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 — shares in the internet retailer asos slump amid profit warnings. a 21—year—old man who murdered his estranged wife and her mother is sentenced to at least

32 years injail. the south african runner beaten unconscious by white youths — a special report on a still divided rainbow nation. yeah, i feel really scared, like i can't even go to town alone. dealing with an addiction — the children in south korea desperate to become professional gamers and spending hours online. and coming up on sportsday on bbc news, a german test for the english after today's champions league draw. jurgen klopp‘s liverpool will face bayern munich in the last 16. good evening. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn,

has tabled a motion of no confidence in the prime minister, after she announced that a vote on her brexit deal would now be held in the middle ofjanuary. theresa may told mps she was still talking to the eu and trying to get reassurances about the terms of the deal, specifically the so—called backstop guarantee, to prevent the return of a hard border between northern ireland and the republic. however, this evening, the government has said it won't allow time in the commons for labour's no confidence motion, with downing street sources saying they wont go along with "silly political games". here's our political editor, laura kuenssberg. only if you believe in fairy tales would you assume the government's 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 — well, at least the week. many members of this house are concerned that we need to take a decision soon. am i right?

we intend to return to the meaningful vote debate in the week commencing 7th of january and hold the vote the following week. there'd been suggestions labour would call for a vote of confidence, but at quarter to four it was just criticism instead. we're left edging ever closer to the 29th of march deadline without a deal and without even 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. the timetable has made plenty on all sides cross. 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. i do not think that businesses and employers and our constituents will understand why this house is going on holiday for two weeks, when we should be having the meaningful vote this week. isn't it 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. if she were to go to the eu now and tell them now in the face of their intransigence to get stuffed, a huge number of british people would be right behind her. after a couple of hours, you can see the prime minister slipping out on the left. she might have thought today's haranguing was over. i've listened very carefully to what members on all sides of the house have said... butjust before six, he was up again, so she had to sit back down. i'm about to table a motion which says the following, that this house has no confidence in the prime minister. then she was off. the opposition determined to isolate her further. but for once, theresa may's many tory opponents might back her up. i am a loyal conservative, and that requires me to support the prime minister, and i'll do so enthusiastically, and this is not hedging about. she is our leader —

i will support her. we are not into playing parliamentary games on this. we understand the labour party has to do what it has to do on these things, but our main aim is to change the policy. there's trouble over the big brexit vote, though. ministers stretching the elastic of the government line. we need to find out where the will of parliament is, where the majority of mps will vote in parliament, and nothing should be off the table. we should consider all options. plenty of ministers, mps and the opposition are frustrated about the delay to this vote. but stand down if you think jeremy corbyn‘s move is designed to topple the prime minister. it's a vote that wouldn't have that power. it could only embarrass theresa may, stopping short of what many of his own mps want him to do — to take a real shot at collapsing the government. but unless and until he thinks he could win such a vote, labour simply won't go that far. on the other side, unless and until she's forced to,

theresa may, for her part, is not going to budge. so even though the brexit clock is running down, neither of the main party leaders show signs of making a radical move that could unblock the gridlock. the prime minister and her small band of allies are still trying to make a brexit compromise work, but on the clashing politics and all of the contradictory plans, there's plenty still stands in her way. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. our political correspondent ben wrightjoins us now. labour's vote of confidence, laughter 7 laughter ? deadlocks off, numberten laughter ? deadlocks off, number ten sources say they will not go along with what they called silly political games, and the government is quite entitled to earn can ignorejeremy corbyn‘s demand today, because he wasn't

calling for a formal vote of confidence in the government, a big parliamentary visit which could potentially collapse the government and lead to a general election, and the process for that is all set out in an act of parliament. butjeremy corbyn does not want to go there yet, here is only going to pull the trigger when he thinks he might have a chance of winning the vote. today was about piling pressure on the embattled prime minister and trying to capitalise on a political crisis that shows no sign of diminishing, as westminster staggers towards christmas. and so today you all tory mps, who are supportive of the prime minister's deal, stand up in the commons, incredulous, they will have to wait another month before they get a chance to vote on it. tomorrow, the cabinet will need to discuss no—deal preparations, and we have seen several members of that talk openly about maybe giving parliament a series of votes to try to whittle down barriers plan b scenarios if theresa may's deal is chucked out. there was also a lot of

talk at westminster and are trying to find some kind of cross—party consensus for an alternative to the deal if it falls, but in this deeply fractured parliament, with so little time left, it is hard to see where thatis time left, it is hard to see where that is going to come from. ben wright, in westminster, thank you. shares in a number of leading fashion chains have fallen today after the online retailer asos issued a profits warning. its shares slumped by almost 40% as it said it had been affected by heaving discounting last minute. as our business editor, simonjack, reports, high—street woes now appear to be spreading online. a superstar of the online retailing world, asos 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 discounts than ever to keep up with the competition. shares in asos crashed 38%, dragging online rival boohoo down 14%. that affected high—street rivals with a big online presence — h&m fell 9%, and next fell 5%.

