this is bbc news. the headlines at eight: theresa may arrives at a summit in egypt with a promise that mps will be able to have another say on her brexit deal by march 12th , ruling out a meaningful vote this week. we want to leave the european union on the 29th of march with a deal. that is what we are working for, we have good progress, constructive discussions with the european union, and we will be continuing that work so we can leave on the 29th of march and leave with a deal. labour's deputy leader, tom watson, warnsjeremy corbyn he has to act urgently if the party is to stay together. pope francis promises that the roman catholic church will do more to tackle child sex abuse at the end of a vatican summit on paedophilia. the us secretary of state

says he's confident that president nicolas maduro‘s days are numbered after deadly clashes over humanitarian aid entering venezuela. final preparations are under way for hollywood's biggest night of the year, the oscars. i'm barbara plett usher live on the red carpet watching the anticipation builds for the big show. and at 8:30, the travel show heads to los angeles to see how film fans visiting the area for the oscars can get closer to the films they love. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister has set

a new time frame for mps to have another chance to vote on her brexit deal, saying that the so called "meaningful vote" will take place by the 12th of march. facing the possibility of a rebellion within her cabinet this week, she spoke as she arrived in egypt for a summit of eu and arab league leaders. our political editor laura kuenssberg is in sharm el sheikh. there won't be a new brexit deal here in the desert. theresa may is here with one more try to get eu leaders more on her side, to appeal to them for more assurances, to help her get a deal through parliament on the new date. but in setting a new deadline at home, she is trying to keep the pressure at bay, for those even at senior levels of government who are urging her to take a different course of action. my report tonight contain some flash photography. she might fly around the world to do the deal but how much further can theresa may really get? massed ranks at home

rejected her compromise and now they won't get their safer another two weeks. we will not bring the meaningful vote back this week but it will happen by 12th march and we still have it within our grasp to leave the european union with a deal on 29th march and that is what i am going to be working at. when it seems everyone‘s pulling in different directions, the big problem is still the irish backstop, the guarantee in the brexit deal against there ever being a hard border. the uk wants an extra legal promise that it can't last forever but to the eu's frustration is obvious. this is a situation which uk has created for itself and we are just standing by our position which has been solid from day one. this is not a joyful process, and while the prime minister is here trying to push for a tweak to her deal, many at home are pushing her to delay the whole thing. she needs much more than small talk, some eu leaders are talking about delay, too.

if there is also at the beginning of march no support for the deal we have, then i think it would be good to postpone the brexit, because a no deal scenario is bad for the european union but it will be extremely bad for the uk. that is not what the prime minister wants. and although there has been stubbornness on both sides perhaps, is there now a glimmer of a move? you need two to dance tango. and i know how to dance. right now, only movement from eu leaders in public is a scarce. tonight, the test for the prime minister is to see if any of her counterparts might join her on the floor. and putting off the vote forjust over another fortnight inevitably caused a whole other reign of criticism on the prime minister saying that all she is trying to do is run down the clock,

it is a reckless strategy and all she is trying to do is put things off until the last moment. if on the other hand she was to put a vote to the house of commons before she had managed to get any changes to the deal, then she would not have any chance of it going through and from the prime minister what we see is perhaps as always, and effort, a struggle perhaps, to get through the day, hoping for the best, but knowing she might have to contemplate the worst. laura kuenssberg there in egypt. labour's deputy leader spoke today of a ‘crisis for the soul of the party‘ in the wake of nine of its mps resigning. tom watson urged jeremy corbyn to take a "personal lead" on tackling claims of anti—semitism in the party. a labour spokesman said all complaints about anti—semitism are taken "extremely seriously". here's our political correspondent alex forsyth. they were all elected as labour mps,

but in the past week, nine in total have left the party, each leaving behind stinging criticism of the way it is run. today, labour's deputy leader said more could follow, he warned the party was at a perilous point. there is almost sort of a crisis for the soul of the labour party now, and that means that everyone that cares about our future, whatever tradition they represent, has to find it within themselves to work more closely together. he said the party had to be a broad church. on brexit he said labour was moving closer to backing another public vote. on anti—semitism, he urged the labour leader to personally intervene. the test for us, the test for him as a leader, is to eradicate anti—semitism. it is not other labour party members that will be the judge of that, it's the britishjewish community, and i think he understands now that if he is ever to be prime minister, he needs to rebuild that trust. tom watson said jeremy corbyn had to take a personal lead and make changes to the labour party

