A crucial week for westminster, three years after britain voted to leave the eu. Boris johnson faces a showdown with opponents of a no deal brexit. And the tiny organism with a tasty future. How micro algae could revolutionise mealtimes for millions. We look at the economic fallout of the hong kong protests forfinance, tourism and retail, with the longest running political demo in the territory since the handover in 1997. A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. Finger lickin good . Kfc sells out of plant based chicken in atlanta in an experiment to measure appetite. Beyond Fried Chicken could be rolled out nationally and then internationally if Customer Feedback is good. So wed like to know are you trying to eat less meat . If so, why . Get in touch on bbcthebriefing and tell us what you think. The most powerful storm to hit the caribbean islands of the bahamas since records began has torn roofs from buildings and caused
Are backed by the United States but viewed by turkey as a terrorist organisation. On sunday, turkish troops crossed the border over the border, from where our correspondent, mark lowen, sent this report. As if syria needed more of this. Artillery fire from turkey, launching a new ground and air offensive. Its called operation olive branch, though its anything but a gesture of peace. From the skies, turkish f 16s struck yesterday, their target, the Syrian Kurdish militia known as the ypg. Turkey sees them as terrorists, linked to the outlawed kurdish militants, the pkk, and it wants them pushed back from the border town of afrin. Turkeys president has his own troops fighting for their hero, and with elections next year, war rallies his conservative supporters. Translation this is a National Struggle, and in this National Struggle we will crush anyone who stands against us but the ypg has powerful friends, they are trained and armed by the us. That has infuriated turkey, which says the a
Are racing to strike a compromise deal to end the Government Shutdown before the start of the working week. A vote is expected in the coming hours. Their failure to Reach Agreement on friday meant that much of the federal government shut up shop, with hundreds of thousands of federal employees facing uncertainty as monday morning approaches. Both sides are blaming each other, with divisions over military spending and immigration policy. Sundays debate is still going on, but this is how the republicans and democrats laid out their their arguments at the start of the session. This is day two of the Senate Democrats Government Shutdown. Day two since the democratic leader made a political calculation to do something that, according to a recent survey, even most democrats dont support. He shut down the government to appease a portion, a portion of his partys left wing base. It makes you shake your head. Who comes up with ideas like this . It all really stems from the president , whose inab
If you cant afford your own boat the sharing economy has rigged up all the answers. And at amazon opens a supermarket with no checkout, relying on cameras and computers to check your shopping, we want to know if it is a welcome move for the rise of the robots. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. If it means you dont have to use those self service checkouts, unexpected item in the bagging area, type things, it is good news as far asiam type things, it is good news as far as i am concerned just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Germany is creeping closer to forming a new government which would keep Angela Merkel in the topjob. It comes four months after an election that delivered no clear winner. Talks will begin today after the Centre Left Social Democratic Party changed its mind and said it would now hold talks with chancellor merkels conservative cdu group. But it could mean big changes for what is europes largest economy. Over the past two years, germanys economy has been growing consistently
Welcome to the programme. The us senate has agreed to postpone a vote on ending the Us Government shutdown to noon on monday thats 5pm british time. The vote will be on a stopgap spending measure. But in the meantime, the federal government will remain closed as the working week begins. The failure of the majority republicans and minority democrats to Reach Agreement on friday meant that much of the federal government shut up shop with hundreds of thousands of federal employees facing uncertainty as monday morning approaches. Both sides are blaming each other with divisions over military spending and immigration policy. Lets go live to washington now and our correspondent, david willis. David, still no deal . Still no deal and there was to have been a vote in the early hours of monday morning, duncan, which has now been postponed. Members of the senate and heading home and stable comeback onto the floor of the Senate Chamber at canadian and there will be a vote at canadian and there wi