this is bbc news — i'm clive myrie. the headlines at 8pm. the government suffers its second defeat in a week in the house of lords over brexit. peers want a bigger say for parliament on any final deal. this is exactly what theresa may said she wanted to do and all the house of lords has been doing tonight is debating that and putting it on paper. i'm disappointed but i expect it will be overturned in the house of commons. money for new grammar schools in england is expected to be announced in tomorrow's budget. the cia refuses to comment as the website wikileaks publishes what it claims is evidence the agency uses a wide range of computer hacking tools. also in the next hour — the illegal trade in rhino horn takes a dramatic turn, with a raid on a zoo in paris. poachers broke into the wildlife park and shot dead rhino vince, cutting off part of his horn with a chainsaw. # i should've known better

than to cheat a friend # and waste a chance that i've been given # so i'm never gonna dance again and a coroner has ruled that the singer george michael died of natural causes, including heart and liver disease. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the government has suffered another defeat in the house of lords over the process of leaving the eu. peers have voted for an amendment to the brexit bill which calls for parliament to be given a "meaningful" vote on a final deal. here's a taste of the debate. our chief political co—respondent, vicki young is at westminster. it is worth remembering we are only

going through this process because the supreme court ordered the government that it had to have a bill to trigger article 50, to formally start those brexit negotiations. the government didn't wa nt to negotiations. the government didn't want to do any of this and maybe late at night we can see why, another defeat inflicted on the government by the house of lords by 366-266 government by the house of lords by 366—266 votes calling for a meaningful vote at the end of the process. theresa may has gone off and done the negotiations, got the deal, they say she must come back to parliament. she has promised a vote but they saved they want it written into the bill and put into law because some of them don't believe she will give them a meaningful vote. it was quite a heated debate in the house of lords, to crank the attack from labour and the lib dems which defeated the government. this is exactly what theresa may said she wanted to do. and all the house of lords has

been doing tonight is debating that and putting it on paper. so putting a promise on paper, putting it in legislation. i hope we'll go back to the house of commons. i hope they'll make note of the comments made. they may want to change it in light of some of the discussions had tonight. but it is a good result for parliament. sorry, it's not parliament'sjob to trust the prime minister. it's parliament's job to hold her to account. look, we've done our parliamentary duty today. brexit debate was all about the sovereignty of parliament and we've taken that seriously and said before this deal is passed it must be passed by parliament. no more no less. it's a fundamental principle. it's about our democracy. it's about parliamentary sovereignty and we have asserted that today and i'm very proud of it. the argument from the government in the house of lords to say they will honour the vote and they are concerned it ties the hands of ministers and undermines their authority because when they go into negotiations with the rest of the eu those eu leaders will say, hang on a

minute, parliament in britain could throw this all away anyway and the uk could end up staying in the european union. the minister said that was not the case, we would leave with or without a deal and promised there would be this vote. the government afterwards said it would seek to overturn all of this in the house of commons because tonight the bill, the end of that process happens in the house of lords in the next couple of hours and next week they will have to take it at the house of commons to overturn the changes, that's what the government has said it will do and this evening lord strathclyde came out to give the government's of view. i'm utterly convinced the government will go into the negotiation in the very best of faith and will try and get the best deal, notjust for the united kingdom but for the rest of europe. that must be possible. the problem with this amendment is it would make getting that negotiation to a successful conclusion more difficult, because it would incentivise the other side, the european commission in this case, to offer a worse deal on the basis that

parliament would then vote it down. so the freer way is to leave the bill unamended, send it, trigger section 50 and then start the negotiations in a serious and concerted manner. so now all eyes will be on the house of commons, in particular those conservative mps who have expressed doubt about all of this, who have said they are thinking about possibly voting against their own government to make sure this meaningful vote happens. i have to say, i spoke to a cabinet minister to knight who seems perfectly relaxed by all of this and confident they can overturn the changes the lords have brought in and downing street insisting theresa may remains on track to do exactly what she wa nted on track to do exactly what she wanted in the beginning, her timetable, to kick—sta rt wanted in the beginning, her timetable, to kick—start those negotiations by the end of this month. another eventful day at the lord's. vicki young at westminster, thank you. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages.

at 10:1i0pm this evening in the papers — our guestsjoining me tonight are laura hughes, political correspondent at the daily telegraph and pippa crerar, political correspondent at the london evening standard. stay with us for all that. money for new grammar schools in england is to be announced in tomorrow's budget. they will be among 140 free schools set up using a budget of $320 million in this parliament and the next. grammar schools are a key education policy of the government but labour has attacked the plans as a ‘vanity project‘ and says many schools that exist now need the money. our education editor bra nwen jeffreys reports. before the number crunching of the budget, a visit for the pm to a maths school. a little extra money for her education priorities, a signal to schools generally not to hope for more. we have protected the core schools budget, but, crucially, what we are announcing is half a billion pounds

of investment in schools, 320 million of which will be new schools. that will create around 70,000 new school places. the way they learn here, the model for more maths schools — something she wants as part of her industrial strategy. they do select their pupils, but only at the age of 16. this is not a grammar school, but a sixth form that pushes budding mathematicians to their best. we know that what we've done here for students who have this interest in mathematics and mathematical sciences has enabled transformation of those students. different futures, better futures for them, and therefore better futures for us all in a sense. so, having more schools like that is exactly what we need. education is all about creating a sense of opportunity, the hope that what your children learn will give them a better chance than you had. and that's what the prime minister is trying to tap into at a time when there are uncertain years ahead. this is all about the politics now, and very little about the modest amount of money.

