:00:00. > :00:28.On this weeks meet the author, will be speaking
:00:29. > :00:31.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:32. > :00:35.With me are Jim Waterson of Buzzfeed UK and Tim Stanley
:00:36. > :00:37.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with
:00:38. > :00:40.a grim outlook for Europe is headlined on the Express,
:00:41. > :00:41.quoting a warning from Angela Merkel's deputy,
:00:42. > :00:43.of the consequences if Brexit is badly handled.
:00:44. > :00:45.The Telegraph says Theresa May has given pro-EU
:00:46. > :00:46.civil servants their marching orders,
:00:47. > :00:48.telling them to get on with the delivering Brexit.
:00:49. > :00:52.between the Prime Minister and China over the nuclear
:00:53. > :00:55.While the i has a special report on the influence
:00:56. > :00:59.The Scottish Daily Mail accuses Sir Philip Green of blackmail,
:01:00. > :01:02.saying he's willing to clear BHS's pension deficit if the watchdogs
:01:03. > :01:10.on the spread of Zika in across Asia.
:01:11. > :01:13.It says 41 cases have been confirmed in Singapore alone.
:01:14. > :01:26.Bank Holiday Monday could ignite a heatwave.
:01:27. > :01:34.I just want a bit of rain, a tiny bit! It has hit many places in the
:01:35. > :01:39.UK but not my garden! This a little bit would be nice. Much more
:01:40. > :01:44.important matters to discuss, such as Brexit, The Times, leading on
:01:45. > :01:48.Theresa May's thoughts on the Hinckley deal, this is the nuclear
:01:49. > :01:52.power station that was just about to see the exchange of contract, she
:01:53. > :01:55.was just through the door of Downing Street, and they said, let's have a
:01:56. > :02:01.think about this, a cooling off period. The Times are talking about
:02:02. > :02:12.how her attempts to unpick this deal, years in the making, macro
:02:13. > :02:16.energy -- EDF weather company involved, Chinese officials were
:02:17. > :02:19.even planning to sign the contract, at a big ceremony, it was the night
:02:20. > :02:25.before when she pulled the plug and said she wanted to have a think
:02:26. > :02:27.about this. It is all about whether she is comfortable with Chinese
:02:28. > :02:31.businesses having access to our nuclear projects and whether we need
:02:32. > :02:35.to be worried about serious global power having that sort of
:02:36. > :02:43.information and involvement in our national infrastructure in nuclear
:02:44. > :02:46.power. We need all of those things but do we want it in one big
:02:47. > :02:50.project, especially when we could wait a little bit longer and perhaps
:02:51. > :02:54.invest in smaller nuclear plants, which could be applied locally and
:02:55. > :02:59.provide electricity within a certain region. It is not just security, it
:03:00. > :03:02.is the price tag as well, quoted that when she called Francois
:03:03. > :03:08.Hollande, the French are part of this deal, to explain the decision,
:03:09. > :03:12.she said, it is my method, my method to go through everything, line by
:03:13. > :03:15.line. That matches what we know about her, she has been Prime
:03:16. > :03:23.Minister for only a few weeks, we are discovering what kind of Prime
:03:24. > :03:26.Minister she is. Meticulous. We knew that she had these concerns when she
:03:27. > :03:29.was Home Secretary, she raised them with George Osborne on a number of
:03:30. > :03:37.occasions and this was dismissed, was nothing new. This was what she
:03:38. > :03:40.was saying when she was the Home Secretary. If we had the Tory
:03:41. > :03:44.leadership election, which could be going on, David Cameron would be
:03:45. > :03:48.Prime Minister for another couple of weeks and this would have been
:03:49. > :03:52.signed, and we would be building it already. Last-minute, this project
:03:53. > :03:56.started at the tail end of the Gordon Brown government, it has been
:03:57. > :04:00.going on that long, finally, all the civil servants who spent six, seven
:04:01. > :04:04.years to get this, new person in charge, final person to sign off,
:04:05. > :04:07.they have changed their mind, it is telling that this is yet another
:04:08. > :04:11.thing where they are happy to rip up what went on in the previous
:04:12. > :04:16.government. George Osborne pet project, the member state visit,
:04:17. > :04:21.when you're all of the stops, and already, complete change. The
:04:22. > :04:25.message from the UK Government, China, come here, invest in what you
:04:26. > :04:32.want, we need your money, we want to be first in. If you look at the
:04:33. > :04:38.front page of this newspaper, the rise of China in Britain, they say,
