A very warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. As ever, you can be part of the conversation. Tell us what you think. Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Hello and welcome to a brain soaked westminster. The weather perhaps a metaphor after yesterdays sunshine for what is happening as far as borisjohnson is concerned over his government. Rain soaked. British mps are set to discuss legislation designed to extend the Brexit Process to at least the end ofjanuary, blocking a possible no deal departure on october 31. This was made possible by a dramatic move on tuesday in which opposition parties, aided by a group of 21 conservative rebels, voted to take control of parliamentary time. Prime minister Boris Johnson immediately said he would not ask the eu for an extension and confirmend that he would push for an early general election. Our first report this morning is from our political corresponden, jonathan blake. It was Boris J
With plans to tax american techology Companies Like apple. Our diplomatic correspondent, james landale, is in biarritz. James, is there any chance of agreement on anything at this summit . Well, president macron certainly hopes so. He wants to use the summit to come in his words, revive the spirit of multilateralism and so he wa nts to spirit of multilateralism and so he wants to see if he can come up with some kind of collective action on tackling the forest fires in the amazon or it more brightly on climate change, on trade, global trade war is taking place at the moment, it may be on iran, as well, arent the tensions in the gulf at the moment. The problem is i think you will find it very difficult to achieve any agreement. On all of thoseissues achieve any agreement. On all of those issues there is disagreement between the United States and some european nations and so i think it will be very hard for him to get something over the line that is unanimous with all seven members. Thats
Where pupils have been getting their exa m where pupils have been getting their exam results all morning. Ill be speaking to a careers adviser to find out what to do if you didnt get what you expected. Tens of thousands of ryanair passengers could face disruption today as uk based pilots strike. Our focus on farming continues with a look at the growing threat from criminals, who kill and butcher sheep in fields, in order to sell the meat. And researchers can now see processes deep inside the body thanks to a new type of microscope which captures images at unseen levels of detail. And in Sport England begin the third ashes test against australia at headingley this morning. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Im carol walker. Borisjohnson is in paris today to meet the french president , Emmanuel Macron, for brexit talks, as the clock ticks towards britains leaving date of october 31st. Mrjohnson has insisted the backstop which aims to prevent a hard irish border after brexit must
11 finely balanced after last weeks 1 1 draw sway back and al sadds half when they scored the opening goal of the game. Just as he had donein goal of the game. Just as he had done in the first half. Ten minutes before halftime they had a second. Al sadd had some breathing space. It left al hilal needing to score to stay in the competition. They pulled one back early in the second half i could not manage an equaliser. Instead, ina could not manage an equaliser. Instead, in a chaotic finish, a goal went through in stoppage time to seal a 3 1 dealfor al sadd. Mohammed then lost his head. They finished with ten men. Al sadd have a quarter final to look forward to. I think a quarter final to look forward to. Ithink in a quarter final to look forward to. I think in the first leg, the first game, we were better. Today, no. Today we were better in the first half. You have to be honest. In the second half we suffered a lot. They are very happy. We are in the quarter finals of the Champions Leag
The uk is in the grip of a cauliflower shortage. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. An interim report from air accident investigators says the footballer Emiliano Sala had been exposed to harmful levels of Carbon Monoxide before a fatal plane crash over the channel. The report says it is likely the pilot David Ibbotson was also exposed to the gas, potentially reducing his ability to fly the aircraft. The footballer was flying from france to cardiff when the plane crashed. 0ur correspondent wyre davies has the story. The death of Emiliano Sala, atjust 29 years old, and in such tragic circumstances, shocked the footballing world. The Argentine Centre forward had just signed for cardiff from nantes and was on his way tojoin his new team in the welsh capital. While trying to woo him, he had been flown between the cities in private jets, the last flight, after he had signed, was in a single engine turboprop, at night, and in poor weather, shortly after take off from nantes, in an audio m