this is d.w. news live from britain was a step closer to leaving the european union with a deal to raise from a senior ten downing street for hours of talks after parliament rejected alternatives to the prime minister's a. deal. president fishel says the u.k. must break the deadlock this week. also on the program. smiles and selfishness a decades long few days later rests. the first historic visit to his

counterpart. in the. north. to the program. once again british politicians are locked in bracks it's paralysis on monday parliament rejected a number of alternatives to the prime minister's unpopular e.u. withdrawal deal without a majority for anything through some maze fractured cabinet has been meeting for hours now trying to thrash its way through the deadlock used chief negotiator michel barnier has warned that the danger of britain crashing out of the e.u. is now very likely and growing by the day a sentiment echoed by a number of european leaders. let's go straight to london then for the latest a mosque and bring us up to date welcome big it so this meeting of the cabinet has

been going on for hours what are the government's likely options. both of you mentioned locked in and it seems like really the cabinet ministers have been locked into downing street and there are reports that they even don't have the phones until there is a made the prime minister is going to give a statement which we are expecting very soon so the options that they would have been discussing are all options really whether to put three is a maze deal back on the table have parliament here decide one more time before the time whether they would finally accept their deal possibly a second referendum or another process of these so-called indicative votes which is something that some m.p.'s would like where m.p.'s are trying to take control of the whole process and trying to force the government's hand effectively with most likely a softer version of bragg's and their version of brakes and so all these options they would have been discussed and we're just waiting for that reason made to come

out make a statement and explain to the nation what they have decided on meanwhile the prime minister's own position is coming under increasing pressure from her own m.p.'s let's listen to one of them here's the conservative m.p. under a bridge in. trees amaze leadership has to be questioned she's signed us up to a deal which she's been warned i warned her last july that checkers would not lead to a proposal i could support or that was in the interest of our country or our parliamentary democracy she's lost over twenty members of the government resigned over it and she's pressed on with it. that shows a huge error of leadership about to mass in london so a bergen i guess it's the question now is not if but when and how to reason may goes. well yes indeed she's incredibly weak even loyal party members m.p.'s have said that she needs to go she doesn't have the trust of the party the parliament or the public nobody things that she has let successful

brags of negotiations here she hasn't been able to have a consensus here involvement and get people behind her for her ideas so she has already indicated that she will go one have deal get street that's a big if if a deal ever get three she hasn't said what happens if a deal doesn't answer is she hasn't said that whether she will resign or not in that case it doesn't seem so likely in my opinion that she will at this stage be forced out because the time is just too short to go through a lengthy process of just another leadership election within the conservative party possibly then also followed by a general election all the time while there's no agreement between the u.k. and the european union is also something that brussels most likely would really object to but then again this is just my opinion who knows what's going to happen there are a lot of m.p.'s who really don't want to cooperate with her and who would like to

see ok so what will the the prime minister and her cabinet have been locked indoors trying to find their way through britain's parliament is following a different path a bizarre tell us about this proposition that has come from one of the m.p.c. trying to force the prime minister just to look for a delay to present. well yes event cooper labor a position m.p. she argues that the u.k. is in such a dangerous situations that it could be crashing out on the trail of the vapor in just over a week's time without any agreement on the future and this is something that many m.p.'s would like to prevent she will try and force the prime minister to ask for nick. attention from the european union so m.p.'s are looking to table this in parliament and then effectively force the prime minister to go for this option now

we don't know yet whether they will get it through so far and these have already been able to unite behind any. new alternative option they are sort of bricks and that hasn't happened yet but we know that they are going to try this. in london thank you so much. now let's look at what else is going on in the world outside your window the dispute between the two between the nations of greece and north of macedonia it's the end of a decades long dispute the greek prime minister alexis tsipras has met his north macedonian counterpart the dispute between the two nations was because of a name macedonia it wasn't only the name of a country but also of a greek province ever since greek has water greece is worried that the shared name demonstrates that a new unit the new nation has further territorial ambitions so greeks vetoed its

neighbors efforts to join international institutions there are two gears to resolve the row and in the end the fix was simple. twenty first century diplomacy at its best two heads of state making history with the selfie alexis tsipras is the first greek prime minister to visit the north macedonian capital scope yet the neighboring countries were at odds for three decades their main bone of contention the name of the country where they're now meeting in the city is not only an important day for us but for the entire balkan peninsula today we're creating a different kind of dialogue one that reunites our country's history is an america that will go on the meeting between tsar and zion alexis the press is so important because it marks the first peaceful resolution i will interrupt you that's a reform going to go over to a london now where through the british prime minister is making an announcement to ensure we leave in a timely and orderly way timely and orderly way cannot drag on much longer

