:00:13. > :00:15.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:16. > :00:23.With me is Jenni Russell, a columnist at The Times,
:00:24. > :00:28.and Iain Martin - the Editor of Reaction...
:00:29. > :00:32.A look at the front pages for you first of all...
:00:33. > :00:35.The Metro focuses on the news from America - the FBI is looking
:00:36. > :00:40.into links between Russia and Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
:00:41. > :00:42.The Daily Telegraph headlines the complaint by some
:00:43. > :00:45.MPs that the BBC is too "pessimistic" about Brexit.
:00:46. > :00:47.The BBC's alleged "gloomy" coverage of Brexit is the headline
:00:48. > :00:52.The Financial Times says the FBI's investigation into the Trump
:00:53. > :00:55.campaign's links with Russia is a "blow" to the President.
:00:56. > :00:57.The Times focuses on the numerous big firms who've pulled their online
:00:58. > :01:03.ads from Google after they appeared next to extremist content.
:01:04. > :01:07.The I features a "save the date" for next Wednesday,
:01:08. > :01:10.when Theresa May officially notifies the EU of Brexit.
:01:11. > :01:12.The Express warns that violent Russian hooligans plan to cause
:01:13. > :01:24.And finally - the Sun leads with the story that a rapist who had
:01:25. > :01:28.a sex change in prison has been moved to a women's jail.
:01:29. > :01:37.Let's dip into a good portion of those in the next 15 minutes.
:01:38. > :01:42.The i newspaper front page, save the date, Wednesday the 29th of March is
:01:43. > :01:45.a date for us to earmark? It is a strange headline as it implies there
:01:46. > :01:49.is something fantastic you will be doing, but it would be interesting
:01:50. > :01:54.to watch when the Prime Minister says what is happening. It implies
:01:55. > :01:58.you will have a party, I am holding a wake, Ian is holding a
:01:59. > :02:02.celebration... I voted Brexit but I don't think I will be celebrating on
:02:03. > :02:09.Wednesday, the interesting thing is if it was a couple of days later, it
:02:10. > :02:13.would be April Fools' Day... So it was all a joke? I expect that they
:02:14. > :02:20.avoided it for good reason! Lets go into more detail, I suppose. The
:02:21. > :02:25.Financial Times focuses on what Theresa May will be doing on the
:02:26. > :02:30.29th which is all about a letter, among other things... The Financial
:02:31. > :02:33.Times reports that the letter goes on, and it essentially goes to
:02:34. > :02:40.Donald Tusk, the EU Council president. He assembles a response
:02:41. > :02:46.over the following 24-48 hours and communicates it to the 27 members of
:02:47. > :02:54.the EU who are not Britain, and essentially, then you get a report
:02:55. > :02:57.that the notification has been received and after that, probably
:02:58. > :03:06.not very much is going to happen. Publicly. For a few weeks. Maybe if
:03:07. > :03:11.you months, they have delayed the summit at which it will be
:03:12. > :03:16.discussed. It won't be formally discussed with publicity until June,
:03:17. > :03:19.and that's partly deliberate. Because the French elections are in
:03:20. > :03:23.the middle of that. I want to know if we will get an idea of what the
:03:24. > :03:27.government will argue for, when it occurs it is coming out for Brexit.
:03:28. > :03:34.You're a's complaint is that they have no idea what Britain will ask
:03:35. > :03:42.for in terms of immigration control -- Europe's complaint. What kind of
:03:43. > :03:46.body they will suggest can rule because Britain is no longer willing
:03:47. > :03:51.to accept the EU Court of justice. There are details that Europe or
:03:52. > :03:54.want to know about and it's good to know if we will be told anything.
:03:55. > :03:59.The suspicion is that the government does not know enough about what it
:04:00. > :04:04.wants from Brexit itself. We have slid from the Brexiteers promising
:04:05. > :04:08.us that we can be part of the single market to owing a fantastic trade
:04:09. > :04:13.deal with Europe, and now we hear... We crash out of Europe with no
:04:14. > :04:18.agreement or future. We had to slap tariffs on everything exported, and
:04:19. > :04:23.everything imported, as part of the WTO organisation deal. And it would
:04:24. > :04:28.be an economic disaster. Will the Prime Minister give any clues in her
:04:29. > :04:34.letter? Not really... It will be a standard letter. But the difficulty
:04:35. > :04:38.is, you have the French elections coming up and then you have the
:04:39. > :04:43.German elections. That's in the autumn. It is not precisely clear
:04:44. > :04:47.who the UK will be negotiating with. It's quite a different conversation,
:04:48. > :04:53.if it is Martin Schultz of Germany, or Marine Le Pen in France... I
:04:54. > :04:56.think the government will want to keep their cards close to their
:04:57. > :05:01.chest. And they will start talking quickly. Time is against Britain on
:05:02. > :05:06.this. We need to be out of the EU two years after we say we invoke
:05:07. > :05:09.Article 50. The closer we get to be entered negotiations without a deal,
:05:10. > :05:13.the worse the situation looks for us. If we leave without a deal, we
:05:14. > :05:19.will be trading on unfavourable terms with the rest of the world.
