hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. the uk government has been forced to publish its legal advice on theresa may's brexit deal, emboldening those opposed to it ahead of next week's vote. this was the response of nmp. isn't it time the prime minister took responsibility for concealing the fa cts o n responsibility for concealing the facts on her brexit deal from members of this house and the public? we will hear her response. us special council robert mueller publishes a heavily redacted memo that could hold explosive revelations. we now know michael flynn — the former national security adviser — is unlikely to face a jail sentence. fertility breakthrough in brazil, where it's been revealed that a woman with a womb translpanted from a dead donor gave birth to a baby girl. we take a virtual tour of the tunnels built by is under mosul — which led to the discovery of an ancient assyrian palace. one of the most important debates in the house of commons since

the second world war continues. this is the live feed who's been coming in, as you can see things are low— key coming in, as you can see things are low—key in the commons of the moment. mps have five days to consider theresa may's brexit deal with the eu. they went well after midnight last night — it'll be late again today we expect. the vote is on tuesday. and the big brexit story today was that the british government published the full legal advice that its received on brexit deal — something it didn't want to do, but yesterday parliament forced its hand. today it was released — here it is. and it's the attorney general‘s interpretation of the backstop that has generated the most attention. and this is why. the backstop is the term being used for the arrangement that will ensure there's no hard border ireland and northern ireland —

in the event that the uk and eu can't agree a trade deal by the end of 2020. the attorney general notes that the uk could get stuck in "protracted and repeating rounds of negotiations" — and that it's possible that "the protocol would endure indefinitely". and that is what some brexiteers fear — that a trade deal with the eu might not arrive for years, and all the while the uk would be bound by eu regulations. this was the reaction of opposition mps. we have seen the facts that the government try to hide. mr speaker, this government is trying to give northern ireland permanent membership of the single market and customs union. this is theresa may's response. he will see that the advice that he is holding in his

left hand has no difference from the statement given. indeed, indeed i might take up the personal challenge from the right honourable gentleman, i myself have said on the floor of this house that there is indeed no unilateral right to put out of the backstop. but as the bbc political editor —— editor notes it's notjust about lots about politics, and she says... the legal advice was published after this happened last night the government defeated not once but three times as many as are of the opinion, say "aye". _ the government defeated not once but three times in the house of commons, not only here when mps decided ministers were in contempt of parliament for refusing

to publish the advice, but also — another of those defeats gave parliament a bigger say in what the next steps would be if theresa may loses a crucial vote next tuesday on the deal. got picked up by lots of commentators, the this one pointed out... of course the prime minister is hoping she can stick to plan a, we shall see if she manages to do that. today's debate was supposed to be about security and immigration with relation to brexit but a lot of what mps have had to say throughout the afternoon and evening has been about what should happen next, if the government loses next week's vote box 3 it seems to me the dogs in the street know the deal will not pass

the house next week, that's the truth of it. and what we should be doing now is thinking about plan b, and be honest about that. now, to my mind plan b must not involve no deal. i'm afraid i reject of what will happen as a crashing out a following over the precipice, we will go out on a wto, and that is going to be something which is very much to our benefit. i for one will join my colleagues and happily marching through the colleagues —— through the voting chambers to vote against this deal. in the belief that this parliament well and sure ita that this parliament well and sure it a better deal for the whole of the uk and people of the uk will be got as a result of standing up and saying we will not be bullied by executive. this house cannot call off brexit, only the people can and thatis off brexit, only the people can and that is a true meaning of the

referendum in 2016, when parliament decided that no brexit deal is good enough, then parliament is stuck. at this point, the decision has to go back to the people. nick air—dley is in westminster ssource awful lot of us know whether to be published, we've got it, how do you assess the political impact? honestly, i'm not sure it's made that much of a difference today, in many ways it's crystallized the view that people artie had brexiteers are not happy, with the backstop. that's not happy, with the backstop. that's not going to change, the dup are not happy with the backstop, that will not change at there, i decide there are some would think this is a compromise we have to take it, and there may be a way of making it work. there is a lot of frantic activity going on in parliament tonight, ijust activity going on in parliament tonight, i just jumped over from activity going on in parliament tonight, ijustjumped overfrom the house of commons and there are so many conversations going on whether 01’ many conversations going on whether or not theresa may can offer a bit to one group to try and win them

