this is you tell the news live from berlin the twenty eighteenth football world cup kicks off in moscow russia is expecting up to one million foreign visitors and so will the world be willing to look past the politics and focus on the pitch we'll get the latest from moscow also coming up. frenzel tower allouni to green mark a year inferno killed seventy one people downing street and other london landmarks are also king tribute to the shocking scale of the tragedy.

and welcome to the program the world cup is kicking off in a few hours time in the russian capital moscow the first match sets hosts russia against saudi arabia and will be held in the capital's luzhniki stadium some thirty two teams will be competing in more than sixty games across the country over the next month thousands of fans from around the globe have been boring into the country finding champions germany are hoping to become the first team to win the tournament back to back since one thousand nine hundred sixty two football fever already running high in moscow let's go live to w. correspondent emily is sure when emily it's good to see you it's always a highly anticipated tournament what have you been hearing and seeing in the capital. well i'm right in the center of moscow here right by red square abbie's and you might be able to see behind me the feet clock which has

been counting down the days to the world cup opening and it's now set to zero now people here have said to me you know they don't have many hopes for the football but they are really looking forward to the guests arriving and that's just what's happening here here in the center of moscow there's really a nice atmosphere people with fly people singing my colleague. came out into the center of town yesterday to see what the atmosphere is like see for yourself. oh. i love this place that's absolutely amazing i love it so amazing here eleven string

of people a really nice great feeling it's a beautiful place a beautiful town three it's our beautiful people the really nice people expected no i was. but i all the really nice people. extremely happy that my conscience the rule is one after thirty six years so they work out and i we are here trying to make history. those who are going to be the champion you'll see you'll see the best team neymar germany i said also i hope they win you so that it costs to our dreamy to be a champion. thank you who. who you are going to you know we have kind of you know you're going to turn be on but girls are dead in this. very happy to be there because it's my first towards helping rochelle we are all we are coming from. you

are moroccan was the god look at that but what a great party fantastic he went to when she rushed rose c.-k. ashleigh i think this will be one of the best one cup ever was a big. family certainly a lot of excitement for fans supporting their respective countries but security is always a major concern during these types of twenty minutes what kind of measures has russia put in place. well security is certainly tight here in russia there are further checks stronger checks in metros at the airports and train stations around the country and you also might remember

pictures from two years ago of russian football hooligans clashing with england fans in two thousand and sixteen at the european championships now the russian authorities have taken all measures possible to ensure that there won't be a repeat of that they're really keeping tabs on the hooligans and an expert here told me as well that some of the hooligan leaders have been told you better take a long holiday during the world cup otherwise we'll give you an even longer holiday inside the area so the russian authorities are certainly making sure that fans here will be safe in the capital and across the country now i see relations between the kremlin and the west have cast a shadow over this torn him and have these we can ties impacted this world cup in any way as of right now well absolutely there were huge tensions in the past few months particularly over the poisoning of former russian spy said against the fall in salzburg and the

british royal family and top british officials actually won't be attending the world cup over that but fears of a wider boycott seem to not have played out there won't be a boycott boycott in fact twenty over twenty hads of government will be attending the opening here in moscow today and this is really a huge opportunity for the russian government as well to show a different side of russia to show a different face of russia and and for people here as well people are very much looking forward to that one woman told me we really have a lot to show the world t w correspondent emily sure went in moscow thank you very much. back to what such happened on the pitch as we mentioned it will be hosts russia taking on saudi arabia in the first match a world cup opener is cause for excitement for any football fan even when the two teams taking part are far from tournament favorites it's finally time to let the

ball do the talking russia's world cup starts here. high expectations can often hamper the home nation at to be tournament but these hosts are not under much pressure in that regard. as the lowest ranked team in the world cup they're hardly a hot favorite but with pride on the line and a home crowd to impress russia raring to go. near will do we have too much to our team once the people to be proud of us to be proud of their team. and we really want to win their support and make them proud we were treating little bits. and they couldn't have a soft start saudi arabia are the second lowest ranking team at the tournament in form of valencia and chile coach juan antonio pitzi they've a boss with impressive experience but with egypt and europe who are in their group

they're up against it as indeed the hosts. national but you know i think once the whole thing begins everything's going to fall into place she was nobody has ever achieved anything by saying words when you have to put your money where your mouth is so to speak with you i mean because it's who is listening to mr . churches so if charms to cause an upset upon him on friday night in moscow the wait will finally be over. now to some of the other stories making news around the world the united nations is voicing concern for civilians in yemen after saudi led pro-government troops launched an attack on the port city of a data officials say the attack could cause a quarter of a million deaths and shut down a keyboard for food and aid two thirds of the population depend on the supply of a calm through the city. the u.s.

secretary of state says economic sanctions on north korea will remain in place until the country has given up all of its nuclear weapons pale with speaking after a meeting with a south korean president to discuss the outcome of this week's summit between the united states and north korea. prosecutors in chile have raided the offices of the roman catholic church looking for documents relating to claims of sexual abuse and of an attempted cover up authorities say they are investigating a least forty cases of abuse the raids came just hours before vatican abuse investigators were to meet cho lay in officials to discuss their findings. antarctic ice sheet is melting three times as fast as it was just a decade ago that's the conclusion of a study published by dozens of scientists in the journal nature researchers warn

the melting ice could raise global sea levels and inundate low lying areas. it's been one year since the grand fall tower fire in west london seventy one people died in the u.k.'s deadliest blaze since world war two a tribute to victims began at just before one am u.k. time the time the fire is thought to have started the tower and twelve surrounding blocks were lit up in green as was the prime minister's office downing street that illumination lasted until five am and will be repeated over the next four days from eight pm until midnight. one year on from the tragedy british prime minister trees a man has published an apology over shortcomings in her response to the blaze she says they include failing to meet survivors in the fires immediate aftermath the very get mosque has been talking to some of those survivors this used to be his home now it's a monument to

a tragedy the bento shell of friends follows honeyed will be wherever he goes it's always in his mind in this empty space he used to have his fish still in the area still is home flora can do and how mead used to live in the sixteenth you'll know he lives in a motel like many other survivors. or this is my story. of growth so i'm stuck here for. a new house when i get my. we buy some things because everything is is going on the fast. so this is it this is it's just. come eat things he was able to escape the flames because he was strong to keep fit he had always taken the steps instead of the lift luckily his family was not at home that night imagine

a deal in your house and even with your family and not just instantly everything once. in a different way. you were planning a you know we were thinking about she's your kids you'll probably need everything when he's. sol we see struggling from day up to now. after almost a year a public inquiry has finally started to investigate what went wrong. its here at the public inquiry that many survivors are looking for answers who is to blame was it the construction companies that provided highly flammable cladding material was it maintenance companies that did not adhere to fire regulation or was the regulation itself too weak clary mehndi lost a cousin mary in the fire mary stuart acadia also perished like many of us she blames a corporate culture that put profit before people construction companies is this

a bra is a con job this is a holy book people. who are embedded in this. because this is what is this social modem by negligence enough for us what we ideally want is gross negligence on stilts on because the need is about in. we see. in the. many survive a strange how media wants to go back to. the strength. to help. these. people when the suits. this is usually. helping out those. friends from the burning building. to help themselves and try to come to terms with

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