max hoffman therefore since frostburg get much more on bret said at our. website that state of you dot com including all the possible scenarios moving forward now let's check in with some of the other stories making news today australia has joined a growing list of countries and airlines restricting operation of the boeing airliner snoo seven thirty seven x. airliner australia's aviation authority saying it was a temporary measure a seven thirty seven x. eight crash and the theo p s sunday it's the second crash of this aircraft in five months. according to belgium has sentenced the gunman who killed four people in an attack on brussels jewish museum to life in prison many stage attack in two thousand and fourteen after returning from syria where his suspected of joining so-called islamic state is a fighter. power blackouts in the venezuelan capital caracas have disrupted the city's water system forcing residents to line up with water from tanker trucks and cisterns some are also taking water from a local river most of it as well as electric grid collapse l

max hoffman standing by there at that e.u. summit in brussels waiting for those leaders or come out of that room with some sort of confirmation of the deal thank you very much max. in the meantime let's get you caught up on some of the other stories making news around the world more than eighty people have drowned after a ferry sank in the iraqi city of mosul according to an official most of the dead are women and children the boat had been ferrying passengers to a recreational island on the river tigris when it capsized. former brazilian president michel has been arrested in connection with a large scale corruption investigation prosecutors say ten there was arrested on charges related to alleged graft in the construction of a nuclear power plant tender was president of brazil from twenty sixteen to twenty eighteen and he has denied any wrongdoing. at least five people have died and more than twenty have been injured in a series of blasts in the afghan capital kabul the explosions occurred near a shiite shrine as people gather

investigating the attack for more on it but let's cross over to our our correspondent in brussels max hoffman who is following this emerging story max what more can you tell us. well we don't know much more than you just said at the moment because of course what's really important in these situations is to verify the information you get a whole lot of different things on social media it's really important to stick to the sources so here what we do know from the officials in utah is that this happened around ten forty five local time on monday morning on a tram what's encouraging if you can speak about encouraging in these circumstances there are no reports of fate tallaght ease as of yet the exact wording that the police is using right now are multiple injured but they have deployed helicopters they did the ploy their terrorist unit to go there and the terrorism coordinator of the netherlands has said that they are investigating the situation so what is the situation there in place right now i mean it must be if this is this isn't near the city you know on a public transport tram this must ha

european council president speaking a short while ago well more on this topic now from correspondents max hoffman in a brussels for you and alex forrest whiting in the studio with me we'll get to her in a moment but want to give max the first word if i may a conditional extension that max o'donnell to us was speaking there from brussels where you are what you make of his reaction to teresa mayes demand for an extension to the end of june. you know we had to get some clarification from from our sources here in brussels to be sure to know what he actually meant to get into for taishan of what on the mend so what's going to happen is he is going to suggest what he just said to the leaders when they come on thursday to brussels for their summit meeting he will suggest that they're in favor of the short term extension until the thirtieth of june if the house of commons in the u.k. next week approves the already negotiated withdrawal agreement that they have already rejected twice if that does not happen then it gets interesting because then he at least that's how we read what he said he will call for

good enough chances for this happening have massively decreased yesterday ok very much thank you max hoffman there is frostburg and to bagot moss and a lot of thanks very much. this is still to come on the show boeing seven thirty seven max is banned from much of the world's skies after the ethiopian airlines trashed but the u.s. still backs the part of the judge will have some in-depth analysis later in the show. but first an australian court has sentenced cardinal george pell former close advisor to pope francis' to six years in prison for child sex abuse the vatican's former finance minister was found guilty of molesting two choir boys twenty years ago he's the most senior catholic cleric to be sentenced for child abuse how was convicted in december of last year after a gagging order prevented the media from reporting on the case until february when the prosecution decided not to go ahead with the second trial on other charges. oh well joining us now from sydney is correspondent roger maynard who's been covering this story for us good morning roger what's been the reaction to the six year

brussels bureau chief max hoffman he's been standing by for us in brussels in what has been a long nights of an e.u. summit and it's just day one max we just heard the press conference with donald tusk and john claude junker and they announced that there will be a brac sit extension and really a two pronged extension we have one that could be may twenty second extension and that is if this deal maze deal with the e.u. is approved in the house of commons we also have a date of april twelfth and that's in case there is no deal now we're waiting on the prime minister herself to come to the stage and address the reporters there do we have any idea of what theresa may might say and in terms of.

