mp5 need to make sure we're not cutting off our nose to spite our face. we don't want to be so locked down that nobody can get in. we are an island. we need immigrants and we need trade. at the salsa club, you would never know britain's future is so delicately balanced. the mood — brexit and recrimination can wait for now. how much blame will they get at westminster if it all goes pear—shaped 7 they're all going to get the blame. all of them? yes. because of their participation in it, what they did and didn't do for the good of the people. i think theresa may will get the brunt of the blame, but she had a thankless task in the first place. i don't know if anybody else could have done any better. but can people really step aside and blame politicians for any move or any misstep taken in their name? maybe not. that won't stop it happening. john pienaar, bbc news, walsall. we are back here at westminster.

let's get a final word with laura. we talked about nothing but setbacks and challenges for theresa may. was anything else possible? remember, one of the products of all of today's shenanigans, mps got a kind of insurance policy if you like that they will have the rather than, you know, the european union, without a deal, if theresa may's plan falls, and the fact they got that insurance policy from that amendment from dominic grieve means it is possible some of the former remainers were planning to vote against the deal will pause, and think in the end they may also be able to back it. it also means some brexiteers might feel quite nervous now, that perhaps mps might somehow conspire to stop brexit altogether, again if the prime minister's plan falls next week. the product of what sounds

quite confusing is that the shenanigans today might result in a few fewer rebels next week, and the scale therefore of the potential defeat theresa may is staring at might be smaller than it might have seemed at the beginning of the day. i know that that also is very confusing, but it means the political games mps have been playing on very serious matters mean that theresa may might be looking at less of a humiliation next week. and of course a product of that means if it falls it might feel easier for to stay on. thanks very much. we will talk again tomorrow. laura kuenssberg, our political editor, as ever, here at westminster. just before we go, let's take you back to the commons. this is the scene live in the chamber, as mp5 continue to debate. rather emptier than it was earlier on. it's expected they'll be there for a couple of more hours to come at least. that's it from westminster. there's more with kirsty on newsnight on bbc two, and coverage from the house of commons debate continues overnight on bbc parliament. but now on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. have a good night.

hello and welcome to sportsday, i'm sarah mulkerrins, your headlines tonight manchester city stretch their lead at the top of the premier league with a win at watford. bournemouth are up to sixth after ending a run of four defeats in a row. there were also wins for brighton and west ham. and it's still a no for russia... athletics' governing body demands access to drugs test samples before talk of lifting the ban. hello and welcome to sportsday. manchester city have opened up a five—point lead at the top

of the table after their seventh straight premier league victory this evening, a 2—1 win away at watford. but they did have to survive a late fight back at vicarage road, to heap the pressure back on title chasers, liverpool, who travel to burnley tomorrow. adam wild watched the action. this is about as close as any team gets to manchester city this season, the champions the save our keeping eve ryo ne the champions the save our keeping everyone at arms length, but that is exactly what kept them in the opening stages and foster with the secession of superb saves. that chance of keeping in touch watch bird needed to take a few chances came their way, he didn't. before their break that side were behind their break that side were behind the chest of leroy, finally getting the chest of leroy, finally getting the better of the foster. that narrow margin doubled when they gave

the keeper no chance at all. to nil with plenty of problems on their hands and perhaps should have gotten worse with the penalty being awarded for this handball. city comfortable cruising, until he was able to scramble over the line and enough to offer a little hope, while forgetting closer than most man's stature city for the most part untouchable. —— manchester city. stature city for the most part untouchable. -- manchester city. my feeling is that five or ten minutes later, they did it but the game was really good and so aggressive that a lot of balls in, foster and them had incredible saves, but after that, we forget to be in position and we build up and that was not quicker than normal, and now what the chances we had a counter attack away missed it, we did not score the third gold they'd scored the first

two so last—minute everything happens so in the last minute they scored 2—2 would not have been a surprise. bournemouth are up to sixth after beating huddersfield 2—1. callum wilson and ryan fraser got their goals as they ended a run of four successive defeats. huddersfield stay fourth bottom for now. it wasn't a vintage performance for us it wasn't a vintage performance for us you're thinking hopefully we can go on and make it a memorable night but it wasn't they did well in past very well and created chances. but we did defend her ugly a second half, and we managed to avoid conceding and get a big win for us. brighton beat crystal palace at home despite being down to ten men for more than an hour of the game. a glenn murray penalty had put them ahead before shane duffy was sent off. but two more first half goals, from leon balogun and florin andone — made it three nil at the break. palace pulled one back from the spot through luka milivojevic but it finished 3—1 to the home side. we we re

we were outstanding today, i thought from start to finish, 11—11 we were better side, and certainly will we we nt better side, and certainly will we went down to ten men, it becomes a different game you'll have to defend more they have good footballers than defensive players, you have to defend well and for me it was a shame that the penalty went in because apart from that i did not see them having what you regard as a good chance. two goals from substitute lucas perez set west ham on their way to three points against cardiff. another from michail antonio sealed the win before a consolation effort from josh murphy — the hammers won 3—1. it would bore me pleasing if we keep a clean sheet but i think that was a big estate for the referenda last school with the files in handball lots of that, but three nil is they