the £320 million will pay for 110 new schools after 2020. that's on top of the 500 already promised before 2020. so, £7 billion is already allocated for new places in this parliament. what's new is that some could now be grammar schools. it's not a lot of extra money, and won't help with the financial pressures facing most schools in england. the government spending plans don't begin to address the real problems in our schools. we have buildings that are falling down, we've got a teacher recruitment and retention crisis. we can't get enough teachers into the classroom and we can't get them to stay there. traditional values and excellence — for some, that's what grammar schools mean. but others fear this is opportunity for the few, not the many. branwen jeffreys, bra nwen jeffreys, bbc branwen jeffreys, bbc news. joining me now is malcolm trobe,

the interim general secretary of the association of school and college leaders. thank you forjoining us. it's good to see you. grammar schools, lots of pa rents to see you. grammar schools, lots of pa re nts wa nt to see you. grammar schools, lots of parents want them. they seem to be popular and their results are usually good. it's all a good thing, isn't it? what we are saying very clearly is that we want every school to bea clearly is that we want every school to be a good school. the introduction of more selective schools will actually lead merely to an educated elite. going forward as an educated elite. going forward as a country what we need is the whole workforce, which is highly educated, computer literate, numerate etc, with a high degree of skills if we wa nt to ta ke with a high degree of skills if we want to take the country forward in terms of its own economic future. so we need a whole host of schools, we need all of our schools to be good.

selection won't, in fact, achieve that. it won't affect social mode of the. it's clear that there is a massive shortage of school places, £320 million is going to be earmarked for more schools tomorrow in the budget, we expect. that's a good thing, isn't it? yes, we are very aware there are an extra 450,000 young very aware there are an extra a50 , 000 young people very aware there are an extra 450,000 young people coming into the school system between last september and september 2020, so we need additional school places. the key thing here, clive, is that we need these schools built in the places where there is need, in other words where there is need, in other words where there is an increasing number of youngsters. what we don't want is to see schools built where we already have sufficient places. one of the problems going back as we have seen schools built where we already have sufficient places. as a

consequence of that we create surplus places. that destabilises the existing schools and is a cost to the school system so it's very, very important that the strategic planning for school places here so that we get schools only opened where there is a need. are you saying there has been no thought put into this at all? that the level of strategy in putting all this together hasn't really been there? initially, if we go back to 2010 the programme was too random and there we re programme was too random and there were schools that were opened without a great deal of strategic planning that is required. place planning that is required. place planning requires a lot of information, looking at the birth rate, looking at the youngsters coming through the school system. we are seeing that that has improved over the past few years. it still needs to improve further because we are still hearing about schools that are still hearing about schools that are open, perhaps, they are needed but not for another four or five yea rs, but not for another four or five years, they are opening too early and destabilising the existing

school system. so it does require very careful strategic planning. all of this is happening at the same time that existing establishments, existing schools need to lose billions of pounds. that's right. we need money going into the revenue budget, we are talking about capital budgets to increase the building stock here. we are also talking about the fact that schools are being pushed to make £3 billion worth of savings between now and 2020. we know that schools can't achieve that. we know that already schools are in the position where they haven't got enough teachers, they haven't got enough teachers, they are in the places where they are actually having to drop running are actually having to drop running a number of courses, either at gcse, a—level in secondary schools, we are seeing class sizes increase a reduction in the amount of extra curricular activity that schools are able to put on and a number of schools right now are coming off the financial cliff edge. dr malcolm

trobe, thank you forjoining us. . a coroner has confirmed that the singer george michael died of natural causes. the 53—year—old was found dead at his home in oxfordshire on christmas day. the coroner said the singer was suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and fatty liver — and there was no need for an inquest. in america, the cia has refused to comment on the leak of thousands of documents released by the wikileaks website, purportedly from the agency's cyber—intelligence operations. experts who've begun examining the papers say their first impression is that they're genuine, with the leak a major embarrassment to the central intelligence agency. i spoke to professor david stupples, an expert in military joining us now on webcam from houston in texas is chris sampson, a cyber terrorism expert. thank you forjoining us. how damaging is this to the cia? good evening. i would damaging is this to the cia? good evening. iwould have damaging is this to the cia? good evening. i would have to say right now it might not be as damaging as people would like to say in the

