For how trade might work between the uk and the rest of the European Union after brexit. Fair to say there have been mixed reviews. This from the head of politics. Co. Uk, talking about a fantasyland of desperation and muddled thinking. On the other hand, scottish chambers, a business that that in scotland, talks about a welcome first step. Lets see you the Brexit Secretary, david davis, and why he thinks these proposals should be accepted. David davis, and why he thinks these proposals should be acceptedm david davis, and why he thinks these proposals should be accepted. It is in their interests. Bmw do not want to have a Customs Border that is going to slow down their sales or add costs. Siemens are not going to wa nt to add costs. Siemens are not going to want to do that. The Port Of Rotterdam will want to have an official operator have an efficient operation. You can find the full paper online if you want to go through the details. Some of the key points. At the moment, the uk is ina key points. At the moment, the uk is in a Customs Union with other eu members. They are subject to the same tax wherever they enter the eu, but then they can move fairly freely between member states. The paper says that for the uk wants is a temporary Customs Union gerrie nel transition period after we leave the European Union in march 2019. During this period, it would also expect to negotiate its own International Trade deals, something it cannot do as a Customs Union member. The paper sets out two proposals for after the transition period. The first is a new partnership with the eu which would involve no Border Checks at all. I have asked chris morris, how Reality Check Correspondent if that would be possible. It is an interesting question because there is no model for this anywhere else in the world. The only way you have no custom checks at all is to be part of a Customs Union, exacting what the knighted kingdom is planning to leave. There is no precedent for it. The british argument is that British Companies do better when there is no barrier to trade with europe, but so the european companies. It is in all other interests. The trouble is that other interests. The trouble is that other countries are saying, you cannot have the benefits of being in the union like no carrots at all, but not some of the disposable at ease with the no tariffs at all. It is the uk government tried to have its cake and eat it once again . There is grim determination on the other side of the channel that that will not be allowed. Lets look at proposal two. They would be minimal Customs Checks between the un the uk for the least possible disruption at ports and airports. Lets Reality Check that option. A lot of the technology is there. You could have things like numberplate recognition, things like numberplate recognition, things like numberplate recognition, things like Automatic Electronic Certification of authorised traders. The trouble is, putting in the infrastructure to get all of this done will take years as it will not have do just be put in place at British Ports but in the European Union as well, like france, belgium and ireland. If you want to prepare for that in two or three years, you will be want to be starting that work now. There is not that much incentive for other countries to change their procedures at the Airport Isjust to change their procedures at the airport is just to make things easierfor the United Airport is just to make things easier for the United Kingdom. Again, there is goodwill on both sides to have a Good Relationship in the future but the details are problematic. The eu response to the governments paper has been swift and fairly straightforward. Here is the european parliaments chief to go to later, he says it is a fa ntasy. Go to later, he says it is a fantasy. He is chris again on how realistic the british governments proposals are if they dont have eu support. A lot of what pe you want will be hard to achieve. They called ita will be hard to achieve. They called it a fantasy. There are others who say, what you are trying to do is ta ke say, what you are trying to do is take the bits you want and ignore the bits you dont. We will not accept that that will happen. On the other hand, there is also pressure from Leave Campaigners in the United Kingdom that the uk is going too far, that is being defeatist. That is the governments problem, there is the governments problem, there is pressure to go for a more extreme version of brexit from Leave Campaigners, but a difficult relationship and negotiation to be had with the rest of the eu, saying, you have got to understand there is no such thing as completely frictionless trade if you are planning to leave the Single Market and the Customs Union. There has to be compromise in there somewhere but the idea that the uk can essentially say to its companies, everything will be as good as it was before minus the add bits, i dont think that will work. Minus the bad bits. That will work. Minus the bad bits. We have been talking a lot about donald trump this hour, another Captain Of Industry has abandoned him. They become the fourth executive to step down after the events in charlottesville. Down after the events in Cha Rlottesville. Are we down after the events in charlottesville. Are we seeing Corporate America taking a stand . Lets talk to samir hussein, who is in new york. What is going on . It is becoming a pattern. Indeed. It is pretty significant when you see big american businesses standing up and saying, we