:00:17. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
:00:20. > :00:23.With me are the political commentator Jo Phillips
:00:24. > :00:29.and Chief Economics Commentator at the Telegraph, Liam Halligan.
:00:30. > :00:35.Welcome to both of you. A look at the front pages first of all. The i
:00:36. > :00:41.newspaper is leading on the story that Spain might get a veto over how
:00:42. > :00:46.any agreement between the UK and the EU applies to Gibraltar. Parliament
:00:47. > :00:50.faces in new expenses scandal after a leak of information on how much
:00:51. > :00:56.MPs pay their staff. That makes the front page of the Telegraph. The
:00:57. > :00:59.Guardian claims that US security officials had serious concerns over
:01:00. > :01:07.Michael Flynn becoming national security adviser because of his
:01:08. > :01:12.links with Moscow. The Times reports that repay Google ?31 million worth
:01:13. > :01:15.of corporation tax. The express covers new research suggesting that
:01:16. > :01:20.a lack of sleep increases the risk of suffering a stroke or heart
:01:21. > :01:24.attack. Prince Charles tried to delay the US invasion of Afghanistan
:01:25. > :01:33.says a book being serialised by the Daily Mail. That features on the
:01:34. > :01:36.front page of the paper as well. And an exclusive interview with singer
:01:37. > :01:41.Linda Nolan who has been diagnosed with cancer in the daily Mirror. We
:01:42. > :01:48.will look at those front pages in a moment. First, the i newspaper. Fear
:01:49. > :01:53.on the rock. I think you did an interview a while ago with the Chief
:01:54. > :01:59.Minister of Gibraltar. This is not entirely unexpected, but Spain is
:02:00. > :02:07.apparently going to be given a veto over the future of Gibraltar, which
:02:08. > :02:13.has always been a bone of contention between Spain and Britain. London is
:02:14. > :02:16.said to be furious, Boris Johnson is said to have committed to fight
:02:17. > :02:20.ruthlessly to make sure that it stays British. And this is all part
:02:21. > :02:28.of the shenanigans that have been going on today from Donald Tusk, his
:02:29. > :02:32.comments, Europe playing it out on what we can expect, agreed the
:02:33. > :02:38.divorce Bill and then we will talk trade -- laying it out. What about
:02:39. > :02:43.Ireland, no special deal for the City, Nicola Sturgeon has told
:02:44. > :02:47.Theresa May that she has handed a letter, her version of Article 50,
:02:48. > :02:54.saying we will hold a second independence referendum. What do you
:02:55. > :03:00.make about Gibraltar? It was nice for a day, wasn't it? Yesterday I
:03:01. > :03:05.thought the Prime Minister and her rather emollient Article 50 letter
:03:06. > :03:09.and now the EU has this road map for negotiations which is going to
:03:10. > :03:13.dominate the airwaves for the next couple of years. And they have
:03:14. > :03:18.alighted on Gibraltar because they know that will lead to strong
:03:19. > :03:23.emotions in the UK. It has been a British protectorate since 1713, I
:03:24. > :03:28.think. A long time. This is designed to provoke. Spain does have a veto
:03:29. > :03:33.on this deal. It seems that the gloves are off. Does and surprises
:03:34. > :03:35.that it has happened so soon? Not at all. My view is that the whole
:03:36. > :03:54.divorce bill thing is also designed to to pluck 60 billion
:03:55. > :03:58.euros out of the air, it is a figure that's meant to rile and meant to
:03:59. > :04:00.get the UK on the back foot. If I was advising the British government,
:04:01. > :04:03.which I am not, I would say that in a complex negotiation many facets,
:04:04. > :04:05.the actual amount of money is the very last thing you decide when
:04:06. > :04:08.everything else has been decided so this strikes me as something
:04:09. > :04:14.completely on its head. As Liam says of course this will come, are you
:04:15. > :04:24.going to take this CV is and who gets the cat, like in every divorce.
:04:25. > :04:31.The cuts will be later! Our cat correspondent, tonight, Jo! Spain is
:04:32. > :04:36.where most Britons living in Europe live as well which adds another
:04:37. > :04:44.facet to it. To be fair to Spain, so far in these talks about the future
:04:45. > :04:48.of UK citizens in the EU and EU citizens in the UK, many British
:04:49. > :04:52.citizens are in Spain and Madrid has been eager to say publicly, we will
:04:53. > :05:02.accept these people and let's try to get a deal on the rights... British
:05:03. > :05:08.people living here, I think that will get solved quite quickly. I
:05:09. > :05:18.hope so. Yet these are the bones of contention will be swirling in the
:05:19. > :05:23.air for months to come. Different parts of the EU will want different
:05:24. > :05:34.things. It is not just what Donald Tusk says. Liam, let's go to the
:05:35. > :05:46.front of the Telegraph, continuing the Brexit theme. Donald Tusk says a
:05:47. > :05:50.spot of this opening salvo there must be no unfair competitive
:05:51. > :05:59.advantage that Britain takes after Brexit. It's all about shifting and
:06:00. > :06:01.trading regulations to get a more business friendly environment to
:06:02. > :06:06.facilitate cross-border trade. Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tory
:06:07. > :06:11.leader, a big Brexiteer, has predictably said this is posturing.
