were murdered by undocumented migrants. it's seen as an effort to regain the initiative from outrage over the separation of migrant families crossing the border with mexico. hundreds of children remain separated despite a change in policy. the united nations human rights council has accused venezuela's security forces of killing hundreds of people under the pretext of fighting crime and then faking evidence to make it look like an exchange of fire. the un human rights chief has called for an international inquiry into the alleged abuses and on day 9 of the world cup, brazil narrowly escaped an embarrassing draw and beat costa rica 2—0. nigeria beat iceland 2—0. that makes it more likely that argentina might be able to qualify from group d. switzerland clinched a 2—1 victory against serbia. now on bbc news, a look back at the week in parliament. hello and welcome to

the week in parliament. coming up on this programme: they think it's all over — the government finally gets its flagship brexit bill through parliament but not without a final fight over how much say mps should have if there is no deal. this amendment is not about frustrating the process, it is about making sure there is a process. you cannot enter negotiation without a right to walk away. if you do, it rapidly ceases to be a negotiation. hundreds of elderly patients suffer early deaths at a hampshire hospital the health secretary reveals no—one listened to those who tried to raise the alarm. the first answer is worth raised by brave nurse whistle—blowers in 1991 but then systematically ignored. also on this programme:

the home secretary sets out plans for eu nationals to stay in the uk. and we find out about the revolutionary role of the humble cuppa in the battle for women to get the vote. tea is just a lovely way to while away the afternoon but in the suffrage movement, it was a really core part of what they were trying to do. but first... you could almost hear the sigh of relief coming from downing street when the government's first big brexit bill finally cleared parliament. the eu withdrawal bill takes eu laws and puts them into uk legislation, stopping a legal black hole opening up after brexit and providing the possibility for those laws to be changed by ministers at a later date. but getting the bill through parliament has been a bruising battle as first mps and then peers voted against parts of it. the government whittled away at the opposition, until eventuallyjust one big sticking point remained — how much say parliament should have in the uk's exit. rebel conservatives — led by former minister

dominic grieve — thought they'd reached a compromise with the government but then accused ministers of a slap in the face when the final text was revealed. so when the bill reached the lords, a tory peer tried to reinstate the spirit of what the rebel mps wanted. if your lordships approve it, the house of commons will have an opportunity to consider a reprieve, the agreement negotiated in that faith. between the solicitor general and mr green. i'm grateful to my noble friend. he is indeed a friend and i have always found him very highly intelligent and very entertaining. however, on this particular point, on a point of clarification, could he say whether it remains his position that he wishes at all costs to destroy brexit? and that in fact... man: you are an idiot.

could he say, on a point of clarification, whether he wishes to destroy brexit? that is not a very parliamentary suggestion, i might say to the noble lord. and that this amendment is about sabotaging brexit because that means to be the case. on the second point of clarification, could he tell us what discussions he has had with the opposition front bench on this amendment? yes, it is perfectly true that i have had negotiations and talks with the opposition front bench. with the liberal democrats as well, and with many crossbenchers. and i make absolutely no apology for that. this is the high court of parliament, and we are not party hats. well, peers backed lord hailsham, inflicting a whacking defeat on the government by 119 votes. and that meant the bill had to go back to the commons to be debated and voted on by mps once again. you cannot enter negotiations without a right to walk away. if you do, it rapidly ceases to be a negotiation. this amendment is not

about frustrating the process, it is about making sure there is a process. surely, the whole point of a parliament is so that there is somebody with democratic credibility and democratic accountability to keep the government in check when it is clear to everyone that the government is going in the wrong direction. well, after more frantic talk and assurances from the government that the speaker would have to decide whether or not mps could have the meaningful vote that the rebels wanted, dominic grieve finally backed down. having finally obtained, i have to say with a little bit more difficulty than i would have wished, the obvious acknowledgement of the sovereignty of this place and its over the executive in black and white language, i am prepared to accept that government's difficulty and support it. when it came to the vote, six conservatives and four labour mps defied their respective party leaderships but the government won by a majority 16 and when the bill went back to the lords, peers too climbed down, clearing the way for it to become law.

