this is bbc news, i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 7: andy murray — one of britain's greatest ever sportsmen — says he's retiring from tennis because of injury. i'm not sure i'm able to play through the pain you know for another... four orfive months. the row over universal credit — four working mothers win the right to a judicial review into the way they've been paid the benefit. a thousand jobs could go at the ford engine plant in south wales — as the company restructures its european operations. the nine—year—old who died after an asthma attack — her family win a major legal victory in theirfight to have air pollution recognised as the cause of her death. the benefits of a fibre—rich diet — a major study finds it could cut the risk of early death by up to a third. and on newswatch — an outcry from politicians and the public after

an mp is verbally abused during a live interview. is it time the bbc moved its broadcasts back indoors? join us tonight at 7.45 here on bbc news. good evening and welcome to bbc news. andy murray has broken down in tears at a news conference in melbourne, as he announced that he'll be retiring from tennis this year. the 31—year—old has been struggling to recoverfrom hip surgery 12 months ago and says even basic things in everyday life like putting on socks and shoes are causing him severe pain. the three—time grand slam winner wants to compete for a final time at wimbledon this summer, but acknowledged that the pain he's in means that next week's australian open

could be the final tournament of his career. our sports editor, dan roan, reports. one of the country's greatest sporting moments from arguably its greatest ever sportsman. the waiting is over. his historic wimbledon win six years ago enabled british tennis fans to dream again. but after so many triumphs today came tears. the star becoming so emotional when discussing a chronic hip injury, it all got too much. murray managed to return, but when asked if the australian open might become his last tournament, his anguish was obvious. yeah, i think there is a chance of that, yeah, for sure. yeah, there's a chance

of that, for sure, because 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 or five months. murray had been hoping to continue his recovery from surgery a year ago ahead of the season's first grand slam, but his inability to compete became clear when, visibly out of sorts, he cut short a practice match in melbourne. so what now for murray? i said to my team, i think i can get through this until wimbledon. that was where i would like to... that's where i would like to stop... stop playing. but i am also not certain i'm able to do that.

if this is the end, then murray can retire with his head held high. a three—time grand slam winner, his first success came at the us open, before his defining victory in 2013, finally ending britain's 77 year wait for a wimbledon champion. there were two olympic gold medals, and he brought britain to victory in the davis cup. the battle with his body has proved a step too far. his time as a tennis player is coming to an end. when that will be, we don't know, but i think it will be sooner rather than later, because seeing him in that frame of mind, i can't see him going on too long. murray's record all the more remarkable given the era he played in, playing and beating three of the greatest

talents ever in the game. it was here on centre court that andy murray became that rarest of things, a british champion at wimbledon, not once but twice. it is hard to imagine this place without him, but we now know he may never grace this court again. either way, he will be remembered for a lot more than just tennis. one of the first high—profile tennis players to employ a female coach, murray continually championed for equality in the sport, something that was mentioned by billiejean king. the incomparable andy murray. murray was the only person to win sports personality of the year three times. not bad for a boy with a dream from dunblane, who, through sheer hard work and talent, went on to conquer the tennis world. inspirational, emotional, exceptional. british sport can only hope it will see his like again. let's speak now to sue mott who's a sports journalist

and also wrote andy murray's autobiography. lovely for you to speak to us, it has been a busy day for you, i can imagine. we are learning a lot about andy murray today. but when you worked with him, when you wrote about him and worked on the autobiography, what did you discover about andy murray off the court? 0h, he is such a lovely guy. fupy, you wouldn't necessarily guess that. —— funny. he thought his voice was a dirge. he was fiercely loyal. always turned up. and he was only a young man. he was only about 21, 22 and he was, i won't say charming, because that sounds oily, he was just himself and he was so hard—working. i flew to himself and he was so hard—working. iflew to america himself and he was so hard—working. i flew to america to see him training as he did every off season

