07/03/2017 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at ten, the government suffers a second defeat

on its Brexit Bill in the House of Lords.

In a tense three-hour debate in a packed chamber,

peers eventually voted for a 'meaningful'

parliamentary vote on the final deal to leave the EU.

Not contents, 268, so the contents have it.

The onlookers from the Commons included Brexit ministers,

It ensures that Parliament has the critical role in determining

the future that we will bequeath to generations of young people.

This house is absolutely full of people who still haven't come

to terms with the results of the referendum.

We'll be asking how the vote could affect the Prime

Theresa May sticks to her plans for a new generation

The funding is set out in tomorrow's Budget.

BMW raises doubts about producing its new electric version

We talk to Amal Clooney about her legal battle on behalf

And the pressure mounts for Arsene Wenger as Arsenal

We talk to Amal Clooney about her legal battle on behalf

And the pressure mounts for Arsene Wenger as Arsenal

are heavily beaten again in the Champions League.

Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Arsenal's last match in Europe this

season as Bayern Munich knock them out of the Champions league again.

The government has suffered a second defeat on its Brexit Bill

Peers are insisting on what they call a 'meaningful'

parliamentary vote on the final deal to leave the EU.

The government will now try to overturn the changes

Ministers accused some in the Lords of trying

Theresa May is still hoping to start the formal leaving process

by the end of the month, as our Political Editor,

They are not universally loved, but the House of Lords won't let

Defeating the Government for the second time

With the biggest turnout for nearly 200

REPORTER: Do you think Parliament should have a

Ministers are determined not to give in.

They've promised Parliament already a say on

But arguments for a legal guarantee of a vote won

the day in the Lords, a desire even

if Theresa May and her ministers,

look who was watching on, want to

When it comes to our rights, Parliament

The reason is simple, we don't trust

This country's future should rest with

But the Government's supporters

Does the noble Lord not agree that this new clause

in effect, gives this in House a statutory veto on the

decision made by the Prime Minister

with the support of the other

place to implement the decision

of the British people to leave

the European Union?

This House is full of people who still haven't come

to terms with the results in the referendum and this

is a clever lawyers confection

in order to reverse the results

With 13 Tories rebels on their side, Labour in the Lords

It would be completely irresponsible for Parliament to say,

bye, bye, Theresa May, we're waving you off,

come back in two years and

This actually makes sure the Government

works with Parliament to get the best deal we possibly can.

But just like this, next week the Bill will

make its way down from the red and gold corridors to the green and

Will ministers budge or will Conservative

I will continue to believe that that is the right thing to,

do for there to be a vote in both Houses, deal or no deal.

If I have to vote against my Government again, I will do it.

We've discussed and debated both of these issues before,

at length and we still decline to accept the

amendments that have been passed in the House of Lords.

They've come up with no new ideas so I expect the House

of Commons to pass the Bill unamended.

There's no sign Theresa May will relent to keep rebels at bay.

