this is deja vu news live from berlin twenty eighteen football world cup has officially kicked off in moscow after a glittering opening ceremony with robbie williams the first match turned out to be a big win for the hosts who dominated from start to finish. also coming up today marks one year since the pirates devastated rental tower in london the tower illuminated in three downing street another london landmarks also paying tribute to

the shocking scale of the tragedy and germany's coalition government is in crisis chancellor angela merkel faces a rebellion over her refugee policy within her conservative bloc that could threaten her political future. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program the twenty eighteen world cup is underway in russia the fans in moscow were hoping for a win in the opening match against saudi arabia knowing that this would be their team's best chance to pick up points and get out of the group they were treated to a goal fests. couldn't have hoped for better start than this eurekas in ski backing the first goal of the tournament after just twelve minutes. and on the stroke of hop time was to substitute danny's cherish have putting

a beaming grin on coach church's shelves face. russia might be the tournament's lowest ranked team but they certainly didn't look like it. does you've made it three i the best of the bunch came in the ninety first minute kerry chef second and early contender for goal of the tournament saudi arabia might have been something of a soft opponent but the spall tough ali was pure inspiration. for the guests elation for the hosts. even then there was more a free kick in the dying seconds completing the russian rout delight for one certain discerning spectator saudi arabia's hopes meanwhile dashed already. i look at my now and this spectacular win for russia we have that herman joining us from our sports desk and matt i mean it's really could not have gotten better for that right five goals here incredible absolutely i mean this was you know

a pretty much custom made start for this russia team which came into the turnout with a ton of question marks over its head and whether they were really ready for this level of competition you know when you're the host of world cup you don't play qualifying matches russia's ranking in the world you know fee for rankings fell all the way to seventy and a lot of folks thought that even saudi arabia might be a tough test for them and that just wasn't the case at all they scored early they scored often they got two goals from dennis cherry show a very interesting player who might turn out to be one of their their key performers he's one of the few russian players who play in a top five european laiki place in spain and in fact grew up in spain he's just about as spanish as the u.s. russian from his footballing a brain and if guys. like that can step up and show the fans something special this russia team might actually put a dent in this tournament wow and that would be really amazing for the home team wouldn't it everyone likes to hear a story like that we did talk about saudi arabia though in the meantime because i

mean perhaps this is a learning experience for them right i mean their their defense at times they've really looked out of their depth and so where does the team go from here well i don't think we're going to have to talk about saudi arabia for long because i think where they are going from here is out of this tournament at the earliest possible juncture russia is probably maybe the second or maybe third best team in this group and they absolutely throttled to europe yes so now every other team that means egypt and would have by are going to be looking to stack up just as many goals against saudi arabia as russia did to get those goal difference is working in their favor and i just don't think saudi arabia are up to it i mean that second goal that they conceded where two defenders tried to slide tackle after one player both missed and the player was suddenly all alone in the box i mean that this is something you just don't see at the highest level of professional football very often i want to talk about this highest level of professional football now because we have three games coming up tomorrow today there was only one we're really

getting down to business so what's ahead three actually quite interesting games and as i mentioned there are two other teams in group and they will be squaring off against each other and egypt so you know a draw at the very least would be good they would not like to be on zero points along with saudi arabia then you know we also have a kind of an interesting game where it's hard to judge as to be a clash of styles it's iran versus morocco a very defensive minded team against a team that loves to have the ball and show a lot of flair and then finally the big one that is portugal versus spain and that is also going to be very interesting because of what's happened with spain they fired their coach who then look at t.v. after you know he took a job at real madrid after the turn of and they brought in fernando yetto who you see in the pictures here. has only ever had one head coaching job at a second division spanish club he didn't get them for motives so he left the club and they're facing off against portugal the reigning european champions coached by fernando santoso has been their coach for four years who led them to the title this

