this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 3: the work and pensions secretary calls for a cross—party consensus to find a way forward on brexit, as the foreign secretary says it's still possible to get a version of the prime minister's deal through parliament. chester zoo is evacuated as firefighters battle to control a huge fire in one of the enclosures. the un climate conference in poland goes into an extra day as countries struggle to reach consensus on how to limit global warming. freezing rain, ice and snow hit parts of the uk as storm deirdre arrives on one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year. tear gas is used on the streets of paris for the fifth weekend of anti—government demonstrations, but the numbers of protesters are down. and how virtual reality is helping to tell school children the story of the suffragettes 100 years after women were first able

to vote in a general election. that's in click, in half an hour. good afternoon. the work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, has appealed to mps across the political divide to "forge a consensus" over brexit, acknowledging that the prime minister's deal might not be approved by parliament. her comments in a newspaperfollow another difficult eu summit for theresa may, in which she failed to win concessions that might make her withdrawal deal acceptable to mps. here's our political correspondent tom barton. what can the prime minister do to get her brexit deal approved by mps? the answer, according to one of her ministers today, appears to be not a lot.

writing in the daily mail, the work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, says the government needs to acknowledge the risk that pursuing the deal as it stands could lead to no compromise, no agreement, and no deal, so, she says, politicians must abandon outrage and accusations and try to forge a consensus. but that assessment is rejected by her cabinet colleague, the foreign secretary, jeremy hunt. he insisted today that it will be possible to get a version of the deal through parliament. let's be clear, the deal on the table is what we have, but the thing that the house of commons will not accept is any risk of us being permanently trapped through the northern irish backstop in the customs union. and despite all of the difficulties of this week, i think it is possible to get this deal through with those guarantees that we need on the backstop.

one former minister who resigned from the government last month to push for another referendum says the commons vote on the deal, delayed last week, must take place before christmas. i've got absolutely no doubt that if the vote is deferred again when we come back on monday, that very serious conversations will be had by members of the cabinet and members of the parliament, asking what is the strategy? it is simply unacceptable to run out the clock and face the country with the prospect of being timed out. we still don't know when mps will get to vote. and clearly, today, there are cabinet disagreements about exactly what they should get to vote on. tom barton, bbc news. and a short time ago, i asked tom about the significance of what could look like a cabinet split. it is certainly a disagreement about the viability of theresa may's brexit deal, is it dead or not? that is the question. on the one hand you have the foreign

secretary, jeremy hunt, saying that a version of this deal with a modified backstop can get through parliament. he is optimistic. on the other hand, amber rudd, the work and pensions secretary, is saying that the government needs to do something different if it is going to get mps onside. you have also got a disagreement over how the government should be talking about no deal. again, the foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, using the prospect of no deal as leverage, really, to try to persuade the eu to think again about the backstop, saying that european leaders cannot be sure that parliament would block it, even if that is what they think it would do. on the other hand, amber rudd saying, for the sake of all of our futures, that is something that must not be allowed to happen. firefighters have been tackling a large fire at chester zoo.

visitors and animals were evacuated as firefighters fought the blaze in the monsoon forest habitat. our reporter gerry jackson is at the scene. just update us on the latest, please. those five mac is one of the most popular tourism venues in the north of england and certainly the most visited zoo outside of london. at around half past 11 this morning, fire crews were called as flames fanned by today's strong winds were racing across the roof of the monsoon forest enclosure. it only openedin monsoon forest enclosure. it only opened in 2015 and as —— and is billed as britain's biggest zoological building. as hundreds of visitors were being evacuated from the wider premises of the zoo, zoo staff were leading —— were leading threatened animals to safety. north

west ambulance service told us that one person has been treated for the effects of smoke inhalation and taken to hospital, but otherwise, no people have been hurt and all the animals have been accounted for. the zoo animals have been accounted for. the zoo has closed and we have no indication when it might reopen. an investigation has begun into the cause of the fire, but we have no idea of when the numbers of visitors here might recommence. it attracts around 2 million people a year but as of now, all of that is at an end. even though visitor numbers would be laura on a day like this, this is a dramatic event for one of the premier tourist attractions in the north of england. terrible weather there. thank you very much indeed. —— numbers would be lower on a day. negotiations at a climate change conference in poland have continued through the night, with nearly 200 nations trying to agree on how best