It may be brave to stand her ground, but she may have to find the

This was a big defeat, the joke among Labour wax tonight in the

House of Lords is that with the Tory Duke of Wellington on their side in

this vote, it could be Theresa May's Waterloo. What happens next will be

determined by who wins a face-off between a relatively small group of

Tories who are adamant that they want this to be part of the process

and Theresa May and her ministers on the other side who, right now, are

absolutely clear they will not give an inch. The way things feel at the

moment, it is going to be pretty tight. It is just too difficult with

a week before the next vote to determine who is going to have

victory. The big picture, this will not delay Brexit, it will not stop

it, certainly, because Theresa May still has three weeks to get this

Parliamentary wrangling out of the weights for sheep meat her own

self-imposed deadline of getting Brexit started by the end of March

-- out of the way before she meets. And Laura will be back with us

in a moment to talk about tomorrow's Budget which will include money

for new grammar schools in England. They'll be among 140 free schools

set up with a fund of ?320 million. Labour says the plan is a 'vanity

project' and insists many other schools are in desperate

need of money. The plans also face opposition

from some with Conservative MPs, as our Education Editor,

Branwen Jeffreys, reports. Before the number crunching

of the Budget, a visit A little extra money

for her education priorities, a signal to schools generally not

to hope for more. We have protected the core schools

budget, but, crucially, what we are announcing is half

a billion pounds of investment in schools, ?320 million

of which will be new schools. That will create around

70,000 new school places. More maths schools

are part of her plans. This is not a grammar -

pupils are selected, but at the age of 16,

then pushed to get We know that what we've done

here for students who have this interest in mathematics

and the mathematical sciences has enabled

transformation of those students, different futures, better futures

for them and therefore better And so having more schools

like that is exactly Education is all about creating

a sense of opportunity, the hope that what your children

learn will give them a better And that's what the Prime Minister

is trying to tap into at a time when This is all about the politics

now and very little Schools across England face

financial pressures, falling funding per pupil and no

promise of help in the budget. The government spending plans don't

begin to address the real We have buildings that are falling

down, we have a teacher recruitment and retention crisis,

we can't get enough teachers into the classroom and we can't

get them to stay there. Some of the new money could be used

to set up grammar schools so what happens to grammar

school places now? Only 3% of pupils are

on free school meals. 13% are thought to come

from private prep schools. And just 73 out of 163 grammar

schools give priority to poorer That's why plans for new grammar

schools face stiff opposition. There is a legal ban on creating

new ones in England. More free schools are likely to open

before the first new grammar. In the next wave I don't think

there will be any grammars either because I think it'll take

a while for the government It will be in the wave

after that, next year, maybe the year after that,

that we are likely to see some grammars being approved,

if the ban is lifted, but I can't see them

opening before 2020. Traditional values and excellence,

for some that is what But others fear this is opportunity

for the few, not the many. The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, will

deliver his first Budget tomorrow. It's also the first Budget

since last year's EU referendum. There are growing calls for him

to allocate more money to social care in England and to help firms

cope with business rate rises. The efforts to balance

the government's books are far from over and,

as our Economics Editor, Kamal Ahmed, explains,

the age of austerity is likely to be On one side Gateshead,

the other Newcastle - the front line in the battle to fix

the economy since One example, local parks are now

paid for out of the health budget The economy locally has grown,

but below the national average, And if people here thought austerity

was over, it's probably This Budget will be

all about the deficit, that's the difference

between what the Government spends And to bridge that gap it borrows

and, just like a credit This year the deficit is predicted

to be ?68.2 billion. For comparison, it costs

about ?100 billion to run The Government wants that figure

to fall every year until 2021, when it wants the figure

to be ?20.7 billion. Those borrowing figures are expected

to look better tomorrow because the economy has grown faster

than forecast, but there is no The Government is still committed

to reducing spending, The department that funds local

government in England will see its budget cut,

by 2021, by 24%. The Justice Department,

which funds courts and prisons, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

will also see reductions. Northern Ireland will see

the highest, at 3%. Some departments, though,

will be supported. The Department for

International Development, which spends on overseas aid,

will see its budget rise by 17%. Health in England will also

see its budget rise by ?1.5% and education will see less

of a reduction than other departments, just 2.2%,

and the schools' budget When it comes to our taxes,

the Government has already announced Well, the Government has got rather

good at taxing less visible areas. For example, the taxes paid

on dividends from shares people might own is going to raise more

money, an extra ?2.8 billion. And taxes on insurance

policies are also going up and that's going to raise

an extra ?700 million. And stamp duty, that's the tax

we pay on buying a house, The grand message of the Budget -

that there are still risks ahead, The Treasury wants to use tomorrow

to prepare for the future, warning that now is not the time

to end austerity. On the eve of the Budget we can go

back to Laura Kuenssberg in Westminster. How do you see the task

for Phillip Hammond tomorrow? Very difficult, he is somebody who is

known to be fond of spreadsheets, somebody who is a believer very much

in a Conservative Treasury so I think we would be wrong to looking

for big, flashy, bold moves tomorrow. There are three things

were looking out for. As we have heard, the Budget is still extremely

tight, there are cuts to come with human consequences. Secondly, we

know the Treasury is still very cautious about the prospects as we

move towards Brexit and beyond and I think we will see him want to keep

some of his spending power back rather than committing it all with

the future so unclear. Thirdly it will be important and fascinating to

be on the hunt for clues as to what Philip Hammond wants to do in the

long term. Whether that is finding a solution for the social care crisis

or building a more dynamic economy, whether with skills or better

schools, I think there will be an emerging picture of what he really

wants to do in the long term, especially and partly because we are

in such an uncertain world right now. Thank you, Laura Kuenssberg

with the latest on the eve of the Budget at Westminster.

