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0:00:00 > 0:00:16injuries to suggest another person was involved in her death.

0:00:17 > 0:00:20Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

0:00:20 > 0:00:22bringing us tomorrow.

0:00:23 > 0:00:25With me are Henry Zeffman, Political reporter at the Times

0:00:25 > 0:00:31and Public Affairs Consultant Jacqui Francis.

0:00:31 > 0:00:35A flavour first of all of the front pages as a whole. The Financial

0:00:35 > 0:00:40Times reports that ministers are expected to give Theresa May the go

0:00:40 > 0:00:44ahead to increase the Government's Brexit divorce bill offer to move on

0:00:44 > 0:00:48EU negotiations. There's the Times. They say Robert Mugabe's refusal to

0:00:48 > 0:00:52resign as Zimbabwe President has left the country in despair. The

0:00:52 > 0:01:00Metro also leading on Zimbabwe, describing Mugabe as "clinging on to

0:01:00 > 0:01:06power". And the Daily Mirror says former defence chiefs have accused

0:01:06 > 0:01:11the Government of damaging front line by cutting funding. And the

0:01:11 > 0:01:19Daily Mail says that universities have used wealth screening to look

0:01:19 > 0:01:22at students' earnings. In the Guardian, they look at the

0:01:22 > 0:01:25chaos in Zimbabwe following Robert Mugabe's decision not to Republic

0:01:25 > 0:01:30sign this evening. And the Sun claims victory in the

0:01:30 > 0:01:35campaign on energy tariffs reporting that changes to Rates could save

0:01:35 > 0:01:40households £75 a year. Let's begin with a closer look at

0:01:40 > 0:01:44some of the front pages and we'll start with the Guardian and the top

0:01:44 > 0:01:48story is Zimbabwe after that surprise decision, to most people,

0:01:48 > 0:01:56that Mugabe is not resigning after all.It was the most extraordinary

0:01:56 > 0:02:01speech. Robert Mugabe who has ruled Zimbabwe for almost 40 years,

0:02:01 > 0:02:04flanked by the military. Quite clear who was in charge now, delivered

0:02:04 > 0:02:08this 30-minute speech - a ramble is a fairer thing to say. But even

0:02:08 > 0:02:13while watching it, you were expecting the ramble to come to a

0:02:13 > 0:02:17close saying - and here's how I'm going to Republic sign. And it --

0:02:17 > 0:02:20resign. And it just didn't happen. Now it's chaos in Zimbabwe. People

0:02:20 > 0:02:24trying to work out whether he missed off a bit of the speech, which was

0:02:24 > 0:02:30meant to say he was resigning or whether this is a plan to reassert

0:02:30 > 0:02:34control, or whether the military for happy for him to stay in charge as

0:02:34 > 0:02:37long as some of the people around his wife, Grace, have less

0:02:37 > 0:02:41influence, but it is the most extraordinary spectacle.What did

0:02:41 > 0:02:45you make of it? It when on for 20 minutes saying, it will come, it

0:02:45 > 0:02:50will come, and it just never did.I think something else is going on in

0:02:50 > 0:02:54the background and in this particular article, it said the

0:02:54 > 0:02:57South African development community is to meet in Angola and they're

0:02:57 > 0:03:01talking about the possibility of letting him stay and letting things

0:03:01 > 0:03:07naturally come to an end. So the idea that you would impeach him,

0:03:07 > 0:03:10that still would take months. So he's not going straightaway, if you

0:03:10 > 0:03:14go through a process. If you tell him to go, fine. But if you want the

0:03:14 > 0:03:18constitutional process to take place, it does take time to do that.

0:03:18 > 0:03:22And it sounds like there is now a disonance between - you've got to go

0:03:22 > 0:03:26now, the people on the streets want you to go, this is what we've been

0:03:26 > 0:03:29negotiating but constitutionally, and in the speech, he seems to be

0:03:29 > 0:03:33talking about the constitution to do things properly. So I think if he's

0:03:33 > 0:03:37clever enough, he's put them between a rock and a hard place, really.And

0:03:37 > 0:03:40a lot of commentators even talking about the fact that Mugabe, at the

0:03:40 > 0:03:47age of 93, is quite a wiley player in all of this.Certainly. And

0:03:47 > 0:03:52although he did seem quite doddery, as you might expect for someone of

0:03:52 > 0:03:58his age. And at some points, he fumbled on the words and one of the

0:03:58 > 0:04:02generals who led the coup turned the pages for him. But he talked at one

0:04:02 > 0:04:07point about presiding over Zanu-PF's forthcoming party Congress, even

0:04:07 > 0:04:12though they kicked him out from the leadership position and are going to

0:04:12 > 0:04:15start impeachment proceedings tomorrow, so clearly he has a way,

0:04:15 > 0:04:19in his mind, a way that he's going to stay on top.If we look at the

0:04:19 > 0:04:24Times. Their angle, "Zimbabwe in despair" as Mugabe clings on. And

0:04:24 > 0:04:27we're expecting then to see more demonstrations on the streets

0:04:27 > 0:04:30because of course this, although it's a political story, it's very

0:04:30 > 0:04:34much a story of what the people of Zimbabwe are looking for as well?

