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22/08/2019 GMT

France dampens Brexit deal hopes as UK PM visits

BBC World Service - World Update, France dampens Brexit deal hopes as UK PM visits

President Macron tells Boris Johnson renegotiating Brexit deal is 'not an option'.

The British prime minister, Boris Johnson, is in Paris to meet the French President, Emmanuel Macron who's said Brexit negotiations can't be re-opened.

Also on the programme: The US Secretary of State has spoken to his Danish counterpart in the row over Trump’s bid to buy Greenland; 400 years since the first slave ship landed in the US, more people are visiting Ghana than ever to explore their ancestral history. 

Picture: Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson (left) and French President Emmanuel Macron (centre). Credit: Stefan Rousseau/WPA Pool/Getty Images.

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