:00:00. > :00:00.the first round. Wright 13-0. A bit of a rest for the ponies as well as
:00:00. > :00:00.for me. Hello and welcome to our look ahead
:00:00. > :00:17.to what the the papers will be With me are Vikki Orvice,
:00:18. > :00:20.Sports Writer at the Sun, and Katie Martin from the Financial
:00:21. > :00:40.Times. At least the first editions. The
:00:41. > :00:43.Times says British officials believe Russia is waging cyber attacks and
:00:44. > :00:49.unconventional warfare against the UK. The Daily Mail leads with the
:00:50. > :00:54.chaos facing people planning to travel abroad this Christmas after
:00:55. > :00:58.trade unions announced strikes over the festive period. The Independent
:00:59. > :01:02.describes a prison system in crisis after prisoners staged a riot at
:01:03. > :01:06.Birmingham prison which is still going on tonight. The Telegraph has
:01:07. > :01:11.a story of two former soldiers prosecuted for the murder of an IRA
:01:12. > :01:15.commander in Belfast 44 years ago. The Express says the Home Office has
:01:16. > :01:19.been accused of trying to cover-up the number of illegal migrants
:01:20. > :01:26.attempting to get into Britain. The Guardian leads with an accusation by
:01:27. > :01:35.Clinton and flood amid Putin -- by Hillary Clinton that President Putin
:01:36. > :01:41.was involved in the US election. The Daily Mirror leads on the story that
:01:42. > :01:47.Camelot has been fined ?3 million for paying out on an potentially
:01:48. > :01:54.bogus ticket. Let's begin with The Times. Russia threat to Britain, so
:01:55. > :01:57.it's not just the United States that has something to fear. That's the
:01:58. > :02:02.fascinating thing. We've been getting used to the idea that Russia
:02:03. > :02:06.has been involved in some way directly or indirectly with the US
:02:07. > :02:09.elections. I don't think it's occurred to that many people this
:02:10. > :02:15.could spread further and they could be involved in politics on our
:02:16. > :02:18.shores. Yes, The Times is saying there is propaganda and
:02:19. > :02:29.unconventional warfare, fake news has become a huge topic in the
:02:30. > :02:33.states. I know that organisations with a "alt-right" bent are trying
:02:34. > :02:38.to get themselves established in Europe and it's something the UK
:02:39. > :02:43.needs to look closely at. Theresa May is going to chair a national
:02:44. > :02:46.security session to discuss potential Russian interference.
:02:47. > :02:51.Clearly this has been taken to the highest level. Interesting nobody is
:02:52. > :02:55.yet suggesting some how he might have tried to influence the outcome
:02:56. > :03:00.of the European referendum result. What do you make of this? A lot of
:03:01. > :03:04.this is speculative, may be partly because it's the kind of subject we
:03:05. > :03:09.don't necessarily know who is pulling what strings. It is
:03:10. > :03:16.fascinating in terms of a new Cold War except it is computers and
:03:17. > :03:21.cyberspace rather than checkpoint Charlie! There is a lovely quote
:03:22. > :03:25.from President Obama speaking yesterday, telling Russia don't do
:03:26. > :03:33.this stuff because we can do this to you. Of course, it's complicated by
:03:34. > :03:40.the fact we've got Donald Trump as President-elect who claims to be
:03:41. > :03:48.Putin's new best friend! Maybe it will all stop. Maybe. One of the
:03:49. > :03:52.things that struck me, as he was saying that that quote from Obama,
:03:53. > :03:57.the rhetoric around international relations has become incredibly
:03:58. > :04:02.petty. This isn't a playground argument, this is national security.
:04:03. > :04:06.You will remember that photograph a lot of papers ran back in September
:04:07. > :04:11.of the two men standing staring at each other on smiling at the G20.
