minds. this is you don't really use life for real in the twenty eighteen football world cup is now underway in moscow after a glittering opening ceremony the first of the tournaments sixty four matches has taken place between hosts russia and saudi arabia will show you how it all went also coming up. germany's coalition government in crisis chancellor angela merkel faces a rebellion over her refugee policy with in her conservative bloc and it could threaten her political future.

is going to have you lost everyone well the moment russia and football fans the world over have been waiting for is finally here the twenty eighteen world cup is underway in our correspondent in moscow will join us in just a moment to talk us through the opening match but first let's take a peek at how russia kicked things off flashy style. with the moscow streets full the fan zones in the russian capital as busy as could be the new sneaky stadium bursting at the seams and the world of football watching closely the opening ceremony had a lot to live up to plenty of pressure on robbie williams shoulders then. the pop star had been accused of selling his soul to putin by agreeing to take part though

neither he nor the eighty thousand fans inside the stadium appeared especially feigns it seems putin's stated principle of keeping sports and politics apart is widely shared. williams was joined by russian operatic singa garofoli now a collaborative rendition of his song angels hitting a harmonious note an atmosphere unlike those that football grounds are used to. but then this isn't just any football match or just any tournament it's a global festival in russia for the first time in history and it's finally underway . and the first final whistle of the twenty eighteen world cup has just been blown after hosts russia raced to a five nil victory over saudi arabia russia say yuri again since he was the first

twelve minutes to put the whole nation in front before dennis cherry showed that made it to deal just before half time in the second have to say you was not it in a third before a church of the sport that is second only contender for go of the tournament this come oscar was alexander go even then added the fifth the my i think death i. all right what a way to kick off the world cup for host russia for more on the festivities in moscow as well as the hosts a big win in the opening game want to take us now to the russian capital and jonathan crane is there good to see you joe that i don't know if you can hear me because you're right smack in the middle where it's all happening with the fans there really a fresh start at the tournament with a bang how the folks at the fan zone are reacted where you are.

i can just about hear it's pretty down t.j. if you read about risk here inside the. people they were queuing just to try to get in there might be by security a lot of people are trying to climb over the barriers and the security for keeping the right players inside this man saying we did an incredible amount of rockstar every goal to restore that she is going out of the crowd trying to play out for. a country that had great expectations very disappointing to make ninety four days to be right in jonathan five goals for the hosts three from substitutes i mean this could hardly have gone better for that. it really couldn't afford much practice to be honest that they were saying well that's over for the game right i said before they won pretty game right not a pretty sight the staff constantly changing your mind already having a clear right here for formation to play how he's going to break. it in the end

that's been played out the world and you make any serious attempt to have a score in the i mean game the world cup then are going to you became a nice golden brown he's a mature most concise and he was the right partner lantern on the any downside really from russia with the increase on in the cargo yeah you go into it and you're a pretty speedy to complaining was never that star players he went on to get up to the principal minutes not supplied so that no. reply me away no i'm not a prophet entering into the next absolutely well let's talk about saudi they owe for shit looked out of their depth to times it's a really awful defending oh where do they go from here jonathan. i mean it was that reading for performance like saudi arabia the bad the threatening iran screen name call for dad to be yeah i'm pretty average right despite the big three in the right amount of the be prepared maybe you could not

prevent it or you've got something very nice going to stay in saudi arabia have no say much right to do now and this is already pressure on paper was the easiest game that may have to play out your gripe and easier too much compromise and they didn't tighten the belt they couldn't even write a more than five year old company that preparation for the tournament but i feel they had to fight to. protect one of my primary means of meeting and try to make them pay for it sacking he just came back today and say hey i got the right to go oh right jonathan corrina mangubat and say in a mosque out think you so very much. and i'd like to bring you up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. the state of new york is issuing to dissolve us president donald trump's charitable foundation prosecutors allege persistently illegal conduct at the nonprofit including misusing donations and supporting trump's twenty sixteen

campaign president trump has called the lawsuit quote ridiculous he's pledged not to settle the case. the c.e.o. of. argentina as the lower house of congress says 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 were a gift for members of a people smuggling game to twenty five years in prison each for letting dozens of men women and children 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 crisis in twenty fifteen. and it's that migration a crisis now that is causing chance americal xah coalition formed only in

