bavaria the policy of confrontation with anger narco is not producing the kind of gains that the bavarian christian social union wants to have especially in light of the fact that it is facing regional elections in october and is facing at the moment quite a significant loss of support in his home area at the same time his does not speculation that medicos government could sink or would this issue a fire refugee policy is likely. we can't say whether it's likely at the moment but it certainly is possible it is the fact that the bavarians they have the interior minister and mark holds government holds the whole fight is from bavaria and he is the one that has been pushing marco very hard on this issue and has not given no indication so far of backing galled if you call to news to insist on pushing through his there months he had threatened that he interior minister might take this decision on his own and try to confront america in that way if that happens america might be forced to throw him out of cover not enough which certainly leads to the collapse of the government but at the moment t

we also introduce you to the biggest fan of the bavarian fairy tale king of the second. we take you. up to dizzying heights for a real thrill. and an hour of e-mail we bring you travel greetings from a viewer this time from tanzania. here we go up they have. one of the most popular destinations in the region. it's about one thousand seven hundred meters high the way of easy a cable car takes only four minutes. every fifteen minutes a fresh load of tourists. and then it's a hike up the winding path to the summit. our reward a spectacular view on the left lake. and on the right. the mountain was a favorite of commute for you the second he came up here off to enjoy the view and the peace and quiet that wouldn't be so easy anymore today this mountain is everyone's favorite. why here after all it's pretty crowded. my wife says we're going somewhere i go. i want to get away from the city for at least one day during my travels here and i asked my friends the best place to go and they suggested here and so far it's been more than worth it i think it makes him a magical they are

during his lifetime the bavarian king was criticized for his expensive councils and palaces today they attract millions of tourists from around the world. on heaven insole the largest island in lake the reclusive monitor found the solitude he was seeking. catherine palace was based on the palace of louis the fourteenth of france a very inverse sign like all of fakes castles and palaces it had no official function it was for the king alone. which spent a total of ten days here in the palace in late september eight hundred eighty five . after sunset on thirty five servants had to light the candles in the palace and after that they all had to vanish and the king was all alone here. in the. interests. of aix most famous castle is in the region near to some noise france time it attracts one and a half million visitors a year. for its architecture literally true inspiration from medieval councils. not far away is linda hope for the only palace look fix all completed and it's the only one he lived in for any length of time. that. you can only reach the king's house in shock and on fort it's n

bavarian conservatives oppose that. they remained opposed.hey have pushed hard for tougher action on deportations and limiting the number of refugees to enter the country. they did get some of those points into the coalition agreement, and none the less they have not been satisfied but this is more than anything about -- anything else but opportunism. there is an important election coming up in the csu party. it will occur in october and they are very eager to look tough on immigration in order to ward off gains by the far right immigration afd party. this is all about tactics. sarah: i head of that, let's gauge the mood of the country because there has been a poll conducted before this crisis and shows the majority of germans want change with regard to refugee policy. i would like to drill down into the details. the poll was conducted by -- they asked what people thought about differing migration proposals. they said the proposal with the greatest agreement was the one that called for deportation of asylum-seekers whose application has been

the interior minister of the bavarian csu wants the power to turn some migrants away at the border. merkel has rejected the idea, saying it would undermine european solidarity, but the minister is said to be ready to define her. it was a day of doubts and disruption at the german parliament as angela merkel was threatened with open rebellion. an unprecedented scenes, the bundestag held meetings on the same issue. the csu says it can wait no longer to see a change in merkel's migration policy. >> once again, we've made it clear what needs to be done urgently to restore order at our borders. we should take the step of turning refugees away from our borders who are already registered in another european country. >> csu leaders and chancellor merkel battled over the issue late into the night but no compromise was reached. a european response to migration is needed. merkel is still hoping for a deal with other states. >> to me, the question of how to tackle this migration issue is a litmus test to the future and cohesion of europe. it therefore needs to take every country's needs into co