if he wanted to get into downing street. this was a direct challenge to the labour leader from his own deputy. at a rally yesterday, jeremy corbyn said anti—semitism in any form was unacceptable. his allies say action is being taken, although admit it could be faster. i want us to be the best political party in dealing with issues like anti—semitism and racism and i want us to be able to, with clean hands, get out there and tackle it within our wider community. labour is wrestling with divisive issues. its leader is under pressure to determine its direction. alex forsyth, bbc news. when the oscars take place later tonight — many millions of people around the world will watch the famous statuettes being handed out. but this year the televised ceremony has come in for significant criticism — as organisers tried to make changes that some saw as too commercial. our arts editor will gompertz is in hollywood for the big night.

the winner is cecil b demille... it's 1953 and the first televised oscars ceremony, the annual awards presented by the academy of motion picture arts and sciences — which won't be winning any prizes for the way it has handled this year's tv show. i thank you. what with host kevin hart quitting after past homophobic tweets came to light. and then there was a botched attempt to create a best popular film category, followed by an ill—fated plan to bury the cinematography award in a tv adbreak. added to which, viewers are switching off in their millions. i think that the academy took some ill—considered decisions this year and i think that there will be a price to pay. and when the academy steps in it as badly as it did this year, and when it embarrasses itself so publicly, there are consequences, and i think you're going to see those consequences. what's the worst—case scenario? well, i think the worst case for the oscars would just be being irrelevant. this is it!

the oscars are unlikely to sink without trace, but they could do with another titanic, a blockbuster movie and best film winner with an a—list cast, delivering a record—breaking tv audience that keeps advertisers happy, which is very important to the academy. the film academy gets more than 85% of their income from this one night, the telecast of the oscars. but the television ratings have been going down quite dramatically, last year was like a ali—year low. an arthouse film like roma, a frontrunner for best picture this year, is not the sort of mainstream commercial movie likely to be a ratings winner for the oscars tv show. hence the attempts to make it more audience friendly, such as not showing the cinematography winner live on air, an idea that didn't go down well with academy members old or new. ijust think you have to make the people at home suffer through watching best cinematography. i think it's the price to pay,

i think you have to compromise between the show and the principles of the academy. which one is more important? er...| guess both! the principle! and therein lies the nub of the oscars problem, artistic principles or commercial imperative, art or money? that's show business. will gompertz, bbc news, hollywood. our north america correspondent barbara plett usher is on the red carpet. several hours still to go, but i sense a lot of activity behind you? yes, it is picking up now, and in an hour or two we will be starting to get the award nominees coming through, probably for categories like hairand make—up through, probably for categories like hair and make—up and music through, probably for categories like hairand make—up and music and costu me like hairand make—up and music and costume and that sort of thing, and then the nominees for the big

star—studded awards like actor, actress and so on, will come later. it is very busy here, and we are trying to speak to as many people as we can. we will look forward to that. talk us through some of the ones that are fancied. there is no clear front runner ones that are fancied. there is no clearfront runnerfor ones that are fancied. there is no clear front runner for the best film so far this time. you have a couple of blockbusters, black panther, a star is born, bohemian rhapsody, and you have the favourite with olivia colman, she has the best actress nomination for that, as well as vice, a biopic about dick cheney. and you have got a foreign language film, a spanish art film really called roma about a 1970s neighbourhood in mexico city, and again, afilm neighbourhood in mexico city, and again, a film that has a very strong

female cast, a court intrigue, a lesbian triangle, so a diverse group. there are frontrunners, roma is one of the frontrunners, but it is one of the frontrunners, but it is pretty wide open actually, and there are a number of reasons for that, one of them being that the academy has new members, hundreds of new members who are women and minority voters, and other reasons as well, so there is a fair bit of suspense. i should as well, so there is a fair bit of suspense. ishould mention as well, so there is a fair bit of suspense. i should mention two important films about racism in america, one is blachklansman by spike lee, and the other green book, about a road trip in the 1970s. and people look to the directing and acting categories? very much so. the directors are all men this year, so the director of roma, spike lee for blachklansman, in 30 years, he has

