merkel and say whoa for have been speaking this weekend we're hearing some leadership within the c.d.u. merkel's conservative saying a compromise does look feasible but no confirmation yet about whether it's going to extraordinary how high the tension between the two politicians is and of course merkel herself under huge pressure to following this multilateral solution this european solution all migration the e.u. the has been so divided on this in recent months and years you know how difficult is it going to be for to secure that european solution that's absolutely right to the e.u. approach to the. migration essentially has been broken since twenty fifteen since that huge influx of refugees in fact the treaty that was supposed to regulate the whole thing dublin essentially was suspended and has never come back fully into force now in other words it is very difficult to get that multilateral european solution that the chancellor is pushing for but a couple of factors might indicate some room for movement here number one we've got different governments at the helm of a number of european countri

and the c.d.u. merkel's party meet separately to discuss the fallout from the e.u. summit protests are due to be held across the united states against president donald trump immigration policy in the coming hours hundreds of people were arrested in washington on friday during a protest against the president's policy of separating migrant families the government says it's trying to reunite children with their parents but more demonstrations against donald trump's immigration policies are expected across the country minute appollo reports from washington. yeah dozens of signs and posters are being prepared for something big a protest bringing together more than one hundred different groups all opposed to u.s. president donald trump's zero tolerance policy on migrants it's a national day of action that's not only here in washington d.c. but also across the country the message is simple and our demands are simple we want to see families reunited once again and we want an end to family separation and family detention policies images of children locked away crying out for

disruption of the german bundestag a session postponed the conservatives of chancellor angela merkel c.d.u. 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 stre

offer he is chairman of the bavarian sister party of merkel c.d.u. he should be one of the closest allies of her in the cabinet what is he in particular risking the downfall of a government just to make this point. they've had long simmering tensions over immigration policy that the varian conservatives often referred to as a sister party of america's c.d.u. they've been sisters at odds basically ever since two thousand and fifteen and that big influx of refugees because the bavarian conservatives simply didn't support the so-called open door policy but the reason for the current urgency and the reason for this absolute standoff is actually tactics of politics there's a local election coming up in the very end heartland of the conservative c.c.s. you and the c.s.u. wants to look very tough on immigration in order to ward off gains by the far right immigration party the f.t. so this is all about essentially tactics do you see any way out of the crisis melinda i think there is definitely room for some kind of face saving compromise it might take the sh

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

holding crisis talks late last night in berlin that's according to a senior lawmaker and chancellor merkel's c.d.u. party the leader of merkel's sister party the c.s.u. who's also germany's interior minister is threatening to turn some migrants away at the german border that could spell the end of merkel's coalition as such trolls would be it would be a reversal of merkel's liberal my current policy it would also deal a further blow to the e.u.'s open border system. you're watching news still to come on the program argentina booked a place in the round of sixteen at the world cup with a dramatic victory against nigeria last night we will bring you all of yesterday's action in just a few words. but first syrian troops have widened a major offensive against rebels in the south west of the country the regime is trying to retake the city of daraa where anti-government protests began seven years ago the u.n. says that more than forty five thousand people have been forced to flee the violence however neighboring jordan is refusing to allow the displaced people to cross into its territory. they fled from

this rebellious interior minister is based with his see as you party that is in union with angela merkel c.d.u. and he is the clear message is the feeling that if he is once again been able to push the agenda they see it is their success that actually came to this kind of standoff from within calls only count and let me just went mention one thing i spoke to leading members here who are campaigning of course against the c.s.u. in bavaria which had a sobering set of data coming in this week they're aiming for an absolute majority there hovering more near the forty percent mark here which is unacceptable by the variance standards for the conservative c.s.u. well their slogan in just over a week's time will be a vote for the original so clearly there's a sense that the f.t. was copied by angela merkel sister party and that simply is not working for the c.s.u. party. and the a conference is just getting underway have buoyant our party nambour as would you say going into is giving all the problems i suppose in the government at the moment. will this give you a sense of satisfaction that the f.t. ha

well here in berlin senior members of merkel c.d.u. party have been meeting today we asked one of them the premier of the state of has whether he thinks the coalition government will survive this dispute. since we both want the same which is to say the autumn migration i am confident that we will find a compromise two more weeks can seriously be a problem here that is why i expect both sides to understand the need to keep a cool head and i think that a compromise is absolutely doable. so i call for a compromise will chancellor merkel get it let's talk to a couple of our analysts. cautious standing by at the c.s. you had quarters in munich and outside the chancellor here in berlin is our chief political correspondent linda crane start with you maximiliano the various conservatives the c.s.u. are threatening to defy medical and go it alone on migration is any compromise in sight. well that's the question that's being discussed right now here in munich as the party leadership is meeting up in the headquarters the question is what is their

