scheduled departure date on october 31st britain s gregson minister stephen barclay has told lawmakers that the british government would abide by a law requiring it to to request a delay if no agreement is reached by saturday but. just. well let s bring in our bureau chief in brussels max hoffman is following all of this for us hi max we hear snippets of information coming in but can you give us an update on the latest that you re hearing there in brussels. i have a lot of snippets too and quite frankly the picture is still kind of murky we have those that say that the road blocks still remain especially the road blocks of course regarding voiding a hard border between northern ireland which is part of the u.k. and the republicans are in that which is part of the european union and a crucial role in that is played by the dea you people so the unionist party up in northern ireland that is against the separation or even