you're watching bbc news at 9 with me, annita mcveigh. the headlines... mps who oppose leaving the eu without a deal will today try to limit the government's financial powers to prepare for no—deal. calls for police to do more to stop abusive protesters outside parliament after a conservative mp was confronted yesterday. crowd: soubry is a nazi! soubry is a nazi! well, apologies to you if you're offended by that. ijust think this is astonishing. a call for three million new homes over the next 20 years, to solve the social housing crisis in england. some child victims of sexual assault are being failed by privately—run forensics centres — that's according to a bbc investigation. three—quarters of penguins that end up stranded on south america's coast every year are female — now scientists think they know why. and liverpool get dumped out of the fa cup by wolves — we'll have more on that and all the other sport at 9:40. good morning and welcome

to the bbc news at nine. cabinet ministers are gathering at downing street this morning for their first meeting of the new year — and it's expected to be dominated by the latest developments over brexit. theresa may is still trying to drum up support across all parties for her withdrawal deal from the eu — with a crucial commons vote just a week away. let's take a look at the main events today — that cabinet meeting is due to start in about half an hour. this afternoon, the commons debates the finance bill — mps who don't want the uk to leave the eu without a deal, have tabled an amendment which would limit the government's

ability to raise taxes if it happened. later today, the prime minister is due to meet some of those 200 mps who signed a letter urging her to rule out no deal. and more than 50 mps have written to the metropolitan police commissioner cressida dick, calling on her to take action against abusive protesters outside parliament after confrontations following tv interviews yesterday. well, our correspondent norman smith is at downing street for us this morning. norman? at westminster, not quite in downing street, inside at the moment. no doubt, later. labour's yvette cooper has said the uk can't afford to play brexit check in. how much pressure is actually building to stop no deal happening? —— can't afford to play brexit chicken. we will get a very public sign of how much unease there is an parliament

at the prospect of no deal with this move by yvette cooper and other prominent labour mps, together with big players in the tory party. a cross— party big players in the tory party. a cross—party alliance of mps trying to ensure that before the government goes down the road of no deal, there has to be some sort of public debate and parliamentary vote, and their amendment today would make it much harderfor amendment today would make it much harder for the government to put in place the measures it needs for no deal preparation. i would not stop no deal, but we will get a very clear sign of the level of disquiet in parliament about the prospect of no deal, albeit the brexit secretary stephen barclay this morning, today, still striking a confident note about the amount of support he still believes mrs may has for her deal. well, it's challenging, and we've been listening. the prime minister has been very clear that there is a specific issue of concern around the backstop.

she's been listening to members of parliament on all sides of the house on that, and having those discussions over christmas with european leaders, with the taoiseach, with the german chancellor, with the dutch prime minister and many others, to make that case. because it is on both sides' interest to have a deal, to give businesses, to give your viewers, the certainty in terms of theirjobs, their security, that a deal offers. elsewhere, there is really no sign of any using in the opposition mrs may appears to be facing, despite a drinks party at downing street last night hosted by mrs may for some of those mps uneasy about brexit, the level of opposition still seems significant. and that is why there is talk at westminster about weather, potentially, brexit could be delayed, whether article 50 could be delayed, whether article 50 could be postponed to buy a bit more time for the government and the eu to

reach some sort of agreement. the former brexit secretary david davis this morning indicated he was aware of that sort of report, but suggested that would be the wrong way for the government to go. asl as i came in this morning, i walked past the heap of newspapers outside your office and the headline on one was that the european union is talking to british officials about extending the timetable, right?m other words, postponing article 50? yes. i think it is a bad idea and it isa yes. i think it is a bad idea and it is a bad idea for the british officials to talk to them... how else do you get the time that you need? a group the very fact they are talking about are tells you that mr barclay's assertion that this is the only deal on the table is not entirely accurate, because what is going on as the europeans are thinking about the next stage, another round of negotiation. after those ugly signs outside parliament yesterday, there is no

doubt that the mood has got much uglier in recent weeks —— after those ugly scenes. there is concern around the security of mps. what will be done? i suspect you will see a significantly beefed up police presence and probably a more proactive police approach. there was no disguising the really widespread concern among mps on all sides when this was raised in the commons yesterday. we also heard the speaker expressing his unease and saying he had made the police well aware of his concerns. i think what has changed is the tone of the protests, which up to now have been pretty good—natured, which up to now have been pretty good—natu red, i which up to now have been pretty good—natured, i have been doing interviews on college green and i had the chorus from the royal opera house behind me belting out beethoven's ninth, so lots of it has been quite humorous. but in the past fortnight it has got noticeably

