it's a date — the prime minister says mps can vote is the best on offer. no, this is not everyone‘s perfect deal, it is a compromise. but if we let the perfect be the enemy of the good, then we risk leaving the eu with no deal. this, mr speaker, is a constitutional crisis and the prime minister is the architect of it. she is leading the most shambolic and chaotic government in modern british history. in the last few minutesjeremy corbyn has said he will table a motion of no—confidence the prime minister. also tonight... a man who murdered his estranged wife and her mother is sentenced to a minimum of 32 years. online retailers share the pain of the high street — fashion website asos warns of weak profits and its share price plummets. changes to how student loans

are recorded will add another £12 billion to public borrowing. and no time to stop for dinner — the children in south korea addicted to online gaming. and coming up on bbc news... three eenglish sides are handed a german examination as the draw is made for the last sixteen of the champions league. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the prime minister has set the date — mps will vote on her brexit withdrawal agreement in the week beginning 14th january. theresa may made the announcement to parliament this afternoon, urging mps to see brexit through. she ruled out another referendum, saying a fresh vote would do "irreparable damage to the integrity of our politics" and not settle the issue.

the labour leaderjeremy corbyn said mrs may had "led the country into a national crisis" and mps must get on with the vote and move to consider the realistic alternatives. our political editor laura kuenssberg has more. just before we came on airjeremy corbyn lobbed another grenade into the brexit debate with this motion of no—confidence in the prime minister. that is right, just before the prime minister named the week for the vote just after christmas, that does not mean her problems will go away. there were doubts over her deal, but in the last few minutes the labour leader has put down a motion of no—confidence in the prime minister. that not something that could end with a collapse in the government, but it would be another embarrassment for the prime minister if labour ends up winning the day. although we are nearly at the christmas holiday and many mps are

desperate for it to happen, at westminster, frankly, there is no sign at all of peace and goodwill. only if you believe in fairy tales would you assume the government is not in trouble. although these were only visitors to number ten today, not here to give political advice. but after delaying judgment day on her brexit deal, theresa may has now named the day, or at least the week. many members of this house are concerned that we need to take a decision soon. we intend to return to the meaningful vote debate in the week commencing the 7th of january and told the vote the following week. the prime minister ran away from putting her deal before parliament because even her own cabinet has doubts. she herself admits parliament will not back it. so we are left edging ever closer to

the 29th of march deadline without a deal and without an agreed plan in cabinet to get a deal. this, mr speaker, is a constitutional crisis and the prime minister is the architect of it. remember the opposition and dozens of tory backbenchers have said they will vote against it, largely because of concerns about the so—called backstop. but this new timetable has made them angry as well. bring forward the meaningful vote on her deal before the christmas recess. there is no reason to delay, let us have that meaningful vote this week. ido have that meaningful vote this week. i do not think businesses and employers and constituents will understand why this house is going on holiday for two weeks when we should be having the meaningful vote this week. is it not the reality that this is not acting in the national interest, but in her personal interest, and neither her party nor the country will forgive her for it. we are now haemorrhaging

support and investment on a daily basis and it is getting worse.“ she were to go to the eu now and tell them now in the face of their intransigence to get stuff, a huge numberof intransigence to get stuff, a huge number of british people would be right behind her. having a date in the diary for the crucial vote does not make the brexit deal any easier for the prime minister to sell. now rather than flexing every muscle to get that done, some of her ministers seem to have ideas of their own. cabinet ministers might be stretching the elastic of the government line, talking about what happens if things go wrong with the prime minister's deal. we need to find out where the will of parliament is and where the majority of mps should vote and nothing should be off the table. it might be that in so considering the alternatives the benefits of the deal that has been negotiated might become more apparent. we have to

deliver on brexit and that means we cannot come up with something else in parliament, we have to deliver on that result. the prime minister's allies and officials are still trying to make the deal on the table work. her brexit negotiator‘s file, caught by a photographer, giving him is there maybe a chance of tweaking a guarantee against the hard border in northern ireland. the eu has ruled out big changes to the deal but the prime minister has also ruled out another referendum and changing course for now. after christmas all those things may not be able to be true. theresa may is determined to plough on but the opposition is also determined to try to make trouble for her. only ten minutes agojeremy corbyn, the labour leader announce what many people in his party had been pressuring him to do, to turn up the opposition to the prime minister.

