this is g w news live from berlin a lifeline goes out to migrants stranded for days at sea france says that hundreds of migrants stuck on board a german rescue ship may now docked in malta but europe's divide deepens over how to stem the flow of my friends amort home by italy's populist interior minister on a surprise trip to libya. also coming up children separated from their families at the u.s. border activists now say that migrant parents are now under pressure to withdraw

legitimate asylum claims with a promise that they will get their kids back faster. and it is the place to get an everlasting souvenir from the holy city and it's even believed to be a former british prince who got his own permanent reminder of jerusalem as this tiny tattoo shop. plus world cup drama has to iberian heavyweights jostling for top spots in group b. spain struggled with morocco while portugal faced in the wrong side fighting for progression all the action is straight ahead. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us. relief for the more than two hundred migrants stranded for days on board a rescue ship in the mediterranean france has said that the german n.g.o.s vessel

may now dock in malta after initially being refused entry there and in italy well meanwhile italy's new interior minister has made clear that his government's wish to block migration on a surprise trip to libya a sign that efforts to form a united refugee policy across europe are floundering the german operated rescue ship lifeline on board more than two hundred migrants plucked from rubber boats off the coast of libya last thursday refused entry by motorists pain and it's only the vessel and its passengers are now stuck in international waters. it's a nice hard line interior minister matt teo salvini wants to cut off the flow of migrants before they even put to sea he's been in libya calling for reception centers to screen arrivals in neighboring chad and sudan. sure stood a little issues turned in government will support the need to protect the external

borders south of libya because libya and italy alone cannot sustain the economic and social costs of this immigration images are surely the groups that we're going to see over libya also wants to see the micro with someone else. to do that if. we agree with the europeans on many matters related to illegal immigration. however we categorically reject the existence of any migrant centers inside libya and the cool their human meanwhile the migrants waiting in the heat on board the lifeline can only hope they will be allowed to land somewhere soon a group of european politicians visited the ship on sunday promising to do all they can. to nobody here nobody nobody have been along after being out there you see me what do you know. if you come to live now you must cause

a person you just need so. you can. understand if you could tell that germany was. going to do so and cries for help like that will be discussed here and berlin today as german chancellor angela merkel meets with the spanish prime minister pedro sanchez and the european commission president john called younker the chancellor now backing by lateral agreements with countries instead of e.u. wide refugee quotas but will that be enough to satisfy merkel's coalition partners her interior minister from the various christian social union wants migrants to be turned back at germany's borders and he has given merkel in july first deadline to come up with an alternate plan. so the clock is ticking and joining us now to break it all down is to be useful it will correspondent han's bronte joins us here in studio this morning welcome to you hons we know that merkel is going to meet with

her coalition partners to discuss asylum policy a little bit later this evening how far are the sides away from an agreement at this hour or one has to say first of all the disagreement is. consistent partly from bavaria the christian social union the interior minister is from the party and he is in fact the person that has been pushing pushing that that's wholesale for who we see at the back. and he has not given any indication that he's prepared to back dahlan at the moment so while i'm glad america is insisting that his demands that germany on its own reject asylum seekers that have applied for asylum elsewhere in europe and send them back from the border now because this is going to need to say she's looking for a european solution she's going to speak to her european partners germany cannot do this on her own it's so at the moment there seems to be in sign that the variants are prepared to budge on this and given that i mean given that

hardline approach how high is the danger that we could see the government collapse over this well the ironic thing is that it is actually possible it's not completely excluded even though this attack as it were comes from america's closest ally political ally but at the moment the situation is so harsh hard and so harsh on both sides there is no sign of the bavarians actually giving in on this at the moment what they have said is that if america finds a solution a european solution that is equivalent to what they are demanding then they will prepare to back down with the losing face presumably if that is not the case as they will for the interior minister has threatened to do this on his against merkel's will. if he does that she would have to throw him out of the government and that would probably lead to the collapse of the entire government let's talk a little bit more about the solution that angela merkel is trying to find at this hour because we know for example you know that european wide solution that you

