hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. another chaotic day in westminster. theresa may says a vote on brexit will happen in january, and this is the opposition leader's response. and this was the opposition leader's response. so, mr speaker, as the only way i can think of ensuring a vote takes place this week, i'm about to table a motion which says the following. that this house has no confidence in the prime minister, due to her a new report exposes the scale of russian efforts in the 2016 us elections, saying moscow used every major social media platform to help elect donald trump. we've got a new development in one of the biggest financial scandals in history — malaysia has filed criminal charges against goldman sachs. and as of today tumblr is banning porn — we'll hear why so many users don't agree. well, two important developments on brexit tonight.

first, theresa may says mps will finally get to vote on her brexit deal — that will take place in the week starting january 14th. the second important development came when the leader of the opposition responded. the prime minister has obdurately refused to ensure that a vote took place on the day she agreed. she refuses to allow a vote to take place this week, and is now, i assume, thinking the vote will be on the 14th of january, almost a month away. this is unacceptable in any way whatsoever. so, mr speaker, as the only way i can think of ensuring a vote takes place this week, i'm about to table a motion which says the following. 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, and that will be tabled immediately, mr speaker. thank you. well, the bbc‘s political editor laura kuenssberg has tweeted that labour's motion will be tabled tonight. she said that he saw the mood of the house and was determined to act. this is again laura kuenssberg. it goes on to say... that is really important, that point. i will show you this tweet from nicholas watt, the political editor of the bbc newsnight programme. he has been told by

labour sources that if the government does not grant time for this no—confidence motion, labour will escalate a no—confidence motion in government as a whole rather than just a no—confidence motion in the prime minister, which is serious but not as serious as if it were for the whole government, so that is very interesting. number ten said they will not make time for, but labour sources are telling the bbc if they don't make time, they will escalate. we will have to see how that pans out. but in the meantime let me show you the moment in theresa may's speech earlier which appears to have madejeremy corbyn speech earlier which appears to have made jeremy corbyn change speech earlier which appears to have madejeremy corbyn change his mind... but i can confirm today that we intend to return to the meaningful vote debate in the week commencing 7th ofjanuary, and hold the vote the following week. mr speaker, when we have the vote... ..when we have the vote, members will need to reflect carefully on what is in the best interests of our country. i know that there are a range of very strongly held personal views on this issue across the house, and i respect all of them.

but expressing our personal views is not what we are here to do. we asked the british people to take this decision. and let's just remind ourselves again of where we are with all this. the uk is leaving the eu on march 29th, but the reasons the vote on mrs may's deal is in january is that she pulled the vote last week when faced with certain defeat. that means something has to change with the deal, but there's no sign of the eu offering any fundamental changes. there's also no strong evidence that any other version of the deal could get through parliament. on top of that, the prime minister's already seen off a vote of no confidence from her own party — and now she faces one from the opposition. you'd be forgiven for thinking, "what on earth is going on?" it's at times like these i turn to rob watson. we are enemies. i think this is the

most profound political crisis britain has faced since the end of the second world war —— we are in a mess. if anyone had any doubts about that, if they paid attention for a few minutes i think they will see it is not an exaggeration. several things are going on. in the first insta nce things are going on. in the first instance you can see theresa may's plan, plan a, her plan with the european union. the idea that will get approved early next year seems very unlikely. mps are immensely unhappy about that being delayed. then the question becomes, ok, rob, 0k, then the question becomes, ok, rob, ok, everybody, what is plan b, it became obvious in parliament today, and incredibly rockers bad—tempered debate, there is no plan b. throw into that you have the opposition labour party throwing in its vote of no—confidence in the prime minister personally dashed incredibly raucous

bad—tempered. there is no consensus among british politicians about what to do about this referendum that happened sort of two years ago, are bit more. let's talk about the opposition, tabling this vote of no—confidence, which on the face of it isa no—confidence, which on the face of it is a dramatic development, but actually a few people are saying it dramatic but not quite so as it seems. no, i think it is dramatic but not quite so as it seems. no, ithink it is far dramatic but not quite so as it seems. no, i think it is far more symbolic than anything else in the opposition are trying to do what they do, trying to make life difficult for the prime minister and the government, but in many ways actually, but without getting too much into the weeds of british politics, it shows the problems of the labour leadership. why do i see that? some critics are saying if the labour party was really serious about this, it would table a motion of no—confidence in the government, and that potentially would be serious. but here's the thing. people are saying jeremy corbyn doesn't want to do that, because he

