us prosecutors say donald trump's former personal lawyer has given them information on how russian nationals tried to affect the 2016 presidential election. it comes as a court in new york says michael cohen should serve a ‘substa ntial‘ jail term for crimes including tax evasion. a top executive from the chinese telecoms giant, huawei, will remain in custody over the weekend, after appearing in a court in canada on fraud charges. meng wanzhou, the daughter of the firm's founder, is accused of breaching sanctions against iran. and french students clash with police as the country prepares for more anti government protests this weekend. the capital is hunkering down, with much of paris in lockdown, as tens of thousands of police are deployed around the country. embattled president emmanual macron plans to address the nation on the yellow vest movement's grievances next week. now on bbc news, the week in parliament. hello there and welcome

to the week in parliament. with a crucial vote on her eu withdrawal deal looming theresa may appeals to mps to support her plan. i ask you to back it in the best interest of our constituents and our country. and with my whole heart i commanded this motion to the house. labour is clear they will not accept the deal. the prime minister has seen these negotiations only as an exercise in the internal management of the conservative party. also on this programmejeremy corbyn and theresa may clash over the state of the welfare state and peers reckon the public will be angry if they don't get a vote on theresa may's brexit deal. why did you deny me the chance to become familiar with those facts and then express my opinion again?

why did you take from me and tonight to me? but first it was a another week of at westminster. the noes to the left 311. a week of dismay for ministers. the ayes to the right 311. the noes, 293. and we could defeat for the government. the ayes to the right 321. the noes to the left, 299. the ayes have it, the ayes have it. on tuesday, theresa may suffered three defeats in the commons. the first as mps debated and agreed a labour movement accusing ministers of in contempt

or frustrated with parliament by failing to publish in full the legal opinion on the brexit deal. and an snp mp made clear why the opposition would not be placated by the government. they're placing themselves above parliament. they're placing themselves in contempt of parliament. as for the legal position document published yesterday that was going to fix it all that could not be more patronizing if they had pictures to colour in just to keep us interested. then moments before theresa may was to speak another defeat as a cross party group of mps spearheaded by the conservative former attorney general succeeded in getting the comments the right to say what should happen next if her brexit deal is voted down on tuesday. it is contrary to all sensible practice and i have to say slightly disrespectful of the role of this house that we should end up with a situation in which we have on amendable motions for consideration at a time

when parliaments ought to be fully forecast on trying to find means of resolving outstanding issues. and he had support for the labour mp that shares the brexit committee. it is essential that the house of commons has the opportunity if the deal is voted down next tuesday to give it self a voice to express a view about what happens next and what the right honourable gentleman does as itjust heard is to remove the obstacle to that of the whole of the house would vote for it. and sure enough the government was defeated by 22 votes. the third defeat for the government in just one day. it all made for an uncomfortable backdrop of a prime minister who less than one minute later got up to make one of the most crucial speeches of her career. as she tried to persuade mps to back her deal in the vote on tuesday. to all sides of the debate and to every member in every party

i say that this deal deserves your support for what it achieves for all of our people and our whole united kingdom. one unit of foreign nations now and in the future and this is a debate about our future. it's not about whether we could have taken a different road in the past but which road we should take from here. if we put aside our differences and remember what unites us and if we broker an honourable compromise in the interest not of ourselves but of those who were sent here to serve that we come together to do our duty for our constituents they will pass the test that history has set for us today. it's not easy when the passions run so deep but looking around this chamber i know we can meet this moment. so i promise you today this is the very best deal for the british people and ask you to back it and the best interest of our constituents and our country.

and with my whole heart i commend this motion to the house. the prime minister has seen these bigger stations only as an exercise in the internal management of the conservative party and that did not work out very well at all. when the two previous brexit secretaries who theoretically at least led the negotiations, well they did, theoretically i must say that they cannot support the deal how can she expect anyone else in this house or in this country to have faith in a deal that has been rejected by two of the people that were involved in negotiation of it? throughout the entire negotiating period they have treated scotland with contempt. scotland voted overwhelmingly to remain but the will of the scottish people means nothing. absolutely nothing to this prime minister. instead of engaging meaningfully with scotland during this critical time the premise or shows

