you're watching bbc newsroom live — it's eleven am and these are the main stories this morning: andy murray announces he'll retire after wimbledon — but in a tearful news conference he said his injured hip could force him out even sooner. i'm not sure, um... i'm not sure i am able to play through the pain, you know, for another four orfive months. work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, announces further changes to the roll—out of universal credit — as the high court upholds a judicial review of the way the benefit is calculated. the airline flybe is being bought for just over two million pounds — by a group including virgin atlantic and stobart. the award—winning bbc television and radio presenter — dianne oxberry — has died at the age of fifty—one, following a short illness. octavian — a french—born rapperfrom southeast

london — is named the bbc music sound of 2019 winner; the first rapper to win the title since 50 cent. and we'll be getting an update on the case of ella kissi—debrah, a nine—year—old girl who died in 2013 from an asthma attack, believed to be linked to air pollution. good morning. welcome to bbc newsroom live. at a dramatic and tearful press conference, andy murray has announced his intention to retire from tennis. the 31—year—old says he plans to quit after this year's wimbledon, but fears next week's australian open could be the final tournament of his career. the former world number one,

who's won three grand slam titles, is struggling to recover from hip surgery, as patrick geary reports. andy murray will have wanted this press conference to be about his return and recovery. his body was telling him otherwise — one of the sport's steeliest characters forced to take a break from the questions. he came back — he always does. andy, does that mean that this might be your last tournament? um...yeah, ithink... i think there's — there's a chance of that, yeah, for sure. um...yeah, there's a chance of that, for sure, because — yeah, like i said, i'm not sure.

i'm not sure i'm able to — to play through the pain, you know, for another four orfive months. it has been caused by a lifetime's exertion — the incredible strength, mental, physical and emotional, which won him the 2013 wimbledon title, ending a 77—year wait that had become a national obsession. murray won it again three years later, the same year he won his second olympic gold medal. but by 2017, the problems with his hip were obvious. despite surgery, here, finally, was his limit, one last wimbledon now his last goal. i said to my team, look, i think i can kind of get through this until wimbledon. that's where i'd like to... that's where i would like to stop, stop playing. but i'm also not certain

i'm able to do that. murray's plan may succumb to the pain. one of britain's greatest sportsmen will summon the energy to play roberto bautista agut next week in melbourne. it may be the last time we see him on a tennis court. unsurprisingly there's been quite a reaction from the tennis world... former world number one andy roddick called murray an absolute legend... describing him as one of the best tacticians in history who achieved unreal results in a brutal era. billie jean king tweeted to murray... and current world numberfive juan martin del potro tweeted

to urge murray to keep fighting.... let's go to salford now and speak to our sports news correspondent david 0rnstein... it is all quite a heart wrench watching that. i am feeling emotional because i have covered much of andy murray's career, i wrote his column for the bbc sport website and fordham closely and the last few years and it is seeing how might that is emotional but it is not a great shock because this is an injury that spans 20 months. he struggled at wimbledon last two yea rs struggled at wimbledon last two years and had an operation in

australia last january and we felt this was coming and although he plans to retire after wimbledon if he gets there it is a small chance she will undergo surgery and, feeling better and get back to playing and feel good and then continue for longer. i think that is removed and the emotion and anguish in his face said it all. it is difficult news for one briton‘s ever sportspeople. one of the things that must make it difficult to seeing those older than him carrying on, what is it about his game on his body or something from your courtside view you feel it is about andy murray that has brought his career to a shorter end? from a young age those around andy murray knew he needed to bulk up physically, he was a spindly young man from scotland. you may remember when he broke through in 2005 when

he turned professional he went five sets with thomas johansson he turned professional he went five sets with thomasjohansson and were struggling physically and they put him ona struggling physically and they put him on a strenuous physical programme and he has turned into one of the fittest players on the tour but injuries have always dogged him on his knee but he has patella tendinitis and in his back and head and that have been associated issues and that have been associated issues and when you see the likes of roger federer selling through without a serious injury in his career, novak djokovic as well although rafael nadal has struggled badly, murray's game is physically taxing, running to and from the net and also across the baseline putting strain on his limbs and a way that others have not had to do. sadly injuries have a lwa ys had to do. sadly injuries have always fought around, and the reports he said andy murray has a lwa ys reports he said andy murray has always come back with this looks like sadly the one he does not come back from but he will still have a great influence on tennis whether it

is on or off the court, he does a lot of things around the sport, he has commentated and is very outspoken and integral to negotiations with only the player council, supportive of women's rights in sport especially also spoken well about politics. i interviewed him last year when he said he was setting up a talent management agency to be a mentor or two young athletes coming through inspire the next generation and don't forget he won two 0lympic inspire the next generation and don't forget he won two olympic gold medals as well so on top of his success medals as well so on top of his success within the tennis sport itself he has also been a global sport phenomenon on and he will leave a profound legacy. let's not write him off just leave a profound legacy. let's not write him offjust yet, there may just be a little bit left in the tank. thank you. the work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, has announced further changes to the roll—out of universal credit—— delaying the transfer of three million claimants

and scrapping plans to extend a two—child limit for payments to parents. ms rudd also said she would build an online system that enabled private landlords to be paid rent money directly. much of the premise of uc and the positive change offers as it mirrors the world of work, payments are made monthly in early years and all the money goes straight to claimants. the many people this is an advantage providing financial independence for monthly bills and salaries but for others this approach does not work. managing their money month—to—month can be challenging and even impossible. that can cause the fruit is for people who are already vulnerable and i am determined to do more to help those claimants. there was already some flexibility thanks to changes that we have already made, around 60% of universal credit claimants apply for advances to tide them over the initial weight for their first payment. 20% of

claimants with housing costs have their rent paid directly to landlords because of vulnerability 01’ landlords because of vulnerability or special need has identified. for people unable to budget there are provisions to receive payments twice 01’ even provisions to receive payments twice or even four times a month but currently only 2% of claimants have taken this option. although these observers of payment arrangements do exist, provide people with the bespoke payments they need they are not yet helping as many claimants as i believe they could. 0ne not yet helping as many claimants as i believe they could. one third of uc claimants and social rented housing have their rent paid direct to the landlord but in the private sector that number is only 5%. people and the private rented sector already face a far higher risk of losing the tenancy and i know from talking to claimants and landlords that the current system is not working for some of them. we need to make easierfor working for some of them. we need to make easier for tenants and the private sector to find and keep a

good home by giving landlord greater certainty that the rent will be paid. therefore i have asked departments to build an online system for private landlords so they can request when necessary for their te na nts can request when necessary for their tenants rights to be paid directly to them. i will consider what else we can do because i am determined to help people keep in their homes. meanwhile, the high court has upheld a call for a judicial review of universal credit. four working single mothers argue that there is a "fundamental problem" with the method used to calculate the money they receive. 0ur correspondent andy moore is at the high court. this is complicated but triangulate to us ina this is complicated but triangulate to us in a nutshell. universal credit is bound to be complicated and technical but in a nutshell this 20 page document was delivered by the high court if you mirrors before amber rudd got to that speech ——

just a few minutes. this is a criticism of the policy adopted by the department for work and pensions, they have been told to go back and rework it and to enter their own guidelines correctly. basically for working single mothers came to the high court in november said they were suffering from harsher than losing out on hundreds of pounds a year and spiralling into debt because of the way universal credit was administered, they said basically because of the way they we re basically because of the way they were paid they got to salaries one month and none the next month and that meant payments from universal credit where going up wildly up and down and they do not budget because of that. they have won their case, the department for work and pensions has been told to come up with a solution to this problem, we have not heard from them yet. lawyers for these four women say this is a very

important test case that will affect tens of thousands of people and they say the government clearly got it wrong, the acted unlawfully and they have got to announce how they intend to remedy this problem. after charges in the pipeline resist the only one? —— and other challenges? and this is the only one i am aware of but this in itself as a major setback, another issue that amber rudd knows she is back at a desk will have to get on top of because the courts will be looking for a response, a remedy to this pretty quickly. another court case in relation to this has been scheduled for next month and the judges have said they want to hear from the department for work and pensions within a few weeks. telling the court what they intend to do about this. thank you. mps have resumed debating

theresa may's brexit deal, as she attempts to build support for it ahead of tuesday's vote. today is the third of five days of debate on the eu withdrawal agreement, which has been opposed by more than 100 conservative. foreign secretary, jeremy hunt renewed calls for mps to back theresa may's deal alex, the pressure heating up and u nless alex, the pressure heating up and unless that is a huge change of heart on the part of more mps they see of the debate and things are looking good for the government. the pressure has been unrelenting but as we get closer to that crucial vote on tuesday then of course theresa may and those of number ten will be looking at a deadline and thinking what is going to happen and as things stand i do not think has been any significant weakening in the opposition to theresa may's deal, not just from labour or the

opposition to theresa may's deal, notjust from labour or the lib dems snp ‘s but also from those conservative mps who say they cannot support that. we have had a few, two 01’ support that. we have had a few, two or three have suggested they initially said they were not back the deal and have a change their minds but in the context of the 100 01’ so minds but in the context of the 100 or so who have publicly declared do not like the steel that will not be enough to get it over the line u nless enough to get it over the line unless something that could mince. attention is turning to what happens next and all week we have seen mps in parliament and senior cabinet ministers talking about the idea of preventing a no—deal brexit, coming up preventing a no—deal brexit, coming up with another solution because do not want no deal to happen. this morning jeremy had the foreign secretary said because of that because parliament is clear that it is going to try and block no deal vote is on offer is the prime minister's deal or a risk of the brexit at all. part of that argument will be to try and win over brexiteers to get behind theresa may's deal but it is interesting that that is the way the debate is headed. let's listen to whatjeremy had had to see earlier. we can no longer assume that by