first 24 hours or so. looking over the code along with the 7000 pages included, the main thing we are saying is it has the history of the development of gathering various zero day exploits aimed at smartphones, smart tvs, networks, network routers and operating systems. so what we have here is a large wiki like system that has been released, explaining how the agency has been gathering these tools over a period of time and whether rising them. 0k. and are you convinced these documents are genuine from what you have seen? they appear genuine, notjust what you have seen? they appear genuine, not just based what you have seen? they appear genuine, notjust based on my evaluation of it but people who i have co nta ct evaluation of it but people who i have contact with who have experience of the agency and the military. how do you think wikileaks, or whoever military. how do you think wikilea ks, or whoever managed military. how do you think wikileaks, or whoever managed to get

their hands on this stuff, and passedit their hands on this stuff, and passed it to wikileaks, how did they get it? they specifically state they do not have the bleak source identified which is very custom for wikileaks but they also make announcement of the insecure systems used within the agencies and contractors like booz allen hamilton. there has been another breach this last year that may be tied to this that mirrors the edward snowden release back in 2013. so, is itan snowden release back in 2013. so, is it an inside job? at least by a contract, perhaps. it could be related to the booz allen leak we saw a few months ago. for some people, the idea that the cia does use modern technology to spy, that's not exactly a revelation, is it? use modern technology to spy, that's not exactly a revelation, is mm really shouldn't be. in fact, the idea that the government or any

governments are collecting zero dates, which for your viewer, a zero day is a vulnerability in code which has been there since the origin of the software and essentially a person comes along and sees a gap in there and identifies a vulnerability, at which point and exploit can be written to use that window into the code, if you will. what the cia seems to have done is taken a list of these for smartphones, smart tvs, routers, etc, and gathered them in order to identify ways to weaponised them. to give you an example of how that would play out, let's says you are able to seize the android operating system able to seize the android operating syste m o n able to seize the android operating system on your target, instead of worrying about whether they are using whatsapp, you could tell what the fobe da nac using whatsapp, you could tell what the fobe danac phone was doing long before it was encoded so now we have user collection ability. chris sampson, speaking to us from houston, thank you forjoining us. the headlines on bbc news:

the government suffers its second defeat in a week in the house of lords over brexit. peers want a bigger say for parliament on any final deal. money for new grammar schools in england is expected to be announced in tomorrow's budget. the cia refuses to comment as the website wikileaks publishes what it claims is evidence the agency uses a wide range of computer hacking tools. sport now and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. olly foster has the latest. good evening. arsenal need at leaast four goals tonight againmst bayern munich if they are to reach the champions league quarterfinals.. they lost 5—1 in the first leg three weeks ago. there was an organised protest mach outside the emirates before kick—off. fan calling for arsene wenger to leave the club. the only way

to silence those critics would be to make history perhaps and become the first tea m to overturn a four—goal deficit in this competition. theo walcott has given them a glimmer of hope with the opener, manuel neuer, somehow beaten from a tight angle. dries mertens has scored the goal, 3-2 dries mertens has scored the goal, 3—2 on aggregate. still a long way to go for the italians. only 35 minutes gone in those matches. zlatan ibrahimovich claimed that bournemouth‘s tyrone mings jumped into his elbow over the weekend, but manchester united's top scorer has accepted an fa charge of violent conduct and will be banned for three matches, starting with monday's fa cup quarter—final at chelsea. mings is appealing against a charge of stamping on ibrahimovic a couple of minutes earlier at old trafford. england's women face

germany in their final game of the she believes cup tonight. they are in america. they could win the tournament if results this evening go their way. mark sampson's lionesses go into the game on the back of a 1—0 win over world champions usa at the weekend. ellen white with the goal. a tough atough game, a tough game, i mean all three games are tough. all three teams are ranked higher than us in the world rankings. the germans, we've beaten them once ever and that was the world cup, which wasn't too long ago but we have had tight results against them since and i think it will be another good test but we can beat them. sir dave brailsford has written to the governbmanet selct committee investigating doping in sport and admitted that mistakes have been made with team sky's

medical record—keeping. in an eight—page document he has outlined how the organistaion has improved its parctices and has also given more details of the mystery package sent to sir bradley wiggins after a race in 2011. sir dave brailsford says it was a legal decongestant and says the allegations that it was a banned substance are false. here's our sports editor dan roan what this document does is try and put some more meat on the bones of the explanation that team sky initially came up with that it was just a decongestant, nothing more u ntowa rd just a decongestant, nothing more untoward and they have explained why there was a surplus of the corticosteroid triamcinolone at the british headquarters at the national velodrome. they admitted that records were missing, they have admitted mistakes, but they have rejected some of the accusations and criticisms describing them as unfair and unreasonable. also, importantly, b ra ilsfo rd and unreasonable. also, importantly, brailsford has received backing this evening from those who bankroll his team, the chairman of team sky tonight tweeting that he was giving

his 100% support as well to sir dave brailsford. billy vunipola is expected to start against scotland in the six nations on saturday after three months out with ligament damage. he's included in the 24—man training squad, and eddiejones is expected to hand the number eight an immediate start. vunipola has been lined up to come straight back at the expense of nathan hughes — this after england's training plans were captured by a photographer and showed vunipola would start. england will confirm their starting 15 on thursday. a quick update from the emirates, still 1—0 to the arsenal but they need three more goals at least. i will be back for an update in the next hour. president trump's administration have set about on the first steps to repeal and replace the us affordable care act, better known as obamacare. the policy has brought affordable health insurance to millions of americans but many have seen their premiums rise significantly. speaking at today's

