Human Rights Groups are pressuring macron to take a hard line on human rights abuses. Hello and thank you for joining us. It is crunch time for a post brexit trade deal. At this point the prospects are looking tenuous at best. A transition period ends december 31. Boris johnson says he will travel to brussels this week after a phe call tonight with the European Commission chief ursula v der leyen failed to produce a breakthrough. Main Sticking Points on fishing rights and business rules remain. Meantime the British Parliament is voting on a market built tonight that could allow britain to allow certain requirements on Northern Ireland and other issues. For more we are joined by our correspondent in london. As we mentioned, johnson is headed to brussels this week. What does this indicate . Yes. Interestingly we have learned after this 90 minute phone call, the second in 48 hours between the british Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Eu Commission president ursula von der leyen, that t
19 1918 armistice that ended world war i. Up next on american artifacts, historian Mitchell Yockelson and french battlefield guide Guillaume Moizan guide us to several key locations in northeastern france, including place wheres hearry truman, an others had life experiences. We have an unexploded 75 millimeter ar till rear shell on the floor of the Argonne Forest. This is about an hour. Were standing in front of the pennsylvania monument dead indicat dedicated in 1927 to honor the veterans of pennsylvania many of them in the 28th National Guard division that were directly involved with liberating the town that was in the 407 day meuse argonne operation that involved the doughboys. You grew up not far from him. Is it easy to say you explored these battlefields on many occasions as a young manned and today as a battlefield guide . Yes, indeed. I was born in the small town around 15 miles away from here. And i grew up close by the Argonne Forest, so always walking in the forest when i was
More than 700 people arrested in a week, as police crack down on drug gangs operating across the uk. Violent clashes with police on the streets of barcelona, as hundreds of thousands of people bring the city to a standstill in protest at jail sentences for catalan separatist leaders. In a moment, it will be time for sportsday but first, a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news. Tonight, well be taking a closer look at what is the plan for tomorrows day in parliament, what could be the outcome and what happens next. And at 10. 40 and 11. 30pm, well be taking a look at the front pages of tomorrows papers with the broadcaster John Stapleton and kate andrews, associate director of the institute of economic affairs. Hope you can join hope you canjoin us hope you can join us for that. Thats all coming up. First, its sportsday. Hello, its worth the wait, i promise. Im 0lly foster. Heres whats coming up on sportsday this evening. No quarter asked or given its crunch time for t
Rain out there this morning. Here is a look at some of the rain that moved through fremont, dropped over a quarter inch of rain and were seeing it moving off towards the east, as it moved through the trivalley and also produced some wet roads. Well talk more about this coming up. Mike, youre seeing a crash near the bay bridge. Reports of a crash near the toll plaza, but it just cleared from the toll plaza, maybe affecting part of the offramp getting off into the parking lot. We dont see the problem here. Traffic flowing smoothly but building. No problems through the rest of contra costa county, maybe damp road through this portion of your map. Back to you guys. Thank you very much, mike. Lets take a live look at capitol hill this morning. Congress now on that twoweek break. However some lawmakers are staying behind to get started on President Trumps impeachment inquiry. This comes with word they may soon hear from the whistleblower whose complaint set the whole process into motion. Tod
Lisa and in the meantime, preparing for that washington d. C. Ceremony for july 4. David and if you dont want to watch that, you can watch the boston pops. Lisa right now we have a rather muted tone in markets. Nasdaq futures indicated slightly lower. In europe, a little bit of a gain. The euro gaining over the dollar. Cave on the part of italian leaders to European Union leaders on the part of their budget. David leaders getting something done. Lisa maybe. For now. David we are joined by lananh n guyen and michael mckee. Even as we are speaking, we have European Union Leadership Meeting once again in brussels. Michael well, they are supposed to start meeting, but they may be watching our show. Lisa but slightly. [laughter] michael they are struggling to come up with a compromise. Germans and french seem to be working well with the dutch to come up with leadership for the various commissioned posts, but the italians and others in the periphery havent cooperated. They dont want to just