parts of the uk. we could southern parts of the uk. we could see the weather turning more u nsettled see the weather turning more unsettled but slightly milder to enter next week. we could see pictures like this. rain arriving in the south after what has been quite a cold spell of weather. it looks like things will turn a little bit milder by next weekend. hello. this is bbc news, i'm martine croxall. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines: the prime minister, facing a possible leadership challenge, has pledged to fight on with her widely criticised plans for leaving the eu, saying it's the best on offer.

she warned that no—one could know the consequences of rejecting the deal. earlier, a series of ministers and aides quit the government. dominic raab became the second brexit secretary to resign from the cabinet, saying he could not support the prime minister's approach. and, piling on the pressure, the leading brexit supporter jacob rees—mogg has written a letter of no—confidence in the prime minister. no confirmation yet that the 48 required for a leadership challenge have been sent. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the head of politics at city am, owen bennett, and david wooding, the political editor of the sun on sunday. welcome, both. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. let's start with the financial times, which says the prime minister is fighting for her political life, and her brexit plan.

the times suggests mrs may is at the mercy of what remains of her cabinet, saying we might not have seen the last of the resignations. city am picks up on the prime minister's use of her cricketing hero geoff boycott as inspiration. the daily telegraph focuses on theresa may's determination to remain in number ten, despite threats of a leadership challenge. the daily mail questions the wisdom of the plotters within the prime minister's own party, saying she was calm and composed during today's common‘s questioning. the guardian says today was a day of hostility, before a sombre press conference where mrs may pleaded with her party not to push the country towards the uncertainty of no deal. while the i suggests she could be out of office in days as she faces a possible leadership challenge from plotters within the party. and the cricket references feature once again on the front page of the daily mirror, this time claiming theresa may has been stumped by today's events. let's get into the detail

now of these stories. there are a couple of stories to look at. we will begin, though, with the telegraph's front page. am i going to see this through? yes, i am. it was quite clear i thought from the moment she started talking that that was not going to be a resignation speech. no, i mean, there was some, not panic, a few twitchers in the press gallery when we heard there was a press conference at 5pm, she was going in to tell us yet again that she is standing firm, strong and stable, remember that, from the election? she is still strong and stable and she isn't gonna go. she is showing amazing resilience. if you just think what happened to this woman. she was hammered in the general election, she has had people plotting and briefing against her. we've had seven resignations today. she had an hour and a half, i sat in

the press gallery in the house of commons chamber, listening to the 90 minutes of debate, and it took over an hour before we had someone saying that they actually like the brexit plan. and yet she's still going on and she says she feels in her heart and she says she feels in her heart and who have this is the best deal for britain and she's going to crack on with it. yes, she had some stamina, didn't she, standing up in the house of commons four hours today. all the time being battered with all that criticism and then jacob rees—mogg saying that he was, for one, going to send a letter of no confidence. yes, and may today, putting this in front of mps like that, it was a tactic we will see more of, we have a press conference which took questions, she will be on radio shows tomorrow, radio phone ins, she realises she has to get ahead of the story. we saw this on tuesday, when it was muted that the d raft tuesday, when it was muted that the draft had been agreed, we saw boris

johnson in front of the cameras, jacob rees—mogg in front of the cameras, we didn't see anyone from numberten, at any cameras, we didn't see anyone from number ten, at any loyalists saying, batley steel, and they realise now if they get on the front foot and get may to sell the deal to the public, that will be the chance to go over the heads of the mp5 and that will be something they will do in the next few days. and the uncertainty of if you don't take this, what might happen? yes, she is warning everybody that if we don't ta ke warning everybody that if we don't take this deal, in fact, it is my deal or no deal, or no brexit. she is saying that if we don't take this deal to the remainers that you will end up with a no deal, which is catastrophic, some people say. and to the people who want no deal because they are hardline brexiteers, she says if you don't ta ke brexiteers, she says if you don't take the deal, you might end up losing the dream of brexit because the foot might go in the door of the remainers towards a second referendum. the daily mail picks up on that, doesn't it, saying, "have

