for details and i've been down hawkins who joins us from our u.k. bureau good afternoon again dan just run through the main thinking man behind this study well it's a topic of attracted widespread anger condemnation discussion and debate in the u.k. rather on rossdale peterborough bristol halifax the list goes on and on of these sorts of grooming scandals this is the first time though as you said there that a government in office or home secretary office has ordered an investigation specifically and one of quickly into the racial background the ethnicity of the victims and of perpetrators it's not the first time the issue has been raised in mainstream politics of course just last year labor m.p. and minister sara champion wrote an article in the sun newspaper condemning what she described as pakistani grooming gangs she received a huge backlash a lot of criticism for that article later being forced to resign and indeed receiving death threats she later received extra police protection as a result of that what strikes me about this whole debate is that we've reached a point in this

s dan hawkins and he said. it's the morning after the night before and it's a lot quieter now a warm welcome to you from all the usual studios here in russian capital st petersburg from here with only about last night however one of all a coaster emotion we went through here on square during the night between the match . and russia fantastic night we had yeah we did we had a bit of a crowd here with us here in paris all of us i think got a little bit while. i. was. i wound. on the scenes we had behind us were no exception apart from those lucky fifty thousand tickets to the stadium millions were watching the game glued to screens across both countries screaming their heads off. i i i. i i i i i he had an adrenalin charged time of it fighting spirit there every minute of the game the teams won one off the normal time off the exits on giving out all on the field this other drama unfolded during penalties. live i were him i. were her those being the calls that the four calls two of them coming in extra time and i

pundits and analysts on both sides of the political spectrum ok thanks dan it was artie's there dan hawkins there for us in the u.k. . germany to take in members of the controversial syrian carry the white helmets is sparked anger among lawmakers who say that the in should be offering asylum to others instead. i have decided that germany will tear in eight members of the white helmets aid group and their families and grant them protection the continuing military offensive on the territorial gain the syrian regime is making in southern syria presents an acute danger for the group. the federal government must offer asylum to the journalist and founder of the we can whistle blowing platform julian a sandwich instead of accepting members of the controversial white helmets group from syria it is completely contradictory their dean terry minister on the one hand wants to find is amiss tara but on the other wants to bring in these members of islamist terrorist militias to germany while the white house which has a self-proclaimed rescue group that's been operating in syria for the last six years ha

it looks beautiful there in sochi many thanks dan hawkins is our correspondent over there what a picture and speaking of pictures you know looks beautiful i can see the fireworks yeah we can just see the fire from the least there in the distance and fireworks going up into what's now a pretty moody looking evening sky and it's just lighting things up brightening our lives just one last time it's been a real one month festival of football what better time than to look back at what we've experienced over the last thirty something days of our correspondents hitting all of the host cities and it's been quite a lot of traveling involved it is the world's biggest country. i mean. i'm. i decided to familiarize fans of other national teams with russia's traditional head where of course. i know it's not yet you know different. oh that's the tricky stuff. like a natural you look like a natural. st petersburg it's all you believe one of the most beautiful and picturesque cities in all of russia. it's called a hundred yards beyond us because it's long. and it meets the face. just i think the people

indeed from media and pundits on both sides of the political spectrum ok thanks said dan that was dan hawkins there with the details in our u.k. office thank you. thank you too for watching and we're going to be back in the back thirty five mins. or. come on welcome to worlds apart from western europe has long been the birthplace of both the most dangerous and the most in life and ideas that almost burned the planet alive with the two world wars and came up with the european union as a prevention strategy against the third is the euro centric way the only strategy of saving the world from a new disaster or is it perhaps the surest way of bringing it about well to discuss that i'm now joined by collapse and collide is director of the center for international studies at oxford university professor nickell it is it's an honor talking to you thank you very much for your time thank you now i know that for much of your khadem a career you've been focusing on how people collectively negotiate diet differences and you see the european union which are meant much within that framework not only as an ex

ok let's get more details now with dan hawkins he's been following the story in the u.k. for said dan just break down there now what we know so far with this story. well speculation has been rife full week about if and when and indeed how or sons' will leave the ecuadorian embassy various media outlets attending the embassy over the past few days we do now have word from the ecuadorian president he's of course been in the u.k. for a conference on disability but it's not that which has really caught media headlines it's more his statement there saying that at some point assad's will have to leave the embassy that the situation is unacceptable i refer him to of course a sergeant asylum since twenty twelve six years and one month now holed up inside that embassy being labeled a so-called inherited problem for lennon. we do have a statement from downing street a spokesman confirmed to us just a few minutes ago in fact that the issue was not actually discussed on his visit specifically but that negotiations are ongoing take from that what you will know despite saying that the i