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because justice is about truth. truth detectives starts june thirtieth on g.w. . this is d w news live from the rush to solve europe's migration crisis a group of leaders will meet this weekend to try to find a solution and a german chancellor angela merkel has less than two weeks to come up with a europe wide response or she could be out of a job also on the program. for children in cages america's zero tolerance immigration policy in action with the trump administration under increasing
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pressure at u.s. lawmakers are to vote tomorrow on immigration legislation that could end the practice of separating the migrant children from the families of the border. since day seven of the football world cup in russia has three games on the menu portugal have just finished taking on morocco with superstar christiane over and all that doing what he does best we'll show you how about one thousand times. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program a group of a ulead is this to meet on sunday at a mini summit to deal with the divisive subject of migration into the block time is of the essence and this issue is threatening the german chancellor this coalition government. is at odds with her interior minister he was threatened to defy the chancellor and tighten controls at germany's border unless she can secure a unified. you response in you summit proper by the end of the month. the fact that
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they are still talking is already newsworthy as chancellor angela merkel and her interior minister horses of her c.d.u. party's conservative bavarian sister c.s.u. party continue their bitter feud over asylum policy which is fast becoming about the future of the e.u. . on tuesday machall and french president. agreed to aim for a common euro zone budget by twenty twenty one on. the c.s.u. is pushing back and germany's largest tabloid it criticized merkel for having made too great a concession to moscow machall c.d.u. allies are worried that this could spark more division at a crucial time you're seen in we are in a situation in europe in which everything necessary is being done to keep this europe together trump is doing everything he can to harass us we need allies in europe and that's why this is a key issue. unphased the c.s.u.
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keeps provoking merkel it's been very in state primary sudha met with austrian chancellor is a bust and courts in the austrian city of linz both want to clamp down on the influx of refugees. it says i'm in solidarity and europe will ultimately be decided by whether we succeed in bringing about a change on the migration issue i mean chancellor merkel will meet the leaders of key e.u. countries at a crisis summit in brussels this weekend the outcome of that meeting could rescue or sink her chancellorship. let's talk about summits and matters arising with the correspondent barbara very in brussels welcome barbara so who is invited on sunday and what do they hope to achieve. now this is the group of the willing in a sense germany italy france spain bulgaria greece and some other countries might yet come and invite themselves to this pre-summit meeting where they're trying to
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figure out where compromise is and how compromises can be made on migration policy because looking at the summit next week the real summit in brussels you have one night to to negotiate and that is sometimes too short to really find to build bridges and to hammer out solutions for things that have been not solvable so far so that's what is at stake and what is on the table for this mini pre preparatory summit where is the common ground where the differences. the common ground is of course better border protection that the e.u. has been talking about that for years which seems like decades i mean every summit they say yes we need better border protection now if it comes up for people to give money and particularly to give personal nobody really volunteers that that needs to change and probably america will sort of put something on the table in that regard to satisfy critics there and say we're really increasing people on the borders and
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we're really sort of tightening the borders and then on the other hand there seems to be a new consensus evolving that one solution to too many migrants in the e.u. in the view of many politicians european politicians. migrant camps refugee camps outside on non e.u. territory and so austria already is in negotiations was all dania serbia and that's a donya the italian interior minister is going to live in next week so there is a lot of movement and there and the president of the council to even put something on the table for the summit could camps like that somewhere outside be the solution to the problem so that is one direction in which people are going and the distance is of course is clear italy doesn't want to keep the people that need to stay there should stay that according to the dublin rules and that will be contentious till
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the very end. let's hear from the chancellor herself regardless of domestic political considerations chancellor merkel offish stage is determined to stick to her guns. what month would germany stands by its responsibility to protect people fleeing war and terror as well as its responsibility for the cohesion of europe the two belong together whichever way you look at it migration is a european challenge perhaps our greatest challenge at the moment and the cohesion of this european union is at stake. this meeting that is due to happen on sunday viewed from a job perspective where there is the political atmosphere it looks as though migration which was already a big topic has moved up the list was this meeting going to happen anyway. no probably not it would not have happened because the way i see it here is that