it is pushing members of parliament and everyone else under immense pressure as it is doing damage to our politics despite the best efforts of m.p.'s the process that the house of commons has tried to lead has not come up with an answer so today i am taking action to break the logjam i've offering to sit down with the leader of the opposition and to try to agree a plan that we would both stick to to ensure that we leave the european union and that we do so with a deal any plan would have to agree the current withdrawal agreement it has already been negotiated with the twenty seven other members of the e.u. has repeatedly said that it cannot and will not be reopened what we need to focus on is our future relationship with the e.u. . the ideal outcome of this process would be to agree an approach on

a future relationship that delivers on the result of the referendum that both the leader of the opposition and i could put to the house for approval of which i could then take to next week's european council. however if we cannot agree on a single unified approach then we would instead agree a number of options for the future relationship that we could put to the house in a series of votes to determine which course to pursue crucially the government stands ready to abide by the decision of the house but to make this process work the opposition would need to agree to this to the government would then bring forward the withdrawal agreement bill we would want to agree a time table for this bill to ensure it is passed before the twenty second of may so that the united kingdom need not take part in european parliamentary elections this is a difficult time for everyone the passions are running high on all sides of the

argument but we can and must find the compromises that will deliver what the british people voted for this is a decisive moment in the story of these islands and it requires national unity to deliver the national interest. and there she was gone short and sweet there was a british prime minister. the end of hours of a cabinet meeting that has gone on for most of the day saying that the action needs to be taken to break the logjam around brick sits and she's not very much of putting the pressure on the leader of the opposition party jeremy corbyn she wants to sit down with him and see if they can between them come with some sort of deal that would focus on the future relationship would deliver the result of the

referendum by bracks it means bracks it let's go through this with bricks it's just it's a forester whites are. welcome alex she's talked about to recently has talked about sitting down with watch opposition parties before and we are where we are it's true and there's a scene not been a great relationship between her and jeremy colvin the leader of the labor party but it seems that what she's trying to do is put the ball in their court well number one the most important point there is that she's trying to she's saying that they do not want a no deal bricks it and that is perhaps why cabinet has lost it for so many hours today trying to get agreement on that because we know that many members of cabinet of her top team seem to be quite happy to move towards a no deal bracks whether they really are that's what they have appeared to say so she seems to have a rule that out and which is why she wants a further extension from the e.u.

of article fifty say that means to laying bricks at a little bit further and to she get a deal through and this is why she's throwing it to jeremy corbyn to try to find some compromise in a way that they can get it through otherwise she seems to be talking about taking control of these indicative votes that we've been saying for there was a second got through asia gets nowhere with goes nowhere with jeremy corbyn the end . that will be the next in taking control of these these proposals that have been put forward by m.p.'s and again last night and again nothing was agreed to that seems to be her government trying to take control of it because they have that face in the past few days completely lost control of cracks it let's bring in into the conversation berger. who joins us from london so burkett the just listening to the prime minister to resign made with her latest plan it's

a lot of people going to look at this and say one of the biggest problems about bracks it so far has been politicians playing politics with it too because through observer this looks like more of the same this is a saying i want to bring jeremy corbyn into this but if we're going to talk about it it still needs to we. we will focus on the future relationship rather than the current withdrawal deal and the house of commons withdrawal deal so i'll talk but i'm not going to talk about the things that you all hate. well i'm not so sure fellow i think to reason may has been criticised for a long time for not looking after it looking for a consensus and it's very late in the day to to hold these talks with the labor party but she is saying that she wants to act in the national interest and there has been there have been people who have asked for a government of national unity and basically for her to reach out to the labor party and just find out what it is that they want to do the labor party have so far

objected to the reason may's hard line stance on regs it which their position is that actually they do want a closer relationship with the european union possibly a customs union and this is something that they could with this process from my understanding reach a consensus on because the withdrawal agreement as such would be easy. more want more palatable if if the future was more clearly defined and if there was a consensus over. the future particularly if the reason may is now willing to soften some of her red lines which was no membership in the customs union if she did go down that path in the grate with jeremy coburn on this i think this could actually be be a watershed moment all right. in london for not a fact he will doubtless speak up more on this in the future in ten seconds.

but. still best so mation of what we just look for as well if the say from theresa may there was not a huge breakthrough but obviously she's trying anything now to still get something through hadfield for you but she appears to have taken a tail off the table alex forrester watching a thank you will suffice for about going to mosque in london business just africa that is next. for. president of. the patriotic front into tiny the rebel army and to the nine hundred ninety four genocide wasn't when little or no roots there wasn't doing to us given me to reinforce to them. i knew this but was happening was not floating in a hooves.