uglier and it has reached a head with the abuse that anna soubry was expert to yesterday which has prompted considerable unease and lead to around 50 mps writing to the head of the met to ask her what she will do about it, as key style reports. —— as keith doyle reports. directly opposite the palace of westminster is an area where mps regularly come to do media interviews. it's a public place and often the scene of protests, protests which mps say are becoming increasingly intimidatory and even a security risk. soubry is a liar! this was the abuse faced by conservative mp anna soubry yesterday. i do object to being called a nazi, actually. crowd: soubry is a nazi! right, well, apologies to you if you're offended by what you're listening to, but... sorry, ijust think this is astonishing. this is what has happened to our country. a leading voice for remain in the brexit debate, the mp faced further taunts on the way back into parliament. dozens of mps have now

written to the metropolitan police commissioner, saying they are increasingly concerned about the deteriorating public order and security situation outside parliament. support for action has also come from cabinet ministers. we've got to make sure that mps and, indeed, all of us, can make these arguments about the future of our country, which people feel very strongly, and even if they disagree, disagree in a reasonable and a civilised way. it's absolutely vital that we solve that problem, and if that means measures by the police, then i'd be all in favour of them. after being called a liar and a nazi by some protesters, anna soubry has called on the police to do theirjob. scotland yard has said it now is investigating whether any criminal offence has been committed. keith doyle, bbc news. and, i'm sure, there will be pretty

intense pressure now on the police to ta ke intense pressure now on the police to take all robust line. the fear must be that the situation could escalate as we get closer to that key vote next tuesday on mrs may's brexit deal. there is a narrow line to tread between freedom of expression, freedom of protest and threatening and abusive behaviour, but i know some mps, predominantly female, who feel they have been targeted and are now uneasy about coming out of westminster and being interviewed on college green. i think the police now will be on pretty close scrutiny to see what action they will take to ensure no repeat of the treatment of anna soubry. thank you very much, norman smith. three million new homes will have to be built in england over the next 20 years to solve a crisis in social housing. a report commissioned by the charity shelter suggests it would cost up to £11 billion a year, but would save the government billions in housing benefit payments

because rents would be cheaper. john maguire reports. it's tea—time for single mum lola and her young family in bristol. put onion in it. they were living in private rented accommodation but were evicted, and have been housed by the local council as an emergency case. lola is thankfulfor a roof over their heads but says the uncertainty is stressful. people like us who just want a home, we don't want a six—month let, we don't want to be turfed out after a year, we need somewhere that's going to be a permanent home, and that's just not something that's possible nowadays, so it'sjust a constant kind of worry. i'm in limbo basically. following the grenfell tower fire, the housing charity shelter brought together a panel of 16 independent commissioners to consider the crisis in homelessness. they admit their call to build 3.1 million social houses in england over 20 years is ambitious, but insist action is essential now. they have created a huge

amount of opportunity, notjust for those who need something safe and secure and it is not available now, but also for many young people who are trapped out of ownership and many older people facing their pension years without secure homes. the commission claims that savings in housing benefit and increased tax revenue would help the scheme to pay for itself inside a0 years. in a statement, the communities secretary, james brokenshire, said... the prime minister has previously pledged to get a grip on the housing crisis. this report by shelter offers one solution to a problem that remains complex but urgent. john maguire, bbc news, bristol.

the victims‘ commissioner says she is "shocked" by the findings of a bbc news investigation into poor care in some sexual assault referral centres run by private companies. four doctors say they're aware of cases of young children in the last two years who have not been forensically examined within 72 hours. they also say they saw incorrect recording of injuries and evidence contamination. nhs england — whojointly commissions services — said it had not been made aware of concerns but called on doctors to report them to the forensic regulator. faye kirkland — who is also a gp — reports. we've spoken to eight doctors who wa nted we've spoken to eight doctors who wanted to blow the whistle on the poor ca re wanted to blow the whistle on the poor care in some sexual assault referral centres run by private companies. 0ne doctor who works across multiple centres and needs to

remain anonymous says she is aware of ten cases where young children we re of ten cases where young children were not forensically examined within three days of being assaulted because the staff were not available. ten children missing out on the samples is quite a significant number. when you lose the forensics, you can't get it back. probably a quarter of the state m e nts back. probably a quarter of the statements either cut up something that concerns me. doctor helena thornton reviews evidence, typically including videos of genital examinations. i have seen one dvd wear gloves were not worn. i have seen one wear gloves were not worn. i have seen one dvd which did not show the injuries that were documented to have been there. it is very distressing to feel that somebody at that possibly most vulnerable ever, having been to a

traumatic experience, has then been let down. do you think we are letting people down?|j let down. do you think we are letting people down? i do, yes. the first three days of forensics are crucial for young children. the first three days of forensics are crucialfor young children. the four doctors have told us that in the last two macready as they have seen cases of young children not fore nsically cases of young children not forensically examined within 72 hours because there has been nobody qualified to examine them. for nine months, the crown prosecution service refused to provide us with an audit of forensic evidence from a centre run by the company prime care, produced in 2009. the information commissioner has now ordered its release. all 13 cases went to court but the audit reveals widespread failings. 0nly audit reveals widespread failings. only one provided acceptable documentation of injuries and there we re documentation of injuries and there were just two cases where correct forensic samples were taken. in one instance, wiry victim was raped, no samples were ta ken instance, wiry victim was raped, no samples were taken from these areas.

