brent: this is "dw news," live from berlin. tonight, a major policy about-face by the u.s. president. donald trump says he will order an end to family separation at the border with mexico. it comes over growing outrage about his policy for separating children from their families to enter the u.s. illegally. the president now says we have got to keep families together but still protect our borders. also coming up, from one migration challenge to the next. here in europe, the german

chancellor is maneuvering to seal a deal soon on a new eu approach to migration. if she fails, her government could collapse and her time as chancellor could quickly be over. and on this day seven of the soccer world cup in russia, luis spain joined the first teams to go through to the knockout round. we will have that and the rest of the world cup action. ♪ brent: i'm brent goff. it's good to have you with us. all it took was his signature. u.s. presidedent donald trump hs signed an executive order to stop immigrant families from being separated at the country's southern border. his move means that families entering the u.s. illegally will now be detained together. the practice of taking children away from their parents and the

images of those crying children have drawn international condemnation. reporter: protests like this one in new york have been taking place in cities nationwide. how does a government defend this? by framing it as defending the borders. people have crossed into the u.s. illegally are now criminals, the trump administration says. and a child cannot stay with a criminal. so goes the logic. after massive public outcry, president trump signed a new executive order that would keep families together when they are detained when crossing illegally. >> we are very strong at the border. we are very strong on security. we want security for our country. the republicans want security and insist on security for our country, and we will have that. at the same time, we have compassion, we want to keep families together, it is very

important. i'm going to sign something a little while that is going to do that, and the people in this room want to do that and they're working on various pieces of legislation to get it done. but i will be doing something that is somewhat preemptive but ultimately will be matched by legislation, i am sure. reporter: trump also continued to blame the democrats for the crisis. democratic leaders pointed out it was trump's policies that separated the families in the first place. >> and here we are bringing our concerns to the steps of the capitol once again. once againin, to say to the president of the united states, how low can you go? what is the measure of your character, your compassion, and your commitment to a better america that you would advocate a policy that rips children from the arms of their parents, their mothers, and/or their fathers? reporter: an estimated 2000

children were separated from their parents at the u.s. mexico border before trump decided to sign the new executive order. brent: who want to pull in our correspondent carsten von nahmen on the story for us in washington. good evening to you, carsten. the u.s. president has been saying for days now that he could not, and e would not do anything to change this policy. he said that an act of congress would have to change it. but today you stay -- he used a pen and he did change it. so how do we understand this move. carsten: it seems that the public pressure and the pressure from within his own republican party simply became too strong. the demands to end this policy of separating kids from families that immigrated illegally. and quite clearly, donald trump did something here that he did not want to do.

he never needed the demomocrats are congress to end this. he introduced this practice hand he could also ende it, but he wanted to use these kids as a bargaining chip to give him more comprehensive immigration reform and money for the border wall he promised. but even members of his own party had been critical about that. some republicacan governors have withdrawn their national guard troops from the border because they do not want to be associated with this. even some leaders of christian evevangelical g groups voiced concerns. brent: the president is seeing this in political terms, most of the country is not seeing it that way. can we talk about this being a defeat for the u.s. president? carsten: i think absolutely.

donald trump would never admit that but clearly he had to do something that he did not want to do. the democrats of course for him are needed not for this policy, but forgetting reforms, getting money for the border wall. the democrats always said they would not be blackmailed. and as we heard from nancy pelosi, they think donald trump made a big mistake. he presented itself as cruel and without a heart. they think now it will help them in the november midterm elections. there is some kind of political play here to be seen on both sides of the aisle on the backs of those children. brent: the polls that have been coming out show that a majority of americans have always been against this zero-tolerance policy of separating children from their parents. but i'm wondering tonight, how is this playing with trump's base?

