truth detectives starts june thirtieth on the w. . this ends interviews live for burly of the twenty eighteen football world cup is getting underway right now in moscow all the glittering opening ceremony has just come to an end and the first match of the tournament is kicking off between hosts russia and saudi arabia russia has spent billions to make it a championship to remember but will the world be willing to look past the politics

and focus on the pitch also coming up germany's coalition in crisis mode german chancellor angela merkel faces a rebellion over her refugee policy within her conservative bloc and it could threaten her very political future. with. a very warm welcome on leyla iraq it's great to have you along everyone d.-w. is world cup coverage starts right here with that herman or tournaments officially opening in moscow as we speak i'm now joined in the studio with my highly esteemed colleague matt hermann who will be covering the cup for us and that there's been plenty of action in the russian a capital even before kickoff with the stadium hosting a spectacular opening ceremony for. fans have lined up the streets and filled the

public viewing zones in moscow while the eighty thousand supporters inside the stadium were treated to a good performance by none of these on the market rate their british pop star robbie williams the tournaments opening match between host russia and saudi arabia have since kicked off. all right well let's start off with you max they're going to hit the ground running what do you what do you make of this first match i mean we have to see how it goes of course this first match i mean it might be a bit of a damp squid this is not the most glamorous match in the tournaments the two lowest ranked teams in the entire field so this might not be glittering football but it will be passionate football certainly from the russian side they're going to have as you said eighty thousand crazy fans pushing them as hard as they can and really if if we if we sort of put this in in a nutshell these are two rattle of the poor teams but one of them is going to be

a lot more enthusiastic i think russia's going to take this one maybe by a score of two no and that would be two. things there for the night such might stick around because i want to cross over now moscow now if i may add this is the day that fans the high and really this is the day that a fans have been awaiting for you're out there in the streets in moscow how excited are people where you are. well people here in moscow have been getting into the football spirit all day there were people on red square today founds gathering singing songs waving their flags and the atmosphere is really much of the same here outside the found zones where fans are gathering to watch the match which is starting at the moment and the russians here even though it's not really a footballing nation traditionally have certainly been getting excited as well people have been carrying russian flags painting their faces with russian face

paint and also ahead of the tournament the people who was spoke to said really what we're looking forward to is having so many guests from around the world in russia and to showing to show showing a different face to russia great and what have you heard from the fans and you've been talking to all the people very do they believe a victory is within sight for their home too. well yes and no in the run up to this game i was speaking to people and one person actually asked me you know who do you think i should bet on germany or brazil so people kind of know that russia is ranked very low among the competitors in this tournament. but on the other hand people are of course patriotic people said to me here at the found zone if we don't believe in russia who will and also one other found said you know if they don't win this game they'll be a day of national mourning so people certainly are right you know very excited to see this match and they really hope that russia will then win but they also know

that the chances aren't so great and they've got of course the consolation prize which is hosting the cup no small deed indeed and we sure would thank you so much for that but when it come back to you has anything happened in the meantime. i can see from my little minute by minute an update it looks like russia sit in a corner kick this with a foul that's ok but it's also easy going there who are the favorites who should we be looking for in terms of teams well you know i think this is a pretty wide open world cup there are perhaps three or four stronger favorites than others i think germany brazil spain and france are probably the hardest hit favorites and i think that if you'd asked me three days ago who my pick to win would be it would have been spain but spain's in a bit of turmoil firing their coach over the rail madrid just coaching job controversy i know a bit more confident about brazil but you could you could sway me towards any of his other favorites and indeed there's three or four other teams i mean belgium

argentina or acquire england i think even have a little bit of a chance in this tournament and i think this could be a very interesting turn of it for that reason that there's a lot of real contenders fantastic let's talk about of course the players because there's always this one star that breaks out or or maybe an established wind that we have to definitely watch it was one there's there are two stuff. the stars that stand above all others as you know messi and cristiano ronaldo ronaldo of course got his one big win at an international tournament and euro twenty sixteen he is back with a portugal side that has that pedigree but they are still a really flawed side and i think that the fact that they were drawn into the same group is spain is not helping their chances argentina is another sort of in a matic team they brought in some paoli to coach them toward the end of their qualifying campaign he got them over the line just barely through south american qualifying that is another team that i wouldn't be shocked if they go out of the

group stage i would be shocked if they win the tournament beyond that i mean robert levin dosti is an interesting one he is playing for a team that seeded in poland some people think wrongly seeded but he's never really put a big dent in an international tournament i would be very excited to see him do that as many goals he scored in the women's league. we'll have to wait and see and i'm i'm usually curious about breakout stars but we'll talk about that in our next target in progress but thank you so very much for now and everyone to bring up to speed on with some of the other stories making news around the world. argentina's lower house of congress has narrowly passed a bill to legalize abortion in the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy following an all night debate one hundred twenty nine members voted in favor while one hundred twenty five more against the bill which is strongly opposed by the catholic church now goes to the senate. u.s.

