this is bbc news. i'm carole walker. the headlines at 12pm... theresa may warns mps a failure to deliver brexit would be "a catastrophic and unforgivable breach of trust in our democracy." the leader of the opposition, jeremy corbyn, spells out what labour will do if theresa may loses the vote on tuesday. we will table a motion of no confidence in the government at a time of our choosing but it's going to be soon, don't worry about that. a bbc investigation reveals gambling addicts were able to sign back into existing online accounts by just making minor changes to their personal details. emergency services continue to battle the snow in europe with a number of ski resorts and mountain villages having to be evacuated. if the weather is changing and the snow gets heavier, the big problem is that the roofs crash down. a new system that allows people to donate to the homeless via a contactless payment

in the street is being piloted to try and deter beggers. this week, the big hitters for 2019. starring... bed rockers. skintight suits. the new click intern. and queen... we will, we will rock you. well, sort of. the prime minister has said a failure to deliver brexit would be "a catastrophic and unforgivable breach of trust in our democracy." writing in the sunday express, theresa may urged mps to back her brexit deal in tuesday's crucial commons vote. meanwhile, the sunday times is reporting that downing street has uncovered a plan by backbench mps

to take control of the brexit process if mrs may loses the vote on her deal. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn has reiterated his party's promise to table a motion of no confidence in the government if they lose tuesday's vote, but would not give details of when this would take place. our political correspondent, susana mendonca told us why mr corbyn is likely to table the no confidence motion sooner rather than later. if theresa may loses and that is what is expected to happen on tuesday, she has three days, three working days to come back with a plan b. we don't know if she has a real plan b. she would have to come back with that. it was supposed to be 21 days but because of the speaker allowing mps last week to change the timetable, it means she has less time. labour have been talking a lot about this idea of wanting a general election and having a vote of no

confidence in the government in order to spark that. but no clarity as to when exactly they will trigger that vote of no confidence. what we had from jeremy corbyn today speaking to the andrew marr show was again him being cryptic about when but giving us the suggestion it could be sooner rather than later. we will table a motion of no confidence in the government at a time of our choosing but it is going to be soon, don't worry about that. barry gardiner used the word immediately, that's why i'm perhaps getting over excited but i'm assuming that you'll do it very quickly? andrew, don't get too excited about it! there's only two days to wait until the vote. it's myjob. i know it's yourjob but it's two days to wait until the vote. we'll have the vote and then you'll see. so you're not promising to put down a vote of no confidence on tuesday night or wednesday morning? you will see what happens. still no real clarity there, hinting it will happen quickly but clearly there seems to be a great deal of tactics in all this.

in the meantime, the prime minister and other senior ministers are just desperately appealing to mps to get behind her. it's that last ditch attempt from the prime minister today. this vote was meant to happen in december and it was delayed, partly to try to give the prime minister more time to win over mps but it looks like she could still lose quite significantly and they are talking about potentially 100 tory mps going against the government on tuesday which would be a massive loss for theresa may. she has written in the sunday express, basically appealing to mps who might be on the fence thinking, should i go for this or not, the ones perhaps who want there to be a brexit and think that maybe if we end up not supporting theresa may's deal, it might not happen altogether. and also to those who are worried about the prospect of a no—deal brexit and perhaps that could be the outcome if there is no agreement on this particular deal, so appealing to them. we have heard from stephen barclay today, the brexit secretary, the third brexit secretary

of course, who has been talking to the andrew marr show, and he made the point that the vote is going to be challenging for the government, they know it will be difficult. he talked about how, if they do lose the vote on tuesday, there are plans in place but he did not specify what they were. he is making it clear that the government's view is that those who are ideologically pure, trying to stick to their stances on the basis of ideology, actually they could end up not getting what they want in the long term. the point for brexiteers like me is that the risk posed by people in parliament who stood, the vast majority stood on a manifesto to respect brexit, both the labour party and conservative party manifestos said they would respect the referendum result. but it is self—evidently the case that the risk of parliament acting in a way that frustrates what was the biggest vote in our history has increased. that was stephen barclay.

