Brief you all you need to know in Global Business and sport. Wed like you to be a part of the conversation and as the un warns that plastic in our oceans presents a planetary crisis, we are asking have you changed your plastic consumption . I have, but there is always more to do. Send us your comments to bbcthebriefing. We begina we begin a programme with the brexit challenge. The programme. British Prime Minister theresa may will update her cabinet this morning after she and the European Union failed, for now at least, to Reach Agreement enabling all parties to move on to the second phase of brexit talks. Negotiations came to a halt after the Democratic Unionist Party who prop up the conservative government, rejected a solution to an intractable problem. What to do with the shared border between Northern Ireland and the irish republic when the uk leaves the eu. Andrew plant has the latest. As the british Prime Minister arrived in brussels on monday morning, there was hope that a deal
Really shortened down by four years is potentially fantastic news. Questions for cabinet minister priti patel whos understood to have held official meetings in israel, without telling the foreign office. And, a parting gesture why a twitter employee shut down president trumps account on their final day at work. In sport on bbc news, former Manchester United defender patrice evra faces a lengthy ban after appearing to kick a supporter of his current team marseilles last night. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. The labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn is under pressure to explain why he promoted the mp Kelvin Hopkins into his shadow cabinet, a few months after hopkins had been reprimanded, following allegations that hed sexually harrassed a young activist. The mp for luton north has been suspended while an investigation is carried out. Ava etemadzadeh said she was left feeling powerless and isolated after he was promoted the year after she complained about him. Meanwhile, sir Mich
In the last hour, what the conservative party is claiming are serious allegations about the conservative mp Charlie Elphicke, have been referred to the police and he has been suspended from the party. In the last few minutes, the mp has said he doesnt know what hes been accused of and he denies any wrongdoing. Meanwhile, a labour activist who accused the Labour Mp Kelvin Hopkins of Sexual Harassment has told bbc news she feels disillusioned by how the party handled it. Hopkins was promoted to the shadow cabinetjust months after being reprimanded about his alleged behaviour. This evening he has denied the allegations. Could the scandal of alleged misconduct in politics get much worse . It just has. Tonight, in the last hour, it has emerged tory mp Charlie Elphicke has been suspended from the party at westminster and allegations have been referred to the police. He denies any wrongdoing and said the media herd heard of his suspension before he did. At this stage no more detail is known b
5 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast. Its an a week of deflections, distractions ant outright fights in washington, d. C. It all began with questions about a deadly ambush in niger, an attack that killed four u. S. Soldiers and there are many serious questions sur rounding what happened there. It ended in a dizzying circus of political he said she said and several false statements by the white house chief 6 staff. Our Jessica Schneider has this report for us today. Reporter the white house today standing by erroneous claims made by chief of staff general john kelly during a Rare Press Conference thursday. The congresswoman stood up in a wrong tradition of empty barrels of making the most noise, stood up there in all of that, and talked about you should she was instrumental in getting the finding for that building. Reporter kelly criticize be congresswoman Fredricka Wilson for this speech in 2015, for the dedication of a brandnew field office in miami. He said she was grand standing at a
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