0:04:34 > 0:04:38Yes, the war veterans. Everything pointed at the fact that he was

0:04:38 > 0:04:42going to go. No negotiations about how long he was going to go. And it

0:04:42 > 0:04:45just seems that there's a huge disappointment in the air and that

0:04:45 > 0:04:48is a really dangerous thing, because people are taking to the streets.

0:04:48 > 0:04:52They're going to want to say - but the military, you said this was

0:04:52 > 0:04:56going to happen, and it hasn't. And it's a coup, but it's not a coup.

0:04:56 > 0:05:00And that is the tipping point where it could turn into violence, and

0:05:00 > 0:05:03that's what everybody wants to avoid.Yes, it was noticeable, I

0:05:03 > 0:05:08thought, in his speech, he referred several times to the track record of

0:05:08 > 0:05:13Zimbabwe as a peaceable people, as if almost saying - this may not be

0:05:13 > 0:05:18what you're expecting everyone, but let's not get carried away and turn

0:05:18 > 0:05:22into riots on the street?This started as a palace coup, if it

0:05:22 > 0:05:26were. It wasn't a ground-up thing, although we've seen protests of that

0:05:26 > 0:05:29sort in Zimbabwe before. But now that the generals have started this

0:05:29 > 0:05:32process, even if they think that they can control it by putting

0:05:32 > 0:05:36someone else from Zanu-PF, Mugabe's former deputy in charge, actually,

0:05:36 > 0:05:39what the people on the streets are asking for is much more profound, a

0:05:39 > 0:05:43change in the economy, a change in how the country works. And that's

0:05:43 > 0:05:46quite different, and those two visions might be hard to reconcile.

0:05:46 > 0:05:51Take us back to the Guardian but we'll drop back to bottom of the

0:05:51 > 0:05:57page now. Hammond rules out £4 million cash emergency boost for the

0:05:57 > 0:06:01NHS. This looks at a lot of mutterings in there about what may

0:06:01 > 0:06:06or may not be in it, and the suggestion is that money for for the

0:06:06 > 0:06:11nation -- for the NHS, not.At this time, everybody brings out the

0:06:11 > 0:06:15begging bowl for something. And this seems from Simon Stevens is head of

0:06:15 > 0:06:22the NHS, who had said it needs the cash injection of $4 billion. And

0:06:22 > 0:06:27he's saying, no, I want reforms first - you should have done more to

0:06:27 > 0:06:31get the NHS in better shape. So it's kind of tit-for-tat. "You said you'd

0:06:31 > 0:06:35do something about social care, you said you'd get the NHS in better

0:06:35 > 0:06:40shape and then we can give you more money." And Simon Stevens says, you

0:06:40 > 0:06:43haven't done any of that. I suppose he's saying, why should I not ask

0:06:43 > 0:06:47for more money because you haven't done what you were supposed to do.

0:06:47 > 0:06:52So it is the toing and froing, but Hammond says everybody does this at

0:06:52 > 0:06:56this time of year.It's true that the horse trading is starting at

0:06:56 > 0:06:59this time of the budget and talking about house business and other

0:06:59 > 0:07:04things we might expect to see.The story shows how constrained Philip

0:07:04 > 0:07:07Hammond is coming into this. A lot of the MPs, bruised by the election

0:07:07 > 0:07:11result, say you need to loosen the belt a bit, particularly when it

0:07:11 > 0:07:15comes to the public sector, but Philip Hammond, leaving aside the

0:07:15 > 0:07:19fact that he's probably more economically dry than some of the

0:07:19 > 0:07:23MPs doesn't have that capacity and he seas saying to the NHS, you've

0:07:23 > 0:07:27got to find savings yourself because I've got a lot of other stuff on my

0:07:27 > 0:07:31plate.Let's stay with Philip Hammond because the Daily Telegraph

0:07:31 > 0:07:34over on the side there, he may be under pressure on one front, but

0:07:34 > 0:07:38also putting pressure, he says on Theresa May. And this is to do with

0:07:38 > 0:07:44money for the EU and specifically the divorce bill and the shenanigans

