the authorities in china have imposed strict travel restrictions in the province of hu bay, the epicentre of the coronavirus. all large scale party celebrations have been cancelled. day four of donald trump's impeachment trial in the us senate is wrapping up. a powerful earthquake has struck eastern turkey, killing at least 18 people and damaging buildings near the epicenter of the tremor. at least 30 people are believed to be trapped under the rubble. we will bring you updates throughout the night.

now on bbc news, the week in parliament. hello and welcome to the week in parliament — a week in which a key piece of government brexit legislation finally becomes law. her majesty has signified her royal assent to the following act, european union withdrawal agreement, act 2020. order, order. a former hospital consultant warns of the dangers of the virus which has infected hundreds of people in china. although the chinese have sequenced the genomes of the virus, it is mutated and now spreads directly from human to human. and in a special debate to mark holocaust memorial day, mps share harrowing family experiences.

i learned that my own great—grandmother, reina sevilla, was deported from the vel d'hiv via drancy to birkenau concentration camp, where she was murdered in the gas chambers. but first, it's been three years in the making, but finally the eu withdrawal agreement bill has become law. this key piece of legislation sets out the terms of the uk's divorce from the european union. the road has been rough as well as long, but the general election and the big majority it delivered for the conservatives meant that lately things have been a bit smoother. but there was a little bit of last—minute turbulence, thanks to the lords. earlier this week, opposition peers inflicted five defeats on the government. the most notable was over the rights of unaccompanied child refugees. the labour peer, alf dubs, who came to the uk as a child to escape the nazis, had proposed changing the bill so that it included a commitment to negotiate with the eu to make sure that unaccompanied

child refugees could join relatives in the uk. family is one of the basic things that we all have to believe in. and if young people who have worked their way, sometimes in hazardous and dangerous conditions, from halfway across the world, from war and conflict in syria or afghanistan, and if the incentive is that they have family here, surely it is right that we should take note of that are not close the door on them? an independent peer confessed he was baffled. i do not understand what the government are planning to do. i did take part in the committee stage and i did speak on this and listen to the minister at the second reading, and i still am none the wiser as to why it is here. a conservative defended the government. if this amendment is defeated, the government will then stop taking any further child refugees in. i think that defies all credibility.

lord dubs said he didn't trust the government as a whole. others agreed. well, we've lost the art of building consensus and taking an argument forward with the respect and even affection that we have for each other when we are outside the debating chamber. the reason why the house is so nervous, not that we in any way don't trust the word of the noble lady the minister, it isjust that the prime minister has got a habit of saying one thing on europe and then doing another thing. it's a distressing thing, that this house is not prepared to believe what is being said on behalf of the government by a minister on this issue. the minister said the government was committed to protecting vulnerable children. over 5000 unaccompanied children are being

cared for in england alone, a 146% increase since 2014. peers voted on that issue and four others — defeating the government each time. but downing street wasn't having it — ministers would overturn all the changes. so back to the commons it went. and sure enough. i can only say again, mr speaker, as i did in our previous debates, that the government policy is unchanged. the chair of the home affairs committee in the last parliament still felt there was something fishy about not having protection for child refugees in the bill. and that is what makes us all suspicious, that he wants to remove it because there is some reason why he thinks it will restrict what he wants to do and therefore that he is going to in the end betray the commitments that have been made to the most vulnerable children overall. in the commons, the government was back to winning ways and all the lords' amendments were overturned. the only question now was what would peers do? give in or have another go at amending?

the question is that the motions b to e be agreed to on bloc. as many are of that opinion say content. all: content. the contrary, not content. any not—contents decided to fight no more. so the bill went off to the palace for the royal sign—off. atjust past six o'clock on thursday evening, in one final act, the tortuous passage of the withdrawal agreement bill was at an end. my lords, i have to notify the house, in accordance with the royal assent act 1967, that her majesty the queen has signified her royal assent to the following act — european union withdrawal agreement act. that was a bit low—key, wasn't it? but there was one postscript — the brexit bill failed to win over the uk's devolved legislatures. it is the first time that all three have withheld their consent on such a measure, although that doesn't stop it becoming law. the scottish parliament rejected the bill earlier this month. this week, a motion withholding consent passed in the northern ireland assembly.

and the welsh assembly voted against the bill. a mandate for brexit is not a mandate for bad legislation. and as far as wales is concerned, this legislation remains very bad indeed. it will undermine our economy in damaging ways and more importantly, in ways which could be avoided. at prime minister's questions, the snp accused the government of riding roughshod over the rights of the nations. devolution is under attack from this tory government. powers are being grabbed back to westminster. there is no respect for the people of scotland, for wales, and northern ireland, their governments or their decisions. ian blackford. the government convened its emergency cobra committee to discuss ministers' response to the flu—like virus that has affected parts of china.

