e.u. council has also come out and said well actually we also have to listen to the voice of those who are who want to remain because there's been an online petition that in just a few days has gathered nearly six million signatures there's also been a huge march here in london over the weekend about one million people all calling for revoking article fifty so donald tusk has weighed in and said we must also listen to those voices this is what he had to say you cannot be traders six million people who signed a petition to revoke article fifty. one million people thank you. for it people wrong all the increasing majority of people who wants to remain in the european union. they may feel that they are not sufficiently represented by the u.k. parliament but they must feel the day are represented by you in this chamber

e.u. council has provided for a further extension of the twelfth of april for the u.k. to come forward and come up with a plan and a process of what exactly to do next that also the sort of course if they do intend to participate in the european parliamentary elections something which a would be rather pointless given their leaving the european union and be something that's a reason why he has said that would be almost the red line for something that she would not consider now to say that this decision was an easy one or a unanimous one at least from the very start would be misleading and they were quite different positions on the e.u. council countries such as belgium and france president micron for one playing hardball stating that a no deal. it was still on the table others such as angular merkel playing a more conciliatory tone calling for more understanding of the u.k. and hawkins reporting there will be also discuss the issue with the political consultant policeman moratti who says that every step in the brics process is making the situation more complicated when

e.u. council summit to decide what to do next perhaps even a resignation from the prime minister to resign may she was fiercely criticized just last night for a speech after submitting that letter to john there are so many options here in both the u.k. domestic politics and in that relationship with the e.u. now remember all these dates are for now speculation we're still waiting for the official confirmation from little to come in the next two hours. for that although it does look like that twenty second of may deadline does remain with that option of a further one until the twelfth of if of course the u.k. depending on if the u.k. decides to participate in those european parliament elections which of course will be quite well what silly really given that they want to leave the european union we're going to get that official confirmation and bring you that as it comes or a lot of dates to juggle with daniel thanks very much for that for now. so as things stand then the u.k. is still legally on course to leave the european union in just over a week from now but a week is a very long time i

e.u. council summit and finally a decision was reached officially and a final offer two to reason may and the u.k. for its bricks of plans for spoiling that they had line article fifty until the twenty second of may conditional on to resume a passing up plan in parliament of course it's already been rejected twice by big majorities humiliating defeat for the conservative government and it's probably for that reason that the e.u. council added these conditions of the condition that surpasses that through if not they voted the option of a second extension up until the twelfth of april now if the u.k. chooses to go for that second extension of the reason may fails to put our plan through parliament as is widely expected the u.k. will have to come up with some sort of plan with some sort of offer to continue that process in which case they will have to agree to participate in the european parliamentary elections but of course that would be rather silly and rather pointless because the u.k. is of course leaving the european union as. the reason i stated it in her press conference oh come the t

e.u. council added these conditions of the condition that you pass is that through if not they've added the option of a second extension up until the twelfth of april now if the u.k. chooses to go for that second extension of the reason may fails to put our plan through parliament as is widely expected the u.k. will have to come up with some sort of plan with some sort of offer to continue that process in which case they will have to agree to participate in the european parliamentary elections but of course that would be rather silly and rather pointless because the u.k. is of course leaving the european union as the reason made stated in her press conference so probably twenty eighth of march depending on. what happens in the house of commons she might have to go back to the e.u. once again the e.u. may have to call another emergency council meeting to decide what exactly happens next so it does seem the brusk the brics saugor for now will continue. it's being claimed american mercenaries helped president consolidate power they allegedly arrived in the caribbean country on a secret mission

e.u. and with you it's like the right to write on the council. and foreign minister great to have you with us again you are always a very welcome guest on our show thank you for being with us and this time around we have lots of news to discuss because hunger is once again making the top charts when it comes to news to the bloc of the center right parties in the european parliament the european people's party has voted to suspend your ruling party fidesz. is a very big well. to your party what does it mean and why would they do it because it would seem like they need support for then my may elections. because you have to understand that migration the rules the agenda of the european union as such when it comes to politics or policies and being the largest political family coming from the rights. to censor all of the basically. you have a very colorful set of party is and that's why the migration there is an issue when it comes to the debates and the position of different parties on migration the first and our position is a very strong. position w

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e.u. council added these conditions of the condition that you pass is that through if not they voted the option of a second extension up until the twelfth of april and i was the u.k. chooses to go for that second extension of the reason may fails to put our plan through parliament as is widely expected the u.k. will have to come up with some sort of plan was some sort of offer to continue that process in which case they will have to agree to participate in the european parliamentary elections to get a if you like an indefinite extension but of course that would be rather silly rather pointless because the u.k. is of course leaving the european union as the reason may stated in her press conference now at the end of that meeting. certainly seemed in a very buoyant mood stating that the atmosphere in the meeting was better than expected that it was positive and that the discussions had been very constructive. how long is a long extension please. for the yes. on to the variant. i think to our poll. and there's still empty and that means the lot of spaces and i. the reaction of disbelief on social

