of course, the union army sp lit in 1862. plan, outflanked -- 's supplymcclellan lines forcing him to evacuate to the james river, change his base of operations which he does do successfully but all along the way lee is attacking. june 29.ation glendale, the lost opportunity, june 30. back to back to back, that aggression that defines robert e lee's leadership leadership is on display in 1862, culminating malbornbourne health an00-- the hill and the and ability to destroy mcclellan. what did mcclellan do wrong? didn't control the events throughout the south let alone in virginia littlaleonone the wy grant will in 1864. has a weak relationship with his commander-in-chief abraham lincoln. he attempted to use the northern resource advantage bringing up that heavy artillery. absolutely, in conception of fantastic plan, but he failed to neutralize his opponent strengths. i'll give him credit for not knowing what the opponents strengths at the time were in 1862 when few people could identify the state that gettysburg is located in,

while he is doing that, the union calvary discovers the confederate is riding around the union army so he pursues jeff stewart. the commander , philip st. george cook was instrumental in helping develop the united states calvary, he was a very skilled officer, career officer and did a lot to advance calvary tactics and serves nobly and with great credit throughout the war. what i would wager is that most people who ever heard of him only hear of him in this context and this is the only thing they know. what is interesting about him, chasing jeb stuart, jeb married his daughter. so philip st. george cook is the father-in-law chasing his son-in-law around the union army. i can imagine stuart taking some delight in that as anyone who has ever been married may have in lawn stories they want to share but -- i could sure some but we only have so much long for the class. stuart is riding around being chased by his father-in-law and i imagine him laughing and giving the middle finger to his father-in-law and cook doesn't catch him, stuart rides around the army, brings back the information that

the conduct of war. balls bluff was a union disaster, a battle that happen in the fall of 1861 in loudoun county union troops pushed back against the potomac river and there were heavy casualties. after that, it committee was formed that would influence union military policy. it influences how union officers especially in union virginia will conduct the war. it is going to create a climate of caution, political intrigue, backstabbing and political maneuvering in the army of the potomac and the eastern armies in a general. it would influence how generals conducted the war. it will influence the hiring and firing of generals and appointments. it will have a long-lasting impact on the culture of the army of the potomac. every organization has a culture and that is the culture that is going to grow in the high command in the army of the potomac. the joint committee on the conduct of war is extremely important in influencing that from an early stage. the next key moment or turning point that i have for you, is shiloh. shiloh was a massive two-day battle. the largest battle fought up to that point in the war. it w

on the left, you see lincoln with the saying, union and liberty. on the right, union of slavery. what jumps out at you when you look at the imagery? >> is that a slave being hung in the background? >> it is an auction block. okay, what else? >> shaking hands, it seems like with an immigrant, not a former slave. it seems to also in blue -- involved, not just slaves, but the lower class, immigrants , too. >> you will notice the gentleman is holding a saw. so that free labor imagery. it is probably not a really well lit slide, but it is an integrated group of people, here. >> his putting his hand on his shoulder. >> it looks like a woman kneeling by the stage as slaves are being auctioned off. it could potentially be her husband or something like that. slavery split up families. so it could be the contrast between union, if you end the war now, it is not going to bring back any of the dead soldiers, but it is going to have a cause of a dying thing because we will have this atrocious thing live on. >> if we go with mcclellan's ticket, what would we ring back? >> slavery. notice the am

>> would've further help the union army? >> morale will be higher as northerners are more likely to react positively after a victory.>> --?>> yes, in september 1862 the battle of antietam provides lincoln a victory that he needed. to set back the timeline, antietam is a crucial turning point in the civil war. it was a turning point earlier when george mcclellan is so close to richmond he can hear the bells chiming in the city he and his troops when they wake up in the morning. it they are six miles outside of richmond in the spring of 1862. it looks like the war will be over. so much so the union suspends recruiting in the summer -- spring but robert e lee takes over and knocks mcclellan back from richmond and backup the peninsula. the war goes on and that sort of subject has a effect on morale. it seems the wars almost over and the northerners thinking about after the war and then to have things so dramatically reversed that by september 1861 not only is the war over but robert e lees army is driving into maryland and the in

