this is bbc news. our top story: british mps have voted again on alternatives to theresa may's brexit plan, and rejected them all. they had voted on four motions for leaving the european union. one, to negotiate a customs union i'm babita sharma in london. with the eu, was defeated by just three votes. the headlines: another chaotic day in westminster — china says it will crack down on all types of the synthetic opioid fenta nyl following pressure from the us, where the drug the eyes were 273, the noes is fuelling a huge rise in addiction. washington says the powerful were 276, so the noes have it. painkiller is sent by post from china. yet again, mps vote on alternatives to theresa may's brexit plan. and this story is four proposals are put forward — trending on bbc.com. reports from the us say that all are rejected. rolling stones star mickjagger is to undergo heart valve replacement surgery. this was the reaction from both the band postponed their tour of the us and canada because he needed medical treatment. sides of the house of commons. stay with bbc world news. this is now the second time the house has considered a wide variety of options for a way forward. and the top story in the uk: once again, the house has failed to find a clear majority two million people on the minimum for any of the options. wage received an above—inflation can i remind the house

that the prime minister's unacceptable deal has been overwhelmingly rejected three times? i'm rico hizon in singapore. also in the programme: china promises a crackdown on the synthetic opioid fentanyl following pressure from the us, where the drug is fuelling a huge rise in addiction. and relief for a vietnamese woman accused of killing the half—brother of kim jong—un. she could now be free by may. welcome to the programme. it's 8:00am in singapore and 1:00 in london where parliament has yet again failed to agree on alternative proposals to the british government's brexit strategy. a couple of hours ago mps voted on four motions for leaving the european union and all were rejected. so what does this mean for britain's timetable on leaving the eu and what next for theresa may?

we'll be doing our best to answer those questions but first have a look at what happened at westminster. the first vote was for the uk to stay in a customs union, that was defeated by just three votes. another motion, the common market, which includes staying in the single market with the eu, was voted down by 21 votes. and then mps rejected a new referendum to confirm any deal and, more heavily, rejected the option to stop the uk automatically leaving with no deal if no solution is found by 12th april and the eu refuses another extension to brexit. the brexit secretary, steve barclay, told mps that the default outcome was still britain leaving the european union without a deal on the 12th of april: this is now the second time the house has considered a wide variety of options for a way forward. this has once again failed to find a clear majority for any of the options.

and yet, the result of the house's decision on friday not to endorse the withdrawal agreement means that the default legal position is that the uk will leave the eu injust 11 days‘ time. the opposition labour leader, jeremy corbyn, called for mps to be given another chance to vote on options for brexit this wednesday. the margin of defeat for one of the options for tonight was very narrow indeed, and the prime minister's deal has been rejected by a very large majority on three occasions. if it is good enough for the prime minister to have three chances at her deal, then i suggest that possibly the house should have a chance to consider again the options that we had before us today in a debate on wednesday. after the voting, conservative mp nick boles resigned from the party

after his attempt to seek an alternative route forward to break the brexit deadlock in parliament was rejected. i have given everything to an attempt to find a compromise that can take this country out of the european union while maintaining our economic strength and political cohesion. i accept i have failed. i have failed chiefly because my party refuses to compromise. i regret, therefore, to announce that i can no longer sit for this party. 0h nick, don't go, come on! earlier i spoke to our uk political correspondent rob watson and i asked him to give us an overview of where we are at now.

i could do that in a sentence, i think, which is britain's brexit paralysis continues, because for the second time in a row mps have failed to unite around some kind of alternative to the deal struck by the prime minister, and which has already been rejected three times by parliament and we are now still wondering whether theresa may will try to bring back her deal for a fourth time. how likely is that going to be in your estimation? what is going to change between — i mean, we have seen little change between the second and third, some are saying, so between a third and fourth, how much change is they going to be? is there any indication people are changing their minds? there wouldn't be any change in the substance, but two things might have changed. that is, mps won't have been able to find an alternative, although who knows, they may have another vote on wednesday, and the other thing

that is happening is the clock continues to tick down to a no—deal brexit on april the 12th. i don't have any doubt that if she can, theresa may will bring her deal back because everyone watching needs to understand theresa may has certainly convinced herself, if not all the politicians, that her deal is the best and only way to deal with the results of the referendum in 2016. the question is, could it really get through parliament on a fourth attempt? in some ways, what has happened in the last few hours is not helpful to theresa may, and if you bear with me a second i will explain what i mean. of course it is good for her that an alternative hasn't appeared yet, but it is bad in the sense that she can't threaten those on the pro—brexit right wing of her party with a "wow, look, mps are coalescing around a softer brexit", she can no longer hold that threat against them now. in the short—term, tuesday and wednesday, what is going to be happening parliament?