e.u. is offering a shorter postponement and only on the condition that the british parliament approves the unpopular withdrawal deal painstakingly negotiated by the british prime minister and brussels on friday the european council president sounded upbeat about the extension. really about this development the fate of brigit. and so far over to strengthen. the e.u. we are prepared for the worst. but hope for the best. if you love. after a seemingly endless lot of debate discussion. and shopping and changing plans the e.u. council did finally come up with that official proposal for to reason may come though with quite strict terms and conditions an extension of article fifty until the twenty second of may conditional upon her passing a plan through parliament a further extension until the twelfth of april conditional upon the u.k. coming up with some sort of road map a plan as to what exactly to do and the possibility of yet another further as yet indefinite extension conditional upon the u.k. participating in european parliamentary elections that is something to resume a has said is a red line for her and would of course be rather pointless given the u.k. has decided to leave the european union in the press conf

e.u. council president and we don't know how long she wants a delay for this talk about off until june but possibly being extended for two years and you can imagine the things that is going on within the e.u. over that he taught i might say of the political and economic cost to the blog and it is very very easy for a member state to say no we're not happy for that kind of extension because there has to be unanimity so that the speaker ruled yesterday that service is made cannot bring this this deal back unless it's substantially different despite the us will she try she most certainly will and even michelle has said that at the moment that is still the only deal on the table to ensure that there is an orderly brics it the question is how does to raise it may bring it back given that ruling by the speaker and there are various scenarios going on and suddenly her legal team looking at how she can if she can get this. support of the brics it isn't particularly those ten northern irish and do you pm p.s. if you can finally bring them on side perhaps that would help can she get more concessions

e.u. council president welcomed the european union's unanimous decision to delay brakes and take a listen. to greg jennett the also formalized last night's decisions by the e.u. . and the u.k. to delay their cleavage allowed for an extension. so i am really happy about this development as i said yesterday. it remains that the twelfth of april and the thing is possible at the new extension if the u.k. decided to rethink its strategy all invoking article fifty which is a provocative for the u.k. government. the fate of bridget. and so far a british friends. all right so much to digest or let's go straight to brussels to do you have a correspondent barbara ways or who is standing by barbara last night in leaders agreed to extend the deadline beyond march twenty ninth giving the u.k. some breathing space why did it take them so long to reach that decision and are they satisfied with the outcome give us a post-mortem. there is one really simple reason because they have twenty seven so if everybody only gets ten minutes to talk about brics it and what he thinks about it and how he or she things

, the european council formalized last night's decisions by the e.u.27 and the u.k.o delay and allow for an extension. this morning i'm really happy about this development. as i said yesterday, it means that until april 12, anything is possible. a deal, a long extension if the u.k. decided to rethink its strategy or invoking article 50 which is for the u.k. government. the fate of brexit. phil: let's go to brussels, we join our friend, d.w. correspondent. was the meeting har monius? >> presidents, prime ministers and chancellors, they think they're really important. they need to hash it out and say what they think about teresa may after she left the room, a joke that there was so many dates on the table, it was like tinder and finally sort of figure out what could be the strategy, you know. we need a strategy, that finally after some hours emerged, dinner was postponed and then sat down and said, ok, we give them two deadlines just as you have just shown us, a short one where they need to really push it and then maybe if they get it done, then they can have a bit mor

e.u. council has moved the paradigms of this debate right away from the prospect of a no deal hard bricks at further towards the possibility of a deal further extensions or even the possibility of revoking article fifty and the u.k. staying in the european union as donald to said to one journalist in that conference he's more pro british than the journalist is nevertheless though the long hours of those debates seemingly did take that's all a little bit on that press conference last night. do would be able to agree still an extension until the. winter for a true. of the year. on to the very. according to to our poll. and there's still empty emergent it means that that a lot of space. league officials patience isn't endless though you said that kicking the can down the road isn't an option because the road in perspective is a short one and this was something echoed by german chancellor angela merkel that. we have for the time being prevented and no deal brax it on the twenty ninth of march but these a very short periods of time so britain have to meet near what path that wishes to pursue y

e.u. council president donald tusk has set for an e.u. summit to resume a the british prime minister has been invited to that summit she's been told that she must come with some sort of plan for britain to move forward if there is no plan e.u. officials have made it very clear that on april the twelfth the britain will leave the european union without a deal that's something that the leaders and officials have always said they would like to avoid they would prefer the person left in an orderly fashion but as the days pass that is looking more and more difficult well jonathan luce is the deputy director of the cross foresee think tank british influence he says m.p.'s will do everything in their power to avoid the u.k. from leaving the e.u. without a deal. well look we've said it was dead on a number of occasions and trees them a choice to bring it back to life and then parliament kills it again so we can't say beyond all doubt that it is dead but i can't see how it survives i can't see how it can be brought back to parliament since current

e.u. council would extend article fifty until the twelfth of april at this point we would either leave with no deal or put forward an alternative plan if this involves a further extension it would mean participation in the european parliamentary elections as i've said previously i believe strongly that it would be wrong to ask people in the u.k. to participate.

