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:00:00. > :00:12.We'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment -

:00:13. > :00:21.Jeremy Corbyn says he takes his share of responsibility

:00:22. > :00:23.for his party's defeat by the Conservatives

:00:24. > :00:26.Speaking at the Scottish Labour conference -

:00:27. > :00:30.I've been elected twice to lead this party.

:00:31. > :00:43.All my energies go into leading this party -

:00:44. > :00:46.all our members' energies go into this party.

:00:47. > :00:49.Britain faces a 'sustained and serious' level of terror threat

:00:50. > :00:51.from Islamist extremists - that's according to the Independent

:00:52. > :00:55.Sir Mo Farah has reiterated that he is a clean athlete

:00:56. > :00:57.after a leaked report by the US anti-doping agency suggested

:00:58. > :01:01.that his coach Alberto Salazar may have broken drugs rules.

:01:02. > :01:04.In a further sign of worsening relations between Donald Trump

:01:05. > :01:05.and the media, the US President has announced

:01:06. > :01:27.he won't attend this year's White House Correspondents dinner.

:01:28. > :01:31.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:01:32. > :01:35.With me are the journalists James Rampton and Martin Bentham,

:01:36. > :01:40.home affairs editor at the London Evening Standard.

:01:41. > :01:50.Good evening. We can look at some of the front pages.

:01:51. > :01:59.The Metro leads with a story about five people hit by a car in South

:02:00. > :02:00.London. The paper also marks

:02:01. > :02:03.the Oscars 2017 with a picture The Financial Times

:02:04. > :02:08.reports on the tensions between some American banks

:02:09. > :02:15.who employ thousands of people who's promised to bring

:02:16. > :02:27.jobs back to the US. The Express claims that millions

:02:28. > :02:29.of us will be forced to carry on working into our 80s,

:02:30. > :02:37.following a warning from a former The Daily Telegraph features a photo

:02:38. > :02:48.of the British actress Naomi Harris ahead of the Oscars. We can start

:02:49. > :02:52.with the Times newspaper. This story about the Scots demanding a new

:02:53. > :02:58.referendum. Curious because I thought it had gone away. It is a

:02:59. > :03:02.ticking time bomb not going away. Senior figures in the government say

:03:03. > :03:05.the impact of Brexit on the UK devolution settlement is the

:03:06. > :03:12.government's greatest concern at present. The rumours are swirling

:03:13. > :03:18.about Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister in Scotland, is preparing

:03:19. > :03:25.to table another referendum when Brexit, I'm sorry, when Article 50

:03:26. > :03:29.is triggered. If the UK Prime Minister Theresa May rejects that,

:03:30. > :03:33.people say it could cause a constitutional crisis and I think

:03:34. > :03:38.that the state of the union is one of the things that is very much in

:03:39. > :03:44.play, and I would say is one of the disastrous consequences of Brexit,

:03:45. > :03:47.like the border between Northern Ireland and the republic that has

:03:48. > :03:53.not been properly worked out by the UK Government and I fear it will

:03:54. > :03:57.lead to a lot of plot on the carpet. The last opinion poll I recall about

:03:58. > :04:01.this had a large majority of Scottish people against a new

:04:02. > :04:07.referendum will stop does it mean the sands are shifting? Not that we

:04:08. > :04:12.know of. Nicola Sturgeon wants to hold a gun to Theresa May's head and

:04:13. > :04:18.has been doing all along. Of course, it is a legitimate fear number 10

:04:19. > :04:22.will have, and it would be destabilising it a vote was to take

:04:23. > :04:26.place. The problem for Nicola Sturgeon is what you said. The

:04:27. > :04:30.opinion polls indicate the majority would be against. She will not want

:04:31. > :04:36.to hold one if she thinks she will lose. Some of the key things that

:04:37. > :04:41.stopped the Scottish people voting in favour last time remain, such as

:04:42. > :04:45.they would not remain part of the EU, even though Nicola Sturgeon went

:04:46. > :04:50.to Brussels to try to strike some sort of deal. That is an uncertain

:04:51. > :04:55.prospect and the official position from Europe is they would not be

:04:56. > :05:04.part of the EU, and also they would have to be part of the pound

:05:05. > :05:07.sterling. And if they have that, we would control economic policy in

:05:08. > :05:12.this country and the rate of exchange. There are complexities.

:05:13. > :05:20.Echoes of the referendum in the first place. I noticed this story

:05:21. > :05:24.about concerns about Northern Ireland. Apparently the Cabinet have

:05:25. > :05:29.been discussing that. There are going to be elections this Friday

:05:30. > :05:38.for Stormont because the assembly dissolved earlier this year over

:05:39. > :05:44.another crisis. It seems that there is an intense sense of disorder and

:05:45. > :05:49.chaos that is wreaking this nation at the moment and the fact that

:05:50. > :05:53.there is not a sitting government within Northern Ireland makes it all

:05:54. > :05:57.the more difficult. The Republic come into play here because that is

:05:58. > :06:03.the only land border the UK will have with the EU, has at the moment

:06:04. > :06:08.and will have after Brexit. I think these are incredibly difficult

