hello — you're watching afternoon live. i'm simon mccoy. today at 2pm: mps prepare to vote on extending yes, what a story that would be, if the brexit process — paisley park wins the big race of if they say "yes" then it's up to the eu to agree. the day, the stayers hurdle, at with the government confirming there will a third attempt to get 3:30pm, and fairto the day, the stayers hurdle, at 3:30pm, and fair to say an awful lot theresa may's withdrawal agreement through — the dup says it's still considering of the 65,000 fans here will be whether or not to back her. cheering him on, kate. thank you we want to get a deal, but, it has very much indeed, andy. to be the right deal for the 1960s supermodel twiggy, northern ireland. has received a damehood it has to be the right deal from the prince of wales. for the whole of the united kingdom. in a ceremony at buckingham palace, lesley "twiggy" lawson received a former soldier is to be prosecuted the honour for services to fashion, over the bloody sunday the arts and charity. shootings in londonderry. the paratrooper will be charged with the murders of james wray and william mckinney — as well as the attempted murder of four others. time for a look at the weather, here's darren bett. a decision has been taken yes, not quite twiggy, more a tree to prosecute one former that has fallen down today in bradford, because of the wind and rain, and there's more of that to come over the next few days. this is the sort of weather we are moving into today, sunshine and showers, and it follows the rain we had earlier on overnight and this

morning. that has cleared all but the far south—west of england, the shower clouds are coming in and will continue to bring a mixture of sunshine and showers through the rest of the day. those are the temperatures but it is still pretty windy out there as well, not quite as windy as earlier on. the winds are easing down but only briefly, they will pick up again overnight and it is blowing and more rain from the atlantic. very quickly that arrives into northern ireland, outbreaks of rain pushing into much of the uk, like last night, more showery weather coming into scotland. those showers turning wintry over the hills. three degrees here compared with double figures across the south of england and wales. friday, the weatherfront taking rain southwards, drawing in cooler, showery westerly winds which will still be strong to gale force as well. we will keep some cloud and as well. we will keep some cloud and a bit of rain across the south—west of england and south wales tomorrow, brightening up elsewhere, some sunny spells, more showers as you head

further north, particularly wintry over the higher ground in scotland. temperatures may be a fraction lower today, very windy for a while over the east of the pennines, gusts of 50 to 60 mph in the morning. then another set of weather fronts arriving for the start of the weekend. this one is a bit different because it has a deepening area of low pressure forming on it, which is pushing wet weather into the cold airwe pushing wet weather into the cold air we have pushing wet weather into the cold airwe have in pushing wet weather into the cold air we have in the north, so we will find some snow, particularly over the hills of scotland but still to quite low levels, 150 to 200 metres, heavy rain moving through northern ireland after a bit of snow, heavy rain heading into england and wales. the head of that, the winds could be gusting 50 to 60 mph. won't be as windy for scotland and northern ireland, in the central belt only 5 degrees with that wintry weather around. 13 in the south—east, where it stays dry. here, though, we will find some rain arriving during the evening and again it could still be quite heavy on that weather front there. the weather front takes that wintry mix away from the northern

pa rt wintry mix away from the northern part of the uk and things get a little more straightforward for the second half of the weekend. quite a brisk north to north—westerly wind, bringing some sunshine and showers and again over the high ground those showers could be of a wintry flavour. temperatures not far off weather should be this time of year, eight to 10 celsius. thank you very much, interesting stuff. a reminder of our main story this lunchtime a former soldier is to be prosecuted over the bloody sunday shootings five decades ago in londonderry, and charged with the murders of james wray and willie mckinney, as well as the attempted murder of four others. that's all from the bbc news at one, so it's goodbye from me, good afternoon. it's 1:30pm and here's your latest sports news. i'm 0lly foster at the bbc sport centre. england have made four changes for what might be a must—win 6 nations match against scotland

on saturday, withjoe cokanasiga surprisingly left out altogether. the winger was man of the match against italy last weekend, but he's replaced in the starting xv and doesn't make the bench either. jack nowell is back in the side after recovering from injury. centre henry slade also returns with two further changes in the pack. eddiejones says cokanasiga is still very much part of his plans. he's a good, young player and we'll bring him through. forall he's a good, young player and we'll bring him through. for all young players, you have to make sure you look after them. sometimes need to be exposed and sometimes pulled back. i think sometimes in england, i've seen so many good young players since i've been involved in rugby start with this boom, then they play only four tests event. i wanted to play 100. wales might have already