thinks if he did that and it was defeated, he would have to go back to labour's plan b, possibly to call for a second referendum, for another vote on britain's membership of the eu, and the suspicion is rightly or not that is a lifetime euroscepticjeremy corbyn doesn't wa nt to euroscepticjeremy corbyn doesn't want to get to that point, he doesn't want a second vote, and he possibly does not in fact want britain to stay in the european union. complex? that's brexit for you. let's be optimistic, rob. a few people talking about the idea of non—binding vote in parliament, an option that has more backing than the others from mps? is that likely? it seems extraordinary to me. these are extraordinary times so you wouldn't rule it out but the idea there would be some sort of multiple choice quiz in parliament, i think here is what is more likely. i think at some point early in the new year the prime minister is going to face this truly horrible dilemma. if, as

most people here shim, radio goes down, doesn't get approved by parliament, she will have to choose between —— as most people assume. choose between the soft areas of brexit, reaching out to other mp5, somehow cancelling it, having a second referendum, with the risk of upsetting the 17.4 million people who voted to leave, or perhaps she decides, "you know what, i'm going to go with a hard brexit, just leave the eu without a deal, despite all the eu without a deal, despite all the damage that might do to the british economy in britain's standing in the world." i think it is possible she may face that horrible dilemma in a few wheats‘ time. more questions on brexit, if you have them, and frankly how could you have them, and frankly how could you not? —— a few wweeks' time —— weeks' time. that is all on the website. now, this report published by the us senate says russia used every major social media platform to influence

the 2016 us election. it also published this report which details how tens of millions of americans were exposed to russian—funded propaganda during and after the election. the first report goes on... "what is clear is that all of the messaging clearly sought to benefit the republican party — and specifically donald trump." i asked the bbc‘s gary o'donoghue about whether the report showed that mr trump had benefited. it's saying that that was the intention behind it, and the sheer volume of traffic, the amount of likes and repostings and sharings, well, i think it would lead people to think that this cannot but have had some kind of impact on the election. i mean, we're looking at facebook alone suggesting that on its pages and indeed on instagram that, you know, nearly 150 million americans would have come into contact with some of the stuff.

that's an awful lot of people. and what we do know from these reports, ros, is that that contact went on for longer — it carried on right into 2017 — after the general election. and what we are also learning from this is that it wasn'tjust targeting republicans to sort of persuade people to vote for donald trump, or try and sort of radicalise republicans and get them worked up. it did all that, but what it also did, this russian backed plan, was to target african—americans, and target them with a very different message, and that message was, you know, "don't worry about voting, it's very complicated, "here's how it works", but it wasn't how it works. and trying to sort of suyal a bit of disillusionment in terms —— sow a bit. ..in terms of the process and the institution,

so it wasn't just a sort of straightforward pumping it up for one guy. it was trying to undermine the other side as well. and as well as detailing all of that, gary, does it get involved in what should have been done at the time to stop this, or indeed what should be done next time to stop this? well, it does talk about the main tech companies, the googles, and facebook and twitter, having to do more to sort of be more alert and more coordinated about that. it's pretty critical about some of the information that these companies handed over, and the way they handed it over. very critical of google in the way it presented the data for analysis, for example, and with facebook, they complained they didn't really hand over all the material from all of the site run by this internet research agency, which was the russian—backed organisation. but even given all that there's still a lot to on here. and these academics have crunched all that and they have come up with these, i would say, conclusions that we're not surprised about with all that's gone before, but in a lot more sort of granular detail than perhaps we've had it before. thanks to gary. we have started in washington and westminster. in a few minutes' time... a special report from the congo river looking at campaigning in the democratic republic of congo

for its first ever, democratic transfer of power — but there are still fears of further conflict. we will play the first of his reports. from sex at the white house to trial for his political life, the monica lewinsky affair tonight guaranteed bill clinton in his place in history, as only the second ever president to this is outside source, live from the bbc newsroom. i'm ros atkins. our lead story... mps in britain have been promised a vote on the theresa may's brexit withdrawal agreement in the week of the 14th of january, but opposition leaderjeremy corbyn now says he'll table a motion of no confidence in the prime minister. let me bring you some stories from

the bbc world service as well. saudi arabia has denounced the us senate's claim that crown prince mohammad bin salman was behind the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi in october. that is from bbc arabic. the us says air strikes in somalia have killed 62 fighters from the islamist group al—shabab. if that's true it's the deadliest set of attacks for over a year. al—shabab has not issued any statement on this. that's from bbc somali. an important story from the horn of africa. ethiopian troops have withdrawn from the border between ethiopia and eritrea. all these areas marked were former disputed territories, and ethiopian troops have been there for years. the fighting stopped back in 2000, but a peace deal was only signed injuly this year, triggering the reopening of the border. emmanuel igunza has been to meet families who've started going back to one of the areas. a once abandoned and destroyed village slowly coming back to life.

