dw's teri schultz is in brussels. i asked her how likely it is the european union will say yes to another extension to britain's departure date. alex: should it -- teri: sure did get to that point, you would have to get the majority of the other 27 e.u. leaders to say they will grant that. i would have thought they would be fairly open to such a suggestion because they would like nothing better than for brexit to be reversed, for there to be enough time that a second vote could be taken, that somemehow this whohole thing cod be leftt behind like a bad drea, but the finnish prime minister, president of the european union, was speaking, and he didn't think peoplele were that inteterested in granting an extension.n. looking at t the chaos, seeieine u.k. has not come withth any new proposals on how they would get a deal to get an orderly brexit, he said why would we extend this any further? brent: we still don't know what if anything boris johnson would have to present to the european union. today that you use chief direct

there on the story for us in london barbara thank you let's take this story now to brussels or teri schultz is standing by they are going to need to you gerri so we know now that the parliament in london says we want an extension to the beginning of bricks but they're going to need approval from the european union how likely is it that they're going to get their. we're not really sure brant should it get to that point where an extension is requested you know you would have to get the majority of the other 27 e.u. leaders to say that they'll grants that and i would have thought that that they would be fairly open to such a suggestion because of course they would like nothing better than for bret's it to be reversed for there to be enough time that perhaps a 2nd vote could be taken that somehow this whole thing could be left behind like a bad dream but the finnish prime minister who is currently the president of the european union was speaking to the finnish parliament earlier today and he told them that he didn't think people were really that interested in granting him an extension looking a

stuff was the british prime minister i spoke to our correspondents seana thoughts in london and teri schultz in brussels and i began by asking what was at stake in parliament today very heated debate there again questions and answers form for boris johnson there and one thing we can say is that parliament is just extremely divided there are those that want to break 3rd those that are against breck said those that want a 2nd referendum those that want break said but are opposed to no deal and it remains that palmer. it is extremely divided now one thing that they do seem to be able to rally behind is the bill that is on the table today and that would prevent boris johnson from from taking the country out of the european union without a deal on october 31st so this bill would basically force boris johnson to go to the european union and ask for an extension and this time around that will be until january 31st so a 3 month extension and boris johnson if this bill is successful would have to ask the european union for that and to me in brussels what do these developments in london mean for the e