will definitely go ahead in the next two weeks — after it was withdrawn at the last minute in december. speaking to the bbc‘s andrew marr show, the prime minister said her agreement with brussels was the best deal available, and the only one which respected the referendum vote. and she said if mps failed to back the agreement, the country would be in uncharted territory — and no—one could say what would happen next. mrs may said she was continuing to seek assurances from the eu to address mps‘ concerns about her plans, but refused to rule out holding more than one vote, if mps reject it the first time. it is for those that oppose the deal to actually say what the alternative is. and, so far, nobody — nobody has put forward an alternative that delivers on all of those issues. and, crucially, delivers on the referendum result. it is very important for mps, nonetheless, to know if you don't get it through first time round, despite all your best efforts, you go back to brussels and get some other assurances and bring it back again. one of your employees in number 10 is quoted as saying you could bring back this vote 30 times, if necessary, to get it through. the deal is on the table. let's look at what we've got in the house of commons at the moment in terms of the views that mps are taking on this deal. remember, article 50 was triggered, we are leaving on the... i take it you could go back, then? no, i want to see this deal go through, andrew, and i wanted to go through when people vote on it. you will keep trying? if the deal is not voted on, the vote that is coming up, we are going to be in uncharted territory. i don't think anybody can say exactly what will happen in terms of the reaction we will see in parliament. i was rather hoping you could. if i canjust go back to what i was going to do, which is setting out what we have an house of commons, what we have an house of commons is a labour leadership and labour party that is playing politics with this, that is opposing any deal in order to create the greatest chaos that they can. we have people that are promoting a second referendum in order to stop brexit. and we have people that want to see their perfect brexit. and i would say don't let the search for the perfect become the enemy of the good. because the danger there is actually we end up with no brexit at all. theresa may speaking to andrew mark. our political correspondent nick eardley watched the prime minister's interview. i don't think we got anything that completely changes the dial on this or means that we are in new territory when it comes to discussing whether she gets this deal through parliament. the prime minister clearly still thinks what she thought before christmas, which is that the proposal she has put on the table is the best one and that it delivers. but she has said there are some things she is trying to provide mps in the coming days, when she hosts them for drinks receptions. we know that they are happening this week. when she meets them for private chats in her office, as well. she wants some assurances, specifically on the issue of the irish backstop. she wants to get a greater role for parliament and she says she still wants further assurances from the eu and is still seeking them. clearly, that hasn't been achieved yet. she is not in a place where she is sitting there and saying we have got what we need. what is not completely clear is whether any of the assurances she could now get our enough to win over the numerous mps that we know still are not in a place where they are going to support the prime minister. something else she spoke about in that interview was trying to hammer home again what she believes is the potential risk of voting down her deal. what she talks about the uncharted territory that the uk would find itself in, potentially, as soon as a week on tuesday or wednesday if that deal is voted down. clearly, the prime minister doesn't want to talk about alternatives. she has never particularly wanted to do that. she is sitting there again this morning and saying something that we have heard her say before, vote this down and you risk anything happening. she was pressed on whether if they do vote it down she would try again, try to get mps to back it with another vote later on? yes, because there is fervent speculation around westminster that if the prime minister loses this there would be another vote. there are tory mps who think of the prime minister loses first time around, she has a stronger hand to go back to brussels and say, i am not getting this through, you need to give me a lot more or we are going to end up in no—deal territory. the prime minister has never said she would bring the deal back again, but she was asked five times in that interview this morning whether that is something which might happen. she refused to rule it out, she refused to really get into any details on it. but i think we can firmly say that is something that has not been ruled out by downing street. labour has said the government's new ten—year plan for the nhs in england will be undermined by planned cuts to community health services. tomorrow, theresa may will announce her strategy for the health service, with the budget due to rise by £20 billion a year by 2023. the prime minister says patients in england will have access to what she called world class treatments, as our health correspondent dominic hughes reports: two... jenny knows first—hand how hard it can be to live with poor mental health. for years she has struggled with anxiety and depression. when she has needed help, she has had good support from her gp and the wider nhs. but