this is due readers live from berlin mixed signals from e.u. leaders for britain over the bridge they were draw deal out of a key summit the host austrian chancellor sebastian curran says the e.u. must do everything in its power to avoid a hard break that and is ready to compromise his words come just hours after another even top official said london still needs to rework some key positions also coming up pressure is on angela merkel's government is growing after coalition leaders agreed to remove a controversial spy chief and then promote him to

a more powerful post. more. on little rock it's great to have you along everyone we must do everything to avoid a hard break said and we stand ready to compromise well those are the confident words coming from the austrian chancellor sebastiaan curt's ahead of a key e.u. summit in salzburg but with just six months to go before britain is to leave the european union the european council president is warning that key parts of the u. case briggs's proposals neat to be revised just said london must rework its position on issues linked to the irish border and future trade ties with europe tusk did however acknowledge that some progress had been made albeit rather late in the day let's take

a listen to what he said exactly. today those that have more hope. about those surely less and less time. in the form. of life we must see you face for talks i would like to finalize them to do so all through. this is why that's tomorrow three of the twenty seven i will propose calling an additional summit around the minutes with no member of a member. so ward of warning to london ahead of another kick you some of us kos over to salzburg austria where do you correspond a max hoffman is covering this topic in you summit to mark so good to see at the price british prime minister has to sell her briggs the deal to twenty seven other leaders at the salzburg going to go she asians which you states do you think will leave a bitter taste in teresa mayes mouth over a formal dinner later this evening it really seems like all the different

countries and the parties involved have understood that it is very late in the process and the compromise needs to be found and quotes the chancellor of austria said as much upon arrival here but the problem of course is that two key issues remain unresolved as you usually have it in these negotiations the hardest come at the end and that is of course the issue of the border between ireland and northern ireland and the future trade ties between the european union and the united kingdom and those are red lines that is where france and germany will not budge at least that's what we understand especially when it comes to the single market they don't want to compromise it and they have said from the beginning there will be no cherrypicking there unless those cherries are in the desert tonight of course our you know austrian at chancellor us of us on course who's hosting this summit is backing up mr donald just because a call for an extra bragg's it summit to come november one of the may concerns is

ireland is this ever going to be resolved. it will be resolved in the end we don't know exactly when we don't know exactly how but we seem seems like a roadmap is emerging you see that the pressure is on everybody's wrapping up the rhetoric calling for compromise accusing the other side of not compromising enough but that november summit might be the end of it because you need to resolve this at some point for the european parliament to say yes or no at some point in time before the actual braggs a date at the end of march two thousand and nineteen in the end of november is the last call possibly the beginning of december so most people in brussels where the european union institutions are located thinks that this will be resolved in some kind of way at the end but as i said earlier the two issues ireland future try ties those are very very tough cookies very hard nuts to crack. all right now u.k. meanwhile you can't regs that minister dominic rao but says that there won't be

a second referendum in britain on any exit deal and that a deal is within reach but mr dahl just doesn't share his assessment are we almost back to square one the second referendum hard to say nobody expects it anymore in brussels but you know eighty five percent that's the number we're hearing around the e.u. institutions eighty five percent of the agreement already with the exceptions of ireland and future trade ties and those are the hardest ones to say that we're back to square one would be exaggerated because so much so many different aspects have been negotiated and you can feel the pressure has been mounting over those that period of one and a half years now so not square one but we can't say that a hard drugs that will be avoided because we're still have those two issues and if they're not resolved then the hard drags it seems much more likely max hoffman reporting from salzburg austria thank you. all right let's bring up to speed now

with some of the other stories making news around the world. north and south korean leaders have hailed a deal to improve ties pyongyang says it will shut down king missile test facilities kim jong ono also agreed to close the country's main nuclear complex that is if the u.s. reciprocates the south korean leader moon j.n. announced that kim will be the first north korean leader ever to visit seoul. a tie and authorities have closed the country's highest road bridge after discovering severe structural problems the viaduct over the river sent links to regions in central italy spot checks following the fatal collapse of the randy bridge in genoa brought the findings to light. police have suspended activities to clear environmental is from western germany's humble forest after a man died following a fall from

a tree top camp authorities say no operations were taking place at the time of the incident the victim is believed to be a journalist plans to raise the ancient woodland. for lignite mining has led to on growing protests. it turns out chancellor merkel's fragile government is under renewed pressure after coalition leaders agreed to dismiss a controversial intelligence chief earth already is being called into question after she allowed her powerful interior minister to promote the removed spy chief to a more senior position. most german newspapers have reacted with scorn the promotion of the controversial head of germany's domestic intelligence agency mass and there's also provoked exasperate on the streets of fire in the private sector he would have been kicked out if you mess up you go it's that simple

