u. k is out of the european union, there has to be a trading border between the u. k. and the european union, where do you put it? well, under the good friday agreement, you can't have a border or between northern ireland and the republic of ireland, or macy rules out having a border on the island of ireland. so that border has to go somewhere else because islands, it is inside the european union, the u. k is out of it. so what we've ended up with is, is something called the northern ireland protocol, which essentially puts that border in the irish c. so what it amounts to essentially is an internal domestic border between northern ireland part of the u. k. and the rest of the u. k. that is unacceptable to the d. u. p. and other union as parties which wants to keep, that's kind of indivisible link between northern ireland and the u. k. they say that this is, sir, this is not something that they can subscribe to. so are in february, the dpi pulled out of a power sharing at the store want assembly behind me here in belfast. and since then, they base to be blocking even after elections in may been blocking the formation of any new power sharing at executive until they say that northern ireland protocol is either abandoned or rewritten. so as the deadline for putting a new executive together has just passed, what we're very likely to get eminently in the next hour or so is an announcemen