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next year, saying it was "time

for change" after more

than thirty years.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me the broadcaster and former

Fleet Street Editor,

Eve Pollard and the journalist,

Yasmin Alibhai Brown.

Let's look at tomorrow's

front pages then:

The Observer leads on the situation

in Zimbabwe, with a picture of one

of the anti-Mugabe demonstrators

that have been out on the streets of

Harare.

The Mail on Sunday reports

on an apparent altercation

between two Labour MPs

in the Commons chamber.

The Sunday Express claims that

in Wednesday's budget,

the Chancellor will announce support

for Britain's tech industry,

which could mean we'll

have driverless cars

on our roads by 2021.

The Sunday Telegraph also leads

on a pre-budget announcement,

reporting that nurses

are in line for a pay rise.

The Sunday Times has a dispatch

from Zimbabwe and also reports

that the Chancellor will use

Wednesday's budget to announce plans

to build 300,000 homes every year

So let's begin. Zimbabwean. All the

papers have something on this

but let's start with the Observer.

Gassman, could you start us? A

fantastic image of a cheerful anti-

Mugabe demonstrated. But there...

This is now building up to some sort

of resolution of a crisis. He has

held out. He has tried to get a

Catholic priest to be an

intermediary and all sorts of

things. It is time for him to go and

the army has behaved with dignity.

What is interesting here, the

protests are not just about him.

There is a quote here from the

International Crisis Group that says

we are not just out to support a

takeover by another leader, we want

and they said, we want an

alternative to decentralising

controlling narrative. About

sophisticated. It is not going to

stop that they just replace the

chosen one...

With someone similar?

But that is the point. The person

who looks like he will take over is

the person he pushed out the other

day, a man associated with Robert

Mugabe down the years.

Since they

have actually shown such restraint,

the army. We do know many other

countries where Robert Mugabe would

have now been thrown into jail, this

is probably time to have an

election. If the UN is going to mean

anything, it should actually send

people over there and say this is

what country wants, give them the

chance to vote for who they want.

And show the world, actually, that

Africa can handle these things.

There are some wonderful female

leaders in Dubai were. Absolutely

astonishing women who have been

waiting to get this opportunity to

have a proper tomography. There are

deep problems. They are not all of

Mugabe's making. We left the country

and said... When Britain left and

when Rhodesia was handed over, a

promise was made that money would be

made available to buy back the land

snatched from black owners. That

never happened. Many things to be

resolved but I have always been

astonished by the level of

sophistication of Zimbabweans.

Political, economic and so on. So

they let go, the future could be

amazing.

He is 93.

He has had a good

run. The one character in the

background, Grace. They do not want

her.

I am Madge and she is out there

flourishing her credit card.

Domestic matters now. Many people

speculating on what the Chancellor

will have on that budget box on

Wednesday. He is getting a lot of

advice from all over the place are

there will be a pay boost for

nurses?

What do we know about this?

The interesting thing is that

yesterday he got a letter from the

Noraid top Tories telling him to

look at the NHS and as we discussed

earlier, it should not be a

political football. It needs to be

sorted out all the country. There

will be a pay rise for nurses. The

education for schools and they need

help as well. He will also be

political as every Chancellor is. He

will show the country that the

Conservative come at some of the

austerity glowed.

I don't know...

You get more tax if you tax people

in a fair way, almost in a flat we.

What they should do is stop things

like the Paradise Papers, the Panama

papers. They should stop people

being able to park money abroad. I

also think that you want to

encourage the country to think that

it needs to purchase British and it

needs British goods to purchase. I

have returned from New York and it

is buzzing. That is what he needs to

do in this budget.

You both avoided

a word that dominated from the

start, Brexit. That is in his

calculations as well.

In my view it

is the worst and most damaging thing

that the country, that has happened

to the country and what is worst is

that even the Tory party does not

seem to be able to unite and decide

how to take this forward. They'll

suspect Philip Hammond, because he

is not a proper Brexit. -- Brexit

supporter. Domestic policy is simply

not being made. I was speaking to a

civil servant yesterday who says

that Brexit is sucking up all the

attention.

You are dealing with a

Europe that is behaving like a

wronged partner. They want the

house, they want the money and then

they will tell you if you can ever

see the children. Why nobody thought

that the Europeans would feel this

way, I do not understand.