been taking two thirds of the bavarian voters actually say they prefer the chancellor's approach so that's another reason i think they may have an interest in backing i mean that's a very important point let's zoom out for a minute because this is not just a story of politico survival what will this mean for the people fleeing war fighting violence it means basically that europe has got a step closer to becoming fortress europe if we look at the different aspects of the deal that was reached at the e.u. summit what it means for migrants let's say leaving africa is that if they try to come to europe by sea they may be picked up and brought back to so-called disembarkation centers in northern africa that supposedly will be run in accordance with international law but we can't be sure of that if they actually make it to europe they could be held in closed control centers on some of those peripheral in some of those peripheral countries there too we don't know about the conditions in those centers what we're looking at is a much tighter europe will that stop refugees from coming probabl

but hard to see who for himself the interior minister has so far not reacted and neither has the bavarian leader in bavaria who had the prominent critics of marco in this on this matter there have been some voices from within the conservative party in bavaria that this is our step in the right direction and that a deal could be done on this basis is a possibility of some sort of bridge being built between these two columns but that's all based on a rational response and there has been some fairly irrational. episodes in all of this in the last few days so one cannot be certain about all of this actually turning out well as it were until it's actually done a deal is done and that is likely only to happen tomorrow maybe even on your monday ok with me the next few days will tell hans brown thank you very much for your insights now chancellor merkel says that the new e.u. aside and plan will curb migration better than tightening germany's border but what controls are already in place and what is the see is you proposing well here's a look at the situation in the c s u's heartland of bavaria g

still backs the bavarian conservatives the c.s.u. or in open rebellion despite attempts at finding a consensus c.s.u. leaders say a change in policy is needed now. the stream of illegal migrants to germany is a big problems with the before and the populace is very critical but it's a political hot potato wherever we go we have to solve this problem now than merkel hopes to negotiate a european solution to the migrant issue when e.u. leaders meet in brussels in two weeks time argues that germany shouldn't be acting on its own she offered a quote along the lines that international problems require international solutions . the world is highly integrated everything is too interconnected for any individual country to determine its destiny alone very wise words. but the c.s.u. interior minister horsy hope for doesn't think a european solution is coming soon he wants germany to refuse entry to migrants registered in other e.u. countries and he may issue orders to that effect against miracles wishes the opposition thinks he's going too far

still backs the bavarian conservatives the c.s.u. or in open rebellion despite attempts at finding a consensus c.s.u. leaders say a change in policy is needed now. two flows of the stream of illegal migrants to germany is a big problems of the before and the populace is very critical but it's a political hot potato wherever we go we have to solve this problem now than merkel hopes to negotiate a european solution to the migrant issue when e.u. leaders meet in brussels in two weeks' time she argues that germany shouldn't be acting on its own she offered a quote along the lines that international problems require international solutions . the world is highly integrated everything is too interconnected for any individual country to determine its destiny alone a very wise words. but the c.s.u. interior minister horsy hope for doesn't think a european solution is coming soon he wants germany to refuse entry to migrants registered in other e.u. countries and he may issue orders to that effect against merkel's wishes the opposition thinks h

of a religious symbol with secure or rooms of a secular state is really compatible with our bavarian constitution there hasn't been any mad rush to hang crucifixes in buildings like the city hall in nuremberg just behind me here the law didn't come with any deadline and it's also widely expected to be challenged in germany's highest court it's some point in the future peter all of r.t. the various. syrian army's routed the last pockets of terrorists south of the capital damascus and civilians are heading back now to the newly liberated cities there some of them are coming to terms of calls with their lives after the war as best they can others are searching for their loved ones who are missing during the conflict. he fought in the militia supporting the syrian army there were twenty soldiers in his assault team they went into attack on april twenty second they group came here but they got ambushed and captured. i still terrorists called me from a czar's phone and told me they killed him they sent me photos and took a picture of this thing they first sent me this picture and then this

of a religious symbol with security or rooms of a secular state is really compatible with our bavarian constitution there hasn't been any mad rush to hang crucifixes in buildings like the city hall in nuremberg just behind me here the law didn't come with any deadline and is also widely expected to be challenged in germany's highest court at some point in the future peter all of a r.t. of area. a marked international day for the protection of children and in all walks of life parents will do whatever they have to to keep their offspring are two of harm's way here's one mother doing just that in moscow. i'm a moment's work is never done more programs right ahead keep it locked here on our to international i'm back in thirty. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all children but there was one more question and by the way who's going to be our coach. you guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star among us and the huge amount of pressure you have to go i mean eighty percent of the shuttle we are with you and we will show you all the g

