you're watching bbc news — we're live in westminster covering the fallout from last night's dramatic events in parliament. the headlines at eleven: theresa may gets back to business, heading for talks with eu leaders after winning a vote of no confidence called by her own mps. we now need to get on with the job of delivering brexit for the british people and building a better future for this country. the prime minister is returning to brussels where she will seek binding pledges from other european leaders on the irish backstop at today's eu summit. it is confirmed there will be no commons vote on her deal next year. the supreme court rules that parts of holyrood's brexit legislation are outside the powers of the scottish parliament. i'm annita mcveigh, the other main stories on bbc news at eleven: at least nine people are killed as a high speed train crashes in turkey's capital, ankara. french police ask for the public‘s help to find the man suspected of killing two people at a christmas market in strasbourg.

the death toll rises to three. and trouble at the queen vic — the bbc is criticised after a project to revamp the eastenders set goes £27 million over budget. good morning from westminster. theresa may remains in post after surviving a bruising vote of no confidence which saw more than a third of conservative mps vote against her. in the last few minutes she has arrived in brussels for a crucial eu summit. she is hoping to win concessions from european leaders to break the deadlock over the irish backstop. it has also been confirmed

that mps will not now get to vote on her deal until next year. let's take a look at a difficult 2a hours for the prime minister. following a day of turmoil, theresa may won a ballot of no confidence in her leadership last night by 200 votes to 117 which guarantees she remains in charge for another year. orat or at least she cannot be challenged for another year. or at least she cannot be challenged for another year. outside downing street, a jubilant mrs may vowed to deliver the brexit "people voted for". the prime minister will later hold crucial talks in brussels with the other 27 european leaders, where she will seek to get greater assurances over her brexit deal. well, these were the pictures of theres may leaving downing st at around 9 o'clock this morning. she has now arrived in brussels. ahead of the formal summit, mrs may will meet with the irish prime minister leo varadkar and european council president donald tusk for what he has called "last—minute talks". our assistant political editor norman smithjoins me now. what is the assessment of her

position today? weaker or stronger? well, for hurting it is stronger in the sense she survived. she is guaranteed for another year not to face any other leadership challenges. in terms of her party i would suggest it is weaker. notjust because you have got 117 voting against her, which is a sizeable number, but because they voted against despite the fact mrs may sought to basically buy them off by saying i will not be your leader at the next election. do not worry, i will be gone. even then 117 chose to vote against her. on top of all that the brexiteers had a disastrous day yesterday, they were all over the place, there were caught on the hop by the speed of the contest. downing street were out of the blocks straightaway, sending people over to

tv cameras, texting supporters. the way everything was concertina into 12 hours benefited mrs may. she had prime minister's questions and then addressed the committee. if the contest addressed the committee. if the co ntest ha d addressed the committee. if the contest had been held on monday, it would have been a different story. still even though everything was against them, 117 would not go along with mrs may. what that says to me is these are irreconcilables. it does not matter what deal mrs may does not matter what deal mrs may doesin does not matter what deal mrs may does in brussels, they will never back her, they have set their faces against pretty much any deal that mrs may strikes. so, yes, of course ministers will draw comfort from the fa ct ministers will draw comfort from the fact she got a good, commanding majority, but when you put it in the bigger picture of having to get her deal through this parliament it is very ha rd to deal through this parliament it is very hard to see how she does it, albeit figures like amber arrived this morning were striking a very

positive note. this morning were striking a very positive note. good morning. did the prime minister give you new assurances from brussels today? i hope so and she has got the support of the party behind her and i wish i luck today. does that finished the leadership issues? yes, it does, i hope we can get with thejob issues? yes, it does, i hope we can get with the job in hand issues? yes, it does, i hope we can get with thejob in hand and make sure we get the best deal possible and we stick to the agenda because thatis and we stick to the agenda because that is an important part of government. the development from yesterday is not just government. the development from yesterday is notjust the numbers factor, it is the emotional factor, the sheer level of bitterness this has now engendered. philip hammond calling the brexiteers one thing. i

find it hard to see how these people will be able to work together again. it has started rumours about whether the tory party can hold together. it was striking when dominic raab came out this morning with the level of despondency and despair he seemed to be indicating he felt, i thought it was quite indicative. be indicating he felt, i thought it was quite indicative. mr raab, will you say you have got confidence in the prime minister? did you back her in the votelast night? i'm afraid i didn't because after pulling the meaningful vote with the scale we now see of opposition to the deal i don't think her position has been tenable. we have to make the best of it but i think that my biggest fear now is that if she continues in place, we have a greater risk ofjeremy corbyn in government. so very much in sorrow not anger, i'm afraid i didn't vote for her last night. what happens next? good question. should the party try and back her as best as you can? we will have to back the best that we can but the problem is that both in relation to brexit

and the wider sustainability of the government, given the likelihood of any changes to the deal, and given the likely scale of opposition, it looks very difficult to see how this prime minister can lead us forward. what it all means i think is that the sort of stand—off between these two formidable cams, the theresa may loyalists and the brexiteers insurgents, still exists and has to be fought out and it will be fought out over a mrs may's deal. in that sense nothing fundamentally has changed in the dynamic despite mrs may's victory. that is the view of the brexiteer‘s, that seemed to be the brexiteer‘s, that seemed to be the view of stephen baker. we respect the prime minister one that confidence vote, but this is the worst of all possible worlds. she

woi'i worst of all possible worlds. she won not by so much that we have been absolutely wiped out, it is and i'm comfortable victory for her, a pyrrhic victory. it is not about the prime minister and pyrrhic victory. it is not about the prime ministerand her pyrrhic victory. it is not about the prime minister and her character or conduct, it is she has the wrong policy and we have to vote it down and it will leave us grinding forward and supporting her. in terms of next steps, does she have to start to reach out across party lines? you'll a lot of people say thatis lines? you'll a lot of people say that is the answer. you have got 117 opposed to you, that is a very significant block. you will not get your deal through. or whatever concessions you have. they will not buy it. they do not like the money either. the only way you get it through is by appealing to the opposition parties. last night when she emerged she said parties should

come together in the national interest. m rs come together in the national interest. mrs may has so far made no attempt to reach out beyond her own party. i think temperamentally she is just not a politician who is minded to work cross party. that has never been the way she operates. the other problem is jeremy never been the way she operates. the other problem isjeremy corbyn and the labour party have no intention of riding to the rescue of mrs may right now. they want as much disarray and chaos as possible to pave the way for a vote of confidence. the only way i think it could happen is mrs may brings back a deal and it gets voted down and parliament steps in. you could see non—front bench politicians trying to pull something together. on the tory side the likes of dominic grieve, nicky morgan called for a government of national unity, on the other side figures like hilary benn, there are figures there who might

try, whatever their frontbenchers think, to try and pull something together around some sort of norway option. it is not impossible that could be some broader consensus which could yet break the logjam. no vote on this before christmas. andrea leadsom in the commonsjust now is setting out the business for next week and said it will not be brought back. the european commission said they would be unlikely to finalise their reworked positions before the new year. we are looking at the second or third week of the new year and theresa may will be comfortable with that. she will be comfortable with that. she will want to put as much pressure on her mps as possible to face the prospect of no deal in the hope that some will crack. let's cross to brussels and my colleague kasia madera. the mood music here is there will be no renegotiation of the withdrawal agreement. politicians are adamant about that and that is something we have been hearing over the past few

days. mrs may was here in brussels speaking to jean—claude juncker and donald tusk and that is what she heard and we expect that again today. however, the eu does understand that mrs may need something to go back to westminster with and we have seen a brexit draft cancel conclusion that will be very much changed later on throughout the course of this eu summit. it is initially suggesting the withdrawal agreement negotiations will continue ifa agreement negotiations will continue if a backstop will be in place. opening up the possibility for movement is something that would not be permanent. i guess windowdressing by changing the windowdressing is has some commentators have described it. let's talk to the europe editor of it. am i right oram i being facetious by describing this change as windowdressing? if you are not going to change the withdrawal

agreement, if it has not been amended, what can she get? this is a political discussion they will have to have this evening. she will have to have this evening. she will have to make her case this evening to the other 27 leaders. they will then have dinner where they discuss other foreign policy issues and at the that the eu 27 leaders will alone discuss what she is offering and they will have to decide whether to offer assurances or clarifications, or whether they will accept what britain has requested, a 2—stage approach to this. the first stage is some comforting political language that will be issued this evening and a second stage injanuary where they go buy something that is a bit more legally complex. there is by no means any consensus yet on that. ultimately even if it does go to a second legal offering injanuary, that will only interpret what is already in the treaty. they will not

be any changes to the treaty. you could say this is windowdressing or legal windowdressing, but the view in european capitals is that the sentiment theresa may is looking for is already in the withdrawal agreement and there is already strong language in there and in the political wording. it will be temporary unless and until something better comes along. given the withdrawal agreement is in effect a legally binding document, if we are talking about theresa may wanting something legal to go back with, how can you add on something illegal to what is already a legal document? or is this completely different if we talk about add—ons? is this completely different if we talk about add-ons? there are a range of legal instruments you can choose from and people have topped about precedents. there was a legal agreement with the dutch two years ago and the dutch prime minister, mark rutte, said if you can give me

