hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: in the past hour, it's been confirmed that the baby of shamima begum, the teenager this is bbc news. who fled london to join the headlines at 8pm. the islamic state group, has died. the baby of shamima begum — who fled london to join the islamic state group — has died in a refugee camp — he was about two weeks old. andrew hill, the pilot whose plane crashed at the shoreham airshow killing 11 people, is found not guilty of manslaughter. he apologised outside court to the victims' families. andrew hill — the pilot whose plane crashed at the shoreham airshow i am truly sorry for the part killing 11 people is found not i played in their deaths. it is they that i will guilty of manslaughter — he apologised outside court remember for the rest of my life. to the victims‘ families. relatives wept in court as the verdict was returned. iam i am truly sorry for the part i they said they still want answers. played in their deaths. it is they that i will remember for the rest of my life. the prime minister calls on the eu it has been a long and complex trial for one last push to get her deal and we feel that the success of mr through parliament saying if it fails, brexit may never happen. hill's defence of cognitive the headteacher working in the impairment isa canteen to save her school money — hill's defence of cognitive impairment is a worrying precedent that you have far—reaching she's one of those thousands who've consequences. written to parents warning that the prime minister calls they're running out of cash. on the eu for one last push to get her deal through parliament, saying if it fails, brexit may never happen.

a headteacher works in the canteen to save her school money. she's one of those thousands who've written to parents warning that they're running out of cash. something in my past is the key to all of this. and brie larson and samuel ljackson are out to save the universe in the latest superhero film, captain marvel. see what mark kermode makes of that and the rest of this week's america hasn't been able to send its own astronauts releases in the film review. into orbit since the end of the space shuttle programme in 2011, but that could soon be about to change after its new commercial astronaut capsule, the spacex dragon, successfully completed its first flight today splashing down in the atlantic. it's been confirmed this evening that the baby of shamima begum, there were no crew on board, the teenager who fled london to join just a dummy, as the vehicle the islamic state group has died. returned to earth from the international space station. the family lawyer tweeted but all went to plan, the news earlier the day, which means two astronauts may which has since been confirmed make their first flight this summer. here's pallab ghosh. by the syrian democratic forces. the baby's death came it could not have gone any better. after a short illness, as our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford explained a successful splashdown to me a little earlier.

for the dragon spacecraft. a mission where everything the official spokesman for the went like clockwork. syrian democratic forces has the day started with the crew confirmed that shamima begum's of the international space station little baby boy has died. he was not saying goodbye to the uncrewed yet three weeks old. we have spoken capsule they may be using to paramedics who work at the camp on their next mission. in syria which is the internment you see dragon physically camp where she has been living in separating from the international space station. the last couple of weeks. and they said that the baby had breathing difficulties yesterday morning and was seen by the clinic there in the camp and taken to a local hospital. where they baby was on the respiratorfor where they baby was on the respirator for a where they baby was on the respiratorfor a while where they baby was on the respirator for a while but they were unable to stop the baby from dying the dragon spacecraft is beginning to descendent. it is now subsonic. and it died about lunchtime nearly six hours later and we see it yesterday. she was then taken back enter the earth's atmosphere. it's heat sealed using to the camp with her dead baby son untested technology. it seems to have worked. and the boy was buried at the it goes exactly to plan. internment camp. the family were unsure about the reports they were

having. they said it was unconfirmed the splashdown was beautiful. the engineers and technicians reports and they have since been and everybody on the ground will be trying to get confirmation. clearly checking over all the numbers very difficult circumstances for her and data and making sure everything is good for a future mission to be living in and for a tiny baby later this year hopefully. and medicals of facilities there would not have been comparable for nasa is hoping for a return to his golden era. example to those in places in the when 50 years ago, it was able developed world. she left britain as to send astronauts to the moon. for eight long years, the agency's human space flight a schoolgirl tojoin missions have been grounded. developed world. she left britain as a schoolgirl to join the islamic state and as the situation deteriorated she ended up sleeping outside through the syrian winter. if dragon's mission has gone as good as it seems, her other two children both died those glory days could soon be back. before christmas, they were both pallab ghosh, bbc news. also toddler's and then her newborn let's speak to astronomer baby was actually born in the first dr megan argo. thank you forjoining us this internment camp that she was at. she evening. this flight seem to go like was obviously pleating then to be allowed to come back to britain to clockwork. what do you think is the bring her baby back and she had a significance of this. it said to be a textbook example of how to do a bad cough, we could hear the space flight. it is really exciting. interviews that we did with her and it looks as if the conditions were this is the first time they have just no good at all for a baby that done an autonomous docking of a

