a minority share of french daily moaned the czech market is too small for the billionaire says david trimble the generalist has studied quittin ski holdings annual statements in detail and still have some kind of diversification of his business because now he depends heavily on the energy sector and he wants to have another businesses under the roof like check online giant mall for example the billionaire owns the e-commerce company with an annual turnover of several hundred million euros it's one of the biggest in the country analysts believe quittin scheme may want to implement some of mall successful strategies that metro now is a good time for him to boost his holdings in metro because money is cheap. is more than six billion euro also in the book and it's only the energy part of his business. so about that i think up until today it's not a big problem for him because interest rates are quite role. daniel quittin ski clearly once again with the big guns taking over metro could mean his breakthrough in europe. but. the head of the international monetary fund christine legarde has called o

the former first minister of northern ireland david trimble has said he intends to take legal actionst the government over the backstop, claiming it breaches the terms of the good friday agreement. jonathan blake, bbc news, westminster. and you can keep up to date with theresa may's talks in northern ireland, as well as the latest backstop negotiatrions, on the bbc website. you'll also find a guide to all you need to know about the uk leaving the eu and explanations of the key brexit terms, in an easy to follow "jargon buster" that's all at bbc.com/news or download the bbc news app. a group comprising latin american countries and canada has urged the venezuelan military to support the opposition leader, juan guaido, as interim president. the iii—nation lima group has called for a change of government without the use of force, and for president nicolas maduro‘s administration to lose access to venezuela's international assets. i do also want address the issue of outside military intervention and an important point in our communique is point 17, where we have agreed and i quote, finall

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to this and on the one hand it's been dismissed as a small issue on the other hand people like david trimble say if you don't do this right you're underlying undermining the single most important peace initiative in recent british history which was the good friday agreement i'm sure david cameron thought about all of this when called the bricks are over i'm so he resigned when he lost to have to say the d.a.p. and the unionists generally have been the single most successful party in all of the bracks at mass because they've got concessions they've got pretty much bribes actually to to stay loyal to the government and what it is it's a billion pounds of infrastructure and they do and they get it and in that sense the real winners are the folk and live in the north of ireland but the losers could ultimately be treason may go to this love in between the darling of the alternative d.n.c. and jeremy corbyn responsible for the disaster in venezuela according to british media yes we'll talk about that says a court hasn't corben praise each other on twitter after a phone call this is comrade corbin

her withdrawal agreement and the backstop to the belfast agreement and i think now because of david trimble'sctually starting to look at that seriously. that is the perspective from the ulster leader. we have also heard from naomi long. this is about people being able to do theirjobs, it's about workforce planning and our health service, and our schools, it's about all of those things. it's not about philosophical debates in parliament. it's about practical arrangements that will allow people to continue to live their lives without interruption, allow businesses to continue to trade without additional costs, and until we have something in black and white, from parliament, and from the prime minister, and from the eu, which provide certainty, there is no reassurance that can be given, and that is what we were reiterating to the prime minister today. we believe she got a good deal, we believe it has been rejected largely for party political reasons and not practical reasons, and we think it's really important now that people wake up and start to deal with what is a very serious situation, but a

let's talk about lord david trimble, who was so instrumental in the northern ireland peace agreement.p because in his view, it breaches the good friday agreement. he has not set an awful lot more than that today but he has talked about this in the past and written articles about it in the past. his view is it goes against the good friday agreement because the institutions set up to make sure that this cross—border co—operation between northern ireland and ireland would end up after brexit under this scenario, with the backstop, it would mean, he says, effectively that northern ireland becomes an eu protectorate, and under those circumstances, as he puts it, it would mean that the northern ireland assembly does not have a say. so this issue of consent, which is so central to the good friday agreement disappears. he would say it would mean the eu and dublin are effectively making policy for northern ireland. so that is the grounds by which he would want to ta ke grounds by which he would want to take this to court. now, it's very unclear the chances of success that they would be. people

the former first minister of northern ireland david trimble has said he intends to take legal actionnment over the backstop, claiming it breaches the terms of the good friday agreement. jonathan blake, bbc news, westminster. in a moment we'll talk to our ireland correspondent emma vardy, who's in belfast for us. first let's go to westminster and speak to our assistant political editor, norman smith. good morning. as theresa may prepares to travel to northern ireland later in the search for a workable alternative to the backstop, are there any signs the eu can help her out, or is indeed willing to do so? conflicting signs is the honest answer. some people seem to talk more encouragingly, angela merkel has suggested flexibility can be found to get a way forward, but other figures like michel barnier have restated that there will be no reopening of the withdrawal agreement, so it is very ha rd to read withdrawal agreement, so it is very hard to read exactly where the eu is at at the moment. we are beginning to get a sense of how far mrs may is determined that whatever agreement she reac

the former first minister of northern ireland david trimble has said he intends to take legal action the government over the backstop, claiming it breaches the terms of the good friday agreement. jonathan blake, bbc news, westminster. let's go to westminster now and join our assistant political editor, norman smith. theresa may is going to have a tough sell when she talks to business leaders in northern ireland because they were already backing her backstop plan and all the while her party colleagues are trying to work out what the alternative might be. party colleagues are trying to work out what the alternative might belj think out what the alternative might be.” think that is right, there is a realisation in downing street that in northern ireland there is real apprehension that the backstop seems again to be possibly scrapped or significantly reworked, whether that raises it? about the government's commitment to avoiding a hard border and that is what the prime minister is seeking to do today, to reassure people that the commitment to avoiding a hardboard is absolute and she is n