the bavarian president became the target of more than a few online jokes when he announced this idea however those who are charged with actually hanging crucifixes in public buildings while they are on side with the plan. this is not a defensive reaction but a positive reinforcement of our. does not hurt to point out where our roots are this crosses a symbol of not only for christians but for people living in bavaria. all but critics say that this goes against germany's constitutional separation of church and state and say they want to change the law it's a totally wrong decision of the berrien government because it's a very in citizen you can be a muslim you can be a tool you can be non-religious you can be an atheist humanist for example and all these people show no look to the cross and why instead we have a strong tradition arm of a separation of church and state there has to be clarified whether this mixing up. of a religious symbol with secure or rooms of a secular state is really compatible with our bavarian constitution there hasn't been any mad rush to hang crucifixes in bui

could threaten her hold on power merkel's interior minister jose a whole for of the conservative bavarian c.s.u. party is openly defying her he's demanding the power to turn away migrants at the german border merkel has rejected the idea insisting instead on finding a joint a european approach this is being seen as the most serious crisis to hit the chancellor since her new coalition government took office in march. unprecedented scenes of the german buddhas talk yesterday its chancellor angela merkel was in effect threatened with open rebellion her conservative blog on the board does talk normally acts as one but in an extraordinary move it held separate meetings on the same issue the bavarian conservatives of the c.s.u. versus the rest the c.s.u. says it can no longer wait to see a change in machall migration policy. again we've made it clear what needs to be done more agents lead to restore order borders we should take the stand turning refugees away from our borders who are already registered in another european country. or. c.s.u. leader host and chancellor merkel had battled over th

the bavarian c.s.u. leader is still saying that he's going to implement a rejection of some certain groups a small group of one hundred so also people who have already been processed by the german or thora teasin of already been given a sort of a ban on them entering germany as a result of that is going to already before two weeks is up that they can't come in and you're going to put his police in readiness to you know get tough on the borders why is he doing it now well because he believes it's important to send a message to voters particularly in his home state that this government is tough on migration and simon young. thank you stay with us if you wouldn't mind max often will say goodbye to you and. we want to stay with us because a donald trump u.s. presence of course meanwhile has decided to get involved into this rao writing on twitter he said the people of germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous birth in coalition crime in germany he says his way u

of a religious symbol with secure or rooms of a secular state is really compatible with our bavarian constitution there hasn't been any mad rush to hang crucifixes in buildings like the city hall in nuremberg just behind me here the law didn't come with any deadline and it's also widely expected to be challenged in germany's highest court it's some point in the future peter all of a party of area. i do before we sign off this hour you might on and on but friday marked international day for the protection of children and in all walks of life mothers will do everything they have to to keep their offspring out of harm's way and he is one doing just that in moscow. and. it. was a ten out of ten from other docs don't feel sorry for that chap trying to help that's it for now from hour to international in moscow the next news this saturday is in just over half an hour see it. when lawmakers manufacture consent instinctive public wealth. when the ruling classes project themselves. in the final merry go round the sun be the one percent. we can all middle of the room. in the real news room. yo

it's absolutely a power struggle and at least in some quarters including the chancellor's own bavarian sister party the c.s.u. the knives are out and we see that the interior minister is possibly willing to bring down the government and certainly potentially bring down the chancellor over this issue but the struggle is as much about politics as it is about principles there's a very important regional election coming up in bavaria and the topic of migration has been a sore point an absolute bone of contention between that bavarian conservative sister party of the chancellor and the chancellor's own christian democrats basically ever since the migration crisis began in twenty fifteen that wrangling that you talked about that took so long to form this new government that wrangling was very much about the same issue with those conservatives absolutely and willing to to go with the chancellor's line on migration so now as i say it's down to the wire essentially the interior minister has given the chancellor an ultimatum saying that he plans to move forward with his own policy on monday if s

