month prime minister boris johnson has been holding back said talks with his irish counterpart liam rocca in dublin hoping to resolve the stalemate over what will happen at the border between mexico countries if and when the u.k. leaves the european union. i am ready to listen to any constructive ways in which we can achieve our great goals and resolve the current impasse. but what we cannot do and will not do and i know you understand this is it creates the replacement of a legal guarantee with a promise you i've looked capitally at no deal i was 60 its consequences both. our country and yours and yes of course we could do it the u.k. could certainly get through it but to be in no doubt that had come would be a failure of state crawl to which we would all be. let's see where we're up to then quintin pale he's an associate fellow with a europe program at the international affairs think tank at chatham house welcome to d w. let's start with the those announcements out out of dublin what have we learned today about the 2 latest positions you know it's a huge well that we didn't already know