so, a bruising week, but where does it leave us? in a moment, we'll hear from the conservative peer and professor of government lord norton, but first to the snp's europe spokesperson, stephen gethins. i asked him what the decision of the tory rebels to climb down told him. it is very disappointing. it tells me that this is all about trying to keep the conservative party together. from day one, the reason we had an eu referendum was that david cameron was trying to sort out a civil war within the conservative party. on day whatever it is now, that still is very much that case. this needs to be about the affect on each and every part of the uk, notjust scotland, but every part of the uk will be worse off, and that means the government have

to recognise this is about more than the tory party. now, the last time we spoke about this bill to your colleague pete wishart, he was angry that amendment regarding devolution were only being spoken about in the house of lords. as it turns out, when the bill came back to the commons, you had less than 20 minutes to talk about these issues. so, what can you do to make sure that devolution is discussed more in future bills? well, pete was right to be angry, very angry. but i think going forward, what we need to do is to make it clear to the government that they need to listen to the devolved administrations. it is not about and devolution, the power grab is not on, and the government need to start paying attention and making sure... but what can you do? that is my point. since prime minister's questions, when we tried to force the vote, when the snp left the chamber at that time... and ian blackford got thrown out. yes, and he was right to be deeply

frustrated and angry about the situation that we had been left in. as a result of that and after that, we saw a statement that was given by the secretary of state the very next day that ian blackford got the day after that event. and we also saw three hours of debate on this. there was no vote. it wasn't as much as we would have wanted. but it was more than we had. and should we expect to see more disruption from the snp like we saw with ian blackford being thrown out over the course of the passage of the next few bills? well, what you can expect to see is the snp pressing and making the case for our constituents who are being really badly damaged, that is something we have done from day one. and since the government is not willing to listen, we need to fight different ways to make them listen. stephen gethins talking to me from dundee. well, if that's what the snp make of it all, what's the view from the conservative benches? i spoke to conservative peer and constitutional expert, lord norton of louth — this time down the line from hull — and asked him what had been won and lost in this particular battle. well, there are two levels of debate going on about the bill.

it has taken a great deal of parliamentary time. part of it has been a high level dispute, not least in relation to me and the vote and one or two other issues. and if you like, less apparent, the actual changes, substantive changes made to the bill, which have been extremely extensive and substantive, which have been agreed by government, there have been over 200 amendments to the bill. yes 170 of those were reports to the house of lords. we have back improved the bill quite significantly but the attention has been on the high—level issues, specifically the vote. and obviously that has been quite bruising from a government point of view but at the end of the day, it is actually got the measure through. and fundamentally, had to get the bill through in order to ensure that we've got a legal system in place post brexit. but the clock is ticking, as we've been talking about. given the experience of this bill, do you think that parliament

is going to get through all the necessary legislation or can you see mps and peers having to sit through the summer or sit through the conference season to try to get this done? well, given as you say the tight timetable involved, there are several bills that we need to get through between now and next march, so it is going to be quite demanding. it was quite demanding with the eu withdrawal bill and required some lengthy sittings, so i suspect that may well be the case between now and next march, the government is going to be under pressure, in terms of the timetable, to get everything through, and that will make demands of both houses. so, we are just going to have to step up to the plate to make sure we are there to ensure we get the detailed scrutiny that is necessary. i'm sure we will continue, as i indicated, to get some high—level disputes on particular issues are then there is making sure the actual detail is as good as it can be, and that is where there is going to be an awful lot of work

involved, notjust for debating in the two chambers but for actually the select committees that have been doing important work in scrutinising the measures and influencing the debate around our departure. one last question. ministers will no doubt be rather happy that they have got this bill through but what do you think the next really big fight is going to be for the government? well, i suppose it will be the customs bill because obviously that will raise rather fundamental issues that some members are going to be extremely concerned with. we've already touched upon that in the eu withdrawal bill, even though some will argue it was in the appropriate place. of course, this is the bill that will be consequent to it so i suspect we are going to see a significant dispute there, it won't be the only one but it will be of particular importance and obviously you will see potentially conflict in both houses. all right, lord norton, we'll keep watching,

