0:00:16 > 0:00:20Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
0:00:20 > 0:00:22bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:22 > 0:00:28A bit early, even with the winter Olympics on! That's OK, we were
0:00:28 > 0:00:31ready, poised, waiting. Look at them.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33With me are Kevin Schofield,
0:00:33 > 0:00:34editor of Politics Home and Katie Martin,
0:00:35 > 0:00:37the head of Fast FT.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40Many of tomorrow's front pages are already in.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42Brexit leads the front of the FT this weekend -
0:00:42 > 0:00:45with a picture of Theresa May and Angela Merkel meeting
0:00:45 > 0:00:50in Berlin in the run up to a security summit this weekend.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53The I says Mrs May warned lives will be put at risk
0:00:53 > 0:01:00unless there is a Brexit security deal.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03The Express leads with Brexit too -
0:01:03 > 0:01:06the paper quotes a prominent remain campaigner who it claims said
0:01:06 > 0:01:08Britain should stay in the EU because older people who backed
0:01:08 > 0:01:12Brexit will "die off".
0:01:12 > 0:01:17The Telegraph have an interview with a former
0:01:17 > 0:01:19Czech spy who claims Jeremy Corbyn was a cold war source.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22The Labour Leader denies those allegations in The Mail
0:01:22 > 0:01:24The Labour Leader denies those allegations in The Mail.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27The Times headlines news that the government has blocked
0:01:27 > 0:01:30Oxfam from applying for any more government funding until they've
0:01:30 > 0:01:40got their house in order after the sex scandal.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43A delighted Dom Parsons is on the front of the Guardian
0:01:43 > 0:01:48as he picks up Bronze for Britain in the skeleton.
0:01:48 > 0:01:53The Mirror leads with the story of a transgender jockey hoping
0:01:53 > 0:01:57to become the first person to win a race as both a man and a woman.
0:01:57 > 0:01:58So Brexit and Oxfam makes several
0:01:58 > 0:02:00of the front pages, as do
0:02:00 > 0:02:10Mr Corbyn's meetings with a Czech official.
0:02:14 > 0:02:22Let's take a look at the FT and all the stories coming out of the US
0:02:22 > 0:02:28throughout the evening, about Russians who have been charged with
0:02:28 > 0:02:33interfering in US elections after Mueller investigation. 13 Russian
0:02:33 > 0:02:38individuals and three Russian organisations.This story dropped
0:02:38 > 0:02:45late this afternoon, it's a pretty explosive story. This is one of the
0:02:45 > 0:02:48results effectively of the long-running investigation into
0:02:48 > 0:02:55potential interference. Donald Trump has said in a number of times is
0:02:55 > 0:03:00fake news, it's nothing, nothing to see here. Today the FBI comes along
0:03:00 > 0:03:03and indicts 13 individuals and three groups, saying we have strong
0:03:03 > 0:03:07reasons to believe they may have been interfering in our election,
0:03:07 > 0:03:11defrauding the US effectively. One of the people they are looking
0:03:11 > 0:03:17closely at is someone who is described as Putin's chef. A
0:03:17 > 0:03:22long-time associate of the Russian president, he is the chap who runs
0:03:22 > 0:03:28the online troll factory outside St Petersburg. There is a lot of focus
0:03:28 > 0:03:33on what extent did this kind of online interference have any impact?
0:03:33 > 0:03:37Internet research agency, I think it is...The troll factory, everyone
0:03:37 > 0:03:47calls it! Obviously Trump has come out with a tweet, because this is
0:03:47 > 0:03:51Donald Trump, saying there is nothing to see, no collusion. This
0:03:51 > 0:03:55is the FBI, they don't muck about and check out indictments on a
0:03:55 > 0:04:01Friday afternoon for no good reason. This looks awkward.At the moment it
0:04:01 > 0:04:06doesn't look like there is any actual American involved,
0:04:06 > 0:04:11implicated, as far as we can tell from what we've been told so far?