hundreds of cases have been reported and a number of people have died. the infection first emerged last month in the central city of wuhan. it's now spread to other parts of the country. on wednesday in the lords, an independent peer and former hospital consultant explained why an outbreak could be dangerous. it is 80% genetically identical to the sars virus which killed a significant number of people, and we now understand that although the chinese have sequenced the genome of the virus that it is mutated and now it spreads directly from human to human, which raises the likelihood that it will spread more widely. from today, enhanced monitoring will be in place for all direct flights from wuhan to the uk. public health officials will meet every direct flight from wuhan to the uk and will be on hand to provide information about symptoms. mandarin and cantonese speakers will be on hand and leaflets will be available in several languages. the next day, the health secretary

came to the commons to update mps on measures being taken in the uk. he said the risk in the uk had been revised from very low to low. while there is an increased likelihood that cases may arise in this country, we are well—prepared and well equipped to deal with them. the uk is one of the first countries to have developed a world leading test for the new coronavirus. the nhs is ready to respond appropriately to any cases that emerge. clinicians both in primary and secondary care have already received advice covering initial detection and investigation of possible cases, infection prevention and control and clinical diagnostics. matt hancock. now, something that might once have been called an eye—catching initiative began doing the rounds last week — that the government was considering relocating the house of lords out of london. the city of york emerged as the frontrunner. can the minister confirm the reports

that number ten has said that this is a serious proposal? the minister said the conservatives were committed to reviewing the role of the lords, and... my lords, far greater minds than my own are applying themselves to this important question. does my noble friend think that when the people in so many constituencies in the north lent their votes to the conservative party, they were longing for more politicians to be sent to them? one local man offered hospitality. my lords, i found myself taking a renewed interest in this question. and perhaps i could put on record that i will later this year have a large garden available in york. a former first sea lord wondered if the new home really had to be land—based. if we are going to do anything as bodmin as splitting us from the commons, would i hope that number ten might consider using one of the great cunarders as somewhere for the lords be based? therefore, it could go and visit

all parts of the united kingdom. my lord... the noble lord puts forward an extremely imaginative idea which again will be listened to. lord howe. now, the election delivered 140 first time mps and each of them has to do an inaugural or maiden speech. now, my calculations may be wrong but i think 58 of them have already got to their feet in the commons for that all—important moment. we persuaded two of those 58 to come into the studio. a conservative, mark fletcher, who won bolsoverfrom labour, unseating the veteran dennis skinner, and labour's florence eshalomi, who retained vauxhall for her party. starting a newjob is stressful at the best of times, but imagine walking into that building on day one. i asked them how it felt. it's very humbling, very intimidating, and very easy to get lost. and i think you just sort of try and take deep breaths and take it all in.

you basically go into a series of introduction meetings, and they try and tell you everything and you don't take very much of it in. did you find the same, florence? it's the same. i think like mark, i always look for the new mps. we all have special lanyards and whenever we are going somewhere and i get lost, ijust follow the crowd, really. and one of the most testing moments is your maiden speech, which you have both now delivered. mark, yours was mainly... a lot of it was paying tribute to your predecessor, which is quite hard, isn't it, when you've got a veteran labour predecessor? erm... i didn't think it was hard. i think it was... to get the tone right, which was something that was really important to me, because a lot of the people who voted for me in this election had voted for dennis for many years. i wanted to try and pay tribute to that and to make sure that it was very respectful. he is the fourth longest serving mp continuously and i think it was important that we acknowledged that. but hard to talk about a labour mp, and someone of dennis skinner's

standing, in yourfirst time standing up? yes. it was certainly not the easiest thing. i was incredibly nervous. but i was also, you know, talking about dennis but also talking about a constituency that i absolutely love. and florence, your speech was very moving because you spoke about a stabbing incident that you'd witnessed. yeah, it was difficult, and i still remember that tuesday early evening. and when i made that call to the emergency services, it is a road that i have driven down for the last five years, it is close to where my children go to nursery. but your mind just goes blank and when you're seeing a young boy with so much blood, just trying to tell the emergency services, come now, quickly, my call probably didn't make any sense because i was panicking, i was scared, myself and the two other members of the public that were helping this young boy. but like i said, what was really concerning for me was that some members of the public walked past us

and they could clearly see that something was going on. you know, it is walking distance from kennington tube station, so a very busy commute for a number of people, and ijust wanted to highlight that as all of us, as a society, we cannot turn a blind eye and become desensitised to the issue of knife crime. and you felt that was the real thing you had to talk about for your maiden speech? i had to. so, for me, growing up in my constituency, and growing up on a council estate, one of the roughest council estates in brixton, there was often... iremembergrowing up and people would stereotype you because of where you lived. and working with a number of young people in and around lambeth, in vauxhall, those young people have ambitions, those young people have talent, it is about how we tap into that. so, we have to be careful that we don't write off a generation but we continue to create the opportunities, the positive opportunities for them so they don't see a life of crime is the only option.