:06:12. > :06:15.I think the Telegraph are only punting this because a lot of the
:06:16. > :06:21.readers run small and medium-sized enterprises that don't actually
:06:22. > :06:27.export to the EU. At the moment they do have to adhere to all the EU
:06:28. > :06:30.rules. Things like Brexit make life more difficult for the small and
:06:31. > :06:48.medium businesses. Afterwards that will be gone. It will depend on
:06:49. > :06:52.relative regulation. If Sun is in relation to workers' rights that
:06:53. > :06:59.will throw up another... It would but there are things about
:07:00. > :07:13.environmental transport, a lot of things have been very beneficial. Is
:07:14. > :07:25.this Great Repeal Bill which viewers will hear lot
:07:26. > :07:32.about, repealing the EU version, that is why it's called the great...
:07:33. > :07:36.It will be strange when people start asking which is the one about the
:07:37. > :07:42.bent bananas that have been talked about for the last 30 years? It will
:07:43. > :07:45.be such a tsunami of legislation that the government has had to give
:07:46. > :07:51.an undertaking that, we are not going to use this transfer as a way
:07:52. > :07:58.to trick and trim and get stuff through on the nod, we are not going
:07:59. > :08:02.to cut Labour or environmental standards. Of course, the Labour
:08:03. > :08:06.Party and the Lib Dems will be keeping their eyes open for any slip
:08:07. > :08:13.from that pledge. You threw me a question in the office. When was the
:08:14. > :08:21.first MPs expenses scandal? To all of our astonishment it was 2009. And
:08:22. > :08:27.we all said, about five years ago? It is on the front page of the
:08:28. > :08:31.Telegraph, a suggestion of a new expenses scandal. Although the
:08:32. > :08:37.headline is often is misleading because it is not about expenses, it
:08:38. > :08:50.is about a breach of data. Basically the information, about the people
:08:51. > :08:55.MPs employed in their offices. Some will be members of that MP's family.
:08:56. > :08:59.It lists everything including names and addresses, the amount they earn,
:09:00. > :09:05.the amount of holiday entitlement and bonuses, interestingly, this
:09:06. > :09:09.appeared on the independent parliamentary standards authority's
:09:10. > :09:16.old website. It was up there for four hours. That would have been
:09:17. > :09:21.like leaving a document that you want the press to see accidentally
:09:22. > :09:24.on a photocopier. Allegedly. LAUGHTER
:09:25. > :09:27.. It is a big story for the Telegraph because it was the
:09:28. > :09:36.Telegraph's investigation which led to the founding of Ipsa. It then
:09:37. > :09:40.said that Ipsa recommended, let's get rid of the ideas of MPs
:09:41. > :09:47.employing members of their family including spouses. MPs rebelled. It
:09:48. > :09:53.seems that still 150 MPs at 650 employ family members. So a
:09:54. > :09:57.roundabout one in four. In defence, a lot of MPs, men and women, live in
:09:58. > :10:03.constituencies that are at the other end of the country. They did not
:10:04. > :10:05.employ their spouse as office manager, then frankly, their
:10:06. > :10:10.relationship would break up -- if they did not employ their spouse.
:10:11. > :10:14.And then you would not get family people being MPs. Sometimes it can
:10:15. > :10:17.be abused when people employ their children for doing nothing, that has
:10:18. > :10:22.happened in the past. Sometimes it is defendable. If you don't spend
:10:23. > :10:26.time in Parliament and understand how it works, it looks bad enough
:10:27. > :10:31.from the outside and goodness knows Francois Fillon in France is
:10:32. > :10:44.suffering, but it can be justifiable. It is true, if one of
:10:45. > :10:49.you is in Westminster... Four nights a week and the constituency is
:10:50. > :10:58.bogged down by questions about a local bus route... So sometimes it
:10:59. > :11:03.makes sense that one person should be in the constituency keeping show
:11:04. > :11:08.on the road. In the interests of keeping cats in the topic... Let's
:11:09. > :11:12.go to the times. Dekker let's drop everything and just do cats. The big
:11:13. > :11:23.moment in British history, cats! Google and tax. This is interesting.
