laura -- laura bicker in seoul. at least seven people are now known to have died in separate incidents across the alps following avalanches caused by a weekend of heavy snowfall. mountain rescuers are continuing to search for several missing people as the second—highest avalanche warning remains in place across parts of austria, germany and italy. eliza phillipides reports. roads are blocked, schools are closed. but, even so, people are trying to clear pathways to get out of their homes. with so much snow already on the ground and more on the way, officials say the chances of further avalanches are high. translation: the bavarian avalanche warning institute has issued a level four warning, the second—highest, which also poses a high risk of avalanches in unsecured skiing areas. in central and northern austria, up to 1.5 metres of snow has already fallen since the middle of last week. this greenhouse in salzburg collapsed under the weight of the snow. in southern austria, it snowed all day. many roads are blocked. the situation is very difficult. people have been stranded in villages and the helicopters deployed for avalanche control have been grounded because of the bad weather. translation: more than 500 residents are cut off, but i've spoken with the mayor and he said everyone is calm. with around 80 centimetres of snow forecast in austria from tuesday, things look set to remain difficult. the former chairman of the japanese car—maker nissan, carlos ghosn, has appeared in court for the first time since his arrest in november on suspicion of financial misconduct. mr ghosn said he had been falsely accused and unfairly detained, and denied the charges against him. 0ur correspondent rupert—wingfield hayes is in tokyo. bring us up to date with what happened during that court appearance? we had a ten minute statement from carlos ghosn, this is the first time we have heard from him and 50 days, since his arrest at tokyo airport on november 19. he has been out of circulation in a detention cell, being interrogated for all of that time and it is the first chant mr ghosn has had to publicly state his position and belief that he is innocent, and he did that systematically going through and rejecting all of the charges against him. later, just a short while ago, his lawyer held a lengthy press conference in which he went into much greater detail, rejecting one by one the charges laid against mr ghosn. i suppose you would say they would say that, wouldn't they? and we had to wait until it gets to court and all the evidence is laid out to see exactly how strong the case against mr ghosn is. we have learned some interesting anecdotes, mr ghosn has lost weight, he has been moved to a bigger room and never sleeps on a western—style bed instead of a tatami mat on the floor. he described him as being calm and logical in their two and a half hour daily meetings but said he is definitely upset he has been denied any family visits up until now. the 1.1 came away with at the end of this press conference was that this is the beginning of a very long road for mr ghosn, if he is indicted this week his own lawyer thinks he will probably be held until there is a trial, and because this is such a complicated case, that could take at least six months. so it seems like carlos ghosn will remain behind bars in a cell awaiting trial for quite a long time to come. thank you for the update, rupert wingfield—hayes. the us national security advisor, john bolton, is in turkey for what are expected to be tense talks on the planned withdrawal of american troops from syria. there are some indications president trump is rowing back on how soon the pull—out will happen. in a tweet, he criticised the new york times for its coverage of his intentions on syria, saying... last month, he'd tweeted "they're all coming back and they're coming back now." he will be holding talks with the national defence minister here in turkey and the intelligence chief, and probably, most probably, president erdogan himself. it is not in the official announcements but we expect that meeting to take place today. mr erdogan has written an opinion piece for the new york times today, outlining turkey's strategy, saying that mr trump's call to withdraw us troops was the right moves to make and that turkey had a comprehensive strategy and turkey is the right partner to move in cooperation with the us and the only committed partner as well. he talks about calling it —— forming a stabilisation force from all the fighters within syria and later issuing adequate political representation from all communities. 0ur audiences might remember that mr bolton have proposed a new condition for the withdrawal of the us troops on sunday and had said that turkey should agree to protect the kurdish forces, the ypg forces, for the withdrawal to take place. of course, that has frustrated and kara, because i'm cara considers the ypg forces as terrorists, as a national security threat. —— that has frustrated ankara, because ankara considers. there was a walk for three decades which cost over 40,000 lives. plans have been announced to ban people in france from taking part in anti—government protests which haven't been registered with the authorities. it follows weeks of violent demonstrations over fuel duty rises, which left six people dead and hundreds more injured. the french prime minister said the new legislation would also clamp down on protestors wearing masks on the streets. £16 million of government money will be given to a charity to train 900 new children's social workers in england. the department for education is handing over the cash to social work charity frontline over the next two years, to fund the places on its training programme for graduates and people changing their careers. latest figures show there are almost 6000 vacancies for children's social workers in england and a turnover of 14%. the education secretary damian hinds explained. the organisation, it's a voluntary organisation, does particular good work, it's been very in bringing new people into thinking about moving into social work, and we've had great success with that. so this announcement today is about further funding for another 900 people to come through this programme, which means you can do a masters social work programme while getting experience at the