0:04:11 > 0:04:16Robert Mueller was making maps pretty clear there is no Americans,
0:04:16 > 0:04:20wittingly or unwittingly, anyway, no evidence to suggest anyone knew, any
0:04:20 > 0:04:25Americans knew, this was going on. Interesting Donald Trump has an
0:04:25 > 0:04:29immediate response to say, I'm in the clear, rather than this is
0:04:29 > 0:04:33pretty concerning. As President, you would think you would be at least a
0:04:33 > 0:04:41little concerned about the fact the US election could be at risk of
0:04:41 > 0:04:48being spun in one way or another by a foreign country. Without
0:04:48 > 0:04:51suggesting that anything Donald Trump knew anything about it, you
0:04:51 > 0:04:57only have to look at who was benefiting from these activities
0:04:57 > 0:05:03allegedly, activities were targeted at Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, opponents
0:05:03 > 0:05:07of Donald Trump, and also Hillary Clinton. Support of Bernie Sanders
0:05:07 > 0:05:11when he was a candidate, and in support of Donald Trump. It lends
0:05:11 > 0:05:15weight to the theory that the Russians were upset at the prospect
0:05:15 > 0:05:21of Donald Trump becoming president. This is the latest stage in this
0:05:21 > 0:05:24investigation. It's interesting that it's not over any time soon, they
0:05:24 > 0:05:29are feeling their way. There has also been a plea bargain and a
0:05:29 > 0:05:36separate charge connected to Russian activities.The scale of this
0:05:36 > 0:05:41investigation is just enormous. Again, the timing of this indictment
0:05:41 > 0:05:46that has come do today is awkward for the White House because there
0:05:46 > 0:05:49are other reports in the US press that there are dozens, maybe
0:05:49 > 0:05:52hundreds of people working in the White House who don't have proper
0:05:52 > 0:05:55security clearance yet, the checks that should go through quickly have
0:05:55 > 0:06:01not gone through really quickly for this administration. It builds up a
0:06:01 > 0:06:06picture that is pretty concerning. Let's stay with the FT but a
0:06:06 > 0:06:10different story. Number ten games for alignment with the EU to retain
0:06:10 > 0:06:16city access after Brexit. -- aims for alignment. Michel Barnier not to
0:06:16 > 0:06:20be convinced yet there will be any special plea there?He's been at
0:06:20 > 0:06:25pains to stress there can be no special arrangements for the UK,
0:06:25 > 0:06:28given Theresa May has made clear Britain will be leaving the single
0:06:28 > 0:06:32market and Customs union. He said there are enough but don't expect
0:06:32 > 0:06:37any special favours from us if that's the case. The city has been
0:06:37 > 0:06:43lobbying hard to the government to make the case for, they can't have
0:06:43 > 0:06:47trade barriers or substantial trade barriers imposed that would hamper
0:06:47 > 0:06:52their activities. The Financial Times have a good story tonight,
0:06:52 > 0:06:55which Parker, the political editor, always a trustworthy source, he says
0:06:55 > 0:07:01basically Britain is now looking at a system of mutual recognition
0:07:01 > 0:07:07whereby the EU and Britain would agree on areas on which they can see
0:07:07 > 0:07:09eye to eye and recognise each other's standards and regulations
0:07:09 > 0:07:18and how that would be policed by an independent body. The picture there
0:07:18 > 0:07:23of Theresa May and Angela Merkel in Munich earlier today, Angela Merkel
0:07:23 > 0:07:28has the same thing this afternoon, what they want is more clarity from
0:07:28 > 0:07:33the government. What exactly we are looking for with Brexit. This slowly
0:07:33 > 0:07:36surely would suggest the government is coming up with some type of
0:07:36 > 0:07:40vision they can present to Europe.I don't like to correct but I think
0:07:40 > 0:07:47they were in Berlin.They were in Berlin? Beg your pardon, they are in
0:07:47 > 0:07:52Munich tomorrow.It's always about the geography with me. Curious,
0:07:52 > 0:07:57though. Wasn't that a dubious word for the German Chancellor to use,
0:07:57 > 0:08:01that she is curious about what Britain intends.Well, yes. That
0:08:01 > 0:08:05sort of harks back to the conversation that Theresa May and
0:08:05 > 0:08:10Angela Merkel had last month in Davos where there was this whole
0:08:10 > 0:08:15report that she said, make us a deal. Merkel is like, you are the
0:08:15 > 0:08:22ones that are leaving. It doesn't work this way. This idea of how to
0:08:22 > 0:08:26retain a city access has been kicking around for quite awhile, it
0:08:26 > 0:08:30has been the preferred option for a lot of lobby groups on both sides of
0:08:30 > 0:08:34the fence for quite a long time because it is in nobody 's interest
0:08:34 > 0:08:40that the city. Art. It's a huge tax generator for the UK and we don't
0:08:40 > 0:08:44want to have any financial instability, either in the UK or in
0:08:44 > 0:08:50the EU as a result of the inevitable, what will happen when we
0:08:50 > 0:08:56leave. This is a way to try and, I'm going to say slightly fudge it, so
0:08:56 > 0:09:00we agree on principles. But we might differ on how to achieve those aims.
