the venezuelan military to support the opposition leaderjuan guaido as interim president. the ill—nation lima group called for a change of government without the use of force and said president nicolas maduro‘s administration should lose access to venezuela's international assets. theresa may is heading to northern ireland where she'll tell business leaders that she's determined to find a way to deliver brexit and avoid a hard border with ireland. on wednesday she'll hold talks with the different political parties. police in belgium are hunting thieves who tunnelled from the sewers into a bank vault in antwerp, close to the city's diamond trading district. they forced open at least twenty deposit boxes. if you thought they squeezed into pipes measuring just a0 centimetres gci’oss. a0 centimetres across. now on bbc news, monday in parliament hello and welcome to monday

in parliament, our look at the best of the day in the commons and the lords. on this programme, it's the u—turning car. nissan goes back on its pledge to build the new x trail vehicle in sunderland. mps react to the news. his government's handling of brexit is undermining our industrial strategy. what immediate steps has the secretary of state taken to reassure the whole uk automotive industry? extra money for deprived areas. is the prime minister expecting votes for her in return? having ad hoc specific discussions of this nature is not just legally unwise, but a disreputable act of a desperate prime minister. and mps speak out about cuts in further education. post 16 and special educational needs are absolutely suffering. but first, nissan will be forced

to reapply for nearly £60 million of taxpayer support after backtracking on a promise to build its x trail car in sunderland. the details of the offer, made in 2016 but only now published, show that a condition of the money was that nissan had to produce the model at its plant in sunderland. nissan first came to the north east in 1985. it employs 7,000 people at its sunderland works. but it said at the weekend it would not be making the new x trail in the uk after all. and there's been speculation that the uncertainty over brexit is a factor that lies behind nissan's decision. the business secretary said the x trail would have created 7a0 jobs in the uk. nissan confirmed that the production will continue at sunderland and there are no implications of the decision for existing jobs at the plant. they also pointed out what they've said consistently, since 2016,

that the risk of a no—deal brexit is a source of damaging uncertainty. and while i'm pleased that their decision taken in 2016 to build the qashqui and to secure the sunderland plant is unchanged, it's deeply disappointing to me and to the workforce that the extra jobs that would have come from the x trail will no longer be available. while the decision was made on broader business grounds, nissan commented on the need for us to come together and to resolve the question of our future trading relationship with the eu. i believe their advice should be listened to and acted upon, so that our automotive industry, which is undergoing more change through innovation in the decade ahead than it has for most of the last century — in areas like battery technology and artificial intelligence — can seize the opportunities

for britain to be a world leader in state—of—the—art car making, providing greatjobs and careers for hundreds of thousands of people across our country during the years ahead. i commend this statement to the house. thank you, mr speaker. yesterday's announcement from nissan that it has reversed its decision to build the x trail at its sunderland plant and move it to japan instead is a bitter blow to the northeast, the automotive sector and britain's industrial strategy. now, of course, brexit was not the only reason, but it was pretty prominent. it's clear that we have reached a tipping point. i know the secretary agrees with me that a real industrial strategy is designed to give businesses the confidence to invest for the long term. but his government's handling of brexit is undermining our industrial strategy. businesses are no longer speaking out simply to highlight the future dangers of a badly handled brexit. they're now losing confidence in the government and taking real action to protect their businesses. i had the great honour — and it was an honour, mr speaker — to go to sunderland, visit the nissan plant shortly

after the eu referendum result. and having spoken to the management and the workforce, this decision comes as no surprise, because there were very serious concerns then about brexit. and i gently say to the secretary of state, i'm afraid this government, in my opinion, far from allaying those fears has exacerbated them. because the government refuses to take no—deal off the table. many of my constituents work at nissan, many more at the port of tyne in my constituency, which is a large part of nissan's supply chain. not only has the secretary of state failed to answer what assessment is made of the impact of this decision on the wider supply chain, he keeps saying to us, "back the deal," yet he and the government are offering zero clarity about the true impacts of that very deal. with the announcement at the weekend by nissan, for the first time publicly saying that the insecurity around brexit was impacting business decisions — which in real terms meansjobs — what assurances can the secretary

