st. petersburg. >> yes, rob. so, today, st. burg is one of the top tourist destinations in the world and a unesco world heritage site, but it wasn't always so. in fact, in 1703, it was just a small swedish village in the middle of marshlands freshly conquered by the then-29-year-old czar, peter i, who would later come to be known as peter the great, the czar who forever changed the course of russian history. ♪ one of the most active and celebrated russian czars, peter the great wanted to modernize russia and build a model european city, a center for education, culture and the arts. named st. petersburg after his patron saint, he dreamed this new city would become the center of western civilization. he started by making st. petersburg the capital of russia, transferring the title from moscow. palaces, universities, and theaters soon lined the avenues of the city that is now consistently rated as one of the world's top tourist attractions. the cultural capital of russia, st. petersburg is home to 300 museums and 70 theaters. it ga

st. petersburg, thank you. you can see more of her exclusive interview with putin on the debut on "sunday night with megyn kelly" this sunday at 7:00 p.m., 6:00 central on nbc. meanwhile, questions continue to swirl around a secret meeting meeting between president trump's son-in-law jared kushner and a russian banker. the white house and the bank told two different stories about the nature of that meeting. so nbc's keir simmons also in st. petersburg went face-to-face with that banker today and pressed him for answers. >> you're the subject of intense scrutiny in america because of your meeting with donald trump's son-in-law jared kushner. >> no comments about it. >> reporter: escaping our questions, the russian banker caught between the kremlin and trump white house. sergei gorkov who is close to president putin not wanting to talk about his secret meeting with president trump's son-in-law and top aide, jared kushner, in december. it's just a question of what happened in the meeting. >> no comments. >> was it

think federation's go may just be to draw to a close here in st petersburg but the celebrations there are only just getting underway for the host nation russia after they secured a two you know victory over new zealand in we have a game alongside me stan collymore stand we're going to take our viewers through the goal some glue should cough and polos start with a second goal which i think is really just finish he said it was a very good performance overall from from russia lots of pressure on the first game they were very poor in the european championships of course so they needed a good result to get the tournament into why paulo is there is he said with the finish very easy ball comes in from the rights and side bryza central striker it was an attacking we just need to get in the box to make sure that you can finish that off so very good room that was the second goal in terms of the first goal thought should dominate the play in the first twenty minutes good little lift of the goalkeeper that glue should cough after say feel a little bit sorry for the new zealand goalkeeper because

st. petersburg economic forum. matt: erik schatzker there in st. petersburg with jean raby.up in the program, fair weather friends. china and the e.u. unite in criticism of trump's climate change decision at a summit in brussels. pun?ou get the i think it is pretty good. this is bloomberg. ♪ matt: welcome back to "bloomberg markets: european open." i'm matt miller in london. we are seeing gains across the board on the equity indexes. capping the week with gains as well. let's dig deeper into the trade and get your may movers with nejra cehic. nejra: we're seeing moves off the back by analyst rewriting's. this develops cables for the energy and telecoms industries. raised to a buy at goldman from neutral. earlier this was gaining as much as 4%. now we are seeing it gaining by the most since mid-march. elektalso seeingelek gaining. &m,the downside, looking at b down almost 3.4%. this seems to be about the share placing. we are told the placing shares told at -- [indiscernible] courtshipe.u.-china ramps up today. they are joining forces in support of the paris climate accord, s

the sun is setting here in st petersburg but on the bright side it means a very shortly we'll be ushering in the dawn of a major football championship joint myself in a few minutes time we'll be talking all things confederations cup. and i welcome good evening watching r.t. international it's just turned ten o'clock here in moscow. russia's defense ministry has released images showing the aftermath of air strikes believed to have killed the leader of islamic state baghdadi the pictures do show have an eyesore command center near the syrian city of rock a look before the russian airstrikes and also afterwards the assault is believed to have killed up to thirty eisel commanders and hundreds of fighters at the terror group's so-called military council officials are still verifying the reports about baghdad these deaths as yet there's been no official confirmation. of course i heard reports on the elimination of all baghdad but i still have no one hundred percent confirmation of this. what the u.s. says it's not been able to confirm either the death of the head of the terror group either. joi