and the work he put into it. the fierceness that he, that drove him. he is probably the most competitive person i've ever met in a0 years of sports journalism. an article you wrote on him described him as puritanical. in the early, the start of his career, he was very misunderstood, wasn't he? did that affect him? yes. it made him absolutely furious. a lot of the book we wrote was just trying to get his justified answers in against the press, who had labelled him for a while as anti—english, you remember, and they took the mickey out of him. because he had the body of a pipe cleaner when he started. he was in no way fit enough to be on the court as an 18—year—old as wimbledon. that is what turned him into this ferocious training beast, because he realised if he was going to compete he just

realised if he was going to compete hejust had to realised if he was going to compete he just had to raise realised if he was going to compete hejust had to raise his game physically and he worked to do that. and i must admit it worked against mea and i must admit it worked against me a bit for writing the bit, i would say, what do you do for fun, what are your vices. he would look at me in astounded disbelief. because he didn't have any! he said grand slams are my goals. what was his take on wimbledon success? well, oh god, it was a miracle, i was there the day he won and we did an interview the following day, you got a sense of someone who was at peace in that moment from the drive that he had within him. but it was only minutes later when he thought, right, that is wimbledon in the back, now what am i going to do. he did go on and whip it again. he won the olympics twice and he was world no one in an era where he was up

against that he giants, who you know the like of who we will never see again. i think is extraordinary, this boy from scotland, where there are about two tennis courts and tha nkfully are about two tennis courts and thankfully a scottish mad mother and grandmother. did he speak to you about the pressures that were put on his body. tennis is well known, look at andre agassi, he said i have the body of an old man when he retired. did he raise concerns about his body and what he would do after tennis? yes, he didn't talk about whaefs going to do after te —— what he was going to do after te —— what he was going to do after tennis. i don't think he could bare to contemplate it. but he did talk about the times he had as a teenager, because he was putting so much pressure on a growing frame, he did have a terrible knee injury and one co nsulta nt terrible knee injury and one consultant told him that it would be

the end of his career at the age of 16, 17. and he was devastated. absolutely devastated. it seemed the end of his life. he had a bad wrist injury that made him miss wimbledon one year. both of those knocked him back that it took some of the best co nsulta nts back that it took some of the best consultants in the world and a family's loving arms around him to get him through it. so it has always been a problem for someone of a basically thin frame. thank you. there's been another government u—turn on universal credit, the system which combines welfare benefits into a single payment. the work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, has scrapped plans to extend a cap on families with more than two children. it comes as four single mothers have won a high court challenge to the universal credit system: they say they're struggling financially because of the way their payments are calculated.

our social affairs correspondent, michael buchanan reports. what has it meant not to have any money? no food, no heating. i wouldn't be able to afford to buy food on my own. to cover some household bills, i had to look at getting payday loans. how much money do you have? ap, and i am using that to get a meal from the butcher's. you put in a donation. it is the welfare reform that is in danger of becoming a welfare failure. while most people on it can cope with universal credit, for a significant minority it has been catastrophic. use of food banks have increased. the work and pensions secretary sought to reset universal credit, introducing key changes she hopes will make it fair. the standard offer cannot work for everyone.

people's work patterns, the pressures they face, their families, everyone's circumstances are unique. i want to make sure universal credit has enough flexibility to adapt to personal circumstances. particularly the needs of the most vulnerable. rebecca would certainly agree. a carer to her ten—year—old with spina bifida, their universal credit payments vary each month. budgeting is almost impossible said the labour party member, who finds the labour party member, who finds the system impersonal. we are made to feel bad that we are claiming this benefit, that we don't deserve this money. last month, i met kevin wilmot, who owns properties in hartlepool and hates universal credit. i would rather keep the house empty and pay the council tax than put someone in who won't pay the rent. amber rudd says she will help him. private landlords will be able to have rent paid directly to them rather than relying on tenants to pass it on. i would be over the moon

if they paid directly. it would be a big help to start getting the rent paid directly to the landlord, because otherwise, all of us will end up going under. as the government is trying to revamp universal credit, the high court dealt ministers a blow. four women who have lost money due to a design flaw with the benefit won a legal challenge. the government say they are considering this judgment, but it could be hugely expensive. at a hearing last year, they told the court it could cost hundreds of millions of pounds to solve this problem. charities and campaign groups have broadly welcomed today's changes, but labour says the government didn't go far enough. the idea of waiting five weeks to receive money, the policy has been designed by people who assume that everyone is paid monthly. some people are paid weekly. this is a government out of touch with the lives of working people. today's changes will cost money. universal credit is already more expensive than the system it replaces.

