this is bbc news, i'm geeta guru—murthy. the headlines at 4.00pm. the bodies of two climbers who went missing in pakistan have been found. briton tom ballard and italian daniele nardi last made contact two weeks ago. the home secretary, sajid javid, is facing criticism after the death of the baby son of shamima begum, the british teenager whose citizenship he revoked forjoining the islamic state group. a man charged with murdering jodie chesney has been remanded in custody. the 17—year—old was stabbed to death in a park in east london last friday. also this hour — the brexit secretary accuses michel barnier of trying "to rerun old arguments" he's been urged to agree to a "balanced solution" by stephen barclay, as talks continue between the uk and eu. increased activity at a missile site in north korea. satellite images of a facility near pyongyang suggest the country may be preparing to launch

a missile or a satellite. good afternoon. rescuers have found the bodies of two climbers who had been missing for almost a fortnight on a mountain in pakistan. the british mountaineer tom ballard was climbing nanga parbat with italian national, daniele nardi, when they lost contact. a search operation had been under way this week after four spanish rescuers were flown to the area by military helicopter. the deaths were confirmed by the italian ambassador to pakistan on twitter. earlier, i spoke to our correspondent sarah campbell who told us about the tweet posted by stefano pontecorvo. the tweet said, with great sadness i inform that the search for the two climbers is over.

the search team have confirmed the silhouettes spotted on mummery at about 5,900 metres are those of daniele and tom, rest in peace. they of course, set out in february the 22nd to climb nanga parbat which is the ninth highest mountain in the world. it's in the pakistan mountain rate. they last made contact on february the 24th. at that point they were something like 6,300 metres, so obviously the body there just little bits below that, but not far, within 400 metres of where they were last spotted. of course, sad news. a lot of people in this country, certainly within the mountain climbing community will be said to hear this news. we know tom ballard came from mountain aristocracy. his mother was alison hargreaves, she died on k2 when she was 33. that was just months after becoming the first

woman to conquer everest unaided. sad news that her son now has also died. confirmation as we say that he and the italian climber he was climbing with, their bodies have now been found. i spoke to someone from the scottish climbing community a while ago who spoke of the brilliant expertise of tom ballard because of who his mother was, in part, but tragic four two members of the same family to lose their lives like this. yes, absolutely. 0ne feels for the rest of the family, one tragedy and now a second one. he was a very experienced climber himself. he wasn't very old. in 2015 he was the first person ever to climb, solo climb all six of the north faces of the alps in one winter. clearly, it was in his blood as it obviously was in his mother's blood as well. mountain climbing, a notoriously treacherous occupation and sadly this time it has ended in tragedy. the home secretary sajid javid is facing fresh criticism

after shamima begum's baby son died in a syrian refugee camp. last month, he stripped miss begum of her british citizenship. it meant she was not allowed to return to the uk, where she was born and lived untilfour years ago. the shadow home secretary, diane abbott, said the child was "innocent" and described the government's decision as "callous and inhumane". 0ur correspondent chi chi izundu reports. babyjarrah, born in a camp used to hold isis fighters, their wives and children, pictured with his mum, 19—year—old shamima begum, less than three weeks old, now dead from pneumonia and buried at the same camp. more than 65,000 mostly women and children call this home. both a refuge and detention centre, those who chose to join isis and are now fleeing the fighting have ended up here. conditions at the camp mean little food and little warmth. last month, the home secretary, sajid javid, confirmed the boy was a british citizen and said he had considered the child's

interest when deciding to revoke shamima begum's citizenship. criticism now at the uk government's door that the life of that child could have been saved. it cannot be right that this mother was stripped of her citizenship, when she was so vulnerable, she herself groomed as a child and left britain, where she had been radicalised. she was british until stripped of her citizenship, which we think was completely the wrong approach. but crucially, whatever you think about the behaviour and choices of that mother, this is a newborn, the third child that this mother has lost. this child is clearlyjust one more innocent victim of war. labour's shadow home secretary, diane abbott, joined the criticism, calling the baby's death morally reprehensible and a stain on the conscience of this government. but the conservative party chairman, brandon lewis, said on radio 4 this morning that the decision to keep shamima begum out of the uk was in the national interest. as somebody who has served in the home office, i can tell you factually the home secretary will have made a decision based on what he believes is the best

