know all been is not ready to join european union because. this is still a long way ahead but of course we are ready to start the session talks for which we have already. committed and. delivered based on the commission reports. and recommendation to the member states to consider opening accession talks with and north macedonia. what would albania bring to the european union more and more europeans are asking what does albania have to offer the e.u. . i'm not sure that. the majority of europeans that. deal with political affairs are aware that it will be near and the western balkans are surrounded by e.u. borders so we are somehow an organ of the body that is dragging. out of the body but is not. simply fading away but is there so the choice is very simple. let this organ bleed and create. troubles to the whole body as it happened in the past. should have been a reason why the 2 world wars started about guns or help this organ to integrate and help the body to get organised so. it's not about enlargement is about accomplishment is about it's

gives to the european union because it's a donor to the european union rather than the receiver of money and they wanted to take back laws from the european union and they didn't necessarily vote. it's to stop any sort of trading arrangement with the european union and so she contracts a deal with the european union the did all those things that allows the u.k. to stop free movements that guarantees the rights of u.k. citizens inside the european union and that takes back the money and takes back the laws at least for the toilet for a while keep the trading arrangement open while the u.k. can figure out what to do instead and she went to them and said how about it you know what you think that's that's what people more or less voted for isn't it. and they all said no it isn't you know and as a said before it's like a child being being promised are going to be given a racing car for christmas and then that given being given a rusty bicycle instead of being told you you've got to get on that you know no thanks i don't i don't want to get on that at all and i think to a large extent she must

council and from the european union given that. the ideals for which they were killed are in a way or another one of the fundamentals of the european union which is basically the freedom of expression well i think the muted reaction 1st of all to recent developments is in part because things are are really happening so quickly in malta that most are trying to get a sense of what will stick in my wallet and day to day we're seeing quite quite a few developments still but in general over the past 2 years the international reaction and in terms of state and in terms of into government organizations has not been strong enough in part i think it took some time for the international community to recognize just exactly what was going on in malta because at the assassination of a journalist didn't happen out of nowhere but we did see some steps and really important work take place in the immediate aftermath reports by bodies such as the venice commission greco which is the group of states against corruption the parliamentary assembly of th

european customs union which many then don't want profile. yeah and that's the point i think piece of a very well which is that ultimately the way you keep a border invisible is to have total alignment of all the some rules and regulations for goods crossing that border and that will do something that a lot of the sort of very most fanatical breaks it rejects because it changes the in title meant of a government to sign trade deals with other countries but the under the very important things one that done the stand beneath this is that that you have the good friday agreement which brought to an end you know a generation of very brutal and violent civil war and within. a community the only reason that agreement is able to function so well is because both the republic of ireland and the united kingdom were members of the european union the e.u. is itself quite pretty as a signatory to the good friday agreement together with dublin and london and so it was never really claim properly or fully understood in the twenty sixth referendum campaign en

does now formally leave the european union on january 31st next year the current deadline for the. then start in earnest between the 2 sides over what a new trade deal will look like as well as the rights of e.u. citizens in the u.k. and british citizens. and the clock continues to tick down with another new deadline johnson has insisted the u.k. will not negotiate anything with the e.u. after the end of 2020 and if there's no trade deal by then which looks impossibly unlikely then the infamous no deal bricks which nobody wants comes right back into play so it's never been tried before to try to make a trade deal that she makes to 2 nations or 2 regions further apart in terms of trade trying to do the easiest way probably of making a trade deal within this 11 month period the bush johnson said himself is actually to remain really aligned to rules and to remain a sort of rule take for the not something that ruled out in the campaign but it may be the only way to get a trade deal over the line is to have something a lot like the sort of breaks in the labor's talking about during this

