oh. god. from the forest. w. . you're watching the news live from berlin anticipation is building for the world cup final later today the biggest match in football fans of croatia and france are pouring into moscow for the final of a thrilling tournament friends are the big favorites but in a tournament full of surprises concurring shock pull off a major upset also coming up more than four hundred fifty migrants are in limbo off

italian shores italy says it won't allow their rescue boats to dock unless other e.u. countries agree to take them in several nations have offered to take one hundred fifty people between them. and tennis glory for germany's angry can she cruises past arena williams to win the women's trophy out wimbledon. i'm having and welcome to the program the world cup final kicks off in less than two hours in moscow france in croatia do battle for football's biggest prize mark meadows from to tell you sport is here in studio with me and we're also joined by our moscow correspondent emily sure when from the russian capital i'm going to start with you what's the mood like in moscow with the game fast approaching.

well i'm here outside of luzhniki stadium abbey and you might be able to see that droves and droves of fans are arriving behind me the mood is really great the presidents of both croatia and france have already arrived for the game as well and you might be able to see that the croatian side is kind of showing its colors a little bit more i'd say the croatian president. barchi tower of it as well has come arrived in jersey the croatian team jersey and she also addressed russian fans in russian in a facebook video today calling for them to support the croatian team now i say from the people that i've spoken to here in russia the russian fans are pretty divided when it comes to their support many of them are still kind of proudly sporting the russian flag painted their faces with russian flags as well it's a new war people are supporting the russian team after all as one woman told me if the croatian team wins today then russia will have been kicked out of the world cup

by the world cup champion the fans are surely ready and mark the players must be to what can we expect on the pitch football wise everybody is hoping for a great game to match what has been a great tournament now it is true that most will cup finals tend to be cagey affairs but as we've got to really attacking teams today i think it might be quite different in on the front side you've got kim back pay who's only nineteen but he's already frightening to be the best player in the world and he got the kind of now i'm trying griezmann alongside him and in the creation side you've got lots of experience money on juke each plate by in munich a little madrid now you ventus and also of course you've got the creation captain luca moderate who really is one of the best players in the world pulling no strings in midfield both for croatia a real madrid and this could be a big day for him you could be lifting the will cope trophy ends today but actually back home in croatia things are not so rosy he's actually been charged with false testimony or perjury from a trial involving a top croatian football mogul so as i say he could go from one of the greatest

moments of his career to something very very different when he gets home he hasn't actually been indicted yet but that kind of just shows you how many stories there are around this will cup final so let's have a look at a little preview now. when the possible future world champions are training on your doorstep any little peek will day villages in history where france is well cup team is based have adopted as their second team. we will always remember this unique moment one day we won't believe that super footballers train just two hundred metres from our home but what is that. these super footballers will start his favorites to win france's second world cup performances have improved as the tournament progressed now that just one game away from glory. i think the three most important words are calm and confidence and concentrations into the course of touch him. you have to

have a good dosage of the three to be best prepared for the match play probably in years that the national. day show was kept in when france last got their hands on the trophy in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight a home tournament this ended with wild celebrations across central paris then france knocked out croatia in the semifinals. fast forward twenty years in these croatia fans have now seen their team go one better a country of just four million confounding expectations and drinking up their underdog status for a lot of small covers or all the world like us there are they want our story and they support us and that will be i think big just that once in our lives and small guy be the bigger guy. this final could come down to one of the smallest guys of all kemal tritch croatia's diminutive captain has been arguably the standout player in russia i don't pull to go your guided me through this was

a source of the soil. croatia have already shown in the south belief to win through three lots of extra time at this world cup if their fitness holds up a place in history could await. mark what are going to be the decisive factors in this game i think there are three decisive factors to this game if we talk first about goal threat this seems to favor croatia we can actually see some graphics here to help us so how this game's going to go question of scored twelve goals friends only ten lot more shots lot more shots on target so it's kind of looking better for croatia really on that count. if we turn to discipline though it's not looking so great for crew asia on the discipline front they've committed one hundred and warm fouls so far in this tour which is quite a lot of the means they've picked up a few more yellow cards than the france no red card so far although all french fans

remember the last time in the final that it means a van managed to have booked mr massive out see him get himself a red we don't want any of that today and actually the most decisive factor i think will be in june or ns because croatia have played three extra times it actually almost played the whole game more than friends in this tournament and i think that actually will be the key factor i mean we look at the distance running kilometers so much more than friends so that's why i think france actually have the edge are in what emily now emily a great final be the icing on the cake for russians who certainly feel that this tournament has been a huge success when it. well absolutely for russia this tournament has already been a success the russians that i spoke to here in moscow said that they're really sad that this world cup is ending its been as one fan described or one person described a festival atmosphere here and one woman told me that she wanted to keep the whole world cup she didn't want it to end and she wanted to keep the fans here in the