interest of the security of the people of the united kingdom. the duty of the home secretary in this country is to keep british people safe and he made a decision based on the advice he had about keeping british people safe. meanwhile, shamima's family are still fighting for her to be allowed back into the uk. in bangladesh, just before it was revealed that her child had died, shamima's father, ahmed ali, begged for his daughter to be forgiven. translation: shamima was a teenager. she has done wrong and as her father, i apologise to everyone in britain. i'm asking the british people to forgive her and take her back. in a statement, the government says the death of a child is tragic and deeply distressing for the family, but gave no indication that there were any plans to even consider its stance on giving shamima begum back her british citizenship. chi chi izundu, bbc news. earlier i spoke to former justice minister, philip lee. i asked him what he made of the home secretary's decision to strip shamima begum

of her citizenship of course, it does, my argument would be that if we are going to try and address long—term security for this country, try to understand why a child who left these shores, felt motivated to join that organisation, felt the need to, felt that was the right thing to do. i think by not understanding that, we make our country understanding that, we make our cou ntry less understanding that, we make our country less secure. do you think diane abbott goes too far in the amounta diane abbott goes too far in the amount a plane she proportions he and the language she uses? amount a plane she proportions he and the language she uses7|j amount a plane she proportions he and the language she uses? i think to tighter conclude the government has caused this dreadful loss of a child is taking it too far. the reality is conditions in this camp are well reported to be pretty awful. the international red cross have said up to 100 children, mainly infa nts have said up to 100 children, mainly infants and very young children, have died in the vicinity or within

the camp itself. there is clearly a problem with the conditions. i don't wa nt to problem with the conditions. i don't want to get into the language diane abbott has been using. i think this was a british baby and i think we have a moral responsibility in the circumstances. this child has sadly been lost, we had this for the other children who undoubtedly have been caught up in this dreadful civil war. but with shamima begum herself, when she was found by the journalist originally, she says she had no regrets aboutjoining iis. if she was to come back to the british criminal justice system, was to come back to the british criminaljustice system, they would bea criminaljustice system, they would be a cost, the danger she could radicalise ever given that she hasn't given full regret. yes, none of this is easy. if she came back here she should be subjected to the full force of the criminaljustice system of this country, of course. the argument here is she wouldn't be

a danger radicalising people in bangladesh. extremism doesn't, it ignores borders. it gets transferred across the internet. it is has to step up and take responsibility to deal with extremism. in this case, this child is a product of british society, is a member of our community. for some inexplicable reason she has decided to become radicalised and support the apparent organisation. all this is true. the difficult decision, but a mature decision is to take this responsibility and to try and work out why it is she feels she can't apologise. this week crucial votes are due on brexit with the current deadline now just three weeks away.

but both the government and the eu are still struggling to agree on changes to the prime minister's brexit deal, because of mps objections to the irish backstop. yesterday, the eu's chief negotiator, michel barnier, said the britain would be free to pull out of the proposed single customs territory, designed to avoid physical checks on the irish border as long as northern ireland remained within it. the government has rejected this. let's take a closer look at events in the commons this week. on tuesday, mps are due to vote for a second time on theresa may's withdrawal agreement, including any changes she has agreed with the eu. if they reject the deal again, mps have been promised a further vote on wednesday, on whether they support leaving the eu without a deal. and if that fails, then mps have been promised another vote on thursday, on requesting an extension to the two—year article 50 process, thereby delaying brexit beyond the 29th of march. earlier, i spoke to henry newman, the director of open europe, a think tank working on britain s relationship with the eu and the world. he's also former government adviser to ministers including michael gove.

i started by asking him what he made of michel barnier‘s comments yesterday. what we saw was a misstep from brussels. we are used to the government being clumsy and mishandling its presentation but i thought brussels misstepped because in their announcement they said an exchange of letters, commitments had been made by donald tusk and jean—claude juncker in january, they had made commitments to the uk about how the backstop would work and these were rejected by people who said they were not legally binding enough and the eu said, we will make those commitments legally binding — that was a significant move but that got overshadowed by an announcement that they would offer to get rid of the uk—wide bits of the backstop if you went back to the northern ireland bits and without getting confused in the details, we've been discussing this