st. petersburg by nbc's megyn kelly. keir simmons is in st. petersburg and kristen welker is at the white house. keir, what did president putin have to say when megyn pressed him about the meddling in the 2016 election, specifically? >> look, he said that even a child could have carried out the kind of hacking of the dnc that caused such controversy. he accused the united states of interfering in russian do metme affairs, while also saying russia never interferes in the u.s. election. at times, craig, you know, he appeared to seem to attempt to belittle nbc's megyn kelly, try to put her off. the exchanges were tough. she was asking question after question about this accusation that russia intervened in the u.s. elections. take a listen. >> have you read those reports? >> i read the non-classified version of them. >> translator: well, it's null and void. who was your tailor? what about the buttons? did they have any claims about this suit, about the buttons? no. they are firmly tied. but you can't wear this suit. can it happen? yes, it did happe

st. petersburg is our colleague, megyn kelly.ad the opportunity to talk with russian president vladimir putin. she pressed him on several issues including whether had there was an agreement with the u.s. to ease economic sanctions. >> yeah, that's right. president putin denied, denied .denied again. he denied that the russian government was involved in hacking. he denied that the russians intervened in the u.s. elections and he denies there was any type of trump transition team in the idea of lifting sanctions. take a listen. >> that is just absurd what they're saying. i don't know where these people have come from that distribute this kind of information. my answer is no, no agreements whatever. we never even got down to that. >> and in the next hour, dara, we'll have more from st. petersburg looking in depth in that putin interview. meanwhile, president putin himself has left the conference here. you can see think of it, dara, as a kind of opening act if you like. we expect president putin to meet with president trump at the g-

a construction site but here we are with all these massive crowds of fans it is happening at a st petersburg the weather is awesome and you know what this feeling is just really running through my bones and ok guys i really do have an excuse for being so psyched about it and our confort a ration scalloped r.t.t. before i'm the only russian and my team is going to be taking on the kiwis and what about an hour and thirty seven minutes and i just can't wait for it the fans can't wait for either the confident racing call is about to start it's great. federation's cooper has been a lot of negative reporting in the media what's the mood like remstar you do in all the many issues to be concerned about into this anytime you know. that i just i don't even want to talk about it because i've seen so many smiles i haven't heard of any problems have you i guess not but certainly in the media you're right there has been some negativity mostly that is for the world cup but we do realize that the comforter ations is known as the world ursule for the big event now if we look at some of the things that were h

so we've seen a bright sunny day here in st petersburg and a very positive sunny outlook for the host nation well don't know if you're reading some of the international media coverage of the build up to the competition for example today there was an article published in the new zealand herald that was talking about things that we've heard many many times already about things that have happened in russia the have been incidents of racism and games that have been incidents of hooliganism saying at the last major championship they're saying though that russia should not have the chance to host any major told and because it is a fair comment because these things have also happened in italy it happened in england they've happened in france nil you don't have to justify anything quite simply football hooliganism happens where. ultras into clothes into national teams and maim the whole paul hopwood with england over many many years and it took a long time for england to shake off that you know the european championships last year there were french or. english really good and there were some

the ratio may just be to draw to a close here in st petersburg russia after they secured a two you know victory over new zealand and they have a game alongside me and call them all stand we're going to take our viewers through the goals of the first goal for the russia dominated play in the first twenty minutes really good little lift of the goalkeeper there. after say feel a little bit sorry for the new zealand goalkeeper because he was very good throughout the game ball comes in from the rights and side bryza central striker as an attacking midfielder you just need to get in the box to make sure that you can finish off so very good run that was the second goal ok we also we were not a great day really into speaking to to the top players and we grabbed a few moments with the guys themselves from the russian team after their victory here's what they had to say it was huge first of all we play for our fans and i think today we made them happy i think it was a good game but the most significant thing is that we won everything else is less important doubling you sure you steve that we lear

st. petersburg is just one instance. a surveillance camera recorded a family dispute that turned savage. ekaterina: he suddenly came around the corner, and raised his arm to hit my friend. she managed to dodge him and ran off to get help. i held on to the railing. he grabbed my hair, pushed me down the stairs, and slammed my head against the asphalt. then he started kicking me. >> in this case, as in many, it was ekaterina's own husband. he had waited 40 minutes for her in the stairwell. after the attack, she took pictures of her injuries on her mobile phone, images of a hellish marriage. ekaterina: i was totally covered with bruises. there was a bruise here, a hematoma there, and on my back, too. i still have marks on my arms to this day. >> ekaterina met eduard in 2003. at first, the relationship was harmonious. but then he lost his job and started drinking. after that came the first episodes of violence. ekaterina: once, he hit me in the elevator, right on my nose with his knuckles. i had to have surgery. i reported t