was near three weeks old. and what commercial vehicle with the international space station and that is quite an achievement in itself you think of the likely and that opens up so much more in repercussions of the death of this terms of how to get things to the little baby? clearly the home international space station without having to rely on other countries and their technology. this capsule secretary had stripped her of her british citizenship but her baby was a british citizen. the family, her contained a dummy, but how close do you think it takes us to a man to family that don't forget everyone fly up to the international space had a lot of sympathy for them four station? i gather that they are yea rs had a lot of sympathy for them four years ago because they lost a schoolgirl who had run off to the hoping to actually send the first islamic state and at that point she manned mission with this capsule up was being treated as a victim being i think manned mission with this capsule up ithink in manned mission with this capsule up i think in july manned mission with this capsule up i think injuly this year in the groomed, they asked the british summer. assuming there are a few government to do two things. first more tests to run first, obviously of all they said could you try and it needs to meet specifications that can verify everything is working to bring her home which point the specs but if it passes all of those government said they had taken away tests, is likely that we will have a the citizenship. they said there's a manned space flight on this capsule. small baby here who was born to a british mother at the time and he because until now, the us has been seems to accept in the house of reliant on other countries to take commons in the home affairs select its astronauts up. that's right, committee that a baby born to a british mother in those since the shuttle retired in 2011, they have retired on a capsule circumstances was british because of the family was saying please bring

management or by the russians. it the family was saying please bring the baby back and let us look after the baby back and let us look after has been around for decades it is a the newborn baby. the cold other back from the home office and got very reliable piece of machinery. but not having their own capability, it means they have to pay for the the official letter back saying is russians be able to launch a not for the home office to deal with national average of any to send somebody up to the international that and it's the foreign office, space station. and that limits what and how do we know that your lawyer you can do. so hopefully when this passes all of the safety checks, i is acting on behalf of the baby and think the actual headline cost per seek him up or after not for this we warn people not to go to syria. capsule is about a quarter of what it was a bureaucratic response that it costs to put in after not up on the family got in and of course it's it costs to put in after not up on it so use slightly reduce the nasa all academic now. the baby is dead. cost in terms of sending people up to the space station. and this was a in response yet from the foreign commercial venture. what difference office? before the news was does it make that this is not a confirmed it was put to a radio space race between nations, between its superpowers as we saw in the interview. he said the news was not past? that's right. in the past him confirmed but then reiterated what every manned space flight was they said in the past which is that basically done by a government we advice you will not travel to organisation funded by a government syria. the problem for the body. this one is new. it is done by government is lots and lots of journalists have been able go out a commercial body. they were paid by and see shamima begum before the nasa public to develop the

spacecraft but still they are a baby died, and british forces are commercial company. and that makes them a lot more agile, they are not fighting alongside kurdish forces in rely on the winter politicians northern syria, it would have been changing what their funding possible for someone to go and get priorities are. it does make the the baby, it might have been future of man space flight and politically difficult but it commercialfit space would've been possible but no of future of man space flight and commercial fit space flight much more viable. and we are now seeing course it is not. let's speak now to the conservative other commercial companies vying mp, bob seely — who sits on the commons foreign affairs with one another to try to carry out committee — and served the next age of this. that's right. in iraq and afghanistan before entering politics. there are people in the running for hejoins me via webcam that we have also got blue origin from the isle of wight. from jeff baize is working on prototypes and virgin galactic with what is your reaction to this news? onboard flights as soon as well. and boeing also comforted by nasa to i think it's incredibly sad to. develop a capsule as well. so there shamima begum has my sympathy. it's are several companies working on her third child that she has last in commercial capsules. ok, thank you very much indeed for talking to us. there have been clashes in istanbul the last few years. she's made some very bad life choices and is after turkish police banned a rally marking international women's day in the city. certainly suffering from them. she riot police fired tear gas clearly wa nted certainly suffering from them. she clearly wanted to come to the uk and plastic bullets when thousands of women defied the ban and gathered partly because of concerns about her in central istanbul. baby. she had already lost two they were demanding greater women's

