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down and resign as leader of the Scottish Labour Party. Any more on

that and we will bring you that when we get it. And now as build The

Papers. -- as build, the papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be With me are Kate McCann from

the Telegraph and Kate Forrester President Trump makes

the picture lead on the front of the Financial Times,

as he's briefed on the relief effort for Tropical Storm Harvey,

by the Governor of Texas. "Melania to the rescue"

is the Metro's take on how the US First Lady jets off

to a flood disaster zone. That's alongside its main headline

'Korea on the brink', where it reports on the international hue

and cry prompted by North Korea's The Korean crisis is also

the lead in the Express, which reports on how President Trump

has warned Kim Jong-un that The Guardian claims that

weaker sixth-form pupils, are being dumped by a leading

grammar school, to improve While another education story

features in the Telegraph, with the headline: "Teachers shift

blame for cheating". The paper says exam boards must

introduce stricter guards to counter And The Sun reports

the court case where a man on a motorbike with a gun allegedly

tried to rob the West Ham I have two political correspondence

with me both called Kate. We have got to have a quick chat about Kezia

Dugdale, that is a shock? Yes, definitely. Definitely. You have the

same name and you said the same thing at the same time for the what

made her go? We both looked at each other and shook our heads in

surprise, it's a shock because I did not see that coming. There have been

rumblings about her relationship with Jeremy Corbyn and activists and

whether they think she is the right person for the job, and maybe there

is something in the idea that she went before she was pushed but I

thought Jeremy Corbyn thought she was doing a good job. The results in

the local elections in Scotland were less than they wanted but in the

general election Labour have made some decent games, winning seats

back in Glasgow from the SNP. So I did not see that coming. Still an

underwhelming performance. It was, and there is a lot of ground to make

up, but she is a charismatic and young leader and I'm surprised and

she will be difficult to replace. OK. Kate... Talking about

charismatic leaders, President Ron. He is in Texas -- President Trump.

He is being credited with handling the crisis pretty well so far. He's

very keen in making sure that this is not his George W Bush Katrina

comparison and he wants to look like he has a handle on the situation,

dealing with it. He hopes he comes across statesman-like, but that is

betrayed by what he has put out on Twitter. He almost has a childlike

excitement when the storm was coming in, peppered with exclamation marks,

and he used the word wow which seems a bit wrong in tone. Is he now

getting the tone right now that he has gone there and looked at the

damage? He did not want to get in the wake of the rescue effort, he

said. -- in the way. He's getting a handle on things? I'm not sure on

that, if you look at the comments on his press conference, he says they

will congratulate themselves when it is over, but he said they want

everyone to look at this and say this is the best effort that has

been made. But there are many articles around in the days leading

up to this, warning Trump and America of this impending crisis

because flooding in this area is not new and actually flooding across

America is not new and there is a real problem with how America builds

on flood plains and the state backed insurance regime they have which

allows people to rebuild houses again and again on flood zones.

Interesting statistic, Houston in Texas has the highest proportion of

these homes that have rebuilt, that have been rebuilt over and over

again, and that is not something he would not be aware of, because Obama

tried to do something about that. But he could not get it passed. He

is, no one wants to give up a benefit, if they can. And now to the

Metro. The first Lady Melania Trump also flew into Texas. Interesting

attire. She is making quite a statement with those shoes but we

know that she swapped them when she got to Texas. She put her flats on.

Yes, but they were also quite interesting shoes, pristine white.

Shiny trainers. Well, how often does one get to go to a disaster zone?