to tackle rising temperatures around the world. progress has been made, but there are problems over the question of compensating poorer countries for the damage caused by global warming. our environment correspondent matt mcgrath reports from katowice. agreement is continuing to prove elusive in katowice. negotiators worked through the night and into the early morning. the meeting was meant to be held at 10am but that deadline has come and gone and no new text has been prepared and the plenary session that will decide the final outcome of this meeting has not yet been called. there are some sticky issues that are holding things up — one, we understand, to be a dispute over carbon market mechanisms. these are situations where countries want to, say, plant a forest in another country and the question is who gets the carbon credits for that particular effort? there have been schemes over the years that have tried to trade carbon credits between countries and they have been subject to fraud and corruption. that issue may be kicked forward to next year, so that

might make the possibility of an agreement here more easily reachable. there are many other issues as well. one of the problems is that too many issues have been sent to ministers who have come here from all over the world to try and agree, so the likelihood is that most of those decisions will be made here, some will be kicked forward, and the hope from all the delegates here is agreement will be reached in the next few hours. let's get more on this from professorjoanna haigh, who's co—director of the grantham institute at imperial college. the professor is also a former lead author on the intergovernmental panel on climate change. thank you for coming to assad bbc news. there is a stand—off going on in poland. what are the main sticking points. the main remaining sticking points. the main remaining sticking points. the main remaining sticking point is how countries measure their co2 emissions, how they are recorded and how it is done fairly, and how other countries can

judge whether they're telling the truth. then around that is the whole issue of who is paying herfor what? the poor countries can receive some funding from the richer countries, which is quite fear, to have bigger corbyn budgets, which means that the rich countries can emit more corbyn, as they are buying it from the book countries. this is complicated and it was all sorts of scope for countries cheating and pushing things around and double counting and all sorts of things. these discussions are going on and on. how likely is it that they will reach a deal? fear getting to a situation where they will say, we have got quite far in this meeting, they have agreed a number of other things and they will push the whole thing to do with the recording and the carbon trading to next year, which is a shame. going back to this idea of compensating poorer countries that

have suffered as a result of global warming, does it come down to money and will be richer countries be happy to pay? there was an agreement in paris that the richer countries would put large amounts of money to supporting the poorer countries, who we re supporting the poorer countries, who were not responsible for the carbon emissions in the first place. it is quite right that the polluter pays and the poorer countries should get some help from the richer countries. a big sum of money was promised but it is not clear how much of that was going. is it clear that they have paid? it is not clear that they have. where does america stand on this? america is a bit of a problem. they signed up to the paris agreement originally, but president trump has withdrawn. at the moment they are not committed to doing anything through the intergovernmental panel on climate change and procedure. a number of states in the united states have decided that it will become carbon

neutral, so they are doing it anyway. as far as the paris accord goes, how far along are we in the road to meeting those goals?m goes, how far along are we in the road to meeting those goals? it is a worrying picture, because even if everything is agreed today and everything is agreed today and everything goes on track and everybody is meeting their paris targets, it is well short of what is needed to get to the 2 degrees or 1.5 degrees threshold that we see as dangerous climate change so we not only need to fit in with the paris agreement but to do more. so let's hope. professor, thank you so much. you're watching bbc news. there has been more chopping and changing in washington as president trump loses his interior secretary, but takes on a new chief of staff. let's talk to our washington correspondent dan johnson. hejoins us now. a little bit of a correction. it is actually an acting chief of staff. yes, we do not know how long mick