last—minute protocols and stayed events in scotland. all smoke and mirrors to address the fact that her government cannot care about scotland and we could see it tonight. to give into this arrangement as has been put forward in the back subdivisions means we enter a twilight world where the eu has given unprecedented powers of the uk and certainly in the transition period and massive leverage in the negotiations on the future trade relationship and we have to rely on the goodwill of others to let us ever leave these arrangements. so under these terms in my view the uk's future as a strong and independent nations standing together is realjeopardy. the brutal truth is that the country is bitterly divided and it will be bitterly divided if we leave under the terms that the government has negotiated and will be entering into a set of conditions in which the economy will deteriorate but give to what would be at

the european union and the younger generation will come through and bear the brunt of the costs and most of whom voted to remain in the european union and estimated 80% of 18—year—olds wishes to remain and will be great bitterness and resentment about what the older generation has imposed on them. the tissue will not go away. when the debate went over to the back benches the divisions within parties and across the comments became all too clear. i really can't believe that there's a single member of this house who sincerely believes that this deal we have before us is a good deal. i sincerely believe it. i have got no stake in this government anymore but i have thinking is the right thing to do. they're right honourable member was a senior member of vote leave it for secretary for two years.

we are in this post because of him. does he take no responsibility? i was not able to continue to support this process precisely for that reason. the deal on offer as the prime minister says, the only deal on offer, does not recover our sovereignty. it leaves us will take her us from the european union without any voice in shaping those rules. the former minister spoke for the first time since his resignation. given the public the impression that this is the best compromise and there are no problems further down the line this is brexit done when they wake up and see that bridge and is being hobbled and crippled and is negotiations. that would also disappoint voters

and i would also be corrosive of our politics. theresa may did have backing from some on conservative praise of her courage in dogged pursuit of a deal. i'm sure there are many right honourable members and honourable members on both sides of this house that remember the wonderful poem by lewis carroll, the hunting of the snark which includes the following lines which i believe are appropriate. the principal failing occurred in the same and the dominant perplexed and distressed and said he had hoped at least when the wind blew due east that the ship would not travel due west. mr speaker, to coin a phrase from a greater a kinder and more resolute period in our national life, let us go forward together and settle this now. the lords also began a debate in the eu withdrawal deal and our proposed relationship with the eu. one of the early speakers was the archbishop of canterbury who warned that the uk could drift into no deal. there is a significant danger of adverse economic effects

and a falling government revenue rise in unemployment and greater poverty. some argue that that is only going to be temporary but we need to remember that for those in poverty temporary is an eternity. no deal is for the unresectable and the may deal is unacceptable. when people turnaround is it a british party are wary of brexited just wanted over that might be true for this minute but i tell you when they face the consequences of brexit and see the impact of their lives that will be forgotten in a flash. as there will be huge anger and they will turn to people in this house and the other end say when the facts are on the table why did you deny me the chance to become familiar with those facts and then express my opinion again? why did you take that from me and deny it to me? i am concerned as to what might happen if we have a second

referendum. what are the result be? at the results were to be 52, 48 remain with the leavers be content? as a result is the same as last time on what grounds are we remaining? this deal or another deal? and if we have got three questions on the ballot paper what happens if all our ones are rejected? the big vote is due on tuesday night at 7pm. earlier i spoke to sir david, a former clerk of the parliament. one of the top experts on procedure. i began by asking him about the significance of that amendment in the third of those defeats suffered but theresa may which gives mps more say that the eu withdrawal deal is voted down on tuesday. this allows amendments to be tabled which means that the members of the house of commons

will have the opportunity to put alternative proposals that have been voted on which would not have been the case without that amendment. so this really could be an example apartment taking back control to some extent. i would say so, yes. i would be careful that the work control as parliament kb so to speak in the driving seat holding the steering wheel but it can be holding the government to account and a much better able to do that with the amendment having been agreed to. they stood endless chatter about how the numbers will stack up and whether the government white win or lose. do you think the government might decide to go down the line of actually pulling the boat altogether? i see discussion of that but it seems to be quite difficult to do. the debate has begun and they would have to have an alternative plan for not going ahead with and i cannot see with that myself would look like.