this declaration, i can deliver it to the dutch parliament. mrs may is not ina to the dutch parliament. mrs may is not in a position to promise something like that right now. there was an interpretive legal documents relating to the eu and canada agreement. while ionia, the belgian region was objecting up until the very last minute and they worked up some interpreted document which said this is what this treaty means. that will be the height of it. political leaders are concerned they will offer theresa may some kind of legal present in january, offer theresa may some kind of legal present injanuary, but offer theresa may some kind of legal present in january, but that would raise expectations which would then be dashed and that would be politically backfiring on them and the process. she won the confidence vote, but she did not get that much support, or as much as she would have liked, so is there an appetite to people helping her out? your mac on yourfirst point to people helping her out? your mac on your first point there is an

appetite to help of course, but i would say that appetite waxed and waned a little bit yesterday. when she looked like she was in real trouble, the sentiment was let's give her something that will help. but when it looked like she was over the line, things hardened a little bit. there is a willingness to help herup toa bit. there is a willingness to help her up to a point and that point is this withdrawal agreement is non—negotiable, it is closed, that is it, we can offer you some political language, some comfort, we may be able to offer you some legal conflict in january, may be able to offer you some legal conflict injanuary, but it will only interpret what is already in the treaty. legal cover, my goodness. theresa may has been speaking to the irish taoiseach and she will now be giving her concerns to the whole of the remaining 27 eu leaders. she will be explaining her concerns and will go away to a press conference and then we expect the eu leaders after dinner to sit down

amongst themselves and to discuss what they can do. ultimately will that be enough? thank you very much. meanwhile, the supreme court has ruled that part of the scottish government's brexit bill are outside the power of the scottish government. let's get more from our correspondent, lorna gordon. explain it for us. a bit of background to all of this, msp is passed legislation of their own earlier this year after a big row about what is claimed was a power grab by westminster, overpowers coming back from brussels. so they passed the continuity built under emergency legislation. but then uk government law officers asked the supreme court to rule on whether this bill fell within the scottish government's re—met. there was a two—day hearing in july government's re—met. there was a two—day hearing injuly and this morning a unanimous judgment two—day hearing injuly and this morning a unanimousjudgment was handed down by the supreme court. it is quite tricky for us non—legal

eagles to digests the full ruling which is on the supreme court website, but in essence it comes down to this, the supreme court has said the scottish government was entitled to pass its own legislation and much of the continuity built to prepare for brexit is within the legislative powers of the scottish parliament. but, but some parts of the bill are out with its powers and one key section 17, says it is out with their powers and their competence because it would have the effect of making uk law conditional upon the consent of scottish ministers. that is all purely a legaljudgment, but ministers. that is all purely a legal judgment, but the ministers. that is all purely a legaljudgment, but the politics then come into play. the question is what happens next? we expect a statement from the scottish government on that this afternoon. with me is the conservative mp, bob seely. brexiteer, you voted for theresa may

last night. why did you vote for?|j did. we need to keep together and the most likely chance of getting to manage withdrawal deal and through is to stick with the deal that we have got and try to improve it, but to stick with the leader as well. anything else and we are in for weeks of chaos. she is in brussels wanting to get something. what could she come back with that would make a difference? they are working tirelessly to keep the dup onside. if they keep them on side, we will be better off and we may be back into a situation where we can get a withdrawal deal through parliament. on one side you have got hard—core remainers who think their consciences are about the will of the british people. on the other side you have got brexiteers who wa nt side you have got brexiteers who want a brexit so pure it is like something from the wizard of oz. i

ama something from the wizard of oz. i am a democrat, i want us to deliver for the british people and deliver brexit and get on with it. the dup have been explicit, they will not support theresa may as long as she is sticking with that deal. what was said that has given new confidence that that might change? she had met the dup that afternoon and had been in talks with them on a consistent basis and she sounded like there was a chance of something that would keep the dup onside. they have a right to be concerned. but nudges and winks are not enough. was there something that really persuaded to? i have to make a trust decision. do i trust the prime minister or do i trust in an unknown? at this late stage in the day i am trusting in the prime minister. if she does not get the withdrawal bill through parliament and the changes we will

move on to manage no deal. i would prefer a deal and the best on offer is the one that will appear at some point because it is the only deal will stop when you say we will move on to manage no deal, that is your expectation? if we fail and do not get a withdrawal deal through, there area get a withdrawal deal through, there are a series of options. and no deal is more likely. i do not see parliament forcing any other alternatives on the government. what about the other parties trying to come up with something? we are going to lose some colleagues from the remaining faction and the brexiteer factor. the critical element either dup mps. two thirds of labour constituencies voted for brexit, they voted to leave, said there are a lot of labour mps who have significant brexit constituencies and groups of voters within the

constituencies. is this not a dysfunctional government now? brexit is dividing everybody. the other people divided apart from the conservatives are everybody else, labour and the liberals as well. this is a relatively unique moment in our life this is a relatively unique moment in ourlife and this is a relatively unique moment in our life and we were given a mandate by the british people in june 2016. i am a democrat and i wa nt to june 2016. i am a democrat and i want to see that mandate put into effect. the most likely chance to get that mandate through is by sticking with the government and the leader that we have. sticking with the government and the leader that we have. so we've heard the reaction from here in westminster and from brussels. what are people across the uk making of this week's events? john maguire has spent the morning in sunderland, a city which voted heavily to leave in the eu referendum. we are right by the side of the river wear here. shipyards closed

down here almost exactly 30 years ago, december 1988. but down here almost exactly 30 years ago, december1988. but the down here almost exactly 30 years ago, december 1988. but the port of sunderland is still very busy and there has been a lot of work to regenerate this area. this is the national glass centre. we will take you inside where they do glass—blowing demonstrations. we have got matt and ian inside who can show us what they are making, i think they have been making christmas baubles this morning. if you have never seen glass being worked on before, it really is quite mesmerising. they twist it around, they call that the gathering. you need a good set of lungs to keep it going. that is the christmas bubble being made. you need a good set of lungs. a great tourist attraction for this part of the world. it might p0p! for this part of the world. it might pop! we have also gathered together some students this morning from the university of sunderland. this is a

pa rt university of sunderland. this is a part of the uk that voted to leave the european union, 61%, so bit was one of the highest rates of levers across the uk. this is the place where they return results of any referendum or general election very quickly. good morning to you all, stu d e nts quickly. good morning to you all, students past and present. yes, you have ambitions to be a barrister. what do you make of the nature of the discourse we have been talking about over the last couple of years? last night especially and the last couple of years it has been quite a healthy debate over the last couple of years and it has been nice to see a healthy debate in the sense that, yes, there has been bad discourse and people have had bad arguments and people have had bad arguments and there has been bad press, but there has been a healthy debate that has helped shape what the country once and it has changed a lot of people's opinions. you think opinions have changed? yes, even personally having spoken with

people, sunderland voted quite strongly to leave and i know a lot of people who voted to leave who have changed their opinion now they know what is going on. you are from northern ireland and the backstop is a key element at the moment. the difference between getting an agreement and not. explain to us how important it is to you. the northern ireland backstop if it did not go into play would be detrimental for northern ireland, not just economically and politically but also socially. we rely heavily on free movement between the north and the south of island. as a country we are very unstable and it is the glue that holds us together. with free movement between the north and the south if that is in trouble, the peace in northern ireland is in trouble as well. what do you think about the results run last night? the confidence vote? do you believe theresa may is below the water line

or is she in trouble? she could have beenin or is she in trouble? she could have been in trouble last night. the party across the board made the right decision to keep as mp. for her own party to post as prime minister would have been political suicide for the party and would have caused major issues. she has been given the worst of this bad deal, she has been left with this mess by a previous administration and has had to pick up and move on and do something with it. thank you very much indeed. from the national glass centre a bit of clarity, if that is not too bad a pound. after the drama yesterday and those extraordinary 12 hours of news, with the result of a leadership vote of no—confidence until theresa may appearing as leader, the drama has now given way toa leader, the drama has now given way to a bit ofa leader, the drama has now given way to a bit of a sense of a period of quiet. i suppose it is a period of

waiting because we need to wait and see now what happens with theresa may and whether she can come back from brussels with anything that would break the deadlock. we will continue to keep you updated. back to annita in the studio. hundreds of police, soldiers and border agents are continuing to hunt for a gunman, suspected of opening fire near a christmas market in strasbourg. cherif chakatt is accused of killing two people and injuring 13 others in the attack on tuesday evening. nav—tej joehal reports. the most wanted man in europe. cherif chekatt is suspected of bringing terror to strasbourg — and now police want him brought to them. the search for the 29—year—old continues today, with hundreds of police, soldiers, and border agents on both sides of the border between france and germany. french authorities have acknowledged that he may no longer be in the country.