rejecting this deal there will be a better shade brexit. what is more likely better shade brexit. what is more “no” better shade brexit. what is more likely if this deal is rejected is that we have the risk of brexit paralysis and when that happens no one knows what might happen and the big risk and what people worry about is that we do not actually deliver what people voted for. i think it would be disruption if we had no deal but in the end we had a great country, we would find a way through it and succeed but i don't think anyone can deny that there is a serious risk of disruption. no one quite knows what it would be because it depends on how the other side react in that kind of situation but there are real risks and that is why i have said i don't think any government would willingly want to ta ke government would willingly want to take those risks. number ten has consistently said they do not want a no—go situation, forjust they do not want a no—go situation, for just why they should get behind the prime minister's deal but has an

struggle at this point. as the prime minister on the phone again today, what is going on in her office? the unwitting to hear who she has been chatting to because yesterday she spoke to two keen union leaders as well as from the cbi and this is pa rt well as from the cbi and this is part of what number ten calls an ongoing engagement around the prime minister's brexit deal but it is interesting that around this point she is reaching out to union leaders and labourmps to she is reaching out to union leaders and labour mps to get as much support as she can from all quarters. i think there's a growing awareness that the way through to get something that parliament can agree on as to form some sort of consensus, we have had greg clark talk about that and the prime minister and outreach towards opposition parties so welljust counting down to that watt on tuesday that is the crucial moment that all eyes on and things can move between now and then, that could be the assurance from brussels for example. what is being increasingly looked at is what will happen after

that watt as indeed is currently expected the prime minister does lose. thank you. the headlines on bbc news... andy murray announces his intention to retire after wimbledon in a tearful press conference, following his struggles with a hip injury. work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, announces further changes to the roll—out of universal credit — as the high court upholds a judicial review of the way the benefit is calculated. the airline flybe is being bought forjust over two million pounds — by a group including virgin atlantic and stobart. more to come on the announcement from andy murray, he reveals next week's australian open may be his last two women, is to out after wimbledon. the bit philosophy at the

first grand slam next week and championship club nottingham forest are parted company with manager after a year in the job. are parted company with manager after a year in thejob. more are parted company with manager after a year in the job. more at 11:30am. i'm joined from glasgow by snp mp alison thewliss — she has led the group of opponents to the two—child limit. thank you forjoining us, what was your reaction this morning to the speech from the work and pensions secretary? it is welcome to see her making this change, something that myself and a range of charities across the board and religious groups also as well as other politicians have been calling for for almost four years. but in doing this and making the change she has accepted that there is a fundamental flaw with this policy and it is unfairto flaw with this policy and it is unfair to families. do you want to see her go further and extend the

relaxation of the policies she has now showing for those families who had more than two children before the policy came in? absolutely. what has been created as to tears families, so a few children were born after the april 2017 jewel under a different set of rules than ever before and that is fundamentally unfair because none of us fundamentally unfair because none of us and lead can plan for every circumstance all the way through our children's children. you could have a situation have the construct times are good, all of a sudden you lose yourjob which is happening around the country just now yourjob which is happening around the countryjust now and all of a sudden the government says you are not entitled to support for more than two children. that subject still needs to eat and have close on the back so the government is to recognise they have accepted the floor policy, it is fundamentally unfairand is floor policy, it is fundamentally unfair and is committed to the own

needs two to go for everybody. issues like the rate clause which means issues like the rate clause which m ea ns every issues like the rate clause which means every woman has conceived a child as a result of rape she has to prove that to get tax credits, that will still stand for children born after 2017. what would you say to critics who say that was it points to this policy and aspect of universal credit which was to discourage people without the means to support large families from having them? evidence from around the world is policies like this do not work, the push families into poverty and it is the business of the government to tell families are many children they should have, that the something out of china and other places. what we need to do is ensure all children have the support they need to live, and is not the fault of the children to be born into a family where parents are struggling and the policy is peered so far in both child tax credits and universal credit, most of the families receiving it and actually an work,

low—paid work so the extra support to make sure families can get by. cani to make sure families can get by. can i ask you to turn to the other news headline relating to universal credit we have seen this morning, the high court challenge, do you welcome that ruling and do you expect there to be other charges down the line? there are other challenges, there is an appeal also on to chill policy and by that fits with the obligation and rights of the child but this ruling today is fundamentally important about the operation of universal credit and many people have complained about the way that is paid out. they can be situation particularly at christmas that you get to about pay with any period universal credit operates and automatically universal credit could be shut off when you lose out and then you have to go through a process of appealing and tried to get that back. the case today proves this was wrong and

proves the government has not been following its own rules on this. there are many situations i have dealt with constituents with the government is not following its own rules and universal credit and spend a lot of time charging that are putting it right. and the body needs to listen to this ruling, needs to make the amendment is to universal credit and follow the rules that have been set to make sure google do actually get the money they are entitled for such new research suggests that an increasing number of secondary schools in england are in deficit. a report by the independent think tank, the education policy institute, says that a third of secondaries were overspent by the end of the last financial year. here's our education correspondent frankie mccamley. rising school bills, including teachers‘ pay and pension costs, mean the amount being spent on pupils in england has gone down since 2010. and outside the classroom, parents are increasingly being asked to pay for extras, so head teachers are feeling the pressure, which led to thousands of them

marching through westminster last september, protesting against budget cuts. some schools are managing to keep their heads above water, but a report has found increasing numbers are falling into the red, with one in three local authority secondary schools now unable to cover their costs, a sharp increase in recent years, and half of secondary academies spending more than they have coming in. the report also found, while some schools are struggling with budget deficits, others do have a surplus. there are some schools, some of them primary schools, some of them secondary schools, that have done the right thing. they've put the money aside, maybe for special projects that they've got, maybe because they know that there'll be some staff shortages and they'll have to take people on from a supply agency. that is a good thing to be able to do, so we need to notjump to conclusions because some schools have surpluses. the biggest story coming out of today is there's not enough funding for education. the government argues that

schools spending is rising, and while it recognises the budget challenges schools face, it says, overall, standards are still going up. a major review has confirmed that eating food high in fibre reduces the risk of heart attack, stroke and other diseases. the study, published in the lancet, is a review of research going back almost a0 years. here's our health correspondent, jane dreaper. the researchers say eating more fruit and vegetables, nuts and seeds, and whole grains in breakfast cereals, breads and pasta, is linked to lower weight, blood pressure and cholesterol levels, and it helps protect against illnesses such as bowel cancer. adults in the uk are recommended to eat 30g of fibre a day, but only 9% of us manage that. two thick slices of wholemeal toast provide about a fifth of the total. so how do you eat more fibre? you could choose a higher—fibre breakfast cereal such as plain

wholewheat biscuits, opt for wholemeal bread and whole grains like brown rice, and make sure you eat at least five portions of fruit and vegetables each day. the world health organization asked for this review ahead of new global guidelines about diet. low—carb diets have become popular in recent years, but experts have warned that today's work shows people trying these could risk missing out on fibre from whole grains. award—winning bbc television and radio presenter dianne oxberry has died, following a short illness. she was 51. dianne became well—known nationally on radio 1, working alongside simon mayo and steve wright. after studying meteorology she became the weather presenter for bbc north west tonight in 1994. stuart flinders has been looking back at her career. here for the first time is dianne oxberry. yes, i'm going to be here tonight and every night this week bringing you a detailed weather forecast with information supplied

by the manchester weather centre. this was the moment north west tonight viewers first met dianne oxberry, more than 20 years ago. thanks to her quick wit and sense of fun, they fell for her in a big way. she just had such a great rapport with the public and they loved her, everywhere you went. we're alljust enormously shocked here and she was a beloved colleague. we all loved her. this is how she'll be best remembered by viewers — cool and professional and never flustered. god love her! you've made it sunshine for everybody! i have, mate, for once. the winner of the bbc music sound of 2019 is octavian, a 23—year old rapperfrom london who was previously homeless as a teenager. the award goes to performers who've never had a top ten hit,

and aims to boost the profile of new music talent. previous winners include adele and sam smith. here's our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba. meet octavian, a rapper who grew up in south london, and who is one of music's most exciting new talents. the 23—year—old, who was once a homeless teenager on the capital's streets, says he is overwhelmed to top the sound of 2019 list. a year ago, i was like — i was poor. i was — i had no money. so to have, like — to be nominated for, like, the bbc sound poll, and to win it, like, it's amazing. it's crazy, it's crazy. he follows in the footsteps of previous winners like sam smith and adele.

