Through it. And i hope very much not speaking of that he returns to the to the n. P. C. In the westminster do not come together to get. My and my call for the next day steve that the will holds in all their seats and i think its just a phrase that will be an evolving cycle quite some time yes. Also coming up seriously syria the us president s in a letter to the turkish president which read dont be a fool that but every part of the ended up in the trash democrats met with the u. S. President to talk about syria that meeting ended in a meltdown i think from the president all the time that talent paid for safety multiples and the heat now we have to pay for his health care the since was a very serious political principle leadership or said he called. There are great many say were going to grade their a for. Where. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin today with yet another briggs deal and yet another possibility that it will be shut down by the u. K. Parliament after 3 days of nonstop negotiations leaders of the European Union and the u. K. Today announced that they have struck a deal a plan for the u. K. To depart the e. U. In an orderly fashion beginning october 31st on both sides there is consensus that a no deal breaks it would be a lose lose situation where now its up to u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson to convince parliament that this deal is a win win or at least a win for the u. K. On saturday lawmakers will convene to debate and vote for the 4th time on whether to approve or reject the brics it Withdrawal Agreement former Prime Minister to resume a tried and tried and tried again eventually resign with brights it unfinished but there are 2 differences this time around this latest breaks it does not include the controversial irish border backstop and the leader declaring this deal is the only way forward this time its Boris Johnson i want to stress that this is a great deal fool country for the u. K. I would say believe its a very good deal for friends in the e. U. We could also. Build now after 3 the half years that we can build now on our relations with friends and partners in the e. U. Im very confident that when my colleagues in parliament study this agreement they will want to have a truth what i can say today is that our objectives as are the ones under syrup at the National Citizens rights are protected those he uses and sitting in the. Ok and also u. K. Citizens living in the European Union we have a financial settlement there be no hard border between north and south the all ireland economy will continue to develop the north side cooperation as a visit by the good friday agreement can resume and continue this distinguish is the present situation from the situation we found ourselves in at the time that to resume was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the time it was unclear what the future relationship would look like whether they would be a membership in the past Single Market or not now its very clear that Great Britain is going to be a 3rd country and we will speedily begin negotiating such a free trade with game and agreement with such a 3rd country what i feel so there is frankly speaking english. Because in my house. I will always be to remain there all day out there to show a british friends. Decide story day i would. Always be able to thank you the door will always be open and we have complete coverage tonight of what has been a momentous day in this long history of trying to make breaks it happen from brussels where e. U. Leaders are meeting as g w next hoffman and in london tonight we use your good mas to both of you good evening max let me start with you know we have weve come together before many times just like what were doing tonight 3 times before that the breaks a deal that europe wanted was then shot down by the u. K. Parliament do you sense that this deal will be the one. How dont know if its going to be the one you know it always takes some time to really make sure if the one is the one you really want to stick with in this case though there are some small differences to the last deal which is 1st of all as you mentioned earlier it doesnt include the ugly word backstop any more just a reminder backs up was the insurance policy supposed to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland which is part of the u. K. In the republic of ireland as part of the e. U. I dont know how many times ive said this but this isnt porton so im saying it say it again it does include sort of a backstop through the back door though its just not called that way anymore so you could say thats one difference in the wording that Boris Johnson will be able to sell will also be able to sell the fact that officially Northern Ireland remains in the same customs territory as u. K. Mainland thats also success although in fact its going to be very closely associated to the e. U. Northern ireland that is on the Customs Partnership and then finally maybe we can talk about that a little more later the more than irish people will have their say whether they want to stick with this Customs Partnership with the e. U. Or not every 4 or a. 8 years depending on the mode that they choose so those are the main differences not sure itll be enough to push that through the house of commons yet but i like the buyback stopped part of it and begin what do you think the chances are for this present brights a plan when Parliament Convenes on saturday before you answer i want you to take a listen to what we