Breaches the uks human rights commitments. Campaigners lose a significant legal battle against the governments handling of the rise in womens state pension age. President trump lashes out at the move for impeachment accusing the leading democrat who chairs the house intelligence committee, of being a low life whos committed treason. And in sport dina does it asher smith becomes the first british woman to win a major global sprint title as she takes gold in the 200m at the athletics world championships. Good morning, and welcome to westminster where in the next half hour or so the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, will return to the commons and outline his blueprint for a new brexit deal to mps. Meanwhile, the eu is considering whether to open a further intensive stage of neogiations with the aim of reaching a final agreement at an eu summit on october 17. So what is the uk government proposing . Emma barnett explains. What borisjohnson appears to have conceded is that Northern Ireland wou
Getting their results, opening their envelopes, and tensions are going to be high. Tens of thousands of ryanair passengers could face disruption today as uk based pilots strike. Our focus on farming continues today with a look at the growing threat from criminals who kill and butcher sheep in fields in order to sell the meat. Researchers can now see processes deep inside the body thanks to a new type of microscope which captures images at unseen levels of detail. And in Sport England begin the third ashes test against australia at headingley this morning. This good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. Borisjohnson is in paris today to meet the french president , Emmanuel Macron, for brexit talks as the clock ticks towards britains leaving date of october 31st. Mrjohnson has insisted the backstop which aims to prevent a hard irish border after brexit must be ditched if a no deal exit from the eu is to be avoided. But ahead of the meeting, mr macron warned that reopening negotiat
They say theyre protesting against racism in the us and he says theyre unpatriotic. Good morning. We bought more than £500 million worth ofjune last year, thats doubled in the last six yea rs, year, thats doubled in the last six years, so year, thats doubled in the last six years, so ive come to a distillery in london to find out why its booming jim. In sport, the rain stays away in bristol. Fifa have held talks with the home nations in time for matches in november to have poppies. And carol has the weather. Rain in central uk this morning, some of it heavy. In the west, although we have fog in Northern Ireland, that will lift and Western Areas today generally seeing sunshine. More details in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Labour will set out to unite its members over brexit today as it looks to calm growing anger over the issues that will be voted on at the party conference. The shadow brexit secretary sir keir starmer will give a speech on the issue, but there will
Turbulent and damaging weeks of his campaign. He had a couple goals there. One was to brief up on Foreign Policy. But the primary one, an unannounced meeting with the rnc. That meeting was for a particular reason, not only to figure out the delegate game Going Forward but to mend ties not just with the rnc but the establishment in general, calling for unity. Donald trump now trying to make nice after fallout of another political firestorm. Republican frontrunner in washington for a meeting with the chairman of the national committee. It focused odell gatz ahead of the convention. Just days after trump and the other gop hopefuls backed out of their pledge to support the nominee. It was a very good meeting. Trump huddling with Foreign Policy advisers for a twohour private meeting as his comments continue to rile american allies. If you said in japan, yes, its fine you get Nuclear Weapons, then saudi arabia will say we want them too. Do you believe in punishment for abortion . The answer
Draft trade agreement is riddled with reversals by china. So why is the president appearing to be striking an optimistic tone . Blake burman is keeping track of these developments and the president s responses. Blake . We havent even gotten to the discussions. Were hearing now that the discussions between the u. S. And china might take place a few hours tomorrow meaning its all but certain that the tariff levels on 200 billion worth of goods will be increasing from 10 to 25 12 01 a. M. On friday. That notice hit the register and china responded by reminding that they too can raise tariff levels. That is the backdrop going into these discussions that will begin tomorrow among the u. S. Trade representative, robert lighthizer, Steve Mnuchin and the chinese vice premier. Lighthizer and mnuchin have gone on report saying that china has retreated on previous commitments. Im told, neil, by one source that that includes china taking out of the deal commitments that dealt with changing laws in