UK Cabinet Backs Draft Brexit Agreement

The UK cabinet has backed a draft withdrawal agreement between the UK and the EU, Prime Minister Theresa May has said, after what she said was a "long, detailed and impassioned debate" in a five-hour cabinet meeting. She said it was a "decisive step" in the progress of Brexit, and would allow the agreement to be finalised. We'll hear from the BBC's Rob Watson on how this deal came about.

Many economic issues are at stake including the future of the British fishing industry, which had hoped to benefit from the deal. We get a report from the UK's busiest fishing port, Peterhead in Scotland.

President Donald Trump is about halfway through his first term in office and after last week's midterm elections the Democrats are expected to ramp up the pressure on the President amid a series of investigations, including a probe into his personal tax affairs. The American economist, Irwin Stelzer, tells us what he expects.

People try to copyright all sorts of things, to protect a new invention or design, but can you copyright a taste? The EU's highest court, the Court of Justice, has ruled that you cannot. The ruling came after a Dutch company, Levola, tried to claim a monopoly on the taste of its cheese spread. We hear why the case stoked controversy in the Netherlands.

And we'll also have a look at the US markets with Susan Schmidt of Aviva Investors in Chicago.

(Picture:The flags of the European Union and United Kingdom at the European Commission. Getty Images)