a warm welcome to helga. around 10,000 refugees are arriving every day germany. them are coming to berlin. what is the city doing to help? >> i think it is in a situation and the city is doing everything on the local and regional level to build accommodation, to acquire new accommodation on the state of berlin. there is a huge corporation with normal people, volunteers offering their apartments, offering to live together with people from ukraine so it is a new corporation civil society and state. claire: we have seen an outpouring of public support, but is berlin getting enough support from the federal government?' >> we had our committee meeting, our committee on internal affairs just some minutes ago and ended. then we got some news that now we are starting a new phase, a new period. and we are trying to combine the support of families from ukraine, people saying welcome to the families, and support from berlin or the other regions. but it's just beginning. the way is to try to distribute two different regions to bring buses and trains to regions, other parts o

now i'm joined by helga lent he is a member of the german parliament for the social democratic party. that is the party of former german chancellor. gerhard schroeder. oh good, good to see you again. so what is your opinion is gearhart schroeder has he become the biggest point of shame for your party in post war german history? well, i don't know if he's a love biggest, probably the most prominent, but i will remind you of mr. xerox scene and his race, his attitude and statements. so both are good, but he wasn't examples of shame. never he, when he wasn't just mother, he's no, he wasn't, but it doesn't make it better. and so it's, it's not a competition of shame. it's both in acceptable and he was the chancellor and i think it's very clear that it's morally and politically in acceptable should gearhart schroeder, should he sever all of his times to russia? yes. yes to i think it's important to see it's not just the question of ethics or moral. it's just simply also a political question. and he says he's a personal friend, but the moment has come and it came in the past to say, i laid