but many claimants need real help. ministers have made rescuing their flagship welfare change a top priority. the child poverty action group supported the legal challenge outlined in that report, in which four working mothers said the new system could leave them struggling financially. joining me now is louisa mcgeehan, policy director at the child poverty action group. thank you for coming in, how significant was today's ruling?m was very significant and it was a victory for common—sense, that the legal aspects aren't that complicated. what the court said is that the way that people's salaries we re that the way that people's salaries were being considered by universal credit was notjust unfair, but unlawful. so the issue was if most of us who don't get that support from social security get paid early by our employers, we have the issue

of how to make that payment last longer. but for these women the system is so complicated, what it did is saw a salary coming in as a second salary in a month, because it w second salary in a month, because it w early and deciding they were earning twice. and they lost out on what they call the work allowance, the money they're allowed to earn before it is taken away from them. it sounds complicated listening to you. you wonder how people are trying to get access to this and are being moved to this new system are dealing with it. you said it was ruled as unlawful. what does that mean. the dwp has to take stock of thejudgment mean. the dwp has to take stock of the judgment and decide. mean. the dwp has to take stock of thejudgment and decide. we mean. the dwp has to take stock of the judgment and decide. we would hope, given it is a common—sense judgment, that they wouldn't appeal. so there is another hearing in

february. at which they will decide how they are going to put it right. but what it seems most likely they're going to be to depart from they're going to be to depart from the computerised system and look at it in the computerised system and look at itina the computerised system and look at it in a real life way and do a manual intercept to make sure that pay is assessed against the correct period in which it applies. you get the sense today was a wake up call, does the reality of the lives of people who have to deal with universal credit match with the ministers and the people who are charge of executing the system?” feels like a significant moment and in an ideal world we would n't have had to go to court. listening 2am to

amber rudd it sounds like she is make a big change, making the system flexible and working for people in their real lives and recognises when people can't work and giving a level of protection to them. these are all things that we would say are right. these are things that need to be done. so you know if she is seriously about wanting to work on those, we will be happy to work with her. maybe that is it needs. thank you very much. the headlines on bbc news: andy murray — one of britain's greatest ever sportsmen — says he's retiring from tennis because of injury. the government announces further changes to the roll—out of universal credit — as four single working mothers win a high court challenge over the scheme. a thousand jobs could go at the ford engine plant in south wales, as the company restructu res its european operations. president trump is again

threatening to declare a national emergency to fund the building of a wall on the mexican border. a row with the democrats — who refuse to pay for it — has led to the partial shutdown of the us government. 800,000 staff who should have got paychecks today will remain unpaid. tomorrow, the shutdown will become the longest in american history. let's speak to our senior north america reporter, anthony zurcher. just summarise to us the latest developments in this partial government shut down and what has been done about it. the latest development is that both the house and the senate have adjourned for the weekend, so they won't meet until monday, that guarantees this will be the longest government shut

down in history. we are waiting to see if donald trump will decide to declare a national emergency and when he does that, there are specific provisions in federal law. it is notjust a vague term. there isa it is notjust a vague term. there is a guideline on what constitutes a national emergency and one thing would be to tap into unused military funds elsewhere in the budget and use that to direct it to a border wall. it hasn't been used for anything like that in the past. it has been used in recovery efforts after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and for construction in afghanistan and it would be controversial. but some republicans view this maybe the only way he can get out of crisis, because the reality is that democrats don't seem willing to budge, negotiations have broken down for the $5 billion for the border

wall. the democrats have been passing legislation to keep the government open, but the senate republicans have been blocking that and donald trump has promised to veto it. and you have the actual impact it is having on us government workers who missed their first pay cheque of 2019 today. that means that up until now it was a theoretical thing, now they are actually, they were counting on money and are not getting it. there are certain resources that have been shut down, such as health worker inspections, the people who check bags at airports, they have had to work without pay. a lot are calling in sick. in miami airport they will have to close a terminal this weekend, because they don't have enough security staff to man the check points. so they're consolidating their staffing. we will see real effects from is in shut down, where there are over 800,000 workers who are not getting

