Merkel: 'Europe can't become a fortress'

Angela Merkel told German television viewers on Wednesday that she
wouldn't consider closing the country's borders to refugees.

The German chancellor has been under increasing pressure domestically
over the refugee crisis.

Our correspondent Ira Spitzer reports from Berlin.

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