a crunch day for brexit — or is it? as another dealine passes, with talks resuming after going well into the night, warnings that chances of a deal today are shrinking. all eyes are on the talks — but so far no signs of any white smoke... no signs yet that a brexit agreement has been reached. i spoke to the prime minister by phone this morning and i've been in contact as well with the european commission and i do think we are making progress but there are issues yet to be resolved and hopefully that can be done today. as michel barnier prepares to update eu ambassadors on any progress, it's a race against the clock for the prime minister to secure a deal before eu leaders meet and could agree it tomorrow i'll have the latest from westminster, with suggestions here that the prime minister's plane is on standby ready to take him to brussels

if there's a breakthrough. and the other main stories this lunchtime... the parents of harry dunn meet president trump at the white house and again ask for the woman involved in the crash that killed their son to return to the uk. i said if it was your 19—year—old son, or your son no matter what age, you would be doing the same as me, and he was holding my hand at the time and he said, "yes, i would." police in bulgaria arrest four people in connection with the racist abuse at england football match on monday. and, we talk to britain's world champion hepthathlete. katarina johnson thompson reflects on her magic moment in doha. and coming up in the sport later in the day on bbc news... as he prepares to become a fatherfor third time, andy murray praises wife kim and her role in his comeback from hip surgery.

good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one live from westminster. quite frankly, very few people know what's going on. those that do are locked in talks in brussels, talks that resumed after breaking up in the early hours of this morning without any sign of a brexit deal being reached. the european commission has revealed that the eu's chief brexit negotiator, michel barnier, has spoken of "a number of significant issues" remaining in the way of efforts to agree a deal with the uk in time for it to be signed off at an eu summit tomorrow. both sides say progress is being made at talks in brussels — but government sources have said the chances of an agreement being struck today are shrinking. from brussels, our europe correspondent adam fleming reports. the uk's negotiators arriving for talks this morning, talks which haven't broken down

but which aren't reaching a conclusion yet either. those discussions are ongoing as we speak and we are absolutely committed to securing a deal. we think that is in the interests of both sides. late last night, the two sides burnt the midnight oil, more specifically, the 1:30am oil. the main sticking points, the same as ever. what customs checks there could be on the island of ireland, the role of the stormont assembly, the shape of the future trade agreement. talks have been constructive but there are still remain a number of significant issues to resolve. the eu chief negotiator, michel barnier, will spend much of today updating his bosses. this morning, it was the european commission, this afternoon diplomats from the other eu countries, who are sticking to their red lines.

as the french foreign minister explained, those are protecting the single market and the irish border, and safeguards in case the uk tries to become a ruthless economic rival. i spoke to the prime minister by phone this morning and i've been in contact as well with the european commission and i do think we are making progress but there are issues yet to be resolved and hopefully that can be done today, allowing us to ratify the agreement at the european council tomorrow. sources in brussels say the political action isn't really here, it's in london where, they say, the government needs to make some choices about what it's going to do and work out if enough mps will vote for a revised deal, if there even is one. in a moment we'll hear from our assistant political editor norman smith, but first adam fleming is in brussels. everyone is looking for signs of

white smoke but there is a possibility the fire has gone out. there are three things happening in brussels at the moment that you need to know about. the first is that there has been a slight shift in the sticking points. yes, the usual stuff about what checks there could be on the island of ireland after brexit, but coming to the fore is the idea of giving more power to the northern ireland assembly at stormont, some difficulties there, and an issue with the future trade relationship which will be spelt out in an outline accompanying the brexit deal. some companies —— countries say they want more in there about a level playing field in there about a level playing field in the jargon, about commitments the uk would make to the eu and the eu would make to the eu and the eu would demand about competition between the two sides for decades in the future. so the sticking points are shifting a little. the second thing is that some eu states and diplomats may say it could be too late for a leader is to give a

