the c.d.u. leadership does not want to accept any solution being dictated by munich that would involve an automatic rejection of migrants that goes beyond those who have already been denied asylum in the past chancellor said before she has nowhere problem with rejecting those migrants and in fact public international law e.u. law would allow it but anything beyond that that the c.s.u. demands would enter into force automatically if an e.u. summit at the end of june doesn't produce clear multilateral solutions i think the c.d.u. would have a hard time accepting and that means this crisis could resurface again in two weeks' time and as you've been speaking we've been looking at pictures there of the city of headquarters inside where we are still waiting for the chancellor to speak remind us again why the chancellor has insisted it is so important to find a european solution first why is it important for germany not to act alone. she told her leadership this morning that germany's response to this

because there are plenty in the c.d.u. who don't know whether they want to continue with the refugee policy from twenty fifteen will drop it's. sort of a bit of elvis alexander galland right will they strengthen the. well like it or not he definitely has a point there because what we have seen in the last two weeks is that the sea is you this small bavarian party within the conservative bloc of angela merkel threatened with open rebellion they have set up the refugee issue back on the agenda that in the way and in a tone that we normally have only heard from the a of d. party now with this conclusion with this with this result of the european summit some of the sees you followers could think well this is not enough this is not what we have wanted they could in the end turned our backs on the seas go on and go to the a if they and that would be an outcome they see as you never intended. about thank you you're welcome as take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world in mali the headquarters of a m

the argument between the c.d.u. in the c.s. year is dramatic and is causing serious trouble i don't understand why this is happening because not long ago when we were putting together the coalition agreement we discussed this question of how to get a grip on the refugee problem if we can time is running out for the tea sides to reach a compromise if they don't angle america's government could be in serious trouble. indeed as his chief political correspondent glenda crane is covering events and joins us now does this round melinda have the potential to unseat the chancellor. it absolutely does if the interior minister follows through on his threat to act unilaterally on monday and essentially against the chancellor's wishes and basically move to reimpose border controls along some of germany's borders that essentially would demand that the chancellor fire him for for lack of lack of. essentially following a coalition policy because he signed up to a close coalition agreement that this would directly violate now theoretically she

c.d.u. that a compromise is likely to be found as you said lots of meetings going on here today after that seven hour marathon yesterday with some of the state premiers from the christian democratic party this morning meeting with party leadership both at nine and again at eleven so clearly hoping to move forward with proposals for compromise from the c.d.u. side then later on she will be speaking to the public and to the press at two o'clock this afternoon and assuming that some form of compromise can be reached and what that might look like according to c.d.u. speakers here would be something that would essentially give her two more weeks in the run up to a very important you summit to try to come up with bilateral agreements with some of the countries like italy and greece on the southern perimeter of europe countries that essentially are those where refugees are first registered and those are the countries that horse safe over the in an interior minister wants to send refugees back to am

now headed back to berlin and the question is how will he be received by his coalition partner the c.d.u. and also by the s.p.d. he's been putting this whole government the goal call the grand coalition and take toll over the last weeks it's been already starting late within the legislature period and the question is will they be happy to see him and they be happy to keep working with him in the lead max has been taking a big risk indeed you know how of members of his c.s.u. party there been reacting to all of this. within the seas you potsie well this is the one interesting thing there has been quite a strong backing for the federal interior minister and party to hold itself but the same time there's also been questioning if there is doubts within the on policy and there's certainly doubts within the varian population which. eventually is voting on the party and other parties in the state election coming up toba so one thing i've noticed traveling around the country in the last day speaking to several people is that they were quite shocked by the tone that's been stroke and by the leade

