The competence of national governments to do with visas, length of stay, for instance, where certain things can be negotiated. But you are right, overall in terms of the big barriers to access to the european market, including the german market, that will require a negotiation with the european union. So there are certain things they can do on the economic side with the germans today but the big picture is a european picture and that trade agreement that borisjohnson signed with the european union back in 2020. In terms of that conversation with the european union, is that what the labour government want to do, or is this just a softly softly approach and just a realignment of what was a rather turbulent relationship when the conservatives were in power? to be honest, i don t know any more than you do about what they intend to do. It s clear they want to improve bilateral levers with key european statesmen. Today in germany with olaf scholz. Keir starmer will be visiting emmanuel macro
Its foreign minister, israel katz, has described the situation as a war that must be won. A senior palestinian official has accused israel of trying to escalate the war in gaza and warned of dire and dangerous results. Palestinian president mahmoud abbas has cut short a visit to saudi arabia because of the attacks. Let s take a closer look at the west bank and what it actually is. It s land on the west bank of the riverjordan and bounded by israel and jordan. It s been occupied by israel since the 1967 middle east war, but decades of talks between israel and the palestinians have left its final status unresolved. 0ur middle east correspondent, lucy williamson, has just sent this update from jenin. There are israeli jeeps, israeli armoured vehicles moving around the entrance tojenin s government hospital behind me. You can see an ambulance coming through now as well. The hospital entrance isjust behind this army vehicle here. Staff inside the hospital say that since last night, the army
On the government to ban flavoured and disposable vapes to protect children against what they say is a growing epidemic in the uk. A bill aimed at restricting the sale and marketing of vapes, especially to children, ran out of time to pass into law under the last government. The british medical association says bold action is needed. Here s our health reporter michelle roberts. According to the latest estimates, around 8% of 11 to 17 year olds vape. Although it s already illegal to sell e cigarettes to anyone under 18, the british medical association says more needs to be done, and quickly, to protect children and young people from a vape epidemic. The bma wants disposable vapes and all flavoured ones to be banned. It s also calling for curbs on how vapes are marketed and sold, similar to cigarettes, with plain packaging and products kept behind the counter. If you re stopping smoking, you need a tobacco flavoured vape to just transfer from one to another. There is no need for any of t
For the games. It s always important. We are here an elite sport, winning medals is what we are about, but we are part of an incredible no one movement, the paralympic movement, which on and off the field of play once disabled people to be recognised wholly in society, and those performances on the field of play can only help us in that cause. To the us open where britain harriet dart will begin her second round match against marta kostyuk in the next hour or so, novak djokovic and coco gauff will also be on court later but no such luck for former champion emma raducanu who lost her first round to sofia kenin despite winning the second set. Raducanu was knocked out by the 2020 australian open champion. Kenin plays fellow american and sixth seed jessica pegula tomorrow. England and sri lanka are making their final preparations ahead of the second test at lord s tomorrow. England beat the visitors by five wickets in the opener at old trafford last week, chasing down a fourth innings targ
Long have you been i don t know watchers dreaming august 30 exclusively on max good morning. You are live in the cnn newsroom. I m jim acosta washington. We begin this morning with a defiant special counsel in a furious former president, in a reworked january 6 indictment, federal prosecutors are making clear they are not backing down despite last month supreme court ruling giving for presidents immunity from prosecution for official actions we will dig into the differences between this indictment and the original end moments, but the main points of the allegations remain that donald trump attempted to defraud the government by obstructing the certification of the 2020 election and tried to strip voters of their rights. All four of the felony charges remain and in true, trump fashion. He took to truth, social his social video network to rant calling the indictment and act of desperation and ridiculous and calling for the case to be immediately dismissed, joining me now, senior crime an