front line. in a moment the weather, but first let's here's victoria derbyshire with what she's got coming up in her programme at ten. good morning. a woman who launched a petition to lower the screening age for cervical cancerfrom petition to lower the screening age for cervical cancer from 25 to 18 reached her target days after she died from the disease. we will be talking to natasha's partner dean and two of their children. also, as 50 mps write to the met over abuse and intimidation of politicians outside parliament, do you agree it is time for the police to step in? e—mail or send us a message on twitter, we're with you half an hour on bbc two, bbc news and online. now time for the weather forecast with carol kirkwood. good morning. a fairly cloudy start to the day, hazy sunshine, the cloud since breaks, more sunny spells developing, but with his keen northerly winds we're dragging in more cloud from the north sea and dave you showers. it will be brisk down the north sea coastline and with recent high tides we could see issues with perhaps some coastal flooding. inland, looking at a blustery day, the strongest winds in the north and east. through the evening and overnight we have the northerly winds bringing in all this clouds, if you showers, some wintry in the north york the grampians —— in the north york the grampians —— in the north york moors and the grampians. to the west, a weather front will introduce an winds, thick cloud and spots of rain. in between that cloud and the crowd from the north sea, we will see sunshine, but it will feel much colder. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: mps who oppose leaving the eu without a deal will today try to limit the government's financial powers to prepare for it. calls for police to do more to stop abusive protesters outside parliament — after a conservative mp was confronted yesterday. crowd: soubry is a nazi! soubry is a nazi! well, apologies to you if you're offended by that. ijust think this is astonishing. three million new social homes must be built in england within 20 years to solve the housing crisis, according to a major charity. some child victims of sexual assault are being failed by privately—run forensics centres, according to a bbc investigation. three—quarters of penguins that end up stranded on south america's coast every year are female. now scientists think they know why. time now for the morning briefing, where we bring you up to speed on the stories people are watching, reading and sharing. as theresa may gears up to persuade mps to back her brexit deal, taoiseach leo varadkar has said the eu is willing to give britain fresh reassurances about the irish backstop before next week's crucial vote. but talking to bbc radio 4's the today programme, former brexit secretary david davis said that those reassurances would not be enough. let's hear more of what he had to say. the reason it will not be enough is because it needs to be legally binding, that is the first thing. secondly, it is not the only problem with the theresa may and number 10 deal. there are other problems with it in terms of giving £39 billion over with no conditions attached to it. the original idea was the 39 billion on an understanding that we get a free trade deal. we are obliged to give most of that £39 billion. sorry? we are obliged... no, we are not. that is a false assertion i'm afraid. contracts that we had signed up to, pensions agreements signed and all the rest of it, a lot of it, otherwise we would become international pariahs. no. the guideline on this is the constitutional committee of the house of lords at the beginning of this process looked at all of this, mostly their lawyers, and they said no, this is a matter of negotiation, and that is right, it is a matter of negotiation. if we sign up to the withdrawal deal then we will be committed, then we do have to pay. but to come back to your point and the pointjohn pienaar made, the deal on the table, what mr barclay has said, is the only deal on the table, actually that will not prove to be true. the government is running out of time, running down the clock, but actually there are already signs, the taoiseach‘s comments being one of them, that the european union knows it needs a deal and it will come back. are you saying you believe they, even as we speak, in brussels, are thinking, right, let us now renegotiate, or is it beyond that, do they actually have another plan there waiting to deliver? i don't think either is likely. what is going on at the moment is they are testing the mettle of this government... they have been doing that for two years. exactly, they have, and we haven't tested them enough. it takes us back to our conversation a few months ago. the simple truth is that they will hold fast to their line, this is the traditional approach of the european commission, the european union, they will hold fast their line until the last possible minute and then if we hold fast our line then they will actually come back and renegotiate. with what? what will they come back to negotiate? what will they offer us that they have not? it will be what we demand and this is where... we know what we want, we want, as you have just said yourself, legal assurances on the backstop. we want legal assurances. that would do it, would it? no, not by itself. we also want some sort of undertaking on a free—trade deal. we want that 39 billion conditional on delivering of a free trade deal. there are other elements too but those are the key elements. the trouble is, you know as much as anybody else what you are asking for, certainly the deal as you put it, is the sort of thing that says to the rest the world, you might as well leave the european union, you can get all the benefits you had in it without all the costs. no, the reason for the free—trade deal, the free trade plus deal, is it is based entirely on european precedents. it is often called canada plus plus plus because it is based on canada, it is based on south korea, it is based on new zealand, all of these deals previously done with the european union. so the european union has signed up to these before. it hasn't got an argument that says this undermines the single market. this will undermine european interest because it has done it before. so the point being this will get very sticky very close