The Winter Olympics in south korea. And in sport, fans at stadiums across the country remember Cyrille Regis the former england player described as a trailblazer for black footballers. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The Us National Government has officially shut down, a year to the day after Donald Trump Took Office as president. Senators failed to agree a stop gap budget amid a bitter dispute between President Trumps republicans and the opposition democrats over immigration and border security. David willis reports from washington. The ayes 50 and the noes 49. With a midnight deadline looming, they came up short of the 60 votes needed, and without a Funding Agreement in place, the government of the largest economy in a world was now only minutes away from shutdown. Three fifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. That after the democrat leader in the senate, chuck schumer, had an hour long meeting with Presiden
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