the fate of brexit is in behind the hand of our british friends. we are prepared for the worst but hope for the best. the convicted bomber means the prime minister fights to keep her brexit deal alive — ends —— named in court. two minutes' after the eu gives her more time. silence observed in new zealand to remember the 50 people shot dead a she returns to downing street and a make or break week ago today. libby squire's that weekend for her deal — with huge pressure to get it through parliament next week we are now at the moment of decision. and i will make every effort is being treated as an unlawful to ensure that we are able to leave with a deal and move killing. ina our country forward. but the labour leader urged her is being treated as an unlawful killing. in a moment it will be time to accept her deal‘s failure — for his birthday but first i look at and to allow mps to vote on a series to what else is coming up this of different proposals. evening on bbc news. we will bring the prime minister has had two you the latest brexit developments and a new deadlines and what they and a half years to undertake these negotiations, hasn't done so. it's time for parliament mean for the process. unicef representatives will be giving us an to take over. update on its efforts to help the with the democratic unionists 1.8 million people affected by the who support her in parliament cyclone. and at 1040 and 11 petchy saying she's missed an opportunity to improve her deal in brussels, we'll be asking whether mrs may has will be taking a look at the papers. any chance of saving it. also tonight...

the former director of at the inquest into the victims communications of number ten. that of the birmingham pub bombings is all i had on bbc news. now it's almost 45 years ago, a witness names four ira men time for sports day. he says were responsible. allahu akbar... hello and welcome to sportsday. new zealand stops for a two—minute coming up on tonight's programme: silence in memory of the 50 people gunned down in mosques a week ago today. who'll get the nod from gareth southgate for england's euro and england prepare to take 2020 qualifier against the czech on the czech republic republic? in the opening match of their euro 2020 qualifiers. and coming up on bbc news — birmingham city drop to 18th in the championship after they were handed a nine—point deduction for breaching profitability and sustainability rules.

good evening. theresa may has spent the day meeting senior ministers in downing street as she battles to get support for her brexit plans after yesterday's eu summit. the uk was originally meant to leave the eu in a week's time — on march 29th. but after two failed attempts by theresa may to get her withdrawal agreement through the commons, the eu last night agreed to an extension. it means if she gets her deal through parliament next week, brexit will happen on 22nd may — to give mps time to pass the necessary legislation. but if the deal fails again, the uk has to propose another way forward to the eu by 12th april. if there are no new proposals, we could leave without a deal. labour'sjeremy corbyn said mps should be given a series of alternative options next week to vote on. our political editor laura kuenssberg reports. how long now? how much longer before we leave? how much longer for this

prime minister? how much longer can oui’ prime minister? how much longer can our politics really go on like this? just after midnight in brussels, theresa may confirmed the eu granted not as long a delay she had asked for, but a pause. good morning. an extra fortnight to give her another chance to pass her deal. the date of oui’ chance to pass her deal. the date of our departure will now be extended to the 22nd of may. if parliament does not agree a deal next week, the eu council will extend article 50 until the 12th of april. at this point, we would either leave with no deal or put forward an alternative plan. so we will leave a little late, if mps are back down and back her. why would they do that when she has strongly pointed the finger at them? doesn't this delayjust postponed the dilemma you still find yourself in? what makes you think yourself in? what makes you think you have a chance of passing your vote next week, and do you think

actually you should apologise for the remarks he made about what parliament has done? there are passionately held views on all sides of this argument. and yes, as i said last night, i expressed frustration. but i know mps are frustrated, too. getting the deal through next week ina getting the deal through next week in a meaningful vote means that we can have the extension to the 22nd of may, get our legislation through, deliver on the referendum. theresa may missed out on this last photocall in brussels, with its booming music and cheesy grins. no one here really believes she will get her deal through back in westminster. odds—on, it will then be for mps to determine a different deal or a longer delay. the fate of brexit is in the hands of our british friends. at the eu, we are prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. as you know, hope dies