:04:12. > :04:15.President Obama said tonight on the news conference we ran that he had
:04:16. > :04:20.basically said at that meeting to Vladimir Putin, cut it out or there
:04:21. > :04:24.will be consequences. He says he appears to have done. Maybe Theresa
:04:25. > :04:32.May needs to try something similar next time she bumps into Vladimir
:04:33. > :04:37.Putin! I'd like to be a fly on the wall! Staying with President Putin
:04:38. > :04:44.and The Guardian also with a photo of Michelle Obama who is apparently
:04:45. > :04:52.going to tell an Oprah about life in the White House and what she brings
:04:53. > :04:55.about her husband 's achievements, Hillary Clinton has accused Vladimir
:04:56. > :05:01.Putin of this because she doesn't like him very much. It is apparently
:05:02. > :05:06."Personal beef" against because of criticism levelled against him over
:05:07. > :05:12.national elections in Russia. This is what she was saying to donors in
:05:13. > :05:15.Manhattan, apparently. It resonates with the idea that international
:05:16. > :05:20.relations appeared to have become incredibly petty. Clearly, she feels
:05:21. > :05:27.she has been singled out and victimised here. Certainly, the way
:05:28. > :05:33.that all of this, the e-mail leaks from the Democratic party and over
:05:34. > :05:37.the course of the election... The media had all the tools at their
:05:38. > :05:42.disposal to run the same stories about the Republicans but they
:05:43. > :05:47.didn't. There is all kinds of analysis that needs to go into how
:05:48. > :05:52.this all happened. Certainly Hillary Clinton, she's a pretty serious
:05:53. > :05:57.person, she's making direct allegations has. Is there a risk of
:05:58. > :06:03.her in doing this? That she looks like a sore loser? She does. At the
:06:04. > :06:10.bottom of this story it says Obama is waiting for a final report into
:06:11. > :06:14.Russian hacking attacks. He says they will publish it at a time and
:06:15. > :06:21.place of their own choosing. You would assume he will publish it in
:06:22. > :06:25.the next month. Unless he does something really clever and
:06:26. > :06:32.publishes it on Vladimir Putin's Facebook page which proves he can do
:06:33. > :06:36.to them what they did to him! The point is serious. Actually, he's on
:06:37. > :06:42.the way out and in a sense this could be the blustering of the
:06:43. > :06:48.school yard again. But actually, I can call you out but I can't do very
:06:49. > :06:53.much. Yes, but by the CIA and FBI are on the same page now. A few days
:06:54. > :06:57.ago there was some disagreement. The FBI wouldn't endorse what the CIA
:06:58. > :07:02.said about Russia being responsible. Exactly. Now they say they agree. To
:07:03. > :07:07.the extent they might feel they will get sidelined under Trump, he seems
:07:08. > :07:16.to like to do national security and briefings his own way... I guess
:07:17. > :07:20.it's in their interests to work on this through Christmas and get this
:07:21. > :07:26.done before The Donald is in the hot seat. Order with the day before.
:07:27. > :07:36.Let's move on to the Financial Times weekend. You've got a story on the
:07:37. > :07:43.front here. Let's start with the one at the bottom which is fantastic
:07:44. > :07:47.quirky story about this drone that the US Navy was using but the
:07:48. > :07:51.Chinese seem to have scooped up and run away with. Which again,
:07:52. > :08:10.diplomatic relations at the moment when you've got Trump ringing
:08:11. > :08:15.Taiwan... It's utterly bizarre because the indication is it was
:08:16. > :08:20.doing some kind of Marine biology, not military at all. But obviously
:08:21. > :08:27.America is saying we want it back! Not even clear who's got it.
:08:28. > :08:36.Unidentified Chinese fisher man? Bully we want our ball back! It
:08:37. > :08:48.probably is a ball. Again, it plays into this idea, and obviously this
:08:49. > :08:53.isn't Russia but he's being prodded before the new guy arrives. The new
:08:54. > :08:57.guy hasn't got off to the best fitting with China. We just
:08:58. > :09:03.mentioned the phone call he took from Taiwan. You can brush it off
:09:04. > :09:07.and say it was a ten minute chat, the President just wanted to be nice
:09:08. > :09:12.and say congratulations, where is the harm. There's a lot of harm
:09:13. > :09:18.here! China takes its one China policy pretty seriously. Either this
:09:19. > :09:26.is a blunder from Trump or a sign of how relations are going to be from
:09:27. > :09:32.now on, but, things like this, China snaffling drones from the sea, these
:09:33. > :09:36.things don't happen by accident. It is likely this was a well
:09:37. > :09:41.choreographed decision from the top. This is China we are talking about.
