our correspondent is covering this story and joins us now from brussels barbara is there any hope in brussels that a deal between the u.k. and the e.u. can still be reached. hope i'm afraid terry is wasting away fast and at the moment i wouldn't really put a tenner on it that deal can still be reached it looks very very unlikely if you look at the yesterday's twitter war if you look at the increasingly aggressive briefing that has been coming out of downing street since the beginning of the week monday for instance there was a briefing that was given to a tare magazine and that said that the conservative party was now getting ready to sort of go to an election was no deal on their manifesto all that shows sort of shows in which direction we are travelling now and know it is very unlikely if we talk about the terms of any possible deal the sticking point remains the border between the republic of ireland and the u.k. what would have to happen in order to resolve that issue. it is the same old old old problem that has been there since the beginning of the bracks it talks so almost 3 yea

that isis from barbara in brussels welcome barbara this sounds like positive news you better bring us up to date. yeah i mean negotiators have been in this so-called tunnel that is they've been talking to each other without interference from the outside without information for the press at least in official information for the press in order to be able to really focus on the issue this has been going on since the weekend and then 1st everybody was very skeptical and then somehow the good news seemed to increase over time and now there is seems to be in optimism of course some people here are warning everything we hear comes from in official remarks by diplomats behind the scenes and it really depends on the who you talk to how optimistic they really are now they have to midnight to sort of get some rough outline for a text ready because tomorrow it needs to be presented to the ambassadors of the 27 member states they need to sort of talk through this was their capitals then thursday which is really very close already the leaders will have to sort of bend over and say ok can we live wi

are those who stray to brussels now for the latest r t w correspondent is on the story for us tonight good evening to you barbara's one of those late nights has the focus really moved now from brussels back to london. it definitely has and it seems brant as if this story these bricks of negotiations that are ongoing since last saturday are such an emotional roller coaster they certainly have more cliffhangers than your average t.v. series because now at the very moment when the european side says ok there is enough on the table the tx isn't quite ready bought that can be remedied but there is enough on the table we've agreed on most of the open most of the contentious points if close this agreement then all of a sudden as some had been guessing in advance there comes a red light from london and boris johnson has to say sorry folks but i don't have the numbers in the house of commons so things are sort of thrown up against 0 again again the operative word there i mean it's deja vu for sure and i'm wondering what if northern ireland do you people and hard line conservative brigadiers what if the hold their course do

a deal because we're not baba fazel joins us from brussels barbara in a weird way this sounds like positive news you bring us up to date. it sounds though and seems like somebody has lit a mining limb at the end of this tunnel that negotiators have been sitting in for days now over the weekend trying to sort of hammer out a solution and it also seems that the solution is something that means that boris johnson is going to give way even further true european demands on social media they're already joking saying boris johnson wins a big victory by giving the european union everything at once we know that this is all about the vexed question of the europe off the border between ireland and the republic of ireland which there's going to be an e.u. external border that is supposed to be no border at this point that's the good friday agreement it means peace in the region has to be sort of capped and guarded so what we hear from british sources is that britain is giving way and that this border is going to run in the irish sea it's going to be sort of invisible and border checks will have to be h

as my colleague barbara visa will she joins me tonight in our brussels bureau good evening to you barbara let me ask you just for a personal report 1st barber you've reported many many times we've talked many times with you there in the thick of the brics it chaos have you ever felt unsafe have you ever been threatened with physical violence. now i have in fact felt unsafe but the reason for that mainly is that we have quite well protected there because reporting from in front of westminster we have behind fences and there is security so nobody can really get at us and there's been of course for weeks and months at the height of the bricks of battle been tremendous yelling and shouting in the background but after a while you sort of get used to that and just blend it out and then if you move as a single camera team through london or so people don't really show a lot of aggression against you personally so it seems more like a collective thing and that is that you feel the aggression in the background you know we used to hear breaks it means break i said at the beginning of the program bre