carsten: according to the latest polls that we have, between 55% and 60% of republicans actually support these policies. let's not forget that a crackdown on immigration is one of the key issues for donald trump in his election campaign. it was one of the main reasons why people voted for trump. so it seems clear that even though moderate republicans did not like this and they fear that it might hurt them at the ballot boxes, the core base of trump supporters, they want a crackdown on illegal immigration, they want more restrictions on immigration in general, and they want donald trump to build that wall. brent: carsten von nahmen on the story for us tonight in washington. carsten, thank you. from one migration challenge to the next, this one in europe. the german chancellor angela merkel will meet with a group of

eu leaders this weekend in the hopes of hammering out a solution to migration. it is a divisive subject that threatens the german chancellor's coalition government. merkel is at odds with her interior minister who was given her two weeks to come up with a plan to tighten border control. the two conservative leaders are putting on a friendly face, for now, but the conflict between them is threatening the chancellor's political future. reporter: no new ultimatums, no angry words. angela merkel and horst seehofer chatted with one another as though they had never been at odds. during a commemoration for german refugees after the second wrld war, bavarian conservative seehofer seemed less confrontational than in recent weeks >> first of all, thanks to the chancellor. you u have madthis day off remembrance something special. and for this, i thank you.

reporter: seehofer did not explicitly mention the conflict between merkel's conservative cdu and its bavarian sister party the csu. merkel repeated that she does not want to close germany's borders to certain refugees without first having made agreements with neighboring countries. >> whichever way you look at it, migration is a european challenge, perhaps our greatest challenge at the moment. the cohesion of the european union is at stake. reporter: a former refugee set an emotional high point. as a 13-year-old, he fled to germany without his parents, then grew up and started an impressive career here. >> i did not become a refugee voluntarily, but i did come to germany voluntarily. because it is so wonderful to live in a country where democracy reigns, where we respect the constitution. we must never allow our

fundamental values to be threatened. reporter: merkel and seehofer seemed to be moved by the story of a man who went from refugee to heart surgeon. the two conservative leaders are at l least trying to mend fence. >> i did not hear any remamarks against me. when the chancellor sat down, i said, nothing got t ramped up today, did it? and indeed, it did not. reporter: the csu chairman has struck a conciliatory tone, but that does not mean he has necessarily changed his position. brent: let's try to make some sense out of this. let's bring in our correspondent simon young, he is also here in berlin this evening. what are we to make of this between the chancellor and interior minister? are they friends again? simon: well, for today at least. today was not a day for hostility.

everyone knows horst seehofer's position. he has his tanks parked on angela merkel's lawn. he has given her a two-week deadline, or 10 days now, to get some real progress on this migration issue, otherwise he's going to take tough measures unilaterally. but this was a commemorative event commemorating second world war refugees and also marking world refugee day. and so, that explains the conciliatory tone. and of course horst seehofer needs to watch out. he could look like the european donald trump if he is not careful. angela merkel has always stressed the humanitarian aspect of this migration question. horst seehofer needs to respect that as well, of course. brent: there is a mini-migration summit planned for this coming sunday. what do we know about it? who is invited and what is the plan there? simon: who is invited is mostly

countries directly affected by migration, germany and france of course, as well as the southern states like greece, italy and spain, and some others, perhaps malta, bulgaria and belgium and so on. what are they hoping to do? i think thrash out some kind of a blueprint compromise ahead of that european summit. perhaps try and make it so that those brussels late nights are not quite as late as they would otherwise be. because of course it is difficult to get agreements on these tricky issues, particularly when you are talking about asylum rules and those types of technical matters. brent: this is really important for the german chancellor, isn't it? she has to come up with a deal that has to be good enough to save her job, at the end of the day. am i right? simon: absolutely. because she is under a lot of pressure as we have said from the bavarian conservatives. they want -- essentially their

bottom line is to say they want the power to turn people away at the border, where that is appropriate as they see it, or they want some kind of equivalent deal that essentially reasserts that national control over migration flows and asylum-seekers. just yesterday, angela merkel agreed with the french president that he would stop people coming through french territory to arrive at the german boarder. -- border. so that perhaps is a step in the right direction. but not really as far as angela merkel is concerned. she wants a european solution. but if she cannot get one, horst seehofer may move unilaterally, she might have to fire him, and that could bring down her government. so it is tense times for merkel. brent: simon young on the story for us tonight. thank you. here are some of the other stores now the making headlines around the world.. more than 450 patients died in a british hospital after they were given dangerous doses of painkillers without medical justification.