octavian is hopeful that his music's message can help inspire younger people who have also had problems in their lives. a lot of my music from then until now has been about poverty, and making it out of poverty, because that's what i was going through. so my message then was, like, just to believe in yourself, and anything is actually possible. because i've lived it, lived that plight. his win means his music will now reach a much wider audience, and perhaps lead to even greater success throughout 2019 and beyond. now it's time for a look at the weather with simon king closure across the uk, some blue

skies coming through eastern parts towards the home counties, those brea ks towards the home counties, those breaks in the cloud fairly limited, for most of us it will stay cloudy this afternoon, and elaine and is continuing to clear, dry for many enter this afternoon and textures and between nine and 11, milder than yesterday of england and wales, temperatures about six or seven. the originator, rain moves through scotla nd originator, rain moves through scotland and northern ireland, edging to northern parts of england, agrees picking up year overnight and with all the cloud and rain, temperatures up above freezing, between five and seven. for the weekend, turning windy especially on sunday, gales and northern parts of scotland, through north—eastern for all, milder stench is in double figures and a mixture of sunny spells and showers. hello this is bbc newsroom live.

the headlines. andy murray announces he'll retire after wimbledon, but in a tearful news conference he says his injured hip could force him out even sooner. work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, announces further changes to the roll—out of universal credit as the high court upholds a judicial review of the way the benefit is calculated. the airline flybe is being bought forjust over £2 million by a group including virgin atlantic and stobart. the award—winning bbc television and radio presenter dianne oxberry has died at the age of 51, following a short illness. octavian, a french—born rapper from southeast london, is named the bbc music sound of 2019 winner, the first rapper to win the title since 50 cent. the attorney general allows

an application for a fresh inquest into the death of nine—year—old ella kissi—debrah who died after an asthma attack believed to be linked to pollution in 2013. sport now, here'sjohn watson. we start with more on andy murray's tearful press conference in melbourne in the early hours of today. the former world number one, who has been struggling with a hip injury, said he still hopes to bow out after wimbledon, but also warned after surgery last year, it continues to cause him pain. he may not make it as far as wimbledon where he wants to bow out. patrick gearey reports. andy murray will have wanted this press conference to be about his return and recovery. his body was telling him otherwise. one of the sport's steeliest characters forced to take a break from the questions.

he came back — he always does. he was asked if the australian open might be his last tournament. yeah, i think there is a chance of that, for sure. yeah, there's a chance of that, for sure, because, yeah, like i said, i'm not sure... i'm not sure i'm able to play through the pain for another four orfive months. that pain caused by a lifetime's exertion, has been with him for some time. it was obvious at wimbledon 2017. he tried to come back to tennis after surgery, tried to come back to tennis after surgery, but here, finally, was his limit. i've been in a lot of pain

for what's been probably about 20 months now. pretty much, you know, i've pretty much done everything that i could to try to get my hip feeling better. his body had taken him further than any british man in 77 years, him further than any british man in 77 yea rs, to him further than any british man in 77 years, to the 2013 wimbledon title, ending awaits that have become a national obsession. he won is again three years later, the same year he won his second olympic gold medal. he wants to finish thisjuly on the grass court he saw memorably conquered. i said to my team, i think i can kind of get through this until wimbledon. that's where i would like to... that's where i would like to stop playing. but i'm also not certain i'm able to do that. murray's plan may

succumb to the pain. one of britain's greatest sportsman will summon the energy to play roberto bautista agut next week in melbourne. it may be the last time we see him on a tennis court. it is indeed. we hope, of course, that he gets his wish and gets to play at wimbledon. annabel croft has been reflecting on that emotional announcement that came in the early hours at melbourne. she says one of the biggest disappointment is now for murray is that he will not be able to end his career on his own terms. he is a lot more emotional now than we saw her monitor. it shows what tennis means to him. he cannot end his career on his terms andi cannot end his career on his terms and i think he thinks there is more to give. he has seen what the likes of roger federer at 36, 37 years of

age can achieve. it has been a phenomenal career and he is such a gritty fighter, a braveheart out there on the court and it's just so sad to see someone there on the court and it's just so sad to see someone that is that great a competitor to source a half to, you know, hang up a tennis racket. annabel croft speaking earlier. nottingham forest are looking for a new manager. they are four points. rumours of a departure began to circulate when they went over five games without a win. despite an solid bowling from england's liam plunkett, his side have been beaten by the adelaide strikers in australia's big bash. they have not had the best run, winning just two of their matches so far. blunkett claimed four wickets for 36 runs. adelaide were 178—5 from their 20 overs, but melbourne faltered in reply. they were all out for 137. defending champions

adelaide won by 1a. that's all for now. a line of breaking news from downing street. the prime minister's spokes woman says in the last few minutes that britain will have implemented the necessary legislation for brexit before the country legislation for brexit before the cou ntry leaves legislation for brexit before the country leaves the european union in march. that is after others said that the exit could be delayed. we are obviously making progress with the legislation required in either scenario. we will ensure either way we have passed the necessary legislation. we will make sure the time is made available. and the spokeswoman added that the prime minister had ruled out extending article 50, which, of course, the government triggered in 2017. we will have much more on this throughout the day. the attorney general has agreed to allow an application for a fresh inquest into the death of a nine—year—old girl who died from an asthma attack in 2013,

after new evidence linked her death to illegal levels of air pollution. ella kiss—debrah lived in lewisham, just 25 metres from the south circular, one of london's busiest and most polluted roads. her last fatal seizure happened during a spike in illegal levels of air pollution. we can now speak to rosamund kissi—debrah, ella's mother. thank you for coming in. thank you for having me. it is several years thousands a la's death but you have been campaigning hard for this. why does it matter to you so much? because as her mother, i wanted to get to the bottom of why my beloved daughter suddenly became so chronically ill and subsequently died and she also, obviously, has living siblings and it's very important to get an answer as to why

she is no longer with us. she would have been 15 in just under two weeks' time, so this news has come as such a shock to us. we were not expecting it and i have literally just seen her picture on the screen and it obviously got to be quite emotionaljust before we went on to air. i appreciate how emotional and distressing it must be to you to revisit these events, but i suppose for audiences who are not so familiar with ella's case, you believe, and tell me if i am wrong, you believe that unlawful levels of air pollution were a key driver of the asthma attack which was fatal to her. absolutely. this has been investigated by a medical expert who not only looked at her samples but also spoke to the pathologist who did the postmortem and this is the conclusion he has come to. the attorney general has had a long time to examine this and he believes,

obviously, that now we can move forward , obviously, that now we can move forward, apply to the high court, get the original inquest quashed and she can have a fresh inquest. and do you then hope that the fresh inquest, if, indeed, it is permitted by the high court, that that will conclude that the link is there? absolutely. this has never been done before. 600,000 children die across the globe from air pollution every year, but it has never been sighted ona year, but it has never been sighted on a death certificate before. she suffered so much and i believe it's really important that if that was a contributing factor to why she became ill, why she died, then it needs to be on her desk to forget. this is obviously important in ella's case and in remembering ella, but is also important for many other children and, indeed, adults if there are unlawful levels of air pollution and if those levels are

found to be directly linked by an inquest to a person's death, then that does have an implication. absolutely. make dell make no doubt of it, every year, in london, between eight and 12 children die. this has not ended with ella and i am absolutely passionate that this is changing the law whatever it takes, soul or family, ever, has to go through what we have been through. do you think... it is one thing going through this process of the attorney general, the high court, the second inquest, but do you think there is a political will now to address this question of air pollution and its potentially lethal effects? not yet. why i am here is there needs to be an awareness of the impact air pollution has. apparently, there is an error quality, a draft plan

coming out from the government next week, and i hope that finally they would do something about it. there are so many would do something about it. there are so many things they need to be done so children who are around the uk can breathe clean air. they have had to be taken to court three times to push them on it. is there a political will? not at the moment, but from today, i hope so. thank you so but from today, i hope so. thank you so much for coming in. thank you for having me. four working single mothers have won a high court challenge over the government's universal credit welfare scheme. they argued there was a fundamental problem with the way the benefit was calculated, with huge differences in monthly payments. it comes as the government has announced further changes to the system so that it won't cap the benefit for families whose children were born before april 2017. charlotte hughes campaigns against universal credit and runs a blog called the poor side of life. thank you forjoining us. thank you.

you will be aware, obviously, that not only did we get that high court outcome this morning, but we also got a lot of announcements in a speech from the work and pensions secretary, amber rudd. are you pleased to hear those? those attem pts pleased to hear those? those atte m pts to pleased to hear those? those attempts to reset universal credit? whilst i'm pleased to hear it, it is not really enough. it's not dealing with all the problems of universal credit. by actually doing this, amber rudd is admitting that there are massive faults within the universal credit system, but they are not willing to accept them and not willing to deal with them. she has dealt with the issue, for example, of families who had their children before the system came in and so wouldn't have known about the limitations, the cap on to children for a benefit. what about the children that are already suffering?

