all right henry newman thank you very much [inaudible] thank you. dozens of migrants have been stranded at sea for ten days now have been granted permission to disembark in a silly it comes after the european court of human rights ordered road to provide those on board with the medical assistance food and water. they will now be shared among several european states is there in a a goodd car pools. afterr more thahan ten days stranded at sea the asylum seekers aboard the sea watch three rescue ship may finally have a place to go. italian prime minister giuseppe call date said the forty seven people aboard including at least ten unaccompanied minors will be split among seven c countris that have agreed to take the men. that wil d do it he said i know thatt the disisembarkan operatioions will begin witn the coming hours. maybe you'll always have t e factcts that luxemembourg to join the list of friendly countries not accepted --- request i want to thank the premier better. i don't know ifif other countries will joinn that lost. a six countries positive

listen to people from from other parties then coming back with actively the same as she had before henry newman's as director of the open europe think tank do you think henry. ford an inch from where we were this time last week a little bit i mean some new announcements made this morning specifically on the way that e.u. nationals currently in the u.k. will get their settled status their right to reside the prime minister's guarantee they'll be able to do that free rather paying any money and she was ruled out any speculation that she might try to reopen the good friday agreement the peace deal in northern ireland so i think that's that has moved on but overall i know i mean the prime minister's critics are saying where's the plan b. where the new ideas of course we've been discussing bracks nonstop in the u.k. for three years of course there's no new ideas and she's right to a degree there is no plan b. because there's only one deal that's been done with the e.u. and that's her deal and if parliament were to rule out no deal she's also right in saying that that could potentially involve having t

with me is henry newman, and grace plenty welcome to you both. inister is in a good position at the moment, it's a good position at the moment, it's a dire situation but is it possible that she becomes emboldened by the vote and goes back to europe at some point and says she now has the confidence of the house? tonight was a decisive win for her, it showed thatjeremy corbyn's strategy has backfired and the next question will now backfired and the next question will now be what does labour want to do with brexit, and we saw labour mps asking what their policy would be if we asking what their policy would be if we had a general election? we don't know ifjeremy corbyn will back a second referendum but theresa may could present herself as the only national party leader backing brexit, and we had two big nights here at westminster but nothing has really changed, the same options are in there as there were before, either we leave the eu with a version of the prime minister's deal for we leave without a deal or we don't leave. at this point jeremy corbyn

and what options are open to mps are dr catherine haddon from the institute for government and henry newman a lot of people are asking this, what is the irish backstop mean? it's meant to be an insurance policy, used only if they can't agree to a deal to make sure there is an open border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland where trade and infrastructure are able to move freely. it's meant to try and protect that while they work out what the future listenership will be. but there are concerns that there won't be as temporary as they wa nted there won't be as temporary as they wanted to be and what it means for the future relationship. will it force us into a relationship that people don't want. this word temporary. what it's billed as is a temporal issue chip that lasted until a future relationship comes along, when does that happen? we simply don't know. the prime minister say she's try to clarify some of the terms of the backstop, she's trying to do that in brussels. we had been prepared for the fact that if this deal goes through, we could be in the backstop for sometime,