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after it was seized by gunmen.

Six civilians died and 160

others were rescued.

The Taliban says it

carried out the attack.

The Ukip leader, Henry Bolton,

fights to keep his job as the party

holds an emergency meeting

to discuss his future.

Critics say it's time for him to go.

On Monday, if Henry is still

the leader of this party then we are

going to lose members, activists,

branches and donors and this

jeopardises the very existence

of our party.

A new organisation to

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the Government is setting up

a new body to monitor defective

or tainted products.

People in England with dementia

and autism could soon be entitled

to blue badge parking permits,

meaning they can park for free...

Coming up in a few minutes,

our Sunday morning

edition of the papers.

This mornings reviewers

are political commentator,

James Millar and journalist

and author Lainy Malkani.

One line of news coming into us. We

are hearing a 54-year-old man has

been arrested after an eight-year

old girl was stabbed to death in

Brownhill near Walsall. This

according to the West Midlands

Police, telling us they 54-year-old

man has been arrested after an

eight-year old girl was stabbed.

This happened in Brownhill, near

Walsall. Let me see if I can find

any more information coming in on

fact. The homicide unit saying they

are treating it as a domestic

incident. They are not looking in --

looking for anyone else in

connection with the incident. They

say their thoughts remain with the

family. That is all the information

we have. The 50-year-old --

54-year-old man arrested after an

eight-year-old girl is stabbed to

death. Police saying is a domestic

incident. This is BBC News, 9:32am.

Before the papers, sport.

And for a full round up,

from the BBC Sport Centre,

here's JJ Chalmers.

Hello, good morning.

Kyle Edmund has powered into his

first Grand Slam quarter-final.

He's beaten Italy's Andreas Seppi

at the Australian Open.

The British number two recovered

from a slow start to win

in four sets in Melbourne.

Edmund trailed by a set and a break

at one stage, but cut down

the errors to secure his

place in the last eight.

He'll face Australian Nick Kyrgios

or Grigor Dimitrov of

Bulgaria on Tuesday.

England's cricketers have given

themselves a good chance

of clinching their one day

series against Australia.

England posted 302 from their 50

overs after being put into bat.

They made a slow start,

and when Moeen Ali was out

they were 189-6 in the 39th over.

Jos Buttler and Chris Woakes

repaired the damage.

Woakes made an unbeaten 50

and Buttler reached a century off

the last ball of the innings.

A few moments ago Australia

were 158-3 in the 30th over.

Alexis Sanchez is on the verge

of joining Manchester United

from Arsenal, after United

midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan agreed

to be part of a direct swap.

The players will both

have their medicals today.

Mkhitaryan's paperwork for his

transfer was completed yesterday.

The length of the Armenian's

contract at Arsenal,

and his salary, is undisclosed.

Sanchez missed Arsenal's 4-1

win over Crystal Palace

because he was travelling

to Manchester.

The Premier League paid

tribute to Cyrille Regis,

with fans across the country taking

time to remember the former England

striker, who died last week.

On the field, there were few

surprises with those fighting

for a top four finish all winning,

as Drew Savage reports.

Before the action,

time for reflection.

Football took a minute to celebrate

the life of West Brom,

Coventry and and England striker

Cyrille Regis, who died this

week at the age of 59.

And then, business as usual.

Manchester City took another step

towards the Premier League title.

Record scorer Sergio

Aguero was at it again -

his 11th hat-trick for City.

Last week's defeat at

Liverpool, a distant memory.

Newcastle United on the

receiving end, beaten 3-1.

It is so important because we need

goals and we score in the past,

in the present and we will score

in the future.

It was an important finish.

So City are still 12 points ahead

of Manchester United,

who ground out a 1-0 win at Burnley.

They only had two shots

on target, Romelo Lukaku put

in the hard yards...

Anthony Martial put it away.

That keeps Jose Mourinho's

side in second place,

three points ahead of Chelsea.

They'd started 2018 with five draws

and struggled for goals.

At Brighton, that was

no longer a problem.

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Willian.

There's a lovely flow

about Chelsea here.

It's absolutely sensational,

what a wonderful goal!

A great afternoon for Eden Hazard,

as well as playing his part

in Willian's goal, he scored two

himself and made this

young man's day.

Arsenal reacted to last week's

defeat to Bournemouth

by destroying Crystal Palace 4-1.

All their goals came

in the first 22 minutes,

although they are still some way off

the Champions League places.

And Stoke City responded

to new manager Paul Lambert

with their first win

for nearly a month.

2-0 against Huddersfield,

which means they're out

of the relegation zone.

Elsewhere, Leicester are up

to seventh after beating Watford.

Everton versus West Brom

and West Ham versus Bournemouth

both finished 1-1.

Southampton host Spurs

at 4pm this afternoon.