rights and denouncing violence against women. babies. the british government by stripping her of citizenship closed off that route. they did, although and the day has been marked elsewhere in the world as well. there was medical treatment at the many women in madrid, who took to the streets at midnight, are taking part in a refugee centre and we can't undo it, feminist strike today. and in france, demonstrators gathered in central paris to mark international women's day. i respect the home secretary decision i think there's an argument for her to have come home. sadly, as you say that's academic now. despite more than 7000 headteachers across england have warned of a funding crisis saying they're this decision this little baby boy running out of money for their schools. it was a british citizen. should the british government have done more to in a letter sent to 3.5 million parents, they say the shortage of money get him to the uk to get him to a is causing standards to slip and they claim the government is ignoring it. safer environment? the home but the department for education says school funding for england secretary made a decision. i is at its highest ever level. understand why he did it personally our education correspondent i think there's an argument that she frankie mccamley reports. should have been allowed to come back, and if need be should have been prosecuted in this country. i you'd be forgiven for thinking that this is like any do think there was a broader aspect other school canteen. here rather than just her case and but in fact, this is the head teacher behind the till. often, she simply can't that it's that we have had 400

afford the staff. fighters that have come back from and it's notjust here, other syria and isis fighters that have departments are feeling the squeeze. all been able to return and only if i take you into the science room and i show you that in here, about 10% of those people have been we have got students working three prosecuted. the wider picture here orfourtoa group. is that there still a considerable security threat in this country so it's about £1.60 to £2 per pupil per year. regardless of the very sad case of from that, the head of science has shamima begum and her three dead to decide what she's going to buy. some of the equipment, children. just before we move the like today, this lesson, the students can do the practical, other questions you think the home but the students next door can't. secretary was right to take this action given the consequences that what are the most extreme situations we have seen? we knew that she was you've found yourselves in because of a lack of funding? concerned about the well—being of her baby in this camp, you say there we haven't been able to employ, we haven't had the funds to employ was medical services they are but cleaners, i will clean the toilets. how does that make clearly there were insufficient to save the child. we don't know how you feel personally? i'm just really cross. long it would have taken to get her i'm not cross, i'm back if she had wanted to. it absolutely angry about it. would've been very difficult to move i also feel incredibly embarrassed her straight after the birth of the that i'm standing in front of you telling you i don't have any child and might be that the child money, but it's not would not have survived the journey. my embarrassment. i'm really sad that i can't provide we don't know what an alternative for the students within my care.

reality would have looked like. in the sixth form study room, respect the home secretary's students tell me they've noticed decision and i think what he has the purse strings are tightening. done is put down a marker that due to lack of textiles, british citizens where they have the classes had to be combined gone to live in the caliphate as because it wasn't financially viable to do two separate classes. fighters or isis brides and then that meant, for example, supporters are not welcome back in doing some of the lessons, this country. it may be that the you might have the textiles teacher in for an art lesson because that one lesson where you need that help, lawyers will successfully challenge the right teacher that case but in this case you could might not be there. this school has managed to stay afloat by selling some of its land argue that overall what he is trying to nearby property developer, but others across the country to do is sit down as aggressively as don't have that luxury. possible a sense of his profound anger that people have in this some say they're struggling country to those people that have so much, they might have to shorten the school week. served isis which is a vile and the department for education says repugnant regime. you talked about funding is at its highest ever level, nearly 44 billion, the wider issues, isn't there a compared to spending ofjust over problem if the uk and then perhaps 30 billion eight years ago. other western governments say that they simple he don't want this people in their country that you but teachers say what matters will then end up with potentially is spending per pupil. analysis shows that has actually fallen by 8% since 2010. hundreds of citizens from the uk and the government insists from other european countries who there is more money.