a new report by an i independent panel found that the institutionalized practice of shortening lives at a hospital in southern england spanned a decade. the u.k. government has apologized to the families and said camilla charges could follow -- criminal charges could fofollow. eritrea's president says that he is sending a delegation for talks to ethiopia. the two neighboring nations have been involved in one of africa's most intractable standoffs for decades. but earlier this month ethiopia said it would fully accept the terms of a peace deal made with eritrea back in 2000. the global trade dispute is set to go up yet another. notch where is the good news? fanny: that is a good question. this friday the first uf's -- u.s. tariffs on exports come into effect. they will affect products like peanut butter, whiskey and motorcycles.

they are in retaliation to levies on exports. u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross has spoken out against what he calls unjustified price rises. he says some in the market are unfairly c cnging on t to inventory. >> the price of steel and for a while the price of aluminum when up far more than is justified by the terrorists. -- tariffs. so we are trying to find out whether there are peoplee who ae illegally profiteering from t te terrace. tariffs. fanny: in other big news the dow has kicked out industrial giant general electric. its shares have dipped today.

ge has been part of the dow jones industrial average for more than a century. it was just recently one of the largest listed groups in the world. it had recently fallen on hard times. the stock price plummeting from $27 to just over $12 on wednesday. it is a controversial move. general electric is valued a lot higher than companies that are still included in the leading index. investors say it is this disparity which makes the dow bad for understanding the true value of corporate america. and because the index is based on share pce, ge is clearly behind top firms like goldman sachs, or apple. they have share price is 10 times higher than ge, a sign of declining relevance perhaps, but is the problem on the side of general electric or dow? let's get more on that from our correspondent on wall street, jens korte standing by.

there he is. jens, so general electric is out. what does that mean for shareholders? jens: well, it was 1896 when charles dow came up with his famous dow jones industrial average, and as you mentioned, ge was part of it back then. but the good days seem to be over for ge. just in the past 52 weeks, the stock actually got hammered by about 55%, meaning the stock price cut -- got cut more than half. what does it mean looking forward? maybe not that much. because we see that quite often. before a stock gets kicked out of the dow jones industrial average, we have already seen most of the pain, meaning stock prices have been under some pressure so that ask her the removal, we see those stocks actually once in a while outperform the broader market.

so at least when it comes to the stock price, it does not have to be doomsday for general electric. fanny: briefly if you could, what does that mean that general electric is out of the dow? jens: it tells you quite a bit of how the u.s. economy looks like in general and what are the main drivers. obviously not industrial corporations, even if u.s. president donald trump would like to see the u.s. become a strong industrial nation again. it is the health care business. and on top of it for sure technology companies. those are more important than former industrial giants like ge. fanny: jens korte, thank you so much. that's your business update for now. turkey is next. brent: thank you for a much.

recep tayyip erdogan has held power in turkey for more than 15 years versus prime minister, then as president. many young voters have no -- grown up knowing no other leader. and his authoritarian style is he only kind of leadership they know. in national elections next sunday they'll be able to decide themselves if erdogan should stay at the helm. julia hahn reports. julia: when the ferry docks at the. the passengers disembark, he is there waiting. he is campaigning here for the akp, president erdogan's justice and development party. he is 28 and studied sports management. he has admired the president for as long as he can remember. >> some say that our president is tired. but it is not true.