tuesday, the thing to look out for is a meeting of the cabinet, that is the focus of senior ministers in the government, and it should be extraordinary. they have planned five hours, and why does it matter? why is it interesting? in many ways, absolutely nothing has changed in british politics in the last couple of years, and theresa may is facing a cabinet profoundly divided. the governing conservative party is profoundly divided, some pro—brexit, some pro—eu, mired in indecision and struggling to find a way forward. so watch this space very carefully tomorrow. so, what's the reaction from europe? a short time ago i spoke to our europe correspondent damian grammaticas in brussels. what you have had is a brief comment from the european parliament chief brexit co—ordinator, guy verhofstadt, so he doesn't have a role directly in negotiations but he speaks

for the european parliament, former belgian prime minister, and he has tweeted that he now thinks a hard brexit is nearly inevitable. he said on wednesday the uk has a last chance to break the deadlock or face the abyss, and what he means by that is that there is now an expectation that on wednesday this week, the uk parliament will hold another series of votes to see if they can finally agree a preferred option. if not, the uk is on an automatic path, having triggered the brexit process, to quit the eu at the end of next week, friday the 12th of april, and without any deal in place the uk will leave with no deal. so, crashing out, as some people call it. the hardest of brexits, and that i think is what the eu side fear the most, that this process is not leading to any clarity on the uk side, and without that the automatic process leads to the uk being out next week.

the european union has said time is running out and their patience is running thin. it is, certainly among several different members of the eu and different institutions, i think what they wanted tonight was some kind of clear way forward. what they feared was what they got, which was no clarity at all. the key decision—making will come on the 10th of april, when the leaders of the other 27, the remaining 27 eu countries, they will gather here in brussels for a final emergency summit next week, two days before that deadline when the uk would be out, and they would consider that one of two things. either the uk needs to have come up with a plan by then and presented it

to the eu for its preferred path forward, whether it is new negotiations on the future to a future relationship, or the leaders will sit to consider their policies, their response, for how to mitigate the impact of a no—deal brexit at the end of next week. it is a stark choice, but at the minute all the decision—making is on the uk side. the uk has to take some affirmative action, decide on a clear path forward, or the automatic process happens at the end of next week. there is full analysis, updates and all the brexit latest on the bbc news website. you'll also find blogs from our political team at wesminster. that's all at bbc.com/news. let's take a look at some of the day's other news. china says it will crack down on all types of the synthetic opioid fe nta nyl following a plea from the us. washington says the powerful painkiller is being sold on the internet and sent by post

from china, driving a huge rise in drug addiction in the us. here's liu yuejin from china's narcotics control commission: translation: the chinese government is ready to work with the international community to share experiences in drug control, offering solutions to the global fight against drugs and contribute to building a community with a shared future for mankind. also making news today, at least 30 people have been killed and hundreds more injured by a violent thunderstorm in southern nepal. the freak storm destroyed houses and uprooted trees in bara and pa rsa districts. special forces have been sent to the area to help with rescue operations. taiwan's president has ordered a "forceful expulsion" of china's fighter jets if they cross the median line, which separate the self—ruled island from the chinese mainland. he made the statement via facebook after china sent two jets across the taiwan strait

at the weekend. a vietnamese woman previously accused of murdering the half brother of the north korean leader kimjong—un has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and could be released from prison next month. the woman was one of two suspects who claimed they thought they were part of a tv prank when they smeared kim jong—nam with a nerve agent at kuala lumpur airport in 2017. jonathan head reports. the face says it all, still in handcuffs and an armoured vest, doan thi huong leaves court, the weight of a murder charge lifted from her. we'd last seen her three weeks ago in tears, then the sole remaining defendant. now, she could be going home in a month. herfather, a farmer and part—time security guard, was at court to hear her

accept a lesser charge. he is hoping she will be home soon, and grateful to her lawyers, he says, for the way the case has turned out. thejudge ruled last year that she had a case to answer because of this video where she is seen putting her hands over the face of the unsuspecting kim jong—nam at kuala lumpur international airport. but doan thi huong had been involved in televised pranks in vietnam. she says she still dreams of a showbusiness career, and she told her lawyers she thought the attack on kim jong—nam was just another tv gag. it was just over two years ago that the assassination took place right here, exposing hundreds of travellers to an absolutely lethal nerve agent. today's verdict will seem fair to many people, but it does leave many questions unanswered about this extraordinary situation, because neither defendant was able to testify in court

about how they got involved. four north korean men, at least one a high—ranking intelligence agent, are thought to have recruited the two women. they flew out of malaysia shortly after mr kim's death. no—one else has been charged. there are no signs today of the shocking crime committed here, and which remains unsolved and largely unexplained. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: we'll have more on that brexit vote in the house of commons. is there any way to break the deadlock? the accident that happened here was of the sort that can at worst produce a meltdown. in this case the precautions worked, but they didn't work quite well

enough to prevent some old fears about the safety features of these stations from resurfacing. the republic of ireland has become the first country in the world to ban smoking in the workplace. from today, anyone lighting up in offices, businesses, pubs and restaurants will face a heavy fine. the president was on his way out of the washington hilton hotel, where he had been addressing a trade union conference. the small crowd outside included his assailant. it has become a symbol of paris. 100 years ago, many parisians wished it had never been built. the eiffel tower's birthday is being marked by a re—enactment of the first ascent by gustave eiffel. this is newsday on the bbc.