this was him a short while ago. so, mr speaker, as the only way i can think of to ensure a vote takes place this week i am about to table a motion, that this house has no confidence in the prime minister due to her failure to allow the house of commons to have a meaningful vote straightaway on the withdrawal agreement and framework for future relationships between the uk and the european union. that will be tabled immediately, mr speaker. thank you. the labour leader is putting down a no—confidence motion in the prime minister. to be crystal clear, that is something that would embarrass her if she lost that vote, if enough of her own mps and the dup, who have been supporting the tories up until a couple of weeks ago, if they went on board with the labour party. but it is not the same as a traditional vote of no—confidence, the kind of

move that could collapse government and crash them into a general election. but nonetheless labour tonight seems determined to make to reason may‘s christmas difficult. a man has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 32 years for murdering his estranged wife and her mother in a knife attack in august. raneem oudeh was on the phone to the police when she and her mother khaola saleem were stabbed to death outside the family home in solihull. the daughter's husband, janbaz tarin, was arrested three days later, following an extensive search. sima kotecha has the story. he had been on the run for days, but here is the moment when the killer of two was caught. police used pepper spray to control him. it was late august and 21—year—old janbaz tarin was wanted for the murder of his wife, 22—year—old raneem oudeh, and her mother, khaola saleem, who was 49. in the early hours of a monday morning the women were

found stabbed to death, outside their home in solihull. we are a small family here in the uk, but we meant a lot to each other. to lose them is like we have lost the happiest thing ever, and it is like being in heaven with them, but now they have gone it's like we have been brought down to earth. the court heard how raneem oudeh and janbaz tarin split up after she discovered that he had a secret wife and children in afghanistan. the defendant was described as controlling and violent, and after the couple had separated, we were told that he slept in his carfor 12 nights outside her home. the court had granted an orderjust days before, forbidding tarin from going anywhere near his former partner, but this cctv shows the night of the killing. raneem walking into a shisha bar and tarin following behind. then a row.

her mother khaola intervened. raneem had made a number of calls to the police that day, including from the shisha bar. but officers say they were unable to track her down. the murders happened a little while later, when the women got home. raneem was on the phone to police when she was attacked. we were trying to get to them, but what we then know is tragically, whilst in contact with us, the offence took place, and this was a brutal murder of two defenceless ladies by a man who had spent the day hunting them down. the independent office for police conduct is now investigating how west midlands police responded to her calls for help. today tarin showed no emotion as he was sentenced, as the victims‘ family wept in court. in a statement they said the list of broken hearts goes on and on, and that he destroyed an entire family. sima kotecha, bbc news,

birmingham crown court. the online fashion retailer asos has warned of weak profits this financial year after what it called "unprecedented" discounting in the fashion industry. shares in the firm fell nearly a0%. after reports of dismal high street activity last month, the a505 warning indicates the pain is now spreading online, as our business editor simon jack reports. a superstar of the online retailing world, it has been stealing business on the high street for over a decade, but today it found itself going for a pre—christmas knock—down price. it reported it was offering bigger disk as than ever to keep up with the competition. shares crashed 38%. that affected high street

rivals with a big online presence. so how and why are things changing now? online retailers do not always experienced the same kind of problems high retailers do. what's happening now is you have this sort of discounting contagion, where everyone is doing it, and that forces everyone's competitors to do it, so everyone is stuck now in a cycle of discounting, that is going to be hard for them to come out. shoppers today in glasgow said it's what they have come to expect. you want a discount, you want to leave it to be very last minute, to see what you can get. and all shops are reducing everything earlier and earlier all the time now. you'll ask if you go to the shops, you'll ask, is there a percentage of? go and ask the boss. they might say, yeah, will give you 10%. 1596. horror stories from the high street have become a regular feature of a dismal year, for retailers, and make no mistake, asos is still growing sales and making money, but what we learn today, is the all out incessant price