it is also becoming quite clear that parliament itself, mps could play a decisive role in what does happen yet. theresa may has not said what her plan b is, plenty of others are saying what they would like to happen. yes, plenty are saying what they would like to see happen and there are a lot of different perspectives. there is an article in the sunday times today quoting various people in the government who are concerned about the prospect of parliament, effectively of backbench mps having more of a say over the direction of what is discussed in parliament and what is voted on. this comes off the back last week of the speaker giving mps the opportunity to change the timetable. what they are suggesting is that they could change the rules so that motions proposed by backbenchers have precedent over government motions. it is not clear whether or not that could happen, but it is clearly something the government is concerned about. jeremy corbyn was asked about the issue of the speaker and backbenchers and he said earlier he was not sure it was happening

in the way that has been suggested and that actually, as far as he was concerned, the speaker has done a good job of making sure that parliamentarians have time in the house to actually debate issues and he sees that as a positive. the speaker himself, john bercow, will have a pretty critical role to play in deciding what happens next and which motions and amendments are called and only last week we saw him break with precedent to allow this move which ended up with the government being defeated. exactly, and that was pivotal. as i mentioned before, it means the government now only has three days to come back with its plan b as opposed to 21 days and that is just one example of where the actions of the speaker, he has taken on an amendment which has impacted on the government's processes and its timetable. if there are other amendments that the speaker calls, which perhaps are not the ones the government wants to see tabled

at that time, that is obviously a disadvantage to them. certainly, i suppose for backbench parliamentarians, we have heard a lot over the past few months and the past year about whether or not parliament would step up and take a direct approach in actually steering brexit and i think that is what we are seeing them attempt to do now. concerns about britain's post—brexit agreements with switzerland and up to 70 other non—eu countries have been raised by the chairman of the commons international trade committee. last month, the international trade secretary, dr liam fox, announced that the uk had approved an interim trade deal with the swiss but the snp mp angus macneil said greater clarity was needed. our business correspondent joe miller, reports. being in the eu doesn'tjust allow you to trade freely with 27 other member states. because over the years,

brussels has negotiated agreements with dozens of countries around the world, including south korea and mexico, and those agreements bring down tariffs, they reduce regulation, and effectively make it easier to move goods and services across borders. last year the international trade secretary, dr liam fox, told the bbc he hopes all a0 of those agreements will be rolled over after brexit, and that 70 countries had already agreed to do so in principle. last december, he told parliament of his first triumph. of course, we have now actually initialled the first of those major trade agreements, which is with switzerland. which is responsible for almost one fifth of the total trade within those agreements. others will follow. but the snp mp angus macneil, who chairs the international trade committee, which oversees dr fox's department, has written a letter

to the secretary of state, in which he expresses concern about details of this accord. he says there has not been sufficient information about it and even raises the prospect that the freedom of movement of people, which is currently a condition of the deal between the eu and switzerland, would have to be accepted by the uk. a government spokesperson said the arrangement with switzerland replicates the existing one as far as possible, and we know that more details will be forthcoming. but if these 39 odd agreements are to pass through parliament in time for a possible no—deal brexit, thatjust leaves 11 weeks to avoid disruption with many trade partners. a man has been released on bail after being arrested in connection with incidents in westminster earlier this week. james goddard was detained by officers yesterday morning

near st james's park tube station in westminster, on suspicion of a public order offence. last week a number of mps raised concerns about safety in westminster. a man has been arrested following the death of an 11—year—old boy in a hit—and—run collision in greater manchester last night. a car was found abandoned a short distance from the scene in beswick. the 31—year—old suspect remains in police custody. the gambling commission has told the bbc it plans to close a loophole that allows problem gamblers to continue betting online even after they've signed up to a self—exclusion scheme. 5 live investigates has seen evidence that those who self—exclude can easily sign back in to accounts. gamstop says it has helped more than 50,000 people self—exclude but now the gambling commssion says it plans to ask betting firms to build in enhanced identity verification to prevent customers gambling using incorrect details to access their accounts. the 5 live investigates programme

