into the crash of a russian airliner, near moscow. all 71 passengers and crew were killed. emergency workers are searching snow—covered fields to recover the bodies. the crew did not make an emergency call. some witnesses say it broke up in midair. oxfam has responded to fresh allegations of sexual misconduct by some of its staff. it has announced further changes aimed at strengthening recruitment procedures. the british government has accused the charity of lying about claims that local staff in haiti paid local women for sex. following talks with myanmar‘s de facto leader aung san suu kyi, the british foreign secretary, borisjohnson, has called for a safe return home for hundreds of thousands of rohingya muslims who fled to bangladesh, to avoid religious persecution. the exodus came after violence from pro—government militias. now on bbc news, a look back at the week in parliament. hello and welcome to the week in parliament.

coming up: carillion senior executives seem lost for words. and you are still all right? all of you? aren't you? the brexit debate gets a bit shouty. stand up to the man! stand up to the eu! and let's get on with leaving the eu! and 100 years after the first women get the vote, female mps are still suffering abuse. what this is about is about misogynists seeking to silence women who dare to speak out. but first, the chairman of the construction company carillion has told mps how upset he is at the firm's demise. the company, which provided services for schools, hospitals and prisons went into liquidation last month and an array of senior executives

gave a joint committee of mps their side of the story. but the chairs of those committees were not impressed, saying afterwards that the directors were "delusional characters" who "maintained that everything was hunky—dory until it all went suddenly and an perceivably wrong." —— suddenly and unforseeably wrong." words can't describe the depth of my despair. i am devastated by the impact that the collapse has had, as i said, on the pensioners, on customers, on suppliers, on staff. we've had one session here where everybody is pointing fingers at other people. your main evidence so far is you've had these advisers and you've really, in effect, pointed the finger at them. what is your — people's questions are what is your responsibility for this collapse? full and compete. total? total. very good. no — no — no question in my mind about that. not necessarily culpability, but full responsibility, no question, and if i look back there are —

of course there are things we would have done differently. i'm asking whether you think it isjustified at a time when the share price of the company is falling quite substantially, whether it is right to increase the remuneration of the chief executive by 50%? we felt it was right at the time because we wanted to retain richard howson as chief executive in that business at a period when the sector was volatile. and with the benefit of hindsight, miss horner, do you think that those decisions were right? i've obviously thought a lot about many of the decisions that we have made and i think that decision in terms of increasing his pay was correct. all of you are sitting here, multimillions of pounds worth of payment from the company over a period of years, and you say how sad and disappointed you are. but what actions do you take to show that? because it isjust words, isn't it? it'sjust words — i'm saddened, i'm disappointed, i wish i could have

done things differently, but the money is in the bank. but it's not in the bank, is it, for the subcontractors? it's not in the bank for the people who are retired or coming up for retirement? all four of you have done really rather well out of a company which you then, in different ways, helped to crash. richard adam, are you — does that not move you at all? i mean, why should we believe you? i mean, that you feel so sad about all of this? it doesn't extend to your cheque book. um, i am genuinely shocked and saddened by the events, since i left, i genuinely am, and i am very happy to engage with the company and understand what the position is... don't you feel — moral actions — you don't have to worry for someone to have an engagement with you. it is a part of your dna, isn't it? it is, but i do need to understand what the position is — i do not know what the position is today.

it is clear, isn't it, as rachel has said, pensioners are taking cuts, large numbers of people aren't going to get paid for their contracts, other people have lost theirjobs, and you are still all right. all of you. aren't you? carillion executives lost for words there. well, the next day, it was the turn of the government. the liaison committee, which is made up of the chairs of all the other committees, summoned the cabinet office minister, but he was being very cautious in his answers. this exchange was typical. one of the lessons from the global financial crisis was to have more — tougher rules about being able to claw back bonuses when things go wrong at a business. do you think we need to look again at the clawback arrangements for bonuses so that we can get some of that money back? again, um, sitting here today, i am open—minded on that. but there have been serious

