Markets this morning are lower. Mixed picture at the start of trading, dow industrials down 68 points. Nasdaq up 30 and the markets were able to cut losses almost by half. Dow, s p 500 are on track for winning week despite 140 points lower for the white house. Battle for the white house goes prime time. Biden breaking down the election as scranton versus park avenue. Power panel hour. Cohost of the 5, Juan Williams is here and joe concha to tackle what is going on and backlash of facebook spying on instagram users tapping into your phone camera. Mornings with maria is live right now. Global markets this morning look like this. European indices are mix. Cac lower by 15. We did get positive news on the brexit front. European Commission President saying shes convinced a deal is possible following a round of informal talks in europe. Take a look at indices. You will see the shanghai composite was up better than 2 . Some op the top stories that we are watching this morning. President trump
story before 10am. it isa it is a must watch. and, a legal battle over the rights of parents to take their children out of school for holidays during term time reaches the highest court in the land today. we ll speak to the father at the centre of the case. hello, welcome to the programme. we re live until 11am. throughout the morning we ll bring you the latest breaking news and developing stories. and as always, really keen to hear from you. after 10am we ll be hearing how a primary school in bournemouth has started allowing pupils to wear their comfy slippers in class, after research found it helps them to get better grades and generally improve their performance. if you work from home, you might already know that s the case. do get in touch with your views. use the hashtag #victorialive. if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. our top story today. donald trump has sacked the united states‘ top legal advisor after she questioned the legality of his
light devices responsible for destroying your child s sleep? we ll hear how hospital attendances in england for children under 1a with sleep disorders have tripled in ten years. i end iend up i end up asking her if she wants it because then i can get stuff done. hello. welcome to the programme. we re live until 11. ina in a second we will bring you more on the deal about selling temper macro to the french. and we ll discuss how police in durham are planning to give free heroin to addicts in a bid to cut drug related crime. will it work? do get in touch. there are fears for thousands ofjobs at vauxhall plants in the uk this morning. it s after the french company that owns peugeot and citroen struck a £1.9 billion deal to buy general motors european unit, which includes vauxhall. 11,500 workers are employed by the company in luton and ellesmere port. the unite union says its priority is to safeguard theirjobs. our business correspondent joe lynam is here. what other worries a
soon after setting sail for dover. and bt sport are to pay £1.2 billion to carry on showing the champions league and europa league until 2021. the new deal ends the highlights shows on terrestrial tv. good morning. welcome to bbc newsroom live. the uk factories at ellesmere port and luton employee. the new owners met government and unions last week and provided insurance that existing production commitments would be honoured at ellesmere port until 2020 and luton for some years beyond that but the combined company will have 2a factories in europe and some say that is too many. it s one of the biggest deals in the car making sector. british and german brands vauxhall and opel are to merge with the french brands peugeot and citroen. together they will make a company which is the second largest automotive player in europe. today, the bosses of general motors and psa welcomed the £1.9 billion deal and stressed their commitments to vauxhall and opel at least until 2020. after th
than to cheat a friend # and waste a chance that i ve been given # so i m never gonna dance again and a coroner has ruled that the singer george michael died of natural causes, including heart and liver disease. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the government has suffered another defeat in the house of lords over the process of leaving the eu. peers have voted for an amendment to the brexit bill which calls for parliament to be given a meaningful vote on a final deal. here s a taste of the debate. our chief political co respondent, vicki young is at westminster. it is worth remembering we are only going through this process because the supreme court ordered the government that it had to have a bill to trigger article 50, to formally start those brexit negotiations. the government didn t wa nt to negotiations. the government didn t want to do any of this and maybe late at night we can see why, another defeat inflicted on the government by the house of lords by 366-266 g