formal approval to a full brexit deal at the summit starting tomorrow, it may just deal at the summit starting tomorrow, it mayjust be more of an in principle thumbs up politically to whatever emerges from the process. the third thing is that this idea being discussed amongst some countries to ask borisjohnson and parliament to prove what it could vote for, in other words europe could wait until after this special session of parliament on saturday to get an idea of what mps could actually approve. although a lot of that stuff is for the future, of course it is the next five hours which really count. for borisjohnson this a race the clock. yes, but you sense that number ten are trying to crank up the handbrake on expectations, saying there are a big hurdles to overcome, chief, isuspect, of which is winning the support of the dup,

because if they do not back mr johnson's deal then it will not fly, he will not have the numbers to get it through parliament, notjust because of their ten votes but because of their ten votes but because a number of tory brexiteers will probably stand by them, and there are clearly deep problems getting them on board, and that is why the dup leader arlene foster was in downing street last night and again this morning, and it is not just the issue of a new customs arrangement and a possible border in the irish sea which are the previously described as a blood red line issue, it is this issue of consent and their demand they should have some sort of lock through stormont on how long they should have to remain in any new customs arrangement, and just to ram home the point, there brexit spokesman sammy wilson said this morning that if they didn't have that block it would be a breach of the good friday agreement, precisely what the eu have said they are most keen to

avoid. you sense in broad terms every time mrjohnson takes a step towards meeting the concerns of the dup, he looses support in brussels, and every time he steps towards meeting concerns in brussels, he loses support among the dup. it is worth remembering that it was the dup pretty much eyeballed theresa may and paved the way for her deal going down in flames and you may wonder if history could be about to repeat itself. with me is our reality check correspondent chris morris. what are the options for the next few days? for the negotiators, keep going, and we may have come close to a point now where those negotiators think they have reached a broad political agreement on the way forward , political agreement on the way forward, but of course that broad political agreement must be translated by technocrats and lawyers who go through everything

line by line, lawyers who go through everything line byline, a lawyers who go through everything line by line, a process which takes time. on top of that, the negotiations themselves are under pressure from various directions. norman spoke about pressure from the dup in northern ireland, and you also have pressure from other eu member states worried about this fa ct member states worried about this fact that perhaps boris johnson wa nts a fact that perhaps boris johnson wants a looser relationship with the eu infuture, wants a looser relationship with the eu in future, which would mean the ability to diverge more significantly from eu regulations, and if that is where he wants to end up and if that is where he wants to end up then they are going to be much more insistent that the solution, whatever it may be, for the irish border is absolutely legally sound. you have these different players revolving around, supposed to come to one perfect point at the eu summit but it feels like the time for that could be running very short. and at the moment in westminster, the basis of a parliamentary sitting on saturday, it is still going ahead? we don't know for certain. we were told by

the leader of the house, jacob rees—mogg, but it depends on what happens in the next few days. but leaders of other countries want borisjohnson to show leaders of other countries want boris johnson to show what leaders of other countries want borisjohnson to show what he can do in parliament because they don't wa nt to in parliament because they don't want to go through all the rigmarole of reaching a deal which once again gets rejected over here. more from me later in the bulletin. now the rest of the day's main stories. the parents of harry dunn, the 19—year—old who was killed in a car crash involving the wife of an american diplomat, have met donald trump at the white house. tim dunn and charlotte charles say that when they were there, the president dropped a bombshell, telling them ann sacoolas was in the next room. but they declined to meet her, as duncan kennedy reports. shocking white house meeting. the parents of harry dunn meet with president trump. for the second time in a week, harry dunn's parents are headline news across america. their search for justice now taking them to a meeting with the president.

as they arrived at the white house, they had no idea they would be meeting donald trump, and were stunned when he announced that anne sacoolas, the main suspect in their son's crash, was in the room next door, ready to meet them. we've said all along that we are willing to meet her, we are still willing to meet her, but it needs to be on uk soil, and with therapists and mediators, and that's notjust for us, it's for her as well. he did ask two or three times. he did mention it two or three times, because we said, no, we didn't feel it was right. he said again, didn't he, no, she's here, so let's get it on. he mentioned trying to heal it. so it was a bit of pressure, but we stuck to our guns, we feel. the family's spokesman from their own village, an american himself, described president trump's attempts to mediate a meeting with anne sacoolas as a stunt.

