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. and also to more about the dangers faced by the merkel government d.w. political correspondent hans but is with me firstly hans we have that meeting we understand last night between the chancellor her interior minister who say who for of course we should point out he's a committed member of the c.s.u. possy what do we know about that meeting. very little in fact we know that it took place that it took about two hours that they sat together until pretty late last night and of course we also know as we've just seen that these two politicians are not only allies by the adversaries and have been for quite a long time. there is some sort of speculation that they looked pretty grim when they came into their meetings and they looked a little less screwed when they came out of the meeting so this some sense it may