has just come out of their meeting which they held separate from the c.d.u. party and they've basically said either machall gets something equivalent across the board with several european countries the right to then reject asylum seekers at the border essentially by monday or else the minister will use his right to the constitutional right he has to implement that policy whether the chancellor supports it or not so that's quite something that's an open rebellion that's right but the do conserve just bodies of all with different refugee policy hello why is the whole for the interior minister making such an issue out of this now. well they've always differed but they always agreed that they need to find a compromise in the end appears here that silver is not afraid of upstaging angela merkel clearly he is angered by the very fact that she pulled the plug on him presenting his asylum master plan as it was called past tuesday that had to be councils after machall clearly must have agreed with several points in there there's a lot of secrecy over this plan and th

i mean these two parties the c.d.u. and the c.s.u. are joined at the hip. could there be a backlash for him down the line absolutely there could and it also could be kamikaze for his party if it were to in fact break with the chancellor's c.d.u. c.s.u. essentially would be left either as a regional party in bavaria or it would have to try to start campaigning at national level and i think its prospects at national level going head to head with the c.d.u. would be slim indeed so it is actually quite hard to see the endgame here either for the c.s.u. or for mr as a whole for himself essential he could be out of a job if he enforces his ultimatum if he doesn't he looks weak and so in a way he has allowed this this struggle this conflict to come to a head i think without a very clear endgame for where this is heading on the crane reporting thank you so very much when i bring you up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world french president and on my call is calling for profound were forms in europe's migration policy that's after

and chancellor merkel c.d.u. but that's also a rather unlikely scenario so in that case they would have to call new elections and chancellor merkel has made it clear this is her last term as chancellor she then would wind up stepping down so essentially we're looking at something with the potential to blow up the entire german got. shortly after it took office absolutely i mean it is really very dramatic indeed the question is why is hall for doing this why is he doing it now well to driving him to do this what's driving him above all our politics and tactics namely his party is the very end it sister party of the chancellor's 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 the various about to hold a very important regional election that is the heartland of say hope has 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

and even within the c.d.u. itself there are critics who doubt in a european solution. of course we'd like a european solution that's always better numbers but we've been waiting for two and a half years we can explain to voters why we're not doing anything at our national borders. thus as desperate migrants continue to cross the mediterranean the debate about what to do with them has become a political hot potato for conservatives in germany. so as you can see the confidence building up pressure the rift between chancellor merkel and critics led by interior minister horst is getting wider now tracking the story for us is our chief political editor michelle i know michelle how much of a showdown is this and who do you think will prevail while the sun is building up to one this is the closest that angle america has been to such a direct challenge she's had trouble with hospital for in the past who during the beginning of the migration crisis basically accused her of acting illegally but this was the leader then the leader of the smaller sister party in bavaria and now he

well she was pretty clear about the fact that the c.d.u. isn't going to accept any automatic measures on the part of the interior minister we heard from mr say hofer that he is basically saying if the european union summit in two weeks' time doesn't come up with a satisfactory solution for the question of turning back migrants who have been registered in other european union countries before they arrive at the german border if that summit doesn't come up with a sufficient policy on the subject that he will still go it alone and that essentially the measures that are in his master plan will then go into effect automatically the chancellor said very clearly that's not how she sees it she says we would return from the summit we would debate what had occurred there and then we would decide what to do next she was pressed on the subject a couple of times in questions from the press who were assembled here are still assembled here and she said look i don't like contingency questions i don't like hypotheticals if and but questions asked me again i

party the sister party to uncle a medical concern but if c.d.u. medical made him interior minister in march but then he used opposition to undermine merkel's authority the rift began in two thousand and fifteen the year when germany saw a massive influx of refugees in the end nearly one million people came to germany from war torn countries like syria and iraq but also from the balkans and north africa many believe the chancellor is someone who could save them from their circumstances then merkel made this statement that defined a pivotal moment in her government. the arms if you missed the shot fish offered us we have achieved so much we can do this since then there have been two sides to the machal the world sees her as the most powerful woman who was close friends with us president barack obama and two other world leaders looked up to. but the other side of on the american as our own country sees her the long serving german chancellor head of a grand coalition that few actually wanted in the first place with tensions growing machall stime as ch

