Life and i very naively, im american, we dont have that they are. Two big legal changes in Northern Ireland are looming with abortion and same sex marriage becoming legal at midnight. It has prompted stormont to assemble for the first time in three years. Coming up one afternoon live, lizzie with all the sport. Hello, simon. We have squad news for the Rugby World Cup semifinals this weekend, there is good news for england but bad news for wales. 0k, back to you later. And we have the whether with matt taylor. Thanks, simon, half term week for some of you and some of you would appreciate something drier but rain will never be too far away from the forecast and i will tell you where that will be in around half an hours time. Good afternoon from westminster, where borisjohnson will this afternoon try again to get the backing of mps for his brexit deal with the European Union, after he abandoned his bid to secure parliamentary approval during a special sitting on saturday. The government i
Sources in the Royal Household say Prince William is concerned for his brother. Prince harry and his wife the duchess of sussex open up about struggling to deal with the pressures of being in the spotlight. The biggest thing that i know is that i never thought this would be easy but i thought it would be fair. And coming up, angry scenes at stormont as members walk out of the First Assembly meeting for three years, paving the way for abortion and same sex marriage to become legal in Northern Ireland. Its five oclock our top story the speaker of the house of commons, john bercow, has ruled that mps cannot vote on the governments brexit deal today. Hes been forced to defend his decision, after a number of mps challenged his ruling. Downing street says the government is disappointed with the speakers ruling and that they would now prefer to go ahead with the introduction of the Withdrawal Agreement bill. Were expecting to hear the governments legislative plans for the week shortly but ahe
Objected in clear and strong terms, and we have done ever since. The bbc has heard that Prince William is worried for his brother harry and hopes he and meghan are all right after the couple acknowledged they we re after the couple acknowledged they were struggling, in a tv documentary. Despite unionist objections, abortion is set to be decriminalised in Northern Ireland at midnight tonight. And the dangers of heading a football. A new report on the risk of brain injury. Its been another day of Brexit Developments in parliament, and at the end of it mps are no closer to passing a brexit deal than they were this morning. The main news of the day was something which didnt happen. The speaker ruled out a vote on borisjohnsons brexit deal, saying the motion had already been brought before mps on saturday and that it would be repetitive and disorderly to debate it again. This weekend, mps nodded through an amended motion which withholds approval of the Prime Ministers deal until it has pass
Cabinet to split completely therefore the government at that point would have to resign on mass which is the beginning of the kind of reforms that the protesters actually want. Well the demo so they thought is now out of picking up. Steam they have not shown any relaxation of the demonstration if the government is going to control the demonstration it has to express and they have dition of measures in. Cooperating and creating a dialogue with them on slate or c m n playground solution and then look at our solution between the demands of the populace and what the government has already or what the government has already offer now is not sufficient enough foreigners are before them is to go on but if they can live as i mentioned the banking secrecy is a banking secrecy is good for the economy overall but it is a curse for foreigners also in government. Who have the potential to think a lot of money money and the people dont know where did they get that money from from and we know actuall
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