union not switzerland is not in the european union canada is not in the european union those are all different forms of our americas now and then we are going to put forward exactly the very idea that there is that that referendum determines how brits it should look and how far away from the european union that britain should be is nort correct the referendum said britain should leave the european union legally speaking it did not determine what sort of breaks britain would get britain would leave the european union that would fulfill exactly what was said in the referendum and therefore the issue would simply be done so therefore you cannot possibly say that the deal that is on the table is actually not a bricks it let's let's bring in let's bring in donna cohen on that particularly on the issue of the border. between between the republican and northern ireland and whether it's whether it should be a hard border or no border or something in between what is there is there some sort of a compromise where goods could be subject to checks or others not or through advances in technology

it was on the sidelines of the european union foreign ministers meeting in bucharest that france britain and germany launched a new e.u. payment mechanism to allow european companies to continue trading with iran and bypass u.s. sanctions ministers hope the initiative will safeguard the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal and help ensure regional stability to examine how good or at least we are making clear that we are not only talking about keeping the nuclear agreement live but we are now creating a possibility to do business transactions that is a prerequisite for us so we can do. iran obligations and in return be able to ask iran not to develop enrich uranium for military use the e.u.'s foreign policy chief who is one of the twenty fifteen deals may negotiators work on the trade system called instax the establishment of a special purpose vehicle is i believe the mechanism that will allow. for legitimate trade without continue as for c.n.n. in the interval of the missile for support from our side then he you payment system will avoid transfers in dollars it will be based in paris oversee

would be able to leave these sorts of customs union albeit with the european union when it felt like it or not get trapped in it forever on the grounds that that's not really bricks if you can do free trade deals with other countries because you're locked into doing them with the european union but the european union recently to its own sense says there has to be a backstop because you can't leave and put a border up across the island of ireland because it would imperil the peace process and that was the hurdle a date they couldn't get across the m.p.'s of course who have been voting no will know themselves what the result is because they go into two separate divisions the always those in favor of to resume a deal go to one of the nose who are against to go to the other so they're all fighting back in the knowledge that they did that they know which way the vote has gone that there's a lot of talk now though the general election might have to happen if this deal can be resuscitated jonathan is just explain why that he's awaiting for the vote result if parliament is deadlocks and ther

union is breaking human rights law but who can do anything about it in the end the european union is accountable to itself and if it isn't holding itself to accounts and nobody else frankly looks like it's going to. lawrence thanks for that loren see our correspondent in strasburg in france. we've got a lot more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including russia investigates a fire on a navy submarine in which 14 sailors died and living in fear life a syrian children in opposition held areas as bombs dropped around them. in sports and somber style of the couple america as brazil see off rivals argentina raffle will be here with the action. the european leaders have said they won't pursue disciplinary measures against iran after the u.n. nuclear watchdog confirmed it had indeed breached a stockpile limit agreed under the 2015 deal but. not to go forward with a plan to reduce even further its compliance under that agreement is aimed as ravi has more now from terra. with just days to go before iran is expected to take another step in its plan to reduce cooperation with the 2050 nucle

economic and social instability inside the european union what happened here was that the e.u. gave the british parliament more time to stop people from happening and the prime minister could be on her way out. and lawrence leigh is joining us from brussels and you ended that report on the prime minister laurence you touched upon this a little bit but how much of the says the humiliation for in a defeat. well it's it's i mean pretty high tech terrible frankly a thing i think you could probably form an argument that the the european union has thrown everybody a lifeline in doing this treason make a man saying please can i have an extension is too much i just lay ssion subparts between now and next friday if my deal passes so give me a few more weeks as a technical thing to get all that through and they've eventually said yeah ok fine but the fact of the matter is as i said in that report they don't think the deal is going to get through because it just keeps losing by by so much it's got too many opponents on all sides and when they kept saying in the meeting itself in the in wh

or leaving the european union but to never leaving the european union with a good deal and as regards the right on the gentleman he doesn't agree with government policy he doesn't even agree with labor party policy here nothing to offer this country through our share. mr speaker the whole house will want to send it.

