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This week on Meet the Author macro, I will speak to the author of | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Scarlet Thomas about to switch to writing for children and her | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
creation of a world filled with magic and danger. | :00:07. | :00:17. | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
With me are are the broadcasters Penny Smith and Charlie Wolf. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
A quick look at some of those front pages. | :00:26. | :00:35. | |
Boris Johnson's decision to cancel his trip to Russia | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
The Mail on Sunday reports the criticism from the Kremlin | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
as well as Liberal Democrat MPs here. | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
The Sunday Times says Britain and America are preparing to accuse | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Russia of complicity in war crimes in Syria. | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
The Sunday Telegraph says Vladimir Putin will be told to pull | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
troops from Syria and drop support for President Assad in a UK-US plan | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
The Independent says the European Parliament's chief | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
Brexit negotiator wants Theresa May to consider a plan to help British | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
people who want to keep their EU citizenship. | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
The Sunday Mirror's leads with a story about the former Spice | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
And the Observer leads with a story about Len McClusky, | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
the leader of the Unite union, who wants the Labour party | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
to investigate MPs who he says are plotting against him | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
Let's begin. Charlie, can you start us off? The Mail on Sunday has what | :01:22. | :01:39. | |
many papers have. As Johnson was meant to go to Moscow next week and | :01:40. | :01:51. | |
has now cancelled for Rex Tillerson to go over. People are now saying he | :01:52. | :02:00. | |
is now America's poodle. Yes. It's as he pulls out at has launched a | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
furious attack on Boris Johnson after he cancelled his Moscow | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
summit. They have accused the Foreign Secretary of making up | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
excuses, making way for Donald Trump's diplomatic drive. I don't | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
really see if there's a big problem with this story. If he wants to work | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
with the Americans and let them handle this and I think it means he | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
is a poodle. Except there is a suggestion in the Mail that Boris | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
Johnson said he shouldn't be going because they were the people who did | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
the bombing, so we would just be the hors d'oeuvre before the main meal. | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
That thing about the poodle, the Lib Dems leader has also echoed that | :02:44. | :02:56. | |
remark. I guess the Lib Dems, that's still where they have to reach two. | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
Moving to the meat of the story itself. There is the suggestion that | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
we and the Americans will say, this is what you will do, Mr Putin. They | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
say he should withdraw military support from Damascus and begin a | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
transition to a new regime, which is of course also a change. This change | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
of regime, which has been off the table for a while. This claim of | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
Russian combo city rests on analysis that a Russian drone flew over this | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
town shortly before 1-off Assad's warplanes dropped a Serengeti bomb. | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
They are investigating whether a Russian plane of the hospital. -- | :03:39. | :03:50. | |
sarin gas. Different from the days where you could tell Mr Putin after | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
the election that he could be more flexible because he doesn't have any | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
more elections to fight, as he told I think it was the Prime Minister at | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
the time. That famous quote. I think this is Russia and Assad and others | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
who will have to do some recalculating and that's a good | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
thing. They are going to say, we have a president now who they may | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
have written off as a foolish game-show reality star, property | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
developer, but this is a guy who gets pretty serious about something | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
and... Also a president who changes his mind pretty dramatically. He has | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
done a complete reversal of what he said before the election and | :04:34. | :04:41. | |
afterwards. In the Mail they suggest he reacted to a tweaked and that's | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
what changed his mind. I'm sorry to have some effect on him emotionally, | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
but at the same time when you are sitting around the cabinet table and | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
you have your head of the department of defence, General Mattis, and your | :04:57. | :05:12. | |
other advisers saying they were horrified by what has happened, it | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
isn't enough to trigger what happened. People will also say that | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
it's about him getting the people to stop talking about how close he was | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
to Russia. That is another aspect. The one thing that will help the | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
relationship between them is I think Putin at least has respect for | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
someone who has power and know-how is to use it. They may not like each | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
other in the end but at least there will be respect for the man that | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
wasn't there before, we respect he didn't have for Obama. Presumably | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
they realise they can't predict what he will do. And it will be | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
interesting to see whether this does prompt any peace talks. After all | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
that is what we want to happen here. We want the situation with Serie A | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
to be sorted out. And diplomacy only works when it is backed up with | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