because there are plenty in the c.d.u. who don't know whether they want to continue with the refugee policy from twenty fifteen will drop it's. sort of a bit of elvis alexander galland right will they strengthen the. well like it or not he definitely has a point there because what we have seen in the last two weeks is that the sea is you this small bavarian party within the conservative bloc of angela merkel threatened with open rebellion they have set the refugee issue back on the agenda that in a way and in a tone that we normally have only heard from the a of d. party now with this conclusion with this with this result of the european summit some of these cs you followers could think well this is not enough this is not what we have wanted they could in the end turned our backs on the seas do and go through the a of d. and that would be an outcome they see as you never intended. thank you no walk. away from migration the other big topic on this a huge summit agenda was bret said the process of great britain leaving the b

the fact that many in the c.d.u. oppose these demands from the bed varian c s u is strengthening us because people say yes if something like this is going to get in acted then obviously only with the a f d because there are plenty in the c.d.u. who don't know whether they want to continue with the refugee policy from twenty fifteen or drop it's. sort of a veil of elvis alexander galland right will be strengthened they after. all like it or not he definitely has a point because what we have seen in the last two weeks is that the sea is you this very in party within the conservative bloc of angela merkel threaten put the open rebellion they have set up the refugee issue back on the agenda that in a way and in a tone that we normally have only heard from the a of d. party now with this conclusion with this with this result of the european summit some of the sees your followers could think well this is not enough this is not what we have wanted they could in the end turned our backs on the seas go on go through the a of

because these two parties the c.d.u. and the c.s.u. are joined at the hip could there be a backlash for him absolutely there could be a backlash in fact i don't see a good and gain for him if a compromise is found i guess that then he does remain in office as interior minister but it seems to me that he then looks substantially weaker and otherwise as i said he gets fired and essentially that means his time in government is is over all right to be continued chief political correspondent melinda crane thank you so very much and i'm bringing up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world french president at money when my call is calling for quote profound reforms in europe's migration policy he made the comments after talks with the talian prime minister just to pick on day in paris mccall said europe's response to mass migration is not adapted to the times he backed conti's plans to create perspire osas singh centers for asylum seekers in africa. donald trump's former campaign manager paul man of forty has b

and for more now on this dispute over immigration between the c.d.u. and the c.s.u. we have belinda crane chief political correspondent with us here in the studio how much of this melinda is about immigration indeed how much of it is about power i mean is there more to this than meets the eye it's all about power these two parties the chancellor's c.d.u. and the bavarian conservatives the c.s.u. they're always referred to as sister parties but in fact they're quite strange to sisters and one of the reasons for that is immigration policy basically the c.s.u. has been at odds with the chancellor and her open door immigration policy in ever since that large influx of migrants in twenty fifteen it has been a bone of contention since then so why is that conflict coming to a head now quite simply because of regional politics in the heartland of the c.s.u. namely in bavaria they're facing a difficult election in september looks like they could lose their dominance there that they've had for a very long time and the reason for that is the far right party the a.f.d. now that

divo toure's and the c.d.u. the conservative voters they would have much preferred to see other constellations of parties than what they got so we can't necessarily draw a causal connection and interestingly enough if we look at another poll that was released today that was taken after this dispute flared up the voters of nearly all german parties except the varying conservatives and the f.t. that far right party i mentioned all the other voters say immigration is not on the top of their priority lists and that's really fascinating indeed melinda and also you know in addition to that we we just have to remind our viewers that according to these polls as well merkel still remaining the most popular politician in the country by far. how do you see this playing out melinda i mean if she finds a solution what does it mean for her popularity and her government well solution first of all would be a compromise to simply turn down the heat on this dispute now we are told especially the christian democrats her her bloc o