overfor a to one group to try and win them over for a little bit to another group to win them over, her chief whip has been meeting with the brexit group european research group, she's been meeting —— and he's been meeting to hear their concerns tonight and saying he's in listening mode, government sources say everything is still on the table to try and win that vote and sure up the boat, and as you heard in the clips you played a minute ago, a lot of people and parliament have already written off the prime minister's chances and are now asking what next. don't go anywhere we have some more things to ask about. it's notjust in parliament in westminster that the deal is meeting opposition. in edinburgh today the scottish parliament overwhelmingly supported a motion opposing both the prime minister's deal, and a no—deal brexit. also worth noting that yesterday in cardiff, the welsh assembly, led by labour passed a similar motion. neither of these votes can directly affect the vote in westminster on tuesday — but they create pressure.

as does the fact that most mps in the house of commons voted against brexit in 2016. here's one cabinet minister on the leave side of the argument. i think that there is as i have written recently, a real danger that the house of commons, which is a natural remain majority, made attempts to steal brexit from the british people. there will be people watching all around the world thinking hold on, brexit is happening at the end of march if this does not go through on tuesday, even if alternative plans are possible, they do need time. yes absolutely, if the prime minister will come up with another deal, she doesn't have a long time to do it. if there is going to be a change of leader they will not be enough time for that to happen either. there are

people speculating there could be another brexit referendum at some point and that would take a long time and well beyond the probably the 29th of march to organise and implement. there's a good explanation on the bbc website insert —— in terms of timetable you're right that's what the prime minister saying, my deal is the only deal on the table and if you do not do it you'rejust deal on the table and if you do not do it you're just going to create more uncertainty and more division in the country. but as we were saying a minute ago, there is still a feeling of the comments that it's extraordinarily hard for her to get the support she needs on tuesday. the mountain she needs to climb to get over their brexit line is getting bigger and bigger and bigger. there are some allies who say look how may times have we have the conversation she's had her back against the wall before we wrote her office she pulled out of the hat at the last minute, but at the moment it feels like it's extraordinarily

unlikely she will get that deal through and that the big question about what happens next is just as unclear. the more i listen, the more it sounds like even though the debate is hugely important, actually what is being said inside the chamber perhaps this not as important as the other conversation that are happening outside of it. that's absolutely right, what you are hearing in the commons chamber is what a few of them had declared positions, some that we did not know about but the big conversations are happening in the corridors of power where people are talking about whether or not there is something that can't be done to get their support the dup tonight are saying no, we're not getting on board u nless no, we're not getting on board unless there's a massive change on the backstop at its very unlikely that'll happen. brexiteers do not seem convinced either, the prime minister is going to keep trying shall talk to opposition about way she can win them over, the other thing just to bear in mind to throw in the mix as well, if she does lose

on tuesday, those conversations will continue, because theresa may well try, we think, to come up with some sort of second plan certainly something that's on the table that she goes to europe and tries to get something to try and persuade those concerns “— something to try and persuade those concerns —— swayed those concerns. but i cannot emphasise enough, for her to get to that point where she is over the magic number of 318 mps backing her, at the moment it looks like a dot in the distance. it's a long way to go. thank you very much indeed, a few more things to emphasise. there's explanation is on the bbc website if you need, also there are tweets from our europe editor reminding us again and again and again the european union position is we have done the deal not in the mood to open it and we're not in the mood to open it and we're not in the so keep that in mind when you hear talk of perhaps three samir

someone else going back to cut a new deal. i'm impossible, but the europeans are not saying at the moment they're doing it. let's turn to washington. some important developments in the investigation into russian interference in the us election. robert mueller is in charge of it. he says president trump's former national security adviser michael flynn has provided substantial details about links between the trump election team and russian officials. we know this because it's in the memo that mr mueller gave to a districtjudge. in it he recommends that flynn serves no jail time — despite the fact that he lied to the fbi. that's because flynn is helping with the investigation. but much of the detail on how he's providing that help is redacted. we can see references to a criminal probe — though we don't know who that involves. legal analyst ross garber calls these redactions themselves the big story. he goes on to say... earlier i spoke to rajini

vaydya nathan in washington. think they key thing that comes out of this document is that michael flynn, someone who is incredibly close to donald trump during the campaign and during what is known as transition period after someone is elected and before they take office in deeper 23 days when he served as national security adviser, as you said in that intro, michael flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about contacts he had with the russian ambassador at the time. during the transition period. and since then he has been cooperating with the mueller investigation and what is crucial

