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:00:00. > :00:12.This is BBC News with Martine Croxall.

:00:13. > :00:17.We'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment,

:00:18. > :00:21.The organisation representing NHS trusts in England has warned that

:00:22. > :00:23.frontline services won't be able to meet performance targets set

:00:24. > :00:25.by the government over the next year.

:00:26. > :00:28.Police have arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion of the murder

:00:29. > :00:31.of a one-year-old boy and the attempted murder of a girl

:00:32. > :00:35.of the same age at a flat near Finsbury Park in north London.

:00:36. > :00:37.George Osborne's latest job as the editor of

:00:38. > :00:40.the London Evening Standard has led to calls for a rethink

:00:41. > :00:45.has five roles as well as his job as an MP.

:00:46. > :00:48.The plight of the civilians of western Mosul in Iraq.

:00:49. > :00:51.Survivors of Islamic State now in desperate need of aid.

:00:52. > :00:54.Some residents in Derby have been offered temporary accommodation,

:00:55. > :00:57.that's after their homes were damaged when a water mains

:00:58. > :01:11.burst sending plumes of water three storeys high.

:01:12. > :01:14.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

:01:15. > :01:20.With me are Lucy Fisher, senior political correspondent

:01:21. > :01:23.for the Times, and Eve Pollard, former Fleet Street editor.

:01:24. > :01:30.The FT leads with a report on an apparent deal between the UK

:01:31. > :01:32.and Germany to cooperation on defence.

:01:33. > :01:35.According to the paper, Theresa May wants to emphasise

:01:36. > :01:37.Britain's contribution to European security in a bid

:01:38. > :01:43.On its front page the Mirror features a report

:01:44. > :01:45.on the threat of famine in parts of Africa.

:01:46. > :01:48.The paper has launched an appeal to help thousands of victims.

:01:49. > :01:51.The Daily Express's main report is about the Treasury

:01:52. > :01:56.considering a drastic cut to pension tax really.

:01:57. > :01:59.The paper warns against what it calls a tax raid.

:02:00. > :02:05.It says it is needed to fill the coffers

:02:06. > :02:07.after the Chancellor's U-turn on National Insurance contributions.

:02:08. > :02:09.The Telegraph says the BBC has demanded to be protected

:02:10. > :02:13.by new laws that promote its shows over those of rivals,

:02:14. > :02:15.arguing that public service broadcasters face a real threat

:02:16. > :02:18.of losing out in the wake of the rising number

:02:19. > :02:20.And the remote-controlled flying squad

:02:21. > :02:30.24-hour police drone unit is to be launched this summer to chase

:02:31. > :02:32.criminals and hunt for missing people.

:02:33. > :02:36.The Guardian says Donald Trump has come in for strong

:02:37. > :02:38.criticism by the former British Ambassador to Washington

:02:39. > :02:40.over what he has described

:02:41. > :02:41.as unthinkable and nonsensical wiretapping claims.

:02:42. > :02:44.The Sun reports that the Grand Tour presenter

:02:45. > :02:46.Richard Hammond was badly hurt in a motorbike crash

:02:47. > :02:54.It says the TV star had almost died while filming Top Gear 11 years ago.

:02:55. > :02:56.And the Times leads on a government crackdown

:02:57. > :02:58.on the exploitation of the self-employed,

:02:59. > :03:00.saying firms that use these workers to avoid paying sickness,

:03:01. > :03:10.pension and maternity benefits are to undergo a review.

:03:11. > :03:18.Pretty big selection of stories. We will begin with the Daily Mail,

:03:19. > :03:22.takeoff for police drones Edfors it says, a room of controlled flying

:03:23. > :03:26.squad will chase criminals and hunt for people. If you've got fewer

:03:27. > :03:31.police on the beat, is this the right way to fill the gap? It

:03:32. > :03:35.doesn't feel people with the same kind of confidence of these on the

:03:36. > :03:39.beat does and we have major issues around privacy, I'm not sure I'm

:03:40. > :03:45.comfortable with the idea drones that can save that recorded footage

:03:46. > :03:49.and geotag people, that will be kept on file and when you're walking down

:03:50. > :03:59.the street a drone could add to our CCTV nation. In some ways the CCTV

:04:00. > :04:03.nation already exists and makes us not be great place for terrorists to

:04:04. > :04:08.come and all the rest of it because they are aware they will be caught

:04:09. > :04:13.on many cameras. On the other hand, I feel the idea of drones doing some

:04:14. > :04:17.things would work. I think it's very much countryside forces who feel

:04:18. > :04:22.they could be useful to find people who are lost. I can see that that

:04:23. > :04:29.would work. But boys and their toys, you can see on a cold day, let's

:04:30. > :04:33.launch a drone, let's not go out, and all the paperwork that would

:04:34. > :04:38.have to be done and there's a human side that you need from the police

:04:39. > :04:42.that won't be there. I'm not saying they can't gather information or

:04:43. > :04:45.they can't be useful but the idea of fewer bobbies on the beat must be

:04:46. > :04:51.bad. Let's look at the Sun, the one you

:04:52. > :04:56.expected me to start with. We other area able to... You are very Fleet

:04:57. > :05:04.of foot! Not the front page by page two of the Sun. The Tories urge p.m.

