the prime minister takes to the airwaves to sell her brexit plan to the nation. she says the uk won't get a better dealfrom the eu if hers is rejected. i believe that if we were to go back to the eu and say, "well, people didn't like that deal, can we have another one?" we didn't like that deal, can we have another one? " we won't didn't like that deal, can we have another one?" we won't get, i don't think they will come to us and say, "we will give you a better deal". but theresa may wouldn't be drawn on whether her plan is better than staying in the eu, only that it would be "different". also tonight. police say knocking offenders off their mopeds is leading to a dramatic decrease in robberies. it's black friday — and why the shopping craze is now predominantly an online phenomenon, and we're likely to spend more than ever. and celebrating the kiss — telling the story behind one of the art world's most famous sculptures. coming up on bbc news, england's women thrash india to reach the world t20 final where they will play australia in antigua. good evening.

welcome to the bbc news at six. theresa may says the uk won't get a better dealfrom the eu if mps reject the agreement she has struck. talking to a bbc radio phone—in to sell her plan to the nation, she says if parliament votes against it, there will only be "more division and uncertainty". her proposal is made up of the draft withdrawal agreement on how we leave the eu and the political declaration, forming a basis for the future relationship. that declaration, which isn't legally binding, says brexit will end the free movement of eu citizens who want to come and live in the uk, but that also applies to british citizens wanting to move to the eu. on the issue of the irish border,

which is proving deeply contentious, the declaration adds only that new technology can be explored to try to ensure there is no need to use the backstop, which would keep northern ireland closer to eu rules. it says the uk will be allowed to pursue an independent trade policy with other countries. but the european court ofjustice will still play a role in uk affairs, something which has angered many brexit supporters. theresa may will travel to brussels tomorrow for more talks before the eu summit on sunday, where the agreement is expected to be signed by the other eu member states. here's our deputy political editorjohn pienaar. her rebellious mps won't listen to her message on brexit. time to talk to the country. a 5live news special with emma barnett and theresa may. i think for most people out there, actually, theyjust want us to get on with it. mrs may is talking now over the heads of political opponents and tory mutineers, trying to tune into public impatience with the point scoring, with a political game she

may well lose. i'm going to be explaining the deal to people up and down the country because i think this is important. it's not just about the mps in westminster looking at the deal, it's about people across the country understanding what the deal is about. so, that's my focus. so, no plans to resign? my focus is on getting this deal through. then, this blunt warning to parliament, to brexiteer mps and ministers — no point defeating her brexit plan in hope of getting a better one. if we were to go back to the european union and say, well, people didn't like that deal, can we have another one, we won't get... i don't think they're going to come to us and say, we'll give you a better deal. for the former remainer, a tough question. without any political waffle or convoluted answer, just between the two of us, what, in your honest opinion, is better for the uk? your deal or the deal we'd have if we'd stayed in the eu? you say better off. actually, it's a different sort of environment

and a different approach that we'll be taking to things. so, not quite yes and not quite no. brexiteers know what they don't like. on air too today, one who has quit the cabinet with the message that nothing is worse than mrs may's deal. well, i'm not going to advocate staying in the eu but if you just presented me terms, this deal or eu membership, because we'd effectively be bound by the same rules but without the control or voice over them, yes, i think this would be even worse than that. i declare this brexit minimart open! a stunt to suggest brexit could come at a cost. more on the labour side are buying into the idea of a fresh referendum. what i'd like to do, ideally of course, is have a general election so we can vote this shower out. i speak as a labour politician. if we can't have that option, ithink, you know, the british public, for the first time, for the first time should have a say whether they accept the outcome of these negotiations, with the option of staying in the eu. the odds are that a large

number of mps on all sides are stacked up against theresa may's brexit plan. today she is insisting if her plan is defeated in the commons, there is no chance of getting a better one. but tory brexiteers, including some in cabinet, disagree. they may not want a leader who is convinced they have no chance of success. as it is, we are all watching and waiting to find out. will this historic plan be pulled up short, stopped in its tracks? it's looking like it. until then, mrs may will try to make it work. downing tools is simply not an option. john pienaar, bbc news, westminster. our europe correspondent adam fleming is in brussels. theresa may is still fighting for her draft agreement here but does the eu consider the deal done? yes, as far as the eu is concerned, the two bits of the brexit package, the two bits of the brexit package, the withdrawal agreement spelling out the divorce and the political

