0:00:00 > 0:00:03see you soon. Coming up in a moment, it's The Papers. Good night.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
0:00:19 > 0:00:22bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:22 > 0:00:23With me are Pippa Crerar, Political Correspondent
0:00:23 > 0:00:27at the London Evening Standard and the French Journalist
0:00:27 > 0:00:30at the London Evening Standard and the French Journalist,
0:00:30 > 0:00:32Benedicte Paviot - President of the Foreign Press Association
0:00:32 > 0:00:33in London.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35Many of tomorrow's front pages are already in.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37The Telegraph says the Foreign Secretary,
0:00:37 > 0:00:41Boris Johnson discussed the prospect of building a bridge
0:00:41 > 0:00:51across the Channel between the UK and France during talks held today.
0:00:51 > 0:00:56The I headline as President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Sandhurst, urging
0:00:56 > 0:00:58the President to change its mind over Brexit.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00the President to change its mind over Brexit.
0:01:00 > 0:01:01The Guardian quotes
0:01:01 > 0:01:04the Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn, who wants to halt the 'outsourcing
0:01:04 > 0:01:06racket' exposed by the collapse of the construction giant,
0:01:06 > 0:01:07Carillion.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09The FT reports that the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa
0:01:09 > 0:01:12The FT reports that the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa,
0:01:12 > 0:01:15will allow missions into the country to monitor election later this year
0:01:15 > 0:01:18in a bid to renew ties with the UK and the Commonwealth.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21The flu outbreak could reach epidemic levels within a fortnight
0:01:21 > 0:01:23as 8.3 million people suffer from symptoms, that's
0:01:23 > 0:01:27the lead in the Mirror.
0:01:27 > 0:01:33The sun shows a picture of Prince William's new haircut. Paying £180
0:01:33 > 0:01:38for his very short back and sides.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41And the Express claims that playing a person's favourite music to help
0:01:41 > 0:01:43ward off the effects of dementia.
0:01:43 > 0:01:49There is coverage of the Macron and the May summit in the papers but
0:01:49 > 0:01:53many other stories to grab the head lines with flu and royal haircuts
0:01:53 > 0:01:56sharing the headlines. But let's start with the story of the day. The
0:01:56 > 0:02:03meeting. Let's start with the front page of the I, the new Entente
0:02:03 > 0:02:10Cordiale. Benedict, you hot-footed it from Sandhurst. Was it Entente
0:02:10 > 0:02:16Cordiale or lukewarm?It was very good entente in the announcements.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19It was a delayed press conference. A long press conference, an
0:02:19 > 0:02:24interesting press conference. I would say that one of the two strong
0:02:24 > 0:02:29moments in it, that caused a little frisson, with not just the French
0:02:29 > 0:02:34and the British ministers who, were there and had come to see bosses and
0:02:34 > 0:02:39sign treaties themselves, as well as the UK and the British press, is
0:02:39 > 0:02:46when Emmanuel Macron referred to in French, when he said "be my guest"
0:02:46 > 0:02:50this was very much about the City of London having access to the single
0:02:50 > 0:02:54market if you are not a part of the the single market you cannot retain
0:02:54 > 0:02:57them in that way. That was a strong message. It is
0:02:57 > 0:03:02something that he has thought about a great deal. He repeated what the
0:03:02 > 0:03:06French President, the French Government have said before, that
0:03:06 > 0:03:11there is great regret that the United Kingdom is leaving the EU but
0:03:11 > 0:03:14it's a British decision and therefore, you need to see it
0:03:14 > 0:03:20through if that's what you need to do. I think it is interesting. Then
0:03:20 > 0:03:27the reception was at the V and A. Having come for the first time in my
0:03:27 > 0:03:32life with a presidential convoy with this amazing reception, to arrive
0:03:32 > 0:03:37with all of the guests who had been waiting, I don't know if they had
0:03:37 > 0:03:41been doing very much drinking but so happy to see the leaders arrive.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44What was interesting, they made short statements and Theresa May
0:03:44 > 0:03:49spoke in French. I have tweeted it. She talks about how Britain would be
0:03:49 > 0:03:55a poorer country if the French, and basically, she is saying the EU
0:03:55 > 0:04:03citizens were to leave. She had a slight pronounciation
0:04:03 > 0:04:09trouble on the word country but we can forgive her for that. But what
0:04:09 > 0:04:13the French President is consistently saying is that it is not an
0:04:13 > 0:04:18accident, it is geography, not just history. He very much was
0:04:18 > 0:04:20emphasising, as indeed was the British Prime Minister, the
0:04:20 > 0:04:25bilateral relationship. Brexit was not on the table but it will affect
0:04:25 > 0:04:30the bilateral relationship. And can I bring in Pippa with the
0:04:30 > 0:04:34Financial Times which is presenting the other side of today's events. We
0:04:34 > 0:04:40have had the pomp and the ceremony on the front page of the i but the
0:04:40 > 0:04:46Financial Times, talking about breaking hypocracy?Yes. The
0:04:46 > 0:04:51ententes, and the deals done on defence, on security co-operation,
0:04:51 > 0:04:54borders and culture but Brexit came up at the press conference after. It
0:04:54 > 0:05:01is what everyone is thinking about, wondering be and Emmanuel Macron
0:05:01 > 0:05:06represents the most stable leader of one of the main EU powers at the
0:05:06 > 0:05:12moment and therefore is instrumental in what we do when getting out of
0:05:12 > 0:05:16Brexit. Everyone wanted to know what he thought. He made it clear to the
0:05:16 > 0:05:25Prime Minister that it would not be as repeating as Michel Barnier, the
0:05:25 > 0:05:38EU negotiators said, about cherry-picking and bespoke deals. He
0:05:38 > 0:05:44was obviously making a big deal of rolling out the red carpet to
0:05:44 > 0:05:47British bankers, desperate to have them there and pinch them from us.