across the european union and also in the u.k. and also. creates a unique solution for northern ireland recognizing the unique history and geography of northern ireland when a bunker is standing by in belfast force and they can you drill down a little bit into why the democratic unionists are opposed and how much of an obstacle that opposition is going to be for bars johnson. well it could be a very important obstacle for forced on someone that he will have to use the next couple of days trying to work out how to get around we know of course that there are 10 an m.p.'s from the democratic unionist party sitting in westminster they are of course the government's partners in power every single one of those m.p.'s has a vote every single vote counts as you know boris johnson is $45.00 votes short of getting that plan over the line in parliament but what we've heard repeatedly in several different statements coming from the d p here in belfast is that they are very much opposed to this plan for multiple reasons they believe that it un

population who felt the burden of the european union without feeling the advantages of. the european parliament consists of 751 amy pease representing more than 500000000 people from 28 countries the big question is how many of them will give their backing to the new alliance of far right european leaders. let's now introduce our guests they are finance expert that the most senior lecturer in european politics at the university of surrey and men and director of the u.k. in a changing europe initiative and a former special advisor to the house of lords e.u. committee and joining us from milan stefan of edge in an italian journalist who focuses on economics and foreign affairs and is also co-author of the black book of the leg gentlemen welcome all of you to inside story the finest expects of us if i can start with you were just seeing this report about that rally in milan led by matt hale vini how likely do you think it is that a lot of these far right stroke populous parties across europe will be able to form a functioning coalition a functioning bloc within the european

on the part of the european union. member states have not been able to reach a consensus and really as as at these as it has been mentioned that the current crisis in libya only makes these decisions merge and i would like to thank all our guests lee we are out of time charlie actually saw and night hot thank you very much and thank you too for chick you can see the program again anytime by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a.j. inside story for me imran khan and the whole team head like that i . when your fiancee lives behind bars. the engagement also becomes a life sentence. zero world hears from three palestinian women whose lives have been dictated by their relationships with men in prison. wedding on hold on al-jazeera. it's a daunting climb to one of the holiest sites in bhutan tiger's mess hall astri seems to defy gravity every few cities

leaving the european union and not the european union leaving the u.k. and we are doing everything in our power to ensure that that exit is on an orderly basis and we are willing to engage constructively with our counterparts but we're not going to be the ones left holding the bag the board or any other kind of object meanwhile the irish prime minister. made it clear the current proposals would not work our objective is very clear we don't want to see any customs posts between north and south nor do we want to see any tariffs are restrictions on trade north and south they were all about just in the 1990 s. we don't want to go back to the us the majority of people in the north don't the majority of people in the republic of ireland don't well the proposals are also struggling to find support in northern ireland but members of the democratic unionist party have defended buttressed johnson blaming ireland for setting the u.k. on a path to no deal the proposal will be amended the proposal is there the proposal will get the support of the height of the common

what would albania bring to the european union more and more europeans are asking what does albania have to of the e.u. i'm not sure that. the majority of europeans that. deal with political affairs are where that will be near and the western balkans are surrounded by e.u. borders so we are somehow an organ of the body that is dragging out of the body but is not. simply fading away but is there saw the choice is very simple let this organ bleed and create. troubles to the whole body as it happened in the past should have been a reason why 2 world wars started about guns or help this organ to integrate and help the body to get organised so. it's not about enlargement is about the completion is about it's about a very important piece of the puzzle because in the area as i said within the european union that should not be left. as an open space for other actors that may not be very keen to. see the european union progress and prosper now you have a very tense political situation inside the country at the moment i want to ask you about your dispute over the constitution with president ileum

leaving the european union and not the european union leaving. the u.k. and we are doing everything in our power to ensure that that exit is on an orderly basis and we are willing to engage constructively with our counterparts but we're not going to be the ones left holding the bag the ball or any other kind of object meanwhile the irish prime minister. made it clear the current proposals would not work our objective is very clear we don't want to see any customs posts between north and south nor do we want to see any tariffs or restrictions on trade north and south they were all in the 1990 s. we don't want to go back to the russian the majority of people in the north don't the majority of people in the republic of ireland don't. well the proposals are also struggling to find support in northern ireland but members of the democratic unionist party have defended boris johnson blaming ireland for setting the u.k. on a path to no deal the proposal will be amended the proposal is there the proposal will get the support of the house of commons therefore the e

