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:00:12. > :00:16.This is BBC News with Martine Croxall.

:00:17. > :00:19.We'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment.

:00:20. > :00:22.Police investigating the suicide bombing in Manchester on Monday have

:00:23. > :00:29.Remembering the 22 victims of Monday's bombing,

:00:30. > :00:31.the city came together for the Great Manchester Run,

:00:32. > :00:37.to show it won't be defeated by terror.

:00:38. > :00:43.It's been an exceptionally difficult week for everybody, but greater

:00:44. > :00:45.Manchester is saying this place will get through it and we will go

:00:46. > :00:46.forward together. Vigils and services of remembrance

:00:47. > :00:48.have been taking place today in memory of people

:00:49. > :00:50.who lost their lives Thousands of British Airways

:00:51. > :00:53.passengers have suffered a second day of delays caused

:00:54. > :00:56.by a massive IT failure. Japan has protested

:00:57. > :00:58.against North Korea's latest launch of a missile,

:00:59. > :01:00.which appears to have landed Hello and welcome to our look ahead

:01:01. > :01:20.to tomorrow's papers. With me are John Rentoul,

:01:21. > :01:27.Chief Political Commentator He has told us that he's interested

:01:28. > :01:35.in politics, so I'm quite relieved. And I hope she's interested in

:01:36. > :01:41.economics as well. The Financial Times leads

:01:42. > :01:44.on the IT chaos causing misery for BA customers

:01:45. > :01:47.and carries a photo of a rather happier looking German Chancellor

:01:48. > :01:49.at a campaign event. cost-cutting and what it calls

:01:50. > :01:54.a 'moronic' cover-up. The election campaign

:01:55. > :01:56.is the Telegraph's main story. It claims Jeremy Corbyn attended

:01:57. > :01:58.an event ceremony in honour of a terrorist involved in the 1972

:01:59. > :02:02.Munich attack on Israeli athletes. The Eye says the Conservatives

:02:03. > :02:06.are re-launching their election campaign in a bid to stop

:02:07. > :02:09.what the paper calls their poll The Times reports that a key legal

:02:10. > :02:14.power designed to control British jihadists has

:02:15. > :02:16.been used only once. The Mirror has a full-page photo

:02:17. > :02:20.of some of the 40,000 people who took part

:02:21. > :02:22.in the Great Manchester Run. The paper calls it a 'defiant

:02:23. > :02:26.act of solidarity'. And a terror warning is the top

:02:27. > :02:29.story for the Express. It reports on fears that Libya has

:02:30. > :02:41.become a breeding ground Let's start with something a bit

:02:42. > :02:46.uplifting, the front page of the daily Mirror. 40,000 runners taking

:02:47. > :02:50.to the streets in Manchester. Ruth, you know Manchester better than any

:02:51. > :02:55.of us. This speaks of the spirit of the place. We still all know and

:02:56. > :02:58.think about the people who lost their lives and their families, but

:02:59. > :03:04.the people from the North West of England are without doubt the best

:03:05. > :03:08.people ever anywhere. They are the most intelligent, beautiful, they

:03:09. > :03:11.are the best comics, and they stick together. What got me about this was

:03:12. > :03:16.the way the communities came together as well. I was very touched

:03:17. > :03:20.when I saw the Muslim cleric with this elderly Jewish lady because you

:03:21. > :03:24.want to see everybody together. You don't want to see particular groups

:03:25. > :03:29.together, you want to see the whole city which is as diverse and

:03:30. > :03:32.energetic as any in the country. To hold an event like that so soon

:03:33. > :03:36.after something which could have made so afraid to go out is quite

:03:37. > :03:42.uplifting. I think the spirit Manchester has shown in the past

:03:43. > :03:46.week has been really impressive and I'm not from Manchester, but I'm

:03:47. > :03:51.really proud of them. I love Manchester. It's a great place to go

:03:52. > :03:59.to party conferences in. Politics again, you see. Europe assessed. It

:04:00. > :04:02.was great to see everybody out and congratulations to get the race

:04:03. > :04:08.under way and I'm sure they had great fun -- you are obsessed. Ten

:04:09. > :04:12.days to diss -- decide the Prime Minister. The Conservatives are

:04:13. > :04:16.relaunching their campaign because the polls are not going quite so

:04:17. > :04:19.well, but also Nicola Sturgeon suggesting that she would join

:04:20. > :04:24.forces in a Progressive alliance with Labour. That's right. That is

:04:25. > :04:30.what has happened new to night. You were reporting it earlier, but

:04:31. > :04:34.Nicola Sturgeon saying she would be part of the Progressive Alliance,

:04:35. > :04:38.but also said she did not think Jeremy Corbyn was suited to be Prime

:04:39. > :04:41.Minister. She is trying to have it both ways. The thing about Nicola

:04:42. > :04:46.Sturgeon is that you secretly know she wants Theresa May to win, like