coming out of the document things we do know and have not been redacted for example, he had 19 separate interviews with investigators. that's a huge source of potential information and also in this document robert mueller‘s team say they provided substantial help to they provided substantial help to the investigation, there is one part i want to pull out the was not redacted, it says defendant provided first—hand information about the content and context of interaction between the transition team and russian government officials. let's pull out the world —— word first—hand suggesting the sort of information he has shared or witnessed himself, of course that's a tantalising we do not know what was behind the black market, although the stuff redacted also includes potential for a separate criminal investigation and of course who knows what that is. in many ways it raises more questions rather than a nswe rs. it raises more questions rather than answers. there were reports perhaps the robert mueller was winding the investigation down, this would suggest perhaps that's not the case. we shall see. stay with us on outside source — still to come... we'll be going to brazil where doctors have revealed that

a woman with a womb translpanted from a dead donor gave birth to a baby girl. it's quite clear the worst of the disaster are the poor people living in the slums that sprung up around the factory. children are dying in front of me and i can't do anything. charles manson is the mystical leader of a hippie cult charged with killing people. at 11 o'clock this morning just half a metre of rocket separated britain

from continental europe, took the drills a few moments to cut through the final obstacle than a minor from calais was shaking hands and exchanging lives, the opposite number. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is? the uk government has been forced to publish its legal advice on theresa may's brexit deal, emboldening the opposition ahead of next week's vote. some of the main stories on bbc world service. police in europe and south america have carried out a major operation against the italian mafia, arresting 84 people and seizing large quantities of drugs and cash. the raids targeted the n—drang—get—uh mafia, based in the southern italian region of calabria. turkey has issued arrest warrants for two former close aides to the saudi crown prince.

they're being investigated by the saudi authorities after being accused of involvement in the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi in istanbul. but turkish officials say they don't believe formal action will be taken against them. bbc turkish. judging by the most watched list — plenty of you are interested in bollywood star priyanka chopra's 75 foot long wedding veil. a small team was needed to carry it. ms chopra married the american singer nickjonas in india over the weekend. more evidence that global carbon emissions have hit an all—time high this year. this report from the university of east anglia and the global carbon project says emissions are projected to rise by over 2%. and this is a graph that shows how much some of the world's major economies are expected to grow their emissions this year. india china in the us increasing

admissions. remember, the paris deal three years ago committed most of the countries in the world to cutting carbon emissions. here's the author of the study. people do need to go to work and go to school and do their activities, and so really, we have to think about the car system itself we have to think about using electric vehicles and making sure the price is not too expensive. having smaller ca rs is not too expensive. having smaller cars in general, standards that are delivering inefficiency at the car level and look at the positive side we have technologies that we need to what we need now is action, so the most likely course now is probably is difficult to say but probably admissions will keep rising with what the government has said so really it'll peak by 2020 and we need stronger commitment by governments around the world. the reality is the world is way off track on climate change. the un secretary—general antonio

guterres says "we need a complete transformation of our global energy economy." but coal generates more electricity than any other energy source. here's the head of a company that tracks coal development. translation: new investment in coal power are huge problem every new coal power plant is another obstacle between us and the fulfillment of the paris climate goals. translation: it's shocking that three years after the paris climate agreement, we must recognise that the global fleet of the coal power stations is still increasing. and of course all this comes as leaders and scientists are in poland to figure out a set of rules for countries to meet the targets agreed in paris. the bbc environment correspondent matt mcgrath is there.

this question of transport is becoming interesting, people use more oil to power cars and trucks and planes. it's difficult even a country like the uk which has lowered omissions in the last five yea rs except lowered omissions in the last five years except for transport, they continue to go up. how does i relate to what is happening here at the climate talk? people here will be disappointed to see the emissions arise and looking to put rules of the paris agreement into place, but the paris agreement into place, but the sad truth from the atmosphere is that the countries who signed up to paris agreement three years ago are not living up to the promises they made back then. time for outside source business. a 90 day truce in the us—china trade war was agreed at the g20 meeting last weekend. but china is upset at recent comments by the us secretary of state — suggesting america would take action against countries — including china — which were what he described as "bad actors".