declaration sketching out the future are finished, closed, neverto declaration sketching out the future are finished, closed, never to be reopened, and certainly not tweaked oi’ reopened, and certainly not tweaked or renegotiated by theresa may when she is here in brussels to see jean—claude juncker from the european commission tomorrow night. but guess what? there's a third document floating round which will be signed off by eu leaders on sunday which will spell out their priorities for the eu 27th in the future negotiations and there are two priorities, first, the so—called level playing field which is managing, finding ways to manage the economic competition between the uk at the eu after brexit and the second, getting a dealfor the eu to have access to british fishing waters as soon as is. there's one other problem right at the last minute, the spanish government is still making very loud noises about having some kind of binding guarantee about how all of this will affect gibraltan. behind the scenes, there's a bit of a scramble going on to find a way of pleasing pedro sanchez, the spanish prime minister,

who says he won't come to brussels on sunday to sign off unless he's happy and if he doesn't come, that is quite a big problem, actually. we shall see. adam fleming in brussels, thank you. in an unusually frank statement, one of britain's top police officers has admitted his force can't provide the public with anywhere near the level of service they require. cleveland police chief mike veale says budget cuts are too deep and have gone on for too long. earlier this week, the bbc showed officers in hartlepool struggling to police the streets. our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan is here, and it was your report from hartlepool which prompted today's comments by the chief constable. it was coming yes. what became apparent during the weekend we spent in hartlepool with cleveland police officers was the sheer pressures that they are under. they have lost more than a third of their budget, they calculate, in real terms, since 2010, around a0 odd million pounds, including 500 fewer officers than

they used to have. what that means is that in hartlepool, a town of 92,000 people for instance, they only had ten officers on the night shift and on one night we were out with them, or those officers were responding to incidents which meant there was no officer left to respond toa there was no officer left to respond to a further incident in the town at that time. that has led to chief co nsta ble that time. that has led to chief constable mike veale putting out with strongly statement, initially on twitter, titling it, "the cuts created and caused by austerity are too deep and have gone on to do long". essentially, what he is saying if they don't have enough resources to protect the rural communities and he says it is time this trend of police cuts was reversed and they were given the resources . reversed and they were given the resources. he says, "give us the tools and we will do the job". we've gone to the home office and asked what they had to say and they sent me the same statement they sent me before the report went out, the essence of which is, "we will look at police budgets in next year's government spending review". michael, thank you. police in london say new tactics

designed to stop moped crime, including knocking offenders off their bikes, have led to a sharp fall in the number of moped robberies. scotland yard say the number of offences has dropped by over a third since specialist teams were set up to tackle the problem. you may find some footage in tom symonds' report disturbing. asa crime, as a crime, it can be lightning fast or deeply intimidating. for the met, the scooter gangs have become a big problem. the response is a new specialist tea m the response is a new specialist team with high—powered, slimline motorbikes. this stinger system punctures the tyres of scooter criminals then retracts to allow police cars to pass. but it's also about this. yes, that's a police car driving into a scooter rider, deliberately. they are trained to do it at as low a speed as possible. it is risky. it's a high impact tactic and therefore our riders and our drivers will be

considering the risk to the rider they're pursuing, the risk to the public and the risk to themselves before deciding upon that course of action. but, in more cases than not, it is safer to bring that pursuit to a close than it is to continue to allow that rider driving dangerously through london. this is a specialist team has made 63 stops like this without serious injury. he gets up. but the police watchdog is now investigating three other incidents elsewhere in the net. officers have to justify their decision to continue a pursuit in real time over the radio. contrary to what some criminals believe, whether or not they are wearing a helmet is not necessarily one of them. well, this is an absolute myth. if they take their crash helmet off, they think we won't pursue. they need to know that we will. it is for their safety and again, we will risk assess it. crime is always changing and the police believe that this one has been increasing because we are walking around with expensive things like phones, which are very valuable to thieves.