the. european union was on that path for many years the european union it wasn't the path of an lodgment but just last march the european commission issued their white paper in which it described five possible scenarios for its future and none of them mansion either the integration or ukraine or the e.u. enlargement in general do you think that has crystallized over the last four years or do you think even before they might down in bounds that was more or less understood then the european officials who are very active during the might on process protest in encouraging that probably european sentiment was it were essentially misleading the ukrainians and the onus but they don't have evidence of this would be learning is to the on the diplomatic papers when who would have access to this i think that the. strongest senior g. very often between the european union and nato. need to. see the role of the prominent role of the united states of america and the united states they have the cup of belittling to to make pressure on the other members of nato in order to go in in that direction and when th

this is called the union league. the most recent book is entitled "the most complete political machine," that lincoln does have, his friends who do write letters to the editor, who are sometimes fighting against the democratic party, and in this political machine that is all volunteer. he did not dream this up. this is the wide awakes in the 1860 election that were the bodyguards for republicans plus more. the emancipation issue is going to be a problem. we talked about the confiscation acts this weekend, the militia act when the first american soldiers are brought into the army. people don't like that. voters are very wary about trained black soldiers. and for a guy who said i am ok with the 13th amendment, for him to do this, voters are saying, we did not see this coming. he says one thing and 500 days later he is doing something else entirely. the election of 1862 will reveal that states have to make strong positions to gather votes from the soldiers while they are on campaign. lincoln republicans study this and sa

may not break apart the union of the united kingdom, and after we second left the european union, the e.u. may not direct or regulate our economy and govern ourselves? pm may: firstly and i say to my friend, when we have left the european union, we will be taking decisions here in the united kingdom all those issues that previously have been taken in the european union. we will be taking control of our borders. we will also take control of our money and borders. and on the first point he has made i made it clear earlier year, have continued to make it clear and will carry on making it clear that we will not accept any proposal that would break up the united kingdom. >> michael dodds. mr. dodds: nothing is agreed until everything is agreed, does the prime minister accept that it would be very, very difficult for the house to be asked to confirm a withdrawal a agreement which is legally binding without having pretty clear assurances in some precision about details of future trading relationships? pm may: cannot i say to the right honorable gentleman that i dashcam i say to the right --

the whole of the uk staying in the customs union, and borisjohnson the uk staying in the customs unioning in the customs union, and borisjohnson has been very critical, basically saying that this means the position that after 2020 the uk can leave the customs union if the uk gives permission, they will have no incentive to do so and it makes a mockery of liam fox as out it makes a mockery of liam fox as our trade secretary not knowing if he will ever be able to do trade deals, they will be able to come into effect. the dup and tory brexiteers will not support this, and this will cause uproar among leave voters in this country. just on the issue of the dup, theresa may has frequently said that she is not going to agree to anything that would divide up the united kingdom. the problem with theresa may over the last couple of years, on brexit in particular, is that she has said about 300 different things, most of which are mutually incompatible. the problem is the word is not very reliable. she said for example that we would leave the customs union. now, iam perfectly we would leave the cu

the economy. >> and the european union. in the united kingdom all those issues that previously taken in the european union. we are taking control and also take control of our money and borders and on the first point, i made it clear earlier this year and continue to make it clear and will carry on making it clear that we will not accept any proposal that would break up the united kingdom. >> nothing is agreed until everything is agreed, does the prime minister accept it would be difficult for the house to confirm a withdrawal agreement which is legally binding without having pretty clear assurances in some precision about details of future trading relationships? >> i can't say i agree and i always said the package that is important not only the people are able to look at the withdrawal agreement but sufficiency about the future relationship in all its aspects, the trading relationship which is important and future security relationship and internal security and external security and other issues of importance. also important

