northern ireland, patchy rain into wales and the south—west. those temperatures still on the mild side. there is the cold air coming in behind the secondary weather front to into northernmost parts of scotland. a verse weather front is bringing the band of rain here. that pushes into england and wales —— our first. they stay through most of the day for the midlands and east anglia. then we have wet weather into the next weather system in scotland, increasingly turning into sleet and snow, particularly over the hills, but maybe low levels in northern scotland at the end of the day as the air gets cold. colder behind the weather front. not a great deal on it overnight. the northerly winds come down and drag cold air down. for the northern half of the uk, we start with frost on thursday. there will be a strong wind for northern and eastern scotland, down the north sea coasts, where we are likely to find some wintry showers. away from here, a

good chance it will be dry, the winds would be strong, lots of sunshine. it will be a cold, crisp, winter's day with temperatures of four to six degrees. we start with frost on most places —— in most places on friday. it will be hazy to start for wales and the south—west. more of a southerly breeze will give temperatures boost. elsewhere, light wind and sunshine after the frosty start, it is a cold three, four or five degrees. the cold air under the high pressure that is blocked in the weakening weather fronts from moving into the uk. on saturday it looks like it should be a dry day. another frost to start with, or sunshine, light wind as well. there is the cloud in the south—west, threatening spots of rain, but this is the next weather system to arrive from the atlantic. we will get and on that one. otherwise it is a cold day on saturday, three, four, five degrees. at first weather front won't amount to much. it is moving into high pressure. it will return behind it briefly. as we had into the middle of next week, pressure continues to

fall and we have more active weather systems moving in. so this is a time that we really need to watch. the jet stream is putting those areas of low pressure further to the uk and a southerly track. we are on the cold side of thejet southerly track. we are on the cold side of the jet stream. those blue arrows of the cold north—westerly winds. so we are stating cold in the outlook. you will notice strong winds picking up. increasing risk of snow, particularly in the north and west, but nothing unusual about that for this time of year. hello. this is bbc news with clive myrie. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment — first the headlines. on the eve of the crucial vote on her brexit deal — theresa may warned of ‘paralysis in parliament‘ if the deal was rejected and said trust in politics would suffer ‘catastrophic harm' if the uk did not leave the eu. wood—burning stoves, open fires and farms all face new restrictions, as the government outlines plans to tackle air pollution in england.

the jailed british—iranian woman, nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, injail in tehran, has begun a hunger strike in protest at being denied specialist medical care. president trump has denied working for russia, describing the suggestion as a big fat hoax. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are dia chakravarty, the brexit editor at the telegraph, and the broadcaster and political commentator, steve richards. the daily express warns parliament a failure to bring about brexit risks losing the public‘s trust forever. the independent lists the milestones of the past 2 and a half years and asks how big

the defeat for mrs may will be. the mirror pleas with the prime minister to reveal what she will do when her deal is inevitably rejected by parliament. the daily telegraph says mrs may has run out of options to save her deal and that she faces a heavy defeat tomorrow. the guardian says labour are poised to call for a no—confidence vote if, as the paper expects, the rejection of the deal is crushing. the daily mail devotes its front page to its plea to mps — back the deal and in so doing, reunite the country. the times repeats claims made by the prime minister that a rejection of her deal on what it calls brexit d—day could open the door to a corbyn government. and the sun chooses to ignore the impending brexit vote and focus instead on a pregnant duchess of sussex, revealing prince harry meditates every day to prepare him forfatherhood. to get on to that later on that we

will start, where else, but with brexit. the times, mae braced for a historic defeat. it is an inevitability, it is just a matter of how big the defeat will be. that seems so that you never want to make a 100% seems so that you never want to make a100% prediction but i have not met anyone who was not working the assumption she is headed for a big defeat. it is an historic defeat because if you step back, and it is difficult to do with his father given all the twists and turns, consider what will happen tomorrow. the prime minister will put forward a proposition that she is personally committed to and has said with her heart and committed to and has said with her heartand mind committed to and has said with her heart and mind thinks is the best deal. the most important proposition any prime minister has put to the house of commons since 1945 and she will be defeated. it is an extraordinary moment. and although

