0:00:01 > 0:00:04Now it is time for Ben and The Papers.
0:00:07 > 0:00:16Now it is time for Ben and The Papers.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19Hello, and welcome to our Sunday morning look at the papers.
0:00:19 > 0:00:21With me are the journalist James Rampton and Peter Conradi,
0:00:21 > 0:00:31Foreign Editor at the Sunday Times.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34Let us take you through sop of the front-pages at least.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37Let us take you through sop of the front-pages at least.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39The Sunday Times says Meghan Markle plans to make
0:00:39 > 0:00:40a speech at her wedding.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42Donald Trump has criticised Theresa May, according
0:00:42 > 0:00:44to the Mail on Sunday, who say the US president thinks
0:00:44 > 0:00:49the PM's approach to Brexit hasn't been "tough enough".
0:00:49 > 0:00:52The Independent on Sunday leads with a dramatic picture of the bomb
0:00:52 > 0:01:00in Kabul which has killed at least 95 people and injured many more.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02The Telegraph says a Cabinet source is warning of Brexit betrayal,
0:01:02 > 0:01:04as civil servants backing remain are handling the terms
0:01:04 > 0:01:12of departure from the EU.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14A crackdown on rogue parking companies is
0:01:14 > 0:01:15the Express's main story.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17And the Observer leads with claims that Academy schools
0:01:17 > 0:01:23are facing a cash crisis.
0:01:23 > 0:01:29Let us start off then with the Mail on Sunday.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32Trump's snub to the Prime Minister over Brexit according to the Mail on
0:01:32 > 0:01:38Sunday at least. This is from this Piers Morgan interview with Donald
0:01:38 > 0:01:44Trump in Davos. It is on ITV tonight.Piers Morgan doesn't get
0:01:44 > 0:01:49enough publicity so we will talk about him for the next ten minutes.
0:01:49 > 0:01:55And Donald Trump: It is the dream team. As if the Brexit negotiations
0:01:55 > 0:02:00weren't going badly enough already and we were feeling completely
0:02:00 > 0:02:05sidelined by Europe and the Tory party is in some sort of meltdown we
0:02:05 > 0:02:09have Donald Trump saying I could have done that better. We were
0:02:09 > 0:02:15talking earlier, it might have been more of a story if Trump said I
0:02:15 > 0:02:20couldn't have do 19 better. It is another indication of how der rye
0:02:20 > 0:02:24sieve he is of this country and dismiss sieve of Theresa May. He
0:02:24 > 0:02:29says anything she did I could have done better. It plays into the idea
0:02:29 > 0:02:36she is sub missive and subservient in his presence because she is
0:02:36 > 0:02:40desperate for a post-Brexit trade deal. It is demeaning for us but we
0:02:40 > 0:02:45are in a desperate position and this reflects that. The sort of thing
0:02:45 > 0:02:49most Presidents wouldn't say about a British Prime Minister. Would it be
0:02:49 > 0:02:54the way I negotiate? No, I wouldn't negotiate it the way it's beening
0:02:54 > 0:03:00inned. I would have had a different attitude.He is a stable genius.So
0:03:00 > 0:03:04I have read and heard on Twitter. The great thing is his line would
0:03:04 > 0:03:08have been the EU is not all it is cracked up to be. Great negotiating
0:03:08 > 0:03:14stance, that is how he would have handled it. It is tremendous fun, I
0:03:14 > 0:03:18think, really his interview, it is predictable as well as James says
0:03:18 > 0:03:23really. The other element is the fact he appears to have invited
0:03:23 > 0:03:26himself again for a state visit to Britain, much to everyone's
0:03:26 > 0:03:34surprise. He is apparently coming twice, once...Once is never enough.
0:03:34 > 0:03:41Precisely. Once after a Nato summit and again in October. So there is a
0:03:41 > 0:03:44wonderful deadpan line, Mr Trump's comment took Downing Street and
0:03:44 > 0:03:52Buckingham Palace by surprise. He was meant to come for the opening
0:03:52 > 0:03:55of the American embassy but he didn't because he doesn't like south
0:03:55 > 0:04:01London. He did make a big impact at Davos this week. He arrived with a
0:04:01 > 0:04:05massive entourage, a bit like a rock star there.There was a wonderful
0:04:05 > 0:04:11photo on the front of the guardian. The Evening Standard in London and
0:04:11 > 0:04:18it was snow Apocalypse Now, his fleet of helicopters and it was like
0:04:18 > 0:04:24the scene from Apocalypse Now of all the helicopters flying through the
0:04:24 > 0:04:28air in Vietnam with snow added. There is a sense of pique about the
0:04:28 > 0:04:32fact he hasn't had the official invitation, he has been banging on
0:04:32 > 0:04:36about how Macron in the French capital rolled out the red carpet
0:04:36 > 0:04:41for him, they closed the Eiffel Tower. Anything that smacks of sell
0:04:41 > 0:04:46relate rope and red carpet, he is a sucker for that. If we want a trade
0:04:46 > 0:04:49deal he should spend three weeks in Buckingham Palace and it would be a
0:04:49 > 0:04:57done deal.What he hasn't... What he hasn't been invited to, this is the
0:04:57 > 0:05:03Sun on Sunday newspaper, apparently he hasn't been invited, perhaps not
0:05:03 > 0:05:07that surprisingly, to Megan and Harry's wedding. Let us go through
0:05:07 > 0:05:11the quotes of that. This is another mart of the interview. Have you got
0:05:11 > 0:05:14an invite to the Royal Wedding? Not that I know of said Donald Trump.
