barbara fazel barbara the standoff in belarus is big on the agenda today in brussels can we expect the european unit take any action on that. they're just really trying to terry because they are shame faced because of what happened 10 days ago the e.u. foreign ministers agreed on sanctions against 40 people in the better was regime people who were supposed to be involved in the crackdowns and in the torture off prisoners and then one country got up and said no and that cyprus cyprus is blackmailing the e.u. they want sanctions also against turkey to totally non related issues but they're stalling everything so now the european leaders try to talk to cyprus and say please please do get out of your tree will you let us put those things last against belarus because they are long overdue and can you talk about turkey later so that is the situation and it is one that diplomats find extremely problematic to put it mildly welcome back to turkey in a moment there's no shortage of challenges for your leaders at the moment what else is on the summit agenda there are today. really if you look at it at the borders of europe it's little fires everywhere there crises that have broken out all around the european union just to name one is azerbaijan in the military standoff with armenia about the old supposedly frozen back conflict and then there is libya ongoing fighting there ongoing problems in the e.u. is even pondering whether they might send a military mission and then of course the biggest off it all is you mentioned turkey turkey has shown some sort of aggressive behavior in the east and needed to remain in sending a drilling vessel there into disputed waters disputed between cyprus and greece and turkey who has the rights there and came to the military standoff between france release the nato vessels even u.s. vessels and turkish military gate so it is a very dangerous and tense situation and leaders are trying to find a solution to its turkey and the question is to sanction or not to say there's no resolution yet for that ok relations with turkey are strained in multiple ways not just this clash between cyprus and turkey in the eastern mediterranean what is the overall strategy barbara for dealing with turkey. the e.u. is split on was that some countries that are more belligerent france for instance they say i mean we're fed up with this at the end of patients it's enough we've seen enough from turkey and we just now need to hit back and they are supported by austria of course by greece for instance but it's a smallish group and others led by germany say we can't gain anything by really sort of playing hardball was turkey we need to try to diplomatic channels to sort of in gauge them to to sort of talk them out of this belligerent attitude to to find diplomatic solutions we've seen this for years ahead and really lead the european union very far but bilin in particular is scared of really getting into a very hostile situation was turkey so these 2 can really be brought together and the question is whether they whether the european leaders will even talk about sanctions whether they will even the wave them in the room and say listen ankara we can get tough economical