the cps said in a statement that it fell short —— the centre fell short of standards but they worked with the police to formulate an improvement plan. prime care has been incorporated into allied healthcare, it said the problems we re healthcare, it said the problems were historical and the centre is run by someone else now. the victims commissioner wants to see change. run by someone else now. the victims commissioner wants to see changelj would like proper training, notjust two day training, and more importantly we need annual inspections. if we are not being inspected and accredited, that does not give confidence to victims. nhs england, whojointly not give confidence to victims. nhs england, who jointly commissions the services with police chiefs, said it had not been made aware of the concerns but called on the doctors to report them to the forensic science regulator. it said it plans to set up a whistle—blowing hotline for people with concerns. the cqc, the regulator for health care, says

it has changed the way it inspects services but we understand this still does not include reviewing forensic medical evidence itself. the headlines on bbc news... mps who oppose leaving the eu without a deal will today try to limit the government's financial powers to prepare for no—deal. calls for police to do more to stop abusive protesters outside parliament — after a conservative mp was confronted yesterday. three million new social homes must be built in england within 20 years to solve the housing crisis, according to a major charity. your sports headlines... liverpool rout of the fa cup, they were beaten last night by waltz, and a stunning winnerfrom ruben last night by waltz, and a stunning winner from ruben neves. wolves play shrewsbury or stoke next. the standard fourth—round tie

is arsenal against manchester united, the two most successful sides in fa cup history. —— the stand out. and we expect padre carrington to be confirmed as europe's next ryder cup captain in an announcement due at 1pm. —— we expect padraig harrington. north korean leader kimjong—un has arrived in beijing for an unannounced three day visit, at the invitation of the chinese president. mr kim is being accompanied by his wife during the visit, according to state media reports. the trip comes amid reports that negotiations are under way for a second summit between mr kim and us president donald trump. the two met last june, the first such meeting for a sitting us president. there he is with president xi. let's talk to our correspondent in seoul, laura bicker. it is the fourth meeting between kim jong—un and president xi in less than a year, what is that signal?

that north korea is reviewing its friendship with china. before last year, kim jong—un had friendship with china. before last year, kimjong—un had spent six yea rs year, kimjong—un had spent six years in power without going to see his closest ally and his main source of both trade and aid, around 80 to 90% of north korea's trade comes from china. but if he was going to meet other global leaders in step onto the international stage, he probably thought it was time that he met president xi in beijing now before he met other leaders. the last time he has come to beijing was before his first historic summit with president moonjae—in, and then before his summer with president trump. so either he is going for strategy talks or as a courtesy, or a bit of both. to try to show china what it means to north korea. to what it means to north korea. to what extent can we save this might

bea what extent can we save this might be a signal that another meeting with president trump is on the cards? the us and north korea are still pretty far apart on the whole subject of denuclearisation. when it comes to the second summit, certainly here in cell, they have given press conferences thing they hope it is a stepping stone between the countries. when it comes to donald trump, he said a location will be announced in the notts too distant future. in south korea they have speculated as to whether it might be vietnam, bangkok, even hawaii. none of those are confirmed. but if it comes down to a second summit the key question will not be where it is, but what can be achieved. since singapore, the agreement was quite vague on denuclearisation. there were no details. if there is a second summit, the two leaders would be under pressure and donald trump

would be under pressure to come away with a detailed plan of how kim jong—un plans to give up his weapons if, indeed, he plans to do that at all. thank you very much, laura -- laura bicker in seoul. at least seven people are now known to have died in separate incidents across the alps following avalanches caused by a weekend of heavy snowfall. mountain rescuers are continuing to search for several missing people as the second—highest avalanche warning remains in place across parts of austria, germany and italy. eliza phillipides reports. roads are blocked, schools are closed. but, even so, people are trying to clear pathways to get out of their homes. with so much snow already on the ground and more on the way, officials say the chances of further avalanches are high. translation: the bavarian avalanche warning institute has issued a level four warning, the second—highest, which also poses a high risk of avalanches in unsecured skiing areas. in central and northern austria,

up to 1.5 metres of snow has already fallen since the middle of last week. this greenhouse in salzburg collapsed under the weight of the snow. in southern austria, it snowed all day. many roads are blocked. the situation is very difficult. people have been stranded in villages and the helicopters deployed for avalanche control have been grounded because of the bad weather. translation: more than 500 residents are cut off, but i've spoken with the mayor and he said everyone is calm. with around 80 centimetres of snow forecast in austria from tuesday, things look set to remain difficult. the former chairman of the japanese car—maker nissan, carlos ghosn, has appeared in court for the first time since his arrest

