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:00:13. > :00:15.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:16. > :00:26.With me are Miranda Green from the Financial Times

:00:27. > :00:30.the Assistant Editor at the Daily Telegraph and he's also

:00:31. > :00:33.You straddle so many words like a colossus, Christopher!

:00:34. > :00:35.Tomorrow's front pages starting with -

:00:36. > :00:38.The Metro's front cover has a photo of the huge protest

:00:39. > :00:40.in Whitehall this evening against President Trump's immigration policy

:00:41. > :00:59.The Telegraph reports that a minister has told MPs that parents

:01:00. > :01:02.have as much responsibility to care for their elderly parents

:01:03. > :01:03.as they do for their own children.

:01:04. > :01:05.The Independent is worried about a killer Arctic blast.

:01:06. > :01:08.The Mirror says Mr Trump's hotels are fitted with products

:01:09. > :01:10.imported into the US, despite his America first policy.

:01:11. > :01:12.The Independent focuses on the question of when Theresa May

:01:13. > :01:14.knew about Mr Tump's immigration policy order.

:01:15. > :01:16.The Guardian says there is domestic uproar in Britain

:01:17. > :01:26.The Times reports that a former senior official

:01:27. > :01:28.at the Foreign Office says Theresa May has put the Queen

:01:29. > :01:32.the offer of a state visit for Mr Trump.

:01:33. > :01:41.We are going to start with the Metro, Miranda. Theresa May happy to

:01:42. > :01:46.invite Trump. I'm not sure she said she was happy to invite Trump, she

:01:47. > :01:49.said I have put the offer out there and it stands. That's right and also

:01:50. > :01:53.today there was a rather strange kind of kerfuffle when Downing

:01:54. > :01:56.Street said actually the responsibility for offering this

:01:57. > :02:02.full state visit to President Trump lies with something called the state

:02:03. > :02:08.visits committee and then there was everybody searching where this

:02:09. > :02:13.committee lurks and who these people are, toing and froing between the

:02:14. > :02:17.Cabinet and the Palace. Although this invitation to President Trump

:02:18. > :02:19.very much stands, Downing Street want to make that clear, they don't

:02:20. > :02:25.really want to sound quite so enthusiastic about it as they may be

:02:26. > :02:28.worth a few days ago because of this reaction. Most of the British front

:02:29. > :02:34.pages have gone with pictures of the demonstration tonight because, you

:02:35. > :02:37.know, since he's been elected President, whereas during the

:02:38. > :02:44.campaign for the presidency we were all told, don't take him literally.

:02:45. > :02:50.You know, when he promises to ban Muslims. Build walls! Build walls

:02:51. > :02:53.across the border with Mexico etc, these are symbolic gestures and it

:02:54. > :02:59.is more a feeling he is giving his voter base. In fact, we would have

:03:00. > :03:04.been right to take him literally because as he has been in power for

:03:05. > :03:11.just over a week he's started to do all of these things. Everything he

:03:12. > :03:15.said. Anger against him has mounted. He is doing what he said. The

:03:16. > :03:20.demonstrations here are over whether we should give him a full state

:03:21. > :03:26.visit because of his policies. People are shocked that a politician

:03:27. > :03:29.is doing what he says he will do. Christopher, Sean Curran, our

:03:30. > :03:33.Parliamentary correspondent this evening, during the debate in the

:03:34. > :03:40.Commons, as to whether this state visit should go forward or not, he

:03:41. > :03:44.said one way of signalling a sort of displeasure at what's going on with

:03:45. > :03:47.President Trump is you should still invite him over, but potentially he

:03:48. > :03:53.might not be allowed to address both houses of parliament. There is a

:03:54. > :03:57.well of feeling about this gathering. I can tell you it is up

:03:58. > :04:01.to the Speaker of both the House of Lords and the House of Commons, Lord

:04:02. > :04:04.Fowler and John Bercow, to decide whether he gets the honour, which

:04:05. > :04:11.has been accorded to the Pope, Nelson Mandela, the Queen and on

:04:12. > :04:14.numerous occasions. And the American President. Otherwise they go to the

:04:15. > :04:17.golden room at the back of the Lords which is a beautiful room but a lot

:04:18. > :04:22.more low-key. But it's tucked away at the back. If he comes in summer

:04:23. > :04:27.in June it is lovely and warm in Westminster Hall as opposed to

:04:28. > :04:30.tonight, it could be accorded to him but it will be a democratic issue

:04:31. > :04:33.and that is why the feeling of the house, there will be a debate on

:04:34. > :04:38.whether Trump can come here on the back of this 1.5 million strong and

:04:39. > :04:41.rising petition. So it is not in the bag yet and Sean Curran is right to

:04:42. > :04:44.say that because it is not sorted out for stock so that decision would

:04:45. > :04:50.have nothing to do with Theresa May? Nothing to do with the government?

