i p t twenty i don't think. i need. the famous potato. this is the w. news live from a test of a you u. this is the latest summit begins in brussels and twenty eight nations are being asked to breach of consensus on the difficult issues of migration and european council president because warns them to put path for a bruising battle also on the program.

britain holds a memorial service of some polls cathedral for the victims of one of the country's worst peacetime tragedies at least seventy people were killed in the ground full tower fire in central london six months ago. on fatah may have posed marks obligations are to moscow to meddle in the us elections as. news conference russia's president also claims to be puzzled by what is going on in the united states. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program. and we'll have more on those stories in just a moment first though some breaking news from france we're hearing that there has been a collision between a train and the school bus in the south of the country at least two people are feared dead of the crash happened close to the town of purp in your emergency services are reported to be at the scene we'll bring you more on that as soon as we

get. the rest of the day's news european union the leaders the leaders meeting for a summit in brussels could be heading for a showdown over the issue of migration in the run up to the meeting a you council president donald tows has called for the scrapping of the quota system whereby refugees are supposed to be distributed across the bloc described it as divisive and ineffective germany's chancellor going to work for however send a you countries could not show selective solidarity another difficult topic on the agenda of the two day summit will be breck's it. d.w. correspondent mattis is at that summit at welcome again. leaders still trying to find common ground on the migration issue can we expect anything concrete to come out of this. no council conclusion foreseen on the debate of migration of fill so it will be in much of a fin formal debate over the route that has been going on for two years now their

spin some concrete announcements however the number of eastern european countries former communist countries who are very much opposed to taking in refugees have announced that they would like to donate twelve thirty five million euros into an african e.u. fund that helps that aims to curb migration already in africa and that has been welcomed by a number of leaders who arrived here but i'm glad barack less many others also pointed out that selective solidarity is nothing that will move europe forward she said it's good that we strengthen the external borders but we also need to show solidarity within the european union when it comes to relocation of your free gees so let's talk more about the two years they have been talking about migration let's hear from the president of the european council donald tosk on this divisive issue . the divide with. and sorry for the geographical simplification.

between love and love when it comes to migration. between east and west. these divisions are compounded by emotions. we each make it through to find even a common language and russian argument for this debate and this is why we should. even more intensively and more effectively than before. matters how likely are you leaders to find a common language it does seem to be these three european countries against the rest of them and. i think the council president is very accurate when he says this is an emotional debate although having said that one needs to say as well that he didn't help a great deal in his invitation letter to your leaders to say that the so far the relocation a mechanism has failed basically in the sense of stating the obvious but declaring

it as as failed is another thing so yes it will be very difficult to paper over the differences here they are very much emotional for these eastern european states it's all about not taking in refugees it's mainly for cultural reasons because for religious reasons because they are predominantly muslims on the other hand everyone agrees on strengthening accidental borders so it will stem the massive flow of refugees we've seen during the refugee crisis and working out a mechanism how to relocate people who have already made it into the european union will be the key challenge of all leaders in the months weeks maybe years to come. masses in the process we'll leave it there for now it is six months since some two one people were killed in a fire in a high rise apartment block in central london today members of the britain's royal family and government attended a memorial service of some poles cathedral for the victims of the grenfell fire but

in the aftermath of a tragedy that has become a byword for social inequality in the u.k. survivors have been complaining about being neglected by government a moment of silence for the seventy one people who perished in ground felt our survivors and their families stood shoulder to shoulder with members of britain's royal family as well as politicians and religious leaders in a multi-faith memorial. while the service was an opportunity for quiet reflection anger the disaster is still simmering the deaths in the tower block fire highlighted extreme disparities in living conditions between rich and poor today we remember with sorrow with grief with tears. and we pledge that those we have lost will not be forgotten. today we are asked why warnings were not heeded. why

a community was left feeling neglected and cared for not listened to the fire that broke out in the middle of the night on june fourteenth quickly gutted the twenty four story building it was home to a multi ethnic community living in a poor area within one of london's riches boroughs police are investigating the fire and say charges may be brought against individuals or organizations a separate public inquiry is underway on what caused the fire and how authorities responded six months on the people affected by the fire are not only grieving many are still without a home despite promises by prime minister to resign made that survivors would receive new homes within weeks the majority of families needing re housing are still living in emergency accommodation. so why this more with phil murphy he's a former firefighter a fire safety officer he's been following this investigation closely and has talked

