it will brussels remains stubborn, it will be the eu's choice, in turn. the point he makes about the legally binding nature of the changes is an important one. this house has been clear about these issues. as i indicated in an earlier response, it is this question of the different legal force of the commitments that have been made so far, and that's the one i have raised with the eu, and the concern that the withdrawal agreement in the international treaty would currently take precedence over the legal assurances that were given the separate letter about the temporary nature of the backstop. it is that equivalent of a legally binding nature, to make sure that the withdrawal agreement cannot then trump anything extra, which is important. luciano burge. mr speaker, thank you. the whole house will have heard the prime minister's dispensed to the prime minister's dispensed to the honourable and the members important question about the

withdrawal act and limitations built and they will have heard the prime minister's response that she doesn't not intend to honour the 21 days it should be laid down. we haven't seen the draft of this bill, it deals with thorny issues like the divorce bill, eu citizens rights, the supremacy of european law during transition and the consent to remain under thejurisdiction transition and the consent to remain under the jurisdiction of the european court of justice under the jurisdiction of the european court ofjustice in that period as well. how on earth will the prime minister expect members on all sides of this house to consent to legislation without seeing a d raft? to legislation without seeing a draft? would she not acknowledge there is no chance she will pass the legislation in 45 days time and another raises was she commenced to extending article 50 so we do not crash out with no deal, threatening jobs. can i thank the honourable lady for her question, she's raised an important point about the timetable which was raised by my right honourable friend the member for beaconsfield. as i indicated 21

are normally there because there hasn't been an opportunity for the house to see the nature of an agreement it is looking at. in this case the house would have already had an opportunity to approve the agreement, we are looking for changes in the agreement but the bus majority of the agreement would not be changed in the discussions we are having with the european union and the house has a ready been able to look at that as part of the meaningful vote and i'm sure when a meaningful vote and i'm sure when a meaningful vote and i'm sure when a meaningful vote has been agreed in this house, and every member of the house will want to ensure they can operate on the timetable that enables us to leave at the end of the two your period agreed finley triggered article 50. justine greening. the prime minister is driving this house towards two options that the british people do not want. we've already voted against having a no deal departure we also voted against massively her own prime ministerial dealfrom brussels. she simply turned this

exercise into one of cobbling together enough votes to win a vote in this house. and actually we deserve so much more than that, it's not just about getting deserve so much more than that, it's notjust about getting the european research group on board, it's not about getting enough labour mps to switch sides it's about getting the british people on board for the future that lies ahead and that ta kes future that lies ahead and that takes more than just votes in future that lies ahead and that takes more thanjust votes in here, more thanjust takes more thanjust votes in here, more than just the results of grubby backroom deals and is a time the only responsible action ahead of us isn't the time to recognise that the responsible thing to do is go back to people and get their seal of approval? i've responded to questions in the silk from my right honourable friend on a number of occasions and i have not changed my opinion. i believe it is important this house recognises that having given the choice to the british

people as to whether or to leave or stay in the european union the british people having chosen we should respect that choice and deliver on that choice and that is what we are doing. joanna cherry. i know during her statement the prime ministers said she had secured an agreement with the eu for further talks. and i'm sure she used the word togs advisedly because when the brexit select committee was in brussels last week we were told very clearly the negotiations are over and that the end of november, when the prime minister should pounce on the prime minister should pounce on the deal to which she agreed, isn't the deal to which she agreed, isn't the reality quite simply this? that deal will not be changed by the eu, she cannot get that deal through this house of what she needs to do is put the deal to the people of the four nations of the united kingdom? i've just answered exactly that question in relation to a vote for the members and my view on that has

not changed in the 30 seconds or so since i also my right honourable friend from putney! mr one harrison. thank you. the malthouse compromise if adopted, would... that is the scene in the house of commons. you can continue watching that on bbc parliament. but right now, let's catch up —— catch up on the sports news with 0lly foster. gordon banks has died at the age of 81. the 1966 world cup winning team goalkeeper. sir bobby charlton said he was a stunning goalkeeper, one of the best england ever had stopped sir geoff who scored a hat—trick said... england posted this...