good obvious barbara visa is following all the twists and turns in london brussels she joins us now from london and barbara boris johnson is not giving up it seems what do you make of those around him who say that he can still get it done by october 31st. now he would say that kerry wouldn't he and his people of course came out over the weekend said yes we have the numbers. one wonders whether they really counted because british newspapers spent all of sunday sort of calculating up and down and looking at spread sheets of which parliamentarian might sort of bend this way or that way and turned and so today they say it is too close to call if somebody just one single person has a problem and they're behind us or to change it his or her mind over night it might still go the other way bought but it is all in the hands off mr speaker john bercow the man who you know it's our turf so compellingly he will decide whether the government can bring the same motion again it did so on saturday and it was thwarted and they they want to do it again today very close said to resume a half year ago you c

can leave the european union at some point as barbara has explained at some point our rights of bridget ross reporting from london and in brussels of barbara. thank you both. next world leaders have welcomed us president donald trump's announcement that the leader of the so-called islamic state baghdadi was killed in a raid by u.s. special forces in syria trump said but daddy blew himself up as u.s. troops stormed his hideout but british prime minister boris johnson while welcoming baghdad his death cautioned that the fight against islamic state was not yet over other world leaders have echoed johnson's remark. so far from east 90 for iraq and so close to turkey near the village berisha in series know the province of the world's most wanted man met his demise lisa remains of the i.s.i. faust in which abu bakar i'll back out he spent his last ice hey much of his family plus plus followers died during the u.s. special forces operation. of my house and saw a helicopter in front of me no more than 50 meters in the air and another one right behind it there were no shots fired at 1st and then suddenly there was gunfire and the helicop

point as power has explained at some point are right back at ross reporting from london and in brussels of barbara vase or what thank you birth. and staying in britain the driver of the truck and which $39.00 people were found dead has appeared in court 25 year old marie's robinson is charged with manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people the prosecution says the case involves a global ring that sent large numbers of immigrants to the u.k. many of the victims are thought to have come from vietnam where the case causing a lot of anguish. their son was told he'd be smuggled to england in a 40 to sadam the v.i.p. option now they say. was scammed. leaving it to him it's very very scary if i had known he would be in a truck i wouldn't have let him go. to jail guilty because i told my brother not to go but he did anyway i told him not to i did but i failed. is just one of dozens of young people from this vietnamese province to be reported missing by their families since last week's grim discovery a refrigerated truck inside it the bodies of 39 people suffocated and frozen. another father tells how h

barbara, we have been here before it seems like. you are there in brusselshere negotiations are taking place. i mean, what is the status of these last-minute talks? barbara: the status is that the eu chief negotiator has been talking to the ambassadors of the eu 27, the other member states, and has been informing them about the state of play and told them about what is now in the text, because there is in fact text on the table. it has not been published yet, it is not open, we cannot see it, we cannot read it, but it is said behind the scenes here, through diplomatic leaks, that the eu and the u.k. have sort of really bridged all the gaps -- and they were huge when they began on saturday -- for all those questions of customs, of the border not in northern ireland but somewhere in the irish sea, about how the compensation for fees will be done in the future, about controls, etc., etc. i mean, this whole long convoluted list and a lot of technical questions. it is all more or less done. it is almost ready to go. and then at the very last minute the no from lo

extension until january 31st of next year all right let's take you now to brussels to barbara zola she is there she is barbara the e.u. has granted the u.k. a so-called flex tension what is a flex tension now that's a flexible exit so it means that should britain get done with some kind of brics a deal to read a fiat and so on before the end of january 31st they could leave earlier like on december. first or maybe november 31st or the same goes for generally 1st but nobody really believes that this is just sort of a gesture of basically means ok we give you another 3 months to sort of deal was this intractable problem that it has created politically in britain and russia so it's now just watching london and sort of hypnotized by events there because nobody really knows where it's going there was over the weekend talk of the likelihood for new elections rising and that was really would change minds in paris they had been blocking this flex tension for a while and they said ok let's do that just sort of put this framework down and now yes and now it's up to london now again it's up to lo