Celtic cruised into the Scottish Cup

fifth round with a 5-0

thrashing of Brechin City.

The Scottish Premiership champions

have had a three-week winter break,

and looked refreshed at Celtic Park.

Brendan Rodgers fielded a strong

team, despite his opponents

currently sitting bottom of Scottish

football's second tier,

without a league win all season.

Saracens are still in with a chance

of retaining their Champions Cup

trophy, after beating

Northampton Saints 62-14.

The defending champions had to win

against Saint to have a chance

of making the quarter-finals.

But, they still need other results

to go their way today

if they are to make the last eight.

Scarlets have no such worries.

They beat Toulon to become the first

Welsh side to qualify

for the quarter finals since 2012.

Bath and Ospreys are out, though.

There will be a new name

on the Masters trophy this evening

with Mark Allen taking on Kyren

Wilson.

Neither player has reached

this stage before.

Allen knocked out two-time winner

John Higgins in his semi-final,

having already beaten Ronnie

O'Sullivan.

Wilson defeated world

number three Judd Trump

to make his first Masters final.

England won their opening match

of the Netball Quad Series

against New Zealand 64-57

at the Copper Box Arena

in London last night.

The match had to go to extra time

after the score was level at 49

points all at the end

of regulation time.

It's the fourth edition

of the round robin format

series between England,

South Africa, New Zealand

and Australia, with all the teams

preparing for April's Commonwealth

Games on the Gold Coast.

History was made at Ascot

yesterday as Un De So won

the Clarence House Chase

for a record third time.

In testing conditions,

jockey Paul Townend patiently

guided the favourite home.

It's the 8th grade one win

for Un De So who's trained

in Ireland by Wille Mullins.

How's this for impressive driving...

A mistake in heat one saw

British Bobsleigh duo Meesha McNeill

and Montell Douglas nearly come out

of their sled at the final World Cup

event, before the Winter Olympics,

but thanks to McNeill's quick

reactions the pair narrowly

escaped crashing.

That's all the sport for now.

Now on BBC News, The Papers.

Hello and welcome to our look

at today's Sunday morning papers.

As usual a mixed bag of stories

in today's editions -

Which I will be reviewing

Which I will be reviewing with our

guests in the studio.

Politics, celebrity engagements

and Donald Trump so let's take

a closer look with my guests.

With me are the journalist

and author Lainy Malkanithe,

and political commentator

James Millar.

Starting off this morning's

papers is The Times,

which says allies of the Labour

leader Jeremy Corbyn are planning

to deselect 50 moderate Labour MPs.

The Telegraph leads with comments

from the Foreign Secretary Boris

Johnson, arguing the UK should

welcome a visit from Donald Trump.

The Sunday Express says more

than a 100 Tory MPs will demand

the Prime Minister ends free

movement and leaves the single

market as soon as the UK exits

the EU in March next year.

The Observer says the Prime Minister

is to tackle pension abuse

from greedy bosses who attempt

to "line their own pockets"

while failing to look

after worker's pension schemes.

And the Mail on Sunday leads

with an investigation carried out

by Channel 4 into three former

Conservative cabinet ministers,

in what the paper calls a "cash

for Brexit" controversy.

That is the papers in brief but

let's talk about them in a lot more

detail. Lainy, let's start with the

Sunday Telegraph. They have Boris

Johnson saying, stop moaning about

Donald Trump coming to Britain on a

visit, let's get him over here, we

should welcome a visit from Donald

Trump.

I'm under the impression,

unless I'm wrong, I thought there

was a planned visit happening and

then Donald Trump then said, I don't

want to come.

So it's not as the

cancelled?

Yes, I think that's the

case. The US embassy which has been

moved to South London, was pretty

dismissive about that move to South

London and said he won't come to cut

the ribbon. So I'm not sure. Boris

Johnson seems to want to continue

really remind us of the special

relationship, perhaps that is what

is behind this, a reminder there is

a so-called special relationship

between the US and UK wants to

remind us of that fact. But I wasn't

under any impression an invitation

was rescinded.

I suppose he's having

a go at the people that are saying

they would protest against a Trump

visit, making him feel unwelcome. He

says Jeremy Corbyn for example is

guilty of anti-Americanism and

quotes and ignorant interest in the

economic of this country.

It is up

to people if they want to protest,

it's up to the individual. I do

think this is about cementing the

idea of the special relationship. He

says this is the single most

important economic relationship

there is. I wonder about those other

countries in the world, the nations

of the Commonwealth for example,

that Britain was supposed to be

making new trade relationships

within the light of Brexit. That

seems to have been put on the back

burner now.

James, should we be more

positive in rolling out the red

carpet for Donald Trump and stop all

these ideas of the protest if he

comes customer I don't know about

stopping the idea of a protest but

there's a lot to say about a visit

from Donald Trump, it would unite

the nation.