warfare that has affected the high streets now coming home to roost on even the internet‘s most successful retailers. november, which of course includes black friday, usually sees business begin to build towards christmas. this year was the worst november in living memory, according to some industry executives. november, for us has been bad, and if it's bad for us, is almost certainly worse than everyone else. the uncertainty in the consumer's mind in terms of how the country is doing, is there going to be a recession, are we going to exit the eu or not? how are we going to exit it? is the government going to survive? there is so much uncertainty out there, that cannot be helping. black friday used to be a short window of bargains to kick off the christmas season. asos says this year it was astonished at the level of discounting. some are saying this american import now marks the start of a long profit margin nightmare, before christmas. a change in how student loans are recorded will add £12 billion to public borrowing.

currently the loans don't count as government spending. but following a ruling by the office for national statistics, student loans which are not expected to be repaid will be reclassified as public expenditure. it could increase pressure on universities to reduce tuition fees. our education editor bra nwen jeffreys reports. when jewish and whenjewish and fees in england went up whenjewish and fees in england went up to £9,000, students took to the streets to protest. their loans became the main support for universities. six years on and many still worried about debt. nobilo has not borrowed, conner is borrowing forfees not borrowed, conner is borrowing for fees and living costs. there are some people who are thinking about it and considering, right, some people who are thinking about itand considering, right, i some people who are thinking about it and considering, right, i need to plan in order to pay it off. there are some people who do not think about it and i'm not sure what it

means to have a student loan. how many students expect to really felipe of alone? with the current political climate as well, jobs are not as abundant as they used to be. but some are in a job and they can pay off if they are in a job that allows them to pay it off. graduates start repaying their loans when they earn more than £25,000. not everyone earns enough to clear all their loa ns. earns enough to clear all their loans. around 45% of the total loans will be paid of finally by the taxpayer. today's decision adds that build two today's accounts and as 12 billion pounds to the government's deficit. it is designed that a lot of the money paid out will not come back to the government, so the announcement is painting a more realistic picture. the money the government will not get back is now

treated as spending and we recognise the cost of that upfront and hopefully that leads to better policy decisions. it could also change the future debate about tuition fees. they are under review in england and ministers are looking at whether some should be lower. universities fear the burden is on the shoulders of stu d e nts the burden is on the shoulders of students and their family. we can't accept that the incomed universities should go down. if the fees go down the government will have to do it to keep it at that playing field. there are questions this could raise, why are questions this could raise, why are students paying 6% interest rate, and is there a limit to how many students taxpayers will fund? our top story this evening: the prime minister sets the date and says mps can vote on her brexit jeremy corbyn has tabled a motion of no confidence in the prime minister.

a hotel suddenly cancels a charity booking for a group of homeless people over christmas. after an outcry, it changes its mind. coming up on sportsday on bbc news. having conceded the title, mourinho's problems continue to mount — but the united nmanager remains adamant a top four finish is still possible. workers on zero—hour contracts, freelance or agency employees are being promised better employment rights in new proposals from the government. staff would be told details of their rights from their first day in a job, and be able to request more predictable hours. but labour and the unions say the planned reforms don't go far enough. here's our economics correspondent andy verity. it has been billed by the government as the biggest boost to rights of the workplace in a generation. it is

