owen paterson. thank you very much indeed for calling me.hnical staff who just reconnected me, having lost the connection. studio: we are going to come away from this debate momentarily, because we are about to just take a pause from this, the vote of course coming in about 35 minutes, which will carry live on bbc news. to stay with us. we are back with that debate and all the day's headlines inafew debate and all the day's headlines in a few moments, but first let's catch up with the weather, with stav. hello there. staying called for the rest of this week, further wintry showers in places, and in the short term it looks like much of scotland, northern ireland and western coast of england and wales see most of these wintry showers. they will be an issue with ice as well for the next few nights, likely to cause disruptions. cold air very much with us, the weather fronts accentuating the rain, sleet and snow showers, this one bringing wintry showers to scotla nd this one bringing wintry showers to scotland on this one an area of rain to the s

still a continuing role in certain limited circumstances for the ecj and i was interested, i saw owen paterson'sthen made the point that he was abstaining because of what he saw about the real difficulty is in regard to northern ireland which i thought was a red line for the erg soap what all this says is that anyone who thinks we are at the end of the debate, i think it's the start and i agree with your reporter who warn your viewers the brexit story is not going away for a long time and the point about these partnerships with other countries, you're right there isa other countries, you're right there is a big focus on trade but a lot of the big powers in the world, especially the us, we should not underestimate how much they look to us underestimate how much they look to us and their relationship with us in the past because of our strong position in the eu. martin, a final point from you... ijust position in the eu. martin, a final point from you... i just wanted to pick upa point from you... i just wanted to pick up a particular point alistair raised about northern ireland, we have not regain