:04:51. > :04:53.No, the Queen Rumsby Palace of Westminster so essentially it is the

:04:54. > :04:57.Palace, the Queen says what happens there but the invitation is extended

:04:58. > :05:02.by the two speakers, I would imagine in conjunction with the Palace but

:05:03. > :05:05.because at least one of those speakers is subjected democratically

:05:06. > :05:08.elected MPs, it is quite hard if there is a big vote against him

:05:09. > :05:13.coming to do so. Are they actually going to vote, or have they voted?

:05:14. > :05:16.I'm suggesting that now but I don't know. I would imagine there would be

:05:17. > :05:21.an adjournment debate or an opposition date debate which would

:05:22. > :05:25.result in a vote at the end if I was Labour, but we're not there yet. It

:05:26. > :05:32.gives people the opportunity to ask their own MP, for example. Exactly.

:05:33. > :05:36.To block him being allowed to address both houses of Parliament.

:05:37. > :05:39.If you were Labour you would do it and having everyone backing it, and

:05:40. > :05:42.if the Tories didn't vote against it they would have to defend themselves

:05:43. > :05:49.because there is strong feeling about this. The front page of the

:05:50. > :05:54.Guardian, Christopher. Fight over Trump visit. We have discussed that.

:05:55. > :06:01.This travel ban, seven predominantly Muslim countries, originally also

:06:02. > :06:05.including people with green cards, but they realised there was a bit of

:06:06. > :06:10.a step too far and caused a hell of a lot of problems, but has sort of

:06:11. > :06:15.been thrown out. But still this is being seen by critics as an attack

:06:16. > :06:19.on Islam and Muslims. Exactly and what you have here is President

:06:20. > :06:22.Obama intervening in this debate literally a week after stepping down

:06:23. > :06:25.from the White House. I was lucky enough to be there for the

:06:26. > :06:31.inauguration and was looking down on the Obamas' last night in the White

:06:32. > :06:42.House, amazing time to be there, peaceful night, and the next day it

:06:43. > :06:50.has to just gone on since then. American values are at stake

:06:51. > :06:53.according to this. Ex-presidents normally build a library and look

:06:54. > :06:59.after their legacy and say nothing at all on politics and get seven

:07:00. > :07:05.days in he is intervening. It's very interesting he has used that form of

:07:06. > :07:08.words, American values. In fact, one of the row is brewing over the

:07:09. > :07:14.travel ban is whether it is actually in line with the American

:07:15. > :07:19.Constitution. Because, of course, American independence in breaking

:07:20. > :07:23.from British rule was all about not discriminating against people on the

:07:24. > :07:27.basis of their religion that they practice. And so actually deciding

:07:28. > :07:33.to have a blanket ban on certain countries which are predominantly

:07:34. > :07:38.Muslim, you see the whole of Islam as a security threat, threatens the

:07:39. > :07:41.American Constitution. So that's very interesting. And, of course, on

:07:42. > :07:45.the Republican side those Republicans who have to work with

:07:46. > :07:49.the Trump administration have stayed pretty quiet so far. But there have

:07:50. > :07:52.been senior Republicans from other areas who have also said similar

:07:53. > :07:57.things to Obama. Even Dick Cheney has said this threatens to be

:07:58. > :08:03.un-American to ban people on the basis of their nationality and their

:08:04. > :08:09.religion. John McCain, of course, who has a kind of feud with Trump

:08:10. > :08:11.anyway. So it will be interesting to see how this develops. It's possible

:08:12. > :08:16.he is starting to do things which will cause a massive confrontation

:08:17. > :08:21.over the American Constitution. He said he would do it and he did get

:08:22. > :08:27.the votes. This is it, it is absolutely true. He is basically

:08:28. > :08:31.standing on his electoral platform. No one called him out over the

:08:32. > :08:34.constitution at the time, did they? If you live in a democracy you have

:08:35. > :08:47.to operate within its norms, otherwise you are into an elected

:08:48. > :08:52.dictatorship. If Trump starts saying l'etat c'est moi and I make the

:08:53. > :08:56.rules you are in different territory and you would find the law gets

:08:57. > :09:09.involved. The executive order refers to this band to stop events like

:09:10. > :09:15.9/11 -- ban. Since 9/11 there has not been a terrorist attack on

:09:16. > :09:19.American soil from a non-homegrown terrorist. What are they doing about

:09:20. > :09:24.the proliferation of guns because if you are on the terror watch list you

:09:25. > :09:28.can still get a weapon. Obama banned Iranians for six months at some

:09:29. > :09:32.point during the middle of his first term. You're right, George W Bush,

:09:33. > :09:40.who some people had question marks over his time in power never went

:09:41. > :09:45.this far. He went and confronted the problem which also had its problems.