the workplace in a generation. it is the result of an official review after an you cry over the insecurity of gig economyjobs and the use of zero hours contracts where workers can't be sure how much money is coming in one week to the next. so what contactually is the government delivering? among other reforms workers will get a statement when they start work setting out their rights to benefits, the government's legislating to close a loophole to ensure agency workers aren't paid less tha n ensure agency workers aren't paid less than full—time staff and all will have the request right to request guaranteed hours. many workers wanted more protection so they should be sure they would earn they should be sure they would earn the minimum wage at least. conon in andy. some uber—drives have been challenging through the courts to get that. this man is caring for a terminally ill son, so he can't work enough hours to earn a living and there is no paid holiday. we are really struggling financially,

because if i don't work, i don't get paid. ifi because if i don't work, i don't get paid. if i decided to take a holiday i don't get paid. at least if i take a holiday and i know i am getting paid for the days i am on holiday i could spend those with my son. with any business there is a risk the business is too slow to cover your cost, but with most companies that risk is born by the employer, if you're self—employed or a gig economy worker it is you that bears the risk. the government says you can ask for guaranteed hours but they don't from the to say yes, what do you make of it? i thought they would bring guarantees and companies would bring guarantees and companies would be prosecuted if not. if not are they going to carry on doing what they want to do. employers have welcomed the reforms which steer clear of strapping zero hours contracts. they can work for student, semi retired people, people

saving to top up their income so holding on the flexibility is really important. the government's rejected its own review suggestion that some gig economy workers be classed as dependent contractors who should have greater protection. if financial insecurity is the price of flexible working, reluctantly or willingly some will go a 21—year—old man has died afterfalling during a climb on britain's highest mountain, ben nevis. he was flown by coastguard helicopter to hospital in fort william but died from his injuries. the man's climbing partner also fell but survived, his injuries are not thought to be life threatening. a driver has pleaded guilty to causing the death of the mother of the olympic cyclist chris boardman. carol boardman was knocked from her bike on a roundabout at connah‘s quay in north wales in 2016. liam rosney, who's 33, admitted causing her death by careless driving. the court heard rosney was unaware he'd hit her until his vehicle ran over her. moments before he'd been on his mobile phone to his wife. he'll be sentenced next month.

south korea has one of the fastest growing computer games industries in the world. over half the population play games. and when they're not playing, they're watching people play in tournaments where professionals battle it out for big prizes. but this rapid growth comes with its own set of problems, as laura bicker reports from seoul. in south korea many kids don't want to be sports stars, they want to be professional gamers. they practice for hours in rooms known as pc bangs. the competition is so tough there is no time to stop for dinner. in this arena you are a fighter, a hero. a winner. but it is having a real impact on this new gaming generation. these teenagers are just a few of the hundreds who have had to undergo a digital detox treatment. their passion was becoming an addiction. translation: i tried quitting by myself but my friends kept seducing me back to the pc bang.

when i played games, hours and hours would pass, so that is when i felt i was addicted. i felt that i wanted someone to help me. they are taught to care for others and taken to a retirement home where they even put on a show. their aim is to help them interact in the real world, develop a human connection before their symptoms become much worse. chay was brought to this special hospital by police after he spent 96 hours playing in a pc bang. he has had one—to—one therapy with doctors for several weeks. translation: i failed a lot, many mistakes. i could not keep my word.

but one headteacher believes the answer is not to limit gaming, but to encourage it. 18—year—old park bo han was struggling with his studies as he was gaming through the night. here he is allowed to play during school hours to develop his skills. translation: i think i can show what i am good at through games. i can show my strength to other people. i feel really happy when we win because of how well i played. this very outgoing headteacher has built an entire curriculum around gaming. translation: everyone looks at it as a gaming problem but if you look beyond that, all the kids have talent and if you just hone that and make them concentrate on it, i think the kids show signs of genius. the south korean paradox is that it's gaming industry is one of the biggest in the world, worth over $5 billion, and it is growing fast. but this country is also having to invest billions to ensure it does not lose a generation along the way. laura bicker, bbc news, seoul. there's been an outcry

