Forces to protect lives. Plus the trade war takes its toll. Chinas growth slows to its weakest in more than a quarter of a century a warm welcome to the Programme Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. Banning staff access to work e mails outside office hours to help them switch off, might actually cause stress if it stops them achieving work goals. Thats what a new study has found. So do you check work emails at home or on days off . How do you deal with inbox overload . Let me know just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. The british Prime Minister Boris Johnson has less than 36 hours to sell the brexit deal he agreed in brussels on thursday to members of parliament in westminster. He needs at least 320 of them to approve it in a crucial commons vote on saturday. So is it possible . Heres our political correspondent, nick eardley. Many thought simply would not happen to borisjohnson many thought simply would not happen to Boris Johnson hand in hand many
A lot of people are bracing for thempact ofamazon. You dont have to look hard to find visible signs of change when it comes to transportation in places like crysl city. I got to spend some time in that area this we show you how your commute could be changing. Sparks and cutting. Banging jackhammering. Lifting and hauling. So sometimes you have to walk away from the windows. So yu can actually focus. Reporter scott works on a ninth floor of a nearby building in crystal city. All the ch ges have been well, a lot. Lunch hour hasnt been the same. This one they started from the top down so its been like this for the past couple months. Reporter this trulyis an area thats being retrofitted. Take a look at the south clark and bell street bridge is dem l tmolished the car is the main focus. We do stories about bridges coming together. Not often youll see one coming apart and will stay apart forever. This is a look at crystal city, a completely changing landscape. Areas opening up ahead of amaz
Conflict of interestor the Council Member, but i want the federal authorities to do their work. Reporter the last time the fb raided the home of a d. C. Council member was 2011 when then council memb harry thomas jr. Was under investigation. Thomas was charged a month after that raid. Now, we believe Council Member echbs is still inside his home. We havent seen him cme out all day. We can tell you that a spokesperson said the fbi did not search beyond that. Beyond that, they have no further comment. Thats e latest. Mark segraves, new york. Thank you. A district resident says she doesnteel safe in her own house and a bullet went into her bedroom and grazed her while she was sleepingbed. News4s reporter spock to her. Heres bullet hole that grazed ahe womans head was lying in bed. All i know is it could have been worse. A lot worse. Yeah. The victim and the moreover saidullets flew through their walls andnd s. She said, mom, mom, im hit, im hit. I saw blood everywhere. I just wanted to ge
Flight, it comes crashing down. Thats the latest. Back to you. Christina thank you. With all the reports of near misses between planes and drones at local airports, the last place youd think youd find them being sold is at the airport. Nj. Com reports two stores at Newark Liberty are selling the drones. The Port Authority is demanding that they stop. Federal law prohibits operating drones near airports. Some passengers were surprised to hear theyre available right in the terminal. This is a place not meant for this kind of toys, if you want to call it toys. You can sell them. Its a matter of being able to fly them in harms way where people will be impacted. Christina pilots have reported seeing drones at Newark Airport including four sightings on august 9th. Mayor de blasio and Governor Cuomo are on the same side when it comes to keeping topless women from taking over times square. They wear a thong and body paint and nothing else. They pose for pictures for tips. If they do it aggress
Here on i395. Road work still going on after major water main break. New 4 at 11 begins with breaking news. First up tonight that breaking news here in the district, a child struck and killed in a crash. It started out as a hitandrun. Megan fitzgerald on the scene. Reporter it has been about 2 1 2 hours since this accident happened. A very active scene. Police have taped off the area where the crash happened. They tell us around 8 30 when the driver collided with the 6yearold boy who was rushed to the hospital. Investigators are telling us that that child has died. We are told that the driver then drove to a different location where he called 911. At this point we are told that the driver is cooperating with the investigation and is being there is a lot we still dont know at this point which is why investigators are out here. The Crime Scene Division is trying to understand exactly the circumstances around this incident, if the little boy went into the street or if the driver veered of