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Hong kong. >> i feel very sorry for the situation hong kong is. they have a lot of talent, potential, right on the doorstep of china, and china has been a backstop for them, which enabled them to grow and overcome many economic rough spots, but at the same time they are part of china, and this change is not easy for the population to get used to. area they are also issues within hong kong which is quite fundamental issues like housing, fundamentally its a question of hope for the future, for the...

U.s./china trade war has put that city state in quite a tough spot. i started by asking him what he thought of the ongoing situation in hong kong. >> i feel very sorry for the situation which hong kong is in, because they are a city with a lot of talent. a lot of enterprise. a lot of potential. theyre right on the doorstep of china, and china has really made -- been a backstop for them which enables them to grow and to overcome many economic rough spots. but at the same time they are part of chi...

A compromise but a prisoner of existing positions is to become a cause of deadlock rather than breakthrough. and joining me now from brussels is our cars fund bent riggers and in london we have a charlotte boss welcome to both of you shall of us talk with you if i mean our prime the said johnson says hes solved the biggest sticking point in this regs of process the north island border whats this plan. well he is trying to replace the northern irish backstop and that was lets remind of us an insu...

Made it clear that britain is expecting the e.u. to make concessions the ball is now in the e.u.s court. well our correspondent bob of asal is following the conservative conference for us she sent us have thoughts on boris johnsons proposals. after weeks of dithering and just 4 weeks before the brics a date for johnson has made a proposal to the rio pm union that at 1st glance could be called reasonable place for compromise it is a 1st step to in agreement that might in the end prevent a heart f...

Constructive and reasonable proposals which provide a compromise for both sides top of johnsons list was the so-called irish backstop and the issue of how to prevent a hard border post breaks is between the republic of ireland and northern ireland the british government is opposed to the backstop in its present form johnson said under his proposal there would be few customs checks on goods moving between northern ireland and the republic of ireland britains breaks it negotiates or delivered the ...

Is it really is it really worth brussels digging in its heels on this one but we should just be pretty shrewd the whole deal we should keep in mind the whole history of the island it is not possible to divide the island at the same time we need to make sure that we protect internal market and thats where we are in britain the good friday agreement that we are trying to to preserve the boat and the backstop is the way how to preserve the books we dont want to return back before the friday agreeme...

A negotiated we are open to negotiations. but if things if things go badly are you seriously telling me that its worth risking a return to the terrible violence that took place along with another man simply to preserve that option use mules what other options simply the facts are the backstop is not because of. protecting the single market theres also a way how to preserve that there is more important it is also how to preserve the friday agreement to protect you in the czech republic you have y...

A very positive part of the whole process come with new features of warning about a seismic shift in trading conditions if it leaves with no deal and many of the chinese herbs or will become manufactured in britain in europe. we are also concerned about the impact thats why we always supported the agreement to do so that provide us a place to negotiate future relations between you and him including a trade relations between the block and great britain result of the result of the agreement we wil...

With this proposal he is hoping to finally get bricks that done and convince the european union and that is exactly what hes setting out in the next days ahead he will visit european capitals trying to convince european leaders there that this is the way going forward. and bent to a representatives off that $27.00 have been meeting to trash out a response. to the reactions after being briefed by michoud on the schieffer negotiator for brics that the european union the $37.00 reacted cautiously a...

So-called backstop arrangements which keep the u.k. locked in brusselss customs union, commercial trade policy and regulatory, all the rules that come from brussels under the backstop we would have to accept, or a huge proportion of them we would have to accept. but without any say in the making of those laws. >> the british government plans to publish its proposals for an amended brexit agreement in the coming days. joining us to talk about this and much more david cameron, the former british p...