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from before it starts. w. . you're watching the news live from berlin the two thousand and ten tournament full of surprises in croatia pull off a major op that's also coming up the u.s. and russian presidents gear up for a highly anticipated summit in healthy on monday crowds have taken to the streets of the finnish capital in protest at the meeting it comes just days after the indictment of washington hundred fifty migrants are in limbo off italian shores
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italy says it won't allow their rescue boats to dock unless other e.u. countries agree to take them in several nations have now offered to take one hundred fifty people between them. and welcome to the program is the biggest match in the football world and germany's twenty fourteen world cup winning captain philip long has brought the trophy on to the pitch head of kick off. earlier a large cap for performers including dancers drummers and mo bile lead screams joint star performers like nikki jam as well as their feet and rapper will smith. told friends are for a shabby the two thousand and eighteen world cup winners be sure to check in with.
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we news at the final whistle for all match report and reaction from moscow paris and zagreb and you can't wait that long to tell you has even more world cup coverage during and after today's final on our kickoff you tube channel our sports team has been following all the action throughout the tournament here's a taste of what you can expect. football is a simple game that the end france or croatia will win the world cup two thousand and eighteen to me when we go live with all woke up show forty five minutes before kick off on sunday send your questions to hashtag d w kick off a comment below right here on our youtube channel youtube dot com slash view kick off see you once said the law is on you.
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after a weekend playing golf in scotland u.s. president donald trump is heading to the finish capital helsinki there he'll meet with russian president vladimir putin on monday their summit is going ahead despite the indictment of twelve russian intelligence agents on charges of meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election but fans are not pleased with either leader and thousands of them have been making their feelings known on helsinki streets. protests have got a head start on tomorrow's summit about fifteen hundred demonstrators have been marching through the streets of how sinky and more protest events are planned but up to two thousand security personnel are to be on duty to ensure the meeting goes smoothly. there's a dime a dozen of course is always a challenge to ensure security at such a high level meeting but we've had quite a lot of experience of this sort of thing in finland just three weeks to plan it all wasn't very much but we are well prepared for the guard story about. donald
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trump and flooding here putin are going to meet at the presidential palace this is far from the first major political event the city has hosted. finlandia whole currently the summit presidenta is where the house call it was signed in one thousand nine hundred eighty five a milestone in reducing tensions between the then soviet and western blocs the signatories recognized the inviolability of national borders and pledged to respect human rights. represented finland back then he's been observing world politics for half a century. i don't expect very much from the trump putin meeting still i'm glad it's taking place even if not much comes of it it's important to keep talking when we see better days we can expect better results. as house and he gears up for the big match a small brewery has created a special edition lager to mark the occasion let's settle this like adults as year
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and a half as u.s. president doll trump has spoken multiple times about his wish to improve relations with russia but is that his true intent and can he pull it off given the current political climate our washington and moscow correspondents claire richardson and your shadow have this look back at the trump relationship so far. relations between the united states and russia are at an all time low since the end of the cold war but u.s. president donald trump has said repeatedly that he wants to see closer ties with russia particularly with its president vladimir putin and he's been very nice to me the times i've met him i've been nice to him he's a competitor somebody was saying is you an enemy of my enemy now for president trump's detractors all of this is evidence of a close relationship that could potentially be explained by allegedly russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen elections they say that russia's involvement helped tip the presidency in donald trump's favor if putin likes donald trump guess what folks that's an asset not
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a liability now we can only guess what vladimir putin thinks about. the russian president holds back on making remarks about counterpart but it's clear that putin will be a well prepared for this meeting he will likely praise from. him for swimming against the tide and blame any problems on. barack obama from the tram you see on t.v. is different from the real person he's very particular accurate he's quick to analyze he answers every question if our future relationship turns out like our meeting here then i'm sure we can find the necessary consensus with donald trump russia's head of state finally wants a real reset for us russian relations the question is whether the president is interested in that idea in any case since you started he's touring relations between the two countries haven't improved in fact things have become significantly
