and pulp fiction star is now suffering from a type of dementia. and the deadline looms to see who might want to buy manchester united, with offers expected to come in from prospective owners in britain, the us and qatar. good morning and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister will hold talks with stormont leaders in belfast today, with hopes that a deal between the uk and the eu on northern ireland s brexit arrangement could soon be reached as early as next week. the current trading arrangement know as the northern ireland protocol was negotiated during brexit talks. it was put in place to deal with the fact that northern ireland is in the uk and the republic of ireland is in the eu. some goods passing from england, scotland and wales into northern ireland are getting checked when they cross the irish sea in order to keep an open order on the island of ireland. unionist parties argue that this places an effective border across the irish sea which undermines northern irel
Wages. Its part of plans to reform the profit and sustainability regulations, which resulted in both Nottingham Forest and everton being deducted points this season. Top clubs would only be allowed to spend a sum linked to the Television Revenues of the bottom clubs in the league. The next stage is the drafting of rules, which will potentially be put to clubs at agm injune. England Rugby Union International Billy Vunipola has apologised and paid a fine after being charged in spain, following an alleged incident. Vunipola called it a misunderstanding and said there was no violence. The bbc understands he was tasered by police on the island of majorca after they were called to a bar in the islands capital. Our sports news correspondent, laura scott, has more. We know that this incident involving Billy Vunipola happened at a club on majorca in the early hours of sunday morning. The number eight, who has played for england on 75 occasions, described what happened as an unfortunate misunder
Hello, im annita mcveigh, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. The us secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has said hes hopeful that hamas will accept what he described as an extraordinarily generous Gaza Ceasefire offer from israel. Mr blinken, who is attending talks with his regional counterparts in saudi arabia, was speaking as a delegation from hamas attended parallel Ceasefire Negotiations in cairo. After weeks of impasse, hamas is reported to have no major issues with a revised plan approved by israel. Its said to include new wording on a cessation of hostilities. Mr blinken reaffirmed us opposition to a planned Israeli Offensive on rafah city, saying hes seen no plan that protects civilians there. 20 people died in the latest israeli airstrikes. At this moment, the only thing standing between the people of gaza and a ceasefire is hamas. They have to decide, and they have to decide quickly. So we are looking to them, an
Hello, gavin. Hello from the bbc sport centre. Premier league have clubs voted to move a step closer to the possibiliy of bringing in a salary cap. A majority of clubs were in favour of allowing the Premier League to do the final economic and legal analysis of such a model, and draft the rules with the aim of making the competition fairer. Its part of plans to reform the profit and sustainability regulations, which resulted in both Nottingham Forest and everton being deducted points this season. Top clubs would only be allowed to spend a sum linked to the Television Revenues of the bottom clubs in the league. The next stage will potentially be put to clubs at agm injune. The pfa have said they have always been clear that they would oppose any measure that would place a hard cap on player wages. England Rugby Union International Billy Vunipola has apologised, and paid a fine after being charged in spain, following an alleged incident. The bbc understands he was tasered by police on the