Reaction back here. Also this lunchtime. Nearly 200,000 people are moved out of their homes in Southern California as wildfires continue to rage. Clashes in jerusalem between palestinian protestors and Israeli Security forces. In sport on bbc news all the reports, results and features from the bbc sport centre. Hello, good afternoon. Theres been an overnight breakthrough in the brexit talks, which should enable discussions to get underway about trade. After a long night of telephone diplomacy, the Prime Ministerflew to brussels early this morning where the eus chief negotiator Michel Barnier said he believed sufficient progress had now been made. The other eu members will consider his recommendation that talks move to the second phase, at a summit next week. Its believed britains divorce bill will be in the region of £35 to £40 million, and there will be no hard border with ireland. Well hear about political reaction at home injust a moment but we begin with the latest from brussels,
Here snow continues to fall in many parts of the uk, causing power cuts, School Closures and travel disruption. Coming up, how the bbc is sending journalists into schools to tackle fa ke journalists into schools to tackle fake news. Join us at 7 45pm on bbc news. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Stage one is done, next stop the beginning of talks about our future relationship with the eu, including trade. After through the night negotiations, a deal was struck first thing this morning between the uk and the eu on key areas including the irish border and the divorce bill, which downing street says will amount to between 35 and 39 billion pounds. Now, the uk can at last move on to the next stage of talks. But the head of the European Commission sounded a warning so much time has been devoted to the easier part of the negotiations, he said, now comes the hard part. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg has more. While most of us slept, when hardly a soul was stirring, the residents o
Afternoon ben, it could go head to head with strictly come dancing under the terms of the new broadcast package. More details coming up. Louise has all the weather with snow showers in many some parts . Yes, plenty in the north and west, significant snow could threaten on sunday. More details in half an hour. Hello everyone this is afternoon live. Lets get the latest from brussels with david eades. Thank you. When it happened, my goodness that happened fast, talks to the matt done suddenly theresa may was in brussels talking with Jean Claude Juncker the president of the European Commission and the deal was done. That was spread from dublin to belfast, everywhere you looked, everyone had some sense of agreement that this would be good enough forJean Claude Juncker to announce that sufficient progress has now been made on three keyissues progress has now been made on three key issues of this brexit divorce to allow for future trade steel discussions to begin. It has been a tortuous proje
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