Underwater motorways heavy rain and floods put the brakes on the christmas getaway. Buckingham palace confirms that the duke of edinburch is in hospital. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport with connie. Waiting for announcement from arsenal . Were waiting for confirmation that mikel arteta is the new arsenal manager. Up until this week he was assistant coach to Pep Guardiola at Manchester City and in the last hour or so hes confirmed that arteta has left the club and hes in london. Chris has all the weather parts of the country flooded . We will be looking at how much rain has fallen over the last couple of days, bringing flooding seems like these, but also crucially as the Christmas Holiday getaway gets under way, we will be looking at what the weather has in store over the next few days. Thanks, chris. Also coming up. Three, two, one and lift off a new era in human space flight. Could this capsule one day take paying passengers into space . Hello, everyone this is afternoon liv
Policies, the conservatives say they will plant 30 Million Trees a year by 2025 if it wins the general election but the libdems say they can plant twice as many trees. Meanwhile, leading labour and trade union figures are meeting to decide which policies will be included in the partys election manifesto. Now its time for brexitcast with adam fleming, laura kuennsberg, chris mason and katya adler. Well, its the first full week of the Election Campaign, which means, of course, lauras in the back of a van in a car park. Again. Im in a car park on the outskirts of edinburgh because, in dalkeith today, weve been talking to labour leaderJeremy Corbyn. Do you know what today was the one Year Anniversary of . What was happening on 14th november, 2018 . Do you remember . Was it one of the meaningful votes . No. Was it the signing of the brexit Withdrawal Agreement with theresa may . Yeah, something to do with theresa may getting a deal with the eu. Yes, it was after the eight hour long Cabinet
Americas opioid epidemic. Thats all coming up on outside source. Theyve done so by paying fines of well over 200 million. Here we have it, published in the last hour. The British Government has just published its eu Withdrawal Agreement bill, ten days before brexit is supposed to happen. The bill is 110 pages long. Mps have to read it quickly. They are being asked to approve it and vote on it in the coming days. If mps approve it, brexit on 31st of october becomes much more likely. Not certain, because it has to be ratified by the European Parliament as well. But, and its a big but, we dont know if parliament will support it whenever the vote happens. We dont know if parliament will resist the very tight timetable its been given. And we also dont know if parliament will support amendments that would effectively wreck the deal. This is tim shipman of the sunday times saying the withdrawal bill, let battle commence. This person at the Huffington Post says, a bit of history, the bill gets
He withheld military aid to ukraine for personal political gain alan fisher has more on this now from washington. Both these men were arrested at Dulles International airport on the outskirts of washington in fact its in the state of virginia that happened late on wednesday both were on a flight out of the country although you shouldnt read too much into that they are facing a number of charges its a 21 p. G. Indictment they are accused of making false statements of falsifying records and trying to evade contribution limits by hiding the source of those contributions they made a contribution to the donald trump super pac america 1st they also made a number of contributions to Kevin Mccarthy whos a senior Republican Leadership figure on capitol hill and they made those contributions asking him to work towards the removal of the u. S. Ambassador to the ukraine though she was eventually moved from her position by donald trump back in may this year now they have a connection with Rudy Giul
Financially viable, while nissan warns a no deal brexit below ground. Good morning. Iam in would jeopardise its brands future in britain. Formula one qualifying leeds this morning for the annual is postponed as typhoon hagibis approaches while scotland fans wait to see if their critical light night festival, the uks used Rugby World Cup game festival of arts and lights. I will against japan will go ahead. Bring you a full forecast for today on the weekend in about 15 minutes. Iam in i am in leeds this morning for the its friday the 11th october. Our top story. The british and irish prime leeds light festival. I will be taking a look at some of the installation here and bringing you a ministers say theyre full forecast up shortly. On the pathway to a brexit deal, ahead of more talks today. The brexit secretary, the british and irish Stephen Barclay, will meet the eus Prime Ministers say chief negotiator theyre on the pathway Michel Barnier later. To a brexit deal, ahead of more our brus