david davis and michel barnier on monday, the first long-time. adam, thank you very much.ff on the weekend beforehand. let's get some final thoughts, because all of this is adam the suggesting there, it reminds us of the timetable of all of this and my goodness it is time isn't it? i think number ten is saying in response to those comments are michel barnier is that this is a negotiation and the next step is to fiow negotiation and the next step is to now get back to the talks on this backstop plan, which of course is an insurance policy if the uk and brussels do not come to an agreement on trade for when we leave the eu. the uk put its own proposal on the end of last year, number ten very keen to remind us that when he did that, the uk rejected it. now we have the uk putting its plan on the table and the signs are from brussels are perhaps once of rejection. they say look, we need to get back to the table and get down to the talks and that is just normal. that is what this process is going to be like. specifically responding to what michel barnier said today, the governme

that is the latest from michel barnier.aying brexit means brexit. nhs workers in england have voted overwhelmingly to accept a three—year pay deal worth 6.5% — health unions have announced. more than a million nurses, physiotherapists, cleaners and other staff across england will receive it. the agreement, reached after months of negotiation between unions, employers and ministers, was made possible with an extra £4.2 billion of funding. time for a look at the weather. here's tomasz schafernaker. is that a tornado? it is. this is not in the uk, so nothing to worry about. this is not the forecasts of the weekend either. so quiet on the weather front, we were trying to find exciting pictures. this is from the united states and this is also the united states and this is also the start of hurricane season. my neighbours asked me, what is the giver is between a hurricane and a tornado. —— what is the difference. this is a tornado, about a mile high, half a mile, this is a tornado, about a mile high, halfa mile, 100 metres wide,

to the 30 michel barnier and he may well be playing a timetable game, there is no game seeing the facting, it is, the weeks are ticking away. there is a summer break and once we come back from that... partly that helps theresa may because the less time she gets borisjohnson and may because the less time she gets boris johnson and the others stick kick upa boris johnson and the others stick kick up a fuss the more likely they are tojust kick up a fuss the more likely they are to just knuckle kick up a fuss the more likely they are tojust knuckle under at the end. but it's a dangerous game. we all said when this started that the word brexit would sure enough it is. let's move on and look at something com pletely let's move on and look at something completely different which is fizzy drinks. i've learnt something this evening which i did not know which is the relationship between co2 and crumpets. this has been a revelation to me. i know the daily mail have gone with the drinks but we now read elsewhere in our papers that it's crumpets as well. warburton ‘s cannot produce the same level.

there has been a suspicion for some time that this is michel barnier's gameplan.hat we make such a mess of it at ourend, may be that we make such a mess of it at our end, which we are doing at the moment, because we cannot agree oi'i the moment, because we cannot agree on what kind of customs arrangement we might want for the republic of ireland, but that the arrears, this is why boris went totally bonkers the other day. —— the theory is. he was worried about the uk orbiting around the eu. to have freedom of movement, we would have to have some kind of access to the single market, so kind of access to the single market, so joining kind of access to the single market, sojoining the kind of access to the single market, so joining the european kind of access to the single market, sojoining the european economic area, for instance. michel barnier would like us to be with the single market, with the customs union, in other words, in the eu. market, with the customs union, in otherwords, in the eu. and of course we would have absolutely no say on anything that is going

he has made clear the next week, he is meeting michel barnier in brussels, so meeting michel barnierussels, so he said he was doing that, he was still planning on being brexit secretary. there are definitely tensions between him and number ten. numberten is tensions between him and number ten. number ten is ready to take control of the whole brexit process and him as brexit secretary is being overlooked. this specific issue is done with the sort of backstop, so essentially, an agreement of no other solutions found in the northern ireland border issue, thereafter be a backstop —— there would have to be. theresa may wants to let brussels no what the government's proposal for that is tomorrow. apparently there is no time limit on it, and the pheromones brexiteers in david davis is this is —— they fear among brexiteers is... but for those people who believe that the good friday agreement is potentially at risk here, the solution cannot be simply waiting for max fax —— whatever technological advances need to be made. the back is committed might not be the solution. as a result, those who

