tonight at ten — ministers warn that a young woman who ran away to join the islamic state group could face prosecution if she returns to the uk. shamima begum says she is pregnant and now in a refugee camp in northern syria, and wants to bring up her child in safety. but the government says she must face the consequences. if you come back, prepare to be questioned, investigated and potentially prosecuted. she's one of thousands of people fleeing fighting to oust is from its last stronghold in syria. we'll be assessing what could happen to shamima begum, if she returns the uk. also tonight... the ayes to the right, 258. the noes to the left, 303. cheering. it's another humiliating defeat for theresa may, and her plans for the uk leaving the european union. president trump is to declare a national emergency to get the funding he says he needs to build a border wall with mexico. in england, a&e waiting times are the worst they've been

since four—hour targets were introduced 15 years ago. everything changed for me the day damilola taylor died. and we talk to the young man featured in an oscar nominated film about his experiences of racism. and coming up on sportsday on bbc news — we'll tell you if chelsea and celtic could fare better than arsenal in the last 32 of the europa league. good evening. a british teenager who says she has no regrets about running away to syria to join the islamic state group has been told she could face prosecution if she tries to come home. shamima begum, who's now 19, says she's pregnant and wants to return to the uk for the sake

of her baby. she was one of three schoolgirls who disappeared from east london just over three years ago, when she was 15. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford reports. this is the route across the desert taken by shamima begum as she fled, two weeks ago, from one of the last specks of territory held by the islamic state group. today, hundreds more is women were making the same journey, heading for this camp in northern syria. the same camp where yesterday, shamima begum, who is one of the bethnal green girls, reappeared after almost four years. she had travelled from london to join is with two school friends. one of those friends is now dead. she herself was married at 15 and has lost two children to malnutrition and disease. but she says going to join is was the right decision. i don't regret it. she told the times her schoolfriend

amira abase was also still alive two weeks ago. amira's father, who thought until today that she might be dead, now wants the british government to try to bring the girls home. he says they were young teenagers, who shouldn't be punished for their mistakes and he would go and get her if he could. never stay one minute here if i can go fly there to see her. and when you see her, what would you say to her? i don't know. but the security minister said the government can't help the surviving bethnal green girls where they are. we just don't provide consular services in syria. it is dangerous, i don't

want to send british civil servants and officials out into a, you know, still active civil war, effect, in part of a failed state. so what are the options for shamima begum? the uk won't go and get her out of northern syria but would give her assistance if she made it to an embassy or consulate in turkey, for example. it is unlikely she would have her nationality stripped away, although the home secretary has the power to do so. if she returns to the uk, she could face prosecution for membership of a terrorist organisation or encouraging terrorism. irrespective of a prosecution decision, she would be offered the chance to enter a de—radicalisation programme. shiraz, who has been studying is since 2014, says even teenage girls like shamima begum were helping the murderous caliphate. just by virtue of being there, they were building a kind of critical mass on the ground. they were having these

children, who were believed to be, called the so—called cubs of the caliphate, that they would go on to be future fighters. but in the east london bengali community that shamima begum comes from, some say she must still be treated fairly and as the british citizen she is. from my point of view, she was a young child when she was groomed by isis. she was seduced by some twisted form of empowerment for muslims. but it is not as simple as, you know, a brainwashedjihadi bride. that needs to be taken into consideration. but as the fighters of is continue to lose ground, the arguments about what to do with its supporters are going to intensify over the next few months. daniel sandford, bbc news. the case of shamima begum, and the other schoolgirls from bethnal green, highlighted the issue of young muslim women becoming radicalised and making the journey to syria. our correspondent sabiyah pervez, has been speaking to four women from muslim backgrounds in bradford, to gauge their views on the case,

and the risks of radicalisation. my name is rosema, i'm a youth cafe coordinator in bradford. hi, my name is samar, i'm a phd student in business studies. i'm hiba maroof, i'm 20 years old and i work in media. i'm saf and i'm a boxer from bradford. we are in a restaurant in bradford with four young women from muslim backgrounds discussing the questions arising around shamima begum's desire to return home to the uk. she was 15 at the time, she is now i9, she was 15 at the time, she is now 19, its four years later and she's saying, 0k, 19, its four years later and she's saying, ok, i'm pregnantand i want to come back. do you think she should be allowed to come back to the uk? it's not the kid's fault, she should take this possibility for her actions. we are giving the baby

