EU considers Brexit extension request

A senior British government minister has insisted that Britain will leave the European Union eleven days from now, regardless of an official request to postpone Brexit.

Also in the programme: Police in Hong Kong have clashed again with protesters who've defied a ban on marches and face masks; and a plane has made the longest non-stop commercial flight - from New York to Sydney - taking more than nineteen hours.

Picture: A handout picture released by the UK Parliament shows Britain"s Prime Minister Boris Johnson on October 19, 2019. Credit: AFP via Getty Images.