michel barnier, the chief brexit negotiatorfor the eu.e many holes in this paper, and have many further questions. this will be not the end of the irish border chapter because the eu wants cast—iron legal guarantees there will be no reintroduction of a border between northern ireland and the irish republic after brexit. today, the uk came with its proposal. that means the two sides can get back to the brexit table. despite criticism, they will be words of encouragement as well for the uk because from here they can see that theresa may is in trouble from all sides and they do not want to help here in brussels to unseat her altogether. catcher -- katya adler. a police sergeant who led an elite unit in baltimore that went dramatically rogue has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. wayne earljenkins sobbed in court and apologised for robbing baltimore citizens, planting drugs on innocent people and re—selling seized drugs. andrew plant reports. hey, sarge! come downstairs real quick. a drug bust in baltimore — a small, elite team of officers

michel barnier is still talking, so let's hear what he has been saying.. let's go to pragmatism. checks carried out on ferries are less disruptive than a long 500 kilometres of land border. in addition, these checks can build on arrangements and facilities which already exist between the rest of the uk and northern ireland. obviously behind all these rules we wa nt to obviously behind all these rules we want to preserve the fluidity and ease of trade and production of the island of ireland, and once again, we need such a solution. we will not leave this issue unresolved. translation: my third and final point relates to that very point, out point relates to that very point, our future relationship with the united kingdom. in line with the mandate that i received from the european council in march, and in line with the wishes expressed by the european parliament in its resolution, we are now in the process of discussing the framework of this new relationship, which will comprise an economic partnership and strategic corporation on security matters. up until

michel barnier said progress in the overall negotiations has been made, but he's warned the uk to bestic in its demands. mr barnier has invited uk negotiators back to brussels on monday, warning ‘time is very short‘. our correspondent, damian grammaticas, is in brussels. yes, the brexit issue has been on the table this morning. all last night's drama was about the other big issue at this summit, and migration, and the fact that italy had been blocking and was late into tonight blocking any progress at the summit unless it got more help. that migration question has proved deeply divisive. but very early in the morning, italy came out and said it was satisfied. it took the leaders until shortly before daybreak to achieve that. a tired greek prime minister. a sleepy danish one. they can be tough, european summits. for angela merkel, the late—night haggling ended with some comfort. a migration deal, of sorts. it took until past 4am to reach it. amid all the dispute about migration, theresa may had had just a brief chance to talk to the assembled leaders about brexit. her message to them.

i'm not sure michel barnier is on board with this idea.ed to lie down for a bit. delighted to do that! norman, thanks forjoining us. the grenfell fire inquiry has been told that fire commanders had "no obvious and safe alternative strategy" other than to tell residents to stay put in their flats. the fire brigades union said firefighters were left in an "impossible situation". it comes as it's emerged that the metropolitan police is carrying out a criminal investigation into the fire service's use of the "stay put" policy. richard galpin reports. more than 700 firefighters and other staff were involved in tackling the grenfell fire. and they faced a lot of criticism for telling residents to stay put rather than evacuating quickly as the fire spread. but at the enquiry today, lawyers representing the fire services said there had been very good reasons for that decision. firstly, the building was not designed or constructed to facilitate simultaneous evacuations through the provision of fire alarms. secondly, the absence of any practical mec

this was michel barnier coming into the building a few minutes ago.brexit we have made progress but huge divergences remains. after brexit we want and you want a youth —— a uk and eu ambitious partnership. but we have to build this partnership on our values and principles, respecting also the uk red lines. the integrity of the single market, autonomy of the decision—making and the protection and respect of the fundamental rights of eu citizens. we are waiting for the uk to reply andl we are waiting for the uk to reply and i hope it contains realistic proposals. but time is very short. we want a deal and we are working for a deal but time is short and i invite the uk delegation to come back next monday. time is indeed short. if you take out the summer holidays we have six weeks until the next summit in to the other two sites to get together. and 273 days until britain leaves the eu. let's talk to the brexit correspondent for the daily telegraph. we are always told time is ticking and time is running out and that has been the message from the eu again t

we do not know what is coming out of the press conference last night with michel barnier. what is the best result? they want nuts and bolts of the negotiations. the money and things about immigration are important, but the most important thing for them is the most important thing for them is the shape of the future relationship between the uk and the eu 27. i think we can see some certainty we will have a free trade agreement of some type. we need to know the type of customs relationship we will have it in the european union and the uk. inside the uk government, we have this weird dispute going on with the customs partnership and the arrangements. they have been seemingly rejected by the eu. both have problems. it is getting some clarity around what is going to happen on the customs side of things that will be important. if they get it wrong, a lot of costs will be put on the system just to do with getting customs arrangements in place and moving goods that normally pay nothing. we will have many issues around those kinds of things which businesses want clarity on. we have