that has forty five thousand seats versus sixty eight thousand seats and st petersburg. it's not only going to be a stadium of cool in the confederations cup but there are going to be for you guys for the world started here next year maybe when i got there you know the cheer was a very good metro station across the road so the facilities look at. these. and looking great you can look out the architecture you can see the diamond shape status because of the spar tag emblem it's actually a little diamond red and white with a little s. there now speaking of the arena itself it's the only confederations cup arena that was specifically built for football in the first place because the one in cars on that was initially for the university a twenty third teeing then the fish stadium and saw that was built initially for the winter olympic games in two thousand and fourteen while the one in st petersburg it saw the first official matches just a couple of months ago but this is a read on behind my shoulder it's been hosting the home games of f.c. spartak moscow for at least two and

st. petersburg today in a key moment for relations between the two nations. geoff is in st. petersburg with one of modi's top advisers. take it away. >> absolutely. thank you very much indeed for that. let me introduce the joint secretary for economic diplomacy at the indian ministry of external affairs. thank you for being with us here. let me start by asking you what you think the benefit of putting prime minister modi on the same platform as president putin is at this stage. >> i think one -- this year happens to be the 70th year of diplomatic relations between india and russia. russia has been an old friend for india. our relationships have always been close. this is a jgesture, it's a summt level meeting. it's happening at an opportune time. does it mean a deepening of business ties between the two countries? what beyond defense technology do you and the russians trade in? >> the whole purpose of this visit over the last few years in india has been participating. it has been to diversify engagement. we would like it to happen at a different level. that's the reason why e

st. petersburg.hanks, mark. payment processor is making its first major purchase in over a decade. for $750 million the company is buying car connect, one of the distribution partners that runs small to medium transactions. let's get more from frank, a veteran of the thinking industry. 2004.major deal since talk to us about the timeline of the deal and why now? >> card connect, i have known them since i came to the company , talked to them, talked to them the whole time and been friends and partners. watched them transform their company as we were transforming hours. watched leadership innovate and bring technology and we thought it was a perfect time to bring the two companies together, the opportunity of expansion of the platform is a fabulous opportunity. vonnie: what does the acquisition bring to first data? innk: we had an investor day late fourth quarter, actually the first investor day in 10 years for this company. this company made a lot of progress over the past that throw years and we said

st. petersburg tonight, megyn? >> reporter: it was an eye-opening exchange with a defiant president putin today. he denied russian involvement with the hacking and interference with the u.s. presidential election and that changed this week and the story appears to be evolving yet again. >> translator: hackers can be anywhere. they can be in russia, in asia, even in america, latin america. they can even be hackers, by the way, in the united states. very skillfully and professionally shifted the blame, as we say, on to russia. can you imagine something like that in the midst of a political battle. by some calculations it was convenient for them to release this information, so they released it siting russia. could you imagine something like that? i can. >> reporter: not just americans but he suggested perhaps the cia was behind the hacking situation, likening this one to that involving the jfk assassination and conspiracy theories surrounding that. we went on to discuss his contacts and those of the kremlin with micha

a slightly wet but always warm welcome to st petersburg where we bring you our continuing coverage of the biggest international football event of the year eighteenth fighting it out for the confederations cup for russian cities playing host to the vanities tens of thousands of fans have come we'll come away just the two of us here to make sure you do not miss out on any of the action stan collymore the expert alongside me stan what the football fans love more than thing else goals bring them to us russia to new zealand from their yes very solid start boy their house it was knee deep the russian sporting probably could get a little bit down on their rightly so after a disappointing european championships last summer in france but i started like you trying there were peppering the new zealand go with shots and one glass you coughed it lifted it over the news even goalkeeper and turf the ball into the back of the net the russian saw you were. small off of a really good season last season we present to the president was happy it could have been three perhaps four which might have flocked