made enough concessions to bring a long sought deal with in reach let's bring bring in brussels correspondent barbara vai's all good morning barbara what do we expect to happen this morning where you are. we can expect that we're not going to hear something for quite a while yet because diplomats are extremely tightlipped after they broke up by suppose from sheer fatigue last night they're not taking up talks again in the commission building here behind me and the doors are closed and there is no communication so it's only via for instance the french finance minister who gave an interview this morning and he is said that we hear anything and he said that there is a glimmer of hope that this deal could be yet to get across the line is so we also have crossing our fingers together was the european governments who somehow want to get this done and want to get rid of the brics that question that has been really so bothers some and so so wearing throughout the last years and of course on the other side boris johnson still hopes he can make true his promise to leave the e.u. under any circumstances on octo

analyst alex forrest whiting and in brussels our correspondent barbara vai's of the both of you welcome i want to begin with a pledge from prime minister boris johnson that he made back in september he wagered a lot on britain leaving the e.u. on 2 or 31st even his own life which is to take a listen to what he said. can you make a promise today to the british public that you will not go back to brussels and ask for another delay to correct that yes and so you don't and rejoice. to be dead. so you would resign for us prime minister have been going off of that to that other i just i really close a 1000000000 pounds a month in a cheese absolutely nothing. is the point. i think it's totally pointless pointless dead and. we were sitting here when that was live talking about that our member very well so he gave us that he gave us this do or die pledge from the prime minister and one that he will fail to keep so what does that do to his credibility i don't know whatever boris johnson says or whatever his advisers say this is a failure because as we have heard very clearly as he has said time a

we can take you now to brussels to our correspondent there barbara they so barbara good to have you with us the official word for this is flex tension that the e.u. has granted the u.k. what is a flex tension with flex tension is an extension by different means that is if the u.k. should manage to push the brics deal through parliament and it will then be ratified by also the european parliament and everybody else britain could leave that is always to the 1st of the next months that is on december 1st of course or general 1st or the night before hand as you like so it means that france has finally given up their resistance to this as everybody knew there would because it to be honest this was just a lot of political postering from paris they want to flex their muscle towards london and say you know you have to play ball with as if you want us to play ball with you but now the french side says we're satisfied that britain is on the way to new elections and that has always been one of the main reason serious reasons to grant the brics an extension so at the end of the day everybody is happ

so how close might we be from brussels we're joined by barbara visa good morning barbara what can we expect to happen this morning. well we can expect that the negotiators have bleary eyed after maybe a couple of hours of sleep because they gave up very late last night and we waited in vain for white smoke to appear from the building here behind me the european commission that they will emerge again and sort of try to still sort of drag this deal over over the boy over the limit and over the edge really because what they need is the outline of often agreement between the e.u. and the u.k. governing sort of the there was draw all the leaving and that has many legal problems are the biggest of that is the northern island also this has to be somewhat somehow watertight the question is can this nailed down enough to satisfy the 27 other european leaders because they don't want to buy a cat in the bag they don't want to sort of make concessions to boris johnson that have based on trust because that isn't scarce supply ok trust is very important when we talk about the northern irish border

for more i'm joined by correspondent barbara vessel who joins me from brussels. is there any hope in brussels that a deal can be reached before the october deadline. it seems throughout this day the hope is fading quickly because it is going from bad to worse so this is not the time to put money on the brecht's a deal definitely because today even more voices emerged saying how difficult it is and how near impossible it is the dutch finance minister to go hawks are for instance he just said the meeting here in brussels we should have the softest breaks that possible it's a tragedy for all of us but it takes 2 to tango indicating that the british side is not willing to tango and the german u. official from the commission there he said that you couldn't time limit the solution for northern ireland pouring cold water on some of the attempts behind the scenes to sort of still come to some sort of compromise so it is not going well at all no tangoing for virus virus johnson the view a prime minister there so the issue seems to remain the sticky issue is the u.k. borde

correspondents barbara fazel in brussels and shawn otto pots in london welcome both let's start with you barbara what is the thinking behind this flexible departure date the thinking is that the divorce proceedings between britain and the european union have reached the point to that they have gotten somewhat acrimonious and the 2 sides and particularly the e.u. want to see the back of the other so it is the message we are not keeping you whenever you're ready to go please we would even show you 2 of the door we would carry your suitcases and we might even order into a taxi to sort of facilitate the departure seriously this really is a signal to the government in london to sort of speed up and figure out what they want and how they want it and when they're wanted because the e.u. is relatively tired and exasperated was following this process and not knowing when and how it will happen ok social impulses in london are the prime minister there boris johnson wants a snap election and he's hoping to make a break since he's big campaign issue so what does the timing look like. well now wit

