jeremy corbyn insists he is staying on as labour leader despite the defeat in the copeland by—election. theresa may faces a brexit rebellion from her own peers as lord heseltine says he'll back opposition calls to change the bill to trigger article 50. police in malaysia have declared kuala lumpur airport, where the half brother of north korea's leader was killed with a nerve agent 12 days ago, to be safe. president trump tweets that he will not be attending the white house correspondents‘ dinner, in another sign of the deteriorate relations with the media. also in the next hour: preparations are all most complete as hollywood prepares for the biggest night in film, the oscars. la la land is expected to the big winner, with m nominations, including best picture and best director. and coming up at 9:30: a look at the sunday morning front pages. good morning and

welcome to bbc news. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, has said he accepts some responsibility for defeat in the copeland by—election, but that he is determined to finish the job he was elected to do. in an article in the sunday mirror, he urges his party to stand together to take on the conservatives. he's expected to deliver a similar message when he speaks to the scottish labour conference this afternoon. our political correspondent, carole walker reports. jeremy corbyn is again making it clear he is not standing down and there will be no change of direction. he was in stoke last week when labour saw off the challenge from ukip to hold onto the seat, but he says his party's defeat in copeland was deeply

disappointing and he takes his of theresa may's leadership and policies. but the labour leader urges his party to stand together, to turn back the tory tide. mr corbyn says places like copeland have been left behind by globalisation. he admits labour hasn't done enough to rebuild trust with people, who he says have been sold out for decades and don't feel labour represents them. in his article in the sunday mirror, he writes: but his words are unlikely to reassure the critics in his party, who fear they are heading for defeat at the general election under his leadership. with me is our political

correspondent, tom barton. questions are still hanging there, aren't they? there is no doubt that the copeland by—election result was bad news forjeremy corbyn and the labour party. it was a defeat in a labour party. it was a defeat in a labour stronghold, in a seat which was halfway between two general elections and they should have expected to win. jeremy corbyn, writing in the sunday mirror today, recognises that he has a share of responsibility to take for that defeat, but at the same time, he says he is determined to finish the job of labour leader. he signalled there is not going to be any change of direction for the labour party. he points out, as you saw in the report, he won a leadership election five months ago with an increased majority. there is certainly no appetite on jeremy majority. there is certainly no appetite onjeremy corbyn‘s part to go anywhere. as for his opponents, i get the sense there is not really

any appetite for change amongst them either. they recognise that they have very little chance of winning any attempt to oustjeremy corbyn. the thing is, they also worry that i haveis the thing is, they also worry that i have is the labour party does not have is the labour party does not have much chance of winning a general election if he stays. we will hear from general election if he stays. we will hearfrom him later today general election if he stays. we will hear from him later today so general election if he stays. we will hearfrom him later today so it is really the first fallout he has had since all of this arose, isn't a question mark it was not answering many questions yesterday. yes, this is the first major speech of any real thought that he has given since those by—election results on friday morning. he will speak to the scottish labour conference today, and of course he is in scotland, which is a place where labourface if you like, their biggest challenge. at last election, they lost what was effectively a stranglehold over electoral politics in scotland, and they were all but wiped out. if you want to see the challenge faced by the labour party,

there is no better place to look down scotland. the question for jeremy corbyn is whether he is going to be able to overturn the snp stranglehold in scotland, and whether he can do something similar in england with the conservative support there, because if he wants to be prime minister, he needs to do both of those things. thank you. the conservative former deputy prime minister, lord heseltine, has said he will rebel against the government when the house of lords votes on the bill giving theresa may the authority to trigger brexit. the peer says he will support an opposition amendment demanding that mps get a meaningful vote on the deal reached with the eu. a leaked report by us anti doping authorities has suggested alberto salazar — the coach of the british olympic champion, mo farah — may have broken the rules to boost the performance of some athletes. alberto salazar has been under investigation since a bbc panorama programme made allegations about drugs use at his us training base. at least 28 people have been injured

in new orleans after a suspected drunk driver ploughed his car into a crowd of people at the annual mardi gras parade. 21 people needed hospital treatment. russell trott reports. it's the biggest parade in the new orleans mardi gras festival. all eyes quickly turned to a pickup truck. according to eyewitnesses, it washed by in according to eyewitnesses, it washed byina according to eyewitnesses, it washed by in a flash before ploughing into other vehicles. the families gathered on the roadside didn't stand a chance. among those injured, children as young as three. it happened in a matter of seconds. people were scattered. we suspect that the suspect was highly intoxicated. he is in custody and is being investigated now

