this is d.w. news live from berlin hundreds of thousands rally a nationwide protest against u.s. immigration policies they want the trumpet ministration to quickly reunite families that have been detained and separated at the country's border is. also coming up. german chancellor angela merkel secures new agreements across europe to curb

migrant flows into germany but is the straight through e.u. asylum policy enough to appease rebels and her government and save her job. and with the first knockout round under way in the twenty thousand world cup in russia or apply took on portugal in the second of the days the last sixteen matches two goals from edinson cavani were enough to see all the first downer and all those side and sent for a buy in to the quarterfinals will bring you all the gold. and marion i haven't seen thanks for joining us. hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have been holding protests across the united states to oppose the trump administration's migration policies rallies come despite president trump's decision to end the practice of separating migrant families thousands of children remain

split from their parents in custody the u.s. immigration and customs enforcement agency known as ice has been especially criticized for carrying out the separations. w.'s nigga was at the washington d.c. rally and he sent us this report. president trump is not in washington this weekend but that didn't stop thousands of people to come to the white house to protest his immigration policy they have two key demands stop separating children from their parents and a polish the ice agency ice needs to be abolished and we need to think about the border security in a different way that doesn't rip people apart and their families what they're doing right now is it's inhumane and it's recess and it's also completely ineffective i want them to demolish. i don't. want to do it.

for. my family moved to the u.s. when i was a child we immigrated from poland and when i came here i wasn't put in a cage i think it's important for my duty now to be here to make sure the kids that come into this country to america i'm an american citizen now aren't getting kids either so that's why i'm here today sure immigration is the huge issue for any country but to be there to be futile and he believe that if she teach that these people the decency of his or. i feel really passionate about this i think that separating families has been american history i'd like to see sensibility. i came out today because i know from my studies in psychology that it is traumatic for both the child and their parents to be separated i will have long term impact on children's developments and i think that's not ok one sheet i think i shouldn't have to say that but three i know i do and our country is really headed to

a terrible place right now where people are not thinking of other people as human beings. turning now to germany where chancellor angela merkel appears to have avoided a breakup of her coalition by security agreements with her european neighbors during a summit in brussels while letter to her whole. partners reveals that more than a dozen countries have agreed to take back asylum seekers from germany the various state premiers has welcomed the deals as c.s.u. party is meeting on sunday to decide whether to accept the concessions that merkel secured in brussels a minor parties regional convention usually arouses little international attention but times are different since the dispute over migration policy threatened to divide the c.d.u. from the bavarian sister party the c.s.u. the bavarian state premier gave an indication of how his party might respond to the compromise reached by e.u. leaders in brussels at least the go should indeed have to get it's

a step in the right direction some things remain very unclear and have to be expanded our european partners have explicitly agree that there must also be supporting national measures that means it's been decided that now we in germany must also take action. but the center left social democrats insists there are some measures they would certainly not accept most are ideas i would like to make it clear once again that unilateral actions and the rejection of refugees at the border are off the table in a lesser merkel informs her coalition partners about the results of the e.u. summit it said the chancellor had secured agreements with fourteen countries for the rapid return of asylum seekers already registered in those countries such a deal already exists with greece and spain but there's no deal in sight with italy one of the main transit countries and the czech republic and hungary deny any involvement in the agreement it's still unclear how quickly the situation will change for migrants seeking refuge in europe. and let's get some analysis now for

that i'm joined in the studio by our chief political correspondent melinda crane melinda so from what we heard in that report some conciliatory words from one of the c.s.u. leaders that this mean the dispute between the c.s.u. and chancellor merkel is now resolved no we can't say that and we won't know for sure i think until tomorrow when the leadership of both parties will be meeting to look at what was agreed last week and decide on the part of the varying conservatives whether it is enough for them to essentially back down the main sticking point here still remains this question of unilateral action as mentioned in the report so as you remember the conflict began because the head of the very conservative party who was also germany's interior minister had essentially said that he believes germany can and must go it alone to turn back refugees who were

already registered in another european union member country normally the countries on the periphery of the e.u. the southern border like greece like spain like italy and send back to those countries now despite the conciliatory tone that we heard in that report we are hearing c.s.u. leaders saying that they believe that this summit agreement allows them nonetheless to still proceed unilaterally the chancellor definitely doesn't see it that way if i look at the agreement the wording of what was agreed on by the e.u. leaders i don't see it that way either and i don't see her backing down on that point all right so perhaps some vague language in the declarations or the agreement from the chancellor different people understanding it in different ways so is there still a risk that the government could collapse over there and there absolutely is a risk if in fact mr say hope for the interior minister were to move forward on his threat and say well we are. going to act unilaterally after all i think the

