this is bbc news, i'm shaun ley. 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, click takes a look at how the future of data storage might be within us all — in our dna. 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 captured in syria and put them 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. the 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 wants to return to this country, so they're only citizenship is 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 surewe respond to our international duties of bringing war criminals to book. we will make that contribution. whether it's collectively, the hague or 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. we may well complete the recapture of the territory that they had, but 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 that to ignore them is to create an even bigger threat in the future. our home affairs correpondent daniel sandford explained more about what we knowa little earlier. about what we know a little earlier. information came to the lawyer who is representing shemima begum's family, and he said they had information that she had given birth, he went on to say it was a baby boy. they said they had not had directly medication with her, so they were trying to verify the information themselves. journalists in the camp have seen what appears to bea in the camp have seen what appears to be a baby in the room with shemima begum, so it looks as if it is possible that she has given birth overnight. the only information she

was pregnant in the first place came from her information interview with the times. it does look as if she has had a baby. she is a british citizen, presumably there is a question about the rights of the baby question about the rights of the ba by to question about the rights of the baby to come to this country, being brought back to britain, but mum wa nts to brought back to britain, but mum wants to come back. what are the options for the other orators 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 tojoin terrorist organisations. easy to say but not as easy to implement because if someone as easy to implement because if someone had does not have any other option in terms of citizenship you cannot take away their british citizenship, not a 19—year—old. that means you then have to kind of accept that they may be british and therefore you have to allow them back into the country. it does not mean they are allowed to come back and resumed their lives, because that return can be managed using

what is called a temporary inclusion order, they can be told they are not allowed to come back controlled things have been put in place, such as for the please do meet someone of as for the please do meet someone of a plane, interview them, held in custody if they have been charged, they could be put under a degree of control, either using the measures oi’ control, either using the measures or police bail, so someone would come back and be heavily investigated and to a degree controlled for a while. there are other options around the security service monitoring people's behaviour. depending on who it might be, shemima begum may not fit into this category, there is also what is known as the returning families project which is an attempt to try and reintegrate the sorts of people at back into society, although so fara at back into society, although so far a very small number of people have gone through that. it is not clear yet how successful that may or may not be. earlier i spoke to macer gifford who joined kurdish forces against the so—called islamic state and fought along side them forjust

over a year and a half, witnessing some of the heaviest fighting against the group. she is certainly unrepentant, i see no evidence that she is any less of a threat now than she was when she first went out. i want the british government to treat her with a cream caution. we cannot get this wrong. people's lights are red. a lot of people are in their situation where they went out for whatever reason, some are idealistic, but the reality of what they have seen and experienced might not only have an impact, deep psychological impact, but may have changed. what do you make of donald trump's suggestion that it make of donald trump's suggestion thatitis make of donald trump's suggestion that it is down to us as european countries to if necessary bring these people back and put them on trial and punish them? we do have a responsibility. i want to see the british government reintroduced legislation. it is currently far too broad, we need to tackle isis at

their supporters. the priority of government has to be justice to the victims, thousands of people who have died, but also they have a responsibility 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, would we ever forgive ourselves? goes like the ideology is the question, because what they like to call the caliphate is now shrunk to a square kilometre if that. once that has all gone, presumably the dilemma is not only the ideology but many of the people dispersed and target are more of a threat than when they are consolidated. yes, at the moment we are defeating the physical islamic, but actually the real challenge is easing the tension within the communities. people have seen syria ripped apart. isis have done untold damage to generations of young syrians, so the next phase of the anti—isis fight has to be

investment, making people feel liberated, build schools, introduce a new type of democracy that makes all of the people feel like they are properly represented. weather not be a reluctance, particular from properly represented. weather not be a reluctance, particularfrom the united states, uk, other european countries, when they see that will involve effectively a making peace, breaking bread with president assad? there is no sign that that is going anywhere. assad is a brutal dictator, he has done terrible damage. much of isis's early growth is 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. what we need is a pragmatic approach to all of theirs. we need all of the parties, including stf, in geneva and come up with a solution that works for everybody. 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 as compared mac's headquarters at east midlands airport. only one flight at east midlands airport. only one flight due out here today and that has been cancelled. the advice from flybmi, if you have booked a flight with them, is to consult your insurers or with them, is to consult your insurers oi’ your with them, is to consult your insurers or your credit card company, because they cannot

