sebastien courts welcoming the result and saying that he looks forward to welcoming her to the e.u. summit which will have at the top of its agenda on thursday briggs it and how the e.u. goes forward with that they will have a frank exchange of views with cerys a may and then when she leaves there will then be a chance for the twenty seven b. u. countries those not leaving the e.u. to discuss their position but the clarity that exists is obvious but they will not renegotiate the deal and so there this past continues the fact that the deal is acceptable in brussels but not acceptable in london is very clear and unless there is room for interpretation and clarification as president of the european commission has said well it's hard to see where this goes next and remember all the time the march twenty ninth deadline of twenty nineteen looms ever larger when britain will leave the european union the u.s. senate has defied president donald trump and has begun discussing a resolution to end u.s. military support for the saudi marathi like coalition in yemen they have until friday to vote on it

sebastien cortes welcoming the result and saying that he looks forward to welcoming her to the e.u. summit which will have at the top of its agenda on thursday briggs it and how the e.u. goes forward with that they will have a frank exchange of views with a reason may and then when she leaves there will then be a chance for the twenty seven e.u. countries of those not leaving the e.u. to discuss their position but the clarity that exists is obvious that they will not renegotiate the deal and so there this past continues the fact that the deal is acceptable in brussels but not acceptable in london is very clear and unless there is room for interpretation and clarification as president of the european commission has said well it's hard to see where this goes next and remember all the time the march twenty ninth deadline of twenty nineteen looms ever larger when britain will leave the european union jeffrey anderson is a professor in the school of foreign service at georgetown university he joins us on skype from bethesda and maryland and geoffrey as we've heard tourism is due in brussels tom

set to join an e.u. summit in brussels in a few hours time now the move comes one day after she survived a no confidence motion brought by members of her own party on happy with her breakfast plans may says she will seek more assurances from brussels on the so-called backstop designed to prevent a hard boarder on the island of ireland well have more from our correspondent in a moment but first this report. i put the announcement came that the majority of conservative lawmakers do have confidence in to resign my person porters could breathe a sigh of relief. but not everyone could share the joy about one third of my own party voted against the prime minister's critics think she should resign. her deal through. withdrawal agreement which is not supported by many conservatives or by the opposition and having failed in her name plank a policy it would be called. the friday after weeks of speculation about how much support my had from within her own party enough letters was sent to trigger a confidence vote on her l

sebastian cortes welcoming the result and saying that he looks forward to welcoming her to the e.u. summit which will have at the top of its agenda on thursday regs it and how the e.u. goes forward with that they will have a frank exchange of views with juries in may and then when she leaves there will then be a chance for the twenty seven e.u. countries those not leaving the e.u. to discuss their position but the clarity that exists is obvious but they will not renegotiate the deal and so there this past continues the fact that the deal is acceptable in brussels but not acceptable in london is very clear and unless there is room for interpretation and clarification as president of the european commission has said well it's hard to see where this goes next and remember all the time the march twenty ninth deadline of twenty nine teen looms ever larger when britain will leave the european union. and the u.s. senate has defied president on all tramp and has again discussing a resolution to and u.s. military support for the saudi marathi like coalition in yemen al jazeera caster has more. at s

out of them is to reason a maybe we can say find out a little bit more by the time we get to that e.u. summit on thursday but it really is quite hard to fathom what she expects to hear from angela merkel who has made it very clear that there is no room for negotiations on the brics a deal which was agreed back in november and of course it is also worth bearing in mind that matthew has made it clear time and time again that germany doesn't support the brics it deals but the main thing right now for germany is a breakfast it is going to go ahead is making sure that it is orderly and that is something that we keep hearing from german politicians time and time again of course they are do you also have germany's interests in mind as well and of course this could have huge economic and also social effects for germany especially if the u.k. leaves new you with the hardbacks it with no deal so good given all of what you're saying that the he was simply not budging on its position on nor renegotiation of the deal what can mccool really offer today is a man who is coming obviously with some kind of hop