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wars so he said one nice thing about me he said i'm a genius yet the how trump is a colorful person he's very flamboyant here. i was a report from our washington correspondent claire richardson and our correspondent in moscow yuri or shadow on many wonder how the summit will go president trump himself says he's heading to finland with quote low expectations now some of the other stories making news around the world in iraq police have clashed with anti corruption protesters as they tried 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. haiti's prime minister has resigned the abrupt move calms as he faced a no confidence vote that could have forced him out of office after
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a wave of deadly protests at least seven people died during three days of demonstrations triggered by the government's baled attempt to raise fuel prices. heavy rain and thunderstorms have taken lives and caused major damage in china with 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. in italy two more migrant rescue ships have been refused permission to dock around four hundred fifty migrants are stranded on board in the sicilian port of foot salo italy has called for other european union nations to take them in france malta and germany have all agreed to take in fifty migrants each if no other countries offer help it's unclear what italy's next move will be. and idyllic beach in southern sicily in the distance
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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 met tales salvini doesn't want them disembarking on italian soil saying baltar should take them instead on facebook he wrote malta the people smugglers the italian do gooders and the whole world should know that the 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 hard line immigration policy here at the baobab camp in rome volunteers provide refugees with basic services the italian authorities have
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continually tried to clear the camps but the volunteers continue to return and rebuild and we cannot they won't get all that 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 they're all good legal marriage will still fight it camp about how bad isn't alone in its resistance to hardline immigration policies. this is bent amelia on the italian french border more than three thousand people from italy france and spain marched against italy's and the e.u. is 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 not up isn't he navin definitely does be onto me and italy that's another italy which currently has a link to wise but must be hurt. if i think. this weekend their message was clear pusa lottie may know salvini more rescues less salvini.
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a ceasefire reached between israel and gaza as dominant hamas militants on saturday is largely holding but there have been some reports of isolated strikes the truce is the second between the two sides to be brokered by egypt this year and comes after one of the most serious optics and violence in years. this was saturday the most extensive airstrikes on gaza in four years they included hits in the heart of gaza city. israel says it was targeting hamas positions in response to a barrage of rocket fire from the palestinian enclave. its iron dome defense system intercepted some rockets but warning sirens sent people running for shelters several israelis were injured. i think of this and i hope hamas has got the
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message if not they'll get it later i heard it said that israel has accepted a cease fire that would allow the continuation of terrorism by and send you a kite and balloons this is incorrect we are not prepared to accept any attacks against us and we will respond appropriately. when to do that to. the most recent escalation came off the back of months of clashes along gaza's border with israel over one hundred thirty palestinian demonstrators were killed by israeli fire in near weekly protests since late march israel accused hamas militants of using the protests as cover for attacks against israel it said its use of force was necessary to defend its borders. ok on sunday palestinians mourn two teenagers killed in an israeli use of force witnesses said they were playing in a half built high rise hit by an israeli airstrike.
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it's an open space where he likes to play with his friends. but he wasn't carrying a rocket it was just an innocent kid israel said the building where fifteen year old amir on the mara and sixteen year old were killed was used by hamas for military training. angele khabar has become the first german to win wimbledon in 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 has never won here the other has seven wimbledon titles to her name but she found. by serina williams on 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
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too late to night. after fell to the ground when her victory was confirmed one champion congratulating a new one at the next half as the first german woman since steffi graf in one thousand nine hundred ninety six to get her hands on the wimbledon title. massive iceberg that broke off a glacier has run aground directly in front of a small village in greenland ice berg a six kilometers wide and one hundred meters high authorities say it could flood the village on parts of it break off a seam here and crash into the sea a number of houses near the coast have been evacuated scientists say extreme iceberg of bands will become more frequent which in turn will increase the chance of tsunamis. and watching news more news at the top of the hour or you can get the latest any time on our website at www dot com and. thanks for joining us.
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