both the european commissioner and every other member of the european union twenty seven countries left saying essentially they cannot reopen this whole deal the deal is there on the table and it's been rejected by the european by the by the the british parliament and a very very clear terms so they seem to have an old that they're not making any signs that they are prepared to make any more concessions certainly not any legally binding concessions on the irish or to backstop it so it really is a completely open book at the moment nobody knows what's going to happen nobody knows where and treason may well find time to come to start talking to to the european union but she won't have enough time to come up with any real effective deal that will change that parliamentary written team and so that is why the president of the european commission. was saying that the e.u. is now continuing with its contingent c. . plans and arrangements to cope with the new deal breaks it but it's clear also that nobody here in brussels nobody in the of the european twenty seven states wants a new deal breaks

should or you may need to do if the united kingdom still wants to leave the european union and if it wants to leave it in an orderly manner which is what the prime minister tells us then this treaty such as it is which organizes the orderly separation this treaty is the only one possible and available and in order to go further we do not need a negative vote against a treaty or against a no deal we need a positive and constructive vote this treaty is not the end of the story it organizes the orderly separation which is prefer able to a new deal a hard that or a disorderly separation. plenty of other news to look at here on al-jazeera way we'll go to nigeria where rescuers have ended their search for people buried in the ruins of a building which collapsed on wednesday so far at least sixteen people including schoolchildren have been confirmed dead after the apartment block fell in lagos the state government says an illegal school had been set up on the top floor of that three story block locals say the rescue operation though should continue to dress in lagos. the heavy duty machiner

on the countries of the european union. security and. the british people down there presidents of the united states and turkey have discussed cooperation on northern syria they talked about creating a safe zone on sunday trump warned he devastate turkey's economy if its forces attacked us back kurdish fighters he now says there is great potential to increase economic development the international criminal court is set to decide whether to release former ivory coast president laurent gbagbo has been detained for the last seven years he's accused of four counts of crimes against humanity following a disputed election in twenty ten lawyers argue that he can't be directly linked to the post-election violence zimbabwe's security minister says a number of people have been killed in protests after the price of fuel was doubled police fired tear gas and injured dozens of people in harare a three day general strike is underway during the worst economic crisis and in decades. the year twelve sixty eight. if your save their principality of until. a

out of the european union but here the concerns are simpler and far more enjoyable the hockey club is home to the children of british workers as well as belgians dutch and many others who enjoy the benefits of a united europe the kids end up speaking several languages and learn what it's like to live abroad kathleen a belgian businesswoman with interests across western europe speaks for many who cannot understand what has happened to attitudes in the u.k. and she's sick to death of the whole thing it would be better if there would be a real part of you just like the others have always been the sort of exception when you're just playing along like all other countries. and if they can join in do you think it would be better if they just got out a thing at least it's clear yeah yeah european argument for the u.k. not leaving is obvious enough they view it as economic and political suicide but there's a huge amount of cynicism too if there is one single emotion that people in places like this feel about brecht city it's bewilderment really that the u.k. might not want its children to enjo

the european union side as to whether or not the u.k. would either leave it all i mean certainly not under trees and i used terms potentially a much much softer breck's it. in a different configuration from the british parliament that. the labor policy and other policies would have to figure out a way of doing in the meantime but it puts pressure on the u.k. poll of us to either but all or figure out something else to do in some ways you could actually see is the european union empowering the british parliament and saying to them look if you vote down so he's amazed you don't have to leave with no deal you could basically say we're just going to stay for a lot longer and figure something else out instead and say thank you very much indeed ten will come out you'll get that news conference and then a whole is also with us he said not at westminster as a journey to resume had made a great hit last night that she doesn't want anything longer than a delay beyond the end of june so does that leave the door open for someone else to take charge