The website Wikileaks has published thousands of pages of what it says

The documents appear to reveal attempts by the American spy agency

to use household gadgets such as televisions with an internet

connection to eavesdrop on people's conversations.

But the material has not been independently verified.

With me is our security correspondent, Gordon Corera.

What do you make of it, Gordon? If American spies didn't have enough

problems with their own President saying they were leaking against

him, they have their own leaks tost to worry about. It's their old foe,

WikiLeaks, apparently producing hundreds, thousands, of documents

which haven't been confirmed as true but which certainly look, at first

sight, credible and very sensitive about the CIA's own technical

capabilities. They showed the CIA can hack into iPhones, android

phones. One capability codenamed Weeping Angel, said to be developed

with Britain's MI5 which might explain why the codename

refull-terms to a film in the Doctor Who series. It allows them to get

inside Samsung connected smart TVs. They can use the microphone in these

TVs as a bug to record conversations in the room and send it back over

the internet to intelligence agencies. You remember the

revelation, the Lou about Edward Snowden, it will be the same again,

the spies say they need the capabilities to spy, to collect

Inamoto tell generals on their targets, like terroristses and

exposing this makes it harder. Prif Sid groups say they have too many

powers, go too far and secret. The why an organisation tasked with

stealing other people's secrets seems to find it hard to keep their

own. Gordon Corera there for us. Thanks again.

A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.

A post-mortem examination into the death of George Michael

has found that he died of natural causes.

The 53-year-old singer was found dead at his Oxfordshire

An initial investigation failed to determine a cause.

A 22 year-old British woman - rescued when the vehicle

she was driving was pulled over by police - is recovering

in hospital in Australia after she was held against her will

An Australian man, who was also found in the vehicle,

has been charged with a number of offences, including rape

Facebook has come under heavy criticism after a BBC investigation

found it failed to remove inappropriate images of children.

The chairman of the Commons Media Committee said he had "grave doubts"

about the effectiveness of its content moderation systems.

The head of BMW in the UK has cast further doubt on whether it

will build an electric version of the Mini in Britain.

Peter Schwarzenbauer says the impact of Brexit will be a factor

Our business editor, Simon Jack, reports from the Geneva car show

where he's been speaking to the bosses of some of the UK's

The car industry's newest and flashest models were on display

in Geneva today, trying to catch the eye of a global audience

But, in the here and now, it's more familiar models that

Vauxhalls are made at Ellesmere Port and Luton, and their fate will soon

be down to this man, who already runs

He says Vauxhall has a future, even if Brexit results in trade

If we were talking about this scenario, a hard Brexit,

with customs duties and all that stuff, then it would be, of course,

an opportunity for us to have a UK sourcing to source for the UK.

Of course, for that to happen, we also need to have the supplier

base being developed in the UK so that the cost structure would be

in pounds, the revenue structure will be in pounds.

For that to happen, we would need the support of the UK Government.

BMW makes Minis in Cowley, near Oxford.

It will start production of an electric version in 2019.

It has to decide where to do that very soon.

We want to see a tariff-free environment where goods,

services and in fact people can move freely across borders and somewhere

around the middle to third quarter of the year,

we will actually make the decision as to where the Mini is produced.

The most important fact about these cars is not really how fast they go

or how many miles they do to the gallon.

The most important fact is, where are they made?

Automotive jobs, creating them, preserving them, is important

to politicians all over the world, and no more so than in

The car companies know that and in the race to keep jobs,

some goverments have been prepared to go to great lengths

Nissan makes 500,000 cars a year in Sunderland.

In October last year, it committed to increasing

investment after reassurance the Government would

ensure the plant remained competitive after Brexit.

Since then, the Prime Minister has said no deal would be better

That raised concerns in the car industry the UK would fall back

on international trade rules, which could mean high tariffs.

So, how solid is Nissan's commitment today?

Governments in the UK have a tradition to honour

their commitments, so we believe it, and we feel good about it.

This being said, we will have to wait until Brexit has been

negotiated and we see the conditions of the new status before giving

The effects of global competition are felt locally.

