Capable of delivering your coherence and decisive plan for brics it does work we must be ready and we are preparing for all situations rest. Also coming up on the day a cyber attack on German GovernmentComputers Russian hackers are the suspects and there is a connection to the twenty sixteen u. S. President ial election more on that coming up in about ten minutes. We begin the day watching the calendar and the clock tomorrow will be the first day of march twenty eighth seen in march twenty ninth seen in the United Kingdom will officially ended as members ship in the European Union and just one short year of the separation known as brags it is scheduled to take place and event with no president here in europe and with no guarantee that it will happen as planned and to schedule well today the European Union published a one hundred twenty page rough draft report on the progress of breaks in negotiations now if this were a report card writes it would be nowhere near the honor roll they used braggs a negotiator today criticizing britain for dragging its feet warning that time is running out take a listen. Soon you will see that if we wish to make a success of these negotiations and i certainly do we must pick up the pace. Live on the thirtieth of notch two hundred nineteen in thirteen months in thirteen months the u. K. Will no longer be a member state of the European Union says. That is what they wanted and on that day we need to have all denies that its withdrawal in an orderly fashion. So in london the Prime Minister and the members of parliament continue to bicker over snow when seemingly willing to own up to the fact that breaks it still means something thats hard to define or agree upon why is it so difficult this late in the game let me pull in my guests tonight David Charter here to my right hes a journalist with the times and author of several definitive books on braggs its good to have you back on the show david and joining us from brussels tonight our correspondent barbara. Of you welcome barbara let me start with you mr barney a made clear today that a final divorce agreement is anything but clear has he been saying this all along i mean the kind of shocked people. It shouldnt have shocked people if they have really watched the negotiations and the progress or non progress that talks have made particularly since december when we reached the point in brussels where there was a certain political eagerness to say ok lets move on lets just sort of wipe some things away or put them aside maybe i should say and say ok we have a rough agreement on the divorce and now were going to sort of write this down and fill in the details since then there has been no negotiations in brussels other than legal eagles sitting together on the technical level and saying could we put the sentence here of that come in there and so this is what we have at this point in time very late in the game is no divorce agreement that is agreed and no transition agreement thats part of it i mean just watching the reaction today in london they really did see why they were caught off guard how is it possible for the u. K. And the e. U. To how can these shockers surprise you to other in these negotiations arent they talking all the time. The talks go on between officials but one thing thats really annoying the brussel side and Michelle Obama has referred to it in recent days is that david davis the lead minister for britain has not been spending that much time in brussels this year as barbara lead to do in the ninetys going round different e. U. Capitals giving speeches and meeting his fellow ministers to try and really drum up support from other countries for the british positions having said that the british positions are not that clear we as barbara alluded to again we only achieved some principles in december that allowed the impression of momentum to get try and get to the next phase but britain then handed over responsibility to the European Union to write down the legally of of of what december meant and that has sprung some surprises and it has also left out something the british thought theyd agreed to which was there would be no de facto ball. Between Northern Ireland and the rest a great person yeah id like for us to focus on what has become the biggest bricks and blockade if you will the border between the republic of ireland and Northern Ireland here listen and show you if you could bring your attention over here to the big wall were going to talk about this thanks to ireland and the u. K. Joining the European Union plus the good friday agreement there is now a border only in name of the irony is that by Northern Ireland leaving the European Union the border with the republic of ireland will automatically change what both sides say they want to avoid is a return to a hard border between Northern Ireland in the republic of ireland but there have been the checks or controls on that front tier for two decades will today barney a proposed a back up plan keep it in Northern Ireland in the e. U. Use Customs Union well that would leave things unchanged from what they are today guaranteeing the free passage of people and goods so wheres the border well the e. U. s plan could potentially put it out to sea the irish sea with Northern Ireland behind a hard border between the e. U. And the u. K. Kind of like being in political limbo british Prime Minister theresa may has made it clear that is a line too far. The draft legal tax the commission will publish good if implemented it undermined the