she says mental health is still only second—best when compared to physical problems. it feels like we're making a start, but it still seems to me like there's a long way to go, and... i don't know, i don't have the answers, but it seems to me that waiting months and months for treatment can't possibly be right. improving the provision of mental health services for people likejenny is one of the areas the prime minister is outlining today. it's all part of long—term plan for the nhs in england, highlighting the priorities for the health service over the coming decade. they include improved maternity care, better prevention and detection of disease, and more support for elderly people to maintain their independence. the aim is to reduce pressure across the whole nhs. when that builds up, it's hospital a&e departments where the impact is most obvious. we know, when there are problems in mental health and primary care, then the default position can be a&e departments. that's the only place the lights are always on. so often if we see is that when investment has not been made in primary care or mental health, then patients can end up inappropriately being treated in a&e, or in other settings, and that's not right. there has been a broad welcome for this initial outline of priority areas. more details will be unveiled tomorrow. but the nhs is already facing staff shortages, rising demand for services, and cuts to other parts of the health and social care system, so health campaigners say fulfilling the promises of better care over the next decade will be extremely tough. speaking to andrew marr, the prime minister said that the nhs plan would help secure the future of the health service, with measures to support people at all stages of life, from birth to old age. this is crucial for ensuring the sustainability, ensuring the nhs is there for us in the future, as it has been in the past. and there are key areas within that plan. making sure we have the best maternity care in the world, giving babies the best start in life, ensuring that we get better at preventing, detecting and treating conditions, so we improve the outcomes on conditions, and managing better between health and care in relation to people's old age, as people age, making sure they can live independently for longer and live healthier lives. what we have seen in the nhs, and the reason why i wanted to make sure that we looked at this and did this, is that, yes, we actually are within those targets, and we are seeing more people, we are treating more people. but not hitting the targets. no, we are slipping against the targets because, despite the fact that we are actually doing more, the demand is outstripping that. that is why we needed to take a look, that is why we needed to put the extra money in, that is what we needed to say in the future. but what the extra money enables us to do, what the long—term plan enables us to do, is actually step back and say, how do we ensure that the nhs continues to be one of the best health services in the world? that is what we will be announcing tomorrow. shadow health secretaryjon ashworth told the andrew marr show that there aren't enough staff in the nhs for the government's plan to be implemented what i look at is the waiting times, which are now, the waiting list, which are now at a5 million. there's 2.5 million people waiting beyond four hours in a&e, 27,000 people waiting beyond two months for cancer treatment. these are all targets and access standards which were routinely met under the last labour government. people are waiting longer under this tory government, and it's because the tories, i'm afraid, have been running down the nhs for nine years, starving it of cash, cutting it back, privatising elements of it, failing to get the staff we need. we don't need — and now theresa may is saying... a new ten year plan now. a ten year plan to clear up the mess she has made. it doesn't need ten more years of the tories, it needs a labour government to save the nhs. one of the big problems with what is being announced today, is that there isn't a credible plan for workforce. we have 100,000 vacancies across the nhs, 110,000 vacancies across the social care sector, we are short of 40,000 nurses, nurse numbers are going down and it is because training places have been cut, they have got rid of the bursary, and sajid javid is talking about imposing a £30,000 salary cap on staff coming from the eu and elsewhere to work in the nhs. if sajid javid wanted to put the nhs first, he would get rid of that salary cap, but instead he is putting his own leadership ambition first. that is quite disgraceful. that was the shadow health secretary, talking to andrew marr. earlier i spoke tojennifer dixon, chief executive of the health foundation, an independent health charity. she welcomes the promises to improve mental health and other nhs services, but she says making them a reality will be tough given growing pressures on services, chronic staff shortages, and cuts to other parts of the health and care system. it is probably the biggest issue facing the nhs. we have 100,000 staff shortages out of our 1.2 million, that is nearly one in 11. workforce planning over the past few years has not been adequate at all, it has been weak and there are added worries with brexit and possible exodus of eu staff, much valued, who might leave. workforce planning is a weakness that needs to be addressed, and that is what we look forward to the plan. it is really to be welcomed, that investment. so, £20 billion by 2023—24. that is above inflation, indeed. are you satisfied that is enough for