All the new Member States except of course for the u. K. And this is something that doesnt happen at every summit usually you have the sherpas the socalled sherpas preparing the text at this time the leader said no we have to do this Buyers Sellers thats why it took so long and thats why you had all these different scenarios floated around one things for certain the reason they asked for an extension until the thirtieth of june she did not get this this is now a very well rather complicated system a step system but to break it down into it will twelve all the options are still on the table so april twelfth is the new March Twenty Ninth because March Twenty Ninth was the original brags that all eyes that day getting pushed down the road max hoffman is standing by for us in brussels thank you very much and well try to get to that Press Conference with the Prime Minister may as soon as she takes the podium. Now lets take a look at some of the other stories making news Around The World for
W. This is it we do is live from berlin looking for a lifeline britains a theresa may makes a deadline dash to avoid a greggs that crash out just three days away from the word drawled its main meets with president michel and paris to plead for another extension earlier she made the same plea to chance on the american and berland also coming up israelis vote in a hotly contested election political newcomer but he got a centrist and a former general is mounting a stiff challenge to for term Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right wing
likud party were in jerusalem. On the ark thank you so much for your company everyone. It is crunch time for british Prime Minister theresa may shes been on a whirlwind European Tour ahead of a crucial issue summit tomorrow and just days before the u. K. Scheduled departure from the bloc she met with french president in myanmar calm and paris and earlier she was here in berlin for talks with german chancellor Angela Merkel may once an extension to t
there will be no total renu read you go off there was drawl agreement that is absolutely off the table the book is closed that is the one thing and the other thing of course what boris johnson has done with this cabinet reshuffle is too much too while the word for it is that he has assembled a whole rebel army all frustrated and furious tory members on the backbench is now and his majority in parliament is only to vote so how is he ever going to get anything rex it related through this problem and we have so many people in his own party who say we don t want our heartbreaks it would be disastrous so that is the one side the other side also what we heard was that boris johnson firmly points the finger at brussels there is the blame game is already beginning now and brussels is not taking kindly to that spot so much less much more from london today is that 1st meeting gets underway. the 1st cabinet meeting will be getting underway
is offering the u.k. and return for an extension to the breaks that date give us the main points if you can. there are already the outlines of the new agreement for tomorrow night when the summit comes together here and it says there can be an extension as long as necessary britain has to leave the e.u. at the moment when it agrees to the was drawl agreement and the final date the end date off that extension period is left open date x. x. the likeliest outcome at this point of time is a compromise the end of the year as we heard merkel one s more mccrone one so that so they meet in the middle as usual and that would mean like the end of december so that s the outline but this comes with some strings attached of course. britain would finally have to stop fiddling around with the withdrawal agreement it is closed and it stays closed there will be no sort of negotiations about the future
might be the new twenty ninth of march. now barbara what about the back stop on the border in ireland we did hear her mention that in the press conference did recently get any new concessions out of the you tonight in terms about. no absolutely nothing changed but the e.u. had made that clear before hand we re not going to give any further concessions we re not going to anything we re not going to add anything this is it what they did do was sort of formalize the concessions and the assurances they had given her and strauss book just two weeks ago and they are sort of going to be formally edited to the it was drawl agreement which makes them then legally binding so that is something she can take back to london that is also something that she might use to sort of take own to. the deal to that was draw agreement and convince the speaker that this is now something else because remember just a couple days ago john bercow the speaker came out and said you know you know stop