operation sophia is likely to be the number one item on the agenda let's go right to our correspondent barbara vai so she is covering the talks for us in vienna today hi barbara so operation sophia was supposed to prevent people smuggling and further deaths at sea why is it only pushing to have this changed. italy has such an ultimatum to the european union and that runs in fact tomorrow so defense ministers are under quite some pressure to come up with a solution however so far things seem to be quite intractable it's only doesn't want to accept the vessel itself its european neighbors which are engaged in emissions of fear anymore in their own harbors they say somebody else should take up france for instance or spain or whoever malta and sort of relieve it from the burden to have having to take in all those migrants not the point is that the figures have as we all know gone down dressed to kill you this year so this is a political issue it is not really any more about thousands and thousands of people arriving in italian ports but it is it an issue that the interior minister. is pushing day and