the truth of the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. all eyes right now on the finnish capital helsinki where president vladimir putin is set to meet. the first summit between the two leaders. even before it's lifted off. camera k.g.b. colonel in the kremlin could be doing some important intelligence gathering on his american counterpart people are terrified the best case scenario is a scenario where basically nothing terrible. in the twenty eighteen world cup lifting the trophy after sixty four games played in a. full

two victory over croatia in the final celebrations erupt across france though in places it simply spiraled out of control. monday here in moscow this is the international border big day for headlines it is let's get straight into this program for you. is about in helsinki for a highly anticipated meeting with donald trump who is already having met finland's president now the two had breakfast together along with trump who was accompanying her husband on his europe trip although the summit with putin hasn't yet begun some sectors of the media are already in panic mode just as they were. first met last

year. and. there is an unlikely that the president will confront putin is going to convey to putin that he's weak. from what is now our american perspective was he earned a face to face full scale bilateral meeting with the u.s. president. the president's trip abroad will also include

a meeting with russian president vladimir putin or leaders of these two countries i'd like to hear someone say this is a bad idea when he goes with this nato conference who well he represents we represent the united states or we represent moscow the former k.g.b. colonel in the kremlin could be doing some important intelligence gathering on his american counterpart people are terrified the best case scenario is a scenario where basically nothing terrible facts are in the meantime hillary clinton recently tweeted insinuating that president trump is in cahoots with the russians it seems no matter what happens in helsinki or how hard and putin tried to improve diplomatic ties some will never be satisfied as what i guess the explains. two years they've obsessed over it one dead end worried about this meeting joked

about their relationship than old i want to state officials that we in russia are so the words you are us prisons take you now doubt all drop glad to be uprooted one old one i'm taking a year me joint statement saying we're best friends blah blah blah and here we are and they finally meet in a pundit call fanie roaring up into a crescendo a tense moment but trump thinks it's no biggie. putin may be the easiest of the more. i hope we get along well i think we get along well hopefully some day maybe he'll be a friend it could happen but i know i just don't know him very well in the sense we're competitors not a question of friend or enemy he's not my enemy so what's on the menu well for starters no one really knows yet we've had hints syria ukraine meddling but

nothing concrete which is no surprise anything these two say especially about each other invariably gets strong out and turned upside down and inside out. he's a very bright person talented without any doubt reaffirming their bromance mutual admiration society if he is really very much of a leader he's been a leader far more than our president has been a little too mentally unstable aggressive men with nuclear buttons it's a disgrace it's gotten so bad that even common courtesy is frowned upon or reviled at this point of putin's sneezed trump would be crucified for merely saying bless you thing is trumps trump he's easy with words russia is not strong economically and we could do a lot of different things to really do numbers on them if we wanted to know what.

trumps trump words for him more sound than meaning good will know much more careful politician but trump was able to succeed in business and that means he is a clever man come on the. team was more effective during the election campaign sometimes i thought he was exaggerating is true but it turned out he was right. although i did once side with trump remember the rumors spread about trump the one about prostitutes and a certain hotel room in moscow. trump is a man who for many years has organized beauty pageant he socialized with the most beautiful women in the world i can hardly imagine he rushed to the hotel to meet some young russian women low social responsibility. sweet talk aside russia and the

us in syria have almost come to open war relations a dismal getting worse but not all is lost crimea is back in the headlines trump has called for russia to come back to the g. seven regardless trump's a businessman he likes the deal he likes the trade so we can you do me a favor we can get out of syria i think and probably have a good relationship with them yeah it isn't going to be easy but at the least they're talking two nuclear superpowers which could destroy the world thrice over not behaving like children everyone's better off when they talk unless you're a pundit or a hater they're in meltdown mode calling this a loss for the u.s. calling trump a russian agent but hey they've been outed for years all that's left really is the wait and see what happens only time will tell given all

that's been said about the presentations we decided to talk to people in new york in order to find out whether they are free by the coalition story and trumps so called role in it as a kremlin agent. take a guess. trump come people something arrogant for him. but i don't know if i could say that on t.v. what's what's orange in russia. is there some steel or something apps like a trump ski the that's his name it's got to give away i love the viewer so much as i don't believe. that keep doing what you're doing you're doing a great job rushing to make sure the two people fly you don't change your wife's too often or something. you could build more hotels you know no more make moscow great again.

why do you think that i just think is too much is too shady to nabi i think that the top thing to say isis guide to the idea of innocent till proven guilty just sounds crazy so we figure. you're. not much like her and only if there's something in it for him not friendship for the sake of slang i think everyone's capable of making friends i think would be pretty sad especially i mean he has a wife i think says she's his friends i hope so they created a child sometimes i think everyone can have friends. even the craziest people have friends that's true there's crazy for crazy. head all for the donald trump tweeted that relations between russia and the u.s. were at rock bottom blaming his previous a criticize us for that and also said that the media would crucify him at home no matter what the outcome of the summit.

