for more on this let's bring in our chief political correspondent linda crane melinda this is one of merkel's key ministers haul see her for the interior minister threatening to go it alone on an absolutely major issue on migration help us understand first of all how dramatic the situations become absolutely very dramatic it has the potential to bring down the government and even to be the end of chancellor merkel's time in office if he thought follows through with that ultimatum which basically would say that he would use his powers as interior minister beginning this coming week to essentially contravene merkel's wishes and the coalition agreement and act unilaterally to reimpose border controls on some of germany's borders and then to turn away migrants and send them back to the first european countries where they were registered if he did that he would be deliberately flouting the chancellor's authority and it's hard to imagine she wouldn't be compelled to let him go to dismiss him theoretically she could warn him but that would be very problematic so if she were to let him go hi

this to the built newspaper nobody in the c.s.u. is interested in toppling the chancellor dissolving the conservative parliamentary group or breaking up the coalition. bring in our chief political correspondent linda crane melinda we now have apparently the interior minister hall suitable for softening his position somewhat is this the beginning of a compromise between him and chancellor merkel hard to say for sure because we are also seeing reports this morning that he told a circle of the the bavarian conservative party's leadership that's the c.s.u. party that's at the heart of this whole dispute he told them apparently i can't work with that woman anymore to chancellor merkel so that makes it sound as if he is still seeing this as an absolute head to head power struggle but he did go on in the quote that he that you gave us to say that the c.s.u. as much as anybody else wants a sustainable solution and that's kind of an interesting term that would tend to indicate a bit of potential for compromise because it's a term that the chancellor herself is using the only sustainable solution is a multilateral european solution so we know for sure that merkel and say whoa for have been speaking this weekend we're hea

the chief political correspondent linda crane is standing by melinda lots of ground that i want to cover with you is this chancellor merkel's worst crisis and could we see the german government collapse over its migration policy. it is certainly her worst internal power struggle and that within her own party and there is absolutely a risk that the government could collapse at the moment most people seem to believe that some kind of compromise is likely to be found and we've heard that the former finance minister of wolfgang schauble who is now the head of the parliament that he has been asked to mediate between these two conservative parties the chancellor c.d.u. 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

this. month says he's on his own path back to afghanistan not an option. well our chief political correspondent linda crane is still with melinda in that report we just saw a young afghan man threatened with deportation from germany how does the german government justify its decision to send large parts of the country are under militant control and not safe but it designates afghanistan. safe country of origin because essentially the capital kabul is regarded as secure and essentially terry this is a political decision by the government of germany under pressure to reduce the numbers of people receiving asylum here under pressure to deport those who are not legally qualified for asylum they have made deals with certain countries by which those countries essentially are designated safe countries of origin then they do get some financial support from germany to to help those who returned but essentially it is part of this overall concern about that enormous influx of refugees and asylum seekers into germany in two thousand and fifteen and trying to cope with it and as you know the german government's coalition agreement specifies