To a no deal brexit will cost the Global Economy 700 billion next year. A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. This is wednesdays briefing. Also in the programme caring for the elderly is a global issue in the uk, 20 of workers aged over 45 expect to quit theirjobs to care for an elderly relative or partner, at an estimated cost of nearly 2 billion a year. Are you in this position . Do tell us your story. Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Now, there is general agreement brexit talks are not going smoothly but publicly at least both sides say they are still trying. On tuesday the eus donald tusk accused the british Prime Minister of playing a stupid blame game after anonymous uk government sources briefed that a deal was essentially impossible. Borisjohnson is due to have face to face talks later this week with the irish leader leo varadkar. In a newspaper interview, the president of the european commission, jean clau
At the end of the month. The home secretary calls on facebook to rethink plans to encrypt messages across its platforms. Walking out former conservative leadership contender rory stewart resigns from the party and plans to stand for mayor of london coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with olly foster. Encouraging progress for andy murray. He was quite chipper today, he says hes been playing his best tennis yet on the singles comeback trail. Thats despite a quarterfinal defeat in china today. And theres been a big win for south africa over italy at the Rugby World Cup. Thanks olly and helen has all the weather. Wet conditions set to continue. U nfortu nately, yes, unfortunately, yes, thats right, martin, as storm lorenzo is approaching quite rapidly, we look for the next significant rainmaker coming up. I will have the details just before the bottom of the hour. Hello, this is afternoon live, im martine croxall. A damning report has strongly criticised the metropolitan police for
Against knife crime fronted by a convicted killer. More evidence of Climate Change the dead sea shrinking by a metre a year. The dead see. And england salvage some pride in the ashes winning the fifth and final test. Good evening. The liberal democrats say they will cancel brexit altogether if they form the next government. At their Party Conference today, they adopted a new policy to abandon our departure from the eu without having another referendum. Their leaderjo swinson said it makes the liberal democrats the stop brexit party. Our Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake reports from the lib dem conference in bournemouth and his report does contain flash photography. The liberal democrats have just taken their stop brexit stance a step further. So far, theyve supported a second referendum as a way back from leaving the eu. All of those in favour of the motion, please raise your speakers cards. But the party has now voted overwhelmingly in favour of revoking article 50 to pull the p
Another and you never think you are going to kill somebody. A new Police Campaign against knife crime, fronted by a convicted killer. Former rugby star Gareth Thomas says he wants to break the stigma surrounding hiv and reveals hes tested positive. More evidence of Climate Change the dead sea shrinking by a meter a year. The 97 year old Second World War veteran whos taken to the skies to mark battle of britain day. England win the fifth and final ashes test against australia to level the series. And well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers Lynn Faulds Wood and Giles Kenningham stay with us for that. The former Prime Minister David Cameron has accused borisjohnson of only supporting brexit to further his political career. In the latest extracts from his memoirs, he said mrjohnson did not actually believe in brexit. Heres our Political Correspondent chris mason. These two used to be on the same side. Were going to do blue team. Do you want to go in goal or up fron
Two driver in a race in belgium. Five people have been shot dead and 21 others injured after a gunman opened fire from a vehicle in the us state of texas. It happened on a road between the towns of midland and odessa. The gunman has been shot dead by the police. Our north america correspondent, peter bowes, has this update. The latest information is that the Police Believe although it is not definitely confirmed, but they believe that this gunman was acting alone. Since he was tackled and killed by the police, there have been no further reports of shooting. At one stage, there was concern, in fact, many reports that there could be a number of gunmen responsible for what was happening. It seemed like multiple shootings over quite a wide area. It seems now it may simply have been the work of this one gunman, and the police are stressing that this information that they are giving us could still change. Its a fluid situation, they are still checking out reports and making sure that the are