mrs may has received from the opposition labour leader mr corbyn. he has scrapped his six tests, which many thought unachievable and instead has offered to help her secure "a sensible agreement" that can win the support of parliament. there are five conditions. we're joined now from cardiff by labour mp anna mcmorrin. great to have you with us. in this letter, and i've read it all, there's no mention of a second referendum. well, we do know that it is labour party policy. all options are on the table, including that all—important people's vote. in fact jeremy written to all members this evening setting that out very clearly. could you support a labour party that, in the words of one labourmp, acts as party that, in the words of one labour mp, acts as the midwife for the tory brexit? look, what i think thatjeremy is the tory brexit? look, what i think that jeremy is trying to do the tory brexit? look, what i think thatjeremy is trying to do is set out how he thinks a sensible brexit, and there is no good brexit, actually, there is no brexit is going to make us any richer, there is no brexit that's going to prevent harm to businesses, to peoplesjobs and services, but a sensible brexit, now we are going down that line, that he has set out to say that this is what we are putting forward. we are putting that forward to theresa may. if she can't accept that, then it... well, we need to prevent no deal, but it must go to a people's vote. in my view, i think any deal must be ratified by the people. i think that the people need the final say. whatever the deal is, whether it is mine's deal, whether it's an agreement between labour and herself, i think that must go back to the people. some of your collea g u es to the people. some of your colleagues are suggesting they may leave the labour party if there isn't a people's vote, a referendum on the final deal. do you feel that strongly, that you may take that course? no, i don't. i haven't spoken to my colleagues who feel that way. i'm not party to those conversations. what i think is that we've got to get on with the job now of preventing catastrophic no deal, which isjust days of preventing catastrophic no deal, which is just days away and which he, she has failed spectacularly today. she's gone to brussels and she's failed to deliver anything and she's failed to deliver anything and she's failed to deliver anything and she's failed for the past two and a half years to deliver anything. her deal, as we see it, actually doesn't settle anything. it leaves us negotiating for months, if not years to come. can ijump in? the bank of england have downgraded the growth of the economy from 1.7, to 1.2. there is a one in four chance that the uk slips into recession and that is down to uncertainty. business needs something. absolutely. this tory government doesn't provide it. it hasn't provided it. that's why i think we absolutely now, the only course is to get a deal on the proviso that it is put back to the people. to be ratified, to be confirmed by people, to put it out there for the final say. ok, thank you. let's look at the other news. france is recalling its ambassador in rome because of what it calls an unprecedented series of provocations from italy. paris has accused the italian populist coalition government of making outrageous statements and of interfering in french domestic politics. emergency workers in the turkish city of istanbul have rescued a five—year—old girl from the rubble of an apartment block, a day after the building collapsed. the extent of her injuries is unclear. at least three people are confirmed to have died and it's feared others may still be trapped. the cause of the collapse isn't known. officials say the building's top three storeys had been added illegally. the luxury fashion brand gucci has apologised and withdrawn a jumper from sale after criticism that its design was racist. the black "balaclava jumper" covered the lower half of the face and featured a cut—out mouth with big, cartoonish red lips. gucci said it would turn the incident into what it called a "powerful learning moment" and says it's committed to increasing diversity. jay—z has described the arrest of rapper 21 savage as "an absolute travesty" and has hired a lawyer to help his fight against deportation. the atla nta—based rapper 21 savage, a british citizen, is being held by us officials due to an expired visa. he moved to america as a child. air accident investigators say they've successfully recovered a body from the wreckage of a plane that went down in the sea between france and britain, carrying argentine international footballer, emiliano sala and his pilot. the body has not yet been officially identified, but both families have been updated. ivestigators ended their attempts to recover the aircraft wreckage because of poor weather. that is so sad. extraordinary, though, did you see the news that the football club that emiliano sala came from, nantes, have made a demand for payment? apparently the chairman of nantes, before the bodies have been brought up, is demanding one third of the payment, 6 million euros and he's giving them ten days to bay. amazing. you'd think he'd have a bit more sensitivity, right? the boss of instagram says all graphic images of self—harm will be removed from the social media platform — following the death of 14—year—old molly russell. the british teenager took her own life in 2017 after viewing images of suicide and self—harm. her parents say instagram was partly to blame for their daughter's death. today adam mosseri admitted that the company was ‘not where it needed to be on issues of self—harm and suicide' but he said it would take some time to remove all such material. 