paid and government services will be more shuttered because of the lack offunding. more shuttered because of the lack of funding. thank you. around a thousand jobs are under threat at a ford plant in bridgend in south wales due to restructuring plans. the car giant announced yesterday it would be reorganising its european operations, but gave no details about possible cuts in the uk. the union, unite, said it had now been briefed by bosses and more than half of the bridgend workforce was likely to go by 2021. sarah dickens reports. let the other guys keep dreaming about the future. we will be the ones billing it. the future is built — that is according to ford's publicity. but what is the future for its works in bridgend? the company is changing the type of vehicles it will make, where it will make them and how. for two years,

unions have been warning of more than a thousand job losses. the plant makes engines forjaguar cars, but that contract ends in a year. there are some possibility in terms of winning future work. ford said they want to pursue an electrification strategy. perhaps the bridgend plant could win some of that work. perhaps this is the start of that negotiation. bridge end won the investment for the new ford engine. but the number of engines it will be making will be halved. ford is not commenting but acknowledges the strategy will result in job losses and said it is premature to speculate. the union says the losses will take place over two years and it is devastating for families and the communities. another union, the

gmb said it will fight for every ford job in bridgend. fears of substantial job losses have ford job in bridgend. fears of substantialjob losses have been hanging over the plants for two yea rs. hanging over the plants for two years. unless the plants manages to win more contracts for more ford engines or other contracts, the fears may become a reality. most of us do not have enough fibre in our diet — despite the fact it reduces the chance of heart attacks, strokes as well as type 2 diabetes. fibre is present in fruit, vegetables, wholegrain bread, pasta and grains like lentils. researchers advise eating 30 grams a day, but 9 out of 10 of us are failing to do that as our medical correspondent fergus walsh now reports. it's the super—ingredient most of us don't get enough of. fibre. a landmark study in the lancet journal has confirmed that fibre in fruit, veg,

whole grains, pulses and nuts has major health benefits. researchers analysed more than 200 studies and found a high—fibre diet significantly cut the risk of heart disease and stroke as well as bowel cancer and type two diabetes. the overall risk of death was reduced by at least 15%. adults should be aiming to eat 30 grams of fibre a day. the average in the uk isjust 18 grams. i don't think we eat as much fibre as we should do. whenever we shop and cook and things. i don't really think about fibre, to be honest. i would have no idea how many grams of fibre is in anything. so, yeah, it would be good to know. so how do you get your 30 grams of fibre a day? let's start with breakfast. two slices of wholemeal toast — 6.a grams of fibre. more than double what you get in white bread. add to that a banana and you're nearly a third of the way there. or you could have some porridge plus fruit.

at lunchtime, this meal has a whopping 21 grams of fibre. a baked potato with its skin on, some baked beans and a large apple. well, that's your recommended intake injust two meals. then, in the evening, you could have some wholewheat pasta, some pulses, like kidney beans, some wholegrain rice. don't forget the veg. each of these has three grams of fibre, and then a handful of unsalted nuts and you're getting all the roughage you need. around 9% of the population hit that 30 grams target. so a lot of us are quite deficient, really. and that's for a variety of reasons. but generally, if we were all to increase fruit and vegetable intake, getting fruits and vegetables at every meal and every snack, for most of us that would bump us up really significantly and really help decrease those risk factors. fibre is crucial for our digestive and overall health. those on popular low—carb diets may be missing out on this key ingredient. fergus walsh, bbc news.