for two decades, this road leading to the eritrean border was closed. war caused many to flee their homes, and the uncertainty that followed the dispute kept many away. well, this area was an actual front line during those years of border conflict between eritrea and ethiopia, and these ruins for 20 years lay here as a constant reminder of the devastating effect of that war. but now a peace deal has been signed between the two countries, people here have started rebuilding their lives. this man's house was destroyed at the beginning of the war. now he hopes to put it back up and convert it into a shop, to take advantage of the big number of eritrean businessmen coming to ethiopia. translation: before the signing of the peace agreement, there was no business or potential market. rebuilding the house would only bring loss, but now we can definitely get income, either by running our own business renting

to someone else. so by running our own business renting to someone else. so we are by running our own business renting to someone else. so we are here, renovating the shops to make them ready as soon as renovating the shops to make them ready as soon as we renovating the shops to make them ready as soon as we can. renovating the shops to make them ready as soon as we can. and across the road the reconstruction of what was once the biggest hotel in this town. the owners say once finished it will be even bigger with an underground disco, perhaps as a sign of the happy times. translation: the people of eritrea and ethiopia were unhappy for the last 20 years. now we are all happy. there is income, people are exchanging a variety of products including sand, storm, cement and construction metals. when there is peace, there is always an economic benefit. eritrea and ethiopia fought a bitter war between 1998 and to those in that led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people. both countries signed a peace deal two years later but it was never fully implemented,

and relations between them remain strained. but since july and relations between them remain strained. but sincejuly ethiopia's new prime minister has led discussions that have seen trade and diplomatic ties with eritrea restored. analysts have called this a new dawn in the horn of africa. as the troops start to pull out, and families in this once disputed area say it is welcome return to peace. there's a growing trend that shows america's biggest tech firms moving their focus away from places like san francisco and silicon valley to other parts of the us. google is the latest — it's chosen new york for a $1 billion investment that will bring thousands of jobs. samira hussain is live with us from new york. samira, what is google doing precisely? it really wants to double the number of people it employs here in new york city, and

it is investing, as you pointed out, $1 billion to do so. it is not the only tech company announcing expansion in the new york city area. of course we have already heard about amazon, and they will build pa rt about amazon, and they will build part of their second headquarters here in new york. and so i get a lot of people will probably be asking why are these companies moving away from silicon valley and building out in different outposts especially in the north—east? billy has to do with a few things. one, silicon valley has become very expensive —— it really has to do with a few things. secondly it is about trying to find talent, and that idea is for these tech companies you can have people working in different areas. to have them come to new york, you can get some really good strong talent. it will probably be better in terms of standard of living, how much you will have to pay for basics like housing, and of course there is also the proximity to wall street, also very key for some of these tech

companies. these huge new bases that google, amazon, apple are building. do they have distinct roles within these companies and their operations, or will they be doing the same as in california butjust ina the same as in california butjust in a different place? i think each company will be concentrating on a different effort. for example we talked about one, apple, expanding into the state of texas. they are, they will be concentrating on looking for engineers. when it comes to google, they have different side companies working within their organisation right now, and they are probably looking to beat them up —— beef up those programmes. this is a tweet from donald trump. samira, this is all feeling quite

familiar because he has made this criticism of the fed again and again, hasn't he? this is not the first time we have heard him criticised the federal reserve, america's central bank, but certainly this is probably the more creative tweet we have heard from him regarding the fed. he is not very happy with the federal reserve increasing interest rates because it makes borrowing more expensive, and so makes borrowing more expensive, and so that will really slow down the economy and that is what mr trump does not want to see. but the federal reserve, however, has said they are looking toward the new year, and that there may not be as many interest rate hikes coming down the pipeline but we will have a better idea actually this week, ros, when they meet for the two—day meeting, and there will be a press conference at the end of that on wednesday, and we will have more details about what the fed is thinking then. we will watch out for that. samira, thank you for your help with both stories. we will