organise an alternative flight for you. the company blamed rising fuel costs, uncertainty over brexit for its problems, but you only have to look at its figures. 29,000 flights last year, 522,000 passengers, sounds a lot but works out on average atjust 18 passengers on every plane. that is a lot of empty seats. earlier i spoke to 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. i asked him how it was possible for passengers to still book tickets with the airline on saturday, hours before the announcement of the collapse came. flybmi would have run out of cash on friday night and sibley would not have the means to carry on flying during the weekend. it is not unethical or illegal to carry on selling tickets because they might have hoped up until the last minute that a white night or some rescue

could have been mounted as they could have been mounted as they could have been mounted as they could have carried on flying into next week. what about the trouble is that they made any statement about the circumstances which made it in their view much more likely that they were going under? they talk about fuel costs having spied, which ina about fuel costs having spied, which in a sense or they competitors are facing, but specifically they talk about the impact brexit, and also interestingly the 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 actually carry out the flying and your flying programme. pay to actually carry out the flying and yourflying programme. going up all the time, as they now have a material cost, many of which will not have been fully budgeted for added looks like that is the case with 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, and the uncertainty over open skies, the freedom to fly all across europe that we have enjoyed up until now, is not absolute guaranteed, as so clearly they were not have been able to secure some of the contract stretching into four or five years hence that they would have hoped to have done. it almost seems to add up toa have done. it almost seems to add up to a pretty perfect storm for them, caught on the one hand between low—cost carriers with far lower seed costs fly much larger more economic aircraft and the carriers like british airways who can feed their own hubs in places like heathrow and flybmi were simply not pa rt heathrow and flybmi were simply not part of any of those economies that could help them fly the number of passengers to the right destinations at the right fares that people would buy. this is a relatively small

airline, the hutchinson t6 employee spread between the uk, germany, sweden and belgium. do we just have to many airlines? in fact we actually have very few airlines, a diminishing number. we really only have four or five airlines left in the uk that are flight schedule services in incredibly small numbers when you compare with 1015 years ago. the number of airlines that have disappeared from uk skies, but he showed airlines, is probably smaller, sorry, a larger number than the ones still flying. aviation and particularly flying small regional aircraft between uk regional points is an incredibly distal business in which to make money. flybmi's demise shows just how difficult it is at the moment. the headlines on bbc news: 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. we are still waiting for an upset in effect out of the fa cup after brittle spiti1—0 effect out of the fa cup after brittle spiti 1—0 to take their place in the quarterfinals. only one goal in the game. motherwell have won a sixth straight game in the scottish premiership, beating heart after this injury time error from hearts keeper. australia's neil robertson has a three frames to one lead over stuart bingham and the snooker, the first to nine frame. more details later in around an hour. 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. earlier i spoke to our political correspondent, pete saull, who explained moe about the prime minsiter‘s about

the prime minsiter‘s call for unity. theresa may are trying to be a peacemaker. increasingly there are exasperated and their colleagues with the european research group are pro—brexit tory mps. theresa may is saying to her colleagues, think about our place in history, let‘s come together, put our differences to one side and the national interest. she is also insisting that thereby not be any change of tactics, she still intends to go back out to brussels, she has a meeting with jean—claude juncker later this week in which she will again try to get the european union to reopen negotiations or that thorny issue of the northern irish backstop. quite interesting to hear today from one of her ministers, the culture secretary, who suggested that the necessary changes to that backstop could be made without reopening the patrol agreement. backstop could be made without reopening the patrol agreementlj backstop could be made without reopening the patrol agreement. i do

not think it is the mechanism that matters, it is the objector. if you can get to a place where the potential longevity of the backstop, the potential that the backstop last for ever, can be adequately dealt with, that is what we are all seeking to do, that is what we have been clear that parliament once, it back there's the 11 can do something about the backstop. the mechanism is what we are discussing at the moment, but parliament is to give the prime minster the space to have that conversation with brussels, to see what we can achieve, and if we can do something about that, it is clear that parliament will be prepared to support this deal. although it was not explicit, the idea that you could sort this issue out without reopening the patrol agreement probably will not go down well with a lot of conservative brexiteer is who would like the government to take a pretty hard line on theirs. interesting to note that fragile truce in the tory ranks is indeed very fragile. the defence

minister said today that if it came to it you think there should be a free vote on whether no—deal brexit should be taken off the table. he think that would be a catastrophe stop putting himself at odds with the other wing of the tory party. goes that raises the possibility of some of these people having to resign or be sacked if they stick to their word and the government does not give way. 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 hurt deal through and cancel out the hard line brexiteer is. labour have made it clear that they will not accept a brexit deal unless the uk joins a customs union with the eu, but it is fairto customs union with the eu, but it is fair to say that labour has its own divisions over brexit, add a lot of talk around westminster about a potential rupture within the labour party. we know for some time some