the european union? ed because we want to ensure that we leave the european union as one united kingdom. could ijoin other colleagues here in condemning the use of language that we saw? in the hope we will not see any language like that in the future. at the start of the statement, the promise that talked about the work that had been done on cyber security, i remain very concerned about the progress that is being made on the security treaty to make sure we maintain the high levels of security when we leave the european union so we can continue to deep british citizens save and eu citizens throughout europe. —— keep citizens throughout europe. —— keep citizens save. we have been making good progress for our future relationship with the european union. there are still discussions, negative is being undertaken to ensure that we can retain the operational capabilities but ensure that we are able to not only work to keep our citizens safe bet citizens across the eu say. the hacker secretary invited me to put t

to be leaving the european union to voting to leave the euro but and ireland being. there's scant regard for to marcos and we do a no vote. parent it can be that the population can be asked to vote again at any time. they would be president if they were going on here in britain of yes of course. i think the irish rolled over in fear because our our economy is tied if you have to realize there's khana me our population is part of society's manchester we're peripheral in every way to the interests of both britain and europe and always have been our problem is we have been the first colony and probably the last colony but we have no concept of the two control of our economy separately from the from these two to parse. so i think there is bad leadership in ireland there it's almost got to a stage where the european union is no the new holy catholic empire and any any chris is almost blasphemy. well. if that's the case. why do you think here it's all about the law in the way i think the line in the air see in britain there are parts of force i don't believe that britain e

that leaves the european union we will be leaving the european union together i'm very clear there should be no hard border between northern ireland and island but as we've put forward proposals we can deliver on that and maintain the integrity of our union and of course what we're looking at in relation to the and we made that very clear when the european union made their proposal that would effectively have carved northern ireland away from the rest of the united kingdom in their backstop proposal it's precisely because we cannot accept their backstop to a backstop because they continue to want to work to want to see that in fact what we want to see in a backstop is a situation where northern ireland businesses can both export freely to the great britain and to the european union actually that would be a good position for all the northern ireland this is alex spoke to senior d.p.m. ph and shannon to have his assessment on whether the crisis has passed for nag. can i take you back to last december when the democratic unionist. the prime minister of the dangers of the so-called. do you be

the u.k. and shin fame remain in fame. when there's a navy union there's an irony in this insofar as shin fe and originally opposed arlen joining the european economic community there's this irony fact in the one nine hundred seventy s. they were opposed to those that the d.p. have taken a position on this we have been very concerned about the approach that they are taking it so my feeling is in our party's feeling is that the way bracks it's been handled by the d p they were part of the negotiations last december for this block stop which is not a millstone around our necks i believe that the relationship with the republic should be negotiated in the final phase when we know what our future relationship is going to be that's when it should have been dumped we should never have accepted it david davis should never have accepted it as one of the preconditions for negotiations up was the rock on which we perished you know what find it strange that you appear i mean we had paul mask before as. gerry had will see saying that the b. are in it for itself

once by the union commander and once by the confederate. before long, sharp's bmi was getting quite astute and quite efficient at what it did. one of the things that sharp will do is make contact with what is called the richmond union underground. it essentially was a spy network. the head of the spy network was a woman by the name of elizabeth family. -- elizabeth fan lou. she knew how to do -- avoid detection. although she was suspensions because she was a unionist and everyone knew it. she could get information from newspapers. she got newspapers out and there was a system between the headquarters and the mansion and -- in richmond. they would meet the scouts to take it to sharp at his headquarters. van lew was good at what she did. so good in fact that she used to send a rose from her garden and tell the scout to tell general grant that this was for his table. grant often had a flower on his table from elizabeth van lew. she would do mighty service. when the war is over, sharp will write the most of the information they got from richmon

on the union side, unknown men in blue. looking over the white men in union colors as they approached, wilcox perhaps recognized allies, as many free people did. once they shredded his passport to freedom, wilcox knew that these men in danger his freedom. the recruiters insisted wilcox in list and go to war. enlistsed -- and list -- and go to war. he refused, but they did not relent. they ordered him to raise his right hand to take the of. despite his best efforts, he became a u.s. army private. when the u.s. army roped wilcox in, he vowed to himself that he would run. he immediately began strategizing how to approach emancipation and achieve it once more. summer, when the opportunity arose, he did it. he freed himself from service. officers also mistreated former slaves by punishing them harshly. the soldiers often ran from reatment, asrs' mist these "union masters" dealt out violent discipline, sometimes even torturing men. the number of ways that officers published -- punished both white and black soldiers. they were made

