Life and i very naively, im american, we dont have that they are. Two big legal changes in Northern Ireland are looming with abortion and same sex marriage becoming legal at midnight. It has prompted stormont to assemble for the first time in three years. Coming up one afternoon live, lizzie with all the sport. Hello, simon. We have squad news for the Rugby World Cup semifinals this weekend, there is good news for england but bad news for wales. 0k, back to you later. And we have the whether with matt taylor. Thanks, simon, half term week for some of you and some of you would appreciate something drier but rain will never be too far away from the forecast and i will tell you where that will be in around half an hours time. Good afternoon from westminster, where borisjohnson will this afternoon try again to get the backing of mps for his brexit deal with the European Union, after he abandoned his bid to secure parliamentary approval during a special sitting on saturday. The government i
Also still to come on the news hour including calls for an uprising in cambodia leads to the arrest of 9 members of a bands Opposition Party. Heightened security across afghanistan on the eve of president ial elections and in the sports with some of the tackle that seem very serious rugby player sat at home in the front big world cup. With. Thousands of protesters are in Hong Kong Central Business District in support of activists attains near the border with Mainland China many are in the hold and center were later treated in hospital some with broken bones on thursday the embattled chief executive kerry lamb said part of a Community Dialogue session with members of the public was the 1st time she sat down with her critics since the protests began 16 weeks ago well as cross to hong kong then get the latest live from sarah clarke sorry youre up that process what are people there saying. Well this protest its been building over the last hour and a half or so i would go thousands of peopl
A p pa re ntly apparently this is a problem within the Supreme Court although this is no consolation to you. Apparently it is related to the rain, would you believe . i think potentially unless you are inside the Supreme Court at the moment no one is able to hear what the baroness is saying. 15th of august, nikki da costa, director of legislative affairs at number 10 downing street sent a memorandum to the downing street copied seven people, Civil Servants and special advisers. Recommending that his parliamentary private secretary approached the palace with a request for prorogation to begin within ninth 12th a request for prorogation to begin within ninth 12th september and for a queens speech on the 14th of 0ctober. For a queens speech on the 14th of october. The Prime Minister take to that recommendation. 0n october. The Prime Minister take to that recommendation. On 27th or 28th of august, in a telephone call, he formally advised her majesty to pirogue parliament between those date
Now out of germany. I have my screen here on the bloomberg terminal. We can see the number coming in a little bit better than expected. The business number at 94. 6, the survey was for 94. 5, and that is better than the 94. 3 that was the prior meeting. The expectations worse than expected, this is where we thought we might see the disappointment. Indeed we got it. We were looking for 92 and we got 91. 3. Course lower. This is better than the estimate of 96. 9. But bottom line is the is atations down at 90. 8 disappointing reading. Lets look at what is going on in markets, a little data check, the stoxx 600 is up 0. 2 . It has been up all morning long. We even have the dax showing gains, 0. 1 . The cac is up as well as the. Tse, 0. 2 we see the individual indexes rising. The euro falling a little bit in dollar terms. Down . 48 a barrel. Crude coming down as we see the u. N. General assembly get ready to hear Donald Trumps speech later today. The u. S. 10 year yield also coming down as
The white house releases details of the phone call between donald trump and the ukrainian president , as democrats launch an impeachment inquiry. A less listening to the Prime Minister. Three years ago, more people voted to leave the European Union that have ever voted for any party or proposition and our history. Politicians of all parties promised the public they would honour the result, sadly, many have since done all they could to abandon those promises and to overturn that democratic vote. And after three yea rs of democratic vote. And after three years of denver and a delay, the left has cut this country risk of being locked in the eu, government that i lead has been trying truly to get us out. And most people, most supporters of the Party Opposite to muh regardless of how they voted three years ago think the referendum must be respected. They want to brexit done. I want to brexit done and people want us out on october the 31st. And people want us out on october the sist. With an