0:09:00 > 0:09:10It's a lot of fudging. It's a very public a dead. Let's look at the i,
0:09:10 > 0:09:18another Brexit story. -- it's a very complicated. Inevitably there will
0:09:18 > 0:09:23have to be sharing of information, intelligence. Surely that is in
0:09:23 > 0:09:27everyone's interest.Of course. This is a story you can read however you
0:09:27 > 0:09:30want depending on where you stand on the backs debate, you could see this
0:09:30 > 0:09:35as may saying, if you don't give us a deal, lives will be at risk. It's
0:09:35 > 0:09:40almost like she is saying, this is what is at stake, you must bend to
0:09:40 > 0:09:46our way of thinking. But underlying the story, the security chiefs from
0:09:46 > 0:09:51the UK Germany and France came together today, not politicians,
0:09:51 > 0:09:58security pointy heads, who said a rare and unprecedented warning that
0:09:58 > 0:10:02said listen, politicians, you will do what you will do, we have to keep
0:10:02 > 0:10:06working together. This is super important for all of us. It's good
0:10:06 > 0:10:10to see they are at least trying to figure out how to make this work.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14It's the language the Prime Minister is using in this speech tomorrow,
0:10:14 > 0:10:20she talks about ideology and the EU should not be ideological opposed to
0:10:20 > 0:10:25having a security arrangement with a non-EU member state which they don't
0:10:25 > 0:10:29have at the moment and times of anything remotely as close as
0:10:29 > 0:10:33Britain enjoys at the moment as part of the EU. That will get quite a few
0:10:33 > 0:10:39backs up because all in Brussels will say, hang on, surely an
0:10:39 > 0:10:43ideology is coming from London in terms of wanting to leave the single
0:10:43 > 0:10:49market and Customs union. For the Prime Minister to accuse the EU of
0:10:49 > 0:10:55behaving ideological rather than pragmatically is quite punchy.And
0:10:55 > 0:11:00then Theresa May must just point to the US. We have always had a close
0:11:00 > 0:11:05relationship of intelligence sharing with America.We have close
0:11:05 > 0:11:10relationships with Australia, with the US, lots of countries. There are
0:11:10 > 0:11:13certain legal mechanisms within the EU over arrest warrants a kind of
0:11:13 > 0:11:19thing. They are contingent on being part of the EU. We must either
0:11:19 > 0:11:21replace or adjust that legal framework so that carries on
0:11:21 > 0:11:25working. It's not impossible but it's the kind of nitty-gritty legal
0:11:25 > 0:11:30stuff and security stuff that must get done.Let's look at the mail.