white house press briefing, the new us health secretary, dr tom price, explained how the new health care bill would work. what's happening right now is that the american people are having to sacrifice in order to purchase coverage and as i mentioned many individuals cannot afford the kind of coverage that they have right now. so they've got that insurance card but they don't have care. what our desire is is to drive down the health care costs for everybody. and the way that you do that is to increase choices for folks, increase competition, return the regulation of health care where it ought to be which is at the state level, not at the federal level. all of these things that taken in the aggregate will in fact decrease the cost of health care and health coverage. that will allow folks to purchase the coverage that they want. let's cross to washington and speak to our north america correspondent, nick bryant. it's interesting, all these people are coming out saying it is really easy to reform this law and we can give all americans affordable health ca re

give all americans affordable health care when president after president after president failed to get this thing sorted. barack obama managed to do it but upset a lot of people in the process and now the republicans are trying to do it themselves. how easy is it for them at the moment? it's a lot easier to repeal this law than to replace it with something that is going to satisfy the american people. now, obamacare, as you say, it was a landmark reform, democratic presidents since the war have been trying to bring in something near universal health care and this was president obama's attempt to do so, it wasn't universal health care that it wasn't universal health care that it did get about 20 million people who were uninsured some health coverage. replacing it is going to be really difficult. not least because of the kind of congressional arithmetic. now, to repeal obamacare you need to get 51 votes in the senate, at the moment republicans have 52 senators but to reform and put something in its place you need 60 votes in the senate because of

the way the senate works, you need a supermajority to get things done and the republicans haven't got that. already, clive, we are seeing divisions within the republican party over the proposals that have come from the house of representatives. on the right of the republican party there are people saying this is a obama lite and doesn't go far enough to dismantle what is there all de michael ruddy and on the moderate side of the republican party they are saying there will be millions of people who won't have any health care at all at the end of this process and that could come back to bite us. indeed, we have midterms coming up in a couple of years' time and this is the kind of issue that could very well sway the votes of lots of folks because as you say, 20 million people didn't have health insurance before obamaca re people didn't have health insurance before obamacare came in, and once you give someone a before obamacare came in, and once you give someone a benefit, or give someone a you give someone a benefit, or give someone a stake in society they are

very likely to not want to give it up very likely to not want to give it up too quickly. nobody likes losing government entitlements and obamacare government entitlements and obamaca re was government entitlements and obamacare was a government entitlement. it's very hard to get rid of them once voters have had them. there is absolutely no doubt a lot of people are disgruntled with obamacare in its present form, just before the election it was announced that premiums were spiralling, that's to say people's monthly payments for their health care coverage was going up. i think it is when the tide started to turn for donald in the final weeks of the campaign and is one of those issues that didn't get enough attention but it helped him in the final weeks. persuading those voters to get rid of it entirely with the possibility they might not have health coverage at all, that is a hard sell. you will remember it was a lot of working—class voters who managed to get donald trump to the white house, and perhaps it would be those people who lose their coverage under this. it's a very political had ——

politically hazardous thing to do and it reveals splits in the conservative movement, in the right wing, who call this proposal obamacare wing, who call this proposal obamaca re lite, wing, who call this proposal obamacare lite, and the more moderate wing of the party who think it's really worrying if a lot of people, especially the poor, might end up losing their health coverage entirely. indeed, nick briant in washington, many thanks. poachers have broken into a zoo near paris and shot dead a rhinoceros, and using a chainsaw cut off one of his horns. the four—year—old white rhino called vince, was killed at the thoiry zoo. it's believed to be the first time poachers have broken into a european wildlife park, to kill a rhino for its horn. the african rhino horns command high prices on the black market, with about 100 killed every month in the wild. we can speak to mark jones via webcam. he's from the born free foundation, and is a vet. it is good to see you, thank you for joining us. one can only estimate your horror

when you heard this story. can you hear me? we have not got any communications with mark. we will try and get the line—up later, apologies, not sure what the technical issue was. nick miller has the weather details now. gales developing in northern scotland, not just rain, gales developing in northern scotland, notjust rain, there will be some snow in the high hills of northern england but especially to scotla nd northern england but especially to scotland above 400, 500 metres and lots of the rain will clear later tonight but distilled in the morning across parts of the midlands, east anglia and into wales and temperatures up—and—down overnight but it will be milder than it was last night. strong to gale force winds in northern scotland tomorrow, plenty of showers, not many showers