it looks as if she will be defeated quite badly she remains the key player. tomorrow night will be a huge theatre and of great significance. and what she says in response to this most important. what will she do? i think corba and will call a vote of no—confidence and will probably lose it. what she says will remain pivotal even though this moment of history will happen against her. it does in darkling that a leader in this position, possibly facing a heavy defeat is possibly facing a heavy defeat is possibly likely to cling on. possibly facing a heavy defeat is possibly likely to cling onm possibly facing a heavy defeat is possibly likely to cling on. it is incredible. that is the most incredible. that is the most incredible thing about the story because they are reporting that the senior government source of knowledge that even if mrs may could lose by as much as 180 votes she has

no intention of quitting or calling a snap election. it is extraordinary because they still think there is a possibility that she could return to brussels and ask for more. and it is difficult for her to convince people because she has been saying from one when she presented this deal to the public that this is the best we can offer you. there is no other deal on the horizon. this is the best that the horizon. this is the best that the eu will give. we have no option but to accept it. it is difficult to see how she does that. i think it is a matter of when rather than if she loses tomorrow, it will be interesting to see how she deals with it. the other thing i thought was quite damning was another point that said only half the conservative parliamentary party turned up to hear her plea on the eve of the vote. and you think well, does that mean her colleaguesjust vote. and you think well, does that mean her colleagues just do vote. and you think well, does that mean her colleaguesjust do not think it is worth listening to her

any more? do they not think there is anything she can say to change people '5 mind? it is an incredible position for her to be in. steve, he warned a student of political history. at what point does doggedness and determination turn into stubbornness and idiocy in the minds of some? are you referring to her? theresa may? she has reached the point and it is always a dangerous one where a prime minister co nflates dangerous one where a prime minister conflates natural that a national interest in a row survival. many of them reach it and it is always dangerous because it is nearly a lwa ys dangerous because it is nearly always wrong unquestionably she is often in. i watched the thing this afternoon. you are correct, it was not that all, the conservatives had made up their mind and knew that she did not have much more of substance to say to that but i get the

impression that obstinacy is the characteristic that will prevail on her part unless the majority so big that even someone as obstinate as her, who moves on as if nothing has happened, will have to respond differently. i find it happened, will have to respond differently. ifind it hard happened, will have to respond differently. i find it hard to imagine her saying that i will now respond to the will of parliament i doing what parliament wants, whatever it is. call a referendum, negotiate norway plus, the whatever. i cannot hear her art of the words i resign at this point. and so, as i said, what she says and how to respond will be interesting. we know jeremy corbyn will call a vote of no—confidence, we do not know she will say. and that is a key moment. theresa may facing crashing defeat from the guardian. labour leader

prepares to call for a no—confidence vote. he will not win that, will he? difficult to see how he does. even though we were discussing this before we came on at, some people have said that it would only take... if the uup refuses to support her because they have said they will not support his deal of her. —— dup. if the dup thinks they are completely let down and used. i think they indicated they would vote for her. they said that last time when the vote did not go through. thursday, for example, that does not happen and the dup does not vote for her, but it would not take that many hard—core remain but it would not take that many ha rd—core remain conservative but it would not take that many hard—core remain conservative mps to say you know what? let's just vote against her because remaining in the eu is more important to us. and then

jeremy corbyn winning the election? it is an outlandish theory. jeremy corbyn winning the election? it is an outlandish theorylj jeremy corbyn winning the election? it is an outlandish theory. i have not heard many people supporting it at all. i think she will win the vote of confidence, that is a red herring, and then you return to what will happen in brexit and how she deals with that. and so i think it is partly determined by the scale of the defeat. even a defeat this... a defeat of 50 which would now be portrayed as a victory, that means the house of commons would have defeated a proposition which she has worked for four months. and so i think she needs to respond to that in an imaginative and flexible way that she is not imaginative nor flexible. and that is why she tends to press on when defeated as if she