discussed that she has sort of scaled up back a bit now she is talking about a bilateral approach with with various different nations later today as she meets with the new spanish prime minister is he likely to back her policy. we don't quite know yet he has been saying after this mini summit that we had to possibly can and he has been saying that he is in support of a european solution but that's a very general statement he's at least prepared to talk about all those whereas a large number of other countries especially in the east of europe are not prepared even to talk about those so there is a chance that some sort of agreement maybe fall in with a kind of coalition of the willing as marco i think has been calling it and spain might well be included spain obviously being a country in the south of europe on the mediterranean coast also is feeling the pressure of migration quite a lot more strongly than many of the countries in the north so i think the spanish new socialist prime minister is someone who is possibly more prepared to agree to

something like those than his predecessor was and we don't quite know how the other countries involved are going to react to it debbie political correspondent hans brant thank you. now to the united states where confusion remains over the fate of thousands of migrant children held in detention centers after being separated from their parents it has been less than a week since the u.s. president donald trump reversed a policy of separating migrant families at the border now immigration rights activists in seattle are suing the federal government other states also have announced plans to do the same lawyers allege that the government is using family separations as a tool against asylum seekers. they were taken away from their families at the border. now some lawyers say the u.s. government is preying on their parents desperation to see them again. many of them had been kidnapped raped tortured but again they said over and over that paled in

comparison to the pain and desperation that they felt being separated from their children as a result many of them were really considering signing voluntary departures and really starting the deportation process. so that they could get out of detention as soon as possible and they had been told by that if they signed a voluntary departure that ice would reunite them with their children as quickly as possible for us we heard that consistently and over over and over again to the point that we really feel that the administration is holding these children hostage to dissuade people from pursuing compelling and strong asylum cases. after nationwide outrage over family separations u.s. president donald trump to public pressure and announced an end to the policy but his reversal does nothing for the children still inside shelters like this one in southern california this is one of the more established shelters for migrant children here in san diego and it looks after boys between the ages of six and

seventeen now it's been doing that for years for children who arrived in the united states unaccompanied by a parent but the difference now is that it is also caring for children who were intentionally separated from their parents when they arrived in the united states as you can see behind me it is covered in fencing and green netting all the way around the perimeter to make sure that nobody can see out and then nobody can see and. the government agency that contract this temporary shelter refused my request to go inside but they released this footage showing children's bedrooms a medical center with painted walls and a place to play soccer critics say this is the best case scenario for detaining children and that conditions elsewhere in the country are likely far worse. reuniting them with their parents will be a slow and difficult process some children might even be forced into foster care orphaned by the u.s. government. on alex get a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world in the u.s. state of california thousands have been forced to flee from

a wildfire that has been threatening a rural community the so-called pani fire is one of four major blazes burning in the summer heat the governor has declared a state of emergency in the area. more than eighty people have been killed in clashes over land in nigeria authorities have imposed an overnight curfew in hope of stopping the fighting between farmers and semi nomadic herders in the central plateau state climate change and population growth are intensifying competition for farm lands. and a berlin court has found a nineteen year old syrian refugee guilty of an attack on two men wearing the jewish skullcap earlier this year the defendant was sentenced to four weeks in juvenile detention one of the victims is an arab israeli. films of the incident on his phone. the incident triggered outrage across germany. you're watching news still to come on the program spain and portugal pre-crisis to build

the last sixteen in the world cup but it was a dramatic night of football in russia and we will have all of the action. of so many goals there but first how i know you're talking about trade between the united states and china absolutely any rumors even at this stage sarah nuff to rattle very sensitive markets shares a mixed in asia during late trading with investors now moving past reports that washington is preparing to step up trade sanctions against china now which shares eight of the us for us treasury secretary steven chu chen tonight reports that the united states is targeting chinese firms in its crackdown on foreign acquisitions of u.s. tech now. says that plans to impose investment restrictions will apply to all countries accused of trying to steal u.s. technology but u.s. officials are concerned about china's made in china twenty twenty five program

which aims to grasp global leadership of key high tech sectors. but with me here in the studio is a professor of economics at the free university of berlin great to have you with us today now and it seems that the real sticking point for the united states with china is this industrial expansion policy the china twenty twenty five policy with its rapid developments washington couching it as a national security concern is it right to well everything is being wrapped now in a national can security framework we can see whether it's on the border suddenly migration becomes a national security issue also everything in trade steel aluminum imports from canada are considered a national. security issues so here there is a kernel of truth in the u.s. complaints a lack of regulatory reciprocity but to clothe that