show by men has questions for after brexit and after the transition period. —— michel barnier. until later. a nice gesture. not as grand asa later. a nice gesture. not as grand as a singapore summit. later. a nice gesture. not as grand as a singapore summitlj later. a nice gesture. not as grand as a singapore summit. i like the details, it gives it colour. thank you. new measures designed to improve patient safety, and protect doctors and nurses when mistakes are made are unveiled today. it follows the case of a doctor who was struck off after being found guilty of the manslaughter by gross negligence of a six—year—old boy. 0ur health correspondent, dominic hughes, has more details. the death of six—year—old jack adcock in 2011 is the tragic backdrop to today's announcement. the doctor in charge whenjack died, doctor hadiza bawa—garba, admitted a catalogue of errors in his treatment, but her conviction for gross negligence manslaughter and subsequently being barred from practising shocked many doctors and nurses, leading to fears around how medical staff are expected to admit t

and michel barnier, the irony was not lost on him. he said backstop means backstop!gap. look, this is all about the irish border. the border between the european union and the uk. that is to say between ireland and northern ireland. ok, so no hard border between those two. it means that border there but ireland will be in the customs union and will be treated differently —— northern ireland and that is not acceptable. so yasmin it if that was really a thrust... in last year ‘s general election. it doesn't seem to have capitalised on it in the polls, labour is frustrating everyone. it's having this difficult balancing act, between the voters and the electorate in pro—labour is also frustrating everyone. so yasmin it is notjust theresa may and her government that are paralysed, this process is paralysing politics across the board. it is those russian dolls, you go from absolutely the party politics and the regional and national divides in our country to the wider, the biggest doll of all which is exactly as you said, the eu project itself. but here it seems to me that

a planned press conference by michelle barnier was abruptly cancelled.f market analyst. good to see you. morning. this press conference was cancelled, so we do not know what came out of that meeting. there are increasing calls for business to hear something, what is it that you think they want to hear at this point? well, it is any sort of detail at this point. the whole brexit situations is not necessarily just cover this whole brexit situations is not necessarilyjust cover this one eu summit or this one press conference. really, this is the whole thing that has run from both sides of the eu and the uk. all businesses want to hear is detail, they want to hear about what post—brexit written looks like them. at the moment, you got businesses making decisions and grabbing headlines because there justis grabbing headlines because there just is any detail. it is impossible to think that a lot of these countries do not have contingency plans in place to say it look, if there is no information about what happens after brexit, then we have to make a business de

it was reported this morning that david davis met with michel barnier, his counterpart in the europeancountries trying to do a deal here and deal there. —— lots of meetings. in the end, the commission is charged by all 27, it used to be 28, to be the negotiator. just as immigration, there are all kinds of domestic political things going on in hungary and italy, in the end they get together at the summit and they get together at the summit and they come up with a unified proposal and that is how they negotiate. i am amazed you do not want to admit that is how reality works. the meeting at chequers within a few days' time so, guess what we will be discussing on this programme next week? finally this week, 81—year—old anthony kennedy is retiring as a us supreme courtjustice. nominated by ronald reagan, he's the longest serving justice, and has broadly sat in the centre, staying with the conservative majority on issues like campaign finance, but voting in favour of same sex marriage. president trump has said he will announce his nominee to succeed kenney on 9thjuly. —— kennedy. michael, th

a british plan to avoid a hard border in northern ireland raises more questions than answers michel barnier he said the u.k. had made welcome progress that the rest of the country wouldn't get the same terms of access to the single market that northern ireland as benefit of a backstop cannot be extended to the whole u.k. why because it be designed for the specific situation of a national mine and. what does it do. and customs notion of island would form part of our world customs territory what is feasible or which authority reduced size of national island is not necessarily feasible which if you look at the celebrity chef and writer and stay put and has been found dead in his hotel room the sixty one year old was filming in france when his body was discovered they say it took his own life and a gal that reports. anthony bourdain is career spanned continents but his love of the restaurant business had humble beginnings started out as a dishwasher before becoming a chef in new york his best selling memoir about the underbelly of manhattan's restaurant business changed his life and launched a