with me now is dr amy zhang, she is a science writer, and is one half of the dumpling sisters — a chinese food blog, specialising in cantonese food. she also holds a phd in chemical biology from the university of cambridge. fantastic to have you in with us. i will be honest with you, you look at those pictures, it is not exciting, is it? we know we should have the fibre, when you talk about cantonese, chinese food, now you're talking. yes. how do you get fibre in chinese food? you know, i think it isa in chinese food? you know, i think it is a tricky thing for us all to bump up ourfibre. 30 grammes seems a lot. but it is just a target. it is what the average person should have to stay healthy. because of it, everyone's different. some of us

won't need 30 grammes, you're right we eat a lot of carbs and for us rice and noodles are important and to get more fibre, based on cantonese food is to have more things like brown rice instead of white rice. if you just replace that you bump it up by four times. that is easy. noodles, go for whole grain and you can get whole meal rice noodles. you never had that a few yea rs noodles. you never had that a few years ago. when you look at the timing of the advice, many people are trying to shift pounds and they will saying, but i'm trying to cutback on the carbs. where should we be looking for sources of fibre that are not carb—rich. we be looking for sources of fibre that are not carb-rich. i'm glad you asked that, one of the most surprising things today about the

coverage is that fruit is a huge source of fibre. if you fake a slice of whole meal gram it is two grammes of whole meal gram it is two grammes of fibre. if you have an apple it is four. it is twice as much and a carrot is three grammes and my supervisor used to eat a raw carrot and we used to life. now we now know gut health is important by eating different types of food helps make oui’ different types of food helps make our immune system strong and it has psychological benefits. there are different types of fibre, the one we should be going for is the soluble 01’ should be going for is the soluble ora mix? should be going for is the soluble or a mix? i think a mix. a mix is a great word. i think up to now, we

have had so much different advice, it is constantly evolving, before it was fat is not good and we went to low fat diets and then sugar was added, now protein is such a good thing. if we think of food as k nutrients. this advice saying fibre is good opens up a world of possibility. it opens up all sorts of things you can eat. i think a mix of things you can eat. i think a mix of fibre and of food and all sorts of fibre and of food and all sorts of foods, make sure you have your carbs and protein and fish and your fruit and it is common—sense. the world health organization has given you the licence to eat what you like and it is something to be celebrated. you feel restricted by so celebrated. you feel restricted by so many of these diets that are out there. you get the five two, the

starvation thing, protein and atkins. i saw an 800 calory one. it can do more bad than good. the key thing you mentioned, this is what it comes down to, probably what we need to ta ke comes down to, probably what we need to take away from this, is the health of your gut. yes. why is this so health of your gut. yes. why is this so port? because if we think about what we need to keep us happy and healthy, i like to wake up, have a good night's sleep, you know have a nice chat with my husband, eat good food, what do you feed your gut to keep it happy. fibre is what your gut needs. in your large intes tyne intes tyne is a something that needs to be healthy. when we think chinese, we think takeaway. but you know there are some bad things in there. if you're cooking chinese at

home. how would you incorporate that cantonese food. especially cantonese, because the canton region is the southern part of china, very fertile and the city is built river delta, there's an abundance of fresh vegetables. that is why cantonese food, you have starch like rice noodles and ventilation topping with something saucy but the main component when i cook at home is vegeta bles component when i cook at home is vegetables more often than not. they area vegetables more often than not. they are a great source of fibre. meat is used to flavour the vegetables, not the other way around. cantonese cooking, we very rarely eat a big cut of meat, there is no such thing asa cut of meat, there is no such thing as a roast like we have on sunday here although i love them as well. we don't eat much at stake. when you think of a stir fry at home, instead of making the beef or the chicken at home main component, throw in more carrots, celery, broccoli and maybe even sprouts. there are no rules to

cooking. did youjust even sprouts. there are no rules to cooking. did you just say sprouts? i love sprouts! but the thing is, think of fibre and the guys as it comes in, many boring things, like lentils and brown rice, think of it asa lentils and brown rice, think of it as a vehicle for flavour and not the key thing. you need to make it exciting. exactly. thank you so much. one of the dim sum sisters, the dumpling sisters? either or. thank you so much. now it's time for a look at the weather with sarah keith lucas. good evening. friday has been a largely dry day and our weather watchers have been out capturing some beautiful sunsets such as this one which was taken in selsey in west sussex. we still have some clear skies out there tonight, but for most places a fairly cloudy affairwith rain around. working in on a cold front for scotland and northern ireland then patchy rain sinking into central wales in the early hours of saturday morning. not particularly cold, frost—free start to the weekend and saturday will be windier

