this is news coming to you live from berlin divisions deepen the head of an emergency european union summit on refugee policy the german chancellor angela merkel bedrolls a drop statement she hoped would came a special deal on migration this follows objections from the italian prime minister also coming up. with turkey's election just days away it looks like the opposition is mounting its strongest challenge yet to president grip on power. in the next thirty minutes we head to the world cup in russia where argentina

suffered a crushing defeat and could be at the brink of elimination from the tournament. hello and welcome i'm on with that shima italy says it will take part in an emergency e.u. summit on a refugee policy in brussels on sunday now this confirmation only came after german chancellor angela merkel agreed to scrap a draft statement she'd hoped would clinch a fifty on migration meanwhile leaders from central europe will not be attending they held their own meeting in hungary in another sign of one thing divisions within europe. almost dry old before it even begun sunday's summit looks set to be an acrimonious one invitations have gone out but

only to ten of the e.u. twenty eight members greece spain and austria are going italy too but only after german chancellor angela merkel did some heavy backtracking scrapping a draft proposal on immigration she hopes the others would agree to the contentious document which was leaked earlier this week called for establishing migrant processing centers outside e.u. borders mechanisms for deportations between e.u. countries under the agreement money and other welfare provisions would only be available in the countries where migrants are registered and stricter controls at train stations and airports would be implemented to limit cross border movement but italy's government reacted furiously to the draft saying it focused too much on germany's concerns and ignored their calls for more a you support rome growing increasingly tired of taking orders from the e.u. . and europe the times are over when france and germany decided refugee policy

when they told european italy what they had to pay and which migrants they had to take in. and firm action has accompanied the firm words on thursday sylvania issued his latest refusal to rescue ship and pledge to block all n.g.o.s boats from docking in italy. joining me now from rome is journalist just finmeccanica joseph in some very tough talk coming out of italy what is the government so angry about. well initially has taken a very strong stance on immigration with the new government that was elected in march this is really being driven very strongly by the interior minister. who blocked the arrival of the equerries ship and as we know has sent that to spain and we've seen a war of words between president a man with my craw and the attending government and this week of merkel the german

chancellor actually telephoned italian prime minister. to say they had been amused understanding about this draft agreement at the sunday summit and. threatened to cancel the summit altogether so there's some tension there and the italian authorities the attending government feels very strongly that it needs to stand up to what it see as dominance in the e.u. by the french and the germans what is the feeling among all do the italians do this all this hardline stance by the government against the migrants and refugees. well immigration has become the top issue initially and the interior minister any campaign very strongly held that at the election since the march election his popularity the popularity of his. party has risen more than twelve points he's around twenty nine or thirty percent according to the latest polls and that gives

you an indication that people support his hardline stance and they feel that what the government is doing to stand up to the rest of the european union is the right way to go. i don't know what does it really want from the european union what kind of support is it looking for to deal with this issue. well first of all it doesn't want to see itself being isolated being forced to be what it considers to be a dumping ground. so they need the interior minister and the prime minister. have been very strong on this and mr conto told uncle merkel this week the government did not support what they call secondary movements the return or the dispersal of migrants to italy from other european countries it also wants to see greater support in terms of margarets who are moving across the borders france has sent back up to ten thousand migrants already this year and usually feels that it's

isolated and bearing the brunt of what's going on easily also wants to set up some sort of migrant program processing centers in africa to try and resolve the flow try and stop that flow of migrants across the mediterranean through libya i think that's a tall order but that's certainly something they're going to be pushing for at this . just in mckenna in rome thank you very much for that. they may not be up to date but some of the stories making news around the officials from north and south korea have discussed plans for his human being into families divided by the korean war in the nineteen fifties the two countries agreed to hold the reunions in august at a recent joint korean summit the koreans had reunions last time in two thousand and fifteen. south sudan has broken off the latest round of talks aimed at ending its five year civil war president salva kiir had been meeting this week with rebel leader. for discussions their first face to face talks in almost two year fresh