the moment of decision that moment talk all night and i'm joined now by our brussels bureau chief max hoffman who is in brussels for us look max nothing is simple with present right in this extension deal is no exception we have these two dates in fact in this deal april twelfth and may twenty second can you first just walk us through some of these complicated details here. nothing is ever simple but it all starts next week when presumably the house of commons will vote for a third time on the withdrawal agreement so that's the divorce deal that the e.u. and the u.k. negotiated for the last two years and the house of commons already has rejected twice to be fair but it seems to reason may the prime minister the u.k. is rather optimistic that if she really gets that third vote she might be able to push it through let's say just for the sake of it she does in that case there's an automatic extension until the twenty second of may that would be a technical extension because even if the house of commons approves they would need some time to implement that decision into the into u.k. law so that t

breaks it is their decision is versus people are listening to story now if you that so many brussels max hoffman are burial correspondent standing by good evening to you max ok let's talk about the timing on this i understand now that different dates are being thrown around what more do we know. well it's about the dates and it's about the conditions that you mentioned brian earlier you said there were some strings attached for example that the so-called with raul agreement or the divorce deal whatever you want to call it anyway that deal that was negotiated over the last two years would have to be approved by the house of commons next week to grant an extension well that's no longer written in stone to put it that way it seems like the leaders have just taken away everything that was drafted before and they're drafting their own thing now so you can imagine you have twenty seven you leaders in there it's all that you leaders except for theresa may the u.k. prime minister everybody with their own idea trying to come up with of we know for example that mike hall the french president proposed dead

s brussels bureau chief max hoffman is covering the summit for. it appears that the leaders are no longer counting on theresa may to deliver on that brags that they don't they don't believe that theresa may can convince the house of commons even if if she did that if she tries it for the third time to actually approve this withdrawal agreement so that's that's part one as an absolute red line is also emerging at the safeguarding of the european elections because beforehand they were discussing extensions beyond those elections that are taking place at the at the end of of may and now that seems to be more or less off the table because they fear this could compromise the e.u. institutions and that's something they will not accept even if the e.u. is shying away from being responsible for this at some point they will have to be a decision and it might be a no deal bragg's it and there's just no shying away from this because you cannot extend forever you can say ok there's no brags about the u.k. would have to do that but at some point there will hav

to talk about a tangled web thank you for explaining us some of the intricacies for us and max hoffman in brussels well i get back to you as soon as there is an update for now thank you and let's head straight now to london to do that we use a very good mosque because of bigotry so may has it seems at this point in time bought some of her previous but is it possible for her to end the deadlock and get the m.p.'s which she's trying to persuade to come on board and support her deal in the short amount of time that is left. yeah well isn't it amazing that it's only eight days until bragg said and the country's in absolute chaos and we really don't know what's going to happen at the end of next week really was still in the european union will britain still be a member of the e.u. or you know what what's the state of the country nobody really knows at this stage as far as m.p.'s are concerned and getting them behind trees i'm a steel i at this point would be quite pessimistic the m.p.'s i've talked to and the picture i get from looking at twitter social media for example a lot of them are r

let's go now to london and you have used baggage last joining us from strasburg a state of years max hoffman good morning to both of you let's start with london baggett what's it looking like after the massive defeat last night will we see a no deal bracks said today in parliament. well it's expected that paul newman is voting against just that scenario brian so we're expecting that m.p.'s really think that's crashing out of the european union at the end of march so in just two weeks time is for many of them something that they want to avoid at all cost and there is a vote later on and it's expected that it's going to voted against the question of cause what comes next and the government and really parliament here in the u.k. is an absolute disarray we don't know what's going to happen if you fell mentioned jeremy corbett in your piece of the door of the opposition asking for president actually and that's something that even us some loyalists into reserve mais own party all asking for so the future as of today extremely unclear ok if as expected as we just heard there from barry go on parlia

breaks so an extension to prepare for no deals that's just come across in the last couple of minutes max hoffman is frostburg barbara hazel in london but of you thank you very much. here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world u.s. backed syrian forces say some two thousand fighters of so-called islamic state have surrendered during the battle of earlier syrian troops killed dozens of jihad is in heavy fighting there the village in eastern syria is the last pocket of territory that is still held by the streams u.s. secretary of state mike from peo has announced that washington is set to withdraw all remaining diplomatic personnel from venezuela because of the country's deteriorating situation political turmoil in the country increased last week when the country's electricity grid largely collapsed president maduro has suggested a u.s. sabotage is behind that blackout and. the european union's aviation safety agency has joined the growing list of jurisdictions suspending the operation of all boeing seven thirty seven max eight and max nine aircraft now the res