for months and it was rejected a year ago by the prime minister who said we would never accept a customs border down the irish sea. every mp in parliament agrees with that, there was a division last summer and all mps opposed this border so it is a total nonstarter and i don't understand why brussels have reintroduced it. they're trying to show that they're being flexible. the government cannot even negotiate within its own side, we are days away from theresa may potentially losing a vote again. i think she is likely to lose the vote again because she hasn't been able to persuade enough labour mps, 80% of parliament voted for article 50 including labour mps. you are not blaming the labour party? both sides have a responsibility. the policy was brought about by the conservative party. labour voted to trigger article 50, they didn't have to vote that way,

they could have said... most labour members and momentum members do not want this form of brexit. we had a tantric dance from jeremy corbyn towards the referendum. we still haven't got a clear policy from labour but they voted for article 50 two years ago, coming up to the deadline now, what do they expect will happen? article 50 set in train a process where we would leave the eu with or without a deal. people will find it farcical for you to say this is the labour party's problem because the conservatives cannot agree a line amongst themselves and we saw from philip hammond today, he set aside additional money for a no deal exit which isjust three weeks away and if conservative mps come around to the government's deal, that money will be available for public services but doesn't that seem like a threat?

i don't think it is a threat. it's a statement of fact that if we manage to move on from this impasse, which is paralysing the country, he's right to say there will be some money to loosen up public spending but i'm not trying to blame labour, i'm just saying parliamentarians on both sides who oppose the deal are pursuing different fantasy versions, that applies to conservative eurosceptics but also to every labour mp who voted for article 50. this is the deal. there is no other deal, you might be able to tweak it but there are three choices, stop brexit, leave with no deal or leave with a version of the deal. -x. the headlines on bbc news... the bodies of two climbers who went missing in pakistan have been found — briton tom ballard and italian daniele nardi last made contact two weeks ago. the home secretary, sajid javid, is facing criticism after the death of the baby son of shamima begum — the british teenager whose

citizenship he revoked forjoining the islamic state group. a man charged with murdering jodie chesney has been remanded in custody. the 17—year—old was stabbed to death in a park in east london last friday. and in sport... wales remain on course for the six nations grand slam. josh adams amongst the try scorers. england remain on course for the grand slam, as they thump italy 55—0 in the women's six nations. the men play theirfixture at a:45pm this afternoon. and this absolute stunner from anthony knockaert helped brighton to beat crystal palace 2—1 at selhurst park, and move his side eight points clear of the premier league relegation zone. you can follow all the 3 o'clock kick offs on the bbc sport website and app. i'll be back with more on those stories later.

a man has appeared in court, after being charged with the murder of 17—year—old jodie chesney. jodie was stabbed in a park in east london last friday. 20—year—old manuel petrovic was arrested in leicester on tuesday. another man, who was also arrested, remains in custody. 0ur correspondent jane—frances kelly gave us an update from outside court. well, manuel petrovic appeared before magistrates. he confirmed his name, his age, which is 20, his address, which is highfield road in romford. and he is charged with the murder ofjodie chesney, who died on the 1st of march. she was stabbed in a park while listening to music with friends. police say that she died about an hour later. a postmortem has revealed the cause of death to be trauma and haemorrhage. mr petrovic, who confirmed that he is a croatian national, is to appear at the old bailey on the 11th of march.

a second man also remains in custody, on suspicion ofjodie's murder. nearly 90 ferry passengers were injured in japan when the high speed boat they were travelling on collided with an object in the water thought to be a whale. the japan coast guard said five people were seriously injured in the accident which occurred just before the ferry was due to arrive on sado island, following a short trip from the mainland. it is believed the boat collided with a whale, as both humpbacks and minkes are often found in the area. a 15—year—old boy has been charged with the murder of a teenager who was fatally stabbed in west london. ayub hassan, aged 17, was found with wounds to his chest in lanfrey place in west kensington on thursday afternoon. he died later in hospital. scotland yard said the 15—year—old boy is due to appear at westminster magistrates' court today. the supermarket chain, asda, has said it will remove all single kitchen knives from sale because of concern over the use of knives in violent atacks. 41 people have been fatally

stabbed so far this year, and asda says the most frequently stolen knives are the single—use—style. the company says it has a responsibilty to try to help in the work to bring violent crime under control. for the second time this week, us analysts have reported activity at a military site in north korea. commercial satellite images of a facility near the north korean capital, pyongyang, suggest there are preparations to launch a missile or a satellite. a summit between the north korean leader, kim jong un, and president trump to discuss pyongyang's nuclear weapons ended last week without agreement. the bbc‘s correspondent in seoul, laura bicker, has been explaining what had raised analysts suspicions. the latest activity is at a site known as sanum dong, just outside pyongyang. it is where north korea makes most of its intercontinental ballistic missiles and most of its rockets for satellite launches. the activity is large trucks, which they have seen going in and out. doesn't sound like much,