last. how much hope, though, does number 10's weary team have? if the deal fails, number 10's weary team have? if the dealfails, they number 10's weary team have? if the deal fails, they have already promised mps can have different votes on different versions of brexit. what isn't clear, though, is whether those votes would force ministers hands and change the plan, 01’ ministers hands and change the plan, orjust give a sense of direction. the government would provide parliament with the means to come to a view on the options available. some ministers think the government should lead to that process and be bound by whatever gets most support in the commons. the problem is, others and many backbenchers are horrified by the idea. with no majority, though, theresa may's choice may be budge or be budged. have a nice weekend. are you supporting the addictive vote? parliament has to take control of the process, the government has failed, her deal is gone. neither labour or some of the prime minister's allies are coming to her

aid. she has to listen and consult with parliament. you can't go on living in a bunker and with parliament. you can't go on living in a bunkerand pretending it will come all right next week. it won't unless there is a change by her. the government has not taken a grip of the situation. it has been prepared to be pushed around at every level. i think cabinet divisions have caused real problems for the prime minister. westminster is already sparring over the next round. how to move forward if and when the government loses its deal. another fight breaking out before the current battle is even over. laura is in westminster now. where does this all leave the prime minister tonight? well, i think it leaves the prime minister and number 10 well, i think it leaves the prime ministerand number10 in well, i think it leaves the prime minister and number 10 in a well, i think it leaves the prime ministerand number10 in a pretty bad place. there's no two ways about it. conservatives on all sides of the brexit debate are really alarmed by how things seem to be unravelling. you know, for a long time theresa may has been saved all the time, if you like, by the fact there has been no coalescing around

an alternative to her idea. and truthfully, also, no coalescing around anybody else who might be better equipped to do the job that could get the kind of support from the two different sides of the conservative party. but with all the pressure on her now, and all the things that seem to keep going wrong, all of the misjudgments that seem to be taking place, some people who until now have been studiously loyal to her are really starting to tear their loyal to her are really starting to teartheir hair loyal to her are really starting to tear their hair out. one senior mp, very influential in the party, who has been trying hard to help behind the scenes, is now incandescent, just to give you one example. said to me very frustrated lee that she has angered all the people whose support she needs. she is so stubborn and just not suited to the job. now, things are very febrile, they are very fluid. i am not standing here saying tonight she is suddenly on her way out. but there isa suddenly on her way out. but there is a sense that things are moving pretty quickly in the wrong direction for number 10 and there are some big decisions that the government is going to have to try

to make to get out of this hole. laura, thank you. laura kuenssberg there. the scottish government is warning that shortages of staff in some key sectors, such as health and social care, will get worse when britain leaves the eu. ministers submitted evidence to westminster‘s migration advisory committee, highlighting concerns about retaining and recruiting staff and asked for more control over immigration, to tailor it to scotland's needs. here's our scotland editor sarah smith. adults with a learning disability are being taught woodwork by german staff in north—east scotland. plus one, two, three... more than half of the staff in this residential community are from the eu. but after brexit, european workers will be allowed to come here for only 12 months at a time. you think it will be possible to get staff from the local area, from the rest of scotland? no. there is already not enough. we know that in aberdeen, i think a dementia unit had to close down because they could not get enough employees. so, i don't think... there are not enough people around.

we seem to already struggle to get enough people to come and help. so, i am worried that this might get even worse. so, over this way, there is a house. this is a remarkable community, where staff and their families live together in homes with several adults with a learning disability. to live together and to meet each other, and meet people and break down those barriers, of cared for and carers. the whole of the social care sector is heavily reliant on eu workers and in places like this, they are already feeling the brexit effect. we are already seeing this year that we are having quite a drop off in the number of applications that we receive. from the eu? yeah. it has been quite a drastic decline, actually. social care faces special challenges, but the wider economy will not be immune. recruiting staff in remote rural areas is a particular challenge

and the scottish government fears any restrictions placed on eu nationals coming here to work willjust make it worse. so, they want to run their own separate scottish immigration policy and apply different rules from the rest of the uk. that could help businesses like donald russell, butchers by appointment to the queen. most of their staff, trimming the steaks are from the eu. after brexit, it could be possible to issue visas that would allow immigrants to work only in scotland. but that is not something the uk government will allow. here the boss, who is swiss, already struggles with recruitment. it is difficult to attract any people from the uk to come to aberdeenshire and i think this will be the challenge for the last ten years and it is going to be a challenge in the next ten years. you don't think you would ever be able to find all of your staff from the local region? i don't think so. scotland relies on immigration more heavily than the rest of the uk.