mulvaney will be in the job but he has been announced as acting chief of staff to take over at the white house from the new year. john kelly, the current manning the job, will continue until the end of the year and we are not sure how long it will be until full—time permanent appointment is made because we know that mick mulvaney was not the first choice of the president, maybe not even his second choice. a few people we re even his second choice. a few people were named in the running for the chief of staffjob who ruled themselves out or they could not ta ke themselves out or they could not take on the position. that position is filled for a time being but the president still has defined a permanent replacement and he now has to look for a new interior secretary because it has been announced that ryan zinke will be leaving the administration also at the end of the year, apparently his choice to go but he is a controversialfigure who has been under a number of investigations into the way he has carried out hisjob investigations into the way he has carried out his job as investigations into the way he has carried out hisjob as interior secretary, questions over some property, land and mining deals he

has overseen, questions about the way he was using the transport he was entitled to whether his wife was travelling with him at times when perhaps she should not and some controversy co ntrove rsy over controversy over his views on climate change, and part of the responsibility of his department is the management of the forest. he was straight out to california visiting the areas devastated by wildfires, but he has put the president's line, being something of a sceptic, so eager eyes on who replaces him. there is a new challenge for the white house, in the form of the congress controlled by the democrats. very quickly, we will go to obamacare, but quickly, the chief of staff used to be viewed as a very coveted role. what is that become under the trump administration? i think people have seen the stark reality of just how i think people have seen the stark reality ofjust how difficult that job is. john kelly seem to have some success in bringing discipline,

controlling the messaging from the president banda whiteheads, but he has not had an easy time in thejob. there have been disputes between him and the president that have sometimes sneaked out through unofficial sources. we have learned he has been closed before to resigning so we can all see how tough thatjob is. it can lick it claims that the white house is in chaos. we do not know if that is the appearance they are happy to give order things are lurching from one chaotic decision to the next, but eve ryo ne chaotic decision to the next, but everyone can see that trying to bring order that is a toughjob, and the president says he would like someone to do thatjob who will be able to stick around until the next election in 2020. the affordable care act has another challenge in front of it. a ruling was made in texas. that ruling has been described by nancy pelosi as

cruel, eight california official said it is an assault. what does this mean and what exactly has happened? hello? that is a shame. he cannot hear. i think we have lost dan johnson. we will hopefully come back to him in a short while and find out the latest in regard to obamacare affordable care act. essentially a ruling has been passed in texas, ruling has been passed in texas, ruling it as unconstitutional. it is 15:15, the headlines on bbc news: the work and pensions secretary calls for a cross—party consensus to find a way forward on brexit, as the foreign secretary says it's still possible to get a version of the prime minister's deal through parliament. chester zoo is evacuated as firefighters battle to control a huge fire in one of the enclosures. un climate talks in poland go into an extra day as countries struggle to agree the way forward for the paris agreement. and in sport: manchester city are back on top of the premier league — two points clear after beating everton 3—1 at home in the early kick—off. raheem sterling scored their third — a week after he suffered alleged racist abuse at chelsea.

saracens make it four wins out of four in their champions cup pool with 26—14 win at cardiff blues. toulouse wasps have just kicked—off. .. and heartbreakfor england's men at the hockey world cup — thrashed 6—0 by belgium in the semi finals. they'll now play for 3rd place against australia. i'll be back with more on those stories later on. tens of thousands of police have been deployed across france, in preparation for a fifth weekend in succession of anti—government protests. there are reports that demonstrators blocked the port of calais this morning. in paris, several hundred people marched along the champs—elysees. from the french capital, hugh schofield, has sent this report. a moment of tension on the champs elysees. a group of yellow vests comes up against a police cordon. noise, but not much fury.