after a group of homeless people had their booking over christmas at a hotel in hull suddenly cancelled without reason. a local charity, which had organised the accommodation, said the group had been discriminated against by the hotel. following much criticism of the decision, the hotel has now changed its mind and says the homeless people can stay after all, as danny savage reports. christmas last year at a hotel in hull. people here summed up the season of good will to all by paying for a load of rooms for the homeless to stay in, on christmas eve and christmas day. it was for two nights. but it felt like a lifetime, you know what i mean. mark was one of those who benefitted. when we got to the hotel it was a godsend, couple of nights in a bed, didn't want to get up for the day, you know what i mean. because it was that special? it was that comfortable, i didn't want to get up. this year 28 homeless people were booked into the royal, but over the weekend the hotel

cancelled the booking. they say alleged trouble at last year's event is why they have pulled out. this for me is all about giving back to the community. the man behind the effort to raise the cash to pay for the rooms denies there were problems and is determined to find accommodation elsewhere. christmas is the saddest time of the year for homeless people, because they get to reflect on what they've lost and the family they're missing out on. suicides are at the highest at this time of the year, and if we can prevent one suicide, it is worth it. as we filmed at the royal hotel, two homeless men, who were hoping to be part of the christmas stay, emerged from a warm doorway. some people might feel uncomfortable sharing a hotel with a whole load of homeless people, but what is the reality of it? well, last year i didn't think we got any bad looks from anyone. i don't think anyone looked down their noses at us.

everyone took it in their stride and thought we were normal paying customers as well. it is everything. the best christmas present you could get. just, it is such a relief to be off the streets, even for that one night. the royal has now said it will accept the booking, but with conditions. carl is now negotiating with other hotels, and believes he will get at least 28 homeless people rooms this christmas. danny savage, bbc news, hull. football — and the four english clubs who've reached the last 16 of the champions league have found out who they'll play when the competition resumes in february. manchester united face french champions paris st—germain and liverpool will play bayern munich. manchester city and tottenham have also drawn german sides, with city facing shalke, and tottenham the current german league leaders borussia dortmund. time for a look at the weather. here's matt taylor.

i , after the turbulent weather over the weekend, the weekend of weather eachit the weekend, the weekend of weather each it started fine this week, lots of sunshine earlier on in whitby but it is all change again as we go into tomorrow. more in the way of cloud. strong to gale force winds and wet weather at times. here is the sign on the satellite imagery. this big swirl of cloud. working in, cloud now in the skies for most but thin new in the east to allow temperatures to drop, maybe a touch of frost. the odd shower further north and west. it turns wet in ireland and western scotland and into cornwall with gale force winds developing. the temperatures will stay up but a dip in the east. the temperatures will rise into the start of tomorrow. a wet start for some in the west. in this broad area of rain, there will be a brief spell of rain, there will be a brief spell of intense rain and strong winds, all of intense rain and strong winds, a ll clear of intense rain and strong winds, all clear away from northern ireland by the end of the rush hour, spreading in scotland, wales,

western england, through the midlands into the latter stage of the afternoon. some in east anglia and the south—east might get away with being largely dry but it will bea with being largely dry but it will be a windy day. 50, 60mph gust to the south and west. it will take the edge off what will otherwise by a milder day. into the evening, midlands and the south—east, as well as east anglia, we will see some of the heaviest of the rain. that clears through, to push us into fresher air as we go into wednesday, so a cooler start on wednesday morning, dry and bright weather to come in the north and east. some will stay dry, the odd shower through the afternoon. southern and western areas frequent showers from the start of the day. some heavy with hail and thunder and fresher air, temperatures back down into single figures for many. thursday, fewer showers round. into friday after a chilly start more cloud and rain. temperatures on the up cloud and rain. temperatures on the up and it should be a mild run—up to

christmas as well. back to you fiona. that's all from the bbc news at six, so it's goodbye from me, and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. the prime minister sets a date in the new year for mps to vote on her brexit deal, saying hers in the best on offer. i know this is not everyone's perfect deal. it is a compromise. but if we lead the perfect be the enemy of the good... then we risk leaving the eu with