According to the boss of PSA, it's a competition where there's

Everybody is asking for protection and the only honest answer

If you increase your level of performance, you become the best.

If you become the best, there is no risk.

A simple guide to survival in the car industry.

As fighters from the Islamic State group are gradually being driven out

of their stronghold in Iraq, the scale of their atrocities

is being revealed against one ethnic group in particular.

The Yazidi people are ethnic Kurds and they are the victims

of a genocidal campaign, according to the UN

So far it's thought 5,000 people have been killed.

Over 3,000, mostly women and children, are being held captive,

Thousands of men and boys are missing.

Some Yazidis have managed to escape and seek sanctuary in Germany.

Our correspondent, Naomi Grimley, reports now from one

A secret location in south-west Germany, it's a place of exile,

80 Yazidi women and children now live here.

They were violently persecuted by so-called Islamic State

These two boys were captured by the extremists and sent

to a military training camp, aged just 14 and 16.

TRANSLATION: The training was about weapons.

We learnt how to load and fire a weapon.

We would do exercises, crawling under barbed

TRANSLATION: To learn how to fire a gun on human beings they took us

to big graves where they had the dead bodies of Muslim traitors,

spies of the regime or those who took drugs.

They said we have to fire on the bodies to get used to it.

TRANSLATION: If we didn't do what we were told or broke

the rules, they would beat us with a stick.

Everything had to be like they wanted.

I had to pretend to be a Muslim to survive.

TRANSLATION: Their books were just like magic,

they quickly changed your mind and made you into one of them.

I bet, not just me, even a man's mind would have changed.

After a year, a smuggler helped them escape the camp.

TRANSLATION: By God I knew it was dangerous, but there

When you lose everything, you have nothing left.

This is mainly a community of women and children, most of the men

The women were originally brought to Germany for trauma counselling

after the mass rapes under Islamic State.

Baden-Wurttemberg, in south-west Germany, has welcomed more

than 1,000 Yazidis in two years and the man who runs

several towns volunteered to give them shelter.

Of course, they are struggling, but they can start like, you know,

just start a new future, get into school, get an education,

dream about falling in love and all of these things that

All that may take time but at least, for now, this refuge is far away

from those religious zealots who're trying to wipe them out.

Naomi Grimley, BBC News, south-west Germany.

Tomorrow, the international lawyer acting on behalf of the Yazidis

will address the UN in New York and call for a formal

investigation into allegations of genocide perpetrated

Amal Clooney has been telling Fiona Bruce why she's decided

to represent the Yazidis and why their cause

You're calling for so-called Islamic State to be held

to account for genocide, why is that so important to you?

I've been to refuges in Germany, like the one that you showed

in your piece, and I've interviewed former child soldiers and young

girls who were raped and enslaved by Isis.

It's been the most harrowing testimony I've ever heard.

We know that it's genocide, the UN has said so.

In other words, Isis is trying to destroy them as a group

and we are allowing it to happen without actually calling

So what do you think can be done practically to bring

Well, the first step that should be taken is for evidence to be

collected on the ground because we know that

So there are mass graves that are being discovered.

Just a few days ago, in Mosul, a huge mass grave,

that's thought to have 4,000 bodies in it, was discovered.

And there's other types of evidence as well.

Isis is actually a big bureaucracy, believe it or not, and they're

You know, you need to collect DNA, you need to collect phone records

and none of that is being done at the moment.

You're going to the UN this week, what are you going

I'm addressing the UN on the issue of accountability and saying

So why do you think they're not doing it?

This is exactly the question that I'll be posing to member states.

You know, I'm going to ask them - are the crimes not serious enough

Well, that can't be it because it's genocide.

You know, do you think that there's no evidence for you to collect?

That's not right either, there are mass graves whose

locations are known, you can start there and there's

The fact that you are now not just a human rights lawyer,

but you are known - obviously because of

your marriage to one of Hollywood's biggest stars -

I mean, does that help in terms of giving you a bigger platform

and getting more people to listen to you?

I mean, there's lots of my work that takes place behind closed doors,

I think if there are more people who now understand what's happening

about the Yazidis and Isis and if there can be some action

that results from that, that can help those clients,

then I think it's a really good thing to give that case the extra

But, you know, if you don't have a good case and you don't

have a good message, then shining a light on it is not

That was the international lawyer, Amal Clooney,

There is much more about the plight of the Yazidi people on our website.