a chance to take advantage of our health care system, we're not doing it for her. no one cares if she's taking advantage of it or not. she says she has no remorse, when she saw severed heads in the bin, she didn't feel faced. saw severed heads in the bin, she didn't feelfaced. i saw severed heads in the bin, she didn't feel faced. i don't feel co mforta ble didn't feel faced. i don't feel comfortable with someone who doesn't feel remorse and she believes in the utopia she's created. you've been groomed, it's your way of life, it appeals to you, but her decision to fly all the way to syria, to board that plane to go through security, to land and get there, to have this life, is all on her. so what needs to be done to make sure that people like shamima don't go out there? we need to talk, we need to stop this stiff upper lips society where we don't want to talk about things. we need to start talking and live in a society where we can have these open and frank discussions where we all have different opinions and can talk about them around the table. as

questions are left unanswered on the future ofjemima baig, it's clear from the discussions here best of shamima begum, it's clearfrom the discussions here that more needs to be done to protect young people from being groomed by radical fundamentalists. sabbiyah pervez, bradford. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford is here... this case is conjugated but will she be allowed back in the uk in the first case? she could be barred from the uk, she could be barred temporarily while she's investigated all she could have her passport taken away. it looks like that's unlikely in this case, but it does highlight the dilemma there is around this whole issue. it may seem easy at first to say, we're not going to let anyone come back from islamic state, but when you probe down into the detail it gets more difficult. there may be some people who have committed such heinous crimes that you actually want to bring them back, put them on trial and lock them up for the rest of

their lives. at the other end of the scale there may be people who went there as toddlers who are now only of primary school age, are you going to say they can't come back and try and start a life with other family perhaps in britain? shamima begum comes somewhere perhaps in britain? shamima begum comes somewhere in the middle. 0n the one hand she went there aged 15, police at the time said she'd been groomed, she was a victim and so she could be looked at in that way. on the other hand, she is now 19 and she says she doesn't regret going, and that's a sort of adult decision. so she falls in little bit somewhere in the middle and it's hard case and there's going to be a lot more hard cases over the next few months, as we discover how many uk citizens went tojohn we discover how many uk citizens went to john islamic we discover how many uk citizens went tojohn islamic state and have actually survived. daniel sandford, thank you. theresa may has suffered another humiliating defeat to her brexit plans, after mps voted against her proposals for the uk leaving the european union. the government had called for the commons to support the prime minister's efforts to renegotiate her withdrawal agreement with brussels. but some brexiteer conservative mps abstained, saying the motion effectively meant a no—deal

brexit would be ruled out. here's our political editor laura kuenssberg. another test for theresa may. division, clear the lobby. another defeat for her brexit compromise. the ayes to the right, 258. the noes to the left, 303. beaten again at the hands of the brexiteers. the opposition, furious, too. she cannot keep onjust running down the clock and hoping that something will turn up that will save her day and save her face. so it is surprising that the prime minister is not even here to hear the result of this vote. government ministers looked away, defeated. 0ther frontbenchers openly furious at the eurosceptics. the conservative party is a broad church. we have... that is what our appeal is to the nation itself. but one group of that has taken over the pulpit, the choir stalls and indeed the belltower, and that is just

simply wrong and it's causing problems for us to get this brexit deal through. of course, they played down the trouble they've caused. this has been a storm in a teacup today. this motion unfortunately had words which would have co—opted us into taking no deal off the table and we just couldn't do that. that was the crux of today's hostility. as the law stands, we leave next month, with or without a formal deal with the eu. tonight, members need to give the government time to make good on this work, as a house, to hold our nerve, to deliver a deal that addresses the twin risks of no deal or no brexit. jeering. you can hear the tension because brexiteers don't necessarily believe the government's really up for that. take no deal off the table, that's the surest way of ensuring the other side to dig

into their current position. that's just a fact of life. i think we all agree about the importance of keeping our nerve and actually, by keeping no deal on the table, it makes a good deal more likely. arguments are ringing around this place. many mps and government ministers are convinced they must be ready to leave the european union without a deal, even if that causes chaos for the economy. but many conservatives, the opposition parties and quietly, some in the government, think taking that risk is madness, and they'll do anything they can to rule it out. the right thing for our country is to be as one in rejecting no deal and standing by, as this party once did, the people of this country, theirjobs, their futures, the prosperity of business and trade. can he not listen to the representatives of communities around this country who are deeply concerned about a no deal exit, and want this house's will to be respected ? stop brexit now!