secretary of state mike pompei who has warrant there's still a risk of failure in efforts to bring peace to the korean peninsula following donald trump's summit with the north korean leader but he said he was optimistic the countries were on the right track peo is speaking after he briefed china's foreign minister on the talks accord in hungary has sentenced four members. a people smuggling gang to twenty five years in prison each for letting dozens of men women and children suffocate suffocate inside a truck in austria seventy one victims were part of a wave of people fleeing to europe at the height of the migration craze this back in twenty eight fifteen. back here in germany migration that is causing trouble for germany's chancellor angela merkel she's facing a rebellion by her interior minister and it's being seen as the most serious crisis to hit miracle since her new government took office the minister course say hoffer

of the conservative bavarian c.s.u. the interior minister wants some migrants to be turned away at the border americal has rejected that idea saying it would undermine european solidarity but mr say offer is reported to be ready to defy or. disruption of the german bundestag a session postponed the conservatives of chancellor angela merkel city you and the varian see as you retreating for separate emergency meetings an extraordinary move the battle between merkel an interior minister has say who for over asylum issues has brought political berlin to a halt. you know this to be taught as 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 official results. these days

but this isn't forseeable in the near future so we need to act for ourselves. and. until the wee hours of thursday morning try to reach a compromise but fail to find a solution for once the refuse entry of the german border to refugees originated in other use states consists of the e.u. principle of freedom of movement across national borders is 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 needs 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 old strand approach which he confirmed after meeting with all stressed 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 the social democrats are growing

impatient with a coalition partner. yeah i talk to is all thing is that we get the impression that this is an aggravated to speech and this is always connected to personnel and leadership that religion might be able to win. as that spread migrants continue to cross the mediterranean the debate about. to do with them is keeping germany's conservatives in a political showdown. the very latest with chief political editor became a christian or she joins us now from the german parliament the stock mikaela i mean how much of this is down to a power struggle to do with chancellor merkel's future. well in the end it's all about power it's quite notable that i'm going to michael's hand has been forced here by her sister party of other small parliamentary group really in the german parliament just four days after she went on national television

talking about the g seven basically saying that the future of europe would be decided on finding a common approach to migration she now pledged here today before her delegates in the room behind me that she would use the next two weeks leading up to the next e.u. summit to do the bilateral deal something she absolute did not want to do she wants to get the big solution on this she wanted to get everybody on the same page so this is in real time the german chancellor giving a lot of political ground. system party challenging questioning her leadership here right and so yet the interior minister publicly defying her given the failure of the week a lot of the rest of europe to formulate a viable response to the migration crisis does mr say hoffer have a point here i mean why should they wait for europe to tackle this issue in a meaningful way when they fail to do so up to now. well that's the

thing i mean he was very critical of the whole for the interior minister from bavaria from day one of this migration crisis against his better knowledge then had to go along with the chances policy but the question is why now because he's in the end he always came around to backing her coalition and he saw last week the german chancellor basically pulling the plug on him wanting to present his asylum policy here to plan that he wanted to present in the bundestag and the open power struggle could happen on monday because we heard here from his parliamentary group that the interior interior minister will potentially use his powers and he can do that to basically implement asylum seekers being rejected after a german border and then the makah would have to sack him at the very least as a face saving exercise and that would throw into question the entire government and

of course indeed angela merkel's political future so were germany well this would leave germany in disarray it would certainly leave the plans to forge some kind of joint migration policy in disarray but the real crucial days will be those coming days over this weekend whether both sides will find a minimum common ground but damage has already been done the chancellor has been damaged here already evolved during the parliamentary president here actually spoke to delegates and basically questioning whether everybody realised what damage they were doing at this very moment in time to also merkel's leadership became a. political editor reporting thank you. in other news today it's exactly one year since the grenfell tower fire in london tragedy was u.k.'s deadliest ways since the second world war at midday the nation

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