the tension subsides. the authorities were ready for the worst. as the day began, once again, thousands of riot police were on the streets, searching protesters and for hidden projectiles. but so far, the day has been, in general, peaceful. even good—humoured. a group of feminists came to lend their support to the yellow vests, but overall the numbers are way down. these are the hardliners in the movement, who want more concessions from president macron beyond the 10 billion euros in spending pledges for the low—paid that he promised last week. still noisy, but this is not a protest on the same scale as previous saturdays. some have come, more have stayed away. hugh schofield, bbc news, paris. let's go live to paris now, and show

you the latest scenes which are live from the french capital. you can see a bit of a stand—off there, with protesters, a few wearing those distinctive yellow vests that we have seen. this is the fifth weekend that these protests have been held. numbers are somewhat down, not to why exactly, it could be the weather, it also be the pretty strong reaction by the security forces that you thought last week. there you can see, i presume this is tear gas that has been thrown, there have been reports of tear gas canisters going off in front of lines of police. we have seen reports of ambulances driving past protesters, trying to help out those affected by the tear gas smoke. in terms of numbers, i understand it is around 3000 this weekend, there have

also been reports of minor scuffles that have broken out around the city. not just in that have broken out around the city. notjust in paris of course, some of the protests have been taking place in nantes, and as we said earlier, the port of calais. there have been a number of concessions that president micron has made. but essentially, it seems that this is not enough for the yellow vests. the problems with this movement is that there is no clear leader, so in terms of trying to work out a way to resolve it, the french government really has a struggle in terms of trying to coordinate talks. those are live pictures in there, you can see the gas in the air, those protesters are significantly smaller numbers of people on the streets. it is safe enough there for somebody to use a scooter, obviously. but you can see

the security forces, a water cannon vehicle distinctly in the middle of that line of security vehicles. we will have more from the french capital throughout the day here on bbc news. a boat carrying suspected migrants has been picked up off the coast of dover by the border force. in the last three months, more than one hundred migrants are known to have attempted crossing the english channel, the world's busiest shipping lane. there's a warning that freezing rain will bring treacherous conditions to parts of the uk this weekend, as storm deirdre hits on one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year. the met office has issued amber warnings for some areas. our weather presenter philip avery is here. this is a very fast moving picture. storm deirdre, is it all herfault? to some degree. what we had in place before storm deirdre came over the

horizon was a flow of cool continental air, and that you will have felt if you have been out about this week, it has not been temperatures quite significantly, widely across the british isles. the problem that storm deirdre has put in is that we have a commendation of mild airfrom the in is that we have a commendation of mild air from the atlantic coming in toa mild air from the atlantic coming in to a rapidly circulating of storm deirdre, which, because it has been named by the met office and the irish authorities, it was always good to bring a combination of wet and windy weather. that is the experience that many across parts of wales, northern ireland, the irish sea coast, 60—70 mph it casts. we are looking as though we are going to have a commendation of wet and windy weather for the southern half of the british isles. that is when we get north that we start running to the wintry mix of problems that use light up at the met office have felt constrained to issue amber warnings about full. it really is a

mix. i would like to be an indication ofjust how cold things are. this is an's garden pond, no spared here,, the water is still flowing. you will notice on the mess that there is quite a deal of ice. the temperatures across the british isles, the eastern parts, were at about one or 2 degrees at best. if you go down west, some spots in devon and cornwall, it was 12 or 13 degrees. that is an indication of how mild the air is coming in towards the british isles. as i say, the met office have had this real problem in that they have put out a number of amber warnings in a nation to storm deirdre, and the fact that it has been so cold across the british isles will stop so we have ice and snow, widespread ice problems simply because, as we got the moisture from the atlantic into that cold atmosphere across the

british isles, was it comes through the atmosphere, it falls onto those cold services, that is only get the widespread problem with ice. anywhere from about the north midlands northwards, this is where we have got this prospect, certainly through the north midlands, nothing would come away from the coast, into southern parts of scotland, we have this prospect of a widespread ice problem. from now into the small hours. not that, there is already snow falling. the usual suspect, it is the south of scotland and further north, where the snow is lying. in the central belt, where it is snowing at the moment, we are looking at tens of centimetres line by the end of the night. in the central belt and across the southern scotla nd central belt and across the southern scotland and highly round of england, it is around five or seven centimetres of snow. the met office of conserving on this because the area is so extensive, and it is the first time this winter that we have

