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Welcome to bbc news. In a crucial week for talks with the eu over future trade arrangements, the home secretary says the uk will not surrender too quickly in its bid for a bespoke deal. Amber rudd also hit out at the brexiteer conservative mps, saying the cabinet was more united on brexit than they might think. Tomorrow the eus chief negotiator Michel Barnier will be in london for talks later in the week a Cabinet Committee will be seeking to agree on future policy. Our political correspondent, Eleanor Garnier reports. Putting the uk on the world map, the Prime Ministers been preparing for life outside the eu, taking tea in china, and helping to secure billions of pounds of business deals. But reaching agreement on the other side of the world perhaps much easier than solving disagreements in her own cabinet, amid claims of disunity about the type of brexit they want. I have a surprise for the brexiteers, which is the committee that meet in order to help make these decisions and is meet
Welcome to bbc news. The home secretary has played down the governments divisions over brexit at the start of a crucial week in the negotiations. Amber rudd said she had a surprise message for conservative critics of the Prime Minister that the cabinet was more united than they thought. Tomorrow the European Unions chief negotiator, michel barnier, will be in london for talks. And the cabinets Brexit Committee will meet later this week, seeking an agreement on the way forward. Our political correspondent, eleanor garnier, reports. Putting the uk on the world map last week the Prime Minister was making friends in china and signing billions of pounds of business deals. But this week it is her own cabinet she needs to win over amid claims of disunity over brexit. I have a surprise for the brexiteers, the committee that meets is more united than they think. We meet for discussions and i think we will arrive at something which suits us all. Exactly how we trade with the eu after brexit is a
Year about the libraries intention to get privacy threatening radio frequency identification technology, rifd. Well, february 1st came, and the Library Commission approved funding 3. 5 million for an implementation. Unfortunately, it represents, as far as i can tell, the city librarian final poison pill present to our city. I ask you to do what you did 13 years ago and 12 years ago when the Library Commission likewise forwarded this in their budget, and that was you rejected the funding for rfid. And i hope that you will do that again this year. Some interesting notes at the Library Commission. When more than one person complained about rfids toxicity to patron privacy, the staff gave two reasons why they asserted. There is no threat to the public. They said, first of all, the librarys databases are unhackable. Unhackable. Knowing what we know about Library Databases and other databases, that is a pretty farfetched claim. In addition, it doesnt take hacking into the database to raise a
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