his chief political correspondent linda crane is following the latest developments for us melinda chancellor merkel has offered to help greece deal with what has happened the more you care what kind of help are we talking about. i mean it seems we're talking about taking in the 400 unaccompanied minors who were flown already from maria to the greek mainland greece itself has said that it wants the adults who were on maria to stay on the island essentially saying there should be no reward for arson greece has said that the refugees some of the refugees themselves had set the fire so greece had given a request to other e.u. states to take in these unaccompanied minors and that apparently is the group that we're talking about and what exactly take in and tails is this temporary shelter or is this a longer term offer. refugee status that is unclear at the moment germany's interior minister who's part of chancellor merkel's conservative faction is resisting pressure to take in more asylum seekers how divided is germany on this topic. divided is a must an understatement for the situation here in germany

let's bring in chief political correspondent melinda crane who is following the story for us from berlin we know that the chancellor there angela merkel is consulting with nato and the e.u. on a coordinated approach well into this is of course not the 1st time that we've seen a poisoning like this what could brylin have in mind this time around. well berlin has as you said been consulting closely with other e.u. member states because berlin germany currently holds the e.u.'s rotating council presidency now one hint of where the e.u. is going was provided yesterday by the e.u.'s foreign policy chief joseph turow who said in a condemnation very similar to the one that had been issued by the chancellor herself that this poisoning represents a violation of international law and calling upon the russia to investigate completely and thoroughly and to bring those responsible to accountability now it's said that europe is looking for russia to work together with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons in this investigation that may be unlikely and in fact a number of servers say that we are unlikely to see the kind of thoroug