what i see from the european union. what i see from the european union. e friend confirmed the declaration will be clear, specific and binding so business has more certain tree and we don't begin another period of brexit fog and uncertainty? can i say, besides i wa nt to uncertainty? can i say, besides i want to ensure there is a proper linkage between the withdrawal agreement and the future relationship, so certainty can be given about what the future relationship is and that will come into place. i think that is what this house will want to see as well when it comes to looking at the meaningful vote. the when it comes to looking at the meaningfulvote. the prime when it comes to looking at the meaningful vote. the prime minister has chastised labour's test, let's look at the one she has said broch frictionless trade must be the condition to signing up for the withdrawal agreement. 2.5 years on all the whizbang technology you like and the temporary customs arrangement later, shows only staying in the customs union can do that. so in meeting her own test, t

not something we can do when in the customs union. ople in this country think. this is a potentially really positive thing. the reason i think this is important is politically our head has been in the relationship with europe, constantly talked about over the last two years, one of the advocates of brexit's biggest ideas is there are other opportunities, opportunities with these growing economies around the pacific and there's a chance we can do trade deals with commonwealth countries and america. but japan seems a long way away, not as easy as doing business with germany. certainly. it has its eye on other regions and priorities, including security with the korean peninsula. that's why they have to keep sweet with the us so we are playing their game. notjust we talk to them, they have half an eye on what president trump is saying to them so it's complicated. talking about complicated. talking about complicated processes, the i, as are other papers, looking at climate change and new targets about temperature rises. on that one hand, an

it's a lie that the montenegro is not a member of european union because of because of corruption there is not truth as simply a lie and it's a simply a lie that the prime minister uses probably funds for a private reasons it's not. and so i have to say i have to reject that and it's and it's a really a scandal that such kind of things can be said to be honest and these are the sort of a lot of consequences that these are these are the sort of allegations that are out there some of these things are in that report that went to the european parliament what happens next because clearly there's a procedure in europe what are you going to do next well you know in this case the general affairs council which is the body of the ministers responsible for europe integration of the member states comes together and based on the viel of the presidency which is now austria and then you have hearings one or two also three incidentally is run by a conservative government that is in the same european people's party as you one there and and and they didn't back you one vote one party of them one party of

course the union course -- the union corps went away. of integrating troops had gone away. it is a great question, and a not competent to answer what the morrell -- morale of the black soldiers were after this. unfortunately, almost all of the evidence that you get from u.s. colored troops are either memoirs of the u.s. colored troops, a few of them, or the perspectives of the white officers. so many of these black soldiers were not literate, or the letters they wrote did not survive. it's a great question and maybe someone will be able to unearth the answer. >> thank you. >> you talked about, let, the incompetence of the division commander who led the assault. were there any specific ways that affected the battle at the crater? : well, yeah. none of the three division forward, so they --e basically leader less leaderless. and leslie was not well-respected within his division. as recently as june 17, he had performed so poorly that many have considered him a humbug. their lack of confidence in him and his lack of presence at the front cer

to save the union between the election and the inauguration. of necessity the melancholy work over the war went on. the danger of an enemy sharpshooter no way diminished the termination of a former battle. at night and many number of tickets ran out with a dodging and ducking which is throwing them all out of a joint. the enemy seemed to be everywhere and we did not know which way to turn. for its part, the union army began turning farther south on june 12. the second core went over familiar ground, and they crossed the white oak swamp in the river road, and near the savage station. azucena in one of the engagements during the great seven days fight at mccullen's place. following his border campaign around at richmond, there was no way to inspire soldierly confidence. haley relished the opportunity to compare grand with the army commander -- grant with the army commander. we are following mccullen's old route with great fidelity in the annals of history. only they were not. grant was looping his men towards this point near wilcox landing. the l