correspondents barbara faisal in manchester and matters in brussels welcome both of us are with you barbara what more do we know about this new british plan. now we could read the paper down that has been sent to london to brussels from london and if we read this correctly this is a plan that seems to be rather close to what the e.u. had originally proposed as the northern ireland only backstop now the word back so we know has to be bad and so let's call it the proposal what is in it is that the northern ireland would keep on for the future to stick to european rules for all goods and food and animals that are traded there that is the important point because abortions originally couple days ago had just said yeah greece food you can think about that just like the health of cows and milk and things but now it's supposed to be all products that means basically that northern ireland would stick to european rules and these things could be traded continue to be traded freely however great britain wants to leave the customs union that is that means that there have to be customs checks somewhere n

quite rightly, barbara is saying that we are told there is a new draft treaty effectively ready to go in brusselsing street just there will be more talks at number ten downing streetjust to work out quite how this is going to play out. i think borisjohnson is simply determined not to sign up to anything which he can't be sure of getting through the house of commons. that is the mistake that theresa may made three times, it was humiliating for her and it ended her career humiliating for her and it ended her career in downing street. so what the prime minister is doing is trying to make sure that anything he might agree on brussels, and as barbara says, it sounds like he has got somewhere with the eu 27 leaders, or rather their representatives. but there is no point from his point of view bringing it back to westminster if it can't get through, and that is why the democratic unionist party are so why the democratic unionist party are so crucial. the numbers are going to be really tight. even if borisjohnson can going to be really tight. even if boris johnson can get this through the house of common

in a few moments we'll head to brussels where barbara is on standby for us also we'll get reaction from northern ireland with neve barca he's in belfast and roy chalons is following the march in london where people are demanding a 2nd referendum 1st let's speak to andrew symonds he's outside the palace of westminster for us here on the news so andrew by law mr johnson has to apply for an extension but he says no i don't. yes is it a play of wood swell we'll get into that a bit later but let me just give you a feeling for what's going on today because it's been an extraordinary day the 1st time that paula meant has sat for since 198237 years that was the focus is will the conflicts between the u.k. in argentina this was a major effects yes it didn't happen there was no vote despite all the extraordinary lengths boris johnson went to gonna support not just from within his party bringing rebels bringing them back into the fold having discipline them when they voted against the government few months but early this again bringing in labor m.p.'s who are defying their leadership by voting wit

barbara: it is midnight in brussels.ormally going to find out if there has een any breakthrough in these negotiations? look, all afternoon there has been optimistic sounding coming .ut as the eu sorted out suugesting they were on the brink of making a deal, but all you really know is that talks went on and for all we know are still going on, technical talks trying to nail down the details of a proposed new deal, coming up with a text to put in front of thattcouncil summit on thursday. we do not knnw if any big announcement will be made tonight, but what we know is that political furniture is being put in place for some sort of announcement to take place tomorrow. speaking to eube ambassadors tomorrow to tell them whether enough progress has been made to talk about a deal , whether talks should continue into next week and the possibility of another eu council. is meeting the cabinet here in london and after mps ine is meeting the parliament. it is as if they are geaaing up for a major announcementt but we will have to wai

get straight to brussels for the latest from dublin correspondent barbara phase welcome barbara they are still talking all that. and no they stopped talking and. chief negotiator michel vanya has gone to brief or de vry fischer like the 27 e.u. ambassadors about what has been achieved so far and the latest we heard just before this meeting began is that on paper at least between the 2 negotiating teams the sticking points of more or less all had been resolved they had found this formula and another little solution and another little twist to make it all somehow work for the both sides and the e.u. seemed to be agreeable to say ok we have a deal but just a few minutes ago there they seem to come warning noises from london that they're not ready to conclude a deal tonight and things have to be pushed off now nothing i say is official all this is just this constant drip drip of leaks here in brussels so we have to wait to get some sort of real statement somebody stepping out of in front of the door and saying this or that is the case by that seems to be the drift hot cold in out off on