labour is united in wanting to put the brakes on leaving without deal. what do we want? brexit! when do we want it? now! but like the protesters outside this afternoon, they are sparring amongst themselves on so much else. some mps, even on the verge of quitting the party. the idea that the labour party is not together and arguing against this tragedy, against this disaster is, for me, entirely heartbreaking. for the prime minister, though, it's the pushback from her own side that's the real frustration. the downing street gates don't shut that problem out. in a moment we'll talk to our europe editor katya alder, but first let's go to laura at westminster. what now for mrs may's brexit plans? ina what now for mrs may's brexit plans? in a broad sense, trying to keep the show on the road. in terms of technically what happens next, well, her and her ministers are still trying to work out a way to get a

twea k to trying to work out a way to get a tweak to their deal that could make it more feasible, more appetising to mps to get it through the house of commons, and they will vote on it again injust commons, and they will vote on it again in just under commons, and they will vote on it again injust undera commons, and they will vote on it again in just under a fortnight. what is clear as it does not mean at this stage is the prime minister is in any way, shape or form this stage is the prime minister is in any way, shape orform going to tearup in any way, shape orform going to tear up that plan. she is still determined and most of her ministers do believe there is still a way through this, but the reality is it seems to me tonight is getting harder, not easier. the tory splits and wounds and tensions are becoming deeper, not shallower and the war of words among the governing party is intensifying hour by hour stoppage in terms of her desire to get through this remains unbending and at this point her calculation appears to be she does not have much option other than to plough on and to try to get through this. and the belief in number ten is there is a

path through, but it does appear to becoming ever narrower, with more rocks being thrown in her way. and to you, katya what are the chances of brussels perhaps giving a little bit of ground because of this vote in the commons, because after all they don't want a no—deal brexit either? well, it's true that the eu is actually more flexible than it really likes to give the impression of being at the moment and it's also true that eu leaders absolutely want to avoid a no—deal brexit. it's also true that they are sure, in their opinion, that now is not the time for them to budge. they don't want to make changes to the brexit deal fiow to make changes to the brexit deal now and run the risk of the prime minister coming back to them may be ina week's minister coming back to them may be in a week's time and saying, actually, i need a few more changes to keep mps onside. so the eu is looking to westminster right now and seeing turmoil and that's why officials here are telling me tonight that looking at the prime minister's defeat today conferences them more than ever that they shouldn't blink until they can see

that she has a comfortable, stable majority of mps behind her and this means that in the meantime this new round of eu uk brexit negotiations, brexit secretary expected back here in brussels on monday, is being described to me as window dressing will stop the eu is really not sure why this process is going to land, so why this process is going to land, so for now it doesn't want to budge, it doesn't want to run the risk of fio it doesn't want to run the risk of no deal, but the prediction right fiow no deal, but the prediction right now in brussels is that these talks are going to go right down to the wire, possibly to the eu summit of leaders on the 215t of march. but the risk for both sides of leaving everything so last—minute is talks could then breaks down and end for both sides in failure. katya adler, thank you, in brussels, and laura kuenssberg in westminster, many thanks. brexit isn'tjust causing tensions among the conservatives, it's also threatening to fracture the labour party. there are mps thinking of leaving, dissatisfied with the leadership's stance over brexit and anti—semitism. 0ur deputy political editor john pienaar reports.

jeremy corbyn‘s unlike any leader labour's had. easy for many members to follow, but not all, and not on europe. now there's talk of angry mps walking away from labour, and there is worry at the top of the party. i think people should stay and fight their corner. we need an electorally viable labour party. the feeling among a lot of your colleagues now is this breakaway is unstoppable. well, i hope it isn't. i hope people should do everything they can to try and stop it from happening. you'll be trying to stop this breakaway? i'm definitely trying to stop it, yeah. i've been trying... i mean, for the last two years, i've been trying to hold everyone together. what do we want? people's vote! most labour members want their leader to strongly back a fresh eu referendum, and he hasn't. but now there's a group of mps hinting they may quit the party. we are being pushed to the edge, and that's all i can say at the moment. 0n brexit, on venezuela, on anti—semitism, on economic policy, we are being pushed to the very edge.