:04:39. > :04:42.this is what she's worried about, she's concerned that China has too
:04:43. > :04:48.much of a stake in United businesses and energy. The figures are
:04:49. > :04:53.extraordinary, 3.8 billion spent on mergers and acquisitions, the pace
:04:54. > :05:01.and investment is up nearly 500% in 60 is, China is becoming a major
:05:02. > :05:06.investor. -- in six years. There is not just a security risk but an
:05:07. > :05:09.economic risk, we rely so much on investment from China, which is a
:05:10. > :05:14.fledgling economy, not a completely strong economy, a lot of the
:05:15. > :05:17.investment comes from state-run businesses. A lot of issues when it
:05:18. > :05:22.comes to trade with China, the other thing to bear in mind, the human
:05:23. > :05:25.rights record. When we get so close, drawn into the economic orbit of
:05:26. > :05:30.China, it comes with it, brings with it so many other bigger ethical
:05:31. > :05:35.issues and worries that other countries do not. Speaking of big
:05:36. > :05:39.issues, Brexit, very much re-emerging on the front pages over
:05:40. > :05:44.the weekend, particularly what is going on within the cabinet, the
:05:45. > :05:51.civil service as well. Moving on to the Telegraph, Theresa May telling
:05:52. > :05:56.civil servants to get on with Brexit, there is going to be a big
:05:57. > :05:59.meeting. At Chequers, awayday, you have been away on a summer break,
:06:00. > :06:03.you have got to come up with a fuel ideas to impress the boss when you
:06:04. > :06:08.come back! LAUGHTER Going around the table, and you get
:06:09. > :06:13.to the end, and you think, he has already said what I was going to
:06:14. > :06:17.say! What do I do? LAUGHTER Easy to forget that Theresa May
:06:18. > :06:23.technically campaign for remain, she seems to be wholeheartedly embracing
:06:24. > :06:26.Brexit now. -- Remain. She is the Prime Minister of a country which is
:06:27. > :06:29.voted out. We do not know what it will look like but this is
:06:30. > :06:35.interesting, her team will keep briefing the stories out there, full
:06:36. > :06:38.steam ahead... Whatever it means, they do not quite know but they want
:06:39. > :06:42.to get the word out to the public that she is committed. You speak to
:06:43. > :06:45.the source is more than I do, different sources from different
:06:46. > :06:52.cabinet departments, not all of them necessarily getting on, do you
:06:53. > :06:57.get... Do you get a sense that the sources are leaking information for
:06:58. > :07:01.their own benefit? Of course, 75% of the cabinet ministers asked to
:07:02. > :07:05.present how you make Brexit work were against it, you have that
:07:06. > :07:11.problem. Secondly, three departments will be directly in charge, they are
:07:12. > :07:15.foreign, the new office for Brexiteer and the new Department for
:07:16. > :07:18.International trade. In those three you have three very big
:07:19. > :07:22.personalities, who do not gel, and the word is coming up from those
:07:23. > :07:26.departments that they are already fighting over staff. Effectively
:07:27. > :07:32.fighting over who gets the biggest desk. Who is going to be running
:07:33. > :07:36.Brexit. Already, apparently, the heads of the Department, Liam Fox,
:07:37. > :07:39.David Davies and Boris Johnson have been called together for a meeting
:07:40. > :07:46.to get back together and get on with it. There is going to be a lot of
:07:47. > :07:49.jockeying over this. If it is not handled properly, the Daily
:07:50. > :07:56.Express... A certain gentleman in Germany has warned... A lot of
:07:57. > :08:02.quotes from them, this weekend. Angela Merkel's deputy, warning that
:08:03. > :08:09.if the UK got everything it wanted, other countries could leave the EU,
:08:10. > :08:13.Europe could go down the drain. That make sense, if the EU gives Britain
:08:14. > :08:15.a good deal, that would encourage others to follow suit, I don't see
:08:16. > :08:21.the incentives for the other remaining countries. Could it affect
:08:22. > :08:26.the EU economy of Britain is given a bad deal? But they cannot make it a
:08:27. > :08:29.palatable option otherwise it would be encouraging every other country
:08:30. > :08:34.which has considered splitting or holding a referendum doing something
:08:35. > :08:38.similar. Germany would say this because it is entering a period of
:08:39. > :08:41.negotiation, when you do that, you don't begin by saying, whatever
:08:42. > :08:45.Britain gets will be great for all of us... No, you say, if we give
