:00:14. > :00:16.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:17. > :00:25.With me are Kate McCann, senior political correspondent
:00:26. > :00:27.at the Daily Telegraph, and Dan Bilefsky, London-based
:00:28. > :00:39.The Telegraph leads with a warning that Donald Trump could threaten
:00:40. > :00:41.military action on Syria following reports
:00:42. > :00:48.The Metro features the same story, with President Trump describing
:00:49. > :00:51.the suspected gas attack as a red line.
:00:52. > :00:55.In the Financial Times there's claims that Theresa May might
:00:56. > :00:59.soften her stance on free movement as part of Brexit talks.
:01:00. > :01:02.The Express says house prices are set to rise by a quarter
:01:03. > :01:10.The i reports that the UK is trying to improve diplomatic
:01:11. > :01:13.The Guardian says there is mounting pressure on Jeremy Corbyn
:01:14. > :01:15.to expel Ken Livingstone following his remarks on Hitler.
:01:16. > :01:18.The Times reports the Government's rise on probate
:01:19. > :01:24.And in the Mail, claims that the UK's foreign aid budget has
:01:25. > :01:42.I am not normally hear on Wednesday, I am discombobulated. Some grim
:01:43. > :01:46.stories tonight. We will do our best to find some light relief towards
:01:47. > :01:51.the end but we start with the Telegraph. Donald Trump squares up
:01:52. > :01:56.to President Assad over the gas attack but we start with this
:01:57. > :02:02.picture story of this 29-year-old man who lost all of his family,
:02:03. > :02:11.including twin babies, he is holding in his arms, and there is a moving
:02:12. > :02:16.dispatch from Beirut. This is a heartbreaking story about a young
:02:17. > :02:22.man who discovered that his twin children, babies and wife, or in the
:02:23. > :02:26.line of fire of the attack and he ran from his shop to be with his
:02:27. > :02:33.wife and children and took them to a safe place in the basement and he
:02:34. > :02:39.realised they had been hit by the gas, and they died. And this
:02:40. > :02:42.photograph shows him cradling those babies in his arms and it is
:02:43. > :02:45.absolutely heartbreaking. Some of the pictures we have seen of
:02:46. > :02:51.survivors and the condition they were in, medics making the point
:02:52. > :02:59.that these attacks leave no marks. This is not the first time that
:03:00. > :03:05.Sarin gas is suspected against civilians and this is not an
:03:06. > :03:10.accidental attack, this is an attack on civilians, 86 people have died,
:03:11. > :03:13.30 children. This is not the worst picture by far, there are pictures
:03:14. > :03:19.of children piled on top of each other, stripped of their clothes
:03:20. > :03:22.because when this gas hits, the best thing is to dust their clothes and
:03:23. > :03:29.water. Imagine how awful that must be. Two days later, there has been
:03:30. > :03:32.nothing done, no action, we talk about the need to consider things
:03:33. > :03:37.like this carefully and they will come onto the comments from
:03:38. > :03:42.President Trump but can we stand by and let this happen again? Talking
:03:43. > :03:47.about the politics and international diplomacy around this, because
:03:48. > :03:54.Russia maintains this was that Syrian air strike on a store of
:03:55. > :04:00.rebel-held weapons, they hold the veto on the Security Council. There
:04:01. > :04:03.will not even be a resolution, probably, condemning this? Russia
:04:04. > :04:08.has consistently used its veto on the council to veto any attempt to
:04:09. > :04:14.castigate Assad, given the fact that Moscow is his biggest patron. Until
:04:15. > :04:19.recently, President Trump made clear his main objective in Syria was to
:04:20. > :04:25.defeat Islamic State and he was considering cultivating Assad as an
:04:26. > :04:28.ally and now this has happened, any attempt to cultivate Assad or
:04:29. > :04:32.support Vladimir Putin becomes morally unconscionable for Trump and
:04:33. > :04:37.at the same time he criticised President Obama for being weak and
:04:38. > :04:41.he failed during the last chemical attack to abide by his promise to
:04:42. > :04:49.take action if Assad breached the red line and he cited chemical
:04:50. > :04:54.attacks. He also said, whatever you do, do not go into Syria? Do not
:04:55. > :04:58.take military action? When Trump changes his mind every few days,
:04:59. > :05:03.depending on the last person he spoke to... He recently blamed
:05:04. > :05:08.resident Obama are not taking action after Assad breached the red line
:05:09. > :05:15.and now you would expect him to be decisive and this is a geopolitical
:05:16. > :05:17.powderkeg, very dangerous, given the involvement of Vladimir Putin. We do
:05:18. > :05:21.not know what he might have in mind when he says, his ambassador said
:05:22. > :05:28.that if the UN will not take on Syria, we will. Let us look at the
:05:29. > :05:33.Guardian and the look at the New York Times, the same story. The
:05:34. > :05:36.right-hand man and of Trump loses the national security role, Steve
:05:37. > :05:43.Bannon. Many eyebrows were raised when he was given the seat at the
:05:44. > :05:47.table and there are all sorts of sensitive information. It was quite
:05:48. > :05:52.astonishing when he was appointed to this board, the committee on the
:05:53. > :05:56.National Security Council, the council is the nerve centre of
:05:57. > :05:59.American foreign policy and you have the chief advisor to the President
:06:00. > :06:05.being appointed and everyone was worried this would politicise
:06:06. > :06:09.American foreign policy, he is a very controversial figure, he was
:06:10. > :06:15.the head of Breitbart, a very right-wing neo-conservative media
:06:16. > :06:21.organ. He is depicted as the dark leader of American domestic policy.