in november on suspicion of financial misconduct. mr ghosn said he had been falsely accused and unfairly detained, and denied the charges against him. 0ur correspondent rupert—wingfield hayes is in tokyo. bring us up to date with what happened during that court appearance? we had a ten minute statement from carlos ghosn, this is the first time we have heard from him and 50 days, since his arrest at tokyo airport on november 19. he has been out of circulation in a detention cell, being interrogated for all of that time and it is the first chant mr ghosn has had to publicly state his position and belief that he is innocent, and he did that systematically going through and rejecting all of the charges against him. later, just a short while ago, his lawyer held a

lengthy press conference in which he went into much greater detail, rejecting one by one the charges laid against mr ghosn. i suppose you would say they would say that, wouldn't they? and we had to wait until it gets to court and all the evidence is laid out to see exactly how strong the case against mr ghosn is. we have learned some interesting anecdotes, mr ghosn has lost weight, he has been moved to a bigger room and never sleeps on a western—style bed instead of a tatami mat on the floor. he described him as being calm and logical in their two and a half hour daily meetings but said he is definitely upset he has been denied any family visits up until now. the 1.1 came away with at the end of this press conference was that this is the beginning of a very long road for mr ghosn, if he is indicted this week his own lawyer thinks he will probably be held until there is a trial, and because this is such a complicated case,

that could take at least six months. so it seems like carlos ghosn will remain behind bars in a cell awaiting trial for quite a long time to come. thank you for the update, rupert wingfield—hayes. the us national security advisor, john bolton, is in turkey for what are expected to be tense talks on the planned withdrawal of american troops from syria. there are some indications president trump is rowing back on how soon the pull—out will happen. in a tweet, he criticised the new york times for its coverage of his intentions on syria, saying... last month, he'd tweeted "they're all coming back and they're coming back now." he will be holding talks with the national defence minister here in turkey and the intelligence chief, and probably, most probably,

president erdogan himself. it is not in the official announcements but we expect that meeting to take place today. mr erdogan has written an opinion piece for the new york times today, outlining turkey's strategy, saying that mr trump's call to withdraw us troops was the right moves to make and that turkey had a comprehensive strategy and turkey is the right partner to move in cooperation with the us and the only committed partner as well. he talks about calling it —— forming a stabilisation force from all the fighters within syria and later issuing adequate political representation from all communities. 0ur audiences might remember that mr bolton have proposed a new condition for the withdrawal of the us troops on sunday and had said that turkey should agree to protect the kurdish

forces, the ypg forces, for the withdrawal to take place. of course, that has frustrated and kara, because i'm cara considers the ypg forces as terrorists, as a national security threat. —— that has frustrated ankara, because ankara considers. there was a walk for three decades which cost over 40,000 lives. plans have been announced to ban people in france from taking part in anti—government protests which haven't been registered with the authorities. it follows weeks of violent demonstrations over fuel duty rises, which left six people dead and hundreds more injured. the french prime minister said the new legislation would also clamp down on protestors wearing masks on the streets. £16 million of government money will be given to a charity to train 900 new children's social workers in england. the department for education is handing over the cash to social work charity frontline over the next two years, to fund the places on its training programme

for graduates and people changing their careers. latest figures show there are almost 6000 vacancies for children's social workers in england and a turnover of 14%. the education secretary damian hinds explained. the organisation, it's a voluntary organisation, does particular good work, it's been very in bringing new people into thinking about moving into social work, and we've had great success with that. so this announcement today is about further funding for another 900 people to come through this programme, which means you can do a masters social work programme while getting experience at the front line. in a moment the weather, but first let's here's victoria derbyshire with what she's got coming up in her programme at ten. good morning. a woman who launched a

petition to lower the screening age for cervical cancerfrom petition to lower the screening age for cervical cancer from 25 to 18 reached her target days after she died from the disease. we will be talking to natasha's partner dean and two of their children. also, as 50 mps write to the met over abuse and intimidation of politicians outside parliament, do you agree it is time for the police to step in? e—mail or send us a message on twitter, we're with you half an hour on bbc two, bbc news and online. now time for the weather forecast with carol kirkwood. good morning. a fairly cloudy start to the day, hazy sunshine, the cloud since breaks, more sunny spells developing, but with his keen northerly winds we're dragging in more cloud from the north sea and dave you showers. it will be brisk down the north sea coastline and with recent high tides we could see

issues with perhaps some coastal flooding. inland, looking at a blustery day, the strongest winds in the north and east. through the evening and overnight we have the northerly winds bringing in all this clouds, if you showers, some wintry in the north york the grampians —— in the north york the grampians —— in the north york moors and the grampians. to the west, a weather front will introduce an winds, thick cloud and spots of rain. in between that cloud and the crowd from the north sea, we will see sunshine, but it will feel much colder. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: mps who oppose leaving the eu without a deal will today try to limit the government's financial powers to prepare for it. calls for police to do more to stop abusive protesters outside parliament — after a conservative mp was confronted yesterday. crowd: soubry is a nazi! soubry is a nazi!

