and, of course, they need to be back at their colonies so that they can reproduce, and so they can maintain a viable bird colony and a viable population. the penguins are literally being transported in military aircraft and being flown back south towards their colonies. it's not known exactly what causes these strandings, but the fishing industry and man—made pollution is often blamed. magellanic penguins aren't endangered, but fewer females could affect future numbers of this species. 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 help these penguins. laura foster, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's susan powell. good afternoon. a pretty quiet story for most of the uk at the moment, lots of sunshine and a bit of a northerly breeze. butjust look at cromer this morning, combined with high spring tides we have seen

coastal upwelling and some flooding. some very stormy scenes. this is because of high pressure, that is feeding the northerly winds down gci’oss feeding the northerly winds down across the north sea and bringing the more chilly arctic air to all parts of the uk, hence the fresher feel. the winds will stay strong gci’oss across the south—east of england this afternoon, particularly anywhere from felixstowe to southend, in the next hour or so we could see similar scenes to those we just saw in cromer with the coastal upwelling. it is very calm in comparison, the bigger picture. lighter winds in scotla nd bigger picture. lighter winds in scotland than yesterday. a northerly breeze is affecting the whole country, making it feel chilly and bringing some showers into the north sea coast, but lots of sunshine this afternoon, temperatures peaking at around eight or 9 degrees. the wind eases this evening, still coming off the north sea and the chance of showers, but was largely clear skies we are setting up perfectly for quite a widespread

frost. nothing too sabia, the shorter glands of scotland perhaps as low as _3’ glands of scotland perhaps as low as —3, many of the towns and cities are sitting just above freezing first thing on wednesday. it will feel more chilly overall. notjust from first thing being a slow step to the day, even as the hours go by and the sun comes out, temperatures only really get halfway up into single figures and you need to factor in the northerly winds, by the time you do that, it will feel closer to freezing for many. we have a little weather front pushing into the north—west later, bringing some not particularly significant rain to the north—west of scotland, but the red behind me isa of scotland, but the red behind me is a warm front trying to topple in and bring in some slightly milder air. many will stay in the arctic air. many will stay in the arctic airon air. many will stay in the arctic air on thursday but scotland and northern ireland will progressively move into some milder air that has been reconditioned by the warmer waters of the atlantic.

sets us up for slightly higher temperatures across the northern half of the uk on thursday, sadly it drags back in quite a bit of cloud, so drags back in quite a bit of cloud, so there is a payoff. the best of the sunshine on thursday in the south—east but still pretty chilly. that just about sums up the south—east but still pretty chilly. thatjust about sums up the rest of the week, quite a lot of cloud on friday but turning milder. a reminder of our main story this lunchtime senior mps from both sides of the commons join forces in a bid to stop a no deal brexit. that's all from the bbc news at one — so it's goodbye from me — and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. good afternoon, it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news. padraig harrington will be europe's next ryder cup captain. the annoucement was made in the last half hour — he's has been vice—captain for the last three contests and played in six ryder cups himself.

europe face the usa at whistling straits in wisconsin, in september of next year. harrington said he's thrilled, but it wasn't a role he accepted lightly. i know we are going through a new venue, it is an away match, we are going to have on average, three more rookies coming into the team, and i have to be a part of that team and insurer that i find an edge to make sure the team perform to the best of their abilities, get the most of them, and hopefully get a win. the football association is looking into claims that the wales and crystal palace goalkeeper wayne hennessey made a nazi salute. his club—mate max meyer, who is german, posted a picture on social media, showing hennessey at a team meal. hennessey says he was waving at the person taking the picture and shouting to them — he said that "frozen in a moment" it looked as though he was making a completely inappropriate gesture but he would never do that.

stoke city have sacked manager gary rowett, only eight months after he took charge. they're mid—table in the championship and that draw with league one side shrewsbury in the fa cup at the weekend seems to have been the tipping point. all members of his coaching staff have also left — stoke say they want to appoint rowett‘s successor as quickly as possible. chelsea manager maurizio sarri has urged the club's fans not to sing offensive songs about their opponents tottenham in their league cup semi—final first leg tonight. blues fans have been under the spotlight in recent weeks after a number of high—profile incidents. around 5000 of them will be at wembley, accompanied by stamford bridge stewards. this is their first match against tottenham since anti—semitic chants resurfaced last month at a europa league tie in hungary. i think that we need the support of our friends, of course. but we would like to have their support for us, not against the opponents.

