Noise and heat than suction will be hoovered up from the shops, under new eu rules. Good morning. Its friday, 1st september. Im annita mcvey. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. We will have more on that gas story shortly. At first. The International Trade secretary has said the uk must not allow itself to be blackmailed by the European Union over the cost of leaving. Speaking in japan, where he and theresa may have been discussing future trading relations, liam fox said businesses have become impatient with the slow progress of the brexit negotiations. Theres a problem if that continues, in that were moving much closer to our exit date before european businesses have an idea of what that trading relationship will look like. And i think that there is an impatience from those beyond the commission, ie the stakeholders in the european economy, to try to get some progress on that. Would you characterise their position as blackmailing the uk . Well, its clear that they are. They have the issues
Reserves in the tank, so that as we embark on the journey that we take over the next couple of years, we are confident that we have got enough gas in the tank to see us through that journey. There are two kinds of budget, those that have a specific problem to solve, normally a crisis in the public finances. And there are those where there isnt much to do, chancellors just have to stand up and look like theyve been keeping busy. Well, this one is more in the latter category. Part of the reason for that is that brexit is looming over everything at the moment. The old slogan used to be, you must fix the roof while the sun is shining. Today might be, there is no point in fixing the roof if you think a great big tree might come toppling down on top of it. You should wait to see what happens. Until brexit, getting the deficit down was the main goal, and it slowly came under control. The idea is it carries on going down but the basicjob is farfrom done. Its fair to say that a lot of people, p
Here although it is chilly outside if you are just stepping out. For many of us it will be a dry start and a sparkly one with a Weather Front coming in from the south west introducing some rain later on. I will have more in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story facebooks procedures for Vetting Content on its pages have been strongly criticised, after a bbc investigation found it was failing to remove inappropriate and sexualised images of children. The chair of the Commons Media Committee, Damian Collins, has said it casts grave doubts on the effectiveness of facebooks systems. Our correspondent Angus Crawford reports. The rules are simple. Facebook says it removes nudity or sexually suggestive content. But our investigation last year found paedophiles using secret groups to swa p paedophiles using secret groups to swap obscene images of children. We informed the police, and this man was sent to prison for four years. Facebook told us it had improved its systems, so we put th
Good morning. Its march seventh. A Rescue Operation is under way after an avalanche has hit the popular ski resort of tignes in the french alps. Several people are thought to be buried underneath. Initial reports suggest there may be many people missing. Our correspondent has the latest. This is an emerging picture. People are beginning to tweet, eyewitnesses are beginning to tweet, eyewitnesses are describing the scene as the Avalanche Engulfing skiers and it is thought many people have been caught up thought many people have been caught up in this accident. Rescue workers and sniffer dogs have been deployed but apparently conditions they are or that of pure visibility and what that means is that helicopters have not been able to go up so no Rescue Workers are going up into the skies and as you know, that is a key way in which these sort of accidents are dealt with so clearly some hindrance to the rescue efforts. There was a previous incident last february in tignes. Yes, judging the