and michel barnier, the irony was not lost on him. he said backstop means backstop!top means backstop! unless it is a stopgap. look, this is all about the irish border. the border between the european union and the uk. that is to say between ireland and northern ireland. 0k, uk. that is to say between ireland and northern ireland. ok, so no hard border between those two. it means that border there but ireland will be in the customs union and will be treated differently —— northern ireland and that is not acceptable. to have the sort of crisis just before the summit, that sort of pantomime, it has been happening for two years since the referendum took place. so theresa may will probably survive the next eu summit and everyone will try to save face. and then there is this summer and then what next, september. she might not survive the party conference. because we are talking about brexit but perhaps we should stop talking about brexit and stopped talking about brexit and stopped talking about the tory party. and labour as well. the tory party has a lot of ossified betw

michel barnier saying that the uk won't be able to participate in the european arrest warrant, will beol. it is a shot across the bow. if you kick is out of the club and don't allow us corporation, your own citizens will suffer. let's move on to the front page of the times, the story within running all weekend about cannabis. this is an interesting intervention by the police federation, the body of the police, about these laws. for the first time, the police basically saying that our own drugs policy isn't working. millions of people are taking cannabis. it's impossible to police it. the laws were written a long time ago and we need to look at it. also, the call from lord haig, the former conservative leader, that cannabis should be legalised. not everybody supports that but the figure the times gives us, a0 million britons, a third of the population have used cannabis for recreational purposes. there is an ongoing debate, should cannabis be treated as a recreational drug. it is going back to the slogan of the 60s. you remember it well. absolutely. interesting with the same “— absolute

tomorrow we will hear from michel barnier, the chief brexit negotiator for the eu, that the eu sees manyhe irish border chapter, because the eu of course wants cast—iron legal guarantees that there will be no reintroduction of a border between northern ireland and the irish republic after brexit. today, the uk came with its proposal, and this means the two sides can get back to the brexit table. but, despite the criticism, there will be words of encouragement as well for the uk, because from here they can see that theresa may is in trouble from all sides, and they do not want to help, here in brussels, to unseat her altogether. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news: a software bug means millions of facebook users may have unknowingly posted private information to the public. the glitch set some users‘ posts to be shared to everyone, even if the user had chosen a more restricted option, such asjust share with friends of friends. facebook has apologised and says the problem is fixed. the french parliament has voted to ban mobile phones in schools. the hope is it wi

i've done a quick tally, i think this year he's threatened to resign more times than he's met michel barnieres or no, will the government's amendment, to be published later today, make clear that should the proposed article 50 deal be voted down, it would then be for parliament to say what happens next, not the executive? i'm afraid the right honourable gentleman will have to wait to see the document when it's published. as he says, it will be published later today. and the amendment was indeed published, but remain—supporting conservatives said it didn't meet their requirements. that may lead to another clash when the bill returns to the commons next week. now, the uk space industry is already fighting to be part of the european satellite navigation system, galileo. and this week it suffered another brexit—shaped setback. the european space agency council has excluded the uk from the next stage of the project, despite british calls for a delay. this is the public regulated service — or prs — a navigation and timing signal intended for use by government agencies, armed forces and emergency s

listen to the government here in dublin, they are similarly taking a very firm position, as is michel barnierdy concerned, to protect people's livelihoods, people's standard of living, and of course, to protect the precious thing, the very precious thing that we have developed here in ireland 20 years ago. we are almost out of time. a final thought on brexit and the future of ireland. you seem to be quite convinced that this whole debate about brexit has, in a sense, revived the notion that a united ireland is not that far away. let me just quote to you the words of the prime minister. he said in a visit to northern ireland, last week he said that he was coming as a neighbour, most definitely not as an invader. he went on to say that as far as he was concerned, if there were to be a referendum on unification, the north, the people of the north would vote against it and he said the time and the conditions, in his opinion, were simply not right to either think about having a referendum, let alone actually call for one. 0k. and look, long before you would actually name a day for the referendum,

as they say is increasingly harder line yes but what i think i don't not surprised by this and michel barnier is not behaving in a in a number pleasant fashion or a an arrogant fashion nor giving us access to evade law enforcement databases and whatnot is european arrest warrant what he's saying is if you're going to enjoy that essential cooperation to catch criminals that we want brought back from wherever it is in the rest of the european union to britain then we've got to buy by the laws of the european union which we do now through the european court of justice whereas what teresa mayes government is saying is no we don't want to have anything to do with the european court of justice give us an insight now into your leader's views on brics it has always been a line throughout his political career with tony benn's pro brix it views that brussels. was a great dream a great idea but actually in the end destroyed itself in bureaucracy and corporate lobby germy position has been essentially summarized that the european union is a capitalist club which it is just like britain is and pretty well

