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amanda davies is joining us from moscow with a front row seat to all the action. and all eyes obviously xwlued on t glued on messi and row natural ronaldo. talk us through it. >> reporter: absolutely, what a day we have. we had a day off on yesterday, first rest day of the tournament. which is absolutely leaving everybody raring to go for what is to come today. argentina against france, and ronaldo with portugal taking on uruguay. let's start with the argentina game. we're really wondering what kind of argentina we'll get. many people really feeling they were very, very lucky, just scraping through from their group after that hugh politicmi defeat of croatian where they held a moment of silence on tv in memory. and they they just came back nigeria to see them through to the knockout stage. messi finally getting on the score sheet at this tournament. but the emotion that surrounded that game, what we saw from the team, the talk of the struggle, how they have struggled in the first couple of weeks. you really wonder what it will have taken out of them and how they w

now for more on friday's action and a look ahead to saturday's games, i'm joined by amanda davies. good to see you there. and you are no longer in front of saint base stiil's cathedral. switzerland beat serbia, but the game had a tinge of history and politics. what happened? >> reporter: yeah, i'm in front of of the stadium where belgium are playing tunisia later on. we'll come on to that. but looking back to what happened yesterday, we have this saying that sport and politics doesn't mix. but actually as serbia took on switzerland yesterday, the opposite was true. there is a lot of history between these two sides. switzerland is a very international side with players from a number of different ethnic backgrounds. and their two goal scorers are both originally from koso vchlv descent. they have said in the past that if he had his chance again, he would wand to play for kosovo. but they only relatively recently have been recognized by the international football association. and the ruling was that if people had played in major tournaments for different countries, then they weren't a

bleacher report amanda davis has more from moscow. >> brooke, we're set for another chapter in the battleothe best here on thursday after renaldo headlining grabbing performances with portugal, the challenge has been set for argea arkansa argentin argentina's messi to step up. the pressure is mounting for the five-time world player of the year who has been facing criticism that he has not been doing for his country what he does week in and week out for his club side barcelona. >>> brazil fans holding their breaths for neymar after limping out of training but he is cleared to play friday's game against costa rica. better news for viewers who were concerned yesterday when the beer was running out i was out and about with fans this afternoon and there seems to be more than enough to go around. >> all right, amanda davis, thank you. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> all right, you're watching cnn on this thursday afternoon. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. we begin with the breaking news. a major development in the trump administration's efforts to keep children with their undo

cnn's amanda davies is in moscow with more. hey, amanda. >> brooke, the u.s.e, but that doesn't mean americans aren't interested in the biggest sporting event in the world. fans from the states have bought more tickets than any other country outside of russia to the world cup to get a taste of what's to come in 2026 after that historic vote on wednesday to award the tournament to the usa, mexico, and canada for eight years time. there are 32 teams from across the globe who will be battling it out over the next four and a half weeks. i was lucky enough to be there as it kicked off today with the host russia surprising a lot of people including myself to put in a massive 5-0 winning opening game against saudi arabia. expectations had been lower than low for the home fans. nothing like pulling it out of the bag when it matters. that got the 2018 up and running, brooke. >> amanda, thank you so much. i'm brooke baldwin. thanks for being with me here. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> thanks, brooke. the report comes out that says james comey screwed

amanda davis has more. >> reporter: perhaps the world cup at the moment the biggest stars are expecteders struggle, others survive. >> that is what cristiano ronaldo has done he stored a hat trick. today he's made the difference going if decisive goal in marc to end their world cup dreams. on the flip side they have concern in the next rounds. it is a very good job report say they are running out of beer already. we still have four weeks to go, brooke. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> we continue on. you are watching cnn him i'm brooke baldwin, break news is this children alone sleeping on mats, the president changed his mind, it appears. he is turning his finger pointing and fams claims into promises to pay at the border of mexico. he will sign something soon to help keep families together. this is what he said. >> we are very strong at the border, strong on security. we want security for our company, the republicans insist on security for your country. we will have that at the same time we have compassion. we want to keep families together. it's very important. i will be signing some