u. K. Common market and threaten the constitution integrity of the u. K. By creating a customs and regulator reported on the irish sea and no u. K. Prime minister could ever agree to. No u. K. Prime minister could ever agree to a david is she going to regret those words one day she may have to swallow those words eventually but the reason that she has to take a hard line position today and would like to stick to that hardline position is because of the small group of democratic unionist and pays that she would lie as a pawn in parliament to keep her majority since the election last year when she lost her majority in parliament and they are resolutely opposed to having that as you describe this de facto border between the Northern Ireland and the mainland Great Britain and thats a very difficult hurdle to overcome because anything any movement that she makes towards the e. U. Position now and she could well lose the support of the democratic unionist and i might add a number of m. P. s and iran back benches and that would really be the end of her job variant of her career as Prime Minister lee do you see david do you see a solution that all sides could agree upon. I dont see it at the moment the british side have said that they will come forward with technological proposals Boris Johnson the foreign minister referred to the idea that the congestion charge in london is able to watch people coming drivers motorists coming in and out of london to charge them the driving in london and he thought that this was the basis of a potential agreement but of course the congestion charge cameras are not able to look inside the vehicles and see if theyre bringing counterfeit goods across the border or what are all goods that break the agreement so its easy for you its not really an. Analogous situation i dont think the bushes side have got the solution yet theyve got just a few months to come up with a. Barber take a listen to what the British Foreign secretary what he said this morning after a morning run about what the e. U. Was trying to do with the irish border. It was is that. The issue of the new border is being used quite a lot politically to try to keep the u. K. In the Customs Union and take you through the market so you cant really be thats whats going on. Is that the case barbara i mean is brussels trying to hold Northern Ireland hostage is our esteemed jogger planes. I think it isnt because even though the divorce the fight about this divorce may have reached the point where one party system or the other ok im going to rip out the kitchen sink sink and throw it sort of through the window if you wont see reason about how to divide up the cabinets but. Michel barnier the e. U. Negotiator has several times said this is a stopgap this thing about Northern Ireland and ireland and the border being in the irish sea that we wrote down into this legal text you just have to and that really means its a ploy in a sense it means to sort of wake up the people in london and to come up with a viable solution that of course is not the border between westminster and camden or something fanciful that Boris Johnson comes up with and its not numberplate recognition this is going to be an open border and thats not possible some solution reasonable and practical solution has to be found and it is all to do with it is part of the british task to do this and so far nothing from london its a conundrum its the question of the square peg into the round hole but yet have to be solved and what about you know the Shock Therapy the barbs talking about here david i mean we know that Prime Minister theresa may shes expected to give a speech on friday and ive read that shes expected to suggest the Northern Ireland maintain sheered and different regulations right so you know have your cake and eat it too she could do that i think she will try and do that because its kind of funny to hear the Boris Johnson position that the e. U. Is trying to use the r. H. Border to keep britain in the e. U. Because the british side is trying to use the border question as a blueprint perhaps for the bigger relationship because after all if we if we can work out a fluid very open easy border between the parts of britain that the only. Britain has a land border with the e. U. Why cant we do that for britain and france all the rest of the eat it why cant we have this easy fluid border that the british want to have in an open Dynamic Trading relationship with the e. U. You think this is border engine earring going on here that were seeing its a battle over a very particular and quite complicated subject that weve discussed tonight but its crucial to the Bigger Picture of how the the Great Britain eventually ends up having a relationship with the European Union and the british want that to be as fluid and as open as possible and then they havent really accepted the e. U. Position which is no youre leaving our Customs Union on our Single Market and youve got youve got to then accept that will be a border where you dont have to make Customs Declarations for example may your vehicles may be pulled over for checks. What do you say brussels seems willing to wed redraw borders if it comes down to it is that true or false. You mean in the sense friend that is going to draw borders around the European Union twenty seven to the side of britain yes indeed because what david is talking has been talking about now is this its an illusion thats what the e. U. Says it exists nowhere in the world no one the world to be a friction is trade