0:11:30 > 0:11:35Kobin the collaborator in quotation marks. Labour leader denies claim by
0:11:35 > 0:11:41checks by he was paid to pass information to the Soviets. --
0:11:41 > 0:11:44Corbyn the collaborator. At the height of the Cold War he was
0:11:44 > 0:11:50formerly in contact with this spy. This was initially broken by the Son
0:11:50 > 0:11:55a couple of days ago, was at yesterday? News that moves so fast
0:11:55 > 0:12:03these days. I think it was yesterday. They had unearthed these
0:12:03 > 0:12:07documents in the Czech Republic, dating back to the Cold War. Which
0:12:07 > 0:12:15showed that, or indicated, that the cheque secret police attempted to
0:12:15 > 0:12:18make contact with Jeremy Corbyn who at that time was a Labour
0:12:18 > 0:12:24backbencher. To maybe see if he would be interested in being some
0:12:24 > 0:12:30kind of asset for them. As you say, have two stress Jeremy Corbyn has
0:12:30 > 0:12:34completely said this is untrue, it's a ridiculous Samir, entirely false.
0:12:34 > 0:12:40However the agent in question who Jeremy Corbyn met has come out and
0:12:40 > 0:12:46he knew exactly what he was doing, he knew I was a spy, and I know he
0:12:46 > 0:12:51has questions to answer. Quite a good line from Jeremy Corbyn's
0:12:51 > 0:12:54office today basically saying this has more holes in it many bad Bond
0:12:54 > 0:13:01movie.The quote in the paper here is, his aides described the latest
0:13:01 > 0:13:07claims as a ridiculous Samir and entirely. All sorts of other
0:13:07 > 0:13:09allegations during the run-up to the last allegation were made about
0:13:09 > 0:13:17Jeremy Corbyn's connections to militant groups, the IRA, has
0:13:17 > 0:13:26Balaam. It did not affect his popularity.His ideological
0:13:26 > 0:13:29opponents through the book, then another book, then they went to the
0:13:29 > 0:13:34library and got more books. Alleging links to the IRA. Links to Hamas,
0:13:34 > 0:13:44God knows what. It did not work, it did not affect his popularity.It
0:13:44 > 0:13:50increased his popularity I think among young voters. The Cold War is
0:13:50 > 0:13:53ancient history to anyone who is under 30.They have not lived
0:13:53 > 0:13:59through the troubles.Absolutely, it has zero cut through. Unless there
0:13:59 > 0:14:03is a smoking gun, some incontrovertible evidence, then I
0:14:03 > 0:14:08don't see this going anywhere.Even then I'm not sure it would move the
0:14:08 > 0:14:14dial.The times, no more money for Oxfam. The charity not able to bid
0:14:14 > 0:14:20for government funds until it gets its house in order.If you can think
0:14:20 > 0:14:24of a more depressing story than this over the past few days then you are
0:14:24 > 0:14:27doing better than I am. A strong week for depressing stories but this
0:14:27 > 0:14:33is right up there. The government gave Oxfam over £30 million last
0:14:33 > 0:14:37year, it's been a regular donor, presumably one of its biggest
0:14:37 > 0:14:41donors. It has for obvious reasons given the allegations made against
0:14:41 > 0:14:46certain individuals employed by Oxfam, said you will not get more
0:14:46 > 0:14:52money now. Oxfam is bending over backwards to say we are terribly
0:14:52 > 0:14:56sorry about what happened and we will do whatever it takes to sort
0:14:56 > 0:15:01this out. Nonetheless the government has reasonably said that's fine, but
0:15:01 > 0:15:08for now, we will not move forward with any more funding. One of the
0:15:08 > 0:15:13things that sticks out in this story, echoed in the story in the
0:15:13 > 0:15:18Guardian, is that the chief executive of the charity, Mark
0:15:18 > 0:15:21Goldring, making some comments I think my to haunt him about the
0:15:21 > 0:15:25nature of the allegations made against his former staff, saying
0:15:25 > 0:15:30critics are gunning for the charity. It's not as if anyone now babies in
0:15:30 > 0:15:38their cots. That might live with him. -- it's not as if anyone