well, apologies to you if you're offended by that. ijust think this is astonishing. three million new social homes must be built in england within 20 years to solve the housing crisis, according to a major charity. some child victims of sexual assault are being failed by privately—run forensics centres, according to a bbc investigation. three—quarters of penguins that end up stranded on south america's coast every year are female. now scientists think they know why. time now for the morning briefing, where we bring you up to speed on the stories people are watching, reading and sharing. as theresa may gears up to persuade mps to back her brexit deal, taoiseach leo varadkar has said the eu is willing to give britain fresh reassurances about the irish backstop before next week's crucial vote. but talking to bbc radio 4's the today programme, former brexit secretary david davis

said that those reassurances would not be enough. let's hear more of what he had to say. the reason it will not be enough is because it needs to be legally binding, that is the first thing. secondly, it is not the only problem with the theresa may and number 10 deal. there are other problems with it in terms of giving £39 billion over with no conditions attached to it. the original idea was the 39 billion on an understanding that we get a free trade deal. we are obliged to give most of that £39 billion. sorry? we are obliged... no, we are not. that is a false assertion i'm afraid. contracts that we had signed up to, pensions agreements signed and all the rest of it, a lot of it, otherwise we would become international pariahs. no. the guideline on this is the constitutional committee of the house of lords at the beginning of this process looked at all of this, mostly their lawyers, and they said no, this is a matter of negotiation, and that is right,

it is a matter of negotiation. if we sign up to the withdrawal deal then we will be committed, then we do have to pay. but to come back to your point and the pointjohn pienaar made, the deal on the table, what mr barclay has said, is the only deal on the table, actually that will not prove to be true. the government is running out of time, running down the clock, but actually there are already signs, the taoiseach‘s comments being one of them, that the european union knows it needs a deal and it will come back. are you saying you believe they, even as we speak, in brussels, are thinking, right, let us now renegotiate, or is it beyond that, do they actually have another plan there waiting to deliver? i don't think either is likely. what is going on at the moment is they are testing the mettle of this government... they have been doing that for two years. exactly, they have, and we haven't tested them enough. it takes us back to our conversation a few months ago. the simple truth is that they will hold fast to their line,

this is the traditional approach of the european commission, the european union, they will hold fast their line until the last possible minute and then if we hold fast our line then they will actually come back and renegotiate. with what? what will they come back to negotiate? what will they offer us that they have not? it will be what we demand and this is where... we know what we want, we want, as you have just said yourself, legal assurances on the backstop. we want legal assurances. that would do it, would it? no, not by itself. we also want some sort of undertaking on a free—trade deal. we want that 39 billion conditional on delivering of a free trade deal. there are other elements too but those are the key elements. the trouble is, you know as much as anybody else what you are asking for, certainly the deal as you put it, is the sort of thing that says to the rest the world,

you might as well leave the european union, you can get all the benefits you had in it without all the costs. no, the reason for the free—trade deal, the free trade plus deal, is it is based entirely on european precedents. it is often called canada plus plus plus because it is based on canada, it is based on south korea, it is based on new zealand, all of these deals previously done with the european union. so the european union has signed up to these before. it hasn't got an argument that says this undermines the single market. this will undermine european interest because it has done it before. so the point being this will get very sticky very close to the end, that is what will happen, and we have to work out what is negotiable and what is not. and there's already been reaction to that interview, with labour mp david lammy writing on twitter... england must launch the biggest council and social housing building

drive in its history to prevent millions of people living in dangerous, overcrowded or unsuitable homes, according to a new report. a cross—party commission has told the government it must build three million new homes over 20 years to solve the country's housing crisis. former labour leader ed miliband, who was one of the report authors, spoke to bbc breakfast. this is a proposal to transform the fabric of our country and the lives of millions of people in our country and i think it is essential to solving the housing crisis. that is the conclusion of our cross—party commission. it is a big sum of money we make no bones about it, that 10 billion should be set in the context of an overall government budget for capital investment in things like transport and housing and so on of about 60 billion. so there is perhaps some room in that budget, but there's also a strong case, we argue in the commission, for really thinking about social housing in a different way.