there the surviving all that political turbulence until terrorism is now heading your way for the e.u. summit what is she hoping to get. one of the key sticking points from tourism a's perspective regarding that divorce deal that is on the table is the so-called backstop the guarantee the european union seeks from the u.k. that there shall be no hard border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland in case both sides the e.u. and the u.k. conduct read on a future trade relationship that would guarantee that there is no border between the u.k. and the republic of ireland so northern ireland and the republic of ireland and the reason may hopes to get additional guarantees or potentially even legal guarantees that the e.u. will only use this as a as an insurance policy and not trap the whole of the u.k. in some sort of a customs union and this is of course of a sticky issue what have ever you need has been saying about it. you had a number of member states who basically said look we will not touch the divorce deal the whole package and the backstop particularly irish prime minister th

month she briefed the house of commons on talks that she held with european leaders a last week's e.u. summit and she warned lawmakers today against holding a second referendum on brics it and defended her decision to suspend the vote on her breaks it deal last week some of the resulting exchanges it is council will request but i make no apology. i make. a no apology for standing up for the interests of this house i mean. i'm interested in the whole united. are at a correspondent barbara vevo she is on the story for us tonight in london good evening to you barbara said the prime minister it sounds like she has shot down the option of a second referendum for good is that the end of it. the end is not the end is only the end of to refer to the scene the end and breaks it and that has one hundred two days to run from today so she tries to shut it down and she try to shut down all other avenues that have throughout the last days to have something like an indicative vote like would people in the house of haldeman's like norway would they like heartbreaks it you know no they like some other solutio

the only thing that comes to mind is that she says i will go back to brussels on thursday to the e.u. summit and try to renegotiate the so-called irish backstop which is the main bone of contention among the cheers in her own party how successful she can be was that is another question but that seems to be the course she's set on at the moment not to think he was already been adamant that there be no need renegotiation of this deal given that if she were to go back to brussels and delayed the vote where would that leave her. it would leave her even more dire straits than she's in at the moment it seems but somehow it we have the impression that the tory party over the weekend. more and more desperate because it was quite clear that if she had walked into this crushing defeat that was expected and problem and tomorrow then there would be a leadership challenge on wednesday from the opposition from the labor party and supposedly from within her own party and the government would somehow really break down the tories are trying to cling onto power and to somehow save the government out of this c

they will be briefing the house of commons on talks she held with european leaders set last week's e.u. summit to travel to brussels seeking to renegotiate parts of her brakes a deal with the u. but it has faced so much opposition from lawmakers that some of may's own aides have reportedly begun backing a second vote as the only way to break the impasse agree with particularly the let's get the latest on credit with john worth a political blogger who writes extensively on bragg's ajanta good good to have you back with us we heard there the truce amazing specter to warn m.p.'s against a second referendum why is she so against this possibility she still bucking her own deal let's take you. such a painstaking negotiations two to agree and she still believes that's the right way forward she thinks she's delivering on that vote from two thousand and sixteen and doesn't want to put that very it back to the people in a second referendum she thinks it would be very divisive to the british society if you did that. nevertheless the difficulty is she's not making any headway in parliament gets her own vi

saying that he looked forward to welcoming to reason made here in brussels on thursday for the e.u. summit why him well because his country holds the rotating six month presidency of the european union and it would fall to him as it were to express those sorts of sentiments point will be though that yes this is the lady with whom the european union has effectively negotiated the deal this contentious deal which is acceptable in brussels but apparently not acceptable in the u.k. parliament certainly not to elements of the u.k. conservative party to elements of the u.k. conservative cabinet so when they reconvene as it were on thursday morning here in brussels president has said what quite clear that the european council president that's the first item on the on the agenda is practices and so there will be a frank discussion a frank exchange of views between the e.u. leaders in. including to reason may about the situation and then when she leaves the twenty seven i.e. all other countries that are not leaving the e.u. well then discuss their position but we can be pretty clear that it's publi

e.u. shows no sign of moving from its current position john a whole reports from brussels. all the talk was of a disastrous summit for to resume a tense exchange is rebuffed by e.u. leaders her pleas for help fallen on deaf ears but the tone from the prime minister reflected none of it the e.u. is clear as i am that if we are going to be for the deal this is it but my discussions with colleagues today have shown that further clarification discussion following the council's conclusions is in fact possible. there is work still to do and we will be holding talks in coming days about how to obtain the further assurances that the u.k. parliament needs in order to be able to approve the deal prime minister brave face probably preempts the furious reaction she's likely to receive at home having delayed a vote on her briggs a deal this week promising assurances from the e.u. the dreaded northern ireland backstop isn't the traffic many m.p.'s fear it is she returns from brussels all but empty handed and e.u. leaders aren't doing much publicly at least to help but. we have to exclude. the opening. this is may's insistence