of state give notjust the workers at nissan, but in the supply chain in wider manufacturing moving forward, that the government will come up with an agreement that will secure jobs as we leave the european union? because as he knows, the prime minister's deal is not going through this house, and we need real decisions and real movement on the customs union and the things that will protectjobs. i would say to the honourable lady, again, whose constituents depend on successful future investments as well as the ones that have been secured, and which she welcomed quite rightly when it was first made, is that it's a responsibility, it seems to me, for this whole house to come together, to put its differences aside and to find a deal that can be agreed, can be ratified and can be ratified by the european parliament so that we can have precisely that certainty that nissan and other investors have called for. the nissan decision shows international investors have no faith in his government's assurances

about the economic impact of the prime minister's rotten brexit deal. if brexit uncertainty is too great for one of the world's best resource manufacture rs, what hope for small and medium—size businesses — the backbone of the economy? nissan in my constituency, together with the supply chain, employs almost 40,000 people, many of whom will be extremely concerned with this decision. but this government's chaotic approach to the brexit negotiations, concerns around diesel and a new free—trade agreement withjapan and the eu have created a perfect storm. and with just 53 days until we are due to leave the eu, no brexit parliamentary business scheduled for two weeks, the prime minister currently engaged in fantasy politics over the backstop and the sweetheart deal on the rocks, what immediate steps has the secretary of state taken to reassure the whole uk automotive industry?

well, one of the pleasures of dealing with the automotive industry in the uk is that it is one of the most advanced and most capable in terms of innovation in the world. the work that we are doing, through our industrial strategy with the sector, in terms of being the leading place in the world — not just for the discovery of new battery technologies but for manufacturing them, the test—beds that we've put in place for connected and autonomous vehicles — make britain the place in the world that people come to for innovation. greg clark. now, a financial bribe or a logical distribution of resources? there've been several reports in recent days about sizeable pay—outs of government cash to areas of england which are known to have supported leave in the eu referendum. by and large, the areas fall into two categories — former coal and steel communities and areas of coastal decline. but are the allocations actually about winning support from those areas' mps for the government's deal

in the troubled brexit process? when the issue was raised in the house of lords, a lib dem peer pressed a minister on the morality of the cash pay—outs. in a letter in today's copy of the times, my noble friend, lord thomas, makes it clear that the offer of cash subsidies to an mp for the benefit of constituents, provided the mp votes for the government's withdrawal agreement, is in breach of the bribery act, section one of the bribery act. does the minister agree with me that having ad hoc specific discussions of this nature is notjust legally unwise, but a disreputable act of a desperate prime minister? my lords, i bow to nobody, in my discipleship of the noble lord, lord thomas, on legal issues, so i'm sure that what he says is correct. but i would just say to noble lords, not to read everything they see... not to believe everything they see in the newspapers. what is important, my lords,

in regard to any fund, the shared prosperity fund we're consulting about shortly, is that it tackles inequalities across communities. i'm sure the noble lord will agree with that, and i would think that he would want to engage in the consultation on that basis. will the minister confirm that if any meetings are held with individual mps, the minutes of those discussions will be published and published immediately after the discussions have ta ken place ? can we have the position made absolutely clear that the money that is being talked about over the weekend is not in any way conditional upon support for the government in the house of commons? can that be made absolutely clear in the despatch box in here? in relation to the content of the letter, which was read out, i'm sure that the noble lord is right legally. all i would say to people

is that the context of this consultation, when it happened shortly, is in terms of ensuring that we address inequalities between communities. that is the essence of what we're looking at, my lords. could i ask the minister, in view of his concern for former steel and coal mining areas, if that concern could also be extended to areas which were devastated by the demise of the shipbuilding industry? could i also say to him, in terms of the allegations of bribery, does that not apply to the agreement between the government and the dup? my lords, the noble lady is fair. i will address the first part of the question, which is certainly fair. the second one, i think, was a throwaway comment as far as i can see. but... i'm sure the noble lady is more concerned about the shipbuilding industry than she is about scoring political points. in relation to the shipbuilding industry, my lords, iwouldjust address her to the fact that much of the eu funding that will no longer be in place has been to assist those sort of areas

