this is bbc news. the headlines: the family of shemima begum — the british teenager who ran away to syria to join the islamic state group — say she has given birth to a boy. president trump warns the us will have to release hundreds of islamic state fighters unless the uk and other allies can take reponsibility for those jihadists who came from europe. hundreds of passengers are left with plane tickets they can't use, and hundreds ofjobs are at risk as flybmi collapses. theresa may writes to every conservative mp, urging them to put aside their personal differences over brexit and come together in the national interest. millions of workers could see their take—home pay fall in six weeks‘ time when the amount they have to pay into their pension pot increases. and in half an hour here on bbc news, the week in parliament with david cornock. good afternoon and

welcome to bbc news. the family of shamima begum — one of three british school girls who left britain to join so—called islamic state — say they've been told that she's given birth. shamima, who's now 19, was found last week in a syrian refugee camp by the times newspaper. she said she wanted to bring up her baby in britain, as she had lost two other children while living with is. it all comes as president trump has called for the uk and other european countries to take back hundreds of members of is, captured in syria and iraq, and to put them on trial. jane frances kelly reports. the teenager, shemima begum, who travelled to syria to join is as a

schoolgirl of 15 four years ago is thought to have given birth to a son. a statement from the family's lawyer said mother and child were believed to be in good health but they were still trying to make direct contact with her. the birth comes as debate rages about the best way to deal with those returning from the is caliphate. us backed kurdish forces are continuing their assault on the final part of its territory in eastern syria. in a series of tweets, donald trump urged britain, france and germany and other european allies to take back over 800 isis fighters that were ca ptu red over 800 isis fighters that were captured in syria and put him on trial. he said the caliphate was ready to fall and if they did not act america would be forced to release the fighters, warning they would permeate europe. culture secretary and former attorney general agreed that britain would have to deal with its own citizens. if you are dealing with a british citizen who was to return to this

country, so they only citizenship is british citizenship, we are obliged to ta ke british citizenship, we are obliged to take them back. that does not mean that we cannot put in place the necessary security measures to monitor their activities and make sure they are not misbehaving. the shadow chancellor agreed with trump that britain should take responsibility for its citizens. we have to make sure b respond to our international duties of bringing war criminals to book. we will make that contribution. whether it had collectively, the hague are bringing them back here, we have to step up to the responsibility. i would rather they were under lock and key than somewhere else potentially a threat to this country. a former head of the british army said it was a mistake to think is had been defeated. it is not 100% victory. a mistake to think is had been defeated. it is not 10096 victory. we may well complete the recapture of the territory that they had, by the ideology and support behind it will

continue and that will remain the struggle for this generation, perhaps the next generation. accepting fighters and their families back creates security issues, and is often unpopular. many argue to ignore them is to create an even bigger threat in the future. our home affairs vorrespondent daniel sandford joins me now with the latest. what do we know about this birth? the information came through the lawyer who is currently representing shemima begum's family and he said they had information that she had given birth and he went on to say that it was a baby boy. they said they had not had directly been occasioned with her, so they will try to verify the information themselves. journalists in the camp are seen what appears to be a baby in the room with shemima begum, so it looks as if it is possible at least that she has given birth overnight. the only information that she was pregnant at the first place

came from her in her interview with the times. we cannot be certain but it looks as if she has had a baby. in those circumstances, she is a british citizen, there is a question about the rights of the baby to come to this country, brought back to britain, but she wants to come back. what are the options for the authorities in terms of admitting her and what they do with her if she comes back? the home secretary has said he will not hesitate to try and stop people coming into the country who have gone off to join terrorist organisations. that is easy to say but not as easy to implement, because if someone does not have any other options in terms of citizenship then you cannot take away their british citizenship, not away their british citizenship, not a 19—year—old. that means you then have two accepted that they might be british and therefore you might have to allow them back into the country, but that does not mean they can come back and resume their lives, that return can be managed using what is

