say the situation is desperate . and coming up at half three some highlights of the last week from the victoria derbyshire programme. good afternoon, welcome to bbc new us. good afternoon, welcome to bbc new us. senior ministers have rejected claims by their former cabinet colleague, amber rudd, that securing a new brexit deal is no longer the government s main objective. amber rudd, who resigned last night as work and pensions secretary, said up to 90% of the government s time is now spent preparing for a no deal departure at the end of october. she described the expulsion of 21 conservative mps who oppose no deal as an assault on decency and democracy . our political correspondent helen catt reports. reporter: morning amber. amber rudd says that when she accepted a post in borisjohnson‘s cabinet she did so in good faith, believing he wanted a brexit deal, but since then she had seen little evidence that the government was putting in enough preparation to get one. ther
by hurricane dorian aid agencies say the situation is ‘desperate‘. senior ministers have rejected claims by their former cabinet colleague, amber rudd that securing a new brexit deal is no longer the government s main objective. amber rudd, who resigned last night as work and pensions secretary, said up to 90% of the government s time is now spent preparing for a no dael departure at the end of october. she described the expulsion of 21 conservative mps who oppose no deal as an assault on decency and democracy . our political correspondent, helen catt, reports. reporter: morning amber. amber rudd says that when she accepted a post in boris johnson s cabinet, she did so in good faith, believing he wanted a brexit deal. but since then, she d seen little evidence that the government was putting in enough preparation to get one. there is this huge machine preparing for no deal, which is fine. you might expect in the balance between getting a deal and no deal 50 50 in ter
we are working wholeheartedly, straining every sinew to get a deal, and coming up: it s been a summer of astonishing moments for england, but australia secure the ashes at old trafford with with one more test to play. hello and welcome to world news today. president trump has called off peace negotiations with the taliban, after they admitted being behind an attack in afghanistan that killed a us soldier. the taliban condemned the decision to withdraw from the talks to end 18 years of war, warning that the us would ‘lose the most‘. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet reports from kabul. a busy kabul junction. the attack said to have changed president trump s mind. a young us soldier died here and ten afghans, aged ten to 70. the taliban struck this kabul neighbourhood, too, the very day last week the us said it had reached a deal in principle with the taliban to start bringing its troops home. they ve been negotiating for nearly a year in the gulf state of q