he has so much energy. two young people, that is very young -- to young people, that is very motivating. if he is not tired, we should not be, either. if you love what you do you do not get tired. we love this country, this nation, and we will fight for it. >> we will be saying no to this one man regime on june 24. in the neighboring district -- julia: in the neighboring district, this man is drumming up support. his presidential candidate has been in custody for 19 months on terrorism-related charges. >> it is time for a change. people are being detained for no reason and nobody asks why the 70. -- why this is happening. julia: this 19-year-old is a

legal assistant. she cannot remember a time when erdogan was not turkey's leader. but unlike akp campaigners, she has had enough of him. >> he invests in war rather than as -- education. he behaves like a racist, a nationalist. he does not care about the people. that is why we say enough to erdogan. he and his people say we build roads and bridges for you, but so many people do not have homes or things to eat. julia: turkey is a useful country. roughly 50% of those eligible to vote are under 30. an entire generation that has grown up with erdogan and religious conservatism of his justice and development party. >> everything has an expiring date and erdogan is already out of date. >> i want more freedom. we should be able to think freely.

that is the kind of turkey i want to live in. >> 16 years is a long time for a government. the same mentality, the same person in power, that is not good. julia: the upcoming elections in turkey will be decided by young people. 1.7 million of them are eligible to vote for the first time. the country's future is in their hands. brent: time for our world cup update. that means kres is here to fill us in on action from day seven, and you have a bowtie. they got to a slow start in iran but ended up winning 1-0. kres: it was the expected resultlt. they gotot things going after te break. it was a sluggish start and it was evenly matched but iran was crowding the box because they were desperately trying to get a

decent showing. even the coach said hey, we're going to try and pull off the impossible. here's a look at the goal. he now has three for the tournament, just one shy of cristiano ronaldo. this matches saw something that you rock to the iranians in the 64th minute. what appeared to be a goal. everyone is going crazy but unfortunately it was called offside and called back and finish was 1-0. it was unfortunate to see in terms of the result, especially when you get the ball taken back. one thing happened, one player try to cart wheel to maybe -- i don't know. but it did not work out for him. spain, four points. brent: they are level on points in group b. rinaldo's lone goal ws enough to get past morocco today.

did they put up much of a fight? kres: not really. they did not look weak. they scores an own goal, so they were obviously trying to gain momentum. kris jenner rinaldo, what can you say -- cristiano ronaldo, what can you say? here's the video. he can do this in a pitch black room believe it or not. i have seen the video. it is incredible. as i mentioned, morocco were no pushover. they came close to equalizing in this moment. but as you can see, it was not good. the block, then cr7, who else. a great teammate. that was enough. not a lot of gold production today. it was different yesterday. yesterday was 10 goals, today only three. brent: what do you make of his

performance so far? kres: historic. he scored a hat trick against spain which is never been done. he now has 85 goals, the most of a european on an international pitch. that is also remarkable. i am thinking if he continues down this path, he will pretty much put his stamp on this particular world cup because he is leading the goal race right now. brent: let's talk group a. uruguay booting saudi arabia out of the world cup final earlier today. talk us through that. it was a 1-0 victory, right? kres: things were hot and heavy early but it fell flat after the break. luis suarez is uruguay's main threat upfront. he is known for biting. he is very effective. he had no problem nettings this

one through. saudi arabia had plenty of ball. that actually had more possession. they just could not do anything with it. the win means russia and uruguay go through, sending home saudi arabia and egypt. brent: so in the group a standings, the host nation russia leaves uruguay in goal difference. we would be remiss to not talk about the success. kres: of course. you have to good up for russia. not only were they the lowest ranked team coming in the tournament, they pretty much got the world cup off on a great footless scoring five goals. did not slow down their offense as all. that her egypt -- a lot of team effort. they have one player who has three goals, which is nice.

i think it will be very difficult and a tall task to think russia will advance beyond the knockout stages. i just cannot see that happening. but ththeir fans i am sure are pleased. brent: as always, thank you. we will see you tomorrow night. i'll be back after a short back to take you through the day. stick around for that. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

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