Police and protesters, after the jailing of catalan separatist leaders. Its a huge weekend for the home nations at the rugby world cup. England face their arch rivals australia in the First Quarter final this morning before ireland take on the defending champions the all blacks. Wales play france tomorrow. Another changeable day in the way today, worth taking your trolley. Still some showers in the forecast but gradually through the weekend, fewer and fewer showers. Brolly. Its saturday the 19th october. Our top story. Its a momentous day at westminster, as mps vote on borisjohnsons new brexit deal. Parliament is sitting on a saturday for the First Time Since the invasion of the falklands in 1982. Lets take you through what will happen today. The Prime Minister will present his agreement to mps at 0930, theyll debate the details annd then will start voting on it this afternoon. The result is too close to call between now and then, borisjohnson still has persuade but enough mps to back
with g7 leaders in an effort to drum up support and weapons for an expected counter offensive against russia. mr zelensky will address the leaders of the major western democracies during meetings on sunday. while the war in ukraine continues to dominate those summit talks the war itself is raging on. bakhmut has been the focus of the longest and bloodiest battle of the war but the leader of russia s private wagner group has said the city has now been taken. russia has been trying to take bakhmut since last year in a grinding war of attrition. and in the last few minutes, the russian news agency interfax says president putin has congratulated troops for capturing the city. earlier, ukraine says its units are still fighting in the city. this comes on the heels of the us agreement to allow ukrainian pilots to train in american made f 16 jets to help with its fight against russia a move moscow and china have criticised. here now, our political editor chris mason, who s in h
reporting on turmoil inside the trump legal team that s representing the former president in the classified documents investigation. meanwhile, another republican senator is saying that the former president cannot win the 2024 election. we will have those comments and what they mean. it comes as the republican field in the race for the white house is about to add another name. plus, the naacp calls out florida governor ron desantis, we will have more on the organization s warning. also ahead, we will recap president biden s trip to japan for the g7 summit which included a meeting with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. and preview his meeting today at the white house with speaker kevin mccarthy as both sides are trying to find a compromise that would avoid a default on the country s debt. with us we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico jonathan lemire, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news katty kay is with us, also with us
and, iran faces international condemnation after executing two more anti government protesters. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. in ukraine vladimir putin had said his forces would stop fighting for 36 hours so orthodox christians could celebrate christmas this weekend. the ceasefire was supposed to run from 9am yesterday morning to 9pm today uk time. but kyiv dismissed the ceasefire, as a russian tactic to regroup its soldiers. and while millions of ukrainians and russians were able to enjoy the festivities, fighting continued along a front line which spans 700 miles. our ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse, producer siobhan leahy and cameraman paul francis have sent this report from the eastern city of bakhmut on the front line. you leave civilisation behind on the journey to bakhmut. we are heading to one of the most hostile parts of the front line. and coming into view is a city in the middle of it. the russians are just a mile away. uk
a manuscript thief, who tricked the likes of margaret atwood and ian mcewan into sending him unpublished works, has pleaded guity in court to wire fraud. hello and welcome to the programme. the ceasefire in ukraine declared by russia, for the orthodox christmas has come to an end. clashes between ukrainian and russian forces continued throughout the 36 hour period. president zelensky said vladimir putin s offer was deceitful he said peace in ukraine would only be restored when russian forces were expelled. and moscow said it reserved the right to return fire if its troops were attacked. our correspondent, james waterhouse along with producer siobhan leahy and cameraman paul francis sent this report from the eastern city of bakhmut, on the front line. you leave civilisation behind on the journey to bakhmut. we are heading to one of the most hostile parts of the front line. and coming into view is a city in the middle of it. the russians are just a mile away. ukraine