backbenchers have been unhappy with the leadership, notjust because a brexit but also anti—semitism, venezuela more recently, that has caused some concern. the shadow chancellor was asked about this this morning and he said that all of that potential split would be pretty counter—productive. potential split would be pretty counter-productive. we really do not see why there is a need, because i'm not the issues that people have raised is the potential for a split, we are dealing with. brexit, we are holding the party together, though saying we both split, we have kept that option on the table and it might come about, why split over that? it is ridiculous. this debate continues on social media because labour activist lu had been trying persuade mps to sign up to a pledge that says that an mp would work for the achievements of a labour led government of our whatever leadership and they accept a labour led government is infinitely better than any other election outcome. lots of labour mps have signed up to

this pledge, but other labour mps notably have decided not to sign up, some making it clear that they are pledge as their membership card which they have hailed dad worked ha rd which they have hailed dad worked hard forfor which they have hailed dad worked hard for for many years. also today a former, quite big figure in the labour ranks, former vice chair 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. when saving your astons> a charity is claiming that two thirds of fathers of premature and sick babies are being forced to return to work while their child is in intensive care. more than three—quarters of parents surveyed by the neonatal charity bliss and bbc radio 5

live investigates, said they were not given enough time off. the survey also suggests one in 10 parents had to leave theirjob as a result of their baby‘s stay in hospital. 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.

at least nine people have died after a fire swept through two hundred slum dwellings in southern bangladesh. the blaze broke out in the port city of chittagong. officials are investigating the possibility that a short circuit caused the blaze. more than 50 other people were injured. at least eight illegal gold miners have been pulled alive from flooded mines in zimbabwe but officials fear dozens more are still trapped. the men were rescued after becoming trapped on tuesday when heavy rains flooded mine shafts. more than 20 bodies have been recovered so far. the government has declared it a national disaster. videos and photographs promoting animal cruelty and illegal bloodsports are being shared on social media, according to a bbc countryfile investigation. in response, facebook and youtube have taken down some of the content, but material celebrating illegal hunting and cockfighting is still accessible, as tom heap reports. from hare coursing to cockfighting,

these are the cruelest of so—called sports with gambling at their heart. you may have thought these blood sports lived only in the past but today the power of the web has given them a new audience. we found evidence that some of the world‘s most popular internet sites like facebook and youtube are being used by illicit gambling rings to organise animal fights and also share disturbing and cruel images online with huge numbers of followers. it‘s about the money. it is purely about the betting. there‘s significant amounts of money made in this. we have intelligence suggesting that dogs can be bought for £25—30,000 for a hare coursing dog with good bloodline. they are making six figures annually. purely from hare coursing. and they can live stream to their friends in the pub. we have infiltrated a number of closed groups on facebook, groups believed to be sharing illegal blood sport material. they may not be publicly accessible but they have huge numbers of followers.

and it‘s notjust facebook. we also found videos being uploaded and shared on youtube. we showed them our evidence and facebook did take down one profile that had been up for several years but others remain. facebook told us that their content must respect local laws and that they rely on reports from appropriate authorities so they can take appropriate action. youtube also removed some material and said it had clear policies that banned graphic content and animal abuse. tom heap, bbc news. and you can watch more on tom heap‘s report on countryfile this evening on bbc one — that‘s at 7pm. and, before the weather, there‘s just time to show you these these pictures from venice. where thousands of people turned out for along the city‘s canals for the start of the traditional carnival —

which runs for two weeks. the festival dates back centuries and is famous for the stylised masks worn by revellers. now it‘s time for a look at the weather with darren bett. 15 degrees today in the south—east of england, but we asked in cooler aircoming infrom of england, but we asked in cooler air coming in from the atlantic together with quite a few showers as well. especially because western scotla nd well. especially because western scotland and northern ireland, windy overnight. some showers for a lead and wales and probably stuck with cloud for east anglia and the south—east. blustery night, temperatures no lower than five or six celsius. tomorrow, sunshine and chalmers, the bulk of them for scotland, especially western parts of northern ireland. heavy with hail and thunder. southeast, cloudier, a bit of rain and drizzle developing during the afternoon as well. temperatures are still on the mild

side, not as mild as it has been, 9-11dc. side, not as mild as it has been, 9—11dc. rain goes overnight, a chilly start to tuesday morning, areas of frost around as well. bright skies to begin, hazy sunshine, clouding over, rain enter northern ireland and western scotland. breezy, temperatures 9—11. hello 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 they‘ve been told 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.