In poverty and the pandemic burnleys front line. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Boris johnson is speaking to the president of the European Commission, ursula von der leyen, to try to push forward talks about a post brexit trade deal. Negotiations were put on hold last night, because of what were described as significa nt divergences between the sides. Time is running out for a deal to be reached and ratified before the deadline on new years eve. Our political correspondent, Jonathan Blake, reports. Checking out for now, the eus chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, left his london hotel this morning after talks on a future trade deal were put on hold last night. What does that mean for the chances of a deal . Any hope for a deal . Good morning. We keep calm, as always, and if there is a way, still a way, we will see. We will see, he said. His parting words as he returned to brussels gave nothing away. But a statement from both sides last night made clear there are still big differ
Thats in state of the planet in half an hour. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Leaders are hoping to break the deadlock over a post brexit trade deal with time running out to get an agreement through before the uk leaves eu trading rules on december 31st. Borisjohnson and the European Commission president ursula von der leyen are due to speak on the phone, shortly, to try and end the stalemate. But negotiators said significant divergences remained, following a week of intensive talks. Most of the deal has been completed, but key sticking points remain. These include fishing rights, the rules governing state subsidies for business and how the agreement is policed. Our Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake has the story. Checking out for now, the eus chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, left his london hotel this morning after talks on a future trade deal were put on hold last night. What does that mean for the chances of a deal . Any hope for a deal . Good morning. We keep calm, as
Differences, we agreed that a further effort should be undertaken by our negotiating teams to assess whether they can be resolved. Trade and transport organisations in Northern Ireland have expressed their concern about the stalemate. From belfast, mark simpson reports. Whichever way the brexit negotiations go, there is huge interest in Northern Ireland. But some business groups say theyre tired of waiting for answers. We would hope, and ill use an old ulster phrase, that the eu and the uk would just simply wise up, get the deal done. This is too important for the games and we need to make sure that people understand what the rules are going to be from the 1st of january and relationships are improved. First of all we need a deal, that will be vital to reducing any barriers between trade between gb and Northern Ireland. Then we need an Implementation Phase because industry and government simply isnt ready for january the ist. And lastly, we need special derogations on retail food movem
Publishing. Books for kids find an audience in everyone. This is the cbs evening news. Good evening, everyone, im jeff glor, technically speaking winter doesnt begin for another two weeks. But it hardly looks like fall in many parts of the country. On i94 in wisconsin take a look, a pileup involving at least 30 cars closed down the road from milwaukee to chicago today. This was philadelphia as the eagles played the i willons during a sunday snow bowl. And that is just part of the system. Here is a look from above. Its a combination of snow, ice and rain thats been wrecking cars, diverting flights and creating a general mess. We begin in washington with jeff pegues. Reporter in stadium as long the east coast today the players on nfl teams werent just tackling each other, they had to take on weather conditions as well. Calvin johnson make the the catch. Clearing the snow on an nfl field is easy compared to getting the roads primed and ready for a storm that one virginia official called a
Gail is likely in scotland. Further south, we will see outbreaks of rain at times, mild in the south, again, chilly in the north. Tuesday, our area of low pressure clears away and we all get into some cold air. You can see the showers pushing on. Some of them falling as rain, but also hailand of them falling as rain, but also hail and sleet and snow over high ground. Even in wales and the south west we could see snow mixing it over high ground. Tuesday into wednesday, ridge of High Pressure should rise that tries to topple its way in. Wednesday should be another chilly day with a north or north westerly wind, but the wind may ease to an extent under the showers will ease through the day as well so we will see more dry weather and spells of sunshine, with those top temperatures in Single Digits between six and nine degrees. As we head through the end of the week and into next weekend, remember, thejet strea m into next weekend, remember, thejet stream will still be bringing weather syst