a conflict that has gone on for far too long and therefore any operation that takes place at the moment has to take into account to ensure that we don t see any further displacement i think it s on the ground in syria kurds are waiting for the next blow to fall in a region that s seen its share of misery and violence already. straight to washington then why we joined the w correspondent to all of us welcome all over wise president from doing this now. well phil president trump is under severe pressure as a result of the ongoing impeachment inquiry against him and we are nearing the 2020 election campaign so that combination puts him under even more pressure what he urgently needs right now is successes in foreign policy and he hasn t had many of those so far and what is essentially trying to do here is to deliver on one of his core election promises of 2016 which is of course to withdraw american troops from
a compromise but to remain a prisoner of existing positions is to become a cause of deadlock rather than break through and say we have made a genuine attempt to bridge the chasm to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable and to go the extra mile as time runs short so let s go through this with that correspondent mass in london and banter in brussels welcome let s start with you back it took us to the main points of london s latest proposals. well phil you have to remember that the deadlock in the negotiations was mostly about northern ireland and here it s very useful if we look at the situation as it is now with northern ireland and the republic of ireland both being in the european union so goods move freely people move freely there is in fact not really a border that s visible at all because everyone is in the european union how this
a bit fera but again this is not about the small print of political legislation people seemingly looking for that promise of change and hope and they gave him their support almost 3 quarters ukrainians giving him the benefit of the doubt on a big problem number one is are russia what russian has there been from russia to this new president well phil we had quite a response from moscow today. spokesman saying that putin would congratulate selenski only when selenski was able to prove 1st results in terms of improving the situation in the east and improving ukraine s relations russia so very conditional and pretty unconvincing for naturalization response that in his speech solecki said that don t buy us and resolving that conflict would be his chief priority so there s no really getting around russia that given that those separatists are backed by russia and dependent on russia but equally i don t see
calling new elections. well phil as you heard there colossal expectations on him and on his promise to really shake this country up and turn the political system on its head but as president he called do that on his own now there are parliamentary elections already planned for the autumn but selenski obviously is hoping that if he pulled those forward he can write his wave of popularity now to really draw that advantage home and bring a new party which will have to create he doesn t have one yet in 2 ukraine s parliament there s lots of speculation he s been inspired by france sitting in a party basically a political novices and bring those into parliament to really make sure that agenda happens in practice the current problem and the people here who are watching his speech today they have very little interest in helping him move on all of his campaign has been about fighting the old elite basically people he was facing today
or cancelling brigs it altogether the main opposition leader says another option is a referendum on the terms. of the exit deal. we do not know what the house will decide on whether to stay on this house must also consider whether any deal should be put to the people for a confirmation or a vote this is where you go where this government has failed this house must and i believe will succeed but the government won t be obliged to follow the outcome of the so-called indicative votes so far members in this house have agreed on how they ll debate but they seem as divided as ever on what happens next with briggs it. straight to london they were joined because for the shock to welcome charlotte so what does happen next. well phil it s really quite remarkable what happened here last night so essentially it s the first time in one hundred years that