talking is already newsworthy as chancellor angela merkel and her interior minister horses of her c.d.u. party's conservative bavarian sister c.s.u. party continue their bitter feud over asylum policy which is fast becoming about the future of the e.u. . on tuesday machall and french president. agreed to aim for a common euro zone budget by twenty twenty one on. the c.s.u. is pushing back and germany's largest tabloid it criticized merkel for having made too great a concession to moscow machall c.d.u. allies are worried that this could spark more division at a crucial time you're seen in we are in a situation in europe in which everything necessary is being done to keep this europe together trump is doing everything he can to harass us we need allies in europe and that's why this is a key issue. unphased the c.s.u. keeps provoking merkel it's been very in state primary sudha met with austrian chancellor is a bust and courts in the austrian city of linz both want to clamp down on the influx of refugees. it says i'm in solidarity and europe will ultimately be decided by whether we succeed

because these two parties the c.d.u. and the c.s.u. are joined at the hip could there be a backlash ramp absolutely there could be a backlash in fact i don't see a good end game for him if a compromise is found i guess that then he does remain in office as interior minister but it seems to me that he then looks substantially weaker and otherwise as i said he gets fired and essentially that means his time in government is is over all right to be continued use chief political correspondent melinda crane thank you so very much. and the issue of migration also topped the agenda at a meeting between the leaders of france and italy french president emmanuel mccall once migration policy reforms arguing that europe's response to mass migration has not adapted to the times italian prime minister just to pick on day says he is working on a proposal for what he called a radical paradigm change to migration management the two leaders had a dispute over at least refusal to allow a rescue ship with more than six hundred refugees to dock in an italia

macro's conservative c.d.u. is at odds with its bavarian sister party the c s u two which see hope for belongs both parties interrupted regular parliamentary business on thursday to hold separate emergency meetings an extraordinary move. machall wants to strengthen protection of europe's external borders for instance by investing more in the european border agency frontex the hope is to deter people from attempting to enter europe off. see hofer has paid lip service to this idea but after meeting with austria's chancellor on wednesday he called it a quote ideal scenario the implication is that since frontex isn't able to offer this ideal level of protection at present national border checks should be introduced. and even within the c.d.u. itself there are critics who doubt in the european solution. of course we'd like a european solution that's always better but we've been waiting for two and a half years we can explain to voters why we're not doing anything at our national borders. thus as desperate migrants co

divo toure's and the c.d.u. the conservative voters they would have much preferred to see other constellations of parties than what they got so we can't necessarily draw a causal connection and interestingly enough if we look at another poll that was released today that was taken after this dispute flared up the voters of nearly all german parties except the very and conservatives and the f.t. that far right party i mentioned all the other voters say immigration is not on the top of their priority lists and that's really fascinating indeed melinda and also you know in addition to that we we just have to remind our viewers that according to these polls as well merkel still remaining the most popular politician in the country by far how do you see this playing out well and i mean if she finds a solution what does it mean for her popularity and her government. well solution first of all would be a compromise to simply turn down the heat on this dispute now we are told especially the christian democrats her her bloc

supporters within the c.d.u. said this is just what we wanted this is the european solution that we were fighting for and that we were looking for so this must be this is just what we were looking at all we talk to the see is you the smaller sister party the party that put so much pressure on glom out who they say this is jobs just what we have been looking for because they they see the possibility for bilateral agreements for taking back refugees to other countries so both sides seem to be satisfied so i think at least the pressure for now is off but still the officials have to decide if this really is enough there were probably developed a reporting out from a parliamentary studios and a marcus at the e.u. summit in brussels gentlemen thank you for your coverage your. let's get you caught up now with some of the other stories making news around the world. in mali the headquarters of a multinational antiterrorist force that's come under attack in the town of severe the building is said to have been besieged foll

