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of a sense of people coming together after the Brexit vote. | :00:00. | :00:22. | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
With me are John Crowley, who is editor-in-chief | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
at the International Business Times, and Tim Stanley, the leader writer | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
and columnist for the Daily Telegraph. | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
Let's have a quick look at some of the front pages | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
The Telegraph has an interview with Prince Harry, who talks | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
about how he sought counselling to cope with the death | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
The Guardian reports on the vote in Turkey giving President Erdogan | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
the power for major constitutional reform. | :00:48. | :00:48. | |
The Times leads with North Korean defiance in the face of pressure | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
The i also leads with the tension in North Korea, | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
reporting that China and America are working together | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
The Mirror reports on President Trump's message that he is poised | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
They say that the Americans caused the North Korean missile | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
The Mail lead with the deterioration in UK Russia relations, | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
And The FT focus on US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross, | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
rubbishing International Monetary Fund claims of US protectionism. | :01:17. | :01:33. | |
Many of the stories we have been reporting on today feature on the | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
front pages, but we start with an exclusive in the Daily Telegraph, an | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
interview with Vince Harry talking about how he has coped with the | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
death of his mother. It was 20 years of not thinking about it, he said, | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
and to make use of total chaos. A very, very frank, no holds barred | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
interview that the Daily Telegraph has managed to secure. Our columnist | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
has a new pod cast in which she talks to famous people about their | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
mental health, and their first guest is, amazingly, Prince Harry, who has | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
talked in this very unfiltered, honest, dramatic way about the | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
anguish and the grief over his mother's death. It won't surprise | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
anyone to know that he has been struggling with this. He lost his | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
mum when he was 12 years old, and he has had to deal with that, and live | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
with that, in the public eye. What really is astonishing, what makes | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
the interview historic, is a member of the Royal Family talking in such | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
a candidate and frank matter about so private a subject. He goes on to | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
say later in the article, on the front page, which advertises the | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
piece that he has done, the experience I have is that once you | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
start talking about it, you realise that you are actually part of a big | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
club. But it is that silence, isn't it, that people feel unable to share | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
with each other. The trauma, the upset, the grief that they have gone | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
through. Mental health issues are... It is still the boot, I think. But I | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
think this historic interview will go massively fire to breaking down | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
those issues that people have about talking about it, as well -- taboo. | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
It is immensely brave, and he is using an princely language, using | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
very visceral, human terms -- unprincely. He said he wanted to | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
punch someone out, all the time. And you look at him now, I think, in a | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
completely different light than before, when he made this interview. | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
He is very much his mother's son. You are saying in the first part of | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
this programme that it was reminiscent of his mother's frank | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
interview about the divorce. It is also reminiscent to me of his mother | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
reaching out to AIDS victims, a willingness to go somewhere where | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
everyone is a little bit uncomfortable, the media, the | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
establishment unwilling to break it to do, crossed a line, and talk | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
frankly, without any elitism whatsoever -- breaker taboo. Being | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
willing to go there and talk about it, in the same way she did with | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
AIDS. How much of risk it that he has done this interview? I don't | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
think this is a risk at all. I think people will praise him for his | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
bravery in speaking about this. We were talking offset about whether | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
Clarence House had seen this or not. Remember, he is moving into a new | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
phase of his life, he has a girlfriend, but in November he spoke | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
out quite extensively about media intrusion into his partner's | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
personal life as well. It was said at the time that it didn't seem to | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
have gone through Clarence House. There were a few ruffled feathers | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
about how he had gone out an attack the media, and I wonder, with this | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
interview, whether maybe he was shooting from the hit a little bit | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
himself. So maybe there is that question about, wow, you have spoken | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
so rawly about this, but I can't see any downside for him. He will get | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
praised for this. You can't really do an interview on the subject, can | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
you, without laying it all out? Absolutely. I guess if there is any | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
risk, it is not about anyone thinking less of him for talking | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
about the subject, if there is any risk it could be that some less | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