they lost the plot?" the saboteurs are not remainers from a few months ago, but they are people who support brexit, and again this idea that there could be no brexit at all, but at what point would that become possible? this is something that the journalist in westminster have been pushing number ten to explain a bit more. where is this no brexit coming from? the more. where is this no brexit coming from ? the only more. where is this no brexit coming from? the only way there could be no brexit is to forego legislation to stop it or second referendum and we need to go through that legislation. there is no time for that between now and the end parliament. theresa may ruled it out unless there is a change of government in march. this fio change of government in march. this no brexit threat doesn't hold up to much scrutiny. the argument is if you set yourself on a course of action leading to a general election andjeremy action leading to a general election and jeremy corbyn gets in, he is a brexit ie, i don't think it will stop it, the argument doesn't hold up stop it, the argument doesn't hold up —— he isa stop it, the argument doesn't hold up —— he is a brexiteer. you would have thought the mall would stand up

to jacob rees—mogg, they now call him on the great assassin. i think the papers like the mail and the express, which has adopted a softer tone than before, they care about the end of freedom of movement and thatis the end of freedom of movement and that is what theresa may is delivering with this deal. what is quite difficult is to get someone who doesn't like the deal to say what they would like that would be a cce pta ble what they would like that would be acceptable to everyone else. if you have a different deal, another set of people would be happy with it either. these deals are so complicated, 585 pages. just the withdrawal agreement. everybody has a different idea of brexit. if you ask any of the 17.4 million people who voted for brexit what they wa nted who voted for brexit what they wanted when they voted for brexit, i suspect a lot of people didn't know what they felt, they just didn't like the european union for various reasons and wanted to get out. it is not as simple as saying we can just stop mass immigration or we can stop paying money to them and we can take back control of our laws because there are loads of other routes in there are loads of other routes in the tree which has been growing in

the tree which has been growing in the back garden for many years which we have to pull out and that is the problem we have. and the european union are saying to us, you know, if you want to leave, you have to do this before you can leave, and theresa may, we have come so far down this road with this agreement 110w down this road with this agreement now that it is impossible to row back and say we want to change a few bits because they have already agreed so much of it. let's look at the guardian, the resignation, the coup, the day of hostilities, but michael gove has turned down the brexit secretary job, michael gove has turned down the brexit secretaryjob, even though he campaigned for leave. yes, which makes you wonder how he can stay in cabinet because if you are not willing to support the central policy of the government, how can you support any kind of collective responsibility? some of us have an interest in michael gove becoming prime minister. i am writing a book about him. it becomes a sort of arrangement on royalties. it is interesting, michael gove, because he is someone who is not in the same

brexit mindset as some of the more ha rd brexit mindset as some of the more hard brexiteers. he is favouring perhaps a sort of eea model relationship with the eu. for him it is more about fishing, those kind of things. he gets the argument slightly more than the single market access requirements. he is slightly cooler on that kind of aspect on it as opposed to some of the hard brexiteers. pragmatic, but is it a political pragmatism, in a self interested way? well, it may well be. they will all be having these thoughts at the moment because of this talk about the international development secretary, penny morgan, whether she might go, she is a hardline brexiteer and whether she might go, she is a ha rdline brexiteer and of whether she might go, she is a hardline brexiteer and of course now with dominic raab resigning, the brexit secretary, the second to have gone, a young, highflying, going places cabinet minister, seen as a future leader, jeremy hunt, the foreign secretary, and sajid javid,

the home secretary, must be thinking, "do we need to resign over this now?" i am not suggesting they are on the brink of resigning but it must be on their mind whether they stay and fight will go down with theresa may and their plan or whether they get out now before the ship sinks or hits an iceberg. the times, lonely may staggers on, pm ravaged as ministers quit over brexit, tory rebels call for a leadership vote, michael gove on the brink after rejecting the job. leadership vote, michael gove on the brink after rejecting the joblj don't know why they put the blue wash on her. i wonder if that is just how they printed it out. wash on her. i wonder if that is just how they printed it outm wash on her. i wonder if that is just how they printed it out. it is really odd. they have this blue wash on herto really odd. they have this blue wash on her to highlight the kind of coldness, quite an odd decision, but there we are. in terms of how close we are to her going, remember, when you have the 58 letters you have a vote of confidence in her which she only has to win by one vote and if she wins it by one vote and she decides not to go then she cannot be challenged for a year, so this is really high—stakes challenged for a year, so this is really high—sta kes stuff challenged for a year, so this is really high—stakes stuff for the people who want to get rid of her

