a last minute concession on the maximum pressure so the timing for spain to bring up the topic of gibraltar couldn't couldn't be better from their perspective of course to be fair one has to say all along the bracks of process spain has made clear that they want the issue of this tiny rock of britain just in front of their doorstep to be clarified bilaterally they also wanted a clause in the divorce treaty in the drafty wall street that guarantees them a veto a post-breakfast veto on the issue of gibraltar now that clause was in that paper and it has disappeared and now spain wants it back in and so negotiations are ongoing on that subject and they're very keen to see this resolved right this is a very thorny issue as you said spain has made it clear from the beginning that they want this question clarified let's take a look now at what is at stake at peak for people in the region. the spanish town of nonlinear on the border which