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Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me is the Deputy political

editor of the Independent,

Rob Merrick, and the Author

and Broadcaster, Natalie Haynes.

Welcome. Nice to see you. Tomorrow's

front pages...

A number of tomorrow's front pages

look ahead to the Prime Minister's

meeting in Brussels tomorrow.

The Times writes that a senior

Brussels official says Britain

and the European Union are "90 %"

towards a deal that would open

the door for transition and trade

talks on Brexit this month.

The Independent reports on fears

from MEPs that the future rights

of EU citizens in the UK and Britons

in the EU are being forgotten

as a deal gets closer.

The Express says Theresa May faces

a backbench revolt if she gives more

concessions to the EU.

The Financial Times says

the Prime Minister is set

for a momentous day in Brussels.

It also reports that there has

been a surge in Swiss

banks' reporting of suspicious

activity by Saudi clients.

The Telegraph focuses

on the virtual currency, Bitcoin,

saying there will be a crack-down

amid concern it is being used

to launder money and dodge tax.

Natalie will give a masterclass in

Bitcoin isn't she? She knows more

than us. That start with Brexit. The

Times, Brexit tilt 90% versus senior

EU official, unnamed. But obstacles

remain. 90% and yet we've heard

nothing but problems about the

border between Northern Ireland and

the Republic of Ireland?

Teams

behind. It's D-Day tomorrow, the

Prime Minister meets with the

president of the European

Commission, and if Britain doesn't

satisfy the EU by tomorrow then it's

made the necessary moves on these

key issues that the talks can't

progress to transitional deal in

future trade, as you say, the

biggest stumbling block has been the

Irish border. On Friday the EU may

clear it would stand united with

Ireland which has insisted Britain

is not satisfied. About the

inevitable return to a hard border

if Britain leaves the customs union.

It seems strange we will be 90%

there if it is not subtle but that's

what the Times has then told.

There's a desire on all sides to

reach an agreement, you tend to hear

a clear claim from the Brexiteers

that the EU wants to punish Britain.

But they want to get into a trade

talks but on its term. Written as a

concession after concession to get

this far and many more come tomorrow

to class telling either cross over

the line.

That was the warning from

the PM today? That pro-Brexit MPs do

not want her to give anything of the

way.

They are so destructive in

their own party and her negotiating

stance because it looks like she has

no control over what's happening

behind her at home while she goes

out to Brussels. The one Saint I

think they are hoping for is a

vaguely orderly situation is this is

traditionally the case with EU

negotiations on a larger scale,

there is no hope at all and then at

3am on the final morning after the

final night, suddenly people claw

their way to a deal. It means

everyone can just about walk at home

with a bit of dignity intact, we got

what we wanted or at least enough.

That's what we have to do, the

alternative is live in a cave. I'm

not ruling it out.

Don't do that, we

need you here.

It says something

about the state of the negotiations

that Britain get into the estate of

discussing our future trading

arrangements is treated as a

triumph. Even getting to talk about

trade.

The bar is getting lower and

lower.

Its fumbling to get your pads

on before you face the fast bowlers.

This is the easy part.

But you're

supposed to be at the wicket this

month. That was the deal. The

ospreys to negotiate.

And if we're

not then business will go bonkers.

They have put in place their

contingency plans to move operations

out of Britain by the start of next

year if they have no certainty that

all will be well in the end.

But

look at the Independent. Rob Malik

has a byline on the front. EU

citizens' rights are at risk.

The

loss in issue that there are three

divorce issues that the EU said we

must make progress on. The EU

citizens they said would be the

priority at the start. When we

picked up on meetings that MEPs have

had with chief negotiator, there is

a fear that the EU will give way to

much an EU citizens because as I

said, the EU also wants to talk

about trade. Some of the issues

about the guarantees that EU

citizens will have about their

rights will be shunted into the

second phase of torque. It will be

settled now, -- will not be settled

now, thoroughly reunification,

children born after Brexit might

have a different legal status,

overseeing the rights of EU

citizens, and if they don't, those

citizens will be subject to UK

immigration law, the Home Office

talked about a hostile environment

and have started deporting

immigrant. Those fears for EU

citizens and British citizens in the

EU. But there is no focus on this

issue and certainly MEPs are worried

that that is being sidelined because

their focus is on the other two

issues.

This will affect millions of

people here and across the EU.

It's

always the way with these kinds of

big macro negotiations that actual

individual human people. Get

forgotten. While we are discussing

with a border or trade deal might

look like, that actual people who

don't know whether will be able to

live or have their children will be

considered citizens. That is a huge

amount of anxiety for millions of

people to be living with on a daily

basis. I feel it is one of the few

things it what everyone wants which

is what people to be OK and Britons

in Europe to be OK. If it were me,

and I wasn't sure whether I could

stay, that wouldn't be good enough.

I would be worrying all the time.

And people are choosing not to say

because of the uncertainty like

businesses. This letter the

Financial Times. French offer

warship Burts if Marines and up

marooned by UK defence. What are

they offering?