do not wa nt to standing up and saying, we do not want to be part of the president s council. They are saying they are trying to distance themselves from the american president. In the last few hours, we have seen an internal e mail released to the employees of walmart on monday. In that, it the ceo went further than many others did and named President Trump specifically in this memo. I will highlight a bit of it. As he watched the event and the response from President Trump over the weekend, we feel that he missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together. It is a real sign that there are limits to what Corporate America will take and in this move by these corporations, this move by these corporations, this is clearly the line for some of them. In the news conference, we we re them. In the news conference, we were both listening to that there, with donald trump, his answer was essentially jobs, with donald trump, his answer was essentiallyjobs, jobs, jobs. He says hes bringing back millions of jobs. Fact check that for us. He certainly wa nts jobs. Fact check that for us. He certainly wants to be bringing back millions ofjobs. If you look at the latest jobs numbers, the millions ofjobs. If you look at the latestjobs numbers, the Employment Snapshot looks pretty good. But there is a question about whether that has to do anything the president has done or whether that was actually a result of the past decisions made by president obama. Going forward, if we see more increases to jobs, we could probably start crediting some of that with President Trump. In terms of the millions ofjobs he was to create, we have not seen those as yet. Another story that is probably on Donald Trumps mind, north korea. According to its state media, this is kim jong un reviewing according to its state media, this is kimjong un reviewing the plans to fire missiles in the waters around guam. They now say they are holding off on that plan. He said he was ready for the impending fire around guam. He also said. He would wait and watch a film or the foolish and stupid conduct of the yankees before making a decision. Here is the response of guams governor. We are just getting news today that the plan has been descended. He has still made bellicose statements about the me do it, but he has withheld from doing. Basically his statement is, we will withhold, we will not make any Missile Tests towards this area. A lot of it has to do with some of the strong statements not only made by our president but also by the collective statements made by secretary tillotson. So a sense of cautious relief. What about south korea . There was a Rally Calling for a peaceful solution to the crisis. Our reporter spoke to some of them. This truck has the words, no war, no trump. America is south koreas most important protector. Some of the people here think that the current president is causing more problems than he is helping to solve. He is making Many South Koreans angry. His action and policy is not good for many americans. Translation august 15 is a day when we we re translation august 15 is a day when we were freed from japan. We are supposed to maintain peace as a country, but President Trump has said he is way too risque war, so people gather here today to call for peace on the korean peninsular. Kim jong uns Softening Stance comes after china brought in heavier sanctions, ceasing imports from north korea. At the same time, the us president has ordered a trade probe into chinas alleged theft of Intellectual Property from america. Donald trump himself has in the past connected the cue issues, suggesting that if china wants a good deal from the United States on trade, it needs to do more to help on those diplomatic Foreign Policy issues. But signing this memorandum, possibly setting in train this investigation that could lead to unilateral sanctions, the president said it was all about trade. This is him delivering on Campaign Promises to stand up for us jobs and him delivering on Campaign Promises to stand up for usjobs and in particular to hold china to account. Stay with us, still to come in sport. After her drugs ban, a return to Grand Slam Tennis for maria sharapova. The russian gets a wild ca rd to sharapova. The russian gets a wild card to the us open. Commuters are to face the biggest increase in rail fares commuters are to face the biggest increase in railfares Forfour Yea Rs increase in railfares forfour years as inflation hits 3. 6 . The increases will hit season tickets, so called any time tickets and some off peak fares from next january. Quick coffee, a little treat for the cat, and catch the train. Rebeccas commute from taunton to bristol costs £3500 a year. It is due to go up costs £3500 a year. It is due to go up by costs £3500 a year. It is due to go up by £130 next year, as most commuters face a 3. 