:00:17. > :00:20.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:21. > :00:25.With me are Katie Martin from the Financial Times
:00:26. > :00:31.and Lucy Fisher Senior Political correspondent at The Times.
:00:32. > :00:35.Nice to have you both here. Tomorrow's front pages, this is how
:00:36. > :00:37.they are looking. The Financial Times, which leads
:00:38. > :00:41.with President-elect Trump's appointment of three conservative
:00:42. > :00:43.hardliners for his administration. The Daily Mirror looks
:00:44. > :00:45.at the ?369 million cost to the taxpayer of the refurbishment
:00:46. > :00:48.to Buckingham Palace The Daily Mail has an interview
:00:49. > :00:56.with the father of a girl who was cryogenically frozen
:00:57. > :00:58.following her death last month Unlike the girl's mother,
:00:59. > :01:12.he had opposed his daughter's The the Times has a picture of
:01:13. > :01:17.Theresa May and Angela Merkel who met in Berlin today. The European
:01:18. > :01:21.leaders are saying farewell to President Obama.
:01:22. > :01:23.The Telegraph leads with an announcement expected next
:01:24. > :01:25.week by the Chancellor, that will see cold callers
:01:26. > :01:27.being banned from targeting people in the wake of
:01:28. > :01:31.Forecasters warn of a weekend of snow and storms across the UK,
:01:32. > :01:35.The major refurb planned for Buckingham Palace
:01:36. > :01:37.is on the i's front page, with the paper detailing
:01:38. > :01:43.the potential fire risk of the ageing cables.
:01:44. > :01:51.We will start with the story on the front of the Daily Mail, agony of
:01:52. > :01:54.frozen Gold's father. This was a story that was embargoed until
:01:55. > :02:00.midnight last night for a month after this girl died. The father
:02:01. > :02:10.says in this story about the bitter row that has affected his family. He
:02:11. > :02:14.is suffering from cancer as well, as is his daughter. An extraordinary
:02:15. > :02:19.case. It is horrible, nothing nice to say about this story. It's been
:02:20. > :02:22.all over the papers today, clearly captivated the nation. It's
:02:23. > :02:28.difficult to see there are any winners here. It's just awful in
:02:29. > :02:32.every direction. The poor girl and the father is suffering from cancer
:02:33. > :02:35.himself. They had a disagreement, he and the mother of the child over
:02:36. > :02:43.what to do. It just sounds better and awful. The court case, it was
:02:44. > :02:47.not whether or not she should choose to cryonics league preserve her
:02:48. > :02:50.remains, it was about which of the parents should have a say over what
:02:51. > :02:56.Absolutely, about the rights of a Absolutely, about the rights of a
:02:57. > :03:00.child's last wishes when they haven't yet reached the age of 18.
:03:01. > :03:03.Who is to decide? I think it captured the nation's imagination
:03:04. > :03:08.because of this idea of freezing your body and the possibility of
:03:09. > :03:11.coming back 200 years later. What's really sad is the father. He's
:03:12. > :03:17.talked about these hope traders and his complete scepticism, whether the
:03:18. > :03:23.science is where all will ever be there to allow his daughter to be
:03:24. > :03:25.unfrozen and live again. Is a leap of faith, very few facilities in the
:03:26. > :03:31.world offer this service. It's in the hope that one day somebody might
:03:32. > :03:34.be able to do something? You have to imagine he wants what's best for his
:03:35. > :03:39.daughter, although she has passed away. He doesn't want people to be
:03:40. > :03:45.trading on false hope or slim hope. But... The human tragedy behind
:03:46. > :03:50.this, the family tragedy behind this is laid bare by the fact they can't
:03:51. > :03:53.agree. Whatever there is in the science, whatever the possibilities,
:03:54. > :03:58.whatever the legal ramifications, this is a very personal family
:03:59. > :04:02.tragedy. The only thing you can take from it if she got her wishes. She
:04:03. > :04:07.found out before she died this was going to be permissible. Absolutely.