called a temporary exclusion order and they may not be allowed to come back until things have been put in place, such as police meeting her off the plane, interview them, held in custody if they have been charged, certainly they could be put under a degree of control using police bail measures, so someone would have to come back and be heavily investigated and to a degree controlled for a while. there are options around security service monitoring people's behaviour. depending on who it might be, shemima begum may not fainted in this category, there is also what is known as the returning families project which is an attempt to try and reintegrate these sorts of people back into society, so far in a very small number of people who have really gone through that. it is not clear yet quite how successful that may or may not be. passengers with flybmi have been speaking of their frustration at the airline's abrupt collapse. the company announced last night that it's calling in administrators and cancelling all flights

with immediate effect. in a statement, flybmi said it had run into financial difficulties, partly because of brexit. thousands of customers have been affected, as stuart flinders reports. it's half term and some travellers have begun their holiday not sure how it will end. i'm in a lay—by off the autobahn in munich. we've been caught up in the bmi saga today. we arrived at bristol airport to catch a flight only for it to be cancelled at very short notice. we are now off into austria for ourskiing trip, but there is a real concern as to how we're going to get home. flybmi say they can't organise travel with other airlines themselves, nor will passengers be refunded. there are unfortunately going to be a lot of people out of pocket. for those of you, for those people who aren't able to get a refund through their credit card holder, you may also be entitled to something back

through your insurance. flybmi operates from regional airports, including newcastle and bristol, flying to 25 european cities. the company blames rising fuel and carbon costs for its problems, but in a statement says... the futures of nearly 400 employees both here and abroad are also in doubt. this is the headquarters, early one flight this is the headquarters, early one flight you are to appear today and that has been cancelled. the advice from flybmi, if you have booked a flight with from flybmi, if you have booked a flight with them, consult your

insurers or flight with them, consult your insurers oi’ your flight with them, consult your insurers or your credit card company because they cannot organise an alternative flight for you. the company blames rising fuel costs and uncertainty over brexit for its problems, but you only have to look at theirfigures for last problems, but you only have to look at their figures for last year. 29,000 flights, at their figures for last year. 29,000 flights, 522,000 passengers. it sounds a lot but works out on average at 18 passengers on every plane. that is a lot of empty seats. i'm joined now via webcam by tim jeans. he's currently chairman of cornwall airport in newquay, but he is also a former md of monarch airlines, which collapsed in 2017 — not when he worked there! he has extensive knowledge of the uk aviation industry. i wanted to ask you about the monarch example and what we can learn from that, because one of the criticisms there has been from flybmi passengers as they are selling tickets until a matter of hours before administration. what

are the ethics of that? if you are going under, is it fair and ethical and legal to carry on selling tickets you know cannot be honoured? these decisions are often made any very great hurry. the simple fact is that flybmi would have run out of cash on friday night and sadly would not have had the means to carry on flying during the weekend, so it is not unethical or illegal, because they might have hoped up until last minute that white night or some rescue could have been mounted and they could have carried on flying into next week. what about the trouble is that they have made in a statement about the circumstances which made it in their view much more likely that they were going under? they talk about fuel costs having spiked, or their competitors are facing that, but specifically they talk about the impact on brexit and also interestingly recent

decision to exclude uk airlines from full participation in the emissions trading scheme. carbon costs are a creeping cost for all airlines. carbon permits the fees you need to pay to carry out the flying in your programme. going up all the time. they now have a material cost, many of which will not have been fully budgeted for a dead looks like that is the case for flybmi. the brexit uncertainty that they quote is largely down to the fact that they do quite a lot of intra— european flights between places like germany and scandinavia. the uncertainty of and scandinavia. the uncertainty of an open sky, the freedom to fly all across europe that we have enjoyed up across europe that we have enjoyed up until now, is not absently guaranteed at the moment and so clearly they would have not have been able to secure some of the contract stretching into 45 years hence that they would have hoped to have done. it seems to add up to a

pretty perfect storm. —— for or five yea rs. pretty perfect storm. —— for or five years. flying much larger or economic aircraft, at the next other companies who could feed their own hubs in places like heathrow, and flybmi were simply not part of any of those economies that could help them fly the number of passengers to them fly the number of passengers to the right destinations at the right fa res the right destinations at the right fares that people would buy. this is a relatively small airline, for hundreds of the six employees between the uk, germany, sweden, do we just have to many airlines? biaggi have few airlines, a diminishing number. —— we actually have. we have only three left that i fly scheduled services in an incredibly small number when compared with ten or 15 years ago. the number of airlines that have