scrupulous people in the press will take the view that he has opened | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
himself up, so that invites us to go looking for more. I hope they won't. | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
I don't think they will, because this feels so rave, so courageous, | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
to almost go naked like this into the public with your deepest, rawest | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
emotions, I think almost everyone will be touched by it and will | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
respect it. Don't forget, it is about promoting his charity as well. | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
He wants people to support Heads Together. It is not just someone | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
talking about their private problems publicly. He clearly wants to send a | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
message that people can and should talk about it, and even this great | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
public figure is talking about it. In the Daily Mail, UK relations with | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
Russia are at an all-time low. This is Moscow's ambassador in London. | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
Saying that Number Ten has been raising tensions in Europe. How? | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
Well, very undiplomatic language, taking a pop at Boris Johnson, who | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
has perhaps had as a weeks. He presented his idea to the G7 that | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
there should be new sanctions on Russia, which was rejected. He was | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
also due to go to Moscow and cancelled his visit because Rex | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
Tillerson, the US Secretary of State, wanted to go there as well. | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
Very undiplomatic language for the UK to be using. Thinking of the | :07:10. | :07:20. | |
Cambridge spy ring, Alexander Litvinenko, there have been bad | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
moments. In the 1850s we were at war, but you can't get much worse | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
than that. There is an interesting thing about the Putin regime, a | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
willingness to use undiplomatic language, and even, as we were | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
saying earlier, to troll people. The Russian embassy Twitter account | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
sometimes goes after personalities and teases and trolls them. It fits | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
in with that picture. Our relations at an all-time low? Well, the | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
context of this is Britain sending troops to Estonia to put down a | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
marker, along with NATO, to say we will not accept Russian aggression | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
or revanchist when it comes to the Baltic countries. Our things at an | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
all-time low? No. And there is more stuff that Britain could do if it | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
wanted to send a message. This country as a source of enormous | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
wealth for the Russians. There is a lot of investment, a lot of buying | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
of property, a lot of money which goes through London, and any | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
government which really wanted to punish the Russians could start | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
addressing that. If the Russians think things are bad, it could get a | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
whole lot worse. We will go to the Guardian. Calls for a recount as | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
Erdogan claims new power in Turkey. The opposition are not repaired to | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
concede they have lost, they want something like 60% of the votes to | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
be recounted, looking for irregularities. It seems that some | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
of the ballots did not have the official stamp on it. You can | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
understand why the opposition... Every opposition says this, so it is | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
understandable, and the result was very narrow, and therefore they are | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
more inclined to challenge it because it could make a difference, | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
but also this is a leader who has been arresting journalists, jurors, | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
people who are dissidents, in other words, why would you trust him, if | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
he is the state, to efficiently and accurately and fairly run an | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
election? It is entirely understandable they are protesting. | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
Of course, it puts Erdogan in a very difficult position. He has just been | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
given the tools to use great power, but on the other hand because the | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
country is so divided, if he is wise he will not use that great power. It | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
is the worst possible outcome for Turkey, and he very deliberately | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
used very strong man terms during the election campaign, a very bitter | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
and rancorous election campaign, quite an emotive speech he gave | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
afterwards. Saying that he wants eventually to bring back the death | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
penalty, so then you have international bodies saying, be very | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
cautious about how you proceed. And of course, with the EU, Turkey has | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
long dreamt of joining the EU. You now have a strong man in power, do | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
have a benign dictatorship or not a benign dictatorship on the borders | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
of the EU? How does that impact on things, and how will the EU react to | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
this as well? Tomorrow, bear in mind they have been giving 3 billion | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
euros a year to solve that slight migrant issue we have going on in | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
Greece as well. So it actually adds more uncertainty, this election. The | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
rubberstamp the needed did not come. He thought he would get 55%. He | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
didn't get it -- the rubberstamp he needed. And the government tries to | :10:52. | :11:00. | |
block Iraq War case against Blair. It is a private prosecution. It is a | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
private prosecution, the former chief of staff of the Iraqi army is | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
trying to bring this. This is on the back of the Chilcott enquiry, which | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
we all know about, which was published last year. Jeremy Wright | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
QC, the attorney general, has said there are a number of reasons that | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
