the biggest opioid producer in the country. tonight news of a tentative deal that is drawing plenty of opposition here is nbc tom costello. reporter: tonight, thousands of cities and roughly two dozen states have signed on to a deal that would have opioid giant purdue pharmaceuticals paying up to $12 billion as the company reorganizes under chapter 11 and turns itself into a for-profit trust, with profits going directly to the plaintiffs, but almost half the states are not on board, arguing the deal doesn t go far enough to hold purdue or the sackler family, the owners and one of the nation s richest families, fully responsible for the thousands of deaths linked to the opioid crisis. the connecticut attorney general saying the scope and scale of the pain, death and destruction that purdue and the sacklers have caused far exceeds anything offered thus far the challenge, purdue threatened
a half three years ago decided what there was a majority for and then you negotiate on those grounds. so that was the activist judge you know miller who had initiated a court case to make sure that polman has a say in the bricks and process she s frustrated and a lot of other people are frustrated that it seems that breaks it is not going anywhere and that we don t also know we don t have a clear guideline of where we re heading and we only have two weeks until the twelfth of april to actually come up with something parliament will if this deal doesn t go through take control of the process and try and shape the brics a process from next week on words but meanwhile the drama continues in the building behind the biggest mass in london thank you very much for that update. and the vote in parliament is expected in three and a half ostomy big you live coverage of that when it happens meanwhile let me bring
a lot of them and a pause days and also today speaking to one conservative m.p. who says it s really extremely necessary that we get this deal three he s really scared for what will happen if if the deal doesn t go through however there are many others that just wouldn t accept a reason mase breaks it and are hoping to somehow take control and and shape softer breaks it and then there are some who don t want the position of no the knowledge i don t accept that so they are against the regs a deal for this reason that that band explain so many different reasons why people would not support the deal it s going to be on knives that s for sure that s right and the vote is expected in two and a half hours and of course we ll talk to you again then big miles in london then three gets in brussels thank you very much for sharing your perspectives. turning now to ukraine which is going to elect a new president on sunday is the first national vote since two thousand and
would mean to keep northern ireland part of great britain in a customs union not let them go and have some. national range went with them to avoid a hard border between art and northern ireland but this is still very fuzzy we don t know actually what would take place in april on april the twelve s fuzzy is a good way to describe the situation right now turning to you know big get at the heart of all the action do you think all these developments will lead to the fall and winter in the building behind you support the withdrawal agreement today. well the pressure is definitely on parliamentarians and i ve spoken to a lot of them and a pause days and also today speaking to one conservative m.p. who says it s really extremely necessary that we get this deal three he s really scared for what will happen if if the deal doesn t go through however there are many others that just wouldn t accept
sovereignty of gibraltar. so it really is a kind of no go situation. i think that in this particular instance, it points to the broader issue which is that individual countries are going to be airing their particular grievances. but i think it is really a domestic political issue here where he wants to show the spanish people that he is going to be tough as we go into this. but there is a real opportunity here that he will derail this opportunity for the eu to show that it is a united group of 27 that is about to enter into some very serious negotiations with the united kingdom and that would be a problem. and theresa may, the prime minister, mhad something to say about that, let s listen to her latest comments. i think that if this deal doesn t go through what happens is we end up back at square one. i think as sarah just said, what we end up with is more uncertainty and more division frankly. and so i believe that if we were to go back to the european union and say, well, people