Scotland face a must win game against russia to keep their hopes alive while wales can qualify for the quarter finals if they beat fiji. Good morning. And it is another day of sunshine and showers. Some of those showers are merging to give longer spells of rain, heavy with hailand longer spells of rain, heavy with hail and thunder, but they will be blown along quite quickly on gusty winds. They will have more in 15 minutes. Good morning. Its wednesday the 9th of october. Our top story the irish Prime Minister has warned it will be very difficult for the uk and the eu to reach an agreement on brexit before the deadline of october the 31st. Leo varadkars comments come as european leaders accused the government of turning the brexit negotiations into a stupid blame game. Our Political Correspondent nick eardley is in downing street for us this morning. Nick, what next for brexit . The tone of the conversation has really ta ke n the tone of the conversation has really ta ken a the tone of
Well be live in penzance at 9 15am for a special report. And in sport, wales get ready to take on fiji in the Rugby World Cup, while scotland play russia in a bid to reach the quarterfinals. Good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at 9 00am. The irish Prime Minister has warned it will be very difficult for the uk and the eu to reach an agreement on brexit before the deadline of 31st october. Speaking to rte news, leo varadkar said big gaps remained between the uk and the eu on crucial issues. Mr varadkar is expected to meet Boris Johnson for further brexit talks later this week. It comes as european leaders accused the government of playing a stupid blame game in the negotiations. Speaking to the french newspaper les echos, the European Commission president Jean Claude Juncker said if the negotiations failed, the reasons have to come from britain because the original sin is found on the islands and not on the continent. He went on to say a no deal brexit would lead to the collapse of
A letter requesting a brexit extension if Boris Johnson refuses to do so. The white house officially refuses to co operate with the impeachment inquiry against president donald trump. The foreign secretary is expected to meet the family of harry dunn, who was killed in a motorcycle crash in august, as he urges the usa to reconsider its position on the diplomatic immunity given to a suspect. People living in seaside towns earn £1600 a year less than those living inland. Well be live in penzance for a special report. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The independent travel agent hays travel has said it will buy all Thomas Cook Retail stores following the collapse of the Holiday Company. Hays has already recruited hundreds of former thomas cook staff and has offered employment to many of the airlines personnel. The move could save up to 2500 jobs. The travel company folded last month after failing to secure a last minute rescue deal, leaving 150,000 passengers stranded abroad.
Good monday morning. Welcome to squawk alley here with me at post 9, michelle carusocabrera, mike santoli carl and sara have the morning off. First up, bitcoin open for trading yesterday on an exchange run by the cboe. Heavy traffic causing outages on the cboe website, while the exchange also halted trading temporarily due to extreme volatility what to expect from Bitcoin Futures after what a wild week for that Digital Currency. A lot of people thought once this opened up were going to see it fall because people would be shorting it, but thats not stopped the rise it hasnt happened, but its only been a few hours, so lets see what happens take a look where we are, its important to point out were trading at a nice premium to the underlying spot price here 18,000 now over that cash price is 16,700, its been fluctuating, but you have a good 1,200 premium or so this is whats called the cost of money, the carry, thats tying up money for a month, so its usually a bit of a premium. Whether tha
Is here to tell us when his fund will launch and at what price. If you have crypto fever, you dont have to look away from the screen we have our bitcoin watch fired up throughout this hour. First we start with the dow on fire both the dow and the s p 500 closing at a record high, the dow 150 points at the high both indices posting their fourth day of gains, with the help of tax cuts on the horizon. It looks like a deal on the bill is close lets get to ylan mui in d. C reporter melissa, republicans are closing in on the final version of the tax bill two sources tell me the corporate rate will land at 21 . Its unclear whether that will kick in right away or not until 2019 but that is slightly higher than the 20 rate that was in previous versions of the bill. The top individual rate, that would fall to 37 . Thats lower than the senates original proposal for a 38. 5 top rate the detection fduction for morte interest, would only apply to new loans. Existing mortgages would still be grandfat