But, amid all the excitement among political journalists, some viewers felt there wasnt enough basic explanation of what exactly had been agreed to. Heres what one caller, steve, had to say. Every bit of talk is about Northern Ireland. I would really love to know what the rest of the deal actually involves, how the relationship with europe will be after this deal has been concluded. It would be really nice notjust to constantly hear about dup and irish backstop. What is the deal . Be lovely to know. 0k, just some feedback. Thank you. Well, bbc news has certainly made attempts since then to explain exactly what is in the agreement particularly online but the detail may have been drowned out by the rhetoric of those applauding or decrying the deal. And there was some literal drowning out on wednesday, when the news channel was again broadcasting live from College Green outside the houses of parliament. Replacing eu systems. Shouting drowns out speech. So that remains to be seen how well
That the frequent appearances of a placard waver from the other side of the argument are encouraged by those live broadcasts from college green. Heres the activist in question, steve bray, doing the dance of the camera shot behind huw edwards and Laura Kuenssberg a couple weeks ago. And borisjohnson still says he wants to have a general election, but at this moment, the opposition parties arent going to back that. And when it comes to the big quagmire theyre all in politically how we sort out the brexit mess well, it doesnt necessarily change that much immediately either. Laura, well talk a little bit more about that later on but thanks very much for that. Laura kuenssberg there, our political editor, with more analysis a little later. Julian punch emailed us after watching that. And chris bolton also wondered. We asked bbc news for a response to this complaint, and they told us. On thursday, the action was very much not in westminster but in brussels. Huw edwards was dispatched to the
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
Rising more than anticipated. Of 495,000. Ce it looks a little bit better than had been anticipated and the contrast of the existing numbers they came out earlier in the week. The university of negation consumer michigan economist looking for a reading of 93. 1. Missing estimates, much like a consumer comfort number from bloomberg itself. Its own gauge of Consumer Sentiment coming up earlier today that was worse than estimated. You have the s p homebuilders etf. It looks like a little bit of a leg down. We will give it a few minutes to kind of shakeout. Erik New Hempstead home sales is not the only information out. Julie it was a veritable feast, much like matt miller eating pumpkin pie on the side of the set just a few months ago. Yes, i saw you doing that. Erik called out. Julie if the pregame for thanksgiving. You look at major averages and we are seeing a little bit of an increase. If you look at all the Economic Data this morning, its hard to get every set read. It was mixed. We h
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