The disaster was not good enough. Meanwhile, the queen says it is difficult to escape a very sombre national mood. Following tragedies in both london and manchester, she observed a one minute silence ahead of events to mark her official birthday. Bill cosby has walked free from court, after a judge declared a mistrial in his sex assault case. And now, time for sportsday. Welcome to sportsday. One week before the first test, there is a morale boosting win For The Lions in new zealand. Also, a stunning victory for scotland in sydney. They beat the wallabies and are up to fourth in the world. There is a dramatic end in the Challenge Cup, as wigan but two englishmen, paul casey and tommy fleetwood, z. J 1 . And we look at one of the new sports that will feature at the tokyo olympics. Good evening. Rugby union has been dominating the sports news. It has been a brilliant day for the home nation sides. We will have the details in a moment of scotlands fantastic win, irelands victory injapan,
In poverty and the pandemic burnleys front line. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Boris johnson is speaking to the president of the European Commission, ursula von der leyen, to try to push forward talks about a post brexit trade deal. Negotiations were put on hold last night, because of what were described as significa nt divergences between the sides. Time is running out for a deal to be reached and ratified before the deadline on new years eve. Our political correspondent, Jonathan Blake, reports. Checking out for now, the eus chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, left his london hotel this morning after talks on a future trade deal were put on hold last night. What does that mean for the chances of a deal . Any hope for a deal . Good morning. We keep calm, as always, and if there is a way, still a way, we will see. We will see, he said. His parting words as he returned to brussels gave nothing away. But a statement from both sides last night made clear there are still big differ
Differences, we agreed that a further effort should be undertaken by our negotiating teams to assess whether they can be resolved. Trade and transport organisations in Northern Ireland have expressed their concern about the stalemate. From belfast, mark simpson reports. Whichever way the brexit negotiations go, there is huge interest in Northern Ireland. But some business groups say theyre tired of waiting for answers. We would hope, and ill use an old ulster phrase, that the eu and the uk would just simply wise up, get the deal done. This is too important for the games and we need to make sure that people understand what the rules are going to be from the 1st of january and relationships are improved. First of all we need a deal, that will be vital to reducing any barriers between trade between gb and Northern Ireland. Then we need an Implementation Phase because industry and government simply isnt ready for january the ist. And lastly, we need special derogations on retail food movem
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