but it is activity that many believe is consistent with that of preparing for either a missile or a rocket launch. this goes in conjunction with the satellite images which suggest their main rocket launch site, called sohae, is now fully operational. work stopped there last year but now seems to have been started again and in fact it seems to have been rebuilt at a rapid pace. all eyes will now be on that site. it seems that trucks have now left sanum dong, and a train. all eyes will now be on sohae to see if they arrive there for launch. it is unlikely, i'm told by analysts, at this stage that it may be a missile. they believe it is more likely to be a satellite. but that would still breach the agreement reached between donald trump and kimjong—un, according to the us state department spokesman who gave

a briefing this week. they would see that as a violation, even if it is a satellite launch. so this is a tense time and one of those times where both kimjong—un and donald trump have difficult decisions to make. if they launch a satellite in north korea it could break all agreements and cause a breakdown of the talks between the united states and north korea. the united states may turn a blind eye and just say it's a satellite, or they may also say that this is a breach of the trust reached between donald trump and kimjong—un. so it is a tense time and everyone is wondering exactly what is going on. i think the best thing we can do is keep an eye on the situation. let's go back to one of our top stories. the home secretary sajid javid is facing fresh criticism after shamima begum's baby son died in a syrian refugee camp. last month, he stripped miss begum of her british citizenship. it meant she was not allowed to return to the uk, where she was born and lived untilfour years ago. the shadow home secretary,

diane abbott, said the child was "innocent" and described the government's decision as "callous and inhumane". i'm nowjoined by the former labour foreign secretary, david miliband, who now leads the aid organisation, the international rescue committee. very sad to hear this baby has lost its life. was this inevitable? is not inevitable when you have people in relative safety because these are not refugee camps, these are cams for syrian civilians who have been displaced by the fighting. it is in the east of the country. they have then been transitioned by lorry about 100 kilometres north, in most cases. we are working with a

displacement camp which has about 65,000 people in it. we are running a health centre there. 0ver 65,000 people in it. we are running a health centre there. over the last 48 hours, about 12,000 more people have arrived. shamima begum's baby was ina have arrived. shamima begum's baby was in a displacement camp 60 kilometres to the north. the tragedy is, we have seen 100 people die in the last three or four months. the vast bulk of them children under the age of five and many of them are weeks old because the weaker and more vulnerable. they have arrived in these camps in terrible conditions having suffered for three 01’ conditions having suffered for three orfour conditions having suffered for three or four years conditions having suffered for three orfour years under conditions having suffered for three or four years under ices approval seven was the home secretary wrong to revoke citizenship? shamima begum's citizenship means you should be brought back to the uk. as i understand it, her now deceased baby

was also a british citizen. it seems to be right that we assert, first of all, countries have responsibilities for their own citizens. as i understand it, she was groomed at a young age in the uk and was in the eye of some of the security forces. 0bviously, their child, the british citizen, is completely innocent of anything. it must be a principle that people are not rendered stateless and the warning i would give is that there remain a large number of people in a high degree of vulnerability who are being displaced as a result of the last pa rt displaced as a result of the last part of the fighting around that area. 60,000 in a displacement camp we are working in and probably more to come. to give you a sense of how stark the challenges are, we are short of 5000 tents in the displacement camp for families. the

temperatures are going down to one 01’ temperatures are going down to one or2 temperatures are going down to one or 2 degrees. we have an enormous challenge. the people who have been running ina challenge. the people who have been running in a malnourished state, they are deeply vulnerable. if they are young 01’ they are deeply vulnerable. if they are young or pregnant women. the point about shamima begum was she chose tojoin ices, she didn't apologise for that. she didn't regret joining apologise for that. she didn't regretjoining this apologise for that. she didn't regret joining this group. apologise for that. she didn't regretjoining this group. surely, the home secretary, the government to have a responsibility to taxpayers here and to national security here. why that should they ta ke security here. why that should they take back somebody who has renounced the moral right to uk citizenship? no one denies the dilemma that are inherent in any one holding the office with the security angle. i haven't heard anyone suggest she should be just invited haven't heard anyone suggest she should bejust invited back haven't heard anyone suggest she should be just invited back and at the end of the story, there is a significantjudicial