unions you might say that are vulnerable the european union by far the stronger and more united in these negotiations but also united kingdom which is made up of four different entities with very conflicting aspirations sometimes and i think that price trying ireland to just abandon the backstop. well certainly that's been the hope of many in the brics it's your camp they have to fight to detect any degree of division in the european union structure is between the commission and the council or between individual member states to see if pressure could be applied on our lands they have not fully engaged or understood or acknowledged the asymmetrically of power between the european union and the united kingdom they felt that simply because ireland is a lot smaller than the united kingdom that they could rely on that traditional him balance of power to get their way on the issue of the border in arlen's but at the european union has spoken with the united voice on this has more or less supported the irish position on the border and that has been something that again you've seen flight has be

union can i go has always been to get independence before we leave the european union so let's go and can stay a member i can stay a european setting but if we were to have brakes 1st and then a 2nd referendum were to happen it would then be up to us to decide what our relationship with europe person that relationship could change over time i'm committed to seeing an independent scotland have our own seat at the european table can i just come in there it won't just be up to the people of scotland it will be up to the e.u. $27.00 and of course there are concerns in some european countries about allowing scotland back into the e.u. spain in particular is going to have an an issue with that because you know it's not about the spanish government of car fight this there's 2 major parties in spain the socialists in the people's party the people's party government they're the right wing they're more unionist their foreign minister clarified that they would not veto an independent scotland membership in the current socialist government. said the same thing neither party that can write a prime

will leave the european union at the end of october well that's the spirit jeremy. of course the one thing that both johnson and hunt both have in common is an insistence that through sheer force of will they can balance the european union into coming up with a new brics it deal before the end of october and when those people in brussels understand that they mean business they will surely capitulates of course those people in brussels watch the television to and know perfectly well that that is the threat they now face and nothing has changed and both are kind of this know as well even though they won't admit it that there is no time whatsoever to come up with a new deal before the end of october. once come across as the more serious candidates but johnson remains favorites all find out soon enough if he's telling the truth about his intention to say goodbye to the european union without the don't sleep al-jazeera. and the dispute over high tech exports from japan to south korea is worsening south koreans are protested outside the japanese embassy in the capital seo

ambassador to the european union is next in line to testify in the ongoing impeachment inquiry against donald trump it's expected gordon sunland will be questioned about takes messages from the u.s. ambassador to ukraine discussing trump's if it to precede ukraine to investigate his rival joe biden on tuesday a former senior advisor to u.s. secretary of state mike pump was the latest person to testify michael mckinley was quizzed for 5 hours by house committees after abruptly resigning last week now a key figure in the impeachment inquiry u.s. congressman allies you cummings has died aged 68 as chairman of the house oversight and reform committee cummings led multiple investigations into president drops governmental dealings cummings passionately advocated for the poor he's black majority district of maryland he died in hospital due to complications from longstanding health problems hong kong's leader terry lamb has been shouted down for a 2nd consecutive day in the territories legislature opposition members protested in the chamber and called for her to step down at least 10 people we

out of the european union with no deal. becomes a vis richmond's and you're likely to get the opposite view here very many regard opposition to bracks it's as a form of treachery. this richmond is every bit as pretty as the other one it was voted the best place to live in britain yet the mood here can be venomous towards both the e.u. and the british governments they dismiss entirely the idea that bracks it is some kind of mythical creature as their opponents claim britain they say is being led like a lamb to the slaughter democracy is dying i think the longer it goes on the more extensions the more that the power of the people by parliament who are reminded and we will not get brecht's it is simple as that i think it's delaying tactics so that i can reverse the decision of the people we had the people we don't need in our people we should leave on. and that's it. it goes without saying that syriza may is now being pulled apart by both of these forces in parliament it will inevitably be her downfall abandon braxton revoke t

