much concerning migrants and even france macas closest european allies is warning that the block could potentially break apart over this issue. let's talk to our political correspondent simon young is following the story for us hi simon we heard uncle americal there saying she's aiming for by try or multilevel or agreements rather than a europe wide deal that sounds complicated. well indeed i mean previously angela merkel was saying that she hoped that any uy deal would come out at the end of all this wrangling but now she's clearly saying she doesn't believe that can happen even after the e.u. summit so what's the alternative well it's smaller groups of nations getting together or even bilateral deals and they have one advantage which is that they can come into force and be organized more quickly obviously than the sort of pay and european deal on the other hand they can end up being rather costly if germany has