supporters within the c.d.u. said this is just what we wanted this is the european solution that we were fighting for and that we were looking for so this must be this is just what we were looking for if we talk to the seas you the smaller sister party the party that put so much pressure on glom our cool they say this is job just what we have been looking for because they they see the possibility for bilateral agreements for taking back refugees to other countries so both sides seem to be satisfied so i think at least the pressure for now is off but still the officials have to decide if this really isn't up to repeat of all to reporting from our parliamentary studios and derek marcus at the e.u. summit in brussels gentlemen thank you for your coverage. and in other news we had to the u.s. now where a gunman has killed five people and injured two others a newspaper offices in the state of maryland police say it was a targeted attack and that the shooter walked through the newsroom of the capitol because that in an

coalition and you seen journalists huddled behind me around the spokesman of americal c.d.u. party parliamentary group nobody will give statements on the record after this meeting no no statements with a camera but the information we're getting here from behind the scenes is that there was an intense exchange here today but overall americans managed to secure the solidarity from her own party her own c.d.u. amidst this attack from this party delegates that all met separately today which is saying quite something that this coalition cannot be united and of course it is on this divisive issue of migration but also ultimately on america's leadership and the two sides the two conservative sister parties of often disagreed on the refugee policy but why is wholesale or for making this such an issue at this point and what he's been saying almost sounds like an ultimatum. yes and it certainly is meant that way where in the big question is whether angle america will get more time from the c.s.u. group the c.s.u. said that it will meet on monday it will once again back. its interior mi

we've informed the c.d.u. that we see the need for action right now around the world we continue to support efforts on the european level to reach some really official results business but this isn't forseeable in the near future so we need to act for ourselves. on this. we began in germany where chancellor angela merkel is facing a rebellion by her interior minister over migration policy it is the most serious crisis to hit merkel since her new government took office her interior minister horst the offer of the conservative bavarian c s q wants to be able to turn some migrants away at the border merkel has rejected the move saying that it would undermine european solidarity if the agreement is reached the future of angela merkel the longest serving e.u. leader could be on the line. it was a day of doubts and disruption of the german parliament as angle americal was in effect threatened with open rebellion the conservative bloc in the bundestag normally acts as one but in unprecedented scenes it held separate

and for more on this dispute over immigration between the c.d.u. and its yes you we have melinda crane chief political correspondent joining us here in the studio thank you so much for joining us because there is really more to this than meets the eye right how much of this has to do with power and with angela merkel's future both absolutely it really is in the end more about politics than principles key to know about this is that this be very and sister party of the chancellor that is the party of the interior minister who essentially has given the chancellor an ultimatum. they have a major regional election coming up in september and they are very concerned about losing their absolute majority not least because the rise of the far right party in bavaria the a.f.d. that party is very very concerned about migration and about the huge influx of refugees that we've had in germany starting in two thousand and fifteen with the chances open door policy now that policy has been a bone of contention with her bavarian sister party since then. basically it'

make of this i'm joined tonight at the big table by andreas nick he is a member of the conservative c.d.u. party he is a member of the german parliament and he sits on the foreign affairs committee it's good to have you back on the show good to be here what do you make of ambassador grinnell i mean have you met him in person yet not yet i think we have to put this into context i think i've got to personally know each and every u.s. ambassador for the last three decades republicans democrats diplomats alike from rick bird and dick holbrooke and bob kimmitt to john cohen plume for murphy and john anderson and i think each of every one of them has been a highly respected figure who made a lot of friends in germany persons of respects that people would look up to had it well how did they do that there mr nick i mean all of the all of these people that you've mentioned they do they have a lot of respect and when they began their time in germany they didn't begin it by telling the host government the host country what its policy should be you're absolutely right i think some of them have been v

this week it could top the we've informed the c.d.u. that we see the need for action right now. will continue to support efforts on the european level to reach similarly efficient results i think. these days 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 over try 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 is 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 leans into consideration merkel wants to strengthen protection of the e.u.'s external borders in the hope of deterring people from attempting to enter europe at all. over rather wants to follow the austrian approach which he confirmed after meeting with chancellor is a bust in quotes on wednesday when axed on a control some work national border checks should be reintrod

