15/12/2017 BBC News at One

The Brexit talks can move

on to the next stage -

EU leaders agree sufficient progress

has been made.

Theresa May says it's

an important step on the road

to Britain's departure -

but Jean-Claude Juncker warns

the second phase will be

harder than the first.

We'll have the latest live

from Brussels and Westminster.

Also this lunchtime.

A judge calls for an inquiry

after a student is cleared of rape -

when police failed to disclose

evidence casting doubt on the case.

Ryanair is to recognise pilots'

unions for the first

time in its history -

in an attempt to avert a strike

in the run-up to Christmas.

A firefighter has died

in southern California,

while tackling what is on track

to be the biggest wildfire

in the state's history.

And in the Ashes, Australia are 200

runs behind at the end of day two of

the third Test.

Coming up in the sport on BBC News,

Britain's number two, Aljaz Bedene,

reverts to the country of his birth,

Slovenia, in a bid to play

at the Olympics and the Davis Cup.

Good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC News at One.

EU leaders meeting in Brussels have

agreed that the Brexit talks can

move to the second phase -

which will focus on

the future relations

between the EU and Britain.

The Prime Minister Theresa May

called this an important step

on the road to a "smooth

and orderly" Brexit.

But the President of

the European Commission,

Jean-Claude Juncker,

warned that the second phase will be

considerably harder than the first.

Damian Grammaticas is in

Brussels this lunchtime.

Yes, a significant moment, if not a

surprise, that the leaders here the

past hour and a half agreed that

they are happy to see things move

forward. Angela Merkel and Emmanuel

Macron just holding their final

press conference here at the summit,

but they and the other leaders

arrived early this morning, to try

to decide whether they were happy

with the progress made so far.

On a big day for the EU, a barrage

of questions. Last night these

leaders had given Theresa May a

round of applause.

Not very

enthusiastically, but it was well

deserved.

Angela Merkel had led that

gesture, appreciative after Mrs May

told EU's leaders she wants a smooth

Brexit. It's what they want as well.

Of course the one leader who isn't

here today is Theresa May herself,

the leader for whom this matters

more than for any other. Getting the

green light in the Brexit process to

move to the next stage. And so the

looming question, exactly what does

the UK want future ties with the EU

to look like?

I think the first big

step this morning for the United

Kingdom to state very clearly what

it wants in clear terms. I think if

this happens within the next few

weeks, we can start in earnest and

by March we will have a very clear

European position. Thank you.

First,

the EU 27 agreed as expected

sufficient progress has been made,

then the discussions turned to the

EU's terms for phase two of the

negotiations. And a new set of

guidelines. They say talks will only

move on if all commitments the UK

has made so far are respected in

full, so no backtracking on the

financial and citizens' deals, and

for a transition the EU's terms are

that the UK will continue to

participate the customs union and

single market so little change, but

the UK will not have a part in EU

decision-making and it will have to

accept all the same rules as

everyone else, including any new EU

regulations, and be bound by the

European Court of Justice. As for

what the UK wants most of all,

in-depth discussions about those

future ties, they'll have to wait

until March, EU leaders said,

indicating it is the EU that still

firmly in control of the Brexit

process. And in that press

conference is happening just now,

Angela Merkel has been saying that

she expects what is to come is to be

an even tougher negotiation.

Emmanuel Macron said the EU will

work to keep its unity and they have

also been making clear one more

condition, that the UK will not be

able to sign any future trade deal

until after 2019, after it has

formally left the EU. So that will

have to wait until then. Back to

you. David -- Damian Grammaticas

KERS, many thanks. Let's assess the

mood

in Westminster as well. Eleanor

Garnier is there.

Curious times, that round of

applause for Theresa May but

Jean-Claude Juncker warning that the

next phase of talks actually in his

opinion is going to be the harder

one.

I think there will be a huge

sigh of relief in Downing Street

that the talks are now officially

moving on to the next stage. There

has been a lot of drama just getting

to this point. Even in the last two

weeks, at one stage the deal was on,

then it was off, then back on again,

all in the space of five days. The

Prime Minister has welcomed today's

development, saying it was an

important step on the road to a

smooth and orderly Brexit, and I

think she will certainly have been

cheered by the support she got at

that dinner in Brussels last night,

in the round of applause from the

other 27 EU leaders, but today's

progress doesn't mean that it's all

going to be easy from now on, either

in Brussels or back home in

Westminster. The government was

defeated in the Commons earlier this

week over Brexit and it looks like

there's more trouble brewing for

Theresa May over whether to put in

law the exact date we leave the EU.

