this is d.w. news live from berlin germany's government is on a knife edge interior minister of course a home for has reportedly offered his resignation from the leadership of the various c.s.u. party after crisis talks with his party as a whole for was said to be unhappy with the migration deal that chancellor uncle americal had agreed with the european union now on the c.s.u. says it's holding off on a press conference planned for tonight our correspondents will tell you what this means for the chancellor's government.

omarion evanston welcome to the program until america's government faces an uncertain future after marathon meetings her party the c.d.u. still appears at loggerheads with its bavarian sister party the c.s.u. over the issue of migration instead of a compromise there are signs of new turmoil interior minister horas a home for who's also the leader of the c.s.u. has reportedly offered his resignation to his party. the c.s.u. is now reported to have pushed back a planned press conference after its leadership discussed whether to accept or reject a deal that miracle struck with the e.u. on migration policy as a whole for had reportedly said he was unhappy with the agreement and felt it didn't go far enough they hope for want to germany to turn away sums asylum seekers

at the country's border but the chancellor insisted on europe wide solutions. well with me in the studio is their political correspondent so nina we've been waiting all evening for a statement by whores' a whole for all of these reports coming in suggesting he's resigning and yet there's going to be no statement how do we explain this we don't even know the facts whether that's been because that hasn't been officially confirmed or we're hearing is that the first high ranking policy delegates of this years you have started leaving this long long meeting where they met in munich to discuss how to go about this because. offered his party essentially three options to accept anglo-american as deal to reject it or to accept his offer to resign as interior minister and also as the party head and of course we were all eagerly waiting to

hear from him what his motivation is and that looks like it's going to be happening on monday well nina stand by we have now to krishna who is and at the c.s.u. party headquarters in munich for the latest on that what are you hearing from the c.s.u. headquarters. divisional members are beginning to deve basically after eleven hours of deliberations which they then came to head when the upper echelons of the seas you party and the parliamentary group in the. parliament got together here they separated into small groups after the war offered his resignation to his own party members both as head of the party but also as interior minister we heard that from people who were actually in the room and there

was a sense that there is no way back from that point but he did not make that official he didn't go on the record because the next question of course would be who would be his successor and this use you party may have soon a united front was the chance of but there certainly is quite a bit of infighting going on here as well so eleven hours and saying absolutely nothing basically canceling a press conference that clearly is an indication if there could be any that this is very serious for the c.s.u. and things stand right now more trauma here can translate into a political earthquake in berlin. all right nina so no clear statement a lot of speculation if we do assume that horse a who for is indeed stepping down as interior minister what are the options for chancellor angela merkel well first of all michelle oh said that the c.s.u.

is in a very very difficult situation right now they are showing a united front against anglo-american but there is a lot of infighting going on here excuse me in berlin the c. d. your party has tried to show united front. and the general secretary of the party came out and fully supporting uncle americal stance on the matter so she does have the support the official support from her own party and of course if he steps down she can appoint a new interior minister now whether that will be a minister from the c.s.u. again that is up to the party to decide to the c.s.u. to the bavarians whether they want to risk losing that influence that they currently have in berlin is far from clear but if they do if they do lose that influence then ungrammatical could look for new coalition partners she could ultimately also call for fresh elections all right well you know we do know that

polls suggest that public support has actually been waning for the c.s.u. stance and that most germans favor a european solution to migration so with a hope for offering to step down could this actually backfire for his party the c.s.u. . yes it could but that strategy of confronting the chance of trying to keep up with the far right f.t. that managed to clinch more than twelve percentage points here in the general elections that didn't really pay off in the opinion poll so far either of course want to be cautious using those opinion polls as we learnt in previous elections as well but the c.s.u. is in a very difficult position here and the scenarios that we thought we might face this evening were of course potentially

a horse the hoof staying tough then using his also as he hasn't tyria minister to start rejection of migrants who have registered in other you states at the border which would then have sparked the german chancellor having to dismiss him now it was seen as a given and we heard that in background briefings as well with the c.s.u. that if it was to be dismissed the whole party would consider itself dismissed and that would have sparked a government crisis now by offering his own resignation is now turn the table on this dynamic really because that raises a lot of questions what that would mean if he by his own decision would decide to leave he talked about the issue of political credibility he clearly feels that his credibility is on the line over this very issue of being able to reject migrants at