march after six months of wrangling to be in a full blown crisis mode the cause is migration chosen to america always facing a rebellion by her interior minister hoarse to say hoffer of the conservative bavarian c.s.u. who once the power to turn some migrants away at the border america has rejected the move saying it would undermine european solidarity but say offer is reported to be ready to defy or. it was a day of doubts and disruption of the german parliament as angle americal was in effect threatened with open rebellion the conservative bloc in the bundestag normally acts as one but in unprecedented scenes it held separate meetings on the same issue the varian conservatives of the c.s.u. versus the rest of the c.s.e. ca's can wait no longer to see a change in medicals migration policy. you have bittorrent. once again we've made it clear what needs to be done or agent lee to restore order at our

borders we should take the stand turning refugees away from our borders who are already registered in another european country. or. biggest he had since. lead a horse see hope and chancellor merkel had battled over the issue late into the night but no compromise was reached both sides agree a european response to migration is needed. for says that it's taking too long merkel is still hoping for a deal with other e.u. states at a summit in two weeks time. to me the question of how to tackle this migration issue is a litmus test for the future and cohesion of europe therefore needs to take every country's means into consideration the chancellor is putting the focus on beefing up the e.u. use external borders in the hope of deterring people from trying to end the year of patrol. wants to follow the austrian approach where external controls don't work

national border check should be reintroduced his party says as interior minister he already has the power to implement that but that would force a confrontation with the chancellor which could threaten the government as desperate migrants continue to cross the mediterranean the debate about what to do with them has turned into a political showdown in berlin. and it obvious the chief political correspondent linda korean joins me now from the chancellor we are here in berlin i'm linda it seems that there's a lot more to this than meets the eye how much of this is down to a power struggle and chancellor angela merkel's future. it's absolutely a power struggle and at least in some quarters including the chancellor's own bavarian sister party the c.s.u. the knives are out and we see that the interior minister is possibly willing to

bring down the government and certainly potentially bring down the chancellor over this issue but the struggle is as much about politics as it is about principles there's a very important regional election coming up in bavaria and the topic of migration has been a sore point an absolute bone of contention between that bavarian conservative sister party of the chancellor and the chancellor's own christian democrats basically ever since the migration crisis began in twenty fifteen that wrangling that you talked about that took so long to form this new government that wrangling was very much about the same issue with those conservatives absolutely and willing to to go with the chancellor's line on migration so now as i say it's down to the wire essentially the interior minister has given the chancellor an ultimatum

saying that he plans to move forward with his own policy on monday if she doesn't go along but i mean melinda given the failure of the rest of europe to formulate a viable response to the migrant crisis does mr they offer have a point why should they wait for europe to tackle this issue in a meaningful way when they have failed to do so up to now. well the fact is you heard in the in the report that soundbite about reestablishing order on the border but the fact is there is not a lot of disorder on the border right now there is no pressing reason why this has to be solved by next monday and if you ask me who has a point i would say that the chancellor has a point here if germany were to go it alone germany is the most powerful country in europe that would leave the countries on the x. sternal boundaries of the e.u. like italy like greece essentially holding the bag as they have so often in the past the chancellor has spoken out so directly just this very week against national

unilateral policies like we have seen now being put into effect by the old donald trump if germany goes down that path itself what kind of precedent is it setting for the rest of the e.u. i think that's the issue that's at stake here and certainly a regional election is not worth i think establishing that kind of a precedent belinda creative use chief political correspondent reporting thank you . today it's exactly one year since the grenfell tower fire in london the tragedy was the u.k.'s deadliest place since the second world war i meant day the nation including the queen observed a moment of silence lasting just over seventy second one for each victim of the blaze. last night buildings across london were illuminated in green the color adopted by the victims' families to honor their loved ones. and earlier we spoke to

correspondent max sounder who is following the commemorations in london today he was one of the first reporters to get to the scene one year ago. why i remember when i first got here the day later in the day when the fire started i remember there was still smoke coming out of the building you could still smell the fumes it was very chaotic here on the site the police had. a big area around the town people were out on the streets witnessing the rescue events some trying to find their friends and family members and there was a very little information out there at the time. i remember prime minister may. talk to first responders who didn't even take the time to talk to survivors and many many people were still looking for their loved ones who they did not know who are still unaccounted for so many people were still felt they were forgotten they felt they were not taken seriously and now one year later many people are

still in temporary housing still living in hotels for example and many are suffering from p.t.s.d. or other mental health and physical health conditions basically. thank you so much for watching. cultures. a clash between those who believe in. those who.