force. Can you get us started on a follow-up to the Stockholm, the | :06:20. | :06:29. | |
awful thing that happened there. They talk about the bomb that fail | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
to go. They found a device this morning and that adds a whole new | :06:34. | :06:43. | |
dimension. It is bad enough that someone could kill you with a car. | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
When the police went to investigate, a bomb could have gone. It is a | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
horrible thought, but killers can get very creative in what they do | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
and how they kill people. These are the sort of people, without making | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
excuses for the IRA or defending them, at least there was some sort | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
of an endgame, where there are certain things they wouldn't have | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
done because it wasn't in their interest. The sorts of people we are | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
dealing with now, there isn't any endgame, other than wanting to kill | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
Westerners and expand the caliphate. It seems to me that we are dealing | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
with people who may not even have a coherent idea as that. They just get | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
attracted and they are the most days people of all. There was an | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
interesting article recently saying that this is really just about | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
gangs, an excuse to kill. And I suppose the sad thing is that we are | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
talking about car bombs and lorry bombs, which is a fact of life in | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
certain places in the world. Let's stay on the Sunday Telegraph front | :07:50. | :07:58. | |
page. Keep charges. -- tip charges. Explained to us what is proposed and | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
why. Councils are to be banned from charging DIY enthusiasts to dispose | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
of their rubbish. Some councils are still charging unfair fees of up to | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
four quid, despite Whitehall trying to stamp out the practice. This is | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
because of the problem of even a small charge deterring people from | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
going and getting rid of this stuff, so they keep it in beauty spots, | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
parkland, anywhere. The end of the street. Anywhere. So they are | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
saying, really, we need to stop charging for it. Sorry to correct | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
you, but in a sense the real story is the fact that councils don't seem | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
to have enough money because of what is being put on them, social care a | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
prime example. They are trying to figure out ways to raise funds | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
because they aren't getting it from central government. I'm sure you | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
would find the same with And I'm Lebo Diseko in -- with Labour. You | :09:05. | :09:13. | |
rely on the state more and more and it's a black hole that can't be | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
filled. To be clear, it isn't just general waste, it is quite specific | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
things. Things like soil and DIY materials, it's a grey area, isn't | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
it? The sort of thing I would get rid of. You take a whole lot of | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
shells down and think, what am I going to do with this? You put up a | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
few of them and then you think, that looks rubbish, take them to the tip! | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
We had a major clear out the other day. To be fair, there was a | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
half-hour cue getting into my recycling centre the other day. I | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
actually cut someone off because I thought they were parked at the side | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
of the road and I didn't see all of the other cars! We've heard that one | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
before! I appear to have jumped the queue! Very quickly, Labour MPs | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
accused of dirty tricks in union votes. This is the Unite union Len | :10:05. | :10:13. | |
McCluskey. I think he is the guy who owns... Well, his union contributes | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
quite a lot of money. Yes. Anyway, he is accusing... There's a group of | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
people made up of people in the right of the party who are using... | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
They say they are using the dark arts. In order to do what? In order | :10:32. | :10:39. | |
to elect his opposition, the opposition... There's another | :10:40. | :10:49. | |
gentleman. Mr Coin. He is saying that... Remember those people who | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
are running the campaign, the dark arts is in their DNA. Normally with | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
political elections it is unique they have brought this in with the | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
trade unions and he says they are trying to get Jeremy Corbyn out. | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
They say what is most likely usually happens. In this case it may be the | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
fact that Jeremy Corbyn isn't that great leader, unfortunately. You | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
mentioned horses. The Grand National is coming. A wonderful story about | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
what happened, the winner. Who owns the horse? Two owners, they are | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
widows and they decided to come together, they have a spare ?60,000. | :11:37. | :11:45. | |
They bought a horse. They said a lot of gin had been quaffed. Their | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
husbands played golf together, hence the name. It is just a lovely story. | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
Everybody is so chuffed. The funny thing is, my uncle bought me one | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
when I was young, and his name was Arthur. The Grand National is | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
something you don't vote on form. It's always that this one is an | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
outsider. The one I would have backed! How many times have we heard | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
that? Once I put a fiver on a horse and it came in as you -- and I got | :12:26. | :12:34. | |
something like 870 quid back. That's The Papers for this hour. Coming up | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
next, Meet the | :12:41. | :12:41. |