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within the i mean the european union you know in whose is feeling sick relation of. capital crucially capital goods can go out of the european union and outside of your opinion and also we know restriction whatsoever so of course if you try a lot of the great deal of these asian all the world's good work bench work. well. it's always been efficient for capitalist to move them on their they can do it and here there is no restriction so that's one of the problem of the of the union the other problem is do you feel which sets the currency if you wish a friend probably a bit higher than it should be so than the much higher than it would be for spain or italy or greece and so on so that's a problem for the you know for the french economy and. there is the relationship with germany with germany said the agenda in the european union and france gone during much as long as they don't discuss their issue of national independence and i think there is much going on there you see and the french are extremely i mean so much in the community with the necessity of the opinion that gi

she said we will leave the customs union. ve of the eu say so after 2020. and what is their incentive to do that if they say that you can leave. in terms of the cabinet look at liam fox. he is a passion brexiteers. international trade secretary. he is the man supposed to be securing these deals. you will be looking at "i can look at doing deals may in the future if the european union say i can". you think we will get more cabinet walk—outs? think we will get more cabinet walk-outs? i hope so because this is the plan. ithink walk-outs? i hope so because this is the plan. i think steve walk-outs? i hope so because this is the plan. ithink steve baker, paris johnson book pick off the ballot as the dup are. brexiteers her fears and rightly so. let's move on because there are lots of other stories to talk about. i the front page of the telegraph we have been talking about mental health today, mental health day. facebook should pay a mental health levies. i'm up for facebook paying a bit more tax. but what is confusing here is a sim

the. u.p.a. union is supporting a hold on hold you have to be a little bit more pacific you have to be a little bit more specific than that the european union is not providing arms it is member states from the europeans or the video maybe the member states that are doing it name the name first which arms they are talking about and which countries are going about that i guess you are talking no but no you know this is the level of this if you are you prince so give me generalities start giving me some concrete start in those that aren't you know about are you principally for or against support of saudi arabia arms or whatever it is it's not i mean foreign policy i'm afraid is not that binary you have to look at it from a much broader perspective i think the key issue when we talk about values is what kind of values you stick to yourself and then you have to take those decisions on those principles so democracy is dictatorship suppressing your own population or not being an aggressive country and regime

the two broke powers united states and soviet union. there was a period when i was unwell did some research computer modeling of the consequences of the. so-called bad habit balance. of the ecstatic intricate change let us. on november first one hundred eighty three moscow and washington willing to buy satellite television for a most unusual scientific conference. the space for your employees should pay off. and there was a special institute a working class a medical institute to look at the money scene in which they were just like a division was leaving there's a good but they have come to this conclusion of the nuclear winter which practically proved that there were in no winners in case of nuclear war. beneath the clouds. all domesticated and wild sources of food to destroy. most of the human survivors would starve to death. the extinction of the human species would be a real possibility. everybody's talking about recovery but for me the most important was geneva meeting in eighty five when gorbachev and reagan signed the declaration

that formally dissolve the soviet union and establish the c.i.s. . and bigger. of the formation of a community of independent states i have decided to resign my duties as president of the soviet union my principles guide my decision in the trend to disintegration of the country as it rebelled and i cannot agree to it nor can i accept that. i leave my office with concern but i also have hope i have faith in you the people of russia in your spirit and in your wisdom. and i must say that. this process is far from bake finished he started he had to live from our maybe i remember george gold bright galbraith once said that it politics sometimes you have to take the right side and a little less. but she took the right side she lost power but she had one historical battle and your one as a personality. after that war can now people felt the problem to be a part of them has ended so they went back to sleep so i think they don't. come out again wake up the problem still going. on to preserve. mineral political jokes are very graceful yet this process affected a whole lot