switch along way from where samira is in new york. the democratic republic of congo will finally hold elections on sunday — they‘ re two years late. it's a vast country with extraordinary natural resources — but it's also been blighted by violence. well, the bbc‘s alastair leithead has been travelling the congo river — as you can see in this graphic. alastair began at the mouth of the river — at banana point on africa's atlantic coast — and then headed east. this report is from a pygmy village called boyanga. act as kilometres from the sea and four ours‘ drive from the nearest town, people lead a very traditional way of life. this is a boyanga village, and these pygmy hunters are going through their good luck ritual. --

going through their good luck ritual. —— four hours' drive. the bloke holes and you smoke to get out the animals. this was originally the personal colony in the belgian congo, with that rubber in the forest. this white sap from the rubberfines forest. this white sap from the rubber fines could be forest. this white sap from the rubberfines could be made into tyres and pygmies were made to collect it. —— robber precedent. he says what our ancestors went to was unbearable. they were not paid for the work of the dead. many of them died through the beating. some who didn't collect enough rubber had their hands cut off. 10 million people died under the regime of king leopold ii. with independence in 1960 came retribution in the great white flight, but things did not improve much for real people. this strangely haunting place was the

home of the man who ruled the congo for more than 30 years. very beautiful. that was the palace. this was one of his daughters. at the entrance, on your left, there was a picasso painting. after independence he oversaw the killing of the congo's first minister, patrice lumumba, and as president he transformed himself into a classic african dictator, getting rich will the country got poor. but in 1997, an invasion and a coup forced him out and he died in excel. it is where the looting here began, and where the looting here began, and where time stopped —— he died in exile. this was built in the middle ofa exile. this was built in the middle of a jungle, exile. this was built in the middle ofajungle, a exile. this was built in the middle of a jungle, a vanity project. that was a plush vip reception area.

this, as huge terminal, concord landing here bringing in champagne and luxury goods for the president. todayit and luxury goods for the president. today it is just a shell. when the dictator fell, the country went to war with itself. the current problems of the drc result from both colonial exploitation and post—independent mismanagement. alastair leithead, bbc news, on the congo river. it has proven to be a confusing end to the day regarding brexit. i told you earlier theresa may said the brexit vote would be in the week of the 14th of january, and brexit vote would be in the week of the 14th ofjanuary, and labour then put forward a motion of no—confidence in the prime minister, then number ten came out, and we are seeing this laura kuenssberg, and this their statement. it now therefore seems very unlikely that motion will be debated tomorrow, and nowjeremy corbyn has a decision,

whether to accept that order, remember, some labour sources told nicholas watt from bbc newsnight, if they don't give labour a time to debate this motion, then the whole thing will be escalated. escalation would mean a vote of no confidence, not just would mean a vote of no confidence, notjust in the prime minister, but a vote of no—confidence in the government. and it is important to ta ke government. and it is important to take a moment to distinguish between the two. a vote of no—confidence in the two. a vote of no—confidence in the prime minister is largely symbolic, the opposition seeking to prove she didn't have the support of the house. a vote of no—confidence in the government, if that were to come from labour and she were to lose that, well, then her government would be in very serious difficulty. other piece of context worth adding, there was already a vote of no confidence last week among conservative mps within her own conservative mps within her own conservative party, and as you will remember theresa may won that one. it doesn't look like she will be facing anything tomorrow in the commons, but i gave up making predictions along time ago. i will

keep you posted across the next half an hour. good evening. first we had our own fairshare of good evening. first we had our own fair share of winter weather, i would like to start with leather of a different start. the start of a cyclone storm which hit the east coast of india, affecting pradesh, heading toward man marker in bangladesh. a huge storm surge —— heading towards myanmar. mudslides gathering in the bay of bengal. some really destructive hailstorms across south africa. that was over the weekend, and energy is still in the atmosphere for further storms from the south and east over the coming days. staying in the southern hemisphere and going to south america, parts of uruguay, northern argentina, southern brazil, this has been around for a day or two, this

band of rain, and could continue to cause flash flooding. nasty weather across the east of the usa and as that clears away, another major storm moving and off the pacific which could give the most significant snow of the season so far. really packing a punch with huge winds and rain around. significance nor expected across the rockies, cascading potentially with another storm to come later in the week further east as well. what's to keep our eye on at the moment before the meantime some dry weather between those weather systems. let's head to the forecast for the cities, because you can see it stays really u nsettled because you can see it stays really unsettled for vancouver in seattle, perhaps not much rain getting south, but temperatures breakaway. temperatures rising across some parts of australia, as you would expect this time of year, a very turbulent weekend. huge power outages because of destructive storms as well. the image is still around for big showers and thunderstorms across new south wales and victoria, but it looks particularly wet and windy, given we