never had a best director nominee, not sure if he will get it, but there is some buzz. in terms of the actors and actresses, there are four who are british were in serious contention, olivia colman for the favourite, she is up against glenn close on her seventh nomination without ever having won, so that is tough competition, but she is still very much in the running. richard e grant has got his very first oscar nomination, which he is very excited about and we know because he has been tweeting endlessly, that was for this film called can you ever forgive me? , but is set in new york, he is a partner in crime. rachel weisz for the favourite in best supporting, so there is quite a lot going on, notjust with the regular nominees, but quite a few british actors and actresses as well. and a word about the ceremony

itself, and this concern that either itself, and this concern that either it will be too long or it won't be entertaining enough. what is being said about that in advance?‘ entertaining enough. what is being said about that in advance? a lot has been said about that in advance, and the main issue as you are hearing from well‘s report, that is that ratings are slipping, because it drags on, it is four hours, and people start to tune out. there has been a lot of controversy about how to do that. long story short, there won't be an mc, kevin hart, the comedian, was doing it but he was involved in a controversy about homophobic tweets. celebrities will present the different awards, perhaps that will make it shorter, a little bit more pacey. you will have the show opened up with a performance bike cat mcqueen, a nod to bohemian rhapsody, the film that has been nominated, and you have some of the best picture category is from people outside the

entertainment industry introducing who found the picture is meaningful. so we will see if the controversy that has been dogging the ceremony over the past months will evaporate tonight and there will be an entertaining show and everybody will go home happy. let's hope they do. barbara plett usher in hollywood there. and for all the best bits of the acceptance speeches and the drama from the red carpet, join us on bbc news for an oscars special, tomorrow morning at 9.30. the headlines on bbc news. theresa may arrives at a summit in egypt with a promise that mps will be able to have another say on her brexit deal by march 12th , ruling out a meaningful vote this week. labour's deputy leader, tom watson, warnsjeremy corbyn he has to act urgently if the party is to stay together. pope francis promises that the roman catholic church will do more to tackle child sex abuse at the end of a vatican summit on paedophilia.

sport, and for a full round—up from the bbc sport centre, here's hugh woozencroft. good evening. manchester city have retained the league cup beating chelsea on penalties after extra—time. it's the first time city have retained a major trophy in their history, but the end of the game was marked by chelsea's kepa arrizabalaga refusing to be substituted in the closing moments. joe lynskey watched the game at wembley. for chelsea to see the size of this wembley task, theyjust need to think back two weeks. when these sides last met, city won 6—0. but with silverware at stake, chelsea were braced for it. city were restricted, and though sergio aguero did find the net, a check with the video replays ruled he had strayed offside. after holding firm, chelsea found the sucker punch themselves, with a best chance of the much missed.

frustration for a manager fighting for validation from the blues. maurizio sarri's exasperation would boil over with this in extra time. here, his goalkeeper is refusing to be substituted with penalty kicks looming. the player eventually overruled the manager. that overshadowed chelsea's efforts and left maurizio sarri furious. with a shoot—out to decide it, his mood got no better, watching this happen. this meant raheem sterling could win it for city to stop sealing a trophy that could be the first of four 01’ one season. but this efl cup final will be remembered for one remarkable exchange. city's rivals manchester united did them a favour by holding liverpool to a goalless draw at old trafford in the premier league title race. the two were level on points before this game, but liverpool, who haven't won the league title in 29 years, now lead by a point. jurgen klopp may see it as a missed opportunity,

as they continue a patchy run of four draws in their last five matches. that result sees manchester united slip out of the top four as arsenal won 2—0 at home to southampton. alexandre lacazette and henrikh mkhitaryan got the goals, as they go a point above united. leicester city has sacked manager claude puel after 16 months in charge. it follows yesterday's 4—1 defeat at home to crystal palace which means they're with a win in the premier league since new year's day. they were also knocked out of the fa cup by league two side newport county last month. defending champions celtic are still eight points clear at the top of the scottish premiership, thanks to a 4—1win over motherwell. earlier, rangers briefly closed the gap with an emphatic 5—0 win at hamilton. rangers were 4—0 up by half time. ryan jack scored their first, scott arfield was among the other scorers with this cracker. the result leaves hamilton just four