have gone out and been involved with we are asking schools to do more, isis who are going to be left and we know they have had to absorb costs such as higher national insurance contributions, higher teachers' pension contributions. stateless hanging around these refugee camps and potentially but we are spending record amounts on our schools, causing a risk in the future? and in this year and the next financial year, we are giving every local authority more money for every potentially. there's a bigger problem though and that the hundreds pupil in every school. of people left come back to this country already. we have over 400 but with pupil numbers rising, head teachers are not backing down as they continue fighters and supporters returning to fill their funding gaps. less tha n fighters and supporters returning less than 10% prosecuted. my worry frankie mccamley, bbc news. is not those people that we know about but those people who have returned that we did not even know we re returned that we did not even know were gone in the first place. many welljoining us now is michael ferry, headteacher of those people were traumatised and of st wilfrid s catholic school many of them if they had fought in in crawley, west sussex. thank you indeed forjoining us. you that war it was a vicious and violent war. in many acts of human signed this letter. just tell us first of all what is a situation in your school? the situation is quite rights abuses were committed. it may have been really worked by their startling. in the last three years, i have shaved off my budget nearly a experiences and they may be in the half million pounds by not replacing yea rs experiences and they may be in the years to come because ptsd takes staff who have left. and that is

purely is a bit so i can set a yea rs years to come because ptsd takes years to come because ptsd takes years to go to its fullest effect. balanced budget year on year. and what i'm most concerned about is them because of that, what that has just there's hundreds of people that may be wondering the earth but i'm meant it that services have been cut concerned about those hundreds of subjectively, class sizes have risen people back in the uk that are and in the past, the care we had living in our towns and cities may available to students in the past not even be monitored. thanks for has become harder to provide. what sort of things have you cut? we had joining us from the isle of wight. a place unity support officer who was based on site. when the police the pilot, who crashed during the shoreham airshow, killing 11 men, has been found not cut the partial funding for that, we guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence. could not afford him so he left. we andrew hill, who's 54, had been performing a loop when his vintage hawker hunterjet have cut subjects. there are crashed on to the a27 in west sussex subjects in the sixth form which four years ago and then don't run. they‘ re subjects in the sixth form which don't run. they're not running this exploded into a fireball. september. and there were subjects which did not run for gcs e72 have incredibly the former raf pilot was thrown clear of the wreckage and survived. numbers to make them viable as my it was the first time a pilot had colleague said a moment ago. been charged with manslaughter following deaths at an airshow. our home affairs correspondent, government is insisting that the tom symonds reports funding for schools is being from the old bailey. increased, it is higher than ever andindeedin increased, it is higher than ever and indeed in your school, you have gotan this was the worst airshow disaster and indeed in your school, you have got an extra £400 per student. but

since the 1950s and an extremely if you think about it, the reason technical trial. thejudge, thejury, why there is more money in the police had to become experts in flying. education, nobody has denied the on every day, the families coming of the head teachers had of those who died were here denied that, is because we have watching the evidence. record levels of children in when the verdict came education. so actually that makes the judge said he could see that they were upset absolute sense. what has not and he praised their dignity. happened if the amount of money we get per student has not increased in the last seconds of real terms. as an example, if you think about from the point of view andrew hill's flight. of the fairfunding think about from the point of view of the fair funding formula, actually take that back, originally it was the fair funding formula, now it was described as like a war zone. it was the fair funding formula, now it is called the national funding formula and the idea of it being the 11 men who died were all on the busy fair seemed to disappear by the a27, somejust passing by. a veteran chauffeur, wayside. when that was introduced, workmates, friends we are promised the grass will be heading home. greener on the other side. what has actually happened with that is this man died not knowing that he would become a because they have not increased real fatherfor a second time. terms funding in education per he has two little boys. student, they have just divvied up they won't have their daddy. the pie in a different way. so what that has meant is the disparities it isjust so cruel. between the high funding areas in the lower funding areas has just there is something that could have been reinforced. as an example, west been avoided, which seems quite obvious, that it could