:06:09. > :06:17.constitutional issues and I fear the government does not have answers to

:06:18. > :06:25.them. We will talk about it later. We are back in an hour. Another

:06:26. > :06:31.interesting story, about tech giants and cyber bullying. This is an issue

:06:32. > :06:40.that concerns people, certainly parents and adults as well, that the

:06:41. > :06:45.story here is Facebook, Twitter and others are summoned to Whitehall to

:06:46. > :06:49.demand there are better ways of identifying people who are abusing

:06:50. > :06:52.other people on social media and basically making their lives

:06:53. > :06:58.unpleasant or worse and trying to remove that content in the way they

:06:59. > :07:03.seek to do with extremist and terrorism material, and there has

:07:04. > :07:07.been a concern not enough has been done. Women have talked about the

:07:08. > :07:11.problem where they get misogynistic abuse and so on. It is an important

:07:12. > :07:15.issue that the government is trying to put pressure on some of these

:07:16. > :07:22.technology companies to try to address. The technology company

:07:23. > :07:27.claimed they work hard and if you are threatened with actual violence

:07:28. > :07:31.it is a matter for the police. It ties in with a shocking story you

:07:32. > :07:35.featured about the singer Lily Allen who said she has come off Twitter

:07:36. > :07:40.because she was getting abuse, if you can believe it, because she had

:07:41. > :07:43.a stillbirth. Shocking is an overused word but it is shocking

:07:44. > :07:49.people could think that is a legitimate thing to do. What Diane

:07:50. > :07:53.Abbott said I found disturbing was that yes, you can block someone but

:07:54. > :07:57.they can change their name and start abusing with the new Dame and there

:07:58. > :08:01.is no way of tracing this. Part of the concern is that it is up to the

:08:02. > :08:08.individual who is being persecuted to raise that concern with the

:08:09. > :08:14.social media provider, that is a criticism made and the idea behind

:08:15. > :08:20.this I think is that the company would proactively act to identify

:08:21. > :08:25.the stuff... They identify word usage and patterns of behaviour and

:08:26. > :08:31.they can do that. They have a close eye on what is going on and that is

:08:32. > :08:37.the idea behind this. I think the police could be more proactive. They

:08:38. > :08:48.have prosecuted successfully, the CPS, the file anti-Semite who abused

:08:49. > :08:51.the Labour MP. I think more should be done because the iron of this

:08:52. > :09:04.storm, the people there, are released offering. Harassment. That

:09:05. > :09:09.is a criminal offence potentially. The Times newspaper has a picture

:09:10. > :09:13.that older viewers, and older presenters, may be familiar with.

:09:14. > :09:21.Margaret Thatcher with Norman Tebbit beside her. She just had an election

:09:22. > :09:26.victory. What is this about? I believe a certain presenter was

:09:27. > :09:32.there that night. I cannot deny it. You are too young! 1987. The famous

:09:33. > :09:37.night when Margaret Thatcher held up three fingers because it was her

:09:38. > :09:42.third victory and Norman Tebbit, her great ally, by her side and the

:09:43. > :09:46.great irony is that building, when it was relinquished by the Tories,

:09:47. > :09:52.was given to the EU India is now called Europe House. One of the

:09:53. > :09:58.bonuses of Brexit is they will try to buy it back. There is a rich

:09:59. > :10:10.irony that Mrs Thatcher was brought down by her antipathy towards Europe

:10:11. > :10:16.when she said no, no, no, dejected -- to Delors. One wonders about

:10:17. > :10:25.property values in that part of London and whether they can afford

:10:26. > :10:29.it. Only the EU can afford it! The Daily Express understory, they

:10:30. > :10:37.mention it on the front page but the details are inside and familiar

:10:38. > :10:43.figures, Nigel Farage and Donald Trump. Nigel Farage again with

:10:44. > :10:52.Donald Trump, at a dinner this time on the Saturday night, last night.

:10:53. > :10:56.Dinner with Donald it is captioned. Nigel Farage showing again what

:10:57. > :11:00.great friends he is. Not many people in this country are keen on Donald

:11:01. > :11:05.Trump but Nigel Farage seems to be and there he is at the centre of it.

:11:06. > :11:09.I was interested in the table setting. He seems a little bit far

:11:10. > :11:13.away. Perhaps not central enough for his liking. But grinning like the

:11:14. > :11:19.Cheshire cat. It looks like the dinner party from hell. Two of the

:11:20. > :11:26.most unpleasant people on the planet sitting at the same table, that is

:11:27. > :11:30.my view. There will be many people thinking, that is great, Nigel

:11:31. > :11:35.Farage is making contact with Donald Trump but as a journalist, at the

:11:36. > :11:41.moment, I feel angry with what the president is doing. He has excluded

:11:42. > :11:46.the BBC and New York Times and Washington Post from briefings and

:11:47. > :11:50.it is the first time a sitting US president does not go to the White

:11:51. > :11:54.House correspondent 's dinner and there is a hostility to the press

:11:55. > :11:59.that is not democratic and to make it worse Nigel Farage says the media

:12:00. > :12:05.is losing the battle big time. But that is my view. Within the story,