the two broke powers united states and soviet union. there was a period when i was in wall did some research computer modeling of the consequences of the. so-called benedict balance. of the ecstatic intricate change let us say. on november the scientists one hundred eighty three are still in washington one linked by satellite television the most unusual scientific concepts. of science for. your influential i think also. there was a special institute working mathematical institute and you keep them way seen in the steamer's like a division was leaving the group but they have come to this conclusion of the nuclear winter which practically prove to them there will be no winners in case of nuclear war. beneath the clouds. all domesticated and wild sources of food be destroyed. most of the human survivors would starve to death. the extinction of the human species would be a real possibility. everybody's talking about but for me the most important was geneva meeting in a defile where gorbachev and reagan signed a declaration that there will be

he did try to decide whether he did -- should join the union or confederacy. i cannot remember where i read this, or where i learned this, but in actual fact, 40% or something in that range of officers in the american army, when the war came, stayed with the union. and even members of lee. >> 40% of southerners? >> 40% of virginians, in the american army, stayed with what became the union army. >> george thomas, probably most famous. >> exactly. so, you have that kind of situation, and you also have a situation where numbers of relatives in lisle -- lee's own family stayed. so, you have a really intriguing case. >> let me make a couple of comments about that. yes, it is true that a significant number, i don't know the percentage, i will except john's 40%, a southern born american author stayed by the fog, i will point out, a larger percentage of union naval officers stayed by the flag. you may deduct what other information you would like from that. but this business of pacing up and down, this comes from douglas freeman. he wrote a four volume viagra fee of rob

in a way we don't know yet that's kind of the whole problem they they have put the whole union the whole european union and the u.k. in particular in a situation which is completely unclear and given that this is like the most fundamental change of the union for decades i would want to say it is excruciating that we're still we still don't know what is actually going to happen in some one hundred sixty days so they have put business as well as the whole population of the union in an extremely uncertain situation in an extremely uncertain position and for an extended period of time and for an extended period of time and probably for for a period which will not n.p.a. by the end of march by the end of march next year which is like the official breaks a date but even beyond that date and far beyond that date how does that affect costs for a company i mean investors have to think long term and any sort of investments when it comes to setting up production facilities or or continuing production because the facilities does take months if not years. what's it mean for businesses right now what

the twenty seven what will be the twenty seven remaining states of the european union for the european union to remain strong now you asked about the question of the deal and taking that deal back to parliament i am confident that we can achieve that good tale when i take that deal back to parliament i think members of parliament will have i will be asking members of parliament first to recall that we're delivering all of the people we gave the british people the choice they voted to raise the e.u. we would be delivering. i'd also well some to think about the importance of protecting jobs and livelihoods in the u.k. protecting our security in the u.k. protecting the union of the united kingdom i think those will all be issues that the members of parliament will want to want to consider when they're looking at it and as i say i believe a good deal for the u.k. will be one that does deliver on the verge of the bush people and does all those things it protects jobs it protects our security and protects the union in the united kingdom thank you. as britain's prime minister theresa may spea

do you want to be in or out of the european union, and 5296 or out of the european union, and 52% of ferendum in which the instruction was to the government to go and negotiate, that was the basis. scotla nd negotiate, that was the basis. scotland didn‘t vote for it, northern ireland didn‘t vote for it. it was in or out and the people... london didn‘t vote for it and substantial tracts of the country. i might say that there was serious fraud in the vote leave campaign, there were lies that were told, and there were lies that were told, and there is real concern that it was outside —— that there was outside interference which is being investigated by the metropolitan police. what would the question be in the second referendum? do you like the deal that we have got, or would you like to remain in the european union? that is what we need to put to the people. and let me just say, when the governor of the bank of england has said that if we get no deal and there is a real prospect of no deal, that house prices will fall by 35%, and the recession in britain will be deeper than 2008. as nig

if they don‘t, then we remained within the european union. ur political life, what you care about, judging from your record over the last 18 years, which i would say are issues of what you see as grave inequality in this country, race issues as well, that is, of racial inequality and discrimination. today, a report came out from the equality and human rights commission, saying britain is at risk of becoming a two—speed society with a string of alarming backward steps in recent years. i would put it to you that the fixation that you and others have with sort of changing the course of brexit is diverting so much attention, political time, and resource from actually the issues that your career as a whole would suggest you care about most. on the contrary, stephen. parliament has now spent two years with only brexit dominating. if we are to exit the european union, the legislation in parliament to deal with the consequences of that will go on for another decade. and you‘re quite right. we need to fix education. we need to resource the nhs. we‘ve g