and separately of the c.d.u. where the leadership boards will be appraised of what has happened in this summit and we'll wait to see quite what emerges from those meetings. and we have here an agreement by a year later after marathon talks there in brussels we have a deal it is vague and it's not binding what's likely to happen in the next six months when it comes to migration. well all eyes now switch at least in so far as the e.u. institutions are concerned austria because it's the austrians who are taking on the e.u. presidency on july the first she's sunday and the point here is that one of the things that mr court sebastian courts the very young chancellor there one of the youngest leaders of a in the western world he said he wants his country to be a bridge between east and west was specifically that might well be between the visa grad group that's the group of the czech republic slovakia poland and hungary all of whom are pretty much opposed to the sorts of plans that that had been suggested before this fi

in other countries if there's no bloc agreement on the issue city or the she said he would as the c.d.u. supports interior minister says plan to launch a master plan pointed gratian however i'm interested in finding a solution in good cooperation with our european neighbors the decision should be bilateral not unilateral and should not create problems for third party countries the c.d.u. and serious you have a common goal to better organize and control the migration issue and to reduce the number of people entering the situation of two thousand and fifteen will not and cannot happen again. we support the chancellor in seeking bilateral deals with other countries but we have to reject refugees who also applied for asylum who have been reduced it as an asylum seeker in other e.u. countries it's not only possible it's necessary i've been asked whether the plan contradicts european law and that is if we can achieve the same result in line with the e.u. law we'll be happy to do so if the chancellor can't reach agreement with e.u. law we must implement the plan anyway. the man behind the stri

with this coalition partner the c.d.u. or it will that brings us to you and linda here in berlin and your in from the chancellor not in front of the city new party headquarters will that give the chancellor enough time to hammer out a european solution. perhaps first of all just to note the chancellor merkel had said in the past that she had no issues with turning away exactly the refugees that it seems mr say hope for we'll now want to turn away directly those are refugees who had already been denied the right to enter the country and we're talking about only about one hundred hundred fifty refugees per month who fall into that category so indeed this is also a face saving issue for the chancellor herself so beyond that it will not be easy to get the kind of agreements that she's going to be looking for in the next two weeks in the run up to a very important summit essentially she wants to talk with the countries on the southern perimeter of the european union those are the countries where migrants are first registered an

supporters within the c.d.u. said this is just what we wanted this is the european solution that we were fighting for and that we were looking for so this must be this is just what we were looking at all we talk to the see is you the smaller sister party the party that put so much pressure on glom out who they say this is jobs just what we have been looking for because they they see the possibility for bilateral agreements for taking back refugees to other countries so both sides seem to be satisfied so i think at least the pressure for now is off but still the officials have to decide if this really is about our right to report be developed to reporting it from our parliamentary studios and a mike this at the e.u. summit in brussels gentlemen thank you for your coverage. and there is another stark reminder today of the dangers facing people trying to reach europe from north africa libya said coast guard says it has rescued three hundred migrants from several boats that ran into difficulties off the coast of liby

countries here in berlin i'm going to merkel c.d.u. meeting as well to try to iron out what their position is at stake here is in some ways the future of conservatism in this country what direction it will take point also to make angela merkel says that the best solution is at the european level well she'll be meeting the italian prime minister mr conti here in berlin the chancellor behind me later on today and we will see what develops from that meeting . a major earthquake has rattled japan at least three people were killed in a soccer falling debris and collapsing walls injured many others this is the second largest city and japan are bursting water mains and commuter trains were halted kyoto and large parts of western japan also felt the force of this six point one magnitude tremor. because we're doing our best to respond to this disaster urgently as some areas still cannot access gas or water as of now there is no damage and you lead a helpless realty such as and we nuclear power plants. israel has introduced a bill that would mak