england have named a 28—strong women's squad for the upcoming training camp in qatar. among those returning from injury is birmingham city striker ellen white, england's player of the year last season and the league's top scorer — she's been out of action for the past few weeks with a back problem. the lionesses travel to doha on tuesday to continue their preparations for next month's shebelieves cup in the united states and the world cup in france this summer. one of england's gold medal winners from april's commonwealth games returns to the netball squad for their last test before the world cup later this year. shooterjo harten was a core member of the side that beat australia to take the title and after three months out with a knee injury, she's back for the quad series, which starts on sunday. england will be taking on australia again, along with new zealand and south africa. serena guthrie captains the side,

as ama agbeze is still injured. england captain joe root and his deputyjos buttler have played their last match for sydney thunder in the big bash league, before they head to the west indies. they didn't get much practice in — buttler was out for 5 against brisbane heat and root had yet to score when they went off for rain — brisbane winning by 15 runs on the duckworth—lewis method. the first warm—up match is in a week's time. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport. i'll be back with more in afternoon live at 2pm. scotland yard has said officers will deal ‘robustly‘ with people suspected of committing criminal offences outside the houses of parliament. it follows a complaint by dozens of mps to the police about harassment and abuse in the increasingly tense brexit debate. the mps wrote to the metropolitan police commissioner

expressing ‘serious concerns‘ about the "deteriorating public order and security situation" — after the conservative mp anna soubry was branded a "nazi" by protesters during a live tv interview about brexit yesterday — then pursued back to parliament. the speaker of the house of commons, john bercow, has confirmed he's also written a letter to the met police commissioner, cressida dick about yesterday's incidents. here he is addressing the house of commons a little earlier. it is frankly intolerable if members of parliament, and journalists, go about their business in fear. this situation cannot stand. i have written with force, passion and politeness to the commissioner of the metropolitan police seeking a review of policy. that was the speaker of the house

talking earlier in the commons. well our home affairs correspondent danny shaw has been speaking to deputy assistant commissioner laurence taylor, commander for brexit preparations, about the situation. it is important to recognise that policing with brexit is challenging for the police service. it is a contingious issue with opposing views from a number of people. our role as a police service is to facilitate people's right to protest, but do that whilst balancing the needs of everyone — of our own staff, politicians, members of the public, and those who wish to protest, so that people can go about their daily business. i think everyone would appreciate that expect that statement, but we saw yesterday crossed a line, didn't it? we take any allegation of a criminal offence seriously. we have taken the allegations from yesterday, we are looking into all of those, and investigating whether yesterday met any criminal threshold,

and then deciding what action we want to take. so this involves incidents relating to anna soubry and others? yes, we were made aware of an number of allegations from yesterday, we are currently assessing those as to whether they meet the criminal threshold and what police action should look like on the back of that investigation. how does assessing the allegations look like? you have the footage there, don't you? we have to understand the evidence, we have to speak to those at the scene, we have to understand from a legal perspective whether the threshold is met for any criminal offences, then we need to make sure that we take the appropriate action in the circumstances to deal with the findings of that. is calling someone a nazi criminal offence? that is what we are assessing, whether that meets the criminal threshold. what about haranguing an mp as she walks into house of commons, it looks like she was surrounded and stopped from getting

to the place where she works. as part of the assessment, we are looking at that incident as to whether we believe that meets the criminal threshold. it is important that people have the right to protest, and people do have the right to voice their opinion. as i mentioned earlier, the critical role for the police is to balance that against the needs of everybody. politicians should be allowed to go about their work, my officers should be allowed to do their work, and my plea to people who wish to protest is by all means, come and protest, but please respect the views of others and recognise the boundaries within which you wish to voice your opinions. when you look back at yesterday, do you think honestly that it was well policed? or do you think officers should have stepped in earlier? we have reviewed the policing at westminster, i have given clear direction to officers that if su bsta ntive offences are witnessed at the scene, i do expect arrests to be made, and i do expect us to intervene if people are prevented from going

about their daily business. that would seem to be an indication that you feel it wasn't as well policed that should have been yesterday. it is important that we are always able to review policing response and that we look to improve it wherever we can. we have put measures in place, certainly up to the 15th and the vote in parliament, where we will review our policing activity again. what can we expect to see outside parliament today? you can expect to see visible policing, as engaging with the protesters, and a reassuring policing presence at westminster — be assured we are taking action there. and more officers there? more officers than we had before christmas. do you expect that to continue? we expect our policing response to brexit to be continued, and we will review that to make sure it is appropriate with what we have to deal with. what kind of work is going on behind

the scenes to look at some of the individuals who might be involved in these protests? as always, we do a lot of work behind the scenes. we engage with people involved in protest, we want to talk to people, and we want to talk to people about what our policing activity is. we work a lot with the parliament and stakeholders within parliament so that we can reassure them and work with them so that they can continue their important business whilst we police activity outside. that was deputy assistant and commissioner, the commander for brexit preparations at scotland yard talking to our home affairs correspondent. as we've been reporting, a court in edinburgh has quashed the findings of a scottish government investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against the former scottish first minister, alex salmond. the holyrood administration had admitted it didn't properly follow its own procedures. well, mr salmond made a long statement outside the court — let's hear more of what he had

