they won the world cup many people believe that they could win this championship going and they will very very strongly about that that they did they cheat 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 and this weekend is just the icing on the cake

the bus filled day the national celebration here in france and now this sunday the fifteenth and even i think yes celebration here in front as i live. oh right. and as the evening wore on the party got out of hand in some parts of the city so riot police were deployed. i was was . i was a how. i was meanwhile in moscow right after the medal ceremony the french team got some top

officials involved in this on abrasions. out of. that one year i was it. was. done in front you know what it was. five years. five years. and in english please oh. sorry. to hear it was there was to be. an off. duty yes you. do that is all you can. do. it was just after the final a deluge moscow i didn't see the ball but the fans who attended the world cup celebrations last all night long he's eager to donna was among the regulars. this

is where it all started absolutely sporadically it wasn't one of the two official be found zones and most people just showed up liked it and stayed and this is what they're doing this is where they've come to bid full well not just to the world cup but also to each other really because people have pool in them love with each other different parts of the world who grew it together they were packed into this one tiny street in central moscow and this is where all the world cup k. is in a good sense of this world of course unravel and so a lot of of course the the street is somewhat dominated of course by the croatian and by the french founds who have come here and down the french are obviously they're happy they've got something they dream golf they desired two decades and now they finally have it if you cheer for france today versus yes did you say you were at the game no i was not a fun fish and that is going to be gone because finally after twenty years removed

to start this one. to start in the shadows the sixty's i'm going to be ninety eight and i remember and i want to do is to junkyards yard and there are a. few stories he has of the was the very proud to be cross in most of the people i was and we didn't the have a lock today but we had locked me in before matches and we called for four or eight years speaking of maybe winning the finals it was very nice to meet you and he would come back as soon as possible and have more stories for you in just a moment. you know. coming.

up. there. is only coming so now for students. but. it's. just standing in the middle of a street and someone reaches back in the back with a waistband the cop is not going to sit there and no give them the benefit of the doubt because people should be reaching their waist being with cops having guns trained on the same police still move. to a decades after the war a nazi don't that was still active rich in the nineteen seventy s. cret intel had as the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery at auschwitz

a german company told developed for the demise of a drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby is anything but. you know she said she's just got choked up minix a little mind victims i have to this day received no compensation then never apologized for the suffering that not only want the money i want the revenge. i think hiding this catastrophe of falling in britain well past fifteen years or so was its connection to the e.u. and the ability to have the tele car say and yet ask. right into the e.u. you take those away and you have essentially greece on steroids and all those banks and the e.u. and america are going to attack the u.k. plate and drive into bankruptcy.

thanks for joining us here this week on sort of major escalation in gaza with israel striking back against an alleged hamas rocket attack. as details. this past weekend the israeli army carried out of the largest air strike over gaza since the two thousand and fourteen war it hit several dozen her must targets after more than two hundred mortars and rockets were fired by palestinian militants at israeli communities living along the gaza border to palestinian teenagers were killed three israelis were injured in the early hours of sunday morning egypt managed to broker a truce but the situation remains extremely tense with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu vowing to continue to hit hard. during the sabbath we hit hard our policy is clear when anyone seeks to harm us we will strike back with great force that is what we did yesterday the i.d.f.

delta matched the most devastating blow since the gaza war twenty fourteen they got the message if not they will get it later israeli officials insist that the cease fire includes association of all arson attacks over the past few months they have been thousands of balloons and kites attached to bombs and other explosives that have been flown into israel these have resulted in hundreds of fires on farmland and also in nature reserves resulting in the destruction of tens of thousands of doom's of land there is going pressure by the israeli public on the military and the government to do something. let's be clear a cease fire were terrorists continue to strike us is no deterrence at all it's a surrender the justice minister will oppose in the cavalry any ceasefire that allows hamas to rearm itself this tit for tat of strikes and rocket launchers is a significant flare up in an already volatile situation since march the thirtieth more than one hundred thirty palestinians have been killed in almost weekly clashes

along the israel gaza border and just this past friday thousands more descended there resulting in the death of a fifteen year old palestinian boy and him israeli soldier being injured in a rare admission mask. has said that it launched rockets at israel as a warning and also as a deterrence to stop israel sending rockets with members of the resistance exercised its right to defend the palestinians and to face up to israeli aggressors who made martyrs to children by conducting strikes against guards of international mediators hold brokered cease fire position is that the occupation started this aggression and has to stop the calmness from the occupiers and by calmness from our side but only time designed its commit acts of aggression against. direct response from the resistance for some time israel has been focused on its northern border and preventing the establishment of any rainy and military presence in syria the

government is where we are to escalate tensions in gaza but israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is under increasing pressure particularly from these gaza border communities to deal with the situation there r.t. . thanks for joining us here on r.t. international many more of your monday world stories in about twenty minutes. you know world of big movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