it's believed the gunman who opened fire near strasbourg's famous christmas market on tuesday evening, killing two people and injuring 13 others, was himself injured in a shootout with soldiers. police have warned people not to approach cherif chekatt, who was already known to security services as a possible islamist terrorist threat. but at his apartment in nearby neudorf, a neighbour, who did not want to be identified, painted a different picture of the suspect. translation: there was no sign of radicalisation. he's a really normal person. yeah, i can't say more than normal. he was nice too, as i say. he respected women. meanwhile, the french prime minister has said the country will be stepping up security in the wake of the attack, particularly around christmas markets. as the tributes mount, france is now on the highest level of alert. navteonehal, bbc news. four people have been killed

and another 43 injured following a high speed train crash in turkey. the train collided with another locomotive and then crashed into an overpass at a train station in the capital ankara as the train was setting off on a journey to the central province of konya. selin girit is in istanbul. i think the death toll has gone up in the last few moments. this high—speed train was just a few minutes out of ankara when the accident happened. any suggestions as to what went wrong? no official statement has been made as to what went wrong, the exact cause of the crash has still yet to be determined. the investigations are in place. nine people have been killed, the death toll has risen to

nine people. nearly 50 people are injured. the health minister gave a statement in the last few minutes and he said 3a people are still being treated in the nearby hospitals and the search and rescue operations over the debris are probably now going to be over because no survivors remain under the wreckage. the president in a televised speech offered his condolences to the relatives of the deceased. recep tayyip erdogan said every measure will be taken and we will find all who are responsible for the train crash. this is the number one topic being talked about in turkey at the moment, it is a top trending topic in turkey. bear in mind only six months ago this country had seen another train crash. the train derailed in the western town and 2a people were

killed in that accident. the relatives of the deceased have demanded questions and resignations as well of those people they deemed responsible for the crash. today one of those, a mother of a deceased child who lost his life in that particular train crash, tweeted to say we do not expect to hear condolences from you, do not offer us your condolences any more, just find those who are responsible and offer as resignations instead. so it is tense here at the moment but the officials are saying every necessary measure will be taken and the investigations are in place. now it's time for a look at the weather. hello. yes, it is indeed feeling quite cold out there. much colder than the last few days. we have a

strong south—easterly wind which is bringing in the colder air. but it is also bringing in some sunshine across parts of the uk. this is the scene in lincolnshire. you can see sunny spells continuing throughout this afternoon. quite cloudy for northern ireland and the west of wales and south—west england. some spots of rain likely here. temperatures may say six or seven celsius, but if you factor in the wind—chill, quite a strong wind in places, it will feel between zero and three degrees this afternoon. overnight, thanks to cleary lengthy spells, temperatures drop away and thrust will arise through much of englert and scotland. just above freezing northern ireland under the cloud. that will stick around through friday, they could even be some spots of rain in belfast. elsewhere, bright and sunny spells was not temperatures struggle again, between three and 5 degrees. hello this is bbc newsroom live.

the headlines: theresa may gets back to business — she's arrived for talks with eu leaders in brussels after winning a vote of no confidence called by her own mps. we now need to get on with the job of delivering brexit for the british people, and building a better future for this country. the prime minister is in brussels to seek binding pledges on the irish backstop at today's eu summit, as it's confirmed there'll be no commons vote on her deal until next year. also, the supreme court rules that parts of holyrood's brexit legislation are outside the powers of the scottish parliament. and in other news, at least nine people are killed as a high speed train crashes in turkey's capital, ankara. french police ask for the public‘s help to find the man suspected of carrying out a gun attack at a christmas market in strasbourg as the death toll rises to three. let's get the sport now.

good morning. it's got tougher for manchester united in europe, after they were beaten by valencia in their final champions league group match. philjones scored an embarrassing own goal in their 2—1 defeat. united had already qualified for the knock out phase, but withjuventus losing last night, they could've won the group and faced an easier game in the last 16. butjose mourinho didn't see it as a failure. to qualify in this group is a success, never a failure. to finish second in this group is always a success. before the game, i told the players that if they win tonight,

and juventus win, we did ourjob. if we don't win and juventus doesn't win, we can blame ourselves. leroy sane scored both manchester city's goals, including a briliant free kick, as they came from behind to beat hoffenheim 2—1. they finsh top of their group, and pep guardiola knows what an achievement that is. big teams are out. inter milan is an exceptional team in the europa league. so many good, top clubs will be there. one day, if you slip a little bit, you will be in the europa league. so that's why i'm so glad to be the last 16. from my point of view, i've said many times and i will repeat that when a team like manchester city go through, it's an incredible success. the celtic manager brendan rodgers says striker leigh griffiths will be given all the help he needs to overcome what he described as "on griffiths is taking time away

from the game to get help in overcoming mental health problems. rodgers declined to elaborate on the issues, calling them "confidential", but he said life was tough for him at the moment. he has had ongoing issues now for a number of months. he has done amazingly to get through, to play to the level and score some of the goals that he has. he has reached a point where it is a struggle for him. for us, we will give him all the professional help that he possibly needs. in order to get him toa possibly needs. in order to get him to a good place again, to get back to a good place again, to get back to what he does best. england's men will find out later who they'll face in the semifinals of the hockey world cup. they got there with a thrilling 3—2 win over the olympic champions, argentina — harry martin with the decisive goal.

england are in the semifinals for the third world cup in a row, and they'll face either germany or belgium, who play today. the four—time tour de france winner, chris froome, says team sky will be doing everything they can to survive, after their owner and main sponsor announced it was pulling out. the broadcaster sky said yesterday its decade—long commitment would be finishing at the end of next year. in an open letter to fans, the team admited their future was in doubt. we have been extremely lucky to have sky as our one sponsorfor ten years. it is very rare in cycling to have a sponsor for that long. i think we are all incredibly grateful for the support and we have still got one more year to go with sky and hopefully during that time we will find someone to fill that position. the women's tennis association has announced increased protection for mothers returning to the tour. from next season, players coming back

after childbirth, or injury, will be able to use their previous ranking to enter 12 tournaments over a three—year period. but serena williams' wish that returning mothers would also be seeded in line with their ranking has not been granted. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you in the next hour. let's return now to westminster, and my colleague, joanna gosling. thank you very much. yesterday, we we re thank you very much. yesterday, we were looking ahead to that leadership challenge that theresa may was facing. she won that. strategically in what happens in the houses of parliament, things remain unchanged, the figures around a lack of support for her brexit agreement deal remain, and strategically within her own party she won, but

117 of her own mps voted against. they are people who voted against her in spite of the knowledge she said last night she would not fight another election, so that 117 within her own party who did not want to give her the chance to lead the party in the interim period. with me to discuss where theresa may's premiership lies, and what she is likely to get out of today's meetings in brussels, i'm joined byjill rutter, director at the institute for government. thank you forjoining us. it is tempting to keep wanting to press the fast forward button and work out where all of this ultimately lines, because that is what everyone keeps asking. what happens? wejust because that is what everyone keeps asking. what happens? we just have to keep walking through it because everyday seems as unprintable as the last. she is in brussels. do you think there is likely to be anything that gives a clear indication? there are some indications that she may get some warm words and reassurances, stressing that the

european union doesn't like the backstop either, doesn't want to use it, hopes it will only be temporary and things like that. she might get some reinforced assurances was top weather they will go any further and offer her anything, whether they can get anything more, it will be much more difficult. the message from her earlier meetings she had on tuesday, when she went to see angler merkel and the like, it was that they were not going to reopen a legally binding withdrawal agreements. it will be interesting to see whether she gets anything more. some people are talking about ways in which the eu have provided reassurances in other areas, by adding decisions to the end of an agreement which do not

have the same status was not there an odd way through. it is unlikely she will do what her party and the dup want, which is either provide a unilateral exit mechanism from the backstop or just unilateral exit mechanism from the backstop orjust delete the backstop from the withdrawal agreement. that has been one of the red lines consistently, and it looks as though the eu will stick with that. they will not be a vote on the withdrawal agreement before christmas. it gives them some breathing space for mps to reflect. if she doesn't come up with something along the lines you are describing, that might break the deadlock, what happens? i'll be on our way to a managed no deal exit? i'm not sure that managed no deal exists. a mitigated no deal, but managed no deal suggests that we announce the agreement but the european union does a lot of side agreements was off they have so far

ruled that out. if the uk did not accept their withdrawal agreement, they would not do another agreement, a mini agreement, they were take contingency measures. we have seen some signs of that. people in brussels have been discussing the no deal planning. the interesting thing is, to move on, do we need that first vote out of the way on the deal? on tuesday, after the cancellation of the meaningful vote, the prime minister was under pressure, which you schedule another vote on this? yvette cooper put down an urgent question to say, will the government abide by the 21st of january deadline in the eu withdrawal act? they served a deputy minister to say, although they probably were not required to do it by the letter of that act, they would observe the spirit of that act and schedule the meaningful vote sometime before the 21st of january was you get the feeling that they

are ina was you get the feeling that they are in a holding pattern until they reach an agreement that parliament will support. which outcome is more likely without delay question what if she is going to lose, is it better to have lost this tuesday or after christmas? it depends on how much time you lose by the rescheduling. parliament is not due to reconvene until the 7th of january. if it is urgent, they could be reconvened just after the new year. it would be unpopular if they we re year. it would be unpopular if they were reconvened before the new year. the dominic grief motion was an option. the other options are not appealing for them. parliament and

the government need to get that act together to replace it with something else if that is not going to happen. it will be interesting to see how parliament moves and handles that. we are seeing kites being flown about there being a way to get parliament to make its views known. various cabinet ministers are thinking of indicative votes, so parliament could express a view without it being formal emigrants to motion. there are so many different alternatives. if it ended up in a position where there was no agreement possible, what is the last point at which article 50 could either be extended or ascended? we could ask for an extension probably up could ask for an extension probably up until 10:59pm on the 21st of march. that is leaving it a bit late because you need the unanimous agreement of the eu. we could

rescind it unilaterally at the last minute if we wanted to. so it is easier to rescind than extend? yes, but one of the things that is that if the uk is resending to buy some time rather than we planned to stay long—term, that might be challenged in the european because you can rescind in order to stay, notjust to give yourself more time to sort yourself out. thank you. now it's been an eventful 2a hours in westminster. let's take a look at how we got here. the result of the ballot held this evening is that the parliamentary party does have confidence in theresa may. cheering it is 7:42pm, and we have heard literally in the last few minutes

that the magic number of 48 has been reached. there will be the first phase of a leadership challenge against the prime minister tonight. i will contest that vote with everything i've got. a change of leadership for the conservative party now would put our country's future at risk and create uncertainty when we could least afford it. the prime minister sweeping down to parliament for one of the most important days of her career. she has nine hours from now to persuade her colleagues that she is the person to lead the country and has earned the right to keep herjob. mr speaker, today i will have meetings, possibly many meetings, with ministerial colleagues. whatever happens with her conservative leadership vote today, it is utterly irrelevant to the lives of people across our country.