assuming the book is ahead on tuesday if you are in at seven o'clock on tuesday night how are you going to know what's going on? let's start by talking about the amendments and who decides which amendments are voted on? mr speaker can select those amendments it will not have until the last day. at least half a dozen amendments have been tabled by mr corbyn and by hillary who chairs the select committee. imagine both of those will be selected to snake life were confusing for those viewing and take it from the main motion and house first to size with her once to amend the motion and then votes on the main motion either amended or unamended. there will be several votes and if you are watching these folks what should you be looking out for the viewer a clue of what is going on?

it's quite hard for the outsider. at the end, the tellers on each side appoint two members to count the votes and one counts their own votes and the other goes into the other lobby to count the opposing votes to this one from each side in each lobby. and they come back in and one of the tellers for the winning side reads out the numbers and so if you recognise the people concerned you could get a clue and obviously the members can win one of them types forward. there will be lots of cheering and waving of order papers before get the actual numbers. indeed. if theresa may loses, there are lots of different options of what could happen next. are there parliamentary constraints on what she can do after that vote result? the immediate constraint is that she has to present within 21 days a statement of what the government are going to do next in relation to the eu withdrawal. politically also said things could happen and i think that the labour opposition have talked about tabling a motion of no—confidence in the government and traditionally time should be found for such a motion to be debated.

in terms of options from the government side is hard to see what else they could do unless she wants to dissolve parliament herself but that might be tricky giving that the reason she lost would be the numbers from party were aligned with their own point of view and so she is probably not got that many options. there has been a debate going on in the house of lords, now it's slightly different, it's not as significant for the government depending on how the lords votes. but, do you think theresa may really does need to pay attention to what's been going on in the lords? yes she does need to pay attention because in the whole brexit process there has been quite a significant role for the lords and indeed in opening the debate, the leader of the house of lords

recalled how there have been 68 committee reports since the referendum on elements of brexit in many hours spent waiting and amending the eu withdrawal bill and the lords has been very involved in all this, but everybody in the lords accepts the meaningful vote itself is a matter for the elected house. and if you do want someone to explain what's going on while those votes are being held, tune into bbc parliament on tuesday. there will be full coverage of the proceedings in the commons plus live analysis of any and every vote from our parliamentary correspondent mark darcy. now, let's take a look at some other news from around westminster in brief. at prime minister's questions, the labour leader jeremy corbyn used his six questions not to ask mrs may about defeat inflicted

on her government or about the impending brexit both, instead he raised changes to the welfare system. child poverty is rising, homelessness rising! destitution rising! household debt rising! when will the prime minister turn her warm words into action? end the benefit freeze, repeal the bedroom tax, scrap the two child cap, and hold the roll—out of universal credit. what we see under this government, implement is rising, we are giving the nhs the single biggest cash boost, taxes are being cut and wages are rising, labour would destroy all that. it's this conservative government that is building a brighter future for our country. the former foreign secretary boris johnson has made a full and unreserved apology to mps for failing to declare more than £52,000 in income. he was ordered to apologize by the committee on standards over his late declaration of book royalty payments.

i fully accept the delay was a breach of the house but those ——house's rules and i'm grateful to the committee for recognizing that there was no intention to mislead the house and that i've been completely transparent, i therefore offer the house of full and unreserved apology. labor peers havejoined mps on calling on the secretary chris grayling take his share of the suffered by real travelers earlier this year. the transport committee said mr grayling should have done more to prevent the problems. one peer spotted another commission. —— ommission. some of the railway companies appear to have removed the word "cancellation" from their vocabulary. so you arrive at the station for a train, look at the board, and discover it is no more. it never existed. it is not there. an mp called for tighter

regulation of shisha lounges. in a hookah pipe tobacco is mixed with other papers burned and passed—through water before being inhaled. it's estimated that an evening spent smoking is equivalent to 100 cigarettes, the mp behind the debate said local communities could face noise, anti—social behavior and crime. both the scottish and welsh parliaments gave their verdicts on theresa may's brexit due in the week, let us hear from bbc scotland political editor brian taylor. let's start with scotland's direct impact upon brexit, whereby they signal the determination to leave the european union. it's a process of brexit. the question arises whether the uk alone can reverse the implementation of article 50 or whether that would require the consent of all the other european union countries. a group of scottish politicians led by the green msp andy whiteman