and is in our main office. an eyewitness said the driver seemed disoriented and possibly drunk and didn't appear to realise what he had done. the man has now been taken into police custody. a sense of shock and disbelief here, only tempered by the realisation that this is unlikely to have been a terror—related incident. president trump has said he won't be attending this year's white house correspondents dinner. the news came in a tweet by donald trump — in another sign of worsening relations with the mainstream press. only three other leaders have missed the annual event — which has been going on for more than a century. our washington correspondent, laura bicker, explained the significance of donald trump's decision to stay away. this seems to be a further deterioration of the president's relationship with the press. this dinner is usually an annual star—studded, glittery event. a chance for the press and the president to sit down together, put any animosity aside. president trump has decided that this year, he will not attend. 15 presidents have

been to this dinner. it has only been skipped on three occasions. that was president nixon in 1972, president carter in 1978, and ronald reagan in 1981. ronald reagan could not go because of an assassination attempt, and he even phoned in. that is how rare it is for the president to step aside and not attend. but it comes after a number of stepping up of the attacks on the media. president trump has described some outlets as "fake news", and he says that fake news is an enemy of the american people. and then on friday at a white house briefing, certain selected members of the media were not allowed in. that was cnn, the new york times, the bbc, amongst others. our editor is still asking for an explanation as to why we were not allowed in, and we are not sure whether or not this will continue. what this message that president trump has put out

on a tweet makes clear is that his animosity and his relationship with the press is not going to get any better. also in the united states, democrats have elected a new national chairman. tom perez is a former member of barack obama's cabinet. he acknowledged that the democrats were facing a crisis of confidence following the election of president trump, but said the party would succeed if it led with its values. some day they are going to study this era in american history, and they are going to study it, along the know—nothing movement. they will ask the question of all of us, where were you in 2017 when we had the worst president in the history of the united states? and we will all be able to say, whether you are sitting here, whether you are sitting outside, or whether you are looking on across america, we will all be able to say, the united democratic party led the resistance ensuring that this president was a one—term president in elected democrats

across this country. police in malaysia have declared kuala lumpur airport, where the half brother of north korea's leader was killed with a nerve agent 12 days ago, to be safe. security officials carried out a detailed search of the terminal building for the presence of vx and other toxic chemicals, but found nothing. attention is now focused on completing identification of the body. we have now more or less completed the announcement by the chemistry department of the identification of the exact chemical involved, and we have got the autopsy results. i think that result along with this, will be submitted to the police. the whole aim of doing an autopsy is to identify the

cause of death. so that process has been done, and ourfindings are very much in line with the chemical, which has been identified. it is very much in line. in fact, we actually suspected from the very outset that it is a form of poisoning because of changes we had identified earlier. so that confirms oui’ identified earlier. so that confirms our suspicions. so that part is settled, so that information, the full autopsy report will be given to the police for them to handle it, with the cause of death. the other challenge facing us, of course, is the identification of the body. that is the next process. of course, the

best will be to have the next blood related kin, where we can do dna profiling. the latest therefrom kuala lumpur. german police are waiting to speak toa man german police are waiting to speak to a man who drove into a crowd in heidelberg, killing one man and injuring two others. the driver was shot and wounded by police as he tried to flee the scene. the police say there are no signs it was a terrorist attack, but the motive is unclear. the search for an 18—year—old man reported to have fallen off arbroath cliff in angus will resume this morning. the emergency services were alerted yesterday lunchtime, but an operation including a helicopter, lifeboat and land based rescuers, failed to find the missing teenager. health officials have launched a campaignfora health officials have launched a campaign for a truly tobacco free nhs. some hospitals enforce a ban on smoking outside hospitals and public

health england is encouraging hospitals to encourage patients to quit. more than a million smokers are admitted to nhs hospitals in the uk every year. many hospital trusts in england have already banned smoking, but it isn't always easy, and public health england says much more needs to be done to achieve a tobacco—free nhs. according to recent figures, one in four hospital patients in the uk are smokers. but just 28% are asked if they want help to stop, and only 7% are referred for treatment. public health england now wants trusts to ban smoking in and outside all nhs buildings in england and all smokers to be offered help to quit. that might include prescriptions for nicotine replacements, or a referral to a stop smoking support service, but it also wants a senior clinician employed at every hospital to make sure it happens. if you get referred, your chances of successfully quitting are four

times what they would be, compared to if you tried a self attempt quit. so it goes from 5% to about 20%, which may sound modest, if you repeat this and people try again to quit, after several attempts there's a much greater chance of success. smoking is already banned by law across hospitals in northern ireland and in scotland and wales they are preparing to bring in legislation later this year. the department of health in england says it has no plans to make it illegal at the moment. a £17 million investment for britain's artificial intelligence and robotics industries has been announced by the government. it's estimated the sector could add billions of pounds to the uk economy by 2035, as our business correspondent joe lynam reports. there may well be a time when robots like this are accepted as part of our everyday life. as gentle as lambs,