6 price rise. Does this erosion of your real wealth that is happening to an awful lot of people, wage will find that your salary may have gone up but Everything Else is going up so much faster and so much more that, year on year, we are worse off. It is not the Train Companies who said half of our railfares, it is the government. They have been putting the fares up for years as they want to change who pays for the railways. It is all part of a band to shift the financial burden away from taxpayers, most of whom dont commute on trains, and onto passengers. There is used to account for about half the cost of running our trains. That has risen to 65 . Across britain, people are facing tough choices. If it goes on, i would be able to afford to go to work, i have to get the car because it is cheaper. I work in the public sector, might pay rises maximum 1 , it is making us worse off when they rise like that. I would not mind if they were better quality carriages, but they are pretty tatty these days. Campaigners have criticised the use of rbi indexes, which are usually higher. The costs are going up usually higher. The costs are going up in line with that inflation. Ministers argue that the money is needed to pay for a £40 billion upgrade to the network. A lot of it is still victorian and struggling to cope with record numbers of passengers. Critics claim fares have outstripped wages for years and say it is time for a price freeze. The government could still change its mind in the autumn budget. You are watching outside source. Our lead story. At least for Hunderby Blaenau dead following a landslide and flooding in sierra leone. The mother killed could rise much higher, and thousands of people have been left homeless. These are the stories making the news around the bbc. Archaeologists in egypt have discovered three Tombs Dating Back Thousands of years. They contained stone carvings and fragments, that is bbc arabic. Grace mugabe has failed to appear in a court after being accused of assaulting a woman injohannesburg. Police initially said they did not die where she was, but it is believed she went back to her home country. Most of our most watched videos comes from north carolina, where protesters have pulled down a proslavery monument. This comes after plans to pull down a similar statue in virginia caused violent riots over the weekend. Time for the sport now. We will go straight to the bbc sport centre with news about maria sharapova. She is set to play in her first grand slam since her drugs ban. Herfirst wild card slam since her drugs ban. Her first wild card since slam since her drugs ban. Herfirst wild card since her 15 month drug ban. She pulled out of qualifying for wimbledon after and injury. She is no stranger to flushing meadows. She became the world another one for the first time act in august 2005, and that gets under way in two weeks time. We have a number of teams fighting it out for places in the Champions League group stage. One of interest to many people around the world is liverpool, who will be Playing Hockenheim Next wednesday. They had all the running in the first few minutes of the game. They could not convert that, a poor penalty. Liverpool scored in the 35th minute. Their opponents had their chances, could not put the ball in the net. Liverpool then scored a second, before the germans got one back. Exciting times. The website is the way to go for all those results. Thank you. Are we entering a new era of Arctic Voyages . An exhibition to the north pole by a yacht has just set off from alaska. They are travelling 5500 kilometres, trying to get around to the geographic north pole. It is being led by a british explorer. For the first time in human history, possibly for 100,000 years, it is now possible to sail ships into this area. What this means is the wildlife living in the area are now vulnerable. That was then speaking before they said. We can show you where the boats are now, because they are showing live update. That is where they have got to. Some pictures for you. They are travelling on two boats, ten crew and a dog, and they are sailing. The melting of the sea ice is making this possible. In the last 85 years, the figure is more than one third of the figure is more than one third of the area of sea ice has gone. Once inaccessible waters are opening up. This is not the first time that explorer has tried to get to the north pole. He made a trip on foot, but he sped a lot of time in the water and the ice. I have to tell you from talking to them, so far, the weather has been fairly cruel. I caught up with the skipper and asked him how the crew were feeling. Pretty much the whole crew are laying in bed. The Sea Conditions are quite rough at the moment. A couple of them feel quite ill at the moment. So it is worse than you expected . Yes, the initial weather hmmfi expected . Yes, the initial Weather Forecast showed that we were not going to have much wind in the first 24 hours. There was quite a large storm earlier in the week, over the weekend. I think we still have some rigid jewel waves from that storm. It is quite rough. We are currently using a combination of sale and engine to make progress stopped but its quite bumpy at the moment. Of course, youre the first crew to try to do this, do take yachts up to the north pole. How are you protecting the votes . First of all, by being very careful. The ice is very dangerous. It can drift away with the win. If there is too much in front of the boat or beside the boat, there is a risk of getting crushed. So we are keeping a close eye on the Satellite Images to see where the ices. We are keeping a close eye on the weather. We are not going to take unnecessary risks. The Main Objective of the Arctic Mission is to do Scientific Research in the open water and at the ice age. Getting to this north is secondary to that. You might also be whale watching, seeing the larger forms of marine life as you go north . Absolutely. There is the potential that we see polar bears as we get closer to the sea ice, because they hunt from the ice age. We will potentially see seals, humpback whales, no walls, possibly beluga. There will be a large riots of