and looking ahead to 31st october, the deadline set by the eu's chief negotiator michel barnier on thellow the 27 other eu countries time to sign off the deal. mps will also get to vote on the final deal in parliament before 29 march 2019. and then on that day, the uk ends its membership of the european union at 11 o'clock and enters a transition period. so a long way still to go and negotiations still to take place. 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg has been speaking to the international trade secretary liam fox. we can speak to our news correspondent charlotte gallagher, who's in central london. charlotte, tell us about the march thatis charlotte, tell us about the march that is due to take place from lunchtime. yes, john, the march does not start until 1pm from pall mall. but already a steady stream of people have begun to arrive, some holding eu flags, some wrapped in them, many wearing t—shirt of anti—brexit slogans. the march will start at 1pm anti—brexit slogans. the march will start atipm and anti—brexit slogans. the march will start at 1pm and will move its way down to par

the eu's chief brexit negotiator, michel barnier, says "huge and serious" differences remain between theresa may says she is "ready to intensify and accelerate the pace of negotiations", and the government's promised to publish more detail about its plans, in a forthcoming white paper. 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg reports from brussels. hovering in the background, brexit has been a footnote, not the main order of business here. but brussels' main broker had prepared a very big message to give. huge and serious divergence remain, in particular ireland and northern ireland. now we are waiting for the uk white paper and i hope it will contain workable and realistic proposals. but the very, very, very long night of talks that became 5am in the morning was dominated by the stresses and strains of migration around the mediterranean. then, a deal pushed by italy emerged, eventually with support of the others. not clear if it will give enough relief to angela merkel, in deep trouble on the issue at home. but the eu's frustrated with what they see as britain's lack of decisions on br

it would be interesting if airbus is also sending this message over to claw john kerr and michelle barniere does wonder why they can't just write on without so much posturing on both sides? it is very striking, isn't as? there was one conservative saying on radio that this is chaos, it can really damage the conservative brand and the type of damage could be really serious. chaos might be overplaying it but there is not essential message here, and the idea stop lights is that? because he is not, theresa may is not ina because he is not, theresa may is not in a particularly strong position with a strong majority. there is this sense that she is vulnerable and therefore people can speak out of school. the more macro point is if you have conservative members of saying f business, people will wonder why they are voting for what are traditionally fiscally conservative intervals. should be left to be delighted by this, or worried? they are bound to be worried. the inexorable problems don't go away. the idea you could remain in the customs union but not the measured on freedom of movement, the mea

we will hear tomorrow from michelle barnier, the eu's chief brexit negotiator, that the eu sees a lot of further questions and this will by no means be the end of the irish border chapter, because eu of course wants cast—iron legal guarantees that there will be no reintroduction of a border between northern ireland and the irish republic after brexit. today, the uk came with its proposal and this means the two intended sides in the negotiations can get back to the brexit table but despite the criticism there will be words of encouragement as well for the uk, because from here they can see that theresa may is in trouble from all sides and they do not want to help here in brussels to unseat her altogether. katya adler in brussels and laura kuenssberg in westminster, thank you both. the london fire brigade and firefighters' unions have been defending their decision to advise residents of grenfell tower to stay in their flats as the fire took hold. speaking to the public inquiry, they said there was "no obvious and safe alternative" to the stay put policy. the metropolitan police is inves

a british plan to avoid a hard border in northern ireland raises more questions than answers michel barnier said the united kingdom had made welcome progress but the rest of the country wouldn't get the same terms of access to the single market that will the island has been offered of a backstop cannot be extended to do whole u.k. why because it be designed for the specific situation of national nine and what does it do. and customs notice an island would form part of our were accustomed territory what is feasible or which a territory the size of national island is not necessarily feasible for you kate. now there's an ancient practice in the middle east during the holy month of ramadan to make sure people eat ahead of a day of fasting for centuries men have walked around the streets in the middle of the light chanting and banging drums but now police in jerusalem began issuing have to finds because jewish settlers who moved into the area are complaining their sleep is being disturbed burned smith reports. it's a wake up alarm that dates back centuries. just before dawn during ramadan across

