for this house and absolutely vital for this house and the other place to have a here's eric specter devote to have a meaningful say on any final brexit let's go to the lord of the government is facing the prospect of another defeat. over the brexit process , another defeat. over the brexit process, peers are voting right now for parliament to be given a legal guarantee of a vote on any final brexit deal. with mps allowed more than a brexit deal. with mps allowed more thana simple brexit deal. with mps allowed more than a simple yes or no on the final agreement. let's speak to our correspondence, vicky young, who was there. the government is expected to

get a bloody nose with this result in the next few minutes. yes, we get the next five minutes or so and don't the lords have already inflicted a defeat on the government on the issue of eu citizens, saying the government should act unilaterally to guarantee their rights so this bill has already been changed once by peers and now they are trying to do the same again and this is on the idea of what they call a meaningful vote, at the end of the process, once theresa may has gone off, had these years of negotiation and she comes back to parliament, she has promised that there will be a parliamentary vote at the end of it. what they are saying is it's got to be more than a simple rubber stamp exercise. it has to give them, parliament, the chance to give them, parliament, the chance to say no, we don't like this deal, go back and get a better one and what they are not happy about is the notion that it will either be the deal she gets or that the uk drops out without any deal at all. some of

them are very concerned about that. we have had a very heated debate in the house of lords today. we've had former tory cabinet ministers like norman tebbit and michael heseltine and michael forsyth, nigel lawson all getting up and taking a very keen interest in all of this. the minister for the government in the last few minutes just winding up the government's argument, saying we will deliver on the vote, we will honour our promise. there's no question that we won't do that. he says the promise is that it ties the hands of ministers going into negotiations, so that result we will get in the next few minutes. 0k, thank you for that. as isa, when we do get the result we will bring it toa do get the result we will bring it to a soon as we can do get the result we will bring it to a soon as we can hear do get the result we will bring it to a soon as we can hear on the bbc news channel but now it is time for sports day. hello, i'm olly foster, these are our sportsday headlines this evening. sir dave brailsford admits that mistakes have been made at team sky but says they are a clean team and doping allegations are false.

iamat i am at the emirates for arsenal will have to make champions league history to beat bayern munich to a place in the quarterfinals. and five medals in five olympics. katherine grainger receives her damehood from the queen. we will be back at the lawrence when we get that vote. good evening last week, british cycling reached an all time low. they apologised for failings as the organisation was accused of a culture of bullying and discrimination, and also accepting serious failings in their medical record keeping that has hampered a uk anti—doping investiagtion into allegations of wrongdoing.

today, the head of team sky, sir dave brailsford has attempted to end the specualtion about the nature of the medicine couriered to sir bradley wiggins six years ago after a race. our sports editor dan roan is with me. dan, he has written to the dcms select committee looking at doping in sport and given them plenty of detail about the mystery package. will this be enough to stop this starnd of their enquiries? the last few days have seen some pretty queasily headlines for a team sky and also for dave brailsford. he was among the most respected voices in british sport. his position was reportedly coming under serious pressure and was underjeopardy and this is his attempt to take control and have something of a fightback. you saw several team sky riders tweeting their support. notable by his absence was chris froome who tweeted about his steak supper and

this evening he has been tweeting about a visit to a zoo but noticeably not backing dave brailsford. this is crucial. this document tries to put meat on the bones of the explanation that team sky initially came up with, but it was the simple decongestant. they have explained why there was a surplus of the corticosteroid. they have admitted that records for missing and admitted mistakes but they have rejected some of the accusations and criticisms describing them as unfair and unreasonable. he has also received backing this evening from those who bankroll his team, the chairman of tea m bankroll his team, the chairman of team sky tonight tweeting that he was giving ioo% support to dave brailsford. whether this will be enough to alleviate the pressure depends on what revelations come forward but the immediate danger

seems to have passed and ultimately, if there are more negative headlines, that is dependent on that. thank you. history could be made tonight in the champions league. arsenal need to be the first team to overturn a four goal first—leg deficit to reach the quarter—fnals, while their opponents bayern munich could be on course to match their own record of the biggest aggregate win at this stage of the competition. we are not going to get to our correspondent. we are heading straight back to the lords. my lords, the votes content 386, not content is 268. the content is have it. giving the news that the government has been defeated in the

lords by quite a substantial margin, 366 two 268. this was expected. a resounding defeat for the government, but having said that it will go back to the commons and they will go back to the commons and they will change it. this is a similar debate and a similar scale over the rights of eu citizens. a huge debate for the government, as you say, what happens now is that the lords carry on and have the third reading, the final stage of the bill for them and thenit final stage of the bill for them and then it is passed over to the house of commons probably sometime next week. they to consider the changes that