the latest, "world sports" amanda davies with a look at what's ahead with the games.and beat serbia yesterday, but there was more than meets the eye that deals with history and politics. tell us more. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. who says that football and politics don't mix? we saw both absolutely collide on the pitch last night. we know that switzerland is a team that is made up with a number of players from different ethnic origins. their two goal scorers both of kosovan origin. two players who proudly talk about their history, heritage. shakiri actually has a flag of kosovo on the back of one of his boots. the flag of switzerland on other of his boots. there was a lot of history between serbia and kosovo. kosovo, ethnically albanian territory, that was involved in a war for independence against largely serb troops in the 1990s. kosovo did declare its independence in 2008. serbia still hasn't recognized that. so we saw the great emotion from the goal scorers, both crossing their hands and putting together an eagle motion which is the eagle from the flag of albani

for a breakdown of all the football action, cnn's amanda davies joins us now live from moscow. usly, the storms have not hit just yet. amanda, a lot going on today. both france and argentina failed to impress in the group stages despite having a wealth of talent. who do you see will have the upper hand? >> yeah, this is where things get serious very much down to the serious business. some fantastic matches on just day one of the second rounds of matches. what we've got today is messi and ronaldo playing for their respective teams knowing if they both win they'll be facing each other in the next round. talk about that for motivation. the first game is france against argentina. and argentinean side who, it's fair to say, have not impressed up to this point in the tournament. many people feel they've been incredibly lucky to have scraped through from the group stages. just courtesy of that late, late goal from rojo across nigeria. the word from the camp has been about how much they've been suffering. they held that minute of silence on argentinean television after their devastating

so cnn sports anchor, amanda davis live in moscow as they compete for the trophy. of the biggest matches of this stage in the world cup. >> reporter: yeah. absolutely, brooke. and the group of fans behind me here in red square gathered to watch on the tv screens will confirm that. olympics fans will remember sochi, though, as the home of the 2014 windsor games. this month, though, it's transformed into a world cup venue, and the stadium that housed the olympic opening and closing ceremonies is right now playing host to, as you said, arg arguably the biggest match of the group stage. as cristiano ranaldo dramatically had a coach sacked two days ago, the whistle has just gone to mark halftime and rand aldo has scored twice to put portugal 2-1 ahead. earlier on, you had to feel for one of the biggest stars of this tournament, mosul of egypt. think of steph curry of the warriors. nearly fit, but not quite. forced to sit on the sidelines, picking every ball with his team, but unable to do anything about them, conceding a last gasp goal to you'uruguay that condemned his s

first, to amanda davies. what can we expect from saturday's matchup?efinitely going to have to be something to compete with the stunning scenes we saw in sochi last night. the good news is we've got four chances really. the day with more games than any other at this world cup. the action kicks off here saturday in about a half hour from now with the euro 2016 runners up france taking on australia in what is known as russia's international sporting capital. in a few hours time, attention will very, very much switch here to the home of spartak moscow. you might be able to hear behind us, already still with four hours to go until kickoff, the fans have been arriving in force. it's going to be the 2014 world cup runners up argentine on against the might of the smallest country ever to qualify for a world cup, debutantes iceland. they are really everybody's new favorite team having burst onto the major tournament stage at euro 2016. as much for their fans with the iconic thunder clap as for their appearances on the pitch. finally, our hotel as we were leavi

davis who ran for senate, ran for governor in texas. she's like i'm doing this, can help me? yes, i can help you. you should be connected with this person or that person. amanda started one for something. recruiting millennials to run for office and having big successes and is a like amanda is doing is. what can we do to help amanda? women are like all in it in a way and there's no like my project or this is mine and don't touch it, or it's just people, , like what we do to support each other? what can we do to fight back? it's like remarkable. you have the sense of the workplace can be competitive maybe because it's always been dominated by men and women are more collaborative in a world like we are in today that is so globally connected and collaboration, cooperation will be more and more important. i feel like it's different. i feel like it's happening with women. >> it does seem like men are on board, too. you don't exclude them from part of your story of success. i work in a place that is elevated more women that i think any news organization in the country. >> probably true. >> i think they are more afraid of us because we are, well, we are women. i mea