in sort of this national security issue you know twenty thirty years down the road right now the united states and china are rivals and as rivals other countries have similar issues so i think it's more the issue of how do we coordinate to get this regulatory reciprocity that when investors go into china that they are treated the way chinese investors expect to be treated in the united states there is a kernel of truth there is a candle of truth but just picking up on that idea of rivalry that you've just spoken about to a certain extent we're talking about phenomenal progress a plan which will allow for a lot of development of high high tech sectors is it not the case that the u.s. feels that china is threatening the wild order. china is growing. china is also putting its money and resources where its mouth is it is saving enormous amounts it's investing enormous amounts in the scientific engineering

infrastructure of its own country viz would be the kinds of responses that we would expect to see as well instead of working around the edges talking about. the fine points of joint ventures the united states if it's seriously addressing this issue of where the united states is a technological power would require a lot more investment at home by the u.s. so what happens now them because china is staring down the barrel of more tariffs for example from the united states but isn't that the sense as well that the u.s. needs chinese investors couldn't this hurts the u.s. economy when the. ever you put up an obstacle whenever you put up a wall that hinders the movement of goods services people human capital and physical capital or financial capital you're making the economy less

efficient that much is clear there are winners and losers every time an intervention comes in the real question is. is this particular measure being conducted the right way at the right time and too much is happening at the same time on the entire trade as well as finance front on the world stage as well. as well you know the european union's also had issues with china when it comes to steel it's imposed what it calls dumping tariffs have they paid off have they were actual the line well drawing the line is going to be harder but what is clear is when there are a symmetries and in this especially in how foreign investment is treated how intellectual property is treated china is the odd man out and there it makes sense for an international call it coalition of the willing a coordinated effort be made and not the simple bilateral the us is not in

a position by itself to get the significant kinds of changes in chinese behavior. from the free university of i appreciate your thoughts thank you you thank. well u.s. president donald trump took to twitter to express his surprise over harley davidsons decision to move production of its motorcycles for the european market to india brazil trunk choices he surprised a harley davidson of all companies would be the first to wave the white flag i fought hard for them says the president but it's ok why chung goes on to say that the company would not have to pay tariffs off to rule the e.u. has put import tariffs on motorcycles whiskey and a host of other u.s. products in retaliation for trump's own import tariffs on steel and other media. for sarah now for a royal fest absolutely we're talking about britain's prince william who's making

a big trip in fact he is on a five day official visit to the middle east now it is a tradition in jerusalem to get a tattoo to commemorate a visit to the holy land one tattoo artist claims that his family tattooed three members of the royal family some two hundred years back and he has just the design that he thinks prince william should get. in this tiny tattoo shop in the old city of jerusalem a tradition take center stage here was in resolute tattoos christian pilgrims tourists and anybody else who wants to get a lasting souvenir from the holy city the place is always busy because of the. programs to come. to. the program. sometimes they would choose across. another more be flight the crucifixion of jesus or the resurrection of jesus the residents

a coptic christian family from egypt have been tattooing pilgrims visiting jerusalem for more than five centuries now was took over as tattoo artist from his father a decade ago what makes this place so special are the wooden hand carved stamps that service stencils for their religious designs the most famous design is the jerusalem cross one version of it is believed to have been on british royalty crown prince albert edward the future king edward the second and later also his sons when they visited jerusalem in the one nine hundred centuries. the diaries of. the british kings and the royalty who has come to druce and did and did the cost and the tos we know for sure that they had received the truth of the cross to this is the juice from cross this is what i would suggest for prince william to do if he

is if he decides decides to do it too this is the old block which was probably was the one that was used to do his ancestors or to his own systems chances are that tattoo was done by a member of the resolute family a very special tattoo that's something the future king of england prince william might contemplate when he visits the old city this week the residents are certainly ready to help give him an ink souvenir of jerusalem. the first two groups have been decided at the world cup and joining us to discuss here in the studio is you get his very own press herrington joining us from our sports desk welcome to press so there was a dramatic end to ball great games in group and i think we have to talk about that first right you know group be the one team morocco was the only team destined to book a flight home they face spain and they had some really magic but the two thousand and ten world cup winners spain forced to play catch up the other match portugal in