union summit next week whether the european union actually still goes for an extension or abandons the entire project and i don't see that watching that more of red press from london thank you . brazil's president says an oil spill polluting his country's northeastern beaches since early september is not of brazilian origin but the next investigation still underway as i about an hour says it could be the result of criminal activity or a shipwreck sara horowitz has the latest. this is what an oil spill last month has done to this once pristine coastline along brazil's northeastern region 1500 kilometers of fix sticky mess that's damaging the environment at least 42 coastal cities have been affected present diable sonars says an investigation to find out the cause is still under way by the state run oil company petro brass bazzi stopped short of naming a country he believes is responsible for the spill instead indicating it could be the result of a ship or criminal activity. the coastal states affected are particularly concerned about the timing it's the season for baby turtle hatchlings

union's fault when plainly the european union see johnson really has never having had any intention to come to a deal at all because he's supposed compromise over northern ireland is so convoluted and complicated that it looked like it was designed to fail what appears to be the case now certainly speaking to opposition m.p.'s that they think boris johnson next week when parliament resumes after being suspended once again they think johnson will call a national election they think that he will say write the letter to the european union saying that he accepts the extension to brics it that will be enough for the opposition parties particularly jeremy commons labor party to say ok fine we've got the bracks extension we agree now she'll call for election and by the end of next week the account of this they are in the u.k. is in straight general election territory. flawlessly they're all still ahead here on al jazeera new zealand marks 250 years since a british ship sailed in but not everyone so welcoming. since the landing of. these it has been nothing but distress. why china is furiou

should leave the european union will have no deal at all and will be facing that choice in just about six minutes from now that vote will begin that's when m.p.'s will vote on leaving the twenty eight member bloc that is the european union without a deal if it's rejected there is another vote on thursday and that's on delaying the march twenty ninth briggs it deadline if that is passed may well need to request an extension from the e.u. but the block has already said it will only do that if there's a good enough reason i'm against every extension when an extension of one day one week even twenty four hours if it is not based on a clear opinion of the house of commons for something that we know what they want is it that something is done to deal ok this lesson which is that the deal that's your opinion if it is a customs union it is a customs union if it just india it is the deal if it is in norway person it's a normal person but please make up your mind because this uncertainty cannot continue. that they're the european parliament with john ryan is a fellow at the london school of eco

cross into the european union already in greece so for the european union which is given 2000000000 euros to greece to deal with migrants. to then say well we're just hoping that the authorities in a bosnian canton or in a few bosnian cantons are going to be able to deal with a crisis that the e.u. itself is currently unable to address or unwilling to address in a humanitarian way on the greek islands or in hungary or indeed on the question border for the e.u. to then lecture the bosnians is not going to be very effective what we need is not lectures what we need is a strategy and the only strategy that could work is one that reduces the number of people coming into bosnia by for example restarting relocation of people who need protection and to get protection from greece directly to e.u. member states as was done for one of the half years in 2017 and of course returning people who do not need protection in europe from greece to turkey so the solution to the crisis in bihar. cannot really be found in bosnia that sort of what do you make of what you've heard so far why has bosnia bee

so on that level the irish government and therefore the european union are entirely happy with it and boris johnson can say he's happy with it too because he doesn't as he would put it keep the u.k. locked in this trade agreement through the backstop with the european union forever and a day so so on all those bases they're absolutely fine with it but they know just as well as everybody else does that actually is not about them anymore it's about the british parliament lawrence what's the atmosphere like there in brussels this morning is this being viewed there is as a real victory that this is that this is progress despite the fact that lots of questions still remain about whether this well eventually be ratified. i mean certainly the your opinion is is falling over itself to say that it's eager to help the u.k. leave despite all the allegations from the conservative government in london that it's the e.u. that's in the way the u.s. made it palpably clear over and over again that it wants to get a deal done because that's that's the way the u.k. voted and so in that sense they are tr

