of this project is gazprom which is a russian state owned company chief political correspondent belinda crane thank you you're watching get over you know still to come on the program a german conductor refuses to call us for a pandemic and celebrates beethoven's birthday in south korea. but 1st all this week here on day to be news we have been marking the 5th anniversary of a decision that would change the course of european history on this day in 2015 thousands of migrants who had been stuck in limbo in a station in budapest set off on foot for the german border for them it was the start of a new route to the heart of europe for the european union it was a challenge to its core principles now by the end of 2015 more than a 1000000 people had sought refuge in the e.u. with many making the long trek from turkey across greece and the balkan countries all the way to the german border. and i'm joined now here in the studio by head of news max max welcome to the program you were in budapest 5 years ago and you covered the story from the very beginning when impressions from maine with you the most