and the northeast, which i know the noble lady is very familiar with and concerned about, would be one of those areas. lord bourne. the home secretary sajid javid was on the receiving end of a serious reprimand from the speaker for failing to make a commons statement on a new policy for tackling knife crime. the home office announced on thursday it's creating a new measure, a knife crime prevention order. there were media briefings about the plan and the home secretary gave an interview to the bbc. the speaker granted labour an urgent question on the issue but still, no sign of the home secretary. if the secretary of state for the home department aspires to something a little more elevated then to be a jobbing functionary of the executive branch and wants to be a serious and respected parliamentarian, he has to develop antennae and respect for the rights of the house of commons. in the circumstances — and he has noticed he should be here —

it is both illjudged and rude of the secretary of state for the home department to send his admittedly brilliant junior minister into the chamber when he should be here. i'm sorry. i take no view on the policy, because that's not for the speaker to do, but in procedural terms, it really is time that he upped his game. that minister defended the home secretary. i know that the home secretary means absolutely no discourtesy. he is a regular and assiduous minister, and i hope that i will be able to answer questions today that meet with the house's approval, but please don't think this is any way undermines our commitment to this very important topic. knife crime prevention orders will allow the courts to place

restrictions on young people found carrying knives, such as curfews and limits on social media use. breaching these civil orders will be a criminal offence. labour's vernon coa ker, who secured the urgent question, was furious that mrjavid was not in the commons to answer questions about the proposal. i tell the minister this. the british public will look at this and they will find it incredible, absolutely incredible that the home secretary can appear on the television, can go to various places and address media and he can't turn up in this chamber to explain the initiative that he's put before. the whole of the public in this country will be asking the simple question — where is he? he said prevention orders would merely "paper over the cracks". instead of introducing knife crime prevention orders, the home secretary should be chairing cobra. it is a national emergency. it is a national crisis.

up and down this country, people will wonder why it is that the government of the day do not act to bring the full force of the state, not only into tackling and trying to help young people who are having problems with respect to knife crime, to get behind the criminal gangs that run and ruthlessly exploits these children. mi5, gchq, mi6, the national crime agency — led by the home secretary — should be reporting regularly to parliament. the reason we're introducing these orders is because at the very end of august last year, the police suggested to us, asked us, for a preventative order to get to a very small cohort of children who have not yet been convicted of criminal offences but whom the police receive intelligence, in an effort to intervene before they get that first conviction, with all the terrible repercussions that can have — both for the victims of any crimes they commit but also, of course, for their own life chances.

these orders are about prevention. we want to give the police the power through this bill to seek an order, from a court on a civil standard of proof, so that the state can wrap its arms around that child if the schools, if police officers locally think that these children are at risk of carrying knives frequently. prevention and intervention is the key. we do not reject out of hand these knife crime orders. this house will study them when they come in committee. but we want to see more from governments than token changes in the law. we want to see real intent and real resources behind prevention and intervention, because the lives of young people in our cities depend on that. a conservative said parents should take some of the blame. i think the parents have got to take more responsibility. ultimately if they have a child, it is their responsibility to take care of that child.

to my front bench, i have fought for a long time a campaign for more police officers on the beat. and as more officers have taken to fight online crime, which we all understand, we're losing the officer on the beat. and as an ex—soldier, that is where the intelligence and the prevention was used to great effect. can my honourable friend reassure me that more police officers will be put on the beat? the minister replied that decisions about community policing were made by locally elected police and crime commissioners. you're watching our round—up of the day in the commons and the lords. still to come: mps speak out about cuts in further education. now, if you remember world events from the 1980s, you might well recall this moment from 1987. it was the conclusion of negotiations on the inf treaty, a deal struck between the united states and the ussr,