and of the european union but i feel the days that we have closer to it may be. small but most of the interest in the rest of our lives but as you know a lot of shows that the stuff of the book is. also coming up tonight a tax robbery unlike any that europe has ever seen exposed and uncovered how the super rich stripped fifty five billion euros from the public purse. i'm up who you could say this is the dark side of a world that's become smaller. they might be better dressed the most criminals but that doesn't change the fact that these are highly criminal people that if you could meet me in school. we begin the day with those breaks in negotiations that are going nowhere but tonight we're going to try to see it with the glass half full now last night british prime minister to resign may travel to yet another european union summit hoping to do what appears more and more to be the impossible bring brussels and london closer to a deal before time runs out mrs may return to london as she has done many times before with no progress to report but today a shimmer of li

of the u.p.a. union which a tag is more serious and dangerous i think they're both dangerous you know the way in which president donald trump is acting at this particular moment china which we discussed earlier i'd much rather we do the good guys do the algorithms then the chinese and then of course russia so that's the attack from the outside and then from the inside it's also worrying you know i do think this is a big problem that's why we need to try to address it whether it's from italy poland remain here or hungary it's something that we need to deal with if we stand true to our values it was a time where we wouldn't have said outside the united states what change i think the u.s. administration changed you know we have a president right now in the united states who is quite unpredictable does this mean that we are stopping or does. predictable obama italy it i think hungary yeah when it comes yeah no when it comes to european policy we're quite predictable when it comes to trade when it comes to fo

that underpin the union. eland has benefited from that and that is why many are surprised to this day, even though we have been having these same conversations for at least 12 months around the border, the peace process and around this issue of a backstop, all of the predictions about fragmentation, about divide and conquer within that european union have been proven wrong and dublin's theretence that will be solidarity has been correct. i have no doubt that will continue. >> lucinda was gracious in dismissing the insults, but one of the most profoundly distressing, depressing aspects of british public debate over the last 18 months has been the extent to which it has revealed very senior british politicians' profound ignorance of relationships with our neighbors in ireland, a lack of affinity and understanding with the fragility of the peace that was hard-won and secured by politics and can assuredly be undone the politics and when the right steps are taken -- if i am honest, i think it is revealing of the ch

the u.k. are part of a customs union for example or even of the single market in the european union and that is something that the u.k. has more or less ruled out because they don't want to accept to a baby e.u. rule in this case that is something the brics it's years have said so really the present question is not how long the transition period will be but what the withdrawal agreement will look like because if there is no deal no deal then it doesn't matter what they agree on for the transition period because there will be no transition period just to hard drugs what about no deal i mean we've got five months until the u.k. is due to formally leave the european union as it stands right now and as it stands from where you're looking are we more likely to have a break sit crash than a deal. french president mccall put it pretty interesting that he said it's a mathematical thing with every day that passes we have no deal the likelihood of the hard drags it increases of course you could also say it's like a pressure cooker and the most difficult topics are discussed at the end really the truth is

well there were double digit drops in the polls for both the christian democratic union and the social democratic party of germany as well those votes went to a mixture the green party again doing very well in local elections they picked up around twenty percent of the vote a great night out for them they the big successes along with alternative for germany they picked up throughout thirteen percent of the vote they entered the parliament in for the first time they won't be for part of any coalition in parliament the every other party said they won't work with them there but this is the first one invented in has it now means that they are represented in all sixteen german state parliaments as well as being represented in the ponder stack their leadership ecstatic with the results on sunday evening. with the people's party the f.t. is now represented in every german region after the great success it has. well the big news going through angle of merkel the german chancellor saying that she won't run for reelection as the chairperson of the christian democratic union saying she will remai