allegations of misconduct by the board and former board members of carillion. those are being independently investigated by the official receiver and it would be wrong for a minister to make any comment that could be prejudicial on the official receiver's findings on that. i know this isn't the first time i have said this, and it will not be the last, but it has been a big week for brexit. theresa may chaired two key meetings with senior ministers. the brexit cabinet committee sketched out what the future relationship between the uk and the eu might look like. what conclusion they came to, they haven't told me, but the issue came up several times in the commons — first in a spirited intervention by one dup mp, echoing the words of his father during the troubles. does the minister agree with me that it is about time the government demonstrated that no—surrender attitude to the eu bureaucrats who tried to blackmail us,

burn us, over air flights, passenger duty and everything else. stand up to them, man! stand up to the eu! and let's get on with leaving the eu! well, that plea came moments before the start of prime minister's questions, where the matter was raised again. prime minister will be aware that all free—trade agreements involve some customs checks and, therefore, infrastructure at frontiers which would be completely incompatible with maintaining an open border between northern ireland and the republic. as the cabinet subcommittee is apparently today finally getting around to discussing this, could the prime minister explain to the house why she is so opposed to the uk remaining in a customs union with the eu when not only would this be betterfor the british economy than a vague deep and special partnership — whatever that is — but would help to ensure that that border remains as it is today, which is what all of us want. the united kingdom

is leaving the european union. that means we are leaving the single market, we are leaving the customs union, because if we were full members of the customs union, we would not be able to do trade deals around the rest of the world and we are going to have an independent trade policy and do those deals. and he asks me about customs arrangements — i have to say to him that i suggest he looks at the paper that was published by the government last summer. and a question about reports that the eu could suspend certain benefits during any transition phase came from the other end of the brexit spectrum. in the liaison committee last december, i warned her about ultimatums from the eu and again, in my uq only last week. would she be good enough to be very robust when discussing these matters in the brexit committee, as i am sure she will be, in order to ensure that we repudiate any of these eu threats. as i've said right from the very beginning, we will hear noises off, we will hear all sorts of things being said about positions that are being taken.

what matters is the positions that we take in the negotiations as we sit down and negotiate the best deal. we have shown we can do that. we did it in december. and we're going to do it again. jeremy corbyn‘s battleground of choice for this week's prime minister's questions was crime figures. last month, the office for national statistics said the number of violent crimes and sexual offences recorded by police in england and wales has risen sharply over the past year. but a separate crime survey, based on people's experiences, suggested crime was continuing to fall. and with that in mind, battle commenced with a particularly pithy question. with crime rising, does the prime minister regret cutting 21,000 police officers? what we have actually seen from the crime survey is that crime is now down at record low levels. that is... that is what — that is what has been achieved, and it has been achieved by a conservative government that, at the same time, has been protecting police budgets. the chief constable

of bedfordshire says, "we do not have the resources to keep residents safe. the position is a scandal. too many people don't feel safe and too many people are not safe. we have just been the highest rise in recorded crime for a quarter of the century." the chief constable of lancashire said, "the government's police cuts have made it much more difficult to keep people safe." is he wrong? can i say to the right honourable gentleman on this issue of recording crime, he mentions her majesty's inspector of constabulary. it's precisely because when i was home secretary, i asked hmic to look at the recording of police crime to make sure that police forces were doing it properly. and, indeed, some changes were made as a result of that, so we now see the better recording of crime. we also see — we also see 450 million pounds extra being made available to the police. but what have we also seen over the last few years? the creation of the

national crime agency, our police forces taking more notice of helping to support vulnerable victims, doing more on modern slavery, doing more on domestic violence, taking issues seriously that they were not taking seriously before! mr speaker, if you ask the inspector to look at unrecorded crime and they tell you what is going on, the least you can do is act on what they tell you! jeremy corbyn. this week marked 100 years of the representation of the people act, which gave women over 30 who had property the right to vote. and in the debate to mark the centenary, the commons was awash with the white, purple and green emblem of the suffrage movement. i am proud to be part of the most diverse house of commons in british history. we have our second female prime minister. a third of those attending cabinet are women, and we have the highest ever number of female mps. outside of politics,