Not Boris Johnson. I

suspect is trying to remind people

about Boris Johnson... He came out

in the week with his bridge to

France idea, that presumably didn't

get him enough attention so he's

come out with, how can I get

attention? Everyone pays attention

when you talk about Donald Trump so

I will talk about Donald Trump.

Is

it that simple? He's the Foreign

Secretary, surely he's allowed to

talk about relations with the United

States.

He is allowed to but why

now? Perhaps there was a re-shuffle

in which it was trying to make sure

there was no obvious successor to

her and safer position and in the

last week Boris has come out with a

bridge Defrance, which is a bit

nuts, let's be honest, it's not

going to happen. And now being

controversial and saying we should

welcome Trump.

In the wake of

Brexit, surely we do need trade

deals with other countries, whatever

you think of Brexit, the reality is

we will need new trade relationships

and the United States is hugely

important, so therefore it's a

pretty good reason to roll out the

red carpet for Donald Trump.

But he

is not banned from coming to the UK,

so he can come. If the suggestion

is, is to make all those that wanted

to protest about him and this

uniting force you spoke about,

protests on the streets, then that

is the democratic right of the

people of this country.

But it is

his right to say, make an welcome,

stop talking about protests.

Of

course, exactly, but...

He can come.

No one is stopping him.

There's a

weird bit where it says the people

that voted for Trump are not bad

people, they are on the whole good

and kindly people. I get that, you

cannot demonise the millions that

voted for Trump but people are going

to protest, or who want to protest

are also good and kindly people with

Erin point of view.

Everyone is good

and kindly! Including new two, of

course. Let's stick with America for

a moment. The Observer on their

front pages, the latest on the

dysfunctionality, I suppose, of

Washington and the fact that

everything can just shut down

because there's this deadlock on

Capitol Hill and government services

just shut down because they can't

get a vote on the money, on

government spending money.

Yeah, I'm

not sure it is dysfunction, at the

risk of being controversial. It's

the way the American system works,

everyone has to work together to get

through a deal.

But that is not

happening.

That's not happening,

that is the problem. The bizarre

thing is we have a Republican

president and Republicans

controlling Congress and the Senate

and still they can't agree to get a

deal through, in terms of funding

for various programmes that they

need to agree on. It's a very weird

system.

We have had these shutdowns

before in the United States but I

don't think we have ever had it

where it is the same party in

control of the White House and

Congress.

I was surprised to hear

the last time there was a shutdown

was 2013. It doesn't seem that long

ago. I was watching interviews on TV

yesterday, comments from people in

the US that are likely to suffer as

a result of this shutdown, in other

words they won't be being paid, they

don't know if they can go into their

jobs on Monday, what will they do

instead? It was almost a very

natural approach to this has

happened before. If it was me, I'd

be wondering how am I going to pay

my mortgage question how will I

afford to fill up the car with

petrol, do you know what I mean? It

seemed to be like a natural progress

on, that this has happened before,

only into thousands ten and will

happen again. Yet it's quite

shocking to read principal services

that many honest, law-abiding people

go and work in and will not be able

to go to their jobs or be paid.

OK.

Let's come back to domestic events.

The Observer from page has Theresa

May saying she will find greedy

bosses who betray their workers, in

terms of pension schemes especially,

in the wake of the Carillion

disaster and BHS. A lot of examples

where pensioners have suddenly seen

their pension schemes apparently in

jeopardy.

It is interesting. This is

a new look Observer, tabloid

Observer and they have got the Prime

Minister to write something for them

which is topical and will concern a

lot of people. A lot of us don't

know if we will retire or what we

will get when we retire, very

different to the baby boomers who

had their guaranteed pension. It is

an issue that ticks a lot of boxes.

The only problem is Theresa May has

spoken about stuff like this before,

putting workers on boards, working

for the many and not the few, if you

like and all this stuff. She spoken

about it before and it hasn't

happened yet. I just wonder...

You

are holding your breath.

A lot of

talk about a white paper and points

being discovered for a White Paper.

You feel may be potential owners

feel betrayed by these big

companies?

It feels a bit like a

White Paper or a new policy after

the problem has happened. For a lot

of people who have pensions and are

coming up to receiving their

pensions, it's a bit late in the day

to say there are going to be tougher

laws or sanctions or whatever, or

that they will be keeping much more

than I on this. Why aren't...

There

is a pensions regulator at the

moment.

In which case, is what has

the pensions regulator been doing up

until this point question mark that

is a big question. We will have

another layer of legislation or

another layer of keeping an eye on

it but for many people that has come

too late. The idea that government

is getting involved in the private

aspects of the way in which we are

governed, perhaps we need to go and

look at that again and look at the

issue of private partnerships.

The

Sunday Times, a continuing story of

the Labour Party, really, and what

they see as the drift to the left.

