puerto rico. the measure includes at least $900 million for rebuilding puerto rico after hurricane maria and no funds for the crisis at the southern border, which the president wanted. british prime minister theresa may facing intense pressure, is her fate sealed. phil black is live at 10 downing street in london, what are the breaking details? reporter: it looks like a day will be long predicted, even by members of her own conservative party, the day she will formally concede she must leave office in the near future. how did we get here, one word, brexit, theresa may has continuously failed to get parliament to approve a divorce agreement to formalize britain s departure from the european union. she had already conceded that
something close to the end of june. it looks likely that she will get it. those are the indications from eu leaders in brussels. the details will be thrashed out today. but what we do know, that there will be a very strict condition attached and that is that the extension won t become official, it won t be locked in unless theresa may is able to get parliament here in london to back the negotiated divorce agreement that parliament has already rejected twice. so that is a really big condition, that remains a really big challenge for the prime minister and tlg hait will have happen before march 29 because that remains under british law the official brexit date. so if the deal doesn t go through, then the uk is still very much looking at the possibility of crashing out of the european union without a deal in place on march 29. and that is widely expected to be a pretty catastrophic scenario economically both for
to have you along everyone well we begin with a story that s dominating the political agenda here in europe and that is drags it british prime minister theresa may is in brussels on a mission to delay the u.k. s departure from the european union she is scrambling to avoid a no deal of regs that you leaders are meeting in brussels for a summit where they have now said in a draft statement that they would be prepared to hand britain is short break the delay but only until may twenty second that s shorter than the three month delay that theresa may was asking for and that offer would come with strings attached britain s parliament would have to ratify the brig s of divorce agreement by next week while the trees. may spoke to reporters as soon as she arrived for the high
to ratify the brakes a divorce agreement by next week. while germany as an american gave a speech in the bundestag ahead of that high stakes meeting in brussels let s take a listen to a part of what she said about to china to reach a compromise it s been nothing short of it is my firm conviction that we need to have a structured withdrawal of britain from the e.u. it s not just in the interest of britain itself which of course many then believe as well but it s also very much in the interest of germany and the interest of the twenty seven other member states of the e.u. . missed been about toy. and i believe the key problem that has to do with the whole question of ireland let s end this do not move. it out i m going to talk about that in a minute with your chief political correspondent linda crane who is with me here in the studio let s start with the cautious optimism that was displayed
a delay but that offer would come with strings attached we understand that britain s parliament would have to ratify the brights divorce agreement the one they ve already rejected twice by next week now theresa may spoke to reporters earlier today when she arrived for the summit here s what she said. what is in fortune is that hanumant delivers on the results of the referendum and the engine of the tracks it for the british people i sincerely hope that we can do that with a deal i m still working on each thing the parliament can agree a deal so that we can leave and in the was in a way what matters is that we deliver on the side of the british people for they think you re trying to defeat for what mass is mass is is that we recognise that breaks it is their decision is versus people are listening to story now if you that so many brussels max hoffman are burial correspondent standing by good evening to you max ok let s talk about the timing on this i understand now that different