talks are now reported do you next week. because in indonesia has sentenced a cleric to death for planning a series of islamist attacks from his jail amman a bit of him on it is considered the de facto head of indonesia's supporters of the so-called islamic state prosecutors say the attacks he ordered include a two thousand and sixteen suicide bombing in jakarta that killed four people. turkey's voting in elections and indications are that the opposition is mounting its strongest challenge yet to present. the mean opposition candidate has reportedly had one of the largest campaign rallies in the country's history observe a seat two million people rallied in is near a four. and a c.h.p. party polls show in she could force a jew on to a second round on sunday. by inches strong campaign has given

a boost to the embattled turkish opposition both at home and abroad did obvious terry should match one of their campaign as in brussels. turkish opposition politician katter seventy came to work at the european parliament thirteen years ago now she believes she's finally within reach of the dream she's had from the very start at the time we took that turkey would. watch quicker and turkey would be a bunch closer to the e.u. and the e.u. would be much better prepared for turkey's e.u. access unfortunately very ended up is completely the opposite but we are going to change that seventy is the brussels representative for the republican people's party or c.h.p. the largest turkish opposition party pro-democracy activists are booed by polls that show president recha bare to one in his fundamentalist justice and development party are more vulnerable now than it any time since taking power in two thousand

and one seven is hoping the c.h.p. will finally kick erda one off his perch and his party out of dominance in parliament its leading candidate move into has promised to reverse erda wants laws that consolidated authority in his own hands seven says the c.h.p. would make respect for human rights a priority and that e.u. accession would again be in turkey's future unfortunately what mr ed wanted by calling europe that's not the case and trying to use turkish diaspora in europe as a tool or arm against europe and european governments in creating this call for it in those countries all these people who very much disappointed with tricky so even revived the sphere will. make turkey again part of this european circles european parliamentarian rebecca harms is among the disappointed ones she's made turkey one of her main issues you have thousands of people

in prison for political reasons it's a huge perch against opposition people so it's really. not the democratic turkey we should be hoped for and worked for so what if there are one wins and continues down the authoritarian path should europe just let him go is own way even if that means he cozies up to russia and iran and friedman stein of the martin center think tank says possibly the question is what do we have to give up in order to make a turnaround i think would be too much it would be our own identity we would have to stop the west. and that's the price to pay but for now everyone's popularity is falling and catarrh seventh his optimism is growing every day when i come to my office who can you do the institutions i want to see turk running these institutions whether her vision comes true will of course depend on

who is running turkey and of course with the elections on sunday one of the key issues that people are talking about is the economy monica absolutely what people have in their pockets that's what matters and the turkish currency is losing value fast driving up inflation now this week the lira hit a new historic low against the u.s. dollar since the start of the year it dropped almost twenty five percent dramatically reducing the purchase power of turkish consumers and companies alike did all these yulia hollande is tracking the story for us in istanbul. machines are still rattling away in this istanbul printing house takin barlow has been in charge here for over thirty years but he says business hasn't been this bad in a long time. paper ink

most of the raw materials we use have to be imported. and because the mirror is getting weaker and weaker against the dollar and the general costs of increased a lot. the only thing we can do is struggle to survive like. so. many turkish people share bowels frustration prices are rising because the lira is worth less and less. unemployment stands at over ten percent just ahead of the election the economy is casting a shadow over the country's mood. sentient just isn't enough we can barely make it to the end of the months. against yet even young people who've graduated from university are unemployed malia everything is expensive especially the rent the government needs to act as soon as possible. economist most of us and mez is

convinced that's president out one brought the vote forward to get it in ahead of a potential economic crash out once policies have failed says so in mess because he made bad decisions in prosperous times. rather than sectors like the farming industry or export the money was invested in construction projects and domestic consumption it was a mistake it was economic growth through doping it brought nothing but high inflation and didn't help reduce unemployment. it's a ticking bolos printing house everyone is well aware of the difficult situation facing the country until now he's managed to avoid letting go of any workers but that could change if the turkish economy doesn't improve.

