Expert in the us about the implications of the strike a warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. Also a bbc investigation has found youtubes algorithm promotes fake cancer cures in a number of languages with misleading videos. Wed like to know how youve been impacted by this. Do algorithms mean you are inundated with information you dont want or need . Get in touch just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. British Prime Minister borisjohnson is travelling to luxembourg later to meet the president of the European Commission, jean claudejuncker, to talk brexit. Theyll want to explore whether mutually agreeable amendments to the Withdrawal Agreement can be found that could find a majority in the british parliament. The bbcs tim allman explains. Talk about a baptism of fire. Boris johnson has only been in thejob talk about a baptism of fire. Boris johnson has only been in the job for a matter of weeks. In that time he has lost a cou
Disabled son died. One mp tells us she was horrified by the words. The majority of parliamentarians in parliament are just trying to do a decentjob and i think that those words, the use of those terms in that editorial, were entirely inappropriate and must have been very hurtful to David Cameron. And what happened after nadine pinnock, an unemployed 22 year old living in cardiff, posted this tweet appealing for work . Shes here to tell us. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. This solid gold toilet has gone missing from Blenheim Palace. It has been ripped out by thieves. How on earth they walked out with no one noticing, i dont know. We will talk to someone who might be able to tell us and about the attempt to try and track it down. Also what do you make of the guardians editorial saying that former pm David Cameron only experienced privileged pain when his disabled son died . The guardians apologised and changed the wording. Thank you for your comments on
Hello and welcome. Temperature records have been broken across europe. The highest temperature recorded today was in paris, 42. 6 degrees celsius, breaking a seventy year old record in the french capital. The netherlands recorded its highest ever temperature, at 40. 7 degrees. And in the belgian village of Kleine Brogel temperatures hit 40. 6 degrees. Lets look at some of those countries in more detail. In belgium theyve been taking extreme measures to cope with the heat. This is a nursing home in dilbeek where care staff have been cooling down residents by spraying them with water. Belgium is one of four countries to have declared a severe heat alert, urging people to avoid prolonged exposure to direct sunlight. Gavin lee reports from Kleine Brogel. This is the village, one of the many villages in the past 24 hours that have broken the record setting temperature, and the town in the west of the country has beaten them so west of the country has beaten them so far but we expect the tem
Beyond its best before date. Also coming up, a day to forget for englands ashes side. Australia build on their massive first innings total after bowling england out for 227. And facebook is opening a new office in london today, creating 800 jobs. Good morning, it is monday the 4th of december and i am ben brown, welcome to bbc newsroom live. Britain and the European Union appear close to reaching a deal that will clear the way for the second phase of brexit talks. Eu sources said the two sides were nearing solutions, ahead of theresa mays meeting with the European Commission president , Jean Claude Juncker, in brussels this afternoon. Progress has been made on what happens to eu citizens currently living in the uk, as well as uk citizens living in the European Union. And there also appears to be agreement over how much the uk pays the eu, in what has become known as the brexit divorce bill. The last key Sticking Point however is what to do about the irish border. Negotiations on that w
Confused by it, you are not the only one. confused by it, you are not the only one. Many aspects of the brexit story. We will be joined by chris morris from the bbcs reality check. Get in touch with us through twitter and e mail. We will spend the whole hour of outside source looking at the issue of brexit, send in questions on any pa rt of brexit, send in questions on any part of it. These brexit talks come in two phases, the first one is all about the nature of the uks departure and the second is all about the nature of the uks future relationship with the eu, and for the second phase to start there needs to be sufficient progress in the first phase and we thought we might hear about that today, this is theresa may and Jean Claude Juncker, they met earlier we thought they might emerge to say they had reached that point. We were wondering, could they make enough progress on Citizens Rights and the divorce bill and the irish border and the answer was no. Im still confident that we can