won t reverse the basic settlement between the uk and the eu. injust a moment we ll be talking live on the programme to the minister for trade and employment and the irish government but first let s get this report. after the protest came a political pivot and after that, a breakthrough in the early hours of this morning, nearly two years in the making. i believe that with the faithful delivery of this package of measures, hard work and dedication, we will be able to look back on this moment as the defining time when northern ireland s place within the union was safeguarded and our place within the united kingdom internal market was restored. over the coming period, we will work alongside others to build a thriving northern ireland, firmly within the union, for this and succeeding generations. unionists have been strongly opposed to trading arrangements which were brought in after brexit. northern ireland follows different rules to great britain, meaning there are checks on g
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economy competitive. at the end of the day, that s ultimately what we have to do. what we politicians are responsible for is making the economic decisions that will drive continued growth. overnight, more chaos as hundreds of mortgage products were withdrawn. labour says it s all because of government negligence. what the government now needs to do, is to recall parliament, immediately, abandon that budget before any more damage is done. we ll have more on the bank of england s emergency intervention, and on the government s refusal to change tack. also on the programme.. inside one of the uk s largest mental health hospitals, a bbc investigation uncovers mistreatment and cruelty. the british iranian nazanin zaghari ratcliffe has cut her hair in solidarity with iranian women, whose rights are under attack from religious rulers. and the latest from florida, where hurricane ian, one of the worst storms in the state s history, is set to devastate wide areas. coming up in the spo
and the indian adaptation of the hollywood classic forrest gump is released next week. we hear from the bollywood superstar aamir khan. it kind of feels like it is a dream now because it has been such a long journey and we have come to the end and it feels a bit unreal. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s eight in the morning in singapore, and 9:00am in tokyo where japan is demanding an immediate end to china s military exercises around taiwan, after five chinese missiles landed injapan s exclusive economic zone. the us national security spokesman, john kirby said beijing had no reason to act aggressively. beijng, you ll remember, is conducting live firing exercises in the sea around taiwan for the next several days, in response to a recent visit there by the senior us politician, nancy pelosi. from taiwan, rupert wingfield hayes reports. it began with this barrage of rockets streaking into the sky from the southeast coast of china. it s th
we start here in the uk where the bank of england has given its bleakest forecast in recent memory a prolonged recession is on the way, starting this autumn and continuing all of next year and into 202a. if accurate, it would be the longest downturn for the uk economy since the financial criss in 2008. inflation is predicted to hit more than 13%, driven by the sharp rise in energy bills. and in an effort to rein in soaring prices, the bank has raised interest rates by the most in 27 years, piling more pressure on households. 0ur economics editor faisal islam reports. as the essentials, from fuel to food, continue to surge in price, with little sign of an end, hitting every household in the country, eventually the entire economy too will actually begin to shrink, a recession now predicted for britain. at the bank of england the governor presented the grim news with troubling charts, almost all heading in the wrong direction. gdp growth in the uk has slowed and the economy is