points off the bottom of the table. in rugby union, ireland survived a scare against the side bottom of the six nations table, italy, but they did emerge with a bonus—point win in rome. the italians had a lead at half—time, but the reigning champions eventually made their quality show, scoring four tries. for italy, it's now 20 consecutive six nations defeats. there is a bit of frustration in our group, but nobody has got a margin on italy. they have had ten point losses for the first three games of the championship, probably reflective of a competitive unit they have got. england's women remain on course for a grand slam in their six nations championship after a massive 51—12 win over wales in cardiff, making up for some of yesterday's disappointment for england fans, by scoring nine tries. prop sarah bern and wing jess breach

scored two each as england claimed a bonus point afterjust 26 minutes. they go back to the top of the table but play the only other unbeaten side, italy, next on the 9th of march. that's all the sport for now. thank you very much indeed. following reports of a boat in the english channel, a family of seven migrants have been found in kingsdown in kent. uk border force responded to sightings of the vessel, and say they are confident it was used for a migrant crossing. the home office says the number of people attempting to cross the channel by boat has decreased from about 200 and 50 in december to ninty last month. pope francis has called for the catholic church to give priority to victims of abuse and promised to "spare no effort" in bringing abusers to justice. he was speaking at the end of a four day conference aimed at tackling child sex abuse within the church.

our religion editor martin bashir reports from rome. words of repentance by bishops on the last morning of this four—day summit. they have heard presentations on responsibility, accountability and transparency, and there is no doubting the challenge. a mission demanding notjust words, but real, concrete action. this morning's preacher, the archbishop of brisbane, says every church is now on notice. i think we just have to accept that our moral authority, and our credibility in more general terms, has been massively damaged. it's shot to pieces, isn't it? i accept that our credibility is shot to pieces. how will it be restored? over a very long period of time and with great tenacity. no amount of spin in all the world is going to do the trick.

as the pope gave his traditional sunday address, the vatican announced that he will soon issue a proclamation with new church laws to protect children. they're drafting a handbook for bishops, and a task force will be established to help churches struggling with safeguarding. but peter saunders, who was abused by a priest, says these measures are simply not enough. it had a great opportunity this weekend to make real change, and it has failed to do so. somehow, i think we're going to be leaving disappointed, but also encouraged that the eyes of the world have been on this event. pope francis closed the summit by adopting the language of warfare, calling for an all out battle in the fight against sexual abuse. faithful catholics have demanded action. what they have received today are another set of promises that they must wait to see fulfilled. martin bashir, bbc

news, at the vatican. venezuela's opposition leader has called on other countries to consider "all measures" to remove president nicolas maduro following violent border clashes yesterday. international pressure is building on president maduro after he blocked aid deliveries from entering the country. our correspondent katy watson is in caracas. everyone here is asking the same thing, what happens next? juan guaido was convinced that humanitarian aid would get into the country on saturday. the opposition had hoped it would signal a weakening of the maduro government with soldiers defecting. internationally he is becoming more isolated, but because maduro is still in power and it does not look like he is going anywhere anytime soon. so, plan b.

juan guaido is headed to the capital bogota on monday. there he will meet with the lima group, a regional grouping of countries who have come together to try to solve the crisis in venezuelan. us vice president mike pence is expected to attend. juan guaido said on saturday that the events of trying to get the humanitarian aid into venezuela led him to realise he had to ask the international community formally that all options remain on the table. add to that the us secretary of state mike pompeo said the us is prepared to take action against those who oppose the restoration of democracy in venezuela. but what does action that mean? read between the lines all options are open and the most extreme option would be military intervention. but that is a deeply controversial option in venezuela in a region where the us has historically played such a big role and had such a big influence in the politics of latin america. the path forward is not going to be easy. katie watson there in caracas.

