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