the end of the story, there is a significant judicial process, security process as well. we cannot fall for the argument that if we ignore people who have done wrong, we render ourselves safe, we don't. we are living in a world where there are too many areas that have ungoverned space. we live in a world although ices has been defeated militarily it hasn't been defeated ideological. ices sprang out of sony communities in syria and iraq. the territory is controls has been taken away from them. but the ideological wellsprings of became a much stronger movement and al-qaeda ever was, have got to be addressed. that is why i am putting emphasis to you on recognising there are issues with foreign fighters but unless we address the humanitarian conditions

across syria and iraq, we are asking for difficulty if not trouble further down the line. just to give you a sense of how delicate the situation is, you've got the assad forces to the east of the kurdish area, you've got the kurds in the area, you've got the kurds in the area “— area, you've got the kurds in the area —— middle, you've got iraq in the east, you've got the turks to the east, you've got the turks to the north and the champ administration are threatening to withdraw the 2000 american troops who are holding the ring at the moment. as a humanitarian organisation, it is ourjob to bear witness to what is happening on the ground. there are desperately vulnerable people traumatised by living and islamic state rule who need the most basic support in terms of shelter and health care, but also need specialist help given the degree of trauma they have had. this is an urgent need, notjust on moral grounds, but also stability grounds.

0ne grounds, but also stability grounds. one final thought, people will obviously be concerned about humanitarian situations, at the same timea humanitarian situations, at the same time a lot of people feel this girl should not be brought back. she is a security risk, she has made her own choice. it is a treasonous act, some mightargue, choice. it is a treasonous act, some might argue, she joined choice. it is a treasonous act, some might argue, shejoined a group that is fighting the uk state and other western states. she should take responsibility for what she is doing. it is not the home secretary is responsibility. i would go further, it isn't just is responsibility. i would go further, it isn'tjust a matter of using the rhetoric of saying she should take responsibility, if she has committed crimes she should be held accountable for them. the invitation to come by, the idea she should come back, it should be she should come back, it should be she should come back to face justice. should come back, it should be she should come back to facejustice. if she is a security risk, she should face proper security curtailment and ensuring the rest of the population is safe. but the worst thing, given the horror that has been created by

is across the middle east and broadly over the last few years, is to pretend this problem is going to go away if we wash our hands of it. what we have learned over the last 15 or 20 years as it is one thing to try and ignore trouble but if you do, trouble will come to you. it is important for a system like ours to ensure that it takes responsibility for its own citizens, especially those who have been groomed into radicalisation in our own country. david miliband, thank you very much indeed. the metropolitan police's headquarters have been cordoned off after reports of a suspicious vehicle on victoria embankment. westminster bridge is closed to traffic as part of the closures surrounding new scotland yard in central london. social media images show dozens emergency service workers at the scene. some exits at westminster tube station have been shut. transport for london advised drivers to avoid the area. officers of the venezuelan government have fired the toxic substance pepper gas at opposition

demonstrators during protests in ca rca ras. it's been reported officers were equipped with riot shields and helmets against angry protestors. some of the demonstrators were effected by the gas with local media saying some people were on the floor amid the commotion. 0pposition leaderjuan guaido called for nationwide demonstrations against the current president, nicolas maduro. more than 200 works of art belonging to the singer george michael will go on auction and exhibition in london this week. the performer, who died in 2016, had a huge personal collection including works by tracey emin and damien hirst. estimates on the paintings being auctioned at christies range from £400 to £1.5 million — with the money raised going to charity. now it's time for a look at the weather with alina jenkins. hello. there are three things to talk about in this focus, rain, wind and snow. we talk about the rain first, pushing in from the southwest this evening and overnight. sun hill

snow for wales. some snow for northern ireland and the western isles of scotland. we will see a faster temperatures get well below freezing, holding to between 3—6 where we have got cloud. the rain pulling away east is due tomorrow morning. we've got snow working his way eastwards across northern ireland, scotland, northern england and as far south as the north midlands and north wales. a couple of centimetres in places. shower in the afternoon, some sunshine elsewhere but a windy day with gusts quite widely between 40 and 50 mph. that'll take the edge of the temperatures. three, four, five celsius across scotland, double figures across central, southern and eastern england. for the rest of the weekend, windy, feeling cold, some rain and snow but also some spells of sunshine. hello this is bbc news. the headlines: