:00:00. > :00:00.and their role in the space programme in the early days of NASA.
:00:00. > :00:09.Find out what we think of this film in the Film Review. Bats with Mark
:00:10. > :00:15.Kermode. -- that's with. Hello and welcome to our look ahead
:00:16. > :00:18.to what the papers will be With me are broadcaster
:00:19. > :00:22.Natalie Haynes and the Independent's Let's start with the FT leads
:00:23. > :00:30.with the news that Kraft Heinz is abandoning its ?115 billion
:00:31. > :00:33.takeover offer for Unilever. The i's front cover focuses on this
:00:34. > :00:35.week's Brexit debate in the House of Lords,
:00:36. > :00:38.where some of the New Labour grandees could resist
:00:39. > :00:40.the government's plans urging the Lords not to weaken
:00:41. > :00:46.or delay the government's The NHS has cut 15,000
:00:47. > :00:49.beds in six years, The Guardian reports that
:00:50. > :00:54.EU leaders are telling Theresa May that, what they call,
:00:55. > :00:57.blackmail tactics will backfire The Times says No ten
:00:58. > :01:01.is on a collision course with small businesses
:01:02. > :01:03.over its reforms to business rates. A warning from the
:01:04. > :01:05.Defence Secretary makes Sir Michael Fallon says Britain must
:01:06. > :01:09.maintain a military presence in Afghanistan to avoid millions
:01:10. > :01:12.of Afghans migrating to Europe. Meanwhile, the Mirror
:01:13. > :01:14.is leading with the story that
:01:15. > :01:16.former boxer Michael Watson has who attacked him as they
:01:17. > :01:32.tried to steal his car. Let's start with the Telegraph, and
:01:33. > :01:37.this morning from the defence secretary Sir Michael Fallon, UK
:01:38. > :01:43.troops to prevent Afghan knock down because Europe faces a new exodus if
:01:44. > :01:46.Britain pulls out of a war-torn country, plus echoes of what's
:01:47. > :01:51.happened in Syria with hundreds of thousands of people trying to make
:01:52. > :01:56.their way to safety in Europe. Yes, the Defence Secretary is using the
:01:57. > :02:00.migration argument to make the case for Britain to remain in Afghanistan
:02:01. > :02:04.where we still have 500 troops, most people have probably forgotten that
:02:05. > :02:07.because clearly it's gone much quieter there since Britain ended
:02:08. > :02:12.full combat operations, those troops are just in a training capacity. It
:02:13. > :02:15.raises more questions than it answers I suppose because the
:02:16. > :02:19.headline states UK troops to prevent Afghan meltdown, you might think
:02:20. > :02:24.Britain is about to send more troops to Afghanistan but the Defence
:02:25. > :02:27.Secretary isn't saying that, or at least not yet, he seems to be
:02:28. > :02:34.talking about the need for our troops to stay there. But is he
:02:35. > :02:37.hinting at... Trying to persuade the British public that at some point in
:02:38. > :02:41.the future more troops will be required? There's a quote at the end
:02:42. > :02:45.of the page that suggests he is, he quotes the Defence Secretary saying
:02:46. > :02:48.we're asking the government of Afghanistan and their military to
:02:49. > :02:52.deal with the same situation we had ten times as many troops to deal
:02:53. > :02:57.with, clearly accepting they need more troops but will they be ours?
:02:58. > :03:02.Is the public being softened up? Maybe because I think it's fair to
:03:03. > :03:06.say this feels like a respond to an argument that people didn't know was
:03:07. > :03:14.going on. Nobody said you couldn't have there smack there used to be
:03:15. > :03:19.10,000 British troops there. Now 500 are in a purely training role. It
:03:20. > :03:24.does feel very much like an opening salvo if a war metaphor of isn't
:03:25. > :03:30.inappropriate in the context. We'll allow it. Thank you. Coming back to
:03:31. > :03:36.the Guardian. The Home Office saying... They have agreed to
:03:37. > :03:42.review, and my going to the right one? At the bottom of the page, try
:03:43. > :03:46.refugees have hopes raised as Home Office reviews Calais cases. It
:03:47. > :03:50.emerges people hoping to come to the UK have gone back to the site in
:03:51. > :03:54.Calais where everybody used to gather to get across the Channel.
