this is d w news live from the ladies not for tiny german chancellor i'm going to refuses to back down in the face of the public challenge from her interior minister the migration policy standoff is threatening to bring down germany's coalition government just three months after it took office. also coming up. muslims around the world mark the holiday of year to see generosity and sweet we'll show you how believers and appraising. plan to the world cup a late goal from

a quality program secures an unexpectedly narrow win for favorites from unfortunate australia we'll get more on that from d.w. school. the woman. i'm helena you could join me german chancellor angela merkel is standing firm today as a dispute say the migration with one of her top ministers threatens to bring down her coalition government now merkel has reiterated her intention to seek a common european solution to illegal immigration escalating a standoff with her interior minister cost zero and he wants germany say unilaterally toughen its border controls the german government could fall if no agreement is found. over more on this all chief political correspondent been in to crane. joins me now in the studio melinda we understand that both sides are holding

talks behind closed doors today to try and find a solution that said it didn't stop merkel from making her position clear today did it tell us more no it didn't in fact she used part of her weekly podcast to talk about the issue and basically to reiterate the fact that only a european solution can really be a sustainable solution for this problem the issue here is essentially the following if germany were to act unilaterally as the interior minister is pushing the country to do and send refugees back to the first countries that they entered in europe the first countries where they were registered essentially that's germany going it alone putting all the burden on to those countries those countries are for example greece italy they for the absolute brunt of this refugee crisis since its inception for three years now they've never had adequate support from the rest of europe

we've seen a lot of turmoil recently in italy and it has partly to do with this problem so uncle americal absolutely is sticking to her guns here and by the way she also reminded people in this podcast that her party the city you has always been the party of europe since the time of comrade abner since the time of homewood cold and that again also a reminder to her but there ian sister party look you are essentially violating not only the coalition agreement you signed up to but also our own history right so she's come out strong because there is so much riding on these talks that take a look now and at first it was dividing the whole firm what they both want now in this report. the standoff pits chancellor merkel against her interior minister holds they hope for who's also a leading figure in the various conservative c.s.u. party there who found his party a challenging machall even though they are part of the national governing coalition in belin. zero four wants germany to turn away refugees at the border if they've

already applied for asylum in another year paying country. but michael doesn't want germany to go it alone and he's pushing instead for a european solution to the crisis. they hope for however says he's lost faith in the use ability to act and is threatening to move unilaterally if maclin they fall for fail to resolve their differences the alliance between the two parties could unravel lead to the collapse of the government. so that is what is at stake melinda how likely is it that you know about a compromise this weekend. it is likely and certainly that's what we're hearing out of the c.d.u. would self and the american conservatives we're also told however that there are a number of leaders of the c.s.u. the bavarian sister party of the interior minister who are more intransigent more

rigid and the question is whether they can find a good middle ground which for example might be that they give the chancellor the longer time period she's looking for we haven't you summit coming up two weeks from now basically she's pushing for waiting until then and then trying in the interim up until that summit to do some bilateral talks with some of the key european countries here so they might arrange a kind of a compromise that would give her that time but also save face for the bavarian conservatives and by the way the person who is trying to broker all of this is the former finance minister now part president of parliament will he is regarded with high esteem by suicides why has this dispute erupted now and what happens then if you see who often has been very conservative say ok we're going to go to learn to be honest helena this the timing of this has everything to do with tactics and essentially populism there is a very important election coming up in bavaria in october that is the heartland of

the c.s.u. mr say hope his party he wants to look really tough on immigration in order to ward off gains by the far right anti immigrant party the d. so that's why he is pushing this now now if it comes to a head the government could break down over this that essentially would leave his party leaving the coalition and breaking with their cd you allies they are regional party they really don't have the clout nationally to go it on alone so i don't see their end game here to be honest essentially they have a lot to lose in this dispute chief political correspondent melinda crane putting it all into context for us thank you very much indeed. now some of the other stories making news around the walls these huge nicaragua's bishops say they have brokered a truce between the government and civil society groups ending two months of deadly political unrest under the deal the government has agreed to an international

inquiry into the violence some one hundred seventy people have been killed since protests began in april. a major fire has turned through has told through the glasgow school of off in scotland for the second time in four years firefighters worked through the night off to the blaze ravaged the macintosh building one of the country's most famous pieces of architecture now the building has been jus to reopen next year off to a multi-million pound restoration. well it's a weekend of celebration of the world's one point six billion muslims as they mark eight fit to the end of the fasting month ramadan now is regarded as a holiday of generosity and hospitality with families and communities coming together. it's one of the most significant holidays in islam and unites muslims around the world. each future marks the end of the holy