also discovered similar problems with high—street bookmakers. a bbc producer tested the system by excluding himself from several betting shops in lincolnshire, only to go back and discover that he was still able to bet in several of them. that producer was mick tucker and hejoins us now from salford. thank you for talking to us. this is a scheme that is supposed to prevent problem gamblers from gambling, and just tell us your story and what happened when you tried to prevent yourself effectively from gambling. in 2017, at the end of 2017 we did this test where we excluded ourselves through this scheme from 21 bookmakers in grimsby. we were able to bet, go and used the fixed

odds betting terminals in 19 of them and when we did that we were told by the bookmaking industry, the gambling commission, that they would investigate and the bookmaking industry said they would investigate and make changes so we thought we would put it to the test again to tie in with the story. i went back to grimsby in december last year, i banned myself from 20 of the same bookmakers, and i was able to put a bet on in15 bookmakers, and i was able to put a bet on in 15 of them. and clearly this is something that should not have happened, those shops should not have allowed you to place more bets. yes. in fairness to them, this was the first time i had been in those shops, i was not a regular and that was something the industry said to be in their response, that this was designed for local gambling addicts but we did not feel that fully washed because cities have a lot of bookmakers in them and you

could go into any variety of those. i was not a regular in any of these shops. and also, come four out of the five bookmakers we went to recognise me straightaway and chucked me out essentially and said i had self excluded. but 15 of them, it was no problem at all, i went in there and spent some time on the fixed odds betting terminals and in each case i chatted to the staff, because you have to go to the counter and collect your winnings or your losses. i had a face—to—face conversation with them. in two of the bookmakers they even offered me a cup of tea to make me more co mforta ble. a cup of tea to make me more comfortable. in one they even offered a loyalty card with £30 of free bets even though i was excluded through this scheme. extraordinary and it seems as though this scheme, which is intended for people who recognise they have a gambling problem, who say, i want to stop myself from gambling, but perhaps have a lapse, it is potentially very

serious and could have very serious consequences for those people, who could then find at, not only in person as you did, but also as we had earlier come online, with the greatest m ps had earlier come online, with the greatest mps they can find ways of continuing to gamble. that is right —— with the greatest of ease. continuing to gamble. that is right -- with the greatest of ease. we have had experts say on the programme, which you can listen back to on bbc sounds, experts said that the thing you have to understand is that these people are addicts and they are desperately addicted. 0n one day they might sign up to the scheme with the best intention and desperately say, i don't want to gamble anymore, i want to stop and i wa nt gamble anymore, i want to stop and i want you to exclude me from your shop. the next day, to get their fix, they would try to go back into the store. we the stories as well, i heard the stories researching this are people going in in disguise, or being quite aggressive when they go in even though they have banned themselves from the shops. the thing

to get to grips with is that these people are addicted. 0n to get to grips with is that these people are addicted. on one day they might have the best intention and ban them self but on the next day they would try again. one of those betting shops —— what have those betting shops —— what have those betting shops —— what have those betting shops said about their failure to stop people like yourself, in the role you were assuming, from continuing to gamble? a couple of the betting companies have said they will investigate. 0ne said they would investigate what we found. to be fair, they said that last year as well and they were one of the worst offenders this time round! the association of british bookmakers, which is the body for most british bookmakers, said they we re most british bookmakers, said they were disappointing that mega disappointed in the findings, and so are the group funded by the bookmakers, when it comes to the scheme working, but is the people who run the scheme, they have said

they are disappointed in what we found. the association of british bookmakers also pointed us in the direction of some research which they claim said that eight out of ten people with gambling problems have been helped by this scheme. although that was the same research they put to us in 2017 when we did they put to us in 2017 when we did the programme and we found flaws in that as well, but that was their overall response. thank you very much indeed for the latest on that investigation by 5 live investigates. the headlines on bbc news... theresa may has warned mps preparing to vote on her eu withdrawal deal, that a failure to deliver brexit would be "a catastrophic and unforgivable breach of trust in our democracy." the head of a scheme designed to help problem gamblers says she is "deeply concerned" after an investigation found people were able to cheat the system. parts of germany, austria and sweden are suffering exceptional amounts of snow, with a number of ski resorts and mountain villages having to be evacuated. sport and for a full round—up from the bbc