disappeared from uk skies, british owned airlines, it's probably smaller than the ones that are still, sorry, large number than the ones still flying. aviation, small regional aircraft between uk regional aircraft between uk regional points is an incredibly difficult business in which to make money. flybmi's demise shows just how difficult. theresa may has called on conservative mps to put ‘personal preferences‘ aside and get her brexit deal through the house of commons. in a letter to every tory member of parliament, the prime minister said ‘history would judge us all‘ over the handling of brexit. she also set out what the government would be doing in the coming days to secure a withdrawal agreement that will get parliament‘s backing. the brexit secretary, stephen barclay, is due to be back in brussels tomorrow for a meeting with his eu counterpart, michel barnier. later this week, the attorney general, geoffrey cox is expected to make a rare speech in which he will outline how the government will eliminate any legal risk

to stop the irish backstop becoming indefinite. and the prime minister is scheduled to have another meeting with the president of the european commission, jean claude—juncker, as well. with me is our political correspondent, pete saull. we are any strange holding pattern, another commons defeat which does not make a lot of difference, is still uncertainty about whether there will be any changes. theresa may is trying to act as a peacemaker today, because the rhetoric has intensified ever since that vote in the house of commons on thursday. particularly on the kind of former remain side of the conservatives, increasingly exasperated with their collea g u es increasingly exasperated with their colleagues in the european research group of pro—brexit tory mps. theresa may is saying to her colleagues, think about our place in history, let‘s put our differences aside and act in the national interest. she is also insisting today that there will not be any

change of tactics. she still intends to go back out to brussels, she has a meeting with jean—claude juncker this week in which she will again try to get the european union to reopen negotiations on the thorny issue of the northern irish backstop. interesting to hear today from one of her ministers, culture secretary, who suggested that the necessary changes to that backstop could be made without reopening the withdrawal agreement. i don't think it's the mechanism that matters, it's the objective. if you can get to a place where the potential longevity of the backstop, the potential that the backstop lasts forever can be adequately dealt with, that's what we are all seeking to do. that is what parliament has been very clear it wants. it will back this deal if it can do something about the backstop. the mechanism is what we are discussing at the moment. but parliament needs to give the prime minister the space to go and have that conversation with brussels to see what we can achieve and if we can do something about that then i think it's very clear parliament will be prepared to support this deal.

although it was not entirely explicit, the idea that you could sort this issue out without reopening the patrol agreement probably but not go down well with a lot of conservative brexiteer is who would like the government to take a pretty ha rd would like the government to take a pretty hard line on this. interesting to note today that the fragile truce any tory ranks is indeed very fragile. the defence minister saying today that if it came to it at that he takes there should be a free vote on whether no—deal brexit should be taken off the table. he thinks that would be a catastrophe, putting himself at odds with the other wing of the tory party. ed raises the possibility of some of these people having to reside or be sacked from the government of they stick to their word on this. what about labour?

they could be the cavalry for theresa may, riding over the horizon, if they were willing to lend her enough votes to get her deal through and cancel out the hard line brexiteer is in the dup. labour have made it clear they were not accept a brexit deal unless the uk joins a customs union with the eu. it is also fair to say that labour has its own divisions over brexit, and a lot of talk around westminster at the moment about a potential ru ptu re at the moment about a potential rupture within the labour party. we know for some time some backbenchers have been unhappy with the leadership and that is notjust brexit, it is anti—semitism, venezuela, more recently that has caused concern. the shadow chancellor was asked about this this morning and he said that all of that potential split in the labour party would be counter—productive.” potential split in the labour party would be counter-productive. i don't see why there is a need. there is the potential for a split, but we are dealing with that. we are

