Welcome to bbc news. Theresa may is coming under increasing pressure, to adopt a tougher line during brexit negotiations, as she prepares to travel to brussels tomorrow for talks with the president of the european commission. An Influential Group of brexit supporters has written an open letter urging the Prime Minister to refuse to settle the uks so called divorce bill unless brussels agrees to a series of new demands. Heres our political correspondent, alex forsyth. They have met plenty of times before, always appearing friendly, but there is a lot riding on their get together tomorrow. Whether eu leaders can be persuaded to move brexit talks on later this month. While back home, some of her mps have upped the pressure. A handful of brexit backing tories have written to the Prime Minister, laying down conditions they want met, including a promise that the European Court of justice will cease to have any jurisdiction over the uk. For some, this goes to the heart of the brexit debate. T
Russian investigation . James comey testifies there was no doubt they we re testifies there was no doubt they were meddling in the investigation. He says its about as unfake as you can get. This was appointment viewing and such a crowd puller this morning in washington. The bars even opened early. Welcome to 100 days plus, im katty kay in washington. Christian fraser is in london. The fired director of the fbi doesnt think the current president of the United States tells the truth. James comey told senators at a Block Buster Hearing Today that donald trump lied about his firing mr comey also said he was worried mr trump would lie about other things too. Mr comey confirmed much of what we already knew from his testimony the president asked for his loyalty, he asked him to drop the investigation into former National Security adviser Michael Flynn and he did it repeatedly. But mr comey would not say whether he thought the president was guilty of Obstructing Justice in the russia investiga
Daughter, i had a special window into how she served. I have seen her holding the hands of mothers worried about how they will see their kids, how they will get the health care they need. I see my mother promising to do everything she could to help. I have seen her right after those conversations getting straight to work to figure out what she could do, who she could call, how fast she could get results. She always feels like there is not a moment to lose. Mother, forr that that family there isnt. Howle ask me all the time does she do it . How do she keep going . Amid the sound and the fury of politics . Forget who she is fighting for. [applause] easier worked to make it for foster kids to be adopted, for 9 11 First Responders to get health care they deserve. For women around the world to be safe, treated with dignity, to have more opportunities. Bites like these are what like like these fights these keep my mother going. They never let go. Charlie last night press obama gave a powerfu
Hillary clinton and tim kaine kickoff a threeday bus tour that will take them from pennsylvania to ohio. Today, they held a postconvention rally in philadelphia, where they both spoke. Donald trump and his running mate mike pence were also in battleground states. Trump at this hour is speaking in colorado springs. Pence is speaking in ohio later this evening after participating in a motorcycle benefit ride in indiana earlier today. The past few days, the republican ticket mates have for many ofnatas the speakers at the Democratic National convention. Last night, trump used a rally in davenport, iowa to warn that he plans to strike out. Mr. Trump i have been watching these speeches at night, and boy, am i getting hit. Boom, boom, boom i am getting hit, and they dont mean it, and theres a lot of lies being told, but i guess they have to do their thing. I was going to hit a number of those speakers so hard, their heads would spin. They would never recover. Pencethis morning, mike condemne
Minutes, the dow up almost 200 points. The s p 500 gaining two and higher for the week. It was a bit of a tossup which way we would end but it does look like its a positive number for the week. If this was the dows best day since september 12 and within the different sectors looking at financial and energy, those two groups leading the gains in the s p 500. It wasnt a bad week in terms of volume. You had an average of 10 billion shares. Im going to jump into what happened specifically in the stock market today, looking at a couple sectors that were the winners and losers. We will start with the losers. There was only one group down, and that was the Utilities Group trait i thought it was interesting because if you look below, the staples still gained 94 basis points. A bit of a diverging story in terms of the higheryielding stock. Utilities there are much more projected to the yield play. That is interesting. The Energy Companies doing pretty well, this has been a big part of the marke