and one that was carried off with plenty of smiles by soviet president mikhail gorbachev and the us president ronald reagan. the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty brought to an end the global arms race and was seen as a major step to ending the cold war. so have things now gone into reverse? at the end of last week, washington announced it was pulling out of the treaty, claiming russia was flouting its anti—proliferation rules. next day, moscow said it was also withdrawing from the treaty. in the commons, a foreign office minister said britain was clear russia was to blame. we and all nato allies therefore support the us decision to suspend its participation in the treaty and to trigger the formal withdrawal process. nato is unified on this process. mr speaker, it is russia's fault alone that we have arrived at this point. president putin's statement in the last few days announcing that russia, too, will suspend its obligations was unsurprising, given the fact that it has violated

the treaty over the years. nevertheless, even at this late stage, we urge russia to change course. what we're seeing with these actions by the united states, and russia, is the erosion of a system of multilateralism and the rules—based international order that underpins global peace and security. leaving the inf is obviously a dangerous unraveling of part of that architecture of trust and understanding that's prevented nuclear conflict, an architecture that was begun 50 years ago with the signing of the nonproliferation treaty. given that this was the most successful example in history of multinational disarmament, as opposed to one—sided gestures, it would be a shame to lose the treaty if there were any chance of saving it. will the minister do his best endeavours to persuade the americans to take to an international forum, such as the united nations,

the evidence they have for russian noncompliance ? there is a need for full compliance, but as well, there could be dangerous repercussions for a security treaty which has guaranteed european security. so does the minister agree that any us withdrawal could do more harm than good? how can we work towards getting rid of these weapons for good? russia is in violation of the inf treaty, it seems, but when someone breaks the law, the answer is not to repeal the law — and in our case of the uk government, to support another country from walking away from that process — the answer is to look at the well—established methods for bringing an offending nation back into compliance, in this case through the special verification commission mechanisms. appeasing noncompliance would increase the probability of our being vaporized in a nanosecond, wouldn't it? by my right honourable friend

for new forest west's standards, that was rather a long question. let me keep the answer short. i think he is correct, yes. mark field. now it's going to be a busy old year in the sporting world. this summer, the cricket world cup is being held once again in england and wales, where the tournament was first played aa years ago, while the ninth rugby world cup takes place injapan — surprisingly enough — from the end of september to the start of november. the world athletics championships are also taking place this autumn. but when mps came to take part in a broad debate on the state of sport in the uk, there were mentions of a great variety of sports. 0n the subject of women's sport, the gender gap between rewards in women's sport and men's sport is often reported on and is a serious problem. the bbc have reported that now, 83% of sports have better gender parity. but would the minister agree that

seeing more women sports, like rugby union and rugby league, on television — and football — will help to close that gap? indeed. the honourable lady points out that 83% is getting there, but it's not good enough. and in fact, some of my brief conversations with sports journalists so far, i have wanted to point out it is sport, not just necessarily women's sport. and once we see it as sport for all and everybody being as valuable on the tv or on the pitch, participating, i think we have made real progress. and part of that, i believe, is equal pay. the sector faces "significa nt challenges" — the verdict of the apprenticeship and skills minister anne milton, as mps turned their attention to the state of further education in england. several mps spoke about cuts to fe colleges in their constituencies,

with one saying that further education had been hit "the worst" in the whole education system. the issue was raised at the monthly round of education questions in the commons. we certainly need more money for schools in my constituency, but would the minister accept that the funding for further education colleges has been the worst hit of all the parts of the education system? and can she give my constituents some assurances that there'll more money for shipley college and bradford college in the very near future? we know that the government wants to bring in t levels, but the funding for that is almost immediately offset by the ongoing {3.3 billion in real term cuts for our colleges in further education. i hope tomorrow to approach the backbench business committee to get a debate on funding for further education, because there are so many colleagues across the house all telling the same narrative. it is vital that we look at this, especially for pupils with special educational needs. post 16 and special educational needs are absolutely suffering,

and we've got to look at this in the spending review. i think there has been a focus over the last 15 to 20 years on higher education, and i think that it is great to see members across this house all campaigning for their local colleges. it's clear the chancellor's failed fe's hopes massively in the budget, but the prime minister, when told in prime minister's questions by my honourable friend for chesterfield last week that fe funding was in crisis, replied complacently he could not be more wrong. mps debating fe here recently all said otherwise. "it's clear funding for 16 to 19 has fallen." "the bottom line is the sector needs more money." the words of honourable conservative members in that debate. so will the minister get the education secretary now to pledge, to tell the chancellor that increased fe funding in the spending review is his top priority and keep at it and not take no for an answer? mr speaker, i notice the honourable gentlemen pointing his finger across the despatch box.