can't be done. It is quite involved legalese, he has said you can't have | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
aggression under English law, that courts should not rule to create | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
criminal law, they should interpret the law. But again, we are talking | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
about whether we are going to get involved in various disputes around | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
the world. Of course, Iraq for many people still looms large in some | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
people may say can we move on? I think if we did a poll of the | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
audience and said should Tony Blair be prosecuted, it would be very | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
interesting to see what they thought. He is not a popular man in | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
this country, it is fair to say. The legal process still continues for | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
certain people. Interesting to see the government intervened to try to | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
quash this. It looks as though the private prosecution doesn't have a | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
leg to stand on because he has effectively already been granted | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
immunity, and there was a private prosecution -- if there was a | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
private prosecution, stuff under the Official Secrets Act would be | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
dredged up. Do people want to move on? I don't know. On the one hand | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
Iraq was an enormous shock to the country, and it is something we are | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
still living with the consequences. It still informs our foreign policy, | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
it is one reason we didn't get directly involved with bringing down | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
Assad in 2013. On the other hand, do we need to draw a line and move on? | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
I am not so sure. You could put Tony Blair on trial, and that would give | :12:52. | :13:01. | |
some people some sense of satisfaction, to see the past | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
properly prosecuted. On the other hand, you might also feel it gives | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
Tony Blair more oxygen and continues to keep him as a player within our | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
political system. Which by the way he continues to want to be, he has | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
announced his political comeback. Finishing with the Sun, Mission | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
Kimpossible. US cyber spooks destroyed missile five seconds after | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
launch, some intervention, the Sun would have us believe. Sir Malcolm | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
Rifkind believes there is a possibility, that the US has the | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
capability to interrupt a nuclear test like this, and it is possible, | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
who knows, but that might have happened again. It is a fantastic | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
headline and in some ways it is slightly irrelevant. The point is | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
that it failed, and what matters more is what America and China | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
between the two of them are going to do about it. Does it matter that it | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
failed? If you didn't fail under its own uselessness, they couldn't fire | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
their own test missile, and it had to be intercepted. Incompetency, or | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
something worse, I don't know. The US has said it it had been a nuclear | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
test then I think Trump would have taken action. I think that is the | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
more important point. And that would have been an extra red line for | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
China. Precisely. It would be an act of incompetence if your system could | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
be hacked. So in that sense it is incompetent regardless of whether it | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
took place or not. North Korea is probably already in effect a nuclear | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
state. The issue is its ability to deliver them weapons. And one reason | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
America has to act is not just being bellicose, this is a National | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
Security issue. If North Korea can probably deliver a nuclear weapon | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
across the Pacific Ocean and strike the West Coast, or Alaska or Hawaii, | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
then it becomes a national security matter. And we have Mike Pence in | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
the region trying to reassure North Korea's neighbours. Which was | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
preplanned. We should make it clear that he didn't just decide to | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
parachute himself in. We were talking earlier, and China is the | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
big issue. What is their role in this, and how do they played? China | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
has supported North Korea economically in terms of its energy | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
resources, in terms of its food. Let's not forget, North Korea's | :15:27. | :15:36. | |
raison d'etre is almost too destroy the country of South Korea. The | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
question is, are they bluffing or will they see this through? It is a | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
paper tiger. Its conventional forces are quite weak and could easily be | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
overwhelmed. Despite those displays. At some of the stuff being displayed | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
as possibly not even real. It is easy to whip up a crowd like that | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
and put on a Big Show. That is why they have those big rallies, to | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
intimidate the West. What is interesting is how laid-back South | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
Koreans are about all of this. I think they are rather phlegmatic | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
about it. You hear the Helen Furey coming out of North Korea all the | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
time, and I think they have almost got used to it. Let's bear in mind | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
soul is only 35 miles away from the border, and they do have thousands | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
of armed missiles pointed at Seoul -- Seoul. If something happens, | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
Seoul, with 10 million souls, would be in the crosshairs. | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
Don't forget, all the front pages are online on the BBC News website, | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
where you can read a detailed review of the papers. | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
It is all there for you seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers, | :16:45. | :16:48. |