very an ally of angela merkel's c.d.u. party pushes for a stricter immigration policy it's putting the chancellor's governing coalition at risk as dominic cain reports. on an early summer's day at hurting looks like a picture postcard the town has been a place of pilgrimage for more than five hundred years it's the c.s. use heartland a formidable conservative election winning party machine for five decades but the recent influx of refugees has changed things the rise of the anti immigrant anti has seen the c.s.u. move further to the right fearful of losing votes in this october's state election in other goodies that are thrown sawdust overall it would be good if there were european solutions however no european solution was achieved in three years and i believe it's important to send a clear signal that we too can reach european measures which are everyday practice in other countries that is code for more of this police controls along the border with austria officially removed more than twenty years ago but temporarily ree

angela merkel she wasn't able to negotiate any concrete results on asylum policy that in berlin merkel c.d.u. party is supporting her search for a european solution. if europeans are not and i didn't showing solidarity towards refugees i believe that bilateral or even trial could be an alternative. germans then the italians could exit the dublin convention and stop registering refugees then in the end we will have more refugees in germany than we used to and that's why we need an orderly system and that will require lots of discussions and they just need time inside the other party in merkel's conservative bloc to see su wants to begin rejecting refugees at the border. terrier minister must present a problem and offer solutions that's what he's doing he can't be blamed and i expect people to not only agree with horse but also to say that besides european solutions we also have to consider a national solution and that can't be ignored and. the third coalition partner of the center left s.p.d. is watching the dispute between the conservative cd un their sister part of the c.s.u. with shock and

is going to be mediating over the weekend and he is deeply respected both by chancellor merkel's c.d.u. and also by the very and conservatives the party of the interior minister so he may find some common ground insiders seem to believe that that will be the case allowing the chancellor to have at least two more weeks to look for a multilateral sustainable e.u. wide compromise on reforming the e.u. system on refugees but if that isn't found that compromise then and and if the interior minister carries out his threat on monday then the chances will have no choice but to fire him his bavarian sister party sister conservative party would then leave the government it would no longer have a majority of the seats in parliament and with that new elections would have to because why is there so much bad blood between misters a offer and chance lango america. they have long had their differences over migration policy since twenty fifteen in fact when the door was opened to that very large influx of refugees but the fact is that the interior minister has absolutely upped the pressure here for tac

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

and here in berlin senior members of merkel c.d.u. party have been meeting today one of the main topics of that discussion will be whether the coalition government can survive this internal dispute folke a buffet the state premier of has had this to say earlier. since we both want the same which is to steer the autumn migration i am confident that we will find a compromise two more weeks can seriously be a problem here that is why i expect both sides to understand the need to keep a cool head and i think that a compromise is absolutely doable. let's bring in our correspondent covering the story only on a cautious in munich at the c.s.u. headquarters there and melinda crane is that cd you headquarters here in berlin max and melinda good to have you both start with you what are you hearing there on these reports that say you might apparently be ready for a sort of compromise. well the crisis certainly isn't over but it may have been just by the singers were getting out of the sea as you had court is right behind me here in munich this b

holding crisis talks of late last night in berlin according to a senior lawmaker in chancellor merkel's c.d.u. party the leader of the conservative sister part of the c s u who's also germany's interior minister is threatening to turn some migrants away the german border could spend the spell the end of his coalition of such controls would be a reversal of liberal migration policy it would also give a further blow to the use of border system. is pretty much the whole world braces itself for a trade war with the united states of china is prepared to take its business elsewhere helen humphries of the business desk tells me failed beijing slashing tariffs on thousands of imports from five asian pacific countries as its trade route with the united states continues to simmer the lower duties will be applied to a list of some eight and a half thousand products including agricultural produce methyl and close ships from bangladesh india laos south korea and sri lanka some products like soybeans will no longer be taxed at all the announcement coming five days before the us tariffs on a thirty four bil

threatening to break with merkel and the c.d.u. a partnership that has existed since the second world war it's a major policy battle that could ultimately spell the end of merkel's thirteen years in office. so the political conflict over migration is coming to a head within chancellor merkel's own government nina what options if any does the chancellor have for resolving this crisis largely depends on what the c.s.u. decides them using at ten am local time in munich and they'll decide whether or not they're going to give the federal interior minister of australia who for the go ahead to pull through with his plan migration which would mean to block asylum seekers at the national border something that i'm glad michael doesn't want if they do defy the chancellor. in this manner then of course has no chance but to sack her interior minister that within ten lead to collapse of the government coalition but i could still look for other coalition partners within the bundestag she could also go for a vote of no confidence and ask the question once and for all are you with me or are you agains

