maybe not the most diplomatic of language and what a hey look at our middle east correspondent paula slee is there hi paula what provoked that comment. well as you say what we're hearing from the american ambassador to israel is criticism against journalists for what he says is failing to philly cover the past roughly two months of protests we've witnessed by palestinian demonstrators along the israel gaza border david friedman said and i'm quoting the reporters should keep your mouths shut and less they know better than israel how it should respond and what to do in such demonstrations now friedman did concede that some of the criticism against israel's use of live fire and the like was a joke but he did say that nine out of ten articles that covered the recent gaza protests have been critical of israel and he called on journalists to meet with experts to better understand what israel could have done differently the american ambassador saying that israel could not have done anything differently that this was an unprecedented situation where you had some forty thousand protesters rushing

and in other news our correspondent paula slee is denied entry to ukraine where she was set to attend a conference on media freedom. you're watching r.t. international live from moscow with me in a day or two you welcome to the program. coming up later i'll be bringing you all the latest news but first let's cross to our special studio in the central center of moscow for the latest on a pivotal day thirteen of the fee for world cup which is make or break for lionel messi argentina. hello and welcome back to our special coverage of the twenty eighteen c. for world cup my name is making. the highlights of the final games in group c. it's a huge even though in group all attention on that to cross the world up close games just getting underway now about two minutes in dollars so far needless to say indeed crucial games the final games of the day are underway there's all to play for in group d. here's how it stands at the moment. at the top of the table with six points it's already enough to guarantee them a place in the next round seven points of fact that's things that of course we lost

correspondent paula slee has been denied entry to ukraine she was stopped at the border as she was heading to a human rights conference dedicated to press freedom she's currently stuck at the airport and here's what she's told us. i'm sitting right now in the deposits announced here and i don't know what's going on and they go around forty minutes ago they gave me my luggage and they've taken up hospital and they just told me to wait i have no plane but back at the moment i was supposed to fly out tomorrow off to the concert and so at this stage i really am literally in the boat waiting to hear or see what's going on and at the moment there's no border police surrounding me i am right at about eight o'clock this morning local time am supposed to be attending a conference organized by the organization for security and cooperation in europe and the conference is devoted to chris freedom and media pew ality in ukraine june in times of conflict now it's quite ironic that i cannot even attend the conference and it's not only need there's another russian journalist who's also being detained and

correspondent paula slee has declined entry to ukraine where she was set to attend a conference on media freedom. is midnight and you're watching r.t. international live from moscow with mean a day or two to welcome to the program day thirteen of the fee for world cup has come to an end with argentina in croatia progressing from group d. the south americans will meet france in the last sixteen while the impressive croatia side will face denmark we've got all the highlights from those games from a studio in central moscow with artie's nicky aaron and daniel hawkins. it's been such a roller coaster end of the games in group do you today we're going now to officially crozier will be joined by argentina in the first round of the all the highlights from those games on the early action as well in group c. of course and what a night it has been for us in cosy decrease of work celebration but more importantly relief on the faces of the argentina has been a certainly dramatic game us that but i want to lay out i mean we were glued to two both games where we were the argentina nigeria game i reall

well we are on to other news already as middle east correspondent paula slee has been denied entry to ukraine she was stopped at the border well having to a human rights conference on media freedom here is what she told us shortly after arriving in berlin the flights here from kiev for were pretty uneventful this of course is after spending around eight hours today in the departure lounge at the airport in kiev i arrived there in the early morning and initially my passport was flagged at customs they then took me to a side room where they kept me for around an hour and a half without giving me any kind of explanation eventually when i asked what was happening they called me and they sat me down and they said that i had been found to not be allowed to enter the country they wouldn't give any kind of reason they said it was an order that came from above and they are me to sign something that confirmed that i understood that i was not being allowed into the country that i was being banned for the next five years and as i say no explanation given after that i was taken to the departure lo