thank you very much indeed for coming onto the programme. lord norton on what next for the government and brexit. theresa may has said that events at the gosport war memorial hospital — where hundreds of elderly patients had their lives cut short — were "tragic and deeply troubling." an inquiry has found that the patients died because of what it says was an institutionalised regime of prescribing dangerous doses of powerful painkilling drugs when there was no medical justification to do so. the health and social care secretary told the commons that the report into suspicious deaths at the hospital between 1989 and 2000 was truly shocking. the panel found that over the period, the lives of a50 patients were shortened by clinically inappropriate use of opioid analgesics. with an additional 200 lives also likely to have been shortened if missing medical records are taken into account. the first conservators were raised

by brave nurse whistle—blowers in 1991 but then systematically ignored. the families first raised concerns in 1998 and they too were ignored. nothing i say today will lessen the anguish and pain of families who have campaigned for 20 years for justice after the loss of a loved one. but i can at least, on behalf of the government and the nhs apologise, for what happened and what they have been through. a large number of patients and their relatives understood that their admission to the hospital was for either rehabilitation or respite. they were, in effect, put on a terminal care pathway. mr speaker, others will come to their own judgment, but for me, that is unforgivable. norman lamb was a health minister in the coalition government. he was responsible for

setting up the enquiry. we need to have a mechanism to ensure that in future, families are never ignored again, that when legitimate allegations of wrongdoing are made that they are investigated properly and that families are involved in that process. and the health service was raised byjeremy corbyn and prime minister's questions. theresa may had promised england's nhs an extra £20 billion a year by 2023. the labour leader wanted to know where the extra money was going to come from. the prime minister said extra funding for the national health service will come from three sources, brexit, economic growth, and the taxation system. well, there can be no brexit evidence before 2022, economic growth is the slowest since 2009, so which taxes are going up? theresa may reckoned labour didn't have an agreed position. in relation to money we are no longer sending to the eu being spent on the nhs, the shadow housing secretary called it bogus, the shadow health secretary said it is deceit.

but perhaps i can tell them what another labour member said a few weeks ago. he said, we will use the funds returned from brussels after brexit to invest in our public services. it was him, the right honourable gentleman, the leader of the opposition. jeremy corbyn pressed the prime minister over her claims over how much extra money would be available to the nhs and who would pay more tax to fund it. mr speaker, herfigures are so dodgy, they could be put are so dodgy, they belong on the side of a bus. we do expect that from the foreign secretary, but why is the prime minister pushing her own mickey mouse figures? we have... we have consistently put extra money into the national health service. conservatives putting more money into the national health service, labour losing control of the public finances and bankrupting britain. now, let's take a look at some other news from around westminster in brief. the government has set

out its long—awaited proposals to give eu citizens in the uk the right to carry on living here after brexit. as the system was unveiled, the home secretary, sajid javid, suggested that he wanted those people to stay and that the uk needed them. 0ur positioning would be our default position would be to write status, so we would be looking to grant status as quickly as we can. we will not be looking for excuses at all, to knock back at stages, it will be all driven by the default view that you provide this information and if you're not going to be granted status, there has to be a very good reason. pictures of children sleeping in cages and audio of infants crying for their parents led to international condemnation of the us policy of separating migrant families at its border. the crackdown on illegal immigration lead to more than 2000 children being separated from their families injust over a month. the snp's westminster leader said that infants as young as 18 months were being caged like animals.

the former head of us immigration and customs enforcement said that he expects hundreds of these children never to be reunited with their parents. lost in the system. orphaned by the us government. is the prime minister still intending to roll out the red carpet for donald trump? the pictures of children being held in what appear to be cages are deeply disturbing. this is wrong. this is not something that we agree with. this is not the united kingdom's approach. there was outrage when a bill to outlaw upskirting was blocked in the commons. a conservative mp wanted to know if theresa may would take action to tackle it. will she confirm that we will make the horror of upskirting illegal, quickly and in government time? here, here. thank you.