:03:55. > :03:59.And where it was such a big story last year that it was finally being
:04:00. > :04:03.shut down and bulldozed and children were being may be found somewhere to
:04:04. > :04:07.go to in France where they would be safe, or somehow getting lost in the
:04:08. > :04:15.whole chaos of it all being shut down. Obviously this story has been
:04:16. > :04:19.quite aside from one's opinion on the humanitarian nature of it, it's
:04:20. > :04:25.been terrible PR for the government, saying we had room for 3000 children
:04:26. > :04:29.under the agreement and now we have a few hundred and we're shutting it
:04:30. > :04:34.down. Across-the-board people have stood up to say it's a disgrace. It
:04:35. > :04:37.seems like the most enormous own goal really and yet they're not
:04:38. > :04:41.actually stepping back from it. They're agreeing to review
:04:42. > :04:44.applications, which is almost the exact same thing as not really doing
:04:45. > :04:49.anything at all. They're not agreeing to change the policy or put
:04:50. > :04:54.a pause in or anything like that, their agreeing to review it, which
:04:55. > :04:57.is pretty mild-mannered. A review could mean they could allow a few
:04:58. > :05:02.more in without immediately looking like they've changed their minds
:05:03. > :05:07.while changing their minds. A few is very few, it says they have their
:05:08. > :05:10.hopes raised but the public could have their hopes raised that there
:05:11. > :05:15.is a major change coming, which isn't happening. As you said, we're
:05:16. > :05:19.talking about a few children forced away from Calais when the Jungle
:05:20. > :05:23.close, they found their way back and they could have their circumstances
:05:24. > :05:29.looked at again. But the big picture is, the government will still end
:05:30. > :05:36.the so-called Dub scheme, meant to bring in 3000 but only brought in
:05:37. > :05:41.150. I'm reminded of a favourite limit of a favourite band of mine,
:05:42. > :05:47.the Pogues, lend me ?10 and I'll buy you a drink, a very small of. A
:05:48. > :05:53.couple of Brexit stories... I wonder which Pogues lyric you were going to
:05:54. > :06:00.choose, you had me worried. -- small of. And isn't it right that ?10
:06:01. > :06:08.would just about buy you a drink in Islington? With straws. On the
:06:09. > :06:12.Independent, Mandelson. The Brexit bill goes to the Lord's this week,
:06:13. > :06:16.lots of them are going to have lots to say, will they meant it in any
:06:17. > :06:21.significant fashion? Yes they will. Almost certainly the
:06:22. > :06:26.bill will be amended in some fashion and it will have to go back to the
:06:27. > :06:30.Commons and it will ping-pong as the saying goes. In the end you assume
:06:31. > :06:33.the Commons will get its way over the issues of EU nationals and what
:06:34. > :06:40.kind of vote takes place on the final deal the Prime Minister Seals.
:06:41. > :06:45.Lord Mandelson was on the TiVo this morning, certainly trying to bolster
:06:46. > :06:50.a few in the Lord's to stand up against the Brexit bill -- on the
:06:51. > :06:54.TV. He certainly believes the British public will change its mind
:06:55. > :06:58.when they see what miserable deal they get into years time or next
:06:59. > :07:03.year. In our paper tomorrow they go further saying the public should be
:07:04. > :07:06.allowed to pass judgement on the deal, raising the prospect of a
:07:07. > :07:10.second referendum or a general election if it goes wrong for the
:07:11. > :07:18.p.m. . Lex looked at the Guardian's Brexit story, the Brexit scandal. --
:07:19. > :07:24.gamble. -- let's look at. This is whether we should have to pay an
:07:25. > :07:30.except Bill, Natalie, a very large bill. The whole discussion has a
:07:31. > :07:38.faintly godfather like quality in it. Blackmail and division are the
:07:39. > :07:41.things we're being accused of. Yet David Davis, he wasn't trying to
:07:42. > :07:47.blackmail anybody, he was going to chat to our friends in Estonia,
:07:48. > :07:51.Latvia and Lithuania. Really? Everybody could not sound more
:07:52. > :07:55.dubious about this conversation! The blackmail line doesn't appear to be
:07:56. > :08:00.anywhere else on the front page, but I'm happy to be corrected by some
:08:01. > :08:05.ways better than me at reading, but I can't see it. It's within his
:08:06. > :08:10.rights to speak to everyone of the 27. There's only going to be one
:08:11. > :08:14.person at the negotiating table and not 27, the EU will have a
:08:15. > :08:18.negotiator and their employers that going round and talking to some of
:08:19. > :08:23.the 27 to pressure the negotiator is not going to work -- they're
:08:24. > :08:28.implying that. It's not going to work as a divide and rule tactic. It
:08:29. > :08:34.will be very interesting! Very interesting. The Daily Mail, NHS
:08:35. > :08:41.cuts... Let me repeat that with the right emphasis. NHS cuts 6000 beds
:08:42. > :08:46.in six years, one in Ted, the equivalent of closing 24 hospitals.