to say. i'm thinking about three things. the last time i was in that court was to be sworn in as first minister of scotland. i never thought it possible that at any point, i would be taking the scottish government to court. therefore, while i'm glad about the victory which has been achieved today, i'm sad that it was necessary to take this action. the consequences are very clear. because the process has been agreed as unlawful, as unfair, and tainted by apparent bias, then the scottish government have had to concede on the case, and on the expenses to the maximum extent. that is going to raise a cost

to the public purse of many many hundreds of thousands of pounds. and all of this was unnecessary. because throughout the process, we offered mediation, legal arbitration, so that this matter could be properly settled without having to come to the highest court in the land. at every stage, that was re—buffed by the permanent secretary. i notice in their submissions that the advocate for the government said that the government accepted institutional responsibility, not personal, but institutional responsibility. therefore, i suggest that the permanent secretary for the scottish government now accept that responsibility and considers her position. i will finish the statement, then i will of course take some questions. the second question is lack of candour.

this case turned and came to a conclusion by the total surrender of the government's position, because of the documents commission ordered by lord pentland, which met between christmas and the new year. where civil servants, under oath, had to produce hundreds of documents, which the government had refused before to provide to the court. i would have thought a public authority, given what these documents showed, and these documents, for now at least, are under the protection of the court, would not have required a court order in order to have the transparency and openness and to allow the case to be settled on its merits. thirdly, i am struck by this fact — i have been deeply troubled throughout the case by the leaking of confidential information by whoever.

any complaints process has to be transparent, balanced and fair, and confidential. that is in the interest of the complainers and those complained about. we have a process, or at least had one in the scottish government, called fairness at work. i know about it because i introduced it. thank goodness that is still in force, at least for civil servants, as opposed to the total mess which was introduced by the permanent secretary. but if confidentiality is breached, it then undermines the entire process and obviously, that was done, in terms of leaks to the tabloid newspaper, and also crucially, by a leak of the reported advice of the lord advocate, breaching the essential requirement of the separation of criminaljustice from politics, something which i have never seen done in recent scottish history.

presumably, these leaks were deliberate and malicious, and yet the permanent secretary for the scottish government has refused to hold an enquiry into where these leaks came from. alex salmond speaking earlier on. you're watching bbc news, it is 1:48pm. now a robotic cat comforter — and a machine which folds up your laundry — they're just two of the products designed to make modern life a little easier that are being unveiled at this year's consumer electronics show in las vegas. our technology reporter dave lee has been finding out more. 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. 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 comfort and to relax. the more you scratch, the more excited it gets. the more you scratch, the more excited it gets?! yes. so you take that large central 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 loaf at the store 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 being developed, and we have sensors, 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. in a moment we'll have all the business news, but first the headlines on bbc news: police say they'll deal robustly with anyone who commits a criminal offence outside parliament — after a conservative mp and others were confronted yesterday. scotland's highest court rules the government didn't follow correct procedures, while investigating sexual harassment claims against alex salmond. speaking outside court, mr salmond insisted he is not guilty of any criminality. three million new social homes much be built in england within 20 years to solve the "housing crisis", according to a major charity. i'm maryam moshiri

in the business news. sales at morrisons rose 3.6% in the last nine weeks to january — giving the supermarket its fourth consecutive christmas of growth. but growth at stores was just 0.6%, the rest of the sales were from its wholesale business. morrisons supplies amazon with groceries to sell to amazon customers. sales at aldi rose by 10.4 % over christmas. gas and electrixity supplier economy energy has ceased trading. the group, which was banned from taking on new customers last week, is the 9th energy supplier to fail in the past year.the energy regulator ofgem has said it will choose a new supplier to take on economy energy's 235,000 customers as quickly as possible. samsung says it expects profits to fall nearly 30% as demand for smartphones and memory chips slows. the firm supplies a number

of smartphone makers — and has been hit as theirfortures slow too. it's the first quarterly profit drop in two years as strong demand for chips had boosted earnings. first it was asda and today morrisons and tesco have also both annouced they are cutting their petrol prices in response to falls in the wholesale market. yesterday asda said customers will benefit from up to ip per litre off unleaded and 2p per litre off diesel. sainsburys is yet to cut the cost of fuel on its forecourts. is this a price cutting war? simon williams is from the rac. you think supermarkets are not doing enough to keep up with each other in terms of cost—cutting for petrol? enough to keep up with each other in terms of cost-cutting for petrol? we often talk about a price war with