as an economic asset to our country. if you invest in social housing government gets a return in the rent, it saves money in benefits over time because actually people are going to be... there will be less money spent on housing benefit in social rental sector compared to high private sector rent and there are higher tax revenues from the construction sector. so it is a big amount of money but it does create an asset for government and for the country and most importantly it solves the housing crisis or goes a long way to solving a housing crisis which affects i think everyone in our country. what is wrong with the government's current plans? 9 billion until 2022. they say they are going to build a quarter of a million homes in that time. they are totally inadequate. the reality is the governments of both parties, this is not party political, have been inadequate on this. the last labour government did not do nearly enough. this government isn't doing nearly enough. to give you one figure, in the years after the second world war governments labour and conservative built about 126,000 social homes, council housing and housing associations, every single year. in the last 20 years or so we have built 20,000 social homes per year.

that is one of the big causes of the housing crisis. what is important about this report is this is notjust important for the people who might be living in social homes and we want that to go beyond the neediest to some of the elderly who face insecure private rented accommodation or families who feel trapped in high—cost housing. but also for people who do not live in social housing this is an essential way of tackling the housing crisis because because spiralling house prices, low levels of home ownership relatively speaking, these are in some senses a consequence of our failure to build in the social rented sector. i am glad that you said that various governments have failed for many years. theresa may has said that she suggested developers may be to blame because they have been land banking and waiting for prices to rise. do you think that is an issue?

yes, i think it is an issue and i said that when i was running to be prime minister in 2015. i welcome one of the things that theresa may has done which is to lift the cap on council borrowing to spend on council housing. i think she does in some sense recognise that this is a problem and that the attitude needs to change but i think the problem is the scale. if we are building a few thousand more, 10,000 more, council homes a year, then that is just not nearly the scale of the problem, meeting the scale of the problem, and it is not nearly meeting what we did under governments of both parties in the period after the second world war. the popularity of house plants will continue to rise in 2019 as millennials who don't have gardens seek to beautify their homes, according to the royal horticultural society. matthew pottage, from the rhs, told bbc breakfast which plants are the most popular.

ferns here, foliage plants, there is one called devil's ivy, there is a swiss cheese plant, mother—in—law's tongue, a couple of those were really big in the 70s and having a massive revival now. and you put it down to? social media? social media is really helping us, instagram, quite visual social media, where you have things with colourful foliage, textural foliage, interesting forms. they are really cool close—up photos and a lot of people do not have their own gardens and these things are great in the home just on your regular windowsill so everyone can get gardening. i have got a very good record of killing plants, of these ones here, what are the easiest and is there one that requires least care? mother—in—law's tongue. absolutely indestructible. there it is, in the middle of the camera. yeah, with sword shaped leaves. you would probably have to put that in a freezer to kill it. i do not know if that is something you have tried before. no. they need hardly any water, just a sunny windowsill, they are really easy and straightforward.

it is the fun of growing something, of nurturing something, and bringing it on in your home. house plants and grow your own both having a real big trend at the moment, people are interested to know where their food comes from and are having a go at growing it themselves. we can look at what you are looking at and reading about. looking at the abuse yesterday. also women over 52 old to love? someone saying he would be incapable of

loving a woman over 50. someone saying women loving a woman over 50. someone saying women over loving a woman over 50. someone saying women over 50 breathing a sigh of relief. he is known for courting controversy in his comments. he said 50—year—old women do not see me either, they have something else to do other than be around in ——. he said at! this is very cute. us governor's sleepy son invades speech. the two—year—old son of california's new governor. he has stolen the show at his inauguration speech. he climbed on the stage with his dad and didn't want to go. his dad jolt this was scripted! he said one of his policies would be support for appearance. he said they need support, trust me! cue laughterfrom

eve ryo ne support, trust me! cue laughterfrom everyone who was watching. his mum tried to grab him, his older brother tried to grab him, his older brother tried to grab him, his older brother tried to grab him, it took both of them together, but he had made his mark. the two—year—old them together, but he had made his mari the e two—year—old ” ' career in sport now and a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. good morning. we'll be looking at the draw for round four of the fa cup in a minute — but wolves pulled off the final surprise of the third round weekend, beating the league leaders liverpool 2—1. ben croucher reports. the fa cup may not have been top of liverpool's priority list this season, now it's not on the list at all. a night that ended in a whimper but started with a bit of a bang, well, off the field.

liverpool's changes included a portuguese debutant and a dutch one off the bench. still, even the experienced ones were capable of errors. james milner‘s loose touch, fabinho's missed tackle, rauljimenez‘s run — and finish. commentator: rauljimenez,1—0! that was all there was to show in the first half. divock 0rigi's powerful strike the best goal of the game — for about four minutes. commentator: nevez, might have a go — did have a go! scores. rueben nevez for wolverhampton wanderers! it moved and it dipped and it beat mignolet! shaqiri's free—kick had the dip, had the swerve, but didn't beat john ruddy, or the wolverhampton woodwork — that close to an equaliser. but that couldn't save liverpool from defeat. another trophy slips py, but the result that might just see them win another one. very good things.

