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:00:00. > :00:14.You can have a drink, it's OK. Don't spill it. Maybe put it down.

:00:15. > :00:16.We'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers

:00:17. > :00:20.First, the headlines at 11:30pm: Theresa May has refused

:00:21. > :00:22.to say whether she knew about a failed

:00:23. > :00:24.Trident missile test when MPs were voting to renew

:00:25. > :00:27.I have absolute faith in our Trident missiles.

:00:28. > :00:30.When I made that speech in the House of Commons,

:00:31. > :00:33.what we were talking about was whether or not we should

:00:34. > :00:37.Trade, Nato and Brexit are likely to be high on the agenda

:00:38. > :00:40.when the Prime Minister meets Donald Trump this Friday.

:00:41. > :00:44.President Trump and his White House team have launched a furious attack

:00:45. > :00:47.on the media, accusing them of lying about the size of the crowds

:00:48. > :01:10.Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

:01:11. > :01:17.With me are the broadcaster, Natalie Haynes, and Rob Merrick,

:01:18. > :01:18.deputy political editor at the Independent.

:01:19. > :01:28.Starting with, which is it? The FT. Thank you.

:01:29. > :01:30.The Financial Times leads with more reaction to the Trump

:01:31. > :01:33.administration's hard line against what it is calling

:01:34. > :01:37.The i says the prime minister's post-Brexit plan is to reboot

:01:38. > :01:40.The Daily Express has claims from a leading Brexit campaigner

:01:41. > :01:43.that up to a million EU migrants may head to the UK over

:01:44. > :01:48.The Metro says Theresa May is ready to challenge President Trump over

:01:49. > :01:51.sexist remarks when she meets him at the White House on Friday.

:01:52. > :01:54.The Telegraph says a free trade deal with the United States is likely

:01:55. > :01:57.to open the door to US jobs for British workers.

:01:58. > :02:00.The Times reports that rural enterprises will be the biggest

:02:01. > :02:04.losers in upcoming business rate rises in England.

:02:05. > :02:13.And the Daily Mail claims terrorists and criminals are able to travel

:02:14. > :02:16.to Britain without crossing border control because of a loophole

:02:17. > :02:26.Not Trump, but Trident, I don't know if it makes you any happier, he

:02:27. > :02:32.ridges on the Daily Mirror, tried and failure cover-up, May's missile

:02:33. > :02:40.crisis - she was asked quite a few times by Andrew Marr whether she

:02:41. > :02:44.knew about the failed test. This was the standout story from this

:02:45. > :02:49.morning, of course, in the Sunday Times, the argument about Trident

:02:50. > :02:55.revolving around the enormous cost, whether it increases or decreases

:02:56. > :02:58.the nuclear Armageddon - we never argue about whether they work or

:02:59. > :03:03.not, but apparently they are carried out every four years, the last one

:03:04. > :03:10.was in June and, according to the paper, the missile went in the wrong

:03:11. > :03:15.direction, headed for America, and of course no one was told about it.

:03:16. > :03:19.Then parliament voted to renew Trident in a contentious vote in

:03:20. > :03:23.ignorance of the fact that allegedly Trident didn't work in the test one

:03:24. > :03:26.month earlier, and the Prime Minister was accused of keeping the

:03:27. > :03:31.information from parliament. Anyone who saw Andrew Marr this morning,

:03:32. > :03:35.she looked very uncomfortable and declined to answer the question, can

:03:36. > :03:38.only assume she knew and get the information from parliament. Or she

:03:39. > :03:43.didn't know and she should have known. So many ways to interpret it.

:03:44. > :03:51.It wasn't armed, it didn't hit anybody. You have set the bar quite

:03:52. > :03:56.low. Yes, the good news is there was no warhead when it went wrong and it

:03:57. > :04:02.only veered off towards Florida. And who ever goes to a theme park?

:04:03. > :04:05.Hardly anyone. Certainly never any children. According to the Guardian,

:04:06. > :04:08.it was supposed to go in the direction of West Africa, which

:04:09. > :04:14.apparently we don't care about at all. No one comes out of this

:04:15. > :04:18.covered in glory, do they, least of all Theresa May, because failing to

:04:19. > :04:23.answer a question four times in a row, a direct individual doesn't

:04:24. > :04:30.know the question, it makes you look shifty, you can't go, look over

:04:31. > :04:36.there, you have to have a defence strategy. The Guardian has a similar

:04:37. > :04:39.title, May accused of covering up Trident failure, MPs calling for

:04:40. > :04:44.full disclosure before the critical vote. It doesn't take place because

:04:45. > :04:49.these tests are expensive, are they not? ?17 million per test. They have

:04:50. > :04:56.to carry them out to make sure hopefully everything is all right.