in the oval office, the circus that it then became, with photographers and camera people all of a sudden appearing, in my view clearly intent of getting that magic shot for president trump, and i got quite angry, so i put a stop to that, and i stood up, and there were several large secret service men around me, and i said, no, this is not happening today. it's not we are here. harry's parents and family left the white house saying they were grateful for the president's time but don't feel any closer getting mrs sacoolas back to the uk. harry's parents, who are now back in new new york, have only been grieving for six weeks and they are highly appreciative of the time donald trump spared for them but, at the same time, they say they are deeply unsettled, even unhappy that he should try and engineer, force a meeting with the woman who has admitted driving the car

that killed their son. which leaves them fighting on for the son whose death took them on a journey from northamptonshire to north america, but yet still is without answers. six people have been detained by police in the bulgarian capital sofia following the racist chanting directed at england's footballers on monday night. our correspondent daniel sandford is in sofia. what do we know about those who have been arrested? the ministry of the interior say they have identified 15 people that were involved in those nazi salutes and racist chance at the stadium on monday night. they say they have worked out who nine of the 15 are and have arrested six of them already who are in custody being questioned. they say they will not tolerate this kind of anti—social behaviour and they are

taking action as a result of that. what is becoming less clear is exactly why it was that these men went to the stadium and performed these nazi salutes and insulted the black english players. it could have been a simple act of football hooliganism but there is speculation here that it might have been as slightly more organised act. one theory is that because gareth southgate spoke out so strongly ahead of the game about racism that perhaps they deliberately have been provocative as a result. i have to say that actually more people here think it was some kind of political act tied into local politics here in bulgaria, linked to local elections, and this was a deliberate provocation which prompted an act which allowed the prime minister to get rid of the head of the bulgarian fa, so it is all very murky as to why it was these men had so blata ntly ta ken to why it was these men had so blatantly taken to the terraces,

performing these nazi salutes and blata ntly performing these nazi salutes and blatantly insulting these black english players. doctors in italy who are caring for a seriously brain—damaged girl from london say they hope that eventually she will be able to return home and be cared for by her family. five—year—old tafida raqeeb was flown to genoa yesterday, after a high courtjudge ruled that life sustaining treatment should continue. fergus walsh is in genoa. his report contains flash photography. slowly, painstakingly, tafida was taken off the private chartered plan after it landed at genoa airport. tafida suffered a catastrophic bleed on her brain in february and was being kept alive on a ventilator. she was transferred to the gaslini children's hospital. this morning, tafida's parents were welcomed by hospital administrators and pro—life campaigners. tafida's mother thanked the italian doctors for believing in her

daughter's recovery. i'm sure everyone knows that tafida was a very happy, bubbly child before february, and in february our life has been turned upside down. she wasn't born unwell. she wasn't born with a condition. this thing just suddenly happened. tafida's parents say she is making progress and have released several videos of her in the royal london hospital. high court ruled that tafida is minimally aware and that she cannot be cured. the italian doctors caring for tafida say what she needs now more than anything else is time. the brain injury has been devastating but we cannot exclude that there might be, maybe, a slight improvement in the future, and we are just buying time to assess if this could be possible. the medical team in italy intend to give tafida

a tracheotomy, inserting a tube into her windpipe, which will be connected to a ventilator, with the eventual aim that she could be transferred back to england and be cared for at home. what is striking is the marked difference in tone between the italian medical team and the doctors in britain who wanted to withdraw life support. the doctors here believe they can make tafida more comfortable and that, even though there may be no clinical improvement, she deserves the chance to be kept alive. tafida's parents are applying for italian citizenship for her to smooth any bureaucratic hurdles about her treatment, which is all being paid for privately. no one is sure how long her stay in italy will last. fergus walsh, bbc news, genoa. our top story this lunchtime: a crunch day for brexit. as another deadline passes, warnings that chances of a deal today are shrinking. coming up... with northern ireland's border

crucial to the brexit negotiations, we report from scandinavia to find out how the norway—sweden border operates. coming up in the sport in the next 15 minutes on bbc news... we'll have the latest on the racist abuse of england footballers, as four people are arrested in bulgaria following monday night's game. there have been chaotic scenes in hong kong's parliament, where protests by opposition politicians prevented the chief executive carrie lam from making her annual policy address. heckled, and accused of having blood on her hands, ms lam had to abandon her speech and instead deliver it via video—link from an empty corridor. she was hoping that a series of policy announcements would restore confidence in her government, after months of pro—democracy protests. our correspondent nick beake is in hong kong.