up a lot of trouble and possibly willing to bring the whole government down is the chancellor's bavarian conservative sister party the c.s.u. what's going on there but they're terrified of losing their majority in bavaria their absolute majority there's elections in bavaria is making headway for three years the sister party of bavarians to party off chancellor merkel has railed against merkel's refugee policy has said this is the biggest mistake we will but they've only protested and they haven't actually implemented any changes and this they say their credibility is on the line and now we have to put a stop sign because they're facing elections and bavaria so it's very much driven by the fear of the altered alternative for germany a right wing party what they are doing and of course could bring down a government that's only been in power for a little over three months and i get about him in her first statement to the parliament after the new government. came into place the chancellor chancellor merkel said that it had been a grave error not to see that the war in syria would have drasti

from the bavarians as said that he would go to alone that he would impose these border restrictions even if i'm going to marco does not want him to do that but challenging under the marcos or therapy as chancellor i think she cannot accept such a challenge if he does do that she will have to throw him out of his gov out of her government and that might lead to the collapse of the entire government all of this could shake out in the next few days due to his hands brunt has been covering it for us all this week and we thank you so much for putting it into perspective. now let's get a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world german turkish journalist denis huge shell has been put on trial in absentia in istanbul he spent more than a year in a turkish prison before being freed this february and returning to germany he was accused of pending terrorist propaganda and could face a sentence of up to eighteen years behind bars. joe jackson the father of music legends michael and janet jackson has died in las vegas in the one nine hundred sixty s. joe jackson g

and the bavarian conservatives the c s u and he is highly respected by both sides and that kind of a compromise would involve some sort of face saving measure for the c.s.u. but essentially allow the chancellor her two weeks to keep trying to find a a multilateral sustainable e.u. approach prior to that summit at the end of june but if that compromise isn't found over the weekend or on monday and the interior minister actually follows through on his threat to essentially reimposed border controls and send migrants back to other countries where they were registered then in fact the chancellor would be left only with the choice of firing him that would see his conservatives leave the government the government then would no longer have a majority in parliament and we'd be heading into new elections so well into the begs the question why is there so much bad blood between mr they offer and chancellor merkel. there have been long simmering tensions over immigration essentially the bavarian conservatives were never on board with that policy opposed it essentially from the inception in two

well the conflict with her bavarian part concerns the question of whether or not certain categories of migrants can be turned back at the german border and i'm going to mecca has always been saying germany should not do that on its own it should find some form of co-operation with its european partners in order to manage that situation and in that sense she has of achieved a first step in that direction that is not the matter that concerns creasing border controls that external borders of the european union but it concerns these questions of whether or not they're going to be some form of camps of some form of a collection of migrants in the countries where their rival and the redistribution from there that seems to be something that will happen and on that score then it seems possible that there will be some kind of agreement between germany and various single other countries to facilitate those kind of exchanges that would be with countries such as france was which has. signaled its willingness to cooperate and so has italy greece bug area there are several countries where this might

the ferry is a new president marcus soda and his reasoning is that this is supposed to reinforce bavarian identity in the face of large scale integration. given him by and signal it is a signal of still for sure instant bavaria we want to state our western christian culture and that is why clearly we don't get rid of crosses but hang them up this is not an attack on others but only a cultural symbol which we especially appreciate in the various public opinion shows that almost sixty percent of bavarian specially support the move but when we spoke to people on the streets of nuremberg opinion was more finely balanced i don't think it's a good idea. because it has nothing to do with the church the government is separate then the church so why should we do the same i don't think it's a good idea so it's correct because it's a tradition and why not i comment on the one hand we see people wanting to ban the headscarf on the other they're forcing people to shoulder cross that seems the dots to me and. i don't think are very an identity depends on crosses it is stronger in other ways beer garden