0:05:47 > 0:05:53You can't blame him. Not desperate. He referred to it. He
0:05:53 > 0:05:56said that this is healthy competition.
0:05:56 > 0:06:01That is, that our two countries have, and emphasised, as did Theresa
0:06:01 > 0:06:05May, what the countries have in common, it was not just defence and
0:06:05 > 0:06:10security, it was about science, it was about research, medical research
0:06:10 > 0:06:15and new advances there. And a young generation getting to know each
0:06:15 > 0:06:20other, so economy there as well. But an important sentence that came out
0:06:20 > 0:06:25very much in the press conference in response to questions was the French
0:06:25 > 0:06:33President and I had not heard the line in that way before saying: I am
0:06:33 > 0:06:39not there to reward or to punish, I'm there, obviously, to defend
0:06:39 > 0:06:46French interests. It is very much as part of the EU negotiation. He made
0:06:46 > 0:06:51that clear and military co-operation. It is significant it
0:06:51 > 0:06:54exists and intelligence agencies for the first time, all five meeting.
0:06:54 > 0:07:00That is important. Whether it is here in the United Kingdom, in the
0:07:00 > 0:07:15rest of the EU or indeed in Africa. And there is more on that story
0:07:15 > 0:07:19replacing May with Boris Johnson. Getting on the front page of the
0:07:19 > 0:07:24Telegraph, despite the fact that the focus was not on him. But let's have
0:07:24 > 0:07:28a look at this other story, the Japanese flu strain running riot.
0:07:28 > 0:07:33There is a fear that within a couple of weeks we will have a flu
0:07:33 > 0:07:39epidemic. Britain has been badly hit this winter. We have heard of the
0:07:39 > 0:07:47warnings of the Australian flu. A strain of inflew ansa which caused
0:07:47 > 0:07:51many deaths in Australia and has arrived here and resulting in lots
0:07:51 > 0:07:55of deaths in the elderly and the young and has been a problem for the
0:07:55 > 0:07:59NHS. The Telegraph is reporting there is a second strain of flu
0:07:59 > 0:08:04which is accountable for 60% of the cases in hospital. Japanese flu.
0:08:04 > 0:08:10They are suggesting that it has been made worse by the fact that many
0:08:10 > 0:08:19doctors have made a decision to cut costs on vaccines and many health
0:08:19 > 0:08:26officials are cut costs on vaccines and ended up vaccinating people for
0:08:26 > 0:08:30other strains of flu but not this one and in the conditions that the
0:08:30 > 0:08:37NHS is under, that this could be virulent and bad, facing epidemic
0:08:37 > 0:08:50proportions. And the Daily Mirror head line has
0:08:50 > 0:08:58the similar story. Flu epidemic in two weeks.
0:08:58 > 0:09:04Yes, hits 8.3 million people and kills 149. And hospitals are
0:09:04 > 0:09:09struggling with high levels of admissions. So that is worrying. I
0:09:09 > 0:09:16get nervous as a broadcaster, especially sitting next to someone
0:09:16 > 0:09:22on public transport, coughing away. But these things are airborne.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Wash your hands, apparently. Very, very important.
0:09:24 > 0:09:31Thank you very much for reminding me!To the front page of the Garde.
