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a showdown over a refugee policy that has conservative golf good track with a political future. and a nation for simon to remember the victims of the grand folks via the u.k. marks the first anniversary of the devastating plays that killed more than seventy people in law to. ban. on a warm welcome to you i'm on the thought she. the football world cup starts in a few hours time in moscow the world cup as you by know is the most watched sporting event of the was the first match sets russia in saudi arabia and the capital has immunity for. stadium.

the only. fancy alternative countries will be watching the teams compete in sixty four games over the next month housings have already descended on the country in anticipation of the first group games the defending champions germany have also arrived ahead of their game on sunday they are hoping to become the first team to win the tournament back to back since brazil did in one thousand nine hundred sixty two. for an emmy show win is up in a box on the streets of moscow and joins me now from there hi emily so russia is not a very big footballing nation how excited are people there about hosting the space to just on him and. well i'm rita right near red square and you might be able to see the fifo clock that's been counting down the days till the world cup it's now set to zero and the people that i've been speaking to here said they don't really think that the russian team has much of

a chance but they are very much looking forward to the guests arriving and they certainly have been arriving you might be able to see behind me a bunch of fans from different countries have gathered and are kind of singing songs as well and to give you more of a sense of the atmosphere here in the capital moscow my colleague you were chateaux was out and about yesterday let's take a look at the atmosphere that he found. all of those projects absolutely amazing all of it so amazing here full of ensuring the people are really nice great feeling russia it's a beautiful place a beautiful kountry it's our beautiful people the really nice people expected not.

extremely happy that my controversy is worn after thirty six years so the world's top pros who are going to be the champion you'll see the best team neymar germany i said also i hope. so that it of course it's very hard to be there because it's more first towards helping the we are all we are coming from. you are moroccan was. was it was a great party fantastic if you want to win yet she's probably who rushed through no c.k. actually i think this will be one of the best ones ever. said it is we saw grit sense of excitement amongst the fans who've already got them there are many behind you we can see but relations between russia and the west have been a bit tense ahead of this tournament will they cost

a shadow do you think on the sporting event. well russia will certainly be hoping that political tensions won't overshadow these games in the run up of course for the world cup there were huge international tensions over the screwball case the poisoning of former russian spy cities the pile in salzburg in england and over that case top u.k. officials and the royal family won't be coming to the world cup but there hasn't been a wider boycott which is something that was discussed in the wake of the. case but russia will certainly be hoping not be letting anything get in the way of these games ahead of the games putin kind of issued a rather stark warning to ukraine he said if there are any provocations on the eastern in eastern ukraine on the border there could be that could be there could

be consequences for ukrainian state hood so rather a stark warning their protests will need special authorization here during the world cup and of course. since off the ukrainian film a filmmaker is still behind bars and on hunger strike in a russian prison on charges that human rights activists say are politically active politically motivated so on the one hand there are all these political tensions but russia will certainly be hoping that they won't overshadow the games and that russia will be able to show a different side a different side of the country to the world and really show it in moscow thank you very much and go and enjoy and soak in the atmosphere with all of the fans behind you thank you very much of the host nation restraints in the opening match that's russia and as i mentioned earlier the taken saudi arabia and the fust match neither of these teams are seen as they strong in this tournament but for football fans

a wild cup opener is always a course flakes ice and. it's finally time to let the ball do the talking russia's world cup starts today high expectations can often hamper the home nation at a big tournament but these hosts are not under much pressure in that regard as the lowest ranked team in the tournament they're hardly a hot favorite but with pride on the line and a home crowd to impress russia are raring to go. near would look we have done 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 when we treat them with it. and they couldn't have an easier start saudi arabia of the second lowest ranking team at the tournament in the form of a lead and she'll a coach and tonio pizzey they have a boss with an impressive experience but with egypt and europe wind their group