to the end, that is what will happen, and we have to work out what is negotiable and what is not. and there's already been reaction to that interview, with labour mp david lammy writing on twitter... england must launch the biggest council and social housing building drive in its history to prevent millions of people living in dangerous, overcrowded or unsuitable homes, according to a new report. a cross—party commission has told the government it must build three million new homes over 20 years to solve the country's housing crisis. former labour leader ed miliband, who was one of the report authors, spoke to bbc breakfast. this is a proposal to transform the fabric of our country and the lives of millions of people in our country and i think it is essential to solving the housing crisis. that is the conclusion of our cross—party commission. it is a big sum of money we make no bones about it, that 10 billion should be set in the context of an overall government budget for capital investment in things like transport and housing and so on of about 60 billion. so there is perhaps some room in that budget, but there's also a strong case, we argue in the commission, for really thinking about social housing in a different way. as an economic asset to our country. if you invest in social housing government gets a return in the rent, it saves money in benefits over time because actually people are going to be... there will be less money spent on housing benefit in social rental sector compared to high private sector rent and there are higher tax revenues from the construction sector. so it is a big amount of money but it does create an asset for government and for the country and most importantly it solves the housing crisis or goes a long way to solving a housing crisis which affects i think everyone in our country. what is wrong with the government's current plans? 9 billion until 2022. they say they are going to build a quarter of a million homes in that time. they are totally inadequate. the reality is the governments of both parties, this is not party political, have been inadequate on this. the last labour government did not do nearly enough. this government isn't doing nearly enough. to give you one figure, in the years after the second world war governments labour and conservative built about 126,000 social homes, council housing and housing associations, every single year. in the last 20 years or so we have built 20,000 social homes per year. that is one of the big causes of the housing crisis. what is important about this report is this is notjust important for the people who might be living in social homes and we want that to go beyond the neediest to some of the elderly who face insecure private rented accommodation or families who feel trapped in high—cost housing. but also for people who do not live in social housing this is an essential way of tackling the housing crisis because because spiralling house prices, low levels of home ownership relatively speaking, these are in some senses a consequence of our failure to build in the social rented sector. i am glad that you said that various governments have failed for many years. theresa may has said that she suggested developers may be to blame because they have been land banking and waiting for prices to rise. do you think that is an issue? yes, i think it is an issue and i said that when i was running to be prime minister in 2015. i welcome one of the things that theresa may has done which is to lift the cap on council borrowing to spend on council housing. i think she does in some sense recognise that this is a problem and that the attitude needs to change but i think the problem is the scale. if we are building a few thousand more, 10,000 more, council homes a year, then that is just not nearly the scale of the problem, meeting the scale of the problem, and it is not nearly meeting what we did under governments of both parties in the period after the second world war. the popularity of house plants will continue to rise in 2019 as millennials who don't have gardens seek to beautify their homes, according to the royal horticultural society. matthew pottage, from the rhs, told bbc breakfast which plants are the most popular. ferns here, foliage plants, there is one called devil's ivy, there is a swiss cheese plant, mother—in—law's tongue, a couple of those were really big in the 70s and having a massive revival now. and you put it down to? social media? social media is really helping us, instagram, quite visual social media, where you have things with colourful foliage, textural foliage, interesting forms. they are really cool close—up photos and a lot of people do not have their own gardens and these things are great in the home just on your regular windowsill so everyone can get gardening. i have got a very good record of killing plants, of these ones here, what are the easiest and is there one that requires least care? mother—in—law's tongue. absolutely indestructible. there it is, in the middle of the camera. yeah, with sword shaped leaves. you would probably have to put that in a freezer to kill it. i do not know if that is something you have tried before. no. they need hardly any water, just a sunny windowsill, they are really easy and straightforward. it is the fun of growing something, of nurturing something, and bringing it on in your home. house plants and grow your own both having a real big trend at the moment, people are interested to know where their food comes from and are having a go at growing it themselves. we can look at what you are looking at and reading about. looking at the abuse yesterday. also women over 52 old to love? someone saying he would be incapable of loving a woman over 50. someone saying women loving a woman over 50. someone saying women over loving a woman over 50. someone saying women over 50 breathing a sigh of relief. he is known for courting controversy in his comments. he said 50—year—old women do not see me either, they have something else to do other than be around in ——. he said at! this is very cute. us governor's sleepy son invades speech. the two—year—old son of california's new governor. he has stolen the show at his inauguration speech. he climbed on the stage with his dad and didn't want to go. his dad jolt this was scripted! he said one of his