in the central belt and southern scotland, sunny spells, dry and sunny in northern ireland, northern england, north wales and northern ireland seeing dry and occasionally sunny weather but in the south, across south wales and southern england, cloudy with outbreaks of rain, it will be milder tomorrow, that's the theme as the week goes on, temperatures widely into double figures, some spots in the mid teens, fine and dry day for many on thursday but on friday although it is mild it will be cloudier. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines: the government suffers its second defeat in a week in the house of lords over its plans to take britain out of the eu. peers want a bigger say for parliament on any final deal. money for new free schools in england, which could include grammars, is expected as part of tomorrow's budget. but critics say the plans fail to address a funding crisis in existing schools. the cia refuses to comment, as the website wikileaks publishes

what it claims is evidence the agency uses a wide range of computer hacking tools which target computers, internet routers and samsung tvs. a british woman is recovering in australia, after being held captive for two months. her alleged attacker was discovered hidden in the back of a car, which the victim was driving when it was stopped by police. back to that story we were discussing a few moments ago. poachers have broken into a zoo near paris and shot dead a rhinoceros and using a chain saw cut off one of his horns. the rhino was killed at a zoo in paris. markjones is from the born free foundation and he's a vet. i hope you can hear me now? i can indeed, yes. jolly good. apologies for the technical problems earlier. i was trying to get a sense of your

revulsion and horror at the news of this brutal act. yes, indeed. this isa this brutal act. yes, indeed. this is a sad and very violent incident, where poachers appear to have broken into the zoo near paris and shot one of the three rhinos in the rhino enclosure there and taken his horn off with a chain saw or something similar. presumably they were after the horns from all three rhinos, but they must have been disturbed or something because they made off with a single horn, leaving the other two rhinos alive in the enclosure. it really is quite a shocking incident. as well as reflecting just how low people will stoop to go to profit from wildlife trafficking, it also begs the question how the poachers we re begs the question how the poachers were able to get into the rhino enclosure in that zoo in the first place. for this kind of enclosure,

this kind of animal park, does there clearly need to be an upgrading the security to deal with this potential hazard. i think so. wildlife trafficking is big business, big criminal business. the trafficking in rhino horns in particular has been very alarming in recent years. there's only around 29,000 rhinos remaining across the world. yet thousands have been killed by poachers in recent years for their horns, which are valued in illegal trade in parts of asia, as medicines and as high value status products. we've known about this for a number of years. now criminal gangs have stolen horns from museums in parts of europe, in recent years. but as far as of europe, in recent years. but as faras i'm aware, of europe, in recent years. but as far as i'm aware, this is the first timea far as i'm aware, this is the first time a rhino has been killed for its horn ina time a rhino has been killed for its horn in a european zoo. one would think that the zoo should have been well aware of the risk and should

have taken much better security procedures. museums have been targeted by some of these gangs? yes, in the past quite a number of horns that were on display in museums on artefacts or on old hunting trophies or whatever have been targeted by criminal gangs to feed the demand for rhino horn in parts of asia, particularly in vietnam and china, but as i say, as far as vietnam and china, but as i say, as faras i'm aware, vietnam and china, but as i say, as far as i'm aware, this is the first incident of a live rhino in a zoo in europe being targeted. we've seen some pro graemes in parts of africa, where the horns of rhinos are deliberately removed to prevent this kind of thing happening. is that the kind of thing happening. is that the kind of thing you think perhaps might be or should be considered by wildlife parks and zoos now? well, if zoos are able to put in place and parks are able to put in place proper security, it shouldn't be

necessary. but born free has campaigned for many years against the keeping of wild animals in captivity, this sad and horrific episode raises questions again about this. it comes at a time when the welfare of animals in zoos has been questioned on the back of the dreadful situation at south lakes safari zoo in cumbria. so there are a lot of questions about how zoos are operating and whether they are, in fact, safe places for and appropriate places for the animals that they house. mark jones, from the born free foundation, it's good to be able to hear you speaking to us. to be able to hear you speaking to us. thanks very much forjoining us. £320 million will be set aside in tomorrow's budget for new school places in england. the money will help meet the costs of setting up more than a 100 schools — some of which could be grammars. labour says the government is failing to address the current funding pressures faced by schools.

but theresa may insists it's part of her plan to make a good education accessible to every child. of course, we have protected the co re of course, we have protected the core schools budget. crucially, what we're announcing is £500 million of investment in schools, 320 million of which is new schools. that's around 70,000 new school places. what this is about is ensuring that people can know that their child will have a good school place and all the opportunities that provides for them. robert mccartney is the chairman of the national grammar schools association. he is in our belfast newsroom. thanks very much forjoining us. are you pleased that some of this money that could be earmarked tomorrow for free schools could be going to grammar schools? yes, i am indeed. the national grammar schools association has campaigned for several decades to have the schools standards act of 1998, which prohibited any new grammar schools

being opened repeeled. theresa may has promised to do that and also to open some new selective secondary schools. yes, we are pleased, though there's a lot of work to be done. two of the central propositions in the consultation paper, which he offered was one, there should be more grammar schools because they are good schools and there is a significant public demand for them. the second one was that places in these new grammar schools should be taken up by disadvantaged children, children on free school meals, children on free school meals, children from families that are just about managing. in orderfor that to work, since new and existing grammar schools are selective by nature, plans will have to be put in place to ensure that disadvantaged