i reached the conclusion that because the prime minister is unwilling to move away from the deal which i don't think delivers brexit, that i cannot support, then i thought it was time for a new leader. when we leave here in the evenings, we are stepping over sleeping bodies around westminster tube station. there are so many pressing issues for this government to tackle, and yet all of our energy is being sucked up notjust with brexit but now with an internal row which does nothing to improve the lives of people in our country. i'm pleased to have received the backing of my colleagues in tonight's ballot. whilst i am grateful for that support, a significant number of colleagues did cast a vote against me, and i've listened to what they said. following this ballot, we now need to get on with the job of delivering brexit for the british people and building a better future for this country. wasn't that an incredible 12 hours

yesterday? with me to discuss yesterday's events, i'm joined by steven swinford, deputy political editor at the daily telegraph and the spectator‘s political correspondent, katy balls. how do things stand this morning? she won yesterday, but she is straight back to brussels and hoping she will come up with something for support you think? she did win, but it isa support you think? she did win, but it is a hollow victory, because the margin by which she won was a lot slimmer than those around her had hoped. her allies were surprised by the number of people who voted against her. she had to make a number of assurances about the legal solution to the backstop and working with the u p. she will have to work ha rd to with the u p. she will have to work hard to support those because the eu are reluctant to renegotiate. you

have the tories against each other. they don't have faith in theresa may and think she should go. dominic rob is the first of the serious leadership contenders and think she should go. should that give enough cover for the other leadership contenders, borisjohnson cover for the other leadership contenders, boris johnson and cover for the other leadership contenders, borisjohnson and david davis, to come out and say they do not have faith in her and think she should go? what would happen then? she is safe from a challenge for 12 months. it is an immense build-up of pressure at the moment. the more voices you get... she can ignore it and keep going on, but it gets more difficult to ignore as the meaningful vote approaches was up some pushing for a second referendum, some for a some pushing for a second referendum, some fora no—deal brexit, everyone has their own agenda and it increases pressure on the prime minister. everyone has their own agenda and they are

thinking that things will start to go their way. does she start to reach out across party divides question mike is that the only way things can move forward? that is one way she can move forward. there is a fear among some brexit supporters that their gamble has backfired to some extent because they did not manage to oust her, but now because she cannot be challenged, there is a fear she pivots to a softer brexit to get labour votes for it to go through. some of the remained minded listeners say that labour will remain unhappy and there is nothing they can do about it, whether she chooses to do that is a different matter because it will be difficult for the conservative party to deal with that and it will be another blow to conservative party uni. not that there is much unity right now.

what about the dup? they are some of the hardy eurosce ptics what about the dup? they are some of the hardy eurosceptics out there. as long as the backstop is still in play, they are definitely listening. sammy wilson is really angry, but it is notjust theresa may reaching across party divides. they are seriously considering voting with labour, the snp and the lib dems in a vote of no—confidence in the prime. there is a feeling of anger out there. they said they had to flush out the eurosceptics, which they have gone mad about this morning. what are your thoughts about a vote of no—confidence in the government? it is the nuclear option. it would be very extreme if that were to happen. it is unlikely,

but the fact that the tories are seriously talking about it tells you the level of anger and frustration, because they didn't get their way, did not oust theresa may and she is still in office and still going to brussels to try to save her deal. you would start to see the government trying to make moves to stop that happening. one thing people have suggested she should think about doing is a light reshuffle. for example, how much to move for the comments he made was not she is running out of people to move, isn't she? they would like to see this idea that she is listening. it would be hard to say that eve ryo ne it would be hard to say that everyone who voted in that is a brexit extremist. the numbers were higher than they expected. it remains unpredictable. thank you both for talking through some of the possible outcomes and exact lee

where theresa may stands today. she is still in the same position she was in before that vote yesterday. she does not have the backing of all of her party. she certainly does not have the backing of parliament for it, and she is in brussels today, hoping she might be able to get something. i will hand you back to anita. in a moment, we'll have all the business news, but first the headlines on bbc news. theresa may gets back to business — she's arrived for talks with eu leaders in brussels after winning a vote of no confidence called by her own mps. the prime minister is seeking binding pledges on the irish backstop at today's eu summit, as it's confirmed there'll be no commons vote on her deal until next year. and in other news — at least nine people are killed as a high speed train crashes in turkey's capital, ankara. i'm victoria fritz.

in the business news this morning: brexit blamed — the uk housing market slips to its weakest level in six years. and there's no end in sight, say the royal institute of chartered surveyors. the pound steadies as theresa may heads to brussels. analysts warn the currency remains fragile amid politicial turbulence. the extent of the high street bloodbath revealed. house of fraser loses over £31 million in the first 11 weeks of ownership under sports direct. first there were the bobs — those who were described byjeremy hunt as being bored of brexit. now boredom has given way to out and out despair. at least, that's true of the business world. the institute of directors said this morning, "in all the twists and turns of brexit, this, the conservative party confidence vote, may prove to be the most pointless and the most short—lived." the confederation of

british industry, the cbi, has described the last 2a hours as a chaotic detour. josh hardie is the cbi deputy director general. how great is the economic challenge facing britain right now? i think it is significant. this was a chaotic detour, and business, just as much as the public, are slightly fed up with the chaos. i think where we are right now, unless things change, u nless right now, unless things change, unless parliamentarians and mps decide to compromise and be problematic, we could be stuck in deadlock. while we are stuck in deadlock, businesses have no choice, they have to plan for no deal. that means hundreds of millions of pounds being spent on warehousing, and opening factories overseas, on stockpiling. that should be spent on jobs and raising living standards. it is not as serious as if we

actually get to know deal, and that is when the real economic impact hits. mps need to change tack. they need to stop feeling that their way is the only way, compromise, get no deal of the table, secure a transition so we can grow as a country. what are people saying to you about the extent of their concerns and contingency planning? it is very serious was up 80% of our members have reduced investment as a result of brexit already. 97% of those with contingency plans are activating them this month. the chaos of the last few days triggers that will stop you can hear buttons being pressed up and down the country. this is significant. the more we can do to add in confidence, to show there is a way forward, the better. we have 90 days left. we have had about 900 days was not we are running out of time. thank you. some other business news for you

today. we have had quite a reaction when it comes to the pound. it may have one reprieve is theresa may survived that bid to oust her, but its fate is likely to hinge on her ability to win concessions over her brexit deal. sterling is at the bottom of its recent range and is heading for a weekly loss, just over three months ago until brexit. no further clarity on the outcome. the oil businesses booming, with several companies announcing projects in the uk. a little bit of good news to end on. now it's time for a look at the weather. thank you. yes, good morning. we have some sunshine across many parts of the uk. but it is cold out there. we have a biting south—easterly wind making it feel much colder than your

weather app or the thermometer might suggest. we have some sunshine. that is the scene at the moment in shropshire. many parts of englert and wales, up into scotland continue with the sunny spells afternoon. south—west england and wales, northern ireland, have more cloud and spots of rain. there will be a significant wind chill. you have probably experienced it already if you have been outside already. temperatures feel around freezing to three degrees. clear overnight across many parts of england and scotland. in northern ireland, temperatures remain above freezing under the cloud. dry and bright in many places, but again feeling pretty cold. you're watching bbc news, we're live in westminster covering the fallout from last night's dramatic events in parliament. the headlines at midday. theresa may seeks solutions over

the irish backstop at the eu summit in brussels after winning last night's vote of no confidence called by her own mps. also the supreme court rules that parts of holyrood's brexit legislation are outside the powers of the scottish parliament. we'll bring you all of today's brexit developments in a moment as it's confirmed there'll be no commons vote on theresa may's deal until next year. i'm annita mcveigh, the other main stories on bbc news: at least nine people are killed as a high speed train crashes in turkey's capital, ankara. french police ask for the public‘s help to find the man suspected of carrying out a gun attack at a christmas market in strasbourg as the death toll rises to three. and trouble at the queen vic — the bbc is criticised after a project to revamp the eastenders set goes £27 million overbudget. £27 million over budget.