as between neighboring countries for nothing you are even a sort of Customs Union or you are either in some sort of other range mn but neither one of those exist as far as you opinion is concerned it cannot exist because the certain rules have to be kept certain routes that are keeping the other twenty seven within the boundaries of the European Union and so we have a boy who will be drawn and what russell says to this point to this problem is there will be no friction is trade and of course we know there will be no cherry picking you can pick out the goodies from the European Union those that you want and leave the rest away in for instance pay no money into the kitty so those are the rules that have been put down in brussels and its reason they will have not much joy from her speech on friday because already in advance everybody here said this is an illusion its going to be fascinating to see what she says on friday and i think this is the first show where weve really tackled the subject of border engine neary thanks to mr charter here David Charter barbara visa to both of you thank you very much we appreciate it still to come on the day russian mercenaries in syria and why no one wants to talk about. In the run up to the president ial elections news about the death of russian soldiers is inconvenient for the government here its not clear when and if the man in syria will return. But tonight the German Government says its computers are secure again after a cyber attack reportedly carried out by you suspected russian Hacking Group known as a p t twenty eight its the same group suspected of meddling in the twenty sixteen u. S. President ial election the hackers reportedly breached germanys foreign and defense ministries and stole Sensitive Data the government will not say when the attack took place but sources tell us that the infiltration occurred last december parliaments Digital Agenda Committee will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow here in berlin. We want to bring in now our Political Correspondent all oversell and hes on the story for us tonight good evening to you oliver so weve got the German Government confirming that federal id systems were attacked do we know any more about this what sort of attacks are we talking about. Thats why the interior ministry confirmed these attacks they say they were isolated and brought under control right now the Foreign Ministry is concerned as well by these hack her attacks these attacks might have started up to a year ago they were then discovered in december but only published to date its unclear right now how big the damage really is but what we do know is that malware was installed on the Government Service and apparently dates valuable and Sensitive Data will still and and we know that german media are reporting tonight that a group called a p t twenty eight was behind the attack what do we know about this group. Well these socalled a. P. T groups are among the most professionally operating Hacking Groups worldwide and Security Experts believe that there are about one hundred fifty of these groups active and they are highly professional very well equipped with money personnel and with know how to kill or and for that reason experts believe that theyre run or supported by state actors simply because they could not be that well equipped otherwise now with regards to that group you mentioned a p t twenty eight this hacker group is also known as fancy bear and that my drawing a bell because theyre also held accountable for an alleged attack on the servers off the Democratic Party in the run up to the us president ial elections in two thousand and sixteen the German Government also things there theyre responsible for an attack on the server of the german buddhist took just a year before that in two thousand and fifteen so we might have russia behind these attacks here and we know that german intelligence has warned repeatedly that this type of attack. Is probable or could likely happen i want to get back there to what may have been compromised or stolen do we know what kind of data may be missing. Were talking about Data Networks that are used not only by these mentioned ministries but by various german ministries also by the german chancellor rhee by the German Parliament the bonus talk and other important all floridians and they could logically host potentially Sensitive Data and information and these a. P. T Hacking Groups are by the way not interested in money or any kind of Financial Resources what theyre after is politically valuable information now all four years are of course trying to find out what exactly happened what will still and what went missing here but the biggest fear of course is that the whole data network all of the German Government is concerned all right our Political Correspondent all over salad on the story tonight on this cyber attack here in germany all over thank you very much for. All how much longer can it go on like this that is the question aid workers are posing tonight after yet another failed attempt to stop the fighting in syrias Eastern Ghouta area aid workers say that civilians are now too afraid to even board buses which are supposed to evacuate them from the besieged on clay. The socalled humanitarian kota door and eastern us yet seemingly empty of humans im dealing says stunned ready to treat the wounded and provisions that aid stations are apparently plentiful. About shows who want to leave can do so after a month or twenty days or they can stay even for