they're up against it as indeed the hosts. i think once the whole thing begins everything's going to fall into place nobody has ever achieved anything by saying words you have to put your money where your mouth is. certes off chance to cause an upset is here on thursday night in moscow the wait will finally be over. let me not bring you off today if it's about the stories making news around the forces led by saudi arabia are stepping up an offensive to take a key port city in yemen from who rebels reports say the saudi led troops are now some twenty kilometers from the city's international airport the port off is the main entry point for food for the whole country. and the u.s. secretary of state my phone pales says economic sanctions on north korea would

remain in place until the country has given up all its nuclear weapons from pilger speaking after a meeting with a south korean president to discuss the outcome of this week's summit between the u.s. and north korea. antarctica's 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 research as well when the melting ice could raise global sea levels and inundate areas here in germany chancellor angela merkel is facing a showdown with the interior minister over migration is being seen as the most serious crisis to hit merkel since the new government took office her interior minister horse or four of the rightwing bavarian c.s.u. want some refugees to be turned away at the country's border america has rejected

the course saying this would undermine european solidarity. discussions continued until the wee hours between chancellor angela merkel and interior minister horse a call for but they failed to arrive at a solution it's a hopeful wants to turn refugees registered to other e.u. states back at the german border machall insists on the e.u. principle of freedom of movement across their borders. that's putting the issue has the potential to do serious damage to europe to our freedom of movement in the shing in zone we agree that it's central to protect europe's external border in response to illegal migration. macro's conservative c.d.u. is at odds with its bavarian sister party the c s u two which see hope for belongs both parties interrupted regular parliamentary business on thursday to hold separate emergency meetings an extraordinary move. machall wants to strengthen

protection of europe's external borders for instance by investing more in the european border agency frontex the hope is to deter people from attempting to enter europe off. see hofer has paid lip service to this idea but after meeting with austria's chancellor on wednesday he called it a quote ideal scenario the implication is that since frontex isn't able to offer this ideal level of protection at present national border checks should be introduced. and even within the c.d.u. itself there are critics who doubt in the european solution. of course we'd like a european solution that's always better but we've been waiting for two and a half years we can explain to voters why we're not doing anything at our national borders. thus as desperate migrants continue to cross the mediterranean the debate about what to do with them has become a political hot potato for conservatives in germany. and.

she's political editor joins me from our parliamentary studious for more on this story i'm michelle how much of a showdown is this within the conservative bloc and does it threaten. well it certainly threatens angela merkel's leadership it is the strongest challenge that we have seen so far certainly from within her own c.d.u. c.s.u. party and if you're talking about quite right now at this moment literally the jury is out on how big a challenge this will be the c.s.u. and see to you our system parties met separately today the c.s.u. that's the party of interior minister who launched this challenge is meeting as we speak and the big question will be whether he is willing to find some kind of common ground some kind of compromise that gives angela merkel more time more time being up those two weeks until the european union summit to then forge

a european. to this question of what to do with the sun seekers who are elsewhere in the you which of the two sides of all this differed on refugee policy why is the interior minister call for making such an issue of it now. well first of all one has to know that there are regional elections in bavaria in the autumn and that horsey woolfolk was also the man who as party leader accused under machall of essentially breaking the law that was a time during that migration crisis when he threatened to bring have before germany's constitutional court for the loss of control of the german border and now he wants to see some action and he's unwilling to wait in the parliamentary party did alexander dortmund today went on the record that they want this on so now at the same time it's really questionable whether it will uphold legally if the interior minister goes ahead which he can under german law how the government is

set up and insist on that policy to really be implemented that's the dublin three that everybody keeps talking about which essentially means if somebody is already registered somewhere else fingerprinted it's to be let say that person is not entitled to actually have an asylum process launched in germany that is something that basically was no longer in effect and isn't in effect right now and to give me shelter i'm going to make a phase she's looking for a european solution where do you see this going well clearly this is up in the ante first of all the question is how will she survive those coming days this could well go down to the line where she actually has to ask for a vote of confidence on this very issue if this use you refuses to back down if the suits you were to actually leave the government coalition over this this would blow up government so the stakes could not be higher at this moment in time if we see a compromise it would certainly put the chief political editor. thank you.

