w's barbara faisal standing by for us in london good morning barbara opposition leader jeremy corbyn called may's plan b. groundhog day was that the general consensus. pretty much and if you look at the british press today einstein gets quoted a lot who is supposed to have said the definition of insanity is he can do the same thing over and over again and expect a different outcome and that's pretty much what people here think it ought to reason mase a strategy what she's doing is waging a war of attrition against her own parliament trying to wear them down and running down the clock and increasing the stress level so that in the end they'll say ok let's get it over was we'll say yes that's pretty much what she seems to have in mind and that is plan b. ok it's not just parliament and her own party the e.u. has also rejected mase plan b. is the deadlock deepening now. the deadlock has in the sense deepened and what happens in problem and is that they are trying to take over the steering wheel and they are tabling today a number of amendments legal propositions that then will be voted

they don't do correspondent barbara faisal is in london outside the houses of parliament welcome barbara the debates begun the vote is tonight what sign is that of the government staving off what looks like a bit what looks likely to be a humiliating defeat. all observers here phil say that the government has absolutely no chance in this world stave off the feat tonight the only question open is really how big is it going to be something that hundreds of former own conservative party hard parliamentarians will leave to reserve a sort of deal down and others expect even more whatever the outcome it means that reason may just has to come back to problem and. present play and be back tonight she has to go through this first the debate is ongoing and she will sort of ended she will have the last word on that however everybody has heard those throughout the last weeks and months knows that she is into endless repetition off her own arguments for the deal and for some kind of breaks it and it is not going to sway anybody and change anything it is a formality bought a painful one for the for th

important than to consider very carefully how they will say tomorrow night to do a correspondent barbara faisal joins us on the line from outside the british parliament welcome barbara series of playing the back my deal all risk because very heavily how likely is that to succeed. that is not likely at all phil because she has tried that before and then have helped to because minds have been up in parliament have been made up in parliament and they're not very likely to change should till tomorrow night so hard for it to cheers i want to know what the oppressive baby really thinks this cliff edge that britain could fall of would be no threat but it would be a chance for the country to sort of present itself to the world in a different way the remainders of course don't want to back to do because they want to remain and they want a second referendum and the ones who are sort of like in the middle want a much softer direction then string them a seal sort of bring says now talking possible so they is not good for anybody and the the lines have been drawn there will be no change so if parliament vot

let's spoil it our correspondent barbara faisal she's standing by in london tonight good evening to you barbara you know today in parliament the opposition labor leader jeremy corbyn he called teresa mayes new plan for braggs groundhog day did she did she put forward anything new. she absolutely did not and you must admit brendon takes a certain amount of cold bloodedness to take plan a that was roundly defeated by a palm and just a week ago blow the dust off that so difficult like that in the meantime and say ok here it is this is the plan why don't you just vote for it and of course i will listen to you objections about what i would do is those objections remains completely unclear i will take them to crawl so it's but then we'll see what happens that's pretty much what she did and it's in a way it's admirable because of course theories are made does what she does best she just carries on and doesn't sit all through of left or right. who would you say she was trying to win over with her address in parliament today. that was completely clear i mean all this was just for her own party a

barbara faisal joining us from bucharest thanks barbara. let's get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world italy has fallen back into recession after its economy shrank again in the fourth quarter of twenty eighteen zero point two percent contraction will put pressure on the populace government of the euro zone's fourth largest economy the coalition took power in july on the back of bins big spending electoral promises such as increasing pensions and introducing a basic income for the poor and for job seekers. a rescue ship with forty seven stranded migrants on board has docked in the italian port of tanya italy's government had refused to let the sea watch vessel and church and italian harbor for twelve days the standoff was resolved when nine countries agreed to take in those trapped on board. of these russian environmental activists have been detained in the city of goma noma one hundred kilometers southeast of moscow the activists are protesting against moscow's garbage policy all of the russian capital's wa