than recently with a mix of sunshine and showers and early light rain clearing from the south and plenty of showers moving into northern and western scotland, north—west england and wales. further south and east, more likely to stay dry and mild at 9—11 on saturday. sunday is the windy day, gusts reaching a0 or 50 mph particularly north and north—west. heavy showers here but further south and east, likely to stay dry with some sunshine, highs 11 or 12 degrees. goodbye. hello, this is bbc news with lu kwesa burak. the headlines: andy murray, one of britain's greatest—ever sportsmen, says he's retiring from tennis. the two—time men's wimbledon champion, broke the news of his plan to retire, because of injury, ahead of the australian open. i'm not sure i'm able to play through the pain... you know, for another... four orfive months. the row over universal credit: four

working mothers win the right to a judicial review into the way they've been paid the benefit. 1,000 jobs could go at the ford engine plant in south wales over the next two years under a major restructuring plan for the compa ny‘s european operations. the family of a 9—year—old girl who died from asthma learn they can apply for a fresh inquest into her death over new evidence linking it to air pollution. we will update you on some breaking news coming to us out of cuba following that bus crash we reported on earlier. just to remind you of that, seven people reportedly died, a bus was carrying tourists and

local passengers in eastern cuba. the bus crashed, skidding on a wet section of a road as it was travelling from baracoa on the eastern tip of the island heading back to the capital, havana. we had from the foreign office who have issued a statement saying, we continue to seek further information from the cu ban continue to seek further information from the cuban authorities, following a road traffic accident and are ready to assist any british people who require our help. we are currently providing assistance to two british nationals, who were injured on the bus. that's the latest we've got on that crash in cuba. more as we get it, of course. the conservative mp, dominic grieve, has called on the government to remove the date we leave the eu from legislation, if the prime minister fails to get backing for her deal next week. ?our political correspondent, iain watson is in westminster. you're beginning to get a sense the

plates are moving as we countdown to the big vote taking place here in a couple of nights time on tuesday. parliament was up and running with a gusto today that you often don't see ona gusto today that you often don't see on a friday, today being one of those big days of discussion around the brexit deal that the prime minister has secured. we started to see on the margins are few people firming up their views. jim fitzpatrick, the labour mp said in the commons today in his own mind he was working towards a position where he might back the prime minister, as a labourmp. a he might back the prime minister, as a labour mp. a few conservatives, george freeman, for instance, saying he will now support the deal, even though he has problems with it. others have confirmed they won't. the numbers of people moving or doing things in an interesting or a direction that might appear counterintuitive are relatively small. it still looks like the prime minister will go down to a significant defeat. the other thing going on is people talking about what happens in the event that the

government is defeated. in steps dominic grieve, former attorney general but arguably, more importantly on his cv at the moment, someone importantly on his cv at the moment, someone with a track record of being able to cause the government anguish and a bit of a headache, as far as this brexit process is concerned. with him explicitly saying that may be the uk should scratch from the law, from the statute book, as you say, this idea that we are leaving the european union in exactly 11 weeks' time. because he says unless you do that, you can't even ask the eu to extend the article 50 process to delay brexit, because it would be the law of the land in the uk. let's have a quick look at the interview mr grieve gave us. the first thing we could do is to take the 29th of march out of our domestic legislation. without doing that, there's no point in going to the eu and asking for an extension, because we would still be crashing out. and that would have to be, i think, a top priority. i believe the eu will extend article