Even a Brexit Secretary has in the

last hour acknowledged there's still

a lot of work to do. So while there

were cheers today there are two of

talks to come and lots of difficult

questions that still need to be.

Eleanor Garnier, thank you. The

prime ministers saying she is

working to secure the best trade

deal with the EU come while

regaining control over issues such

as Borders and immigration. Chris

Morris from the BBC's Rat-macro

reality Check is with me to look

ahead to the second phase of talks.

So the other 27 countries have now

agreed that it's time to move

on to phase two of these

negotiations, while continuing

to finalise all those

issues from phase one.

To start with, there will be talks

about a transition period

of about two years after Brexit,

during which the UK will operate

under all EU rules and regulations.

Some of the detail about what that

means will be controversial.

Then next spring, if all goes

to plan, negotiators will also begin

to consider the future relationship

between the UK and the EU

on security, on foreign policy,

and of course on trade.

The EU's aim is to produce a very

broad political agreement

on the outlines of a future deal

before Brexit actually happens.

Detailed trade talks

will take a lot longer.

Part of the problem is that -

at the moment - the EU has no idea

what the UK actually wants.

"A deep and special partnership" is

the government's preferred phrase -

but what does that actually mean?

There has been a lot of talk about

this, the Canada model. Free trade

deal between EU and Canada which

came into effect this year

eliminates most tariffs in the

trading of goods, but it is

relatively little to liberalise the

trade in services, which is a far

more significant part of UK economy.

So understandably, the UK

is looking for something

a little more ambitious.

The Brexit Secretary David Davis

says he wants Canada plus plus plus.

What we want is a bespoke outcome.

We'll probably start with the best

of Canada and the best of Japan and

the best of South Korea, and then

add to that the bits that are

missing, which is the services.

But the EU is cautious about this,

arguing that the more access

you get, the more responsibilities

you take on, and the UK

doesn't want to make big

annual budget payments,

accept the jurisdiction

of the European Court

of Justice, or allow the free

movement of people.

I'm afraid that my best guess will

be that we might get Canada plus, in

other words the EU offers a bit, but

I don't think we'll get Canada plus

plus plus, because the negotiating

cards are more on the EU side.

Well, some EU leaders

accept that a bespoke deal

for the UK needs to be found -

but there is no such thing

as "membership lite".

The government argues that the UK

and the EU are starting

from the same point -

so doing a deal should

be much easier.

But this will be

the first trade deal

in history where the two sides

are trying to get further apart

rather than get closer together.

Thanks, Chris Morris.

A judge has called for an inquiry

after a university student

was cleared of rape because police

failed to disclose evidence

casting doubt on the case.

22-year-old Liam Allan spent two

years on bail, before his trial

at Croydon Crown Court was halted,

when it was revealed his accuser had

sent messages suggesting she wanted

to continue to have six with him.

-- she wanted to continue to have

sex with him.

Andy Moore reports.

22-year-old Liam Allan spent two

years on bail accused of six rapes

and six sexual assaults.

This morning, he told

the BBC he was overwhelmed

and dealing with the confusion

of going from being a villain

to being innocent.

A massive miscarriage of justice.

Jerry Hayes was the prosecution

barrister in this case.

His job was to put

Mr Allan behind bars.

But then the police revealed

they had a computer disk with 50,000

texts from the woman

making the accusations.

She said that she didn't like sex

with him but there are text messages

saying that she loved sex with him.

There were rape fantasies,

sex in the open air,

this was a 12-count indictment.

If the defence had not got that,

that man would have been convicted.

That man would have got 12 years.

That man would have had his life

trashed and on a sexual

offences register forever.

In a statement, the Metropolitan

Police said:

It's all coming

as quite a big shock to him and he's

quite worried because, naturally,

his neighbours are being pestered.

There are lots of people around his

home and all he wants to do right

now is have a little headspace.

As a 22-year-old, you can imagine,

that it has all been quite

unnerving, especially given the two

years prior in which his life

was pretty much at stake.

After the case collapsed

at Croydon Crown Court,

Judge Peter Gower said:

The problem

goes back for at least two

decades in various forms.

