but it is minimizing the damage the question garrick was asked of michelle bennett candy member states actually ratify this agreement during this summit that starts today is that possible. well he said and he's quite correct here that we have to look at the terminology what they will do is they endorse basically that the deal that is now on the table and it's the devil is in the details so they will really look at the small print of that legal text that will be put in front of all the $27.00 leaders and then what happens next is everyone will look at london on saturday and let's presume there is approval in london then that's a document that revised withdrawal agreement would go to the european parliament and if the european parliament also gives the green light then it will get formal consent from the european council all right well let's not presume anything as we know we don't know what will happen in london we've seen the leader of u.k. house of commons jacob riis mark saying this is a fundamentally different deal because the democratic backstop is gone that's just what he has been