Agree on a deal which could see a new company if approved by President Trump. Haidi and the race for a china facesvaccine, a deadline on the growing kovacs plan. Little pressure at the open. This as u. S. Stocks dropped the most in a week in the regular session. Sentiment being damaged by poor economic data. Jobless came just jobless claims fell less the s p 500 fell for a second consecutive session, but found some support after bouncing off its 50 day moving average. The nasdaq was down more than 1 . We see itk at oil flat at the moment, around 40 a barrel. This after climbing when saudi arabia express determination to stop oh plex opec plus members, posting its largest three day gain. Kong to see g to see how things are shaping up. We have futures pointing to a mixed start. The regional index set to rise for the first week in three. We are keeping and i on toshiba with a chip unit on course to raise 2. 9 billion in a share sale in sydney. We are watching a bid to get a stake in italy
And we want to know, as sales of luxury loungewear goes through the roof, is staying in officially the new going out . Let us know just use the hashtag bbcworklife. And some news from amazon. Their big one day delivery pushes costing them huge amounts of money, 800 million. We will have more on that. Thank you for being with us here on worklife. We will be focusing, not least among other stories, on brexit, and one or two other things. How safe are you at work . We will find out with a special inside view on building design. We start with the countdown to brexit. 0r christmas, or both. As things stand, the uk is due to leave the eu in less than a week. Ambassadors from the rest of the eu will meet in brussels today to discuss whether to grant the uk a brexit extension. In the meantime, the Prime Minister Boris Johnsons government wants a general election. Nick eardley is in westminsterfor us it seems the only thing that is clearer behind you is the weather. That is a Fair Assessment be
Raid, senators are expected to work on 2020 spending on several departments including agriculture, commerce, transportation and housing. Now the live coverage of the senate. Senators are expected work on 20 20 spending on several departments including agriculture, commerce, transportation and housing. While we wait for senators to return, look at remarks on the senate floor dealing with impeachment inquiry against President Trump on the whistleblower, alex the house of representatives continues its impeachment inquiry into whether the president jeopardize National Security by pressuring the york rain to interfere with our elections, the white house , their allies in congress and the media have resorted to despicable tactics to falsely discredit individuals who have provided the house testimony. Yesterday Lieutenant Colonel alexander. Men serving on a detail in thewhite house testified before congress. In ltc vindmans testimony was announced and especially in the past 24 hours hes been
Have a postdoctoral program, we have a number of postdoctoral fellows here at sais this year with us doing their work. And one of them has just finished a book before she got here, and we were really delighted to end publicize it and the first public release of the book. So cornelia has this new book. So, peace, security and defense cooperation in postbrexit europe. Pretty timely. Shes been working with her colleagues on those questions. So so we thought the context of the book would be good to talk about a very timely issue now which is whats going on with brexit, what does it mean not only for the u. K. And the e. U. Member states, but also for broader Security Issues which start to affect, of course, u. S. Interests quite intensely. So what well do is i will just briefly introduce the speakers. You have had an invitation and so on, more about their backgrounds, but just to keep it brief, i want to have cornelia tell us briefly about the book, and then were going to go to two colleag
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac completely clear on that and the organizations that would might threaten some kind of violence are very small splinter groups from the Irish Republican Movement and they have little or no support anywhere in ireland. But that doesnt stop them from being dangerous. The risk is that if you have any kind of border, infrastructure on the island of ireland, that elements like that will take the opportunity of attacking, of targeting those facilities and that could then create an escalation that could be problematic in a place Like Northern ireland where passions run high on these issues. But theres no sense in which we want to see a border on the irish sea. I think what is required is some way of ensuring that the open border on the island of ireland doesnt undermine the single market. Because we are committed to respecting the integrity and to preserving