well, i can reassure my honourable friend, i agree with him. upskirting is a hideous invasion of privacy. it leaves victims feeling degraded and distressed. we will adopt... we will adopt this as a government bill, but we are not stopping there. we will also ensure that the most serious offenders are added to the sex offenders register. the international trade minister greg hands resigned from the government so he can vote against plans for a third runway against at heathrow airport. mr hands said he was standing by a promise he made to his constituents in chelsea and fulham in west london at the 2017 election. the issue will go to the commons on monday. the foreign secretary, borisjohnson, who has also opposed the new runway, is due to be out of the country at the time. the high—profile case of billy caldwell who suffers from severe epilepsy lead the government to announce a review into the use of cannabis for medical reasons.

billy was originally denied cannabis oil, which can be used to control seizures, but one mp thought the government should have acted sooner. what an outrage, that it is only so much press attention, that has finally shamed this government into action. grenfell residents have told mps that the royal borough of kensington and chelsea has lost trust and legitimacy. 0ne community activist said that the council should be honest about its past activities. the local authority doesn't have any authority. if you see the meetings they hold in public, you will understand what i am saying. they have lost trust and they have lost their legitimacy. there is now this vast chasm of distrust between the community and the council.

it takes time to change organisations. ithink, the important thing is, they have got to change the management. changing the management of the tmo as well. the management of the whole of the council. we are hiring people on behavioural competencies, notjust based on experience. how do they treat people? particularly focused on compassion and empathy for senior staff. and we are also developing a major culture change for the rest of the organisations. a minute's silence was held on tuesday to mark the first anniversary of the finsbury park terrorist attack. one man, makram ali died and nine others were injured when a van was driven into a crowd of people near a north london mosque. the speaker led mps in remembering the attack. in order to remember those who died or were affected by the attack, outside the finsbury park mosque, i remind colleagues, a year ago today. mps expressed their dismay after fire devastated the glasgow school of art for the second time. the blaze caused substantial damage. an investigation is under way into the cause of the fire as well as a debate about the future of the building. the building is one of glasgow's iconic landmarks and regarded as mackintosh's greatest work.

it is rightly respected as being of global architectural significance and a unique and irreplaceable building in the eyes of many worldwide. the loss of the glasgow school of art, particularly in the 150th anniversary year since mackintosh's birth, is a very, very sore loss for the city indeed. charles rennie mackintosh's glasgow school of art, a magnificent edifice that dominates the skyline of garnethill, is the epitome of what it means to be a glaswegian. it embodies the very essence of the city's character and so is a true example of human genius. and the grief i experienced after the fire in 2014 was profound. it felt like part of our city had died that day. to now witness an even more severe conflagration, consume this precious art nouveau masterpiece, has left me both angry and incredulous that it could have happened again. now should gibraltar have its own mp at westminster? 0ne conservative certainly thinks so. gibraltar has been much fought over throughout its history and has been in british hands since the 18th century.

craig mackinlay argued it had a unique constitutional position, post—brexit, leaving the eu with the uk. gibraltar already has electoral links with the uk through its attachment to the south west region for representation in the european parliament. this will disappear upon brexit and the way to protect this attachment is for this parliament to allow the people of gibraltar direct representation here in this house. potholes are the curse of many a car and bike user and hitting one can have serious consequences. the government says it is increasing the money available to highways england, but one peer thought they were not the only peril on our roads. potholes or not, how can pedestrians on the pavements alongside these roads maintain themselves in safe

conditions, when cyclists refuse to equip their machines with bells and curse those like me, who politely ask them to mend their ways? could they possibly be in league with those who will stop at absolutely nothing to reduce the size of this house? laughter. now, what has been happening in the wider world of politics this week? gary connor has our countdown. at five... after objecting to the upskirting bill, sir christopher chope was welcomed back to the commons on voting day by a washing line on monday by a washing line of knickers across his office door. she is bringing the house down. theresa may had another set malfunction at a speech, but at least this time the letters did not fall off. at three, he is back,

