:00:00. > :00:00.Funerals are held in Turkey after two explosions
:00:00. > :00:00.near a football stadium in Istanbul killed 38 people.
:00:00. > :00:12.Many of the victims were police officers.
:00:13. > :00:15.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
:00:16. > :00:18.With me are Rosamund Urwin, Columnist at The London Evening
:00:19. > :00:26.Standard and Tom Bergin, Business Correspondent at Reuters.
:00:27. > :00:38.Good to have you both here, giving up your Sunday's nights, such is
:00:39. > :00:42.your dedication... And mine too! Let's look at the front pages...
:00:43. > :00:45.The Times says Theresa May will back steep rises to council tax bills
:00:46. > :00:47.this week in an attempt to plug a gaping hole in
:00:48. > :01:01.The Telegraph leads with comments from the Home Secretary,
:01:02. > :01:04.who has criticised what she calls the "unacceptable" rail strike
:01:05. > :01:07.that is expected to shut down one of the country's busiest commuter
:01:08. > :01:09.Donald Trump's attack on the credibility of
:01:10. > :01:15.The Metro leads on the reported spat between Nicky Morgan
:01:16. > :01:17.and Theresa May, over the Prime Minister's
:01:18. > :01:23.The Independent reports on fears that some countries
:01:24. > :01:25.will try to frustrate Britain's future status in the World
:01:26. > :01:34.And the Mail reports on the case of Alexander Blackman,
:01:35. > :01:36.the Royal Marine jailed for killing a fatally-wounded insurgent
:01:37. > :01:45.Let's look at how the Daily Mail reports -- the Financial Times looks
:01:46. > :01:50.at this story. He would say that, wouldn't he? It's unsurprising that
:01:51. > :01:53.he is unhappy that the CIA has said that Russia interviewed in the
:01:54. > :01:58.presidential elections. And of course, if we go back if you months,
:01:59. > :02:03.he appeared to call on Russia, to hack and release Hillary Clinton's
:02:04. > :02:08.e-mails. He backtracked on it after he said it, but we have quite a long
:02:09. > :02:14.history here. Anyway, what is interesting here is that we got both
:02:15. > :02:17.Democrats, as you would expect senators, but also Republicans, John
:02:18. > :02:24.McCain and Lindsey Graham, saying that the probe should not be a
:02:25. > :02:27.partisan issue. That it must go ahead, and President Obama is
:02:28. > :02:36.ordering a full intelligence review of Russia's meddling. The other
:02:37. > :02:41.complication, if you like, is the fact that somebody considered to be
:02:42. > :02:50.Secretary of State, is rather close to Vladimir Putin, we are led to
:02:51. > :02:58.believe? Yes, covering the oil industry, he took a poor view on
:02:59. > :03:04.sanctions, has a long business in doing deals with Russia, some of
:03:05. > :03:12.those. What is interesting, the Trump position was described as --
:03:13. > :03:17.trump described it as ridiculous. He did not approach the State
:03:18. > :03:24.Department to seek any kind of guidance on how he should handle
:03:25. > :03:28.these phone calls. It is not clear why he is ruling out Russian
:03:29. > :03:32.involvement so clearly, the CIA and the FBI are clear that Russia was
:03:33. > :03:36.involved. The FBI is a bit more cagey about the intention of the
:03:37. > :03:41.Russians, whether it was too back Hillary or not, but it was
:03:42. > :03:45.interesting. Before the election we saw Donald Trump regularly assert
:03:46. > :03:48.things that had no basis or fact. We've seen a couple of things since
:03:49. > :03:52.the election, the claim that there was a voter fraud against him in
:03:53. > :03:56.some jurisdictions. It will be interesting to see if he will
:03:57. > :04:00.continue with this policy of asserting things as fact without
:04:01. > :04:06.basis, and how it will play out as president. People can choose to take
:04:07. > :04:11.you from your comments before you get elected but you would expect a
:04:12. > :04:15.bit more candour and clarity with what you say. Some would say that
:04:16. > :04:20.there is an assertion without much fact, he's not having the daily
:04:21. > :04:23.intelligence briefing which is a long-standing practice that
:04:24. > :04:30.presidents and President-elects get. His quote is "I'm a smart person, I
:04:31. > :04:35.don't need to be told the same thing every day". Before he is even
:04:36. > :04:41.elected, if we get this report, a full investigation that is supported
:04:42. > :04:46.by both of the parties, it cast doubt the legitimacy of his
:04:47. > :04:49.presidency, if there is some sort of Russian involvement? Even without
:04:50. > :04:53.him knowing anything about it, nobody is suggesting that he was
:04:54. > :04:58.aware of it. At the end of the day, he's the president. And both sides
:04:59. > :05:01.have said that he's going to be president, there's no particular
:05:02. > :05:07.reason to rerun the election, even if you find there is Russian
:05:08. > :05:11.involvement. Today, Nate Silver, the well-known American pollster, or he
:05:12. > :05:16.was saying that it could have had an impact.
