indeed, but the erc, the catalan left of centre party which looks like it might form pa rt party whichlooks like it might form part of this coalition for the left of centre government, so the question around the catalan story, which is really what is brought about this selection in the first place, politicalfragmentation about this selection in the first place, political fragmentation in spain, particularly since 2015. there was a strong two—party system but there isn't any more. the writer is fragmented completely which is why the partido popular is lost so many seats in catalonia will be a big talking point going forward. this is another example of an election where we are not getting more the established parties winning majorities, or even the established opposition. we are seeing new parties coming in, the electorate saying, we need change. this is happening worldwide. it is happening worldwide and it has interesting implications for what's going on in the uk at the moment. let's move on to that. the independent looking at the european elections and some local elections in the coun

to stay in but members of the erc at home talking about how difficult they want to make life for the eu if they are still members. one mp talking about acting like a trojan horse within the eu. france michael about demands and conditions of this delay. -- france is mindful about demands and conditions of this delay. thes: you have captured issues at play. anna edwards from the european market open in brussels. thes get to our guest host, head of u.k. rates over at ubs. good to see of this morning. and i has laid out the groundwork of the -- and i has laid out the groundwork. there is a risk of veto. do you think there is a risk of ? veto arising today or guest: there is always a risk of a veto. when you need 27 countries to unanimously agree to whatever is proposed ultimately at the end of today. it seems highly unlikely. you can see the way the markets thereeen trading that will be that situation arising. the best bet remains at this point that we do get an extension longer than theresa may wants. has been discussing, it will cause a lot of waves domestically in the u.k. but that se

information about contacts between campaign individuals or people in the campaign orbit and pervasive erc efforts by russian intelligence and surrogates to affect them and to communicate with them, how are those facts going to affect how the country deals with the next election that we're coming up on. and if all we take away from today and from the report is that, well, it's not criminal activity, so it doesn't matter, that really raises a lot of questions about what is acceptable behavior for a campaign over the next one to two years. >> let me ask the lawyers this question. if the mueller report, and again, we don't know what it says, but if it says there were people who were being used by the russians but didn't know it, or were willfully being used but weren't coordinating or didn't hack the election themselves, i mean, what would you say if they were saying okay, they were just being used but they weren't knowingly being used? >> the word knowingly was a word that attorney general barr used. >> exactly. >> no american knowingly disseminated material. >> that's the key word, so what

michiel kramer here from the erc said the history of science will be divided into the time before thend the time after the image. and you know, for my generation, it's all about imagination of something that was in between science and fiction. at the age of nine i went with my father to watch the movie black hole and i remember coming home and for the first time in my life at nine years old thinking about what is the meaning of life? what am i doing here? is there any parallel universe? that's what really got me excited, and probably the question that we have to ask, for everyone who loves science, to think about what about in 100 years? einstein was there 100 years ago but in 100 yea rs was there 100 years ago but in 100 years what will be the discoveries, the things that we will discover from this knowledge. i see robert de graaf there who wrote a great book about the usefulness of useless knowledge and einstein could not imagine what he discovered, he couldn't imagine that one day because he created and discovered anti matter that that would create the pat scan that would save live