could be a tougher match for them than even expect family expects you to tell us all about it right afterwards matter man at the very latest from our sports desk thank you so much all there was plenty of action in the russian capital even before the opening game at the stadium that was hosting the spectacular opening ceremony fans lined the streets and filled the public viewing zones in moscow while the eighty thousand supporters inside of the stadium were treated to a gasp of formants from the british pop star robbie williams. i. well now to a more somber note and today is exactly one year since the devastating grenfell tower fire in london the tragedy was the u.k.'s deadliest blaze since the second world 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 many people were wearing green a color adopted by those who survived the tragedy. some poignant images there and last night we have to mention buildings across london were also illuminated in green to remember the victims from our let's bring indeed if you correspondent max and who is standing by for us in london and max as we just saw there with this moment of silence to remember the victims and several marches going on as britain stood together today what is the atmosphere. well sara it's hard to say i mean as you just said there have been many events throughout the u.k. there's been a minute of silence in parliament there's been a minute of silence overseen by the queen and even in russia at the sidelines of

the world cup the english national team came together for a moment of silence but it's we can't really tell if this is this is just symbolic but what's for certain is that people here in west london and the grenfell tower neighborhood where i'm standing right now have a great sense of community and and they approved this throughout the day and many events one of them was. a silent march that kicked off just about an hour ago where about five thousand people came down to this neighborhood to march in peace march in silence and to demand justice and that's the thing even one year later one year later the shock may not be there anymore but many people here in the community still feel angry and frustrated so one year on not much has changed in that sense. and we know max we have to mention that you were there actually as those invent events unfolded on at that time and so we're curious to know from you because an inquiry into the disaster it opens just last month. heavily criticized

what are the details that have come out so far. well regarding the inquiry. we've heard many very very moving stories and this includes also a form so to say for a family members for four relatives for friends to tell their stories from from the events that night that and the following day. for example the many times it was mentioned that the fire safety and the grenfell tara was right on disastrous the cladding was one of the major issues and the one of the reasons why the fire could spread so far as so fast throughout the entire building to twenty sixteen the building was referred bisht with with some some clotting there was there was highly flammable so to say and many other things such as fire alarms that were not working for it as a when are working so it was just in

a way it was just this event was just waiting to happen so so many questions yet to be answered but today one year later the victims are remembered and max and are reporting from london we thank you so much for telling us what has been happening there. and now let's get a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world the state of new york is suing to dissolve u.s. president donald trump's charitable foundation prosecutors allege persistently illegal conduct at the nonprofit including misusing donations and supporting trump's twenty sixteen campaign trump has called the loot lawsuit ridiculous he has pledged not to settle the case. a court in hungary has sentenced four members of a people smuggling gang to twenty five years in prison each for letting dozens of men women and children suffocate inside of a truck in austria seventy one victims were part of a wave of people fleeing to europe at the height of the migration of christ as

second twenty fifteen. fell migration policy is causing trouble for germany's chancellor angela merkel she is facing a rebellion by her interior minister and it's being seen as the most serious crisis to hit merkel since her new government took office in march the minister course say hoffer of the conservative bavarian c.s.u. wants the power to turn some migrants away at the border merkel has flat out rejected the idea saying that it would undermine european solidarity but they offer is reported to be ready to defy her it was a day of doubts and disruption of the german parliament as anglo-american was in effect threatened with open rebellion the conservative bloc in the bundestag normally acts as one but you know 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.u. says it can wait no longer to see

a change in medicals migration policy you have warned the do it once again we've made it clear what needs to be done to restore order and borders we should take the stance of turning refugees away from our borders who are already registered in another european country on him on the or patient lunt he said he had sinned. c.s.u. lead a horse to 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 reuse states of 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 up until forced to follow the austrian approach where external controls don't work national border checks 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 earlier we asked chief political correspondent linda crane whether the term wild west simply about a disagreement over policy or deeper than that a power struggle between merkel cv you and its sister party the c.s.u. . it's absolutely a power struggle and at least in some quarters including the chancellor's own very 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 variant conservatives absolutely on 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 that you are up to date on g.w. news i'm sarah kelly and thanks for watching have a great day. we make up over but we want tons of africa and up budget we are some of the same. they want to shape the continent's future to be part of it and join our dumpsters as they share their stories their dreams and their challenges the seventy seven percent platform for africa majority.