Until at least 2020. And the National Trust votes on banning hunting with hounds on its land even when theyre not chasing a fox. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news, scotland begin the search for a new manager, after Gordon Strachan leaves the role, following their failure to qualify for next years world cup in russia. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Brinkmanship or genuine frustration . Whichever it was, there was no doubting the downbeat assessment of the state of the brexit talks by the eus chief negotiator. Michel barnier said there remains a disturbing deadlock over how much the uk is prepared to pay when it leaves the eu. He said as a result he cant recommend to eu leaders next week that trade talks begin. Brexit secretary david davis however talked of the significant progress that has been made. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg has more. This contains some flash photography. She wasnt there to help. Eu super girl and anti Brexit Campaigner had slinked he
Plunge in the pound since the brexit referendum with traders saying the slump exacerbated Like Computers initiated sell orders. David lets bring in guy johnson from london. Exactly what happened . Midnight and london, liquidity light and everybody asleep and suddenly this happened. We dropped like a stone. Data shows we got to 11841, some platforms had a 113 handle and the bit off a spread blowout 250 times what it normally is. Normally this traits on a wafer and it got blown out. What caused it, we do not know. Like liquidity, a combination of alcos and maybe fat fingers causing this to happen. It has stay down. It found currently trading at 123. 66. Jon you can see how tightknit is. Tight that is last night tight that is. What was bigger, the flash crash over the week, talk about the fundamentals and how nervous people seem to be to buy into any seller of sterling. The icing on the cake was the event that the cake has been a very difficult week for sterling. We have seen it going low
Lincoln had campaigned for both men. 850 and harrisons Vice President mp. John tyler undid all of president John Harrisons policies and he was not a whig, and he kicked over everything. This is something every x. Whig remembers. Cked over so lincolns choice of johnsonhe i know why he did it. He wanted a unique immigrant. Wi he didnt think he was going to win his reelection so it is a very dicey thing. Hes looking for a way toection broaden the ticket, broaden theg space. And johnson was a brave man. He was a patriotic man. He was the only souther southerr to stay loyal but he onwas just boiling with recent months. A small man with resistance. A small man in a lot of ways. The fact of lincolns murder ise what makes the comparison between washington and lincoln ultimately impossible because lincolns work was half done. Tey it would be as if a diehardalfo torey had shot washington after he returned his commission to congress in annapolis in 1783. And he still would have been the hero of t
Welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. To russia positive richest man. He is now in berlin after giving a pardon from president putin. He spent more than 10 years in prison. He was released in a deal with Angela Merkel. Good morning. For khodoweekend rovsky walking into the first first scoffers and more than a decade after leaving his status the most popular print prisoner as becoming the most famous exile. He was received like a rockstar. Breaking between cameraman jockeying for vantage. I have not ever seen pandemonium alike in this. Did he come out fighting said he would take aim at Vladimir Putin . White the opposite. He said he does not get into politics. Quite the opposite. Tohe said he does not want get into politics. He said he will be a voice for Political Prisoners across the world. He said he does not think people should boycott of the winter on memphis. I spoke them a little bit. I asked him what he would advise. In the Winter Olympics. I spoke to him a little bit. He was
Confirms a possible deal with mylan. A merger could create a 23 billion company. Gloo and throughout the day, were at the workshop on the shores of lake como and theres criticism over the lack of action from d. C. Unimpressed about the with which the ecb is acting. Welcome to the show today. Plenty to come from the chinese computing firm lenovo, the brazilant development bank, good old richard koe will be joining us about an hour from now. Towards the end of the show, Luigi Zingales from the university of chicago. Jules is going to be there. Right now, though, we are just over an hour into the trading day in europe. Its all about the countdown to the employment report, as we know. The forecast is going to be 200,000. The numbers could be higher, 230, 240, Something Like that. Ahead of it, european stocks are weighted to the upside. Around about 6 3, thereabouts. Advancers currently outpacing decliners. U. S. Stocks down a little bit. The first fall in five sessions yesterday. Not far a