but you can add to that the fact that it's an efficient crime to carry out. one scooter can be used for a string of offences. these tactics are not entirely new but they are now being used regularly and the met says they have helped cut scooter crime by 36%. tom symonds, bbc news, at new scotland yard. the united arab emirates says it's considering an appeal for clemency from the family of a jailed british academic. matthew hedges was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of spying. he denies the charge. the uae has a history of issuing pardons in anticipation of its national day, on december 2. there are "systemic issues" in funding and integrating mental health services into a&e departments. that's according to a new report by a government funded body which advises the nhs on safety. it found that, despite official guidance that all suspected self—harm incidents in a&e should be referred for psychiatric

assessment, there are vast inconsistencies across england. in some parts of the country, 88% of patients are assessed. but elsewhere that drops to 22%. alison holt has been to birmingham to look at how a&e and mental health services are working there. hello, rapid assessment team? james cawley is a psychiatric nurse based at the heartlands hospital in birmingham. so, it sounds like he's having hallucinations. audio—visual hallucinations. the call is from accident and emergency, where a young man has been brought in because he appears to be having a mental health crisis. james needs to see him quickly to work out how to help him. today's report says in too many places this sort of rapid response simply doesn't happen. is he under arrest under order 136? no. they don't have any records for the patient brought in by police. in the packed emergency department, james has to now build up a picture of what is going on. hi, i'mjames, i'm from the rapid response team. how often is it you are coming down here having

to assess someone quickly? what, per day? it can be basically up to 12, 13, 1a times a day. it varies day to day, but it can be very, very busy. people come to a&e because they need that immediate help and support and sometimes people are not sure where to go so a&e is always one of the first port of calls. but the healthcare safety investigation branch says whether you get support like this depends on where you live. according to this report, nearly two thirds of people arriving at emergency departments with an urgent mental health problem don't get the help they need. and even when there is a psychiatric liaison team, they are not always called. that's him at my mums house. painfully familiar forjacob knox—hook. his 22—year—old brotherjosh was taken to their local a&e after cutting his wrists. he told staff he was suicidal but the psychiatric team was not called and he was able to walk out unchallenged. his body was found a month later. i know that it's a very busy place. but i still feel like,

if someone was presenting in the way that my brother was, that is the biggest red flag ever to say, quickly, i need to call the psychiatric liaison, get someone to come and see him now. there is not time to waste in that kind of situation. back at heartlands hospital, the psychiatrist has arrived to see the young man who is hallucinating. he has become increasingly unsettled. he was getting quite agitated. his behaviour escalated quickly. all right, ok. it's decided to move him to a mental health unit. hopefully a good assessment in the place of safety, followed by admission for a period of time. it was professor george tadross who pioneered the idea of a&e—based psychiatric teams. he says it is vital that someone in a crisis sees the right specialist. if someone comes with a heart attack or broken legs, you expect nothing but they be assessed by the people who are fully trained in this. in mental health, wejust need to have exactly the same.

a quick decision should help the young man with his recovery. the government says more money is being put into ensuring mental health is placed on an equalfooting with physical health. alison holt, bbc news, birmingham. our top story this evening. the prime minister insists the uk won't get a better deal from the eu if hers is rejected. coming up — despite government efforts, how one in four graduate interns still aren't getting paid for their work. coming up on sportsday on bbc news, jonny bairstow shows england what they have been missing, hitting a magnificent century in the final test against sri lanka. england closed on 312—7. it's been a tough year for the high street, but today we've been shopping like mad. yes, it's black friday.

and this year, it could be even bigger than before. it's estimated that we'll spend more than £1.5 billion, just today, on the internet. up 13% from last year. if you break it down, that's around £1 million a minute. this phenonmenon, which has completely upended the traditional christmas spending, is now predominantly online. and many small and medium sized firms are taking advantage, as our business correspondent, emma simpson, reports. the black friday orders are flying off the shelves. it is a small warehouse but boy, do they do big business. this firm in colchester specialises in selling excess stock online and they did £6 million worth of sales last year. well, we are growing at about 20% per annum, which is terrific. we have got this chance of the smaller players as such being able to compete with those bigger players because of

the ubiquity and democratisation that the internet offers. would you ever open a shop? no. ian doesn't need one, when we are doing so much more shopping online, wherever we are. it is a huge shift, driven by technology which isn't just empowering us customers. thousands of new businesses have also been springing up and are thriving. hello, i'm andy from dock & bay. we sell these quick dry beach towels. we've been going just three years. we are hoping to sell over £a million worth of these this year. we are the mo bros and we sell premium beard care products. we started four years ago and this year our revenue hit {1.6 million. hello, we are from the valleys in monmouthshire. we sold over £1 million worth of products last year and we are going like the clappers for black friday. there are more than 100,000 small and medium—sized businesses trading on ebay, amazon and not on the high street.