yeah joins me now on today's euro zone interest rate call has been clucky incipit it yes you can say that i'm ready to and the european central bank has just announced that it leaves the key interest rate fully eurozone unchanged it will also keep rates on his story close of zero percent at least through next summer but it is also said it's how it's massive bond buying program and said it ended it altogether in december after the financial crisis the e.c.v. had started sabai euro zone members government bonds to the tune of thirty billion euros per months to stimulate growth since twenty fifteen months of the month the e.c.b. has spent a total of two point four trillion euros on that program with the bond purchases the e.c.b. his balance sheet has now swollen to over eleven trillion euros that's about forty

percent of economic output for the entire eurozone now let's go straight to general john allen who's joining us from frankfurt and we can already see in the background there what it has done that decision is done to the dots it was quite a blockbuster a statement by the e.c.b. run us through it what does it mean and did especially that statement about how living bond purchases starting in october that was the v. that was the buster statement as he put it but in general this was what the market roughly expected in terms of the future of asset purchases and the interest rate so really what we're seeing here is the gradual easing of crisis era fame and that's interesting because it's a signal from the e.c.b. that it believes it and the recovery story within the euro zone and this is a reassurance that's welcome to investors at a time where you have. a slow and unexpected slowdown that's been happening since february as well as increasing fears over global trade. what's the mood there in

frankfurt how is it going down other than the docs sort of shooting up. indeed and it took a bit of a mixed reaction in the fact that they're still starting to street trickle in and i guess we'll see more market reactions during the press conference which is happening in a few minutes for now however the euro is down on the dollar as investors seem to have taken note of the cautious of the cautious tone that the e.c.b. was adopting and making the statement on the other hand as you did point out the doc that did jump higher and that could be down to the comfort that shareholders and traders feel the steady hand with which the e.c.b. seems to be approaching this and the message it sends about the manageability of fears surrounding the euro zone but i had a look at some of the other of the other indicators that we would look at at a time like this and i could see that eurozone bond yields unchanged on the news and the difference between italian and german yields which is

a popular indicator of risk they seem on change so that overall portends a positive picture coming from here. thank you very much for the amounts. turkish president rest of the oneness threaten to conduct an operation against movies less than two weeks after the ratings company placed turkey on a review for downgrade state run media as said the turkish president was quoted as saying the operation would commence after elections scheduled for later this month moody's said that its decision to downgrade was based on recent erosion in investor confidence and the ineffectiveness of turkey's monetary policy due to political interference. for saddam has agreed to pay a one billion euro fine as a direct consequence of diesel gave the comic accepted an order by german prosecutors which saves the company

a battle in the courts the emissions cheating scandal has already cost v w a total of more than twenty five billion euros mainly in fines to u.s. authorities. v.w. is reeling after being slapped with another billion euros in penalties on top of those that the company must pay in the u.s. as a result of the emissions cheating scandal around eleven million vehicles worldwide were involved folks who are against it it would not appeal today's decision saying in a statement. folks are going by doing so admit to its responsibility for the diesel crisis and considers this as a further may just step towards the latter being overcome. lower saxony state attorney says the fine must be paid within six weeks the decision doesn't affect the civil suits against the car maker including those brought by people who purchased the company's cars the criminal investigations into forty nine people connected with the scandal continue in the city of five. a bidding war

is going on between two u.s. media heavyweights for most of the assets of twenty first century fox disney it was widely tipped to take over its small arrival with a bit of over fifty two billion dollars but now comcast has offered twenty percent more it's willing to pay some sixty five billion dollars fox's board must now decide which company to choose if the board decides to calm passive chances disney will a five business days to respond by the larger offer analysts believe fox's biggest shareholder the murdoch family will reject the comcast bid for tax reasons. and that's all your business for now it's spectrometer thanks get. today marks the one year anniversary of the grenfell tower fire in best london the tragedy was the u.k.'s deadliest days since the second world war at midday the nation including the queen observed a moment of suns lasting over seventy seconds one for each victim of the blaze.