:04:08. > :04:10.I am sure many people across the nation heard this morning her final
:04:11. > :04:14.letter to the judge saying she didn't want to die. It was
:04:15. > :04:19.absolutely heartbreaking. At least... She wanted to have this
:04:20. > :04:24.chance to try and cheat death and she did achieve it. The ethical
:04:25. > :04:27.moral dilemmas of if this technology ever becomes available, she could be
:04:28. > :04:32.brought back to life, in theory, to be treated for cancer but won't know
:04:33. > :04:37.anyone. It will be hundreds of years from now. That is a very peculiar
:04:38. > :04:43.thought, isn't it? It's very peculiar. If it works for her,
:04:44. > :04:49.presumably everybody could do it. Ultimately nobody really wants to
:04:50. > :04:52.die. So, as you said, there are these ramifications further down the
:04:53. > :04:57.line. What if everybody does it? What if everybody wakes up 200 years
:04:58. > :05:00.from now on to live in a completely different world? There are huge
:05:01. > :05:04.ethical questions here and we don't know the answers. And not very well
:05:05. > :05:09.regulated, it seems, this small industry? I think it is a very niche
:05:10. > :05:17.industry at the moment, highly expensive. She asked her father for
:05:18. > :05:22.?50,000, to be frozen at minus 196 Celsius, upside down in one of these
:05:23. > :05:26.cryopreservation tanks. It seems a bit sci-fi to me and I'm not
:05:27. > :05:32.convinced by it. I think it was her grandparents who helped raise the
:05:33. > :05:36.money? Yes. The Daily Mirror. Who pays the bill when one of the
:05:37. > :05:41.world's richest women in eat her house fixed up? You, of course. This
:05:42. > :05:48.is the Queen and Buckingham Palace needing a refurb. Yes, electrical
:05:49. > :05:55.cables are 40, the lead pipes, it all needs an update. ?370 million
:05:56. > :05:59.has been approved by the trustees to allow this overhaul of Buckingham
:06:00. > :06:03.Palace. And guess what, the usual suspects are not happy about! The
:06:04. > :06:07.public are out in force saying this is absolutely outrageous. Frankly, I
:06:08. > :06:12.think it is easy to see that when next week we are expecting the
:06:13. > :06:17.Autumn Statement, Theresa May is trying to give a boost to the just
:06:18. > :06:20.managing families, to see the Royal family getting millions and millions
:06:21. > :06:23.pounds in the next ten years to do at the Palace... It's only open
:06:24. > :06:29.during the summer months and doesn't necessarily seem for money to all
:06:30. > :06:33.quarters. It's a tricky one. But doesn't the Queen and the Royal
:06:34. > :06:38.family and all of this living history bring in billions to the
:06:39. > :06:42.country? Sure... But as we were just saying, we have got the Autumn
:06:43. > :06:47.Statement next week, which is going to be all about these just about
:06:48. > :06:51.managing families. Whilst we or worrying about spending a third of
:06:52. > :06:55.our income on childcare costs, it does seem slightly galling that the
:06:56. > :06:59.Queen is getting such a huge amount of money to do up her house. It's
:07:00. > :07:02.notable she doesn't have to move out during this process. She can just
:07:03. > :07:06.move into the East Wing whilst the West Wing is being done up. These
:07:07. > :07:10.are not any ordinary home repairs are going on here. Nonetheless, as
:07:11. > :07:15.you say, there is a public interest. Nobody wants the Palace to burn down
:07:16. > :07:22.or flood. It's full of antiques and of items that are of national
:07:23. > :07:26.importance. Just the timing. And also the amount... It's a round
:07:27. > :07:28.number that is very similar to this ?350 million a week we're all
:07:29. > :07:33.supposed to be saving from leaving the EU. Whether that exists or not
:07:34. > :07:38.we don't know yet, but there's a lot of parallels here and there's really
:07:39. > :07:46.awkward timing that doesn't go down well with a paper like the Daily
:07:47. > :07:51.Mirror. The FT and the Times on the appointments President-elect Trump
:07:52. > :07:54.has been making. KT, if we're led to believe the direction he's going in,
:07:55. > :08:00.it's conservative and quite hard line. Quite hard line is putting it
:08:01. > :08:03.mildly. Once Donald Trump knew he had won he came out with a speech
:08:04. > :08:08.that was quite conciliatory and talked about being a president for
:08:09. > :08:12.all of America. But that seems to have melted away pretty quickly.