:06:22. > :06:25.And he is an ideologue in many ways. The front page of the New York
:06:26. > :06:31.Times, Trump removes Steve Bannon from the National Security Council.
:06:32. > :06:39.This is how it looks on the internet. Who was this a result for?
:06:40. > :06:46.It is not quite clear yet who has engineered this. McMaster, who was
:06:47. > :06:52.appointed, he seems to consolidate his power and other people say that
:06:53. > :06:58.Jared Kushner is up and Steve Bannon is down but he still occupies a very
:06:59. > :07:02.important part of the White House and he can continue to exert
:07:03. > :07:06.influence on domestic policy but his wings have been kept with foreign
:07:07. > :07:14.policy in this committee, which has been very military dominated. We can
:07:15. > :07:22.move on to the Telegraph, a story that Kate has had some involvement
:07:23. > :07:29.with. Trust might -- Liz Truss might lose her position. Liz Truss, ten
:07:30. > :07:32.years ago, as Justice Secretary, you automatically became Lord Chancellor
:07:33. > :07:40.because that was held by judges? What is happening? This is
:07:41. > :07:45.interesting. It has been building over the past couple of months.
:07:46. > :07:50.Cabinet Ministers have told the Telegraph that they believe these
:07:51. > :07:57.rules need to be spit, Tony Blair brought them together in 2007, that
:07:58. > :08:00.happened, and that means Liz Truss is not only the Justice Secretary
:08:01. > :08:03.but the Lord Chancellor and those rules are different, they sit in the
:08:04. > :08:08.same department and has been criticism of the fact that from very
:08:09. > :08:11.senior judges, the most senior in the country, that this Lord
:08:12. > :08:18.Chancellor will, Liz Truss is not doing a good enough job. She was
:08:19. > :08:21.heavily criticised a week ago for not coming out strongly enough and
:08:22. > :08:25.standing for the judiciary, particularly in the wake of some
:08:26. > :08:28.attacks in the newspapers on them after the Brexit court case and
:08:29. > :08:31.there have been other businesses are concerned about the way the
:08:32. > :08:36.Department is running and while the present policy is managed. There
:08:37. > :08:40.have been other incidents recently but things have not gone to plan.
:08:41. > :08:44.These are sources talking to the Telegraph about how that role needs
:08:45. > :08:48.to be spit and they are appealing to the Prime Minister to say we need to
:08:49. > :08:51.look again at how this works. This is something that is likely to take
:08:52. > :08:55.a long time because it is completely dead and something that has not been
:08:56. > :08:59.done for a while, ten years ago these rules were put together. It is
:09:00. > :09:03.something we need to keep an eye on but it is interesting to see people
:09:04. > :09:07.moving against Liz Truss in that way and that position. Is she on
:09:08. > :09:11.borrowed time? It'll be interesting to see how things proceed. The
:09:12. > :09:14.Department admits the Lord Chancellor role is not working
:09:15. > :09:19.properly, if you remember about three weeks ago, they had to change
:09:20. > :09:21.the discount rate, which sounds technical but it resulted in
:09:22. > :09:28.concerned about insurance premiums going up as a result. In the
:09:29. > :09:30.consultation document subsequent to that, the Ministry admitted that
:09:31. > :09:34.perhaps an independent body needs to set that in future, which I believe
:09:35. > :09:38.is a condition they do not think that Google is working properly.
:09:39. > :09:45.Quite a lot to keep an eye on. -- that role. The Financial Times,
:09:46. > :09:50.Theresa May envisages free movement past 2019 as the Brexit stance
:09:51. > :09:57.softens. It seems to be softening as he is out of the country. Hold on...