are in the height of summer, in new zealand. look at wellington's forecast for the rest of the week. not particularly cold, but a lot of rain around. thunderstorms and for melbourne and sydney. freezing rain in the uk, very unusual in the uk. in parts of low—level europe. more of this moving into the south—eastern parts of europe. with more snowy weather then, very significant snow forecast, 20, 30, 40 centimetres potentially across the alps midweek, whilst the milder atla ntic the alps midweek, whilst the milder atlantic air tries to come on top of that cold air, still holding on under high pressure for the east. again, that battle of the cold and mail their ongoing but it looks as if that will lingerfor mail their ongoing but it looks as if that will linger for moscow for the rest of this week, and for kiev as well. and then starts to brighten up as well. and then starts to brighten up after very showery weather initially and in the uk the cold has gone and we back into the milder atla ntic gone and we back into the milder atlantic regime. more wet and windy

weather to come, but more on that in half an hour. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. another chaotic day in westminster. theresa may says a vote on brexit will happen injanuary — and this is the opposition leader response. this is the only way i can think of making sure that a voter takes place this week... i am about to table a motion that says the following, that this house has no confidence in the prime minister. a new report exposes the scale of russian efforts in the 2016 us elections — saying moscow used every major social media platform to help elect donald trump. a new development in one of the biggest financial scandals in history — malaysia has filed criminal charges against goldman sachs. and thousands are protesting in hungary over new labour laws that allows employers to increase the amount of overtime people can work. we will come back to the situation

in westminster. labour is planning to place the motion of no confidence in the prime minister and number ten has said they won't make time for that in the commons tomorrow so it is not clear if that will go ahead. looks unlikely. labour has a decision to make, does it leave it there? a no—confidence motion in the government, that went against theresa may, we would be looking at an ever deepening crisis. we are keeping a close eye on things. we will come back to it. goldman sachs is facing criminal charges in malaysia. the allegation is that the bank was paid above the market rate for its services.

and that it embezzled billions of dollars. goldman sachs has responded with this statement. "we believe these charges are misdirected and we will vigorously defend them." well, those charges allege goldman misled investors and knew money was being taken from the government—backed investment fund called 1mdb — we've talked about that fund a lot — it's at the centre of broader allegations of multi—billion dollar corruption. the fund was created in malaysia — but the scandal is being investigated in a number of countries. for instance, the us justice department alleges at least $4.5 billion was stolen from the fund and used to buy property, yachts, a privatejet, and even to help fund movies such as the wolf of wall street. as well as this — back in malaysia, former prime minister najib razak — who set up the fund — was ousted over the scandal and is facing charges too. leesha santorelli has been

following it for us. 1mdb has turned into one of the world's biggest scandals and this has illustrated that the global financial system has loopholes in which people can move dirty money through the financial system and thatis through the financial system and that is why so many authorities are investigating this case, trying to close those loopholes. the focus has fallen on three players. the former prime minister goes to trial early next year and faces a long time in prison, he is alleged to have lined his pockets through the fund but he denies the allegations. the second player is a mysterious malaysian businessman who is considered the mastermind. he is on the warrant and believed to be hiding in china but he also denies the allegations and finally, goldman sachs, the bank has been talking, and this indicates the

relation authorities believe that goldman knew that money was being misappropriated from the 1mdb dealings and they are trying to recoup the money, more than $3 billion in totalfrom goldman sachs, through these criminal charges, made against the bank and two of their employees. goldman sachs accepts that they owe malaysia a dollar? their position is pretty clear and they believe there were a few bad apples which have caused money to be stolen from the fund. one is a man who has already pleaded guilty in the us and also his deputy who is awaiting extradition. goldman has issued another denial, they said the charges are misdirected towards them and they are working with authorities but they are already suffering severe reputational backlash and they are also facing severe financial penalties, notjust $3 billion that the relation authorities want, they may have to pay regulatory fines in america and

other countries investigating the case if wrongdoing is proven. what is happening in malaysia and what is happening in america are completely separate investigations which may or may not reach completely different conclusions? that is correct. at least five countries, some reports say ten countries, are investigating the 1mdb financial scandal but the relation authorities, in terms of goldman sachs, they track a lot of the findings that the us department ofjustice has made, and they have said at least $4.5 million was stolen from the relation people, and they say they would like to recoup they say they would like to recoup the money —— stolen from the relation people. it was used to buy a yacht and a private jet as well as expensive paintings by picasso, and diamonds, they are trying to get

this back for the malaysians. do we have any idea where goldman sachs will have a chance to defend itself? a lot will come to light when the former malaysian prime minister's trial takes place early next year, but in terms goldman sachs itself we are already seeing that the bank put out a statement consistently denied wrongdoing and whether they have to send a representative to go to trial has not been established but investors are already quite scared at the development and that is why they are selling off the stock. goldman sachs shares have lost about 30% of their value on the stock market. we will keep you across that story, of course. and now to another one of the biggest stories across the world. more protests in hungary. two mps were thrown out of the headquarters of state tv after they tried to broadcast a petition against new labour laws. these are pictures filmed by one of them.