the lords have made. theresa may believes this bill should go through unchanged and she says that downing street believe it is a brief bill which does one thing, trigger article 50 which gets the brexit negotiations going on. they do not see it there should be anything else written but the lords see it differently. once theresa may has got her deal, they believe that parliament should have a say on that. i am joined parliament should have a say on that. iam joined by parliament should have a say on that. i am joined by the leader of the labour peers. another huge defeat for the government, what is your assessment? it need not be a defeat, this is what theresa may said she wanted to do and all the house of lords has been doing is debating it and putting it on paper. we will go back to the house of commons and i hope they will take note of the comments that were made. they might want to change it in light of some of the discussions but it isa light of some of the discussions but it is a good result for parliament. the minister and the government have not sounded like they were happy about change, they say they will honour their promise, you do not

lead to put it into legislation, it could tie the hands of ministers entering negotiations. how can that be when the prime minister said it is what she wants to do. it is hard to argue, if you put it into legislation, it ties your hand, it isa legislation, it ties your hand, it is a case of making sure that the government holds the promise, it might not be the promise of ford theresa may in a few weeks' time, all kinds of things can change and we have heard from the government on child refugees, that you do not need to but the detail on paper. the way that they have behaved amat, it shows you do need to put the detail on paper. what about the argument from downing street that this will encourage the eu to give us a worse deal. they can say that the ministers do not have the authority, it is parliament that can boot out the day that bag of the deal? that will only hold weight if the prime minister said there would be no vote

for parliament but it is in the white paper that this should be a vote and i am struggling to understand why the government have said it and put it in the white paper. why they are so opposed to putting in what they promise to do in the bill. those arguments do not stack up or hold weight. what happens if we fast forward two years and if theresa may gets the best deals she can get and if parliament says, we do not like this and they reject it, what does that mean? does that mean we stay in the eu are relieved about a deal? that is part of the key to this, either the government makes the decision or parliament does, i think it is better in terms of democracy, bringing decisions back to the uk parliament. my point is also, if there is going to be a vote in parliament at the end, there is going to be that engagement in the process. it would be completely

irresponsible for the parliament to say goodbye theresa may, come back and tell us what you have done. this picture that the government works with parliament to get the best deal possible during the negotiations. ministers say you cannot really negotiate like that. you cannot do it publicly with parliament having a say at every stage. the government has to report back, they have promised to do that already. the government is arguing against themselves, they say they are going to do anything but they're not held accountable. if the government says there are going to be brought back to parliament and have parliament to vote at the end, it so wrong putting that in the legislation. part of the issue is that theresa may went out early, short bill, no amendment, but they do not want that. lawyers have said that if the government does not

have an agreement now about agreeing the deal with parliament they will need new legislation so would it not be easier to do that now rather than do it in two years' time. what happens next? we know the bill will go back to the commons, there is not much indication that the conservative mps have changed their mind on either the rights of eu citizens or this meaningful vote, it could come back to the lords and what will labour deal? we do not know what the view of the house of commons will be. we have always said that the house of commons has the final say. the government says it wants to invoke article 50 by the end of march. i would say to the mps, i think the house of lords want to see evidence they have listened to the debate, they have listened to the debate, they have listened to the debate, they have looked at the comments and if they listen to them and take them on board and discount them but if they ignore them, that is not a good sign from the house of commons and i am hoping that they will listen to the debates and look at the point

that have been made about how this helps the government and it is really just reinforcing prominences and putting in writing what the prime minister said she wanted to do. thank you. that is the view from labour, the liberal democrats have vowed to fight this all the way. they said they would vote this evening against the third reading, the final stage here, but all eyes will be on the house of commons next week to see how they respond to what the lords have said. that will be interesting. bit of a shellacking further government in the lords and arsenal are facing the same tonight. they are facing their own brexit. let us carry on with the sport. we we re let us carry on with the sport. we were talking about arsenal and the second league of their last 16 knockout tie in the champions league against bayern munich. they are 5—1 down after the first leg and it would be a record if they could

somehow reach the quarterfinals, they need to score at least four. for us...|t promises to be an exciting night nataloie but that's probably not going to gloss over a terrible month for the gunners. it has been very bad, four defeats insects have left arsenal fans and the position of wondering if they are going to make the top four. arsene wenger has always made the top four in his 20 seasons but he has called for his players, lucid rage, that is what he wants to see tonight, lucid rage, to try and get them back in this game. the reality is, you can get better odds on the next james bond being is, you can get better odds on the nextjames bond being a woman than you can for arsenal tonight. the manager admits there is only a 2% chance of success but at least the

game plan is clear. the only advantage of our situation is that we have not much choice. we have of course got to go for it and to attack and go forward with determination and flow and try to score goals. if they are playing for pride, i think they arsenal fans will be looking closely at the players. yes arsene wenger denied there was a bust up with alexis sanchez but surely he was cutting off his nose to spite his face leaving him out against liverpool earlier, no smoke without a fire? even the club captain admitted the atmosphere at the moment between the players is tense. he did spend a large part of that press conference having to deny rumours of a bust up, but sanchez himself has put a quote on his instagram page that said,