all my responsibility, really, no rhythm, so it looks sometimes like that. shot from long range. the ball is in, 2—1. that is pretty much the story of the game. if you're looking for more fa cup action, the bbc sport website has the best of it — two minutes—worth of third—round goals — and you can vote for your favourite. the draw for the fourth round produced one stand—out tie — arsenal against manchester united. arsenal are the most successful side in fa cup history — they've won it 13 times, most recently two years ago — but that's only once more than manchester united, so we should be in for a treat. there are a couple of other ties worth a mention —

non—league barnet, the lowest—ranked side left in the competition, are at home to brentford. and newport county's reward for knocking out leicester is a trip to middlesbrough of the championship. yes, it is a long journey, a tough game. it would be good to see tony pulis, the newport man, who is in charge. it is a game we will look forward to. hopefully they are concentrating on going for promotion and getting back into the premier league. they are a big club and they take their eye off the ball and we have a very good day and surprise them again. the wolves win obviously features on all today's back pages. the telegraph sports section talks of neves's "wonder goal". the sun are pretty harsh on liverpool — "dunces with wolves" is their headline. the mirror report that the manchester united players want 0le gunnar solskjaer to say on as manager, past the end of the season. but in the express,

the man tipped to be taking over at united, mauricio pochettino, says he'd like a chat with arsene wenger, to discuss the merits of sticking with a club for the long—haul — in particular, putting up with a move to a new stadium. we're expecting padraig harrington to be confirmed as europe's next ryder cup captain this afternoon. harrington has been vice—captain for the last three contests and he's the overwhelming favourite to take over from thomas bjorn. europe face the usa at whistling straits in wisconsin, in september of next year. the announcement, at 1pm, will be streamted live on all the major social media platforms and the ryder cup website. is there a more spectacular setting for a motor rally than this? negotiating the peruvian desert dunes from lima to pisco was the challenge on the first stage of the dakar rally. the toyota of two time winner nasser al—attiyah leads reigning champion carlos sainz

by almost two minutes. britain's sam sunderland is fifth in the motorcycle category — he won the event two years ago. that's all from me for now but don't forget to watch sportsday on bbc news at 6:30pm and later on radio 5 live you can listen to commentary from that league cup semi—final first leg, between tottenham and chelsea. that's goodbye from me but there'll be more from the bbc sport centre throughout the day. the headlines on bbc news: mps who oppose leaving the eu without a deal will today try to limit the government's financial powers to prepare for no—deal. calls for police to do more to stop abusive protesters outside parliament — after a conservative mp was confronted yesterday. three million new social homes must be built in england within 20 years to solve the housing crisis,

according to a major charity. every year, thousands of penguins become stranded on south america's coast — and most of them are females. why it happens has been a mystery for years, but now scientists believe they may have found the answer. 0ur science reporter laura foster has the story. magellanic penguins mate for life but every year, when breeding season is over, they head to the water to feed. not much was known about where they went until recently, when a team of scientists used trackers to follow a small group and found the males and females went their separate ways. they found the males, who are bigger and thought to be stronger swimmers, would head to deeper water, whereas the females travelled farther, preferring to search for food in shallow places. the researchers say that travelling further means they're more likely to run into trouble. they usually appeared stranded

on the beach once they die at sea. and other times they arrive to the coast in that condition, because they were not able to get enough food, and so they go to the beach to die. it's not known exactly what causes these strandings but the fishing industry and man—made pollution is often blamed. although magellanic penguins aren't endangered, fewer females could affect future numbers. the team in patagonia are going to continue studying the same group to learn more about the routes they take to see what more can be done to assist the penguins. how do you fancy a roll up television, or a robot which folds up your laundry? they're just two of the products being unveiled at this year's consumer electronics show in las vegas. there are also gadgets to help afflictions brought on by modern life, including the world's first glasses to help prevent so—called "text neck". our technology reporter dave lee is in las vegas for us.

welcome to ces. this event is something of a special preview before the main show, so that the press get a chance to see some of the new ideas. follow me. this is one of the more frightening things i've ever put on my face. tell me what this is. this is a robotic laundry folder. it helps you fold your entire laundry load in underfive minutes. how lazy do you need to be to have one of these in your home? instead of just folding your clothes? it takes ten seconds to fold a shirt. i ask you how lazy do you need to be to have a dishwasher at home? washing the dishes takes a lot longer than folding clothes, though. i would beg to differ, i mean, it takes quite a while and you need to get to that quality. what is the — apart from wagging its tail, i hope it's its tail, in my face, what is this for? it's for comfort, giving you a sense