they show her colleague trying to climb over a stair banister. and this video shows the two of them being dragged out of the building. this happened after a group of opposition mps spent the night at the station. one of them tweeted a picture. the controversy is about a new law. this new law allow companies to demand that staff work up to 400 hours of overtime a year. and that payment for that work can be delayed for three years. it has not gone down well in all quarters. protests like these have been happening for days now. on sunday at least 10,000 people battled sub—zero temperatures. peter murphy is an afp journalist in hungary. he says there are calls

to keep protesting at state media locations on friday — which raises the possibility of a general strike. nick thorpe has the latest from budapest. this is the second evening in a row of the six days of protests so far where the protests started at the apartment building and now they are in the headquarters of the hungarian state television, here behind me. the mps dragged out early this morning, as you said. opposition mps have stayed in the building, and they use their parliamentary passes to get into the building. journalists can't get in. the building has been protected by a line of riot police during the day quite often but so far the dozen opposition mps have not managed to get their demands read out. they

have five simple demands, one of thoseis have five simple demands, one of those is for the repeal of this controversial law, and another is for the television station itself to stop acting as a mouthpiece for the government, and to be an independent public service television station once again. on the face of it making people work hundreds of hours extra not paying them for three years is a difficult one to justify but the government does justify it, what is the argument in favour? the government argues there is a huge labour shortage in hungary at the moment and this is largely, partly caused by the emigration of skilled hungarians to countries like britain, germany and other countries in western europe, many of those have gone for economic reasons but with this government winning three terms in consecutive times, many say they are also going for political reasons, but the people you are getting these protests say they do

not want to work abroad and they wa nt to not want to work abroad and they want to change the system here, but thatis want to change the system here, but that is easier said than done. these protests have begun again and they have been protests in the last eight yea rs have been protests in the last eight years against the government but what is different, this time the whole spectrum is represented from the far right through the liberals to the left and the greens, the socialist party, and the offshoots, there an unusual determination and unity amongst the protesters but a very long way to go if they hope to topple or even challenge this government. what is the atmosphere like, the relationship between the protesters and the police at the moment? at the moment relatively good, there have been occasions, yesterday evening i was here for pa rt yesterday evening i was here for part of the night and on previous days when people had been throwing objects, sometimes snowballs, it has been very cold here, sometimes bottles a nd been very cold here, sometimes bottles and flares, but when that has happened you have had other parts of the crowd chanting don't

attack the police, and though you cannot say the protesters are divided against each other, but have different ideas from amongst this very diverse crowd about how to increase the pressure first of all on the television for the demands of the protest to be read out but also to increase the pressure on the government to force them to repeal this very controversial new labour law. i suspect we will be coming back to that story through the week. stay with us on outside source — still to come... we will be turning to east africa. cases of sexual violence in uganda rarely go to trial — we'll look at how that's starting to change. 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.

following much criticism of the decision, the hotel has now changed its mind — as danny savage reports. christmas last year at a hotel in hull. people here summed up the season of goodwill to all by paying for a load of rooms for the homeless to stay in on christmas eve and christmas day. mark was one of those who benefited. when we got into the hotel, it was a godsend. couple of nights in a bed, didn't want to get up all day, you know what i mean? because it was that special? it was that comfortable that 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've pulled out. the man behind the effort to pay for the rooms denies there were problems. he is determined to find

alternatives. christmas is the saddest time of year for the homeless people because they get to reflect on what they've lost and the family they're missing out on. suicides are at their highest at this time of year. 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 be a bit uncomfortable sharing a hotel with a whole load of homeless people. what's the reality of it? um... i didn't think we got any bad looks from anyone. i don't think anyone looked down their noses. the royal hotel has now said they will accept the booking. carl believes he will get at least 28 homeless people with rooms this christmas. danny savage, bbc news, hull. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is... mps in britain have