is almost a part in separate from the storm around her. she's an extraordinary leader in her capacity to almost appear to be separate from the drama of which she is a central figure. at some point you need to respond to parliament and the parliamentary arithmetic. the front page of the daily mail. time to put your country first says the mail. obviously a reference to mps and a call for them to vote the way the daily mail feels they should. it depends which part of the country you represent, does it not? and that has been part of the dilemma for so many mps. they may be part of the government but representing a remain constituency. they may be brexiteer is who are representing remain areas. that has been the problem here. a dilemma that mps have been

wrestling with. it has been a dilemma for many because many people, irrespective of their constituency, they feel strongly before or against the eu. so they —— the battles would have happened internally as well. but with the correct sort of leadership it would be impossible to bring the country together because just after the referendum there was a move that to accept the result. we had all sorts of mps saying that we have had the vote and it is time to move on. we support the prime minister in the deal she gets. there is the support it right up from a reeves supporting the lancaster house speech. but the handling has been so bad that with every passing speech or every passing events,

theresa may has lost more support than she has managed to win. and now she has ended up with something that may be a compromise but a compromise that pleases nobody and she is not a salesperson. she could not sell the deal to anybody. steve, salesperson. she could not sell the dealto anybody. steve, is that salesperson. she could not sell the deal to anybody. steve, is that the fundamental problem here? theresa may's interpretation of what brexit actually meant and that 17.4 million, 52%, was not a crushing victory. it was a victory but not a crushing victory and the idea that no deal is better than a bad deal, for instance, at the very beginning, 48% suggest that that is not a hard brexit. that would never have been a ha rd brexit. that would never have been a hard brexit. her description of no deal today made clear that she knows. so that was rubbish two years ago. she made a lot of

miscalculations early on when she was ina miscalculations early on when she was in a strong position, 20 points ahead in the polls. she had a majority. that old thing. laughter. yes, of course, rememberthose majority. that old thing. laughter. yes, of course, remember those days? she could have acted in a more assertive way than she did. you raise a deeper issue here. the problem we have at the moment is there was this act of direct democracy when david cameron announced a referendum. he didn't announced a referendum. he didn't announce it because he loves direct democracy. he did it to hold his party together to win an election and because he thought he would win the referendum. no prime minister calls one thinking they will lose. and now we have representative democracy as you suggested about people wondering about what constituents are thinking. whether they represent what is in the national interest. and the clash is pa rt national interest. and the clash is part of the nightmare. so she has issues about the way she has handled all of this. but the basic clash of

direct democracy and representative democracy is at the heart of the drama. absolutely, what a drama. o nto drama. absolutely, what a drama. onto the mirror, plan b. we forget, don't we, theresa may has three days, doesn't she, too, with an alternative if she loses tomorrow and everyone believes that she will. now, we have been discussing her character, tenacity and bloody mindedness, some might suggest, whatever, is planned the essentially tweaking plan a? so far she has refused to say, every time someone stood up and said, what is the plan, she says we believe we will win the vote tomorrow and we will be... or whenever it is, and we will leave on the 29th of march. that has been her steel over and over again. i think we should say that tomorrow if we see after this lossjeremy corbyn, after this defeat, rather, jeremy

corbyn putting in the no—confidence motion, then the day after, i think on wednesday, when looking at this motion being voted on, it is not clear to me than what exactly happens. if she then loses that motion, doshi still have those three days to ask brussels for a better deal? it is not clear to me. i will need to look into that. say for example that she has that time and then she goes and wins the vote and she goes and refuses to resign, then she goes and refuses to resign, then she goes and tries to speak to brussels, i was saying in the last hour i really don't see how much brussels will be willing to change. it might be quite cosmetic, some twea ks it might be quite cosmetic, some tweaks here and there, but i don't see it changing very much substantially. now there is one theory to suggest that that will work as a figleaf for a lot of backbenchers on the tory side who would want any reason to vote for