federations go may just be to draw to a close here in st petersburg russia after they secured a two no victory over new zealand in we have a game alongside me stan collymore stan we're going to take our viewers through the goals of it was a very good performance overall from from russia lots of pressure on them the first game they were very poor in the european championships of course so they needed a good result to get the tournament underway paulo's there is he said with the finish very easy ball comes in from the rights and so it was a central striker always in attack and we just need to get in the box to make sure that you can finish off so very good room after say feel a little bit sorry for the new zealand goalkeeper because he was very good throughout the game but just that little ding called the goalkeeper sees the ball in the back of the net and the hosts were open running. ok we also got a great day really into speaking to the top players and we grabbed a few moments with the guys themselves from the russian team after their victory here's what they had to say it was huge fir

sitting in the center of st petersburg we got the rock n roll down says not too many of them but they are they lack in numbers that making up for it enthusiasm and stars also some ballerinas a bit more classical celebration lots to be cheerful about here in the venice of the north there was a suitable victory for russia revenue zealand in the opening match of the she's confederations cup alongside me former superstar at liverpool must in villa strike a stanley column or stan we have goals that we from palos gulf talk a city action yes it is a fantastic performance from start to finish from the russian national team under a great deal of pressure it's fair to say as well this is the second goal in the second off paul was just hanging around at the far post when you get the ball down that right hand side all you do is gamble as a striker or as an attacking midfielder so he was very simply there just to see him and that sealed the deal the first one was for me very very good pressing pushed off just to lift over the goalkeeper you just see there a little bit of a melee on the line one or

developing story next for you investigators looking into the st petersburg metro bombing back in april say the attack and his accomplices used their controversial encrypted messaging service to plan and carry out the atrocities scott says repercussions for want to use this kind of thing that if a train has a cross it's morning and they would have the f.s.b. the security service here in russia said kevin i again well first of all we know that telegram is a messaging app that both outstanding levels of privacy whether it's encryption facilities where the secret chats now almost three months ago a suicide bomber. killed fifteen people in the st petersburg metro system and the investigation into that now got to the point when the russian federal security service are saying that on all stages for the preparation of this attack the man who carried it out and also anyone who supported him or aided him both in and abroad or using another thing government is saying is that all the encrypting features of telegram with all that. become the most widely used messaging app by the terrorist organizat

st. petersburg. >> reporter: tonight in st. petersburg, russia, a rare public sighting of the russian banker whose secret meeting with president trump's son-in-law, jared kushner, is now a focus of an fbi investigation. but the banker, sergey gorkov, trained as a spy, refused to answer questions from abc news about what he and kushner talked about. the meeting under investigation took place as gorkov ran the russian bank's branch office in new york, after the election, and came at a time that the kushner family was racing to raise money for its real estate business. >> i think the question has to be asked, was this about you trying to get financing for your troubled real estate that you have in new york city? >> reporter: the troubled real estate is this skyscraper on fifth avenue, the 666 building, >> they borrowed $1.3 billion. that loan has to be paid back in two years. >> reporter: the white house says the meeting between kushner and gorkov was about u.s.-russia relations and arranged by the russian ambassador. the bank says

the beautiful game is really popular in st petersburg right across the city but there's a historical significance as well here because football matches were held during the time of the nazi siege in the second world war months before that sees the authorities actually suspended the matches obviously because of the fighting but later despite the hunger despite the bombings and devastation they decided they had to play football no matter what. it was a long past i tried to hit the ball but i was knocked off my feet one of the players even couldn't take the field. so the second game of that sort of gets under way at about an hour and a half hours time and it's going to be big name school next. all of the attention i would say is going to be christiane or another is it going to stay if you can think of a lot of factors in play for example if you get injured it's a disaster for any club looking to suddenly be surprised to see the place well what another ten million on a promise of a very pricey. close eight hundred ninety million pounds nobody's going to really stick least thirty two year

we are in sunny st petersburg what a beautiful day when the venice of the north praties coverage of the confederations cup russia. we call white. in the morning in the u.k. this saturday the seventeenth of june review watching us for a warm welcome to our international with me. first today our top story again from london thousands of protesters of march they're demanding justice and help be given to the victims of the grenfell fire angry crowds blame the conservative government and its austerity policies for the tragedy that happened in that apartment block fishel death toll now has reached thirty but it six specter to rise much further with up to seventy people still unaccounted for. i i i i. i i i. a ha. ha ha over the course of this demonstration this mosque this march we managed to speak to some very very angry people i believe that people get to go home in the gym tonight but there are people who have to sleep on the floor i mean the event is. now do you know everything and everything we need people. in life he told for centuries decades it's not about now it's about every minute t