won the grand slam by the time england play. they will be unchanged for the match against ireland in cardiff. fullback liam williams was a doubt, but is fit to play. if wales lose, then england would win the title with victory, but if they lose as well, then ireland will retain the title. tributes have been paid to one of formula 1's leading figures, the race director charlie whiting, who has died suddenly. he was 66. whiting was the official race starter, but was a pioneer of improved safety regulations in the sport over a number of years. he passed away in melbourne, where he was due to officiate this weekend's season—opening australian grand prix. lewis hamilton has been one of those to pay his respects today. incredibly struck this morning to hear the sad news. my thoughts are prayers are with his family. all he did to this sport, he really was a

pillar. such an iconic figure within the sporting world, and he contributed so much to us. rest in peace. the two—time olympic champion james cracknell will become the oldest person ever to compete in the boat race. cracknell, who is a6, retired from elite rowing in 2006, but qualifies for next month's race because he is studying a masters degree at cambridge. he won gold in the coxless fours at both the 2000 and 2004 games. the previous oldest boat race competitor was a 38—year—old cox back in 1992. being here, ifi being here, if i can make it onto the start line, it will be fantastic. it's not like i came out of the olympics in doing this two yea rs of the olympics in doing this two years later. i haven't rode since 2004. i need to be more careful, it with the recovery sessions. you

can't burn the candle at both ends. british number one kyle edmund has been knocked out of the indian wells masters by roger federer. the swiss, a five—time champion in california, made light work of edmund 6—1, 6—4 injust over an hour to reach the quarterfinals. federer, currently the world number four, has yet to drop a set at the tournament. second—seed rafael nadal is also through to the last eight. the special olympics opening ceremony takes place this afternoon in abu dhabi. it's the biggest staging of the event, with over 200 nations taking part. great britain have sent a team of 128. the games are for competitors with intellectual disbilities. it with intellectual disbilities. has nothing to do with counts. it has nothing to do with medal counts. it has nothing to do with who beats who, it is to do with giving your best. like we like to say at the special olympics, we're not interested in who is the best, we are

not interested in who is the best, we a re interested not interested in who is the best, we are interested in your best. when you think of sport in that way, you find extraordinary examples of human greatness in places you would never expect to see them. the cheltenham festival continues this afternoon. the stayer‘s hurdle is the feature race on day three. the favourite is paisley park, a horse that almost died a couple of years ago with colic, but he has won four races this year. it would also be a special win for one of the most popularfigures in racing, owner andrew gemmell, who has been blind since birth. you can hear how paisley park gets on in the stayer‘s hurdle on 5 live this afternoon from 3:15. the rest of the day's coverage is on 5 live sports extra from a 1:15 this afternoon. we've just had the first race of the day, the favourite won that one. finally, there was an important win for west bromwich albion in the championship last night. they beat swansea 3—0 in their first match since sacking darren moore, but the main talking point was this. swansea had the perfect opportunity to equalise. up stepped bersa nt selina. . .and this happened.

not quite sure what he did there. his lips, we know that. it was an awful penalty. bits like laughing at someone's misfortune, but it is funny. they lost 3—0. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport. with brexit and other things prevailing, we will back with you in the afternoon. facebook is suffering the most severe outage in its history, with many of its services inaccessible to people across the world. users have been able to load the website, but not post to it. whatsapp, instagram and mobile phone app messenger — all owned by facebook — have also been disrupted. the company says it's trying to resolve the issue. let's now speak to ingrid lunden from techcrunch. what's lunden from techcrunch. your reading into this? it been what's your reading into this? it's

been the most severe outage in its history. are you think it is interesting, because they haven't actually said what it was that because the outage, which has left a lot of people guessing. they think it's a routing issue or something, but that is led a lot of people to talk about what it means to have one company owning quite so many communications networks that are as popular as the ones that have been affected by this. 0bviously, that has been a big issue in the political sphere. elizabeth warren, who is running for president, has been talking about breaking up the big tech companies. this all plays m, big tech companies. this all plays in, and facebook has been looking to unify the backends of these various apps together. this is a demonstration of why it should not be allowed to do that. facebook has been at pains to say this was not due to hacking. it isn't, but the show is if something can go wrong, it will affect everything. so is

