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The block for up to 3 months in a tweet european council president donald tusk so the remaining 27 e.u. member states had agreed to accept the u.k.'s request for briggs it flex tension until january 31st of next year old leaders let's get your reaction our correspondents are standing by in brussels and london barbara vessel and better get a very good day to you both barbara i want to go to you 1st the e.u. has granted the u.k. a so-called flex tension what is a flex tension. that's a flexible thingy that says you can go you can leave us whenever you're ready to it means that whenever britain w...

In case you missed it i have a serious quandary, a squandary, if you will. consider this from donald trusk. the eu has agreed that it will accept the uk's request for a brexit flextension. port man toe is a word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others. in this case, brexit is a combination of britain and exit and flextension is a blend of flexible and extension. i, for one, say britain you've overflextended yourself. where does it end with a brexit deadlock becoming a breadlock?

Does this mean going forward for brexit as of now? >> well, this was widely expected to come through. this is the european union, the 27 nations within europe, agreeing to grant the u.k. the extension of requests that boris johnson sent over last week. now this is not just an extension, it is a flex-tension, meaning that if the u.k. is able to agree to a deal, that the deal that prime minister boris johnson agreed with the eu earlier this month, then they can leave the european union before this january 2020 deadline. now, of course for context here boris johnson, u.k. prime minister, he won t...

A lot of ukip representatives elected they have threatened to make life very difficult for brussels so there is going to be a lot of a lot of different opinion also about this flex tension and one european council official briefing the press this afternoon said look i don't know any more than you do i'm constantly checking my phone to see if anything has been decided in london we are preparing for every option and every option is complicated. issues in brussels and in london thank you both very much for your very perspectives. turning on to libya and up off a militia is holding in on the capit...

Discussions about extensions for treason a to have to come back again to go back to parliament to have indicative votes meaningful votes everyone is tired of this process so that's where donald has used suggestion a flex tension he says let's give them a year let's give them until april twenty twenty because that would mean they don't have to try to wrap this up quickly there's less chance that we will do this chaotically we can sort of be more methodical about it even though we've already had two years to get to this point so there's no sign yet that everyone would agree to that that all the ...