the number of people who have died after drinking toxic alcohol in north eastern india has risen to 130. more than 200 others are being treated in hospital. all the victims worked on tea plantations in assam. the workers drank a locally brewed liquor called sulai, which is made of dark palm sugar and ethanol. an inquiry has been ordered into the tragedy. saudi arabia has for the first time appointed a woman as its ambassador to the united states. princess reema bint bandar takes over at a sensitive time, with relations between the two countries strained following the murder of the saudi journalist, jamal khashoggi. princess reema follows in the footsteps of her father, bandar bin sultan, who held the us ambassador post from 1983 until 2005. votes are being counted in nigeria's closely fought presidential election. nearly 73 million people were eligable to vote — making it the biggest in african history. a handful of polling stations remained open into a second day after logistical problems

and violence meant some people had not been able to cast their ballots. i spoke to our correspondent tomi oladipo, who gave as an assessment of the past two days. it's been interesting to say the least, with first of all the past week, we had the postponement of the vote and then the elections finally got ahead in most parts of the country. but there were logistical problems and voter verification machines not working and gang violence in certain parts where political violence was used to disrupt the votes going ahead. of course, in the north—east of the country we had boko haram militants who also tried to attack and disrupt voting going on there. today we have heard, this afternoon actually, from the electoral commission. they have acknowledged some of the problems that went ahead and acknowledged that they had to move some of the voting through to today. but from tomorrow, from about ten o'clock gmt, they will start relaying some of the national results coming in from

around the country. so what, by the end of tomorrow there will be a pretty clear picture emerging, is that roughly what we're looking at? i wouldn't give a definitive answer of that sort. i would say probably the end of tomorrow, possibly going into tuesday is when we'll have a clear idea of who is winning this election. and clearly there are two main players, albeit plenty of other candidates as well. how do you differentiate between the two and the way they have tried to appeal to the nigerian electorate? well, you know, if you look at the two candidates, i think for once nigerians are having to do a bit more thinking about who it is they're voting for. in the past it was very easy to pick based on ethnicity or religion. but this time you have two men in their 70s, two men who have served in government for a long time,

who are from the north of the country and who are muslims. so that means people will now have to look at their track records and look at how exactly these two men are able to present themselves going forward. so it is the president, muhammadu buhari, the incumbent and the former vice president, atiku abubakar, who will represent the two main parties and who the people are having to choose between. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. good evening. this time last year we were starting to feel the effects of the so—called beast from the east but not this year. there is still some cold air across siberia but we are not bringing it in our direction, instead we are importing air from the south west, very mild and even warm source of air which pushed temperatures today up above 19 degrees. 19.1 in parts of wales, that is a new february record for wales.

there is some more of that weather to come through the first part of the week ahead, more warm sunshine but with frosty nights and a foggy mornings, by the end of the week, things will start to turn more unsettled, but not from the east, from the west. as we go through tonight, those temperatures after such a warm day will dip away, particularly towards the south, getting all the way down to minus six degrees, not as cold further north and west partly because of this extra cloud and because of this rain, that will gradually slide away north. also starting tomorrow with fog across parts of yorkshire up into north east england, some of that could be dense and quite slow to clear, but for the majority, tomorrow is another blue sky day with lots of sunshine to be had and once again, it will feel warm, unseasonably warm, 15—18d, one or two places could get up to 19 degrees. nine would be more typical for this time of year. it's all because of high pressure,

but because it remains in charge on monday night into tuesday, it will turn chilly and i don't think we will have much of a problem with fog at this stage. most places on tuesday will have more fine weather and sunshine, just a bit more cloud scraping across the far north—west and again those temperatures widely15—18d, a few spots warmer than that. fog looks likely to be a problem on wednesday morning, particularly in east anglia down towards the south and some of that could be slow to clear. more dry weather with some extra cloud, the odd spot of rain for northern ireland and the west of scotland, temperatures may be coming down a little bit, but not much. the bigger change comes through the second half of the week, first of all this area of low pressure on thursday. that could introduce showers just about anywhere in the uk and as we head towards the weekend, there is their increasing chance of some rain. it will turn a bit cooler.