so how and why are things changing now? online retailers don't always experience the same kind of problems the high—street retailers do, but what's happened now is you have this sort of discounting contagion, where everyone is kind of doing it, and that forces everyone's competitors to do it, so everyone is stuck now in a cycle of discounting, and it's going to be hard for them to come out. shoppers today in glasgow said it's what they'd come to expect. you want a discount, you want to leave it to the 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?" "i don't know." "go and ask the boss." they might say, "yeah, will give you 10%, 15%." horror stories from the high street have become a regularfeature of a dismal year for retailers, and make no mistake, asos is still growing sales and making money, but what we learnt today is the all—out incessant price warfare that has affected the high street is now coming home to roost for 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, it's almost certainly worse for everyone else. the uncertainty in the consumer's mind in terms of, you know, how the country's 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? and there's 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, and some are saying this american import now marks the start of a long profit—margin nightmare before christmas. simon jack, bbc news. a man has been sentenced to life in prison 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 were stabbed to death outside the family home in solihull. 21—year—old janbaz tarin was arrested three days later, following an extensive search. sima kotecha has the story. he'd been on the run for days, but here's 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's like being in heaven

with them, but now they've gone, it's like we've 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 killings — 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 that, 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. russia used every major social media platform from youtube and instagram to facebook and twitter to spread propaganda and influence the 2016 us presidential election. that's the conclusion of a damning

report released by the us senate. our north america editor, jon sopel, is at the white house for us. jon, didn't we know some of this already? yeah, you are right to say that, because what happened just after the 2016 lx was that the intelligence agencies themselves came out with the unanimous view that there had been an attempt by the russians to interfere in the presidential election. it is like taking that report and multiplying it by ten, because what these? reports for the intelligence committee of the senate have found out is that, as you say, they tried to interfere systematically on a much wider scale, on every platform, with events tailored to support donald trump and work even harder to support him while in office. they fed conspiracy theories as there to trump supporters in order to inflame them to go out to vote for donald trump, and amongst people who might not be thought likely to vote for

donald trump, african—americans, for example, there was an attempt at voter suppression — it is not worth going out to vote, stay at home. now, donald trump has never bought into the conclusion that there was russian interference, particularly, oi’ russian interference, particularly, or that it affected the outcome of the election. he said it may have been interference and there may have been interference and there may have been other countries as well. this report firmly points the finger at russia is trying to help donald trump, there has been no response from the white house. jon sopel in washington, thank you. official sources in yemen suggest violence has continued to erupt sporadically in the port city of hodeidah, despite a planned ceasefire agreed last week between the government and its houthi rebel opponents. violent clashes have continued for several days since the truce, but at midnight local time tonight the ceasefire was due to take effect in the city, which is a key gateway for vital supplies of aid to the country's people. political tension is rising in hungary after two opposition mps were forcibly removed from the country's state television station. the mps were protesting against new labour laws and posted video of themselves being ejected online.

there have been growing protests in recent days against the right—wing government of viktor orban. as well as liberalising labour laws, he's tried to take over some of the powers of the judicary. the way student loans are recorded is being changed so that they will now be classified as public expenditure. the move will add £12 billion to public borrowing figures and could increase pressure on universities to reduce tuition fees, as our education editor, bra nwen jeffreys, reports. when tuition 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 worry about debt. nabila hasn't borrowed. connell is borrowing for fees and living costs. i think there are some people who are thinking

about it and considering, "right, i need to plan in order to pay it off." whereas there are some people who do not think about it and are not really sure what it means to have a student loan. how many students expect to really fully pay off their loan? with the current political and economic climate as well, jobs are not as abundant as they used to be, so it might not be the fact that they want to pay it off, it's if they can pay it off, if they're in a job that allows them to earn enough money to pay. graduates start to repay their loans when they're earning more than £25,000. those repayments over 30 years are linked to how much they earn, and its estimated that, at the end of that time, 45% of loans will still be unpaid. today's decision means those unpaid loans are going to be counted as current spending, and that will add £12 billion to the government's deficit. it is designed that a lot

of the money that's paid out is not actually going to come back to the government, so the announcement is painting a more realistic picture of this, so the money that the government is not going to 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're under review in england. ministers are looking at whether some should be lower. universities fear this could put their funding at risk. we do feel that the burden of fees at the moment is too heavily on the shoulders of students and theirfamilies, and we do feel that student fee levels should go down, but we can't accept that the income to universities should go down, and what that means is if the fees go down, the government will have to do something to keep it at that level playing field. there are other questions this could raise too — why are students paying 6% interest rates, and is there a limit to how

many students taxpayers will fund? branwen jeffreys, bbc news, leicester. south africans are celebrating national reconciliation day — a public holiday to encourage healing across the racial divide. but after more than two decades of freedom, there's growing evidence that racism is still deeply embedded in the country. in rural areas, violent attacks have helped call into question the very idea of a "rainbow nation". our africa editor fergal keane — who reported on the end of apartheid — has this special report. racism defined this country. it governed every aspect of life. and here on the platteland, the great swathes of farmland in the heart of the nation, divisions were especially deep. but in a black—ruled south africa, you might think those hatreds had gone away. think again. i've come back to a country where old animosities are flaring across communities. this is potchefstroom, where a young black athlete was brutally attacked last february.