sea mammals in the arctic. Weigh less is known about the small living things that are down in the water. It sounds as though it could be really exciting. If you can get through the sea sickness and hold it together given the physical risks, this could be tremendous. Absolutely. The arctic ocean has had its own natural shield in place which is slowly disappearing. That makes the arctic more on rubble but does give us a chance to look at what is going on in the waters under the ice. My crew wa nt to in the waters under the ice. My crew want to ask you one final question, which is how the dog is. Is it surviving the sea sickness . The dog has seen better moments, but i dont think she is seasick at the moment. We will be checking in with the crew and the dog as they go through their voyage. Just time to remind you of the breaking news this hour. In the past hour, donald trump has been defending his response to the deadly protests at the weekend in Cha Rlottesville in protests at the weekend in charlottesville in virginia. At the noisy press conference, he said he did not make all of the facts when he made his comments. He blamed many sites. He also said that Race Relations had improved since he took office and would improve given the millions ofjobs he intends to bring to the United States will. He talked about his strategist who has come underfire about his strategist who has come under fire today. Calling about his strategist who has come underfire today. Calling steve bannon a good pawson, he says what will happen to him. We will continue to follow that. Thank you for being with us. Hello there. Could an Atlantic Hurricane be the saviour of what is left of summer here in the uk . Or will be revealed shortly. Lets do with what is happening out there for the rest of the week. At least on wednesday, it isnt east west split. Howard was the west, low pressure will be dominant. These fronts push their way in. It will be a slow and erratic process. That means some will get away with much of the day being dry. Rain spreads across central and western scotland through the afternoon and into Western Parts of Western Wales and england and north west england. Any hazy sunshine, aged feel pleasant enough, temperatures into the low 20s. The Weather Front gets stronger as we go into thursday morning. Still fairly erratic, not much rain, but weather is it could be heavy burst with some blunder as well. That lingers into the morning through Eastern Parts of england. The temperatures are not quite as chilly as the start of wednesday. Still some rain slowed to clear eastern england, but then back to a sta ke eastern england, but then back to a stake of what we saw on tuesday, low pressure way to the north west, a bit of a breeze, breezy and then we saw on tuesday. Isolated showers, but the bulk of the day dry and pleasant. Temperatures could reach the mid 20s. Cooler from pleasant. Temperatures could reach the mid 20s. Coolerfrom then on. Some lively burst of rain pushing across the country through the night. Into friday, it will be sunshine and showers. Unlike choosing and thursday, it will be a case of being lucky to avoid the showers. They will be fairly widespread, heavy, thundery and a gusty wind. Many will be struggling to get out of the teams. Low pressure pulls away, a ridge of High Pressure pulls away, a ridge of High Pressure try to build from the south west, so while we will still see showers across scotland and Eastern Parts of the country, it turns dry from the south west. Showers become fewer in number. More pleasa nt showers become fewer in number. More pleasant in the sunshine, but temperatures on the disappointing side. The harry kane. We will have to explain what is going on. A blob of cloud, a strengthening storm. It stays offshore, but it weakens as it goes across the waters. It then gets can shoot into this wider area of low pressure. Within that, still some tropical air which means that when we do see the rain it will be on the heavy side. The ridge of High Pressure holds on to the south and east. Some uncertainty with the timing and positioning of the rain, but it looks like the northern half of the country will see that rain. Heavy over the hills. Some to the south could stay dry on sunday, and pleasant. That low pressure into the start of next week will drift northwards and eastwards. Some splashes of rain, but beyond that it is now looking increasingly likely that High Pressure will build. Could the harry kane be the saviour of our summer . Into the final week of august, increasing signs that not only will it turn drier but sunnier. We will have to keep a close eye on that. This is important because by the end of that next week, well be looking at the bank holiday weekend. Tonight at ten life after brexit the government sets out its hopes for how the uk will trade with the eu and the rest of the world. Buying and selling across borders the Brexit Secretary insists Keeping Trade as simple as possible will work for the eu as well. Its in their interests. Bmw do not want to have to have a Customs Border that is going to slow down their sales and add administrative costs. But one of the eus main negotiators says the governments suggestions are fantasy. Also tonight. The Grenfell Tower inquiry will look at the cause of the blaze and the response of the authorities but not the wider issue of social housing. Anger as millions of Rail Passengers face the biggest hike in train fares for five years. 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