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also this morning: northern ireland s power sharing government is expected to collapse today triggering a snap election to the stormont assembly. the inquests will open today into the deaths of 30 british tourists killed in a terror attack on a tunisian beach a year and half ago. the pound falls to a 31 year low, after reports suggest the prime minister will push for a hard brexit. i ll look at what it means for us and our money. in sport, pep guardiola believes manchester city are out of the premier league title race after their defeat to everton. while manchester united rescue a point against liverpool, thanks to zlatan ibrahimovic. the draw moves liverpool up to third place. and carol has the weather. good morning. the weather this week is quiet and benign compared to last week ‘s top today cloudy with patchy rain and a drizzle but some of us will see sunshine. good morning. first, our main story. donald trump has promised a trade deal between britain and the unite ....
and this has been questioned by the regulator. we will have the latest reaction to the sanctions the trump administration has imposed on iran. mark kermode will look at the latest cinematic releases. ed balls gives a gangnam style master class for children in his own constituency. now it is time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m lizzie greenwood hughes. here s what s coming up tonight. parliament table a motion of no confidence in the football association, as mps plan to debate the way the sport is governed. stoke admit new signing saido berahino served an eight week fa ban while at west brom last year. and the world s most improved male tennis player prepares to lead great britain into a davis cup battle with canada. iam lee i am lee foster at twickenham. coming up later, it is inside six nations. on the eve of the championship will look ahead to the weekend s matches. so, a packed sportsday tonight. we re starting with football. as always we ve cher ....
of tonight s bafta awards ceremony and in half an hour, here on bbc news, with the start of brexit talks just weeks away, politics europe looks at who the uk will be negotiating with. a very good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the united states and japan have condemned north korea for test firing a ballistic missile the first such test since donald trump took office as us president. japan s prime minister shinzo abe said the launch was intolerable and president trump said the us stood behind japan 100%. the missile flew for about three hundred miles and landed in the sea ofjapan. our tokyo correspondent rupert wingfield hayes has more. it s now thought the missile fired from north korea earlier this morning was one of these a musudan intermediate range ballistic missile. it flew about 500 kilometres before splashing down in the sea ofjapan. north korea s dictator, kimjong un, had been promising to test fire a much longer range missiles capable of hitting the u ....
a very good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the united states and japan have condemned north korea for test firing a ballistic missile the first such test since donald trump took office as us president. japan s prime minister shinzo abe said the launch was intolerable and president trump said the us stood behind japan 100%. the missile flew for about 300 miles and landed in the sea ofjapan. 0ur tokyo correspondent rupert wingfield hayes has more. it s now thought the missile fired from north korea early this morning was one of these a musudan intermediate range ballistic missile. it flew about 500 kilometres before splashing down in the sea ofjapan. north korea s dictator, kimjong un, had been promising to test fire a much longer range missiles capable of hitting the united states. a much longer range missile capable of hitting the united states. that has not happened. instead, mr kim is almost certainly using the launch to crash this weekend party in florida. ....
into allegations of wrongdoing in british cycling has been hampered by either incomplete or non existant medical records at the organisation. nicole sapstead was giving evidence to a government select committee who are themselves looking at the issue of doping in sport. we also heard from the cycling coach who delivered a medical package from the uk six years ago to sir bradley wiggins and his doctor in france. let s speak to our sports news correspondent richard conway who was following today s select committee session. richard, a lot of eyebrows raised at a few things said today, and that mystery package remains a mystery. it does. the first person to appear was assignment. he is to work for tea m was assignment. he is to work for team sky. he talked about how he had been asked to deliver the package to doctor freeman in france. he said that he went to the team sky british cycling headquarters in manchester. there was an envelope there. it was sealed and he took it ov ....