the health service? our calculations show that is enough to keep the nhs ticking over, really. if you want to have massive, new changes to the model of care we all want to see, better prevention, better streamlined care, better care for older people, for example, then there needs to be a massive change in productivity and efficiency in the health system and the amount of money being given is not enough to have significant changes without increased productivity and new capital developments which will be announced hopefully in the spending review later this year. at least the government says it is a ten year plan. so this is long—term planning, to a degree, which somewhat save the nhs hasn't always had. it hasn't always had, although we have just had a five—year plan five years ago which was worked through. and this is a development of that. the money is welcome and there needs to be significant change over the next ten years, everyone recognises that. as i say, staff shortages are the big issues. the big killers, cancer, obesity, smoking, we are the most obese nation in europe and we need to tackle those issues. are you worried on things like cancer, we seem to be falling behind in terms of our diagnosis and treatment of cancer, for example european competitor nations are doing better than us. we are improving but we do lag behind western european nations we like to compare ourselves with. is that underinvestment? what is the reason for that? some of it is underinvestment but a big issue is people not coming forward for and therefore being referred on for treatment. we are very british in our way of being reticent are not coming forward for care so i think prevention and also earlier diagnosis is the big issue for cancer. that is a big area. mental health, clearly there have been staff shortages, much more care needs to be happening outside of hospital to cope with increasing numbers of people with depression and anxiety which is another big area. i think we will see another big comprehensive plan tomorrow which is commensurate with this huge investment being made. jennifer dickson, chief executive of the health foundation. plans to move three million people on to universal credit are to be delayed amid concerns the system is causing hardship to some. instead, mps will be asked to approve the transfer ofjust ten thousand people to the new system, as part of a pilot scheme to see how the payments are working. the government insists the full roll out of universal credit will be completed, as planned, by 2023. michael buchanan reports. more than a million people are currently in receipt of universal credit, either new claimants for benefits or those who had a change of circumstances, perhaps by moving house. in the next few weeks, ministers were due to seek parliamentary approval to move 3 million existing welfare claimants onto the new benefit. but the next phase of the roll—out now appears to have been delayed, with the work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, seeking approval forjust 10,000 people to be moved onto universal credit in the summer. sought, before every other existing welfare claimant is moved. getting mps to approve the migration was always going to be difficult, amid evidence that some claimants on universal credit have been forced to visit food banks, or have faced eviction. but a source close to amber rudd said the pause was the right thing to do, and should reassure parliament that she was listing the mps' concerns. the headlines on bbc news... theresa may says she is still seeking reassurances from the european union for her brexit deal, and says the commons vote will "definitely go ahead" next week. the government outlines the changes in the 10—year plan for the national health service, which will be published tomorrow. the government delays the next stage of the universal credit roll—out, amid concerns about the all—in—one benefits system. sport now and a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. good afternoon. the third round of the fa cup continues today. the two remaining non league teams face big challenges, with woking at home to premier league side watford, and barnet away at sheffield united, a side that are third in the championship. here's a check on all of sunday's matches. there's commentary of woking's game with watford and newport‘s game against leicester on radio 5 live, with the newport match also live on bbc one and online from five past 4. and if you miss that, highlights on match of the day tonight, which includes manchester city's match with championship strugglers rotherham i would like to have two months holiday right now, definitely. this month is really tough. but it is what it is. so, when you want to become a top, top club, organisation, you cannot deny any game, you cannot drop any competition. i don't know how far we are able to read, maybe the carabao cup will be good for our recovery, maybe not. the biggest surprise yesterday was gillingham's 1—0 win over cardiff.. elliott list struck the winner with nine minutes to go to knock out a side 45 places above them. it means cardiff, who made seven changes, have been knocked out of both domestic cup competitions by sides from outside the top flight this season. fellow premier league strugglers huddersfield are also out — their manager david wagner said this result doesn't help their survival bid as they were beaten by bristol city. league one accrington stanley knocked out ipswich who are bottom of the championship, thanks to billy kee's headed goal. an emotional afternoon for cesc fabregas — he missed a penalty in chelsea's win over nottingham