but unhappiness over europe policy runs deeper than those contemplating a split. today, one labour mp delivered this blunt warning. my fear is that what we are now doing is, we are helping to facilitate a tory brexit. and the ramifications for our party, i think, will be severe. the trouble's about much more than europe. accusations of anti—semitism have been dogging the labour leadership, some say driving away support at every level. councillors leaving, thousands of members leaving over anti—semitism, the failure to tackle it adequately in their view, and also because our party's position on europe is out of sync with members and out of sync with what they see as our values. so i think more mps will go. sadly, some have already gone. i think more will go, and it's not being taken seriously enough. here, labour mps seem increasingly sure a breakaway by a core of colleagues is coming, and soon. but how many? half a dozen? more?

some private donors are keen to fund a pro—european centrist movement. some ofjeremy corbyn‘s teen supporters would keen supporters would could say, "good riddance". in the labour party, where any split, big or small, could makejeremy corbyn‘s dream of power harder to fulfil. john pienaar, bbc news, westminster. let's take a look at some of the day's other top stories. the investigative website bellingcat claims it has identified a possible third suspect linked to the salisbury novichok poisonings. denis sergeev, thought to be a russian military intelligence officer, was reportedly in the uk at the same time as two other suspects who carried out the attack last year. the kremlin has offered no comment. airbus says it hopes to redeploy a "significant number" of the british workers affected by its decision to end production of the a380. the company says it took the "painful" decison to stop making the world's biggest commercialjet because of a fall in demand. around 200 people work on the airliner in bristol and north wales.

the cafe chain patisserie valerie has been saved from closure, after an irish private equity firm agreed to buy it. the deal with causeway capital partners will keep the company's remaining 96 stores open, safeguarding around 2,000 jobs. the duke of edinburgh won't be prosecuted over his car crash last month in norfolk. prince philip, who's 97, gave up his driving licence following the accident, in which his land rover collided with another vehicle. the crown prosecution service says it's decided further action wasn't in the public interest. the white house says president trump will declare a national emergency to secure funding for a border wall with mexico. he'll also sign a funding bill to avert another government shutdown. 0ur north america editorjon sopel is at the white house. the president has been threatening

this national emergency call and now he is going to deliver. yes, and if you go back, it was mexico that was going to pay for the wall but that didn't happen so donald trump demanded $5.7 billion from us taxpayers but congress didn't vote for that and so he shut the government down. that didn't work so he reopened the government, ordered three weeks of negotiations. they have now come to an end and he will signa have now come to an end and he will sign a bill tonight which will give him a fraction of the money, so instead he is going to declare a state of emergency. that is the nuclear option because this is opposed by democrats as well as republican lawmakers, who fear it marginalises them and also, what would be to stop a democratic president in future, say, declaring a state of emergency other gun or climate change? there's an awful lot of people who are warning him against this and it will face a legal challenge as well. nancy pelosi has come out and said it is a lawless act that the president is

engaging in. donald trump sold himself to the american people as the great deal—maker. this is proving to be an extremely elusive deal. jon sopel, there, at the white house, thank you. campaigning has just ended in nigeria's presidential elections, which are taking place on saturday. it's the most populous country in africa with 196 million people, and forecast to become the world's third most populous by 2050. as much as half the electorate is aged between 18 and 35, and with the growing population, there simply aren't enough jobs, especially for young people. the two main candidates in the elections, president mohammadu buhari and his opponent atiku abubakar, have both pledged to tackle unemployment and fight widespread corruption. 0ur africa editor fergal keane's report from lagos contains some flash photography. it is a place of the most extraordinary energy. one of the world's fastest growing cities in africa's most populous nation. and on the streets of lagos, a people's democracy.

what is the purpose of politics? passionate election arguments. all we want is a free and fair election. it is an election defined by youth and its discontents. more than 50% of young people are out of work or underemployed. like these men, waiting by the roadside, hoping for even a day's work. you have no job? yes, i have nojob. it is unfortunate that nigeria is like this. we are graduates and there is nothing worth doing. almost half nigeria's population lives in extreme poverty, the highest proportion in the world. this, as hundreds of billions of dollars in oil revenues have been siphoned off through corruption. we travelled to an island near lagos to see the impact of graft on the hopes of the young. they were holding an election meeting on tamaru. "we need light, we need hospitals,