a british plan to avoid a hard border in northern ireland raises more questions than answers michel barnier said the united kingdom had made welcome progress but the rest of the country wouldn't get the same terms of access to the single market that northern ireland has been offered however a backstop cannot be extended to the whole u.k. why because it be designed for the specific situation of national nine. do. customs not an island would form part of our work territory what is feasible which a territory decides of national island is not necessarily feasible or which it all look at. could stay protests in the capital of india administered kashmir have turned violent indian security forces used tear gas to disperse demonstrators who were throwing stones at them muslims in kashmir have been fighting indian rule there since one thousand eight hundred nine. now the world health organization says the break in the democratic republic of congo is stabilizing director general ham on says he is cautiously optimistic after a decrease in the number of cases reported in the past week more than eightee

and looking ahead, the 31st october — the deadline set by the eu's chief negotiator michel barnier oniations to allow the 27 other eu countries time to sign off the deal. mps will also get to vote on the final deal in parliament before 29th march 2019. and then on that day the uk ends its membership of the european union at eleven o'clock and enters a transition period. so a long way still to go and negotiations still to take place. our political editor, laura kuenssberg, has been speaking to the international trade secretary, liam fox. the prime minister has always said that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed and that no deal would be better than a bad deal. and i think it is essential, as we enter the next phase of the negotiations, that the european union understands that and believes it. and believes she might be ready to leave the negotiating table and say, this is impossible because you're not listening? i think it has added credibility because if we were to leave, the economic impact on a number of european countries would be severe. countries like ireland, the nether

a business plan to avoid a hard border in northern ireland raises more questions than answers michel barnier he said the u.k. had made welcome progress that the rest of the country wouldn't get the same terms of access to the single market that northern ireland has been off it. our backstop cannot be extended to the whole u.k. why because it had been designed for the specific situation of national nine and what does it do. and customs notice an island would form part of our were accustomed territory what is feasible which a territory the size of national island is not necessarily feasible for look at. the celebrity chef and writer and reporter and has been found dead in his hotel room the sixty one year old was filming in france when his body was discovered they say because of his own life and a gala that reports anthony bourdain is career spanned continents but his love of the restaurant business had humble beginnings started out as it did.

we keep hearing from michel barnier that the clock is ticking.surprised if the october summit do as well as we were hoping and things are wrapped up in november and december. all along people have been sceptical about what we can achieve. they said we wouldn't be able to get transition sorted out and article 50. all have gone to plan despite hurdles and we are seeing the same with the withdrawal bill. it may be true but there are many hurdles down the line. we are seeing that the last—minute horse trading and persuasion tactics from the government have shown that there isn't much trust in the government strategy internally within the conservative party and the trust in the prime minister's leadership to deliver on this and that will be visited when it enters the house of commons. i think we are going to have this fight again. the customs union is the next big fight. we keep building up these votes. the conservative rebels are reluctant to cause the premise to pain but they do feel very strongly about having a very close links to the ewe after wit

michel barnier i says prime forster may's proposal avoiding a border between ireland and northern ireland cannot play -- can apply to the rest of the u.k. celebrity chefs and travel host .nthony bourdain has died he was working on an episode of cnn's travel show "parts unknown." he was a chef in new york whose memoir launched his career in television. anthony moore dane -- anthony was 61g -- bourdain years old. global news 24 hours a day, on air and tictoc at twitter, powered by more 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am courtney donohoe. this is bloomberg. mark: thank you very much. lionel --peak to our on the possibility of commerce bank and deutsche bank merging. he likens it to two turkeys being strapped together in the hope they will fly. this is bloomberg. ♪ julie: live from new york, i am julie hyman. mark: i am mark barton. we are 15 minutes away from the end of the european equity trading day. let's talk deutsche' and the possibility of i converging with -- bank. i love your comment, like tying two turkey's together and hoping -- turkies together and hopi

the eu's chief brexit negotiator, michel barnier, says ‘huge and serious‘ differences remain, betweenshe is "ready to intensify and accelerate the pace of negotiations", and the government's promised to publish more detail about its plans, in a forthcoming white paper. our political editor, laura kuenssberg reports from brussels. hovering in the background, brexit has been a footnote, not the main order of business here. but brussels‘ main broker had prepared a very big message to give. huge and serious divergence remain, in particular ireland and northern ireland. now we are waiting for the uk white paper and i hope it will contain workable and realistic proposals. but the very, very, very long night of talks that became 5am in the morning was dominated by the stresses and strains of migration around the mediterranean. then, a deal pushed by italy emerged, eventually with support of the others. not clear if it will give enough relief to angela merkel, in deep trouble on the issue at home. but the eu‘s frustrated with what they see as britain‘s lack of decisions on brexit. it sounds,