:05:05. > :05:08.To cause snap election on the front of the Sunday express, an exclusive

:05:09. > :05:12.from Caroline Wheeler. The Prime Minister has always said no to the

:05:13. > :05:17.idea of her going to the country before 2020. She has but I think

:05:18. > :05:21.things are getting to the stage where I think that she probably

:05:22. > :05:25.feels if she had a larger majority, I guess that's where we feel an

:05:26. > :05:31.election would put her, she would be able to get things through much

:05:32. > :05:34.easier. She's got the problems with Nicola Sturgeon, who said she hasn't

:05:35. > :05:40.been elected by anybody. That doesn't help. She's also got

:05:41. > :05:45.allsorts of things, grammar schools, allsorts of things, that will be

:05:46. > :05:53.challenged by her own side and she's only got a majority of 12, 13? 17 is

:05:54. > :05:57.a working majority. There are also concerns about by-elections as a

:05:58. > :06:01.result of investigations into election spending. You could resolve

:06:02. > :06:04.all of that, could you, by going to the country sooner Prez blew yes,

:06:05. > :06:11.certainly you could. The strategic reasons for calling the election

:06:12. > :06:14.continue to grow as Jeremy Corbyn's ratings plunge and Labelux in more

:06:15. > :06:20.trouble. Looking back at David Cameron and George Osborne, a more

:06:21. > :06:23.political team would have gone to the country but Theresa May prides

:06:24. > :06:27.herself on not playing games. She said there wouldn't be an election

:06:28. > :06:30.and her aides are sticking to that and she won't fall into the trap

:06:31. > :06:35.that Gordon Brown did of allowing speculation to arise that it might

:06:36. > :06:39.happen. If they going to do it before May the fourth they have to

:06:40. > :06:45.be quick to make a decision, not far away. Looking at the Times. May will

:06:46. > :06:49.tell bosses to give workers more rights, crackdown on exploitation of

:06:50. > :06:54.the self-employed. I remember a couple of weeks ago when there was

:06:55. > :06:57.the U-turn eventually on National Insurance contributions, one of the

:06:58. > :07:03.arguments for cutting them up in certain classes was there a few

:07:04. > :07:06.receipts coming in from taxes from PAYE but this would suggest the

:07:07. > :07:13.Prime Minister thinks more people should be regarded as employed. The

:07:14. > :07:18.problem is a lot of the wage you get and the ways you get cheaper service

:07:19. > :07:23.and things is not to pay all the social costs of full-time staff. I

:07:24. > :07:27.do think you will get people who will be working with no pensions, no

:07:28. > :07:34.maternity benefits and all the rest of it. That may be a problem for

:07:35. > :07:38.them. On the other hand it will push up the costs of technology, all

:07:39. > :07:44.these other industries, where people are being asked to act as sole

:07:45. > :07:48.traders and not pay PAYE so inflation will just carry on going

:07:49. > :07:52.up. I wonder if this is an indication of what Theresa May will

:07:53. > :07:56.do when it comes to workers' rights post Brexit when some people have

:07:57. > :07:59.been concern if we don't have the protections of the European court of

:08:00. > :08:03.justice those workers' rights could be eroded. Yes, things like the

:08:04. > :08:08.working Time directive, things that are protected because they are in EU

:08:09. > :08:12.law. She has suggested they would be transposed to domestic statutes but

:08:13. > :08:19.this is slightly more about the changing nature of workers, the gig

:08:20. > :08:22.economy has risen with delivery and technology companies, many people I

:08:23. > :08:26.don't think even started off trying to get round to stop so many

:08:27. > :08:31.receipts going to the Treasury, but it certainly is the case now that

:08:32. > :08:35.that is happening. There's been a widespread review to look at how

:08:36. > :08:40.these people when they do get older, how for example their pensions are

:08:41. > :08:47.paid. Let's look at the Guardian. Tramp attacked by former UK envoy

:08:48. > :08:54.over wiretapping claims. -- Trump. The president accused of peddling

:08:55. > :08:59.falsehoods and endangering UK US relations. This is Peter Weston got.

:09:00. > :09:04.Diplomatic language is always quite bland to the rest of us, but by

:09:05. > :09:10.diplomatic standards, this is a fairly stinging criticism? The

:09:11. > :09:19.President of America doesn't use diplomatic language, does he? It is

:09:20. > :09:23.a free for all. He does have to be careful, the Donald, when he starts

:09:24. > :09:32.mentioning countries... Apparently this was first raised on Fox News.