children who are capable of grammar school education are put on a level playing field with their middle class peers, who enjoy a lot of advantages which disadvantaged children do not. ok, so, iwanted advantages which disadvantaged children do not. ok, so, i wanted to give you time to lay out saenctionly what you —— essentially what you feel is good about grammar schools. but you know, from years of experience working in this field, what the critics say, that is that, yes, a selective few will get the opportunity of the kind of education that others can only dream of. the fa ct that others can only dream of. the fact is the others are dreaming of that education and not enough money is going towards them. if you have selective education some people do well, but a lot of others don't. what's your remedy for them? well, the people who do well are the people who demonstrate in a selective test that they are capable of benefitting from the sort of education that a grammar school offers. after all you can't criticise theresa may. what she's

saying, these are good schools, there should be more places in them and there should be more places for disadvantaged, working—class children. what about the kids that don't make it? well, the children that don't make it, let's face it, everybody is not gifted either physically or intelectually with the same gifts. but i think what we have got to do and what the grammar schools do well is realise the potential of those who are able. that is not to say that money shouldn't be spent on children who are perhaps in sheer intellectual terms not ready for a grammar school, but who are creative, who are into it, the arts generally. all of these things are avenues where children should be encouraged to realise their potential. but you're happy, then, for those able kids to

fulfil their potential, but others, who may not be as bright, to not fulfil their potential. of course, we are told that the academy system and the comprehensive system is wonderful. everybody, those who oppose grammar schools say they get an equally good education in academies and comprehensive schools. if the money's there. that's the point. the money has to be there for academies and comprehensives. certainly the labour party would argue that while you have got 320 million quid going into free schools and some of those becoming grammar schools, there is no money for comprehensives and academies that already exist. in fact, they're having to lose £3 billion because they've got to make cuts.|j having to lose £3 billion because they've got to make cuts. i think what you have got to realise that no government department has a bottomless pit. it is not accurate to say that the grammar schools get

more money than academies and secondary moderns more money than academies and secondary modems and all the other post—primary schools, because in fa ct, post—primary schools, because in fact, they get more money per head, per pupil than the grammar schools. in fact, per pupil than the grammar schools. infact, in per pupil than the grammar schools. in fact, in terms of funding, the grammar schools are essentially the poor relations. some secondary moderns poor relations. some secondary modems and comprehensive schools are getting up to 9,000 per head a year. some grammar schools are getting as low as £4,500. this idea that the grammar schools are suddenly siphoning off a whole pot of money at the expense of other schools is just not true. of money at the expense of other schools isjust not true. but of money at the expense of other schools is just not true. but the idea that selection takes place at 11, that kids are told at the age of 11, that kids are told at the age of 11 that they're not good enough, that they haven't made the grade. you're happy with that? well, let's put it like this, for the last 30 yea rs, put it like this, for the last 30 years, unlike the old mandatory 11

plus, selection has been entirely volu nta ry. plus, selection has been entirely voluntary. it's down completely to pa rental voluntary. it's down completely to parental choice. so every parent that puts their child forward for a selective process must bear in mind the possibility that they may not pass the selective test. and therefore will be disappointed. but life is full of disappointments. all of us go forjobs which we don't get. children want to play on a team for which they're not selected. throughout life, we have got to face up throughout life, we have got to face up that life's not a bed of roses. sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. this is part of the learning process to accept that not all our demands in life are going to be met. all right, we'll leave it there. the chairman of the national grammar schools association, thanks very much indeed forjoining us. thank you very much indeed. bye. a british woman is being treated in hospital in australia, after she was allegedly raped and assaulted while being held captive for two months.

police say the woman — who was backpacking across queensland — was found when police stopped the vehicle she was driving and discovered her attacker hiding in the back. hywel griffiths has more. moments before her ordeal would end, this cctv footage shows the woman at a petrol station, herface bruised, in a desperate state. she left without paying for her fuel. when the police then pulled over the 4x4 she was driving, they could tell there was something deeply wrong. she told them how for weeks she had been violently abused. officers say they found the man accused of holding her hiding in the boot. at this point, we don't want to speculate, but it is fair to say that she is a tourist. a lot of the areas where she would have been would have been unknown to her, and she wouldn't have known anyone there, so it would have been difficult for her to make an escape, and if she had, then to try and link up with people. from the information we've been provided, she had very limited opportunity to try and do that, anyway.

officers believe her passport was destroyed. the man has been charged with multiple counts of rape, assault and denial of liberty. the woman is receiving hospital treatment. she's spoken to her family back in the uk but may need to remain here to give more evidence so the police can piece together exactly what she went through. hywel griffith, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news: the government suffers its second defeat in a week in the house of lords over its plans to take britain out of the eu. peers want a bigger say for parliament on any final deal. money for new grammar schools in england is expected to be announced in tomorrow's nudget. the cia refuses to comment as the website wikileaks publishes what it claims is evidence the agency uses a wide range of computer hacking tools. an update on the market numbers for you — here's how london's

and frankfurt ended the day. an investigation by bbc news has found that facebook is failing to remove many sexualised images of children — even when alerted to them. facebook says nudity or other sexually suggestive content is not allowed on its platform. but of 100 such images and content that the bbc reported to facebook, only 18 were deleted. a senior mp now says he has grave doubts about the effectiveness of facebook‘s ability to monitor its content. our correspondent angus crawford has the story. the rules are meant to be simple — facebook says it removes nudity or sexually suggestive content. but our investigation last year found paedophiles using secret groups to swap obscene images of children.