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witness the construction willing you need to transport. that will help the cause of crimea. most of those you know what google for more snow you have it a bit but. yeah but we have. like to welcome the viewers and subscribers of our team today were talking to dmitry peskov spokesman for the russian president and this interview is special because mr pass cover great to meet with us on the eve of one of the most important events in global politics this year i'm referring of course to the summit between vladimir putin and donald trump in the capital of finland

thank you mr pasch of thank you first let me ask you does it make any sense to talk to a person who can break his promises when we talk about global politics for example the principle of america first or the promise to stop wars all over the world and not to start new ones there before me nor with the parents or the principal of this principle works for any head of state and he had a statement talking to the foreign counterparts has to take care of the interests of their states and our president is quite pragmatic and consistent he always says that he cares about the national interest of russia above everything else that's why he understands the reciprocal beliefs of donald trump and of course such an approach can only be viable if accompanied by another principle this approach has to be based on a commitment to develop mutually beneficial cooperation taking into account the interests of the other countries as well and these factors together can create the right environment cooperation and this is what we hope to achieve at the summit we

hope to see the first steps towards overcoming the current critical situation in a country's relations but i'm pretty boy from the start. well what i was referring to is that donald trump promised to remain committed to this principle but many believe that he has violated the principle not smart they say they're waiting as opposed to let's not forget the don't. trump is quite popular as president of the united states and many people in the us have a very positive impression of what he has done as president and there's ongoing investigations or internal affairs of the united states or you know the elements of those investigations that have to do with russia puzzling to us but let's not talk about that right now presidents trump and putin respect each other and they get along well so far they've only had a brief opportunities to talk to this time we hope that they will have a more lengthy conversation. of them staying on that subject a few days ago donald trump was asked if he thinks that mr putin is his friend or

foe and he did not answer this question directly he used the word comparable instead what do you think about this remark or do you see donald trump as a competitor. i mean. i'm concluding to be a pretty familiar with competition is a good thing i would say competition helps the world to develop but there is one parts competition has to be fair we need fair competition in politics and in the global economy and unfortunately we see the competition is not always fair if you look at the recent situation where u.s. officials commented on north stream to this is a purely commercial project and those comments were a glaring example of unfair competition and i would. give the but i. think i'm crying. opera will you discuss this issue specifically during the summit and are you ready to withstand the pressure that the u.s. administration the white house may put on germany in this respect. is that you

can probably name of course we are worried by these comments let's not forget the north stream too is an international project it's not even russian german or german russian it's a multinational enterprise which has many shareholders among them very big companies from various countries and let's put it this way threatening these shareholders as well as threatening brush and germany with sanctions if this project goes further these threats are a big concern there is no clear agenda that will be created by the heads of state as they go along. yes. or. trumps a visit to brussels the intensity of contact between the u.s. president and other heads of state has been quite high recently would you compare it to what mr putin does in full closely which people donald trump talks to especially before this meeting. but he's. the only car compared to the.

period if that issue. no rich person of interest of i mean of course there was the nato summit before the meeting and this is highly important event you know very well we think of our native and of course we follow all talks involving u.s. presidents and we analyze the information that we get but why would we compare then mr trump has his own international agenda mr putin has his these are two major powers in the world and we cannot be limited to our borders because our interests go all over the globe this is only natural. for him with. his name. with them or the d.c. any competition there and why is it that today u.s. allies and nato specifically are so worried by the fact that mr trump is going to meet with mr putin. no you go. why they're worried is their business not ours russia has never sought to use its relations its interactions with certain

countries against other countries against third party states this is never been the case with such concerns sounds rather strange russia and the united states have a special responsibility to maintain strategic stability and global security so common sense tells us that all countries especially european countries should be interested in seeing the normalization of relations between moscow and washington in his interest the middle is a. question of them because mr pascoe if you said that the agenda is not set in concrete. then you know it will be formulated as the two presidents meeting it over with the government of president yet we have seen some leaks in the media about the joint statement that's currently being coordinated so have you really made any proposals on that joint statement is it true that there are some disagreements over this statement already look at the body.