this deal if it is presented to them a second time to this moving. but if that doesn't happen i think things will get even more interesting. then you are looking at what the alternatives are. i think we will be talking about the cartoon in my papera talking about the cartoon in my paper a little bit later. that points to this dilemma that the opponents of this deal also have. they are not united either. you can't point to one of the deal which isn't theresa may's deal which has parliamentary majority behind it. so what happens? yes, if we go to the telegraph, out of allies, out of time. we have discussed that to a degree. bringing up the cartoon on the front page of the telegraph, steve, the matt cartoon. i don't wa nt steve, the matt cartoon. i don't want the soup and definitely not the bmb want the soup and definitely not the lamb and my friend doesn't want the melon and is fiercely opposed to the

fish. everything they don't want, which is what parliament has suggested according to matt, but no idea it what they want. this is potentially where, if she loses tomorrow, indicative votes might come in. that might happen. that's why i say it would be fascinating to see what she does. i thinkjeremy corbyn will lose the vote of confidence. the cartoon is right in a way that at the moment it is not clear what could command a majority. that is where the referendum comes in as an option. perhaps that option would fall as well in the house of commons at the moment. at some point the house of commons has to reach a conclusion one way or another. if it rejectss deal, something has to give. one thing that might happen is they need more time. part of the reason why it feels like a netflix box set speeded up is because the clock is ticking. so you might in

wartime. but at some point they have to reach a conclusion —— so you might need more time. maybe they can't. at which point the referendum isa can't. at which point the referendum is a means to deciding. it is viewed with great suspicion among some because it is seen as a remain device. but it might be a way of resolving this whole thing. not perfect. but a way of doing so. at some point has to be a resolution or else we will be talking about this in 200 years. they could be rejecting the fish, chicken, the mellon, the rabbit, i don't know, whatever. this could conceivably go on. we will have to see an extension of article 50. -- melon. extension of article 50. -- melon. extension of article 50 would require unanimous... that is the only thing they might agree on. unanimous agreement from the eu 27 countries as well. and we can revoke article 50 unilaterally in the uk. but to

pauseit 50 unilaterally in the uk. but to pause it we need unanimous support from the eu 27 which automatically makes it harder to pause it. the eu has made it quite clear that there are very limited situations where they would even consider pausing it or extending it. if it is anything other than a second referendum, if it is anything like norway plus, some of the other things, theresa may will say, she did say this, you can only access those options if you accept the backstop in the withdrawal agreement. and then we move on. if the parliament rejects the withdrawal agreement, you are not reaching that stage where you can look at the future relationship with the eu, in the form of norway, whatever else others might suggest. so the hurdle remains. it isjust not going to be easy whatever it is. it is crazy. the sun has found it

very easy to find a headline, and i am sure they have them waiting for the right story to pop up so they can put it out there. the front of the sun, dad reveals he meditates every day, prince harry and his wife, and the headline is "harry krishna". i am sure they had the headline before the story. i am thinking of meditating to calm down over brexit. laughter. do what the prime minister does, go on a walk. good walk would be good, but maybe meditation. he is doing it to get ready for parenthood. yes. his wife is pregnant. this brexit vote tomorrow, everyone watching this, set your alarm for 6am and meditate. the only way to get through it. "ohm, brexit." the only way to get through it. "ohm, brexit. " meditate the only way to get through it. "ohm, brexit." meditate live on air. you will need it tomorrow. it has been good to have you in to look at

the stories behind the headlines. many thanks for that. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget, you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you, seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers, and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you to my guests dia chakravarty and steve richards. and from all of us, goodnight. good evening. gabrielle jesus scored gabriellejesus scored twice as manchester city eased past the wolves. that puts the lead at the top of the table to four points. wolves were forced to play for most of the game with ten men. after a