sport centre, here's 0lly. some big matches this afternoon? there is a big one coming up in the premier league, spurs can move up to second in the table if they beat manchester united but the big subplot is that the spurs manager, mauricio pochettino, is tipped to ta ke mauricio pochettino, is tipped to take over at cap! united in the summer take over at cap! united in the summer will stop we need the three points in the premier league next season. all the rumours, all the things that happen around, or you know that happen around, or you know that happen will happen because that is football. you do yourjob, i need to do myjob and we accept the business is how it is. but my focus is to try

to find a way to win the game. you get tested everything again in the premier league, no doubt about it. but of course this is against a top side. and of course, if we want to get closer to them and go past them, we need a good performance and a good result. first up, everton are facing bournemouth. both teams are level on 27 points and victory would ta ke level on 27 points and victory would take one team into the top half of the table. commentary from both matches is on 5 live. the former leeds united and south africa forward phil masinga has died at the age of 49. he played in the premier league for two seasons and was capped 58 times by south africa. his winning goal got them to france 98 and he also played in the world cup that summer. he died injohannesburg after a long illness. this time tomorrow the australian open will be

under way and andy murray will have finished his first match, possibly his last. he revealed a few days ago that retirement would be sooner rather than later because of the co nsta nt rather than later because of the constant pain he feels following hip surgery last year. today roger federer paid this tribute. as top guys, federer paid this tribute. as top guys, it is hard because we know andy very well and we like him. he doesn't have any enemies, to be quite honest. he is a good guy and hall of fame, legend, everything you want, everybody would substitute his career with his. he is a great guy so it is a tough one. but down the road he can look back and be incredibly proud of everything he has achieved. great britain's dave ryding is out of the world cup slalom after failing to finish the first run in tricky conditions. his podium finish on new year's day, a fourth place and an 11th place meant

he was up to fifth in the standings but he slid early on in the first run in switzerland. he did not make it through to the second. england bowler harry gurney took two wickets on his debut for melbourne renegades but they still suffered a heavy defeat against brisbane heat in the big bash league in australia. chris lynn hit this six into the crowd. somebody would try to catch it... running across the covered seats but just missed it. former new zealand captain brendon mccullum was one of harry gurney‘s victims, his 69 helping his team to 192—4 and the home side fell well short, all out for 91, a defeat by 101 runs. much more on the bbc sport website. all the build—up to the australian open and those football matches this afternoon, but i will be back with more in the next thank you.

three skiers have been killed in an avalanche in austria, and a fourth person is still missing. the group, who are all thought to be from germany, are believed to have made their way to a ski route in lech, which had been closed off because of the risk of snow slides. rescue teams found the bodies of three men late last night, but had to break off the search for the fourth person, because of heavy snowfall and the danger of a further avalanche. the heavy snow is still affecting many areas of central europe as well as parts of scandinavia. a number of ski resorts and mountain villages in austria have been evacuated. bethany bell reports from annaberg in the alps. the little town of annaberg is blanketed in white. like many mountain regions in germany and austria, it is experiencing unusually heavy falls of snow. these sensors are there to protect houses from avalanches. the authorities are struggling to remove the snow. these volunteer firefighters are working to clear the roof of annaberg's primary school.

stefan 0bermaisser from the lower austrian fire brigade says they need to ensure the building is safe enough for children to enter. the big problem is that the snow is very heavy so we have about 3.5 metres on the roofs. and that's the big problem. because if the weather is changing and the snow gets heavier, the big problem is that the roofs crash down and so it is very dangerous for the people who are living here. cars have been buried under several metres of snow. and it is a constant struggle to keep paths and roads clear. in neighbouring germany, the army is helping to clear away snow. several areas have been declared disaster zones. and there is more snow on the way.