has the blocks foreign ministers meet in romania today and our european affairs correspondent barbara faisal has the very latest in this stately building of the rumanian national bank e.u. foreign ministers are meeting to talk strategy top of the agenda of course venezuela they want to reaffirm their ultimatum against president maduro if he does not permit free fair and supervised elections with an american neighbors in order to have a light for future talks and finally sanctions will be on the agenda but whether there will be a majority to increase those and shopping them is not clear. now e.u. member states want to ease u.s. sanctions against iran so germany france and britain created instax a payment channel that will allow european companies to make legitimate transactions with iran the instrument will facilitate trade between the e.u. and iran as ordinary banks would be at risk the penalties due to sanctions at first food medicine medical products from europe they will all be exchanged through instead this will let europe bulk certain bent u.s. sanctions and uphold the nuclear treaty wi

wants to help yes but not at all costs so barbara faisal if parliament does the votes against a prime minister suppress it do you know what happens then. through the may we'll have to come back to paula meant within three working days so the date for that the latest date for that is monday and come up with a plan b. now what could that likely be she is not going to step down as she is not going to sort of say ok let's have a second referendum see she's not ready to do that yet she might later bought so what she is most likely to do is say all right i have a note to your objections i will now go back to brussels and tell them that it can't be done that i need real change with in the drawl agreement that the contract that is on paper here needs to be renegotiated and then if brussels doesn't play ball sort of everybody comes together again so she will try again and she will tell polman that she is ready to sort of present the deal again l.b. and then change form and whether that will be successful is up to brussels and how much time will be needed to do all this is also still open but t

we'll you know because when the barbara faisal is in london outside the houses of parliament welcome barbara the debates been going on all day the day the vote will happen shortly the government has looked likely to be defeated for some weeks i mean if today speech is shifted the needle. and there is no way that she could do it yesterday or even today in her closing remarks that we are awaiting shortly sort of making any significant change because people in her own party and also of course on the opposition benches had made out their minds well ahead the stumbling stone here seems to be the irish backstop the these insurance policy against a hard core to another novel and however full we have to keep in mind that is more or less only a political pretext because what the heartbreaks the cheers in the only party have you know own party have in the meantime found out they want is a heartbreaks it and they've really taken to the newspapers in making the media rounds and describing how wonderful that would be if britain would just suit shit all day and to try and their effects on the europ

the bbc‘s barbara plett usher is in riyadh where she sat down with prince turki al faisal.my perspective it is going to further complicate the issue rather than find any solutions. and it will further entrench not only the iranians but also the russians and bashar al—assad. so from that perspective it is a very negative development. generaljames mattis was well known here, wasn't he? yes. he was a man who had experience in the area. of course, he was commander of central command. he served, i think, in iraq and afghanistan. so, yes, he was pretty well—known. do you think his departure is a loss for saudi—us relations? i think it is action that counts, rather than personalities. we still have to wait and see what is going to happen with his departure. when it comes to iran to you think israel is a better ally than qatar? as long as they occupy arab territory — and look at how they are treating the palestinian people in the west bank and gaza — there is not going to be any way of cooperation between the kingdom and israel. there is cooperation between the kingdom and israel a

the bbc‘s barbara plett usher is in riyadh where she sat down with prince turki al faisal.actions the us actions from my perspective is that it is further going to placate the issue rather than find solutions and it will further intensified the iranian ‘s and the russians so from that perspective of course, it's a very negative development. general mattis was well—known here. negative development. general mattis was well-known here. yes, he was a man who had experience in the area, the commander of centre command, he served in iraq and afghanistan so pretty well—known. served in iraq and afghanistan so pretty well- known. do you served in iraq and afghanistan so pretty well-known. do you think that his departure is a loss for us — saudi relations? i think it is action that counts rather than personalities. we still have to wait and see what is going to happen with his departure. when it comes to iran, but think israel is a better ally than qatar? as long as they occu py ally than qatar? as long as they occupy arab territory and look at how they are treating the palestinian