You use

the word house. How appropriate. The

Sunday Times has on the front page,

printing the worst picture of the

Chancellor. Scratching his head,

poor fellow. He does have a lot to

think about. Says he is planning to

build 300,000 homes a year. This

goes to the heart of so much

criticism of politicians.

We need

more houses and they are not being

billed. The word is missing here.

Affordable. Houses and flats are

being built everywhere. Where I

live... Huge, huge buildings. But

they are incredibly expensive.

That's what we've got. We need

affordable houses for people who

work in public services, for young

people, and that is the word that

needs to be there.

I am afraid that

if your wonderful view may be

spoiled I agree you should build a

Littlewoods or put Theresa but

people... There is great spaces in

England with no houses in.

Returning

to the story, what do you think?

300,000 homes a year, the equivalent

of eight 80. Quite ambitious.

He

made that promise and people will

hold it against them. We are in a

febrile political atmosphere and I

think if he does not come through

with it... And what saying is

correct, there are builders hanging

on to land. Local councils hanging

on to land and, actually, what we

need to do is have citizen

journalists and somebody should

write in all the empty houses, or

the lengthy -- emptied land.

write in all the empty houses, or

the lengthy -- emptied land.. Only

two to 3% of the land across Britain

is occupied. By buildings...

That

does sound low. A small proportion,

I take your point. Not a lot of time

left. Moving on to something else

who front page of the Sunday Times,

inspectors to quiz girls wearing

hijab.

What is this about? There is

a new inspectorate, chief inspector

of schools and she is for the first

time they will ask girls as young as

four, who are being dressed in hijab

to go to school. This is all about

women's position in place in

society. I think it is good we are

asking that because I think a young

girl should not feel that hair is

embarrassing, sexual... She is too

young to be these things.

This is

their. I am a Muslim and I have

written a book arguing against this

because there is nothing in the

Quran...

When you say against, make

clear, you mean against wearing

hijab?

There is nothing that says

you cover your hen or your face.

Only the wives and the family of the

profit were being harassed when they

went into public space. Five male

authorities on religion last week

pronounced that the hijab was not

necessary. Nobody is listening to

them. It doesn't make women look...

First of all, I want these girls to

fly free and I want them to have a

wonderful education. I want them to

marry who they want to and be

British. That is the other thing. If

you live here I think there must be

a certain amount of integration and

I do not want these girls... I do

not want them to be second-class

citizens.

I often stop mothers of

South Asian origin and say you are

sexualising your child. You are

saying that your three-year-old is a

sexual being. They get very

frustrated. It is the same as a

child of real for going out in a

boot tube. It is the same thing. You

say that this girl is a sexual

object. I think it is important for

us modernist Muslims to do that. I

think it is good. I think it is

great that school authorities are

asking girls why are you wearing it?

I hope also asking the parents and,

importantly, asking the fathers.

Sometimes it is the mothers who

perpetuate this. There is a

wonderful local councillor in

Birmingham who started a whole

campaign against this. I think it

has come from some very good modern

Muslim sources.

The interesting word

to mean this story is calling it a

controversial move. So not everyone

will say it is a good idea.

Can I

say, in France, it is not allowed

and I think the French have taken on

board the fact that if you come to

France you will live like French

people and you will give your girls

every chance to fly.

Like I said, it

was never in our faith I don't know

where it came from.

It was

controlling.

And, finally, a picture

on the front page of the Sunday

Telegraph. 70 years and counting,

the Queen and Prince Philip.

Are you

in a celebrant Tory mood? I think it

is a sweet picture. I think they are

having a low-level dinner with the

family but not doing anything

high-powered. I think it is sweet.

Anybody who can keep any

relationship going for 70 years

deserves a pat on the back.

One

thing, if you look online there is

an amazing picture of the Queen with

Robert Mugabe when she visited

curare in 1991. It is the most

flirty I have ever seen her. He was

very good-looking and it is an

amazing photograph.

Schuster

returned to Prince Philip.

But how

that is what he was before he

turned.

I think getting the Queen

and to -- Mr Mugabe into the same

conversation is remarkable. Z for

the papers denied. Headlines coming

up. -- that is it for the papers

tonight.

Headlines coming up at the top

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