what about the children that will continue to suffer because of this? you know, children need to eat, they need to be clogged. it is not their fault that they were bored and this is completely discriminatory. we do not live in a country like china where we are dictated to as to how many children we are allowed to have. it's not fair and children are going hungry. families who are hit by this already rely on food banks to survive and that's working people and nonworking people as well, so it is wrong. it needs to be is completely wrong. it needs to be scrapped, stopped. it is completely inhumane. having to choose which trials you are going to feed that day, that is literally what people are having to do. looking at the other aspects, what about the direct payment to landlords? will that help? i suppose what i'm saying to you is there are concrete measures that she announced this morning. i do not welcoming any of those? the

political reality is that they will not scrap the whole system. we need a change of government and then we will look at that, won't we? bats, yes, iam will look at that, won't we? bats, yes, i am pleased that the government have now decided that they are going to give landlords the direct payments. that is brilliant. but what happens in the six weeks when you're waiting for your claim to be processed ? when you're waiting for your claim to be processed? you are building up rent arrears then and are not allowed to claim housing benefit while you are waiting. they have not addressed that issue so you are still in arrears when you get your payments, so that needs to be dealt with. while it is good in one hand, it is bad in another hand. they are not dealing with all the issues but giving tokens are here and there, talking that might help some people but not others. they need to look at it properly, that is what i am saying. going back to the point we mentioned before, the high court judgment on the four working single mothers, do you expect that there will be... obviously, there are

other challenges, we have been hearing this morning, in the pipeline. do you think that from your point of view that is a fruitful line of attack - a fruitful line of attack against a policy that we have already heard you don't like? absolutely. i can't state how brave those women work because as a result of that they might have been targeted. it is absolutely amazing that they have won this case. it is damning to the government that they are thinking of appealing this decision. it is wrong. the government is still don't actually acknowledge that there is a problem, even though there has been a courtjudgment against them, they don't accept that there are five weeks in one month in four weeks in another month and everyone on universal credit is worse off because of this, i am absolutely chuffed to bits that these women have won this, but it is not the end. they are going to appeal it and it will carry on and carry on and carry on until... when will it get made legislation? that is my question. when will this ruling be

made legislation? thank you for joining us. in a moment we'll have all the business news, but first the headlines on bbc news: andy murray announces he'll retire after wimbledon — but in a tearful news conference he says his injured hip could force him out even sooner. work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, announces further changes to the roll—out of universal credit — as the high court upholds a judicial review of the way the benefit is calculated. carbs are back on the menu, as a review commissioned by the world health organization confirms that eating a high fibre diet can cut the risk of early death by one third. i'm maryam moshiri in the business news. airline flybe is being bought for £2.2 million by a consortium including virgin atlantic and stobart group. virgin's chief executive, vowed to bring virgin atlantic service excellence to flybe's customers. more on that shortly. prosecutors injapan have indicted former nissan chairman carlos ghosn with two fresh charges

involving financial crimes. mr ghosn, who has been detained since november, was charged with aggravated breach of trust and understating his income. some christmas cheer for discount retailer lidl. a 33% increase in year—on—year sales for its premium product range, deluxe, last christmas. overall sales were up 8%, beating the entire market of ‘big four‘ grocers. two months after flybe put itself up for sale, the loss—making regional airline is to be rescued by a consortium involving virgin atlantic. virgin atlantic has a 30% stake in the venture, as does stobart group, whose irish—based airline, stobart air, already operates some of its flights under the flybe brand. a hedge fund, cyrus capital partners, has the remaining 40% share. simon calder, travel editor of the independent, has been following the airline's fortunes.

reminders about flight de's current problems. it is losing £100 a minute as it heads to a loss of £12 million and the current forecast for the full financial year. it is a horrible time to be an airline. the chief executive blamed high fuel prices, weak demand, the uncertainties brought about by brexit, but the price that the consortium managed to get flybe for shows you how bad things are. the values each share at a penny. if you go back to 2010 when flybe floated, if you had had 100 shares, that would have been worth about the same asa would have been worth about the same as a flight from heathrow to new york and back. by close of markets yesterday, you would have enough for a train from southampton airport where flybe flies to bournemouth and

back, but by today, your shares wouldn't even buy you a cup of airport site. that is how serious it was. it was, indeed. the very nicely there. what is in it for these investors ? there. what is in it for these investors? virgin atlantic wants to feed its hubs at heathrow and manchester and i think we're going to see a lot of focus and may be closing down some of the old routes. cardiff to milan, doncaster to alicante, in favour of increasing feed to those hubs where slots are a problem always and store white group will be thinking that they have all these different hubs for flybe and they can move the aircraft to southend and, of course, virgin atla ntic southend and, of course, virgin atlantic also gets to see its fleet of more than double because the 78 flybe aircraft will be rebranded as virgin atlantic. what about staff and passengers? what changes for them? for passengers, bear in mind

that nothing has changed at all. turn upforyour that nothing has changed at all. turn up for your flight as normal. we will see changes from the beginning of the summer schedules at the end of march. for staff, it is a really worrying time. nothing has been said at all about plans for the airline. the headquarters are at exeter airport in devon. ifear staff there will be thinking they might lose somejobs staff there will be thinking they might lose some jobs or remove some two virgin atlantic's headquarter just south of gatwick airport and the pilots are saying basically were not consulted and they want to know what's going on. always good to get your point of view. thank you very much indeed. we've had the latest estimates on how the uk economy is doing today. uk gdp growth, a measure of the total value of all goods and services produced by britain, was 0.3% in the three months to november, which is slower than the 0.4% increase between august and october. growth for the month of november came in at 0.2%, higher than expectations. worries about the global economy, stoked by an ongoing trade spat between the us and china,

have had knock—on effects for other economies, as well as the uk. ruth gregory is senior uk economist at capital economics. first of all, how surprised are you by the figures? i think the figures did show that the economy has lost some momentum at the end of the year. that is not particularly surprising after the strength of the summer, largely due to temporary weather related factors, but there are increasing signs that brexit uncertainty is weighing on economic activity, forcing businesses to delay investment and consumers to rein in their spending, so we would not expect growth to pick back up again until brexit. .. not expect growth to pick back up again until brexit... until parliament finds a way around the current brexit impasse. let's talk about specific areas of the economy because we have on the one hand areas that are suffering such as manufacturing, but better news for

house—builders. manufacturing, but better news for house-builders. yes, we saw manufacturing output fall for the fifth month in a row. the first time since the financial crisis. that is perhaps not too surprisingly is the sector is arguably more exposed to brexit, but with global growth slowing, brexit uncertainty still hanging over the economy, the prospects for that sector that fairly dim. the construction figures on the other hand were pretty encouraging, however we would be wa ry encouraging, however we would be wary about reading too much into them given that they may reflect still some bounce back from the severe weather we saw at the start of last year. as an economist, looking at the next few months, what a lot of impact you think, for example, a no—deal brexit would have on the economic situation as it stands? the economic outlook hinges crucially on what happens to brexit. in the no deal scenario, we would expect some damage to the economy.

obviously, that depends on what type of no—deal brexit that is, if the uk leaves the eu and relations breakdown, that could be very damaging. whether the economy picks up damaging. whether the economy picks up and how quickly it does, so, again, that depends on the reaction from the chancellor and the bank of england. whether that is a cut in interest rates or a loosening of fiscal policy. there is a difference between the november figure which was ahead of expectations are slightly better and a three—month figure. explain to viewers at home why there is a difference between the three months and one month and which one is more closely watched by economists? we put more weight on the three—month figure because the month on month figures are pretty volatile, so they are difficult to read too much into. we would look more closely at the three—month figure which add 0.3% is a little below the sort of rates we saw over the average of last year in the first half. thank you very much.

let's ta ke let's take a brief look at the markets. london's shares opened on a high. they have pared back very slightly from that from earlier on and are barely keeping their heads above water. the rest of europe has also turned into negative territory at what is nearly the end of the trading week. that's all the business news. the biggest ever review into england's national parks is taking place, 70 years after they were first created. the peak district was one of the first areas to be given protected status. from there, tim muffett reports. archive: there are thousands of square miles of country and coast which should be made into national parks, mountain, moor, forest and heath, must be protected. by the 1940s, following decades of industrialisation, the national parks campaign was getting louder. inspired by the likes of yosemite in california, and kruger national park in south africa. archive: many other countries have national park systems

but we have none, why? in 1951, the first four national parks were officially designated. the peak district, lake district, snowdonia and dartmoor. since then, the list has grown. there are now ten national parks in england, three and wales and two in scotland. as well as 46 areas of outstanding natural beauty across the uk. but a review is currently assessing how national parks in england meet our needs in the 21st—century. should there be more of them? should more be done to support those who live and work in them? 70 years on from the legislation that created national parks, the question is how best to secure their future. if you are planning to visit a

national park this weekend, here is simon with the weather. wendy for many of us over the weekend especially on sunday. for the time being, quite cloudy out there. some sunshine breaking through the clouds but i like this photo from earlier on this morning in norfolk. high pressure still firmly in charge. we have seen this kind of chart for the past few days and weeks. high—pressure, settled conditions and some clouds billowing around that area of high pressure is still at the moment, for most of us, a fairly cloudy scene. towards the east, the high ground of the pennines and eastern parts of scotland, there will be breaks developing with some sunshine towards the south of england. for most, dry, cloudy, nota great towards the south of england. for most, dry, cloudy, not a great deal going on but a milder day for many parts of england and wales can take yesterday. temperatures at around seven to 9 degrees, nine or ten in scotla nd seven to 9 degrees, nine or ten in scotland and northern ireland. very similarto scotland and northern ireland. very similar to yesterday. tonight, we have this area of rain pushing south

and eastwards into northern parts of england. the breeze will start to pick up as we go through the night as well but with all that clouds, a bit of rain and that strengthening winds, temperatures will stay up above freezing still a fairly mild night with lowell is no lower than about three to 6 degrees. into the weekend, it will turn quite windy. milder temperatures for many of us in double figures and a mixture of sunshine and showers. so, on saturday, we start off with rain across the south. that will clear away and then there will be sunny spells developing. a more persistent showery rain moving its way into north—western parts of scotland, perhaps northern ireland. elsewhere, the odd shower here and there between sunshine. quite breezy conditions and those temperatures about nine to 11 degrees. by sunday, we will see another weather system just moving its way in. that is going to bring more outbreaks of rain. higher pressure towards the south, the isa buyers there are quite squeezed together, the windy day to come on sunday with gales for

