At the day in parliament. Hello and welcome to the week in parliament. Fanfare. A week billed as the biggest crunch week since, well, the last one, as Boris Johnson does a deal on brexit. But can he deliver . My governments priority has always been to secure the United Kingdoms departure from the European Union on the 31st of october. And what happens when mps let the public put the questions . Governor, you will be no doubt pleased to hear we wont be asking you immediately whether you will be appearing on strictly come dancing. But first. Borisjohnson has a brexit deal. All he has to do now is persuade mps to vote for it. The agreement was clinched on thursdayjust before european leaders met in brussels. It looks quite a lot like the deal theresa may negotiated a year ago similar price tag, too but with some important differences. The biggest change sees the irish backstop, designed to avoid a hard border, replaced by what is effectively a Customs Border in the irish sea. There would
Today, but there is more rain on the way later, and in fact for all of us at some stage this week we are going to see some rain, some of us quite often, wet and windy, and the reason why, no pressure packed just to the north of the British Isles this week. If you look at these white lines, the isobars are close together, so you know it is going to be windy, there are weather fronts coming around the area of low pressure, showers moving on through, but sunshine occasionally too, some good weather at times, the sunrise that many of us enjoyed this morning. Lets see how the rest of the morning is playing out, a lot of cloud, outbreaks of rain, prepping up cloud, outbreaks of rain, prepping upa cloud, outbreaks of rain, prepping up a little bit towards the east and south east, turning dry in wales, northern england. Writer in Northern Ireland and scotland, if you heavy showers around. Gusty winds, but the strong winds in northern scotland so far today will ease a touch, temperatures into t
For the woman police want to question. The businesswoman accused of taking favours from Boris Johnson when he was london mayor refuses to say whether they had an affair. And climate activists take to the streets in london and cities around the world demanding urgent action to stop global warming. And coming up on bbc news. We look at the cricketing credentials of former bowling coach Chris Silverwood as he takes the top job with the england cricket team. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Police forces across england and wales are battling rising levels of knife crime. Figures today show offences involving knives in england and wales increased by more than two thirds rising sharply outside london but with the capital still the most dangerous area. The trauma team at the Royal London Hospital in the east end is one of the busiest in europe, dealing with knife and gun attacks, and the bbcs clive myrie was given exclusive access to their work over a period of several months.
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