An election can fix the stalemate. A high level warning that a generation of children with special Educational Needs are being let down by the reforms that were supposed to help them. Fracking underfire. A damning new report warns the uks shale gas industry has been too slow and too costly to bring any real benefits. Ill look at the future forfracking in the uk. Its a five star night for the english clubs in the Champions League as harry kane revives tottenhams qualification hopes, Raheem Sterling scores a hat trick, as Manchester City beat atalanta. Back in the public eye meghan makes herfirst public appearance since revealing shes struggling with media attention. Good morning, we are looking at rain today across scotland and Northern Ireland, dry and bright across england and wales with a few showers in the south east. More details in 15 minutes. Its wednesday, 23rd october. Our top story. Downing street has signalled that borisjohnson will step up his efforts to force a general elec
In other news, englands fracking industry has been much slower than expected to get up and running a report says low Public Acceptance is partly to blame. Turkey and russia have agreed what they say is an Historic Deal aimed at keeping Kurdish Forces away from syrias border with turkey. A generation of young people with special Education Needs are being failed a report by mps suggests bureaucracy and a lack of funding is tearing familes apart and in sport, it was a five star night for the english clubs in the Champions League as harry kane revives tottenhams qualification hopes, Raheem Sterling scores a hat trick as Manchester City beat atalanta. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. Downing street has signalled that borisjohnson will step up his efforts to force a general election, if eu leaders approve an extension to brexit of up to three months. It comes after last nights commons votes where mps first voted in favour of the governments Withdrawal Agreement bill, but the
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon and welcome to the Cato Institute. I direct the center for global liberty and prosperity here at cato the title and style of the book were featuring today, socialism sucks, is admittedly more irrev vanity than the typical more staid Public Policy books but i can assure you that the authors that we are featuring today are serious, accomplishments economyis whose decade of scholarly work inform the publication. Thesen title two economists drink the way through the unfree world gives a flavor nor unton generalizational approach. That subtitlele didnt surprise me. I tend to run into ben powell and bob lawson at economic or academic conferences around the country, and around the world, and inevitably they have drinks in their hands. Probably because we chat at receptions, hotel bars and the like. But the conversation is always interesting, informative and fun. And thats also true of this new book. This is a light book about a heavy topic so its fortu
With dementia than the general population, though it doesnt try to say exactly why. How many times have you seen two players go up to compete for the ball and have managed to collide heads, get a head injury . So, thats the kind of risk that is there. So, what were saying is, lets just take that one changeable thing we can do, which is just cut down the risk of head injury, cut down the risk of head impacts and that may make a big difference long term. Commetator astle nodding it on. Jeff astle developed dementia and died in 2002 at the age of 59. A coroner ruled that heading had contributed to the cause of death. His wife and daughter have since campaigned for more research and are frustrated its taken so long. That coroners ruling was a landmark ruling and in any other industry, it would have had earthquake like repercussions for that particular industry. But not football. Today at wembley, i asked the english Football Associations medical chief why the research hadnt been launched s
Northamptonshire police are expected to travel to the us to interview the american diplomats wife who fled the uk after being involved in a fatal car crash. Abortion has been decriminalised in Northern Ireland and same sex marriage has been legalised after westminster voted for the changes in july. Canadas Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, wins a second term in office but loses his majority in parliament and will need support from smaller parties to carry on governing. And ahead of their Rugby World Cup semifinal against new zealand, eddie jones claims england were spied on during training. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. Boris johnson will urge mps to back his brexit deal later, as he launches a final bid to get the uk to leave the eu by the end of the month. Hell seek the support of members of parliament in two crucial votes today. Lets take a quick look at what were expecting to happen. Mps will vote later on whether to back the Prime Ministers Withdrawal Agreement b