Plus mozambique goes to the polls will the ruling partys decades long hold on power slip our correspondent is on the ground for todays general. Im brian thomas great to have you with us the United States has imposed economic sanctions on turkey that after President Trump demanded an immediate cease fire in syria and a phone call with president erred on the sanctions include an end to talks on a 100000000000. 00 trade deal Vice President mike pence is also heading to ankara for talks were getting live pictures right now on the ground the offensive inside syria can continue these are the latest images coming in from ross and thats just across the border with turkey turkey is targeting a number of syrian towns close to its border and has been pushing deeper than expected. Now at the same time from the south Syrian Government forces are advancing to join up with kurdish fighters in the very same area. Syrian troops heading towards the Turkish Border 80 years after president bashar assad lo
A probation group held 2 events across the territory on sunday a few hours before the march began facing the Chinese National anthem. And in taiwan viewed as a breakaway province by beijing a show of support for hong kong people came out in the pouring rain as part of whats being described as a global antiauthoritarianism day. Its in to support it that the hong kong antigovernment protesters will again come out in force on tuesday its Chinas National Day marking 70 years since the founding of the peoples republic of china the protesters say they will use the occasion to continue their fight against what they say is beijings move to gain more and more control over their city scotter al jazeera hong kong. Now polls have closed in austria snap parliamentary election the early vote was called after former chancellor sebastian curses center right coalition collapsed in the wake of a Corruption Scandal kurtzs Peoples Party is facing off against its former Coalition Partners the far right fre
A failure of statecraft for which we would be responsible for the behind the smiles there is tension irish Prime Minister veronica says there will be no concessions on the irish border issue and ireland would support an extension to the brics that deadline. The backstop continues to be a critical component of the Withdrawal Agreement unless and until alternatives are found. But we are open to alternatives but they must be realistic ones legally binding unworkable and we havent received such opposes todays meanwhile in westminster Jeremy Corbett and other opposition leaders met to plan their next steps. On monday a bill designed to block an exit deal becomes law m. P. s will then vote on government plans to trigger an early election but that vote is expected to fail Boris Johnson is then obliged to write to the e. U. Asking for an extension if he can present an acceptable deal to parliament by october 19th but the government says he will not request that extension. The Prime Minister is
And 2nd of all because the language of the chief used in her Resignation Letter and in those subsequent interviews that shes given i mean she said that the expulsion of the 21 conservative m. P. s who were thrown out of the party by Boris Johnson for voting against him she described that as an assault on decency and democracy very strong words and she also flatly contradicted the governments stated position as far as negotiations with the European Union force johnson has said that he is strongly pursuing a deal with the European Union or rudd says thats simply not the case from her insiders you know she said that she saw no negotiations only conversations and she said that she no longer believes that leaving with a deal with a deal is the governments Main Objective 90 percent of the governments time she said was being put into preparing for no deal she said that that seemed to be the main strategy of the government and for those 2 reasons her resignation is deep in significant. A day o
We have a special report. Hitting the brakes bmw tells the bbc that workers at its mini plant in the uk could see their shifts cut in the event of a no deal brexit. A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business, and sport. Also in the Programme Google search, gmail, google maps, googledocs, youtube could you live without it . Should its wings be clipped . Thats the view of 50 states and territories in the us who have launched an investigation into googles reach. Tell us what you think just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. In another day and night of high drama, the British Parliament has again rejected the Prime Ministers call for a snap general election. Its the sixth defeat for borisjohnson in a little over a week. In a fiery final debate before parliament is controversially suspended for five weeks, mrjohnson insisted that he would not ask the eu for an extension to the date of brexit, in spite of a law passed by mps compelling him to