want, but i was pleased to see the team not be nervous when they didn't score in the first 45, maybe second 45 you start playing faster than you need and i think we were calm and tried to continue and believe in what we do everyday. kenya's marathon runner, eliud kipchoge has been named male athlete of the year at the iaaf awards in monaco. here he is winning the london marathon in april — where he finished well clear of a strong field. then five months later in berlin — he broke the world record — winning in a time of 2 hours, 1 minute and 39 second — 78 seconds faster than the previous world record, which was the biggest single improvement on a men's marathon world record since 1967. britain's dina asher—smith lost out on the female award to caterine ibarguen from colombia. the olympic champion triple jumper was unbeaten in all eight competitions this season. she was consistently top in the long jump too — winning titles in both disciplines at the central american

caribbean games, the continental cup and the diamond league finals. the iaaf, the governing body for athletics — have upheld their ban on russian athletes in international competition. this has been in place since november 2015 because of evidence of state—sponsored doping. the ban will remain in place until samples and data from moscow's former anti—doping laboratory are made available. alex capstick is in monaco. no great surprise the meeting here at the base in monaco has upheld the ban —— night—time they looked into theissue ban —— night—time they looked into the issue and nine times they decided against reinstating russia, they are determined not to have it until they have met all conditions laid out as what they called the road map and the key issue in all of this is samples locked inside the

moscow anti—doping lab oratory, there was access to the samples before they could consider lifting the ban. it puts them at odds with other big covering sports bodies, like the olympic committee who earlier worked on russia back after leaving them out of the pyeongchang winter ones and in september they did something similar. athletics is immovable, i've been talking to the president of them. the velocity from the outset has been kindly separate clea n the outset has been kindly separate clean athletes from tainted system, so over clean athletes from tainted system, so over 30 russian athletes are competing internationally, they‘ re competing internationally, they‘ re competing as neutrals, the remainder of that journey which will be competing as neutrals, the remainder of thatjourney which will be the reinstatement of the athletic federation, will depend on the full completion of the criteria. the big question of course is how long can this go on for? russians were promised that they will make available the data from the samples

and the lab by the end of the year and the lab by the end of the year and the lab by the end of the year and the samples themselves up by the middle of next year, that was good enough for them, but the committee seems lest convinced they will deliver on those assurances. england are still waiting for theirfirst win at the hockey world cup in india. after drawing with china in their opening pool game, they were soundly beaten by two—time defending champions australia — 3—nil the score. ireland came from behind to draw with china. the match was goalless until well into the third quarter but two in two minutes including this equaliser from alan sothern earned ireland their first point of the tournament. in this afternoon's snooker uk championship action, judd trump qualified for the fourth round. the world number five made an impressive start, leading 3—1 over mark king in only 50 minutes. he closed out victory 6—2 in york and will meetjoe perry in the last sixteen. meanwhile neil robertson

trailed by two frames in his decieder against graeme dott, but the two—time uk champion responded in style — five breaks of more than 50 saw the australian through to the last 16, winnin that meeting 6 frames to 5. and robertson will face northern ireland's mark allen, next after his 6—2 win against the thai hossein vafaei, in their third round match. ding junhui is also through to the last 16. he came through the all chinese battle against zhou goo—dong by six frames to four. all the results and the best of the action from york, plus all the reaction to tonight's premier league games are on the bbc sport website that's all from sportsday. coming up in a moment, the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are owen bennett, head of politics at cityam and helen brand, chief executive of the association of chartered certified accountants many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. well the telegraph leads with ‘the day may lost control‘ as the prime minister loses three brexit—related votes in the space of just over one hour. similary, the mirror refers to sixty three minutes of mayhem for theresa may, and says her authority is "now in shreds".

the metro reports on one of the commons defeats as ministers are found guilty of contempt of parliament for not publishing full legal advice on the brexit deal. the ft reports that the prospect of a no—deal brexit has been reduced, as pro—eu campaigners celebrate mps backing a proposal for parliament to have a free hand in what happens next if they reject may's brexit deal next tuesday. the guardian summarises today's events in the house of commons with the headline "may staggers on after three brexit defeats in a single day". and the daily mail questions the future of brexit amid what they call, extraordinary scenes at westminster. one of those evenings afraid there's no chance. brexit everywhere but what a traumatic

evening. i watching closely, minutes of mayhem, a headline that sums it up there in the daily mirror. the mayor have gone for process,. all the defeats, 528, it was dramatic is that when you're standing the government trying forward compromise to motion of was the issue of contempt it's up to itself, they were defeated on that, in a defeated on that, every time you could just see the front bench of the government shrinking further and further back into the green leather seats, goodness why is this happening again and again, and at some point the labour mp didn't know what to cheer because they could feel it on the second one with the ministers were found guilty of contempt, but it was a kind of you to cheer, because this is something very