the ex—stalwart of the treasury committee was introduced to the lord's on thursday. but andrew tyrie will set as an unaffiliated peer, rather than on the conservative benches. at two, once a speaker, always a speaker, betty boothroyd rose to her feet in the lords to correct michael howard about some house of commons procedure. the honourable lady, the leader of the opposition, is absolutely correct in what she says. and at one, it is a girl. new zealand's prime ministerjacinda arden, has given birth. she is only the second elected leader in the world to do so while in office. gary connor there with our countdown. now, westminster tea rooms are famous for political plotting, but cakes and celebration were on the menu this week at the launch of a national tea party campaign. equaliteas makes the 90th anniversary of the act that gave women the same voting rights as men. but the leader of the commons,

andrea leadsom, said more work on equality was still needed. some of the awful abuse that we see online, some of the roughing up of public discourse, all of these things are things that we need to tackle, in this century, to make sure that we meet the challenge of those women and some men who tried so hard to improve the quality between the sexes then. applause. here we go. oh, it is a light sponge. i have been making it all weekend. well done! yeah. in the days of the suffrage movement, tea was the big sort of insurrection. you would go out and you would have tea and you would discuss your plans to get women to have the vote, so actually it was the hotbed of the movement. so, now of course, tea isjust a lovely way to while away the afternoon, but in the suffrage movement, it was really a core part of what they were trying to do. it was in a parlour, in manchester,

that the pankhursts and their group of like—minded supporters, formed the women's social and political union. i think that stories of women who came from very ordinary beginnings and went on to do extraordinary things are the most powerful messages that we can deliver in this centenary year. lady williams of trafford on the continuing fight for equality. and that is it from us for now. but dojoin keith macdougall on bbc parliament on monday night at 11 for another round—up of the day here at westminster. but for now, from me, alicia mccarthy, goodbye. hello. the warming of weather gathers pace

this weekend with temperatures next weekend to get near 30 celsius. plenty of sunshine coming but quite hazy on saturday. it depends how far north you are, how dry, in scotland, possibly a bit of rain. the circulation of wind around an area of high pressure moving across the uk and the warmer colours coming as the temperatures that up. a bit of a chill. first thing saturday morning, the widely into single figures. already in the far north of scotland, more cloud, more breeze and some outbreaks of rain, particularly into the northern isles. and there will actually be a bit more cloud around to many of us. saturday, compared with friday. north—westerly breeze, taking high cloud southwards in making the sunshine quite hazy but temperatures are heading higher. you will notice that across southern parts of the uk during saturday but more of us on

sunday. now, saturday night and into sunday. now, saturday night and into sunday morning. still some cloud around northern scotland. clearing away early on sunday. elsewhere, clear skies. while some are still dipping into single figures, more of us dipping into single figures, more of us won't be as our sunday begins. even overnight temperatures are heading up. plonked right across the uk, this area of high pressure. across the border, expecting it to be dry. more on the way of sunshine. still hazy in places. plenty of sunshine, very bright winds and look at the wind heading up. temperatures are set to head a bit higher. if we look at monday, plenty of sunshine. ba rely look at monday, plenty of sunshine. barely a cloud in the sky. higher uv and poland levels in places. the temperatures are getting into the mid—20s. as we go through the week.

again, a lot of dry weather with plenty of sunshine and we are expecting temperatures to peak in the hot spots at around 30 celsius and that will be the first time that's been reached this year. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is ben bland. our top stories: president trump tries to regain control of the fight over immigration — meeting victims of crime at the white house. the un's human rights council says venezuela's security forces have killed hundreds under the pretext of fighting crime. president trump has pressed the case for greater border security, meeting with people

whose family members were killed by undocumented immigrants. meanwhile, along the southern border, hundreds of children remain separated from their parents.