and for more on the turkish economy and how it could impact sunday's election i'm joined by evelyn godson professor of economics at the university of applied sciences constance good to have you with us well recha type ad the one called sunday snap election back in april do you think that he underestimated the economic decline and how it would impact his popularity. well i would to state a different the i think the government and the president himself have been very quick and understanding that the growth rates in the economy which we have seen over the past months are no longer sustainable and they have been very quick and for that reason they people on the election date because it was the government that kept growth with all its power republic money with intervening in the central banks decision but you cannot pursue such a such an economic policy over a longer period so that it's very clear there's a broad consensus turkey is. going to experience a significant drop in its economic growth in the next half of the year ok well the

elections obviously take place on sunday just two days from now and latest polls suggest that and the one will win the election of be it with a leaner majority than previously expected what does that mean for the sweeping sweeping reforms that he'd planned which also would solidify his power. well this is a very critical question you know the people in turkey will not only vote for a new president and a new parliament there will be also a new constitution that is going to be triggered and this new constitution for sees a stronger president which has more executive power but the constitution also has a control mechanism even so it's a small one strong power execution if the president relies still on a majority of the ruling party in order to provide laws for the fall for the president and it looks like that president added one can win the elections but the parliament will be no longer dominated by the ruling party and this means

a deadlock a president on the paper he has the power but practically it's a lame duck situation where reforms which are urgently needed cannot be executed and this is a bad news even for an already difficult economic situation everybody's waiting for the first round this will get some indications on. what potentially the economy will develop like all right to and i got say in a professor of economics at the us at the city of applied sciences in constance thank you so much thank you. well finance ministers in the eurozone have to clear out of the greece debt crisis to be over well and they also said they expect to end the blocks financial support for greece in late august at marathon talks in luxembourg greece's creditors reached a new deal providing debt relief and a last cash payout to athens greece has already received almost three hundred

billion euros in financial support from international creditors over the past eight years. airbus warns it might leave the united kingdom if britain leaves the single market and customs union without a transition deal it's the european aviation group strongest warning yet over the impact of a no deal breaks it airbus employs about fourteen thousand people at twenty five different sides in the united kingdom british prime minister to resign may as ruled out staying in the customs union the u.k. is due to me thinking you on the twenty ninth of march twenty ninth. not in time to catch up with the latest world cup results and i'm rita as all the details. and to talk about the wild cop in russia with me in the studio is emily rush from our sports desk a welcome emily so the most interesting match yesterday of course was the crashing defeat of argentina at the hands of grecia and argentina one of

the feel that's in this tournament yeah absolutely and this is about as humiliating as it gets for argentina they just narrowly made the qualifiers and now they face elimination probable elimination in the group phase already although there is still some hope. but on the other hand croatia were a fantastic team i mean they have a really good mixture in their team they have individual technique they have the tactical discipline and they have the winning mentality so they look set to make it out of the group phase for the first time in twenty years but let's have a look at the highlights because the game had some stunning scenes. unnerve the first half so argentina squander several clear chances and so paraphase miss on the how far marked the worst of the bunch they were made to regret their missed opportunities in the second and hey ray beach ruthlessly punishing this really you know air. an ice cold finish in the fifty third minute leaving the argentine

a goalkeeper no chance. and croatia weren't done their newcomers rachel unleashed a sensational strike to double his side's advantage in the key of minutes. a time for heroes if there ever was one. but any hope soon disappeared an unselfish monticello bros of age gave even the record teach a second bite of the cherry to kill the game in the ninetieth minute trailed the final score yes and. i think the win was fully deserved it wasn't that easy that first goal in the first half was because of their goalies mistake it was a shot in the arm force is going to replace a perfect game and you need a perfect game to beat such a great team that is this well you know that in the solution with that with scott with russia the outskirts of america keep that argentina survival is now i have their hands with these big for world cup glory surely opens.

