A special report on afghanistans so called forever war. And the teenager who took on Climate Change, Greta Thunberg, accepts amnesty internationals ambassador of conscience award in washington. The Prime Minister of luxembourg has attacked borisjohnsons approach to brexit calling the situation a nightmare and saying that the British Government has failed to put forward any serious proposals for a new deal. Xavier bettel also accused the british Prime Minister of portraying the eu as the bad guy. His outspoken comments came at what was supposed to be a joint press Conference Following mrjohnsons first face to face meeting since taking office with the president of the european commission, jean claude juncker. But borisjohnson pulled out of his media appearance because of noisy protests from remain supporters nearby. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports. Air miles cant be exchanged for a deal. Today is not going to be a breakthrough day. Time for borisjohnson to see some of those
Apple takes on the eu in a fight over a record 14 billion tax bill. A warm welcome to the Programme Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. Also in the programme the battle for subscribers. Netflix is paying a lot to for the rights to show old episodes of the hit us tv sitcom seinfeld. So wed like to know would this draw you to netflix . What content do you tune in to and why . Get in touch just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. The Supreme Court in london will today begin to hear two appeals over the british Prime Ministers controversial decision to suspend parliament for five weeks. The cases are being heard after two lower courts made conflicting judgements on the matter. The Scottish Court of session said the move amounted to an unlawful attempt to stop mps in the run up to brexit, but the high court of england and wales said the decision was political and not one forjudicial interference. Our Legal Correspondent Clive Coleman explains. Constitutional
And we meet the 97 year old former Fighter Pilot taking to the skies to mark battle of britain day. Good morning. Its 6am in singapore, pm in london. And 6 in the morning in hong kong, where clashes between police and protesters continued into the night, after protests during the day that saw several people seriously injured. Violence broke out between pro democracy and pro china demonstrators in the north point neighbourhood. Thousands defied a ban to attend the rally, and in Response Police fired tear gas and Water Cannons. Nick beake reports from hong kong we have now seen 99 days of this. Violence the authorities just cant extinguish. Hardcore pro democracy activists are not backing down, in what is a chinese city, even setting alight the polices latest weapon to try to wash away this protest movement. The police have decided enough is enough. Theyre making use of water cannon as well as the tear gas. Its worked for a time, but weve just seen that these hard core of protesters just
And we meet the 97 year old former Fighter Pilot taking to the skies to mark battle of britain day. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, and 1am in london. Oil prices have soared at the opening of the markets in asia following saturdays drone attacks on two Key Facilities in saudi arabia. The cost of brent crude rose by the most on record, after half the kingdoms output was taken out that accounts for roughly 5 of the worlds oil supply. Iran has dismissed us allegations that it was behind the strikes and accused washington of being deceitful. With me is bob mcnally, president of Rapidan Energy group in washington. He served in the Bush Administration as its top energy advisor. Hejoins me now. Thank you so much forjoining us. Firstly, the us says that this was an unprecedented attack and indeed there has been a very significant market movement. How significant is this, in your view . Well, it is justified. Crude oil now in asia is trading 10 or more. That is justified. The folks who atta
Bureau officials added a submarine will be sent to the area. Investigators say they hope the black boxes will provide clues to determine the cause of the crash. The move aims to cut off another financial option for north korea by borrowing u. S. Financial institutions from maintaining correspondent accounts with the north. Its an addition to an existing ban on direct transactions. The Department Says the measure is aimed at further isolating north korea from the International Financial system. It says its essential for all countries to take action to prevent it from abusing Financial Institutions around the world. The u. N. Security Council Adopted a resolution in march calling on countries to tighten financial sanctions following its nuclear and missile test. Washingtons latest move comes days after pingyong conducted another launch. President xi ping has told an official that north should abandon its nuclear ambitions. Xi met with the vice chairman of the workers party. He said he va