have been avoided. sussex, where we are at school, we it hasjust caused so much we re sussex, where we are at school, we were the fourth lowest funded destruction to so many people. authority and of 151 in england prior to the introduction of the the two men had been facing towards the funding for driving to their villa. now we are the sixth worst football club when the plane hit their car. funded authority. if not made that much of a difference. this would from the beginning, we thought it was absurd. my son has been killed by a jet fighter? lead us quite often disadvantaged it was just absurd. rural areas. isn't the problem? is at the formula that needs to change andrew hill, ex raf and british or is this about the overall amount airways captain has always accepted that is flying of money that is being made available for schools?” that day was poor. of money that is being made available for schools? i think it's both. i think to be fair to politicians, those who have worked i'm truly sorry for the part ha rd politicians, those who have worked hard on the campaign for the funding public need to take some credit. but i played in their deaths. it is they that i will what needs to happen is it needs to remember for the rest of be fit for purpose and it is not at my life. his cockpit ended up in a field. the moment. itjust reinforces the he was badly injured and crucially he had no memory of the historical inequalities that i have mentioned. but would also what needs flight. to be really reviewed is the amount no memory of being hundreds of feet too low during the fatal of funding that is coming into the loop. pot. if we are just going to he said he must have been physically affected by something. redistribute the money that has this is the home of the british already exist or commit we are aerobatic academy and in the back doomed to failure. what needs to seat the instructor teaches pilots

happen is adequate resources need to from all over the world. be put into those schools that are one thing they learn, the lowest funded to bring them up. how to cope with g nobody wants money to come away from force, the extra force those in the high funded areas on the body in tight turns. because they are doing a fantastic he asked me to recite job. but it needs to be fair and a nursery rhyme while pushing every school needs an adequate amount offunding. every school needs an adequate amount of funding. and ultimately, what has been mentioned in us through six g, six times the earth's gravitational pull. humpty dumpty... parliament on a number of occasions the last couple of years is a notion that the government does not have a clear understanding of how much it cost to actually run a school. ok, all the kings horses, all the kings men, thank you very much for talking to couldn't put... us. fighter pilots trained for this but andrew hill is no longer an raf pilot and the verdict was worrying for one of the victims family. we feel that the success of mr hill's defence of cognitive impairment is a worrying precedent and could have far—reaching consequences. the case already has for those flying former militaryjets in air shows.

they are operated by companies and charities and this has raised big questions about safety. this air display team currently can't fly aerobatics in air shows over land. and after years of concentrating on protecting the safety of crowds at an airshow, now regulators are looking at the risks to people in surrounding areas. at the end of the day we have to be hugely sympathetic to what has happened. a due process has to take place and we expect that regulations will change and it is our duty as trustees, custodians of these aircraft, to work within those regulations and continue as best we can to display these assets to the public. next, come the inquest to the 11 deaths. the victims families say they intend to play a full part. sport now...and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre,

good evening. we start with news on the tottenham stadium. been confirmed tonight that will play their first competitive fixture at their first competitive fixture at their new ground. first week of april at eight months later than planned. there were scheduled to move into the new white hart lane development in september towards the start of the season but construction rented to severe delays. if brighton beat them on the fa cup it will be crystal palace that will be the totte n ha m crystal palace that will be the tottenham opponents at the start of april but if brighton or knocked out they will be lined up against the spurs. we can see that on the sixth oi’ spurs. we can see that on the sixth or 7th of april. the premier league have announced they are also investigating manchester city for allegedly breaching financial fairplay rules. yesterday they said they were looking into several alleged violations of the club and city said they were entirely false. the manager insisted the situation would not affect his team nor would

have the bearing the legacy he is building at the club. it's a lot of what the club has done but hopefully you can start as soon as possible. are you concerned at all that your legacy at this football club will be tainted by the allegations of whatever they decide to do? no, absolutely not. there you go, adamant about that. chelsea say they are astonished that after the request of free state transfer band was denied. they've been banned for registering new players until january 2020 but rules over the signing of foreign, under 18 players premier league club deny any wrongdoing and appeal against the decision. fifa say they have denied measures which would see transfer band frozen during the appeal