because if they shoot now and they miss then she is safe for 12 months and she might ram through the deal. in all of this what we need is the dup, they said they won't vote for this in parliament. and they are propping up the government. the indication is unless may goes they will keep the supply going and they are the tent you need to look at, not jacob rees—mogg, the dup. are the tent you need to look at, not jacob rees-mogg, the dup. of course a lot of the reasons why no letters were going in up to now was because they were going to wait i suspect until march 29, when brexit had been delivered, and then kill her as leader and bring in a new leader to take them on from there. and then hopefully win the next election with a new leader. but of course people are getting angry now over this deal and that is why the letters are going in. it is difficult to know how many letters are in. if they get the 48 she will either win and be stronger or she will be toppled. that is the point, isn't it, who would want the prime minister's job isn't it, who would want the prime minister'sjob at this isn't it, who would want the prime minister's job at this point? there area

minister's job at this point? there are a lot of people who, you know, when the water is sought or less chow. when the water is sought or less choppy, who would absolutely want to lead the party, lead the country, this is a very difficult point in history. that is an excellent point, why would you want it now? you have to deliver something when there is fio to deliver something when there is no parliamentary majority for any option. so if you come in, no matter what you do, you're going to annoy people in your own party, you are going to split the party potentially, you're not going to get through the commons, you're going to bea through the commons, you're going to be a lame—duck prime minister. what you want, if you have ambitions at the topjob, you want to get brexit out the way, then you come in after brexit is done and you give a kind of bobby kennedy style speech that the country needs to come together, fiow the country needs to come together, now is the time for healing. you hear the word "healing" a lot, we need to calm down. everyone was talking about a government of unity, wasn't she, because things were so sort of riled. i think the bigger question about who the —— would want

thejob is who question about who the —— would want the job is who the rank—and—file conservative mps want as a leader, because unless they can unite behind one candidate you will have a fight with 20 people throwing their hats in the ring and a long, drawnout election, and of course you'd probably end up with somebody who is the least disliked candidate rather than the most light. imagine if you had a coronation, which is what may had a coronation, which is what may had last time, the grassroots would be angered, grassroots tories would probably say, "give us the option to vote for borisjohnson, the option to vote not for michael gove, some are like that". they want a full— blooded contest and the final say. in an idealworld full— blooded contest and the final say. in an ideal world you want the final candidates, two to be put at the end, but it wouldn't happen, eve ryo ne the end, but it wouldn't happen, everyone would put their hat in the ring, it would be astonishing. the fa ct ring, it would be astonishing. the fact remains, though, that whoever is brexit secretary, if they bother filling the post... they will emerge with downing street, they are doing the... it saves a bit of money. it saves money and redundancies. it

saves money and redundancies. it saves all of that kind of stuff.“ you're not going to have a brexit secretary, if you are, whoever will carry on negotiating with the eu 27, if not this deal, the eu 27 have already said this is the best you're going to get, it was about damage limitation for us. so you're on a hiding to nothing. yes, i mean, what else is there to negotiate? it is this deal or no deal, she is saying, so this deal or no deal, she is saying, so she doesn't really need a brexit secretary, i would guess. the eu's donald tusk has put forward this canada last model, when the brexiteers talk about this, they forget to say it didn't include northern ireland, which was completely hived off from the single market customs union, and they say we will negotiate on that, they say they want to keep the negotiations going, and they might not get that, so going, and they might not get that, so you're right, this notion that there is another deal that can be picked up, dust it off and voted on comes with massive caveats and breaching guidelines. the daily