as she attempts to renegotiate a deal she addressed even leaders in brussels on thursday as an e.u. summit just a day earlier she survived a confidence vote triggered by her own m.p.'s who are unhappy with her withdrawal agreements the e.u. has already said that the deal cannot be renegotiated only clarified al-jazeera joins us now from brussels jonah tourism a went to brussels to try to get something more from the brics a deal that you get anything at all. will knows you pointed out she said she wasn't expecting a breakthrough and indeed she didn't get a breakthrough we've had a press conference in the last hour from. the european commission press president filling us in on what happened during the evening hours he told us that everyone listen to to reason is she explained the level of extreme opposition at home in parliament towards her brigs a deal painstakingly negotiated with the over the past eighteen months in particular opposition to that backstop insurance policy against a hard border on the island of ireland many british m.p.'s fear that it's a trap that britain will become caugh

saying that he looked forward to welcoming to reason made here in brussels on thursday for the e.u. summit why him well because his country holds the rotating six month president.

of it means that she'll be here tomorrow she will be going to the council of ministers for the e.u. summit one would deduce from that result and we'll be discussing brags that this deal with the twenty seven of the e.u. leaders and with the presidents of the two institutions based here but you know as we were just hearing this this this brings it full of conundrums one key can under is how does a deal that is acceptable in brussels be unacceptable in london and that's what we're effectively dealing with right now how does she really go she ate a deal that can't be renegotiated that's effectively the conundrum she's going to deal with at the brussels level and clearly she'll be here tomorrow quite what she'll do well we have to wait to see what that will be she'll be hoping that this clarification or interpretation that president has suggested could be used intelligently while it will have to be used very intelligently indeed if it is to arrive at a result that will placate all the members of her own party who just voted against it more than a third of her parliamentary party voted against

resign me says she plans to press on with her plan to seek concessions on her breaks that deal at an e.u. summit on thursday it comes after the prime minister survived a bit by lawmakers from within her own conservative party to unseat her me is i'm in from another leadership challenge for at least a year.

may's says she plans to press on with her plan to seek concessions on her breaks that deal at an e.u. summit on thursday it comes after the prime minister survived a bid by lawmakers from within her own conservative party to unseat her may is a million from another leadership challenge for at least to hear. a manhunt is underway in the french city of strasburg after a gunman opened fire at a christmas market there on choose day two people were killed and thirteen a.

e.u. shows no sign of moving from its current position john howell reports from brussels . all the talk was of a disastrous summit for to resume a tense exchange is rebuffed by e.u. leaders her pleas for help fallen on deaf ears but the tone from the prime minister reflected none of it the e.u. is clear as i am that if we are going to be with the deal this is it but my discussions with colleagues today have shown that further clarification and discussion following the council's conclusions is in fact possible. there is work still to do and we will be holding talks in coming days about how to obtain the further assurances that u.k. parliament needs in order to be able to approve the deal prime minister brave face probably preempts the furious reaction she's likely to receive at home having delayed a vote on her briggs a deal this week promising assurances from the e.u. the dreaded northern ireland backstop isn't the traffic many m.p.'s fear it is she returns from brussels all but empty handed and e.u. leaders aren't doing much publicly at least to help. we have to exclude. open. mrs may's insistence that legal ass

leaders on the european commission before this week's e.u. summit but still not clear specifically when that's going to be but she wants to discuss changes and address and peace concerns but we don't have a date for a renewed vote for when this vote will now take place and that is a great source of anger among politicians in the chamber many of them with desperate to finally have that say on this rather chaotic gregg's that process make claims that she's listened to critics and to the concerns that people have and that she's going to do everything she can to seek assurances from the e.u. over the issue of the irish stop well a lot of people would say that she didn't listen that she should have those in her own party will say she should have postponed this vote on this say that this wasn't a deal that they wanted a tall and that's what the leader of the labor opposition party jeremy corbyn had to say the government is in disarray uncertain is building for business people are in despair at this stage of these failed negotiations the prime minister is