good afternoon from westminster, i'm joanna gosling. theresa may remains in post after surviving a bruising vote of no confidence which saw more than a third of conservative mps vote against her. the prime minister has arrived in brussels for a crucial eu summit, where she hopes to win concessions from european leaders to break the deadlock over the irish backstop. in the last hour, the leader of house, andrea leadsom, has said mps will not get to vote on the deal before next year. let's take a look at a difficult 2a hours for the prime minister. following a day of turmoil, sir graham brady, the chair of the 1922 committee, last night confirmed theresa may had won a ballot of no confidence in her

leadership by 200 votes to 117 which guarantees she remains in charge for another year. outside downing street, a jubilant mrs may vowed to deliver the brexit ‘people voted for‘. and to bring the country together. the prime minister will later hold crucial talks in brussels with the other 27 european leaders where she will seek to get greater assurances over her brexit deal. well, these were the pictures of theres may leaving downing st at around 9 o'clock this morning. she's now arrived in brussels. ahead of the formal summit, mrs may will meet with the irish prime minister leo varadkar and european council president donald tusk for what he has called "last—minute talks". she will then leave and the eu leaders will then decide what they

are going to do. our assistant political editor norman smithjoins me now. they are well aware of the position she is in. are they likely to come up she is in. are they likely to come up with something? they will come up with something, but whether it will be anything like what mrs may needs to get people over to her side, i suspect not. she has already done i was. tour to various european capitals saying, please, please, and she won some legally bounding guarantees about the backstop. she will not get that, but she will get some kind of words, an addendum, some kind of words, an addendum, some protocol, maybe a legal opinion, but that is not the same a legally binding bit of text and that is what the critics are demanding. where we are is where we were 48 hours ago, which is in a stand—off

between a significant block of the party. we are not talking about a rump of 30, we are talking about 117 tory mps who voted against the prime minister even though she said, do not panic, i will not be here at the next election. that was still not enough and frankly the brexiteers we re enough and frankly the brexiteers were at sixes and sevens yesterday. there was no leadership, no clear message. it was a bad day for the brexiteers and still 117 voted against. that suggests mrs may has a titanic task ahead in getting this deal through, albeit this morning there were words of confidence from cabinet ministers talking about how now is the time for the party to come together. did the prime minister secure new assurances from brussels? i hope so, she has the support of the party behind her and

i wish her every success today. thank you. does it put an end to the leadership issues? yes, it does. i hope we can get on with the job in hand, which is delivering on a successful exit from the european union and delivering on our domestic agenda, because that is an important pa rt of agenda, because that is an important part of why we are in government. the trouble with binding the party together is that last night's vote has exacerbated the level of animosity between the different camps. it is not an ideological split, there is a personal, emotional element to it as well which makes it very hard to try and fashion a cooperative attitude towards brexit. i was struck listening to the former brexit secretary dominic raab as he left home this morning. partly by the sense of despondency, who knows what happens next? but also his conviction that continuing with mrs

may actually makes it more likely of thejeremy may actually makes it more likely of the jeremy corbyn may actually makes it more likely of thejeremy corbyn government. would you say you have got confidence in the prime minister? did you back hurt in the vote last night? i'm afraid i did not. after pulling the meaningful vote and the scale we know seeds of opposition to the deal, i do not think her position was terrible. we have to make the best of it but my biggest fear now is that if she continues in place, we have a greater risk of jeremy corbyn in government. very much in sorrow and not in anger but idid not much in sorrow and not in anger but i did not vote for her. what happened next? good question. should you back her as best you can? we will have to back her as best we can, but in relation to brexit and the wider sustainability of the government, given the changes to the deal and the likely scale of

opposition, it looks very difficult to see how this prime minister can lead us forward. it was interesting when he was asked what happened next? and he said good question. at some point mrs may will have to bring her deal back to the house. it will not be before christmas, it was not included in the business for next week and we assume it will be in the second or third week of january when the brexiteers seem utterly confident they can vote it down. this is the deputy chairman of the european research group, stephen baker. we respect the prime minister won the confidence vote but this is the worst of all possible worlds. she won not by so much that we have been wiped out, it is and i'm comfortable victory for her, a pyrrhic victory, but this is a tragic position we are in. it is not about the prime ministerand her in. it is not about the prime minister and her conduct, it in. it is not about the prime ministerand her conduct, it is in. it is not about the prime minister and her conduct, it is she has the wrong policy and we will have to vote it down and we will

have to vote it down and we will have to vote it down and we will have to oppose the main policy but support her as leader. with the parties are divided is it the only way to reach out across party lines? some people think that is right, she will have to try and get on board some of the opposition parties. last night in her statement after the result there was that sentence in her little speech outside number ten, saying politicians of all parties now have to come together in the national interest. that was taken as a nod and a wink that she is coming round to the view she will not be able to win over this hard—core block of tory brexiteers, so she will have to look for support from the opposition. the difficulty there is she has made no effort to do that in the past, it is not in her natural political demeanour. from the labour perspective really i think they are in no mood to come galloping to mrs may's rescue. they

are quite happy with maximum disarray in the hope that might pave the way for a vote of confidence. john mcdonnell, the shadow chancellor, sounded lukewarm about the idea of everyone getting together to sort out the brexit deal. we think we can construct a consensus within parliament around the sort of deal we put forward. if the sort of deal we put forward. if the prime minister comes on to that agenda, we could move forward. if she cannot negotiate that type of deal, she should move to one side and let us get on with it or have a general election. so what is your best bet on where we go from here?|j only best bet on where we go from here?” only bet is the division, rancour, acrimony, that brexit has exploded in westminster is going to continue. as it goes on everyone seems to get more and more entrenched in their position and the possibility of fashioning some sort of agreement becomes ever harder. but if

parliament appears to crack this, there will have to be a moment when people begin to come together and thatis people begin to come together and that is why there is no talk about whether it is possible to get some sort of agreement, it might involve backbench figures on both sides, not frontbenchers, trying to broker some sort of agreement, norway option or whatever, that people can get around, because as things stand it is not clear that this deal will fly. has this all backfired against the brexiteers? yes, it could be, accidents do happen in politics. it is possible attempts to broker a deal simply failed and we incrementally move towards no deal even though i would suggest the vast bulk of mps do not want that, but accidents do happen in politics.

u nless accidents do happen in politics. unless someone or some people show leadership in trying to bring things together, that becomes a real danger. norman, thank you. coming up at 3:30 we'll bring you ask this, a chance to get expert answers to your questions about the brexit negotiation and what europe might be able to do to help theresa may get her deal through. so please, send your questions in via text on 61124, email askthis@bbc.co.uk or tweet hashtag bbc ask this, and we'll get you the answers. let's go back to the political fallout from yesterday's events. with me to discuss yesterday's events i'm joined by vice chair of the conservative party, kemi badenoch. how does theresa may stand now in your party? i think she is in a good position. why do you think that? because we have never had an issue

that people were so polarised on. the views are so irreconcilable, and to get 63% of the vote in those circumstances is a good result. what is important is the prime minister has set out what her plans are in terms of standing for election and right now what the country wants to do is focus... but things are not perfect. i am not saying things are perfect. i am not saying things are perfect at the moment and this leadership election or confidence vote was a rude interruption at a serious time. is there anyway for to get anything through without working with mps from other parties? we are a minority government so that goes without saying. what we need is an agreement that can get enough people around that delivers on the result of the referendum. what would the

shape of that deal be for you? addressing the issues around the backstop, those are the concerns of the majority of my constituents who wa nt the majority of my constituents who want a deal. it will not appease people who still want to remain in the eu or people who want and no deal scenario, but we can get a consensus around this and the prime minister is doing all she can to get that. we will carry on chatting in a moment. we will carry on chatting in a moment. more on today's main stories coming up on newsroom live here on the bbc news channel, but now we say goodbye just to remind you of those 24 hours, to reason they started the day fighting for her political survival. she won the vote to remain as tory party leader, but she is weakened. 117 members of her own party said they would not like to continue as leader. she is in brussels today and we will keep you updated on that. now we said goodbye to on bbc two. just to pick up where

we were. she is in brussels. she is not going to be able to come back with anything that will take anything away from the fact that the withdrawal agreement has the backstop in it and that is the ultimate legislative position.” disagree. i do not think she would be going round if she did not think there were options. she has got no choice, what else could she do? that isa choice, what else could she do? that is a situation that we are in. i am concerned there are too many people who were not compromise on anything, this is politics, it is about pragmatism. we have to deal with the issues that people out there, not in the westminster bubble, we need to start focusing on those issues and getting a deal that the country finds acceptable. it has been said

many times that politics is no split nod along old party lines, but remain or leave. does your party ultimately end up splitting because this is a subject that has caused the tory party problems for many yea rs the tory party problems for many years and it does feel now that things are almost at breaking point. ido things are almost at breaking point. i do not agree. i heard norman earlier talking about rancour and acrimony. it is a very small minority of people. 117, that is more than a third of the party. that is their opinion but it does not mean that between us there is acrimony and rancour. there is so much else that we have in common. to focus on this one issue, the country is divided on this issue and the conservative party represents the country. we will get beyond this but we cannot focus on disagreements on