a breakfast meeting is scheduled to take place between mr davis and the eu chief negotiator michel barnieresa may ahead of a crucial series of house of commons votes on the brexit bill, following threats of a revolt by pro—remain mps. this programme has been told that deaf patients are missing out on key operations and receiving poor treatment because of a lack of face—to face interpreters. the department of health and social care says it's "unacceptable if deaf patients are not receiving the support they need to access care". some hospitals have started using video interpreting services — but one patient — jeff parfitt — who is undergoing treatment for cancer, says it's unreliable. i was, like, fine go ahead. so i've got this interpreter on the ipad, seems okay, but the sound wasn't working. a woman who was sexually abused as a child by her stepfather is challenging a law which means she cannot receive compensation, because they lived in the same house. the victim was abused by her stepfather between the ages of four and 16. in 2012 her stepfather was jailed for the offences, but under th

although michel barnier says there is a lot of work to be done.hich is beaten into a froth byjournalists? maybe, maybe not. we spoke to one beer maker who said she can't do any bottling at the moment because her bottom does not have —— her bottler does not have any c02 at the moment. with this will have any effect, i think the chances are less, because there is a rush to produce this stuff and people will actually produce c02. produce this stuff and people will actually produce co2. notable resignation? yes, inga beale, the head of lloyds insurance. she has been something of a breath of fresh air for the insurance market. she was the first woman to run lloyds in its 330 year history. she introduced a lot of modern practices not least banning boozy lunches. there was also a resource for lgbt people working at lloyds which she was behind. her leaving lloyds comes on the same day as the treasury select committee are talking about not enough women at the top of the bank of england, at the monetary policy committee, which sets interest rates. joining u

there is a date and michel barnier will probably say no, i did agree with this end state.the british government has spelt out its so—called backstop position and if the eu preferred this, why would they bother to do... the eu do not like the british version of the backstop. their position is to reject everything the british come up with and wait until there is another concession and another concession. right now i think the backstop will be the most favourite option forthe eu. they have to be careful. if they are too intransigent and parliament does not vote for any deal, the default will be no deal or worse trade deal. peter bone, you are a fervent brexiteer, basically, the government is taking us towards the backstop deal which is a pretty soft brexit? it is not even a soft brexit, we are not coming out. the idea there is a date in the document, it is an aspiration. i read it. the more i read it the more depressed i got. basically, it allows us to stay effectively in the eu indefinitely. they have crossed a red line, it is not acceptable and many of my colleagues on the

michel barnier, chief negotiator and president of the commission came here exactly for that purpose,ing we have heard so much about. the way in which it will be resolved, and to make sure there is no hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland. if any free trade agreement doesn't go far enough to ensure there are no checks of goods crossing the border. at the moment the irish government says the uk proposals do not go far enough. they have proposed the whole of the uk would stay in a temporary customs arrangement with the eu at the end of the transition period. the irish government and the rest of the eu say it don't doesn't go far enough. there are concerns about rules and regulations, food safety, animal health regulation and things like that. they want the uk government to go much further. and the president of the european commission said today, ireland won't be left alone in this. it is the eu's problem and not just ireland by in this. it is the eu's problem and notjust ireland by itself. we wanted to make it clear again and again that ireland is not alone. w

he's been meeting with the taoiseach, leo varadkar, and the eu's chief brexit negotiator, michel barnierland backed by 26 member states and by the eu commission. this will not change. i am strongly against any temptation to try to isolate ireland and not to conclude the deal on ireland. ireland has to be part of the deal. the prime minister of new zealand, jacinda arden, has given birth to a baby girl. her partner announced the news by posting this photo on social media. the baby weighed 3.3 kilos and the name has yet to be revealed. ms arden is only the second world leader to give birth while in office. the first was pakistan's benazir bhutto. an air asia pilot has been heavily criticised after he tried to flush out passengers who refused to get off, using the jet‘s air—conditioning blower system. passengers of the domestic flight in india were told to get off the plane after a delay of four hours, but refused to because it was raining heavily outside. the pilot then put the air—conditioning on full blast, sending dense clouds of air into the cabin. eyewitnesses reported seeing children

