buildings at risk of collapse landlords often have no incentive to make repairs are india correspondent sagna fall a car sent us this report. young has lived here for much of her life this building a century old was built just as world war one ended in the one room that young shares with a family cracks run through the wall the plaster speeling and bamboo sticks prop up the ceiling the monsoon rains make the structure riskier each year young pieces she's repeatedly complained to the landlord would little success. i live in fear that the building will collapse my children are away at work all day so at least they're safe my husband a nice stay at home we could be killed but the way i see it we're old we've lived our lives. leaving the police isn't an option for young whose family owns a modest living tenants like b. just $10.00 a month here ingrained some p. even less that's due to a colonial era law that limits when small buildings like this one but that also means little money to invest in group is leaving the structures to rot in many parts of mumbai like. a home to old rickety properties d

overnights sagna thank you for that song you got to go with the latest live in belfast now to brussels where a union leaders say the u.k. is a decisive mandate will give clarity to brics it leaders say they want to put to 3 years of impossible hind them and move on to hold talks for free trade agreement with the u.k. but the european council president says bars johnson must work in good faith the u.k. is due to exit the e.u. on the 31st of january let's bring in our correspondent natasha butler she's joining us live from brussels so are leaders there relieved natasha that the u.k. might finally have some clarity on the direction for brics that. they are indeed and we were watching the leaders arrive a bit earlier and most of the ones who stopped to talk to journalists say that they're incredibly relieved that a loss there is some sense of clarity over the direction that the u.k. wants to take because what they had really dreaded here in brussels was the idea that this u.k. election would result in more unpredictability they have been quite fed up over the last few months of the brics a

probably there is no understanding of what are the consequences of these 2 lives that should right sagna ravishankar engine i thank you very much for that update. in the u.k. the normally infrequent states opening of parliament has taken place for the 2nd time in 2 months this time around the situation is dramatically different because prime minister boris johnson is now in a much more commanding position after last week's general election queen elizabeth laid out the government's agenda in a speech written by the prime minister to no one's surprise delivering products it was the number one priority with a big majority johnson now has the votes to pass his bill to take the u.k. out of the european you. i was in london for us she's been following all the proceedings today now barbara as we've heard it's now 2 queens speeches within 2 months what did we hear this time around was there anything different. of course the lady had to repeat herself to a certain extent even though some nuances are quite different in this speech but she sort of offered a very reduced version off the formal state