We start with brexit, because as youve been hearing, britain and the eu are in a last minute scramble to agree a deal to be put before a summit of european leaders which begins in brussels in a few hours time. Any agreement would then need the approval of parliament here in london. In case anyone needs reminding, the uk is due to leave the eu in less than two weeks. At 23 00 gmt on 31 october. Prime minister borisjohnson has repeatedly said this will happen, regardless of a deal or not. Under a law passed last month, he must ask the eu for an extension to that deadline. Thats if he does not get a new deal approved by parliament this saturday. The European Union is britains biggest trading partner. Last year, 46 of all uk exports went to the eu and 54 of all imports came from the eu, according to data from the uk parliament. If britain leaves without a deal, disruption to business could be huge, despite attempts to prepare. The governments own efficiency watchdog, the National Audit off
This shot of the prime minister, he looks like hes behind bars and hes looking pretty stressed out. Yep. Brexiteer on a knife edge as dd does make dup blocks. Anything with Boris Johnson looking dishevelled and distressed, pretty much every second day at the moment, of course this is massive, massive news today. We are waiting, really whether we do have a deal. We have to go back into the last few months, we are in this situation with theresa may, we had some kind of deal that was then taken back, now we have almost com pletely taken back, now we have almost completely regressed back to a situation because of theresa mays deal not being voted through. We sit on this knife edge of the uk resting on this knife edge of the uk resting on the thoughts of dup and the leader of the dup about Northern Ireland, and the removal of the irish backstop. Of course there would be a lot of people looking at this and saying why do the dup even matter . And i think a lot of people are still asking that
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Apple has launched three new iphones, a new ipad and the 5th generation apple watch. It also revealed that its arcade Gaming Platform and Apple Video Streaming Service will cost 4. 99 a month each. Features on the new phones include faster processors but focus mainly around the cameras, with the top model having four, one on the front and three on the back. Interesting, but many would argue apples future is now about more than the iphone. Sales at the tech giant rose 1 to 53. 8billion in the last quarter but iphone sales represent less than half of com pa nys overall sales for the First Time Since 2012. Our north America Technology correspondent dave lee was at the apple event in cupertino and got to try out the new devices. This is the iphone 11 pro which this is the iphone pro which is the more expensive version of the new set of iphones. This one is the max version, the bigger version, of the three. You notice, compared to the iphone 11, you notice, compared to the iphone, there you