0:07:44 > 0:07:51going on about how much.We're back to this thing of - what do we want

0:07:51 > 0:07:55first. There's no "show me the money" which is what Brexit and the

0:07:55 > 0:07:59EU is saying. First of all, Philip Hammond and the rest want to know,

0:07:59 > 0:08:06what exactly are we going to be getting out of this? When then we

0:08:06 > 0:08:10can start talking about how much we're going to get. It's the

0:08:10 > 0:08:13ordinary people who are concerned. The money is large amounts of money,

0:08:13 > 0:08:17but this has been going on for so long and people are wondering - when

0:08:17 > 0:08:20are you going to talk about substance? Real issue that is impact

0:08:20 > 0:08:23upon us? People are making decisions about whether to stay in this

0:08:23 > 0:08:26country. Businesses, in particular, are making decisions, while they're

0:08:26 > 0:08:30still saying - well, we're not going to negotiate this until you tell us

0:08:30 > 0:08:33exactly how much money you're going to give us, and we're not going to

0:08:33 > 0:08:38give you as much money as you want until you tell us what you're going

0:08:38 > 0:08:41to get out of it. Stalemate, impasse.And the FT choosing to

0:08:41 > 0:08:46explore this story. May set to secure Cabinet support for a higher

0:08:46 > 0:08:50divorce bill offer and she may have her work cut out with some of the

0:08:50 > 0:08:54characters in her Cabinet?What this story explains well is that this

0:08:54 > 0:08:58isn't just a question about how much Britain is going to offer the EU,

0:08:58 > 0:09:01it's also a question about how divided Theresa May's Cabinet is, on

0:09:01 > 0:09:07Brexit but on much else. So there are basically two factions on the

0:09:07 > 0:09:11Brexit war Cabinet subcommittee that will decide whether they'll approve

0:09:11 > 0:09:17Theresa May doubling the offer from £20 million to £40 million. And on

0:09:17 > 0:09:21the one hand, Philip Hammond wants to make a generous offer and stay

0:09:21 > 0:09:24close. But on the other hand, you have Boris Johnson, the Foreign

0:09:24 > 0:09:29Secretary, and back in alliance with Michael Gove, the man who crushed

0:09:29 > 0:09:34Boris Johnson's hopes of leading the Tory Party. It is a multisided

0:09:34 > 0:09:39scenario. It's a psycho drama, some might say. And Theresa May, a more

0:09:39 > 0:09:42skilled politician than Theresa May would struggle to solve it. But she

0:09:42 > 0:09:45is certainly struggling.It's interesting, coming back to what you

0:09:45 > 0:09:49were say, Jacqui, about the politics of it, for the Westminster geeks,

0:09:49 > 0:09:53it's all very exciting for a lot of people watching and thinking - how

0:09:53 > 0:09:57is it that all these months in, we're still at stage one and the EU

0:09:57 > 0:10:01negotiators are saying, until this is sorted, we can't move on and we

0:10:01 > 0:10:07just seem to have got stuck?I think we got stuck because the division is

0:10:07 > 0:10:11- is our heart really in it? And the EU, I suppose, sent that. And maybe

0:10:11 > 0:10:15they are on our side, trying to make it as difficult as possible,

0:10:15 > 0:10:18thinking - they'll come to their senses. Once we've discussed this,

0:10:18 > 0:10:21they'll go - maybe. And then another thing, another thing. And then,

0:10:21 > 0:10:25Theresa May has this fractured Cabinet, which are pulling her this

0:10:25 > 0:10:29way and that way. And she's trying to negotiate her way through two

0:10:29 > 0:10:33things and finding it increasingly difficult. And Europe are just

0:10:33 > 0:10:36pulling their hair out going - look, we're talking about money. If you're

0:10:36 > 0:10:40not talking about anything else, we don't want to discuss it. Money

0:10:40 > 0:10:45first. Show us the money.While you're saying show us the money, the

0:10:45 > 0:10:49is beautiful there for Henry on the Daily Mail. Millions spied on by

0:10:49 > 0:10:53greedy top universities. What's this all about?It's a really interesting

0:10:53 > 0:10:58story, actually. So the Mail says that top universities, 24 of them,

0:10:58 > 0:11:03all of them in the Russell group, the top group of universities, have

0:11:03 > 0:11:06hired investigators to basically find out how rich all of their

0:11:06 > 0:11:10former students are. But it goes well beyond just income, it's also

0:11:10 > 0:11:13their investments, their pensions, who their friends are, the value of

0:11:13 > 0:11:18their homes. Now, on the one hand, this is a story about universities

0:11:18 > 0:11:23trying to get money to fund research and new buildings and all the stuff

0:11:23 > 0:11:26they do in the 21st century, but it's also a really interesting story

0:11:26 > 0:11:30about how much we put online these days. The Mail says there is a

0:11:30 > 0:11:35suggestion that some of them might have broken the law, but some of

0:11:35 > 0:11:38them, a sophisticated person with access to Google could find out

0:11:38 > 0:11:42themselves. So there is the question of - what are we putting out there?