Just follow the link at bbc.co.uk/news.

Labour has renewed its demand to know whether the Government

offered a special deal to Surrey County Council to help

The council had been considering holding a local

referendum on raising the council tax.

But in a secret recording, obtained by the BBC,

the Conservative leader of the authority, David Hodge,

is heard telling colleagues that he'd secured a "gentleman's

There may come a time, if what I call a gentleman's

agreement, as the Conservative Party often does, are not honoured,

we will have to revisit this in nine months or a year's time.

If we do, let me assure you, you will have to drag me,

kicking and screaming, not to go for referendum next year.

Our chief political correspondent, Vicki Young, is at Westminster.

Potentially, how tricky is this for the Government, Vicki? In recent

weeks Jeremy Corbyn laid into Theresa May in all of this saying it

shows a Tory council being given a secret deal to stop it hiking

council tax. They have upped the rhetoric tonight after the emergence

of this secret recording saying Theresa May and her ministers have

been playing political games and conducting back room sweetheart

deals for their friends while councils across the country have

struggled to get the money for social care. They have been asked to

apply for a pilot scheme where they can keep 100% of their business

rates. These are conversations that are the normal thing that goes on.

There is no doubt it's awkward, embarrassing hearing this Tory

council leader boosting about his access to very senior ministers.

Ministers said it does not amount to any kind of secret deal. Vicki,

again, thanks for the update there. Vicki Young there at Westminster.

Poachers have broken into a zoo near Paris and shot

dead a rhinoceros before sawing off and stealing one of its horns.

French police say the white rhino was killed overnight

It's estimated that a rhino horn can fetch around ?40,000

Our correspondent, Lucy Williamson, has more details.

This is where poachers came looking for their latest kill,

Their victim, this four-year-old rhino called Vince.

They shot him three times before cutting off his

Park staff say the attackers broke through two fences and a wall

It's thought to be the first time poachers have targeted live animals

It's horrific that Vince, our rhino, was shot.

We've got this notion that here they are protected

from poaching and that poaching happens far away in their natural

habitat and here they're safe and poaching has come here now

so that's extremely destabilising and shocking.

Tonight there's extra security in place at the rhino enclosure

behind me where the two surviving animals are still being housed.

This was a well-planned operation with apparently

the park and it has put zoos across Europe on alert.

Paris was the weakest link today, but it might be another population

in Namibia or other parts of the world.

As long as the incentives and profits are high

in and the risks are low enough, criminals will seek out

the weakest link to get their hands on the rhino horn.

Like Vince, the other young male at Thoiry might one day

Europe's zoos, designed to protect the species,

are now themselves being targeted for the animals in their care.

Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, is under mounting pressure tonight

after his team were eliminated from the Champions League.

They'd gone into their second leg tie against Bayern Munich needing

But the second leg proved equally one-sided, as Natalie Pirks reports.

They were small in number, but loud in sentiment.

A group of Arsenal fans marched on the Emirates tonight

# We want you to go # We want you to go

# Arsene Wenger # We want you to go #.

12 years, no Premier League, no Champions League.

How can we call ourselves a big club?

Enough's enough, yeah, we want him out now.

But football is a fickle thing and one good

result can silence even the loudest of protests.

Arsene Wenger had demanded his team displayed

The best goalkeeper in the world no match for Theo Walcott on a mission.

Laurent Koscielny got a bit physical with Robert Lewandowski and the

assistant referee seized his moment, upgrading a yellow card to red.

With that extra man, Bayern could start to

click through the gears and, boy, did they.

First, Arjen Robben pounced on a defensive mix-up.

Arturo Vidal got in on the act with the cheekiest of dinks.

And Vidal, once again, cut Arsenal to ribbons

How the Germans must love it in North London.

As the boos rang out, Wenger must have wished he could be

Talk of Wenger's future dominated the build-up but for 45 minutes it

looked as if Arsenal had found their fight. A second-half capitulation is

an all too familiar Champions League tale. That small but vocal group of

fans is growing louder. There are many now feel it could and should be

the last time Arsene Wenger manages Arsenal in Europe. Natalie thank you

very much again at the Emirates Stadium. Natalie Perks.