this just down to the vast amount of people using it? if it were that easy, it would bejust people using it? if it were that easy, it would be just a people using it? if it were that easy, it would bejust a case people using it? if it were that easy, it would be just a case of building more. they do not know what it is, but they call it a routing issue, a technical situation without code might have been pushed across to update something and that has corrupted something, that may have a knock—on effect into other things. but they haven't said anything, so it's foolish to speculate. but do you think we'll get to hear? the irony is not lost on us that it is having to communicate with its users on twitter. this is one of those times when it twitter has come to the rescue for real—time information. it definitely reflects well on it that it is not being affected. just the day before all facebook‘s problems, there were

issues with gmail and google services. somehow, this has, looking a little more rosy, which can only help twitter. the numbers of people affected, and there are also companies being concerned? what is interesting is that it hasn'tjust been facebook and messenger, and instagram, which are very consumer—focus services, but also like workplace has been affected, their effort into doing enterprise communications like no marks like an things, so people can chat to each other within a workplace. —— like its and things. people use those networks to communicate with your users and customers and so on. the great irony is that facebook has a lwa ys great irony is that facebook has always positioned itself as a company that likes to move fast and break things. here, there have been down for 18 hours, without making an

update, so they are moving slow and still breaking things. how damaging is this? you're only probably as good as your last post on facebook anyway, so i think, sadly, that's the case, and ultimately, they will probably get things. a lot of things are back up and running, theyjust haven't made a update. people will get on with it, and i don't think people will be bruce trevor by this. i think people would want to know what has happened with this. facebook has been unequivocal, saying this has nothing to do with a security breach, so i think that has mitigated things. thank you for coming in. lets return to tonight's brexit vote. and there have been four amendments selected by the speaker, including one from the chair of the brexit committee hilary benn, which would give parliament control

of the process next week to make time for indicative votes. earlier, our assistant political editor norman smith gave us this update from the houses of parliament. we are now facing a series of key votes in the houses of parliament. notjust on mrs may's deal, but also potentially on moves by senior cross— party m ps to potentially on moves by senior cross—party mps to try and take control of the brexit process and charge a different course by setting aside a day to have indicative votes. what are they? a sickly, brexit option that mps get to vote on one by one, until there is only one left, and that becomes the favoured option of the house. i am joined by conservative mp george freeman, eubank that move?” joined by conservative mp george freeman, eubank that move? i do, i think there is a majority in this house for a brexit deal, just not the prime minister's deal. something has to give, either this deal goes

down, and we will have a no till crash out in two weeks, which is unacceptable. somehow we have to find a way to find a cross—party deal. we have to reach out to labour mps in brexit type and voting constituencies. i was struck by a numberof constituencies. i was struck by a number of hardcore conservative mps voting with labour and the snp, the public expects us to find a compromise. it seems mrs may is going to bring her tail back for a third time on monday or tuesday. your votes will be on wednesday, so is not a danger that mrs may will get her vote through and your indicative votes will be irrelevant? great, i indicative votes will be irrelevant? great, lam indicative votes will be irrelevant? great, i am voting for the premise of's deal, i want an orderly exit on the 29th. we are now playing ha rd ball the 29th. we are now playing hardball with those who want us to

crash out without a deal. vote for the prime minister's deal and brexit is secured. play hardball and you risk parliament and cross—party mps to work together on another deal. i say to colleagues, if you don't vote for the prime minister, you will get a brexit softer than you want, and you may risk losing brexit altogether. and at the same time this morning, you have said you think the prime minister will have to stand down, even if she gets her deal through the commons?” to stand down, even if she gets her deal through the commons? i fear so. i was always of the view that brexit withdrawal will be so damaging and use up withdrawal will be so damaging and use up so withdrawal will be so damaging and use up so much goodwill it would exhaust the political tide of any prime minister. and i fear that is where the prime minister has got to. the trust in the tank isn't there to ta ke the trust in the tank isn't there to take the second half of brexit forwards, and i think she will then go with huge respect from the nation for doing the most impossible job. and if the people who won't vote for