here's the chinese response. translation: i think the latest statement from the us side does not accord with the spirit of the recent meeting between the chinese and us leaders, when the meeting finish, applause could be heard across the room. i do not understand someone applauding bennet saying something like this. but then you have this from the us president. let's bring in michelle, i live with us let's bring in michelle, i live with us in new york please help me through this i guess it's part of the administration tactics some time to keep everyone guessing. well, if you look at the communication strategy from both countries, if back to that meeting on saturday night and then we heard the news

announcing there was a truce to allow time for a deal to be done. after that, you heard very little from chinese officials until today, donald trump's tweet referencing the long trip home to explain why we haven't heard more from the chinese velocity days, compare that to what's happening in the united states, the message has been very mixed and confusing indeed, you saw the investors responding yesterday with the sharp sell—off in major markets down 3%, this was to do with concern or skepticism creeping and that any deal with china can be done. when mike pompeo talks about bad actors, what is he talking about? well, i think you know that the term is so broad, whether this has to do with trade issues or national security, lots of things being involved, the problem say going back to the administration is the sort of conversation we've heard so far have sort of range very broadly and people are not sure to make of it or, one minute donald

trump says he thinks they're acting in good faith and confidence but on the other had he says there's no deal and calls himself a tariff man, and reverting to tariffs, so the messaging on this certainly has been all over. thank you very much, michelle to you soon. important ruling on mining in south africa. the amadiba community has been fighting a 15—year battle against a billion—dollar project — and it's won. pumza fihlani has the details. it's a place where time has stood still. in the way of life has changed. it may be pristine but it has a history of a bloody revolts over land. the people here first settled here in the early 1800s. they lost battle over land was an apartheid state in the 19505 who wa nted apartheid state in the 19505 who wanted control over it. this time, they are standing up the democratic

government and mining companies. this community has been engaged in a fight to block the mining of titanium in the seaside region in the eastern cape for nearly two decades. on the front line this battle are women, one of them, but she is now on the run because of how violent it's become the stakes are high and not just for violent it's become the stakes are high and notjust for her. this land has history where our own grandfathers protected this land and we will do the same thing. we will do where ever it takes whatever it ta kes do where ever it takes whatever it takes in order to protect this land. the mining would affect nearly 3000 hectares of farmland, a coastal strip of 22 km and with —— would displace more than 600 people. but now there is hope. the high court recently found a traditional communities have a legally protected

right to refuse a mining on their land. it's a victory, until now the south african mining laws only required consultation not explicit permission. but the government intends to appeal the decision. if i'm changed the ruling could have wider implications for people living on communal land. and back home,... there's no turning back we will keep fighting against mining and we will keep fighting until our last breath we fear nothing. it's about identity and a sense of belonging, things they say cannot buy. —— money cannot buy. coming up — an exclusive from bbc arabic — which takes us into tunnels built by the islamic state group in northern iraq. hello there, starting the bulletin

by looking at cold air across north america which will bring some heavy snow, to the great lakes and upstate new york, this is lake effect snow which develops in a more northwest wind, could be disruption from the snow for thursday and friday, high pressure dominates central and southern areas looking up plenty of sunshine another area of low pressure m oves sunshine another area of low pressure moves into california so the southern half of california if we see very heavy rain and flooding is likely we will see mudslide as well from the recent wildfires, so this is one thing to watch out for. across into the southeast of asia we this friend bringing heavy rain from japan into central and southern china, meanwhile across the north, bitterly cold siberian air sinking southward as we speak. through thursday and friday and friday and weekend, that cold air will have reached southern and central china, turning some of that rain into snow. they could even be disruptive in

shanghai by the time we reach around saturday, another story to watch unfold, but notice the temperatures are in mongolia and northeast china, bitterly cold but at least dry with plenty of sunshine. crossing into australia, different story going on not talking about the bushfires of late but in fact, these areas tropical was one contains remnants of what was tropical cyclone when it'll feed into plenty of moisture and heavy thunderstorms into coastal parts of queensland over the next few days i meanwhile the heat and bushfire risk pushes a little bit further westward. looking drive for much of south wales and the next few days, the northern and queensland, very thundery for the next five days. talking about boundary weather, this area of low pressure of pot —— across the eastern mediterranean are all sorts of problems the last 2a hours we stop letting a water spout across the south coast of cyprus and flooding to report here as well, heavy snow through central turkey is strong

when moving behind area and low pressure continues to move used in towards the middle east. battle cause problems there through friday and the start the weekend. a low— pressure and the start the weekend. a low—pressure developing across central mediterranean run italy, bringing heavy downpour through thursday and friday and then blossom and move back in towards the eastern mediterranean and into the weekend and start of next week. so, pretty rough weather for the central and eastern mediterranean for the next five days, northwest corner of europe also looking pretty u nsettled, europe also looking pretty unsettled, very mild, temperatures into the mid teens celsius on thursday and it's going to stay pretty damp and breezy for the next few days on the mild side, but there isa few days on the mild side, but there is a chance of a wind event with gales severely affecting parts of the uk as we hope go into friday so stay tuned for your weather forecast. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source.

the uk government has been forced to publish its legal advice on theresa may's brexit deal, emboldening those opposed to it ahead of next week's vote. is it time that the prime minister took responsibility? a responsibility for concealing the facts of her brexit deal from members of this house and republic? peace talks on yemen are about to begin for the first time in two years, to try and end a war that has created the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. fertility breakthrough in brazil, where it's been revealed that a woman with a womb translpanted from a dead donor gave birth to a baby girl. we take a virtual tour of the tunnels built by is under mosul — which led to the discovery of an ancient assyrian palace. for the first time in two years,

peace talks on the war in yemen are about to begin. they'll take place in stockholm. at the johannesberg castle to be precise. already the un's special envoy for yemen, martin griffiths, is with the houthi negotiating team. and he'll be dealing with negotiators from the yemeni government which has been backed by saudi arabia since 2015. here is one of the houthi negotiators: all issues can be negotiated. we did not restrict the big addition to specific areas. however, in order to rebuild mutual trust, there will be several documents to build

confidence with the peace talks. the stakes couldn't be higher. the war is four years old — and has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis. the un says 400,000 children are suffering acute malnutrition. and half the country — 1a million people — is at risk of famine. this is a senior un aid offical. the country with the biggest problem and 2019 is yemen. we believe that the population will need humanitarian assistance. i spoke to the bbc‘s middle east analyst sebastian usher who told me first about the format of these talks: we are expecting at the start, the different parties that are right and the government delegation that arrived today will not be facing each other directly. that the special envoy will be moving between

them, if the confidence which is what this seems to be about, building that trust between the two cites develops that we might see face—to—face meetings. cites develops that we might see face-to-face meetings. and he will be on the phone to saudi arabia all—time? be on the phone to saudi arabia all-time? they will be the ones that are putting the strings to it and they have said that essentially that real talks up to be with saudi arabia rather than with the delegation. the president himself is actually unwell at the moment, so he is not in a physician to be seen —— position. and when not be involved too much from oxide. in terms of building confidence, it'd take our most optimistic view of how this could go, what has happened for confidence to be built? well, there has to be a sense of, and we've seen a one move its has to be a sense of, and we've seen a one move it's taken months to

achieve, which is handing over prisoners. so for that to be built upon, and very much the thing that happens in civil wars, or you have two sites that have been fighting each other from us four years now, still field as a whole lot of fighting in them, so does giving them some sense that they had a state between them that is worth pursuing. so the outstanding issues is that the international airport which they have reopened, they have bombarded it for most of the conflict and have been doing so again in recent days, so that is one thing be would like. from the international site and also both sides really, they, they view it as such i , which is what we have seen as the big flash point as many of the agencies of worn over those, it it

is completely put out of operation, millions and millions of yemen's are on the brink of starvation. so there isa on the brink of starvation. so there is a plan to an international step in and take over that port, maybe they'll sign up so that which would then put pressure on the government, to make concessions. there is a sense that we are not all pulling in the same direction on the government side. saudi arabia may have a different feeling on what they want to do about that, the forces on the ground in the sense that they pretty much want to go through with the data and show that they can take it over and they can win this by military means. and incredible story from brazil. we've learned how a woman who received a womb transplant from a dead donor gave birth to a baby girl. the story dates back two years — we know about it now because it's been reported in the lancet medicaljournal. we also have this image

of the doctors performing the 10 hour surgery in 2016. and this is the amazing outcome at the end of 2017. look a bit more closely and you can see the new arrival. i spoke withjulia carneiro in rio de janeiro. she had a syndrome in which the uterus is malformed and could not have a baby. and doctors got her, they found her this organ coming from a 45—year—old woman who had just died. a mother of three children who ended up along for another child to be born after her death. the procedure took over ten hours, carried out by doctors at the medical school of the university of sao paulo, and they got medication

