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UK Parliament Votes to Change Brexit Backstop

UK Prime Minister Theresa May will seek 'alternative arrangements' for the Irish border

UK Prime Minister Theresa May will seek 'alternative arrangements' for the Irish border after MPs voted to amend the existing Brexit deal and avoid a hard border in Irelan, after the UK leaves the EU. We ask George Parker, political editor of the Financial Times, what this will mean for Mrs May's negotiations with Brussels. Tech giant Apple announces its latest earnings and we're joined by our technology reporter Dave Lee to analyse the results. And after staff at Duke University in North Carolina berated students for speaking in Chinese rather than English, we ask Dutch linguist Gaston Dorren whether educational establishments should be dictating language use.

Roger Hearing is joined throughout the programme by Ralph Silva of the Silva Network in Toronto, and Sushma Ramachandran, former chief business correspondent for The Hindu in Delhi.

(Picture: British Prime Minister Theresa May. Credit: WIktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto, Getty Images)

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Wed 30 Jan 2019 01:06GMT

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