the risk of avalanches remains very high. bethany bell, bbc news, annaberg in the austrian alps. almost a fifth of councils in england have introduced a ban on begging, yet only ten of 244 fines issued have been paid. a new system that allows people to donate to the homeless via a contactless payment in the street is being piloted in peterborough to try and deter beggers. jo taylor reports. 28—year—old max says he has been homeless for two years, and has no choice but to beg. he is standing metres away from a sign saying he is not allowed to beg. the amount of money he makes varies from day to day. how much? £7.90. it's notjust money people donate. while filming, a passer—by gave him a jumper and food.

that looks warm. yeah, a big woollyjumper. around the corner i meet andy, not his real name, who says he is homeless. due to his circumstances, we have protected his identity. i got sacked injanuary because of the pressure of the job. my mental health went downhill. across england, 5a out of 302 councils told the bbc they have introduced a public spaces protection order prohibiting begging. but only 244 fines have been issued over four years, and only ten of those have been paid. some spare change, please, ma'am? home office advice is to only use the powerfor genuine anti—social behaviour, and not target the vulnerable. peterborough council banned begging last year, but have not issued a single fine, as they want to give those that beg the opportunity to get off the street first. now they are trying something new. a contactless donation point.

you just put your card up to the screen and it will immediately take £3, which goes into a charitable donation. right. we want to make sure the money goes to the right place so we can provide support to get them off the streets, so they don't have to beg in the first place. the money goes into this and it will fund a number of different initiatives. is it actually going to work in stopping people holding their hand out? this is about making inroads. it will still go on, but it's about to what extent. over three months, almost £1000 has been donated through the contactless point. that is helping to fund a new day centre which offers homeless people services. the main aim is to get people off the streets for good. jo taylor, bbc news. the us secretary of state, mike pompeo, says he is optimistic that washington and turkey can agree on a way to protect america's kurdish allies in syria after its troops leave the country. mr pompeo was speaking in the united arab emirates during a middle east tour aimed at reassuring allies

after president trump abruptly announced his decision to withdraw us troops. barbara plett usher, our correspondent in riyadh, has been following his tour. he was notably short on details, just saying he thought there could possibly be an agreement that would address turkey‘s legitimate concerns about legitimate terror threats but also at the same time protect those kurdish allies that are fighting alongside the united states against islamic state group who he said were not terrorists. we know the turks do regard them as a serious security threat, they see them as an extension of turkish kurdish groups that have been fighting an insurgency against the turkish government for many decades. we do know mr pompeo said that his special envoy, james jeffrey, had know mr pompeo said that his special envoy, jamesjeffrey, had been in north—eastern syria, presumably to meet the kurds, and he would be going to turkey again so that its

active mediation and diplomacy going on. they have been rumours about possibly a deal with regard to border security, perhaps a border force that is acceptable to both sides but again, these are rumours and mr pompeo himself has not confirmed any sort of detail as to what makes them so optimistic that an agreement can be reached. a 33—year—old man in taiwan has been fined more than £2,000 for sending a cat that he no longer wanted in the post. according to a taiwanese news agency, the sender was traced after the sealed cardboard box with the cat inside arrived at the local animal shelter. luckily, the pet survived the journey and authorities say he's in good health and looking for a new, loving home. now it's time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. a much fresher feeling this of

compared to this morning at —— as the winds turn more north—westerly. they clear away some of the early cloud, some patchy rain and drizzle being more confined to southernmost counties. sunny spells elsewhere, the odd isolated shower but it is northern and western scotland whether shells are frequent and in higher ground. colder air will push down the eastern half of the country with some coastal showers. further west, things will be drier and for many clearer for a things will be drier and for many clearerfor a time. not things will be drier and for many clearer for a time. not quite as chilly, widespread frost in scotland and 0rkney and shetland tomorrow. tomorrow morning some coastal showers in the east but they will clear. the best of the sunshine will be in central and eastern parts on monday, most places will be dry, clouding over more generally from the west and patchy rain and drizzle back into western scotland and northern ireland.