Rather sweetly,

everyone is furious about the

negotiations and it looks like we

may cut our amphibious vessels which

sounds more fun that it is. I think

not sadly as also was hoping giant

frog. But actually it's about. --

boats. The Marines might not know

where to train so they might have to

stay on a French boat and the French

as we desert if you need some

training room, if you need a rapid

response force to be trained and

ready to go, we have boats they can

go on. It remains to be seen what

they then observe on if we've got

rid of amphibious vessel.

What do

you use when you need to use them

the real?

A place for following

goes?

Camouflage they hope.

That is

a heron isn't it. Camouflage them

and go

we have three capable boats so

different. They have

anthropomorphised the boat. The

skill of these particular vessel.

We

have two presumably boats but we

might get rid of them. It is sport

and HMS Albion. If it wasn't for

Brexit and Damian Green pawn

allegations, falling out with Donald

Trump over the collapse of the NHS,

the social mobility crisis, this

would be a crisis facing Theresa May

because backbenchers are furious

about defence cuts. They are worried

about them and I can only imagine

the worries and response of those

backbenchers and then let it is the

French who might come to our rescue.

I don't think that will improve

their mood.

It smacks of those

concerns about having some kind of

EU wide military force dozens at?

Which are entirely against, it

seemed to be the case months ago

when the referendum is being done.

And if we don't have somewhere else

to put our Marines, we have to put

them somewhere. If they can't wander

around on demand...

We spend our

entire budget on Trident of course.

It's a deterrent, Rob. A deterrent.

State the facts.

Samurai.

That's an opinion isn't it group.

And people don't agree with it. Not

my opinion. The i. Pensioners face

poverty time bomb. This is hot on

the heels of mass resignation of the

board of the social mobility.

One in

five, let's stop for a minute,

there's 14 million people. That is

an enormous number. People who are

now at 60%, is that now poverty

killing a median earnings.

It's an enormous number of people

living in the charity and it doesn't

look like it will get better. The

numbers or we we have seen this

weekend is that people will not buy

property, they will rent through

their pension years and rents will

not go down. The housings cost will

stay much higher than traditionally.

They will pay off their mortgage

before the Messiah. -- not

value is useful if you downsize but

if you don't have a house you can't.

Children are caught up particularly

in this.

The warning about

pensioners might be more surprised.

There are lots warnings there will

be an explosion in child poverty but

pension poverty has been the great

success of the last decade. To go

into reversal in that would be

particularly depressing. I am less

surprised to read about children in

poverty and as the foundation points

out, one of the reasons is the four

year freeze on benefits, including

tax the introduction of Universal

Credit, these are the policies that

Theresa May inherited from her

predecessor and which he's done

nothing to change. That is one of

the reason why Alan Milburn and his

team have had enough. When it comes

to try to highlight the problems and

improving social mobility, they see

the direction it is going rate is

going to make lots of people poorer.

The Daily Telegraph, stretch your

legs, Treasury targets Bitcoin

criminals. Tell us briefly about

Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is crypto currency,

you can spend online without people

necessarily knowing who you are like

a debit or credit card which are

attached your name and address.

It

doesn't exist in notes and coins.

There is not somewhere a little

electronic coin. It is more like a

commodity because it is created by

people coding. Difficult and

complicated coding which encrypts

the transaction and the reward for

that is a small fraction of a

Bitcoin and by doing the thing that

makes the currency usable you

acquire a small matter of the

currency. Does it make sense?

Yes.

That was a clever explanation.

I

short listed for the transmission

buys, Jamie Butler was like a

excellent book the .net.

That's

weird showing.

I've read a difficult

book.

Another is a criminal concern

about it.

There has always been.

It's on the front page of the Daily

Telegraph.

It's mainly used to going

to launder money, buy drugs and

dodge tax.

The three main groups.

The Telegraph has uncovered the

Treasury plan to target Bitcoin and

plans to regulate it. Amendments to

regulation to make sure the digital

currencies have to go through the

same text as normal currency. What

strikes me is its this information

was buried in a recent written

parliamentary answer from the

Treasury. Last month. It seems that

the government does not want to

boast about these plans to

regulate...

Keep quiet.

Not sure how

confident they are. I gather it will

be an EU wide arrangement so there's

a quote from the Treasury expect

these negations did include at EU

level, 2017-2018. I went affect us

for very long then. That will be

depending on whether we crashed out

with a deal or not.

Final one, daily

Star. All roads lead to Brexit.

Strictly Alex in a race hate them

down. Alexandra Burke finished joint

top of the leaderboard in strictly

but...

Found herself in the dance

off miserably because it's an

ongoing accusation that has dog

strictly over the years that viewers

tend not to vote for the contestants

who are not white. It's not always

true, Alesha Dixon one and last year

had a winner, but Alexandra Burke is

an excellent dancer and has always

been an excellent dancer, so some

people perhaps not voting for her

because they are certainly some

people are not voting for her --

because they are racist, who knows?

Others attacked Debbie McGee because

she is not a trained dancer, she is

also 59, it seems quite small. I

don't get caught up in the previous

training because many people on

strictly have previous training but

I fraught that lost because I am in

the funereal black.

You can't prove

this though can you?

Nothing must

add unafraid, and not an expert on

strictly.

Fortunately we are out of

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Don't forget all the front pages

are online on the BBC News website

where you can read a detailed review

of the papers.

So it away is my pen at you. See you

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