German asylum seeker arrivals dropped sharply in 2016

Some two hundred eighty thousand migrants arrived in Germany seeking asylum last year, a sharp decrease from twenty fifteen.

The country's interior minister said the EU-Turkey refugee deal and the closure of the Balkan route were responsible for the reduced figures.

Ira Spitzer reports from Berlin.

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