we have seen so much progress since 1918. more women are in a more diverse range ofjobs than ever before and are increasingly at the top of their fields. i was hoping that the minister was going to make an announcement today that the government was going to issue maybe an official apology to the women of the suffragette movement, ora pardon, maybe, forthose who were wrongly imprisoned and sexually assaulted in their battle to get women the vote. but instead, all we have is another re—announcement. how utterly disappointing. i would be doing a disservice to suffragettes who stood up for their causes, which were more than just winning the vote for women, if i didn't say that today, we still have a government that pursues policies like the rape clause, that pursues social security cuts which hit women's budgets — 85% of cuts have come out of women's pockets — and we have yet to see justice for the waspi campaigners.

i fully support the government's move to ask the law commission to consider the case for making it an offence to threaten and abuse parliamentary candidates. what this is about is about misogynists seeking to silence women who dare to speak out. particularly virulently, this is against younger women and black women. now, voters have the right to choose whoever they want, man or woman, to represent them. and once that representative is elected to parliament, it's their right and duty to be able to get on with the job without being subjected to intimidation, threats or violence. this is about our democracy, so i hope members on all sides of the house will give this theirfull support. harriet harman. and women mps past and present were in westminster hall on tuesday to mark the centenary. the suffrage campaigns were led by women but some male supporters played a key role. in a film for bbc parliament,

the former deputy speaker natascha engel reports on the votes for women campaign and the men who backed the cause. we get 16,000 petitions presented to parliament from 1866 to 1918, signed by more than 3 million women. they were undermined. questions raised about their manliness, their fitness for their careers. suffragettes, you know, tried to rush the building, chained themselves to statues and so on. parliament was always sort of in the eye of the storm. man: you will go down to history as the man who tortured innocent women! they put him in brixton, put him in pentonville, put him on hunger strike. from the — his first election, he introduced a women's suffrage bill every single year. but this was the great opportunity.

this is also a story about parliament. campaigners needed to win allies in the all—male parliaments of the day. we'll be looking at why the politicians eventually agreed to change the law. the film suffragette allies is on bbc parliament on sunday evening at 8:30 p.m.. mp who are found to have bullied or alleged to harass their staff could be suspended. voters could force them to face a by—election. a package to tackle misconduct was announced at westminster. a working group was formed to bring about change. it is a right, not a privilege, to be treated with dignity and respect at work. and this ambitious report is a major step towards a safer and more professional environments. —— and more professional environment. this is a significant, substantial document that has managed to secure all party support, and hopefully will signal the beginning of the end of the poisonous patriarchal culture that has characterised

so many of the relationships of this house. victims of sexual harassment will have a process to come forward, independent of political parties, and that is perhaps the key feature of what has been designed and delivered today. the media spotlight can be harsh indeed on a member of parliament, on the basis just of an accusation made, but it can also be very harsh on a complainant and we have to bear that in mind. but publication of the accused's name might bring forward corroborating evidence in what otherwise might be one person's word against another. where should that difficult balance like? so, my honourable friend will appreciate, this has been an incredibly difficult balancing act, and what we all made clear, all of us on the working group, is that the commitment to protecting the interests of the complainant would be at the heart of this, and that means very often that

complainant does not want and will not, in fact, come forward with a complaint if they then run the risk of being hounded in the media and being — having effectively a trial in the full glare of the public spotlight. and that was one of the core areas that we sought to address. what that does inevitably mean is that there are compromises. would she agree that not only do we need the consent training she has referred to but that it does need to be notjust mandatory but there needs to be sanctions available for those members who might not be persuaded to take it up? frankly, those who are most likely to be resistant to taking up training are probably those who need it most. the training we have mentioned in consent, in unconscious bias, how to recruit and how to employ people, and what constitutes bullying and harassment — all of these things are absolutely vital. they will be available as compulsory sanctions and we will be seeking means to encourage people across the state to take up voluntarily,

