his chief political correspondent linda crane is following the latest developments for us melinda chancellor merkel has offered to help greece deal with what has happened the more you care what kind of help are we talking about. i mean it seems we're talking about taking in the 400 unaccompanied minors who were flown already from maria to the greek mainland greece itself has said that it wants the adults who were on maria to stay on the island essentially saying there should be no reward for arson greece has said that the refugees some of the refugees themselves had set the fire so greece had given a request to other e.u. states to take in these unaccompanied minors and that apparently is the group that we're talking about and what exactly take in and tails is this temporary shelter or is this a longer term offer. refugee status that is unclear at the moment germany's interior minister who's part of chancellor merkel's conservative faction is resisting pressure to take in more asylum seekers how divided is germany on this topic. divided is a must an understatement for the situation here in g

doing to address the crisis on less bows and migration in general as chief political correspondent linda crane put those questions to stefan meyer from the german interior ministry. and i'm joined now by germany's parliamentary state secretary federal interior minister st stephan meier welcome to you we heard this morning from the e.u. is commissioner for home affairs that she is absolutely confident unified you agreement on migration and asylum is possible do you think she's right. i'm deeply convinced the europe only has one more chance and so we are very if you appreciate it very much that this was commissioner you once and announced that on the 30th of september she will publish a new proposal or the commission's proposal for a new pac on migration and on asylum and we are people because when we instead it's absolutely necessary that the european union find a coherent and a common approach to these tremendous challenges so we have to cope with not only because of the fires. in less posts or on less posts but certainly this horrible event shows how immediate it is that we find a common solu

which will deliver russian gas directly to germany when completed his chief political correspondent linda crane asked conservative lawmaker thomas still go on how he thought germany should respond to the poisoning. well i think it's up to the international community as a whole and 2 in particular european parliament countries to respond to this crime which is at the same time. infringement of public international law because this nerve agent is prohibited international law our response should be a clear and quick response and we have to stand together but at the same time react in a way that cannot be misunderstood by russia as weakness one signal that would not be misunderstood is if germany were to suspend or terminate the north stream gas pipeline project there is increasing political pressure on the german government to do that how do you see it. well this is under discussion indeed it seems to me that primarily political options should be preferred but i think we should not. step into a competition on out beating ourselves who makes the strong proposal and suggestion we should indeed stand

let's bring in our chief political correspondent linda crane to talk more about the . chancellor merkel in the coming hours is going to be consulting with nato with the e.u. on a coordinated approach what to have in mind. well germany is currently holding the rotating a u. council presidency which is why germany has in fact been very active yesterday evening we heard the e.u.'s foreign policy chief joseph burrell condemn the poisoning in terms very similar to those that were used by the chancellor and we also can get a 1st idea of the e.u. response from what he had to say he called for thorough and complete investigation of the poisoning and for those found responsible to be brought to justice and we're told that the e.u. would like to see russia in that investigation work with the organization in the prohibition of chemical weapons because in fact no the chalk is a prohibited substance so this is is a violation of international law now the last time that nobody chalk was used namely to poison the former russian spy sergei script all the poisoning that occurred in 2018