unfortunately no matter how well i do at the summit if i was given the great city of most go i was a retribution for all of the sins and evil. committed by russia over the years i would return to criticism that it wasn't good enough that i should have gotten some peaches but in addition much of a news media is indeed the enemy of the people. let's go live now to independent journalist a little bit of a joining us live here on the program thanks for coming on today what's your take on the the mainstream media's bashing of donald trump for the meeting is it a bit too much one might think. it's a little bit nor it is really too much it's incredible they are hysterical especially in the u.s. of course and the u.s. establishment mrs pelosi the leader of democrats and in the house of

representatives leading to the attacks by saying that the president must not meet putin the same with john mccain saying that the aggression of russia towards america and democracies around the world makes it to the president and not meet putin and then you have these eight senators who signed a letter saying you cannot be alone with him in a room you must be accompanied by other americans as if he were a child i mean this is completely crazy crazy absolutely crazy now luka has ignored calls to boycott the meeting after twelve russians were charged with hacking offenses are related to the twenty sixteen election do you think trump was right to push ahead with today's summit. i think so because it started strange that these twelve bed russian guys are suddenly discovered now today the day before and it's all so strange that the u.s. establishment brings back creamier just at the right time to make the discussions

between the two presidents difficult so of course there is syria there is the nuclear arsenal on both sides there are many real issues that should be discussed frankly between the two presidents both intelligent and to they can do it without any problem the only thing out. he is that maybe he could barter things involving europeans while the europeans would maybe disagree with what he decides with president putin so that's the only thing and mr moss of foreign affairs for germany as pinpointed that is saying having trump alone with putin even might say all or accept things that are not in the favor of european allies of the united states so that's the only thing but for the rest in america it is clearly ridiculous now certainly as you are saying there could be some bartering going on both trump and putin on an equal sides of the fence they are they all have their own cards to play whether known or unknown expectations on the top. the main

subjects what do you think some people are saying or nuclear weapons should be discussed others are saying ukraine syria and especially iran your thoughts. well yes it's in that order of important thing the nuclear arsenal reduction would be the best point that they could discuss and obtain a start to sort of further reduction on both sides that will be perfect city of course should be discussed the iran deal there probably could be regional in this approach asking poutine to exert some influence on tehran while he would exert some influence on the europeans for example so that's the sort of bartering that some people are afraid of and that's why mr sposi say mr trump says mr trump should not meet mr putin but iran is important syria is important nuclear arsenal fairly important and for the rest i don't think they should discuss the issue with america

and the pseudo intervention of russia and india a presidential campaign issue they should not discuss that and crimini are it's a done deal crimean is russian everybody knows that it's for ukraine it's very difficult to discuss it what is there to the scots so i don't think they ought to discuss it they should concentrate on the real issues syria iran make beat and the nuclear arsenal but that's a process. independent journalist look we have a joining us live here on our to international many thanks for your time thank you very much. now the talks are about to get started in the coming hour or so if you do stick around we have the latest updates here on our international for what many are calling what will be the biggest meeting of twenty eighteen. let's shift gears a bit here on the program now to the climax of the twenty eighteen world cup from our studio in central moscow.

yes a very warm welcome from our skyline overlooking the red square our special studio here in moscow we have had indeed the privilege of following all the world cup action the last thirty two days from here we've had joe same bring you here peter schmeichel so many famous guests. yes but not least i hope you know that the world cup is over because the taking away all t.v. the sheeple think that she's on the dismantling the studio so why we're here you ask me well you know the party plenty then it doesn't and you know abruptly it kind of slowly so we're going to fizzle and they're all still some things i think to

show you will show you some of the highlights of the tournament even the phones i've seen going on to red square the people savoring the final moments before they have to go home it all ended of course with an emotional ride with a forward to victory the front seven moscow's luzhniki stadion this is what it meant to the phones.

yeah i'm not sure how much work there is going to be. today but what a final it was on sunday evening here in moscow for the final score you have to go back to nineteen sixty six for six goals half a dozen goals in one game really it was the build up of an incredible tournament. game after game only one draw in the. tournament and you have to say that it was a fitting finale wasn't it. and it was the only game actually went to the stadium to watch. but i still enjoyed it because i got to watch most of it even in the studio here we had a t.v. able to watch the games and i think you hit the nail on the that it was the perfect and. i think

a very open very entertaining competition this was going to end with something a little bit different a little bit special that's how the whole competition we were disappointed after just one goal in the previous two finals a goal six strikes take a look at those goals. with i. know the. with. they were. it with.

when you three croatian players players the coaching staff will be very very disappointed because. at the 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 that can be different opinions are wrong i'm saying that the concept of the. ease about important mistakes of the referee and this was not one of these of these cases so really really does a point to do that in the second off happen what we would expect and then from this score of the sort of the ball in the fourth and just. a mistake of that i don't even call a mistake i call extra confidence because of the follow on in the game over but croatia still playing until the end of the great pride they were fantastic and they deserve all all the credit for what they did but in football the reality.