:11:24. > :11:30.All the big tech giants are in the spotlight. Companies that may be
:11:31. > :11:35.abusing their market share. Saying they've come up with a fantastic
:11:36. > :11:40.product that everyone needs. What we have is an investigation, Google's
:11:41. > :11:49.parent company files in the states and shows the revenue of subscribers
:11:50. > :11:53.to Google in the UK is 7.78 billion in the last year but the amount of
:11:54. > :12:00.tax they pay is 25 million. That is very low. Then it turns out that
:12:01. > :12:04.even though George Osborne is said to have wrapped Google over the
:12:05. > :12:11.knuckles and done a deal to get tax back, which is hailed as a major
:12:12. > :12:20.success, it transpires that HMRC now owes Google about ?30 million. But
:12:21. > :12:25.probably oversimplifies it. You would think it is an April fool, but
:12:26. > :12:34.nobody would run out as a front-page story however obvious it seems. The
:12:35. > :12:40.country claims it it has paid or taxes legally do, just so that we do
:12:41. > :12:47.that. You're on a! Guardian, the front page. Donald Trump. This could
:12:48. > :12:52.have been an April fool when year ago, Michael Flynn, former national
:12:53. > :12:56.security adviser to Donald Trump, forced to resign, has come up
:12:57. > :13:00.through his lawyer, saying he has a story to tell provided he is immune
:13:01. > :13:04.from prosecution. Because there are investigations going on into the
:13:05. > :13:09.links between the Trump campaign, of which Michael Flynn was a leading
:13:10. > :13:13.light and Russia in the run-up to the election of President Trump.
:13:14. > :13:19.According to the Guardian, both American and British intelligence
:13:20. > :13:24.had discouraged Michael Flynn "Worrisome" behaviour well before
:13:25. > :13:29.his appointment and raised concerns about his ties to Russia, and his
:13:30. > :13:38.capacity for linear thought, whatever that is. Don't ask me what
:13:39. > :13:49.it means! I've no idea. We all looked mystified. Is it good or bad,
:13:50. > :13:57.a capacity for linear thought? Not only will he go down as the shortest
:13:58. > :14:04.ever serving international adviser, is a serious person, a former
:14:05. > :14:09.Lieutenant General in the US Army, he held a major security post under
:14:10. > :14:15.Obama and is a seasoned Washington insider. It almost takes us back to
:14:16. > :14:22.McCarthyism and the mutual paranoia of the 1950s that you have a
:14:23. > :14:28.national security adviser deposed, just a few months into a government,
:14:29. > :14:36.in return for immunity from prosecution. You are guaranteed to
:14:37. > :14:42.arouse curiosity if you say, I have something to tell you but I cannot
:14:43. > :14:47.tell you what it is unless I have immunity. He wants a book deal. He
:14:48. > :14:54.will end up with his own chat show. And this is the man leading the call
:14:55. > :15:01.for "Lock her up" giving the campaign, about Hillary Clinton. I
:15:02. > :15:12.am torn about talking about Cats now. Let's quickly do Le Sting.
:15:13. > :15:16.Paris, Lyon and Grenoble say that of British cars come over and don't
:15:17. > :15:24.have a green sticker talking about emissions of the particular vehicle,
:15:25. > :15:29.they will be fined the equivalent of ?117. In order to get this sticker
:15:30. > :15:32.they have to grapple with the French government website that apparently
:15:33. > :15:43.is very difficult, and paid the equivalent of ?4 ten. It may be that
:15:44. > :15:46.22 other French cities including Lille and Dunkirk, where many
:15:47. > :15:52.British people go, may bring in this scheme as well. So if you are going
:15:53. > :15:57.to drive to Paris, Lyon or Grenoble this Easter, do check. The RAC say
:15:58. > :16:03.they have been inundated with calls. News that you can use. And because
:16:04. > :16:10.it is going to be a nice weekend here, they say don't go anywhere.
:16:11. > :16:18.Cats! Do we think this is a real story? A little caveat here. This is
:16:19. > :16:26.quite a large piece of text. We must get these cat faces on the screen.
:16:27. > :16:31.Any cat owner will recognise them. Scientists have cracked the secret
:16:32. > :16:37.code of inscrutable cats. According to scientists who filmed 29 cats at
:16:38. > :16:44.a Canadian shelter on 275 occasions with these different faces, relax,
:16:45. > :16:48.everything is satisfactory for now. Viacom is that a vacuum cleaner,
:16:49. > :16:51.please don't use it, this meal is not served to my liking, and so
:16:52. > :16:59.forth. The thing that gives it away is the thoughts of a person called
:17:00. > :17:05.Penny Ward Mouser, a cat enthusiast, the author of our cats smart. We
:17:06. > :17:11.will have to leave that in suspense. Thank you. Can I just say, the last
:17:12. > :17:19.30 seconds have been the pinnacle of my journalistic career. Mind to!
:17:20. > :17:25.Don't forget you can see the front pages
:17:26. > :17:27.of the papers online on the BBC News website.
:17:28. > :17:29.It's all there for you, seven days a week
:17:30. > :17:32.at bbc.co.uk/papers, and if you miss the programme any