Wide ranging indications for the country. Wide ranging indications for the country. England cricketer ben stokes accuses the Sun Newspaper of shattering his privacy with what he calls an utterly disgusting report about a family tragedy. The trial begins of four people accused of murdering 17 Year Old Girl scoutjodie chesney in a park in east london. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport, will parry is here. The Champions League is back tonight. Liverpool are away and italy. Frank lampard is managing for the first time. Plenty more of this to come over the next few days. Dry weather, blue skies and sunshine was double the uk whether detail is coming up later in the programme we will be out into the programme we will be out into the atlantic. A couple of tropical storms currently on their own which could make the news over the next couple of days. Thanks, ben. Also coming up after a gruelling 5a hours sarah thomas becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel four time
The storm is currently off the east coast of the united states. German chancellor Angela Merkel is on a three day visit to china to push for greater access to markets there. Over the past year, germany has called on the eu to adopt a tougher line on china, but analysts believe her government may be softening its stance to avoid economic damage. Now on bbc news, its hardtalk. Stephen sackur interviews lord falconer. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. British politics is in full on meltdown mode. Prime minister borisjohnson has lost a series of key votes on brexit, and hes lost his parliamentary majority. He is now seeking a general election in mid october to let british Voters Decide whether brexit should happen, come what may, at the end of next month. But will the labour 0pposition agree to a snap poll . Well, my guest is former labour cabinet minister lord falconer. Is labour in any fit state to win an election, amid britain . S brexit chaos . Lord falconer, welcome to hardtalk.
Friend is not inconsistent with his tone and style and trade policy. Its the way i negotiate. Its done well for moefr te ovee years. The ftse bucks amid the downturn as they reportedly drop a key red line in its negotiations and irans president says there will be no change to the status quo unless u. S. Sanctions are lifted after President Trump signals hes open to meeting all right. Good morning behind me in europe, we have the majors all to end the session in positive territory and now the dow up 42 since the election and if you remember the president did actually tweet a couple of days ago you should judge me on the stock Market Performance since the he ex we did see rebounds in names like apple that was a name very much in focus after it went to a whole new level. And indeed the president did mention 24 hours agatha china indeed called up the u. S. And were looking to reestablish dialogue so that was the picture for asian and u. S. Markets europe not so pretty you can see a little
Sequestration is a place you go when you cant Reach Agreement and you start cutting how we meet the needs of the American People in a very indiscriminate way. Its harmful to children and other living things. Its harmful to our national security. Its over. We avoided a shutdown for the moment. We still have to go through the appropriations process, but the way the legislation was written for bipartisan agreement on any for us to proceed on any extraordinary measures, i think we have forestalled any prospect of a shutdown. Offsets, they wanted overwhelming offsets, we have half of what they wanted. They even wanted more than hat. It was good because what we were offset investments we make in people. And we just werent going to go to that place. Parity, im always fighting for parity. To the extent you increase defense budget, you have to increase the domestic budget. Except this time we got 10 billion more than parity. Our fight was to get more funding for our veterans. That was a constan
Speaker pelosi good morning, everyone. Well, yesterday, we had a culmination of a lot of work over a period of time to pass the caps agreement in a very strong bipartisan way on the loor of the house. Of course, i always want more, but it was bipartisan, and it was a compromise. It ended sequestration. For what that means in the lives of the American People, sequestration is a place you go when you cant Reach Agreement and you start cutting how we meet the needs of the American People in a very indiscriminate way. Its harmful to children and other living things. Its harmful to our national security. Its over. We avoided a shutdown for the moment. We still have to go through the appropriations process, but the way the legislation was written for bipartisan agreement on any for us to proceed on any extraordinary measures, i think we have forestalled any prospect of a shutdown. Offsets, they wanted overwhelming offsets, we have half of what they wanted. They even wanted more than hat. It