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i'm going to america needs help and there are some countries in europe particularly france but even some other countries who think that she needs some people who have her back who sort of give her a hand in pulling pulling things back together because the feeling is this time in there are so many european crises but the feeling this time is that this is a real crisis and this is by the rising populism in some parts of europe and that needs a response and that needs a unified response and that's what america and some of her political friends who are still there are trying to achieve but it's been a serious issue for the last three years now it's really serious professional in brussels thank you. so the migration issue is also provoking outrage on both sides of america's political aisles with the u.s. lawmakers set to vote on the issue tomorrow president trump is defending his border policy of separating migrant children from their family the trumpet ministrations
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policy means that every migrants who crosses the border illegally is subject to criminal prosecution since children are not allowed inside federal jails they are removed from their parents and placed in care now transparency group appropriately has added fresh fuel to the debate by releasing an audio recording that it says features sopping central american children. children detained in cages calling for their parents this is the trumpet ministrations zero tolerance policy in action. critics have likened the practice to torture. opponents of the law interrupted a u.s. congressional hearing to demand an end to the separation policy this was
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a policy in very strict. and executed by president got it wrong i'm talking directly to my republican colleagues we need you to stand up to the president quote. we need you to join us in telling him that we reject this mean. but the president continues to blame democrats for the separation crisis he's called for an overhaul of the country's immigration rules to allow the government to deport whole families together we want to solve this problem we want to solve family separation i don't want children taken away from parents we want to end the border crisis by finally giving us the legal authorities and the resources to detain and we will illegal immigrant families all together and bring them back to their
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country. as the sides trade blame anger is spreading across the country. protests like this one in your company taking place in cities nationwide as many americans demand rights council amongst them china saying that the u.s. is images to defend rights is now on the verge of collapse u.s. ambassador to the united nations to haiti announced the departure on tuesday she criticized the council for she called a chronic bias against israel and for including as members accused human rights abuses like china it is the latest withdrawal by the trumpet ministration from an international institution. now to some of the other stories making news around the world hungary's parliament has approved tough new legislation concerning my guest the laws make it illegal to help asylum seekers who are not entitled to protections
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and also outlaw settle settling for own populations in hungary the latter is seen as a swipe back in plans to be distributed migrants by quote. israeli warplanes launched airstrikes on the gaza strip early on wednesday military officials say two dozen positions linked to islam in scroope amounts in response to rockets launched towards israel officials in gaza say several people were injured the exchange of fire comes amid months of heightened tension in the region. eritrea's president asked. where he says he's descending a delegation for talks to ethiopia the two neighboring nations have been involved in one of africa's most intractable standoffs for decades earlier this month a theo period said it would fully accept the terms of a peace deal made with eritrea in two thousand. divers and an underwater drone have joined the search for a ferry that sank in indonesia's lake toba on monday but this is authorities raise
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the estimate of the number of missing to one hundred eighty it's hard to accurately assess the true number of missing is the vessel did not have a passenger list and these thoughts have been operating illegally. to day seven of the football world cup and one of the tournament favorite support to go beat morocco in moscow in a tightly fought group battle the portuguese didn't waste any time in taking the lead christiane but know. how. a corner right into the back of a net after just four minutes it was too much for broken keeper when their jewish americans were no pushover there and came close to equalising in the second half right off the safe. patricio one nil. final score can become the first team out of the tournament. now the surprised team of the world cup hosts russia looks set to go through to the knockout stage they were the first outfit to
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play twice and last night's victory over egypt over to show that they will advance i don't go put russia on the board first and open the floodgates then he said later scored thirty four goals typings cristiana rinaldo for the total of egypt's most solemn verse of the penalty. debut russia was the easy winner three. senegal beat poland two won in a battle between the last two teams to make their appearance this each side is captained by a star striker of european club football by munich's robert love and the bulls aside your money but it wasn't exactly goals glow money turned provided for interesting game netted the first cultural before half time but it turned out to be an over go public defender jago chose deflection help people into the net for the goals a second came after a terrible back pass by the post defense after that it was too easy for. things
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like conservation go check both tree. farms of painting may well know the challenges of working with a new war different media but how about when it's a rice paddy field skilled rice growers in northeastern china have created what's being billed as the world's most complicated rice paddy painting itself the thousand arm of a lucky. it was drafted out of different colored rush suits on along with several other rights paintings he's drawing in the crowds here shine young city. talked about of our top story this hour a group of european leaders is to meet for migration from. gratian mini summit summit on sunday in brussels german chancellor angela merkel has less than two weeks to secure a europe wide solution to its migration problems or risks a split within her three month old
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