we need water, we need doctors", the youth leader said. "you should vote wisely. don't be deceived". esther has three sons entering the jobs market. the family also host a relative who fled violence that's displaced 1.8 million people in the north—east. esther‘s youngest son, collins, aged 17, wants to leave. yes, i would like to leave nigeria if i see a great this is the choice for the young. here, signing a peace pledge, two men in their 70s. president buhari on the left, who's made only limited progress tackling corruption,

and challenger atiku abubakar, who's had to deny corruption allegations himself. nigeria has been a democracy for 20 years, but the failure in that time to achieve radical change in rooting out corruption and tackling poverty begs searching questions about how the system works here. what is democracy for, if those elected to power seem incapable of truly transforming their society? i went to see a veteran anti—corru ption crusader. debo adeniran was locked up on numerous occasions under military rule. with his young activists, he continues to hold politicians to account. eventually, we believe that through periodic election, we can effect the necessary change. without hope, life would be brutish and nasty and short. so we have to keep hope alive. but hope alone can't answer

the needs of a population set to double in the next 30 years, and politics as usual will not suffice. fergal keane, bbc news, lagos. waiting times in accident and emergency departments in england are the worst they've been since a target of seeing patients within four hours was introduced in 200a. and hospitals have been reporting significant problems finding enough beds. our health editor hugh pym reports. i am taking some blood. dionne is one of the increasing number of patients who've been going into a&e. she had severe stomach pains. i couldn't get an appointment at my own gp. they said it won't be, you won't get one for three weeks, so i was really, you know, sort of panicking a bit. the pressures are even more intense than last winter. 84.4% of patients were seen or treated in a&e within four hours last month, the lowest in 15 years. there were 564,000 emergency

admissions of patients to hospitals, a record high, up more than 7% from last january. i think we are in, the same as last year, a full—blown crisis. we've got even more patients coming to our front doors, more than last year, more than last month. performance is tailing off month by month. the strains on the nhs are the same around the uk, though england's a&e performance was behind scotland, but ahead of wales and northern ireland, based on their latest data. we are the sort of canary in the mine. when the pressure is across the whole system, you see it most acutely in the emergency department. dr ali sanders and her team at charing cross hospital have eased the pressure by filtering off more patients who could be tested and treated quickly. we've really grown our, our ambulatory care, our same—day emergency care service, which sees a lot of patience which sees a lot of patienta that in the old days, would have gone both through the emergency department and into the main hospital before their condition

was identified and treated. it's lovely and quiet through here. thanks to the scheme, dione is quickly seen, tested and cleared to go home. it's been quite good. i've been quite surprised, really, to be seen by a doctor within two hours. i'm afraid at the moment, we haven't got any beds available in the unit. but across the system, despite their best attempts, hospitals are close to the edge as they try to cope with the relentless increase in patient numbers. hugh pym, bbc news. among the many british hopefuls at the oscars later this month is black sheep, nominated for best short documentary. it tells the story of cornelius walker, a young boy from south london dealing with racism after moving to essex following the murder of ten—year—old damilola taylor in the year 2000. 0ur arts editor will gompertz went to meet him. everything changed for me the day damilola taylor died. cornelius walker's mother and father had seen enough of peckham. they upped sticks and moved their young family

to essex for a safer way of life, they thought. over here. ijust honestly wanted to help people who have been through what i've been through, and tell the story of young black man growing up in essex, and how hard it is for us to survive in this society. he found himself in a hostile environment, fuelled by racial hatred. it was a tough existence for a schoolboy, which he recounts to camera in the film. is it possible to say that you can see bad in someone... by just looking at them? look up there. i didn't want to sit in front of that camera and be vulnerable. yeah. i didn't. it was the hardest thing i've ever done because i love my family so much, and i didn't want them to think that the things that they've done in the past still matter. i bleached my skin.

i remember the first time i did it. i remember putting a load on my hand and going like that. looking at my skin in the mirror, like, "yeah, am i light yet?" it just felt like, when i was at school, it's like, i was... even the black girls would say i'm too dark or they'd make fun of my skin tone and my complexion, and... itjust, i kind ofjust felt insecure, like i wasn't good enough for anyone. i felt like the colour of my skin was the reason of it. oi, oi! what are you doing here? when people discuss racism, they always talk about it from an outward perspective. "0h, he called me the n word". ok, but what does that do to you internally, in your subconscious, when you go home at night? and i think the way we are discussing racism might be wrong.