the secretary of state is very aware, because i have not ceased to point it out to him, the challenges that fe colleges face. anne milton. two new peers have taken their seats in the house of lords. lady blackwood, formerly nicola blackwood, was a junior health minister until she lost her seat in the commons. at age 39, she'll be the youngest member of the house of lords. she's been appointed as a health minister there, replacing lord 0'shaughnessy, who's quit through "family circumstances". lady blackwood was the conservative mp for oxford west & abingdon from 2010 to 2017. she swore the traditional oath of allegiance to the queen. i, nicola, baroness blackwood of north 0xford, do swear by almighty god that i will be faithful and bear true allegiance to her majesty, queen elizabeth, her heirs and successors according to law. so help me god. also taking his seat in the lords

was the winner of the latest hereditary by—election in the lords, lord reay. the hereditary vacancy was created by the death of lord skelmersdale last year. lord reay defeated the earl of leicester 110—93 at the end of the transferable vote contest. that's it for this programme. david cornock will be here for the rest of the week. so from me, keith macdougall, goodbye. hello. monday saw a transition to much milder weather across much of the uk. tuesday though will start off on a pretty chilly note, at least first thing. this picture was taken on monday evening, by one of our weather watchers,

in hertfordshire, showing that the fog's already been forming. so i think we are likely to start with quite a bit of mist and fog around, also some frost here and there, first thing tuesday morning. rain will move in from the west later on in the day, so we'll see those skies clouding over. a clear start for many of us. you can see the the blue colours indicating where the lowest of the temperatures and the frost will be. there's also going to be some fog problems, particularly through the vale of york, also through parts of southern england, perhaps east wales as well. through the day, we do start with that sunshine for much of scotland, northern england, eastern england too. but you can see the cloud rolling in from the west, ahead of the arrival of some wet weather. so later in the morning, there'll be some rain for northern ireland, wales, the south—west of england too. that rain pushing its way eastwards through the day. eastern scotland and eastern england should stay mostly dry, although skies will cloud over and temperature will range between around 6—12 degrees on tuesday afternoon. now, we'll keep all the cloud and the outbreaks of patchy rain overnight tuesday into wednesday. still quite a breeze too. so for many of us it will be a reasonably mild night but where we do see those skies

clear, particularly in the north, could just be a touch of frost, but generally a frost—free and a mild start to your wednesday. now, through the day on wednesday, showers from the word go across the north—west of the country. initially some rain in the south—east too and that's down to this weather front that you can see on the map here. it is clearing its way off towards the south—east and then we're all left with this westerly flow of air. so quite a showery scene for northern ireland, western scotland too. and through the day, we'll see some of that rain in the south just pushing back in, so a bit of a soggy afternoon, i think, for south—east england, the london region and east anglia too, but elsewhere actually some sunny spells coming through and temperatures not far off what we'd expect for the time of year. between around about 8—10 degrees for most of us. looking ahead now towards the end of the week and things will turn increasingly unsettled. we could see a spell of rain, perhaps even a bit of snow over the hills, moving through into the early hours of thursday morning. so overnight wednesday into thursday, chance of seeing

a little bit of hill snow here and there. through the day on thursday, then the worst of the rain and hill snow should clear away. and then again we're left with a westerly flow, a mix of sunny spells and a few scattered showers but it could turn quite stormy, quite windy and unsettled as we look towards the end of the week. that's it for now. bye— bye. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: a group of latin american countries, along with canada, call for a change of government in venezuela as its crippled economy teeters on the brink. if you buyjust this much, you've spent a third of the average monthly wage and prices are skyrocketing. they've doubled in a month. as theresa may heads to northern ireland she says she's determined to find a way to deliver brexit and avoid a hard border with ireland. and the outrageous heist through the sewers of antwerp‘s diamond district.

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