holding the party together that is what parliament has been very clear it wants. it will back this deal if we can do something about the backstop. labour activist have been trying to persuade mps to sign up to a pledge that says an mp would work for the achievements of a labour government under whatever leadership member select add they accept a labour led government is infinitely better than any other election outcome. lots of labour mps have signed up to this pledge put forward by supporters of jeremy corbyn, but other labour mps have decided not to sign up to the pledge, some making it clear they are pledges their membership card which they have held had worked hard fought for many years. also today a former big figure any labour rights, former big figure any labour rights, former vice chair of the party has decided that he is resigning his

membership after 28 years, saying that it pains him to see what the labour party has become, citing particularly that issue of what he sees as a leadership‘s inability to tackle the anti—semitism issue. interesting times ahead. millions of workers could see their take—home pay fall from april when the amount they have to put into their pension pot increases. a bbc analysis of earnings suggests higher contribution rates for those in auto—enrolment pensions will hit pay packets, despite an imminent tax cut. here‘s our business correspondent rob young. building a pension pot, sacrificing part of our wages today to pay for a more comfortable retirement. since 2012, ten million eligible workers have been automatically enrolled in a workplace pension. from april, many of those employees will have to pay a bigger proportion of their pay into their auto enrolment pension pot. according to an analysis of earnings carried out for the bbc,

the annual take—home pay of someone earning £15,000 per year will be £49 lower. someone on £30,000 will take home £253 less. in a few weeks‘ time, many workers currently contributing 3% of their pay will have to put in 5%. this is quite a significant increase relative to what they‘ve been paying to date, and this is going to affect up to 10 million people who have been auto—enrolled in the last few years. the potential impact of this change is quite substantial. the hit to net pay could have been bigger, a tax cut for most earners also due in april will soften the blow. some in the industry worry the hit to pay could lead to people opting out of saving for a pension. but speaking on a recent visit to this electronics factory, the minister in charge said she hoped that wouldn‘t happen. we need to encourage people to save more, and we need to encourage employers to take more of a role in doing

that, and i think that‘s exactly what we are seeing, and we are just going to slightly increase it this year. the government regards auto enrolment as a huge success, it says it will closely monitor what happens in a few weeks‘ time. some in the industry say workers‘ contributions may have to rise even further if they want a decent retirement income. rob young, bbc news. more now on our top story. us president donald trump has demanded that european countries take back hundreds of islamic state fighters captured in syria and put them on trial. it comes as the battle to re—take the last stronghold of islamic state enters its final phase. with me is macer gifford, which is not his real name. hejoined kurdish forces against the so—called islamic state and fought alongside them forjust over a year and a half, witnessing some of the heaviest fighting against the group. what do you make of the case of

shemima begum? she is certainly unrepentant. i see no evidence that she is any less of a threat now than she is any less of a threat now than she was when she first went out, so i want the british government to treat her with extreme caution. we cannot get this wrong. people‘s lives are at stake. a lot of people are in this situation where they went out for whatever reason, some idealistic, but the reality of what they have seen and experienced might not only have an impact on them, deep psychological impact, but they views may have changed. what do you make then of donald trump‘s suggestion that it is down to us as european countries to bring these people back and if necessary put them on trial and punish them? we do have a responsibility for that, but up have a responsibility for that, but up what i want to see is a bit of commentary introducing legislation. it is too broad, we need to tackle isis and their supporters, the

priority of government has to be justice to the victims, thousands of people who have died, but a responsible 80 to keep us safe. we cannot get this wrong. ifjust one of them comes back to commit a crime oi’ of them comes back to commit a crime oran of them comes back to commit a crime or an atrocity, we would never forgive ourselves. the ideology is the question, because what they call the question, because what they call the caliphate is now shrunk to a square kilometre if that. they are ina square kilometre if that. they are in a position to defend. 0nce square kilometre if that. they are in a position to defend. once that is gone, the dilemma is not only the ideology but many of the people dispersed, and they are more of a threat when they dispersed than when they are concentrated. you are right, at the moment we are defeating the physical islamic state, but the real challenge is easing the tension within the communities. people have seen syria ripped apart. sizes have done untold damage to generations of young syrians, so the next phase of the anti—isis fight has to be investment