mirror looks at the reference that was made to theresa may's cricketing hero geoffrey boycott, but is saying the opposite that she is stumped because she is facing such difficulty in getting this through. it was a moment of relatively light relief in that press conference. like things will turn a little bit milder by next weekend. relief in that press conference. when you've got a prime minister standing there trawling back through british heroes, geoffrey boycott, the man regarded as quite robotic, geoffrey boycott stayed at the crease and he got the runs eventually and that's how she co m pa res eventually and that's how she compares herself. we led with that. something more favourably than the mirror. you just keep bowling balls of me and i will do for defensive and be here all day and all night. and she will grind us all down. how

is that? very good. a couple of other stories away from brexit. the ft. sowd enquiry clears crown prince of involvement in khashoggi murder which will come as a huge relief to allies of saudi arabia. it will come asa allies of saudi arabia. it will come as a relief to the allies allies stash allies and a surprise to know one but the authorities found he wasn't involved, the story has changed many times over the past few months since this has happened. now we are at the point where khashoggi was going to persuade —— be persuaded to come back to saudi arabia, he was given a sedative, which was an overdose and as you would do, he was dismembered. that was the third iteration of the

explanation. if people want to believe this, this is what they were going to believe. carrying on trading with saudi arabia. contrast that with russia, when russia gives its reasons, its defence for novichok. the same service —— scepticism doesn't apply to saudi arabia. the deputy head of intelligence, one who the saudi state prosecutor has named as responsible for the murder, and they face the death penalty. it depends how well you trust the saudi justice syste m how well you trust the saudi justice system as to whether you think it is enough for the crown prince. those in very high positions of power are caught up in this, aren't they? he was sacked last month. something in

from the united states reported on reuters —— reuters, saying republican and democrat senators have introduced legislation seeking to strike back of saudi arabia over the death of macro will —— khashoggi. and for its role in yemen's devastating civil war. if it we re yemen's devastating civil war. if it were to become law, the bill would suspend weapons sales to saudi arabia and prohibit us refuelling of saudi coalition aircraft for riyadh's campaign in yemen. shi'ite muslim fighters that yemen's neighbours view as agents of iran in that proxy war. it's notjust about jamal khashoggi, it's about yemen. whether the jamal khashoggi element of it will be affected by this decision, we willjust have to wait and see. there was a story a couple of weeks ago about the midair refuelling being scaled back.

obviously this has moved on apace. the uk has been able to use stronger language. lets finish with the back page of the telegraph. rudy's last hurrah. wayne rooney's final appearance with england, didn't manage to score, i believe, but they did win 3—0 against the united states. is been afforded this glorified lap of honour which i can't think of many footballers being awarded. he's the most capped outfield player. the record goalscorer of all time. i find outfield player. the record goalscorer of all time. ifind it slightly but we did so well in the world cup, we had a team to the first time in many years which wasn't built around the personalities of players, and to me, rudy does represent that you are a little bit. bringing him back, it was done well, but ijust feel like

it affects the rest of the team. was done well, but ijust feel like it affects the rest of the teamm isa it affects the rest of the teamm is a last hurrah to him. it's almost like a testimonial. did we do it for geoff hurst or steven gerrard? i'm being biased. bobby charlton. all these great legends. you could pick a numberof these great legends. you could pick a number of people and say they did deserve to go out with a bang, as it were. he has been given a real big favour them. i think he's been a great servant of england. he's played some great games. big in the premier league for two clubs. why him and nobody else? are really rather young squad now. maybe that's the way gareth southgate is going to do it, are much more touchy—feely manager. he is very well dressed.

you always looks smart in the dugout. that's it for the papers tonight. you can see the front pages of the papers on the bbc news website at bbc dot co uk forward —— bbc.co.uk/papers. and you can watch our papers review again on the bbc iplayer. thank you to my reviewers owen bennett and david wooding. now — we'll conclude where we began: brexit. the bbc‘s victoria derbyshire programme has got together a number of famous faces with very differing views on the eu — in a series of brexit blind—dates. this is the result. is this going to have a tongue—in—cheek vibe to it? hello, hello, how are you? hello, i'm zara.