e.u. summit that's going to take place tomorrow and on friday and clearly there's an invitation to all the unique is including to reason may as british prime minister to be at that meeting but clearly if she loses tonight's vote then she will not be attending and therefore no one from the u.k. you know head of government from the u.k. will be there so from their perspective they're watching avidly to see what will happen and what interpretation their own as to whether her position is actually in any way if she should she does win do they see it as a strengthening her position and meaning that they've actually got to come up with some concessions or some changes that would placate the parliament to the u.k. parliament. well again we're here in the area not so much as speculation as we have certainty don't we that if we take as i say at face value what has been said by the presidents of the institutions not just by them law and let's be clear anglo-american one of the leading influencers in europea

prime minister tomorrow in order to take part in in whatever discussions the e.u. summit will have on breaks it because clearly if theresa may does not have the confidence of her own party then she can't stay as prime minister so that is a huge caveat there but for the presuming that she stays as prime minister presuming that she wins that vote of confidence then she'll be here and she will talk to the other twenty seven leaders of government and of course to the presidents of the. commission and at the council and there will be that discussion and afterwards as twenty seven i.e. all the other e.u. countries they will discuss where to go next but it's worth making the point reiterating that despite the the warm meeting reception that the reason they got here in brussels that she got in the hague that she got in but only as you referred to in your question to generally iran she also got the cold reality of we're not renegotiating this she's perhaps going clinging on to the suggestion from president that there could be intelligent use of clarification and interpretation but

leaders in the european commission before this week's e.u. summit but still not clear specifically when that's going to be but she wants to discuss changes and address embry's concerns but we don't have a date for every new devote for when this vote will now take place because she says it depends on what happens in brussels and that is a great source of anger among politicians in the chamber many of them was desperate to finally house that say on this rather chaotic break that process and at some points you could see that it's a reason they couldn't even talk over the hackling in the billings coming from opposition parties in the chamber all dibley and visibly frustrated politicians but into reason made initial speech she did attempt to address the different factions of her critics so she said she can only deliver brags that by compromising with the e.u. that she needs to negotiate there you can't have it both ways and those that want to advocate all the avenues need to shoulder the responsibility of what those avenues might bring so she said to tho

may's says she plans to press on with her plan to seek concessions on her breaks that deal at an e.u. summit on thursday it comes after the prime minister survived a bit by lawmakers from within her own conservative party to unseat her may is a million from another leadership challenge for at least a year. a manhunt is underway in the french city of strasburg after a gunman opened fire at a christmas market there.

amaze says she plans to press on with her plan to seek concessions on her breaks that deal at an e.u. summit on thursday it comes after the prime minister survived a bid by lawmakers from within her own conservative party to unseat her me is a million from another leadership challenge for at least to hear. a manhunt is underway in the french city of strasburg after a gunman opened fire at a christmas market they are.

amaze says she plans to press on with her plan to seek concessions on her breaks that deal at an e.u. summiton thursday it comes after the prime minister survived a bid by lawmakers from within her own conservative party to unseat her maybe is a million from another leadership challenge for it.

e.u. leaders to help that this talk of a january summit here as well at which point maybe some final concession can be made. but there is a fundamental difficulty in the logic of prime minister may's problem dissenting u.k. m.p.'s want britain to be able to control the mechanisms of the so-called northern . but that would render the backstop worthless as the insurance policy it's intended to be against a hard border on the island of ireland. could you say it's because health credits. and good will changes that. brussels. still ahead on al-jazeera the top court in sri lanka hands down a ruling that's a major setback for the president. and experience the division israelis get a chance to see how palestinians live under occupation. and i were almost still in season this transition in that the snow and the ice which showed itself in the southeast in states for actually from north carolina down to as georgia and beyond is about to replace by rain and melt and when that happens in the rains showing up here on issues and states you like to get record a lot of water all at once the flood potential has

