Would be leaving the eu. Well have all the latest from here in westminster. The other news this lunchtime. Theres been sporadic fighting in syria, despite turkeys agreement to suspend its military offensive against Kurdish Forces. Barcelona is brought to a standstill as a general strike is called over the jailing of separatist leaders. More than 700 people are arrested across the uk as Police Launch an operation to break the so called county lines drug gangs. And in japan, excitement mounts as three home nations prepare for this weekends quarterfinal matches at the rugby world cup. And coming up in the sport later in the hour on bbc news, good news for wales, dan biggar is fit and theyll be at full strength for their world cup quaretrfinal against france. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one from westminster, where the Prime Minister is in a race to try to persuade mps to back his new Brexit Agreement before tomorrows vote in parliament. Borisjohnson says hes very confiden
Would be leaving the eu. The other news this afternoon there are reports of fighting in syria despite turkeys agreement to suspend its military offensive against the kurds. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport with jane dougall. Plenty of rugby to keep us occupied this weekend. Yes, and despite injury concerns for fly half yes, and despite injury concerns for fly half Dan Biggar Wales have named him ina fly half Dan Biggar Wales have named him in a full strength side for the quarter match against france in the robbie world cup, well be hearing from head coach. Thanks jane and chris has all the weather hows the weekend looking . The weekend is looking a bit better, lots of showers around on sunday, less on sunday. We will be looking at hailstorms that have hit cornwall recently. Good afternoon and welcome from westminster, where the Prime Minister is in a race to try to persuade mps to back his new Brexit Agreement before tomorrows vote in parliament. Borisjohnson says hes very con
International space station. Why it took 35 years to happen. Finally. Its friday, october 18th, 2019. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The kurds are very happy. Turkey is very happy. The United States is very happy. Reporter the president defends his ceasefire. Despite an agreement by turkey to temporarily halt the fighting in northeast syria, gunfire reportedly broke out overnight. Reporter White House Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney backtracking on his statement about quid pro quo with ukraine. Get over it. Theres going to be political influence in foreign policy. Next years g7 summit will be held at a florida resort owned by President Trump. It will be completely and totally unfuneral. Its a domestic of the domestic emoluments clause. The son of el chapo free after he was detained by mix Security Forces following hours of intense gunfire. In support of chinese prodemocracy supporters in hong kong has cost the nba millions. Our games are not back on the air in c
A weak economy which is left some saying theyre struggling to meet basic needs the Prime Minister has canceled fridays Cabinet Meeting and is expected to deliver a speech addressing the protests well jamal horseman is a journalist and former and its english she says the protests are a result of something that she was born in over. The timing of these measures and these new taxation methods that have been implemented couldnt have been at the worst time for the government and they were it was very audacious of them to bring this up the day after massive forest fires were destroying big swaths of land in the country and the whole people were feeling that the government was negligent and led to this and then the next day they come and lay these taxes on them so it was. Just this accumulation of things and and also we have to look back at the Prime Minister a couple of weeks ago having a big controversy with spending 16000000 dollars on this sub mysterious. Model while he fired all his staf
Really a drop of american blood no one drop of americans want you or weve all agreed on a horse or a ceasefire in the border region of syria. I do was unconventional what i did i said they dont have to fight a little while sometimes you have to let them fight a little while then people find out how tough the fighting is. But outside the rally members of the kurdish american diaspora protested the agreement. We dont have much faith in the ceasefire since you asked kurds to push 20 miles away from the border and thats where the majority of the kurdish incursion areas are so its given turkey everything that theyre already asking for so what kind of a ceasefire is it if you ask one side to give up everything in washington Congressional Democrats are also criticizing the white house decision to remove recent turkey sanctions so congress is promising its own bipartisan sanctions against turkey in the coming days Senate Republicans say the agreement abandons kurdish fighters allied with the U