Trying to manage how much

of the background information

that the police gather

in an investigation should be

disclosed to the defence.

Everyone working in the profession

is aware that there are problems

with filtering out the relevant

material and sometimes

it gets missed.

Mr Allan is a criminology student,

he said he felt betrayed by a system

he wanted to work in.

Andy Moore, BBC News.

Our legal correspondent

Clive Coleman is here.

How unusual is this?

In any criminal

trial the prosecution are under a

duty to disclose to the defence two

things, anything that undermines

its, the prosecution's case, or

anything that assists the defence.

Lawyers for a long time speaking to

me have been really concerned that

this process of disclosing evidence

has gone awry as they point to

report that was brought out in July

of this year from her majesties's

Inspectorate of Constabulary, two

staggering statistics from that

report. They say firstly 22% of the

disclosure schedules that they

looked at were in their words,

wholly inadequate. They also say

that 78% of the files they examined

were marked either poor, or fair.

The disclosure is an absolute

foundation of our criminal justice

system and the fear is that

disclosure officers are not being

properly trained properly resourced

and there's also an uncomfortable

truth here that in serious criminal

and is, sexual allegations, sexual

allegations of assault and rape,

sometimes the complainant is not in

fact a victim, in a small minority

of cases. In those cases this

disclosure fails innocent people go

to prison.

Clive Coleman, thank you.

Ryanair has agreed to recognise

pilots unions for the first time -

to try to prevent strike action

in the run-up to Christmas.

The airline says it's invited pilot

unions from a number of European

countries to talks next week.

It's urging its staff to call off

the industrial action

which is planned for Wednesday 20th.

Here's our business

correspondent, Joe Lynam.

It's Europe's largest airline

in terms of passengers.

It prides itself on low fares.

and no-frills.

It has refused to

recognise trade unions in

its 32 year existence.

Until now.

Faced with a highly damaging strike

next week, Ryanair has invited

pilots to talk about

forming a trade union.

In its letter to pilot unions

in Britain and Ireland, and for

-- four other countries, it said...

This is a major change

of tone from only three

days ago, when the airline said it

would face down the unions behind

the planned strikes.

Which it described

as a small group which

don't care how much they upset

they cause colleagues or customers.

This is pretty astounding

news today from Ryanair.

Ryanair is known for toughing

out on negotiations.

It really reflects

that the pilots are

a key bargaining chip, I think.

Christmas flights

are very sensitive.

It won't have been an easy decision

for Michael O'Leary to reach but I

think they finally recognise they

had to make a change in order to

keep future industrial peace

and a better position.

But this offer to recognise

unions comes with strings

attached, Ryanair says it will only

recognise unions if they work

exclusively for the airline

so pilots with a rival carrier would

not be allowed to

negotiate with Ryanair.

They would form a Ryanair company

council and they would work

with union officials and their

negotiators and we would work

together with them to try to come up

with a collective agreement.

What we don't want to

get involved in is a

British Airways pilot who could be

a potential competitor of ours

negotiating on behalf

of Ryanair pilots.

If this offer from Ryanair works,

it could put thousands of

passengers' minds at ease as they

plan their Christmas holidays.

But whether it will

improve the airline's

overall reputation,

is as yet unclear.

Joe Lynam, BBC News.

Our top story this lunchtime:

The Brexit talks can move onto the

next stage. EU leaders in Brussels

agree sufficient progress has been

made.

And coming up -

Nasa discovers a whole new star

system in a galaxy Far Far away.

Coming up in sport:

Australia trail England

by 200 runs at the end

of the second day in Perth.

Steve Smith nearing a century,

as the hosts wrestle back momentum

in the third Ashes Test.

A firefighter has died

while battling a huge wildfire

north of Los Angeles.

The blaze, which started 11 days

ago, has now destroyed an area

bigger than New York City and Paris

combined, and is on track to become

the largest wildfire

in California's history.

The firefighting operation has

already cost more than £60 million.

Our correspondent James Cook

reports from the town

of Santa Paula, in California.

An orange glow is lighting

up the night sky here,

as this gigantic wildfire rages

in the mountains to the north.

More than 8,300 firefighters

are now tackling the blaze,

trying to prevent it from advancing

into half a dozen towns,

including Santa Barbara,

on the Pacific coast.

Celebrities' mansions are among

18,000 buildings at risk.