supermarkets, unfortunately, it has been a cold war since october, when wholesale prices started to fall. retailers have been making a bigger margin than they would normally do, and that is had a negative effect on the average price we pay across the uk, which currently stands at 124 petrol and 134 diesel. if they were being fair with motorists, we would being fair with motorists, we would be paying a lot less for our fuel than we are now, immigration what has happened. —— 120 four petrol and 134 diesel. why i do it they doing this? usually they use pedal as a way to get people into store. at the moment, the other supermarkets, tesco, sainsbury‘s and morrisons, are charging between 2.5 and 4p more than asda, which is probably about 2- than asda, which is probably about 2— 3p more than they would normally charge. that is having a negative

effect, because other retailers around the country are starting to look to those supermarkets as they have one fifth of all sites, but sell 45% of fuel. they look to supermarkets for their pricing, so they haven't reduced them as much as they haven't reduced them as much as they would if they had cut further. one fifth of market, but 45% of all fuel. interestingly, one of the reasons they sell so much fuel is you expect supermarkets to be cheaper. i went to a supermarket in timbre dwells expecting to find cheaper diesel and i didn't. is there a variation? there is. that happens between retailers. they have cut the price to 1.13 —— 113.7. people will pay no more than that. that is a price cap. the other retailers don't wear with a price cap, so you may find that one particular retailer might charge 4p morejust a few particular retailer might charge 4p more just a few miles away. it depends on the local retail of the

area. generally, a supermarket makes the prices lower, but that isn't necessarily the case at the moment. thank you forjoining us. i'm sure petrol prices will be something we will talk about for the rest of 2019. and some other stories today. the average uk house price rose by 1.3% over the year to december — hitting just under £230,000, according to new figures from the halifax. the group says it expects the year ahead to be steady, with continued stability in house prices and prices rising between 2% and 4%. former nissan chairman carlos ghosn has appeared in court for the first time since his shock arrest injapan in november last year. he is accused of financial misconduct, including under—reporting his pay. mr ghosn, who was led into court in handcuffs, with a rope around his waist, said in a prepared statement that he had been "wrongly accused and unfairly detained". amazon has eclipsed microsoft to become the world's most valuable listed company. the online retailer was valued at $797 million when the us stock

market closed last night, after edging past microsoft. that's valued at $789 billion. jeff bezos, the founder of amazon, is the world's richest man, with a fortune of $135 billion, according to bloomberg's billionaire index. that is all the round—up of the business from me, $135 billion, that's all right, isn't it? that's quite a lot of money! that as it until 2pm, we will have much more news for you. now it's time for a look at the weather. we can cross the newsroom to susan powell. good afternoon, it is a good afternoon, a lot of sunshine at there at the moment, certainly more than yesterday. here is the low pressure that brought the strong winds to scotland yesterday, that is causing chaos across the continent full stop we sit on the eastern side

of low pressure, and that has shifted us into a northerly airstream. it is fresher today, and the north wind is coming down on the north sea coast. with high spring tides, there are some coastal upwelling and flooding, still for parts of the south—east of england for the next few hours. this afternoon, temperatures 7—9. this evening and tonight, the wind will start to become lighter, the skies are largely clear. a few showers are along the north sea coast, but at this time of year, calm conditions, clear skies, setting up nicely for a widespread frost. we haven't seen too much of this recently, nothing too much of this recently, nothing too severe, probably —3 in the scottish glens, in towns, generally staying above. on wednesday, there will be some sunshine, once again, some cloud on the northerly breeze. some thicker cloud for northern

ireland and western scotland, eventually some rain in the far west of scotland. eastern scotland get the best of the sunshine. temperatures will struggle for many, much colder than today. we are looking at the mid range of single figures, but we should add on the northerly wind. it will feel, for many of us, close to freezing. quite a cold day to come on wednesday. remember, the cloud in the north—west, this red, it is a warm front. it is all relative, we will have no heatwave, but mild air will try to topple in over the top of the big area of high pressure for the second part of the week. the southern half of the uk on thursday will have the cold blues, some sunny spells. but to the north, cloud coming in, but something a bit milder. for scotland and northern ireland, more grey on thursday, but temperatures in double figures. in the south, some brightness, but highs ofjust the south, some brightness, but highs of just six the south, some brightness, but highs ofjust six or seven. the cloud will continue for the end of

the week, cardiff and london back at average temperatures as the week comes to an end. into the weekend, we will have westerly wind, they should still be some fine weather around, it will be quite breezy, saturday will be quite cloudy as well. so if you like the sunshine, get out there now, because there is 20 of it to be found. hello, you're watching afternoon live. i'm simon mccoy. today at two: scotland yard investigates the scenes outside parliament after a pro—remain mp was called a nazi. senior mps from both sides of the commons join forces in a bid to stop a no—deal brexit. the scottish government admits its handling of sexual misconduct allegations against former first minister alex salmond was unlawful.

isaid a i said a process used against me was unfair, are and biased, tainted by bias. i also said i was not guilty of any criminality. the first of these has been established, the second is to come. and a fear of more avalanches in the alps after heavy snowfalls