so restrictions after brexit could have a greater impact on the economy. the uk government says its plans are designed to drive up wages and productivity across the whole of the uk. sarah smith, bbc news, aberdeenshire. a former ira bomber has named the people whom he believes were responsible for the 1974 birmingham pub bombings. the man — known as witness 0 — was giving evidence during the inquest into the deaths of the 21 people who died. he said he'd been given permission to reveal the names by the current head of the ira. sima kotecha reports. it was an evening in november 197a. two explosions in two pubs in birmingham. 21 people were killed and more than 200 were injured. six men were falsely imprisoned for the crime. after spending almost two decades in jail they were acquitted, and that's when some of the families of those killed began calling for fresh inquests. four weeks in and today a former volunteer of the ira

told the court who he thought was responsible. he said he'd been given permission to do so by the head of the ira in dublin. the man known as witness 0 gave four names. he said seamus mcloughlin was the officer commanding the ira in birmingham at the time, and was in charge of selecting targets. "mick murray," he said, "was one of the bombers." "another member of the bombing team," he said, "was michael hayes." and then when asked about a james gavin, witness 0 said, "well, he was involved." all are dead apart from michael hayes, seen here two years ago. in court, my brother and my sisterand i, we were all sobbing, hearing what witness 0 had to say about one of the bombers who said "he's harmless now." that's because the damage

has already been done. what makes what was said in court today so significant is that for 18 months there was an ongoing legal battle between some of the families of those killed and the coroner over the scope of the inquests and whether it could include the potential perpetrator issue. the court of appeal ruled that it could not. but today, for hours, the court discussed suspects. when asked about a michael patrick reilly, witness 0 said he didn't recall him at all. reilly has always denied playing any part. 21 killed 44 years ago, and now the names of the potential perpetrators have been mentioned for the first time in a formal setting. the inquests continue. sima kotecha, bbc news, birmingham. school children have formed a guard of honour, at the start of a day of funerals for the three teenagers who died in a crush before

a saint patrick's day disco in county tyrone. morgan barnard and lauren bullock — who were both 17 — and 16—year—old connor currie, were among hundreds of young people waiting to get into the event, at a hotel in cookstown. rain, rising rivers, and broken bridges are hampering aid and rescue efforts for those affected by cyclone idai in southern africa. the death toll officially across the region is 440, although the true number is thought to be far higher. hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced across mozambique, zimbabwe and malawi. the uk has donated £22 million to the aid effort, 8 million of that is from the public. our reporter pumza fihlani has travelled beyond the coastal city of beira in mozambique tojust outside the village of dondo — where the true scale of this disaster is becoming clear to see. this would have been the fastest way to get aid to those trapped in this flooded interior. but nature had other plans.

help hasn't made it here yet, so they've gone looking for it. making their way to safety with the little they could salvage, this group are part of 400,000 people who have been displaced. official figures say just over 200 people have died, but the residents of this area believe it's much higher. translation: a lot of people have died in my village. we saw the bodies of 76 people, and then yesterday we found four more. translation: all the children are sick and hungry. but at the hospital, there is no medicine because it was damaged by the flooding. days after disaster struck, i'm told bodies were floating in this water. this didn't used to be a river. there were once houses here. people tell me that the water levels are receding, and with that they are finding more bodies. but they've no means to deal with them, and they are desperate for help. with winds of nearly 200 kilometres per hour,

the sheer force of the cyclone threw everything off track. survivors keep arriving here. they include babies, the most vulnerable. young and old make it to shore. they are hungry, exhausted, but relieved. but in dondo, there's desperation. this is one of 20 schools turned into a distribution centre. but there isn't enough food for the numbers turning up. they are sent away. no more food to go around. translation: i have children, i have four children and all they've got to eat is bread. we need aid now. thousands of people are still missing, trapped in remote islands of stagnant water, and the first cases of cholera are now being reported. pumza fihlani, bbc news, beira.