the ride you know either one of these teams had a chance had a shot to make it out of the group stage portugal c.r. seven christian or not all had a chance to put the game away but iran were running towards a goal of actually levelled if you know that match let's take a look we have a report let's take a look at the action. in the fourteenth minute a blunder by andres iniesta and said most gifted the baltimore rocco and. slotted home for his team's first goal of the tournament. that moved portugal top of group b. . but in yes to redeem himself five minutes later teeing up isco for the spanish equaliser was with the score one all spain were back on top of the group. meanwhile against iran a wonder goal from ricardo koresh put portugal ahead before the break it was their

first of the tournament not scored by christiane or an aldo once again advantage portugal. ronaldo got his chance in the second half when he stepped up for a penalty but missed leaving the door open for iran. i. netted another three yousef in a city ten minutes from time and spain's chances of topping the group looked over. the but spain jury level in injury time thanks to jagow us bus lines minute ruled it offside but v.a.r. confirmed it counted to all the final score portugal though still lead the group. but kareem ansari for confronted a last gasp penalty for iran to home portugal to a draw sending spain back to the top of group be available they move on but given these performances how do you re spain and portugal chances

even though it comes out to the next opponent spain russia and i think this would be how fertility first paying to bring russia back down to reality because you know russia performed well but i don't think they can really compete with a little more difficult for portugal because they're facing uruguay uruguay is one of the only teams and not concede a goal in the group stages though their group a wasn't so. tough it will be hard to see because portugal as we saw in the report there you know they revolve around one star crescendo in all though and if he doesn't execute then that's bad news reports will so i think spain has a better shot of moving ahead i think it will be a thriller versus portugal and you're going to you mentioned that spain and russia match up and i actually like to get the view now from russia and we're going to head to our correspondent who has standing by there jonathan crane who has the latest from moscow and i mean the russian fans have been really fired up about this tournament jonathan what did they make of this match there

and i think after all the euphoria of the two games they've been brought down through with something of a bomb but despite the loss there's still much for them to look forward to we joined a few of them at a sports bar and sent for more skate off night let's see how the nights on for what it. i the. me. i let him be then we have world got here. oh no doubt that today we take this leap but maybe tomorrow it will be between. i. live. i. hope that we'll do better and maybe this time russian food bowl will be better than

usual i think it's fair that we love was. this second place is like. will be incentive final because we can. sell a lot of fans exuding a lot of confidence there but jonathan this was of course if you found all of this before they knew about the spain match up how confident do they seem now but i think first of all there's a sense of relief that russia replaced spain next to not portugal as a resource spain were hardly convincing in that drawer against morocco though you could probably say the same thing for portugal against iran whoever russia were going to play next they would start as underdogs and perhaps in many ways expectations have been reset and that's probably not a fad thing because we've seen on social media some russian fans criticizing the russian t.v. commentators for being too optimistic about their side not critical enough what she came through russia tinted glasses as one one one family spoke to said last week

russia was germany and germany was russia now we're back to normal. ok faxon getting back to normal and speaking of that. because i'd just like to ask you what's coming up today we have group c. the final action of group c. in group d. you know. i think the most interesting match to talk talk about is going to be nigeria in argentina ok that's a group c. group d. be a game and because obviously you know messi you know this could very well be lee in a mess he's final world cup and i've been reading the reports from the super eagles of nigeria and they're destined to sit in lido messi home early so i'm looking forward to that thrilling action tonight that's group d. nigeria in argentina ok thank you so much to both of you we had team coverage of all the world cup action chris harrington joining us here in the studio john and kiran with the latest from moscow we appreciate it. and i was going to quick reminder of the top stories that we have been following for you france has said

that a rescue ship carrying more than two hundred migrants will be allowed to dock in malta the german vessel has been stranded at sea for six days after initially being refused entry by malta and it's ok. so that's all from us for now but don't forget in the meantime you can always get to the news on the go you can download our app from the global player from the apple store and it will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use that after send us news appropriate photos and videos and you can watch this program on the street thank you so much for watching i'm sorry for lent i have a protest. movement .

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