of comfort and to relax. the more you scratch, the more excited it gets. the more excited it gets? yeah. tell me why someone should sleep wearing this because it's quite, i'm very aware this is on my face. it's not, surely that's not going to be very comfortable? the purpose is that it needs to be in your face because right now, in the modern life, there are so many distractions and when you're sleeping, you're thinking about everything that's going on and everything that's around you. this is a plank of wood as far as i can see, but you are at a technology show, so i assume there's something else within this plank of wood. so, so this is, you know, looks like a piece of wood or a piece of furniture, but when you touch it, so you can interact with different features. so you take that large factor, shrink it down to something this size, place it in the store, no distribution, it's fresh,

no preservatives, and it's cheaper too because a lot — almost half the cost of the lightest store's distribution. so how do you make sure that when someone grabs their bread, it's not going to be too doughy in the middle or something? so we're constantly, there's a constant loop, i mean down to the millisecond of development, proofer, mixing. all this stuff is constantly evolving, we have eight different readings we are taking to make sure it's a quality loaf. i don't think it's unfair to say that a lot of what we've seen here is kind of half baked. many of the ideas that are at this show will never go sale. ces breaks down into two sort of groups. there's the fun gadgety stuff that you kind of write about and cover because it'sjust so bonkers, and then the other big sort of industry trends, like sort of 8k and 5g and speaker, voice—activated devices, which are not necessarily single devices but a trend that will play out across the year. now, after much publicity about the horrors of single—use plastics, the team on bbc breakfast decided to try an experiment to find out how much a typical family throws

away in a single month. they asked one brave family to be guinea pigs, and gave them a special bin for the trial. tim muffett reports. a month ago, in northumberland, we made a special delivery. hello. this is your breakfast bin. since then, all of this family's plastic rubbish has gone in the breakfast bin. christmas out of the way, i have come back for a catchup. i was kind of hoping that there would not be that much because we are trying to cut back, but it is quite a shock to the system really how much we get through, and then if you think every family is going through this much, over the country, it's astronomical how much plastic we are consuming. i can't believe how full it is. i wish you could just use plastic again, rather than throw it away.

the last bit of plastic rubbish to go into the bin and my goodness, it's pretty full, isn't it? yes, it is. there you go, one christmas, one month, this much plastic rubbish. how do you feel about that? not good. i can't quite believe it, really. no celebration should warrant this level of wastefulness, so i'm really going to try hard to pull back next year. ministers have been arriving for the first cabinet meeting of the new year. chris grayling and liz truss.

this meeting is going to be dominated by brexit. theresa may trying to drum up support for her withdrawal deal. huge pressure in parliament to avoid no deal. we can give you a glimpse of what is going on in dublin where the deputy pm is meeting his german counterpart this morning. the irish prime minister has said the eu is willing to give britain fresh reassurances about the adage backstop before the vote. seeing avoiding a hard border in ireland is a fundamental concern. so far 2019 has been rather cloudy but and windy weather

wet and windy'weather associated low pressure which is moving with low pressure which is moving away and we have this northerly strea m away and we have this northerly stream across the uk which is bringing us cleaner crisper air. some sunshine at the moment. this is in greater london. he seen replicated across many parts. more clouded across northern ireland, northern and eastern scotland and the eastern side of england. the wind not as strong as yesterday. down the eastern coasts you will notice that strong fairly brisk north—westerly wind. gusts of up to 40-50 north—westerly wind. gusts of up to 40—50 mph across eastern areas of scotland. potentially up to 50 mph and with high tides we could see some coastal flooding around norfolk and suffolk. a lear day compared to yesterday. maximum temperatures getting up to 9 degrees. this

evening and overnight we will continue with cloud and eastern areas, some cloud moving into the west but in between a frost sandwich. temperatures down to minus one or minus two. cloud either side of that where temperatures will probably hold up about three or four degrees. julie start to wednesday. sunshine across most areas. cloud moving into northern ireland and across scotland. maybe a few spots of rain. temperatures lower. high pressure dominating weather but we have this warm front across in northern areas as we go through into thursday. around this high pressure we start to drag unless called air as they go through thursday. you will notice that across goal and and northern ireland. lots of cloud. a

few break or sunny spells breaking through the cloud from time to time. temperatures nine or 10 degrees in the north. dole chilly for the south. we keep a lot of cloud for the weekend. a few bright sunny spells from time to time and temperatures coming up in the south. temperatures nine or 10 celsius. hello, it's tuesday, it's ten o'clock, i'm victoria derbyshire. police are ignoring abuse including racism aimed at politicians outside parliament. that's what the mp anna soubry thinks — she was called a nazi during a bbc interview in westminster and then pursued down the street by a group of protestors. this is what has happened to our country, actually. this is what's happened to our country. but anyway let's try and move on and be positive about things. now over 50 mps have written to the metropolitan police commissioner cressida dick to express their concerns

about security outside parliament. we'll speak to some of those politcians. children are being being let down when they are at their most vulnerable after being sexually assaulted. 0ne doctor says she's seen shocking footage of children being examined by poorly trained staff at some private referral centres.