50 for us, but i think it'll only do it in a number of very limited circumstances. we have to be realistic about that, as well. so, we need to explore what those circumstances might be and have an opinion so that... how we can proceed from there. if we take this rationally, we will come up with the right solutions in the end. if cabinet ministers feel that the government is doing something that they can't accept, then it's probably their duty to resign. that's always been my approach to collective responsibility. if you can't take a collective decision to do something, you shouldn't remain in government. it's a very important principle. so, my feeling is that this will have its own dynamic. whilst i want to keep the government stable, it's not in our interests that this government collapses, i hope the prime minister will listen carefully to what members of parliament and members of her own government are saying to her. so, what does the government have to say about mr grieve's idea? it says

it has no intention of delaying brexit and extending article 50 to use the jargon. what we are seeing from senior ministers, as the last few weeks, then warning about the potential consequences of the prime minister's deal being defeated. they say the only way of definitely securing brexit is backing this deal. because if it's rejected, there could either be no deal, or, indeed, no brexit. enterthe there could either be no deal, or, indeed, no brexit. enter the foreign secretary today, jeremy hunt. for people who want to deliver what the british people voted for, in that referendum, next tuesday is a very important moment. because 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 we have the risk of brexit paralysis. when that happens, no—one knows what might happen. and the big risk and what people worry about is that we don't deliver what people voted for.

and it comes back to the central point that i've been banging on about for the last couple of months. at the point where this deal is rejected, which looks pretty likely next tuesday, nobody can tell you, definitively, what is going to happen next. people like me can wang on forever about the range of possible consequences, no deal, another referendum, extension of article 50, the government is trying to reheat the deal for another vote and then bring it back again and again, they are all a possibility. but what is fascinating and for some, alarming, is that 11 weeks out from brexit, as written down in uk law, we could very soon, in a matter of days, be in a situation where no one knows definitively what is going to happen. and, crucially, no one individual actor is in complete control. goodness! thank you very much. as we've been saying, this week mps have been debating on the government's brexit deal ahead of next tuesday's

crucial vote. at 8.30pm, here on the bbc news channel, we'll be selecting some of the day's key moments in the commons. that's with david cornock from bbc parliament. ella kissi—debrah was just nine years old when she died after suffering a severe asthma attack, one of many. she lived right next to one of london's busiest roads — the south circular — a notorious pollution hotspot. since her death six years ago, her family have argued that it was unlawful levels of pollution that triggered her asthma. now a ruling by the attorney general paves the way for a fresh inquest that could see air pollution officially recorded on a death certificate for the first time. our environment correspondent claire marshall reports. ella was a healthy baby, but as she got older she developed acute asthma.

ella pants. she was rushed to hospital almost 30 times in the three years before she died. she was breathing air so polluted that it broke legal limits. her home was just 25 metres from this road, london's south circular. her mother, rosamond, walked these choked streets with her to school. she's been campaigning for illegal air pollution to be put on her daughter's death certificate, and today, she's one huge step closer. in a rare move, the attorney general has looked at ella's case and will allow an application for the inquest to be reopened. it's great and it's the right decision. and now we can get to the bottom, really, of the health impact of air pollution on young people. key to this decision was new medical evidence that linked the harmful particles and chemicals in exhaust fumes directly to ella's death. this is the kind of air pollution at ella was exposed to.

you can almost taste it. and the expert report showed that almost every time she was rushed to hospital, there had been a spike in illegal levels. and the night before she died, it had been particularly bad. human rights lawyerjocelyn cockburn has been representing the family. for me, this case gives an opportunity for those people in public office who are responsible for protecting our health and for providing clean air to be asked questions, to be held to account. air pollution in the uk has been described by a cross—party group of mps as a public health emergency. so, what were pollution levels like, today? this is a monitoring device. we went out with a top expert on the streets of east london to test the air. these are the results. look at the spike when we get close to the heavy traffic. the government says it is taking

concerted action, but is it enough? the movement is in the right direction. what i'm concerned about is, it's not fast enough. i'm interested in protecting children born in london, in birmingham and manchester today, not in ten to 15 years' time. so did air pollution help to kill ella? it's now down to the high court whether or not to allow a fresh look at all the evidence. claire marshall, bbc news. now it's time for newswatch. this week, samira ahmed discusses whether bbc news should continue to broadcast from college green, outside parliament. hello and welcome to newswatch, with me, samira ahmed. an outcry from politicians and the public after an mp verbally abused during a live interview. is it time the bbc moved its broadcast back indoors? and question time returns

with a new presenter, how did fiona bruce go down with the audience? at the start of a crucial and dramatic week of parliamentary debate, afternoon live decamped on monday, along with some other