her this week, if she says she will go after this deal, i think this is a price worth paying. let a new generation shape of the second half brexit. she has already said she will not fight the next general election, but you're talking about immediately after the deal going through, in other words april, may? this summer, this spring, the european petitions all go for elections, they will be a new commission, a whole new era across europe, andl commission, a whole new era across europe, and i think that the bigger time for us to choose a leader, someone capable of healing the wounds of brexit. i think this is the obvious moments, this summer. i think the pm should get a withdrawal treaty through the house, and then we pick a new leader to pick up the batten. thank you for your time. we

are reaching the critical time in the brexit saga with the next two weeks being very decisive. in a moment we'll have all the business news, but first the headlines on bbc news: 0ne former solider is to be charged over the killing of two men and the attempted murder of four others on bloody sunday in londonderry almost five decades ago. mps prepare for another vote on brexit this time on whether to delay leaving the eu beyond the 29th of march. official figures reveal the number of people cautioned or prosecuted for carry a knife in england and wales has reached its highest level for ten years. me i'm susannah streeter. us plane maker boeing has relented to worldwide pressure and grounded its entire global fleet of 737 max aircraft. investigators have uncovered new evidence at the scene of the fatal ethiopian airlines crash which killed all

157 people on board. facebook appears to be recovering from a more than 10—hour global disruption to all of its products. the outage affected the main paltform as well as messaging services including whatsapp and instagram. the company is yet to explain what the cause of the downtime may have been, which is being seen as the most severe in the company s history. govia thameslink railway has been fined a record £5 million by the rail regulator over its chaotic introduction of a new timetable in may last year. the new timetable caused severe disruption on thameslink and great northern routes for eight weeks. with just 15 days until the uk is due to leave the european union there is still little certainty for businesses or anyone else who wants to know what will happen. as we've already been discussing here on bbc news, last night the british parliament rejected the idea of leaving the european union without a deal. mps voted by 312 to 308 to reject a no—deal brexit

under any circumstances, but that was a non—binding vote. today, they will vote on whether to ask the eu for permission to delay the date for departure. objections to a no—deal brexit from business groups have come thick and fast this week, from organisations like the confederation of british industry, warning that such an outcome would be disastrous for many firms. but hotelier sir rocco forte has been speaking to our business editor simonjack, he said he thought a no—deal exit from the eu would still be the best option in the circumstances. 94% of businesses are not involved in trading with europe, so i don't see why this is going to be so damaging to the country as a whole. 0bviously, for individual businesses, there are issues, but businesses, there are issues, but businesses always have issues. you can't expect anything to be on an even playing if you're in business, and you have to deal with situations

as they present themselves. that's the view of sir rocco forte — lets get more with laith khalaf, senior analyst at investment advisory firm hargreaves lansdown — laith, as far as investors are concerned what does the current state of play mean? are you think there are voices like that, they are in a minority in the business world. it's notjust the impact on individual businesses, it is the wider economy as well. that obviously affects a whole raft of businesses right across the spectrum. 0ne businesses right across the spectrum. one of the key problems is not necessarily what kind of brexit we end up with, it's the fact that we end up with, it's the fact that we just we end up with, it's the fact that wejust don't we end up with, it's the fact that we just don't know at this moment. there is uncertainty and that leads to great problems in terms of planning for business. in terms of

the investment in the environments, it also creates uncertainty for investors as well, because at the moment, the marketers waiting to direction from which ever way brexit lurches. the thing is, if there is another delay, we don't know how long that will be. surely thatjust prolongs uncertainty and means businesses can't take those crucial decisions? absolutely. what the business world and the stock market wa nts business world and the stock market wants its resolution. the fact they can gets kicked down the road will eventually lead to short—term relief as opposed to the nuclear option, which is leaving without a deal in just a couple of weeks' time. we've seen that to some extent in the market reaction to the commons voting to take no deal off the table last night. of the pound rallied strongly. this morning on the stock markets, domestic companies like