beenin first time this winter that we have been in this territory. so that is why we have wanted to keep a close eye, and to heighten people's awareness. the day started quite decently, but it has gone downhill quite rapidly. just to give a mechanism on how the freezing rain issue comes about, once we have had the cold air in place, the fronts associated with storm deirdre have pushed the mild air in, but the cold airsits pushed the mild air in, but the cold air sits close to the surface, the warm air rises up over the top. so snow falls into the warm air in atmosphere, it turns into rain, but as it comes back into the cold atmosphere that we are enjoying at the moment, one or 2 degrees, that is when it hasn't got time to get back into snow, so it stays as what we call super cold water, water and eloquent form, but with a temperature below zero. it is odd to get your head around, but that is the truth of it, and as soon as it had the cold services, that as women

get the almost creation of ice. —— that is when we get ice. certainly in the countryside, it is much colder than one or 2 degrees. northern half of britain have the winter problems through tonight, southern areas have storm deirdre close by. you have become a nation of wet and windy weather. —— you have the combination of wet and windy weather. a man from newcastle has appeared before wesminster magistrates' court, charged with engaging in the preparation of an act of terrorism. our reporterjohn mcmanus was in court. yes, 33—year—old fatah mohammed abdullah appeared in court number one at westminster magistrates' court this morning. he answered the charge of intention to commit acts of terror — namely purchasing a knife, a balaclava, and explosive precursors, and searching the internet for guides on how to make explosives and for other components such as a pressure cooker and nails. 33—year—old mr abdullah denied the charges. he did not speak much during the court hearing apart from to confirm his name and his address in newcastle.

he asked the court to grant him bail, but aftera consultation, the magistrate declined to give him the bail, and he was returned to custody. the case has been sent for trial at the central criminal court at the old bailey, to start on the 14th of january next year. that have a look at the weather now with chris. there has been some freezing rain across northern part of england and scotland. so some nasty icy conditions out and about. there is a risk of ice and snow, we could see this because of storm deirdre. heavy snow warnings, the amber warning is in scotland, but the ice extends into northern england and across the

pennines, into the north midlands as well. we are seeing some of the freezing rain right at the moment across parts of north—east england and southern scotland. i have seen some pictures ofjust ice covering surfaces, so nasty conditions out and about on the roads. it is all caused by this storm system moving into the cold air. into southern scotland, we have seen freezing rain here, we have already seen some heavy snow working into the north—west of the country. the heaviest falls of snow will always be to the north of the central belt, we could see around 10—20 centimetres building in. ice could be quite a widespread risk. snow will come with strong wind, so we will come with strong wind, so we will have some blizzard conditions over high routes. ultimately, we will seek milder eric come in through the night, as westerly wind will blow back in. across northern england, we have freezing rain at the moment, this part, and across the moment, this part, and across the pennines as well, some treacherous conditions out on the

road. that is probably where the freezing rain will be at its worst. even as it clears, we will have strong wind in western wales and north—west england, gusts up to 70 mph. we are likely to see some disruption, probably cause by the ice conditions, but the strong wind could cause issues as well. it will also turn milder by the end of the night. as for travel, it is i could be affected. we have seen a nasty crash close one of the passes that goes across the pennines. we have seen freezing rain in the area, it may not because by that, but you never know. but it only gets to sunday, we are looking at cloud and rain across western and southern pa rt rain across western and southern part of the country, some could be quite heavy, so this would be could be some issues. but it is a much milder day, up to 10 degrees. the trend of mild weather is set to continue into next week, with temperatures in london staying well into double figures throughout the week ahead. we have got the transition to milder air, but in the

short term, it is transport and power supply that could be affected as the commendation of the heavy snow that some others will see and also the freezing rain that will bring treacherous icy conditions out and about on the road will stop that is your weather. hello. this is bbc news with lukwesa burak. the headlines: the work and pensions secretary calls for a cross—party consensus to find a way forward on brexit as the foreign secretary says it's still possible to get a version of the prime minister's deal through parliament. firefighters tackle a large blaze which broke out in an enclosure at chester zoo, prompting the evacuation of the attraction. the un climate conference in poland goes