:09:33. > :09:37.By a fine legal mind. Exactly. Then it wormed its way into the White

:09:38. > :09:41.House that way. But you've got to be careful if you start saying GCHQ are

:09:42. > :09:48.tapping your phones even if the ex-president asks for it. Diplomacy

:09:49. > :09:53.is full of tact and double language, I'm afraid that will have to come

:09:54. > :09:58.back. The Republicans have said really the White House owes Britain

:09:59. > :10:03.an apology. But how many people really believe every word Donald

:10:04. > :10:08.Trump says any more if they ever did? The biggest question, what do

:10:09. > :10:13.his voters believe, do they believe him, that is the crowd he is playing

:10:14. > :10:17.to. I think this will do. That's the case, when you look at Steve Bannon,

:10:18. > :10:22.some advisers around him, and their connections to these very brash,

:10:23. > :10:33.shout the media websites, what game is he playing by making these

:10:34. > :10:38.outlandish claims -- shouty. Obama was there, he is there now, he has

:10:39. > :10:44.won, get on with it, that's what you've got to do. The FT, Liz Truss

:10:45. > :10:51.tells judges to woo the people as extra scrutiny may be in place after

:10:52. > :10:55.the court of justice. She's telling the judiciary they will have to

:10:56. > :10:59.expect and cope with and respond to more criticism of their actions and

:11:00. > :11:03.explain themselves more. I think there will be a lot of angry judges

:11:04. > :11:07.tomorrow. Already there's a problem with recruiting judges who have to

:11:08. > :11:11.take a pay cut from being very well-paid QCs to become a judge.

:11:12. > :11:15.They expect the Lord Chancellor, who has sworn an oath, to protect them,

:11:16. > :11:18.not telling them think you're backing they have to explain

:11:19. > :11:26.themselves to the public and to the media -- finger wagging. There's an

:11:27. > :11:31.argument for better education about rule of law, separation of powers,

:11:32. > :11:34.what the independent judiciary do, but the place for that is the

:11:35. > :11:39.classroom, not for judges to have to go out and explain the often

:11:40. > :11:44.incredibly complex decisions and framework in which they work. I

:11:45. > :11:49.think in a way... Judges are very special people, they are very

:11:50. > :11:54.interesting. They are slightly removed from the world. The idea of

:11:55. > :11:59.asking a judge to do a double page bread in a tabloid newspaper, tell

:12:00. > :12:04.us about your likes and dislikes -- double page spread. It's highly

:12:05. > :12:09.unlikely! It has worked very well with British law that they are...

:12:10. > :12:14.Occasionally they are a bit to separate, once Edwina Currie did her

:12:15. > :12:18.biography and it appeared in the autobiography and the newspaper, and

:12:19. > :12:23.I remember the Chief Justice at the time said, what did she do that for?

:12:24. > :12:27.And I said, I think about ?1 million! They are very much not

:12:28. > :12:33.attached to the world in a way but perhaps they are attached to the

:12:34. > :12:37.cases they hear. I can't see them settling down with a woman's

:12:38. > :12:40.magazine to say, this is what we do every day. Maybe they will be put

:12:41. > :12:43.under pressure to explain their decisions. Let's look at the

:12:44. > :12:48.Telegraph for the final couple of stories, BBC demand top billing in

:12:49. > :12:55.law. This is James Purnell, director of radio and education, saying the

:12:56. > :13:00.BBC should have greater prominence in the TV guides we have on our

:13:01. > :13:05.screens these days. It's not just the BBC that is asking for this, it

:13:06. > :13:08.is public service broadcasters generally and there's an amendment

:13:09. > :13:15.going into the digital economy Bill this week which, if it passes, would

:13:16. > :13:22.enable that. I find this whole idea slightly anachronistic because the

:13:23. > :13:26.way I consume TV is through going on websites, directly to iPlayer or my

:13:27. > :13:29.Netflix account, but I appreciate many people in their living room

:13:30. > :13:35.still have a TV and a removed control. Do you not have one? I do,

:13:36. > :13:40.but it is a modern one that is linked up to the Web and my laptop,

:13:41. > :13:44.it has a button on the run of control that says Netflix. Does it

:13:45. > :13:50.do the ironing? It doesn't yet. I will have one when it does! That's

:13:51. > :13:56.his problem, you have a whole younger generation who look at TV in

:13:57. > :14:01.a whole new way. I sympathise most with him because radio doesn't get

:14:02. > :14:06.much coverage at all and he is head of radio at the BBC. There's an

:14:07. > :14:11.argument if you provide good content people will find it wherever it is.

:14:12. > :14:20.Finally, why happy workers take a breather. Advice from happiness

:14:21. > :14:25.guru, Max Strong, coming to us tomorrow on the UN international day

:14:26. > :14:30.for happiness. What shall we do on the UN international day of

:14:31. > :14:34.happiness? Maypole dancing? It is literally going outside and taking a

:14:35. > :14:39.break. In a nice polluted corner of town. I think we need it now. I

:14:40. > :14:46.spent so many hours each day glued to my computer, to have a reminder

:14:47. > :14:50.in the modern yoga mindfulness held the 21st century, this is the

:14:51. > :14:55.modern-day fag break. Taking the dog for a walk will suffice, as I do

:14:56. > :15:00.everyday! That's the papers for tonight. Thank you to Lucy and Eve

:15:01. > :15:05.for coming in. All the papers are online and on iPlayer in case you

:15:06. > :15:06.missed it. Coming up next, the Film Review.