:08:13. > :08:14.Some of the appointments have already been extremely contentious
:08:15. > :08:22.and the ones we have seen come through today have really got people
:08:23. > :08:25.upset and excited. In particular, I would say, the appointment of Jeff
:08:26. > :08:31.Sessions, the Attorney General role. He was previously turned down for a
:08:32. > :08:34.federal Judge role on the basis people thought his comments were too
:08:35. > :08:41.racist in the 80s. He has resurfaced into this role now. Mike Flynn, very
:08:42. > :08:47.hard line, you said various things about Muslims in America that are
:08:48. > :08:54.rather ugly to our ears. So it seems to be pretty divisive. Some of these
:08:55. > :09:00.appointments will have to go through a congressional hearing, but the
:09:01. > :09:05.Republicans control Congress? Yes, that's right. I think it remains to
:09:06. > :09:10.be seen, what we've seen so far from Donald Trump is he is quite a
:09:11. > :09:14.whimsical and material character. Pointing these hardliners, will sit
:09:15. > :09:17.down with Mitt Romney and some of his opponents and rivals within the
:09:18. > :09:23.Republican party, said that we will see a bit of balance from across the
:09:24. > :09:27.GOP. But his family, whether they are going to be part of any of these
:09:28. > :09:31.jobs. The Times Ed Ivanka Trump, I don't intend to be part of my
:09:32. > :09:36.father's government, I thought the kids were meant to be running his
:09:37. > :09:40.businesses? There's a lot of confusion about the rules. Previous
:09:41. > :09:44.presidents have put their businesses into blind trusts. That makes sense,
:09:45. > :09:48.there can be no conflicts of interest. But today Ivanka Trump was
:09:49. > :09:54.in that meeting with the Japanese premier and I think there's a lot of
:09:55. > :09:57.smelling Sarah Mack, people thinking, why is the
:09:58. > :10:03.President-elect's daughter coming to a meeting with a world leader? His
:10:04. > :10:07.son-in-law is supposed to look at the loopholes that might allow him
:10:08. > :10:11.to be a legal adviser. Yes, quite a power couple. I wouldn't put it past
:10:12. > :10:14.him, where there's a will there's a way. I'm sure they will find a
:10:15. > :10:19.loophole if there is one. It does sit rather uncomfortably that Ivanka
:10:20. > :10:23.Trump talks about not wanting to be part of the government and then
:10:24. > :10:27.there she is, sitting in this meeting with the Japanese Prime
:10:28. > :10:33.Minister. What on earth is she doing there? It does look rather awkward.
:10:34. > :10:39.Let's stay with the Times and talking of awkward photos, look at
:10:40. > :10:43.the expressions on these faces! Eurovisions. Theresa May and Angela
:10:44. > :10:52.Merkel, saying farewell to President Obama. The picture editor has been
:10:53. > :10:55.told to go out and find a picture that represents national stereotypes
:10:56. > :10:58.for the Brits and Germans and this is what they have come up with.
:10:59. > :11:03.Angela Merkel looks rather frosty. It sounds like she has rebuffed
:11:04. > :11:07.approaches from Theresa May to get talking about the Brexit process.
:11:08. > :11:12.Theresa May did say today we are on track to be triggering Article 50,
:11:13. > :11:19.this two year divorce process from the EU, by the end of March next
:11:20. > :11:22.year. Angela, true to national stereotypes, has stuck to the rules
:11:23. > :11:26.and said once you have done that we can have a conversation about it.
:11:27. > :11:31.President Obama was apparently talking to Angela Merkel about her
:11:32. > :11:37.being leader of the free West? Yes, interesting, wasn't it? Obama really
:11:38. > :11:41.stuck the boot in and said the special relationship is in between
:11:42. > :11:45.the US and the UK but the US and Germany. Called Angela Merkel his
:11:46. > :11:49.closest ally. I think she has stood up for the values of liberalism much
:11:50. > :11:56.more open stance towards immigration. I'm not surprised Obama
:11:57. > :12:00.is championing her bravery when across the rest of Europe that seems
:12:01. > :12:05.to be a more fragile consensus. Shall we look at the express, page
:12:06. > :12:13.four. Senior Tory backs calls for Nigel Farage to be given period. I'm
:12:14. > :12:18.not sure Nigel Farage wants this, at least just yet, but who is
:12:19. > :12:21.suggesting he gets it? He's trying to retire from politics you know! He
:12:22. > :12:27.doesn't want anything to do with it any more. There is a backbench Tory
:12:28. > :12:30.MP, Graham Brady, who is saying the Ukip leader deserves, the former
:12:31. > :12:36.Ukip Wheater or is he the Ukip leader? Interim. That he deserves
:12:37. > :12:41.the honour. Also there's some talk about putting him into some sort of
:12:42. > :12:46.informal role as a go-between between Theresa May and Donald
:12:47. > :12:52.Trump. In terms of the peerage... I know we have slightly different
:12:53. > :12:55.views about this. I tend to think... It's the definition of a divisive
:12:56. > :13:01.appointment to put him in a position like that. I think you can't keep
:13:02. > :13:04.him out. Whatever you think of his politics he has led the rise of an
:13:05. > :13:09.insurgent party at the general election last year, received 4
:13:10. > :13:14.million votes almost, almost 13% of the popular vote share. I think at
:13:15. > :13:17.least the party deserves some appointees in the House of Lords,
:13:18. > :13:22.whether they want to give that to Farage, let's leave it up to Ukip. I
:13:23. > :13:28.think keeping them out is only going to fuel antiestablishment sentiment.
