but no agreement was reached. here s what the leaders of both sides had to say following that high stakes meeting. we agreed to continue our discussions and we will meet again on friday. in the meantime, our staff will meet today and daily between now and then, and everyone in the meeting understood the risk of default. our economy would fall into a significant recession and it would devastate retirement accounts, increase borrowing costs, according to moody s nearly 8 million americans would lose theirjobs. everyone in this meeting reiterated the positions they were at. i did not see new movement. the president said staff should get back together. i was clear to the president. we have two weeks to go. president biden also said that it was possible he might call off his trip to asia if there is no breakthrough on the debt. ryan sweet is the chief us economist at oxford economics. he says he s not surprised no deal was reached. this is going to be a game of political chicken.
to the uk from france face delays at calais of up to six and a half hours. coming up in sport. arsenals title hopes are alive again. they are two points clear of manchester city with a game in hand at the top of the english from your league. english premier league. western leaders have put forward a unified front in their support for ukraine, days before the first anniversary of the russian invasion. a meeting in germany of foreign ministers from the g 7 richest countries agreed to tighten sanctions against moscow and quickly provide more weapons to kyiv. the uk prime minister rishi sunak said that the sovereignty and security of every nation was at stake in the war. we was at stake in the war. need a military strategy fo ukraine we need a military strategy for ukraine to gain a decisive advantage on the battlefield to win the war in a political strategy to win the peace. to win the war ukraine needs more artillery, armoured vehicles and air defense. so now is the moment t
hello and welcome to bbc world news. western leaders have put forward a unified front in their support for ukraine, days before the first anniversary of the russian invasion. a meeting in germany of foreign ministers from the g 7 richest countries agreed to tighten sanctions against moscow and quickly provide more weapons to kyiv. the uk prime minister rishi sunak said that the sovereignty and security of every nation was at stake in the war. we need a military strategy for ukraine to gain a decisive advantage on the battlefield to win the war and a political strategy to win the peace. to win the war ukraine needs more artillery, armoured vehicles and air defence. so now is the moment to double down on our military support. when putin started this war he gambled that our resolve would falter. even now, he is betting that we will lose our nerve, but we proved him wrong then and we will prove him wrong again. together we are delivering as much equipment in the next few months a
in the rugby league world cup quarter finals. they see off france in bolton and have now played two, won two. we hear how 10 year old quinn became one of the youngest people to conquer scotland s 282 highest mountains. good 282 highest mountains. morning. if you are travell the good morning. if you are travelling the sunday morning, bear in mind there are heavy, thundery downpours out there moving northwards through the day. some sunshine as well. all the day. some sunshine as well. all the details coming up. it s sunday 23rd october. our main story: as the deadline to enter the contest to replace liz truss draws closer, two of the likely contenders borisjohnson and rishi sunak have held private talks. neither have publicly declared they are entering the race, but the bbc s tally indicates that mr sunak has already received the backing of at least 128 mp5. that s significantly more than the 100 needed to enter the ballot, which closes tomorrow afternoon. our political cor
across england and wales. by the end of the evening, we will start to see some showers developing across the isles of scilly, moving through cornwall, into wales and gradually they will spread through the midlands into south east england. some potentially turning heavy and thundery, it is great news for gardeners and growers and not if you are trying to get a good night s sleep and it could linger first thing on sunday morning. a few more nuisance showers on sunday developing across north wales, stretching into the north of england towards the scottish border. sunday is more hit and mist under the showers perhaps not quite as warm. if you dodge them and keep the sunshine, low 20s. but quite a volatile night, sunday into monday, showers were widespread, moving their way from the south and gradually pushing into southern scotland as well. that means on monday we could start off again with some showers, england and wales through the week will be dry and relatively warm but still