More than 800 homes have

already been destroyed.

We're actually returning from down

south, where we went to get some

fresh air and visit a friend

who just had a baby.

But the smoke is now

back down there.

My mom had a lung transplant four

years ago and so she

has a compromised...

She has pulmonary fibrosis.

I'm so concerned.

We just left our house, just to see

what the conditions are like,

and it's really bad.

The firefighter who died has been

identified as Cory Iverson,

a 32-year-old engineer,

who is survived by his pregnant wife

and two-year-old daughter.

This is a tragic event,

and it's a reminder of the inherent

dangers that we face

here in California with wildfire,

and the risks that we take

in the Fire Service.

We understand the job that we do

when we get into this profession

and we enjoy the idea

of helping people.

But what this tells us

is that we should not take

any time for granted.

And our thoughts and prayers really

go out to this individual's family.

It has not rained here

for more than eight months,

and with dangerous gusty winds

forecast, one fire chief said

the weekend would bring

a horrible combination

of critical fire conditions.

James Cook, BBC News, in California.

Britain's most senior military

officer has warned of a new threat

posed by Russia to communications

cables that run under the sea.

The Chief of the Defence Staff,

Air Chief Marshall Sir Stuart Peach,

said Britain and NATO must do more

to protect the communication lines.

Here's our defence

correspondent, Jonathan Beale.

They're the arteries

of the information age.

Hundreds of thousands of miles

of cables laid on the sea bed.

The lifeblood to our way of life

and the internet economy.

90% of global communications rely

on them, they're the means that

allow £7 trillion worth of financial

transactions a day.

Reason enough, says Britain's

top military chief,

to worry about sabotage.

And with one nation above any other

in his sights, Russia.

Russia, in addition

to new ships and submarines,

Russia, in addition to new ships

and submarines, continues to perfect

both unconventional capabilities.

Can you imagine a scenario where

those cables are cut or disrupted,

which would immediately

and potentially catastrophically

affect both our economy

and other ways of living?

There's been a recent increase

in Russian submarine activity,

with US intelligence officials also

warning they've been aggressively

operating in those areas

where the cables are laid.

The Defence Chief said Britain

and Nato needed to match Russia's

fleet modernisation.

But the Royal Navy's been shrinking.

And with fears of yet more defence

cuts, this was also a plea -

for more resources.

This kind of problem and

the protection of these assets does

require more naval effort.

And, of course, the number

of ships and submarines

And, of course, the number of ships

and submarines that we've

got has been reducing

over decades, actually.

So it is a call for modernisation.

So just how real is this threat

of cutting cables or tapping

lines of communication?

The reality is, they're more

likely to be damaged

by stray anchors or nature,

even by curious sharks.

And with dozens of cables and ships

regularly carrying out repairs,

it would be hard to completely sever

these lines of communication.

Yet in this era of information

and unconventional warfare,

it is a growing concern.

Jonathan Beale, BBC News.

There was a "catastrophic failure"

when the Church of England agreed

to compensate a woman who said she'd

been sexually abused by a bishop -

that's according to a lawyer

who reviewed the case.

The former Bishop of Chichester,

George Bell, who died in 1958,

was alleged to have repeatedly

abused a young girl.

The woman made a formal complaint

in 1995 and, ten years later,

won an apology and compensation

from the Church of England.

Our religious affairs correspondent,

Martin Bashir, reports.

Scholar, priest and champion

of the oppressed -

George Bell served as Bishop

of Chichester for 30 years,

until his death in 1958.

But his reputation was suddenly

challenged two years ago,

when it emerged that this woman had

made allegations that he'd

abused her when she was a child.

I want people to know

that he might have been a hero,

but heroes don't always

do good things.

The Church apologised

and paid her more than £16,000

for what it called a "devastating

betrayal of trust".

But supporters of Bishop Bell found

the claims impossible to believe

and demanded a review

of the Church's handling

of the allegations.

Today's report is the result

of an 18-month audit conducted

by the barrister Lord Carlile.

The way in which the George Bell

case was investigated was poor.

That the wrong questions were asked,

that there was oversteer

in the investigation -

by which, I mean there

were preconceptions, which were not

in favour of George Bell.

The report contains

a catalogue of criticisms.

It says the investigation

was very weak.

Almost no effort was made to contact

Bishop Bell's family.