month of ramadan during which believers fast from dawn to dusk. different branches of the face in different countries celebrate aid on their young days. but for the faithful everywhere eed is a time of prayer celebration and community. budgeted for that got them it's a big day for lone very rare all celebrating a child for a moment we should remember to care for the poor people on this occasion in the future that they can also enjoy the delight of this day would have full effect. p.d.l. future is also known as sweet aid here in pakistan there were long lines as people indulged all stocked up for friends and family. for many aid is also a chance to forget their troubles markets in damascus were flooded with those eager

to celebrate while syria's war is far from over this central market was a picture of peace. in yemen two people marked aid the festivities was subdued in sanaa far people still gathered in the streets a show of resilience amidst the conflict. well staying in yemen a u.n. special envoy has arrived in the country for emergency talks as fighting escalates in the western city of data martin griffiths touched down in the rebel held city of sanaa hoping to broker a cease fire hundreds have already died since wednesday when saudi backed forces launched an offensive to retake the strategic port from hutu rebels aid workers are warning the attack on the country's largest port could shut down a vital route of food and humanitarian aid is with yemen already on the brink of a fountain.

well much day three of the world cup kicked off in the first game of the day so from the take on australia in a group c. you know off to an unavenged who first off this found on and twenty greaseman got the game going the striker to the results in a penalty and broke the deadlock in the fifty eight minutes just moments later it was all square again kept in my own yet in that with the equaliser that. will go broke all the houses he grabbed the winner for france in the eighty s. minute and two one was the final school. so let's get more on this match now with me in the studio is any of how shoots from a d w sports watching all of the games for us and many what did you make of fronts his performance first off well quite frankly i would say underwhelming france's game plan typically is to rely on their solid defending and then send their incredibly fast often some quick counter attacks but that doesn't really work so

well against teams like australia who are not known for their possession game so they actually had a quite difficult time creating chances from open play and we also saw the premiere of the video referee tell us more about that how that went down at the very first time it was used was in portugal and spain on friday night and on saturday it was used between france and australia and i have to say between france and australia it actually just really worked i mean there was a lot of criticism beforehand a lot of worrying side of fifa but without video system technology and without goal line technology france would have lost this game one zero so actually it was a fantastic opportunity to show how great technology and football can be absolutely you mention last night's action let's take a look at some of the including the first heavyweight clash in the tournament so far we had two european giants facing each other portugal against spain football fans were hoping for a fantastic match and let's be honest it's exactly what they got. just ten minutes

into the game and could still hold the johnny carson suspension for not only portugal needs a penalty he had to keep going but spain has an footballing genius is to jiggle call stop all the norms of portuguese penalty area but sting the score was a lousy finish for the spanish equaliser chalky give off time it was no no it'll time again the superstar scoring portugal second purchasing of coveted chaos horrific blunder. and shortly after the break it was all square again spain's diego costa was a brace of his own and only minutes later spain took city for the first time i feel i'm not sure if it nanda us and us better. but stuffed up eighty eight minutes up step because john will know it'll come back this equaliser it's general knowledge history space story. falls still with me and many as i'll show

us what a game and the ages think it was as a fair result fair in terms of the better team winning i'm not so sure you know spend dominated the game they had much more attempts on goal you know they had more passes with better accuracy but portugal played a good game and if you're spain just can't give away penalties like that and dangerous free kicks to fairly cristiana ronaldo absolutely and actually chris you never know there's never actually perform that strongly and while cup some people might be surprised that until now when he said that because general not a surprise on difficult situations he loves being criticized i think because it just pushes him to go that extra mile to go further look at this season he actually didn't have a great season with real madrid in the first half and then she came and had a fantastic second has broke records again and now this might be his last chance at a world cup so he'll probably want to prove everyone that he can perform even on this huge stage yeah he's definitely going for it with that in mind. he makes the

early running in your opinion emily at this point in terms of performance portugal and spain both really showed up they both had a fantastic game russian or why got good results and france left a lot of room for improvement so i'm curious to see what the other groups will do on this first match day all right well you'll be watching i'll be watching looking forward to anybody if it's from the sports thanks sometimes. are you watching d w news life from ballet and i'm helena humphrey plenty more on our website d.w. dot com we're also on twitter and on facebook as well please do get in touch at helena humphrey is my handle thanks as ever for your company and plenty more news coming up very soon thanks a lot. of

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