process. rangers can narrow the gap at the top of the table to five points with the wind. looking to extend her three match premiership winning run. it's currently goalless at the moment. the united states filed a gendered cremation lawsuit against the united states soccer federation. at 28 members of the women's national team accuse the governing body of institutionalized gender discrimination in the lawsuit ina move gender discrimination in the lawsuit in a move is a significant escalation what has been a long—running fight over the pay and equality. the women's six nations is continuing this evening. the two bottom sides in a table, wales and scotla nd bottom sides in a table, wales and scotland battling it out the moment. the crowd there as you can see watching proceedings. it's ten all at the moment. scotland at the

bottom having lost all three of their matches. fits with the only points coming in a draw against italy. if things stay as they are it will be another draw for them. at the moment ten all and to try for scotla nd the moment ten all and to try for scotland just the one therefore wales inside the first half. mo farah has hinted he will return track racing. he called his time backin track racing. he called his time back in 2017 and started to focus on the marathon but today he said he is tempted to make return and possibly we could see him back at this years world championships for the limericks in tokyo next year. world championships for the limericks in tokyo next yearlj think it's possible if i'm in great shape and my body can hold well. if i'm capable of forgetting a metal for my country why not. i've seen others competing in doing so well

and it's like can i do it? i'm sure he can after all of his achievements. that'sjust he can after all of his achievements. that's just about it. you can follow this and just getting under way there. live text commentary around the bbc sport website. you can follow it all their on the bbc sport website. the prime minister has appealed to eu leaders for "one more push" to get her brexit deal through parliament. speaking in grimsby, theresa may warned of "a moment of crisis" if mps again reject her deal when they vote on tuesday. she said if it was voted down again, it could result in a softer brexit or no brexit "at all" — which she said would be a "political failure". our deputy political editor john pienaar reports from grimsby. hard work, this, a bit like brexit,

or maybe a journey going nowhere, destination unknown. today, the prime minister came to grimsby, where seven out of ten voted to leave, and appealed to mps to back a plan. reject it and no one knows what will happen. we may not leave the eu for many months. we may leave without the protections that the deal provides. we may never leave at all. and then, with brexit talks deadlocked, this message to brussels. butjust as mps will face a big choice next week, the eu has to make a choice, too. the decisions the european union makes over the next few days will have a big impact on the outcome of the vote. are you simply keen to shift the blame for the way the talks have deadlocked towards the european union and away from yourself? my message to the european union is very clear, this is the moment, this is the time. the british public, as i say, has moved on.

they want us to get this done. it takes both sides to get the negotiation through. are you willing to contemplate allowing conservative colleagues, including ministers, to vote to block a no—deal brexit, given you have said it could harm britain and the british people? for those who do not want us to leave without a deal, actually, the best way is to vote for the deal so we leave with that deal. down at the docks, you could find sympathy for mrs may but also impatience. i think margaret thatcher would do a betterjob. i think she has got more balls. but a lot of people didn't like her. obviously, she can help us out and stay by us and try to sort this out, and it would be good for all of us around here. no matter what theresa may comes up with, they are going to throw it out. it does not help she's a lady. if she was a big, strapping bloke, they might have different views on it. sympathy in the country may comfort mrs may but at westminster, she is suspected of taking brexit down to the wire, hoping mps see her plan as the last, best option.

the prime minister could run out of road first. the threat is not just from brexiteers. some pro—european ministers say they will ignore mrs may if her deal fails and vote to stop brexit with no deal. myself and other colleagues will prevent the country from crashing out of the eu by voting against no deal. no deal is not in britain's interests. the labour leader is keen to see mrs may defeated. is he as keen on a referendum or backing away? we are not backing away, we are saying the priority at this moment is to stop a no deal exit. a no—deal exit would be very damaging to jobs and industry. in brussels, the eu's chief negotiator was not impressed. we are not interested in the blame game. we are interested in a result. just now, people are getting on with daily life. the next brexit setback or breakthrough could change the country's future, but all people here and across the country can do now is wait to see how. john pienaar, bbc news, grimsby.