been promised a vote on the theresa may's brexit withdrawal agreement in the middle ofjanuary — but opposition leaderjeremy corbyn says he'll table a motion of no confidence in the prime minister. and now some of the main stories from bbc world service. a senior indian politician has been jailed for life — for organising riots targetting the sikh community after the assassination of indira gandhi in 1984. sajjan kumar incited mobs who killed more than 3,000 people. that's from bbc hindi. the german government has agreed to make one—off compensation payments to the last survivors of the kindertransport programme, which brought mostlyjewish children persecuted in nazi germany to safety in britain. around 10,000 children were saved from adolf hitler's regime between december 1938 and may 1940. oscar—winning actor geoffrey rush is facing new allegations of sexual harassment. the australian actress, yale stone, has told the new york times that mr rush used a mirror to spy on her as she showered, when they acted in a play together eight years ago. geoffrey rush said

the allegations were incorrect — but he deeply regretted it, if he'd caused her any distress, because of what he called his ‘spirited enthusiasm'. to uganda now. it has one of the largest numbers of cases of sexual violence in east africa. but due to a lack of resources, most cases never go to trial. well, now the un is trying to help clear the backlog of cases. catherine byaru hanga has this report. rachel was just nine years old when a 40—year—old man raped her. she immediately told her family but no one listened. she confided in her teacher who helped and is now looking after her after her relatives abandoned her. ever since she started getting pains, whenever she started getting pains, whenever she gets that pain she remembers

that period when she was being raped. i think with time and she will keep on, and it will get out of her head. war years later and rachel is finally getting justice. —— four yea rs is finally getting justice. —— four years later. the man who raped her pleaded guilty and was sentenced. in the past month over 600 sexual and gender—based violence cases were heard in special session is set up in13 heard in special session is set up in 13 court rooms like this run around the country. —— like this one. judges said the majority of cases involved children and the united nations population fund is supporting the process with 260,000 us dollars. this also pays to train detectives, prisons and judicial officers on how to deal with such sensitive cases. the idea was to

process cases that otherwise would have taken process cases that otherwise would have ta ken years to process cases that otherwise would have taken years to be tried. this judge believes such delays have made it harder to getjustice. hundred cases four macro years old, if a child was six years at that time, the time of the offence, she is now ten and she may not reconnect all the facts. if she forgets those crucial facts, the facts. if she forgets those crucialfacts, in a the facts. if she forgets those crucial facts, in a system that relies heavily on eyewitness accounts, that is an acquittal, more or less. but there are questions about whether the accused to get a fair trial. especially when cases are being fast tracked and where there is no scientific evidence to prove crimes. and what about the victims, especially the children? what happens to them next? the judge here has set up this room to create a safe space for the children going

through these difficult trials. it is still very basic but once they leave here only a handful will get the support they need to get over these traumatic experiences. the government now plans to review these special sessions and possibly extend them, given that there are thousands of cases still to be tried. still many in uganda believe this is a first step, especially in the quest to protect its most vulnerable children. but much more needs to be done. a fascinating story from poland now. it's about how military classes are becoming more common in polish schools. this is the experience of one teenage girl in a southern town called novy sonj. iam novy i am novy sonj and this is my

school. —— i am doris and this is my school. —— i am doris and this is my school. it is hard for girls because sometimes boys think that girls are not strong enough. patriotism is part of our history and it's part of my life. isabella allen — bbc news,

reported on this story. this is a nationwide government programme? this school is one of 109 across poland which is taking part in this pilot programme of military classes which the ministry of defence runs in cooperation with the ministry of education and other organisations and the aim is to standardise military training across the country. these are in state schools, they are not special military schools, and it is volu nta ry, military schools, and it is voluntary, students sign up at the age of 13, 14, and it works around maths and and english. so if a school wanted to say no, or a pupil, they could? yes, there is no obligation but it is very popular amongst students especially because it gives good employment prospects and dots of the students i spoke to, they may go into the army or they might become border or work in the

fire service. the head is also a head of the paramilitary organisation in poland? yes, he is a head teacher and also one of the largest paramilitary organisation in the country and this is an interesting dynamic, so you have this school where you have an officially sanctioned pa ra— this school where you have an officially sanctioned para— military running this school, they do not think this will be repeated across the country but this is an interesting dynamic. poland has gone to the right in terms of its general politics, should we draw any connection? these have grown in popularity since the ruling power came to —— the ruling party came to