:08:47. > :08:55.-- 15,000 beds. In real terms funding has gone up year on year and
:08:56. > :09:00.it hasn't kept pace with demands. -- one in ten. The BBC ran its own
:09:01. > :09:05.series about how much difficulty the NHS is in. It's a stark bigger
:09:06. > :09:11.tonight, it says there used to be 150,000... There are now 130,000
:09:12. > :09:21.hospital beds, there used to be 135,005 years ago. I think that it
:09:22. > :09:25.started to be well intentioned -- 135,000 five years ago. There was an
:09:26. > :09:29.idea that you could treat people closer to home in smaller clinics
:09:30. > :09:33.rather than big district hospitals, it could have been well-intentioned
:09:34. > :09:37.reform, but it happened at the same time as huge cuts to social care so
:09:38. > :09:42.the consequence is there aren't enough beds. We have so-called bed
:09:43. > :09:46.blocking, operations are delayed and then we have the problems we've seen
:09:47. > :09:51.in the NHS. What's wrong is you're talking about funding going up just
:09:52. > :09:54.about year-on-year, but on the government's own figures, next year
:09:55. > :09:58.funding will fall, it will go down per head next year at a time of an
:09:59. > :10:04.ageing population and greater demand. It's a real nightmare for
:10:05. > :10:08.the government, this sort of problem, the NHS is going to get
:10:09. > :10:12.worse and worse. Health officials say patients recover more quickly if
:10:13. > :10:16.there looked after in their own homes, but you have to have doctors,
:10:17. > :10:19.nurses, district nurses in particular to visit people.
:10:20. > :10:24.Absolutely and you have to have a home safe to be released into. If
:10:25. > :10:28.you live alone and you're relatively frail, even if your sprightly the
:10:29. > :10:33.rest of the time, when you come out of hospital you're more fragile by
:10:34. > :10:36.definition so perhaps a home with lots of stairs or example isn't
:10:37. > :10:40.appropriate. You could easily let someone back into a flat or a
:10:41. > :10:45.bungalow but not a house and so on and so on. The Daily Mail is at its
:10:46. > :10:50.best when it has these consumer or patient lead stories, it's very good
:10:51. > :10:55.at these campaigns. I would be quite worried if I was Jeremy Hunt right
:10:56. > :10:59.now. And people buy papers because they're always interested in the
:11:00. > :11:04.NHS. Bill Clinton said you shouldn't pick fights with people that buy
:11:05. > :11:12.their ink by the barrel. Let's look at the Telegraph, plans to save the
:11:13. > :11:17.University of Oxford's funding with a Paris branch perhaps. They've been
:11:18. > :11:22.in meetings this week apparently, friends of visuals continuing their
:11:23. > :11:28.charm offensive. Flipping the glad I at banks. -- French officials.
:11:29. > :11:32.Orchestras, as Rob saw last week, and universities. From spending a
:11:33. > :11:37.lot of time with academics in the last couple of weeks, by coincidence
:11:38. > :11:40.they are all very worried about the Brexit decision, they are all where
:11:41. > :11:45.worried about what's happening to their students and their funding. --
:11:46. > :11:50.very worried. One of the popular schemes funded by the EU is the
:11:51. > :11:53.Erasmus scheme, the exchange, where you can study at a foreign
:11:54. > :11:57.university and lots of students wanted to come to Britain but
:11:58. > :12:02.they've seen the numbers drop of four applications because they're
:12:03. > :12:07.sensing the Brexit effect. -- drop-off for. Universities have been
:12:08. > :12:12.one of our great strengths recently and that is what we are concerned
:12:13. > :12:18.about when we leave the. It's a red example of a negative story about
:12:19. > :12:24.Brexit that makes the Telegraph -- leave the EU -- red example. It's a
:12:25. > :12:29.big downside potentially for universities -- rare example. Let's
:12:30. > :12:34.finish on something slightly cheery. Who doesn't love a David
:12:35. > :12:38.Attenborough series? The Cure Luke Planet, the award-winning series
:12:39. > :12:46.about the oceans, is going to return -- the Cure Luke Planet. There's a
:12:47. > :12:51.lovely quote about maintaining his works schedule, would you rather
:12:52. > :12:55.sail in a balloon over the Alps or sit at home dribbling? Not everyone
:12:56. > :13:01.has the choice! Thank goodness you tidied yourself up! Even these
:13:02. > :13:06.pictures in the pay per look amazing, don't they, never mind on
:13:07. > :13:12.the TV. We'll all be watching, weren't we? -- paper. The Blue
:13:13. > :13:17.Planet was his most successful series. I want to read this again.
:13:18. > :13:25.There will be the species we've never sing before, behaviours we
:13:26. > :13:30.have ever seen before by a dolphin, a task fish and a crap, so named
:13:31. > :13:35.because it has a hairy chest and it is like David Hasselhoff. I wonder
:13:36. > :13:42.if there is a Pamela Anderson equivalent. -- crab. The cuttlefish
:13:43. > :13:47.scene of the mating ritual, where we see what looks suspiciously like
:13:48. > :13:50.tentacles of a cuttlefish giving a back rub to another cuttlefish, we
:13:51. > :13:57.are all channelling our inner Baywatch memories, I think we are.
:13:58. > :14:02.That's it. Before we get into anything more on that! Discussions
:14:03. > :14:06.of swimming costumes and that kind of thing! That's it for the papers
:14:07. > :14:09.to Mike. Don't forget all of the front pages are online on the
:14:10. > :14:15.website where you can read a detailed review of the papers. --
:14:16. > :14:21.tonight. We are there as well each night. It is posted shortly after we
:14:22. > :14:25.finish and it is on iPlayer. Natalie, Rob, thank you very much.
:14:26. > :14:27.Coming up next it's the Film Review.