and pulp fiction star is now suffering from a type of dementia. and the deadline looms to see who might want to buy manchester united, with offers expected to come in from prospective owners in britain, the us and qatar. good morning and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister will hold talks with stormont leaders in belfast today, with hopes that a deal between the uk and the eu on northern ireland s brexit arrangement could soon be reached as early as next week. the current trading arrangement know as the northern ireland protocol was negotiated during brexit talks. it was put in place to deal with the fact that northern ireland is in the uk and the republic of ireland is in the eu. some goods passing from england, scotland and wales into northern ireland are getting checked when they cross the irish sea in order to keep an open order on the island of ireland. unionist parties argue that this places an effective border across the irish sea which undermines northern irel
and there were cheers of celebration when he was successfully pulled free. it s as the syrian president bashar al assad made his first public statement, thanking the international community for its help, but said it must go further. more than a week after earthquakes hit syria and turkey, there s growing anger over why so many buildings collapsed, burying tens of thousands of people as they slept. in turkey, more than 100 arrest warrants have been issued in connection with unsafe buildings, and the government has been accused of turning a blind eye. 0ur europe correspondent nick beake has been investigating the collapse of one building in gaziantep. night and day, they ve been waiting for a miracle. but there s no sign of one. their relatives lived in the most expensive part of this city. that meant nothing, as their apartment block turned to dust. emre, whose five loved ones are missing, says so many