speaking a short while ago earlier had the opportunity to or talk to our brussels correspondent max hoffman and ask him what he made of dollar to six remarks he is going to suggest what he just said to the leaders when they come on thursday to brussels for their summit meeting he will suggest that they're in favor of the short term extension until the thirtieth of june if the house of commons in the u.k. next week approves the already negotiated withdrawal agreement that they have already rejected twice if that does not happen then it gets interesting because then he at least that's how we read what he said he will call for a special summit at the end of the next week where leaders could convene again and then think about what what they should do in the face of this third rejection by the house of commons and now this is this is speculation but it's kind of founded speculation. what we've seen in the last weeks that leaders could decide they need a different kind of extension either much longer for the u.k. to sort things out maybe with a second referendum or even snap elections or somethin

there so what happens next joining us now for the latest is did abuse back at mawson london and max hoffman our brussels bureau chief good morning to both of you a bag and if we could start with you this morning theresa may has said that the situation right now is that in spite of last night's vote the bracks options remain the same is that where we are right now. no something has changed what she's talking about is had a deal is the only deal basically that still on the table and she's still hoping also to get it through because now she really can exert more pressure on paula meant because the choicest is as she puts it it's my deal too is amazed that she's hammered out with the european union or either no brags it at all or everything in your lengthy brix a process in which everything can happen a second referendum could happen so it's a reason they will once again try and put had a deal on the table because she knows that for those people who want out in their own party there are many of them they will now think long and hard that might be their last shot that they get to exit the europe

the moment of decision that moment talk all night and i'm joined now by our brussels bureau chief max hoffman who is in brussels for us look max nothing is simple with price it right at this extension deal is no exception we have these two dates in fact in this deal april twelfth and may twenty second can you first just walk us through some of the complicated details here. nothing is ever simple but it all starts next week when presumably the house of commons will vote for a third time on the withdrawal agreement so that's the divorce the e.u. and the u.k. negotiated for the last years and the house of commons already has rejected twice to be fair but it seems to reason may the prime minister of the u.k. is rather optimistic that if she really gets that third vote she might be able to push it through let's say just for the sake of it she does in that case there's an automatic extension until the twenty second of may that would be a technical extension because even if the house of commons approves they would need some time to implement that decision into the into u.k. laws so that that's proba

for both of you thank you very much we want to take this story now to our brussels bureau chief max hoffman he is on the story for us tonight in strasbourg france you do you max so what can we say is there been a reaction from the european union and is the european union basically now reckoning with an extension to brics. well disappointment frustration those have been the reactions we experienced here in stroudsburg where the european parliament is having its plenary session and quite frankly many of the parliamentarians here don't really understand what the goal is of the house of commons they probably aren't the only ones in this case are they expecting an extension. maybe but i would say that most people i talked to here are now thinking that the most likely outcome is braggs it without a deal because it is brant the default option but is it it's not in anyone's interest for there to be a new deal. directly so why would the european union not go that extra step now and give the u.k. an extension let's say for two months if you know if that could mean you know establishing some order in

there is to restrain their speaking earlier today let's take this now to brussels our bureau chief max hoffman is covering the summit for us tonight good evening to you max so here we are it looks like a reason may may have been able to clinch that bridge delay but different dates different times are being thrown around right now what do we know so far. so confirmed is that the dates are being heavily discussed among the leaders actually not really because they've taken a break to continue the discussion during a working dinner so this might drag on into the night but there are different models floating around and none of those are yet confirmed but they they seem to be trying to taking back control they have realized at least that's what it seems that the house of commons will not pass the withdrawal agreement even if it's put before them a third time you remember it's already failed twice so what good would it be to try again and then have a special summit at literally the last possible day to change anything so that seems to be the thinking behind us now what we what we are hearing that the

in hell for brics a two years then this was actually a very soft statement a very soft statement max hoffman brussels borough chief thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world on the u.n. courts has ordered former bosnian serb leader radovan carrot and stick to spend their last of his life in jail for war crimes a panel of appeals judges upheld his original twenty sixteen conviction for atrocities committed during the balkans war including the massacre of bosnian muslims in sort of i need them to the point said his original forty year sentence is that it was too light. the european union's anti trust watchdog has fined google one point five billion euros the e.u. competition commission says the internet giant abused his dominant position to stifle competition in the advertising market fine takes google's total penalties from the european union to more than eight billion euros over the last two years. a court in the united states has ruled that the weed killer round up was a factor in causing cancer in a seventy year old man is the second mate this is rather the s

