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zanny minton beddoes joins me from london and christine ockrent is in paris.ournalist for french public radio. zanny, let me start with you by asking a simple question, this is a big deal both for britain and europe because britain is large trading partner for europe. it's in both sides' interest to make some kind of a deal. why is this falling apart? is it because there are deep structural interests that are at odds or all a miscalculation? >> so first of all, i think there's a little bit more of a glimmer of hope that has appeared in the last three or four hours. both sides have agreed to continue talking. today was the deadline to stop talking. they agreed to continue w. t. with the eu, nothing is decided until five minutes before midnight and we have ten days to go. i'm not ruling out that there could be a deal. the sentiment is grim right now and there seems to be a applicable impasse on both sides. i think it's worth going back to sort of the basics of why we're here. we left, the brits left the european union legally on the 31st of january of this year,