this is coming to you live from berlin a correlation in crisis german chancellor angela merkel faces a showdown over a refugee policy. that could threaten the future course of coming up. the two thousand and four one top kicks off in moscow today russia has spent billions to make this an event to remember we'll be bringing to look past the politics and focus on the pitch.

i'm a touchy about good to have your company we start. facing a showdown with the interior minister over migration and it's been seen as the most serious crisis to hit machall since the new government took office interior minister horse off the rightwing bavarian c.s.u. wants some refugees to be turned to be at the country's border but mikel has rejected the cord saying it would undermine european solidarity. disruption of the german bundestag a session postponed the conservatives of chancellor angela merkel c.d.u. and the bavarian see as you retreating for separate emergency meetings an extraordinary move the battle between merkel and interior minister wholesale who for over asylum issues this brought political balance to a halt. this. it taught us we've informed the c.d.u.

that we see the need for action right now. a living will continue to support efforts on the european level to reach similarly efficient results by. these users but this isn't forseeable in the near future so we need to act for ourselves. on this until the wee hours of thursday morning markland say over tried to reach a compromise but fail to find a solution for once the refuse entry at the german border to refugees originated in other use states moca insists on the e.u. principle of freedom of movement across national borders. to me the question of how to tackle this migration issue is a litmus test for the future and cohesion of europe it therefore needs to take every country's means into consideration merkel wants to strengthen protection of the e.u.'s external borders in the hope of deterring people from attempting to

enter europe at all. over rather wants to follow the austrian approach which he confirmed after a meeting with chancellor as a bust in quotes on wednesday when axed on a controlled somewhat national border checks should be reintroduced with the conservative leadership at odds with each other as social democrats are growing impatient with their coalition partner. yeah i took years of thing is that we get the impression that this is an aggravated dispute and this is always connected to personnel and leadership that really should not be there will come. as that spread migrants continue to cross the mediterranean the debate about what to do with them is keeping germany's conservatives in a political showdown. for more on this will it be joined political editor michelle a coup fell from a fundamentalist you do we get a how much of a showdown is just within the converge of blog tretton leadership absolutely this is the toughest challenge that she has faced to date particularly

from within her own party ranks the see is you the party of the interior minister as you will for we saw there is the system party of the c.d.u. both have been at odds over the migration issue from day one they will for one point in time accused merkel of breaching the law threatened to bring a before germany's constitutional court that was all suddenly went quiet when there was an election to fight well now there's an election to contest in the state of bavaria the home country is the home turf of the will for the interior minister and he doesn't shy away from really questioning the chancellor's leadership here the c.s.u. has just come out of their meeting which they held separate from the c.d.u. party and they've basically said either machall gets something equivalent across the board with several european countries the right to then reject asylum seekers at the border essentially by monday or else the minister will use his right to the

constitutional right he has to implement that policy whether the chancellor supports it or not so that's quite something that's an open rebellion that's right but the do conserve just bodies of all with different refugee policy hello why is the whole for the interior minister making such an issue out of this now. well they've always differed but they always agreed that they need to find a compromise in the end appears here that silver is not afraid of upstaging angela merkel clearly he is angered by the very fact that she pulled the plug on him presenting his asylum master plan as it was called past tuesday that had to be councils after machall clearly must have agreed with several points in there there's a lot of secrecy over this plan and there's a lot of complaints also from the social democrats that they are not bound in on this so we really have a minister and this is pretty unprecedented here. going it alone and basically

saying this will become policy or else and this or else can only be i'm going to michael either firing her minister which could lead to basically this coalition imploding or potentially also on the americal asking for a vote of confidence in the bonus stock the question now is how can both climb down from their positions again one thing is for sure damage has been done to i'm going to macros leadership and it still is being done as i speak here but meanwhile i'm going to make is also said she's looking for a european solution do you see this going anywhere briefly if you can be. well basically she asked her own m.p.'s for two weeks more time that's all she wanted until that e.u. summit that is coming up this m.p.'s are now rallying behind her even the ones that criticized her but this use you won't give her that time we should have our chief political editor thank you very much for that analysis. let me not bring you up to

date with some other stories making news around the bond a court in hungary has sentenced four members of a people smuggling gang to trente five years in prison he chose for letting dozens of men women and children suffocate inside a truck. the seventy one victims were part of a brave people fleeing fleeing to europe at the height of the refugee crisis in two thousand and fifteen u.s. secretary of state mike on peel has warned there are still a risk ophelia in efforts to bring peace to the korean peninsula following donald trump's summit with north korea's leader but he said he was optimistic the countries were on the right track on peel was speaking after he briefed china's foreign minister. on the talks. the football was the most watched sporting event in the world is about to start in moscow the first match sets russia against saudi arabia in the capitals newly refurbished

stadium. france from all thirty two countries to be watching their teams compete in sixty four games over the next month defending champions germany have arrived ahead of their first match on sunday hoping to become the first team to win the tournament back to back since brazil did in one thousand nine hundred sixty two. and emily show one 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 specific just on a moment. 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 this pleasure it's absolutely amazing all of it so amazing here so let me just bring the people a really nice great feeling it's a beautiful place a beautiful town three. people the really nice faithful expected no.

extremely happy that my controversy is flowing after thirty six years so they work out those who are going to be the champion you'll see the best him are germany i said also i hope germany. so that of course very hard to be there because a small first or. we are coming from. you are more was. it was. a very different time i stick if you want to when she for rush rose c.-k. actually i think this will be one of the best ones but i was. oh ok. so it is resold great 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 big cast

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 to the world cup there were huge international tensions over the screwball case the poisoning of former russian spy city 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 or be 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 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 we shall win 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. as the host nation russia plays in the opening match as i mentioned earlier this week in saudi arabia and the first match although neither of the teams are viewed as particularly strong in this tournament

a little cup is all risk was for excitement for any football fan. 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 i'm not under much pressure in that regard as the lowest ranked team in the tournament that hardly a hot favorite but with pride on the line and a home crowd to impress russia raring to go. near would look we have the most of our team wants 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 a little bit. 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 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 all the hosts the nationals of that year and i think once the whole thing begins everything's going to fall into place 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 the government sources that interest. jet chesnoff chance to cause an upset is here on thursday night in moscow the wait will finally be over. today marks the one year anniversary of the grenfell caliph fire and restaurant and the tragedy was the u.k.'s deadliest blaze since the second was war at midday the nation including the queen observed a moment of silence lasting just over seventy seconds one for each victim of the blaze. last night buildings across london were in human nature isn't green the color adopted by

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