Jeremy Corbyn allies looking to oust

50 Labour MPs. This is momentum

really, isn't it?

Funny old story

this one. First few paragraphs are

exactly that. About what is going on

it in Westminster 's, rumours and it

has been claimed that with momentum

winning seats in the NEC, they will

use that to put pressure on MPs they

think are not quite on board with

the left-wing agenda. Then there is

a sort of gear changing to the story

of Haringey, this north London

borough where it looks like the

candidate will probably win control

in May. It is a really interesting

story because it might turn out to

be like in the 80s, one of these

nutty councils that does all these

properly left-wing things. But it

might not, it might work out well.

It was keeping an eye on. For

example, worried about putting it as

a splash of labour because it looks

London centric.

Do you think Labour

is lifting to the left, Lainy, or

momentum driving out moderates?

I

thought Labour was on the left

rather than drifting into the left.

Drifting to the hard left.

I think

the way this is written is quite

sinister. There's this hit list that

exists. But calling Hilary Benn of

all people on a hit list... I don't

want to pigeonhole people into being

hard left but he doesn't strike me

as the troublemakers of the Labour

Party kind of things to buy a quick

look at another story on the front

page of the Sunday Times, a slightly

lighter story.

Michael Gove having a

go at clock watching civil servants,

doesn't think they are working hard

enough it seems.

Again, back to that

re-shuffle on people trying to get

some attention for the Michael Gove

has a story on the front page. He

reckons civil servants, not that

they don't work hard enough, well he

does think that, but they do their

hours that is it. That apparently is

wrong in Michael Gove's world. That

seems entirely sensible. There is a

brilliant exchange round the Cabinet

table apparently, when Michael Gove

went on a brand and complained about

it the PM Riley replied, it's called

flexible working, Michael, and we as

a government support it. I think for

a lot of people who do flexible

working more might want to use

flexible working in the future

pleased to see the PM is on board

with that.

Lainy, an interesting

story in the Sunday Telegraph about

lipstick knives which are being

advertised for sale on Instagram

among other places.

I found this...

Given the level of knife crime that

we are experiencing in particular, I

don't want to say throughout the

country but in London and in other

cities, that... The called lipstick

knives because they fit in your

handbag, in stereotypical pink

colours, there is a cat knife out

there that you can slip into your

handbag and it is very much geared

towards a female market. I find it

quite disturbing, this piece, that

these are being advertised on

Instagram and banned in the UK but

being advertised on Instagram.

Is

the idea they are for self defence?

Is that why they are being

advertised?

Not even the self

defence, they are not going to be

used at all. They are kind of like

mementos of things you might just

put on your windowsill. Somebody

actually bought one for his wife,

went to America and bought one for

his wife and just thought, she just

liked colourful things that

sparkled. But I find it, as I said

given the fact that there is knife

crime, this level of knife crime and

that these pocket knives are being

advertised, which are illegal in

this country, you can't buy it here,

you can buy it on the Internet and

that is a worrying thing.

James

Comey worried by that?

I think this

is because a bunch of the stories.

They have pictures of the knives and

they do look like lipsticks and you

wonder why anybody would or need to

have one, really. They are described

as the mermaid, the fans of all

rainbow, the rainbow blade and being

pictured on Instagram with hashtags

like girl power and like a girl.

There is no goal power of carrying a

knife. There is nothing nicer

glamorous about it. But one of my

concerns is the way it is covered.

Because it's the papers, they focus

on Instagram. I think the story

stands up on its own about the

knives but papers like to have a dig

at social media because they are

rivals.

Let's end off with a nice

story about Ed Sheeran, who is going

to marry his schoolboy Crush

according to the Sunday Times. This

is a story in a lot of the papers

today. Ed Sheeran getting married to

a girl he knew at school.

Very cute.

Never dated her at school as I

understand. They got together later

on. He had an accident and she

looked after him for a whole year.

He talked about... What's the name,

Cherry Seaborn, having looked after

him every single day whilst he took

time to recuperate. Love has

blossomed. He is 26, she is 25, far

too young to be getting married in

my opinion but what do I know!

What

is the ideal age?

These are young

people. If they were my kids would I

be saying, yet, get married.

Wait a

few years. James, are you happy?

He

is a divisive figure, Ed Sheeran. I

think he can write a decent song,

fair play to him. He's a modern pop

star, marrying an accountant. Pop

stars used to marry...

There's

nothing wrong with that!

A cocaine

fuelled supermodel... He's marrying

an accountant, living up to his

boring image.

Good luck to him. I

hope is not listening to those cruel

comments. Paul

for Ed Sheeran.

And the cats are

happy for them as well!

That is it

from the papers for today. Thank you

both.

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Thanks again to my guest and we will

see you soon. Bye-bye.