:05:17. > :05:21.You can separate the two on his legitimacy with knowing the fact.
:05:22. > :05:26.They don't have too get in the way of one another. I looked back, the
:05:27. > :05:33.US meddled in the 1996 presidential election in Russia. Obviously, Boris
:05:34. > :05:38.Yeltsin getting re-elected. There are allegations that they were
:05:39. > :05:42.receiving, a nudge from the White House. Political consultants from
:05:43. > :05:47.Washington out there. It's not to say that nobody else has ever done
:05:48. > :05:52.this... No, it isn't. Let's not even get started on Latin America.
:05:53. > :05:59.The Daily Express. Anger at new bid to block EU exit. It's another legal
:06:00. > :06:07.challenge? Yes, any effort, I guess, to block EU exit would cause anger
:06:08. > :06:18.for the Daily Express, they are very keen on Brecht said. -- Brexit.
:06:19. > :06:21.We've counted at least four. This is another one, basically the argument
:06:22. > :06:25.is even if the government have the right to take us out of the EU, does
:06:26. > :06:29.it mean they have the right to take us out of the European free trade
:06:30. > :06:35.area? The latest legal challenge is saying that they don't. You know, we
:06:36. > :06:39.have to see what happens in court. But we became aware of this at the
:06:40. > :06:42.end of last month, and the number of lawyers in London kicked it about
:06:43. > :06:48.and generally thought that the government did have the power to do
:06:49. > :06:51.this. And one or two happened naturally together. I'm not sure how
:06:52. > :06:57.much legs this claim will actually have. The Daily Express could sleep
:06:58. > :07:02.safely. All I am thinking, it's more evidence for the fact that we should
:07:03. > :07:06.not be reducing an incredibly complex thing to a binary question
:07:07. > :07:08.that we put to the public. We should have had a more sophisticated
:07:09. > :07:12.approach. It would have been a much longer
:07:13. > :07:14.question, like the one the Italians were trying to answer one week ago!
:07:15. > :07:25.About bike chambers and things like that. But
:07:26. > :07:31.if they dare do it, and many MPs have said that they would not, but
:07:32. > :07:36.if they really did not want us to leave the single market, MPs would
:07:37. > :07:39.be able to vote against it in Parliament, surely? Technically, if
:07:40. > :07:43.they wanted to but you have to look at the facts on the ground at the
:07:44. > :07:47.moment. And the facts on the ground at the moment, MPs could stop
:07:48. > :07:52.Theresa May from triggering Article 50. That seems to be the current
:07:53. > :07:54.legal position. MPs this week in Parliament expressed great
:07:55. > :07:59.unwillingness to do that. It seems the way that this one will play out,
:08:00. > :08:05.we will trigger a tackle 50, negotiate and maybe there will be a
:08:06. > :08:14.second thought at some stage we get that deal -- trigger Article 50. Any
:08:15. > :08:17.activity, legal action to cancel Brexit before that, it looks
:08:18. > :08:23.somewhat unlikely given the comments we saw from MPs and others over the
:08:24. > :08:27.last seven months. It feels like any divorce, just creating a lot of work
:08:28. > :08:35.for lawyers and filling their pockets! 50 them in the Supreme
:08:36. > :08:41.Court the other week... Hmm. Home Secretary strike warning, this is a
:08:42. > :08:46.walk-out where if you travel on Southern Railway any time, we hear
:08:47. > :08:55.some pretty bad stories about how it is run. This will only add to it.