but we know our way as not here european union not switzerland is not in the european union canada is not in the european union those are all different forms of our americas now and then we are going to put forward exactly the very idea that there is that that referendum determines how brics it should look and how far away from the european union that britain should be is nort correct the referendum said britain should leave the european union legally speaking it did not determine what sort of breaks britain would get britain would leave the european union that would fulfill exactly what was said in the referendum and therefore the issue would simply be done so therefore you cannot possibly say that the deal that is on the table is actually not a brics it let's let's bring in let's bring in donna cohen on that particularly on the issue of the border. between between the republican and northern ireland and whether it's whether it should be a hard border or no border or something in between what is there is there some sort of a compromise where goods could be subject to checks or others

union now is turned into you know half a dozen ways to leave the european union and and that's why you've got the mess that there is in only schisms and splits across parliament has to have a hard leave or a soft leave or a norway deal or a switzerland deal or a canada deal and you know i mean goodness knows what else and they just got lost it's a reason may come up with any separation of breck's it and she's going to lose again it seems very heavily once again tonight the atmosphere among conservative m.p.'s his own room missing the gloomy hof them didn't even turn up to listen to her speech in the debate this often with a full touring voice and so there is a general assumption that if he's lost they that the european union will offer nothing else now and they don't know where to go and what they're waiting for really once the vote is lost is what on a series of may is going to have to say to his cell to try to salvage what it pays to be an unwinnable situation jonathan lists bush influence is going to do with us next hour or two well what will this car crash unfolds in in front of us. h

either and that's what the european union keeps saying is the problem these people simply don't know what they want so it's chaos and reason may seems even the commons to hear the results of this but she's now got to go back to the your opinion of some point explain what exactly she intends to do next i think in your they must be thinking when all these people ever going to make their minds up what they do want well yeah i guess my next question lies i mean how are our european leaders going to be. and all are. going to have a lot of good things to say ah me. no i mean i mean the european leaders keep saying. she won't there's no majority for anything inside parliament you know there are people who want in there who want. to want no deal to want to crush out there are people who want the labor party who want to stay in the customs union there are a group of people who don't want to leave it's old and none of them can coalesce around any sort of position that can get the majority and so the european union left thinking well go on then do something and you're starting to hear you know

on the part of the european union. member states have not been able to reach a consensus and really as as at these as it has been mentioned that the current crisis in libya only makes these decisions merge and i would like to thank all our guests lee we are out of time charlie actually saw and night thank you very much and thank you too for chick you can see the program again anytime by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at age eight inside story for me imran khan and the whole team here i couldn't. i. people have to weigh your own record on this trial in fact a few years ago there is place only for one state on the land of israel all you do not believe in a two state solution the official story is that there are no i'm sure we all still are you i don't care about the official story if you were to go visit today you would say what has the media been

union the european union it will see some of these issues not the irish government the irish government as a constituent part of the european union has its views and indeed the only fronts here learn from the year between united kingdom and ireland will be on the island of ireland so of course our image is central to those but don't for a moment think that this is not the e.u. decision this is been a an attempt indeed by the conservative government was some time to kind of divide and rule as it were to to get the suggestion that ireland is an outlier that actually the european union is is is really eager to concede to virus johnson's demands but it's the irish somehow that are the stumbling block they are at the one . page on this indeed he used parliament steering committee yesterday he said that what boris johnson was talking about was not even remotely in the realm of what was or is feasible this is not something that is uniquely irish and i have to say from the long term perspective in arden's this this kind of is eerily retold and of how the order came to exist in the 1st place in

european customs union which many then don't want profile. yeah and that's the point i think piece of a very well which is that ultimately the way you keep an order invisible is to have total alignment of all the some rules and regulations for goods crossing that border and that will do something that a lot of the sort of very most fanatical breaks it rejects because it changes the in title meant of a government to sign trade deals with other countries but the under the very important things one that done the stand beneath this is that that you have the good friday agreement which brought to an end you know a generation of very brutal violent setting civil war and within. a community the only reason that agreement is able to function so well is because both the republic of ireland and the united kingdom where members of the european union the e.u. is itself quite pretty as a signatory to the good friday agreement together with dublin and london and so it was never really explained properly or fully understood in the twenty sixth referendum ca