correspondents show a lot of pomp and barbara visa war on the story for us show is in london barbara is in brussels good evening to you bush along let me start with you the indications from london suggest that there will be no deal tonight is that what you're sensing as well. this is definitely what we're hearing sources close to downing street telling us that there won't be a deal tonight and the main sticking point remains the d u p the northern irish party they have very little power in parliament just 10 votes there but boris johnson needs them to get a final deal through parliament at some point if there was to be a deal and the d u p really is insisting of staying as close as possible to the u.k. we don't really know what a new deal would entail on the u.k. side downing street has been very very tight lipped but the. bar is johnson has been holding intense talks over the last days with seems to be the sticking point they don't want to get on board and boris johnson has some serious convincing to do if he indeed wants to reach a deal. if this turns out to be true. well we're hearing from downi

right wing party has backed judicial and media reforms a true criticism from brussels for eroding the rule of law. where barbara was looking for another term in power for poland's conservative nationalist nor and justice party who are present. said not me well but they go steady like we had 4 years of hard work ahead of us i. thought because poland must continue to evolve and improved. which we must maintain our credibility which you must ensure. no one of poland has any doubt that what we are doing is good genuine and responsive. their social welfare programs anti immigrant policies and social conservatism a popular with many polish people but the biggest opposition bloc says their divisive. people want cooperation they want us to show that we are able to overcome the splits that are in our country people don't want poland to be divided into parts people don't want their hearts broken because poles are not able to understand each other we're the ones who are promoting cooperation with the smaller parties also made against a left wing coalition is back in parliament and the far right exceeded poland's national

for grabs so we can still hear john bercow the speaker there saying order barbara you've been shuttling between london and brussels where those this latest development leave brussels or e.u. leaders inclined to give the u.k. another extension on. of course in the end they will they are not going to be the ones who pushed britain over the break definitely absolutely not in spite of all the talk of say you know tough talk saying no we don't want this anymore not another extension oh they don't want it because they exist for aged because they think that this wrecks it so i got this ongoing drama is poison in the waters politically but they will sit there and wait they're going to wait out this yet another dramatic week in breakfast at the mary roller coaster and then they will decide next week after all this has played out whether they're going to want an extension and the answer is yes we're hearing that momentum is building among british voters for another referendum on breaks it is that momentum also building in parliament. it is difficult to say at the moment the numbers are not yet there but if the parliamentari

more clues on that peter back to you and we thank you very much let's go live now to 19 barbara who's in brussels for us here on out a 0 certain a dream is the e.u. mind to grant another extension. well i think it really depends on whether you mean publicly or in private and whether you mean right now or somewhere further down the line now there was the e.u. summit so on thursday and friday where boris johnson said to his fellow the e.u. leaders that he thought this deal could get through parliament and after that we heard noises from the the likes of the head of the european commission saying that he didn't think another delay would be necessary and the french president. saying he hoped there wouldn't be another delay and just now we're hearing in reaction to what's happened on saturday a french diplomatic source quoted as saying it's in no one's interest to have another delay but the other side of the coin reflected by the polish prime minister who said he's welcomes what's happened in terms of this amendment is just a delaying to backing the deal but saying that the priority must remain avoidi

and barbara sarah in london with the top stories from europe including signals from london and brussels that a breck's a deal is imminent but sticking points over the irish border remain. also ahead hold off the political stage hong kong is embattled leader is forced to abandon her annual policy speech. i'm going to get you off go with the sports olympic officials move next year's marathon from tokyo to escape the city state. hello the u.s. is dispatching vice president mike pence and secretary of state mike on pay 0 to turkey hoping to convince it's a hole to its military offensive in northern syria for president donald trump appears to be talking down america's role in the crisis saying syria and turkey will hopefully work it out by themselves turkey launched the operation a week ago after trumper broccoli withdrew support from kurdish allies for kurdish allies which turkey regards as terrorists. tiriel doesn't want turkey to take its land i can understand that but what does that have to do with the united states of america if they're fighting over syria's land are we supposed to figh