the ferry is a new president marcus soda and his reasoning is that this is supposed to reinforce bavarian identity in the face of large scale integration given by and signal a signal of phil for surance in bavaria we want to state our western christian culture and that is why clearly we don't get rid of crosses but hang them up this is not an attack on others but only a cultural symbol which we especially appreciate in the various public opinion shows that almost sixty percent of bavarians actually support the move but when we spoke to people on the streets of nuremberg opinion was more finely balanced i don't think it's a good idea. because it has nothing to do with security the government is separate then the church so why should we do the same i don't think it's a good idea it's correct because it's a tradition and why not i comment on the one hand we see people wanting to ban the headscarf on the other they're forcing people to shoulder cross that seems or dots to me and. i don't think are very an identity depends on process it is stronger in other ways beer gardens and local traditio

the bavarian president became the target of more than a few online jokes when he announced this idea however those who are charged with actually hanging crucifixes in public buildings while they are on side with the plan. this is not a defensive reaction or a positive reinforcement of our culture and it does not hurt to point out where our roots are this crosses a symbol of not only for christians but for people living in the very start here all but critics say that this goes against germany's constitutional separation of church and state and say they want to change the law it's a totally wrong decision of the parian government because it's a very in citizen you can be a muslim you can be a tool you can be non-religious you can be an atheist humanist for example and all those people shall now look to the cross and why instead we have a strong tradition arm of a separation of church and state there has to be clarified whether this mixing up. of a religious symbol with a secure. rooms of a secular state is really compatible with our bavarian constitution there hasn't been any mad rush

coalition that exists right now has a smallish majority if there were a real problem between the bavarian party and angela merkel's party that could spell real trouble but the point also to make is that it's as if the main parties have marched up to the edge of a precipice in the course of today looked over the side of the precipice and that will actually stand back from that the next step here will be what the leadership of the c.s.u. decides and we'll know that in munich on monday a ship with hundreds of refugees rescued off libya's coast over the weekend is expected to arrive in spain on sunday morning the aquarius has six hundred twenty nine refugees on board it headed to spain after italy and malta refused to let the ship dock at its ports however bad weather forced to take a detour aid workers on board say the long journey is proving a big challenge for the exhausted passengers. and a u.s. navy vessel involved with rescuing dozens of migrants of libya's coast is waiting to hear where they could be taken to the trying to and rescued forty survivors after their boat capsized on tuesda

because she is under a lot of pressure as we have said from the bavarian conservatives.hey want -- essentially their bottom line is to say they want the power to turn people away at the border, where that is appropriate as they see it, or they want some kind of equivalent deal that essentially reasserts that national control over migration flows and asylum-seekers. just yesterday, angela merkel agreed with the french president that he would stop people coming through french territory to arrive at the german boarder. -- border. so that perhaps is a step in the right direction. but not really as far as angela merkel is concerned. she wants a european solution. but if she cannot get one, horst seehofer may move unilaterally, she might have to fire him, and that could bring down her government. so it is tense times for merkel. brent: simon young on the story for us tonight. thank you. here are some of the other stores now the making headlines around the world.. more than 450 patients died in a british hospital after they were given dangerous doses of painkillers without medi

given those that have come to france a pretty tough time so that's much more a sort of zero for bavarian style approach than what merkel is looking for and she of course talks about solidarity and harmonizing asylum rules across the union so there's a lot of talking to do a lot of talking to do so i mean just briefly if you can what about what the rest of the e.u. what's going to be the most difficult part of getting an e.u. solution. well i think is as i say it's about getting those harmonized rules and indeed in some cases the countries like poland and hungary who have said things in a sense they don't really want to take any migrants at all so as far as we're talking about a solution at the european level head of that summit in brussels next week i think it's unlikely to come anytime soon. i mean young covering the meeting between the german and french leaders for us today thank you simon. it's not just in europe but in many places around the world a record number of people are on the move a new report by the un refugee agency says war and conflict has led to the largest increase in r

not in my view we're hearing the bavarian sister party the c.s.u. saying we have to establish order on the border but frankly there's no disorder on the border the number of refugees coming into the country has gone down significantly the chancellor says we need to wait two for the e.u. summit that will take place at the end of this month we're talking about two weeks she might be willing after that to change her course and make more compromises but she says i can't go to that summit saying germany has decided to move on its own to act unilaterally to act nationalistic lee basically what that would mean is that germany would be saying to all the countries on the southern perimeter of the e.u. those are the countries that the migrants enter first those are the countries that have systematically been left holding the burden of the immigration crisis germany has done far too little for them in the past she would be repeating that and magnifying that if she were to act now unilaterally as the c.s.u. is demanding that she do she could not go to brussels

