Of commons. In 20 seventies the Party Leaders have been traveling the countrys tonight they will defend and deconstruct their ideas live Justin Trudeau and conservative leader in the green party and also maxine from the Peoples Party the goal is to convince you to give their party or vote those of the most respected political journalists with the museum of history here are your leaders. [applause] [applause] i am one of the moderators tonight the audience is made up of undecided voters gathered here in the round so they are right at the heart of this night. One note we have asked them to hold their applause throughout the debate so we can keep things moving and to tackle five major themes based on the question of canadian voters want asked and debated there are more than 8000 the leaders will answer them based on the order selected that were drawn. Viewers want answers they have all agreed to respect the time they are allowed tonight and we will all make sure they do. The first is lead
Good morning and welcome to westminster on an historic session of parliament. Mps are sitting on a saturday for the first time in 37 years to vote on borisjohnsons brexit deal. This morning it still looks extremely close, although in the last few minutes the Prime Minister has received the backing of the prominent conservative brexiteers known as the European Research group who now say they will vote mps are also likely to vote on an amendment to the deal which would still force the government to seek a delay to leaving the eu, described as an insurance policy to avoid the risk of a no deal brexit. Nick eardley reports. More than three years after the brexit referendum, is today the day mps finally back a deal . Some of them hate what borisjohnson has negotiated, arguing it takes us too far away from eu rules and will damage the economy. But most tories think its a good deal that gives the uk back the control they want. Weve got the deal that allows us to get out of the backstop, thats
Time for a look at the weather. Heres helen willetts. Some parts are up to 25 days of rain in the uk. The rivers are not responding or responding and not subsiding so quickly, and with more u nsettled subsiding so quickly, and with more unsettled weather to come there is potentially more woes to come with that rain. Todays rain for most is clearing but we are watching for rain towards the south. Even if it does so this low pressure moves in for thursday, friday, does so this low pressure moves in forthursday, friday, saturday and sunday, and around it we will see bands of showers passing across the uk, so more rain. It might however be at this stage before we get to the early part of next week we are afforded possibly two days of dry weather. Its an improving picture out there, this is brecon in powys, taken out there, this is brecon in powys, ta ken recently, the out there, this is brecon in powys, taken recently, the sun coming out in many areas. The rain dragging its heels in scotla
Flash floods cause chaos across england on the isle of man, a Major Incident has been declared. And coming up on the programme mps will debate proposals for a long awaited new law to better protect victims of Domestic Abuse. Ill be speaking to the labour mp, jess phillips, whos worked on the bill. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live im joanna gosling. The government will submit what it calls its final proposals for a new brexit deal today, with a warning there will be no further negotiations if brussels fails to engage with the offer. Borisjohnson is expected to tell the conservative Party Conference the plan is a fair and reasonable compromise that all sides can build on. While the official plan wont be published till later, the Daily Telegraph has published details of what it says are the proposals british negotiators are putting forward in place of the backstop designed to avoid a hard border on the island of ireland. The paper says the idea is to have some checks on the bord
Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming for this working with lunch council of Foreign Relations you all know mr. Ashford ash carter we will open up to all of you for questions so take notes and keep thinking of questions and i will come to you in a bit. I do want to tell you that during the qanda portion later on and i will remind you of this at the time, this will be on the record. Good to see you. Thank you, margaret. I appreciate that. The last time i interviewed you we were on some kind of vessel off estonia and you are carrying out a military buildup in response to russia. It was part of after a quartercentury we didnt have a war plan. Its kind of interesting to reflect on all the plans when i started that i worked on conventional and nuclear then we didnt do that anymore for about 25 years and then it became apparent to me whatever six years or so ago that we needed to plan. Thats when we began positioning the forces in different ways in europe, but the particular reason