amazon's uk sellers exported more than £2.3 billion worth of goods last year, an increase if nearly a third on the previous 12 months. ebay has more than 1000 businesses doing sales of more than £1 million a year. in just a few years, a whole new way of retailing has emerged. they have unicorns on everything, that is the number one. ebay's uk boss has picked his christmas top sellers and explains why small online firms are now a force to be reckoned with. these are businesses you might not recognise and brands you might not have heard of but fundamentally they are big going concerns, employing people, creative and agile and great trading businesses and it is a great example of british ingenuity and business building that is happening even despite all the headlines about the high street. there were some queues today. guess who this is?

amazon, a pop—up shop. online players still think the high street has a role to play in pulling shoppers in. emma simpson, bbc news. another dinghy carrying suspected migrants has been intercepted off the coast of kent. this week more than a0 people were found crossing the channel — more than 100 this month. the home office said the group of eight men, who say they are iranian, are now being interviewed by immigration officials. a convicted paedophile has told a court he had nothing to do with the deaths of two nine—year—olds in brighton more than 30 years ago. russell bishop, who's 52, is charged with murdering nicola fellows the girls went missing while playing near their home. daniela relph reports. russell bishop arrived at court in a prison van. he's been injailfor 28 years for the sexual assault and attempted murder of a seven—year—old girl. but today, he faced questions about a different crime, the murder of karen hadaway and nicola fellows in 1986.

this is the second time he's faced trial on these charges. karen hadaway‘s mother sat a few metres away as russell bishop repeatedly denied murdering her daughter and her neighbour, nicola. he told the court he had helped the police search for the nine—year—olds when they went missing and had been amongst the first people to find their bodies hidden in undergrowth. describing the moment the girls were found, he told jurors: realising they were dead, he said: russell bishop also told the court his police statements were sometimes contradictory because officers bullied him during interviews. he described them as downright nasty. russell bishop was tearful a number of times during his evidence. as his barrister finished questioning him, he asked, "did you have anything to do with the murders of karen hadaway and nicola fellows?"

russell bishop replied, "no". next week, the families of both girls will hear more from russell bishop as he is cross—examined by the prosecution. daniela relph, bbc news, at the old bailey. despite government efforts to crack down on unpaid internships, a new report has found that more than one in four graduates are still not being paid for working as interns. the sutton trust — a group that campaigns for social mobility — says working for nothing is still the norm in many industries and has trapped young people in a cycle of unpaid work. chi chi izundu has been speaking to two former interns about their experiences. interns, work shadowing or work experience. there is an estimated 100,000 a year working in businesses around the uk. according to the sutton trust, more than one in four are working for free. yes, i think the outcome has been good. i still work in policy and public affairs, it is a career in a sector that i want to work in still. the sutton trust says unpaid

experience is problematic because young people from low and moderate income backgrounds are being prevented from accessing careers in some of the most desirable sectors because they cannot afford to take part. so, i worked in parliament for six weeks, unpaid. i had to do a variety of tasks. answer the phone, send e—mails, reply to constituents, other bits of office administration like writing reports and briefings. an internship needs to imply some sort of development or training. there needs to be some work on skills. it felt very much like the things i was doing were work and i have done similar things and been paid for them elsewhere. and being paid to learn isjust what holly, who works in darlington, needed. i was able to do it as it was paid but if it wasn't, it would have just been a no from me. there is definitely this push for experience, experience, experience, but very little opportunity to do that and that's where unpaid internships are grabbed at as a cure for that. so, i think, it's not necessarily people being naive — they know what they're getting into, students and young people in general, but we don't have very much choice to get experience

in other ways. ministers are debating in parliament today whether to ban unpaid work experience of more than four weeks. currently, under law, interns must be paid if they work set hours or on set tasks and the trust is hoping the government will do more to stop young people being trapped in the cycle of unpaid work which may not even help them get into their chosen career. chi chi izundu, bbc news. england have cruised into the women's world t20 cricket final — after a comfortable win over india in antigua. natalie sciver and amyjones both scored half centuries as england won with 17 balls to spare. they will now face australia in sunday's final. it's one of the best known images in art — the two lovers of rodin's the kiss. it's now being taken outside its usual home at tate britain in london so that the story behind it and its enduring impact can be brought to a wider audience. our arts editor, will gompertz, has been to see it at christchurch