forest and left the field in tears, not because of the miss, his side won 2—0, but because this is expected to be his last game for the club before moving to monaco. his old club arsenal beat league one blackpool 3—0. teenagerjoe willock with two of the goals — arsenal remember have won this competition more times than any other team. the protests by blackpool fans towards the club owners continued, this supporter climbed on top of the arsenal team bus preventing it from leaving for the game. lots of supporters continue to boycott matches. now away from the fa cup, cardiff manager neil warnock has launched a blistering attack on his former player nathaniel clyne and liverpool. warnock thought that he'd agreed to sign clyne from the premier league leaders before the defenderjoined bournemouth on loan until the end of the season. i was disappointed with nathaniel clyne, having given him his debut, i'm disappointed notjust with him but with liverpool as well for not telling me, to see it on television when i have done everything right, and they promised he was my player this week, for me, it is a disgrace and a lack of class, really. johanna konta has retired from herfinal qualifying match at the sydney international after hurting her neck in the warm—up. she was trailing ekaterina alexandrova in the opening set. konta could still take up a place in the main draw if she's is one of the "lucky losers" from qualifying. australia's cricketers still face a battle to save the fourth and final test against india. day four was affected by the weather, but india still found time to bowl australia out for 300 and force them to follow on. the hosts ended on 6 without loss second time round. india are set for their first test series win in australia over in cape town, south africa have won the second test against pakistan and taken an unassailable 2—0 lead in the series. they reached their target of 43 for the loss ofjust one wicket. staying with cricket, england'sjoe denly hit a match winning 76 not out to guide the sydney sixers to a six wicket win against the adelaide strikers in australia's big bash. denly opened the innings and hit eight fours and a six as the sixers chased down their target of 151. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more in the next hour. there will be a fresh attempt later to end the partial us federal government shutdown — which is now entering its third week. talks between the white house and congress broke up after two hours yesterday with no sign of a deal. president trump says he's willing to let the shutdown continue for as long as it takes to get funding approved for his mexico border wall. kim gittleson has the latest. two hours elapsed from when white house officials entered congress to speak to democrats and when they left. that time was either productive, in the words of vice—president mike pence, or an empty exercise, according to president donald trump, who tweeted that not much headway had been made towards ending the now two—week old partial us government shutdown. he also reiterated the need for his border war with mexico. he also reiterated the need for his border wall with mexico. the strain is beginning to show on the 800,000 government workers who have begun to protest the political deadlock that's cost them their paycheque. millionaires don't care about the regular people, you know? they're not really sympathetic to what's going on. we're just really fed up right now, we're just so fed up. we need to be funded because we need our paycheques because we need to service the american people. but hopes for a deal are slim given the political calculus at the heart of the impasse. this could go on for quite a while because this shutdown works for both parties politically. for president trump, he is, again, backing himself into a corner. he says he wants a wall. for the democrats, they can go back to the voters say there's no way we are going to give for this wall. so, a continuation of the shutdown is, in many ways, what both parties need to do to feed the needs of their bases. while there are more talks scheduled for this weekend, with the two sides still far apart, it's hard to see when and how this stalemate will end. another senior official at the pentagon has resigned following president trump's announcement last month that us troops would be withdrawn from syria. the departure of the chief of staff, kevin sweeney, follows that of the defence secretary, james mattis, and the department's spokeswoman. police have been given more time to question the two people arrested in connection with the stabbing to death of a man on a train in surrey on friday. lee pomeroy, from guildford, was on his way to london with his 14—year—old son. a man aged 35 was arrested on suspicion of murder and a woman who's 27 is being held on suspicion of assisting an offender. detectives have been given an extra 12 hours to question them. two british soldiers serving with special forces in north east syria have been seriously injured. reports say they were hit by an islamic state missile in deir al—zour. one kurdish fighter is thought to have been killed in the incident. an egyptian explosives expert has been killed while trying to defuse a bomb left outside a church in a suburb of cairo. two other people were injured in the blast. a bomb squad had been called to deal with an unattended package. the incident, in the nasr city district, comesjust a day before egypt's minority coptic christians celebrate christmas. a new regulation in saudi arabia is set to stop saudi women from being divorced without their knowledge. courts will be required