0ur correspondent angus crawford reports. i've seen videos, i've seen pictures. nothing's blocked, nothing's blurred. i haven't seen anything blurred. meet grace, lucy, sharmie and julia. if you're searching, you are then suddenly guided to how to commit suicide, how to hang yourself, how to tie a noose. horrified by molly's story, and spurred into action, though their own families haven't been affected. this week, each set up a brand—new account. i suddenly started to get suggested accounts to follow. so, suddenly ijust followed one or two, and then instagram was saying, oh, you're interested in self—harm, would you like to follow these accounts that are also about self—harm? they're putting in the newspapers that they're doing something about it, and yet actually they're not. and they have a message for the head of instagram. you can still go and read how to kill yourself successfully and you need to take a stand and you need to do something now. not look at it and leave it for months. you need to do something now because our children are dying and you have a moral responsibility. so, that's what a proportion of british society now feels about your platform. i mean, it's powerful, it's heavy stuff. i think we have an immense amount of responsibility. i think that it's clear we are not yet where we need to be on the issues of self—harm and suicide. because the concern from some of those mothers, and others, in effect, instagram, in the words of molly russell's father, has been monetising misery. we're not looking to monetise misery. we looking to connect people with their friends and their interests that they love and care about. we think that we create a lot of good in the world and we were not as focused as we should have been on the risks that came along with connecting so many people. but, moving forward, we are going to change our policy to not allow any graphic images of self— harm, whether or not it is admission or promotion. so you're going to take all self—harm images off of instagram? graphic self—harm images, yes. so i might have an image of a scar where i say i'm 30 days clean, and that's an important way for me to show my story. that sort of content can still live on the site, but actually the next change is it won't show up in any recommendation services, so will be harder to find, it won't be in search, it won't be in hashtags, it won't be in recommendations. but graphic imagery we're going to take off instagram entirely. that's going to take some time, but we are committed to doing it. so in six months‘ time, if we go back to these mothers, get them to look again and they find similar content, will you resign? in six months' time, if it's as easy for them to find problematic content as they have, then i will have done a poorjob at living up to my responsibility. and will you resign? i will certainly have a long thought about how well i'm doing in the role that i'm in. she said if i get over 2,000 likes, i will cut myself on a live feed. any success won't be measured in the boardroom or even parliament, but in homes and by families across the uk. angus crawford, bbc news. this is such an awful story, and for every parent, this is such an awful story, and for every pa rent, we this is such an awful story, and for every parent, we are all worried about our kids on social media. my 13—year—old daughter is on it more often than i would like. you can't monitor it all the time, you need these companies to have some sort of monitoring capacity because we cannot be looking over their shoulders 24—hour day. we know that kids are bullied and get these terrible messages and it is up to the company to step in and help make sure this doesn't happen again. absolutely. this is beyond 100 days from the bbc. coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news... you and officials investigating the killing of jamal khashoggi was the victim was of a premeditated murder. areas of low pressure are coming thick and fast. wednesday night and into thursday we had strong winds across england and wales courtesy of this area of low pressure. the centre is knocking on the door of denmark now. to the west we have the next area of low pressure. this is storm eric, named by the irish forecasters. it is a bigger system meaning the strong wind will be affecting a large area of the uk. also, outbreaks of rain. the rain will arrive through this evening, initially over northern ireland and western england and wales and western england and wales and western scotland. the wind will pick up western scotland. the wind will pick up overnight but they will be coming from the south—west, meaning it is going to be a mild night. temperatures around nine or ten in the south—west, warmer than it should be during the day at this time of year. we have those strong winds to contend with and over the west of ireland and scotland that is where the wind is likely to be on friday, up to 70 mph, we may see branches being brought down from trees and a risk of transport disruption. perhaps some speed restrictions on bridges. blustery elsewhere as the rain moves east of england and wales followed by sunshine and some blustery showers late in the day across the west. temperatures, not bad for the time of year. a mild day but feeling cool given the strength of wind. the wind will continue to be strong on friday night and will get stronger over the rest of scotland, northern england and probably the north of wales. we may get gusts up to 55 and 70 mph. very blustery conditions into saturday. further outbreaks of rain mounting up across northern scotland where a 20—30 millimetres from this system, 60 over the mountains, brings an additional concern of localised surface water flooding and we may see rain returning to the far south—west later in the day. some sunshine in between these areas of rain. looking at the forecast on friday into saturday, strong wind bringing local disruption and heavy rain bringing a flood risk to the north of scotland. 