the border but also angela merkel's credibility is on the line she from day one sought a european wide approach her hand was forced by hospital for two weeks ago when she agreed to then strive for a whole series of bilateral multilateral agreements so she did meet him a bit of the way now and now it looks like the war for my. to have lost the out of power struggles that also among some key members within his own party and the big question i'm asking myself is is you now determined to take a medical down with him or at least have a go without knowing that's the area of speculation right now and that's one of the many question marks up in the air until we get anything on the record on monday all right michelle occurs now from the c.s.u. headquarters in munich and you know has a here in the studio with me many thanks indeed to both of you well turning

now to some other news and in mexico polls are beginning to close in a presidential election that has been overshadowed by violence at least one hundred forty five politicians and activists have been killed since campaigning began last year twenty seventeen was the most violent year in mexico's recent history a fragmented criminal landscape has enabled powerful drug cartels to tighten their grip and create a culture of fear a presidential candidate of former mexico city mayor on the edge manuel lopez obrador has vowed to end violence stamp out corruption and transform the country. well for more we're joined now by our correspondent ophelia harms who's in mexico city so ophelia the frontrunner lopez offered or has already run twice for the presidency just how good are his chances this time of becoming the next mexican president. well he's running for the third time and he said this will be

the last time he will do it he's leading most of the polls with twenty five points over his nearest challenger which is that we got an idea from a correlation led by the conservative party national action and after him in the third or second place depending on which poll you look at you have the official list candidate close and don't you know me now look as a rather and his his qualification will probably hold power of both chambers of congress as well which will help him pass major reforms especially in the telecommunications sector and the energy sector but he will need special measures already so he will have to hurry as well because they will have a mid-term elections in three years and they will have to renew one of the chambers will look as average or has value to completely change mexico just briefly if you

can why do people trust him. all mexicans are so fed up with the ruling class that they are taking a chance on a leftist populist for the first time he has promised to redress the huge inequality in mexican society we we he wants to. redress this imbalance between the poor and the rich or parts of mexico and he has promised to end corruption he hasn't shown specific plans on how he's going to do it but one very controversial proposal that he made was to grant amnesty to some of the top criminals in mexico to end the violence all right a few harms routine reporting from mexico city thank you. and at the soccer world cup host nation russia have pulled off a massive shock and papa fully aaliyah's for good at least for is here to break it

all down for us so pablo this was a huge surprise russia are through and spain are out here absolutely right and of course that's not from half spanish so i'm feeling very upset today now but indeed it was a bit of a shock because no one really expected this before the tournament started but russia have been doing incredibly well and spain have been rather on their well and so i think what we need to do is actually take a look at this report see have that much power that. when marco asensio swung it at the free kick on your own sergio ramos made himself a nuisance ignatiev it was overwhelmed and unfortunate a goal sourced by going front but the hosts pulled themselves back a corner shortly before half time was met with a hand boom from gerard piqué the referee gave a penalty which also in juba smashed home to bring russia net. an incredible moment for the hosts in front of an elite home crowd i may continue to growing through the second hall fondation time with the favorites finding no really this one was

destined to go the distance. it was the russians who held their nerves converting fool out of four penalties i went ego ak in favor of saved for the second time this incredible set was complete russia continue to write history i dream world cup campaign marches on i. all right so many people wrote off russia right from the start i was one of them they're the lowest ranked team in the tournaments and now they're in the quarter final pablo how far can they go well i mean before like of saying before the tournament you know no one really thought that they would go this far but they they've really got the support of their funds and you know there's a lot really of of sort of excitement behind this team and we saw that actually in the game and it was almost like there was a twelfth player right there even the thirteenth player right there because you know they were singing they were chanting and they were really really gearing behind their team so you know that support it's incredibly important for

a team when they're out on the pitch all right so now russia is set to play croatia they did look impressive in the group stage but what about tonight's game no you're absolutely right that croatia looked incredibly good in the group stages they want older games they are at their very exciting to watch they're quite dynamic they're energetic they've got some great players like you know players who play in big teams so i think what we really need to do though is take a look at how the match going on with denmark. denmark got off to the perfect start suspects he has still been sent to saudi from the second. but croatia struck back just moments later marry a man to catch fire in his side left in the fall. i like penalty mr luker most rich said that so i took a penalty shootout even reckons he just kicks sealed victory for croatia setting up of course a final showdown with russia. i want to absolutely great result there for crush and

it's going to be a very exciting match against russia it sure will be publishable italy as for database for us many thanks indeed let's. clear up to date now and the deputy news will be back again at the top of the hour for all of us can brylin thanks for watching. like i think. any time any place. missing limbs video. you have a little bit of those. songs to sing along to.