:12:06. > :12:09.the pictures were posted on Twitter amid rumours Theresa May will

:12:10. > :12:12.increase attempts to woo the president with an invitation to

:12:13. > :12:18.address the Tory conference in October. It seems the President's

:12:19. > :12:27.much talked about visit seems to be slipping back. I am not sure if this

:12:28. > :12:32.is the second one. Maybe a second one. It would seem unlikely he would

:12:33. > :12:36.come twice. That would be a political visit and the state visit

:12:37. > :12:43.would be a state to state interchange. There would be one

:12:44. > :12:49.visit... You cannot have US president here quickly for a

:12:50. > :12:55.conference. I hear he will be doing a stand-up slot in a pub in Balham

:12:56. > :13:05.that night, as well! The Financial Times. Trump on television. What is

:13:06. > :13:13.this about? This is a small story proving comedy gold on TV. His comic

:13:14. > :13:18.foes in the US, their ratings revenues have shot up because he is

:13:19. > :13:23.easy to lampoon. We had a great clip on your news bulletin earlier of the

:13:24. > :13:27.White House dinner from 2011 with Barack Obama, who was then

:13:28. > :13:32.president, making fun of Donald Trump in the audience. Of course,

:13:33. > :13:37.trying to have comedy then and the joke at the time was Donald Trump

:13:38. > :13:42.becoming president. That was meant to be funny and it has now become

:13:43. > :13:45.reality. I read somewhere it was that moment when Donald Trump

:13:46. > :13:51.sitting there, not smiling, and fed up... Livid. It may have been the

:13:52. > :13:56.moment he thought, right, I will go for the job. I would say the

:13:57. > :14:00.satirical programmes are really working because Donald Trump is so

:14:01. > :14:04.upset about them. Saturday Night Live, they did a brilliant

:14:05. > :14:08.impression, by Alec Baldwin, and he was tweeting in the programme saying

:14:09. > :14:15.it was a disgrace, as its ratings went through the roof. And then

:14:16. > :14:18.there was a brilliant impersonation of Sean Spicer attacking

:14:19. > :14:22.journalists, with the podium. Sean Spicer said it was beyond me. You

:14:23. > :14:29.know you are effective if your targets complain. A lot of people

:14:30. > :14:35.all over the world think Donald Trump is terrible, but his

:14:36. > :14:40.popularity generally among American voters, record low for an incoming

:14:41. > :14:46.president, his standing among Republican supporters, nobody has

:14:47. > :14:51.had it higher. Of course. As a journalist, I agree about the media

:14:52. > :14:55.in a sense, on the other hand, that has been his strategy. He can argue

:14:56. > :15:00.he communicates in his own way with the people he wants to communicate

:15:01. > :15:04.with and we are some corrupting influence between. Not what I think,

:15:05. > :15:09.but that is his stance and it has been effective for him will stop of

:15:10. > :15:15.course, it becomes worrying whether it is based on misinformation and

:15:16. > :15:21.alternative facts that are not facts. I interviewed earlier a

:15:22. > :15:26.political scientist in Washington who said it is not a short step from

:15:27. > :15:33.this to suppression of the media in America. This is extremist language

:15:34. > :15:42.now. I saw the interview and I was interested. He said Donald Trump had

:15:43. > :15:49.affinities with President Erdogan in Turkey and Egypt. It might be an

:15:50. > :15:53.extreme comparison, and... Turkey has more journalists locked up than

:15:54. > :15:58.any other nation in the world per capita. Somebody so keen to exclude

:15:59. > :16:04.people who disagree with him, he is pernicious. We can still reporters

:16:05. > :16:07.journalists and the BBC who has been excluded will continue to report

:16:08. > :16:12.what is going on and maybe rather than focusing on the briefing, you

:16:13. > :16:16.report on what is happening the substance of it, and that way you

:16:17. > :16:21.can hold people to account and so unless he goes down the road of

:16:22. > :16:25.those people who lock people up, it is a long way from suppression. Very

:16:26. > :16:37.quickly, back to the Times newspaper. Scrap use by dates on

:16:38. > :16:44.milk. It says to use the sniff test. You can drink it until it starts to

:16:45. > :16:52.smell not very pleasant. You told me earlier about scraping mould off

:16:53. > :16:54.staff. -- stuff. It is not the government about to do something it

:16:55. > :17:02.is telling us to do something obvious. We waste 100 million pints

:17:03. > :17:11.a year because of the sell-by date. We throw away ?700 of food a year,

:17:12. > :17:16.the equivalent of 500 meals. In a nation where lots of people are

:17:17. > :17:22.struggling and using food banks and a world where many are starving,

:17:23. > :17:24.that is terrible. We have to leave it there. Thanks. That is it for

:17:25. > :17:26.now. I'll be back at 11 for a full news

:17:27. > :17:29.bulletin and we'll be taking a second look at the papers

:17:30. > :17:32.with our guests at 11.30. Sara Baume has written a novel that

:17:33. > :17:46.deals with one of greatest contemporary problems,

:17:47. > :17:50.and perhaps her own experience too - the feeling of loss,

:17:51. > :17:55.maybe hopelessness, among young