voice we want to take the story you know to our correspondents barbara visa with one didn't and max hoffman in strong both of you good evening barbara let me start with you and you first reactions from london after what appears to be a second disastrous defeat for theresa may. what is there to react to i mean everybody who was concerned was in the house and they went big sheer up here in the street behind me where the pro european demonstrators the protests against it congregate on days like this they are happy about it others i deeply unhappy about it the e.r. g. the european research group the group of the hard line direct superiors who now see that they may be losing control of tax it because what we have seen here brand is really treason may be finally completely losing control off this process she pushed and pushed this thing seized she ran down the clock she kicked the can down the road she has no really run out of fruit and things will now sit if become even more chaotic because she cannot say what will happen next there will be new votes tomorrow and maybe on thursday and it's a rea

discover this not with a correspondent spot but faisal in london max hoffman welcome both of us are with you barbara the last time mrs might push the deal bressie deal to parliament to drive resulted in a record breaking defeat what are the chances of the deal passing tonight. it is supposed to be the case that the defeat tonight she will be a bit smaller much everybody here is still expects a defeat we've heard from the e.r. gee there hardline chary bracks it cheers that they are saying no to what she brought back from strasburg yesterday we know that the g.o.p. is not going to go with that and she simply doesn't have the numbers however some of the more middle of the road sorry said ok we'll hold our noses and we will vote for the deal in order to get breakthrough it's across the final hurdle and some others say they want to abstain in order to make that defeat less visible less horrible however everybody here believes that it is going to be the downfall the final political down for after is may with regard to break we're going to see this tonight this has been a messy confused busines

correspondent max hoffmann in brussels and get mass in the london welcome both let's start with you max hoffman threesome i are looking for a short extension is the e.u. likely to grant it. well it depends with what kind of wording she does because the feeling here is that there is really no plan for an extension and that's something that leaders repeatedly said in the last weeks actually there needs to be a plan there needs to be a reason there needs to be a path for going to need to be clear that at the end we are not exactly in the same position as we are now so it even seems well like you would be a little too much in the situation but john could your girl have to do you commission said he doesn't think that readers will be able to decide this on thursday or on friday when the e.u. summit takes place here in brussels because they have no basis for decision they haven't received a letter from london that was promised it's with the request for an extension or with you know the wording why they would like an extension and we've been working our sources on this and it seems increasingly clear t

let's get more from correspondents much hoffman in brussels and mass in london we'll start with you max hoffman how is the e.u. likely to be spun to teresa mayes request for an extension. as you can imagine phil that's exactly the question that the whole town is obsessing over right now at the moment but all the people we've talked to say it's very very likely that the u.k. will be granted an extension if they really request it because so far there hasn't been an official letter and no argument made something that many leaders have said in the past they need some kind of argument why are we extending this if three months later let's say we're going to be exactly in the same message because this is not here yet that's why as you just mentioned the head of the e.u. commission said that he doesn't believe that leaders will be able to decide this on thursday and friday because they have no basis for this so now everybody's talking about a possible special summit at the end of next we're weak but then again you know maybe this is just the pressure cooker get maybe one could younger sister and a buil

because march twenty ninth was the original brags that all eyes that day getting pushed down the road max hoffman is standing by for us in brussels thank you very much and we'll try to get to that press conference with the prime minister may as soon as she takes the podium. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world former brazilian president michel has hammer has been arrested in connection with a large scale corruption investigation prosecutors say ten there was arrested on charges related to alleged graft in the construction of a nuclear power plant was president of brazil from twenty sixteen to two thousand and eighteen he has denied any wrongdoing. venezuelan forces have reportedly arrested the chief of staff of opposition leader. roberto marrero was taken into custody during a raid on his caracas own according to. the u.s. and other countries do recognize mr interim president and have warned of venezuela's government not to arrest him or is a. rescue workers in mozambique have widened the search for survivors of a powerful psych loan that ripped through

allow are you correspondent max hoffman has been in a straw spring where the new terms were agreed here's what he has to say about the british parliament vote later today if they don't back this deal but at the same time they want to avoid a no deal drugs and what does it mean that might even mean a second referendum or a new elections and that of course is the worst case scenario for hard drugs the tears they might be willing to swallow this agreement if it means that they can still have their bags and avoid no brags that because you don't know what's going to be the result of a second referendum if it really takes place so this is zone clode younger the president of the e.u. commission building up even more pressure before this crucial vote in the house of commons on tuesday what really happens afterwards we don't know but this is this is really the kind that's the important part we've been steering towards this for for two years and all sides are trying to build up pressure as much as possible and in the case of zone clude younker in order to force the house of commons to pass this dea

