Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business, and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. A group of mps here in the uk wants a 25 pence charge added to every disposable coffee cup sold, with the money raised used to improve recycling facilities. Billions of cups are thrown away each year, mostly ending up in landfill sites. Goodidea . Tell us what you think, just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. North korea has accepted south koreas offer to hold talks next week. It will be the First Time Since 2015 that officials from the two sides have met. No coincidence perhaps that the news breaks just hours after south korea and the United States agreed to postpone theirjoint military exercises, which north korea sees as rehearsals for invasion. Theyll be suspended for the duration of the Winter Olympics. Sophie long reports from seoul. North korea accepted the offer of government level talks through a direct fax line between the two countries reactivated two days ago. It
Good morning. Its monday 9th october. Im reeta chakrabarti. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Mps return to Parliament Today after the Party Conferences and return to the Party Conferences and return to the brexit negotiations. Theresa may saying the ball is now in their court. The fifth round of talks get under way in brussels today, as the Prime Minister updates mps at westminster on the progress so far. Lets get the details from our assistant political editor, norman smith. All the signs are that reason may is going to take a fairly tough approach towards negotiators when she tells the commons today that no more compromises from me, its time for brussels to move on. This of course after her florence speech in which she announced she was prepared to talk about a two year transitional period, prepared to talk about continuing to pay into the eu budget during that period, prepared to keep contributing to eu defence and security fans. Also prepared for british courts to take Court Rulings o
From the bbc sport centre, heres mike bushell. With the hashtag bbcyourquestions. Good morning. It is a huge night for both scotland a 30 year old nurse will appear and Northern Ireland in court this morning charged with murdering eight babies with both nationsjust one match away from qualifying for next summers european championships. At a hospital in chester. For scotland, figures obtained by the bbc show the number of suspected you need to go back to 1998 teenage killers has risen for the last time the mens side reached a major finals. To a five year high. That was the world cup. Tonight, that could all change. A win against serbia in belgrade, and an extra bank holiday has been announced for 2022, to mark and theyll seal a place at next summers euros. The queens Platinum Jubilee. I was still playing the last time scotland qualified. A very, very long time ago. So, yeah, there is definitely a generation thats missed the atmosphere and the feeling that you get with a nation when you
The pledge by arguably Britain s most formidable political campaigner to step up his battle with the banking establishment will send tremors through the sector.