On the wrong end of it as a captain makes me very hungry to be on the podium at the oval as captain hopefully with a massive smile on my face. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. The government has announced additionalfunding to prepare the uk in the event of a no deal brexit. The chancellor, sajid javid, says the extra two point one billion pounds was necessary to ensure the uk is prepared for leaving the eu on october 31 with or without a deal. Nearly £350 million will be spent on upgrading border and transport infrastructure at the biggest uk ports. This will include an extra 1,000 borderforce officers double the number previously announced when mrjavid was home secretary. A further £434 million will be spent on the stockpiling of vital medicines. Lets get more from our political correspondentjessica parker. Brexit preparations cost money, and today the man now in charge of the publics finances signalled that hes willing to turn on the taps. The chancellor, sajid jav
Which is how you get to the dow today where it lost 129 points, 5. 3 of the nasdaq nose dive 1 . But the first two weeks of earnings season things were pretty straightforward sure this economy might be slowing down, but the consumer was doing so great backed by a strong job market, higher stock prices and i have to tell you, it was offsetting any industrial weakness hallelujah. This week its a totally different story. The markets no longer on its meds while twothirds of our economy is consumer oriented indeed, the other third has gotten so bad so fast its crying out for some kind of government intervention. Thats what caused todays weakness because the nonconsumer economy is plain worrisome. Tonight were speaking to electric power thats the largest Transmission Power Company in the whole country. If youre trying to get a read on the economy, theres Nothing Better than getting the power datd a it took my breath away when they said the biggest economic head wind we have at this point is
A teenager is charged with attempted murder after a six year old boy fell from the 10th floor of the tate modern art gallery. Wayne rooney is heading back to britain from the United States. Helljoin derby county as player coach from january. And the mysterious life of the basking shark. A project to learn more about the behaviour of one of the oceans biggest creatures. Its 5 00pm our main story. The government has denied it wants talks with the eu to fail so that it can end up with a no deal brexit. Officials in brussels have claimed that borisjohnson has no intention of entering new negotiations, and that the governments central scenario is a no deal break at the end of october. Mrjohnson has insisted he does want to reach a new deal with the eu, but says hes not prepared to open talks unless brussels drops the irish backstop, designed to avoid a return to a hard border dividing the island of ireland. Our Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake reports. Borisjohnson meets his first for
At the cricket world cup englands bowlers make steady progress as they take on new zealand hoping for a place in the semi finals. China and britain have become embroiled in a heated war of words over the demonstrations in hong kong. Its after the foreign secretary jeremy hunt warned of serious consequences for china if the rights of People Living in the territory were infringed. Today beijing accused the uk of indulging in colonial era fantasies and warned it not to interfere in its domestic affairs. The Foreign Office in london summoned the Chinese Ambassador over his comments on the matter. Hong kong have now returned to the embrace of the motherland connects the special administration of china. Its not part of the uk. So i would call them to say hands off of hancock hong kong and show respect of whats been achieved in hong kong and one country to systems. Lets speak to our diplomatic crrespondent james landale, after that he was called into for a meeting, he described it as unaccept
The trade secretary liam fox. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. Deutsche bank starts to make the first of eighteen thousand job cuts including in london as part of a radical reorganisation. A life sentence for a life taken the parents of a child killed by a hit and run driver take their fight for tougher sentences to parliament. British airways faces a record £183m fine for last years breach of its security systems. The airline says its surprised and disappointed and 15 year old coco gauffs wimbledon dream is over, as she loses in straight sets to former world number one simona halep. Its 5pm our top story. Theresa may has insisted she has full faith in the British Ambassador in washington, Sir Kim Darroch, after the leak of emails hed written describing the Trump Administration as uniquely dysfunctional and inept. President trump has complained that sir kim has not served the uk well but mrs mays spokesman said the uks strong relationship with the white house would continue. A