capital as well now putin yesterday said as well that this world cup gave the chance to russia to debunk some of the myths about the country to kind of get rid of some of the prejudices about the country and i think that russians certainly feel that way as well they're happy that they could show a different side of russia aside beyond the headlines that you usually hear. and finally mark what are people's predictions and maybe not just people well most people think france are going to win because people in the wilco before she's creations first time in the final that's going to play on the nerves a little bit us for our friends in the animal kingdom well they're there they think a bit differently we can see two clips of a bear actually in russian or russians who first for france are going to win and then you know the frenchman and i'm going to go and i'm going to devour croatia so he's going to win obviously we get psyche animals or will cope if i don't quite a lot in this will cope with the dolphins we've. she. and also

cleopatra also predicted a win for croatia perhaps the match as unpredictable as that adorable bear mark meadows in studio from our sports department and w.'s emily sherwin in moscow thank you both very much. now some of the other stories making news around the world demonstrators have marched through the finnish capital helsinki to protest has the policies of the u.s. president donald trump and russian president vladimir putin the two leaders are holding a summit in the city on monday ahead of his arrival trump told a u.s. broadcaster he is going into the meeting with low expectations. in iraq police have clashed with anti corruption protesters as they try to storm a government building in basra several people are reported to have been wounded for the past week demonstrators in cities across the south have been demanding better public services and protesting

a lack of jobs. heavy rain and thunderstorms have taken lives and caused major damage in china flooding along the yellow river and hundreds of other waterways roads and railways have been blocked and bridges destroyed thousands have been evacuated and the flooding has been blamed for dozens of deaths. and adelaide to more migrant rescue ships have been refused permission to dock around four hundred fifty migrants are stranded on board and this is still in port of foot salo italy has called for other e.u. nations to take them and france malta and germany have all agreed to take in fifty migrants each and if no other countries offer help it's unclear what italy's next move will be in an idyllic beach in southern sicily in the distance just on the horizon one of two ships carrying a total of more than four hundred fifty migrants. they were rescued from

a barge floating in the mediterranean. italy's interior minister doesn't want them disembarking on italian soil saying malta should take them instead on facebook he wrote malta the people smugglers the italian do gooders and the whole world should know that this ship cannot and should not enter an italian port. initially malta refused entry but later a deal was struck in which malta france and then germany agreed to take in refugees but still leaving hundreds in limbo. selvi is one of the leaders of the italian far right party the northern league he said that he wants to put an end to the arrival of refugees in italy once and for all but there is growing resistance amongst italians to his hardline immigration policy here at the baobab camp in rome volunteers provide refugees with basic services via telling authorities have continually tried to clear the camp but the volunteers continue to return and

rebuild. the microns continue to come in and as long as the migrants come i hope that this part of the city and the country will do that best to welcome them but their call good legal marriage will still fight in camp about the bab isn't alone in its resistance to hardline immigration policies. this is bent to me earlier on the italian french border more than three thousand people from italy france and spain marched against italy's and the e.u. as migration policies. what should one think about all this there's only one word for this sort of politics fascist there's nothing else to say. he said you know to prison for not having you definitely does be on treaty and italy that's another italy which currently has a link to wise but must still be hurt. this weekend their message was clear pusa lottie may know salvini more rescues less salvini.

there have been reports of fresh strikes between acts being exchanged rather between israel and militants in gaza that's despite the islamic militant group hamas saying it had reached a cease fire with israel late on saturday the announcement from hamas came after one of the most serious optics and violence between the two sides in years at least two palestinians were killed and several israelis injured in the exchange of fire the attacks embrace fears of a wider conflict breaking out between the two sides once more. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says israel remains ready to respond to any strikes from hamas. condition i hope hamas has got the message if not they'll get it later i heard it said that israel has accepted the cease fire that would allow the continuation of terrorism by incendiary kinds of balloons this is incorrect we are not prepared to accept any attacks against us and we will respond appropriately.

to tennis for engine they can bear has become the first german to win wimbledon and more than twenty years she beat serena williams in a one sided final to add to the australian and us open titles she won in two thousand and sixteen. one had never won here the other has seven wimbledon titles to her name but eventually kept after it's over rode by serene williams and the occasion on center court she didn't show it the germans tactic of forcing her opponent to make errors paid dividends in the first set and the williams tightened up again in the second it was too little too late. ever fell to the ground when her victory was confirmed one champion congratulating a new one at the next tab is the first german woman since steffi graf in one thousand nine hundred ninety six to get her hands on the wimbledon title.

just a reminder of the top story we're following for you the world cup final kicks off in less than two hours a surprise contender of croatia taking on friends and moscow's the yankee stadium the french are big favorites but will be wary going into the game after a series of upsets throughout the tournament. watching the daily news i have a quote awesome thanks for watching us. who do you think is going to win the two thousand and eighteen. everything on the. c.w. . entering the conflict zone with tim sebastian.