:09:46. > :09:49.The Tories fear Brexit bill ambush as rebels are accused of abusing

:09:50. > :09:53.trust. If they don't vote for the bill they are going against the will

:09:54. > :10:00.of the people. Absolutely. Chris's story in the Telegraph dwells a

:10:01. > :10:03.little bit on the potential Tory rebels, those who might vote against

:10:04. > :10:08.the Government's bill to trigger the Brexit process, which is what this

:10:09. > :10:12.is. But also it alludes to the problems in the Labour Party,

:10:13. > :10:17.because Jeremy Corbyn who, as a backbench Labour MP, before he came

:10:18. > :10:22.leader, had a record number, over 500, occasions where he himself

:10:23. > :10:26.defied the Labour whip. Is it true David Cameron voted more times for

:10:27. > :10:34.bills under Tony Blair than Corbyn did? I'm sure I read that. Tweet the

:10:35. > :10:39.answer. Or is that fake news? I think it might be true. Corbyn is

:10:40. > :10:43.facing a massive rebellion having ordered everyone to vote to trigger

:10:44. > :10:49.Brexit, a lot of Labour MPs are unhappy about that and thought to be

:10:50. > :10:53.voting against it. Could it fail? Of the bill fail? Almost certainly not

:10:54. > :10:59.because the numbers are there. They have got the numbers? Yes. They are

:11:00. > :11:04.worried overnight that they cannot have a vote at the end of the second

:11:05. > :11:07.reading, tomorrow and then the next day. The concern is there might be

:11:08. > :11:12.an ambush vote at 11 o'clock tomorrow night, they might not be

:11:13. > :11:21.enough government MPs around. It is a headache for the whips. They have

:11:22. > :11:24.a running whip. The front page of the Telegraph, your paper,

:11:25. > :11:29.Christopher, good story. Care for parents like your children. On the

:11:30. > :11:32.face of it the headline makes perfect sense. It is interesting,

:11:33. > :11:39.Stephen Swinford, my colleague in the office got a great story. They

:11:40. > :11:45.have became minister and he is saying we should take more care of

:11:46. > :11:48.our elderly parents. For any person of my age and above we always worry

:11:49. > :11:52.about our parents and increasingly so and he made a good point here

:11:53. > :11:56.that hasn't been made yet. We can't always outsource it to the state and

:11:57. > :12:00.we have a duty. You see when you have family members living with

:12:01. > :12:04.younger families, we need to be more willing to look after our parents. I

:12:05. > :12:08.think that is half the answer of the social care crisis, not the entire

:12:09. > :12:14.answer but half the answer. Moving forward in terms of finding the

:12:15. > :12:20.finances. Usually you would have to sell your parents' house, wherever

:12:21. > :12:26.they lived, in order to care for them. To pay for the care home.

:12:27. > :12:29.Maybe children should be going further than that and finding the

:12:30. > :12:34.money themselves. It is a good talking point. Or have everyone

:12:35. > :12:37.living together. If you look at human history, this period where we

:12:38. > :12:41.all have these nuclear families and live in these quite small groups

:12:42. > :12:45.rather than in one big family group, it is kind of an anomaly and I think

:12:46. > :12:48.there is a very good argument for going back to how it used to be done

:12:49. > :12:52.and having different generations living together. It's easier to

:12:53. > :12:56.bring up the children like that. The old people and young people get on

:12:57. > :12:59.very well and there would be less pressure on the sandwiched

:13:00. > :13:03.generation in the middle who are the workforce and you wouldn't have this

:13:04. > :13:08.terrible problem with elderly people very lonely, ill on their own,

:13:09. > :13:12.really being farmed out to professionals rather than being

:13:13. > :13:19.looked after by those who love them. Apparently we are all descended from

:13:20. > :13:26.this thing on the bottom of the i. It says media answer Dominic answer

:13:27. > :13:33.step, one millimetre long, this creature that we all come from. I

:13:34. > :13:37.love the story. Because of world events recently, we have all thought

:13:38. > :13:41.humanity can only move forward and progress. If we are going to start

:13:42. > :13:45.going backwards this is our destination because we are

:13:46. > :13:49.apparently all descended from this tiny little worm, a wrinkled old

:13:50. > :13:55.sack, it is described in some of the papers, on the ocean floor wriggling

:13:56. > :13:59.around. That is the organism from which we all spread. In the same way

:14:00. > :14:05.that that wonderful ape that was found, Lucy. Even Lucy was descended

:14:06. > :14:13.from this one millimetre long worm. It is not to scale! Not to scale but

:14:14. > :14:15.it does make you think, absolutely. Miranda and Christopher, thank you

:14:16. > :14:19.for looking at some of the stories behind the headlines.

:14:20. > :14:41.Hello. Scotland had the best of Monday's sunshine but there will not

:14:42. > :14:42.be much on offer during Tuesday as the weather front, very slowly edges