0:05:14 > 0:05:19Would you like to go? I'd want them to be happy is his answer. All of
0:05:19 > 0:05:29that is the backdrop is Meghan Markle had a go.Piers Morgan said
0:05:29 > 0:05:37Meghan said you were a misogynist. He says I still hope they are happy.
0:05:37 > 0:05:44And oh my invitation is lost in the post.I mean, you know, I think
0:05:44 > 0:05:48Meghan Markle is a great thing, I am sure she will bring joy to the
0:05:48 > 0:05:54nation, one of the great things she will do is snub Trump. You can't say
0:05:54 > 0:05:59that, he is a divisive misogynist and the next day say you are welcome
0:05:59 > 0:06:03to my wedding, perhaps under pressure from the Government to talk
0:06:03 > 0:06:09about this fabled trade deal we are supposed to be doing.Perhaps if you
0:06:09 > 0:06:14sit down the table next to the mad uncle or aunt.To be fair there may
0:06:14 > 0:06:17not be room for Donald Trump, because it is a relatively you
0:06:17 > 0:06:23know... It is a small and intimate affair isn't it.I don't think there
0:06:23 > 0:06:28is room in London to land the helicopters, maybe the garden of
0:06:28 > 0:06:32Buckingham Palace the only place. Wasn't Prince Harry, he was
0:06:32 > 0:06:35interviewing Barack Obama, and there was an issue there about whether
0:06:35 > 0:06:40Barack Obama would be invited to the wedding. So you can't have even, can
0:06:40 > 0:06:46you, there is a lot of ex-Presidents to get through.Maybe an American
0:06:46 > 0:06:51President has different status when it is the an American citizen who is
0:06:51 > 0:06:55doing the marrying.Any way, speaking of that wedding, whether or
0:06:55 > 0:07:01not Donald Trump is there, and it looks like he probably won't be, the
0:07:01 > 0:07:07Sunday Times is saying, your paper Peter.Indeed.Meghan is going to
0:07:07 > 0:07:12make a speech at the wedding. And no reason she shouldn't, but that is
0:07:12 > 0:07:16quite an interesting bit of detail ahead of the wedding.Yes,
0:07:16 > 0:07:24presumably if Trump were there, it would give her the opportunity to
0:07:24 > 0:07:27remetre views on his attitude. You are still a misogynist, you are
0:07:27 > 0:07:35still the President. It is a break with precedent. Why not? It is 2018.
0:07:35 > 0:07:39And yes, because the expectation is her father, former Hollywood
0:07:39 > 0:07:45lighting director is not going to speak for her. We don't learn why he
0:07:45 > 0:07:52is not going to, but what more can one say.It is 800 people, of some
0:07:52 > 0:07:55of the most influential people, I can't say the word, in this country
0:07:55 > 0:08:04and he is a very private man. I like the cartoon, the agent is saying
0:08:04 > 0:08:08tell the Palace Meghan won't accept a non-speaking role. I go to a lot
0:08:08 > 0:08:12of young people's weddings this days through my children. Young people, I
0:08:12 > 0:08:18know some.Have you been invited? Yes I have taken Trump's invite! It
0:08:18 > 0:08:23would be more unusual for the bride not to speak. That has become a
0:08:23 > 0:08:28totally, a given at most weddings. I think that is is right. If the groom
0:08:28 > 0:08:32speaks why shouldn't the bride as well.She showed us how articulate
0:08:32 > 0:08:39she is, you know, and I am sure it will be a very good speech.Is she
0:08:39 > 0:08:48going to obey him or not.We will wait for the Sunday Times...You
0:08:48 > 0:08:53will have to wait until May to find out.The Sunday Times, their main
0:08:53 > 0:08:58story is about the Defence Secretary, Gavin William song it is
0:08:58 > 0:09:04a chilling warning he put out this week, about how Russia could cause
0:09:04 > 0:09:09not just thousands of deaths but thousands and thousands and
0:09:09 > 0:09:14thousands of deaths, by targeting energy and gas pipelines. There is
0:09:14 > 0:09:20sort of suggestions about why he's put that out there this week.I
0:09:20 > 0:09:24think it is intriguing he put it out there the same day he admitted his
0:09:24 > 0:09:27had a flirtation with a former colleague, apparently the Guardian
0:09:27 > 0:09:32was on to the story as well. But security chiefs are saying his
0:09:32 > 0:09:38warning about Russia is is alarmist, and that there may be a suggestion
0:09:38 > 0:09:42he has used secret information to ramp that up. I mean it is
0:09:42 > 0:09:47incredible the rise of this man. Six monthsing a he wasn't a household
0:09:47 > 0:09:51name in his only household. Only famous for having a spider in his
0:09:51 > 0:10:04office to put fear of God...That is quite a claim to fameI think he
0:10:04 > 0:10:08called the spider Chronos because the God ate his own children.