:08:56. > :08:57.The industrial dispute is about the introduction of driver only
:08:58. > :09:02.operation trains which obviously Southern Railway like to bring in.
:09:03. > :09:07.Staff do not want that. They claim on their side that there are safety
:09:08. > :09:13.issues around that, and it is better to have somebody to do ticketing and
:09:14. > :09:17.customer service. The way that most people simply experience this is a
:09:18. > :09:22.complete nightmare getting to work. They have quite little sympathy with
:09:23. > :09:26.both sides in the end. The way that this has played out, Southern have
:09:27. > :09:30.not handled it well in terms of PR either, all along the way. Now we
:09:31. > :09:35.have another three-day strike this week. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday,
:09:36. > :09:39.Whateley. What hope is there that it will carry on? We have seen other
:09:40. > :09:44.strikes recently averted, relatively last-minute. The Daily Telegraph is
:09:45. > :09:50.going a step further and saying that the government should look at taking
:09:51. > :09:54.action. And looking at the strike rules and union rules to have some
:09:55. > :09:59.sort of impact on it. The situation here seems to be one of technology.
:10:00. > :10:04.The train company says that they can operate perfectly safely without
:10:05. > :10:07.having conductors. The rail regulator agrees with the train
:10:08. > :10:12.company. We've had these for 30 years and we don't seem to have...
:10:13. > :10:16.We have enough period of time to compile it, if they were
:10:17. > :10:19.tremendously unsafe. The union compiled a dossier and looking
:10:20. > :10:24.through it, there were accidents and driver only trains -- on driver only
:10:25. > :10:29.trains but when you look at them, it's not clear to link to the fact
:10:30. > :10:34.that it was a driver only train. This is obviously going to continue.
:10:35. > :10:40.The next step would be driverless trains and driverless cars, maybe it
:10:41. > :10:45.is a sign of things to come? And this story, lastly, the High Court
:10:46. > :10:48.ruled that the union was allowed to stage a walk-out. Tomorrow, they
:10:49. > :10:53.will be in court appealing that decision, again it is more work for
:10:54. > :10:57.the lawyers! The other story in The Daily Telegraph, Boris refuses to
:10:58. > :11:03.back down as he meets Saudi king. This is where the Foreign Secretary
:11:04. > :11:07.was not particularly countrymen to about Saudi Arabia a few days ago,
:11:08. > :11:15.and then he had to do his diplomatic best whilst meeting came Salman. --
:11:16. > :11:25.Kenya Salman. Normally, you something less
:11:26. > :11:29.positive to say to them. You could say that his comments today, as The
:11:30. > :11:35.Daily Telegraph was saying, he's not backing down, but not soothing the
:11:36. > :11:43.situation, the Saudis can only read it has saying, Boris does have an
:11:44. > :11:47.underwhelming view of us and our behaviour, we will have to wait and
:11:48. > :11:52.see the final impact, when it comes to trade deals or arms purchases.
:11:53. > :11:56.Although the Foreign Minister here is being very diplomatic himself,
:11:57. > :12:00.saying that Mr Johnson's comments had been misconstrued and taken out
:12:01. > :12:04.of context which is quite generous? That is what Boris and soap was
:12:05. > :12:08.claiming that it is interesting. Theresa May has put him in such a
:12:09. > :12:13.high-profile position but one that keeps them quite far away from
:12:14. > :12:18.government, and also, you know, in the everyday sense. It does not give
:12:19. > :12:24.him anything to do with Brecht said. So, it is quite interesting as to
:12:25. > :12:29.how it will play out -- Brexit. He is such a loose cannon at times but
:12:30. > :12:33.the Foreign Secretary has taken a lot of money away from his Telegraph
:12:34. > :12:36.column and his book that was meant to be coming out this year. He had
:12:37. > :12:42.to hand back a lot of money... We cannot have that. The Times have
:12:43. > :12:47.an investigation on their front page.