:05:20. > :05:35.The EU know that. It is in our interests
:05:36. > :05:39.to get negotiations started as early as possible and settle things as
:05:40. > :05:41.quickly as possible. What we hear publicly could be different to what
:05:42. > :05:44.happens privately. You hear it privately as well... What it will
:05:45. > :05:45.all be about as establishing the compensation bill, the divorce Bill,
:05:46. > :05:48.and the future trade agreement... The British will not hand over a
:05:49. > :05:50.blank cheque and say, can we talk about future relationships. There
:05:51. > :05:53.are negotiations to happen. The other reasons the UNIDO deal is that
:05:54. > :06:03.they depend on the City of London because it makes the Eurozone go
:06:04. > :06:06.around, it is the capital. 2019, and the Daily Express are already
:06:07. > :06:11.celebrating! They are celebrating already, it is the Daily Express but
:06:12. > :06:17.it is a clever and simple device, throwing it forward. That is the
:06:18. > :06:20.date on which Jenni will be holding her awake for us leaving the EU...
:06:21. > :06:27.-- holding her wake. There's nothing I want to hear more
:06:28. > :06:32.that there is a good deal for Britain and that we are not
:06:33. > :06:36.salvaging our relationship with Europe -- savaging.
:06:37. > :06:42.I'm not confident, from what we see of the Cavalier ignorance of many
:06:43. > :06:47.Brexiteers so far, that will happen. In two years, let's see who is
:06:48. > :06:50.wearing a black tie... Let's move onto a Brexit related story, the
:06:51. > :06:56.front of the Daily Mail talks about the BBC's bias. This is based on a
:06:57. > :07:01.letter a number of MPs are sending to the director-general? I don't
:07:02. > :07:06.feel qualified to make a judgment on this. I was a BBC editor for about
:07:07. > :07:13.15 years. We were always accused of bias. Sometimes, the BBC gets things
:07:14. > :07:17.wrong, but I do not feel in watching the coverage that is what I felt
:07:18. > :07:22.I've been getting from it. But you might have a different perspective?
:07:23. > :07:30.I'm pro-Brexit and I voted for this. I don't get it, 70 MPs do, they have
:07:31. > :07:35.written a letter to the Director General Lord Paul, country file has
:07:36. > :07:41.been accused of pursuing an anti-Brexit agenda. As pro-Brexit, I
:07:42. > :07:46.don't get it. A lot of the BBC programming, I'm not just saying it
:07:47. > :07:50.because we are on the BBC now but I see people scrupulously trying to
:07:51. > :07:52.provide balance. Many people on the Remain side but that was too much.
:07:53. > :07:59.The Tory MP quoted in the piece is a former
:08:00. > :08:04.journalist for the BBC but is concerned about what has been said?
:08:05. > :08:08.I think the BBC will take it seriously, from the moment I joined
:08:09. > :08:11.this organisation as a trainee it was drummed into us about our
:08:12. > :08:17.responsibility to make sure that you reflect both sides of any argument.
:08:18. > :08:21.I think it runs like a stick of rock through BBC staff. Things go wrong
:08:22. > :08:28.but nobody in the BBC sets out to stand on one side of the argument or
:08:29. > :08:32.the other. But the main point concerning -- but the main point of
:08:33. > :08:37.concern is that the news is not properly reported. I think a lot of
:08:38. > :08:44.it is, they are aware of it. I watch a lot of the BBC. It's classic
:08:45. > :08:47.politician complaining, enough good news is not mentioned. It is
:08:48. > :08:53.perfectly possible that news will be more difficult in the next year.
:08:54. > :09:00.Politicians tend to have the idea, why don't you report more positive
:09:01. > :09:04.stuff? And the Country File thing is interesting, I was having dinner on
:09:05. > :09:09.Saturday with a group of landowners. They are all Brexiteers, now they
:09:10. > :09:13.are worried about the consequences of it on farming. Especially if we
:09:14. > :09:19.have two trade with the rest of the world under WTO rules. They have
:09:20. > :09:23.tariffs of 14% on agricultural exports which would cripple them.
:09:24. > :09:25.Would you like a statement from the BBC?
:09:26. > :09:29.A BBC spokeswoman said the BBC is covering the political and financial
:09:30. > :09:33.events following the referendum vote in a responsible and impartial way
:09:34. > :09:36.and is one of the great exports of this country and makes a significant
:09:37. > :09:39.contribution to the UK creative sector.