:04:57. > :05:01.Apparently, ordinarily, not many people know about it. There are sort

:05:02. > :05:07.of confidential matters, we are talking about a nuclear weapons.

:05:08. > :05:13.According to the Sunday Times, the last test carried out in 2012 was

:05:14. > :05:17.given great prominence I MoD, producing video of the test, wanting

:05:18. > :05:21.to advertise to the world that it needs to be taken seriously, so when

:05:22. > :05:25.it work they had the works with publicity, and when it didn't, it

:05:26. > :05:32.was hushed up. That sounds like North Korea. I am not sure it would

:05:33. > :05:35.have changed votes in the House of Commons, most conservative MPs are

:05:36. > :05:44.very keen on Trident and wouldn't have been persuaded by the fact that

:05:45. > :05:48.one had malfunctioned. It shows her inexperience this morning. You can

:05:49. > :05:52.make the case she doesn't need to go on national TV and talk in detail

:05:53. > :05:56.about national security, at least she could have used it as a reason

:05:57. > :06:01.for not giving a straight answer, but she didn't do that, she didn't

:06:02. > :06:07.say that, instead she tried to pretend the question wasn't for

:06:08. > :06:13.times, it almost implying that the vote that took place at month later

:06:14. > :06:19.was irrelevant to the vote. I think it did make it look a little less

:06:20. > :06:22.nonse. Will it reopened the discussion at about the Trident

:06:23. > :06:27.renewal, because there is bound to be a push for that? You would hope

:06:28. > :06:31.so, but I think you are probably right that there is such a majority

:06:32. > :06:35.of MPs who are keen to stick with Trident, that even though the Leader

:06:36. > :06:38.of the Opposition of course is famously antinuclear in all its

:06:39. > :06:42.forms and has been for its whole career, I think it will make no

:06:43. > :06:46.difference whatsoever, I think the numbers will be that even if the

:06:47. > :06:52.numbers were out before the vote, I suspect. The best system of its kind

:06:53. > :06:56.today. It is like there is no such thing as a full system. The other

:06:57. > :07:03.thing about Trident is a currently the software is based on Windows XP.

:07:04. > :07:11.LAUGHTER Hopefully they can sort that out. They have the abacus...

:07:12. > :07:17.That is fine. Oh, dear, move on. Let's talk about the Prime Minister,

:07:18. > :07:22.but this time her visit to see Donald Trump on Friday. The Times

:07:23. > :07:29.says, make them fight for free trade as Trump's first visitor, though she

:07:30. > :07:32.might not have much fight on our hands if she is the preferred

:07:33. > :07:38.trading partner. Well, the first foreign leader to visit it him, so

:07:39. > :07:44.presumably she feels at the front of the queue. When Obama said, we will

:07:45. > :07:48.be at the back of the queue if we vote to leave, and we will be very

:07:49. > :07:52.angry, and Boris Johnson impugned him over it, and now Donald Trump is

:07:53. > :07:56.literally putting her at the very front of the queue, so maybe she

:07:57. > :08:00.won't have to fight quite so hard. I think the trouble is that we are

:08:01. > :08:05.quite a small country relative to the US and I think we export more

:08:06. > :08:12.than we import, although I might be wrong. You are wrong. And my? You

:08:13. > :08:18.are. I am glad to help. You couldn't let it slide, could you? I could

:08:19. > :08:22.have said it more politely. In that case, they would like us better than

:08:23. > :08:27.we like them, I don't think so. We are little and they are quite big.

:08:28. > :08:32.At the moment of course, the EU is the much bigger trading partner for

:08:33. > :08:37.us than the United States. Not likely to be replaced, is it, on

:08:38. > :08:41.that scale? Definitely not. I think what must worry lots of people in

:08:42. > :08:46.Britain is this is presented as a great coup the Prime Minister to be

:08:47. > :08:50.seen by Donald Trump, and of course it would be true if it was a normal

:08:51. > :08:53.president, but this is not a normal president, Donald Trump is a

:08:54. > :09:01.monster. Oh, dear, I don't think I can let that pass. I think it makes

:09:02. > :09:08.him sound inhuman. Hmm, OK. Poor, lovely monsters. Everything that we

:09:09. > :09:12.have been told about the PM's trip and how desperate we are to sign a

:09:13. > :09:16.free-trade deal says she won't go in and stand up to her, she won't go in

:09:17. > :09:20.and say she wants to deal with him on accepted values in this country,

:09:21. > :09:26.or on this continent, but to fall at his feet, to kowtow... That is a

:09:27. > :09:32.great word. One example of how policy has changed because of Donald

:09:33. > :09:38.Trump, last month, alongside America, led by Obama, Britain voted

:09:39. > :09:45.against Israel's settlements in Palestine at the UN and condemned

:09:46. > :09:48.Israel. It was then made known by the Trump team how displeased they