:08:46. > :08:50.them what they want, the sky will fall in, they want Britain to water
:08:51. > :08:55.down their demands. David Davis's famous list of what he expects to
:08:56. > :09:02.get is a markedly optimistic, the idea that you can have free
:09:03. > :09:09.movement, retain access to the single market, you will not get
:09:10. > :09:15.these deals easily. This is the same day in which German sources also
:09:16. > :09:18.said that Ttip is out of the window and is not going to happen. Thank
:09:19. > :09:23.goodness we left, that is why we need to leave, Bees has left the
:09:24. > :09:28.queue we were at the back of, now we are one ahead of them. They are
:09:29. > :09:32.bound to say this sort of thing. They do not want negotiations to go
:09:33. > :09:37.on. -- TTIP. Before we came on air, Angela Merkel has said that the EU
:09:38. > :09:44.is letting down refugees, more cracks in what is meant to be a
:09:45. > :09:52.union. The Scottish Daily Mail, lovely picture there, the main
:09:53. > :09:55.story, Sir Phillip Green. The newspaper accusing them of
:09:56. > :10:03.blackmail. This is over the pension pot hole. This is damage limitation,
:10:04. > :10:09.the damage has been done, he has got to save his knighthood. The final
:10:10. > :10:14.BHS doors have been shut, that has come to an end, and now there is the
:10:15. > :10:17.issue of all of these investigations, he has been very
:10:18. > :10:23.clear, picking fights with people who have been probing into BHS,
:10:24. > :10:26.Frank Field, Labour MP, who has been to particularly critical, Phillip
:10:27. > :10:33.Green has given as good as he has got, this is a man, despite all his
:10:34. > :10:39.wealth, much of it in his wife's name, it tends to do most of his PR
:10:40. > :10:41.himself, on his Nokia 33 ten, taking calls on a battered old mobile phone
:10:42. > :10:46.and dealing with journalists quite directly. -- Nokia 3310. He is not
:10:47. > :10:55.used to dealing with this level of scrutiny, and now it is all about...
:10:56. > :10:58.He's tried to cut a deal. Cut a deal rather than blackmail? That is how
:10:59. > :11:05.he would perceive it, this is what comes naturally to them, there is
:11:06. > :11:09.always a solution. He may have to take his public humiliation. The
:11:10. > :11:15.people I feel for, the people who work for BHS. I heard... I read a
:11:16. > :11:20.lovely story, on Twitter, a lot of Department stores around the country
:11:21. > :11:25.are offering work, even if it is part-time, two members of BHS staff.
:11:26. > :11:30.It is nice that the high street is coming together, you feel for the
:11:31. > :11:33.people. The Financial Times, scary story, BBC News reported on a model
:11:34. > :11:38.that scientist had created on the spread of the Zika virus, reading
:11:39. > :11:43.the FT tomorrow, that model has come to light, it is spreading, where
:11:44. > :11:46.they said it would spread, we were worried about it ruining the
:11:47. > :11:53.Olympics, but in fact, probably a bigger issue. It is like a zombie
:11:54. > :11:56.apocalypse movie, fleeing from one country, and they find a dead
:11:57. > :12:02.walking in another, in the case the Zika virus, it turns out they have
:12:03. > :12:06.confirmed 41 cases of locally transmitted Zika virus in Singapore,
:12:07. > :12:12.will this be linked to Rio? I don't know, when I heard that it was that
:12:13. > :12:19.safe to go if you take precautions, that was a risk, some athletes chose
:12:20. > :12:23.not to go, it has spread to Florida, this is a disease which as a world
:12:24. > :12:27.we will have to accept is not just Latin American, it will get to
:12:28. > :12:33.Africa as well. I know a journalist working in Rio, they got the Zika
:12:34. > :12:36.virus, it had travelled to another couple of countries before he was
:12:37. > :12:40.even diagnosed. We do not know how easily it spreads through sexual
:12:41. > :12:45.relations and so forth, but clearly it can spread beyond just being
:12:46. > :12:49.local, now we know that. We have got to find some way of dealing with
:12:50. > :12:53.that. The race is on to get a vaccine, money has already been put
:12:54. > :12:58.into that, although it is amazing, even with air travel and all the
:12:59. > :13:04.rest, how well we can contain these things, bird flu, above, horrifying,
:13:05. > :13:10.amazingly contained within a couple of years. -- Ebola. We are amazingly
:13:11. > :13:17.good when we pull resources to contain one thing, shutting these
:13:18. > :13:22.things down. -- pool. That is it for this edition of the newspapers, we
:13:23. > :13:27.will do it all again in one hour's time.