is a good question because of course jean—claude juncker is not question because of course jean—claudejunckerved in negotiations and not directly going to be involved in the decision to move those forward at some point to discussing trade relationship in future. that will be taken by the 27 other member countries the eu when they are satisfied that the legacy issues of the past of separating the uk from the past of separating the uk from the eu are dealt with. but i would say his opinion probably is worth listening to because... if only we could have heard what his opinion was! that is a shame. we've lost damien in full flow, apologies. we may return to that. and in fact i think that the line has been restored. can you hear me? yes, i was just saying that jean—claude juncker! was just saying that jean—claude juncker i think is important to listen to because his negotiators in that building by those who are sitting today and tomorrow with the uk side, he is the one who pointed michel barnier to conduct the negotiations and they will make a recommendation to the other countries about whether th

what do you think of tony blair and jean—claude juncker having a you think of tony blair and jean—claudejunckerin. some people are saying that is why we were right to get out — two men kissing. we have michel barnier and david davies going at it, then this happening behind the scenes, so we may think something is going on that should not be. we all know what tony blair wants. yes, he doesn't wa nt tony blair wants. yes, he doesn't want brexit to happen at all. the financial times, we shouldn't really, but we should feel sorry for the americans because of tropical storm hobby, but we shouldn't feel sorry that their petrol will go up a few cents. a third of oil refineries are currently out of action because they are mainly centred in texas. there is a huge one that will be shut for two weeks, so it will be a huge knock—on effect. they won't go for emergency stocks hit, but i remember in 2000, when there was a petrol crisis in this country, and how close this country came to anarchy because we could not drive around where we wanted to on demand. that happened in america... we might need to rethink

this isjean—claudejuncker, who is ahead figure on this over the channel, but he said his dad at next a company is looking for money, why not go to china? what looking for money, why not go to china ? what is looking for money, why not go to china? what is the disadvantage? the question is what china wants for it and how long they are going to stay. it is your resources that china wants. they want a foothold and if you have cold, uranium, orwhatever, they thinking actually, great, that is another market where we can... and their markets are not open to western countries, unlike the way oui’ western countries, unlike the way our markets are open to them. and there are human rights problems with china, so people might not necessarily want to do business with those kind of companies. shall we finish with the mail? there are 7 million of us walk around with undiagnosed heartthrobs, apparently. how can we find out who is suffering? —— walking around with undiagnosed heart problems. the problem that i have is waiting lists, resources, you know, if you do identify high cholesterol, heart pro

among the items we now know about, a 27,000 euro bill for a two—day trip to rome byjean claudejunckerane. in fairness, there were nine of them in the delegation. at a commission press conference today, the spokeswoman was put on the defensive over the issue. these details were obtained by a spanish ngo, why doesn't the commission make the expenses public? we do publish mission expenses when ever we are asked to provide information. you have the whole budget of the eu that contains a section with expenses, namely heading five, that is available to you how much we spend. helen darbishire is the executive director of access info europe, the ngo which has been pushing the european commission for three years to disclose its expenses. shejoins us from madrid. john redwood is the conservative mp for woking and is with me. give us the background and how hard it was and what efforts you had to go to and what stalling there was when you asked for the expenses? good evening, evan. we first filed a request about three years ago. we realised that no one had asked for this information and to correc

jean—claude juncker, it is jean—claudejuncker, it is important to listen to him because his negotiatorsointed michel barnier to conduct the negotiations and they will make the negotiations and they will make the recommendations to the other countries about whether the uk has done enough to unravel those issues to do with the past, and what we are hearing very clearly from the chief negotiator michel barnier and from jean—claude juncker and from the president of the european parliament, they spread of opinion, is that the uk, they believe, needs to do more, they are not satisfied the uk has delivered enough detail for summer enough progress. —— or enough progress. there a deadline coming up in october. at these issues, what happens the deadline is not met? it is not a hard deadline, but in october, that is the next time those 27 other eu countries, their leaders will meet in brussels and that is the first opportunity they would have to say they are happy with what the uk is proposing for the separation agreement and that they would be prepared to move onto talks about a future trade deal

jean—claudejuncker is not shy of playing a negotiating game in public.w in the building yesterday, the people who run the talks on the eu side, that the slow progress of the talks as they see it is as a result of the british not given enough information. not enough information about their positions and moving towards the eu position on more issues. he said he had been given all the papers over the summer but that none of them were satisfactory, and that has left some british officials perplexed because they wrote a paper on northern ireland, for example, and they said they are looking forward to the commission publishing their version. the other issue thatjean—claude juncker raised in his speech this morning to eu ambassadors was the issue of the brexit negotiation timetable, he says it is still clear that it will stay as intended, in other words brexit related issues like the financial settlement, citizens rights and northern ireland, there needs to be progress on them before judgment can be made in october december at a summit that the talks can move t

jean—claudejuncker has been giving this speech to the eu's ambassadors, the diplomats who represent thenancial settlement and the northern irish border, have to be resolved sufficiently for talks can move to the next phase. that will rankle with david davis and the other people on the british side because they think those withdrawal issues are tied up with the future relationship issues and they want to talk about trade and the future as soon as possible. secondly, what will also rankle with the brits, he said he read the uk government position papers that have been published over the summer holidays with the requisite attention and he found that none of them — none of them — were satisfactory. i think that will really annoy some of the british civil servants in this building today because they wrote those papers over the summer and they are actually pretty proud of their work. no official response from the british government yet and qualification from jean—claude juncker's spokespeople, who are briefing journalists for their daily lunchtime press conference right now. if i canjust brin