hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. some places aside from that dry. some places first, the headlines. could get to 19. nine would be more theresa may says mps will be able to have a final say on her brexit deal by march 12th, ruling out typical. it is because of the high pressure, it stays with us through monday night and into tuesday. a a meaningful vote this week. touch of frost on tuesday morning. the news emerged as the prime minister travelled to egypt for a summit between eu and arab league leaders. the odd spot of rain in northern labour's deputy leader, tom watson, warnsjeremy corbyn he has to act urgently if the party ireland. everywhere else drive. temperatures well above average. on is to stay together. wednesday, more likely to see the return of some of the mist and fog. pope francis promises that the roman catholic church quite stubborn and slowed to clear. will do more to tackle child sex abuse at the end of a vatican summit on paedophilia. those temperatures are likely to celebrities begin to arrive reach values are similar to the last on the oscars red carpet for a ceremony that's due couple of days. in the thursday, to be full of suspense, with all eyes on the award for best picture. things begin to change. it will be a gradual process. this weather system does not look like much of it brings the chance of showers in the south. and this may bring showers in the

north. it is the start of a trend that, as we go towards the end of hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be the week, more of a breeze and bringing us tomorrow. with me are economic advisor ruth something a little more cooler. lea and the deputy political editor of the independent, rob merrick. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the guardian reports eu officials are exploring plans to postpone brexit until 2021. but the daily telegraph reports may is considering delaying brexit byjust two months in a bid to stave off resignations from ministers. the financial times leads on theresa may's decision to push back the vote on her brexit deal to as late as march 12. the i looks at how may's decision could lead to revolts from cabinet ministers. and finally, a non—brexit story, the several of the papers, including the times splash on a picture of harry and meghan on their trip to morocco.

rob, you can kick us off the seller. the times. theresa may delays crucial votes 17 days before brexit. one of the perils facing us as political journalists one of the perils facing us as politicaljournalists is that all the time we tell people, it will be really important and decisive this week. and people say afterwards, it never is, the story never changes, we arejust never is, the story never changes, we are just closer to the abyss. but i think this time it will be a decisive week in westminster, on wednesday mps will seek to pass on a moment and probably will pass on the net which would compel the prime minister to seek an extension to article 50 and dele brexit. —— pass an amendment. the announcement today has to be seen in that context. she is trying to persuade her mps and ministers not to vote for that amendment, not to compel her to dele brexit by saying, give me a bit longer. i knowi brexit by saying, give me a bit

longer. i know i have failed miserably in the six weeks since the crushing of my deal, she has failed miserably to persuade the —— persuade you to change the deal. she says, give me a couple of weeks and i promise i will get a fresh deal. 17 days before brexit. be that has to be that it will fail to head office report this week, it is likely that parliament will begin the process of trying to seek a delay for brexit. so you think that the group amendment may go through this time, whereas it didn't before. you are less convinced, ruth? this time, whereas it didn't before. you are less convinced, ruth7|j you are less convinced, ruth?|j simply you are less convinced, ruth?” simply don't know because i don't know how people have been bribed, but when you that cooper had her amendment about delay in brexit back oi'i amendment about delay in brexit back onjanuary 29, amendment about delay in brexit back on january 29, but amendment about delay in brexit back onjanuary 29, but didn't go through. —— yvette cooper. we will see what happens. on the wednesday. but i thought in that time is the story, there were two pretty surreal things which stood out. —— times

story. firstly, she is talking about a meaningful vote on march 12, only 17 days before brexit. let'sjust pretend that she might get that through. if so, she has 17 days in order to push through the necessary legislation which may or may not be feasible. so that may lead to some sort of delay, whatever happens. i think the second thing is that actually, the various ministers are threatening to resign if she doesn't rule out no deal. farce completely, apparently, according to the times, undermining her authority, chive find extraordinary. this is nothing less than a cabinet revolt. this is seen to the prime minister, unless you do what we tell you to do, we will resign. does that mean she should sack them now? why not? so, we would be looking at amber rudd, greg clark... where do you stand, rob? well, she has suffered many ministerial resignations recently.

but for those three to be lost in one fell swoop, for her to sack them, and of course it is notjust those three who are determined to prevent a no deal brexit. the scottish secretary is also on the record. we are not quite sure how close philip hammond, the chancellor of the exchequer, is. but he certainly cannot countenance and no deal brexit. it would be a risky strategy, to sack those cabinet ministers. who knows what the repercussions would be? she has no authority. where is their authority? well, that's true. what is more likely is that she will be forced to rule out a no deal brexit herself, to announce she will seek an inch and herself, if she is unable to pass a deal in this boat which is 110w pass a deal in this boat which is now going to take 17 days before brexit. which takes us to the front of the telegraph, talking about her own plans, possibly, to dele brexit. well, apparently, if some reason she gets a deal through on the 17th... she may have to anyway, because the timetable would be so tight. yes. it is the implementation act that has

to go through the house of commons. she is talking about the 29th of march, that is still within grasp, but i think the grasp is... listening. so to speak. there is that aspect of it. there is also, strangely, in the telegraph's article, that she might delay it by article, that she might delay it by a couple of months even if she doesn't get a deal by march 17. that is really pushing it. the whole thing seems to be less and less in control. and if she is forced, robin, intoa control. and if she is forced, robin, into a situation where she does have to say, ok, there will have to be an extra two once, politically, wettest athlete, do you think? well, clearly, she would face an enormous backlash from the heart brexiteers in her party, from the er g. genuine brexiteers not hard brexiteers. these people actually wa nt brexiteers. these people actually want brexit, as opposed to fake brexit. the other aspect is that there is no guarantee she will get a delay of two months. remember, to