where we cannot make it mandatory. andrea leadsom. the head of the parole board has said action is needed to make the reasons for its decisions public and its judgements easier to challenge. the comments come in the wake of the decision to release john warboys, who was jailed indefinitely in 2009 with a minimum term of eight years for drugging and sexually assaulting women. two of his victims have been given the go—ahead to challenge his release at a judicial review next month. the government has ordered a review of the transparency of parole board decisions. we could do much more than we do at present to explain individual decisions. but there are risks to doing that, and they need to be carefully explored and considered. it is an awareness and education programme. what proposals can see in training yourself? there are a number of different

steps that we are in the process of, and firstly, we need to have information, accessible information, about the process in a number of formats and platforms. so we should use now video, we have seen impressive stuff from otherjurisdictions, the written information we produce could be much improved. what we can't do, and we are absolutely prohibited by the parole board rules, which were approved by parliament in a negative resolution, is explain anything about an individual case. even the most basic things — for an example, talking about completely different cases, you will have victims ask for information about license conditions. we have information about licence conditions, that would reassure, they would find them comforting. and we cannot tell them.

we can go much further in explaining our decisions to people, so they have a real sense of what they are. they may not agree with what we have done, but they may have some basis to know why our decisions were made, and later, if there is a change, it makes a challenge process possible. you can't challenge at the moment because you don't know how we made the decision. so then you have to crowd—fund a judicial review, all that stuff. that, he said, needs to change. it seems to me undignified that people have to go and fund a review. i don't think that is acceptable. what we cannot do is make every decision twice. professor nick hardwick. it is not often a reality tv star is called to give evidence in front of a parliamentary committee but on tuesday the model katie price appeared before mps to make an impassioned plea for criminal action to be made against criminal trolling on social media. she has long campaigned on a half of

her son harvey who has several disabilities. what would go through someone‘s head to attack an innocent child who cannot fight back? i got loads of gatherings of everything. i went to the police — i went to the police twice. they have arrested two people, got all their computers, mobile phones and everything, and even the police were really embarrassed because it got to a point where they couldn't take it any further because they couldn't charge them with anything, because there is nothing in place. so they had to get dropped, the cases, basically. and since then, it has continued. it has got worse and worse. my petition, in one week, i got 220,000 signatures and a lot of people said, "i don't like you" — which is not very nice — they have said, "we don't like you, we are not fans of yours, but what we think you are doing is amazing".

i know you lot sitting there do agree with me, really. you will remember civil servants came under fire for pessimistic treasury reports about brexit. on bbc radio, the tory backbencher jacob rees—mogg accused treasury figures of fiddling the figures. can the treasury be trusted? a labour peer took up the issue. my lords, given that downing street and number ten and the prime minister have failed to slap down those ministers and those mps in her own party who have made these disgraceful slurs, is it too much to ask for the prime minister finally to show some leadership? i think i have done on and off 20 years probably more than anyone else in this house, with many discontinuities. laughter. and i have never had occasion to question the impartiality or the objectivity of civil servants. they have spoken truth to power. quite often, they have said things

that i didn't want to hear about, but i would never accuse them of some of the accusations that have recently been levelled against them. i think we should be proud of our civil servants. and i reject the smears that have been made against them. he will be familiar with this document — the treasury analysis of may 2016, forecasting the complete collapse of the british economy if we were to vote to leave. i have maintained this document is propaganda from top to bottom. and it turns out to be utterly untrue in reality. my noble friend has praised the objectivity of those who produce government statistics. can i ask my noble friend this — if i continue to criticise the mandarins and ministers who have proved the statistics in this document, does that make me salesman or a 1930s german nazi? ministers who impute impartiality and good faith of our civil servants