we have had four months of unrest here but you really got the feeling carrie lam was billing this as a symbolic day where she outlined her vision for a much betterfuture symbolic day where she outlined her vision for a much better future for hong kong. it was certainly a symbolic day but largely because it symbolised just how unpopular her government has become, and how difficult it will be to resolve the political crisis here. a warning, there is flash photography in my report. this is hong kong's parliament, trashed by pro—democracy activists three months ago, and where today pro—democracy politicians destroyed the hopes of the city's leader, delivering her big speech on the future of the territory. opposition lawmakers wore face masks of china's president, who's accused of eroding hong kong's freedoms in this former british colony.

twice the chamber was cleared after the beijing—backed chief executive carrie lam was shouted down before parliament was suspended for the day. all this, a reflection of the deep public anger directed at the hong kong government — anger which has brought four months of violent unrest. carrie lam was eventually forced to outline her policies for the coming year through a video message she'd recorded earlier. but she mostly talked about improving housing. no mention of the democratic reform the protesters have been demanding. later at a press conference, she said this wasn't the time to change hong kong's political system and rejected the claim that china was trampling on hong kongers' rights. i do not agree or submit to the view that hong kong's rights and liberties and freedoms have been eroded in whatsoever way. hong kong is a very free society.

we have freedom of speech, freedom ofjournalism and so on. with protesters and politicians as far apart as ever, there's no end in sight to this damaging cycle of violence which is hitting the economy hard and keeping tourists away. the government here had hoped to to appease the protesters to an extent by officially withdrawing the hated extradition bill which sparked the u nrest extradition bill which sparked the unrest all those months ago, but because of the chaos today that was not possible and we think it will probably happen next week. for many people, it will be too little, too late, so the prospect remains of more demonstrations in the weeks to come. nick, thank you. a gp accused of sexually assaulting eight female patients has gone on trial at the old bailey. manish shah is alleged to have carried out the assaults

over a five—year period. our correspondent richard lister is at the old bailey. what has the court been hearing, richard? the prosecution was opened by the qc who told the jury that doctor shah had abused his position to persuade women to have invasive, intimate examinations when there was no need for them, purely for his own sexual gratification. these 3a alleged assaults are alleged to have taken place alleged assaults are alleged to have ta ken place between alleged assaults are alleged to have taken place between may 2009 and july 2013 and the jury heard today that in one case with one woman he raised the issue of angelina jolie's cancer fears, and with anotherjade goody‘s death from cervical cancer to persuade patients to have these intimate, invasive examinations. the jury intimate, invasive examinations. the jury was also told by the prosecutor that he had persuaded women under the age of 25 to have smear tests,

sometimes multiple times against nhs guidelines. he denies all the charges against him but the court heard he had previously been convicted of similar allegations against 17 women and that is a case which can only now be reported. richard lister, thank you. the climate change campaign group extinction rebellion has launched legal action after a ban was introduced on its protests across london. the group says the ban is disproportionate, and an attack on civil liberties. police say more than 1,600 arrests have been made during the protests in the capital. the duke of cambridge says more education and political action is needed to tackle climate change, as he visited a melting glacier in pakistan. prince william and his wife visited the hindu kush mountain range on the third day of their tour of the country. they were shown how the glacier has retreated rapidly in recent years because of global warming. north korea's official news agency has released a series of lavish photographs of the country's

leader, kim jong—un. here he is, astride his white charger on the slopes of mount paektu, which is revered as the country's spiritual home. the agency described the visit as a great event of weighty importance. officials accompanying him said they we re officials accompanying him said they were convinced it would lead to a great operation to strike the world with wonder again, although it is unclear what that operation might involve. heptathlete katarina johnson—thompson has suffered more than her fair share of set—backs, from major championship heartbreaks to troubling injuries. but, in doha earlier this month, her years of training and competition paid off as she finally became world champion. now she's had a chance to catch her breath and reflect and our sports correspondent jo currie has been to meet her. event leader katarina johnson—thompson! the moment she'd waited