in syria, making people feel liberated, build schools, introduce a new type of democracy that makes all the people feel like they are properly represented. just like but there not be a real reluctance, potentially from countries like the united states, other european countries, when they see that well involve effectively a kind of making peace, breaking bread with president assad ? peace, breaking bread with president assad? there peace, breaking bread with president assad ? there is peace, breaking bread with president assad? there is no sign that his regime is going anywhere. he has done terrible damage, and much of isis early growth was down to his decisions. the tragedy is the civil war has dragged on for many years. he has won, he beat the rebels in aleppo, he has the backing of the russians, so what we need is a pragmatic approach to all this. we need to get all the parties including sdf in geneva and we need to come up with a solution that works for everybody. us airforce transport planes carrying humanitarian aid for venezuela have landed at the colombian border where food and medicine is being

stockpiled for distribution. president maduro has refused to allow the aid in, accusing the us of trying to organise a coup. american officials say the aid had been requested by the venezuelan opposition leader, juan guaido, who declared himself interim president last month. by the venezuelan opposition leader, juan guaido, who declared himself jon ironmonger reports. it is an operation both humanitarian and highly political. arriving on the colombian border, three us cargo planes carrying food, medicine and clothes for the people of venezuela. this is not the first shipment, nor will it be the last, not only from the united states but we know many other countries arejoining as well. aid packages are being stockpiled at the request of the venezuelan opposition leader, juan guaido, in colombia, brazil and the caribbean. speaking at a rally in caracas, the self—proclaimed interim president appealed to new volunteers to help carry supplies over crossings next saturday.

he restated an ultimatum for the armed forces to back down. translation: once again, the message to the venezuelan armed forces, seven days for humanitarian aid to enter, a week for you to do the right thing and put yourselves on the side of the constitution. we are authorising the entrance of not only humanitarian aid but also humanity. us officials say venezuela is in the grip of an economic crisis, leading to widespread hunger and a critical shortage of basic medicines. according to the united nations, 3 million venezuelan migrants have fled the country since 2015. us aid drops are intensifying the stand—off with nicolas maduro, who has called the operation a disguise for an invasion. he continued this week to stoke up hostility

among the armed forces, saying, "yankee, go home!" juan guaido said he would announce further details on monday about his plan to get aid into the country, but it is a promise he could struggle to keep. maduro‘s still loyal military have barricaded bridge crossings and show no signs of giving way. jon ironmonger, bbc news. now it‘s time for a look at the weather. it isa it is a mild and a blustery sort of day today. a little bit of rain in the picture as well. this was earlier, this area of cloud and patchy light rain is pushing its way slowly eastwards, most of it continuing after was the north—east of scotland, not much left across

england. a band of cloud heading to lincolnshire and across the midlands towards the south—east, sunshine behind. we will see more showers overnight. when picking up a new north—west, close to gale force. heavier coming in, most out was the western side with clearer skies further east. temperatures not too low because of the breeze, five or six celsius. frequent and heavy showers rattling in across western scotland, some get into eastern areas, a lot for northern ireland, some getting to cumbria. the odd one elsewhere, sunshine away from east anglia and the south—east where it is cloudy, a bit more rain and drizzle arriving in the afternoon. attem pt drizzle arriving in the afternoon. attempt is low, nine celsius in the heavy and fundraiser showers, still mild but not as mild as it has been. —— thundery showers. the family of shemima begum says

they have been told she has given birth. it is understood be a baby boy. donald trump has warned the us will lose hundreds of islamic state test u nless will lose hundreds of islamic state test unless other allies take responsibility for those jihad issue came from europe. hundreds of passengers happy late round because they cannot use and jobs are at risk

as flybmi collapses. theresa may writes to every conservative mp urging them to put aside their personal differences over brexit and come together in the national interest. these workers could see their take—home pay fall with the amount they have to pay into their pension pot increasing. those are your headlines, but now it is time tojoin those are your headlines, but now it is time to join david for the week in parliament. hello and welcome to the week in parliament, the programme that scrapes the mould off the political jam at westminster and beyond. deja vu all over again as theresa may loses another brexit vote.