0:09:31 > 0:09:36A big splash, the interview with Jeremy Corbyn, talking about
0:09:36 > 0:09:43Carillion and PFI. The other story on the front page is about
0:09:43 > 0:09:49harassment at the UN. Yes, every day there has been a
0:09:49 > 0:09:54couple of big exclusives. There is the Jeremy Corbyn story and
0:09:54 > 0:10:03Carillion and about outsourcing and using his opportunity to get away
0:10:03 > 0:10:07with using private partners. A nugget that Jeremy Corbyn brushed
0:10:07 > 0:10:12off concerns he would be too old to govern at the next election. And
0:10:12 > 0:10:16lots at Westminster suggesting that he will be in his early 70s by the
0:10:16 > 0:10:22next election if it is in 2022, that he may decide to stand down and talk
0:10:22 > 0:10:26about a successor. So interesting to hear he is saying he is going to
0:10:26 > 0:10:32fight it and carry on. But a story also about harassment and sexual
0:10:32 > 0:10:39assault at the UN. This does not come as a surprise. We are going
0:10:39 > 0:10:42through the sectors, institutions and organisations, one by one, and
0:10:42 > 0:10:46the truth is coming out about some of the behaviours that is going on.
0:10:46 > 0:10:50We started off with Hollywood and the film industry, Westminster,
0:10:50 > 0:10:54sexual harassment there, there are other industries as well which we
0:10:54 > 0:10:59have been focussed on and the latest is a big organisation like the U
0:10:59 > 0:11:08where they have issues of output all over the place where women can be
0:11:08 > 0:11:13isolated, outposts where women are isolated in remote locations and
0:11:13 > 0:11:18part of the story is how difficult it is, how few women are able to
0:11:18 > 0:11:23manage to report this kind of thing to the UN. But it is interesting,
0:11:23 > 0:11:28will we see industry after industry, having this sort of story focussing
0:11:28 > 0:11:34on them and this sort of story and behaviour going on.
0:11:34 > 0:11:43OK. I will get through a council of front pages. Back to the front page
0:11:43 > 0:11:47of the financialtimes and the story about the Zimbabwe want leader,
0:11:47 > 0:11:54talking about open elections?Yes, this is very much a new President
0:11:54 > 0:11:57when is trying to open a new chapter.
0:11:57 > 0:12:03To show not just his potential voters and also the international
0:12:03 > 0:12:11donors and whether it is the former colonial master, as indeed the
0:12:11 > 0:12:15United Kingdom, that he intends to do things differently. Therefore
0:12:15 > 0:12:21inviting UN monitors to come and assess the poll. This reminds me
0:12:21 > 0:12:26very much of his inaugural speech of course where he made a lot of very
0:12:26 > 0:12:31good sound bites and promises. But that costs nothing. So what,
0:12:31 > 0:12:35whether it is the United Kingdom or other countries we are looking at,
0:12:35 > 0:12:41he wants investment. Zimbabwe is on its knees. And it is interesting,
0:12:41 > 0:12:45Zimbabwe has dropped from the headlines ever since the resignation
0:12:45 > 0:12:50speech, that was not one, of Mr Mugabe. Who know what is he is up to
0:12:50 > 0:12:57now. But he has his plush house and bodyguards. But a very sad,
0:12:57 > 0:13:00potentially rich country, completely run down, so of course it is
0:13:00 > 0:13:05important. . Let's see if this is a new
0:13:05 > 0:13:09chapter. Now to the Daily Express, page three
0:13:09 > 0:13:17of the Daily Express. It has two royal stories, one about Al-Megrahi
0:13:17 > 0:13:21had been and oned about Prince William.
0:13:21 > 0:13:27Harry and Meghan have gone to Wales and seen a rapturous reception.
0:13:27 > 0:13:39Meghan mania it has been described as. There she is in her Stella
0:13:39 > 0:13:45McCartney coat and Welsh trousers. Yes, so everyone is delighted to
0:13:45 > 0:13:50have met her and she's obviously proving to be a bit of a hit as she
0:13:50 > 0:13:54goes around the country. The second story is that Prince William has
0:13:54 > 0:14:02decided to shave off what remains of his hair and to go for sort of a
0:14:02 > 0:14:07cleaner look. Which I have to say is much better. You look at Donald
0:14:07 > 0:14:11Trump and you think, face up to the fact that you are losing your hair.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14And deal with it. I think he looks much better.
0:14:14 > 0:14:22It is important. And bookmakers William Hill are
0:14:22 > 0:14:27offering offers of 6-4 that William will go totally shaven head to
0:14:27 > 0:14:31Harry's wedding. Thank you very much
0:14:31 > 0:14:33will go totally shaven head to Harry's wedding.
0:14:36 > 0:14:37That's it for THE PAPERS tonight.
0:14:37 > 0:14:40Don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online
0:14:40 > 0:14:50on the BBC News website.