and this from the german football association... banks was a leicester city player when he won the world cup with england, coming through the ranks of the time was a teenager peter shilton who would go on to become england's most capped goalkeeper.” signed for leicester when i was 15 as an apprentice. quickly became his understudy at 16. you know, i had

the opportunity to train and you know, i played... loss of sound if you times i've seen him lose his temper with people, in the time when you were allowed to challenge goalkeepers. i'm not happy with that. he had a bit of a temper at times, he was a genuinely nice fellow. 0n field umpires warned gabriel at the time. he said the matter was

closed. there will soon on 111 on day four. play gets going in st lucia in the next 20 minutes. england leading by 4118 runs. closing in on victory, but the series is already lost. the british horse racing authority says strict bio—security control measures will be put in place when racing resumes tomorrow. weeding suspended for the last six days in britain. following an outbreak of equine flu. the sport was my governing body says a return to action will be in a controlled risk managed manner. and they will intervene to stop any horse running that looks as if they could be at any risk of infection. we will be requiring trainers to provide health statements, of the horse's health status. in relation to equine influenza. we will be requiring the trainers to include temperatures and ta ke trainers to include temperatures and take temperatures of horses before it they leave the yards and come to the course. in addition, we will be

requiring all forces must be vaccinated within six months of the date of their racing treatment. leigh halfpenny returns to wales training tomorrow as they prepare to ta ke training tomorrow as they prepare to take on england in the six nations. british and i lyons has not played since suffering concussion against australia back in the autumn international in november. wales have got england in cardiff a week on saturday in what could be the six nations decider. they are the only two unbeaten teams after two rounds of the championship. that's all for now. the bbc sport website will keep you up—to—date. much more on there. lovely videos on there and tributes to gordon banks. thank you. theresa may has promised mps a final,

decisive vote on her brexit deal with the eu — but not until she has secured changes to the irish backstop clause. in the past hour, the prime minister has been updating mps on her talks with the eu. she told mps she believes she can reach a deal that the house can support but needs more time to achieve it. the talks are at a crucial stage and we now need to hold our nerve to get the changes this house requires and deliver brexit on time. by getting the changes we need to the backstop, by protecting and enhancing workers rights and environmental protections and by enhancing the role parliament to the next phase of negotiations, i believe we can reach a deal this house can support. we can deliver but the people and the communities that will did for change tour and have years ago and whose voices were too long have not been heard. we can honour at the result of the referendum and we can set this country on course for the bright future that every part of this

united kingdom deserves. the prime minister hasjust told members of this house to hold their nerve. tell back to nissan workers in sunderland and thousands more worried about job security and the future of their communities. mr speaker, no minister serious about protecting jobs in this country would allow a prime minister to deliberately run down the clock and play chicken with people's livelihoods. to stand by and do nothing would be a complete dereliction of duty. as i received mrspeaker dereliction of duty. as i received mr speaker the prime minister's letter yesterday in response to labour's royal troon line, it became clearer to me a prime minister is merely engaged in the pretence of working across parliament to find solutions. she has not indicated she would move one iota away from her reject the deal or any of her red

lines. an investigation by the bbc has discovered hundreds of children across the south east are abusing their parents every year, with charities warning that a growing number of families are experiencing what's called ‘child—to—pa rent violence'. breaklichange, a charity in brighton, has supported around 600 families over the past decade and say the number of referrals are increasing by 10% every year. families in kent and sussex have spoken to bbc reporter leanne lawless. this report does contain some disturbing images. i hate you! listen to me, listen to me. children abusing their parents. he's throwing things at my head, he hit me, he tried to throw me down the stairs. i hate you. it's a type of domestic violence that's tearing families apart. pushing, shouting, screaming, it's tough. upsetting.

experts say parents are often too scared to seek help. untold amount of families do not come forward when there is child to parent abuse because of the stigma attached to it. jamie is 13 years old and has asked us to protect his identity. he started to abuse his mother when he was seven. angry rage. like pushing, shouting, screaming. don't know really what's going on, you know. when my son gets upset and you know, things get heated, and he starts smashing things up around the home and a lot of, you know, physicalaggression. you do feel like you're doing something wrong as a parent. you just don't even know where the hell you are with the impact it has on your emotional health. they both just completed a programme called reconnect which is run by domestic abuse charity rising sun.

i think it's all about controlling yourself. controlling how you react. two things. taking yourself away from the situation. i think we are getting on better. it's just that it's taken the strain off. exact figures for child to parent abuse are hard to come by because often, parents don't want to get the authorities involved but what we do know from research is that between 5—15% of families with adolescents experience behaviour that's considered abusive. we also know aggressive behaviour typically peaks in children between 13—15 years old and finally, we know with this type of abuse the most common victims are mothers and the most common abusers are boys. we've had a young boy that came on the programme, teenage boy, who barricaded his mum into their front room with his six—year old sister.