:04:47. > :04:50.she wanted David Cameron to win before because she knows the Tory

:04:51. > :04:56.Prime Minister in London means votes for the SNP in Scotland. But she

:04:57. > :05:00.also has to pretend to be part of the Progressive Alliance against the

:05:01. > :05:05.Tories. This relaunch of the campaign will be very interesting. I

:05:06. > :05:11.think it will. They will go hard about Jeremy Corbyn himself as being

:05:12. > :05:17.weak on terrorism not least because of his association with the IRA,

:05:18. > :05:23.allegedly and he said he was not sympathetic with any terrorists. And

:05:24. > :05:28.he has voted against anti-terror -- legislation in the last ten years so

:05:29. > :05:32.his record on terrorism is very poor so I think they will go over that.

:05:33. > :05:35.It might sound like opportunism but this is an election campaign after

:05:36. > :05:40.all but even though there has been a slide in the Tory vote it still

:05:41. > :05:43.looks as though they are reasonably on track to have a fair overall

:05:44. > :05:50.majority, perhaps not we thought a fortnight ago but still an overall

:05:51. > :05:57.majority. One poll the other day had a 5-point lead. That is very close

:05:58. > :06:03.but then there was not a poll today in the Sunday Times which was seven

:06:04. > :06:07.points. That's not suggesting necessarily that the polls are

:06:08. > :06:10.shifting. We will have to see what happens this week and whether the

:06:11. > :06:16.narrowing continues or whether it starts to widen again. The other

:06:17. > :06:22.thing to say about Nicola Sturgeon is that she was scorned by Jeremy

:06:23. > :06:29.Corbyn. She is a spurned woman. She wasn't interested in the progressive

:06:30. > :06:35.alliance. She tried to snuggle up to Ed Miliband and Ed Miliband had to

:06:36. > :06:38.try and defend her. It is a complete disaster for the Labour leader to be

:06:39. > :06:42.associated with the idea of a coalition of chaos. The stories

:06:43. > :06:47.could do well in Scotland and pick up another five or six seats. They

:06:48. > :06:55.could do better than in a long time. Lots of people have been complaining

:06:56. > :07:01.to me, not you, but to me. The independent. Labours are the most

:07:02. > :07:06.trusted to defend pensioners. Social care fiasco. We must start with you,

:07:07. > :07:11.John. What it found? I think it's significant that the social care

:07:12. > :07:16.question has not gone away. It was the big question after the

:07:17. > :07:23.Conservatives publish the manifesto, the withdrawal of free home visits.

:07:24. > :07:29.And they are expected to use the value of their home to help pay for

:07:30. > :07:35.it and that has gone down extremely badly with a lot of pensioners and

:07:36. > :07:39.it is significant because the conservative vote depends on older

:07:40. > :07:44.people who tend to turn out a lot more than younger people and vote,

:07:45. > :07:50.and if they are unsettled by this that might not happen this time. It

:07:51. > :07:56.really put the cat among the pigeons, the so-called dementia tax.

:07:57. > :08:00.It did seem like when them manifesto came out it was anti-pensions, and

:08:01. > :08:04.it wasn't about the extra expenditure on home care, if you are

:08:05. > :08:08.at home, although there was a limit of 100,000. There was no cap, that

:08:09. > :08:14.was the main thing and then there was the U-turn last Monday. It

:08:15. > :08:17.wasn't just the social care thing, it was the means testing over winter

:08:18. > :08:25.fuel allowances. And the end of the triple lock. In themselves, perhaps

:08:26. > :08:31.they don't seem that important, but taken together it seemed like a

:08:32. > :08:35.concerted attack on a splendid group of people which are the backbone of

:08:36. > :08:40.this country. They have paid their stamp. I have been paying all my

:08:41. > :08:43.life. I come from the north of England and I had to pay, it's just

:08:44. > :08:50.not good enough. It's only just under the surface, isn't it. Life is

:08:51. > :08:57.hard. Hopefully your fee for coming here will help a little. Enough cat

:08:58. > :09:02.food. The Daily Telegraph, well, the worst chaos I have ever seen. Half

:09:03. > :09:06.term misery as BA disruption to continue for days there is a picture

:09:07. > :09:15.of a poor woman who is asleep on her luggage waiting for a flight which

:09:16. > :09:17.may or may not have arrived yet. The biggest IT failure in aviation

:09:18. > :09:23.history one of the other papers reports. It seems as though it will

:09:24. > :09:28.be an expensive one for BA, because the Daily Telegraph is saying that

:09:29. > :09:31.the compensation payments may be 50 million and there will be the costs

:09:32. > :09:35.of goodwill and lost business of another 50 million but the

:09:36. > :09:40.suggestion is that one of the reasons we had this disaster was a

:09:41. > :09:46.move to cost-cutting and they had outsourced a lot of the IT services

:09:47. > :09:49.to India, that kind of consultancy or whatever it was, and if that's

:09:50. > :09:57.the case, my goodness, has it rebounded. A false economy indeed.