scotla nd day to come on sunday with gales for scotland and the north east of england. further rain spreading its way in but it will affect all of us. there could be shower was here and there but for many it should be dry on sunday and there will be sunny spells, but a very gusty wind for all, particularly, as i mentioned, towards the east of the pennines, eastern areas of scotland where there will be gales of a0 to 50 mile an hour gust. it will tell a bit chilly across the north and west later on in the day. i windy weekend to combat temperatures staying on the mild side. goodbye. you're watching bbc newsroom live — these are today's main stories:

andy murray announces he'll retire after wimbledon — but in a tearful news conference he said his injured hip could force him out even sooner. i'm not sure, um... i'm not sure i am able to play through the pain, you know, for another four orfive months. the work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, scraps plans to extend a benefits cap for families of more than two children —— in another change to the government's flagship universal credit. the announcement comes as four working single mothers win a high court challenge over the universal credit scheme. the attorney general allows a fresh inquest into the death of nine—year—old ella kissi—debrah who died after an asthma attack — believed to be linked to pollution.. the airline flybe is being bought forjust over two million pounds — by a group including virgin atlantic and stobart.

octavian — a french—born rapper from southeast london — is named the bbc music sound of 2019 winner; the first rapper to win the title since 50 cent. good morning. it's january 11th. welcome to bbc newsroom live. at a dramatic and tearful press conference, andy murray has announced his intention to retire from tennis. the 31 year old says he plans to quit after this year's wimbledon, but fears next week's australian open could be the final tournament of his career. the former world number one, who's won three grand slam titles, is struggling to recover from hip surgery, as patrick geary reports. andy murray will have wanted this

press conference to be about his return and recovery. his body was telling him otherwise — one of the sport's steeliest characters forced to take a break from the questions. he came back — he always does. andy, does that mean that this might be your last tournament? um...yeah, ithink... i think there's — there's a chance of that, yeah, for sure. um...yeah, there's a chance of that, for sure, because — yeah, like i said, i'm not sure. i'm not sure i'm able to — to play through the pain,

you know, for another four orfive months. it has been caused by a lifetime's exertion — the incredible strength, mental, physical and emotional, which won him the 2013 wimbledon title, ending a 77—year wait that had become a national obsession. murray won it again three years later, the same year he won his second olympic gold medal. but by 2017, the problems with his hip were obvious. despite surgery, here, finally, was his limit, one last wimbledon now his last goal. i said to my team, look, i think i can kind of get through this until wimbledon. that's where i'd like to... that's where i would like to stop, stop playing. but i'm also not certain i'm able to do that. murray's plan may

succumb to the pain. one of britain's greatest sportsmen will summon the energy to play roberto bautista agut next week in melbourne. it may be the last time we see him on a tennis court. unsurprisingly there's been quite a reaction from the tennis world... former world number one andy roddick called murray an absolute legend... describing him as one of the best tacticians in history who achieved unreal results in a brutal era. billie jean king tweeted to murray... and current world numberfive juan martin del potro tweeted to urge murray to keep fighting.... andy murray is also well known for being from the town

of dunblane in scotland where he's become something of an icon for younger generations. brian melville coached him as a youngster... i coach tim individually when he was a seven—year—old mentally because judy and i swapped children at that time because she would not do as he has told as a youngster. he had an individual mind and that carried on and his senior career as well, he was always a winner even at a young age. how do you feel today? a sense of pride that i know him and it is sad that it is coming to a named but all good things come to an end and

he have to think about his health as well. he is a family man and he is a young lad and he has to think about the rest of his life. (pres). and we now speak to sue mott — she's a sports journalist and she wrote andy murray's autobiography.... ina in a strange array it is devastating, i don't know why we are all quite taking this so personally but i suppose it is because he has shown us his emotions from being that skinny lad at wimbledon at 18 and be thought he was rude and badly behaved and he got a lot of flak to the most magnificent champion and mother man exposing gender equality that he has today. we feel we have been arrested of the way with them. —— every step of the way with him. when i met him to do his book in his early 20s a long time ago now i

thought what is he going to make of this old bird turning up to write his autobiography and he just came straight over and gave me a kiss on the cheek, he had been told by his family to behave immaculately and thatis family to behave immaculately and that is just the sort of boise as, here's a nice. so not the image we thought he was in the first place, andi thought he was in the first place, and i have huge respect for the amount of insane work he has done on himself to create the greatest sportsman britain has ever had. that degree of focus and enormous investment and commitment to read, when you lose that from your life, what do you see as his next move? we have the treat from billiejean king saying your biggest impact may still be to come, do you think you were looking for different mountains to climb? you cannot actually legislate for the fact he has a mind, here's the most competitive person i have

ever met and that includes stephen green. he has the most competitive spirit in the universe, he will need to put that somewhere but i hope he has a few days or weeks or months of bliss walking the dogs and being happy and contented with the most phenomenal track records we have seen phenomenal track records we have seenin phenomenal track records we have seen in british sport. that is the hope but it was an extraordinary press co nfe re nce , hope but it was an extraordinary press conference, it is not often you see a huge star like that, a giant of the court break down and sobbed and have to leave the stage and come back again and still be absolutely right with the grief of what he has losing. how hard is it going to be you think for him to make that journey going to be you think for him to make thatjourney given what you know about him? he has had this pain both physically and mentally in the back of his mind for a year and a

half since he had the operation, he has no letters coming and has probably been feeding and dreading it and here's the moment it is colliding so that is agony. probably more mentally than physically. but he is also an openly gay, he has extraordinary as a sportsman but he is an orderly and deep down non—fame seeking guy and i think the people around him, his loving daughters, there's more to life and i hope when there's more to life and i hope when the next 30 years he finds out. there's more to life and i hope when the next 30 years he finds outm has been not just the next 30 years he finds outm has been notjust andy but his family, his mum and brother, a huge investment of family effort and that brand. but they are not the type to force out effort is not there. don't forgetjamie force out effort is not there. don't forget jamie is still playing, force out effort is not there. don't forgetjamie is still playing, judy is doing all the work she is doing with sport and coaching and gender

equality and they will want the best for him and if that turns out to be walking the dogs for a few months and a forest then fantastic, they just want him to be demoted happy. the micrometre happy. thank you. the work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, has announced further changes to the roll—out of universal credit—— delaying the transfer of three million claimants and scrapping plans to extend a two—child limit for payments to parents. ms rudd also said she would build an online system that enabled private landlords to be paid rent money directly.

much of the premise of uc and the positive change it offers is it mirrors the world of work, payments are made monthly in arrears and all the money goes straight to claimants. the many people this is an advantage providing financial independence for monthly bills and salaries but for others this approach does not work. managing their money month—to—month can be challenging and even impossible. that can cause difficulties for people who are already vulnerable and i am determined to do more to help those claimants. there was already some flexibility thanks to changes that we have already made, around 60% of universal credit claimants apply for advances to tide them over the initial wait for their first payment. 20% of claimants with housing costs have their rent paid directly to landlords because of vulnerability or special need has identified. for people unable to budget there are provisions to receive payments twice or even four times a month but currently only 2% of claimants have taken this option. although these alternative payment arrangements do exist to provide people with the bespoke payments they need they are not yet helping as many claimants as i believe they could. one third of uc claimants in social

rented housing have their rent paid direct to the landlord but in the private sector that number is only 5%. people in the private rented sector already face a far higher risk of losing their tenancy and i know from talking to claimants and landlords that the current system is not working for some of them. we need to make easier for tenants in the private sector to find and keep a good home by giving landlords greater certainty that their rent will be paid. therefore i have asked the department to build an online system for private landlords so they can request when necessary for their tenants' rent to be paid directly to them. i will consider what else we can do because i am determined to help people keep in their homes. children with mental health conditions are being failed by the nhs, according to an influential committee of mps. the department for health insists it's made children and young

peoples' mental health services its key priority, as part of the nhs long term plan. but the commons public accounts committee says ministers must increase staff numbers, as recruitment has progressed more slowly than planned. we have yet to see how the nhs plan will really work for young people with mental health problems. it is, at the moment, top—level ambitions. what we need to see is real results in schools, as well as in the nhs. we need to see support, so that young people can get a quick diagnosis, or indeed better preventative works, so they don't need the heavy mental health support later on in their lives. president trump has said he has an "absolute right"

to declare a national emergency so he can get the five billion dollars he's demanding for his proposed wall across the country's southern border with mexico. many government employees will miss their first paycheck today with the shutdown due to become the longest in american history this weekend. more on today's main stories coming up on newsroom live here on the bbc news channel, but now we say goodbye to viewers on bbc two. the headlines on bbc news... andy murray announces he'll retire after wimbledon — but in a tearful news conference he said his injured hip could force him out even sooner. work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, announces further changes to the roll—out of universal credit — as the high court upholds a judicial review of the way the benefit is calculated. the attorney general allows an application for a fresh inquest into the death of nine—year—old ella kissi—debrah who died after an asthma attack — believed to be linked to pollution - in 2013. plenty of reaction to