:09:42. > :09:46.The early flushes of the relationship between China and
:09:47. > :09:50.Donald Trump do not look fantastic. Interesting that Obama was saying at
:09:51. > :09:56.his news conference that China does the same stuff he accuses Russia
:09:57. > :10:01.forgiving but he says they do it for business. They try to manipulate
:10:02. > :10:05.cyber data for business benefits rather than political ones. Some
:10:06. > :10:09.interesting questions will be asked of the new administration. Let's
:10:10. > :10:13.move onto your story, this is interesting in the light of the
:10:14. > :10:18.threat that UK banks could lose the right trade in your raise once we
:10:19. > :10:27.are out of the European Union. This is a different take on the future of
:10:28. > :10:30.the city. A lot of people were saying foreign banks have a huge
:10:31. > :10:35.presence in the UK and in the event of leaving the European Union, a lot
:10:36. > :10:41.of them might feel to be in the EU. A lot of this was dismissed as
:10:42. > :10:44.Project fear. In real life, these banks, in this case Japanese banks,
:10:45. > :10:48.they really need these practical things to be in place. There was a
:10:49. > :10:54.meeting at the Treasury between lots of officials from Japanese banks
:10:55. > :11:02.with some Treasury officials and it was a frank exchange of views.
:11:03. > :11:08.LAUGHTER I love that phrase! What were they saying to the Treasury
:11:09. > :11:12.officials? It's all going to be great, don't worry about it.
:11:13. > :11:17.Obviously they weren't being that glib. What the Japanese banks were
:11:18. > :11:21.saying is we need to know we can get passporting. Basically we can have
:11:22. > :11:24.the right to trade on behalf of our clients, do business on behalf of
:11:25. > :11:29.our clients in the European Union and the UK. We are kind of in London
:11:30. > :11:33.because it's part of the European Union. They need to get some solid
:11:34. > :11:37.guidance on what is going to happen to these passporting writes,
:11:38. > :11:43.otherwise they are going to start planning to leave by mid-2017 which
:11:44. > :11:50.is pretty soon. It's very soon, are you worried? Or do you feel this is
:11:51. > :11:54.part of the lobbying... If you are trying to plan and you are a
:11:55. > :11:59.business, you tend to want to know how it is going to work you. And is
:12:00. > :12:05.it better to relocate to Frankfurt or or wherever. Some government
:12:06. > :12:12.ministers think some of these worries are exaggerated. Yes, for
:12:13. > :12:16.example a good number of thousand of people who were employed by Japanese
:12:17. > :12:23.banks in London, it's difficult for me to imagine they will all
:12:24. > :12:27.disappear overnight. It's not just about Japan, this is almost a test
:12:28. > :12:33.case. If the rules aren't good enough Japanese banks, are they good
:12:34. > :12:39.enough German, Italian banks? Say what you like about bankers, but
:12:40. > :12:44.ranks provide a lot of money into this country. There comes a point at
:12:45. > :12:49.which your cutting your nose off to spite your face. Talking about where
:12:50. > :12:54.people might be going, are either of you planning to travel away over
:12:55. > :13:02.Christmas? Plans to go and lie on a beach? I've just been away. When you
:13:03. > :13:09.see the front of The Daily Mail? We've spoken about the Cold War and
:13:10. > :13:17.Russia. It's like papers from 30 years ago! I do like the quite "The
:13:18. > :13:26.grinches who stole Christmas" is a furious MPs. It's not just the cabin
:13:27. > :13:30.crew, BA cabin crew. At least BA look as if they've tried to pick
:13:31. > :13:33.Christmas Day and Boxing Day. The big problem looks like it'll be the
:13:34. > :13:39.baggage handlers who are going to start on the 23rd on the 24th. If
:13:40. > :13:44.you remember those scenes a few years ago of huge queues. A lot of
:13:45. > :13:48.people even at regional airports, a lot of people now check in online,