policies would be support for appearance. he said they need support, trust me! cue laughterfrom eve ryo ne support, trust me! cue laughterfrom everyone who was watching. his mum tried to grab him, his older brother tried to grab him, his older brother tried to grab him, his older brother tried to grab him, it took both of them together, but he had made his mark. the two—year—old them together, but he had made his mari the e two—year—old ” ' career in sport now and a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. good morning. we'll be looking at the draw for round four of the fa cup in a minute — but wolves pulled off the final surprise of the third round weekend, beating the league leaders liverpool 2—1. ben croucher reports. the fa cup may not have been top of liverpool's priority list this season, now it's not on the list at all. a night that ended in a whimper but started with a bit of a bang, well, off the field. liverpool's changes included a portuguese debutant and a dutch one off the bench. still, even the experienced ones were capable of errors. james milner‘s loose touch, fabinho's missed tackle, rauljimenez‘s run — and finish. commentator: rauljimenez,1—0! that was all there was to show in the first half. divock 0rigi's powerful strike the best goal of the game — for about four minutes. commentator: nevez, might have a go — did have a go! scores. rueben nevez for wolverhampton wanderers! it moved and it dipped and it beat mignolet! shaqiri's free—kick had the dip, had the swerve, but didn't beat john ruddy, or the wolverhampton woodwork — that close to an equaliser. but that couldn't save liverpool from defeat. another trophy slips py, but the result that might just see them win another one. very good things. all my responsibility, really, no rhythm, so it looks sometimes like that. shot from long range. the ball is in, 2—1. that is pretty much the story of the game. if you're looking for more fa cup action, the bbc sport website has the best of it — two minutes—worth of third—round goals — and you can vote for your favourite. the draw for the fourth round produced one stand—out tie — arsenal against manchester united. arsenal are the most successful side in fa cup history — they've won it 13 times, most recently two years ago — but that's only once more than manchester united, so we should be in for a treat. there are a couple of other ties worth a mention — non—league barnet, the lowest—ranked side left in the competition, are at home to brentford. and newport county's reward for knocking out leicester is a trip to middlesbrough of the championship. yes, it is a long journey, a tough game. it would be good to see tony pulis, the newport man, who is in charge. it is a game we will look forward to. hopefully they are concentrating on going for promotion and getting back into the premier league. they are a big club and they take their eye off the ball and we have a very good day and surprise them again. the wolves win obviously features on all today's back pages. the telegraph sports section talks of neves's "wonder goal". the sun are pretty harsh on liverpool — "dunces with wolves" is their headline. the mirror report that the manchester united players want 0le gunnar solskjaer to say on as manager, past the end of the season. but in the express, the man tipped to be taking over at united, mauricio pochettino, says he'd like a chat with arsene wenger, to discuss the merits of sticking with a club for the long—haul — in particular, putting up with a move to a new stadium. we're expecting padraig harrington to be confirmed as europe's next ryder cup captain this afternoon. harrington has been vice—captain for the last three contests and he's the overwhelming favourite to take over from thomas bjorn. europe face the usa at whistling straits in wisconsin, in september of next year. the announcement, at 1pm, will be streamted live on all the major social media platforms and the ryder cup website. is there a more spectacular setting for a motor rally than this? negotiating the peruvian desert dunes from lima to pisco was the challenge on the first stage of the dakar rally. the toyota of two time winner nasser al—attiyah leads reigning champion carlos sainz by almost two minutes. britain's sam sunderland is fifth in the motorcycle category — he won the event two years ago. that's all from me for now but don't forget to watch sportsday on bbc news at 6:30pm and later on radio 5 live you can listen to commentary from that league cup semi—final first leg, between tottenham and chelsea. that's goodbye from me but there'll be more from the bbc sport centre throughout the day. the headlines on bbc news: mps who oppose leaving the eu without a deal will today try to limit the government's financial powers to prepare for no—deal. calls for police to do more to stop abusive protesters outside parliament — after a conservative mp was confronted yesterday. three million new social homes must be built in england within 20 years to solve the housing crisis, according to a major charity. every year, thousands of penguins become stranded on south america's coast — and most of them are females. why it happens has been a mystery for years, but now scientists believe they may have found the answer. 0ur science reporter lauraa small group and found the males and females went their separate ways. they found the males, who are bigger and thought to be stronger swimmers, would head to deeper water, whereas the females travelled farther, preferring to search for food in shallow places. the researchers say that travelling further means they're more likely to run into trouble. they usually appeared stranded on the beach once they die at sea. and other times they arrive to the coast in that condition, because they were not able to get enough food, and so they go to the beach to die. it's not known exactly what causes these strandings but the fishing industry and man—made pollution is often blamed. although magellanic penguins aren't endangered, fewer females could affect future numbers. the team in patagonia are going to continue studying the same group to learn more about the routes they take to see what more can be done to assist the penguins. how do you fancy a roll up television, or a robot which folds up you
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