fact that they are still 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

c.d.u. that's merkel's part of christian democratic union are saying this is a victory that that i'm going to medical has delivered what she had promised but so far at least there hasn't been a really ringing endorsement as it were publicly from any particularly high figure in the c.s.u. point to make also is that there are going to be two meetings taking place over the weekend on sunday when the c.d.u. separately from the c s u both of them will be meeting to discuss the fallout as it were of this this brussels summit we understand also that i'm going to be speaking to her coalition partners at some point in the next while whether this evening or over the weekend to two to sum up what has happened here let's see what happens from those meetings. we know that the austrians take over the e.u. presidency on sunday so what happens in the next six months on the migration issue especially given that it is just not clear how this agreement going to work. well it was interesting in lawrence's report that he talked about bridging the gap the austrian chancellor sebastian cortes has spoken about his c

threatening to break with merkel and the c.d.u. a partnership that has existed since the second world war it's a major policy battle that could ultimately spell the end of mantles thirteen years in office. so the name is the controversy over the chancellor's migration policy appears to be coming to a head with a challenge from within her own government. what options if any does the chancellor have for resolving this crisis at this point. well i think that we have to wait another two hours for the c.s.u. to have their party meeting in munich because it logically depends on what the c.s.u. decides that maybe they'll go it alone and they although tell the federal interior minister you go alone and you implement a plan to close the borders essentially and to not let asylum seekers into the country and send them back to the e.u. countries if they do that then it depends on how much time will be needed to actually implement this plan and marichal if this plan is implemented straight away she would have to fire her interior minister that would mean the collapse of the government but then she

and i'm going to merkel c.d.u. the question is this compromise they've agreed on which is effectively to say people who present themselves as refugees here but who have travel ban placed on them would be sent back is that going to be enough to diffuse this route or is it more like a sticking plaster no i think this is just a compromise to buy time of course everybody merkel's original suggestion was to wait until the next year some of which is happening in two weeks and of course zero four compromised on this he said ok we'll do so but we will so i will introduce a step by step approach so we'll start with those who by german law are illegally trying to re enter germany that's fine he's the minister of interior this is his job the risk the splitting and seeks for his political solution this is now another very hard to maybe the hardest challenge for uncle america to find any kind of compromise we will have italian prime minister concert coming to berlin tonight. on the french president is coming to more doable and

christian social union that's that's very unlikely because historically these two parties angela merkel's party the c.d.u. in the serious you are very close allies but were you to remove the c.s.u. bloc well then merkel and her social democrat allies as they are right now would not have a majority but the other thing to say though is that the other parties who perhaps favor angle americal side on the immigration question the green party well certainly they would then it's it is being suggested in the media here they would support on a case by case basis on a vote by vote basis angela merkel's continuing government as it were so the point here is as i say it's almost like they've they've gone to the edge of the precipice today over the course of the last few hours and then seeing that on the other side of it no party really would win in any in a fall of government and if if there was a new election the point to make is that everybody every main party seems to be afraid of the far right party the alternative for germany party which as we know is very much tough on immigration wanting to toughen the laws as

c.d.u. that's the conservative party of. going merkel. and she used her for her reaction and she wrote fifty million bore victims the whole cost the total war are just good for the a d. and go around this is the party's true nature revealed behind its middle class respect ability and more or less the same said the counterpart from the social democrats the last thing he said. attorney general of the the s.p.d. he wrote to me when i called him he told me that alexander golden statements have root revealed what lies behind the eight of these to say this is a terrifying minimization of the nazi era it's shameful that people like him in the german bunds talk and we have several of these reactions also talk to the leader of the left party comes to keeping and she said that quite frankly these are the words of a fascist talking about fascism so what we hear from all parties in germany is discussed and so very strong statements coming in from a very strong statement that was also made by god but can saying something like this attract consequences

the fault of the middle of the far right of the center right in germany that's between angela merkel's c.d.u. party and have a very nice the c s u the christian social union they were the it was it was the leader of that party at a national level mr hoffa who's basically made this this storm grow up over immigration by saying he wanted to impose a migration master plan which effectively rolled back the the timetable as it were of how germany enforces its borders and that sort of thing well that's not what i'm going to medical wanted and then over the course of the last week or so it appeared as though an accommodation being found a compromise had been found at least until the coming in you summit at the end of next week but today mr as a whole for is quoted in some german media saying that his intervention has effectively woken the european union up to the dangers of the immigration crisis poses and he says that angle american agrees with him on almost everything in his master plan and that that one shouldn't make a monster from a mickey mouse topic one of the topics on in his master plan so