And concludes that "for

Bishop Bell's reputation to be

catastrophically affected in the way

that occurred was just wrong".

As a Church, we acknowledge that

and we certainly don't want to hide

want to hide from that,

but we have put in place -

as you'll be aware -

policies and guidelines.

We're much more rigorous.

We're much more better resourced.

We're undertaking training

on a much wider basis.

And it's for those reasons that

I can see the Church is taking

safeguarding extremely seriously.

Lord Carlile's review is the third

occasion in this year alone

that the Church of England has had

to acknowledge serious

failings in its handling

of child abuse allegations.

Although in this case,

it was not the alleged victim

who suffered additional harm,

but the reputation of a bishop

who died 60 years ago.

Martin Bashir, BBC

News, at Church House.

Before her murder, the MP

Jo Cox set up a commission

to tackle loneliness,

saying she didn't want to live

in a country where thousands

of people are living lonely lives,

forgotten by the rest of us.

Now her campaign is calling

for a government-led strategy

to address the problem -

saying it can be as harmful

to health as smoking

15 cigarettes a day.

Danny Savage reports.

You can't catch me!

In the months before

she was murdered, Jo Cox started

a campaign to tackle loneliness.

The MP said she didn't want to live

in a country where thousands

of people are living lonely lives,

forgotten by the rest of us.

The campaign carried on in her name,

and has now concluded we all have

to do our bit to combat loneliness.

So how's your leg after your fall?

Susan spent months feeling

isolated and desperate,

but things improved hugely

when the Royal Voluntary

Service befriended her.

Oh, I was really low.

I were depressed, I tried

to take my own life.

I were really bad.

I were in a lot of pain.

And if it wasn't for these people,

all these people that's helping me

now, I wouldn't be here.

And I appreciate everything that

people's done for me.

It's not always obvious to people

that they might be lonely or in need

of some companionship.

And what we offer isn't somebody

to come in and just talk at people.

What we're doing is,

we're saying to people -

would you like to be part

of something where you meet

somebody, you get to know them,

they get to know you,

and you create a friendship?

This morning, in Jo Cox's hometown

of Batley, the report

was officially launched.

This isn't just about being old.

Loneliness can affect us at any

stage in our lifespan...

Jo's sister spoke passionately

about getting people

talking about loneliness.

I've spoken to loads of people

recently who think, you know,

communities aren't like they used

to be, where you knew

your neighbours and you

knew everybody's name.

And it's trying to sort of reconnect

people so we get back to that.

Have you got some mince pies in?

No.

The Jo Cox Loneliness Commission

suggests government and employers

must do their bit to deal

with loneliness, but also,

that individuals and communities

are the most important

for preventing isolation.

Danny Savage, BBC News, Batley.

In the Ashes, a century from batsman

Jonny Bairstow helped England post

a total of 403, as they look to

fight back in the five-match series.

They need at least a draw in Perth

this week to avoid a series defeat.

But Australia had the better of day

two, and at the end of play,

the hosts were just 200 runs behind

England, with seven

wickets remaining.

Andy Swiss reports from Perth.

The Waca is traditionally

where Australian heroes are made,

but would this be another day

for English ones?

Well, it seemed so at first,

as Dawid Malan and Jonny Bairstow

picked up their marathon partnership

where they'd left off.

Bairstow completing

a superb century.

After his now infamous incident

in a Perth bar, he celebrated

by head-butting his helmet.

England were enjoying themselves.

But out of nowhere, guess what?

Malan went to a brilliant catch

by Peter Hanscomb for 140,

and the rest crumbled

in all-too-familiar fashion.

Losing their last six wickets in 48

mind-boggling minutes.

They just made it to the 400

mark, but it should have

been so much better.

Well, to be all out by lunchtime

here wasn't exactly

part of England's plan.

That was some batting collapse,

even by their standards,

and Australia are suddenly right

back in it.

So could England's bowlers

repair the damage?

Well, they made a decent start -

Craig Overton removing both openers,

but further chances slipped

through their fingers.

They were difficult ones,

but they proved damaging.

Usman Khawaja made a half-century

by the time he was eventually

trapped leg before, and there was no

budging his skipper.

Steve Smith still there on 92.

If only some of England's earlier

batting had shown such stickability.

You can look at it

and go, yeah, we've let

You can look at it and go, yeah,

we've let the position slip.