i'm rico hizon in singapore. i'm babita sharma in london. our top stories: for a second time, british mps vote on alternatives to theresa may's brexit plan. four proposals are put forward. all are rejected. china promises a crackdown on the synthetic opioid, fenta nyl, following pressure from the us, where the drug is fuelling a huge rise in addiction. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. we start with hong kong's south china morning post, which leads on china's ban on fenta nyl following demands from the us. as we mentioned earlier, the us blames imports of the drug for fuelling the country's deadly opioid crisis.

let's now turn the page, and we have the gulf times, which looks at the local elections in turkey. the paper reports on what a resurgent opposition could mean for president erdogan‘s leadership. and, finally, the international edition of the japan times looks at the dawn of a new beginning in japan when emperor akihito steps down. the era, whose name includes the character for "harmony," will formally begin once the new emperor is crowned on may one. those are the papers. thank you. i think we need more harmony here in the uk. let's get more now on brexit and what it means for the way forward. earlier, i spoke to sebastian payne, the whitehall correspondent for the financial times. he's been following the events at westminster very closely. we have had the second series of these so—called indicative votes, where mps were meant to say, here is an alternative brexit plan that i like. we don't really like theresa may's, we've voted that down three times.

so maybe we might like a customs union, or staying in the single market, or a second referendum, orjust revoking article 50 and forgetting the whole thing. and mps have said no to all of those, so we are exactly back to square one here. the theresa may plan does not have a mojority, and the ulternatives don't have a majority. and we forget, it is now a week and a half until we are set to leave the eu so, unless something changes between now and a week friday, then we are about to crush out of the eu without a deal and revert on to wto terms which would raise significant trading barriers, and some administrative complexities. do you think we are going to be in a position where we crash out as you've put it, because a week is a long time in politics... at the moment. on a serious note, what do you think is going to happen? the next thing in this process is that theresa may's cabinet will meet first thing tomorrow for a marathon five—hour session. we do not know what they're going to discuss but

we do know there's going to be a document that they will have privy access to for an hour before the cabinet meeting. that could be polling, that could be a plan, that could be a plan for no deal. so we'll wait and see. but they are going to have to hammer something out now about what happens next, because theresa may might try and have a fourth and final run at getting her deal through now that all the alternatives have been thrown out. but she might also say the way of resolve this deadlock is a general election, and that is something that conservative mps are so fearful of because they think they're probably going to lose their seats and jeremy corbyn would become prime minister, and they might lose brexit altogether. so the real question for theresa may now is, does she have a fourth run at her deal? does she try and call a general election, the last roll of the dice? does she even back a second referendum? and you can't really back any softer brexit options, because we've just seen from the house of commons this evening, there is no support for those either. let's just look at those, because we are just showing our viewers what those votes were. are any of them for you,

especially those with a narrow margin, going to be the points that theresa may is going to be able to work with in the coming days? like, for example, the customs union that was just defeated by three votes? practically, you would be right, the amendment about customs union was very close and if a couple of people had not abstained or had thought differently, that would have got not a clear majority — you've got to pass 326 votes in the house if commons to get that — but it would have come much closer than it would otherwise. the problem is theresa may hates all of these alternatives. the conservative party has been briefing endlessly over the last couples of days to say we cannot have a customs union because we would not be able to strike trade deals and for many brexit supporters that was one of the reasons they wanted to leave the eu. she's not going to back that. she's not going to back a single market, staying in the single market, because that would free movement of people. she doesn't want a second referendum. and she dopesn‘t want to revoke article 50. the weapon theresa may was hoping to use against her mps, or a stick, shall we say, of saying, come on, back my deal, or it's going to be this, that now does not work.