sleight of hand can be performed to persuade doubting in peace to back her deal the message from this e.u. summit is probably not going to hold al-jazeera brussels to sri lanka now where the disputed prime minister is to step down and the rajapaksa will be so. meeting a letter of resignation will address the nation on saturday hopefully ending a political crisis that began in october rajapaksa was sworn in as prime minister after the president's become a singer and dissolved the parliament finance as more from. prime minister in the rajapaksa announcing his decision to step down as prime minister to a gathering where party representatives who met the president earlier on on friday had gathered he told them that he hopes to address the nation and then basically step down from the post of prime minister bear in mind that this last forty days or so since my him that rajapaksa this country's former president was appointed prime minister has been controversial to say the least some people describing it as a political coup particularly after prison my three palace seriously in the appointed drop approx

leaders in the european commission before this week's e.u. summit to discuss changes and to address all these concerns she says she's listen to the politicians and she will go back to brussels and attempt to really go she ate these aspects of the deal it's not clear however and she still hasn't said when the new vote will be penciled in for because he says it's a two way negotiation and it depends essentially on how she does with brussels but it was obviously very very fractious and there you saw. coming out of the house of commons the politicians so angry that they're not going to get to have their say on the deal to morrow many of them were desperate to get a sense of catharsis and to kind of you know to contribute to this what has turned into a rather chaotic break zip process at some points so angry were the politicians in there that the reason they couldn't even talk over all the heckling take a lesson. i mean absolutely no doubt that this deal is the right one it's almost the result of the referendum for the remainder of the statement must. se

amaze says she plans to press on with her plan to seek concessions on her breaks that deal at an e.u. summit on thursday it comes after the prime minister survived a bed by lawmakers from within her own conservative party to unseat her me is a million from another leadership challenge for at least a year. a manhunt is underway in the french city of strasburg after a gunman opened fire at a christmas market there on choose day two people were killed and thirteen others.

michele baron you remember that there is due to be an e.u. summit of all twenty eight member nations here in brussels thursday and friday now donald tusk had hoped that this would be the brags that summit well clearly if to reason may want to lose that vote of no confidence then clearly she can't then come to that summit that brags that summit which puts real pressure then on as we were hearing this this timetable what will happen next so from one sense we can imagine that the leaders of the e.u. institutions will hope for continuity well hope that they won't have to to build a relationship with a future prime minister particularly given as we were saying that the timetable march twenty ninth looms ever larger in people's minds so you have that sense here of they feel they've negotiated with the same person they told her what the policy was that there won't be another negotiation that may be room for clarifications and now they have to wait for the ultimate clarification which is what does the conservative party in the united kingdom want to do next

breakthrough as she attempts to renegotiate deal she addressed you leaders in brussels on thursday at an e.u. summit just a day earlier she survived a confidence vote triggered by her own m.p.'s unhappy with her withdrawal agreements they already said the deal cannot be renegotiated clarified here's what theresa may said before heading into those days meeting with u.s. officials. i'm going to be addressing the european council later and i will be showing the with legal and political assurances that i believe we need to assuage the concerns that members of parliament have on this issue and i know the e.u. twenty seven will also be discussing the deal planning and indeed the government of the u.k. is discussing their geo planning but i think it's i've always said to the best arrangement travel body for both the u.k. and the us to agree a deal and get this deal over the line china hell has more from brussels. we don't know quite what she said to her fellow twenty seven e.u. leaders before dinner this evening in terms of laying out for them as she said there what she wants in terms of political and lega

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e.u. is showing no sign of moving from its current position jonah how has moved from brussels all the talk was of a disastrous summit for to resume a tense exchanges replaced by e.u. leaders who pleas for help for all deaf ears. but the tone from the prime minister reflected none of it the e.u. is clear as i am that if we are going to be with the deal this is it but my discussions with colleagues today have shown that further clarification and discussion following the council's conclusions in fact possible. there is work still to do and we will be holding talks in coming days about how to obtain the further assurances that u.k. parliament needs in order to be able to approve the deal prime minister brave face probably preempts the furious reaction she's likely to receive at home having delayed a vote on her break the deal this week promising assurances from the e.u. the dreaded northern ireland backstop isn't the traffic many m.p.'s fear it is she returns from brussels empty handed and e.u. leaders on doing much publicly at least to help. we have to. open. mrs may's insistence that legal assurances could yet be fort