power on these strong catholic values. the ruling party has one parliamentary elections in this particular town for a while, but these patriotic values and passing them on to future generations is very welcome in poland and it helps to deal with the increasing perception of a threat that poland is facing from neighbours, mainly, the local mp told me, russia. the local kids liked it? yes, they got to go out shooting in the field with combat laser systems and they were learning how to load rifles. very interesting. we appreciate it. back to brexit. lots of updates on brexit tonight — we're going to try and make sense of it and take you through it as it happened. first, theresa may says mps will finally get to vote on her brexit deal —

that will take place in the week starting january 14. here's her announcement. we intend to return to the meaningful debate in the 14th of january week and then hold the vote the following week and when we have the following week and when we have the vote... when we have the vote, members will need to reflect carefully on what is in the best interests of our country. jeremy corbyn — the leader of the opposition — didn't take that very well. he tabled a motion of no confidence in the prime minister. here's his response. the prime minister has refused to make sure a vote takes place on the date she agreed and she refuses to allow a vote to take place this week and is now i assume thinking the vote will be on the 14th ofjanuary. almost a month away. this is not a cce pta ble almost a month away. this is not acceptable in any way whatsoever, so, mrspeaker, is acceptable in any way whatsoever, so, mr speaker, is the only way i can think of making sure a vote takes place this week, i'm about to table a motion which says the

following, that this house has no confidence in the prime minister. downing street has responded to the motion tonight — sources there saying they will ‘not go along with silly political games' — as things stand the government will not allow time for labour's attempted vote of confidence in the prime minister to be debated. nicolas watt — the political editor for bbc newsnight says he's been told if parliament doesn't give adequate time to the motion, then labour will call a vote of no confidence in the whole government. we will have to wait and see if that happens. see you tomorrow, goodbye. with the festive period a week away

we will worry having a quick heads up we will worry having a quick heads up with how the weather is looking into christmas day —— we will be having. in the meantime, christmas is looking fairly unsettled in the run up, with a few systems expected to hu rtle run up, with a few systems expected to hurtle in from the atlantic, bringing wet and windy weather but also mild weather. none of the areas of low pressure will be severe and will lead to any disruption, the reason for these systems moving him is because we have a fairly undulating westerly jet stream moving in from the atlantic across our shores. tuesday is looking wet and windy with gales across western areas, and a band of heavy rain at times spreading slowly, but not reaching the far south and east until after dark. note the temperatures, 10—12, pretty mild. winds coming from the south, south—west. we look to the west for

the next area of low pressure, which will be moving from the atlantic to bring another spell of fairly u nsettled bring another spell of fairly unsettled weather throughout wednesday. the rain will be in the form of showers and they will be quite heavy in southern and western areas, may be wintry in the highlands of scotland. a few degrees down on tuesday but fairly mild in the south, 10—11. it will be another breezy day. low pressure is still there as we head into thursday, the winds will be lighter in scotland so it could be a cold start, mist and fog around. that will drive in a few showers but into the afternoon, most of the showers will fizzle out and they will be a good deal of sunshine. temperatures are typical for the time of year, high single digits in the north and double figures in the south. a bit fresh in the north on friday with lighter winds to end the week. friday could

be quite wet with the weather front moving in across england and wales. but again, 9—12 here and a bit quieter further but again, 9—12 here and a bit quieterfurther north. we have a tangle of weather fronts which will clear away into the north sea, leaving something a bit drier to start next week, and it looks like for many a fairly fresh start to saturday, dry wood sunshine, and any early showers will move away, may be just a few for western wales and south eastern england and many places will remain dry with good sunny spells. again, temperatures typicalfor sunny spells. again, temperatures typical for the sunny spells. again, temperatures typicalfor the time of sunny spells. again, temperatures typical for the time of year, high single figures in the north and 10-12 in single figures in the north and 10—12 in the south. sunday, the weather front brings wet weather for a time before it clears away and as we head into the start of next week around christmas day, many want to build the area of high pressure from the north, and that will settle the

weather down. winds will become lighter but we could tap into something a bit cooler from the north which could spread down to parts of the country. the run—up to christmas is unsettled thanks to the low pressure systems, but also fairly mild, especially in the south. the high pressure building at christmas and so things will settle down and we could see a return to overnight frosts and it could feel a little cooler. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, tables a vote of no confidence in the prime minister as she says her brexit vote won't take place untiljanuary. theresa may told mps the vote would now be in the middle of next month and said she was still seeking further reassurances from the eu. this house has no confidence in the prime minister due... ..due to herfailure to allow the house of commons to have a meaningful vote straightaway. i know 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. tonight, downing street sources called labour's no confidence motion "silly political games" and said the government won't allow time for it to be debated in the commons. also on the programme, challenging christmas sales online and on the high street —