Well, quite. We are used to seeing politicians in Wellington boots, and

so this is a change to that. Is this the kind of thing, that will detract

from the President's performance? This is just a sideshow. The Trump

presidency has been dogged by the idea that there is a lot of

attention paid to image and not much attention paid to policy and detail

and getting the logistics of situations right. This picture on

the front page of the Metro does not do his presidency any favours

because we might think it is funny that she is wearing stilettos, but

it is not a fashion show. Nine people have died and they suspect

many people will have died when the floodwaters finally go down,

thousands and thousands people are not in their homes, and the effort

to evacuate people has not been that organised. The warnings were already

there. I wonder how long Trump and Melania Trump can get away with this

idea that it looks great to jet into a flood saying and change your

outfit on the flight over and wear a cap saying float us, but this is a

serious issue. Not the time to be worrying about your shoes. What

people want to see in Houston, speaking to survivors and people

helping with the vestry effort, it is a multicultural city and state

and they want the visit to focus on the celebration of the community

coming together and helping people, and this is not that. The front page

of the Guardian, as well, also a picture of Melania Trump. And the

president there. The suggestion is that this will cost $100 billion.

Yes, this is not the first. Trump was previously saying this is an

event they have never seen before but that is not true. America has

had floods of this scale. We were talking about the cost of this, the

state backed insurance policies $25 billion in the red which is a huge

amount of money and the premiums paid by people who take out

insurance from this state backed fund does not cover it. The amount

of money that they will have to spend to do something about this,

not just putting people's lives back together and rebuild homes, but

there is a dam about to break in Houston, that is a big issue and

that will not stop being an issue going forward, and so there needs to

be infrastructure investment which will cost billions of dollars and

that will be a problem in Houston and also other big cities along the

coastline which also have the same problem. The suggestion is that this

will hurt the bottom line of the US economy and as a result it will put

off America putting up interest rates. Definitely. We don't know the

huge catastrophic effect this will have, people are dealing with

absolute devastation and until that settles down I don't think we will

have a clear picture of what happens, but outside of the economic

impact, Trump has started the wheels in motion to abolish the

environmental protection and is in America which would deal with

incidents like this in the future, and he took steps to wind it back.

Is this going to make him think again? Probably not. LAUGHTER

And now the front page of The Times. North Korea, the other big issue for

the president in his in trade. -- in tray. Theresa May slams North Korea

over the missile fired over Japan. She is in Japan at the moment. We

love a bit of international excitement, and the possibility of a

missile test and a text message saying, get down in the middle of

the night for -- but Theresa May is in Japan and she has said she is

outraged over the missile which has been fired over Japan. President

Trump has said all options are on the table, which is a less gung ho

approach than when he previously had when he was warning if you go and do

this again, we will take immediate action. The question we were asking

before we came on air, what can people actually do? The answer is

not very much. The only country that has any serious leveraged is the

Chinese and they are not going to want millions of people crashing

over their border if North Korea collapses, so they will continue to

supply them with food and oil. Exactly. If they are going to take

steps to sanction in any meaningful way, China has got to be on board.

That will not happen. Historically, China may not want to get behind

North Korea fully but it is not in their interests to have a united

career that is allied to the United States so in a broader sense that is

a consideration for them -- a United Korea. Bake off, that is what is

important, the front page of the Metro. You are both fans, but you

have missed it tonight. So you don't really have a sense of whether it is

good or bad compared to what it was. I have some sense. I had tax

messages from my friend who was outraged -- text. Who said it isn't

the same and it doesn't feel the same. Noel Fielding. People did not

like his sideburns. Channel 4 have done everything they can to keep it

looking the same, the tent looks the same, the tasks are similar, Paul

Hollywood is still there. But it is not quite right. Something ski --

something has gone awry, and a lot of adverts. Yes, they have got to

try and get back some of this money, ?70 million. They will miss Mel and

Sue, I was a big fan of them. I'm willing to row back on this. People

will try it, they love it so much they will still give it a shot, but

he has a lot to do to win people over. The adverts could be a problem

for many people. People find it difficult these days watching

adverts online. That is true. You have blockers to stop use routing

through the adverts, it is a tricky one for them. It is very tricky. It

was a show which was held dearly to people, many people were very

excited every year when it came on, and it is a challenge for them to

retain that and also make money from it because it clearly demonstrates

that no matter how loved something is or held dear to the hearts of the

public, that doesn't mean it will make money unfortunately. We are

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