afterwards though her body would not reject this new organ that had just arrived, so the uterus spent eight hours stored in ice with no blood flow, but still, it was able to remain functional and after a few weeks of the transplant, this woman had her period for the first time in her life at 32 years of age. and in the months that followed, was her pregnancy just as any the months that followed, was her pregnancyjust as any other woman's pregnancyjust as any other woman's pregnancy would be? she had helped the ovaries, so they performed a fertilisation and one single fertilised egg was implanted in her warm several months after the transplant a few days later it had been successful, she got pregnant from the fertilisation and the pregnancy carried out, went through normally. she did not have any issues, the little baby was born of a c—section and this means, she is

about to turn one. we do not really know because the patient and family have decided to keep to themselves, they did not want any exposure. but doctors say that they are well and healthy and did not have any issues and that they come in to visit the medical team once and a while that the mother says, this is the happiest thing that has happened to her and her life and they still want to perform another procedure as part of their study. there have been 39 womb transplants using a live donor, including mothers donating their womb to their daughter, resulting in 11 babies. but the 10 previous transplants from a dead donor haven't worked. this is one of the world's leading fertility specialists dr valentine akande. it is certainly very exciting. it is like providing an opportunity to patients who, for example, are born without a uterus and that happens to about one in 5000 women.

women with very severe thyroids where a baby cannot grow in the uterus. or a woman who had a scarred womb cavity, women who have had cancer and had their uterus removed or a hysterectomy because they bled during previous child birth. ones that have been successful before have been to living donors and for example a mother donating her uterus her daughter. the advantage of a nonliving donor is for example, they're in a position to donate a uterus, it allows anonymous donation to occur, like what would happen for a kidney transplant or heart transplant and so forth. world leaders have paid their respects at the state funeral of the late president george hw bush.

the 41st president of the united states died on friday at the age of 94. he will be buried in his home state of texas, alongside his wife barbara. our north america editor jon sopel has more. a nation prepares to bid farewell to the last of the greatest generation. those political leaders who fought in the second world war and then served their country with distinction. the extended bush family looked on as his flag—draped coffin was moved to the national cathedral. among the mourners, prince charles representing the queen and sirjohn major, prime minister during the first gulf war and close friend of george hw bush. the german chancellor, angela merkel, had come ever grateful for the role that president bush played in the reunification of her country. and in the front pew all the living former us presidents were there. and, of course, the serving president donald trump too

who until george hw bush's death had been so disdainful of the bush family. but on this day of national mourning, it was also a rare day of national unity for a divided country. unity there may have been. warmth, there wasn't. the body language chilly as the december day outside. the eulogy was delivered by his son, the former president george w bush. it was pitch perfect, mixing humour and pathos. i said "dad, i love you and you've been a wonderful father." and the last words he would ever say on earth were, "i love you too." to us, he was close to perfect. but not totally perfect. his short game was lousy. laughter. he wasn't exactly fred astaire on the dance floor. the man couldn't stomach vegetables. especially broccoli.

laughter. and by the way, he passed these genetic defects along to us. and finally, the emotional farewell from a son to his father. so, through our tears, let us know the blessings of knowing and loving you, a great and noble man. the best father a son or daughter could have. and in our grief, ijust smile knowing that dad is hugging robin and holding mum's hand again. as president george hw bush had said, he wanted to see a kinder, gentler nation — something not at the forefront in 2018. the end of an era indeed. stay with us on outside source — still to come. we take a virtual tour of the tunnels built

by is under mosul — which led to the discovery of an ancient assyrian palace. money for council services is "running out fast" according to the local government association which represents councils in england. it says local communities will "suffer the consequences" if the government doesn't address the crisis in funding. our political correspondent alex forsyth has been to north yorkshire, where increasing demand for adult social north yorkshire — a mix of historic towns and sweeping countryside. with miles of rural road and a large elderly population, running services here is expensive and they've had to be squeezed. life was really active... when andrew was diagnosed with ms ten years ago, it drastically relying on long—term support where

possible so it goes to those in need it most. support where possible, so it goes to those who need it most. so, when michelle had a fall in the summer, the council helped settle her back home with her husband. they came in, had a look at the house, got it all prepared for us and that enabled me to go back to work. and michelle got her independence from that. i don't think i'd be like i am now if it wasn't for them. the council here's like many across england, struggling to balance budget cuts with growing demand, notjust for adult care, but children's too. the government gave councils an extra £1 billion in this year's budget, and says there will be further support when it announces funding plans for next year. councils like north yorkshire will now have to wait longerfor that detail, after the planned announcement was delayed. they say a long—term solution is urgently needed. we've welcomed the short term money, it's helped us through our winter pressures and things like that, but we need a really comprehensive reform of adult social