chancellor really would have no choice but to fire him for insubordination that would set in motion a cascade of events that essentially could explode her coalition and lead to her term as chancellor and but my prediction and it really is mostly speculation at this point is that both sides will look for a face saving way to deescalate i think that's what this conciliatory language from the c.s.u. means we've heard them saying hey we paved the way for the movement that happened this week at the summit and why are they now deescalating well for the same reason that they started this conflict in the first place domestic politics they are looking toward a very important but very unstable action in the fall worried about the gains by the right wing wanting to look tough on immigration but it turns out voters who were polled recently don't like the way they're going about it and actually two thirds support the chancellor's approach right so we say what's at stake of

domestic politics also the chancellor is a future perhaps that we mustn't forget this is about human beings these migrants are coming from places where there's war there's all kinds of violent conflicts what does do these new rules and migration actually mean for the people significantly higher obstacles for people who are trying to enter the european union there is no question this is the first step toward tightening europe's borders fortress europe is what many people are calling it that means if you even make it to see as a migrant you well might be sent back to a so-called disembarkation camp in northern africa it is not clear whether international law will really be enforced in these centers the e.u. leaders are claiming it will but right now the centers that do exist in northern africa have been condemned as has very very difficult places for migrants if you do make it to the shores of europe you might wind up in a so-called control center an anchor center

a holding place that would be closed also a very difficult hurdle would stuff refugees from coming probably not all of them many are fleeing for their lives melinda crane our chief political correspondent many thanks indeed for all your insights. the soccer world cup continues to bring lots of thrills and the first day of knockout matches was no exception of a fully ileus from daily sport is here now to break it all down so pablo so many goals today so many goals let's start though with that match between argentina and france now you are so you're right anak let's not forget there were seven goals in this match now and just that one which is incredible i mean the thing was it was such an exciting much had all the elements all those all those things you want to see in a world cup match between two really exciting teams to watch i think the best thing to do though is take a look at this report. blistering the run from the phenomenal kilian back pay was

too much for argentina to deal with marcus were hopeful pay down i'm told griezmann converted the resulting penalty. it was pays paris a german teammate i go di maria to equalize with this outstanding strike just before half time just after the break argentina went in front thanks to a clip a little touch from god. to still live overseas job. but the pendulum had another swing it. benjamin powered stroke to find hoff ali all the way into the back of the net then the result this school of the games and immediately afterwards six three goals in just eleven minutes to turn the talk completely on its head substitute sergio aguero did one more hoping it should time but it wasn't enough for an ambitious argentina side it's a disastrous exit. so really just

a blur of goals and a very impressive performance by france and france looked incredibly strong but it has to be said that in the first half they sort of they they scored a penalty and then they just sort of sat back and it wasn't really until they actually were losing the game to one that they sort of something clicked and they all came together and then we just saw them take charge and we saw the team for what they are which is a quite a a young team plenty of great players people like andrew and griezmann of course and one player in particular in particular and it's a guy we're going to be hearing a lot about from now forward i would say and that's a key. and he spoke after the game along with. quite briefly let's hear what he had to say. this of course this is going to be. pretty good i'm pleased i feel good people said that we hadn't done anything good up till now but we had a complicated group by now good for a great team with great players we did well. not much brooke. all right let's talk

about the second match equally exciting i would say were guy beating portugal and sending the world's greatest soccer player home chris turner an all too well let's argue that of course he was one of the world's greatest i would say but definitely up there of course and it was a real exciting much as well to watch you know how old of the elements as well that we want to see at the world cup and if we just take a look here uruguay got off to a dream start as edison cavani another man who really impressed everybody he met scrawls in the seventh minute put the team ahead but then of course portugal fullback and pepe headed the ball into the back of the net so was one zero and then once again it was edison. i didn't see any of course he was the hero of the hour scored an absolute cracker of a go there to send your why into the last eight but it was a little bit bittersweet because he ended up limping off helped off by none other than christiane are in although as you mentioned they're from portugal so it will have to wait and see whether he'll be able to play in europe wise next match of

course which will be against france well pablo having seen in action what's your take how do you think they're going to do against france i think it's going to be a really really tight affair but at the end of the day france looked incredibly strong they looked really good but i think what we need to do is hear from edinson himself because you know it was a pretty upsetting thing to be able to limp off a match after scoring such impressive goals at least i think it was you know it's very moving. but i can't find the words to describe all of this happy happy happy baby pretty pretty pretty look how pretty one is on a card imagine what it's like a year ago right now you can keep dreaming. well i say in europe well it's there's a big fiesta taking place for the moment and i was he was very upset because you know they're scoring two goals. a half million people so we'll just have to wait

and see whether he'll be able to take part in that match against france which is going to be a tight affair but i think france are going to do it all right we'll have to wait and see always we have to wait and see but it is a very exciting world cup fully ileus from database for its many thanks indeed for all of that. and that's all we have time for on news i'm marianne evanston for all of us here in berlin thanks for watching. me a. clash of cultures. between those who believe in the arranged marriage.

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