barbro there will of course be more talks probably over the coming weeks are we any closer or further away from a deal than we were 2 days ago before this summit between people in brussels said before the summit the chances for a deal are 4260 i'm afraid after the summit they have lowered their estimate to 30 to 70 but nothing's for sure time will tell the next 234 weeks. in brussels thanks a lot for bringing us up to date now for a long time it was one of africa's fastest growing economies but now zambia is edging closer to defaulting on its debts the government in the soccer is urging all of its creditors to suspend payments until next spring but agreement from private lenders is by no means secured. zambia depends on copper it accounts for some 70 percent of the country's export earnings but prices for the metal are volatile even more so due to the coronavirus pandemic global production and consumption are down driving zambia every deeper into debt zambia's external debt has ballooned to $12000000000.00 u.s. dollars that's more than half of the country's economic output major credi

barbara basler is standing by for us in brussels a brief statement there from ursula found alone barbro what can we read into it. it's a warning shot for it's london because clearly the e.u. says basically if this bill comes into legal force and it still has some hurdles particularly in the house of lords to overcome which was supposed to happen later this year but if this bill really legally comes into force we cannot possibly bring a trade agreement into legal action because the to contradict each other also how much face can we have in the united kingdom in the sort of the good will of the united kingdom that they will act according to international treaties that they are making with us the e.u. if they act like this so this was a breach of international law that the british government had known in parliament ministers stood up in parliament and said yes this bill the so-called internal market bill will breach international law and there was a certain amount of up for all but in the end the bill passed without a hitch that means that of course all international partners know particul