last night buildings across london illuminated in. the color adopted by the victims' families to honor their loved ones one year on from the tragedy british prime minister to resign me has published an apology over shortcomings in her response to the blaze she says include failing to meet survivors in the fire as immediate aftermath from all the story let me draw in our london correspondent big it was a big get an apology from the pit prime minister and the nation fell silent to remember the victims britain is standing together on this base sad anniversary. it's a very sad atmosphere here in west london where we are near the ground felt how many people are a walking around here and they've come to grief they dress themselves in green

which was identified as a symbolic color for four grand felt there was going to be more come over commemorations throughout the day church services many people are flocking here to to lay flowers and it's not just the people that are immediately have lived in the towel have lost someone it's the whole area because everybody here in the surrounding areas and all the tower blocks in the flats could hear and could see what was going on through the night twenty four story power block and it was a blaze that was blazing through the night people would have had others that were trapped in the fire that would have tried to get out there were shouting for help some people they fled and they jumped out of the window so this is what the whole community basically saw one year ago and this is why people also still feel that this is something very wrong or particularly of course those who lived in grenfell tower who lost somebody immediately i spoke to honeyed will be who escaped the fire

from the sixteenth floor we're going to show this report now. this used to be his home now it's a monument to a tragedy the bento chalo strength tower follows hamid will be wherever he goes it's always in his mind in this empty space used to have this fish store the area still is home moroccan born hamid used to live in the sixteenth floor now he lives in a hotel like many other survivors. or this is my story. of growth i'm stuck here. for my new house when i get my house 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 any of us living with your family and not just instantly everything once. in a different way but. we were planning a you know we were thinking about she's your kids you probably need everything went bizarre soul we see struggling from day up to now. after almost a year a public inquiry has finally started to investigate what went wrong. clary mehndi lost her cousin mary in the fire mary stuart acadia also perished like many of us she blames the corporate culture that put profit before people construction gambon is the suppliers of contractors is

a holy book people. who are embedded in these social mud down because this is what is this social madame by negligence enough for us what we ideally want is gross negligence on stilts on because then you is about individuals and it's really important that we say individuals in that all the fight for justice has left many survive a strained how meade wants to go back to work but says he konk find the strength he's asking for more psychological help. well what i need is just to carry on working and helping people that says. this is what i'm going to do for the rest of my life help as much as i can. helping others because on the night of the fire hamid was unable to rescue his friends from the burning building festo he now needs to help himself and try to come to terms with the haunting image that his

grandfather taua. returning to vegas in london may get down inquiry into the disaster opened just last month what details have come out so far. well the inquiry started with testimonies of those who've lost who've lost family and it was very moving because they could describe and basically relive the grief and move on with their grieving process so we've now had a few experts telling what their first impression was from the investigation and from what it looks like it looks like really a catalog of arrows from the flooding material for insulation that was highly flammable so flammable that it just in minutes almost set the whole building ablaze then there was doubts about the suitability of the windows about the suitability of the ventilation system was there enough ventilation for a building like this and with this type of flooding material so it's going to take

a lot of time on too long but obviously this is what the survivors this is what the whole community is hoping for. begin. thank you very much. you're watching the news here's a recap of the top stories we're following for you the two thousand and eighteen football world's conference taking off in moscow over the host nation russia getting ready to play it saudi arabia later today. and a moment of silence has been held across the u.k. to mark the first anniversary of the grenfell tower fire and best thing fun of seventy one people. from this it was that you can see dead just a second but. that's it for me. about.

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