well, you're both here now, and you've started on your political careers. mark, first of all, your party's in power, you see... do you look at borisjohnson and think, "i could do that"? no! i don't think any sane person would ever do that. it's a tremendously difficultjob. to be honest, i'd quite like the role of a backbench mp who's very effective for his constituency. i think that that is exactly what i need to be. and, florence, when labour's fortunes, if and when they turn around, would you like to get on the front bench? what i'd like to do... again, like mark, i've taken over for someone who was in the constituency for a number of years. she served for 30 years — kate hoey — so for me, the top task is getting embedded, meeting a number of different groups and communities... a number of them, i know very well, but like with most constituencies, there's always smaller groups, new groups, new businesses. so i'm keen to get out, get stuck out, in the constituency. florence eshalomi and mark fletcher, thank you very much.

the 27th of january is holocaust memorial day. this year, it's all the more significant because it's 75 years since the liberation of the auschwitz death camp. on thursday, over a0 world leaders gathered at israel's yad vashem holocaust memorial to remember more than a million people who were murdered in the camp. the organisers said the focus was fighting anti—semitism. to mark holocaust memorial day, mps shared their stories. and the first concerned a survivor called lily ebert. in 19114, when she was just 1a years old, the nazis deported her and her family from her hungarian hometown to auschwitz. she was with her mother, brother and three sisters. upon her arrival, they were split up, either directed left or right. lily's mother, brother and sister were told to go right and they were taken to the gas chambers and crematorium. lily and her two sisters were directed the other way. they never saw the others again. the only possession lily was able to keep with her on herjourney

was her gold pendant given to her by her mother, which, remarkably, survived the camp with her — hidden in the heel of her shoe. 75 years have passed since liberation. lily is now a proud great—grandmother. she still wears the tiny gold pendant and shares its remarkable story with all of those who will listen. a labour mp discovered his personal connection to the holocaust only recently. i learned that my own great—grandmother, reina sevilla, was deported from the vel d'hiv, via drancy, to birkenau concentration camp, where she was murdered in the gas chambers — a direct, personal connection to the holocaust itself. of course, all genocides are remembered on holocaust memorial day. bob stewart was the british commander in bosnia. he described his very personal experience of genocide. we had to dig a mass grave. we, your soldiers, did that.

in that mass grave, we put over a hundred bodies, mainly women and children, mainly... well, they were all muslims — bosnian muslims. but it was the holocaust that dominated the debate. an snp mp recalled her visit to yad vashem injerusalem. i lost my own mum just before i visited yad vashem and i was utterly shattered to see on display a pair of glasses that somebody had kept that had belonged to their own mum who had died in a concentration camp. and she'd kept her mum's old broken glasses with her, she kept them on her person until the end of her own life, because that was all she had of her. ajewish labour mp accused the hard left of weaponising the holocaust on social media. i regularly receive images which, for example, have piles of dead bodies from nazi death camps, swastikas alongside israeli flags. i'm likened to ss guards and i've

seen online remarks calling for a final solution to my sort of politics. does my honourable friend agree with me that the internet remains an under—regulated and unchecked medium in which these attitudes can grow? and does she agree with me that we should be taking action to both regulate better and check better what is allowed on social media? dame margaret hodge. and now let's take a look at some other news from westminster. the former prime minister theresa may said the inquiry into the grenfell tower fire must establish why flammable cladding was used on the building. despite the regulations, despite all the requirements that were there, we still had this building with this cladding which did not meet the building regulations, and the question must be, who took decisions along the line that led

to this being possible? were these decisions that were taken because of misinterpretation or misunderstanding of building regulations? ministers came under pressure over a number of deaths on smart motorways. these roads use technology to monitor and manage the flow of traffic and vehicles can use the hard shoulder. a labour mp described the experience of one of her constituents. last year injune, my constituent jason mercer said goodbye to his wife, clare, at 8am. in 15 minutes, he and another motorist were dead. jason had been involved in a minor collision on the m1 in south yorkshire. in march 2017, the hard shoulder on that section of motorway had been converted to a full—time running lane. with no emergency refuge in sight, jason and his fellow motorist were forced to stop in a live lane to exchange details. there is a steep bank immediately behind the safety barrier, so nowhere for them to move off the road. instead, they were left exposed when a lorry hit one