governments in the asia pacific region are unveiling new laws aimed at tackling the spread of fake news. australia says it will legislate tough new laws to prevent social—media platforms from being weaponized by terrorists and extremists. meanwhile, in singapore, a bill that will allow the government to remove articles deemed to contain falsehoods was introduced on monday. it will require social media companies and news outlets to publish corrections alongside posts carrying false information. my colleague karishma vaswani has the details of the new legislation. the bill was tabled in parliament in singapore late last night and what it really is trying to address, according to the government, is the issue of what they call "online falsehoods" that are designed with malicious intent, particularly those that are in the areas of inciting religious and racial disharmony. this is a big problem for singapore because, as we know — we live here —

this is a country that has depended on racial and religious harmony for many decades. the government says that what it is trying to do with this bill is to make sure that's not disrupted, but they have taken a unique attempt at addressing this. instead of telling social media companies to take down these posts, what they're saying is that you should issue a correction which would show you the real news and that would link back to possibly a singapore—government website. have a listen to what the legal, the law minister of singapore, had to say when he tried to describe why this is so important for this country. it's a problem that all societies i think have to deal with, and this is an attempt by us to deal with it. i'm not suggesting that all the problems will vanish the moment this bill comes into place. i think the reality of falsehoods and... ..hate speech and harmful content on the internet is a reality that is here to stay. we have to deal with

it as best as we can. so, karishma, what has been the reaction to this bill? well, rico, you know, facebook, google, twitter they all have their asia headquarters right here in singapore and, as you can imagine, they are very concerned about what this bill means for their business, their operations in practice. now, facebook has said that there are parts of the bill that it supports, it wants the public to start thinking about this issue but in particular, in a statement to the bbc it said... rico, this is the same issue that right groups have. they say what this bill does is hand over more control to the singapore government, which in the past has been accused of trying to stifle public dissent in the country. karishma vaswani there.

fans and hip—hop royalty alike have been paying tribute to rapper and song—writer nipsey hussle. the grammy nominated star was killed outside his clothing store in los angeles over the weekend. police are still looking for a suspect. the bbc‘s sophie long has more. nipsey hussle was a rising star in the music scene. his album victory lap was recently nominated for a grammy. but here in south los angeles where he grew up he was as well—known for his community work he was for his music. he made no secret of his early life in a street gang. i grew of his early life in a street gang. igrew up of his early life in a street gang. i grew up in la in the 1990s. again culture was what was going on, you know, outside of my family structure. on sunday afternoon nipsey hussle tweeted it is a blessing to have strong enemies. we have hour he had been shot dead with a burst of gunfire outside his clothing store. now people have come to pay their respects and to mourn the loss of a man they call a

legend. he was a strong, talented, compassionate, amazing human being who was on his way to doing a lot for a lot of people and i am just ha rd to for a lot of people and i am just hard to see that light no longer shining. he was a really beautiful young man that was kind of a different type of a rapper, you know, in entertainment. he was trying to change the community, bring jobs. yesterday it was nipsey. we've got to do better. nip was due to meet los angeles police today to talk about ways to stop gang violence. instead they are investigating why he was shot dead in broad daylight in the community he was trying to save.

you have been watching newsday. i'm babita sharma in london. and i'm rico hizon in singapore. stay with us. hello there, good morning. the next few days are going to be significantly colder and to illustrate the point, this was gosport, in hampshire, where the temperature on monday was 17 degrees. lovely in the sunshine. same place, tuesday, 9 degrees so quite a drop. any remaining warm air that we've had across southern parts of the uk is getting swept away by this developing north to north—westerly wind and that will push colder air across the whole of the country. now, the colder air comes behind this band of cloud and rain here, that's pushing its way south—eastwards across the uk, with showers, some of them wintry, following in behind. for the rush hour, heading across the midlands, in particular, this rain still could be quite heavy. through the morning, it pushes into east anglia and the south—east. behind it, a couple of hours of dry

weather and sunshine. then showers come packing in and almost anywhere could catch a shower. they may well be heavy, could be some hail and thunder in there and some wintriness over the hills, especially in the north. those temperatures are back down to 8—10 degrees. colder air then arriving across the uk. we set up more of a north to north—westerly wind strengthening on wednesday. that area of low pressure bringing wet weather back in from the north sea. maybe a few icy patches early in the morning. a touch of frost around as well. maybe a bit of snow over the tops of the north york moors. but most of the wet weather looks like it's going to come back into scotland now on wednesday. rain with some sleet and snow over the hills. elsewhere some sunshine but also a few sharp showers. the winds will be a bit stronger for many of us on wednesday, especially across northern and western areas and, although these the sort of temperatures we're looking at — so well below average for this time of year — when you add on the strength of the wind, it will feel significantly colder,

especially in scotland, combined with that wet weather it will be a pretty miserable day for this time of the year. so we're pushing down colder air, at the same time we have this area of low pressure and that's going to sit around probably until thursday as well. so we're left with this sort of weather pattern, with spirals of cloud and showers, along with spells of rain, with some wintry weather over the hills. the position could change quite easily but at the moment it looks a little bit drierfor eastern parts of england. but again, those temperatures are struggling to hit 8—10 degrees. and that is the main story over the next few days. it will be quite a bit colder. there will be a lot of these april showers to come. and over the high ground, it will take on a wintry flavour. and with clear skies at night, there may well be some frost as well.