yes it does after i think it's bad really if he has to leave his office he shouldn't get a promotion in the final few hundred incision after the other by the government must and should have gone. after yesterday's decision to promote martin to a more senior position in the interior ministry there was no comment from coalition leaders they left without stepping in front of the microphones. and at chancellor angela merkel's first official engagement of the day she still avoided addressing the issue. in the wake of far right and rest in chemist's marson who defied the chancellor by questioning the authenticity of a video showing mobs chasing down migrants. merkel had said the video was real and condemned the actions shown calls for muslims dismissal grew louder. yet merkel's interior minister who. stood firmly by his side today he denied

any responsibility for the controversy. i'd like to point out that i didn't start the discussion around mr marson or his agency. can it's i can't say that mr marson wanted this to happen he didn't push me to do anything just to stress that is ok. he's a civil servant who will do his duty wherever he's supposed to. do it. officials have presented this reshuffle as a necessary political compromise but many will interpret it as a cynical active face saving that is unlikely to boost trust in methods government . and our reactions to martin's removal and subsequent promotion have been swift a number of political figures have spoken out and i'd like to now welcome and close that she is the head of the young socialists and berlin the youth organization of

the social democrats a very good evening miss close of first things first house the leader of the social democrats miss not has been outmaneuvered by the interior minister mr say offer. well i would say so yes actually i mean it's a success after all that said as he was able to remove mass and. from this old post but now that he's now joining the government that's i would say a big success for haas they will fire the interior minister and actually have the defeat at say mostly for america but also for the social democratic party opposes the big question and that is we want to protect our democracy and that's why we wanted to remove mass from his responsibility and now he's having an even more powerful office and this well of questions on the. how we how successful we were by protecting our democracy from this guy and from his conspiracy theories so do you

think this is a mistake yes i think it's a huge mistake because it undermines. trust in democracy from our population and also shows that machall actually is quite powerless. on the grist for interior minister that she has no power anymore really to have this in who is joining her government and also has a social democratic party it's very difficult to tell the people how they can admit someone who's protecting far right movements and corresponding with them how can they allow to join government with them but they were take issue with that argument i presume because what the s.p.d. wanted was for mr marson to be removed that has happened to you chief that i know that's that's great that they choose that but it's a really big mistake that now he's joining government because there he's going to have responsibility also for interior affairs and what kind of signs that to our

population for our voters who really is trying to believe that's as big as fighting against the far right that this video is a democratic force and now well yes they have removed him from as far as also this that's a success but now in joining government and being even promoted so making huge mistakes i mean nobody is going to understand why that happens if you do if you make a mistake in your job usually well you get fired or you have to face some bad consequences for that and this guy well he's getting promoted so making a mistake what would have been the solution the acceptable solution for you and the youth department of the s.p.d. because i mean mr knowledges his back was against the wall i mean this coalition has been going from crisis mode to crisis mode this was the most acceptable solution for all parties involved well the most acceptable solution as. that mohsen is removed from this also and is not in responsibility for any government actions

anymore and that has not happened so i would say if they will so i wouldn't would i wasn't villa to let them go there would have been responsibility to let the will for go but she was not able to do that and she didn't have the courage to stand up for a democrat for democracy and for well it would have been her responsibility to step in there and safe a coalition for any more trouble and has been horse sales i would have been pushing this quotation from crisis to crisis ever since the beginning the last time we saw it in june when he was like pushing his points about closing the borders and even more repressions on refugees and now he's doing the same thing with mass and with someone who is like as i said putting with rights and still she's not able to well coalitions travel less waters and well do the politics that our country needs in closing what is your base telling you what are the young voters the young members of the s.p.d.

telling you they are so disappointed right now well many people thought that the one thing that the social social democracy is we strong for at the moment it's a fight against the far right and now they're we're disappointed because i think that well they're letting people who are supporting the far right joins the government and are not able to really fight against that so they're disciplined and don't really know what to do and your clothes or head of the young socialists are here and really thank you for weighing in to share your perspective on this issue. before i let you go in your mind you of our main headlines this hour. with six months until bragg said a new council president donald tusk tells britain it needs to get its act together and look again at elements of its withdrawal offer tosk says proposals relating to the irish border and future trade ties need we are working.

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