:09:58. > :10:03.And it does seem to be not a lack of communication, a PR disaster of the

:10:04. > :10:08.world's kind. -- the worst kind. It did seem most of the information

:10:09. > :10:14.came from the media. We did our bit, John. Very few members of staff

:10:15. > :10:18.either seem to have information or be in evidence at Gatwick or

:10:19. > :10:26.Heathrow. That's right. It looks as though BAe were taken surprise by

:10:27. > :10:29.this. They didn't seem to have a contingency plan may need one for

:10:30. > :10:33.when things like that go wrong, just so they have got people out there

:10:34. > :10:36.telling the customer is what is going on. Any day of the week for

:10:37. > :10:40.this to happen would have been difficult, but over a bank holiday

:10:41. > :10:43.weekend where so many people are trying to get away and the

:10:44. > :10:47.ramifications are worldwide because all the planes will not be in the

:10:48. > :10:53.right place. Including Andrew Neil, apparently. He could have got on a

:10:54. > :10:59.train, it's not like getting back from India. He could have thumbed

:11:00. > :11:06.left. I wonder who would have given him a lift. Jeremy Corbyn? Nicola

:11:07. > :11:12.Sturgeon, maybe. I think John is right, no contingency plans. No free

:11:13. > :11:17.food, no water, drinks. Some people were lucky if they got a bottle of

:11:18. > :11:21.water. Look after these people for goodness' sake. They were ignored --

:11:22. > :11:27.neglected and ignored. It's extraordinary. This is a consumer

:11:28. > :11:31.driven industry, so we here. Let's look at the FT. Angela Merkel

:11:32. > :11:37.sipping a large glass of beer in Munich. Cold comfort, it says.

:11:38. > :11:41.Europeans on their own as US tensions grow. She is saying in this

:11:42. > :11:45.campaign rally that she was at that really we cannot rely on the US and

:11:46. > :11:51.the UK and we have two snuggle up to France a bit more. She is being a

:11:52. > :11:59.bit anti-American. She has an election coming up and the German

:12:00. > :12:04.voter does not like Donald Trump. She is obviously telling them what

:12:05. > :12:09.they want to hear. It will be interesting to see if she carries on

:12:10. > :12:14.with this kind of anti-American rhetoric after being re-elected as

:12:15. > :12:18.Chancellor, if that is what happens. Do you remember when she offered to

:12:19. > :12:23.shake hands with Donald Trump and he did not do it? No, he didn't. Very

:12:24. > :12:30.pointed. Where is macron would not let go. There is a whole book to be

:12:31. > :12:37.written about Donald Trump and his handshakes. I think essentially it's

:12:38. > :12:43.a bit of a cheek. If I may. Permission granted. When it comes to

:12:44. > :12:47.security, Germany does not pull its weight. When it comes to defence

:12:48. > :12:52.spending, it's less than 1% of GDP and Donald Trump does have Germany

:12:53. > :12:56.in his sights when he was accusing various countries of not fulfilling

:12:57. > :13:01.their commitments for Nato. The other thing I would say is, that

:13:02. > :13:05.when it comes to the UK, Theresa May went out of her way when she was

:13:06. > :13:08.invoking Article 50 to say that she wanted a good security relationship

:13:09. > :13:13.with the European Union and I think she meant it. She had said as Home

:13:14. > :13:20.Secretary that she thought it was an important part of the security plan

:13:21. > :13:25.to be in the EU. Well, that might be a U-turn. I thought I would pointed

:13:26. > :13:30.out. Angela Merkel is engaged in posturing the negotiations as well.

:13:31. > :13:35.From a trade point of view, Britain is pretty important to Germany. I

:13:36. > :13:41.think we are first or second as the largest market for goods. We have a

:13:42. > :13:47.trade deficit of ?30 billion in goods with Germany, the equivalent

:13:48. > :13:52.of about 1% of German GDP and I think there would be a lot of German

:13:53. > :13:57.exporters of Audi cars and BMWs who really want to continue to trade

:13:58. > :14:02.with us. I think they will. But this is right from John, posturing ahead

:14:03. > :14:06.of the Federal elections before the 24th of September and also the

:14:07. > :14:11.Brexit negotiations will be starting in June and I suspect that the EU is

:14:12. > :14:15.ramping up the rhetoric, so to speak, before those negotiations

:14:16. > :14:21.start. The great unanswered question is, did she finished that beer? We

:14:22. > :14:28.suspect not. There was quite a lot of it. A whole litre. That's it for

:14:29. > :14:34.the papers, John Andrews, always a treat to see you. Have a very good

:14:35. > :14:38.bank holiday Monday -- John and Ruth. Coming up next, the Film

:14:39. > :14:42.Review.