His timetable to put brexit in the fast lane. The results, and election now looks highly likely. The emperor of since his throne. Japans new code2 declares himself the head of the monarchy. Brent im rent goff. To our viewers on pbs throughout the United States and around the world, welcome. Russia and turkey have a plan for serious future. A russian turkish plan. Today, the countries announced beta reached an agreement on the future of Northern Syria. Vladimir putin and his counterpart president erdogan say they are adding 60s to a ceasefire that was due to expire tonight. Turkey wants to establish a 30 kilometer wide saison along the border from which Kurdish Forces would be excluded. The announcement came just as the kurds insisted they had already pulled out of the border region. Heres what the leaders of russia and turkey said about the new agreement. These solutions which in my opinion are very important, crucial, will allow a rather acute situation that has developed on the syria
We have an important interview coming up. But first, lets check in on the markets. The institute has cut its growth forecast. We did have worries about germany and the labor market and some of the things internally. That has a lot to do with trade. A lot are saying that if you look at the composition of the world, is probably the European Union that takes the brunt of all of these concerns. ,uropean stocks are fluctuating but if you look at the stoxx 600 , investors are trying to figure out exactly what kind of clues they will get after these miserable manufacturing numbers. Coming up, a great guest lineup here in italy. We speak to the former italian Prime Minister. Well also talk to the chief executive of a general of generale and the chief executive of campari. Now lets get straight to first word news in your city. Hong kong protesters were planning a fresh round of disruption after clashes sublease shoot a demonstrated for the first time in the demonstrations began. Local media rep
Well pick through the details of the johnson plan, analyse whats new and get all the reaction. Also in outside source President Trump takes the impeachment inquiry to a new level accusing the whistleblower of being a spy and a top democrat of treason. And in hong kong hundreds of people take part in a peaceful sit in outside the school of a teenager shot by police. Eu leaders are considering borisjohnsons new brexit proposal, which was hand delivered this afternoon. In this letter, addressed to the European Commission president jean Claude Juncker, mrjohnson outlines his new plan. The most significant change is what happens in Northern Ireland. The new plan would scrap the back stop. The mechanism designed to stop physical checkpoints on the border between with the republic of ireland and Northern Ireland, by potentially keeping the whole of the uk inside the eus Customs Union. Brexiteers were never fans of that. So under mrjohnsons new proposal, Northern Ireland would stay in the eu S
Now on bbc news brexitcast. Obviously the biggest thing that happened this week was what happened in the house of commons last night, everyones reactions to other things that have happened this week in politics and i watched it on my tablet, tiny, grainy, hundreds of miles away and even that was quite emotional. And today the boiling sense of anger carrying on over there. Its a horror show, you couldnt look away, didnt want to watch but you couldnt look away and it hardly ever ever ever seen mps angry. Welcome to this weeks brexit cost. Brexitcast. Chris at westminster, law at westminster, adam at westminster. Cutie over you should be, and brussels having watched all the parliamentary drama yesterday on my Kitchen Floor with my cat. replaced it with a cat. There is similar. About last night. You obviously edging appears, was a lie . I was obviously edging appears, was a lie . Iwas in obviously edging appears, was a lie . I was in the press gallery from the beginning of the statement be
And then in europe youre going to see equity futures there also to the upside this morning, gains across the board of better than 1 . Its up a third of a percent and stocks in italy up by 1. 5 breaking news happening moments ago, hong kong leader has now announced the official withdrawal of the extradition bill that sparked months of mass protests there its one of five demands including universal suffrage in the citys elections it sparked a late night rally in hong kong with stocks closing higher by nearly 4 youre looking at the stock chart right there. A loif report from hong kong in a couple of minutes. The other big global story is a political Crisis Brewing in the u. K. He joins us to explain the situation to app american audience that isnt necessarily familiar with the parliamentary procedure. This is not for me this is not for me this is for certain individuals that may not understand what is going on there but go slowly just in case i want to pick up a few of the nuisances and w