heard today from people outside westminster take a listen. To this its been coupled together just to satisfy the say this again. And i dont think its going to. Be in any way acceptable if he sees nothing still pretend he doesnt tweaks in 12 months he still was having it might be of any use to us and it might be anything you know about that actually was. Actually remaining well i think we should keep things simple like original voting documents. Come in as the referendum. On the settlement document was leave or remain missing about the deals you know we dont want to lose groupie deals we just won out its ok its ill is very reaches dont since. And not going to get it through and certainly we have no there is no option they have to get an extension and then the sale can be analysed troll please just like mase deal it will be for. The bigger what do you say saturday yes or no to this deal. Thats a good question brant i didnt really know and i dont think many people here in london know its going to be very very tight thats for sure we know that the Northern Irish pop no Boris Johnson the d u v the Northern Irish party things its not to deal with backing they are very important the Northern Irish partners they basically prop up rose johnsons government and many conservative m. P. s have so far listened to what these Northern Irish m. P. s had to say say the fact that they are not backing it is not good news for Boris Johnson when it comes to the support of his own parliamentarians then we have labor labor the neighbor the Opposition Party is very rarely eat that in the future that the u. K. Could be a very serious competitor like angle america has eluded to and the sound bite that you played could be maybe undermining the u. K. When it comes to regulation when it comes to work because rights could be really lowering the standard its a race to the bottom is what what they fear box also that just might be something to m. P. s that also think like the people weve had to outside westminster say just you know just get it done and and move on see its really going to be very very tight on saturday this fades and next i want to pick up again on the irish border on the solution i dont want to go into specifics about this new solution but in a needless to say there is an alternative to that irish bank stop what are you hearing from your sources is this new plan is it one that will really work or is it more i guess more window dressing just to get the whole process out of the state of limbo. If you look at that brags that agreement i think it has 63 pages Something Like that i dont have the exact number and weve been working through it today and its not window dressing i mean this is some serious stuff and there are not many places in the world where a document like that can be produced its an incredible achievement really object if you speaking didnt hammer Something Like that you need absolute experts to do it and the reason why. You know why they are working so thornley on this or have been working in the have all these details and there is because the e. U. Was very very worried that those ideas put forward by the u. K. Government might not be and the word was workable it needs to work and thats why this is so detailed in the end the officials here in brussels were convinced that this could work but make no mistake its complicated super complicated i mean just imagine the customs official that has to make sense of all this of course theyre not going to read that document theyre going to get a simplified version or some simple instructions but to translate all this into simple instructions for you concepts official. In the port in mainland u. K. Is going to be a real challenge and of course the Single Market the border to the Single Market the Customs Border to the e. U. There is going to be less reliable than in other places of the European Union and some things will slip through its just its just the way it is they will have to be more flexible there but thats the price that you use willing to pay and a max of Parliament Says no on saturday what happens then im only talking about another broadside extension and is the European Union willing to delay again. That is the question that weve been asking here we had a whole press conference with the german chancellor im going to back to where all the different journalists basically asked that question and try to to nail and to nail it down to get an answer because juncture juncker the president of the u. Commission coming in said no extension we assumed as was supposed to be helpful. Johnson because on 3rd you will have no say in this its that you leaders will have to decide that if for science and or the u. K. Government someone of the u. K. Government comes on saturday after having lost their vote in the house of commons and asked for an extension you know what im going to back a sidestep that is typical she said were not there yet well deal with that when we get there. You have the west question here how close do you think we are to a general election in the u. K. Boris johnson wants nothing more than a general election and with this deal that he has just had with the European Union he would be going in it on the high i think because he will have gotten this deal against the all the you have said we are not going to open the Withdrawal Agreement we have you know we have close this chapter of up to half for him you know this is a thats thats already thats already a victory for him also it was said that the backstop is