care in this country. and that includes a long—term funding settlement. we've protected our budgets as much as possible, but they can only go so far. with more people needing these vital services, finding a way to maintain them has become a national challenge. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is? the uk government has been forced to publish its legal advice on theresa may's brexit deal, emboldening those opposed to it ahead of next week's vote. the us has re—established a permanent diplomatic presence in somalia nearly 30 years after it closed its embassy due to the civil war. the fighting lead to the us airlifting its ambassador and embassy staff out of mogadishu in 1991. bbc somali

the venezuelan president nicolas maduro met with vladimir putin in moscow today. it was a state visit aimed at getting financial assistance from the kremlin. russia is venezuela's major creditor and one of the last remaining allies for maduro — who has become largely isolated from the international community. bbc russian. these are bilbies — small nocturnal mammals that once ran wild in australia's new south wales. they've been reintroduced into the state for the first time in more than a century. that's after the introduction of predators like cats led to them disappearing. the british academic who was jailed for spying in the united arab emirates has been speaking to the bbc‘s john humphries. first, this is matthew hedges on how he was treated. i wasn't allowed, erm, to do anything to try and distract myself.

you couldn't listen to the radio... no. ..0r anything of that sort? not until i'd started the court case and my mental health had deteriorated quite substantially, then i was allowed some form of distraction. were you shackled at all? yes, i was. whenever i had to go to the bathroom or, on occasion, use the shower, i would be escorted by four guards and i would wear ankle cuffs. whenever i was transported between different premises, i was blindfolded and handcuffed. and you had to stand up for quite a long time. yes. one of the days when i had tried to, again, tell the truth to the interrogators, their reaction was to make me stand for the day, wearing ankle cuffs. all day. yes. did you feel that you were being tortured? psychologically, correct, yes. it felt like it. matthew hedges was held for almost

six months in solitary confinement after being arrested in dubai in may. he says he was carrying out research for his phd — the uae says he was spying. and it showed journalists what it said was a confession. this is matthew hedges on the circumstances around that. i wasn't able to even talk to the embassy officials until i had signed all confession statements about the sixth or seventh week is when i saw the embassy. so the emirates had gotten what they wanted. do you know exactly what you had confessed to? because you don't speak arabic. no, i don't. all i know is that i confessed to being an m16 agent. they said you were a captain overthere. i have little to no clue about this but i, they suggested, they asked me what rank i was in the postulated, are you a first they asked me what rank i was and they postulated, are you a first

lieutenant, second lieutenant, captain, major. and i panicked and said i'm a captain. now for an exclusive now from bbc arabic — which takes us into tunnels built by the islamic state group in northern iraq. this video dates from 2014 when is was occupying mosul. you can see the nabi yunus mosque and shrine as it stood for centuries. this is the moment the group blew it up. this vandalism revealed an ancient assyrian palace below — it that had been hidden for 2,000 years. the outside world only knew about this in 2017 when is was driven out — and it was found that is had dug 50 tunnels below the site. this is a 360 degrees reconstruction of the palace — and the tunnels and sculptures inside. it was created by bbc arabic after its journalists were the last people to access the site before

it was closed by the government. i've been talking to na—mak cosh—now and eli melki from their team. it was a complete scene of destruction at the same time, it became a playground for a lot of people. and at the same time, the local authority kind of sealed this place and we were given access to go in. we went through and went downstairs and this is where we discovered this. and when did you discovered this. and when did you discover that might be possible to recreate what you were saying for bbc users around the world? basically, coming from an innovation producer, i am from there myself and i work for bbc, and i spoke to my

managers saying that i want to recreate the tunnels and the sculptures found before they disappear forever. so we had a chance to go there, i only spent six or seven hours capturing and taking the pictures come but we used the photography technique that enables you to go within the space. we wanted to capture it and transferred toa wanted to capture it and transferred to a virtual world. so we realised we had a plan to go and take a lot of pictures and come back to make it into a model where everyone could see it. and before islamic state to control, did archaeologists know that all of these were below the ground? they had an idea, since the 19th century, but the same time there was an excavation, so they had an idea there was something over there. but the fact that the shrine was built on top that prevented