:12:48. > :12:52.This council tax discussion has been brewing for a long time, social care
:12:53. > :12:57.does not have the funding it needs. Councils are bearing the brunt of
:12:58. > :13:00.those costs. And the NHS takes it because people are not moved out of
:13:01. > :13:04.hospitals quickly enough into social care. Chancellor Philip Hammond
:13:05. > :13:10.wanted to address this in the Autumn Statement last month. And
:13:11. > :13:16.essentially, there was a desire not to... They did not want any more
:13:17. > :13:22.costs on that squeeze, the jams, the squeezed middle group, and The Times
:13:23. > :13:26.investigation is setting out a lot of the problems, that we knew were
:13:27. > :13:30.there, but they got quite concrete things, at least 250 residential
:13:31. > :13:36.care homes have closed since March. A huge number of complaints. People
:13:37. > :13:40.stuck on walls. Some doctors have referred to it as bed blocking. I
:13:41. > :13:45.would add that it is slightly more complex because those people going
:13:46. > :13:48.into social care have incredibly complex needs and should stay for a
:13:49. > :13:53.bit longer in hospital because they need to go to places that had to
:13:54. > :13:58.provide incredibly detailed and complex care, C don't want to shut
:13:59. > :14:05.them out of hospitals -- so you do not. Any increase in council tax
:14:06. > :14:09.bills will... That money will be spent on social care, is that
:14:10. > :14:14.guaranteed? I guess one could. It is part of the bigger problem, as you
:14:15. > :14:20.mentioned with the NHS, this funding. Going into a position where
:14:21. > :14:25.you have inflation next year. Wage growth is expected to be moderate.
:14:26. > :14:30.The expectation is in 2017 we have flat, at best, real income growth.
:14:31. > :14:34.The question is, where does the money come from? People will feel
:14:35. > :14:39.the squeeze, and it will be Brexit related. Whether you believe it is
:14:40. > :14:46.good or bad for the economy, we will see inflation and wage growth will
:14:47. > :14:50.be moderated. These things are under more threat at the moment, it seems
:14:51. > :14:54.there will be more to come with this space... Let's finish with the
:14:55. > :15:00.headline of the night, in the metro. The wronged trousers, that reminds
:15:01. > :15:09.one of Wallace and Gromit, of course! Politics again, Westminster
:15:10. > :15:12.left stunned over the farce over the PM's clothes.
:15:13. > :15:17.Some leather trousers came in for criticism... Why are you looking at
:15:18. > :15:23.me? It's too obvious to ask Rosalind about this! It interesting, is it
:15:24. > :15:28.one of these things that only comes up about women, that women are
:15:29. > :15:33.pressured? In some ways, no. George Osborne was beaten up over his ?10
:15:34. > :15:38.Biron Burger when he is trying to look street, I guess... And there
:15:39. > :15:43.was the stance thing as well... And they mentioned his hair cut at one
:15:44. > :15:47.point. It then again, David Cameron, I believe, he had expensive Savile
:15:48. > :15:51.Row suits and it was not questioned. Look at the French Prime Minister on
:15:52. > :16:00.television, men do not appear to be criticised, perhaps because it is
:16:01. > :16:07.casual. Theresa May created a rod for her own back when she started
:16:08. > :16:10.talking about equality. And she spent ?995 on these expensive
:16:11. > :16:15.trousers. Was it cause she was wearing them at a photo shoot? Maybe
:16:16. > :16:21.she had been dressed by the stylist, do you mean? There's been a lot of
:16:22. > :16:28.interest in her shoes over the years as well... I know, I can't get
:16:29. > :16:32.enough! But there is something slightly interesting in this story,
:16:33. > :16:35.Nicky Morgan, the Education Secretary, she has been very
:16:36. > :16:39.critical of the government in the past over grammar schools, and was
:16:40. > :16:44.being allowed to come in and meet with other ministers. She is in
:16:45. > :16:52.favour of a soft Brexit. She was heavily pro-remain. She has been
:16:53. > :16:55.cast out of this meeting. I think there is an argument of playground
:16:56. > :17:00.politics, it does not seem a reason to cast someone out. It doesn't seem
:17:01. > :17:09.very sisterly, to comment on another woman's clothes, and... Alistair
:17:10. > :17:13.Burt was told, don't bring that woman to Downing Street again, and
:17:14. > :17:17.she replied, I don't get bored by a man to these meetings. We will do it
:17:18. > :17:21.all again hopefully with a few more stories for you at half-past 11. You
:17:22. > :17:34.will both be back again. Coming up next, Meet The Author.
:17:35. > :17:38.You can understand the brain in many ways if you are not a scientist, as
:17:39. > :17:39.a biological mechanism