the time is just after 6:15pm. our top story this evening. theresa may returns to downing st to fight to keep her brexit deal alive — after the eu gives her more time. still to come, i'm at wembley as england prepare to take on the czech republic in their first euro 2020 qualifier. coming up on sportsday on bbc news — world rugby calls on the six nations unions to consider the good of the global game and back new plans for a new nations championship. people across new zealand have observed a two minute's silence in memory of the 50 people who died in shootings at two mosques in christchurch, one week ago today. the prime ministerjacinda ardern joined thousands of mourners near the al—noor mosque, one of the two targeted in the attack. she told survivors and families of the victims that the nation mourned with them.

clive myrie is in christchurch for us this evening. it was a highly charged, emotional day of mourning and prayer for the 50 victims of those mosque attacks. with new zealanders of all faiths coming together to show a willingness to work towards a society where everyone feels valued, eve ryo ne society where everyone feels valued, everyone feels safe, and everyone feels equal. and of course, the aim of that is to prevent a future tragedy like what we saw happening again. this place has been defiled. the al noor mosque isn't fit for worship — the memory of violence still fresh. a crime scene, it's out of bounds on this, the holiest day of the week in islam. so the faithful must go elsewhere. allahu akbar... this call to prayer also sounded out exactly seven days ago,

but was followed by gunshots. now in its wake, silence. two minutes of space for a country to breathe, suffocated for a week by all—consuming grief. last friday, i stood in this mosque and saw hatred and rage in the eyes of the terrorist who killed and murdered 50 innocent people. listening, survivors of the massacre and an estimated 20,000 people of all faiths, united in defying the

wishes of the killer. this terrorist sought to tear our nation apart. but instead we have shown that new zealand is unbreakable. the country's prime minister attended the commemoration service, along with five men who'd arrived in christchurch earlier in the week with stories of loss. i take people for hajj pilgrimage to saudi, mecca. and one of the sisters, who is a devout muslim, linda armstrong, i took her for hajj in 2017. and she was one of my best group. and i said i would go there and do whatever i can to help people

to bury her peacefully. and buried peacefully she was, along with 26 others this day, including mucad ibrahim, the youngest victim, aged just three. new zealand has had to ask itself some tough questions in the last seven days. is it really as welcoming to strangers as it would like to think? the al noor mosque will reopen shortly and the veneration of god will return indoors. but an open and frank conversation about islamophobia, hatred and white supremacy has moved into the open and cannot be ignored. clive myrie, bbc news, in christchurch. humberside police say the death of the university student libby squire, whose body was found in the humber estuary on wednesday, is being treated as a "potential homicide."

the 21—year—old, originally from buckinghamshire, disappeared at the beginning of february after a night out with friends. police say a 24—year—old man arrested on suspicion of abduction remains under investigation. danny savage is in hull. what more are the police saying?m is exactly seven weeks since libby squire disappeared and this is where she was last seen alive, sitting on this bench, now covered in flowers in her memory. a major police investigation then got under way which has always been a missing persons enquiry but that has now changed. her body was found at the humber estuary on wednesday, a postmortem examination took place yesterday, and as a result of that police say they are now treating her death as a crime and that in the last couple of hours they have released a statement saying, libby's death and the recovery of her body now leads us to solely investigate this as a potential homicide. that could mean murder, it could mean

manslaughter, it could mean unlawful killing. but any thought that libby squire somehow ended up in the water by accident is not now the main line of enquiry but of the humberside police and they are investigating it asa crime, police and they are investigating it as a crime, which is deeply upsetting people who knew the 21—year—old student studying philosophy at hull university. they have been coming all day and the news is slowly filtering out that this is now a major crime. danny, thank you. the jury at the trial of the match commander at hillsborough have been told they will be sent out on monday to consider their verdicts. they will have to consider if david duckenfield is guilty or not of causing the deaths by gross negligence of 95 fans at the fa cup semi—final in 1989. the leader of plaid cymru says wales should have a referendum on independence, if a series of demands are not met after brexit. in a speech to his party's spring conference, adam price announced a series of policy proposals — and said european funding for wales must be guaranteed.