as theresa may appeals to brussels for concessions to get the ‘brexit deal done', the european union's chief brexit negotiator michel barnier has tweeted an offer. he said, brussels could offer legal assurances over britain's ability to get out of the so called, a contingency plan to avoid a hard border with ireland. our europe correspondent adam fleming has been analysing the tweets. the really interesting one was his the fourth tweet. in his big twitter thread. this is where the eu was saying to the uk you know that uk wide customs union you can negotiate with as part of the backstop? there's not a customs border in the irish sea between great britain and northern ireland. they could have a unilateral exit mechanism to come out of that date of the backstop in the future if you want it. the idea there is to neutralise this

accusation in the eu that secretly wa nt to accusation in the eu that secretly want to keep the uk in a customs union against its will. the eu is saying there that tweets to number four is the proof that the future government can come out that customs union bit of the backstop if you wanted. the crucial bit is the rest of the backstop would still apply in northern ireland. northern ireland would still be part of the eu custom territory. northern ireland will still have to sign up to about 100 pages worth the eu rules and regulations on goods, products, agriculture and livestock. i imagine the problem the people in the uk will have with her is that it does not solve the problem the uk parliament has with the backstop. our political correspondent jonathan blake is in westminster. the response so far does not seem to suggest this is going to make any difference. it is not being treated

asa difference. it is not being treated as a serious offer by downing street. we have a flavour of the government response from the brexit secretary who has responded himself on twitter saying that with a very real deadline looming now was not the time to rerun old arguments. he goes on that the uk is put forward new and clear proposals and that we now need to agree a balanced solution that can work for both sides. quite extraordinary to have this playing out online while the negotiations between the uk and the eu between officials if not government ministers continue over the weekend. proof that if it were needed that this is not going to be enough to persuade mps that were already severely against the deal to now back it has come from the beat dup which of course they will prop up dup which of course they will prop up the theresa may government with

the deputy leader here and he is given his response to what was said this evening. this is a retreat in their position. they're going back to the backstop and the prime minister said she can never accept such a proposition. they are right in that. but they need to do is accept that what the issue for the house of commons is is that the need legally binding changes. scratching of the head and a shrugging of the shoulders from mps and government ministers. with just shoulders from mps and government ministers. withjust four shoulders from mps and government ministers. with just four days to go into the crucial vote to hear westminster on theresa may's deal by mps there's no sign of a breakthrough of the negotiations but they will continue over the weekend. many thanks for the the latest from

westminster. a motherfrom uganda has become the first person to be jailed for female genital mutilation in the uk. the woman, who's 37 and can't be named for legal reasons, was sentenced to 11 years. her three—year—old daughter was cut at the family home in east london in 2017. speaking outside the old bailey, lynette woodrow from the crown prosecution service said she hoped the conviction would have a wider impact sot fgm is an extremely serious form of child abuse and today's sentence underlines the fact. we at the crown prosecution service have kept in mind all the way through that at the heart of this case is a three—year—old girl. her mother planned and arranged for this procedure to be carried out and she knew it was wrong. her daughter was seriously injured. she then tried to cover up her crimes by lying about what had happened, but our prosecution was able to present evidence to the jury that cut through her lies.

the court heard today about the impact on this young girl. fgm also has a wider impact on the community. i'm very proud of the cps team who have worked so hard with police and council to successfully prosecute this crime. we hope that this conviction encourages those who have experienced fgm or who have suspicions about fgm offences to come forward, knowing that we will treat everyone with sensitivity and respect. now it's time for a look at the weather we got to see a bright start today in many places but it did not last. we saw and rain working in from the west and it sets us up for an u nsettled west and it sets us up for an unsettled weekend will be cold and often windy. we will see some rain and snow of her high ground and

still the potential for some sunny spells in those unsettled bouts of weather. george night the rain clears the way east and we will see clears the way east and we will see clear spells with a fresh clutch of heavy downpours to northern england and showers for the north. futher south, actually, a relatively mild night. into tomorrow, this first lump of wet weather will slide across northern england, into the midlands, east anglia, some snow over high ground. and then we see plenty of showers pushing for western scotland, northern ireland, to the far north of england. again, some of these wintry over high ground. further south, actually not too many showers. some spells of sunshine, 14 degrees in london. much chiller further north. all of us get into that colder air on sunday. there will be some wintry showers, and it will be very windy.