are behaving very much as president trump does in the united states, with regard to the fbi. i'm not sure i want to open up a fresh front... laughter. ..from the dispatch box. but president trump, i hope will read what my noble friend... laughter. hasjust said. lord young. and finally, the recently appointed secretary of state for digital culture, media and sport fully embraced the digital part of his brief by becoming the first mp to launch his very own smartphone app. the matt hancock app features pictures galleries and videos of him, it also allows users to sign up as friends and chat with other fans of the apps. but there have been concerns about the apps privacy and whether it concerns with the data protection act. what action should the secretary of state take against an app against an app which

is not gbpr compliant? laughter. i think that all apps should be compliant with the law and i am delighted to say that the matt hancock app is, mr speaker. the app i'm talking about does notjust belong to him, it is named after him. and the general public need protecting, mr speaker, from their privacy being invaded by matt hancock, their personal information being shared with third parties, and their private photos being accessed by matt hancock. will he undertake to make sure that matt hancock undertakes fully with data protection, and... why he thinks are the people should undertake regards we start a protection and matt hancock doesn't?

of course the app does comply, but more importantly, i think we should use digital communications, mr speaker, to communicate with our constituents in all their modern forms, and i am, frankly, delighted by the response the app's has had — far bigger than i could have possibly imagined — and i look forward to communicating with my constituents over matt hancock for many years. matt hancock singing the praises of...matt hancock. that's it. parliament is on a short half—term break and so are we. we'll be back in a week. but for now, from me, mandy baker, goodbye. hello there. this upcoming week is starting off cold and we could see some district of snow at times, particular individuals across central and northern parts of the uk, then the

brain moving off the atlantic, strong winds two and then something all the milder in as we enter the week. the satellite picture shows the speckles here, those are the snow and hail showers which are continuing to streaming across northern and western areas through the overnight period on the monday morning it will be a cold start, widespread frost around and some ice, but italy where we have had the wintry showers. on monday, in between weather systems with a ridge of high pressure nudging in. it will be followed before this weather system be followed before this weather syste m m oves be followed before this weather system moves in to bring rain, sleet and snow on monday night. we start off cold on monday, watch out for theice off cold on monday, watch out for the ice risk, and most places will be dry, plenty of sunshine around, the wintry showers dotted across northern and western areas mainly over the hills. it will be cold despite the sunshine, temperatures 5- despite the sunshine, temperatures 5— seven celsius. the winter begins to pick up across northern ireland late in the day ahead of the weather system which will make inroads ringing green sleet and snow, some

disruptive snow across northern ireland and that will feed into western parts of britain. strong winds, you can see the ice are close together on the system as it sweeps through. for tuesday morning it looks like the morning rush could be quite treacherous across parts of northern england, central and southern some heavy snowfall falling even down to lower levels. this combined with ice could make some treacherous driving conditions. the weather front will continue to move its way eastwards during the day, a bit of a hang back, slow to clear from the eastern side were as further west it will brighten up with the sunshine and a few wintry showers and again, and other cold day with temperatures in the single figures for all. we do it all again, a repeat performance, on wednesday, the next with a system moves in from the next with a system moves in from the south—west and again some strong winds on the system as it spreads its way from west to east but the difference is it will be milder air with his weather front, difference is it will be milder air with his weatherfront, so difference is it will be milder air with his weather front, so the slightly disruptive snow will be over high ground in the northern half of the country, certainly

northern england and parts of scotla nd northern england and parts of scotland and their drab day, outbreaks of rain around. meanwhile the pushing indolence of the south, still quite a cold feel across the north. thursday, back in the westerly winds with wintry showers. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is nkem ifejika. our top stories — caught in a corruption scandal, the anc says the fate of south africa's president zuma will be decided within 2a hours. could there be a thaw in the frosty relations between washington and pyongyang? the us vice president says he is ready to talk to north korea. president putin orders a special investigation into the crash of a russian airliner near moscow. all 71 passengers and crew were killed. oxfam faces crisis talks with the uk government following claims of sexual misconduct by aid workers.