have a delay to brexit, to have an extension to article 15, —— article 50, you need the unanimous agreement of all 27 eu countries and the eu is desperate not to have a short delay because they see, correctly, a prime minister in this country floundering and shrine to kick the can down the road with no real prospect of a solution in those two months. if they agree to an extension, we do not know what the price for that would be or what length it would be. ijust want would be or what length it would be. i just want to ask you, ruth, in this context, there are those who fear, those who are in favour of brexit, who fear that if there is a delay of any sort... there is no brexit. it will start down a road that leads to no brexit at all.” think that is definitely a possibility. which is a complete travesty of the referendum result of june 2016. i think it would be absolutely outrageous. i think there would be able to mango, quite honestly. the price the eu should extra ct honestly. the price the eu should extract surely, would be to require us extract surely, would be to require us to suggest we are going to make a

different democratic decision, which might bea different democratic decision, which might be a general election. or it should be a second referendum, which is the campaign of my organisation... we're not to go back over that. he doesn't believe in the people. crosstalk. this is the extension the eu is now talking about, which is significantly longer. what the guardian is talking about is under the current stretch of article 50, we are required to signa of article 50, we are required to sign a withdrawal agreement to deal with the divorce and leave the eu before we are at going to move on to discuss future trading arrangements. what appears to now be being proposed in brussels is turning out on its head, so that we will try to agree a future trading arrangement while still members of the eu, so therefore we would stay in the eu until 3021. we would try to strike a trade deal by that point at their bite get around the problem of those —— of us potentially crushing out and all the economic damage it would cause. it is not crashing out, it is leaving under wto rules. the

transition arrangement, if it reaches that stage, is there to enable that element of this deal to be done. if there is no transition arrangement, no withdrawal deal... there will be no deal that would cannot reach a deal with ireland. there will be no deal that would cannot reach a deal with irelandm is very provocative, talking about crashing out. it is the only accurate description. typical independent. i think this, again, brexiteers look at this and think, this is no brexit. you are just clicking the can down the road all the time, as to when you actually leave. at least it we leave on the 29th of march, plus minus a couple of days whatever it is going to be, who knows, at least there is the sort of feeling that you are moving towards brexit. if there is a decision to actually stay as a memberof the eu decision to actually stay as a member of the eu until the end of 22 due on, i think people will throw their hands up and despair. —— 2021. it is hard to see how the pm would survive such a scenario.” it is hard to see how the pm would survive such a scenario. i was about to suggest that. a quick word about city am. risk you have talked about business concerns, what they are talking about. the cbi,

business concerns, what they are talking about. the (51, the chamber of talking about. the cbi, the chamber of commerce, my old stomping ground of commerce, my old stomping ground of the institute of capital it is, they are up in arms. they are tearing out their hair. if there was a really serious delay to brexit, implying that we would somehow still leave, i think they would be chewing the carpet. this is unbelievable. that we are in this position. uncertainty for business, business is always going on about uncertainty and how awful it is, but i think this time they have every justification, complaining that it is such an uncertain situation, they cannot actually planned some of their business plans. a final word, clearly both want different outcomes to this, but you wouldn't argue that business needs certainty, would you? of course. there is enormous and the four business, who have been betrayed, really, by the fiasco and the farce of these negotiations. while i have 7a business i also have simply for the 3.2 million eu citizens in this country who will lose all legal rights of the crash out. —— sympathy for business. lose all legal rights of the crash out. -- sympathy for business. crash out, you are saying it again. they

will lose theirjobs, because the recession will make the last one look like a picnic stop and i have sympathy for patients will not be able to get the medicines they need. this is project fear, mark two. write, i'm going to move on. i sense there is not going to be broad agreement. i do think there is agreement. i do think there is agreement on that. ruth, the express. crooks will be spared jail in shakeup. says who? well, this is just a secretary david cork, of this parish we have already discussed in a different context, so to speak. he is suggesting that they are going to get rid of these short is in sentences —— short prison sentences, and there is a lot of support from the prisons minister, rory stewart, and various penal reform campaigners. i and various penal reform campaigners. lam very and various penal reform campaigners. i am very torn about this because i am not an expert in this because i am not an expert in this area. there is another aspect to this, prisons are horribly overcrowded and i suspect it is that as well which is driving this particular decision. but it is a pretty high—risk strategy, because if it does lead to a crime wave, as

the express is suggesting, then somebody is going to be for the high jump. we are talking about his short sentences being replaced by community orders under a blueprint which has been backed by penal reform campaigners. the express adds the word soft, i don't know whether that has been accepted as part of the picture. what is your take?” think it is a sign of the times that this story has not achieved more prominence until now, it is it is a really important story, it would be a revolution in penal policy to abolish or sentences in this way. of course it is being smothered by brexit and maybe noticed the original announcement by the justice secretary. —— nobody noticed. ialso wonder whether a conservative justice secretary would have been able to smuggle it past the cabinet without the enormous destruction of exit. it is surprising that this think tank has come out against it, i thought it was widely accepted that short—term prison sentences served no purpose, and doing it is

just a great way to teach people how to be better criminals, there is the type rehabilitations if you are in prison for such a short time, you just pick up, as i say, tips about how to be a better criminal from those around you. obviously they have a different take on it. the community sentences are necessarily have to be soft, do they? we have 30 seconds left to ask whether either of you is left—handed. seconds left to ask whether either of you is left-handed. nope. no. according to the times, lefties make a better fist when they are fighting. i thought this was to do with politics when i first read it. a p pa re ntly with politics when i first read it. apparently lefties should have died out by now, according to evolution. it is selling convenient to be left—handed but why do they still exist? now the boffins tell us they are better fighters, therefore exist? now the boffins tell us they are betterfighters, therefore they have a reason for them to