this one issue. the conservative party is not about europe, we are about so much more than that. right now the most important legislative thing for the government to do is to get us through brexit and the government cannot do that.” get us through brexit and the government cannot do that. i think we can, it has been difficult. but it does need people to compromise. i am finding the goalposts are shifting in terms of what is a cce pta ble shifting in terms of what is acceptable in a deal and there are certain people who have personal political ambitions that they are focused on. the vast majority of the party, irrespective of which side they are on, are doing this out of positive reasons because they want to serve their constituents. philip hammond said the brexiteers were extremists. i am a brexiteer and i am notan extremists. i am a brexiteer and i am not an extremist and you should not use that sort of language to talk about political issues. we need to ta ke talk about political issues. we need to take the divisiveness out of the

country and deal with it, but eve ryo ne country and deal with it, but everyone is entitled to their own opinion. we need to get across the reasons and to remember that eve ryo ne reasons and to remember that everyone has good motivation for taking a particular position and thatis taking a particular position and that is where i stand. thank you very much forjoining us. we're hearing that the prime minister has already met her irish counterpart leo va radhkar ahead of the eu summit. let's cross to brussels and my colleague kasia madera many thanks. yes, theresa may is here, it is her second trip to brussels this week. she was here earlier on speaking to jean—claude younger and donald tusk. today will be slightly different because she will be sitting down and she will be briefing eu leaders on her concerns and she will also have the opportunity to discuss her concerns with them. she will be taking a q&a session about all the elements of our brexit deal that are making it so difficult to pass it at westminster where you are. in terms

of the mood music here, we keep hearing there is no renegotiation about the withdrawal agreement but we are hearing snippets about a d raft we are hearing snippets about a draft brexit conclusion that could potentially come out at the end of the day at the end of this summit thatis the day at the end of this summit that is suggesting a slightly easier phrase, that negotiations would continue with the uk if, and i specified that, if the backstop were to be in place. that is slightly different to the words in the withdrawal amendment where we are talking about negotiations to the transition period. this is talking about negotiations and trade deals continuing if backstop is in place. eu leaders will hope those kind of nuanced changes in language will help theresa may get that passed in westminster. but it is going to be a fascinating insight. she will not be

ata dinnerand fascinating insight. she will not be at a dinner and present while eu leaders will be discussing everything she said earlier on in the day. but it will give eu leaders an opportunity to sit down and look at what they can move on. let's talk to lawrence norman from the wall streetjournal. we to lawrence norman from the wall street journal. we keep to lawrence norman from the wall streetjournal. we keep talking about this no renegotiation, but when we saw what happened with ireland, a unique situation, it was ratifying the lisbon treaty there we re ratifying the lisbon treaty there were those irish guarantees, so never say never. possibly there could be a movement when it comes to brexit. i think never say never is a very good principle to have in the european union in general. however, i think what they are looking at doing is how far they can play with the wording, play with promises to try their best without undoing the withdrawal agreement. it is very, very clear to them that they really do not want to do that, they really

do not want to do that, they really do not want to do that, they really do not want to reopen the accord that they reached last month because not only will britain have new demands, but the spanish might have new demands, the irish might have new demands, the irish might have new demands, the irish might have new demands, and there is not very much time left. the message has been very clear, we will try and help, but we are not going to change that accord. when you hear theresa may says she wants political assurances and also legal assurances, how on earth does that play when you cannot amend the withdrawal agreement which isa amend the withdrawal agreement which is a legally binding document? that is a legally binding document? that is what they will have to figure out today, that is the crux of the issue. they are very happy to give political words, but can you change anything legally? that would be a change to the agreement. the essence of this is that there is a bit of a zero—sum game. the british concerns are about a backstop, i guarantee that there would be no physical,

ha rd that there would be no physical, hard border in our island. on one side you have the british who need some kind of a weakening of that backstop some kind of a weakening of that ba cksto p to some kind of a weakening of that backstop to get it through westminster in parliament. you have the irish who desperately need to hold onto the backstop in order to force their considerable political pressures there. ireland is in the eu and is staying in the eu and britain is not. it seems clear at this point that the eu is not going to abandon ireland are some senior eu officials said this week. some of them saying ireland is their priority. you are saying there is no point putting a time limit on the backstop because that makes it null and void? the irish would save time and void? the irish would save time and time again this is an all—weather insurance policy. if you put a time limit on it, it is an insurance policy until that time comes and goes. they have made it very clear that there cannot be any

compromise. any situation that they allow in a future where a hard border returns to our island. britain has signed up to those commitments so it is very hard to see how you could constrain it or we can it like that. thank you for your insight. it is an incredibly complicated position and it will not be an easy form of words that will appease the mps back at westminster and also to ensure that ireland is happy and the eu 27 are happy because their ultimate concern is for ireland and to ensure there is no infrastructure, no hardboard on the island of ireland. this is one really for lawyers. this is one really for lawyers. the supreme court has ruled that parts of the scottish government's brexit bill are outside the powers of the scottish government. here's our correspondent,

lorna gordon. msps passed legislation of their own earlier this year after a big row about what was claimed was a power grab by westminster overpowers coming back from brussels. so they passed what is known as the continuity bill under emergency legislation. but the uk government law officers asked the supreme court to rule on whether this bill fell within the scottish government's remix. there was a two—day hearing injuly and remix. there was a two—day hearing in july and this remix. there was a two—day hearing injuly and this morning a unanimous judgment was handed down by the supreme court. it is quite tricky for us non—legal eagles to digests the full ruling, it is on the supreme court website, but in essenceit supreme court website, but in essence it comes down to this. the supreme court has said that the scottish government was entitled to pass its own legislation and much of the continuity bill to prepare for brexit is within the legislative powers of the scottish parliament.

but, but, some parts of the bill are out with its powers and one key section, section 17, is the one worth honing in on and it says it is out with their powers and competence because it would have the effect of making uk law conditional upon the consent of scottish ministers. that isa consent of scottish ministers. that is a legal ruling, a legaljudgment, but the politics then come into play. the question is what happens next? we expect a statement from the scottish government on that this afternoon. with me is the snp mp, joanna cherry. we start on that. what impact will that have? it is important to appreciate, and i was in court for the delivery of the judgment, when the delivery of the judgment, when the scottish parliament passed that legislation it was wholly within its constitutional competence apart from

one section. what the british government did was challenge the scottish bill and change the rules of the game by legislating to take powers away from the scottish parliament in the meantime will stop they changed the rules halfway through and they retrospectively changed the law to make pars of that bill unlawful. we are now in a situation where the scottish parliament passes legislation wholly within its competence, the british government challenges it and it changes the law in the house of lords without the consent of scottish mps or the scottish parliament, to take powers away from the scottish parliament. is that the most powerful devolved parliament in the world? i do not think so. we are where we are, it has happened. the purpose of this legislation was to prepare devolved laws for brexit and my colleagues in the scottish government and lawyers will have to sit down carefully and look at part of the bill that survive and take

things forward. it is important for viewers to understand that when this bill was passed it was within the constitutional power of the parliament and the british parliament and the british parliament changed the law retrospectively. there was controversy in scotland because the presiding officer took the view that the bill was lawful. the lord advocate said it was lawful and he has been vindicated and my collea g u es has been vindicated and my colleagues in the scottish government are delighted about that. any of us who know the lord advocate well would not be surprised that he was right in aspects of complex law. what happens here now? talk of theresa may reaching out, she said yesterday that when she won the vote within her own party that she said it was time to unite. she was talking about uniting her own party

rather than reaching out. we are a divided country. the united kingdom consists of more than one country and it is important to remember that scotla nd and it is important to remember that scotland and northern ireland voted to remain. from the very beginning my colleagues in the scottish government have proposed compromises which had been rejected out of hand. notjust a which had been rejected out of hand. not just a compromise which had been rejected out of hand. notjust a compromise for which had been rejected out of hand. not just a compromise for scotland, but a compromise to bring the whole of the uk together. those compromises have been rejected. the situation in which theresa may now finds herself is she has reached an agreement with the eu, but she cannot sell that to her own party. the biggest problem for theresa may is the backstop and she wants to change the agreement on that, but the eu have been crystal clear that they will not. is there anything she can do to work constructively with you? we would like there to be a

confidence vote in the government. the only thing she could do is to hold people's vote, putting to the country the question of whether they should accept her deal or stay in the european union after the court ofjustice decision i was involved in earlier this week. i think there should be a vote of no—confidence in the government. more than a third of her own parliamentary party do not have confidence in her. how can the opposition say they have confidence in her? it is labour as the official opposition to bring this motion of no—confidence forward. i government needs to be formed that can get the country out of the mess that tory infighting has it into. first of all, can i say something about yesterday which was a difficult day and i am grateful for the support i have had from colleagues, but i have also heard loud and clear the concerns of those

who could not support me. i know there are concerns in the house of commons about the issue of the backstop and they do not want it to be permanent. what i will be talking to european leaders about here today is about the fact we need to get this deal over the line. i have already met leo varadkar and i will be addressing the european council later and i will be showing the legal and political assurances we need to assuage the concerns that members of parliament have on this issue. i know the government and the uk is discussing no deal planning, but i have always said the best arrangement for everybody, for the uk and the eu, is for us to agree a deal and get it over the line. can you confirm that you will not take the conservatives into the next general election? in my heart i would love to be able to lead the conservative party into the next