police in the west midlands says two men have been arrested afterfive mosques had their windows smashed in birmingham yesterday. security has been stepped up at mosques across birmingham after five were vandalised in the early hours of thursday. police say investigations are continuing and the motive for the attacks remains unknown. irish police believe that a suspicious package found at a sorting office in limerick is linked to devices sent to london and glasgow earlier this month. the authorities confirmed that a "viable" improvised explosive device had been found and that it had been made safe. it's thought the package was returned through the postal system after it failed to reach its destination in the uk. in a little over an hour's time, england take on the czech republic in the opening match of the qualifying stages for euro 2020. the game takes place at wembley, and there for us now is our sports correspondent, natalie pirks.

natalie. england have even more incentive to want to qualify for next yea r‘s incentive to want to qualify for next year's euros because the semifinals and final will be at wembley. gareth southgate has had a number of players pull out through injury, marcus rashford is the latest, but that's an opportunity for more creative players to come in. three southgate has singled out saying he would not hesitate to pick them, jadon sancho who turns 19 on monday could actually start tonight, the borussia dortmund winger has picked up borussia dortmund winger has picked up three caps for england and he was the first player born this millennium to play at senior level. 18—year—old callum hudson odoi has been parachuted into the squad despite never leaving having played for the england under 21 is and never having started in the premier league for chelsea. and declan rice could get his first cap after he co ntroversially could get his first cap after he controversially switched allegiances from the republic of ireland to england last month. the 20—year—old had to apologise yesterday after old social media posts were unearthed

where he appeared to voice support for the ira, something he has denied. southgate says all three are more than ready to start for england, and england fans will be excited to see how they fare in an england shirt with the nations league coming up injune. time for a look at the weather. here's lucy martin. the weekend is almost here and it looks like it will be cooler than it has been, a good deal of dry weather and some sunshine and some fairly chilly nights. for some of us waking up chilly nights. for some of us waking up to chilly nights. for some of us waking uptoa chilly nights. for some of us waking up to a touch of frost. here is the satellite from earlier, a cold front working south—east. behind it we have shower clouds feeding in but also more in the way of brightness. that cloud is courtesy of a cold front working its way south and east. it brought some rain earlier for scotland, northern ireland and northern england and is pushing its way into wales. as we go through this evening and overnight, it will bring more in the way of cloud, the

rain largely having fizzled out, gradually pushing south and east, behind clear spells. and some blustery showers in the north and west. there was falling as snow on the higher ground, temperatures in the higher ground, temperatures in the north cooler than they have been, overnight lows around freezing ora been, overnight lows around freezing or a three celsius, between six and eight further south. starting the day tomorrow, it could be a bit cloudy are lingering in some coastal areas, but away from that it is looking like a decent day, the sunshine hazy at times, further blustery showers pushing into the far north and west, but the temperature is fresher than they have been between nine and 13 celsius. it is another chilly night overnight into sunday. this cold front further north will bring blustery winds and also some showery outbreaks of rain. here is how it looks as we start sunday. a chilly start and a touch of frost for some. there will be plenty of sunshine and good spells of sunshine. showers feeding into the north for scotland, northern ireland later into northern

england. again, the potential to be quite wintry and temperature similar to what we are looking at on saturday, a maximum of around 8-13dc. thank you, lucy. a reminder of our top story — theresa may returns to downing st to fight to keep her brexit plans alive — after the eu gives her more time. that's all from the bbc news at six, so it's goodbye from me, and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are.