and france is a little church. so we heard from josie very wasn't very pleased about the i think the use of far as much as the decision itself to convert the concept of being used and peter schmeichel who was in the game for just the day he was in cannes deaths and with rage that this was a mistake that the referee got it wrong with and that it became a pivotal moment it was one more in the game to a should probably have in the better of the play this turned the tide against them kind of set trends that nicely the very good at playing on the break they had the lead what did you make of it you were in the studio watching you just got the feeling that france when they really wanted to score the cards score you talk about possession of this croatia you're talking about having the ball in the opposition or how it was croatia but on the break you look at that french forward line you always felt that they could get that goal now when it comes to a penalty in

a world cup final you have to argue that it's dispute that it's a clear cut penalty in this case it simply wasn't one of the things that when it goes to pietersen has had his say on this as well over the last month when you go to the screen the referee goes off he has to watch it in real time first of all if he feels he can't make a decision after that you then watch it in slow motion everything looks bad in slow motion give a free kick you can give a penalty for anything if i had to ask for one suggestion i would say that you're not allowed to watch as slow replay you have to watch it in real time and then make the decision feel hard done by but overall ninety minutes i can pick pick out any regard and with regard to the incidents michael said if you give then you have to give hundreds of these penalties when it hits you at close range like that no time to get your arm out of the way but this is. and they had

a very big say in the outcome and as a result france are now the two time world champions france expected and around a million people took to the streets of paris after the final whistle of course when the child was among the celebrating. as it's been confronted runs and now the world cup champions i've seen anything this is an amazing opportunity to experience something of the country last experience twenty years ago when fronts was actually done east nations and when they won the world cup many people believe that they could win this championship going in there with a very very strong here. 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 just the icing on the cake the but still

day the national celebration here in france right now this sunday the fifteenth and even get a celebration here in front. of them. but she's the woman so popular meanwhile in moscow right after the medal ceremony the french team got some top officials involved in the celebrations. ok oh ok well you know you was. only in front you knew if you come true. hard here ok sorry ok in english please oh. sorry i don't know. if you want to.

was you was do you was you have you know how to have fun but it wasn't all funding games though you might have seen some of the images of last night as the evening went on the party got a little out of hand in some parts of parties with riot police deployed. to iraq. was god was. the. guy. to ease the.

back to the more important things before the high stakes game fons of both things were giving it their all supporting their side trying to give them their edge because it's not all about winning it on the pitch it's also about winning it on the stylings on before that. that. was. that they were was . a was the was was.

the football on the pitch i think generally people are giving it to a star they're saying it's possibly the best tournament of all time it's high praise indeed maybe there's a little bit of competition from one thousand nine hundred seventy who can remember it but they the event itself and you've been here you've met so many guests you've got so much reaction from from people who are in the country for the tournaments how do you feel how did you feel be reacting to russia its first ever world cup twenty eight. i'm hosting the biggest sporting event in the country every day all i

can tell you is what i've seen you know standing up in this rooftop for most ok and you'll have seen a lot of it yourself but a lot of people arrived i would say slightly anxious they'd seen the t.v. reports they were slightly worried players and fans we saw this. place telling his family best not to come so people arrive i'm certain what they were going to find and then they found celebrations the scar the street behind us that you'll see many times on r.t. absolutely packed with fans people got there and realized. hey everybody the say we're just here to enjoy ourselves to enjoy the football we're here to have a celebration as well lots of time between your team playing. just me see them meet people from other countries have a few drinks together bond so some amazing scenes on the metro the fans of some of the african teams chanting that are to the russian fans when russia just had a good victory people kind of united in. in this the high. for several

teams throughout the competition i think a lot of people will now go with a very different opinion of russia as a country. they saw that there was security here that there were no problems but the security wasn't infringing upon you know the person. in your face it wasn't stopping you enjoying yourself doing what you want to do. a very open country that is very western in many ways but it has its own you know very unique russian culture i don't think anyone is going to weigh with a negative opinion after all just briefly tell my little story one of my favorite memories i've been in some mario which is one of the eleven host cities for quite a few weeks watching group games and then staged games and. there were a number of africans. there senegal played there but nigeria didn't and i met a nigerian there who say i asked him why he was going to some are when his country didn't play there and he told me i've saved up for six years six years to get to

a world cup i want to see as much of this country by train plane automobile and he went by overnight train on the journey from moscow and he was saying he really just wanted to be among how he called it the real russia see the people that maybe don't get on television a lot don't have the events that moscow st petersburg gets for instance and he said i've got memories now i tell my kids and he grandkids as well those stories that's what he's leaving with i'm sure it happens a lot of world cup but it just it was a genuinely touching moment that you've got people not only about thirteen but by the memories that they're bringing his team didn't do better but i think he was absolutely right think about it a lot of football fans never see the team get to the local finals for many it's a once in a lifetime opportunity if you're going to come and it's always going to be quite a journey quite an expense why not make the most of it go to as many cities as you can soak up as much of the atmosphere in the field.