andy murray's announcement the australian open could be his last tournament. the former british number one has battled a long standing hip problem, and aims to bow out at wimbledon laterthis year. anabelle croft, the former british number one, has been reflecting on that emotional annoucement — she says one of the biggest disappointments for murray is that he wont be able to end his career on his terms. i think he is way more emotional than the public on anybody realised when we first saw him on the tour andi when we first saw him on the tour and i think it showed just what tennis means to him and i think it is the fact he cannot end his career on his terms and i think he felt like probably never so much more to give. the guessing what roger federer has achieved at his age, it has been economically and he is such a gritty fighter and a fat out there on the court and it is sad to see someone on the court and it is sad to see

someone who is that great a competitor to have two hang—up the tennis racket. well a few hours after andy murray made his announcement in melbourne, cameron norrie was booking his place in his first atp tour final. the british number two beat germany's jan—lenna rd struff in the auckland international semi—finals. the 23—year—old won in three sets — ironically in the city he grew up in before switching allegiance to britain six years ago. norrie will face american tennys sandgren in tomorrow's final. nottingham forest are searching for a new manager after aitor karanka asked to be released from his contract. only in the job for a year, he leaves with the club seventh, four points off the play offs. rumours over his future began to circulate in december when they went on a run of five games without a win. despite solid bowling from england's liam plunkett his side melbourne stars have been beaten by adelaide strikers in australia's big bash league. they've not had the best run winning just two of their ten matches.

plunkett was on top form and claimed a wickets for 36 runs. adelaide were 178—5 from their 20 overs. but melbourne faltered in reply and were all out for 137, defending champions adelaide winning by a1 runs. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. the airline flybe — which warned in october that it would lose 22 million pounds this year — has been bought

by a group including virgin atlantic and stobart. the company, which is based in exeter, had blamed poor demand, a weaker pound and higher fuel costs. a little earlier we spoke to simon calder, travel editor of the independent, about the airline's fortunes. it is losing £100 a minute as it heads to a loss of £12 million and the current forecast for the full financial year. it is a horrible time to be an airline. the chief executive blamed high fuel prices, weak demand, the uncertainties brought about by brexit, but the price that the consortium managed to get flybe for shows you how bad things are. it values each share at a penny. if you go back to 2010 when flybe floated, if you had had 100 shares, that would have been worth about the same as a flight from heathrow to new york and back. by close of markets yesterday, you would have enough for a train from southampton airport

where flybe flies to bournemouth and back, but by today, your shares wouldn't even buy you a cup of airport tea. that is how serious it was. virgin atlantic wants to feed its hubs at heathrow and manchester and i think we're going to see a lot of focus and may be closing down some of the old routes. cardiff to milan, doncaster to alicante, in favour of increasing feed to those hubs where slots are a problem always. and stobart group will be thinking that they have all these different hubs for flybe and they can move the aircraft to southend and, of course, virgin atlantic also gets to see its fleet of more than double because the 78 flybe aircraft will be rebranded as virgin atlantic. for passengers, bear in mind that nothing has changed at all. turn up for your flight as normal. we will see changes from the beginning of the summer schedules at the end of march.

for staff, it is a really worrying time. nothing has been said at all about plans for the airline. the headquarters are at exeter airport in devon. i fear staff there will be thinking they might lose some jobs or remove some to virgin atlantic's headquarter just south of gatwick airport and the pilots are saying basically we were not consulted and they want to know what's going on. the foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, has warned that defeat for theresa may's eu withdrawal agreement next week could lead to ‘brexit paralysis' — and even to no brexit at all. his comments come as mps resume debating the prime minister's deal as she tries to build support for it ahead of tuesday's vote. meanwhile, speaking in romania today, the president of the european commission has called brexit a ‘tragic event'. let's listen to what he said. translation: the departure

of the united kingdom remains in my eyes a tragic event that europe did not need. but democracies are as they are, we must not prevent those who wish to leave us to leave us. neither we nor they themselves will be happy on the 30th of march because that would have been a rupture for europe, an interruption in the history of the continent which it would have been useful to avoid. our political correspondent alex forsyth. i don't imagine anything he said the evil shift anything as rest in westminster. we have heard from him and donald was that they had a great brexit, they do not want the uk to leave because they want the eu to remain united so i think the sentiment does not change anything materially and in fact as things stand theresa may is still facing an enormous challenge, she has now three days before the crucial brexit

vote on tuesday and right now if you we re vote on tuesday and right now if you were to take an assessment of where things are at rucksack she is on track for a pretty heavy loss. theresa may's argument for mps to rally as if you do not support the deal then you risk there will be no deal or no brexit at all and what is quite interesting this morning is thatjeremy hunt the foreign secretary was saying over the course of last week has shown that an parliament that there is no majority for no deal, he thinks parliament could stop that though he suggesting if mps do not back the prime minister then we could end up with no brexit and he is trying to use that to encourage and brexiteer mps to get behind the prime minister. we can no longer assume that by rejecting this deal there will be a better shade of brexit. what is more likely if this deal is rejected is that we have the risk of brexit paralysis and when that happens no one knows what might happen and the big risk and what people worry

about is that we do not actually deliver what people voted for. i think there would be disruption if we had no deal but in the end we are a great country, we would find a way through it and succeed but i don't think anyone can deny that there is a serious risk of disruption. no one quite knows what it would be because it depends on how the other side react in that kind of situation but there are real risks and that is why i have said i don't think any government would willingly want to take those risks. number ten has always said doesn't wa nt to number ten has always said doesn't want to end of an inaugural situation but is for that, for every eventuality than once mps to get the hang theresa may's deal and over the last 2a hours naps tried to persuade mps to listen to some other suggestions and union leaders she has been talking to. this is what number ten core part of a wide engagement and is trying to claw

support from wherever she can before the vote on tuesday but right now things are not looking great for the prime minister. we can go live to a slightly colder looking wimbledon than we're used to seeing and speak to our sports news correspondent natalie pirks... behind you the scene of andy murray's and its triumphs but he has not been at his best since his last one there. it was here in 201320 ended britain's 77 year wait for a male wimbledon champion and again in 2016, vintage andy murray years where he became world number one and the first player ever to successfully defend an olympic title. but it has been downhill since then, he talked about how his headis since then, he talked about how his head is so severely damaged and he is in so much pain that it is spindle to put on his socks and

shoes. it is the semifinal of the french open and 2017 when he really began to struggle and by the time he got to wimbledon that here, hasty quarterfinal but then there was a period of rehab, six months off and it was in january last year he had the hip operation. he did not have the hip operation. he did not have the full operation, more of a clean as he called it and deal that would get him back to what he was 95%, he believed to be getting back to the level where he could really compete. but it has not turned out that way, he pulled out of playing here last summer on the eve of the betard scandinavian fim speedway grand prix and has not been able to get back and has not been able to get back and he's crazy as the discomfort. monday may be the end of it. he is due to play the first round of the australian open but he has played a practice match against novak djokovic who himself has come back from an operation to his elbow, a

different part of the body in terms of recovery and he has recovered to become world number one again and he played novak djokovic in a practice match and lost 6—1— a—1 before they called it a day. it is clear from the emotion that he is struggling just to play the sport he loves so much and he did say he wants to end it all here in the summer but it was very clear from the emotion that he may not get that far, this could be the last watch and play tennis. joe to the future with a positive glimmer, alleging king saying do not be too downcast, your greatest impact may be to come. she is speaking with real experience of that and if you speak to female and

sport, notjust that and if you speak to female and sport, not just athletes themselves but women like me who work in sports broadcasting, she is what we call a male ally, he has been fantastic in fighting the fight, he will regularly, sexism on his twitter and is to grab, most recently when the female lawyer won the battle on door and was asked to work, he was straight on the calling that out and his own management company is finding new talent coming through, informing them and when he missed wimbledon last year he was a pundit for the bbc with a crisis of humour we have come to know and love and he was not always universally loved that was around 2012 for the last two roger federer and the final when he cried on centre court and really ca ptu red he cried on centre court and really captured the hearts of the british nation and has gone on to try several times, as emotion is very clear when he's talking about the sport he loves what he has won a place in the nation ‘s hearts and it

isa place in the nation ‘s hearts and it is a shame perhaps we will not get that fairy tale ending necessarily here in the summer of the austrian open does not go well for him. thank you. weather with louise lear hi, the weather has been very quiet the first ten days of january, high pressure ofjanuary, high pressure has been with us and there's a lot of dry weather into the weekend. turning increasingly windy with cloud as well, let's give you some detail. for the rest of the day to day, a cloudy afternoon for many, like this here and there but the emphasis of cloudy skies and relatively mild, between eight and ten. a weather front pushes to the north—west through this evening and overnight, bringing outbreaks of rain as well into scotland and northern ireland with all the cloud around through the night it is not going to be

cold, cloud acting like a blanket and temperatures above freezing around between five and eight. the weather front sight of the country and two, shirley outbreaks slinking south, behind a cloud of dry and enter sunday at his group to be the winds are the key, strengthening and gusty to dealfor 75. hello this is bbc newsroom live. the headlines: andy murray announces he'll retire after wimbledon, but in a tearful news conference he says his injured hip could force him out even sooner. work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, announces further changes to the roll—out of universal credit as the high court upholds a judicial review of the way the benefit is calculated. the attorney general allows an application for a fresh inquest into the death of nine—year—old ella kissi—debrah who died after an asthma attack,