:13:49. > :13:53.even if they don't check in when they arrive, so the interaction is
:13:54. > :13:59.not as much as it once was. My colleague here, the business
:14:00. > :14:02.correspondence was saying he heard that at Stansted Ryanair had said if
:14:03. > :14:05.the baggage handlers aren't there and people aren't that then they
:14:06. > :14:12.will simply make it hand luggage only. There is a nice quote here,
:14:13. > :14:15.one industry source has advised passengers to pack Christmas
:14:16. > :14:20.presents, valuables and a change of clothes in their hand luggage. If
:14:21. > :14:25.you remember a few years ago there was a guy who tested out a coat to
:14:26. > :14:33.go on one of the budget airlines. He had pockets everywhere. So he didn't
:14:34. > :14:38.have to pay his ?45 extra. It could catch on! We've got time for a
:14:39. > :14:45.couple more quick little stories. The Daily Telegraph, could there be
:14:46. > :14:53.a threat to your Christmas bird this year? If the turkey is still running
:14:54. > :14:58.around on the farm somewhere before it faces its fate. It's in its final
:14:59. > :15:03.days. Turkeys can't catch a break at this time of year. In addition to
:15:04. > :15:08.the poor turkeys that are going to be gracing our Christmas tables,
:15:09. > :15:12.there has been an outbreak of bird flu on a Lincolnshire farm which has
:15:13. > :15:17.tested positive for a strain of the disease. The poor turkeys, if they
:15:18. > :15:25.aren't about to end up on dinner tables then they've got the lurgy.
:15:26. > :15:29.Experts will say you can't get it as a human but there is always that
:15:30. > :15:34.fear it will put people off buying it in the first place. It's
:15:35. > :15:39.Christmas Day, if you're going to get a turkey you're going to get a
:15:40. > :15:43.turkey in one way or another. Interesting, it was on the continent
:15:44. > :15:46.and there was a warning affecting a lot of French farmers and inevitably
:15:47. > :15:52.it still spread as these things have a chance to do. And finally as they
:15:53. > :16:02.used to say on the news. You spotted this story so you should tell us
:16:03. > :16:06.about it. The government has launched a nationwide competition to
:16:07. > :16:11.host the 2023 European capital of culture, even though Britain is
:16:12. > :16:14.leaving the EU. The Culture Secretary has made the argument that
:16:15. > :16:22.the United Kingdom is leaving the EU but we aren't leaving Europe.
:16:23. > :16:27.Apparently it's the UK's turn to play host alongside Hungary because
:16:28. > :16:32.it's Hull next year. We have the Hull City of Culture bus down here
:16:33. > :16:35.outside Broadcasting House and an enthusiastic team of supporters
:16:36. > :16:44.talking about the great things that will be happening in Hull next year.
:16:45. > :16:48.It's a bit unfortunate timing, this! Britain's eligibility to participate
:16:49. > :16:53.in the scheme will be decided as part of the Brexit negotiations.
:16:54. > :16:58.This is part of our trade-off. Do you think Theresa should give up
:16:59. > :17:05.culture to keep British residents able to give in the EU or is the
:17:06. > :17:09.City of Culture more important? Somewhere someone has got a
:17:10. > :17:14.whiteboard with banking, your revision, capital of culture on the
:17:15. > :17:22.other! You've got to get your bargaining chips where you can!
:17:23. > :17:29.Check the whole City of Culture website, a lot will be happening
:17:30. > :17:33.there. And who knows, possibly a British City of Culture in 2023.
:17:34. > :17:37.Thank you both so much. Don't forget all the front pages
:17:38. > :17:43.are online on the BBC News website where you can read a detailed review
:17:44. > :17:45.of the papers. It's all there for you, seven days
:17:46. > :17:48.a week at bbc.co.uk/papers, and you can see us there too,
:17:49. > :17:50.with each night's edition of The Papers being posted
:17:51. > :17:53.on the page shortly Thank you Vikki Orvice
:17:54. > :17:56.and Katie Martin.