:09:40. > :09:47.I think that is what I said but so much more boring! Don't you agree?
:09:48. > :09:50.Well obviously, I did have a view! The Daily Telegraph are talking
:09:51. > :09:55.about the BBC as well but we won't look at it again. Let's have a look
:09:56. > :10:01.at this image of Theresa May, in American folk. I think this was a
:10:02. > :10:11.shoot? That is right. Shall we start with you? -- American Vogue. There
:10:12. > :10:15.will be a lot of analysis on this, why has she done this, wearing
:10:16. > :10:29.Al-Qaeda Bennett? Was she stung by the criticism -- wearing LK Bennett.
:10:30. > :10:33.But I wonder whether a lot of this isn't about the fact that she is a
:10:34. > :10:47.fashion fan, and a reader a reader of Vogue.
:10:48. > :10:53.She is having the time of her life so when Vogue ask, can we send Annie
:10:54. > :10:57.Leibovitz, a famous American photographer, to take pictures, you
:10:58. > :11:02.will say yes! Can I say, I think it would be a serious point here, that
:11:03. > :11:07.Theresa May is trying to influence Donald Trump and is one of the few
:11:08. > :11:12.world leaders he feels warm towards. The American public have no idea who
:11:13. > :11:16.she is. If she is in American Vogue, read by the top swathe of American
:11:17. > :11:20.society, she introduces herself to them and impresses Donald Trump who
:11:21. > :11:25.loves nothing more than glamour and prestige, and people appearing in
:11:26. > :11:30.publications like this. But he isn't in the top swathe of American
:11:31. > :11:34.society... That's one of his problems! I don't pick you read
:11:35. > :11:36.anything but he looks at it. Time is relatively tight, let's look at the
:11:37. > :11:45.last two or three. The Guardian, the enquiry into
:11:46. > :11:49.Moscow connections. A fairly strict report on what has been said? It is
:11:50. > :11:55.one of those stories that does not need any dressing up. It is an
:11:56. > :11:59.extraordinary day, an extraordinary Newsday, in Washington with the FBI
:12:00. > :12:04.director, James Comey, on the stand. And Michael Rogers of the NSA
:12:05. > :12:13.devastating day for Trump, really. So embarrassing, really, that at one
:12:14. > :12:23.point, the evidence in that later session, is that a reflection of
:12:24. > :12:30.your evidence? She said, no. It's demolished the Trump suggestion that
:12:31. > :12:40.GCHQ were aspiring on the orders of a bomber.
:12:41. > :12:49.-- it's demolished the Trump suggestion that GCHQ were working on
:12:50. > :12:53.the orders of Barack Obama. They have all said there is no
:12:54. > :12:56.evidence that there was any wiretapping by Barack Obama and the
:12:57. > :13:00.Department of Justice and the FBI have said that they are clearly very
:13:01. > :13:04.worried about the potential links between Russia and Donald Trump. It
:13:05. > :13:08.is extraordinary. Not since Nixon have we seen a president who is
:13:09. > :13:13.under such suspicion from his own intelligence services. He
:13:14. > :13:16.difficulties for James Comey is that he admitted they had been
:13:17. > :13:21.investigating this since July last year but they seem to have expressed
:13:22. > :13:25.their public views about the Clinton investigation just two weeks before
:13:26. > :13:30.polling day but kept quiet on this. There are big questions to come on
:13:31. > :13:35.that. And The Times front page, global brands shunning Google.
:13:36. > :13:42.Companies are very worried about advertising here? It's debris and
:13:43. > :13:49.story. It was done by the newspaper, my newspaper, The Times. Because
:13:50. > :13:53.cannot monitor it, domestic companies like Marks and Spencers
:13:54. > :14:00.were finding their adverts were coming over homophobic videos or
:14:01. > :14:04.extremist videos. Google is in a mess, a lot of brands advertise with
:14:05. > :14:10.them and stock is falling. They have promised to take action, but they
:14:11. > :14:16.have 400 hours worth of video posted every minute. How do you police
:14:17. > :14:20.that? They need better algorithms. What is wonderful and a fantastic
:14:21. > :14:23.story from The Times, that Google and Facebook have given the
:14:24. > :14:30.impression for years that they are these free to air marvellous social
:14:31. > :14:34.businesses. But actually, they are the biggest advertising businesses
:14:35. > :14:39.in the world. They had eaten the lunch of a lot of mainstream media.
:14:40. > :14:42.Not that we have anything to worry about here! Now they are getting it
:14:43. > :14:47.in the neck. That's all, thank you very much
:14:48. > :14:53.indeed. You can get more online, it's their
:14:54. > :15:01.seven days a week on the BBC website.
:15:02. > :15:18.Thank you to both of you, and goodbye.
:15:19. > :15:19.We had a taste of spring last week. This week, to begin the