well starting on thursday voters across the european union will elect members of the european parliament they'll have to the power to approve e.u. new laws the e.u. budget and choose the president of the european commission 751 seats are up for grabs with each of the $28.00 e.u. countries getting a number of seats proportional to their population the u.k. is still taking part because it's briggs it plans of course not been passed the 2 major blocs in parliaments are the right leaning the p.p. and the center left s n d but the dominance of these coalitions could be eroded by the rise of europe's populists bridget lafon is the director of the global governance program at the european university institute she joins us by skype now from florence to talk more about this thanks very much for being with us so we've seen this we've seen this wave of populist nationalist movements sweeping across europe over the last few years in in the individual european governments but do you expect that to be reflected in this european parliament as these elections begin. well we should remember that the anti

will be the party that might actually keep scotland in the european union. and 19 i guess as well for nicholas sturgeon and s n p m s p's in edinburgh and the s.n.p. m.p.'s here at westminster they're secure in the knowledge that the european commission the people like michelle van they've been signalling for a long time an independent scotland wouldn't necessarily be fast tracked into the european union once the u.k. leaves but they wouldn't put up any major barriers to that process happening and happening quite quickly. that's right they are the s. and p. we have been saying all along that they know they have enough supports amongst the e.u. for membership and for fairly fast membership they've also said that it would be fairly smooth a fairly smooth transition for the scottish economy that they would carry on in the in the short run at least in using the pound as their currency with a lot of speculation about whether they'd be obliged to use the euro the single currency and so on but this is all a matter for debate it's hard to say but what's clear is tha

into the european union as businesses prepare for the breaks of whatever it is even if the u.k. ends up with with a much softer briggs's or even remaining in the u.s. for as the money moving out of the economy is concerned it's too late is that we have potentially i mean clearly the u.k. economy is already been hit very hard by the brics that process investment was really sluggish through last year so yeah it may never be fully recovered but i think should we get a deal or if in the end there's a second referendum in the u.k. very sure main and the prospects should get a little bit better in the short run but it all really depends what that final price it model is and it could potentially be quite a few years before we get there because of course we still have this transition fair period to come if some kind of deal comes in ok james really good to talk to you and come to the constance for being with us china's trade dispute with the united states is taking a toll on its economy exports of fall into the lowest point in two years while imports also down katrina you reports now fr

the european union has agreed to give britain until the end of january to approve prime minister abbas johnston's breaks that deal britain was choose to leave in 3 days time but m.p.'s forced johnson to request another delay to give them more time to scrutinize and feel. a draft power sharing deal has been agreed between yemen's internationally recognized government and the southern separatist group james to when fighting in the old city of a that which the southern transitional council seized in august. iraq's 2nd largest city mosul is still trying to rebuild after being virtually torn apart during the rise of i saw on the battle to retake it residents of the city of been recounting their stories of living under the armed group and expressing their joy at hearing the leader of daddy has been killed in a u.s. raid the actual name is more from their. this was the 1st city eisel took control love mosul was also the place where abu bakar l. baghdadi made his public debut in 2014 he came here to the grand el nuri mosque and proclaimed that he was the leader i thought ironically 3 years lat

will leave the european union at the end of january but will go into this transition process and then they've got until july to get the trade deal sorted out it's impossible so then they've got to decide by july whether they say ok forget all that we're going to have no deal at the end of december next year or they're going to try and finesse something in a one nation conservative way which is which appeals to everybody to. get some sort of deal sorted out and it's a bit and go into a much longer transition period with the european union but in johnson's terms getting it done only means actually leaving on the 31st of january and then concentrating on schools not spittles and all that stuff everything else is detail to him it'll be behind the scenes it will go on for months and months and his message to the people is don't worry about it you know we can talk about something else well as far as how he got the vote why you got the vote no one has talked about this in the past week i've been doing this following it zooming in on it i mean people are tired they're fed up of it they've had