believed to be linked to pollution, in 2013. the airline flybe is being bought forjust over £2 million by a group including virgin atlantic and stobart. octavian, a french—born rapper from southeast london, is named the bbc music sound of 2019 winner, the first rapper to win the title since 50 cent. clinical waste, including body parts, has been piled up at an industrial estate in north tyneside for weeks, after the firm responsible for disposing of it ceased trading. healthcare environmental services lost its nhs contracts last year amid concerns over the amount of medical waste accumulating across the country. it said there wasn't the capacity to deal with it all. bbc look north's mark denten reports. bags of clinical waste from

hospitals piling up in warehouses for weeks. after health care roman services went out of business. the company services went out of business. the co m pa ny lost services went out of business. the com pa ny lost its services went out of business. the company lost its contract with hospital trusts in october 20 18th because it was not disposing of the clinical waste quickly enough. now it's not disposing of it at all. the environment agency inspecting the site earlier this week said it has tried to get the waste cleared and is launching a criminal investigation into the company. and because health care environmental services hasn't gone into liquidation yet, workers cannot get benefits or redundancy payments. lot of the guys with children, young children, houses, mortgages, rents, it has left everyone high and dry. to have lost yourjobjust before christmas, but to be in limbo

because the company is not operating but they have not been made redundant and there is not a list of workers still be council and the dwp, my office, are all working really hard. the chairman of the company, seen here is courting the princess royal around the company's headquarters in scotland in may last year, says they are looking for a buyer after which they can pay their former employees. for 22 years, the company has paid wages on time and that has always been our commitment to do that. on this occasion, it has been out with our control because of their bank and the uk government pressure which took this company into receivership. at this point, we are still fighting because there are interested parties in buying the business and our commitment is to try to get these jobs back into play and to get the company to survive. meanwhile, in an anonymous warehouse in north tyneside, mounds of decaying clinical waste which should have been disposed of weeks ago remain. four working single mothers have won a high court challenge over

the government's universal credit welfare scheme. they argued there was a fundamental problem with the way the benefit was calculated with huge differences in monthly payments. it comes as the government has announced further changes to the system so that it won't cap the benefit for families whose children were born before april 2017. our social affairs correspondent michael buchanon explains the controversial policy. what's the problem with universal credit? well, it's this massive welfare reform bringing six different benefits into one monthly payment. lots of people think it's a really good idea. the benefits system is hideously complicated. the trouble is that it's proving really, really hard to do. it is years behind schedule and it's creating real hardships for some people. all she's asking for is £5a a week. because that's all she's entitled to. that's all she's asking for. one of the biggest problems is what happens when someone applies for the benefit. because of the way it's designed, typically if they're on benefits,

anything they‘ re currently getting immediately stops. then they have to wait usually five weeks for the first payment. lots of those people simply don't have any savings so they end up going to food banks, building up debts, and building up rent arrears. universal credit's been rolled out here since december last year. we've seen our numbers at this food bank more than double since then. there are other problems as well. you are encouraged to apply for universal credit online, which is great if you're internet savvy and you've got access to a computer, but it creates problems for some people. 20% of disabled adults have never used the internet. there are complaints that the system is as bafflingly complex as the current benefits system. you can get sanctions and lose money if you're a few minutes late for an appointment at the job centre and there's a particular concern about the fact that universal credit is paid to one person in each household. women in particular might be susceptible to being controlled by an abusive partner and therefore it can make these women potential victims of domestic violence. if you had got a group of misogynists in a room and said,

"guys, how can we make this system work for men and not for women?" they wouldn't have come up with too many other ideas than what's already in place. for many people, universal credit is just fine. let's say you've just lost yourjob, you've got a little bit of savings, you quickly move into anotherjob, you just need a helping hand for a month or two. if, however, your hours vary, you may be on a zero—hours contract, you may have a child, you may have childcare costs as well, then it becomes almost as complicated as the benefit system it is replacing and you may well lose money. there's been so many errors. i wouldn't be able to afford to buy food living on my own on universal credit. even ministers say there are problems with universal credit. in the last two budgets, for instance, they've had to pump in billions of pounds into the system to try and make some of those problems go away, but it seems the system has been so reorganised to make sure that universal credit works that there is no sign it's going to go away any time soon.

meanwhile, the high court has upheld a call for a judicial review of universal credit. four working single mothers argue that there is a "fundamental problem" with the method used to calculate the money they receive. earlier i spoke to our correspondent andy moore, who was at the high court. universal credit, it's bound to be complicated and technical, but in a nutshell, this 20 page document was delivered by the high courtjust a few minutes before amber rudd got up to make that speech, so embarrassing to make that speech, so embarrassing to say the least. this is a criticism of the policy adopted by the department for work and pensions. they have been told to go back and rework it and to interpret their own guidelines correctly. basically, four working single mothers came to the high court in november. they said they were suffering real hardship, losing out

on hundreds of pounds a year, spiralling into debt because of the way universal credit was administered. they said, basically, sometimes, because of the way they we re sometimes, because of the way they were paid, they got to salary is one month and none the next month. that meant that there are payments from universal credit were going up wildly up—and—down and they said they just couldn't wildly up—and—down and they said theyjust couldn't budget because of that. so, they have won their case. the department for work and pensions has been told to come up with a solution to this problem. we have not heard from them yet. lawyers for these four women say this is a very important test case that will affect tens of thousands of other people and they say the government clearly got it wrong here. the government acted unlawfully and they have to announce how they intend to remedy this problem. either other challenges in the pipeline or is is the only one? this is the only one i am aware of. i imagine there probably are other ones on other

technical aspects, but certainly this in itself, this case here is a major setback, so this is another issue that amber rudd, now she's back at her desk, will have to get on top of because the courts will be looking for a response, a remedy to this pretty quickly. there is another court case in relation to this scheduled for next month and thejudges have said this scheduled for next month and the judges have said they want to hear from the department for work and pensions within a few weeks, telling the court what they intend to do about this. wholemeal bread and pasta, porridge oats, beans and lentils — all high fibre foods which, according to a major new study, reduce the risk of serious disease. but the research also warns that popular, low carb diets could be putting people's health at risk. here's james gallagher with more details. fibre is best known for its role keeping your bowel movements regular. but this report commissioned by the world health organization shows the health benefits are much broader than that. it analysed more than 200 pieces of scientific research

and is the most comprehensive ever look at the fibre you find in foods like fruit and veg, wholegrain breads as well as pulses like beans and lentils. the study showed fibre keeps you alive for longer. helps you stay thin. and cuts the risk of heart attacks, stroke and type—2 diabetes. and the more you eat the better. the study‘s quite clearly saying that we need to be eating 30 grams for optimal health benefits and that's actually quite a change for the uk population. it really means paying attention to having fruits and vegetables at every single meal and vegetables at every single meal and snack times, so getting fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and whole—grain products. so are you getting enough? well, the answer is almost certainly no. 30g a day sounds like a tiny amount, but fewer than one in 10 adults in the uk eats that much. so how can you eat a bit more? breakfast is a good place to start and you could switch

to a high—fibre cereal or porridge. bread is another easy win if you can trade your sliced white for wholemeal or granary varieties. and we've been told it a thousand times before, but eating your five—a—day helps too. scientists say this study is also a timely warning to people turning their back on fibre on some low—carb diets. so, are you getting enough fibre, carry? i was just carry? i wasjust thinking carry? i was just thinking as you were saying that. i don't think so. i think it's time for a january 11 resolution. only two weeks too late! i will check again in a few days' time and try to reform my behaviour. the attorney general has agreed to allow an application for a fresh inquest into the death of a nine—year—old girl who died from an asthma attack in 2013, after new evidence linked her death to illegal levels of air pollution. ella kissi—debrah lived in lewisham, just 25 metres from the south circular,

one of london's busiest and most polluted roads. her last fatal seizure happened during a spike in illegal levels of air pollution. i spoke to ella's mother, rosamund. as ella's mother, i did want to get to the bottom of why my beloved daughter suddenly became so chronically ill and subsequently died and she also, obviously, has living siblings and it was very important to get an answer as to why she is no longer with us. she would have been 15 in just under two weeks' time, so this news has come as such an almighty shock to us. we weren't expecting it and i have literallyjust seen her picture on the screen and it obviously got me quite emotionaljust before we went on to air. i appreciate how emotional and distressing it must be to you to revisit these events, but i suppose for audiences who are not so familiar with ella's case, you believe — tell me if i am wrong in this —

you believe that unlawful levels of air pollution were a key driver of the asthma attack that was fatal to ella. absolutely. this has been investigated by a medical expert who not only looked at her samples but also spoke to the pathologist who did the postmortem and this is the conclusion he has come to. the attorney general has had a long time to examine this and he believes, obviously, that now we can move forward, apply to the high court, get the original inquest quashed and she can have a fresh inquest. and do you then hope that the fresh inquest, if, indeed, it is permitted by the high court, that that will conclude that the link is there? absolutely. this has never been done before. 600,000 children die across the globe from air pollution every year,

but it has never been cited on a death certificate before. she suffered so much and i believe it's really important that if that was a contributing factor to why she became ill, why she died, then it needs to be on her death certificate. this is obviously important in ella's case and in remembering ella, but it's also important for many other children and, indeed, adults if there are unlawful levels of air pollution and if those levels are found to be directly linked by an inquest to a person's death, then that does have an implication. absolutely. make no doubt of it, in london right now, 10—15% of children under 19 have athsma. every year in london between eight and 12 children die. this has not ended with ella and i am absolutely passionate that there's a change in the law whatever it takes, so no family, ever, has to go through what we have been through.

