a vote in the british parliament to approve the prime minister s deal this was the one that was drawn up with the e.u. bear in mind that lawmakers have already rejected it twice if they reject it again britain is due to crash out of the you in three weeks that s on the twelve april the u.k. could also use that time to find an alternative agreement but if parliament approves the deal and the deadline will be extended to the twenty second of may well ok those decisions were taken into the e.u. summit meeting this just finished in brussels german chancellor angela merkel calling for the u.k. to provide clarity on how it wants to proceed. we agreed that should britain approve the withdrawal agreement next week we will defer the date for the u.k. leaving the e.u. to the twenty second of may. this was to start by and sponsors my friends
a potential extension but can you tell us what the latest. well it s taking longer because the leaders decided to draft the passage of the conclusions by themselves that is quite unusual it s happened before but normally you have the sherpas who prepare this and the leaders just change a word or two or just wave it through now it s different so you have twenty seven heads of state and government with their own ideas about how this should play out. this takes time of course but there are a couple of key dates emerging that seemed likely to be part of this conclusion the first one is the twenty second of may as we understand right now the twenty second of may will be the extension date if the house of commons in the u.k. approves of the withdrawal agreement next week if they don t do that then there will be an extension until the eleventh or twelfth of april we re not sure about
a council decided to proof the book agreement as regards the extension. decisions and the visits to the scenarios in the first scenario that this was all agreement if passed by the house of commons next week they would be on council agree still an extension until the second of may. the second so. that this if there was no agreement is not approved by the house of commons next week. there are pm council agrees to an extension until the. twentieth of april but of. while expecting the u.k. to indicate a way forward it s. what this means in practice is that down to that date
by the end of december two thousand and twenty. after a lengthy discussion the council today also agreed subject to a successful vote next week the order to provide time for the u.k. parliament to agree and ratify a brics it deal the date of our departure will now be extended to the twenty second of may. if parliament does not agree a deal next week the e.u. council would extend article fifty until the twelfth of april at this point we would always leave with no deal or put forward an alternative plan is this involves a further extension it would mean participation in the european parliamentary elections as i ve said previously i believe strongly that it would be wrong to ask people in the u.k. to participate in these elections three years after voting to leave the e.u. . well the decision today underlines is the importance of the house of commons passing
good morning, everyone. welcome to weekends with alex witt. we begin with breaking news it s a girl for the royal family. we got the news just moments ago from the town crier who made the announcement in front of the hospital. on this day, the second of may, the year 2015 we welcome with humble duty a second born of the royal highnesses the duke and duchess of cambridge. the princess is fourth in line to the throne. the princess was born at 8:34 this morning london time weighing 8 pounds, 3 ounces. the duchess of cambridge and princess are doing well. the queen and the entire royal family are delighted with the news. and joining me now in front of buckingham palace is mr. sykes,