Is Angela Merkel losing popularity over migrant stance?

Germany's governing coalition appears divided over a plan to set up "transit zones" at points of entry into the country to assess which migrants have a realistic chance of gaining asylum.

Chancellor Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party is pushing the idea, but social democrats say they are against any notion of "internment" for migrants or refugees.

Katya Adler reports on whether the immigration crisis is starting to make a dent in Mrs Merkel's popularity.

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