general election but i think it is right the party feels it would prefer right the party feels it would p refer to right the party feels it would prefer to go into it is right that another party leader takes us into the next general election. my focus now is on getting those assurances that we need to get this deal across the line. it is in the best interest of both sides to get the deal over the line and to agree a deal. i recognise the strength of concern in the house of commons, which i will be putting two colleagues today. i don't expect an immediate breakthrough. i hope to start work as soon as possible on the assurances that are necessary. theresa may confirming she will not fight another general election for the conservative party, but not putting an end date to her premiership. she is now heading off for talks. she has said again that

what she is hoping to do is come up for something that will satisfy those who have concerns on the backstop. joanna cherry is still with me. we will have to see what she comes back with. it is the backstop that is the main issue. she says that the backstop is the main issue. that may be the main issue for the conservative party, but the main issue for the nations of these islands is whether or not her deal islands is whether or not her deal isa islands is whether or not her deal is a good deal. it is not a good deal because even on her own government's analysis, this deal will damagejobs government's analysis, this deal will damage jobs and living standards across the united kingdom. anything other than to remain you will not back? at the time of the last referendum, all sorts of promises were put forward that were not delivered upon. she should put it to the people so that people can choose between this deal and staying

in the eu. the power is still in the eu to decide whether they will be a referendum and in terms of a confidence vote in the government, if the dup support the government... let's see what the dup do if they realise that what they want on the backstop is impossible. i reiterate the fact that the prime minister, more than a third of her party did not have confidence in her, she is saying that she will not fight the next prime minister. she is a fatally wounded prime minister. it is not about her but the whole government, it is in a state of chaos. i would reiterate, what the country needs is a government that will get us out of the mess that the tory government have got us into. thank you for we will have plenty more reaction from westminster shortly. more from me later in the hour — back to annita in the studio. some breaking news, martin glen will

leave his post at the end of the 2018 stroke 19 season. dan roan is commenting on this and saying that this seemed inevitable after he failed to convince the fa council to back the proposed sale of wembley. the chief executive of the football association has resigned. he will leave his post at the end of the season. the communities secretary has announced that local authorities in england will be given the power to increase council tax by an additional 3% next year. it comes as councils have raised concerns around funding for social care, business rates and other funding areas. a few moments ago, james brokenshire outlined some of his department's priorities. it has been challenging for councils

to drive efficiencies, as they contributed to helping rebuild our economy, and tackling the deficit we inherited from labour. that is why i'm delighted that the budget committed around £1 billion of extra funding for local services with a strong focus on supporting some of our most vulnerable groups. this includes £650 million for adults and children's social care. of these, £240 million will go towards easing winter pressures, with the flexible editor use the remainder, £410 million, for either adult or children's services and to relieve demands on the nhs. this is on top of the £240 million announced in october two reduce winter pressure this year. the budget pledged next £84 million over the next five years to expand our children's social care programmes to support more councils with high or rising knobs of children in care. this builds on...

—— rising numbers of children in care. the budget also provided a boost to our high streets via a £1.5 billion package of support. a future high streets fund was made available for high streets to adapt in future. money was also made to improve our roads in future. it is about the money for the local services we use. there has been a difficult relationship between local authorities and central government, so it will be interesting to get the reaction of those local authorities to this was the you how a whole lot of figures there, but the bottom line is this, since the beginning of

austerity in 2010, councils have seen their core funding, the amount of money they get from central government, cut back. at the same time, there has been an increase in demand for the key services they provide, namely social care for adults and children. anything from adults and children. anything from adults with learning disabilities to elderly people who need support to children with disabilities or who also need support. there has been real pressure on budgets as they try to balance the books was top this announcement was about how much money they are getting next year. james brokenshire siddle being increase in the core funding by 2.8%. councils will be able to raise council tax by 3%, in line with what we expected, and what they have been allowed to raise it by in previous yea rs. allowed to raise it by in previous years. he also announced that some councils will be able to keep more of the money they collect in business rates, and some of those are the councils that have been really struggling. they have applied

to keep more. he said that they can. while the secretary of state said they recognise the challenges councils face, overall there will still be a big problem and many say it might help a bit next year, but it might help a bit next year, but it is about the short—term and what they really want is an overhaul of how councils are funded and more money put into the social care system in particular. the secretary of state said there will be a green paper about social funding soon, it will be a funding system for councils was not i don't think the announcement today will relieve any of the pressure in the short—term. thank you. nine people have been killed and another 47 injured following a high speed train crash in turkey. the train collided with another locomotive and then crashed into an overpass at a train station in the capital, ankara, as the train was setting off on a journey to the central province of konya. our correspondent selin girit is following developments in istanbul and sent us this update. no official statement has been made.

investigations are in place. nine people have been killed. the death toll has risen to nine people. nearly 50 people are injured. the health minister gave a statement in the last few minutes and said that 34 people are still being treated in the nearby hospitals, and the search and rescue operations over the debris are probably now going to be over because no survivors remain, he said, under the wreckage. the president, in a televised speech, offered his condolences to the relatives of the deceased and said that every necessary measure will be taken and that every necessary measure will be ta ken and they that every necessary measure will be taken and they will find those responsible for the train crash. this is the number one topic being talked about in turkey at the moment, the top trending topic. only

six month ago, this country had seen another train crash. a train derailed in a western town. 24 people got killed in that accident. the relatives of the deceased demanded answers and resignations from those responsible for the crash. today, one of those, a mother ofa crash. today, one of those, a mother of a deceased child who lost his life in that particular train crash, tweeted to say, we don't expect to hear condolences from you, don't offer condolences anymore, find those responsible and offer us resignations instead. it is tense here at the moment, but the officials are saying that every necessary measure will be taken and investigations are in place. back to westminster — and joanna.

thank you. theresa may is in brussels, commencing the conversations they are that she is hoping may lead to something that she can bring back and deliver to mps at westminster that may break the deadlock here. the vote on the withdrawal agreement was pulled because of the scale of the opposition to it. they will not be a vote on it before christmas, almost certainly. let's get the reaction from ken clarke. he's in our westminster studio. thank you forjoining us. how do you feel, looking at is what is going on in your party at the moment?” feel, looking at is what is going on in your party at the moment? i am relieved that we have not added an extra calamity to the serious crisis we are in. there is nothing more

futile than spending the next six weeks over a conservative leadership election as we run down the remaining weeks before march the 29th. it would have been divisive, really very bitter, told the party apart. sooner or later, somebody would have emerged and won it and probably then had great difficulty pulling the party back together again meanwhile, you just wasted another six weeks. she should be there for another 12 months now, and i hope nobody is mad enough to try to challenge her again. we have heard dominic raab. he thinks that there is a greater threat with her in charge thatjeremy corbyn ends up in charge. what was being said publicly yesterday was quite extraordinary yesterday, wasn't it? it has blown up how divided the party as was i fear that is so. it

has always been troubled over europe, but since we have had this ludicrous opinion poll, this referendum and everybody gave into the religious significance that it had to be obeyed, overrode parliament and the usual process of government, so the party is increasingly almost paralysed with people on the hard edges of the party getting ever more excited about the whole thing. far too many people are, locating it by having leadership ambitions of their own. you describe people on the hard edges of the party. philip hammond described them as extremists. is that what would use? it is probably unwise for him to have used it, but i have probably said unwise things in the past myself. there are people who plainly really belong to you get and agree with their policies what in the house of commons. that is a very small number. it is not a word

i would usually use to describe individuals in the party for is there a place in the party or them anymore? will it split? should it ' 7 anymore? will it split? should it split? both parties are shattered by this particular issue. and the divisive effects of the referendum. our party is slightly luckier than the labour party, i think. if you took out the issue of europe, which isa took out the issue of europe, which is a very big if at the moment, but the sooner we do the better, if you leave on one side the issue of europe, our party is remarkably united. it is the old conservative party. it is a right of centre party, it can draw up economic policies on health and education and so on which are not divisive at all. we can be a very coherent, competent party of government. but they were europe has always caused disturbances as long as i have been

in politics, but it is never reach the level of hysteria that some people have allowed it to reach in the last week or two before. i hope over christmas everybody calms down and comes back with their minds really concentrated on the crisis racing the country, because it looks likely that by the 29th of march, it is either no deal or it's no brexit anti is either no deal or it's no brexit a nti revo ke is either no deal or it's no brexit anti revoke article 50. i would prefer the second. which do you think would happen?” prefer the second. which do you think would happen? i have no idea. anybody forecasting events in this mad world is doing harm. ijust hope that mines are concentrated. the ideal would be to get smoothly through march with a withdrawal agreement in place. that is all we are in crisis over at this moment. it only covers three points, citizens, we have done that, money,

we have done that. we owed the money, there is a debt. we have to make some arrangement to reassure everybody that the irish border remains open. settled that, go through march, and then you have got yea rs of through march, and then you have got years of more calm negotiation while you negotiate the long—term arrangements between the eu and the uk. iam personally arrangements between the eu and the uk. i am personally very pessimistic over three having a majority for any kind of withdrawal deal at all. if thatis kind of withdrawal deal at all. if that is the case, then it is no deal or no brexit. thank you. theresa may has arrived in brussels for a crucial summit of eu leaders, after surviving yesterday's confidence vote of conservative mps. she's holding talks with the eu council's president, donald tusk, and the irish prime minister, leo varadkar, before a wider meeting with all member states. let's cross to brussels and my colleague, kasia madera. many thanks. we have heard in the

