Prime minister the Prime Minister has signed up to the backstopping cabinet and he voted for the Withdrawal Agreement in as a backbencher his letter to the president of the commission yesterday claims both and now unacceptable perhaps he can tell us. What is change why did he support it then but oppose it now the letter makes his intentions clear it rejects any form it rejects any form of Customs Union something demanded by every business and industry body in britain and every trade union they want to ditch a use standards on workers rights environmental regulations and consumer standards and engage in a race to the bottom deal or no tail deal or no deal mr speaker this governments agenda is clear they want a trump to yell brakes it. From to your brakes it would crash our. Calame and ripple way the standards that put a flaw and up peoples rights at work to protect our environment and protect our consumers no labor m. P. Could support such a reckless steal will be used as a springboard.
Of clashes claims more lives the government imposes curfews and an internet blackout. I dont start as you call kong allows police to use more force against protesters after teenage demonstrators were shot in the chest over the weekend prodemocracy activists fear of the crackdown could be in the offing. Im phil welcome to the program. A germany is marking the anniversary of the countrys reunification 29 years ago east and west became one country after decades of hostile division during the cold war this is official commemoration ceremonies took place in the Northern City of kill german chancellor Angela Merkel hailed the countrys progress since reunification but said more must be done to bridge the divide between east and west. Sound lines evoking the shifting counters of germanys history as a country marked its 29th birthday in the north and city of cute chancellor and the america herself a product of the former east germany highlighted the successes of rain a few cation but she acknow
Is at stake according to the United States Geological Survey the Eastern Mediterranean holds 350 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 3 and a half 1000000000 barrels of oil that alone is enough to power the entire European Union for 20 years at the moment cyprus egypt and israel stand to most of those resources and turkey has none of them. The overarching question is whether turkey will demarcate its maritime interests according to the International Law of the sea like its neighbors or raise the temperature further jumps are up or loss al jazeera athens still to come here on the news and sports with island back to winning ways a broad based world cup. Oh and. Get a team of divers has been descending into the unknown off the coast of south america pluck join the unique expedition chancing the recently discovered amazon reef. Here on the northeastern edge of south america lies an outpost of france where in the cooler tropical evenings they relax as they might do in paris or not but thi
What weve heard from President Trump about how. He wants to ask china and the ukrainian press the president to investigate joe bodies and what does this mean for the impeachment investigation against them. Well hes just digging as hone hole deeper by. Reaching out to other governments for assistance not just the chinese but now apparently also the australians we dont know who else and this is a classic tactic by President Trump that hes used quite successfully as entire life deflected i dig in an attack and thats his effort if you saw that extraordinary press conference yesterday with the president of finland he never answered any of the questions he just attacked attack deflected and he thinks that this is going to work for him and it may have worked for him in business but it will not work in the United States government theres a checks and balances and what he will slowly learn and the faster the better because everything is going to come out what was the purpose of withholding the
A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. Today we hear from a new survey that finds people who quit facebook has become less repressed and more productive, so has ditching facebook made you more happy and. Using it would make you better with money . Thats what the survey said. Tell us what you think, just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Boris johnsons eu envoy is preparing for another round of talks in brussels on the latest brexit proposals put forward by the uk. Central to the plan is the idea that the whole of the uk leaves the eus customs territory but that Northern Ireland stays in the eus single market. But the blocs leaders say the proposals fall short of whats required to get a deal. Our europe correspondent, adam fleming, reports. David frost is facing a barrage of questions about the uk proposals. They foresee Northern Ireland following eu rules on agriculture and goods,