People are being urged to feed their pets insects instead of meat and fish to help the environment. And coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news, well have the latest from new york as the british number one kyle edmund gets his Us Open Campaign underway. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. With just 65 days to go until the uk is due to leave the eu, the leaders of the main opposition parties have met today and agreed to Work Together to stop britain leaving without a deal. Jeremy corbyn says Opposition Mps will take the first steps towards trying to pass a law blocking a no deal brexit when parliament returns next week. The parties including the greens, the snp and the lib dems also said a vote of no confidence to bring down the government remained an option. But the government accused them of tyring to create chaos, delay and uncertainty. Our political correspondent, ben wright, reports from westminster. The pace is slow and the parks are full. Around parliame
Plus why the internet just cant get enough of this image of Melania Trump greeting the canadian Prime Minister. Hello and welcome im katty kay in washington and david eades is in london. If you want a sense ofjust how critical the brexit crisis has become, Opposition Party leaders invoked the spirit of World War Two today. For good measure, they gathered at church house a westminster building that mps used during the war itself. There, leaders of the five opposition parties agreed Common Ground to defeat a no deal brexit. In a joint statement sent out by labour, lib dems, the greens, plaid cymru and the snp they agreed they would act together to find practical ways to stop a no deal. And to get there, it was clear they had to trade compromises and, for now at least, to set aside personal and party preferences. The priority is to prevent a no deal exit from the eu because of all the damage it would do to peoplesjobs, economy, and our relationships with the rest of the world. So weve had
Dead and buried . Bolton wanderers and Bury Football Clubs face liquidation after the deadline to save them expires. Documents discovered by the bbc suggest the government, and h52, knew the High Speed Railway was over budget and behind schedule years ago. Brazils president rejects an offer of aid from the g7 leaders to tackle the amazon wildfires unless he receives an apology. And would you be prepared to feed your pets insects . Vets say it could help fight climate change. Good evening. With just 65 days to go until the uk is due to leave the eu, the leaders of the main opposition parties have met today and agreed to Work Together to stop britain leaving without a deal. Jeremy corbyn says Opposition Mps will take the first steps towards trying to pass a law blocking a no deal brexit when parliament returns next week. He added a book of no confidence remains a full option. The government accused them of trying to create chaos, delay and uncertainty. Our Political Correspondent, ben wr
Welcome to the programme. Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has ruled out accepting a g7 offer of 22 Million Dollars to fight fires in the amazon rainforest unless he gets an apology from his french counterpart, emmanuel macron. Mr bolsonaro said the french leader should apologise for insulting him personally by calling him a liar. Mr macron had accused him of lying about fighting climate change. In recent days mr bolsonaro has insulted mr macrons wife on social media, while mr macron has said he hopes brazilians will soon have a president who is up to thejob. President bolsonaro says the aid money is not needed and he has accused foreign powers of wanting control of the rainforest. Today hes been Holding Meetings with governors from amazonian States Affected by the fires. Heres some of what he had to say. Translation so we dont have anything against the g7, it is the complete opposite. We have something against one of the president s of the g7. Because we know what his intentions are
The disaster that is occurring at the border right now and if we could quick put up our chart. Not only to have it on the chart but we had an event in oshkosh over against the required a giveaway so i produced out of my factory cups with that chart but it shows how out of control this problem is. The first seven months of this year we have over 300 total 312,000 individuals over the border illegally and apprehended as unaccompanied child or family unit and i know these are not for public release yet so their initial numbers but in the first three months of may another 65000 unaccompanied children but primarily people coming in his family units and were apprehended at the border between the ports of reentry and over 97000 total apprehensions so were on path for breaking again i guess it was march 10, 3000, april 10, 9000 and now it will be beyond that in may so this is a growing problem. Needs to be taken seriously and its what you and the men and women that you lead are grappling with.