0:10:08 > 0:10:12Putting the fear of God into the backbenches, now he became Defence
0:10:12 > 0:10:15Secretary after perhaps he suggested that Michael Fallon should leave,
0:10:15 > 0:10:22and now, he is making a rather unsubtle bid to be leader I would
0:10:22 > 0:10:28say, and the Russian revelations are part of a distraction technique,
0:10:28 > 0:10:32after he revealed about the flirtation he wanted to distrack
0:10:32 > 0:10:38people.A good day to bury bad news. There is still this jostling for, if
0:10:38 > 0:10:43Theresa May goes, who will be the party leader? Leader? He is he a
0:10:43 > 0:10:49leader?The point is he has come from nowhere very fast, hasn't he. I
0:10:49 > 0:10:55mean really the way things are going, who knows? Who knows.I will
0:10:55 > 0:11:02take over.Well, speaking of all of that, the Telegraph are saying that
0:11:02 > 0:11:09Mandarins are forcing Theresa May into a Brexit betrayal. They are
0:11:09 > 0:11:12letting remain nor civil servants dictate the terms of departure from
0:11:12 > 0:11:17the European Union. It is another warning, I suppose from the
0:11:17 > 0:11:21Brexiteers that the whole thing is being held up or soft pedalled if
0:11:21 > 0:11:28you were.This is a story that one feels the Sunday Telegraph could
0:11:28 > 0:11:33write every week, the mail could write. The custodians of a hard
0:11:33 > 0:11:38Brexit. The Telegraph is out to see any signs of sabotage from within,
0:11:38 > 0:11:42particularly from the ranks of the Mandarins. This is all part of the
0:11:42 > 0:11:48manoeuvring, I think one would expect at this stage in the process.
0:11:48 > 0:11:54It is inkicktive of panic within Brexit rank, they are accusing the
0:11:54 > 0:11:58Mandarins, I know they are capable of bias, the Mandarins by law have
0:11:58 > 0:12:02to be impartial and implement the Government's policies and the
0:12:02 > 0:12:06Government policy is to deliver Brexit, so, blaming the Mandarins is
0:12:06 > 0:12:11the last resort of the scoundrel and I think it may well be it is, you
0:12:11 > 0:12:19know, slight hint they may well be panicking, and Theresa Villiers has
0:12:19 > 0:12:25reinforceded that by suggesting that it may be we are seeing a dilution
0:12:25 > 0:12:31of Brexit, we have heard Jacob Rees-Mogg in week, urging the
0:12:31 > 0:12:34Government to hold its never and really enforce a tough Brexit --
0:12:34 > 0:12:39nerve. So I think the assertiveness they are making these comments with,
0:12:39 > 0:12:46tells me they are worried are.Let us look at that, that Sunday
0:12:46 > 0:12:50Telegraph story with Teresa I havier, a commentary piece by her,
0:12:50 > 0:12:55she says May once set out a bold vision for Brexit, we must not let
0:12:55 > 0:13:02this go. A direct warning from what was a senior Cabinet Minister.It is
0:13:02 > 0:13:07true. It talks to the point that the one can have a bold vision and I
0:13:07 > 0:13:11think certainly what is happening is the Mandarins who have to deal with
0:13:11 > 0:13:15the nitty gritty of separating us from the EU, necessarily are going
0:13:15 > 0:13:20to flag up the problems there are. I mean, the extent tent to which the
0:13:20 > 0:13:28EU is closely, we are so closely intertwined with the EU, when you
0:13:28 > 0:13:34try to, you move beyond slogans to sort things out. You realised the
0:13:34 > 0:13:43complexity of the challenge. It indicates the Civil War that every
0:13:43 > 0:13:46Tory leader has been toppled by Europe. It is the Civil War that
0:13:46 > 0:13:51will not end and the struggle between Brexiteers an remainors at
0:13:51 > 0:13:55the moment is a continuation of that. As far as I can see there is
0:13:55 > 0:14:00no end, even in the war cabinet it is evenly split between the two
0:14:00 > 0:14:07and...Maybe there will be an end to it once we have left the EU.There
0:14:07 > 0:14:13will be argument about the way it is done and should we have another
0:14:13 > 0:14:20referendum.There are erecriminations with parking. Much
0:14:20 > 0:14:25more serious... We have got on to the main story R time is up for the
0:14:25 > 0:14:30parking cowboys.Quite right too. Says man who has had a few tickets
0:14:30 > 0:14:35in his time.I have had a run in. I had a run in with a parking cowboy.