well that depends on which side of the equation you fall really join if you're from the bavarian christian social union then you think that this is very important indeed the leader of the of their members of parliament this this afternoon said that he felt that this was the most important issue facing germany right now which explains why the minister from that party horse the hope of the interior minister says that the thing that needs to be done most of all is to return to the regulations that prevailed before angle americal open the borders to migrants to people claiming

for a long time for a long time he was the bavarian leader still leads the c.s.u. which is this big conservative party that strong there and you know he's always been a difficult customer for the government say 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 and i'm healed to a certain sector of the electorate there 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 that 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 miracle err i mean if it didn't come today but it could come in two weeks what do you say were the chances that we're looking at the final weeks of uncle americal well

namely his party is the bavarian sister party of the chancellors c.d.u. they have always disagreed with the c.d.u. on immigration since that open door policy of twenty fifteen but this is coming to a head because there is about to hold a very important regional election that is the heartland of say ho fers c.s.u. and the c.s.u. wants to look very very tough on immigration at this particular moment in time in order to ward off gains in their heartland from the far right anti immigration a.f.d. party which as you know has been on the rise so that's why he's putting on this pressure right now and just briefly what's likely to be happening this weekend lots of talk behind closed doors i'm saying that they were told that the former finance minister and the current president of the parliament wolfgang schauble is trying to mediate to broker a compromise he has the respect of both sides he's also known to be fairly conservative on immigration issues they will be pushing hard for a compromise we've heard that the chancellor is not changing any of her travel plans

of a fairy is a new president marcus soda and his reasoning is that this is supposed to reinforce bavarian identity in the face of large scale integration given by and signal this is a signal of still for sure instant varia we want to state our western christian culture and that is why clearly we don't get rid of crosses but hang them up this is not an attack on others but only a cultural symbol which we especially appreciate in the various public opinion shows that almost sixty percent of bavarians actually support the move but when we spoke to people on the streets of nuremberg opinion was more finely balanced i don't think it's a good idea. because it has nothing to do with security the government to separate them to church so why should we do the same i don't think it's a good idea it's correct because it's a tradition and why not i comment on the one hand we see people wanting to ban the headscarf on the other they're forcing people to shoulder cross that seems the dots to me and. i don't think are very an identity depends on process it is stronger in other ways beer gardens and local

and the bavarian see as you retreating for separate emergency meetings an extraordinary move the battle between merkel and interior minister wholesale who for over asylum issues this brought political balance to a halt. this. it taught us we've informed the c.d.u. that we see the need for action right now. a living will continue to support efforts on the european level to reach similarly efficient results by. these users but this isn't forseeable in the near future so we need to act for ourselves. on this until the wee hours of thursday morning markland say over tried to reach a compromise but fail to find a solution for once the refuse entry at the german border to refugees originated in other use states moca insists on the e.u. principle of freedom of movement across national borders. to me the question of how to tackle this migration issue is a litmus test for the future and cohesion of europe it therefore needs to take every country's means into consideration merkel wants to strengthen protection of the e.u.'s external borders in the hope of deterring people from attempting to enter

not in my view we're hearing the bavarian sister party the c.s.u. saying we have to establish order on the border but frankly there's no disorder on the border the number of refugees coming into the country has gone down significantly the chancellor says we need to wait for the e.u. summit that will take place at the end of this month we're talking about two weeks she might be willing after that to change of course and make more compromises but she says i can't go to that summit saying germany has decided to move on its own to act unilaterally to act nationalistic lee basically what that would mean is that germany would be saying to all of the countries on the southern perimeter of the e.u. those are the countries that the migrants enter first those are the countries that have systematically been left holding the burden of the immigration crisis germany has done far too little for them in the past she would be repeating that and magnifying that if she were to act now unilaterally as the c.s.u. is demanding that she do she could not go to brussels a