0:15:38 > 0:15:42murdered babies in their cots.He has either had bad advice or ignored
0:15:42 > 0:15:47the advice given to him by his PR. Talk about pouring petrol on flames,
0:15:47 > 0:15:53those type of comments. They will come back to haunt him.Let's move
0:15:53 > 0:15:56on to the Telegraph. Student fees could be cut and review of
0:15:56 > 0:16:02university funding. Also interest rates, that student loans have to be
0:16:02 > 0:16:07paid back at, to be looked at as well. The Conservatives trying to
0:16:07 > 0:16:12manoeuvre into position, into an area that did well for Jeremy Corbyn
0:16:12 > 0:16:20Naseer, bearing in mind he did not win.You are right.-- did well for
0:16:20 > 0:16:24Jeremy Corbyn last year.There will be a review of higher education
0:16:24 > 0:16:34funding. At the moment, tuition fees are £9,250 a year. Every year, the
0:16:34 > 0:16:38university tries to charge as much as they can. In a general election,
0:16:38 > 0:16:41Labour say they will get rid of tuition fees completely. That
0:16:41 > 0:16:47obviously went down well with young voters, this is the Conservatives
0:16:47 > 0:16:52attempt to address those concerns. I think unless you are going to match
0:16:52 > 0:16:57that commitments, you are still going to look meaner than Labour.
0:16:57 > 0:17:02The suggestion is they would be reduced from £9,250 to £6,000 a
0:17:02 > 0:17:07year, but that is still £6,000 more than Labour are saying. Even if you
0:17:07 > 0:17:10will reduce interest rates on student loans again, I don't think
0:17:10 > 0:17:16that will... It's on every that the Tories would be wise not to stray
0:17:16 > 0:17:20into unless they can come up with something that matches Labour's
0:17:20 > 0:17:25offer. -- it's an area the Tories. What ever they will come up with
0:17:25 > 0:17:29will look mean in comparison to what Labour are suggesting.Grants might
0:17:29 > 0:17:33be looked at again as well?They are obviously looking at the big package
0:17:33 > 0:17:37of measures. We were talking about how young people these days don't
0:17:37 > 0:17:41remember the troubles in Ireland or the Cold War. Our generation, we
0:17:41 > 0:17:45have no idea, these kids are leaving university with just a massive
0:17:45 > 0:17:52amounts of debt, interest rates that balloon on them. It's terrifying.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55Certainly I didn't leave university with anything like that sort of
0:17:55 > 0:18:02weight on my shoulders.Now, I had £100 overdraft and even that raised
0:18:02 > 0:18:08eyebrows in the Cox all household. Dad, if you are watching, you
0:18:08 > 0:18:13remember the conversation just as I do. Finally, the Guardian. This is
0:18:13 > 0:18:19Dom Parsons, if you had never heard of him, you will know him now. He
0:18:19 > 0:18:25has a bronze in the skeleton. The scariest of scary Olympic Games.It
0:18:25 > 0:18:29is pretty scary, you lie on a thing and barrel down a hill really fast
0:18:29 > 0:18:33with a helmet on. It sounds like this was... He was always going to
0:18:33 > 0:18:37be in contention for this but sounds like the chap who was just in front
0:18:37 > 0:18:40of him made a mess of his last run and hey presto, the Brits finally
0:18:40 > 0:18:46have a medal in the Winter Olympics. Would you give it a try?I certainly
0:18:46 > 0:18:58would not. A sledge, on a very not steep slope is more my speed. Going
0:18:58 > 0:19:02down an essentially a tea tray, it's remarkable.We could try it on your
0:19:02 > 0:19:08way out. The first or headfirst. Either way, congratulations to Dom
0:19:08 > 0:19:13Parsons. Robert who is the voice in my ear tonight was very loyal to
0:19:13 > 0:19:16stay up and watch all of that happen. Very impressive.
0:19:16 > 0:19:17That's it for the papers tonight.
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0:19:39 > 0:19:42Katie and Kevin. Just to show I remember who they were.
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