work out a breakfast deal for the block to consider a summit in brussels in 2 there is time for more on that let's cross over to barbara starr and our european new center there in thank you and yes they go see agents from the u.k. and the european union are trying to reach an agreement by the end of this week ahead of britain's official departure from the block on the 31st the negotiator says obstacles remain between the 2 sides but insists there is still potential for a deal a spokesman for u.k. prime minister boris johnson says talks have been constructive so far adding that if a deal was going to be reached britain wanted to do it as soon as possible. for a 2 day leaders' summit on thursday. reaching an agreement. please do push the board obviously any agreement must work for you and your all. of the united kingdom and the whole of the european union let me add you do i time. to turn good intentions you know legal text let's go live now to john hall who is at westminster for a service or jenna they've got until the end of tuesday the end of this evening what's the latest negotiations. but we're not getting very much

that's barbara faisal in manchester and a you correspondent mattress is assisting with the european union will except johnson's proposals. after months and months of break that deadlock in brussels there finally seems to be word of positive advances even progress the u.k. has made the compromise in the new proposal that northern ireland could remain part of the internal market in other words some products from mainland u.k. could no longer after following e.u. regulations go into northern ireland a number of problems however the head of the european commission jungle juncker pointed out remain and they need to be tackled for instance the fact that the u.k. wants to withdraw entirely including northern ireland from the custom your customs union which creates big problems for the republic of ireland which is you member state and so far the republic of ireland had full rock solid support from the other even member states so 2 things we need to look out for now what does the republic of ireland make of this new proposals and what do e.u. need goshi 8 years make of the proposal they now have to decide whether this u.k. proposal that is now on the table could become a new landing zone

hello i'm barbara sara this is al jazeera live from london also coming up signals from london and brussels that a breakfast a deal is within reach but sticking points over the irish border remain. hong kong's embattled leader carry lion is forced to abandon her annual address as pro-democracy lawmakers call her in the city's legislative council and. on poor recent lapland sweden where the indigenous sami people say their way of life is under threat not just from climate change but from the government solutions to stop it. hello thank you for joining us the battle lines of syria's civil war are being redrawn as turkey's military offensive enters its 2nd week syrian government troops have entered the town of combining with the u.s. and kurdish fighters defeated eisel 4 years ago the government forces have been allowed in after cutting a deal with syrian kurds who are fighting turkish troops battles are also raging in the key border town of ras al-ain kurdish fighters are filling the skies with smoke to blind the turkish warplanes of fighting turkish backed syrian rebels on the ground meanwhi

barbara plett usher there. the british government says its pressing ahead with efforts to get a brexit deal passed this week in parliament, despite borisjohnson having been forced to send a letter to brusselsinisters insist the uk will leave the european union by october 31st. but the opposition labour party says it will push for a new referendum on the government's brexit deal, when it comes before the commons in the coming days. here's our deputy political editorjohn pienaar. they don't seem to know when they are beaten, even when they have been defeated. senior ministers marched into tv studios today with a defiant message. they will deliver brexit on time, by october the 31st, and being forced to send a request to brussels seeking another brexit delay wouldn't stop them. the game changer this week, which we partly talked about, is that he has defied the doubters, got a deal, and notwithstanding the shenanigans in parliament, we now appear to have the numbers to get this through. the only question is, why aren't we getting on with it? the ayes to the right, 322, the noes to the left, 306. what he called parliamentary shenanigans, others called an embarrassing defeat yesterday. that vote

prepare to square off in brussels was will boris johnson do next followed the e.u. breaks that summit on al-jazeera. i'm barbarastarr in london with the top stories on al-jazeera turkey has pushed on with its offensive in northern syria pounding kurdish fighters and ignoring economic sanctions by the united states more than 160000 people have been displaced in the last 7 days the aid group doctors without borders says it's stopping most of its operations in the area u.s. vice president mike pence and secretary of state might pump aoe are heading to turkey in the next 24 hours to push for a cease fire. meanwhile syrian troops backed by russia have now taken over the city of mumbai where turkish forces are gathering at the border russia though says it will not allow turkish and syrian government forces to clash it's now patrolling a dividing line to prevent a confrontation has more now from. turkey's border with syria the russians announcing that the syrian army is now in control of members a strategic city in the northern countryside of aleppo lies at a crossroads on a major supply line which is an international