0:14:35 > 0:14:42But I won. I beat them. This is essentially the way, this is about
0:14:42 > 0:14:47parking on private land, so you park on private land and you get clamped
0:14:47 > 0:14:51or ticketed, and according to the Express's front-page exclusive,
0:14:51 > 0:14:58rogue firms that do this will no longer be allowed to use the DVLA
0:14:58 > 0:15:02database to hunt down innocent drivers.It is straightly extreme
0:15:02 > 0:15:12language.Cowboys indicate John Wayne riding in to liberate
0:15:12 > 0:15:17oppressed driver, they have a good point. These companies are using
0:15:17 > 0:15:21DVLA records in order to chase people down. I didn't know people
0:15:21 > 0:15:26were allowed to access that, that is being stopped. They are issuing 11
0:15:26 > 0:15:31tickets every minute, if that is stopped that has to be a good thing.
0:15:31 > 0:15:36Everybody recents getting a parking ticket. The idea of parking, being
0:15:36 > 0:15:40privatised in this way, people will recent than any way. What is the
0:15:40 > 0:15:45idea, the state should do it all?I think what we are talking is parking
0:15:45 > 0:15:50on private land and often these things, I am not speaking from birth
0:15:50 > 0:15:57personal experience here.Is the counselling working?I'm moving on.
0:15:57 > 0:16:03The signage often is not clear, or they are overzealous. This is
0:16:03 > 0:16:07obviously a blow for freedom and liberty! Fighting back against
0:16:07 > 0:16:12cowboys. Maybe it will be different when we leave the European Union.
0:16:12 > 0:16:18Let us finish off on a story about Swindon's Macey ready for Oscar
0:16:18 > 0:16:24close up. That is the Sunday Times newspaper, there we go. There is...
0:16:24 > 0:16:30A lot of mentions today. I can't think why actually! Macey changed
0:16:30 > 0:16:37her mind about what she wants to wear to the Oscars.Heart-warming is
0:16:37 > 0:16:41a dreadful overused word but I am going to say this is a heart-warming
0:16:41 > 0:16:47story because it is a six-year-old girl from Swindon, and she 's the
0:16:47 > 0:16:52youngest ever deaf person ever to be involved in an Oscar-winning film.
0:16:52 > 0:16:57The previous youngest winner was Shirley Temple who was also six, but
0:16:57 > 0:17:03this is a very very powerful film about a young girl, who feels locked
0:17:03 > 0:17:07out of the rest of the world because she's not born into a deaf family,
0:17:07 > 0:17:13as nine out of ten children are, she's isolated in that world, and
0:17:13 > 0:17:18trying to make her way and it's just awe very very touching story about a
0:17:18 > 0:17:21young girl making her mark on the world, and proving that anything is
0:17:21 > 0:17:27possible to her. I think that is a really great message.I haven't seen
0:17:27 > 0:17:32the film but it seems moving. What is interesting she is the fourth
0:17:32 > 0:17:37generation in her family, to be deaf, you know so we are talking
0:17:37 > 0:17:42about the film, but there are serious points here about how you
0:17:42 > 0:17:45know, problems, the parents have faced in getting treatment for her
0:17:45 > 0:17:52or schooling for her, they had to move from Cornwall to skin don --
0:17:52 > 0:17:55Swindon so she could attend school with specialist support. Anything
0:17:55 > 0:17:59like this that puts a spotlight on the problems or the issues or the
0:17:59 > 0:18:03challenges that deaf children face I think is welcome.He is going to be
0:18:03 > 0:18:09the most famous person from Swindon. All I know about Swindon is it has
0:18:09 > 0:18:13the most round about s of any city in Europe. That is a better story.
0:18:13 > 0:18:22She will be in the headlines many years to come.You are be deluged
0:18:22 > 0:18:27from people...Billie Piper is from Swindon. Melinda messenger. What a
0:18:27 > 0:18:30surprise, a journalist who is wrong. It is a great story, she will be
0:18:30 > 0:18:36famous.I have always enjoyed my visits to Swindon he adds hastily.
0:18:36 > 0:18:41You are getting a letter from the mayor of Swindon.I will have to
0:18:41 > 0:18:46apologise like Boris Johnson.The man who said this this town is just
0:18:46 > 0:18:51about round abouts. Good to talk to you, thank you for being with us.
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