:09:58. > :10:04.Getting rid of free movement was one of the main reasons for not wanting
:10:05. > :10:08.to remain part of Europe? Another example of the government appearing
:10:09. > :10:11.to backtrack on the cornerstones of the reasons for Brexit in the first
:10:12. > :10:17.place. Britain wanted control over its borders but if you want that,
:10:18. > :10:21.that means you lose being in the single market, which is economically
:10:22. > :10:25.important and at the same time, Britain needs workers from the EU
:10:26. > :10:29.for the economy to function well. It seems like she is hedging their
:10:30. > :10:37.bets. Isn't this a transitional phase? Is not a permanent acceptance
:10:38. > :10:41.of free movement forever? Quite. Theresa May says that after 2019,
:10:42. > :10:44.she has admitted there was likely to be a transitional period so
:10:45. > :10:49.everything can be sorted because two years is not very long. And this is
:10:50. > :10:53.an admission that effectively, while you remain in the single market and
:10:54. > :10:58.if we do in a transitional period, we would also abide by the rules.
:10:59. > :11:02.There are many interesting points but two particularly is that this
:11:03. > :11:07.looks like we're starting to see how Theresa May will play ball with the
:11:08. > :11:12.EU. We had harsh words recently, all other stories about security linking
:11:13. > :11:15.to the economic feature and people getting frustrated that perhaps the
:11:16. > :11:19.Prime Minister might make a threat like that, even if it was thinly
:11:20. > :11:24.veiled. And we can see Theresa May softening her position to say that
:11:25. > :11:28.there may be some we can give and we might not be quite as hard line on
:11:29. > :11:33.this as you thought. That is going to be interesting because it keeps
:11:34. > :11:38.people on their toes. Is she really hard line? He/she prepared to give a
:11:39. > :11:41.little bit of ground? Interesting quote from Steve Baker, a
:11:42. > :11:44.Conservative MP... He was one of the leading lights behind the Brexit
:11:45. > :11:50.movement and he has championed this for a long time. He says that I do
:11:51. > :11:54.not want to discuss hypothetical scenarios, we cannot have MPs tying
:11:55. > :11:59.the hands of the PM by drawing new red lines with every twist. The
:12:00. > :12:03.question is, how long will that hold? How long will the hard-core
:12:04. > :12:06.Brexit MPs be prepared to allow her to play her hand without rumbling
:12:07. > :12:14.from the sidelines? That is the question going forward. Back to The
:12:15. > :12:19.Daily Telegraph. This is a light relief we promised. A couple have
:12:20. > :12:26.been fined 2000 euros because of their cooking! I will not spoil
:12:27. > :12:34.this... My guests can explain. A court in Rome has come up with the
:12:35. > :12:42.most marvellous word. Olfactory molestation! The case of a couple
:12:43. > :12:46.who enjoyed cooking pasta and that is so smelly that the residents in a
:12:47. > :12:54.tower block have complained about that rich pasta source and mixed
:12:55. > :12:57.seafood, a beloved dish to Italians, but some noxious these people have
:12:58. > :13:00.filed a legal suit that has gone all the way to one of the highest
:13:01. > :13:06.courts. It seems to be quite a problem in many places in Italy? I
:13:07. > :13:11.would not mind my neighbours cooking pasta! Had as a benefit to having
:13:12. > :13:15.somebody next-door who can cook. There is a funny set of quotes in
:13:16. > :13:18.this about how there has to be a line drawn between the people
:13:19. > :13:22.cooking and those complaining because was another man who wants to
:13:23. > :13:26.prosecute his neighbour because she cooked chicken soup at eight o'clock
:13:27. > :13:32.in the morning. I have never had that for breakfast! It does sound
:13:33. > :13:36.like this is one case and there are lots of others who will not end up
:13:37. > :13:43.in court. Olfactory molestation! And I am thinking of moving there! That
:13:44. > :13:46.is with this offence took place. Nice part of the world! That is
:13:47. > :13:49.its... Fragrance free! Don't forget, you can see the front
:13:50. > :13:52.pages of the papers online It's all there for you - seven days
:13:53. > :13:56.a week at bb.co.uk/papers. And if you miss the programme any
:13:57. > :14:30.evening you can watch it A fine spring day, 16.6 in Cardiff.
:14:31. > :14:33.We have some breaks in the cloud, we could hang on to clear skies for
:14:34. > :14:35.much of the night towards South south-west and eastern Scotland and
:14:36. > :14:36.the north-east.