A courts told the six year old allegedly pushed from the tenth floor of the tate modern broke his back and suffered a bleed on the brain. Some people evacuated from properties below a damaged dam in derbyshire are being allowed back to their homes. The first black woman to win the nobel prize for literature the american novelist Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The government has denied it wants talks with the European Union to fail so that it can end up with a no deal brexit. Officials in brussels have claimed that borisjohnson has no intention of entering new negotiations and that the governments central scenario is a no deal break at the end of october. Mrjohnson has insisted he does want to reach a new deal with the eu, but says hes not prepared to open talks unless brussels drops the irish backstop. Thats the mechanism designed to avoid a return to a hard border dividing the island of ireland. Our Political Correspondent ben wright rep
And the celebrated american novelist Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news, wayne rooney says he can still make a big contribution, as he signs for championship side derby county. Good evening. Evidence of sexual abuse and racism at Chelsea Football Club from the 1970s through to the 90s is laid bare in two separate independent reviews. 0ne reveals that youth players at the club some as young as ten were sexually assaulted in the 70s by the chief scout, eddie heath and that others at the club turned a blind eye. Its heavily critical of a former chelsea coach, dario gradi, forfailing to report a complaint from a parent of a young player which could have stopped the abuse. A separate review found that black players at the club were racially abused by another coach in the 1980s and 90s. The chelsea board have apologised unreservedly and offered compensation. 0ur sports editor, dan roan, reports from stamford bridge. In the 1970s, he was tasked wit
Football as they do now. Nobody asked for this to happen. Dreams, lives, basically ruined. Its back home for some, but its not yet all clear for the collapsed derbyshire dam. Tensions over kashmir after india scraps its autonomy. Pakistan says it could go to the un. The first black woman to win the nobel prize for literature, the american novelist Toni Morrison, has died at the age of 88. And at 11 30pm well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers ruth lea and torcuil crichton. Stay with us for that. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The minister in charge of no deal brexit preparations, michael gove, has accused the eu of refusing to engage in fresh talks, in a deepening war of words between brussels and westminster. Mr gove said the uk was ready and willing to resume negotiations and that he was deeply saddened by what he claimed was the eus approach. His comments came after eu officials described as unacceptable britains insistence on scrapping the backstop,
Time for a look at the weather. Heres alina jenkins. By by the end of this, you could be forgiven for thinking we have skipped straight to october. A good deal of sunshine across eastern counties of bingen, but for many, frequent showers, heavy and thundery, bringing torrential rain in places, all driven by this slow moving area of low pressure, going nowhere fast. The showers are concentrated across scotland and Northern Ireland and the isle of man. And the north west of ingle. Not so many showers across the southern parts of northern ingle, so good news for whaley bridge, the showers few and far between. The showers few and far between. The showers were movies through the afternoon, some getting across to east anglia and south east england. A better chance here of staying dry with spells of sunshine. Where we have the showers, heavy with thunder and lighting. Lightning. Pleasa ntly warm and lighting. Lightning. Pleasantly warm in the sunshine, 23 celsius, quite cool across scotland a
A teenager is charged with attempted murder after a six year old boy fell from the 10th floor of the tate modern art gallery. Wayne rooney is heading back to britain from the United States. Helljoin derby county as player coach from january. And the mysterious life of the basking shark. A project to learn more about the behaviour of one of the oceans biggest creatures. Its 5 00pm our main story. The government has denied it wants talks with the eu to fail so that it can end up with a no deal brexit. Officials in brussels have claimed that borisjohnson has no intention of entering new negotiations, and that the governments central scenario is a no deal break at the end of october. Mrjohnson has insisted he does want to reach a new deal with the eu, but says hes not prepared to open talks unless brussels drops the irish backstop, designed to avoid a return to a hard border dividing the island of ireland. Our Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake reports. Borisjohnson meets his first for