Also this hour tackling the underground trade in superpower painkillers. A 25 year old drug dealer has been sentenced to eight years in prison for exporting and selling the extremely strong painkiller fentanyl on the dark web. And the little horse with a big dream. Well find out why digby is saddling up to become the uks first guide horse. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The Prime Minister has been warned that her decision to leave the Eus Customs Union which allows goods to move between eu countries without tariffs will cause unavoidable barriers to trade. And the European Unions chief brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, who was in downing street for talks today, said the time had come for britain to make a choice on what it wants for its future. But the brexit secretary david davis said being outside the Customs Union would allow the United Kingdom to strike new trade deals with the rest of the world. Heres our Political Editor laura kuenssberg. In a hurry. Notjust to catch the
Philadelphia as the eagles win the trophy for the first time in their history. Good morning. Its monday 5th february. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Michel barnier will be in downing street later for talks about a transition period after britain leaves the eu. He will meet the brexit secretary, david davis, in the first of a series of discussions this week. It comes after the government indicated it remains determined to leave the Customs Union when brexit takes place next year. That is being seen as an attempt to defuse a growing row within the conservative party. Mps to back brexit say membership of any Customs Union would restrict british businesses ability to trade freely. Adam fleming is in brussels for us. Looking through what Michel Barnier said this morning, he didnt seem to be drawn very much on this message from downing street saying that britain would not be staying in the Customs Union. No, he batted away all questions about the stuff that is in todays new
Closing down 4. 6 by nearly 1,200 points. It is the worst drop in points since september 2008, when a plan to rescue the us Banking Industry after the financial crisis was rejected and the worst single day point decline in history. With me is karishma wasvani, our business correspondent. In two trading days the fall of the dow has been more than 1800 points. What is because of this mayhem as i was talking to some traders before we we re was talking to some traders before we were meant to have this discussion on air. A lot of them we re discussion on air. A lot of them were saying to me this morning that really this is a natural reaction to what many people have called an overheated stock market in the us. It seems counterintuitive, doesnt it . The fact that the us economy is doing quite well, job growth has been relatively strong, we are hearing about this from the Donald Trumps tweets, of course, and wages are rising marginally, not as much as people hoped or expected, so why would yo
Breeze. Nevada looking for afternoon thunderstorms. They will pop up in and around tahoe. In Southern California, they are dealing with rain as well. Even palm springs. Moisture is coming in from arizona. Patchy fog will give way to sunshine. 60s, 70s, 80s, and 100s. Is getting busier. That is to be expected. Weve had a couple things that popped up that made it busier. Lets start with the east shore freeway. 80 westbound driving out to the macarthur maze. 20 minutes. Not too bad considering the time of the morning. When you get to the bay bridge, traffic is backed up to the maze and the metering lights are on. This is 880 in oakland. Traffic is moving well in both directions. I want to mention that 580 through Castro Valley is slow. An earlier accident on 238 that is now on the shoulder. You can see the traffic it left in this area. Northbound 880 through hayward is slow because of an accident near a street. Give yourself some extra time as you drive in this area. New video released sh
Very gentleman like. He not only fled from the scene of the crash, he left his passenger behind. Megan thompson is live at the scene. Reporter this woman actually had minor injuries when that guy decided to bail from the car. If you zoom in a little more, you can see into a palm tree. And they have other crews, detectives and investigators on the scene collecting evidence from here right now. There are barricades here in the area and this is kind of affecting traffic here. We dont know the relationship of the two people but they crashed here in the business complex. It started when officers tried took off. Police decided not to chase him and let the plan work itself out, and it did. They then got a call this car had crashed here. He bailed out and they are still looking for him right now. We dont know if the female passenger gave up his identity but they have his vehicle and his female passenger. They are still looking for that suspect here. Thank you, breaking overnight, a teenage boy