chief negotiator michel barnier had more questions, will the uk proposal avoid a hard border, will ited barnier down in brussels, and asked him when the eu would respond officially. what do you think of the proposal? and we equivalent ijust received this proposal two hours ago and we are working on it. is it realistic? we are working on it. when your answer? the next few days. let's try and get some clarity on this with the help of bbc political correspondent eleanor garnier. doing about the optimal outcome is the status of the border between northern ireland and the republic? what theresa may has said all along is she wants a frictionless border. she wants to get a really deep and special this boat deal that allows the uk to carry on trading with the eu without any friction, without any tarus and basically to have a really good situation for businesses on both sides of the border. and we have been discussing today is the insurance policy that if a deal is not done that with brussels, a trade deal is not done, then this is the fallback option. so in a way, it is something that we have

we've had reaction to the document from the eu's chief brexit negotiator michel barnier, who said, weestions: is it a workable solution to avoid a hard border? 0ur correspondent damian grammaticas is in brussels. just a flavour of the reaction there in brussels from those messages on social media. how has this proposal, this end day of december 21 con down there? well, welcome for the fact there? well, welcome for the fact there is a proposal on the table, but is worth same first of all because the eu has been asking this for a very long time now. it was backin for a very long time now. it was back in december when the original idea about a backstop was agreed to by both sides, by the uk side. and now the uk has delivered its own version. it has taken a long time but the eu i think we'll be happy it now has something to get its teeth into. but then a lot of scepticism and raised our brows because the one thing they are absolutely clear about here is there can be no time limit. it does not work as a backstop, which is meant to be there orfor all backstop, which is meant to be there or

they have been surprisingly united through this so far, they gave a mandate to michel barnier to negotiateive set of countries behind him and everyone is just waiting for the uk to work out their issues and come forward with a clear proposal on things like customs union and trade, security issues. everyone is watching this drama andi issues. everyone is watching this drama and i think wondering when the real negotiations with the eu is going to start. thank you for that. so several votes today so far and the government has won all of them including that one on a crucial meaningful vote for parliament. a number of concessions made by the government to those 15 or so tory rebel mps who were willing to vote for that lords amendment. but it seems that concessions put forward by the government have been enough to forestall that for the time being. back to you in the studio. thank you for now. more for westminster over the course of the evening. just taking a look at some other stories. an alleged member of a banned neo—nazi group has pleaded guilty to preparing acts of terrorism — in relation t

so is the suspicion that michel barnier is prolonging the uncertainty in this negotiation in order perhaps because it has been the easy with the uncertainty and the lack of clarity from the british government to throw rocks where they want to land, do you feel when you go to speak to the europeans, that they are not really sure where they want to land either? yes, i do. i think a lot of people observed in the british domestic debate and across europe that the british government could offer greater clarity about what its intentions are and what its end objective is and businesses find it frustrating trying to plan with so much uncertainty about what direction the government eventually wants to go on. but this is a two—sided debate and i think the eu can often be intransigent and it can be quicker to find problems than it can be to find solutions and they also are pretty political and considerations. they are not a neutral player in this process so we do have to be mindful that even if the british government were a model of clarity, it would still require the eu to engage in a meaningful and

the british plan to avoid a hard border in northern ireland raises more questions than answers michel barnier he said the u.k. had made welcome progress but the rest of the country won't get the same terms of access to the single market that northern island has been offered other backstop cannot be extended to the whole u.k. why because it be designed for the specific situation of national nine and what does it do. and customs notion of ireland would form part of our a customs territory what is feasible which a territory the size of national island is not necessarily feasible for u.k. . catholic bishops and the corregidor have stepped into trying to end the political crisis there they've met president daniel ortega and are pushing to broker talks between the government and protesters. reports from the capital and that for. another day of unrest in the get out one means another funeral this time it's a thirty three year old opposition demonstrator killed during one of the latest confrontations with pro-government forces in messiah his body was carried past a checkpoint to the nearby cemetery.

we keep hearing from michel barnier, the chief negotiator, that time is running out. eu parliament and others around the eu parliament and others around the eu, but some people are saying thatis the eu, but some people are saying that is looking almost impossible to hit. we will see whether that is done, but today focuses on what happens if there is no deal. and also whether theresa may has managed to get the bill through parliament. rescuers in indonesia say 192 people are missing after a ferry sank on a lake popular with tourists. the incident happened on monday on lake toba on the indonesian island of sumatra. officials say 18 people have been rescued and three bodies have been recovered. it's believed to be one of the country's worst maritime disasters. 0ur correspondent rebecca henschke is following the story from jakarta. rescue workers are still working to try to recover any more survivors. 0nly try to recover any more survivors. only 18 people have been found, and three bodies at this stage. as you said, 192 missing. this number has dramatically increased sinc