polly toynbee, columnist with the guardian newspaper, the portuguese writer eunice goes and mustapha karkoutioadcaster based in the gulf. we're ina we're in a of paralysis, and the goblet is forced to do what is increasingly a catastrophe. how does it look from europe? will be another round of negotiations in the weeks ahead? a lot of people are baffled by the lack of preparation, the negotiations. every week we are listening and now this is about the reverberations of yet another thing that was not thought about like leaving euratom. every week we learn about ramifications of things that should've been thought through before the referendum but now two years after we're analysing. at the same time the european union senses the weakness in theresa may's government. and the european union agreed to try to exploit that weakness as best they can, have the best deal they can from a european point of view. all the charm and myspace thrown at britain, the sense that there might be some flexibility, i would that there might be some flexibility, iwould be that there might be some flexibility, i would

the point you made earlier, mustapha karkouti, about leadership, that the establishment has crumbledm donald trump has a few wants to lead is that the establishment in washington still seems very much alive. very much, certainly. that is his trouble there, he cannot make a lot of changes. he is against a huge wall. the establishment is still strong and sound. both parties. the idea is the establishment finds it also strange and difficult to deal with the businessman who is still running the white house as a businessman. as we all know, the man has no political experience whatsoever. parachuted into the white house to run the biggest, the most important, the most influential country in the world. and the largest economy. one could must feel sympathy for him! i think he is extremely powerful in the sense that so far the checks of the american constitution on his power have not really worked. i think it is extremely worrying when we see the mixing of his private business interests, his family, the way they are all meddled in all areas of american public policy, in particular diplomacy.

polly toynbee, columnist with the guardian newspaper, the portuguese writer eunice goes and mustapha karkouti

polly toynbee, columnist with the guardian newspaper, the portuguese writer eunice goes and mustapha karkouti right? it is true we have a leader in this country at the moment, we have an incapacitated and powerless prime minister who has lost her majority and has to depend on eccentric northern irish mps. and at the same time, we have a country that is being driven by its people, driven by the results of the referendum. nobody dares say we're going to look at this again. the people haven't really changed the mind as much as we can see. some slight move but basically people want out, and yet more more we get into the detail of what i would means, the more shocking it looks for the future of this country. so we are in a state of paralysis, and until people change their mind, a government is forced to continue to do what it increasingly knows is a catastrophe. eunice goes, how does it look from the continent as they see britain's domestic problems and at the same time negotiations are continuing? there will be another round in the week ahead. i think a lot of people are quite baffled with the me