sarah rainsford reports from st petersburg.f football here, people can watch it on the giant screen over there. —— confederation cups. people can come down for all sorts of activity. —— confederations cups. the event is notjust about the of activity. —— confederations cups. the event is not just about the fund oi’ the event is not just about the fund or even about the football. for russia, this is a warmup for the world cup next year, and the fans here, for one, say they are ready for it. football is a big culture in oui’ for it. football is a big culture in our country. we are so proud of our football players. so that confederations cups is very important for us. it is one more chance to win for our team. a pretty good atmosphere here in the fan zone for the opening match in the confederations cups. in the run—up to the survey, there have been concerns over security in russia, and this comes after the scenes in france last year, when a russian hooligans were involved in a battles in marseilles. police said a —— they have the s

has been a very long day here in st petersburg are not complaining that it's now turning tonight and if you stay with us with our coverage here on our to international you understand something well worth it for you lots of analysis lots of gets more then coming up this hour let's start though with the action from match day one russia to he zealand millis get the goal stand tall course there. is a very solid performance tried by the russian national team there's a lot of pressure on them coming into the game this is the second goal and quite simple topping as it turned you have to get yourself in the box to get that little bit of look so when the ball is which you know from watching saw you. close just finishing off a little tough for the rest of. our lights for them from a little bit further. and then pushed off often assume a fantastic goal because it was the press in that started that move from the russian national team allowed them to get into the position to just think of the new zealand goalkeeper the i thought a very very good guy and that set that we shouldn't national team of

st. petersburg. we are here to moderate the st. petersburg economic forum. it features world leaders where i'll have the chance to question vladimir putin about the fact of russian interfering in the u.s. election. we had a chance to talk about russian people about their views on america and those allegations and their reactions may surprise you. we'll have m todd. i'm megyn kelly for nbc from st. petersburg. >>> let's check in with melissa mollet. >> 50 westbound had that crash reported there. sounds like it's in the left lane. police activity there. 66 looks okay in bound. 95 in virginia. northbound near quantico, woodridge, two different slow spots there. in prince george's county, overall we look pretty normal. we do have this situation in bound 4 between woodyard road and dower house. top of the beltway looking pretty typical there into town and out of town. 270 at middlebrook road. no problem there. taking a look at those travel times, 270 south germantown to the spur, 40 miles per hour. top of the beltway, 40 miles per hour. 66 in going 35 or so. reme

that michigan going to be in the tournament in st petersburg sixty. hostile russian crowds. new zealand creates you know the answer is yes koshi and there's literally no point us being there if we don't believe we can beat russia they're also negative stories about russia in the press or use a manager as a culture for. expecting to see in russia. well i went there for the joy in november and i enjoyed it we were in cars and and the event was good the people are very friendly professional the tone of this going to be really well run stadiums are unbelievable and and i hope hopefully you know this and we go you know good good atmosphere at the games but i'm looking forward to certainly not me focused on the any negativity around the tournament. ok we told you we would bring you the big guests here on our team international and here is their income much bigger than this one welcome to news that the head of russia's will cup balkanizing committee member it is a lot of attention on the teams of course for them to perform today i would imagine it's also quite a lot of pressure on

st. petersburg. not florida, st. petersburg russia.conomic forum that was put together in 1997. and005 mr. putin showed up it was a must attend. all that changed with ukraine and crimea. it has become a very different summit. erik schatzker is there with an important guest. erik: i'm here with mr. putin's economy minister. this. begin with russia's agreement with opec to extend oil production cuts as far has failed to lift prices. if prices don't rise from current levels, of how much goodwill that agreement be to the economy? >> it is not failed at all. if you look at the price levels we saw a year ago, they were much lower. the agreement is already +++ reach. we are targeting tighter short-term end of the curve. i do not understand why in the midterm long-term -- what is the strategy of those hedge funds from the show producers for one year. erik: which risk specifically? >> those funds that are on the other side of the yield from the hedging are taking huge risks. erik: is that your expectation? that once this extension is over oil p

