We hear from an mp who is calling on the government and bbc to reach an agreement. And typhoon hagibis is disrupting the weekends sport injapan. Formula 1 qualifying is postponed while scotland wait to see if their Rugby World Cup game against japan will go ahead. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. The cabinet has been briefed on what happened in the meeting between Boris Johnson and his irish counterpart, leo varadkar, yesterday, ahead of a resumption of brexit talks with the eu this morning. The Prime Minister and mr varadkar say they held detailed and constructive talks at a Country House on thursday. The two leaders agreed they could see a pathway to a possible deal. The meeting has meant negotiations could resume in brussels. The brexit secretary, stephen barclay, and Michel Barnier are currently holding talks there. Last night, the Northern Ireland secretary, julian smith, told the bbc that there was a need to compromise. Im not going to go into the negotiations no
Its 2 30am. Now on bbc news monday in parliament. Hello and welcome to monday in parliament. The speaker refuses to allow the government another yes or no vote on its brexit deal. Some mps arent happy with him. On occasion, you will sometimes have to please some and not others but it is becoming remarkable how often you please one lot and not the other lot. John bercow is defiant. When he was getting the decisions in his favour, he was not grumbling. Also tonight, the Stormont Assembly is up and running but only for a matter of minutes. And the foreign secretary updates the commons on the case of harry dunn, the teenager killed in an accident involving an american diplomats wife. I can reassure the house that representations have been made to the Us Government at every level of the administration. But first there was an historic moments toward the end of the days business. Second reading, what day . Tomorrow. The withdrawal bill will finally be debated but will it get through by octobe
Francine lacqua is at the london event. We will join her later in the show. Lets get you through some of the Wild Movement in Global Markets. It was risk on. Believe that the chinese delegation was looking at a broad area of subjects, but now the latest lines coming through around basketball broadcasts. Now a warning from the chinese side. China sang stay tuned for a retaliation when it comes to the blacklisting of Chinese Companies by the u. S. Government. The market in the last five to 10 minutes is clearly turning. U. S. Equity futures 0. 1 lower. Gold, same story, flipping around, now higher. Trepidation percolating throughout the classes. The aussie dollar coming off the highs of the session. Other surveillance points to look out for. Francine. K. Time will be speaking to the chief executive of Fidelity International. Dodds half past 9 00 london time. Chinese state tv halting broadcasts of the National Basketball association games, saying the backlash intensifies over a tweet expr
Weather fronts still playing a part in our weather on friday. Still low pressure in control but longer spells of rain. Some uncertainty as to where the fronts will be setting. But they could bring longer spells of rain, and it starts to move gradually south as we go deeper into the day. Quite strong winds associated as well. The picture going into the weekend, it is going to be dominated by this weather front as it stalls close to the uk. The trend we think on saturday will be for it to fade. So just a bit of battery rain with a good deal of cloud across england and wales, showers and son into scotland and Northern Ireland. But waiting towards a south west this weather front. As we go into sunday, here it comes, spreading more persistent rain more widely across the uk. Still with uncertainty about where thatis still with uncertainty about where that is going to be exactly. Do keep checking the forecast if you have plans for the weekend. The weather is volatile and it may not look exact
At the end of the month. The home secretary calls on facebook to rethink plans to encrypt messages across its platforms. Walking out former conservative leadership contender rory stewart resigns from the party and plans to stand for mayor of london coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with olly foster. Encouraging progress for andy murray. He was quite chipper today, he says hes been playing his best tennis yet on the singles comeback trail. Thats despite a quarterfinal defeat in china today. And theres been a big win for south africa over italy at the Rugby World Cup. Thanks olly and helen has all the weather. Wet conditions set to continue. U nfortu nately, yes, unfortunately, yes, thats right, martin, as storm lorenzo is approaching quite rapidly, we look for the next significant rainmaker coming up. I will have the details just before the bottom of the hour. Hello, this is afternoon live, im martine croxall. A damning report has strongly criticised the metropolitan police for