with survivors welcome to day w. let's start with the real housing issue six months more than a hundred families still living in hotels why is it taking so long to read house them. that's a good question phil and treason may just after that is us the promise that everybody would be re housed within three weeks and still hundreds of people are in hotels or i don't think that the authorities that had any real idea of just how distant powering the housing system is now in london there's a serious housing shortage and property prices are rising very very fast far far more than anywhere else in the country so the veil ability of housing stock is a problem and houses simply aren't being built at the moment and that's what's really put a focus on the housing crisis in the u.k. there is a police inquiry and a public inquiry and survives a being encouraged to take part and tell us more about that well initially

feel they weren't initially the survivors felt as though they were being ignored and the martin mobic who is leading the public inquiry and has listened to those coals and ensuring a free inquiry which was televised live the two days recently he made clear that he seriously considering now some kind of panel been using public inquiries in the past to involve those people that were involved because that being felt isolated and the trust needs to be rebuilt and that's one way that they might do it now i know that you've been speaking to some of the survivors and people affected six months on and they out there as well as being waiting for housing but best still suffering health effects from this that tell us will. well i've got personal experience of the south philly i used to work at europe's busiest fire station and posttraumatic stress disorder as it's called is a much misunderstood condition my own personal experience is that memories become

locked. and in the ease of certain tragedies become locked in your mind and they fail to protest and it is difficult to move past them and in your own mind can't imagine for a moment what it must be like with the carcass of the of the tower block for the people that live near it being reminded every day it must be awful for them and many resources are providing help to holders of people not just the survivors and the people that live near the people that are helping then are also now having counseling as well phil murphy thanks so much for joining me thanks phil now to some of the other stories making news around the world police in germany have launched raids on properties linked to suspected members of so-called islamic state offices such multiple locations in berlin and other parts of eastern germany the rates targeted four individuals three of whom believed still to be in

a has held territory. in somalia's capital mogadishu a suicide bomber disguised as a police officer has blown himself up inside a police academy at least eighteen people were killed and twenty wounded the bomber targeted offices gathering for morning exercises the terror group al-shabaab says it carried out the attack. russia's president vladimir putin held his own mouth and press conference today in response to an american forces a question about collusion between the crime the trump campaign he said the story had been invented and was hurting the u.s. political system today's event comes just a week after mr putin confirmed that he would stand the next use in next year's presidential election he had this to say about his potential challenges. when we talk about the opposition it can't just be about politicians who make a lot of noise about an anti democratic regime the opposition has to come up with something concrete proposals on how to make our lives better of course people are

dissatisfied with a lot of things and indeed it is justified because we could have done better but when we look at the leaders of the opposition especially the non-system opposition we have our dogs as to whether they offer a concrete alternative. let's get more from today because when the euro shatter in moscow welcome europe we just heard president person being quite dismissive of his political opposition how do ordinary russians view his critics i feel well i've got the latest opinion poll from of the leave center that works independently it says that seventy percent of the people surveyed to there said that they would vote for vladimir putin which is still pretty high number and to most important the highest number compared to the other candidates so let me put in the remains very popular here and his critics have to do a lot of their seating to convince of the masses with their criticism the biggest role plays certainly russian state propaganda and russia's fight against

independently working media state t.v. channels praise let me put in daily we while critical reporting media have to claw also are being blocked by the government russian president used his any old mother home press conference today earlier to reinforce his reputation as the country's guarantor of stability and to blame at the same time the russian position on destroying the country. that this is and annual event what struck you about this year's. well my highlight was the turn of light in a putin's poland stop chucker russia's first female presidential candidate who used to be a t.v. presenter here in the country and now she is a political journalist so she has joined the press conference as a reporter and ask mr putin on whether that other politician opposition politician alex in a valley was being oppressed in response let me put in a reminder to the audience of turbulent times that russia experienced experienced after the collapse of the soviet union and compared to the recent protests here in

moscow streets with machinations of the former president of georgia mikheil saakashvili is really in russia's neighboring ukraine what would you want to dozens of running around in our streets asked chuck in response and this was the cynical answer of course and it looked like a political debate offered to presidential candidates maybe a taste of what the russians can expect during the election campaign in the next months feel your results are in moscow found here. start to update you on the breaking news i brought at the start of the program a school bus and train have collided in southern france at least four people figured to dead the crash happened to close to the town of perper new york emergency services are forty to be at the sea more on the story next update of the top of the hour. it will be. sad looking at protesters taking to the streets thousands of books as

a protest at the latest batch of fiscal reforms being parts of oftens to a stop. on the west offer they said this is serious with one facility. for. every journey begins with the first step and every language but the first word. is in germany to learn german why not.