banks and retailers, that are sensitive to brexit, have seen their share prices rise. 0ut sensitive to brexit, have seen their share prices rise. out to what extent share prices rise. out to what exte nt d o share prices rise. out to what extent do you think business investment has been deterred by all this and the current state of play? we know business investment has been deterred. we don't know precisely the reasons for that, but brexit is clearly a factor in any one's analysis. and you can see that in the fact that the planning is hampered by the uncertainty. it is also interesting to keep perspective, because if you rewind ten yea rs perspective, because if you rewind ten years to march 2009, things looked pretty awful then. the whole system of global capitalism look like it might collapse, and it actually turned out to be a good time to invest. so let's make sure we keep perspective as well. many experts have pointed out, particularly those for brexit, that the analysis we have had from the

bank of england, some of the forecast we had before the vote for brexit, saying it would be detrimental to the economy immediately, haven't come into play. and fights we had a optimistic spring statement from the chancellor yesterday? i think it is probably the case that the worst fears were not realised, but we have seen the economy slowed, and other public finances seem to be in good shape, we did get downgrades to economic growth from the office for budget responsibility. we don't know exactly how much of that delay at the door of brexit, but we can assume it is a pretty big factor. looking forward, it is the case of getting resolution uncertainty so eve ryo ne getting resolution uncertainty so everyone can move on. thank you. the chief executive of oil company shell saw his pay more than double last year to more than £17 million. ben van beurden's total

salary in 2017 prompted a shareholder revolt. his pay is now 143 times larger than the average shell employee in the uk. clothing firm superdry has issued a pretty swift and damning response to co—founder julian dunkerton's plans for the business which includes his return. superdry shares have lost more than 70% over the past year. in december, it issued a profit warning and last week, the company announced it would cut up to 200 jobs. the world's second—largest cinema chain, cineworld, has announced a huge rise in profits for last year, largely thanks to its acquisition of us cinema chain regal last year. pre—tax profit surged 125% to $349m last year. as anyone who goes to the cinema regularly won't be surprised to find out, just over a quarter of that revenue came from food and drink. let's check in with the financial markets now. and london's blue chip

index the ftse 100 is higher today— investors are in a cautious mood though ahead of that other crunch vote in parliament this evening. debenhams share have risen by more than 4% today. that's after the high street chain said it will give careful consideration to sports direct s proposed £150 million loan this morning, after receiving the offer last night. sports direct has a 30% stake in debenhams — its owner mike ashley yesterday complained to the financial conduct authority, accusing the board of deliberately misleading the markets. good afternoon. this is the sort of weather we are seeing across the country this afternoon, sunshine and showers. it follows the rain we had earlier on, which isjust about clears away from most of southern england, just hanging on in the

south west. the clouds coming in behind that, and clouds over scotland. temperatures up to 13 in parts of southeast put england. not quite as windy as earlier on, they went slowing down, but only briefly, because they pick up again overnight as we get more wet weather coming in from the atlantic. the rain pushes into northern ireland, pushing eastwards. more showery rain over scotland, turning wintering over the hills as temperatures dip away. friday's weather looks similar to what we saw on thursday, another set of fronts doing the same thing, taking rain southwards and drawing ina taking rain southwards and drawing in a blustery, westerly winds. still damp and drizzly later on, brighter skies and sunshine, increasing numbers of showers northwards, and went and went in for a while,

particularly east of the pennines, up particularly east of the pennines, up to 60mph. the afternoon temperatures, chillier in scotland. another set of systems arrive for the weekends, this one is different, this is deepening low pressure and pushing into the colder air in the north, so bringing snow over the hills, mainly in scotland, briefly in northern ireland and the tops of the pennines, down to about 100m. heavy rain and pushing into england and wales, the winds gusting up to 60mph once again. not as windy in scotla nd 60mph once again. not as windy in scotland and northern ireland, but a cold day through the central belt, 5 degrees, up to 14 in the south of england where it stays dry on saturday. the rain comes on saturday evening and later, the area of low pressure taking the wintry mix away from northern parts of the uk. thing is getting more straightforward on sunday. quite chilly with a strong

north westerly winds, turnarounds, bands of showers and again, showers could be wintry over the hills. these are the afternoon temperatures, up to 10 degrees, what we would expect for the time of year. good news though, next week 00:29:18,729 --> 2147483051:51:24,853 should be less windy and a lot 2147483051:51:24,853 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 drier.