But at the same time,

our job now when we come back

in the morning is a case of,

right, we have got

the capabilities of taking five,

six wickets in a session,

we have shown that previously, so

there is no reason why we can't now.

A day which belonged to Australia,

then, but a Test which England

can't afford to lose

is still tantalisingly poised.

Andy Swiss, BBC News, Perth.

The US space agency, Nasa,

says it's discovered an eighth

planet circling a distant sun -

making it the first solar system

to have the same number

of planets as our own.

The eight-orbiter star,

known as Kepler-90,

and the discovery reveals an order

like Earth and its neighbours -

with small planets nearest the sun,

and bigger ones further away.

Paul Rincon reports.

Astronomers have discovered more

than 3,000 planets circling other

stars but very few plans to systems

resemble our own. Now a team using

the Kepler space telescope has

confirmed the distant -- existence

of

seven were already known but experts

trained a software programme to

recognise known planets and the

programme search to raw data and

identified a previously unknown

world.

The planet we found,

Kepler-90, is the smallest of the

bunch and orbits just outside the

inner two planets. The new planet is

small enough that we think it is

probably rocky and does not have a

big B, the surfaces like we

scorching hot. We calculated it

probably has an average temperature

of 800 Fahrenheit.

They used

computers to look into data and bind

things people did not have spot --

have time to spot, providing good

candidates for worlds hidden within

the Kepler data, machines can up the

slack and go and discover these

worlds.

The distant planetary system

is ordered like our own, with the

small worlds nearest the star and

biggest planets further away. All

the planets' further in towards

their parent star which is known as

Kepler-90, which means they are

probably too hot for life as we know

it, but machine learning Kabeer

Yousaf bind the signatures of Earth

sized worlds elsewhere in the

cosmos. That could lead to

ground-breaking discoveries in the

search for life in the universe.

Kensington Palace has announced that

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will

marry on May Martine -- made the

19th next year. They had been dating

since the summer and announced their

engagement in November. They will

marry at St George's Chapel at

Windsor Castle.

Time for a look at the weather.

It is called the night with

widespread frost and it feels chilly

tonight, but many of us enjoying

sunshine. Anywhere sheltered from

the northerly wind such as South

Wales. Where you get the full force

of the northerly winds, wintry skies

in Scarborough and showers around. A

number of showers in the North East

of England. Pushing South across the

least angry and maybe in the Essex

and Kent, showers clipping West

Wales and the far South of England.

Rain showers across Northern Ireland

and wintry in Northern Scotland.

Temperatures at best five or 6

degrees. Chilly in the wind and as

we go into this evening, more

showers. Again across Northern

Ireland. Mostly rain, but wintry

across the North of Scotland.

Central Belt, Southern Scotland,

North West England, turning cold and

frosty by six o'clock. More cloud

into the Western fringes of Wales

and far south-west of England.

Showers continue overnight. Clearer

skies before more cloud across

eastern counties of England.

Although the viewer showers by this

stage, moving offshore. The showers

stay much the same, round the edges

overnight. The winds become lighter.

With clear skies, it is going to get

cold Andy frost will develop widely.

We could be down to -5, -6 in rural

parts, especially Northern England

and Scotland. A cold start this

weekend. Things will change, albeit

rather slowly. Instead of a

northerly wind, we get a

south-westerly wind which blows in

mild air across the country. But a

cold start on Saturday, frost

around. More cloud and showers in

the Northern Ireland over the Irish

Sea and into Wales and later the

south-west. For much of Scotland and

eastern England, very few showers

and sunshine. Temperatures only up

to two, three degrees and mild air

yet to reach this part of the UK. It

will eventually, another chilly

night across eastern areas Saturday

night and this weather front brings

a more significant change during the

second half of the weekend. You will

notice stronger winds,

south-westerly is for most of the

day, and more cloud around in

eastern areas and rain heads across

the country. Eventually,

temperatures as high as nine or even

10 degrees. As we head into the

first half of next week at least, it

stays mainly dry with not much rain

around. It could be mild and

possibly 14, 15 degrees, but that

comes with cloud.

Thanks very much.

comes with cloud.

Thanks very much.

A reminder of our main

story this lunchtime:

The Brexit talks can move to the

next phase, EU leaders in Brussels

agreed sufficient progress has been

made.

That's all from the BBC News at One,

so it's goodbye from me.