but chores like babysitting, and with the strength for more ominous services. artificial intelligence used to be the preserve of science fiction, but ai is coming and the government thinks britain will be well—placed to benefit. artificial intelligence is when machines imitate human behaviour and where robots can be trained to take important decisions without being ordered to do so by humans. i'm a sophisticated combination of hardware and software... the department of culture, media and sport believes ai could be worth an additional £651; billion to the uk economy within 20 years. before that, though, the government will spend £17 million on al research, including into surgical micro—robotics, as well as robots capable of operating within nuclear facilities. some may worry, though, that self—thinking computers to the uk economy by 2035, as our business correspondent

joe lynam reports. you're watching breakfast from bbc news. the main stories this morning: jeremy corbyn says he takes his share of responsibility for the labour party's defeat in the copeland by—election. but he's insisting he will stay on as leader. calls for a ban on smoking outside hospitals. public health england also wants to help patients to quite as part of a tobacco—free nhs. lord heseltine says he will rebel against the government when there is another vote on the bill to trigger brexit. and kuala lumpur airport is declared safe. iraqi forces continue their advance into western mosul in an attempt to remove so—called islamic state. this report comes from an advanced state

where american troops are playing a key pa rt. this woman is a victim of islamic state's latest tactic in its desperate bid to avoid defeat in mosul. the 55—year—old mother of seven from the eastern part of the city was hit in a drone strike. her leg shattered. "i was lying on the ground and people were pointing to the sky from where the bomb came", she told me. one of dozens of drone attack victims they've treated at this hospital. this is pretty new for this conflict, but also for conflicts all over the world. these mortars can be very effective and the impact on the population really, really brutal. this is video eulogises the use of commercially available drones to drop bombs and grenades. an organisation which governs according to brutal feudal codes, adapting modern technology to lethal effect. drones are yet another threat for government troops now pursuing fighters from so—called islamic state into the narrow

streets of mosul. after days of fierce clashes on the edge of the city. but from a field just to the south, big american guns are helping to sway the battle perhaps decisively in the government's favour. this is an overwhelmingly iraqi military operation, but the role of american advisers and troops, so—called boots on the ground, is also critical. us artillery pieces pounding targets in mosul. american commanders are reluctant to divulge too many sensitive details, but say us military support will be decisive. the fight in western mosul would be a tough fight for really any army in the world. so the iraqi army, the iraqi federal police again will face a tough fight. it will be a lot of house—to—house fighting. the enemy is cornered. they don't have any choice but to fight. there are an estimated 750,000 civilians still trapped

inside the besieged city. wyre davies, bbc news, northern iraq. robert mcgarvey is celebrating his birthday. despite calls for him to resign, the 93—year—old zimbabwean president is showing no signs of easing up. this is how the ruling wing is bridging the gap between it long—term leader and zimba bwe's youthful population. at an expensive birthday party, with a cake so large it takes more than six adults to carry it. president robert mugabe turned 93 on tuesday. my family and i thank almighty god that i was able to live from 92 last year, to 93. he

is noticeably frail, but it is not the two vice presidents, but is relatively young wife, who is taking centre stage in zimbabwean politics. at 93, he is the world's oldest statesman. for most people here, is the only leader they have ever known. mugabe says that most of these people have failed to find a replacement that is acceptable to them, and that he will stand again for election next year, aged 94. there is a visible difference between the wealth displayed at party functions, and how the majority of zimbabweans live. only one in every five zimbabwean has a formaljob. this is how some of the others are surviving. they sit on the side of the road daily, waiting to be hired. this man is a young

graduate, with lots of qualifications, but he has not had a job for three years. he believes the costly birthday celebrations were a misplaced priority. imagine if a million had been put into two factories. that is like 200 young people. critics say mugabe's policies to take over white owned farms and companies are driving away foreign money. supporters believe he is leading the african racers, and that one day soon the wealth displayed here will be for everyone to enjoy. the red carpet has been rolled out for the biggest night in hollywood. tonight is the 89th academy awards, and there are a few british hopes. this report does contain flash

photography. # city of stars # are you shining just for me? # hollywood's golden age refashioned for the 21st century. dazzling and bittersweet, la la land has a record equalling 14 oscar—nominations. the film has three big stars. emma stone, ryan gosling, and los angeles itself. we are standing right where i was sitting when ryan and emma drive up in the car. the woman responsible for the film's breathtaking choreography is now in last—minute rehearsals for tonight's academy awards. we are doing a medley of city of stars and audition. the fabulousjohn legend will be singing, which is really great. ryan and emma would have been great, butjohn legend is incredible. we have got 20 dancers, and it will be very much in the vein of la la land. i think our fans will be very satisfied, i hope. the big question in los angeles tonight is,