decided to put that to the test with of course significant legal backing. the case started in the scottish courts and it's one that is torturously in the european court ofjustice that's due to give their ruling to the question on monday, the day before the meaningful vote in the commons and then advocate for the ec] has already said that yes, yes, article 50 can be reversed unilaterally by the uk and that's expected to be the outcome on monday. as a matter? does it matter? the prime minister said she has no intention of reversing article 50, it's hypothetical. of course she may not be entirely in charge of events and perhaps at the very least it clarifies the potential outcome whether to be a second further referendum on brexit, which was a topic raised in this very parliament this week, when msps were debating the brexit deal advanced by the prime minister. the liberal democrats substantially advocating a second vote, the snp are in favour of that as well and the goal would be

to reverse it entirely and to the scotland for the uk to remain in the european union but labour tended to prefer a general election bringing down the conservative government. no obvious common ground for those parties who oppose the conservatives as to where they want to go but they are certainly opposed to any concept of britain even ——leaving without a deal. that was the outcome of the book here by 92 votes to 29 with the conservatives standing out all the other parties grouping together. i was struck by a throwaway line from adam tomkins whose and affairs spokesperson for the conservatives and he said the only deal that was seriously able to be contemplated, which was the prime minister's deal or "something very close to it." which suggested to me, to this observer, that the tories are looking for ways to tweak their approach to perhaps the idea of giving the commons

of greater role in the question of the backstop and looking for anything, some new ones that might persuade their reluctance backbenchers. there was further bad news, in the welsh assembly. ahead of the debate here on theresa may's brexit deal, the welsh conservatives called the symbolic discussion a pantomime. by the end, it turned into a bit of a farce for the welsh government. for months, the welsh first minister had said that it's important for the assembly to send a clear statement of its position ahead of the meaningful vote in the house of commons. so, it came as a bit of a surprise when the welsh government tabled a motion that did not explicitly reject or accept theresa may's brexit deal. much to the annoyance of plaid cymru the pro eu campaign group wales for europe. so as well as discussing the substantive details of the uk eu agreement, there was discussion as to how the welsh government tabled such a dog's

breakfast of a motion. i'm told it was a clear motion when first drafted, then he became less clear after a special meeting of the welsh government cabinets and then less clear again after the welsh labour group got its hands on the motion. so in an admission that it would mess things up in terms of this debate, the welsh labour group on the welsh government ended up backing the plaid cymru amendment to the debate that called on the uk government to continue with membership with the eu single market and customs union, called for an extension of the article 50 negotiating process, and by 36 votes to 1a, the welsh assembly explicitly rejected theresa may's brexit deal. staying with the senate, mark drayford has been named as the new leader of welsh labour and is set to become the next first minister of wales. time to look at some of the other stories making the political news this week, here is our countdown.

conservative mps told at one dinner party he went to his guests mentioned the word brexit they had to drink mead rum as punishment. what i would love that to be the case here that is not going to occur. at four, labour's grand total in the upper house is 793 and counting. at three, if you are worrying about how to do the perfect grounds, just watch the leader of the house of commons andrea leadsom as she knows exactly what to do. at two, retail mogul mike ashley reassures the committee that he's in fact a mere mortal. before anybody says it,

i'm not comparing myself to god. at one, debate into the early hours of the morning, didn't dampen ministers' spirits, who were able to crack a fewjokes at each others' expense. the first brexit secretary lasted less than 2a months, the second five months, and so i'm hoping that the new one can make it through to our questions on thursday. that's it for me for now, join keith on bbc parliament on monday night at 11, the start of what promises to be a truly historic week at westminster. for now, from me, goodbye. hello there.

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the north. welcome to bbc news — broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. i'm reged ahmad. our top stories: court documents reveal how donald trump's former personal lawyer has helped the investigation into alleged russian collusion with the trump campaign. you are a top executive from the chinese telecoms giant, huawei — who's wanted on multiple fraud charges in the us — appears in court in canada. french students clash with police as the country braces for a fourth weekend of yellow vest protests. and a cargo ship plucks a british sailorfrom her badly damaged yacht cast adrift in the southern pacific ocean. they are