e.u. council president has said that on april the tenth there will be a special summit of e.u. leaders at that summit to reason may the british prime minister will be invited by that summit she has to come forward with some sort of plan as to what britain's intentions are if there is no plan on the table on april tenth what e.u. leaders saying now is the most plausible outcome of this process that on april the twelfth britain will leave the european union without a deal be a modell scenario orderly fashion but at this stage they say the most likely scenario is a no deal. has. move on to other news now and a hamas affiliated newspaper is reporting that a deal has been reached between hamas and israel to reduce tensions the agreement comes as palestinians prepare to mark the one year anniversary of weekly protests along the border fence with israel let's go to our correspondent harry for so he's been following those developments and he's joining us live from gaza so what more are you hearing about this deal harry. well as reported by the newspaper which is very much linked to ham

e.u. council president donald tusk has set for an e.u. summit to resume a the british prime minister has been invited to that summit she's been told that she must come with some sort of plan for britain to move forward if there is no plan e.u. officials have made it very clear that on april the twelfth the britain will leave the european union without a deal that's something that the leaders and officials have always said they would like to avoid they would prefer the person left in an orderly fashion but as the days pass that is looking more and more difficult for u.s. president donald trump insists he's not playing games after renewing his threat to close the border with mexico he's voted to go ahead with it of mexico doesn't stop people from crossing into the u.s. illegally mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . in recent weeks port officials have been repeatedly arguing that they simply do not have the facilities to cope with the influx of immigrants across the border they say there are not enough officers there and they simply do

e.u. council president donald tosca sent for an e.u. summit at that summit to reason may be invited she is expected to come to that summit having presented some sort of plan for britain some sort of way forward if she doesn't want to eat as the saying is that britain will simply have to leave the european union on april the twelfth without a deal that's something that they would like to try and avoid they do want to live in what's called an orderly fashion but it is looking harder and harder to reach that point i should just add one last thing and that is that donald tusk is one of several e.u. leaders who's now talking about possibly offering the united kingdom a really normal extension or wasicka fifty perhaps to the end of the year the idea being it would be a source of cooling off period of time for person to rig. go back to the table really try and think about what it wants to do what kinds of table talk about referendums elections all sorts of things but in a way that allows the e.u. to get on with its business in the meantime and

e.u. council agreed to that article fifty eight could be extended to the twenty second of may if the house approves the withdrawal agreement this week that would give us enough time to take the withdrawal agreement bills through parliament we would not have to hold european parliamentary elections and we would leave the european union but they also agreed that if we did not approve the withdrawal agreement by tonight the extension would only be to the twelfth of april not long enough to ratify a deal so anyone who wants to leave with a deal would have to support seeking a further extension any such extension would probably be a long one and that would certainly mean holding european elections so approving the withdrawal agreement to. day avoids a cliff edge in two weeks' time it avoids european elections it avoids a long extension which would at least delay and could destroy rex it. but mr speaker to secure this extension to give us a firm exit date we do not need to agree the whole deal today just the withdrawal agreement. i believe. i believe there's no overwhelming majority in this hous

e.u. council with a nominee then going forward for approval by members of the e.u. parliament it seems that you citizens are confused about the process with some thinking it's very who get to pick the new president. i think it will be in their pull something like that and yes i going to vote. never to vote. maybe to cleves down i see i don't have a clue about that. yes of course but i don't know really. i think i will go to very sort of course it's important for me to take part in for a federal europe this year what do you go to court or you go to. i don't know i don't know what you have toward i don't know i don't know i am not sure for the date but i would go to vote. on the twenty sixth of may and i'm planning to vote. for russian ministry of defense has released a video showing a russian fighter jet intercepting what it says was a u.s. aircraft u.s. plane was identified as a boeing r c one three five reconnaissance aircraft that was heading towards russian airspace over the baltic sea after being trailed by the russian su twenty seven the american plane changed

e.u. council president says the only other options beyond that are for britain to withdraw its brags that request or delay for a much longer period. the union jack at the european council will stay in its place at least for another few weeks after almost seven hours of the talks e.u. leaders a grudgingly offer the u.k. a bit more time to complete its departure from the block for clarifications in december we gave them we were. we gave i was i was full for the reassurances last month it will not to be we've got to the big step i gave this closes and completes the full package the reason no more than we can do if the length of the delay will now depend on whether prime minister to resign may can finally get her bracks a deal through parliament pending a vote and approval next week the new deadline is may twenty second any extension beyond that date would require the u.k. to participate in this year's european elections a scenario prime minister may want to avoid at all costs i believe strongly that it would be wrong to people in the u.k. to participate in these elections three is to leave t

e.u. council president donald tusk has set for an e.u.summit to resume a the british prime minister has been invited to that summit she's been told that she must come with some sort of plan for britain to move forward if there is no plan e.u. officials have made it very clear that on april the twelfth the britain will leave the european union without a deal that's something that you leaders and officials have always said they would like to avoid they would prefer the person left in an orderly fashion but as the days pass that is looking more and more difficult so what happens next and where does the u.k. go from here to find out some joined from london by jonathan this actually director of the cross party think tank british influence john a third time unlucky for me today is the prime minister's deal no date. well look we've said it was dead on a number of occasions and treats them a choice to bring it back to life and then parliament kills it again so you can say beyond all doubt that it is dead but i can't see how it survives i can't se