i was on love island. i am lance black. i'm from the brother when it was good. majeed from sheffield. ulrika jonsson. i hosted the eurovision song contest. i was on the board of the remaining campaign. iam the the board of the remaining campaign. i am the original stig. i voted to leave. brexit has given me many grey hairs. what is brexit? i voted to leave. i voted to remain. people that still remain are obnoxious. i think it's going very badly. i don't like confrontation. i bought some flowers. yes, i'm single. look what's happened to the value of

the pound, which when it comes to important exports. that's not correct. it is. if it's costing you more to import stuff, obviously you are going to have to increase to export. not on services. on products you do. you're saying that because it suits you rather be met. i will focus it down for you. soi met. i will focus it down for you. so i can understand it? in terms of the valley of our pound, that matters and there is no way you can say leaving the eu has an impact about? why a lot of people voted leave was on immigration. i was born in somalia and i couldn't speak an amount of english but i integrate. unhappy with that. it's a real shame that it's like that. it is about

immigration and more about the fact that because our country is so open, there has to be a limit that because people can't keep tight taking advantage of things like the nhs. the nhs is struggling, the schools are struggling but that's down to government policy. the government is clap. leaving the eu for lgbt people here is very concerning. the laws that have been bolstering lgbt equality are eu laws. one thing i insist upon is strong law here in the uk that matches what the eu gave us. the uk that matches what the eu gave us. i would like to think that this country is advanced enough that we would definitely stick to what we've known and everything but i don't think we can take it for granted. known and everything but i don't think we can take it for grantedlj would think we can take it for granted.” would never, ever, a supporterfinal say or second referendum. you might

increase the majority. the point is, the process of having that second say undermines the first say. people argue it's more democracy to have more boats but it's not more democracy if you have a rerun of the vote. the british people started the whole process, we want the british people —— british people to endorse the view of parliament. i don't think that's a travesty of democracy. the political anger i feel... democracy. the political anger i feel. . . are democracy. the political anger i feel... are you feeling that? yes, because essentially... i think what we are beginning to see is the snow inevitable decline of the united kingdom. no, i think inevitable decline of the united kingdom. no, ithink what inevitable decline of the united kingdom. no, i think what we are starting to see is europe clapping themselves because if we leave, others will follow suit.” themselves because if we leave, others will follow suit. i think they are probably laughing, actually. we are balls deep in it, we voted to brexit and we just have to get on with it.

type for a late—night check on the weather. it was very quiet. it sta rts weather. it was very quiet. it starts off at the kino. turning particularly murky over the hills towards the south—east as we go through the day, the cloud will take awhile to start and break. in some places will get some sunshine, particularly in spots with shelter from high ground to the south. north devon, western and northern parts of wales. the north coast in northern ireland. the northern half of scotla nd ireland. the northern half of scotland having probably the best chance. temperatures across the

country typically 13 or 14 degrees. things will turn misty and murky once again, a lot of cloud around, the old spot of drizzle but it's not going to get particularly cold. temperatures overnight getting down between six and 12 degrees. the weekends starting a mild and cloudy. high—pressure sifting over the near continent. with the wind around, high—pressure moving in a clockwise direction. some slightly dry out. on saturday, watch the cloud, we peel it back from the map and increase the chance of seeing some sunshine. a pretty murky start to saturday. certainly a lot of cloud but from east to west, people are cloud back. temperatures not too bad. it will be quite breezy. the chilly night on saturday. a cold start on sunday. sunday promises lots of sunshine.

get into some sunshine, but won't feel too bad. certainly those temperatures won't look too bad. compare to next week. we will start to bring in some much colder air. by the time we get into monday and tuesday, temperatures will struggle to get hired in single digits. quite a brisk breeze as well. some changes ahead. sunshine per the weekend. it turns colder. i'm babita sharma in london. the headlines: despite stinging criticism and a string of resignations, the british prime minister says she'll see her brexit deal through. i believe with every fibre of my being that the course i have set out is the right one for our country and all our people. mass protests delay the repatriation of rohingya muslims from bangladesh to myanmar. i'm rico hizon in singapore. also in the programme:

president trump will travel to california to meet victims of the wildfires that have killed at least 59 people. and genocide verdicts against two former leaders of cambodia's khmer rouge are due to be delivered shortly.