st. petersburg, russia, a rare public sighting of the russian banker whose secret meeting with president trump's son-in-law, jared kushner focus of an fbi investigation. but the banker, trained as a spy, refused to answer questions from abc news about what he and kushner talked about. the meeting under investigation, took place as he rant russian bank's branch office in new york after the election. came at a time that the kushner family was racing to raise money for its real estate business. >> i think the question has to be asked, was this about you trying to get financing for your troubled real estate that you have in new york city. >> the troubled real estate is the skyscraper on fifth avenue. the 666 building. >> they borrowed $1.3 billion that loan has to be paid back in two years. >> the white house says the meeting between kushner and gorkov was about u.s./russian relations arranged by the russian ambassador. the bank says no a private >> you worry about white house policy being shaped in a way that benefits either the banks or russia at large. >> reporter: also in st. petersburg,

st. petersburg economic form.heresa may gets lambasted by other party leaders for her decision to skip a televised debate a week away from the election. will it matter to voters or have traders priced in a may majority here question mark we are less than half an hour away from the start of european trading. let's take a look at futures. little change on the dax index urostoxx upu do see er cnd the ftse and cap up -- ca up. take a look at what we see happening in forex. the aussie dollar is dead, the british pound is bid create after caution data out of china that goes the way of the positive pmi data that we saw yesterday, telling two different tales and the pound we're watching very closely ahead of this u.k. election. also if you take a look at the commodities, you can see that lean hogs are ripping faith might you love your pork here in britain and in germany. 2.5% and we do a c -- we do see a big move in bonds. this blackbox mean it -- means it is more than three standard deviations away from the average. if y

st. petersburg as the economic form continues.will be joined by the finance minister and in a rare appearance, ivan -- glasenberg. you can run tv on your terminal and have that in the top right-hand side. interesting to see what ivan will say about the world. a little bit of breaking news on barclays. yesterday you may recall that barclays is [inaudible] the goes up to 33.7%. sell, they are holding down to new 50%. they took a right down in the first quarter of 840 -- 884 million pounds. we understand or sky sources say that the south african government may well buy a large proportion of the shares. 33.7%, they have upped the at 33.7%.om 22% , what have we got for you? we will bring you an exclusive interview of the owner of britain's independent evening standard. this is bloomberg. ♪ manus: it has gone 8:16 a.m. in berlin. it is a beautiful day at the brandenburg eight. -- gate. let's get straight back to ergsia and st. petersb international economic form. erik schatzker is there. the publisher of the evening standard. the e

st. petersburg for to us give you back your compounds. the one in new york just outside new york city and the one on the eastern shore of maryland on the other side of the chesapeake bay from washington. i think this started out to be from the u.s. side, at least, a sort of desire to kind of clear the decks of what they thought were kind of diplomatic disagreements and long time squabbles dating from the obama administration, that would allow them on get down knitty gritty of talking about policy. the russians have said a long time that the seizure was an illegal act, it was against diplomatic protocols and treaties, and when the proposal of a swap was made, by the trump administration, the russians said no. give us back our property. a couple days later, the u.s. says okay, it doesn't have to be a swap and they are discussing just letting they will have it back. >> form he secretary of state john kerry spoke. >> they would merit that, have they solved the problem of syria by dealing with assad, i mean, what is that it suddenly promise a

st. petersburg, his hometown, and russia's former capital.grew up in a modest neighborhood here, became a kgb spymaster, and has been russia's strong man f7 >> welcome to the st. petersburg international economic forum. >> it was my job to moderate the forum, with more than 4,000 feem in the audience, including world leaders, some sharing the stage. the normally wonkish gathering became heated when i asked president putin with russia's attempts to hack the u.s. election. >> the experts say it couldn't have been faked, it's the forensics, the malware, the encryption keys, the specific pieces of code, that all of them point to russia and none of them points to anyone other than russia. >> translator: what fingerprints, or hoof prints or horn prints? what are you talking about? ip addresses can be invented, you know. there are a lot of specialists who can make it so it comes from 3-year-old daughter carried out the attack. >> there are reports today in the american press that the trump administration took active steps to ease sanctions on russia

