Companies will meet today to thrash out a rail deal nestle says it will speed up share buybacks and pursue external Growth Opportunities as the Swiss Company pledges to improve margins and cut costs. Good morning, everyone its tuesday glad youre with us once again we have another jam packed show. Lets kick things off with a look at the equity markets youre onehour into the trading session. Were fairly even steven at this point. The latest escalation in the war of words between north korea and the u. S. Is not helping. We are largely brushing that off. Stoxx 600 is close to session highs. Safe havens are seeing inflows are gold, the yen and the swiss. Markets one by one, the xetra dax is just clinging on to the flat line, off by 5 points ftse 100 off by 0. 2. Cac 40 up by 0. 1 . When it comes to sectors, a couple interesting things to tell you about oil is not doing too badly up 0. 3 this as brent is moving closer to the 60 a barrel mark. Tech seeing underperformance. You have it down b
Also tonight after the latest round of brexit talks both sides say progress has been made but the eu warns it could be months before trade talks begin. After images are published of a fight in bristol the cricketer ben stokes is told he will not play for england until further notice. The un says its the worlds Fastest Growing refugee emergency the Rohingya Muslims fleeing to bangladesh from the violence in myanmar. And after the death of playboys hugh heffner a debate over his claim to have pioneered sexual liberation. And coming up in sportsday on bbc news, well tell you if saint helens can stop carter for tigers for reaching the first grand final in Rugby League Super league. Good evening. Ryanair is facing increasing criticism over its plans to cancel thousands of flights and its been accused by the Civil Aviation authority of persistently misleading passengers about the kind of compensation they can claim. The caa has now given ryanair until 5pm tomorrow afternoon to correct its co
Good evening and welcome to bbc news. After a fourth round of brexit negotiations, theres still no prospect of a start to talks about britains future trade relationship with the european union. The government had been hoping that those trade talks would get the go ahead in a few weeks but the eus chief negotiator Michael Barnier said it could still be months away. Nonetheless, the brexit minister david davis insisted that decisive steps forward had been made in the latest round of talks. Our Political Correspondent ben wright reports from brussels. The british ministers car is the same, ajag, of course, but the tone of these brexit talks has changed. A month ago it was fractious, frosty. The divides were wide. Today, reporting back on the weeks negotiations, david davis and his counterpart were conciliatory and for the first time mr davis spoke first. I believe, thanks to the constructive and determined manner in which both sides have conducted these negotiations, we are making decisiv
Declaration of independence will come within days but the king of spain condemns the recent referendum as unlawful. Translation catalan authorities have broken the law of the state, and they wanted to break the unity of spain. At the conservative conference, borisjohnson declares that theresa may will make a success of brexit. Scotland marks a difference from the rest of the uk, and announces a ban on the controversial business of fracking. Well, i started out down a dirty road. And the american singer tom petty has died at the age of 66. The tributes praise a poet and a music master. And coming up in sportsday on bbc news. After testing positive for cocaine in april, britains number four, dan evans, has been banned for one year. Good evening. After the worst mass shooting in modern us history, there is still no explanation for the motives of the gunman. The attack in las vegas left 59 people dead and more than 500 injured. President trump described the attacker 64 year old Stephen Pad
Athletes were subjected to unacceptable behaviour. Thank you very much. More from you later. Phil has the weather. A warm front coming. Yes, it hasnt been so bad so far today, simon. In many parts of the british isles, one of the best days we have had. Could this be the future . All the details live in half an hour. Also coming up. Forget your gordons, your hestons and yourjamies, if you want the best grub in the world you need to go to this pub in yorkshire. Hello everyone. This is afternoon live. Two sides, two negotiatiors and two very different assessments of where we are with brexit. As the latest round of talks came to a close david davies says progress is being made. His opposite number, Michel Barnier, disagrees using the words deadlock and disturbing. Richard galpin reports. The brexit secretary, david davis, heads out for more talks in brussels this morning. The first phase of the negotiations which deals only with the divorce settlement is still very much bogged down. And af