of the stationary vehicles, killing them both instantly. i can't change the past, i can't bring jason back to clare, but, minister, it is in your gift to stop more deaths. prime minister's questions was dominated by a row about universal credit, the benefit introduced by the conservative—led coalition government to simplify the benefits system. the labour leader was concerned about the length of time new claimants have to wait before they receive the benefit. under this government, 65 million meals were handed out by the trussell food banks over the last five years. the five—week delay for new claimants is leaving people without enough money to cover basic needs. why isn't the prime minister taking action to end this punitive and vicious five—week wait for benefits? mr speaker, universal credit has in fact succeeded in getting 200,000 people intojobs and,

contrary to what he says, the number of people in poverty has diminished by 400,000 under this government. contrary to what he says, wages have been increasing solidly for the last 22 months. counter—terrorism police in south—east england admitted an "error ofjudgement" after listing the climate protest group extinction rebellion as an "extreme ideology". the security minister supported the decision to remove extinction rebellion from the list. we and the police have both said that protest groups are not extremist groups, and membership of a protest organisation is not, nor should it ever be, an indicator that an individual is vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism. but there were other examples of protest groups on the list. the police might say this is an error of judgement, but it is also part of a pattern. footage of my own arrest for peaceful protest against fracking was used in prevent training sessions acting 2015.

and in 2016, the home office said that support for anti—fracking is not an indicator of vulnerability to extremism, but years later, evidence shows that four police forces were still all identifying anti—fracking as a perceived extremist risk. mr speaker, i've been a member of scottish cnd for many years. would the minister agree with me that it's ludicrous, perverse and offensive that an organisation of people peacefully protesting indiscriminate murder with nuclear weapons has ended up in this document? and in the lords, it was a case of and now for something completely different. we now come to all questions, for the first ever time, to a secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport. nicky morgan stood down as an mp at the general election, but as lady morgan, she kept herjob as culture secretary — and so we had a moment of parliamentary history when peers took part in a mini question time. but that could be the first and last session. it emerged that lady morgan will be stepping down as culture secretary when borisjohnson reshuffles

his cabinet next month. now, what's been happening in the wider world of politics this week? faye kidd has our countdown. at 5, baroness ritchie of downpatrick confesses a guilty pleasure in the house of lords. now, whilst i wasn't at the debate last week, i listened on bbc parliament. some people might think that's a rather sad thing to do. at 4, speaker of the house sir lindsay hoyle has been practising some new techniques. order, order, order! fine! at 3, when the going gets tough, the tough...well, get going. david lammy charms the lords' committee room. ..at the very time when people are expecting britain to look very different in the years ahead. you'll forgive me, but on that bombshell, i really do need to get to prime minister's questions. at 2, forever mixing politics with the afterlife,

it's the leader of the house, mrjacob rees—mogg. i cannot promise a debate on mr gray, but i will pray for his soul. and at 1, president trump shares the spotlight with greta thunberg at davos. she beat me out on time magazine. faye kidd. and finally, there are many different oratorical styles in the house of commons. some — like the prime minister — give free range to their thoughts and often diverge quite dramatically from their written speeches. others, though, read every word, papers obscuring their face. one veteran conservative wasn't happy about the practice of reading questions out loud — and he made his thoughts known in a point of order. is there not at least a possibility that, were members required to remember their questions, at least some of them wouldn't bang on so long and all our time could be used more effectively?

when we came in together in 1997, it was frowned upon to actually read a question. people had to do the question without help and assistance. what i would say is, we've got a new parliament, a lot of new members are learning the way. and hopefully, people get into the habit — rather quickly — of actually doing the question without aid. laughter i hate to bang on, but, mr speaker, it's the older ones that are the worst! and that brings us to the end of the programme. i don't think that i really need that. don't forget there's a round up of the day in parliament each night on bbc parliament at 11pm. but for now from me, mandy baker, goodbye.

hello. after a manly tracer to the weekend, a spell of rain spending east across the uk on sunday —— mainly dry the beacon. this is how saturday shaping up. a zone of brightest guys just pushing further north across england and wales for a time during the day but then thicker cloud comes back and some drizzly rain around in places. tense for a bit of drizzle across northern ireland and scotland. a windy day here, mild day elsewhere. turning breezy or is this what the system —— this weather system begins to move in. during sunday, it will push further east. operates a more substantial rain, rather frost free started the on sunday. they will be some brighter sprains behind the rain the sun will really come out in

northern ireland, in scotland, brighter after the rain. a breezy day turning quarter as some rain clears.

welcome to bbc world news — i'm james reynolds. our top stories... china reports more deaths from the respiratory coronavirus as the first cases in europe are confirmed. the search for survivors continues after a powerful earthquake strikes eastern turkey. at least 18 people are dead. democrats conclude opening arguments in president trump's impeachment trial with a warning "he is a threat to democracy". president trump, by such conduct has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national security and the constitution,