with a knife. we had a young person that was arguing with her mum on the street and pushed her in front of traffic. then they get to that point it's a lack of information about what is available at the shame around this has happened to me. did you ever have physical injuries? lots of them, yes. bruises. my arms. my legs. claire's son was ten years old when he started to abuse her. she's asked us to protect her identity. he would lash out and he wouldn't stop, he would keep kicking, punch, he would throw things, objects. he tried to kick me down the stairs. you are frustrated because you don't know what to do. claire did get herfamily the support they needed through a charity called ceteda. and like others who have spoken out, she hopes her story will encourage families to get the help they need.

in a moment we'll have all the business news, but first the headlines on bbc news... the 1966 england world cup winning goalkeeper, gordon banks, has died at the age of 81. theresa may tells mps she believes a brexit deal can be reached — which will win the support of parliament venezuela's embattled president talks exclusively to the bbc and denounces donald trump as a white supremacist i'm rebecca marston with the business news. the struggling department store chain debenhams has been given a cash injection of £40m. it will buy it extra time while it tries to strike a longer—term deal with lenders. the firm is in such bad shape it made three profit warnings last year. the travel giant tui, which owns what used to be called thomson holidays, has reported a loss of 84m euros

for the last three months of 2018 — that's about 73m pounds and is well over double what it made a year before. the car giant nissan said profits for the last three months of last year fell 76%. it said a large part of that was to account for previous salaries and other charges that hadn't been taken off in previous years. these are the first results since the arrest of former chief executive carlos ghosn over an accounting scandal. consumers' access to cash as an alternative to digital payments should be protected by a dedicated regulator, two influential organisations say. both the consumer group which? and the federation of small businesses say with hundreds of cash machines closing in recent months and more bank branches shutting some people are struggling to pay in shops. jenny ross is the money editorfor which? and joins us now. how bad is this

problem, how fast is it developing? the rate of change is pretty rapid, we have analysed and found that atms and anchorages are closing at unprecedented rates, 500 cash machines closing every month, 70 and has closing every month, 75% of the population frequently use cash and 220 million people are lined up cached daily. we've heard from many people who feel inconvenienced by this shift away from cash and the rising number of closures and face longer journeys to access rising number of closures and face longerjourneys to access the cash that they need to paper vital goods and services and we call on the government to appoint a single regulator to ensure nobody is left behind by this and we have the freedom to pay however we wish. the change is here because more people are switching away from using banks, they are going contactless and all sorts of other digital payments. should the effort not be directed

into helping people transition from cash to what seems to be an inevitable move towards a cashless society? it's absolutely true consumer behaviour is changing and to be absolutely clear, which is not against digital payments, we recognise it's super convenient to be able to pay by card, phone, by your watch, even. but be able to pay by card, phone, by yourwatch, even. but we be able to pay by card, phone, by your watch, even. but we need to remember these digital systems are not infallible, you only need to look at the massive failures last year with beazer added, the chaos at tsb, to remind ourselves cash still has a vital role to play. it's a really valua ble has a vital role to play. it's a really valuable for bike in those situations. alternately this comes down to, it's a question of choice, we believe consumers should have the freedom to pay however they wish to and we want to prevent a situation we are sleepwalking into a cashless society and those people are getting left behind. that's why we are campaigning and calling for regulatory action. a couple of

practical point she would like the regulator to do. review the changing landscape, we are not being chris cooper have about what action we wa nt cooper have about what action we want them to take but we want them to ta ke want them to take but we want them to take stock of the changes have meant from commercial interest and to make sure they are not completely aduu to make sure they are not completely adult line with consumers interests. we wa nt adult line with consumers interests. we want to make sure people are not stripped from their access to cash to quickly and i left feeling excluded. jenny ross, thank you. thank you. in other business stories we've been following... customers have been struggling to top up their pay—as—you—go energy meters owing to a fault at british gas. those on prepayment meters have been unable to pay via the supplier's website and app. the company — the largest supplier in the uk — has apologised, said the app had now been fixed, and is encouraging those affected to call phone lines to top up. however, many are reporting long waits on busy phone lines. transport firm stagecoach says its east midlands trains business has been awarded a new franchise for six months. east midlands trains runs from london st pancras to sheffield

as well as regional services and expects to earn what it calls ‘a modest profit under the contract‘. kering, the owner of gucci and yves saint laurent, has reported a 24% rise in sales between october to december compared to the year before. profits hit a record 3.7bn euros for 2018. gucci accounts for 80% of all kering's income. and we have some time for a look at the market but unfortunately it's snowboarding, we'll deal with that in an hour. back to you. i hope the markets are actually healthier than that. rebecca, thank you so much. see you later. having a stammer can be so stressful and frustrating that it can have devastating effect on someone's self confidence. now a new trial at oxford university, involving electrical brain stimulation, aims to improve fluency in speech. graham satchell went to meet one of the volunteers taking part.