past few minutes theresa may talking about the political assurances and illegal assurances she would like to hear from the other leaders of the 27 remaining member state leaders. she wants legal assurances. whether she will get that is something com pletely she will get that is something completely different, because the withdrawal agreement is a legally binding agreement and the mood music hear from various different leaders is that they will not renegotiate that particular deal, that is where the backstop is, which is the contentious deal. she has arrived here in the european council and said that she wants those legal and political assurances. she will sit down with the other 27 leaders. she will discuss her concerns, have the

potential to ask questions about them and then she will sit down to dinner with them this evening, then she is no longer invited to the discussions afterwards. that is when the leaders will sit down and amongst themselves discuss what phrase of language they can use to give her some kind of assurances. let's look at the agreement itself. we need to remind ourselves of what is in it. i'm joined by our reality check correspondent, chris morris. in terms of all the brussels jargon we have got today, what is the agreement? they withdrawal agreement is this 585 page document which is due to become the legally binding treaty by which the uk leaves the eu. it includes the protocol on ireland and northern ireland which contains the dreaded backstop and we can talk more about that in a moment. that is not all that is in it. it is also where we have the divorce bill, the

financial settlement by which the uk has agreed to pay at least £39 billion to the eu to settle its debts and future obligations. it also has agreements on citizens' rights, the rights of eu citizens in the uk and uk citizens elsewhere in the uk and uk citizens elsewhere in the eu. it also covers a host of legal issues, how many disputes might be resolved in future. there is also the status of gibraltar. a lot of that in there, both sides are happy with, but it comes back to the irish border and the backstop. we have heard from the prime minister that i will be a focus of her discussions today. let's unpick the backstop. what is it? going back to basics, there is an agreement that they should not be a hard border, they should not be a hard border, they want to avoid a hard border between northern ireland and the uk and the republic of ireland in the eu in future for it is the only land

border between the uk and the eu, which is why it is the focus of such controversy. if after the transition period there is no trade agreement in place, in order to avoid that ha rd in place, in order to avoid that hard border, that is when the backstop would kick in. it would create a temporary customs union between the whole of the uk and the eu, with northern ireland more involved in the rules of the single market. critically, there is no unilateral exit from the backstop. that is what a lot of conservative backbenchers are concerned about. that is where the prime minister will be seeking assurances, that it is designed to be temporary, she wa nts is designed to be temporary, she wants that in some some of formal declaration for the problem is that the eu does not want to change the language which sets out that it would be in place unless or until it is superseded by something else, a future trading agreement that would keep the board open. the only way to

do that is to stay in the single market. within the brexit deal, we have also got the political declaration, that forward—thinking one. yeah, non-binding, only 26 pages long, but another place where a few things could be offered to help get the whole deal through the house of commons. it deals with the future relationship in all its forms, the future economic and trading relations, and also future foreign policy and security policy relationships. that document can ta ke relationships. that document can take you anywhere, it was a soft brexit, or it could take you towards a harder brexit. the problem with it is that none of those negotiations can formally begin until after brexit has happened. the political declaration is an aspirational document. you can read into it almost whatever you want, but until the uk has left, formal negotiations

on the future relationship cannot ta ke on the future relationship cannot take place was maybe they can be some tweaks of language in there, some tweaks of language in there, some meat to throw to backbenchers in the house of commons, but really it comes back to the backstop as being the most difficult issue. thank you. reminding ourselves of the detail of what these big issues we are talking about are. it is the backstop that is the controversial issue. we are hearing a possible d raft issue. we are hearing a possible draft brexit conclusion. they will be trying to help theresa may in some way. they say that if the backstop should come into place, trade negotiations would still continue because, as chris was saying, there are fears that once we are in the backstop, that is it, the uk is stuck within it. eu politicians are reaching out to theresa may. will that be enough? is one for westminster. thank you. she said that she will not continue

into another general election as leader. shejust a into another general election as leader. she just a few moments ago confirmed that. publicly, she was asked, would she confirm she would not be standing? that she said that was the case, but would not put a date on when she will step down. there will be much more reaction to the latest of elements throughout the latest of elements throughout the day here from west minster. more from me later in the hour, back to annita in the studio the first peace talks in two years between the yemeni government and houthi rebels are scheduled to end today. the foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, is due to attend the discussions, in sweden. mr hunt, who is the first uk government minister to meet houthi rebels, says both sides have agreed on prisoner exchanges and are reported to be close to securing agreements on reopening sanaa airport, in the houthi—held capital.

it is because of the uk's strategic partnership with saudi arabia and the uae that we have a special relationship with yemen and we are saying to them that there cannot be a purely military solution to this conflict. that is the message we are giving to both sites was not because we have been giving messages alongside other people, what we are seeing is that, for the first time for two years, people are coming together and talking and confidence is building. we are looking to see if there is progress possible on the opening of the airport. if we can have prisoner exchanges where there have prisoner exchanges where there have been positive signs was things are starting to happen and we are hoping we will make some real progress. canada's government says it's trying

to locate a second canadian citizen who's said to have been detained in china. chinese state media reported that michael spavor was being investigated on suspicion of endangering national security. beijing had threatened reprisals over the arrest of a senior executive at the telecoms firm, huawei. ambulances in the uk have been vandalised more than 200 times in the past three years according to a bbc investigation. fireworks, knives and bricks have been used in attacks that have caused thousands of pounds worth of damage. one trade union says penalties for those responsible should be similar to those given to people who assault ambulance staff. the bbc‘s been criticised by the national audit office for over—spending on the redevelopment of the set for eastenders. it's likely to be £27 million over budget and more than 2.5 years late. amol rajan reports. it's been the scene of dramatic revelations. crime, conspiracy, death, shootings and plenty ofjoy too. but albert square is showing its age. i'm sorry for barging

in like this, dot... pauline. but its old reg across the road, he looks a bit dodgy. built in 1984, and originally designed to last forjust two years, the set has been found wanting — unable to film in high definition and prompting concerns around health and safety. now the bbc has been found wanting in its management of the project. the corporation says building on a brownfield site is intrinsically difficult, and points to procurement delays, lengthy contractual negotiations aimed at securing value for money and inflation associated with the construction. yet the national audit office does find reason to criticise decisions and processes undertaken by the bbc. and, action! eastenders is such a vitaljewel in the corporation's crown that securing its long—term future was not something the bbc could compromise on. nevertheless, at a time when parts of the corporation are enduring sharp cost—cutting, this overspend is an embarrassment. amol rajan, bbc news. in a moment, it's time for the one o'clock news. first it's time for

a look at the weather. hello there. we end this week on a cold note. in fact, tomorrow morning will be colder, with a widespread frost. drives the weather for the next couple of days, bringing a lot of dry weather to our shores, keeping this by the front and low pressure at bay for now. but it is drawing in some cold airfrom pressure at bay for now. but it is drawing in some cold air from the near continent, and it is a strong breeze as well which is adding to the significant wind—chill. after a cold day, a cold evening and a cold night. a little bit of cloud over eastern coastal areas and further west, where we have a lingering weather front over northern ireland. three or 4 degrees in belfast, but much of the country will be cold with a widespread frost under the clear skies. colder than it was last night. a cold and frosty note

tomorrow, but dry and bright with plenty of sunshine. the breeze will not be as much of a feature so it will not feel as bad. not too bad in the sunshine. further west, the weather front slowly encroaches in, so it turns increasingly wet and windy for northern ireland. this area of low pressure will be the player as we head into the weekend. this wet and windy weather bumps into the cold air, bringing an area of transient wintry weather. there is likely to be some travel disruption from the snow in central and northern parts of the uk. stay tuned to local radio and listen to the forecasts. the saturday, as the rain moves into the cold air, snow across north wales and all is in england and into central and southern scotland. it will certainly be heavy over the hills, but wet snow down to low levels for a time, especially in northern england and into scotland for a cold day with a mixture of rain, sleet and snow.

further south, windy, less cold as well, with temperatures creeping into double figures. gail or severe gales across england as this weather front gales across england as this weather fro nt m oves gales across england as this weather front moves through into sunday morning. they will be the potential for some disruptive snow across central and northern scotland for sunday. for england, wales and northern ireland, a brighter day with sunny spells and blustery showers. heavy across the southwest was winstone light through the day as well. in the sunshine, not too bad, especially across the south, where it will feel less cold. the prime minister is back here in brussels for a crucial eu summit, the day after surviving a confidence vote. theresa may is hoping to win consessions from eu leaders to break the deadlock over the irish backstop. i don't expect an immediate breakthrough but what i do hope is that we can start to work as quickly as possible on the assurances that are necessary. we'll have all the latest

from here in brussels and back in westminster. also this lunchtime.... hospital beds in england were almost full last week, with the usual winter pressures still to come. those with deeply—held religious beliefs will have their concerns addressed to encourage more organ donations. and missing their cue....a multi—million—pound revamp