this is not true or do we have made no plans for a joint statement at this actually there is no requirement to issue a joint statement there will be a joint press conference where they will make their own statements and when you wish to bits. of course. of course we understand that this bilateral press conference has not taken place yet this is an outstanding event definitely and preparations for such an event is it also special to you. put in the this is a regular process of. press conferences quite often with his foreign counterparts but of course this press conference is going to be quite an important one we do need to coordinate technical issues who will go first to august second there will be questions from the media from both countries so we do have a common understanding on the technical. procedures of this press conference and we hope you will provide plenty of interesting information to all the journalists waiting for this meeting to conclude in for my to me. to continue speech

with your gauge or. that of the meeting was announced immediately after mr bolton's visit to moscow so why did he come here to just give the green light for the some eight or are there some preliminary agreements which may come to light later in helsinki and it was a lot about the. conversion. this was a very important visit to prepare for the summit we compared notes on the entire scope of issues in our two countries relations identified where we have common ground where it isn't possible to have common ground and where we don't have common ground at the moment but we may find some later and while the presidents will talk in helsinki we expect lavrov and pompei to have their own separate talks this will also be an important event of the summit presently me and. the. western journalists are going on about some possible big bargaining game that could on

ravel in helsinki should we be watching out for anything like that at all but does moscow have any bargaining chips for the americans many of. the word bargaining is absolutely inappropriate instead positions will be compared and they'll be clarifications to confirm or dispel any fees as you know our relations are not quite support states and russia was not the one who initiated this downturn we hope there is a political will to normalize relations. so rumors again in the american media that russia might hand edward snowden to u.s. authorities have nothing to do with reality. for him to think. of such a thing no those claims are entirely untrue is out of the question. yes i could do that it was a hoarder so why are you so stubborn when it comes to even the slightest possibility of us getting crimea some believe it's donald trump who might be ready

to start discussing the matter from a different perspective like other western politicians maybe it's worth having a go with him when they seem spoil it all but the most go at it not as much as the real. story there is only one way to discuss this and continually saying until russia gives crimea back there will be no this repeating this like some kind of mantra is absolutely illogical is a road to nowhere it has no perspective and nothing will come of it over to me because with more on what if mr trump is the one to stop this is there any hope of that. you know we are not and never have been wearing rose tinted glasses but we can hope for that. with your gauge. donald trump has already announced that he has a big present for mr putin has the russian president prepared any kind of were turned gift of thought that the point here parker in your mind was president well i

can tell you yes as usual there will be some exchange of gifts but this will not be the main point of the meeting. with my stage. forgot about all of them. apart from the headlines we saw after donald trump's visit to brussels for the nato summit we were at about the defense budget of this organization being boosted how we respond to that is that. right here. remember come from. nato it was an instrument of confrontation it was constructed specifically for the purposes of confrontation from the very beginning this is been the rationale behind the alliance so when the alliance openly calls russia or a potential enemy increases its budget this indicates that russia needs to stay alert and it does. so

you're not talking about taking any particular measures yet. as you know we do have parity thanks to our new innovations our new weapons and systems the purpose of which is to secure nuclear parity this is an element of mutual terence and it guarantees global nuclear security given other threats coming from nato you can be assured that our armed forces and our defense industry are taking all necessary measures. in your pride you mean we. can go to them. this eerie national flag is flying over the city of dura the city where anti assad protests are riginal is started now that i saw has been defeated and the syrian government controls most of the country what will be moscow's next steps. are that up north where. you are right i saw has been largely defeated even though

there are still some pockets in syria where we see remnants of terrorist groups with other countries turning a blind eye to that which the syrian army continues its operations against these groups and that's a perfectly normal process the ultimate goal of all that is which of political and military resolution of the syrian conflict you know of course about the constitutional committee this is part of the comprehensive approach that should advance the peace process just in our process and so on but the news corp has probably not. well the meeting with donald trump is of particular interest in that context do you expect any pressure from the united states on iran's presence in syria. iran and syria. no. of course syria will be discussed by the two presidents we all know what washington thinks about iran but at the same time iran is a good partner to us in terms of trade economic cooperation and political dialogue

so this will not be an easy issue. in. a national and of course you also have to take into account israel's interests how are you planning to maintain a proper balance between all those players this is another factor that affects what russia does in the region to deal with the here because nadya's to brazilian put him president putin stays on top of these things you may have noticed them the last few days he met with iranian special envoy and received a message from the spiritual leader of iran and from the president of the country and just a few days earlier he had talks of prime minister netanyahu so this is a very complex web of contacts which is ultimately intended to minimize any negative consequences from the irreconcilable differences between the sides which could affect the prospects for a political settlement in syria you're pretty mediocre. pretty screwed if you're here with us again. let's move on to

a different subject what car will mr putin use to move around and will his motorcade go there. you'll see these new cars new vehicles they're not mass produced not yet at least in the autumn have the company will start taking orders from mass produced cars and sometime next year they will be available for purchase as we start to have more and more limited capable of transporting heads of states will be able to use them for a wide range of purposes as for the car the president will be writing in you'll see for yourself if you get. me that he gave to the many thanks mr pascal thank you.

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