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in last june s vote. second, the decision to press ahead with the single currency. at the time, sceptics warned that only five or six nations really met the strict membership criteria but, eventually, 15 were admitted. too many, too dissimilar, too fast. so when the financial crisis crashed into europe, many in the south saw stagnation and despair. youth unemployment created a generation shut out of europe s bright early promise. it s little surprise that there s a rise in desire to go back to the perceived certainties of national sovereignty. the disintegration of europe is already happening. hey, brexit has occurred. it s very hard to see europe returning to those values it was founded for. you know peace, democracy, social cohesion and prosperity, but you need to find a way for these things to work in practice. if it doesn t, we simply have to reflect what s going on. many on the continent have said it often and this evening it s never been clearer britain is dif ....
against paraguay in sao paulo where a win would taken them nine points clear. colombia have moved second after winning 2 0 in ecuador while south american champions chile won 3 1 against bottom team venezuela, in santiago, moving them fourth and into the final qualification spot. and rounding off the action, peru host uruguay. there are three fixtures in the central american qualifiers on match day four, with leaders mexico currently playing trinidad and tobago in port of spain. mexico are leading 1 0, with only a couple of minutes remaining in that match. second placed costa rica may feel like they dropped points, drawing 1 1 with honduras, while the usa who sit in the qualification place travel to panama later as bruce arena looks to build on his first victory last saturday against honduras since taking over from the sacked jurgen klinsmann at the end of last year. china s hopes of making it to the 2018 world cup in russia have been dealt a big blow after a 1 0 defeat ....
previously admitted culpable and careless driving after the fatal crash. now in a moment time for sportsday, but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news. as the preparations begin for those brexit talks, we will look at why gibraltar‘s future may be looking a little rockier, as the country s savings fall to a new low we find out what that might mean for the economy. and at10:1i0pm, and night we look at my‘s from pages withjoe phillips and the daily telegraph s economic expert liam howlett. that is ahead on bbc news, but now it is time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday i m hugh ferris. our headlines tonight: the premier league s back, and ronald koeman says everton should hold no fear ahead of the merseyside derby a fixture they haven t won at the last 13 attempts. will celtic be celebrating a sixth straight scottish title by the end of the evening? if aberdeen lose tonight, celtic will be champions again. johanna konta beats h ....
good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the government has said that britain will defend the interests of gibraltar during the brexit negotiations, following warnings that spain is attempting to use the process to regain sovereignty of the rock. the eu has suggested that a brexit deal won t cover gibraltar without a separate agreement between london and madrid. here s our political correspondent, matt cole. the imposing rock at the mouth of the mediterranean has been in british hands since 1713. its fortified location, ten miles from north africa s coast, has made it a key strategic base for britain s military, as well as home to 30,000 british subjects. the outpost shares a border with spain which has long sought to reclaim it, but this week, theresa may made it clear that would not happen as part of brexit. gibraltar is not a separate member of the eu nor is it a part of the uk for the purposes of eu law. but we re very clear that it is covered by our exit negotiation ....
we have had lots of showers today, april and april showers. but they tend to ease away. they should fade away overnight. the nights are still long enough for it to turn chilly. under the starry skies, temperatures will fall down to a few degrees of freezing in rural areas of england and wales. but we will see frost it in scotland and northern ireland. a bit of the first thing but otherwise sunday is very promising. stark contrast to the day s very heavy showers. good spells of sunshine, the best of that around the coast, and with light winds and the sunshine, 12 17. as for monday, it goes downhill. gibraltar‘s inhabitants are facing renewed uncertainty because of concerns that spain may use brexit to pursue its territorial claims. borisjohnson to pursue its territorial claims. boris johnson tweeted, to pursue its territorial claims. borisjohnson tweeted, the uk remains implacable and rocklike in oui’ remains implacable and rocklike in our support for gibraltar. a te ....