0ver rain bringing a flood risk to the north of scotland. over the next few days, showers on sunday, turning cooler. we may see low pressure in the far south. that is uncertain. next week, dryer. this is beyond 100 days. with me — katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london our top stories... a senate judiciary committee approves william barr as attorney general — he will inherit the justice department at one of the most politically turbulent periods in its history. as venezuela's nicolas maduro blocks a border bridge where aid is set to arrive — we take a bus ride in caracas to see how people are coping in dire circumstances. coming up in the next half hour... come off facebook and feel happier — so says a new study. we'll be hearing from one of the report's authors about what else they found when people quit the site for a month. and — how a major soft drinks brand and airline missed the mark in a campaign, inviting passengers to give their numbers to fellow flyers. theresa may has told eu leaders she can get a brexit deal through parliament if they give her legally—binding changes to it. the british prime minister — who also vowed to deliver brexit "on time" — was speaking after a series of meetings with officials in brussels. the two sides have pencilled in talks for later in the month. let's speak to our europe editor katya adler, who's been following today's events. any clear sense tonight of whether theresa may is going to get enough to go back and get this deal through parliament in an adjusted form?|j to go back and get this deal through parliament in an adjusted form? i am sorry for shaking my head even as you are speaking. nothing has changed in terms of substance. you basically have the two sides taking up basically have the two sides taking up their well rehearsed, entrenched positions. the prime minister on one side seeing i need legally binding changes to the backstop that guarantees to keep the irish border open after brexit and the eu saying once again, no, that withdrawal agreement you signed up to which includes the text on the backstop, we are not reopening that. one eu official said simi the prime minister did not put any concrete proposal on the table today. as to how she envisaged agreement helping over the next week. so yes, the eu and uk have agreed to another rented brexit talks to last until the end of the month but if neither side can agree how they will agree is this just more can kicking down the road. it is turning into one of those conditions where no one will blink first. there was one interesting element to the press conference for the european parliamentary negotiator, he said he had had a meeting with theresa may and she said she did not want to take the backstop out of the agreement which is not going to go down well with the dup back here in the uk. that is to he said the visually she did not wa nt to ta ke to he said the visually she did not want to take it off the table altogether. she had indicated that in her meeting in northern ireland yesterday but she said there are changes regarding the backstop which is problematic for the uk —— for the eu. by keeping the backstop on the table she has eliminated some of that recently finds support in her own party but again, taking the line she is pursuing, she is alienating the eu. she is in a difficult position, all parties are in a difficult position. 0ne position, all parties are in a difficult position. one thing the eu jumped on the day was a proposal by the leader of the opposition, jeremy corbyn, who said let us try and get cross— party corbyn, who said let us try and get cross—party support around a softer brexit. the eu love that idea because they want to keep the uk as close as possible after brexit for a whole host of reasons. yes, potentially split the labour party as well as the tory party. people have been saying, don't worry, at the last moment the deal will happen. how last is the last moment? given this is the middle of february. it is. this round of talks go until the end of february so on the 24th of february think sandals and hawaiian shirts, there is an eu leaders summit in egypt. it is supposed to be a focus on relations with africa. there are theories at could be hijacked by brexit. 0ne senior eu official said that full be crunch time. i do not even by that, i think crunch time could go on into march. theresa may said today she is determined to deliver brexit on the 29th of march. there is no appetite in the eu to extend the negotiations but then again, neither the prime minister nor eu leaders want a no—deal brexit. it will be economically costly and politically costly so it all rumbles on. i cannot give you the end date. costly so it all rumbles on. i cannot give you the end datem costly so it all rumbles on. i cannot give you the end date. if we are talking about can kicking, as it can kicking down a dead—end joy?|j like the idiot idea, it is to throw a stay, get to the seaside, it is a good idea. —— i like the idea of meeting in egypt. we joke about can kicking but we have to remember these are the livelihoods of people at risk here in the eu and the uk. eu citizens who live in the uk, uk citizens who live in the eu, communities are worried on both sides of the irish border about the future of the peace process and the eu worried about the future of the single market so there are lots of concerns amid the general public frustration and the fact we cannot seem to move forward. 0k, catch adler in brussels at the moment, thank you forjoining us. the role of us attorney general doesn't usually get a whole lot of attention — but since president trump is the subject of an investigation into whether his campaign colluded with russia — and since that investigation falls under the control of the us attorney general, the post is getting a ton of scrutiny. today the man mrthe stage for his expected confirmation as early as next week. william barr would take over a troubled position — his predecessor, jeff sessions, was frequently berated by mr trump and eventually forced out. what democrats want to know is whether mr barr will stand up to the president and protect the mueller probe. joining us now from new york is former federal prosecutor berit berger. good to see you, thank you for being with us. is he going to protect the miller investigation? during his confirmation hearing, he said he was committed to allowing the special counsel to complete the investigation. he had high praise for robert mueller. he said the right things about letting the special counsel finished investigation. the bigger question is whether the report ends up being made public. that is what gave a lot of democrats oppose about the attorney general nominee, he did not quite go all the way about committing to make report public. quite go all the way about committing to make report
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