christmas to forget, the new year brought a renewed ruthlessness to manchester city. 16 goals in two cup matches, statement of intent for 2019. back to the premier league and back to the real business. with liverpool in front, city had to respond. it didn't take long. five goals in six days forjesus. carving open the wolves defence inside ten minutes. the men from molineux i used to causing an upset. they knew they would have to be at their best. they knew they would need all 11 players on the pitch. red kite here for this reckless challenge the last thing they needed. —— card. then the gaps began to show. wolves' defence fractured. challenges careless. penalty. once again the heat was on jesus. make that six goals in six days. a quiet second—half had one standout moment. we could ball from

kevin de bruyne finding its way into the —— a wicked ball. the clinical if not classic performance from manchester city. the gap is back to four points and the title is going nowhere without a fight. david wagner has left huddersfield town as manager with the club bottom of the premier league. wagner led them to promotion to the premier league in 2017 and kept them up last season, with a 16th—place finish. but huddersfield have struggled this term, with just 11 points from 22 games. they are eight points adrift of safety. coach mark hudson will take charge of the next league game against manchester city on sunday. chairman dean hoyle said he had no intention of sacking wagner. former team sky and british cycling doctor richard freeman will face a charge that he ordered testosterone to enhance the performance of an athlete. freeman is alleged to have lied to "conceal his motive" for the order of 30 sachets of testogel to the national cycling centre in manchester in 2011. the use of testosterone by athletes is banned at all times. his case will be heard at an independent medical practitioners tribunal in manchester

starting on 6 february. wales number taulupe faletau is set to miss the six nations after again breaking his arm. faletau suffered a fractured forearm playing for bath in october and missed the autumn international series. he made a return in his side's champions cup win over wasps on saturday but has suffered another break. he has a slim chance of making the final round of matches on the 16th of march. andy murray says he will decide in the next week if he will undergo a second hip operation following his first round defeat to roberto bautista agut at the australian open. murray could take four months off and prepare for a possible final appearance at wimbledon or undergo more hip surgery. the operation would dramatically increase his quality of life, but it might mean he'd never being able to play professional tennis again. if tonight was my last match i guess

it would be a great way to finish. it was an amazing atmosphere. it was a really good match against a quality opponent. then, yes, there isa quality opponent. then, yes, there is a bit of me, i love playing. i wa nt to is a bit of me, i love playing. i want to keep playing tennis. but i can't do it with the hip that i have just now. the action over in melbourne continues at midnight. johanna konta plays herfirst match of the tournament while katie boulter plays her second round match. follow all the action on radio 5 live sports extra and the bbc sport website, but that's all the sport for now. hello. tuesday is shaping up to be a cloudy and mild day with some rain around focused across northern and north—western. slowly working north through the day. further south it is mainly dry. there will be some drizzle on western hills. the best

brea ks drizzle on western hills. the best breaks in the cloud to the east of high ground. white breezy and windy. this is the average winds through the day. it will be mild, temperatures between nine and 11 degrees. through the evening and overnight the cloud will thicken for northern and western parts of the uk. outbreaks of rain in west, south—west scotland later in the night, into northern ireland, then the front will move south and east overnight, eventually into northern england, northern wales, south—west england, northern wales, south—west england on wednesday morning. the last of the mild nights, not much lower than five or six degrees. on wednesday, rain will sink south and east. behind it, cold air. scotland and northern england could see some snow. a chilly and crisp day on thursday. i'm babita sharma in london. the headlines: the prime minister. a last—minute plea from an embattled prime minister to a divided parliament, as britain prepares for an historic vote on brexit.

i say we should deliver for the british people, and get on with building a brighter future for our country by backing this deal tomorrow. it is clear, if the prime minister's deal is rejected tomorrow, it is time for a general election, it is time for a new government. a canadian national is sentenced to death for drug smuggling in china. could his case be part of a growing diplomatic row between the two nations? i'm rico hizon in singapore. also in the programme: