this is. from berlin tonight germany's chancellor holding on to power but she faces what could be a political mission impossible. head on collision with her interior minister over migration policy forces as a whole for has given the chance. to tighten asylum rules in two weeks with the eve used blessings. also coming and the world come. to a winning start to the tournament by beating panama three nil we'll look at that

and the day's other do you suppose. it's good to have you with us tonight german chancellor angela merkel has bought herself time and averted a crisis in her government over migration policy today her interior minister horst . gave her two weeks to come up with a european migration plan a was a hold for wants to close germany's borders to some refugees the chancellor says that would go against the european union principles. has given a deadline to weeks if she can't deliver a solution in cooperation with the e.u. in that time he says he'll act alone. she didn't get more than a short respite but that was still more than chancellor angela merkel was expecting . after fears her government would collapse she has now won some time until the

e.u. summit at the end of june to find a european solution to the asylum dispute. merkel has made it clear that she doesn't want to go it alone. that have long been we believe that uncoordinated rejection of asylum seekers at our borders in the heart of europe could lead to a negative domino effect at germany's expense in german interior minister horse as a whole for and his party the c.s.u. want german border police to reject asylum seekers who have already been registered in another e.u. country but chancellor merkel says that's not compatible with european law she says germany would first have to check which country is responsible. she'd like to agree to individual treaties with countries such as greece and italy to facilitate the return of refugees but even if no such agreements come out of the summit merkel says that doesn't mean the c.s. use plan to refuse refugees entrance into germany will come into effect. let's get

these things will not happen automatically we in the c.d.o. believe it is important that we first discussed the situation amongst ourselves and only after that will we enter into discussions with the c.s.u. . while merkel spoken berlin her interior minister horst say hoffa held a news conference in munich he's supposed to be medical's ally but today the two sounded like fierce rivals they hope to warn germany would act alone if the e.u. summit doesn't yield a solution. sparing no workable decision is made i have decided and the party leaders agree with me that at that point it will be necessary to turn away refugees borders. records they hope for says he's determined to carry out. that policy even if germany has to go it alone but acting against merkel's will would probably lead to his dismissal and the dissolution of the governing coalition was

a halter and merkel battle it out the coalition's third political party the center left s.p.d. made its allegiance clear by raising the e.u. flag at its berlin headquarters when it comes to migration the social democrats agree with american compromise with europe is the only way forward. kind of way forward let's talk about that now with our political correspondent simon young he joins me here at the big table you know we said at the top of the show that this is a political mission impossible now that the german chancellor is supposed to deliver in two weeks what she hasn't been able to do in the past three years how can she do this what the savings she's been meeting the new italian prime minister there in berlin trying to promise him more support to deal with migrants because of course it's lisbon one of the countries most affected and the italian prime minister sort of saying oh well thanks very much for those words of support but we really need the system to change we can't be taking these people in and dealing

with them all so this is right on the question that has caused this huge dispute here in berlin between the two wings if you like of angle america's conservative party she's got a very difficult task ahead of her i don't see it happening in two weeks and clearly any solution even if that one couldn't be implemented for much longer after that and you know a horse is a hole for from the very and sister party i mean he is basically taking on his own chancellor i mean they're supposed to be allies so why you see turning a friend into an enemy and why now here i mean it's not new from horse a horse he's been around in politics for a long time for a long time he was the bavarian leader and still leads the c.s.u. which is this big conservative party that strong there and you know he's always been a defect. customer for the government's in in berlin to deal with so this is in that sense expected from him why now of course a lot of people have pointed out in just

a few months i don't. know lection coming up in bavaria who is seo for is very well aware that the far right f.t. healed to a certain sector of the electorate that maybe he's more worried about them than they should be but he's thinking you know people all in the back of their minds they're continuing to worry about this migrant issue that has been the dominating domestic issue in germany for the last three years and he wants to do something about it he was a change of course and he is risking what a lot of people say is the collapse of this government in the end of the marital error i mean if it didn't come today but it could come in two weeks what do you say were the chances that we are looking at the final weeks of uncle americal well i wonder whether in the aimed hosts a of a would decide that that that he really wanted to push it that far and may simply he's pushing his lucky's again today said today that you know there's a small group of people who've already received bangs on entering germany already been already come here once they've been sent away he's does he's going to send

back so he's going to sort of use the full extent of the power as they has in wishing it as far as he can with angle americal but you kind of think he might pull back from the brink because as you say if he really you know forced an open confrontation i'm going to be forced to fire him that could lead to a split in the in the conservative bloc and the government could fall you know that possible collapse got given the attention of the u.s. president donald trump he has chosen to involve himself in this controversy the u.s. president when he tweeted today that the people of germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous berlin coalition crime in germany is way up big mistake made all over europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly in violently changed their culture. aaronson we know that the u.s. president likes to tweet and he's pretty good at tweeting things that been if not destroyed the truth so does he have his facts here right. on the headline of it no

he doesn't because you know the government has produced a report just just last month saying that crime overall in fact is being fulling and at its lowest level last year since one thousand nine hundred eighty so there is wrong and why in that sense yes although there may be of course particular types of crime and you know if you look at exactly who carried them out or did if you look at crime related to the specific asylum process and where the people have put their documents in on time that sort of thing if you call that crime then you know there may be something to it but i think you have to see that don't trump has always been against the the medical migrant polis a i remember him tweeting back when he was running for office you know natalie's ruining germany a few weeks later he was all smiles with kill americans rushing to you know it's a strange well that he lives in but you know this is very unusual for a u.s. president to sort of get involved in it in a german domestic issue in this way and it's

a very good point arts i'm young as always thank you son and from the trump tweet to the german streets we sent our reporters out this afternoon to ask what people here in berlin think about what trump has been tweeting. ok. yeah well can i say. what. the crime in germany is in a partisan his ideology is exactly what we should be fighting against i think is i think this tweet represents the views of the minority in germany not the whole country. generally speaking i think he's right usually don't expect much from him but in this instance he set the nail on the head. he's probably not the right person to be listening to his posse this debate is opinion is not the most important but i don't notice any negative impact from migration at all exactly the

opposite it's actually an opportunity a chance for enrichment for our culture to have more influences from other countries. but here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world bosnian police have blocked dozens of migrants from entering the european union at the border with her way shop around one hundred. police also assembled on the border migrants who recently turned to bosnia to avoid the more heavily guarded routes to the european union reports say that spain's new government plans to remove the remains of fascist dictator francisco franco from a state funded mostly it wants the site to remember the civil war not to glorify the dictatorship the reinterment would be the latest high profile measure by pedro's hunches is look we government aimed at consolidating its. addiction to digital and video gaming has been officially recognized as

a mental health disorder in its international classification of diseases the world health organization describes gaming addiction as recurrent gaming behavior that takes precedence over other wife interests in some of the worst cases gamers miss out on sleep meals work and school because. of components of plane. a moscow court has ordered the detention of a taxi driver who drove into pedestrians near the kremlin over the weekend injuring six before fleeing the scene the cure's suspect will be held in custody for two months pending trial he says he fell asleep at the wheel. all right on the page of the world cup in russia group g. action got started on monday two games both with a common theme a big favorite pitted against a relative soccer mina when england took on tunisia and an even bigger gulf in class when belgium locked horns with world cup debutantes panama here's all the

group g. highlights. after a sluggish first off denise mountain sunnily broke the deadlock for beijing shoki after half time with this effort right strike by the forwards and after that symmetry to go drolling for the favorites to win comical needing just six minutes to add two more golds stream is despite a slow start badge and people say well it's got some pain in convincing fashion. england followed suit against an uzi needing just eleven minutes before the top marksman how we came loose and then front johnstone's us had a brilliantly saved only full came to be perfectly positioned for the rebound but after this challenge between walcott and ben you set the referee awarded to penalty to tunisia set yani sussy kept to school to convert from just book one all asked us to five minutes the threats ring school for the two new zealand's one zero win at

state and deep in injury time when harry came became a national hero by scoring a second to ensure england's got a winning start to this world cup and no group g.'s definitely poised to be a two horse race between england and bangs and. well after germany's defeat on sunday night it was their group rival sweden south korea who got the ball rolling on match day five sweden had the upper hand for most of the game and finally the pressure paid off in the sixty fifth minute men who can bring victor clausen down in the box the referee awarded a penalty after v.a.r. tipped him off sweden's captain on a strong to this step up to give his side the lead and the will. go. well now a have believed to have belonged to the french emperor napoleon bonaparte sounds gone up for auction in. the military dress hat was purportedly plucked off the

battlefield after napoleon's eight hundred fifteen defeat at waterloo and today it sold for three hundred fifty thousand euro. as to who actually bought the imperial headwear well the auction house was keeping that detail well. under its hat. here's a reminder of the top stories that we're following for you german chancellor angela merkel has survived a rebellion in her government over migration policy and hearing a minister horst as a whole for from the chance was conservative sister party the sea and she has given her until any new summit in two weeks to tighten asylum rules in cooperation with the european union otherwise he says he will do. himself. for all of us here in berlin thanks for the company and don't forget you can check out our website of followers on twitter to keep up with news as is happening see you again.

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