two years because there is a school and everything they need is here to get new supplies every sixty days. But people seem too scared to risk the journey airstrikes were reported during the first five hour ceasefire and observers say that Syrian Government warplanes resumed their bombing almost as soon as it ended but russian president Vladimir Putin claims that one group did make it through. One of those we we have managed to get out quite a big group of those who wanted to leave from there but the second group that was prepared could not leave because the militants just did not give them an opportunity to do that putins face haunts these closely aid stations he blamed rebel groups on the ground for not respecting the ceasefire but france today said that the Syrian Government was to blame. You the Syrian Regime didnt feel worried about it and moreover is continuing to teach and large scale military operations with dramatic consequences on the civilian population of east and. Needless to say a complete violation of resolution twenty four what. The u. N. Has been in talks with russia and thats accelerating and hedonist the resolution on all sides perhaps then some of the people whose lives have been shattered by the conflicts and start to stream than these empty roads to get the aid they so desperately need. At the end of last year russian president Vladimir Putin announced that he would start withdrawing troops from syria no russian airstrikes like those from the mean air base in the countrys north now they played an Important Role in turning the tide in favor of the Syrian Government forces we still dont know how many Russian Troops served in syria according to the Defense Ministry it could be around fifty thousand soldiers but the number of russians fighting in syria is probably much higher thats due to russian mercenaries who are fighting alongside Syrian Forces our correspondent emily sure when traveled to a small town in the Ural Mountains people there say local men joined a private military force. Its about as far as you can get from syria and yet here in the russian town of kid there all the people are waiting for news about seven locals who reportedly went to fight in syria they allegedly worked as mercenaries which is illegal in russia the topic is sensitive many people here say they know nothing about the man. Who in fact we are repeatedly met with rejection and kid but this building is home to the mother of one of the fighters she had agreed to speak to us about her son but canceled the interview after being told her son had been killed. A local gives us the address of the wife of another mercenary when we tried to speak to her she insists she is someone else but she also warns none of us is going to talk to you. Just like the relatives of the mercenaries the russian government has largely kept silent about them and even denied their existence the Foreign Ministry took over a week to respond after a recent airstrike reportedly killed up to two hundred russians and the two yellow. Report says the death of dozens and hundreds of russian citizens is a classic case of dissent from ation according to preliminary data we could be talking about the death of five people presumably russian citizens as a result of an armed clash the causes of which we are currently investigating. Analyst yon but i need ski thinks the russian government is using mercenary groups to keep official military losses low. Which you want to look at because this strategy is beneficial for the russian government because it can show its doing its job just like the americans and the british russia can say those arent our soldiers no soldiers have died but yet we dont know who these people are asked who were sent them there. In the run up to the president ial elections news about the death of russian soldiers is inconvenient for the government here even from kid theyre all over this small town in the year olds seven men reportedly joined a private Russian Military company to fight in syria the towns population is just over two thousand although no relatives wanted to talk on camera other residents were willing to speak about the man but. He was a good boy he wasnt a thug who didnt care about anything he was a good boy maybe he wanted to earn money towards an apartment theres not much work here but. Yeah them will go. By you i think the government is behind all of this its not like these guys just decided to go there themselves and just went someone must have sent them. But. Its not clear when and if the man in syria will return ticket theyre all there for now the town and the government are both keeping their silence. Earlier we spoke to paul hogan hauler a leading Russian Military analyst and we asked him whether the kremlin was involved in recruiting and training these military contractors. Officially not but there been credible reports that before going to syria they had theres a Training Camp in the north caucasus and it is actually a military Training Camp of Russian Special forces and in syria they are of course have a kind of separate line of command they are their patron apparently is mr pretty garson whos the known and the kremlin courtis putins cook there are some some actually there are some problems between the regular military and these contractors from time to time but more or less theyre doing the same job and its clear that theyre under patronage from people close to putins but right now apparently everyone is more o. S. 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