:13:29. > :13:36.Doesn't seem like he's in a hurry? It doesn't. I think is hoping to
:13:37. > :13:39.play a bit of a role in the Trump administration. He's had several
:13:40. > :13:43.decades now at the forefront of British politics. He has this
:13:44. > :13:47.lecture tour, is going to go round Europe and tried whip up anti-EU
:13:48. > :13:53.feeling elsewhere. You get the sense he's really enjoying himself. On
:13:54. > :13:58.Radio 4's any questions he said it's not going to happen, it's not what I
:13:59. > :14:03.want at this moment in my life. But when his old he might think about
:14:04. > :14:10.it, if the offer is still there! Right, the Telegraph, speaking of
:14:11. > :14:17.Brexit. Sturgeon's chance to veto Brexit. We have heard today that the
:14:18. > :14:21.Scottish Government and the Welsh Assembly... This is the Scottish
:14:22. > :14:32.Telegraph, thank you to that voice in my ear for reminding me. The two
:14:33. > :14:36.devolved governments get the chance to go to the Supreme Court as
:14:37. > :14:40.interveners, not parties to it, but in this case that's been referred as
:14:41. > :14:44.a result of the appeal by the government against the success
:14:45. > :14:48.challenging whether the government can just trigger Brexit before
:14:49. > :14:50.putting it before Parliament. The High Court said Parliament have to
:14:51. > :14:55.have a say. The government are taking it to the Supreme Court. Why
:14:56. > :15:00.might this be a chance for Nicola Sturgeon to stir the pot a bit?
:15:01. > :15:06.Because, of course, Scotland voted to remain and this is the problem.
:15:07. > :15:10.Brexit doesn't only threaten the European Union, there's the union of
:15:11. > :15:14.the United Kingdom at stake. I think it's perfectly valid for her to say
:15:15. > :15:18.our nation voted slightly differently, we want to have our own
:15:19. > :15:24.input, and that alongside already arguments about if the government
:15:25. > :15:29.needs to seek parliament's approval to invoke Article 50, whether
:15:30. > :15:34.Article 50 is reversible. There are so many questions around Brexit
:15:35. > :15:37.remaining. There is also the issue that constitutionally it's very much
:15:38. > :15:44.in the interests of Wales and Scotland to act in this way, because
:15:45. > :15:50.it very much will affect their constitution if we are in or outside
:15:51. > :15:53.of the EU. Exactly, it affects them constitutionally but this is the
:15:54. > :15:57.very purpose, they are there to represent the people of Scotland and
:15:58. > :16:01.Wales. As this story points out, 62% of people in Scotland voted to
:16:02. > :16:04.remain. It's not even a slightly different view from the rest of the
:16:05. > :16:09.UK, it's a hugely different view to the rest of the UK. This is very
:16:10. > :16:18.much Nicola Sturgeon's moment to that view forward. The paper has a
:16:19. > :16:21.QC writing today saying this could explode the cosy consensus that the
:16:22. > :16:26.two year process for leaving the EU cannot be undone. We are slightly
:16:27. > :16:31.shooting in the dark. Nobody understands how this process is
:16:32. > :16:34.going to play out. But the fact gives Scotland and Wales an
:16:35. > :16:40.opportunity to put a spanner in the works... A goes on to say that if,
:16:41. > :16:44.this is really getting ahead of ourselves, if Nicola Sturgeon went
:16:45. > :16:48.to the European Court of Justice, we are only way from that everybody, it
:16:49. > :16:52.would leave the door ajar if she was successful at the ECJ for the entire
:16:53. > :16:58.of the UK to stay in the EU and she could use it as a bargaining chip.
:16:59. > :17:02.Couldn't she does? The SNP trying to leverage. One minute left to discuss
:17:03. > :17:10.something that brought joy to my heart last weekend. The Daily
:17:11. > :17:15.Mirror, Ed can win it. This is one of the former judges on Strictly
:17:16. > :17:20.saying Ed Balls and his great entertainment value... But is he a
:17:21. > :17:24.dancer? He is an entertainer. I wouldn't say his dancing is the best
:17:25. > :17:28.on the show, but he's the one everyone looks forward to. If I tune
:17:29. > :17:33.in on a Saturday night, I hope he makes it all the way to the final.
:17:34. > :17:41.You are not the Strictly fan but I think you have to look at diplomat.
:17:42. > :17:46.I am almost tempted to watch it. You must. OK. That is it to the papers.
:17:47. > :17:49.Don't forget, all the front pages are online on the BBC News website
:17:50. > :17:52.where you can read a detailed review of the papers.
:17:53. > :17:56.It's all there for you - 7 days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers,
:17:57. > :17:58.and you can see us there too, with each night's edition
:17:59. > :18:01.of The Papers being posted on the page shortly
:18:02. > :18:06.Thank you Katie Martin and Lucy Fisher.
:18:07. > :18:12.I hope you enjoyed it, you seemed to! I hope you come back. Lucy, nice
:18:13. > :18:14.to see you again. We have the weather in a minute and then the
:18:15. > :18:28.headlines. Good evening. The cold and wintry
:18:29. > :18:34.theme continues for the next couple of days, for much of the week ahead.
:18:35. > :18:35.But wet and windy weather on the cards for later