At the vatican this morning that hed been stuck in an elevator for 25 minutes and had to freed by firefighters. Apparently there had been a power outage as he was making his way up in the lift. Now its time for a look at the weather with ben. Hello. It is the first day of september. The first day of autumn as far as meteorologists are concerned and so it seems apt that there is quite a cool fail that there is quite a cool feel to our weather today. Sunshine at times, but also some showers, some of which will be heavy and thundery. The showers most plentiful across scotland, Northern Ireland, the north of england, in fact, a band of cloud will bring more general showery rain into Northern Ireland later in the afternoon. Further south, not as many showers, more dry weather as well, some sunshine with highs of 13 20d. Through this evening and tonight we see the showers crossing Northern Ireland, passing into scotland on the north of england. Showers elsewhere tending to fade away and with
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Lead brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, says the uk has now reached a moment of truth. He rejects borisjohnsons demand for the irish backstop to be scrapped. Hurricane dorian is the strongest ever to hit the bahamas us forecasters describe the conditions there as catastrophic. Pro democracy activists in hong kong target the citys airport after a night of violence in which dozens of people were injured. Political leaders from across the world gather in poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of world war ii, as the german president asks for polands forgiveness at the event. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Labour says itll present a bill in parliament this week designed to stop the uk leaving the eu without a deal. Sir keir starmer, the shadow brexit secretary, has told the bbc that if the legislation is passed, its likely to delay the date of departure. The cabinet minister, michael gove, refused to commit the government to implementing such a change even if its approve
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