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sarah rainsford reports from st petersburg. p kicks off a fortnight of football here this is where people can watch the games on the giant screen over there. it is also where they can come for all sorts of activities, people shooting goals, five aside football. this event is not only about the fun or event is not only about the fun or even just another football. for russia, this is a warmup for the world cup next year and the fancier, for one, say they are ready. football is like... a big culture in our country. we are so proud of our footballers. so this cup is very important for us because it is one more chance to win for our team. important for us because it is one more chance to win for our teamm isa more chance to win for our teamm is a good atmosphere here in his opening match in the confederations cup. in the run—up to this event, however, there had been concerns over security in russia and questions about racism in the game and hooliganism. last summer in france, russian hooligans were among those facing running battles

we are in st petersburg as we bring you our continued coverage of the biggest international football event of the year there are eight teams fighting it out to try win the confederations cup for russian cities as we heard there playing host to the games tens of thousands of fans of come to watch we being give me the alongside me thank ali moore never notice we are here our job basically make sure you don't miss any of the action so let's do just that that's what people want isn't it stan is goal so let's bring in the highlights russia to new zealand no match they want yes a very solid performance overall lot of expectation on the russian nation and perhaps a little bit down on the team after the disastrous european championship campaign but it was bright it was lloyd. from pretty much the first whistle to the last night against new zealand you see there goes your cough is actually given as an own goal a really good all this was robbed of the goalkeeper and then small of just does what all good strikers do they hang around the six yard box hoping for the ball to come in you see the pr

a slightly wet but always warm welcome to st petersburg where we bring you our continuing coverage of the biggest international football event of the year eighteenth fighting it out for the confederations cup for russian cities playing host of the vanities tens of thousands of fans have come we'll come away just the two of us here to make sure you do not miss out on any of the action stan collymore the expert alongside me stan what the football fans love more than thing else goals bring them to us russia to new zealand from there yes a very solid start by the house it was knee deep the russian sporting public has been a little bit down on their rightly so after a disappointing european championships last summer in france but i started like a train there were peppering the new zealand grow week shots and one glitch she coughed it lifted it over the news even goalkeeper and turf the ball into the back of the net the russian soyuz. small off at a really good season last season we crossed with a top team looks very simple doesn't it when the ball is ripped from the right i'm sorry you hav

it is — you go back to st petersburg days and kgb days.m so well in the kgb days. and what's wrong with that? that's the story of many of his closest associates, so it's no surprise. no problem. but what i'm getting to is this — in 2015, you lost yourjob at the head of state railways. i resigned, better to say. well, it's complicated. some in russia believe that vladimir putin decided... let them believe. well, but the reason why it seems you became a problem was because it was publicised — and again, i think this may be something to do with alexei navalny — it became clear that your own son, your own son. . . don't make him a hero. he is not so powerful to make problems. let's get to the point. your own son lives in a very expensive house in london and actually took british citizenship... what do you mean by "very expensive house?" worth many millions of english pounds. exactly. do you know the sum? i believe it was almost £5 million. that is a very huge sum of money. yes. indeed. and it was bought with some credit. is this something very

now the fever confederations cup a shift of focus from st petersburg to the russian capital where the host team will face portugal on wednesday you know harvey informing them for more are in moscow with the like just. we have moved on from st petersburg to beautiful moscow stanley cohen most alongside me how about this review snotty about it's not bad at all is it bustles cathedral red square lanes two beautiful sunny day in a wonderful part a wrong we have here in the capital wonderful you just ticked off many of the big tourist there every one afternoon and i'll be aggression walked around already not a really good look around to know what we're looking forward to the shopping calories how you like this is what we've got gold action for everybody now let's check out germany australia three two the result from yesterday's game let's go through the goals as it was a fairly comfortable routine victory for the germans a young german saw it brought three goals to the scoring. equaliser of celtic and scotland. is your man. about from shell and then sure richard a consolation for the austr

there in st petersburg it is half time in the opening match of the confederations cup we can tell you there has been a goal but which one is the gong suspense join a surely for outstanding coverage of the confederations cup here on r.t. . there from in the team in the r.t.e. news center in moscow my name is col embrace and saturday night seven here let's go to our first story which is in afghanistan a development in the past couple of hours according to a spokesman for the country's military there four american soldiers have been wounded in an attack by a rogue afghan soldier at a base in the north of the country the assailants being shot dead the u.s. is only said that several soldiers were injured in an incident as they put it dismissing earlier reports that american soldiers have been killed here's what we heard earlier from a journalist in kabul. and afghan soldier used the rocket propelled grenade during a military exercise on the way to the shooting range or the shooting range and according to this officer several u.s. soldiers were wounded this comes not long after afghan comma