gosh it must have been such a huge disappointment for messi and this is probably his last world cup yes you look at the images from the video or even the one in the wall behind us i mean he just looked defeated to watch in german a game i mean he wasn't able to get the ball and do his magic as usual because he was always man marked by three four people trace the completely took him out of the game and his teammates they they were performing there was so much space opening up by missing man mark and none of the teammates stepped up and and scored a goal or created a really really dangerous chance that they were predictable at the bank among the russians he's the most popular football player so used to disappointment. civil missy fans but you know on the brink of elimination. as i mentioned earlier there is still some hope if we have a look at the table we can actually see that things are quite close and it will all come down probably to the last group game here we can see at the top of the table ins ice and argentina nigeria but all teams could still theoretically go through

the most decisive game will be today already nigeria face iceland if nigeria managed to win argentina has decent chances and still has their fate in their own hands but if iceland winners there's a tie and i sit in nigeria really looking set to go to the next to the next phase so let's talk about today's games and what can we look forward to actually the most exciting games the first one coming up and my colleague jonathan crane he's in russia right now and he had some very interesting things to say about that. so far really has not been going well for some of. we've seen. messi and argentina. brazil his name. trend in costa rica brazil in many ways in a similar positions where argentina this time yesterday still looking for that in this tournament they will be boosted by the news the name of shaken off an injury he sustained during training of costa rica i'll be paying very close attention to

neymar possibly mocking him with more than two defenders as well they might because costa rica of any beaten brazil at once in ten meetings that was all the way back in one thousand nine hundred sixty and in the world cup it's produced its fair share of shocks already you'd have to say costa rica pull off another way and that would be the biggest of them. yes yes i mean brazil is really one of the top favorites in this tournament still so whole eyes will be on their game but later on as well serbia and switzerland play and nigeria face iceland as we mentioned earlier and that's always fun to watch it's always fun to watch and of course of the games coming up emily doshas thank you very much and talking about iceland the tiny country with over to achieving team and fun fans will surely create a fantastic atmosphere again and we have some pictures of you focused on the now famous who beat.

some of that later this evening but turning away now from the wild card it is one of german history's most iconic images seventy years ago children in west berlin cheering on u.s. and british pilots their planes affectionately became known as the candy bombers but it was not just candies the burnin airlift provided a lifeline to millions off the soviets blockaded the capital they will in fact part of the first international crisis of the cold war our reporter daniel bellows at

met one who was a child at the time of the airlift shares his story. today seventy years ago he watched western allied aircraft land here to safe west berlin . well i think of the past in connection with the airports. i feel totally different back in time and my heart and mind relive those hardships. planes no longer fly to and from this place but back then the airport was the hub of one of the most extraordinary rescue missions of all time the soviets located west berlin in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight the people of the war torn city where on the verge of starvation west berliners and their mayor and slighter feared the worst. of it is. either they should not only came in last year's eve they should not either is why.

i added. the western powers response was unique and alledged every few minutes planes dropped essential supplies in west berlin up to thirteen thousand tonnes each day. was just nine years old but he still remembers the airlift well berliners called the planes candy bombers because the pilots dropped sweets from the sky and set off bombs. they dropped little parachutes for us kids the whole street was full of children running towards the falling parachutes. of course it was a big deal when one of the kids caught one we were thrilled it was chewing gum inside chocolate and of course hard candies. one side to a picture is especially meaningful for funds go. whenever i look

at this picture i look for my brother myself but back then we couldn't afford shoes we always went around barefoot. you know children who benefit. the rescue operation came at a high price more than seventy u.s. and british men lost their lives in accidents today and monuments sense and their honor the temple of airport. yeah. i see this monument as a sign of the fight for freedom that's what it was the americans fed millions of us west berliners didn't abandon us to the russians. back then americans were seen as rescuers but today the u.s. is increasingly going its own way even so i. still feel grateful for him the americans will always be friends. he.

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