Negotiators are closing in on a bipartisan border security deal. but she added that there s still work left to do on any final package. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let s look at a story making headlines in the uk. a teenage darts prodigy has seen his fairy tale run to the world championship come upjust short. 16 year old luke littler stunned the tournment by rising from a lowly 164th in the world to reach the finals. but he was ultimately defeated by world number one luke humphries, by a score of seven sets to four. the bbc s nick garnett has more now from the saint helen s darts academy, where littler trained since he was a boy. luke littler it is just 16 years old, he is still at school and cannot even alone to drive it and cannot even buy himself applied to commiserate but he s still the youngest player in the final anything
A supplemental that president biden has been talking about. supplementalfunding package that piles together ukraine funding, sovereign border upon the coming israel aid funding and disaster relief funding for the any combination thereof is not going to pay the united states has of representative. we will leave that there for the moment. thank you very much forjoining us. thanks for having me on. and one additional note: independent senator krysten sinema said on wednesday that senate negotiators are closing in on a bipartisan border security deal. but she added that there s still work left to do on any final package. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let s look at a story making headlines in the uk. a teenage darts prodigy has seen his fairy tale run to the world championship come upjust short. 16 year old luke littler stunned the tournment by rising from a lowly 164th in the world to reach the finals.
Remarkable run for the teenage darts prodigy. we alive at the academy where luke littler owned his world class skills. we are alive. if yesterday s claim by the government that it had abolished the backlog of older asylum applications, and labour s response that it was actually a barefaced lie are a sign of things to come, it s likely going to be a bitter and intense uk general election. tomorrow, the pm and labour leader will give new year speeches laying out some of the things they believe are important to voters. today, the liberal democrats and reform uk were on parade. we ll talk to the leader of reform and the deputy leader of the lib dems in a moment. first, nick sets the scene for the battle for number ten. the prize, a gilded portal which the incumbent will fight hard to retain. a symbol of power the pretender will hope to capture.