do you think... it is one thing going through this process of the attorney general, the high court, the second inquest, but do you think there is a political will now to address this question of air pollution and its potentially lethal effects? not yet. why i am here is there needs to be an awareness of the impact air pollution has. apparently, there is an air quality, a draft plan coming out from the government next week, and i hope that finally they would do something about it. there are so many things they need to be done so children around the uk can breathe clean air. they have had to be taken to court three times to push them on it. is there a political will? not at the moment, but from today, i hope so. the headlines on bbc news:

andy murray announces he'll retire after wimbledon, but in a tearful news conference he says his injured hip could force him out even sooner. work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, announces further changes to the roll—out of universal credit as the high court upholds a judicial review of the way the benefit is calculated. the attorney general allows an application for a fresh inquest into the death of nine—year—old ella kissi—debrah who died after an asthma attack, believed to be linked to pollution, in 2013. award—winning bbc television and radio presenter dianne oxberry has died, following a short illness. she was 51. dianne became well—known nationally on radio 1, working alongside simon mayo and steve wright. after studying meteorology she became the weather presenter for bbc north west tonight in 199a. stuart flinders has been looking back at her career here for the first time

is dianne oxberry. yes, i'm going to be here tonight and every night this week bringing you a detailed weather forecast with information supplied by the manchester weather centre. this was the moment north west tonight viewers first met dianne oxberry, more than 20 years ago. thanks to her quick wit and sense of fun, they fell for her in a big way. she just had such a great rapport with the public and they loved her, everywhere you went. we're alljust enormously shocked here and she was a beloved colleague. we all loved her. this is how she'll be best remembered by viewers — cool and professional and never flustered. god love her! you've made it sunshine for everybody! i have, mate, for once. a sad day for all of us here at the bbc. a man who discovered after being diagnosed with the life—limiting illness, cystic fibrosis that he couldn't be the father of his three sons

because the condition causes lifelong infertility has told the bbc the news left him feeling suicidal. doctors revealed in 2016 that richard mason couldn't be dad to the children who are now twins of19, and 23. richard, who's one of the founders of moneysupermarket.com, sued his wife of 20 years, kate, and they recently reached a settlement of £250,000, with her admitting she had an affair while the couple had been married. richard and his current partner emma spoke to my colleague victoria derbyshire. when he said to me, you've got cystic fibrosis, i immediately thought, oh, my god, my sister died of that at 29. and her death was very hard for me because with cystic fibrosis, you slowly suffocate on your own phlegm and it took her two years to eventually... waiting for a heart and lung transplant and she died in the operating theatre. so immediately, i wasjust very saddened by that. but then when the discussion

then turned to fertility and he said, look, yourself and emma, you are going to have difficulty having children because you are, as a man with cystic fibrosis, infertile, it was suddenly like being hit by a sledgehammer. ijust went... oh, my god, you know, suddenly realised that your children aren't yours. so immediately you knew the significance of what he just said to you? yes. both of you? there were medical experts in the room and, you know, it's impossible without ivf for a man with cystic fibrosis to have a baby. so then i said, well, you must have the diagnosis wrong, because i've already got three boys. but i sort of was, like, clutching at straws there. so, after that, it became

a complete blur because it was almost like, you know, i don't know if you've ever hit your head really, really hard and it's like a ringing and you just... you can't see anything that's going on around you, you can't think of anything that is going on around you, it's almost like you have this ringing in your ears and it's all the implications of everything that's as a result of that start flashing through your mind. what kind of questions you then immediately asking yourself? he just wanted to go straight to phone kate, his ex—wife, and say, kate, spare me the dignity, just tell me the truth. was there anyone else? when i managed to compose myself about an hour later, i sent a text, and i said, look... and this text has been in the press, but it was actually repeated verbatim from what i said to her and it is still my phone now. i said i havejust been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, i'm not expecting you to be sympathetic about that, because she's a very hard person,

but the reason i'm telling you that is that the boys are not likely to have been fathered by me. now, obviously, something's gone on and if you are honest about it with me, i don't intend to sue you and you can decide how you want to tell the boys, if you want me to be there at the same time, that's fine. but if you lied to me, then i will take action and i will decide how i am telling the boys and the immediate response i got back was, i am sympathetic, but whatever science says, those boys will always be yours. police in las vegas have issued a warrant for a dna sample from the footballer cristiano ronaldo. they are investigating rape allegations against the portugal, juventus and former

manchester united star. his lawyer has insisted it is a "very standard request". ronaldo denies assaulting kathryn mayorga at a las vegas hotel in 2009. the winner of the bbc music sound of 2019 is octavian, a 23—year old rapper from london who was previously homeless as a teenager. the award goes to performers who've never had a top ten hit, and aims to boost the profile of new music talent. previous winners include adele and sam smith. here's our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba. meet octavian, a rapper who grew up in south london, and who is one of music's most exciting new talents. the 23—year—old, who was once a homeless teenager on the capital's streets, says he is overwhelmed to top the sound of 2019 list. a year ago, i was like — i was poor. i was — i had no money.

so to have, like — to be nominated for, like, the bbc sound poll, and to win it, like, it's amazing. it's crazy, it's crazy. he follows in the footsteps of previous winners like sam smith and adele. octavian is hopeful that his music's message can help inspire younger people who have also had problems in their lives. a lot of my music from then until now has been about poverty, and making it out of poverty, because that's what i was going through. so my message then was, like, just to believe in yourself, and anything is actually possible. because i've lived it, lived that life. his win means his music will now reach a much wider audience, and perhaps lead to even greater success throughout 2019 and beyond. big congratulations to him.

the biggest ever review into england's national parks is taking place, 70 years after they were first created. the peak district was one of the first areas to be given protected status. from there, tim muffett reports. archive: there are thousands of square miles of country and coast which should be made into national parks, mountain, moor, forest and heath must be protected. by the 19a0s, following decades of industrialisation, the national parks campaign was getting louder. inspired by the likes of yosemite in california, and kruger national park in south africa. archive: many other countries have national park systems but we have none, why? in 1951, the first four national parks were officially designated. the peak district, lake district, snowdonia and dartmoor. since then, the list has grown.

there are now ten national parks in england, three and wales and two in scotland. as well as a6 areas of outstanding natural beauty across the uk. but a review is currently assessing how national parks in england meet our needs in the 21st—century. should there be more of them? should more be done to support those who live and work in them? 70 years on from the legislation that created national parks, the question is how best to secure their future. in a moment it's time for the one o'clock news with ben brown but first it's time for a look at the weather with louise lear. hello. it has been quite a gentle start the new year in terms of the weather, hasn't it, but there are indications as we head into next week other change to come. that said, for the weekend, we keep this

mild theme and it will be increasingly windy. acquire story for many of us yes, high—pressure still controlling the story although it is the thing after the south—west, allowing this weather front to moving across the top. that will bring in increasingly windy weather and outbreaks of rain for the end of the day across scotland and northern ireland as it sinks south. there cloud across england and wales, a mild night to come with temperatures staying well above freezing, five 8 degrees. we start off without weakening weather front sitting across england and wales. by then, just a spot or two of rain as it sinks south. i did, breaks in the cloud, sunny spells and a rash of showers into the north—west. it will feel milder despite the winds coming from the north—west because they are originating around the high weather, coming all the way up from the azores, so it is dragging in milder air temperatures will sit on saturday afternoon around nine to 11 degrees. as we move out of saturday into sunday, another weatherford

moves in. the isobar is squished together, wins with gusts in the far north. outbreaks of sharon north to the north—west. greater chances of south trail crossing and in wales. a breezy afternoon for all, but noticeably windy further north with gusts of wind in excess of 35, to a5 or 50 miles gusts of wind in excess of 35, to a5 or50 miles an gusts of wind in excess of 35, to a5 or 50 miles an hour in the extreme lord's with a rash of showers continuing care. cool as we go through the date and in the north, 7-9, but through the date and in the north, 7—9, but double digits for the south. as we move into next week, we will really start to see that north westerly flow dragging in cold air, coming down from the arctic. not quite the extreme cold that we have had in eastern europejust quite the extreme cold that we have had in eastern europe just recently, but nevertheless, you are going to notice the difference to the feel of the weather. this is birmingham, but we could use an example anywhere across the country and you can see through the middle of the week, temperatures are set to struggle.

you will need to wrap up warm and i suspect there will be some overnight frost to content with as well into next week with a chance of showers turning winter. it's over. andy murray, one of britain's greatest ever sportsmen, announces he's retiring from tennis the former world number one has been struggling for months to recoverfrom hip surgery. he was so upset he had to leave a news conference before announcing he'll stop playing this year. i'm not sure... i'm not sure i'm able to play through the pain for another four orfive months. we'll be assessing andy murray's extraordinary career and talking live to sue barker. also this lunchtime: another government u—turn on universal credit as it promises to make the benefit system more compassionate. a new study says high fibre food is good for you, while low carb diets could put your health at risk.

claims this little girl was killed by illegal pollution