anyone from doing any excavation. and what did islamic state destroyed what they discover below the ground? it is unknown to was what was there and what they discovered, it is important that the second income was antiquities, so nobody knows what was left or what was taken from isis, but what is left are the beautiful sculptures of the three women. we do not know why they have left them behind, too fragile to him move or two heavy. it is so monumental that if they blew it up, the whole thing would collapse so they left them in place. but similar ones were outside, those are blown up ones were outside, those are blown up on ones were outside, those are blown up on camera. ones were outside, those are blown up on camera. they were interested in the antiquities for money, but it was also used for practical purposes as well. i have been to many i asked tunnels and they have all got a lot

of engineering for the military purposes. see good one village of the other or one house to the other. but this one, it looked like a random tunnel, a nest of what i believe theyjust went down to where the room was and just went through the room was and just went through the walls. they they followed the walls of this ancient tunnel. sco did now, they're going to carry out excavations over there, but if they don't do it fast, a lot of it is collapsing. this is the second winter after isis was defeated, this year it is going much that it didn't la st year it is going much that it didn't last year, and we, there is a danger

that of water goes through the tunnel, we will never see those sculptures again, they could disappear. the government has sealed it now, we are working to try and rebuild the city, bringing back the, they have a lot of things to worry about and sadly the time will has been sealed for now and it is a danger that we'll see them again. here is a tweet from downing street. something it didn't want to do, but yesterday parliament forced its hand. we will pick up the story tomorrow. hello. the temperature on wednesday

afternoon and may not go above minus two degrees. elsewhere, mild, wet and windy and over the next few days, atlantic winds yet more weather fronts bringing early ran across scotland and northern ireland, heavy bursts and the west in particular. too much to the east of high ground, and the afternoon a bit of cross and while many will start right and it went dead across the northwest of england and across the northwest of england and across the area, a few spots of light rain or wherever you are, sunshine or not, you will see temperatures above what it should be for the time of yearin what it should be for the time of year in scotland, the 13 degrees higher than they were on wednesday afternoon. very mild in fact into thursday night, but by friday morning, we will see a more potent airflow pressure pushing its way in. that is going to target scotland in

particular with gusts of wind from 60 to 70 or maybe even 80 mph, consistent rain westwards, further south, we start across southern parts of england before things brighten up, but it will be a windy day across the board and even on these western coasts sandhills, will concede winds top 50 or 60 mph, frequent showers and some will stay dry, it will continue across the scottish hills with more heavy rain. eventually, does shift into northern see through friday night, but with a sting in its tail, pretty lively and disruptive winds across the northeast of scotland to take us the weekend. slowly improving care, bright enough, chilly enough start elsewhere across the country but through saturday, it looks like the rain will stop the spread in. from the west. fairly radically, dry parts of dry parts in the afternoon but across the board will feel chilly air and the next few days. milderair chilly air and the next few days. milder air tied it with this weather

system across olympus to take us through sunday, and as it ships its way southward, we open the door to colder air as colder wind starts to develop, a bit cloudy and a mild start on sunday but quickly brightening up through the day, lots of sunshine around during the morning onwards, bluesy showers and parts of north wales and midlands, maybe north wales and midlands, maybe north wales and midlands, maybe northwest england and studied to go towards the east. but note, the temperatures that many of the single figures and that northerly wind through the night and into monday, which i pressure building in the west, so lighter winds here in a very frosty start to the week, but winds piling down the north sea, down the coast, especially at high tide at the moment and seeing some coastal flooding and downed this coast, we can see showers the mixture of rain, sleet and snow as well. for the west, a lot more on the way, it might turn hazy on parts

of northern ireland. the temperatures again, five and 6 degrees across many eastern parts. and next week, with the easterly winds of high pressure and low pressure towards the south of the country, it's going to be a chilly start to next week, for those easterly winds dominating, begging to be some wintry showers to the eastern areas, snow and low at times, sunday is the west but there is little certainty as a to the second half of next week, but it is going to dominate with sifting southwards, would be the cold air of europe. of course, we'll keep you updated. tonight at ten, the government's legal advice on brexit is published in full, as the prime minister denies misleading mp5. have you lost control of brexit, prime minister? mrs may was warned that measures to avoid a hard border on the island of ireland could last indefinitely, prompting claims that she hid this from mp5. is it time that the prime minister

took responsibility? responsibility for concealing the facts on her brexit deal from members of this house and the public. the legal position that was set out on monday in the 34—page document, together with the statement made and the answers to questions given by the attorney general on monday, very clearly set out the legal position. we'll have reaction to the legal advice, and we'll be considering the range of options open to the government if they lose the big brexit vote next week. also tonight.