and joining us now from london is the interviews bagot moss and max hoffman is covering events for us in strasburg welcome to both of you and good morning bigotry so may sounding very positive about what did she get in brussels from the e.u. to win over the british parliament. she is sounding very positive because she has to this is really crunch time for treason may only if really days and weeks to bragg's it and she really has to get something through how how pala meant here at home and what she says is something that's legally binding so she puts a positive spin on it but what she has not gotten is the reopening of the withdrawal agreement so the whole convoluted text that regulates the heechee between the u.k. and the european union and this is something that many people here in london that wealthy are very skeptical about the backs of process have been demanding so the question really is what she has secured with a speedy enough to get her dhea through paula vent and it will be voted on later on today in what's going to be a nail biting session here and of the ok max over to you

following all the different angles of the break that story for us we have broken math in london and max hoffman in assure us for both of them standing by for us. and max it to see you are going to start with you the attorney general with this letter casting doubt on this deal even with the changes that were made how important is that. well conservative as well as no the narration piece said before that they were going to listen to the attorney general and his legal explanation i wonder though if it really changes people's minds or if there was ever a chance that they would change their minds because opinions on breaks that are extremely entrenched here in the u.k. you can hear and see behind me there's a lot of supporters from both sides of the divide people some people just one doubts at any cost and as soon as possible others want to stay within the european union and they are hoping for a second referendum and the same thing is mirrored inside the house of commons so even though it is obviously an important statement and everybody said they would take into account the legal position opinions

across to london and to brussels where we joined i did only correspondence barbara faisal in london max hoffman in strasbourg welcome both let's start with you barbara faisal in london what has been the mood today. oh the good mood of course is quite boisterous behind me because they have all come back out to breakfast cheers to say we want bricks it and when do we want to know and there's chanting like in a football stadium in the back and of course the intrepid anti protesters here sort of the waving about their blue and yellow flags as they've been doing for months you have to mark these people just fold their steps because the rain or shine they've come up here every time been tolerant was sitting and was discussing bracks they are still trying to push the country towards a second driver and they say we want to have a people's vote that's the way they call it we want to have a say say it all to want to britain should do now that's the only way out of the impasse and so like in a way you sort of separate but everybody now of course is waiting what will happen inside call them and how big the

that vote is looming today we have our correspondents covering the story for us is in london and max hoffman is in strasbourg good to see you both so good let's start with you there in london the attorney general stressing earlier that the u.k. has a good right to withdraw from any treaty as a sovereign state how important is what he has had to say today. what he's had to say is important even though views on regs that are extremely entrenched here in the u.k. so jeffrey cook's ugs is a question by one and he and he said it is entitled to leave but he also said as a law office i would not advise to break the law and he stressed that the u.k. wasn't this kind of country that that broke the law and you also said in this conclusion in his written conclusion that the kong just leaves if there is just you know it disagreement between the e.u. and the u.k. so he advises politically to support his i'm a steal he wants to move on he wants to get the deal through thoughts on a legal point of view he did raise well question marks and i think that is important for a lot of the m.p.'s who anyway are qui

in london and max hoffman in strasbourg thank you both very much. now to some other stories making news around the world u.s. backed syrian forces say they have killed at least thirty eight hottest in heavy fighting in eastern syria the syrian democratic forces have been closing in on the town of by groups for several weeks now it is the last pocket of territory held by the so-called islamic state in syria. australia has joined a growing list of countries and their alliance restricting operation of boeing's new seven thirty seven max airliner australia's aviation authority said it was a temporary measure a seven thirty seven max crashed in ethiopia on sunday the second crash of the model in five months. the u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe is an ounce of washington is pulling all remaining diplomatic personnel out of venezuela he said the decision reflected the deteriorating situation in the country venezuela's electricity grid largely collapsed last week and president suggested that the u.s. sabotage because the blackout. and of course in belg

all right joining me now from brussels is our brussels bureau chief max hoffman max we've been waiting we were expecting an announcement hours ago there was a press conference scheduled no one has yet to emerge from those talks we're hearing there's a lot of different options being discussed for a potential extension what can you tell us what's the latest. well it's taking longer because the the.

let's rejoin now r d w brussels bureau chief max hoffman he's been standing by for us in brussels and what has been a long night seven e.u. summit and it's just day one max we just heard the press conference with donald tusk and john claude juncker and they announced that there will be a brac sit extension and really a two pronged extension we have one that could be may twenty second extension that is if this deal teresa mayes deal with the u.s. approved in the house of commons we also have a date of april twelfth and that's in case there is no deal now we're waiting on the prime minister herself to come to the stage and address the reporters there do we have any idea of what theresa may might say and in terms of what she got out of this deal in fact max she couldn't even begin the room as this was being negotiated right. let's just wait and see what she really has to say before we try to what she wants to say but let me get back to the press conference with don't know joker which was good humored i don't know if you remember the quote by the president of the european council to steer