19 people are arrested as police say theyve broken the uks biggest ever drugs operation more that 50 tons of drugs are seized. The impact of knife crime on its young victims more than 20 thousand were injured last year alone and for many the trauma continues. We will reveal the winner of this new building best new building of 2019. Join us live here in the news channel for the announcement of this yea rs channel for the announcement of this years stunning price for architecture. Prize. Good evening. A deal with the eu by the end of this month in time for the brexit deadline now looks extremely unlikely. Downing street says brexit talks are close to breaking down after what was described as a challenging phone call between the Prime Minister and the german chancellor this morning. A source at number 10 says Angela Merkel made clear that a brexit deal was overwhelmingly unlikely unless Northern Ireland remained in the Customs Union indefinitely. There was an angry response from brussels
Hello and welcome to the programme. Englands women scraped their way to a much needed victory over portugal in s tubal tonight. Head coach phil neville said that it was a must win game before kick off, after his team had failed to win in all 5 of their matches since this summers world cup. They were gifted a goal, after a poor performance, but in the end, a win is a win. Adam wild reports. This may have beenjust this may have been just a friendly, but this trip to portugal was not without its pressure. Putting on a brave face on things but results and performances of late have been poor. Would england needed his improvement in the first step they could not quite stretch the net. Five games of that of when myth and desperate for inspiration, the best of their first half chances cleared off the portugal line. Not a performance to ease that pressure. Bringing more chancesin ease that pressure. Bringing more chances in the second half but england were unable to take them. A more than one o
Weather fronts still playing a part in our weather on friday. Still low pressure in control but longer spells of rain. Some uncertainty as to where the fronts will be setting. But they could bring longer spells of rain, and it starts to move gradually south as we go deeper into the day. Quite strong winds associated as well. The picture going into the weekend, it is going to be dominated by this weather front as it stalls close to the uk. The trend we think on saturday will be for it to fade. So just a bit of battery rain with a good deal of cloud across england and wales, showers and son into scotland and Northern Ireland. But waiting towards a south west this weather front. As we go into sunday, here it comes, spreading more persistent rain more widely across the uk. Still with uncertainty about where thatis still with uncertainty about where that is going to be exactly. Do keep checking the forecast if you have plans for the weekend. The weather is volatile and it may not look exact
Scotland face a must win game against russia to keep their hopes alive while wales can qualify for the quarter finals if they beat fiji. Good morning. And it is another day of sunshine and showers. Some of those showers are merging to give longer spells of rain, heavy with hailand longer spells of rain, heavy with hail and thunder, but they will be blown along quite quickly on gusty winds. They will have more in 15 minutes. Good morning. Its wednesday the 9th of october. Our top story the irish Prime Minister has warned it will be very difficult for the uk and the eu to reach an agreement on brexit before the deadline of october the 31st. Leo varadkars comments come as european leaders accused the government of turning the brexit negotiations into a stupid blame game. Our Political Correspondent nick eardley is in downing street for us this morning. Nick, what next for brexit . The tone of the conversation has really ta ke n the tone of the conversation has really ta ken a the tone of
Well be live in penzance at 9 15am for a special report. And in sport, wales get ready to take on fiji in the Rugby World Cup, while scotland play russia in a bid to reach the quarterfinals. Good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at 9 00am. The irish Prime Minister has warned it will be very difficult for the uk and the eu to reach an agreement on brexit before the deadline of 31st october. Speaking to rte news, leo varadkar said big gaps remained between the uk and the eu on crucial issues. Mr varadkar is expected to meet Boris Johnson for further brexit talks later this week. It comes as european leaders accused the government of playing a stupid blame game in the negotiations. Speaking to the french newspaper les echos, the European Commission president Jean Claude Juncker said if the negotiations failed, the reasons have to come from britain because the original sin is found on the islands and not on the continent. He went on to say a no deal brexit would lead to the collapse of