her entire careerfor. katarina johnson—thompson is going to finish off the best heptathlon of her life... at the fourth time of asking, world championship gold in the heptathlon, under the doha lights. a lot of people were saying, after the long jump and the javelin, you must have known, but i didn't want to tempt fate at all. ijust wanted to see my name on the scoreboard and, when i crossed the line, it was sort of relief, elation, sort of happiness, a sense of "finally", but it was a very good moment for me. johnson—thompson joins a long, illustrious list of successful british multi—eventers. this is a tremendous run by jessica ennis! oh, my goodness! wow! but she admits it hasn't always been easy competing in their shadow. because i was alongsidejess back then, people saw me as the next face of it, and it took me a long time to try and fill those boots, obviously! but, yeah, there were times

when i was expected to win but i wasn't really ready for it. my performance mentality. they were the harder times but i feel like, now, even before doha, it's ok. i'm ok about it. she may be world champion, butjohnson—thompson wants more. the 2020 tokyo olympic games are now just ten months away, and katarina says she will be targeting gold once again. i've got to go into winter training and almost forget what happened. it's going to be very tough next year. the olympics are a whole other ball game, so i'm going to have to step up my performance again and hopefully i can do that. doha may not have been the smoothest of championships, with talk of drugs and a lack of crowds, but on the track it was the british women who delivered, with johnson—thompson stepping up. jo currie, bbc news. let's return to westminster now and my colleague simon mccoy

for more on the brexit negotiations. exactly how britain's land border with the eu would work where northern ireland and the republic of ireland meet has been all—consuming in these brexit negotiations. norway has a land border with the eu — its border with sweden is over 1,000 miles long. our correspondent andrew bomford has been to look at what the uk might learn from the norway example. this is sweden. this is norway. one's in the eu, one isn't. there are limits on what you can transport across the border. tariffs on goods like alcohol and tobacco in norway mean they're much more expensive there than in sweden. we're driving to a big shopping centre, just on the swedish side of the border. this is a place thatjust thousands and thousands of norwegians come to, basically to do their weekly or monthly shopping because it's so much cheaper in sweden than it is in norway. so, i've got some fizzy drinks — notjust for me, it's for a lot of people.

if you're buying stuff for yourself and your family, do you think people worry that much about how much you're taking back into the country? well, i think it's very up and down. i know a lot of people who don't really care about that. as long as you kind of drive a normal car, you're just going across, like, it's so normal. like, i've never been stopped before. families might buy more than the quotas allow, but officials say organised crime around smuggling is the big problem. i visited a warehouse on the border, where every day they seize goods crossing from sweden into norway. what you see here is professional. it's organised crime. how often are you finding stuff that needs to be seized? every day. every day. every day. explain what's going on now? oh, he's been picked up for x—ray inspection and they run this x—ray inspection. in northern ireland... yes. ..they are proposing that there will be none of this kind

of border infrastructure. so, how would you do checks like this if you have no x—ray machine for example? you wouldn't be able to do these kind of checks. if your ambition is to work against contraband, drug smuggling and those things, you will have to have a system of these kind of inspections. andrew bomford, bbc news, on the norway—sweden border. norman smith is here. lots of rumours swirling around, the latest one from rte saying the last stumbling block has been removed but we really don't know where we are, do we? we have many questions and not many answers, which isn't a great advert for a news programme, but i think what we can say is boris johnson is now at a fork in the road. on one path, he gets a deal

this afternoon, he briefed the cabinet, briefed his mps, gets the dup on board, puts it to parliament on saturday, gets it through the commons, we leave on october 31. more likely i suspect is that the deal is not achievable. what that means on saturday is that the so—called benn act kicks in forcing him to seek a delay. he rejected the idea he would send a second letter saying, i disagree with my first letter, but insisting we will leave in october the 31st and you are left wondering how can borisjohnson do both of those things at the same time? it may be a gigantic bluff but i'm afraid it is another unanswered question. rather a lot of them. norman smith, our assistant political editor, thank you.

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