to notify women by text on rulings confirming their divorces. local female lawyers suggest the measure will end what are known as secret divorces — where men end a marriage without telling their wives. the new step is said to be part of economic and social reforms pushed by crown prince mohammed bin salman. a team of scientists is searching one of the most remote regions of antarctica for the wreckage of the famous ship which carried the explorer sir ernest shackleton more than 100 years ago. the endurance sank in 1915. louise hubball reports. sir ernest shackleton made headlines around the world for one of the greatest rescues in history. shackleton had been trying to cross antarctica via the south pole when his ship, endurance, became trapped in pack ice. the crew abandoned it and lived on the ice for a year, sheltering under three lifeboats, eating penguin meat. but the cold, starvation, and mental collapse of some meant time was running out. it was then that shackleton launched his daring rescue. this is a replica of the small boat in which he and five others sailed 800 nautical miles in some of the roughest seas in the world and then walked 22 miles on frostbitten feet to get help. amazingly, all 22 men they had left stranded were rescued alive. but the ship, endurance, was overwhelmed by the ice and was lost forever. we know pretty much where the ship sank and the reason for that is there was a master navigator who used an instrument like this, a sexton, and was able, using the sexton, to observe the stars and sun and use it to mark exactly, more or less, where they were. incredibly, those co—ordinates are now being used by a research expedition led by cambridge's british antarctic survey to try to find the wreck. these orange torpedoes are actually unmanned mini submarines, which can search up to 100 miles away from the launch ship to gather photos and survey data. i think if this piece of wood could tell stories there would be some astonishing ones in there. currently, the only surviving piece of endurance rescued by her crew hangs at the scott polar research institute in cambridge. staff there are now monitoring the antarctic mission closely. what would it mean to you if they did find it? i think it would be a really emotional moment for everyone on board the ship, as well as me as a historian. it doesn't necessarily answer great historical questions. we know why it sank and where it sank, but it's really about paying homage to that survival story in the incredible expedition. the expedition is managing expectations. if the sea ice is too powerful it may not even be able to reach the location. a testament to the fact that more than a century ago, wearing woollen jumpers, shackleton and his crew did just that and lived to tell the tale. louise hubbell, bbc news. more now on the government's ten year nhs plan. let's talk live to the health secretary matt hancock. thank you for being with us. tell us first of all, we have been talking to people this morning who said foyle plan to work you need to have more staff in the nhs. you are 40,000 nurses short, 100,000 staff short. how are you going to address that? to write we are going to need more people. when you put £20 billion extra into a public service, as we are proposing to do with the nhs, of course, a lot of that is going to go one more people. and anyway, you know, as our society ages and gets older, and as people get wealthier over time, you need more people caring for others and more people caring for others and more people caring for others and more people engaged in health care. yes, absolutely, we need more people. there are shortages at the moment, there are vacancies. not quite the scale that you described, because there are lots of people that can fill those posts and do that can fill those posts and do that through flexible working. but how are you going to get more people in the nhs? are you going to pay them all? how are you going to attract more staff? well, we are going to recruit more, we are going to train more. also, we are going to... there is a whole section, a whole chapter of the plan that is about how we can recruit and also retain the brilliant staff that we have got. the big picture of this plan is to get with that big increase funding more spending on to prevention and supporting people to stay healthy in the first place, rather than just focusing on cures. that is the big idea behind the plan. it is the direction that we need to go. yes, it will mean more people in different places. you say you are going to recruit... sorry, you are going to recruit... sorry, you said you're going to recruit more. but when it comes to nurses, the problem is that the number of people applying to study nursing has just dropped massively and that is partly because you have cut the bursaries. well, there still more people applying than we have places for, and we are going to expand those places, so there is, there is still people who, lots of people who want to become nurses, and rightly so, it isa to become nurses, and rightly so, it is a brilliant profession, so there is a brilliant profession, so there is space to expand the number of nurses, and we intend to do that, and not only to, to, you know obviously to fill the places we have at the moment but we are expanding the number of clinical places available. likewise, this year there isa available. likewise, this year there is a record number of gps in training, infact is a record number of gps in training, in fact we exceeded our target for the number of new gps, so this plan works, with the

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