my stammer makes me feel often frustrated, often ashamed, often that i am deficient in some way. and i felt my stammer was just a big sort of anchor around my... legs and i was just in the ocean with this anchor around my legs and thought that was my s...s...stammer. notjust a speech impediment but a life impediment. naheem's stammer has stopped him using the phone, having relationships, applying for certain jobs. in italy, c...coffee it is s...s...synonymous with espresso. naheem is taking part in an oxford research project. we like it here because we can study and be... after assessing his normal speech,

electrodes are placed on either side of naheem's head, a weak painless current is passed through his brain. so this is a wallace & gromit cartoon and there is a hand which has appeared out of the sofa which has launched a tennis ball through a hole in a... ..in a picture frame. what we think happens is that some of that current will change the reactivity of the brain cells directly underneath those electrodes, and make them more ready to kind of do theirjob, more ready to fire, if you like. there are physical differences in the brains of people who stammer, particularly in the ventral premotor cortex. this is an mri scan of naheem as he speaks. researchers are studying connections in the brain and how

messages are received to the throats and mouth. brain stimulation doesn't work on its own but it can increase the effectiveness of speech therapy. early results show fluency of speech has improved for some by a third. i felt that i was able to manage my stammer in some way. there were a lot of words which i thought i couldn't say but during this research session, i was able to say all the words. this was naheem a decade ago. how did you get here today? um, i came here by via a... ..t...t...t...rain. today, he'sjust finished a ph.d in the underlying causes of stammering and he's started doing stand—up. iam...m...m... a stammerer. and that means we could be here until closing time. i do the things that my previous self thought i couldn't do. the advice people give me most often

is, they say, slow down, breathe and think before you speak. i'm like, ok, i haven't tried any of those things before. whatever the benefits new research may bring, naheem says he's now accepted his stammer, even embraced it. i've accepted that it's just a part of me as my hands, arms and legs and i'm not trying to push against it any more, i'm not trying to push my stammer away. wherever i go, my stammer is working along me now. the cure is acceptance. five to two is the time. a look at the weather now and then rich is here. by

by rights, we ought to be in the grip of winter but this week, it will feel like spring. this is a picture from jersey earlier on, it didn't look like that every word, in cumbria, some mist and work over the health. the satellite picture you can see this stripe of cloud working from the north—west, producing the odd spot of rain but the main feature of the weather will be a south—west wind, quite brisk at times, a wind earning us ever milder airover times, a wind earning us ever milder air over the coming days. some pretty mild weather on the way, temperatures above where they should be. mostly dry, not completely, some patchy rain at the moment through southern scotland, into northern england, into north wales. further south, tending to cloud over, in northern ireland and northern scotla nd northern ireland and northern scotland brightening up, quite windy across the far north. these are the kind of temperatures taking us through the next few hours, 9—13d.

we go through this evening and tonight, cloud and patchy rain thinking south starts to move northwards. northern england, northern ireland and scotland sees some rain through the night, in the south largely dry, cloud breaks filling in with patchy fog and temperature wise between 5—9d. pretty much all of this frost free. tomorrow dry but cloudy weather to come, patchy rain moving northwards across northern ireland, northern england and scotland, clearing most areas by the afternoon. largely dry in the south, more in the way of brightness, some hazy sunshine later. temperatures 11—12d, not bad for this time of year. moving from wednesday into thursday, a subtle change, this frontal system ringing patchy rain into the northwest retreating northwards, the wind increasing and switching to the south, bringing mild but dry air. not as much cloud on thursday,

thursday should be quite sunny. when you don't see cloud on the maps you will seek sunshine, even the cloud in the north of breaking up is the day wears on, temperatures on thursday afternoon 11—13d, sunny skies overhead, feeling like spring but friday, one or two spots could reach 15 degrees. the weekend looking largely dry, a bit of rain at times in the west. hello, you're watching afternoon live — i'm simon mccoy. today at 2pm: one of the legends of english football — gordon banks — has died at the age of 81. what a save. his save from pele was among the finest ever made — and he helped england to world cup glory in 1966. theresa may updates the commons on brexit — and denies claims that she's running down the clock. the talks are at a crucial stage and we now all need to hold our nerve to get the changes this house requires

and deliver brexit on time. it appears the prime minister has just won a real tactic, to run down the clock hoping members of this house are blackmailed into supporting a deeply flawed deal.