museum in ipswich. the tudor facade of christchurch mansion in ipswich, built in 15a9. it has since 1895 been a museum boasting an eclectic and at times eccentric election. this is the great hall. it sets the tone for the museum, which covers 500 years of fine and decorative art. here in the library, there's this ornate gilt french clock from around the 1800s, this battered georgian chair and this beauty, a victorian exercising chair on which you sit and it goes up and down. quaint now, all the rage, then. and this is the suffolk artists room, featuring local legends constable and gainsborough. everything i have shown you so far is from the permanent collection, but there is one very special guest from london, who the museum hopes will transform people's appreciation of its sculpture collection. it is auguste rodin's the kiss, which tells the story of an adulterous affair. he, paolo, has a brother called giovanni, who is her,

francesca's, husband. the illicit lovers were reading this romantic book when they succumbed to their desires. giovanni caught them and killed them. it is a distinctly erotic sculpture which caused a scandal when it was displayed in public in sussex in 191a. but will it cause a fuss in 21st—century ipswich? i think there will still be a bit of a shock factor, quite honestly. because you can get quite up close and personal and it's a very personal and emotional subject. so i think, yeah, there might still be... it will cause a bit of scandal. there's not been anything like this before in terms of this profile of sculpture. there are other major rodin loans to entice visitors into the free exhibition to discover and enjoy the museum's own collection of works by artists such as picasso and maggie hambling. it is called the kiss because what are they doing? kissing. they are having a kiss. while a new generation of local gallery goers gets the chance to learn about the world—class art

on their doorstep and beyond. will gompertz, bbc news, ipswich. time for a look at the weather... here's tomasz schafernaker how is it looking? still chilly? it certainly is, it will feel pretty nippy with easterly winds and no change to the last few days. if you wa nt change to the last few days. if you want milder weather, you have to wait until next week but you will have to pay for it because there will be wind and rain coming with it. i want to show you the radar, this is where it has been raiding today, those flashes of lightning in the south—west showing some report of some lightning striking some properties in the south—west and some pretty vicious downpours there. at least locally. that will continue tonight, hopefully not the thunder and lightning but the showers will continue for a time in the south—west. the rest of the country is more or less dry. temperatures dipping to around 5 degrees in most

major towns and cities, the risk of a bit of frost here and there but mostly outside of town and out in the countryside. this is the temperature of the atmosphere, the blue is cold and yellow is milder so you can see large parts of europe are still in chilly air coming from eastern europe. we have that easterly breeze and it looks like, for most of us, saturday will not be too bad but the southern counties, we have been forecasting this for a couple of days, they look wet. not raining all the time but there will be rain coming and going through the day and possibly some of it making its journey to the south—east and east anglia. a bit of a question of how much rain we get in the capital but the basic message is that for the past majority of the country on sunday, the weather is not looking bad most of western and north—western areas should have some sunshine, belfast and glasgow looking fine. i mentioned the more u nsettled looking fine. i mentioned the more unsettled and windier weather next week, this is a brief outlook. you

can see a big system starting to wind up in the atlantic, looking a bit more angry with stormy seas and some of that wind and rain will head our way but in the short term, the next three or four days, it looks to be staying in chile, a bit like november should be. fair enough. it is all from the bbc news at six and hello this is bbc news. the headlines — theresa may has taken part in a phone—in here on the bbc news channel and radio 5 live and says the draft brexit agreement is the right deal for britain. i believe that if we were to go back to the european union and say people didn't like that deal, can we have another one, i don't think they are going to come to us and say we will give you a better deal. police say knocking offenders off their mopeds is leading to a dramatic decrease in robberies.

the united arab emirates is considering a pardon for the british academic matthew hedges, jailed for life for alleged spying. there's a warning that too many people are not being given the help they need when they arrive at a&e departments in england suffering a mental health crisis. in a moment it will be time for sportsday but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news. we'll be discussing the pros and cons of mrs may's brexit deal with former labour spin doctor, alastair campbell, and city am features editor rachel cunliffe. we'll be finding out why the government thinks the best course of action to stem the growth of female genital mutilation.