nonnegotiable box and the backstop in the half in the ultimate form in the end a loss from at least it went soon he has got you know quite some its events and he will go i thing into this election law and weve already seen him making moves he had a queens speech where he was laying out his future government proposals on health on tough on crime so we really know that he wants to have a general election if his deal doesnt go through on saturday well then his chances of a general election happening very soon are actually quite high indeed all right so the story continues spirited moss in london next often in brussels to both of you thank you. Its a great day for the United States its a great day for turkey great day for the kurds its really a great day for civilization a great day for civilization. Thats quite a declaration to make even for us president double drop but it reveals just how relieved trump apparently is today u. S. Vice president mike pence and elves of the u. S. And turkey have agreed to a cease fire in Northern Syria the United States is calling the 5 day stop in military operations a cease fire turkey is calling it a suspension which means the fighting could continue now in exchange for this temporary stop in fighting turkey will see the economic sanctions slapped on it by the u. S. The 5 day ceasefire is supposed to allow Kurdish Forces in Northern Syria time to withdraw but there was no one from the kurds at the meeting between the u. S. Vice president and the turkish president and there were no kurds present today when pence made that announcement turkish side will pause operation peace spring. In order to allow for the withdrawal of white b. G. Forces from the safe zone. For 120 hours. On military operations under operation the spring people was in operation the spring will be halted entirely on completion of the withdrawal are we going to coverage of this tonight im joined here the big table by size of barker he is with the Aspen Institute germany and in the u. S. Couple of the night im joined by the roar of the Washington Post to both of you welcome i want to start with you you were this week that trump is engaged in a lose lose game in syria yet we just heard the president declaring this cease fire a great day for civilization what does he know that you dont. Plenty of things im sure. Well whats happened is rather surreal in the space of less than 2 weeks trump has 1st of all green lifts this Turkish Operation into northeastern syria then waved around symbolic sanctions in response to a backlash here in washington and then gave away the threat of sanctions today in this deal that effectively gives the turks everything they wanted. So its a really really quite remarkable iteration of the art of the deal that were seeing take place this week between on pro in washington and you know were just getting the report now that the kurds have accepted this cease fire how do you explain that which i mean we were not expecting that to come as they were not part of the negotiations i suppose its not. Right well its also not fully clear to what extent theyve theyve accepted a kind of cease fire on the zones of conflict it is not clear if theyve accepted. A group sort of a greater follow or draw from the zone that turkey now expects the kurds to withdraw from part of this deal was basically the u. S. Said they would guarantee a kurdish withdrawal from a belt of territory along the Syrian Kurdish border syrian Turkish Border sort of deep into deep in some 2030 miles deep into syria its not fully clear if the s. D. F. The thats the acronym for the kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces that the u. S. Has been backing for the past half decade its not clear if theyre going to be fully were drawing across the border and its also not clear how easily turkey can implement understandings of this deal and im one both the assad regime. Ok so weve lost the signal were trying to reestablish that in the meantime let me ask you about the promise of new economic sanctions i mean will turkey i mean what is the u. S. Congress in agreement were going to have to see i mean just looking at the tweets before before it came in and theres been different messaging from Lindsey Graham and Chris Van Hollen the 2 cosponsors of the sanctions passing through the senate Lindsey Graham has basically said this is this is a good deal with this you we do recognize that turkey has legitimate National Interests in Northern Syria and Chris Van Hollen the democrats democratic sponsor of these sanctions has said these sanctions we will continue to push them forward including with Lindsey GrahamLindsey Graham has not said the same thing the rhetoric coming out of the white house particularly from President Trump himself has been an incredibly obsequious i mean its really in for size that they will not be putting on what was mentioned were symbolic sanctions essentially on some key figures and what i would expect to happen is the Republican Party in congress to rally around the president to give at least this breathing room to this pause in an action in operations in Northern Syria that would be my expectation but as was mentioned theres a lot of fun clarity here a big piece of and clarity is you know what have the kurds agreed to and also the status of koba which Vice President pence said this is the symbolic heart of the kurdish territory which they defended against isis in 2015. You know Vice President pence that this will be protected for mr chebucto louve from turkey