pivotal development our correspondents are standing by always under phenomena in brussels and in london for you. i want to give you the 1st word things are just not growing well at the moment this feels like a very important development has the british government reacted. well for the moment they're really keeping their cool they're quite belligerently saying well this is their intention and they say that this needs to be happening in order to save the good friday agreement and the internal market the trade within the u.k. however we also know that there is a summit coming up brussels and just a couple of weeks time and we do know that the government would try to get some sort of agreement with the european union so they might be quite cool for the moment by might not be the last who knows whether this will last and whether this will maybe change when there is. face to face in brussels alexander is this the european union calling