will the academy opt for the escapism of la la land, or will it choose to confront one of the many serious subjects on offer, in pretty much every other nominated film? there is manchester by the sea on a study in grief, which has six nominations. denzel washington directs and stars in fences, in which a father struggles to bring up his family in a segregated america. it is not easy for me to admit that i have been standing in the same place for 18 years. i was standing with you! i spent 18 years of my life standing in the same spot as you! that colonel... hidden figures also tackles racism and sexism. the true story of three women working at nasa has been a huge box office hit. why didn't you come home like you were supposed to? and then there is moonlight, with its themes of neglect, drug addiction and sexuality, earning a nomination for britain's naomi harris. really great art reflects

society and it edifies us, but it shows us a different way of operating. i definitely think it will be a political year at the oscars. not least when it comes to the documentaries, several of which focus on the war in syria and its consequences. the syrian rescue workers, known as the white helmets, say they will not fly to la for the oscars, amid reports that they would have been refused entry to the us. i think all we need to focus on right here is that these people are heroes, they are some of the most brave humanitarians in the world, and they were nominated for a nobel peace prize last year. if those people are not welcome on this soil, there is a real problem. and so we approach the oscars amid talks of politics and protest. in some ways, the world of entertainment has never felt so serious. james cook, bbc news, in hollywood. people are being asked not to get

too close to a humpback whale which has been spotted off the coast of south devon. it has been at start bay near slapton south devon. it has been at start bay near sla pton and south devon. it has been at start bay near slapton and is believed to be with eight cast. the bay is being patrolled by police and they are warning that anyone caught harassing the whale could be prosecuted. 40 humbug wales have been seen of the uk coastline in the past year, which isa uk coastline in the past year, which is a record high. rugby league and ballet have come together in a unique experiment. the wigan warriors academy team have turned to ballet training to help improve their performance on the field. layers have started to perfect their pirouettes as a way of increasing their strength and reducing injuries. classical music plays. moves often choreographed in training characterised by light, graceful technique. moves like this are also

choreographed in training and characterised by light, gracefultechnique. yes, there are more similarities between ballet and rugby league than you might think. and peel the foot off the floor and do the pas. of course it is easier if you are not wearing a suit. as soon as we got told told it wasn't a joke and we were actually going to be doing this, i just jumped right in. i thought it was for girls, but when i tried it, it was really hard. just like on the pitch the under 19s' hard work has paid off away from it. the improvement in such a short time, they're sports people and theyjust want to be good at everything, including ballet. this is alan, pianist and pioneer, the brainchild behind the ballet. we set it up with warriors. surprisingly they agreed which was incredible. we are off to see the royal ballet on thursday at covent garden. so could sean wayne's newly crowned world champions follow suit? we have taken a massive interest

in this, the first team, and i wouldn't be surprised if they started incorporating this into their recovery. a regime which maybe even help them stay in first position. while you ponder that, let's get the weather. hello, the weather is going to throw just about everything over the next couple of days. rain, snow, ice, hail, thunder. and some sunshine as well. it was not a bad start in north lincolnshire, or across the scottish highlands with some beautiful sunrises, as captured by oui’ beautiful sunrises, as captured by our weather watchers earlier on. through the day out west, things are changing. increasingly wet and windy weather here, courtesy of this cloud which has been named, not by the uk met office, but why the irish weather service, who have named it

storm ewan because they are concerned about the impact across the republic of ireland. here we will see some wet and windy weather in western areas. and some rainfall here as well, some heavy bursts at times. let's focus on these western areas. through this afternoon, coastal parts of the south west of england could see gusts up to 50 mph. but of wales, north—west england, the isle of man, and more generally across southern scotland later, wind asked up to 60 most power. not a great day for a trip to the coast, particularly when you couple those strong winds with heavy rain, and snowfall across northern scotland. the south—east will state largely dry, some brighter spells, but generally quite cloudy with temperatures 11 or 12 degrees. this evening, this rain moves across england and wales, fizzling away as it goes. rain and snow moving across scotland, and severe gales across the far north of the mainland. then

a real rush of showers packing in from the west as temperatures fall as well. that could lead us to some icy stretches during tomorrow morning. they're that in mind if you are travelling will stop particular up are travelling will stop particular up towards the north—west. through the day tomorrow, some spells of sunshine, but we will also see lots of showers, some heavy with hail and thunder wintry, especially over high ground, and even lower levels. a very different day tomorrow. tuesday might still be as cold north or north—westerly wind, still plenty of showers, some sunshine in between, up showers, some sunshine in between, up to showers, some sunshine in between, upto9 showers, some sunshine in between, up to 9 degrees. it stays changeable through the rest of the week.