:09:49. > :09:52.were, and they tried for the vote to dissuade Britain from voting that

:09:53. > :09:56.way and they made no interest how unhappy they were a low and behold a

:09:57. > :10:03.couple of days later Britain makes a speech condemning Trump's policy

:10:04. > :10:07.towards Israel, so we displeased Trump, we were given a stern telling

:10:08. > :10:10.off, and I think we said it won't happen again. Policy towards Israel

:10:11. > :10:15.is changing because of how desperately we want to cuddle up

:10:16. > :10:21.with Trump. It says it might open up the door to US jobs. Will we get

:10:22. > :10:26.jobs as Brits in America? 1 million each way, isn't it, 1 million Brits

:10:27. > :10:30.in the US and 1 million Americans working in Britain, apparently, and

:10:31. > :10:38.the theory is we could have even more of those things so that the

:10:39. > :10:41.Telegraph says, either in -- I don't have my glasses, so I could be

:10:42. > :10:46.making it up. The average age of someone who reads the Telegraph,

:10:47. > :10:49.surely they need spectacles. A bright light and a magnifying glass.

:10:50. > :10:55.I wish I was here late Jessica Fletcher. There is, 1 million

:10:56. > :11:00.Americans, I can read it. The Daily Mail has a much bigger font. That is

:11:01. > :11:07.what I need. Let's move over to that, terrorist fast train to

:11:08. > :11:13.Britain. Security flaws allow anyone to get to the UK without a passport.

:11:14. > :11:17.How? An interesting story, anyone on the Eurostar would remember that you

:11:18. > :11:24.go through very strict audit checks in Brussels before you leave Belgium

:11:25. > :11:28.rather than when you get to Britain -- border checks. What it says here

:11:29. > :11:32.is if you get on in Brussels and say to them, you are only going to the

:11:33. > :11:36.next stop, which is Lille in France, within the Schengen zone, which

:11:37. > :11:41.doesn't require a border check, you can say you are going to Lille and

:11:42. > :11:45.stay on all of the way to the UK and evade all of the checks between

:11:46. > :11:49.Belgium and the UK, which the Daily Mail says is a risk in terms of

:11:50. > :11:53.terrorists and criminals being able to exploit the loophole. It says at

:11:54. > :11:58.the bottom of the front page that the Lille loophole was closed when

:11:59. > :12:05.it was revealed in 2011, then it says turn to Page four. Surely, you

:12:06. > :12:08.can't - can't someone check your ticket to realise your ticket only

:12:09. > :12:12.goes as far as Lille? I know this because I got the train about two

:12:13. > :12:20.weeks ago from Brussels to London and they check your ticket when you

:12:21. > :12:25.get on at Brussels and you go through customs at Brussels but I

:12:26. > :12:28.would be astonished if many people travel from Brussels to Lille by

:12:29. > :12:32.that mechanism because trains are irregular and they go every two

:12:33. > :12:36.hours, and you have to go through all of our security when you could

:12:37. > :12:42.just get the local train service, the B trains, so I would be

:12:43. > :12:47.surprised, but it isn't the same as not being able to, so I can see why

:12:48. > :12:50.the Mail thought it was a good story to splash. It was highlighted five

:12:51. > :12:54.years ago and nothing has happened in the interim. Let's look at the

:12:55. > :13:00.Sun, official warning, you have had your chips, boffins, and Ross is in

:13:01. > :13:11.the gallery tonight, he hates that word, along with geeks. Linking

:13:12. > :13:14.fries with cancer, why is that? The question, the food standards

:13:15. > :13:27.authority has begun a campaign to persuade us we should stop having

:13:28. > :13:33.superbrand roast -- Succop -- super browned potatoes and darker toast.

:13:34. > :13:39.They have to tell you that the professor for the Understanding of

:13:40. > :13:43.Risk, something like that at Cambridge, pointed out that there is

:13:44. > :13:47.little evidence and we should perhaps feel less anxious about

:13:48. > :13:51.things. I think the tests were done on mice, and I don't want to shock

:13:52. > :13:58.anybody, they are less keen to consume roast potatoes than, for

:13:59. > :14:05.example, Nick? Yes, I think so. -- me? I have never seen mice eating

:14:06. > :14:07.pizza or toast. That is it for the papers tonight.

:14:08. > :14:10.Don't forget all the front pages are online on the BBC News website

:14:11. > :14:13.where you can read a detailed review of the papers.

:14:14. > :14:16.It's all there for you, seven days a week, at BBC.co.uk/papers,

:14:17. > :14:19.and you can see us there too, with each night's edition

:14:20. > :14:27.of The Papers being posted on the page shortly

:14:28. > :14:30.Natalie and Rob, thank you and see you again soon. Goodbye for now.