threatening to break with merkel and the c.d.u. a partnership that has existed since the second world war it's a major policy battle that could ultimately spell the end of magical thirteen years in office. let's cross over now to munich where our correspondent maximilian. is standing by for us really other the c.s.u. in bavaria they're expected to decide today whether or not to give a couple more weeks to hammer out a european solution migration is that likely. well that's to be seen as we are speaking right now they're discussing what to do with right behind me here in the headquarters in the north of munich and if there's one indicator to be said or to be seen from this weekend it's the alleged reports that interior federal interior minister horse sale office has said about german chancellor angela merkel that she can't work with this woman and the longer now this is just a report this is not been officially confirmed that's definitely an indicator about how strained the relationship between these two iconic conservative parties are and it will certainly be at ground rift if these t

there's been tensions between these two conservative parties the varian conservatives and chancellor merkel c.d.u. for a long time essentially the bavarians the c.s.u. they rejected that open door policy right at its inception in two thousand and fifteen have continued to do so but why the pressure now the fact is there is no urgency there is no great disorder on the border the influx of refugees has greatly abated since twenty fifteen but what is around the corner are there elections very important poll to be taken there in just a couple of months the c.s.u. is desperate to look tough on immigration in order to ward off gains by the far right party the a.f.d. that's the reason for the time pressure that's the reason for the ultimatum there are principles behind this on the one hand as we heard in the report questions about the immigration policy that the e.u. has been following and that germany has been following on the other hand the chancellor stance that the only way to get a truly sustainable framework for immigration is multilateral and at the e.u. level anything else like what the interior

such a move goes against european principles and after today's talks the chancellor merkel said her part of the c.d.u. supports whole say hoffa's initiative to present a migration master plan but only in cooperation with a few partners zehava has agreed to wait for a comprehensive solution to come out of the next e.u. summit in two weeks otherwise he says he will act alone is chancellor merkel putting her case. this of course in the image when you thought that we don't want to act unilaterally in an uncoordinated way or at the expense of third parties. that corresponds with what i said on thursday that in the future we will no longer accept those refugees who have already been sent back to the country they were registered in according to the dublin agreement and that's months luke of we voted for them and more than from hoffman in brussels and simon young who's at the scene you had quarters here in berlin welcome both simon let's start with you where this is how come leave chancellor merkel well i think chancellor merkel is still in a pretty difficult place this crisis within her conservative bloc ha

c.d.u. had quarters where chancellor merkel has just been speaking good to have all of you with us that max i want to start with you because we've just been listening to the interior minister speaking what did you make of what's a hole for has been saying is this really a compromise. well from what we've heard it seems that horse a over the federal interior minister and head of the sea as you the very conservative party has gotten everything he wanted but then again the question is now at what costs so what has he gained first of all he's been able to present the long debated never been seen mustn't play in migration his big peg on migration policy for germany that he wasn't allowed to present for the last couple weeks and which initiated the initial crisis because german chancellor angela merkel had had doubts over several points in the masa plan and therefore one of them to hold off on it before so they over has just been presenting their plan here in munich and telling us more about his judicial plan and one of the key points is regarding the entry for refugees that have been previously

is pushing back in germany's largest tabloid it criticize 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 seeing 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 medical it's the very end 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's resentment solidarity in europe will ultimately be decided by whether we succeed in bringing about a change on the migration issue i mean chancellor merkel will meet the leaders of key e.u. countries at a crisis summit in brussels this weekend the outcome of that meeting could rescue or sink her chancellorship. let's talk about summits and matters arising with the don't you correspondent barbara based in brussels barbara so who is invited on sunday and what do they hope to

merkel has come back with with substantially what the c.s.u. wants to hear but the interesting thing is that in the aftermath of the summit many c.d.u. members quite high members the general secretary amongst amongst one of one of those speakers saying this was a great result for angela merkel this is something that we people could build on but we haven't heard that sort of ringing endorsement so far at least from the c.s.u. in the point is there are meetings on sunday both of the c.s.u. 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

angela merkel's governing coalition has begun to wobble over her refugee policy while her own conservative party the c.d.u. still backs the bavarian conservatives the c.s.u. are 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 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 done medical 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 . in the world is highly integrated everything is too interconnected for any individual country to determine its destiny alone it's 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 agains