we informed the police, and this man was sent to prison forfour years. facebook told us it had improved its systems. so, a year on, we put that to the test. but we still found whole groups dedicated to sexualised images of children, where men posted obscene comments. in every single one of these images, there is a real child who is out there today — at school, probably — and they don't know that their image is being used in this way. we also found users discussing how to share more serious child abuse material. we reported 100 posts that appeared to break facebook‘s own guidelines. only 18 were taken down. 82 images stayed up. they didn't breach of facebook‘s community standards. i find it very disturbing. i find that content unacceptable, and this report, this investigation, it casts grave doubt

on the effectiveness of the measures that facebook has in place. one former insider says moderation is a huge task. i think the biggest challenge here is one of scale. no—one has ever policed a site as large as facebook. the company is effectively running the largest police force the world has seen. facebook asked us to send them examples of what we had reported, so we did. the company then reported us to the police. facebook issued a statement, saying: so, where does this leave concerned parents? it sends a very clear message that, actually, you can't trust facebook‘s reporting mechanism,

and i think parents get that message already. even now, groups with inappropriate images and comments about children remain on facebook. questions about how the company moderates content just won't go away. angus crawford, bbc news. earlier, the former chief executive of the child exploitation and online protection centre, jim gamble, explained how decisions are made about inappropriate images at facebook. they've made radical improvements over the last decade. i've been a critic of facebook and will continue to criticise them in future, where i feel it's appropriate. but i actually think having made some inquiries before coming to do this interview tonight that a lot of context is being lost here. facebook have 1. 9 billion active monthly users. it's very difficult to manage and moderate that type of level of

interaction. so what i know is that of the image that's were reported to facebook, one was actually a child exploitation image. that's one too many. that one image should have been identified by the alogrithms in their system or photo dna so it could be taken down immediately. the other images, whilst inappropriate and shocking when you look at them in context, they're more difficult to deal with. i'll tell you why. your journalist had to to deal with. i'll tell you why. yourjournalist had to infiltrate closed group, pretend to be a child to get in there. the images aren't of themselves indecent. they have comments alongside delivered by predators that create an abusive context. actually the first thing you want to do in that instance is report that to the police. by facebook simply blocking them, which they should once they see the context, they go off and come back on again. there's a real issue here. so did the bbc, when they

infiltrated these groups, where men we re infiltrated these groups, where men were clearly coming together with a sexual interest in children, putting innocent images up and making inappropriate comments, did they report them? if you walk into a shopping centre today in london or anywhere else in the uk and saw a group of men in a coffee shop enticing a child or being inappropriate about a child, you wouldn't go to the manager of the coffee shop to report that, you would go to the police. so this is about stepping back, recognising, of course, facebook need to continue to improve. i'm not saying they don't, actually, so do the police. within the last ten days, i feel sorry for pa rents. the last ten days, i feel sorry for parents. the government can't get a taxi from one of their offices across to the houses of parliament to sign off and enact the bill that's been on the table for two yea rs. that's been on the table for two years. the police are saying there's too many paedophiles and too few police and now this. we need to do something, but it needs to involve everybody. but the images that the bbc, that are involved in this story

we re bbc, that are involved in this story were sexually suggestive pictures and comments. now you're saying that sexually suggestive and some lewd comments doesn't necessarily amount to the kind of thing that facebook should be taking down straight away? no, they should be taking it down. i'm not saying they shouldn't. what i'm not saying they shouldn't. what i'm saying is those images are put up i'm saying is those images are put up in closed groups by people. when they're put up as part of the 1. 9 million active monthly users, where they're identified, we need to identify and locate the people and hold them to account. so there's a dual process here. absolutely. but facebook still have a responsibility don't they? that's the point here. of course they do. let me explain how it works. i make reports to facebook all the time on behalf of schools. an image of a child, not indecent, but reported because it's inappropriate. facebook‘s alogrithym will say it doesn't breach our terms and conditions because it's not nudity. you have the opportunity to reply to a human being. there's a

text box on the e—mail you can fill in. once you explain the context, in my experience that image has then been removed. so there's a number of issues here. we need to make sure that parents understand yes, go online and report, because facebook‘s not going to disappear tomorrow. i believe it's probably the case that it reported the image because it was shared as an uppage rather than a url. academics at birmingham university believe pigeons should be factors where they are sent with sensors strapped to their back to give accurate pollution forecasts. can pigeons help us in the battle against air pollution? i think this is going to work really

well today. it sounds far—fetched, but academics at birmingham university are convinced it can. everybody i've brought into it, first they give me the look that maybe you're giving me where it's sort of, is this for real? is this actually going to work? we have a super fast temperature sensor. rick thomas is planning to strap these sensor packs to the backs of pigeons. if we know the temperatures above the rooftops, we can test the levels of urban pollution. time for the test flight. fitting the sensors is a delicate operation. hello, my little friend. they are tiny, just 5% of the pigeon's weight, to protect the welfare of the birds. one of the pigeons is fitted with a tiny camera to record the flight. much is resting on the next few minutes. i feel nervous. this is the first time we have done this.