0:11:42 > 0:11:45It might be just the universities trying to fine out, but there are

0:11:45 > 0:11:48other people who might like to know sometimes.Did this surprise you,

0:11:48 > 0:11:51Jacqui?No, it didn't, because universities have always used their

0:11:51 > 0:11:55alumni to try to fundraise, and in America, it's a very, very big

0:11:55 > 0:12:00thing. You know, if you've got very famous and very important alumni,

0:12:00 > 0:12:04you can build amazing things. So this is no surprise. I suppose, my

0:12:04 > 0:12:08one surprise is that they paid a firm to do this, when, as we said,

0:12:08 > 0:12:11there are a number of social media organisations that you could just

0:12:11 > 0:12:14quickly go online to tell you everything you need to know about

0:12:14 > 0:12:18these individuals.It's interesting that parallel you draw there with

0:12:18 > 0:12:22the States, because it's a huge thing in America. There's an

0:12:22 > 0:12:26expectation really that you give back to your old alma mater and I'm

0:12:26 > 0:12:30not sure that that is transferred across the pond there?I went to

0:12:30 > 0:12:33university in America and yes, you constantly get letters saying that

0:12:33 > 0:12:37now you're an alumni, would you consider making a monthly or

0:12:37 > 0:12:40whatever donation. So it is big business for the institution.We're

0:12:40 > 0:12:45going to finish with money, as well, because this is money for all of us,

0:12:45 > 0:12:50not just those who are being targeted by their old universities.

0:12:50 > 0:12:53The Daily Telegraph - Black Friday deals are not always what they seem.

0:12:53 > 0:12:57Are we going to be disappointed?The concept of Black Friday is an

0:12:57 > 0:13:02American import as well, so I suppose being doubly shafted by

0:13:02 > 0:13:05American culture tonight. This actually doesn't surprise me too

0:13:05 > 0:13:12much. It basically says that shoppers are predicted to spend £2.6

0:13:12 > 0:13:15billion, or £1.8 million per minute this Friday as part of Black Friday

0:13:15 > 0:13:19but some of the discounts aren't what they seem. That's not just the

0:13:19 > 0:13:22case on Black Friday. Sometimes in supermarket, you might see wine

0:13:22 > 0:13:27marketed at 40% off, but when you look into it, it was only that

0:13:27 > 0:13:30higher price for 15 minutes on the previous Friday. So it's basically a

0:13:30 > 0:13:35call on all of us to wise up and not necessarily get carried away with

0:13:35 > 0:13:40when we're told to shop and work out when's best to buy what you need.

0:13:40 > 0:13:45Because this is Which, the consumer group, who have looked at prices

0:13:45 > 0:13:48around Black Friday 2016 and monitored the prices up to Black

0:13:48 > 0:13:52Friday. Do we need to be a little bit less gullible?I think we do,

0:13:52 > 0:13:56but there are some savvy shoppers out there. But yes, you're right, we

0:13:56 > 0:13:59all look at something and go - great, 40% off. But sometimes

0:13:59 > 0:14:03there's a little in the small print that will say - from this period to

0:14:03 > 0:14:06this period, at some point, it was this price, so there's always been

0:14:06 > 0:14:11the issue that the price had gone up and then they discounted it, so were

0:14:11 > 0:14:14you getting a good deal? Just be careful what you wish for because

0:14:14 > 0:14:17it's not always correct.In two words, are you looking for anything

0:14:17 > 0:14:22on Black Friday?Possibility!Not saying what?Possibility a phone!

0:14:22 > 0:14:29OK, phone for Jacqui. Where will your bargain be?New TV to watch BBC

0:14:29 > 0:14:33favourites.You love it. Lots of Browny points. That's it for the

0:14:33 > 0:14:37papers. Thanks to Jacqui and Henry. All the front pages are online on

0:14:37 > 0:14:41the BBC News website. You can read a detailed review of the papers all

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0:14:48 > 0:14:52us each day there with each night there shortly after we've finished

0:14:52 > 0:14:56and giving Henry a very large drink. Thank you, that's it from us for

0:14:56 > 0:15:00tonight. Coming up next, it's the Film Review.