EU Members Meet to Discuss Resettling 120,000 Migrants.
STEVENS: Welcome back. Now in just a few minutes, European ministers are expected to begin discussing how best to tackle a growing migrant crisis. They're gathering now in Brussels, countries disagree on what to do about the influx of people seeking refuge in Europe with some opposing the idea of mandatory quotas. The International Organization for Migration says more than 475,000 migrants have crossed via boat into Europe so far this year, more than double last year's number. Now the talks today are an attempt to form a consensus before an emergency meeting of EU leaders on Wednesday. Let's head straight to Brussels now. Our international diplomatic editor Nic Robertson joins us from Brussels. Nic, this is such a contentious issue. There are clear divides between what European countries want to see. What chance of some sort of coming together here?</s>NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, there's an awful amount of pressure, both public pressure and political pressure, to find a solution. This is a catastrophe that is happening on Europe's doorstep. It's happening inside Europe. It's happening in slow motion. The leaders have been there to see this coming. Now, the figure you talk about there, close to half a million migrants or refugees flooding into Europe so far this year, the talks here are only aimed at resolving and finding quotas for about 120,000. And if you think that it was in May this year, the middle of May this year when these European countries began discussing whether or not they should take 40,000 migrants. And it was only just last week when they agreed to implement that decision to take 40,000 migrants you see how slow this process works, but the pressure has been mounting just in the last couple of months. July and August alone, an estimated quarter of a million refugees have flooded in. Germany opened its doors, but Germany already finds itself, if you will, stretched to find accommodation. Teachers, et cetera, to support this large number of refugees that it's taking in And you have the frontline states like Hungary, like the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland -- not a frontline state, if you will, in terms of these refugees -- but these countries resisting having quotas. Britain has aid outright it doesn't believe quotas are the right way to go. So, there is a wide divergence on views, on how to resolve this, but even if you just take the terms of what is going to be discussed here -- about 120,000 additional -- that is not going to solve the problem that is arriving here already -- Andrew.</s>STEVENS: As you say, Nic, a catastrophe in the making a slow motion making at that. Just getting news into us, too, this is from the head of German intelligence who are saying that hardline Muslims are recruiting refugees just newly arrived into Germany. What do you know about that?</s>ROBERTSON: Well, there's certainly concern for counterterrorism agencies all across Europe. The fear is hat inside the influx of refugees and migrants there will be people who have sympathies with the hardline Islamists like ISIS, and certainly ISIS would try to take advantage of a situation like this. There had been concerns that ISIS would sort of use a flood of refugees to infiltrate, get into Europe. That really doesn't stand the test of common sense to a large degree, because the root of the refugees is highly precarious, it's not always certain. And certainly the ISIS members would have networked within different countries in Europe that they could move between. The French have already seen how ISIS in France is trying to direct plots -- ISIS members in Turkey are trying to direct plots in France. So, those are the networks that perhaps pose the really bigger challenge and threat, but of course it is a concern when taking in so many people that groups like ISIS will try and take advantage. And ISIS, for sure, has made very clear to all its followers it would like to target inside Europe, Andrew.</s>STEVENS: Nic Robertson, international diplomatic editor, thanks so much for joining us. Nic joining us there from Brussels. We're just getting this coming into us here at CNN. The German rail company Deutsche Bahn tells CNN that it has suspended all train services now between Munich, Salzburg and Budapest until October 4, a little under two weeks from now. Munich's main train station has been one of the main entry points for migrants since the crisis started. Now still to come here on News Stream, a young North Korean woman disappears while working abroad. Some suspect she defected. But her family insists she must have been abducted. A rare report from inside North Korea just ahead.