it's a culmination of many months of work to get to this stage. i think they're going to just take off and find their way home. i'm going to cross my fingers for that. it is the moment of truth. 0h, oh, yeah. that's them. that is them, yeah. oh, wow. we didn't see the devices fall off, when they flew off. they were still on them. they looked happy enough. they looked like pigeons flying to me, did they to you? the pigeons will flyjust over a mile. this the rather disorientating view from pigeon cam. but what are the scientists trying to discover? they already know that nitrous oxide, the pollution that comes out of diesel engines rises with the heat coming from roads and buildings to rooftop level. but what happens to the pollution next, where

does it go? to model it they need accurate temperature residents in this microclimate. but how to get the data? kind of thought, well, birds, they fly everywhere. if they could carry our sensors, if our sensors could be tiny and accurate enough we could start to understand the dispersion of air pollution around the city. just six minutes after taking off, the pigeons are back. 0h, brilliant islam -- oh, brilliant! there is an anxious wait as the sensor is retrieved. the light‘s still flashing. that's a good sign. first of all i've got the file is big enough. second thing is there's wiggles. this is what the data shows, the route taken by the pigeons and critically the temperature just above the roof tops. this information will help to model how pollution moves around big cities. rick and his team say it will be used by planners, for example, to help decide where to build hospitals or schools. it could

give us much more accurate street by street air pollution forecasts. what's this pigeon called? erm. . . . .. i haven't got a name for him. i call him number80. i haven't got a name for him. i call him number 80. it's not a particularly heroic name, but pigeon number80, we particularly heroic name, but pigeon number 80, we salute you and your contribution to the fight against air pollution. let's get the forecast now for the next few days. hi nick. a good following wind if they're heading to scandinavia, the wind picks up. milder weather for a few days. wet weather moving through overnight. that lifts temperatures into double figures. by the time we get to friday, though, there will be a good deal of cloud around. we have to get through the rain first of all. this frontal system is coming in from the atlantic. we're all going to see that overnight. it's been light and patchy across western

parts of the uk for actually much of the day. but it's getting its act together now. it's turning a bit heavier across northern ireland, parts of wales, western england into western scotland. all of that is moving east. we'll all get this overnight. snow in the higher hills of northern england and scotland. it is breezy to windy as well, with gales developing later in the night in north—west scotland. there'll be further showers following here. a milder night than last night. start the day tomorrow with outbreaks of rain across parts of england and wales. it's cleared up for much of northern ireland and scotland. but ona northern ireland and scotland. but on a strong to gale—force wind, plenty of showers through northern scotland, not just at plenty of showers through northern scotland, notjust at eight o'clock but through the day. a lot of fine weather to come for northern ireland and northern england, notjust at the start of the day but throughout the start of the day but throughout the day. elsewhere in england, for much of wales, often cloudy. you run the risk of seeing outbreaks of rain, especially the further south you are, at times, but not all day

long with double—figure temperatures. on through the day, little pulses of energy running along a trailing weather front across southern england and wales. plenty of showers on the gusty wind in northern scotland. in between the two, and especially for northern england, northern ireland and southern scotland, it may be breezy but a good deal of sunshine to come through here. pleasant in the sunshine. temperatures edge up a few degrees compared with today. going out and about on wednesday evening, little change. still outbreaks of rain at times in southern england and south wales. windy with showers in northern scotland. in fact, thursday begins still with those showers in northern scotland. they'll tend to fade away. we'll see an area of cloud in southern england, not producing much in the way of rain, away from the far south—west. for many of us dry, bright and perhaps sunny and mild. by bright and perhaps sunny and mild. by the time we get to friday, behind an area of cloud and patchy rain spreading northwards, we will keep plenty of cloud. it's a much duller picture on friday. but it is still mild. over the weekend, picture on friday. but it is still mild. overthe weekend, bands picture on friday. but it is still mild. over the weekend, bands of wet weather moving through or showers,

drier, brighter interludes, temperatures come down a few degrees. unsettled weekend on the way. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. wikileaks has published thousands of documents it says contain details of cia hacking techniques. the replacement for obamacare plan has been unveiled. we'll be live in washington. iraqi forces strike another blow against the islamic state group in mosul. iraq's prime minister has been there. translation: they will either surrender and have a fair trial, their second choice is they will be killed. here in the uk, the government has suffered its second defeat in a week in the upper house of parliament over brexit. the lords want a bigger say for parliament on any final deal. and we'll bring you a bbc investigation into facebook that finds it failed to remove inappropriate and sexualised images of children.