tha bang mosiako runs for south africa, but he was hospitalised after a beating by white youths. they were hitting me until i was unconscious. and i woke up in hospital, not knowing what happened. what do you feel when you see groups of young white men now? i feel really scared. i can't even go to town alone. travel 300 kilometres to the north—east, and you learn that racist violence can still be lethal. xolisile ndzongana was driving along this road in the town of middleburg one night lastjuly. he found his way blocked by a group of white men. cctv cameras captured their attack, a beating which killed the 26—year—old. xolisile's friend lawrence witnessed the violence. he's afraid and has asked us to protect his identity. they pull out my friend and beat him. when i tried to save him, it was too late. what were they saying?

what words did they use? they used the k—word. black... kaffir, everything. oh, it was horrible. it was terrible. even now, i can't sleep peacefully. sometimes, i do dream about it. you see, in the outside world, we looked at south africa and we thought this was the rainbow nation, that all of this was going to go away. you were wrong. it's not a rainbow nation. out on the platteland farms, whites complain of their fears, plans to take white—owned land without compensation, and attacks on white farms that have deepened their alienation. i could see david on his knees in front of me, and the one black guyjust pulled the trigger. um... after that, life was just a blur.

archive reporter: and the flag which was the flag of the apartheid state is coming down in front of me... but what's caused the high hopes of liberation to evaporate? much of the wealth remains in white hands. corruption and misrule have undermined reform. and extreme voices, white and black, are deepening polarisation. it's almost as if the country has stood still, that 1994 didn't happen in the countryside. you know, there's a war that's been happening between black and white. but there are enough white south africans who want to make it work, who don't want to be racist. so how do we collaborate and how do we isolate those who are racist? and we should also do the same with the blacks. but this country has an endless capacity to surprise, as we discovered back

on the platteland. this man is a young black farmer fighting a bushfire that threatens his home. and bernadette has come to help. we need more firefighters! one shouldn't read too much into a single encounter, but what i'm seeing here, black and white neighbours helping each other in this crisis, is a powerful symbol of what's still possible in south africa. thanks, bernadette, you've been awesome, thank you. thanks for the petrol, i'm out! you know, as farmers, we are so united. we have to help each other when there's fire, theft, whatever. we need to be together. right now in this country, there's a great deal of animosity, racial animosity. do you see any animosity? see any? other neighbours arrived, reflecting the truth that hasn't changed in 25 years — south africans need each other. fergal keane, bbc news,

on the platteland. let's take a look at some of today's other news. there'll be new protection at work for agency workers, people on zero—hours contracts, and employees in the gig economy under plans announced today. the reforms include a requirement for companies to tell workers about their rights on their first day in thejob. a loophole that allowed agency staff to be paid less than regular employees has also been closed. jaguar land rover is expected to announce cuts of up to 5,000 jobs in the new year across the uk as part of a £2.5 billion savings plan. the company, which employs 40,000 people in the uk, has said it won't comment on rumours about how the savings will be made. the home secretary has revealed that 16 of the windrush generation — who are believed to have been wrongly detained or deported — have since died. the figures emerged in an update on the scandal over the immigration status of people who came to britain

from the carribean before 1973. the home office has so far spent £6 million correcting mistakes and granted british citizenship to more than 2,800 people. south korea has one of the fastest growing online gaming 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 — namely addiction, 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 practise 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's having a real impact on this new gaming generation. these teenagers are just

a few of the hundreds who've 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's when i felt i was addicted. i felt that i wished someone could help me. they are taught to care for others and taken to a retirement home, where they even put on a show. the 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's 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 head teacher 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's 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 strengths to other people. i feel really happy when we win because of how well i played. this very outgoing head teacher has built an entire curriculum around gaming. translation: everyone looks at this 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 its gaming industry is one of the biggest in the world, worth over $5 billion, and it's 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. 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 schalke — and tottenham facing the current german league leaders borussia dortmund. a hotel has been accused of discriminating against homeless people after it cancelled their christmas booking suddenly. a charity in hull had paid more than a thousand pounds for rooms for 28 people on christmas eve and christmas day. but they were told they couldn't now stay after allegations of theft and damage at the hotel last year. another hotel has now stepped in forfree, 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. it was for two nights, but it felt like a lifetime. 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? yeah, 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. this, for me, is all about giving a bit back to the community. the man behind the effort to pay for the rooms denies there were problems last christmas, as does the hotel he used. he's spent the day looking for alternatives. christmas is the saddest time of 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 their highest at this time of year. and if we can just prevent one suicide, it's well 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 be a bit uncomfortable sharing a hotel with a whole load of homeless people. what's the reality of it? um...last year, i didn't think we got any bad looks from anyone. i don't think anyone looked down their noses. everybodyjust kind of took it in their stride and thought we were just normal paying customers as well, sort of thing. it's everything. it's the best christmas present you could get, really, yeah. it'sjust such a relief to be off the streets, even for one night.