0:00:00 > 0:00:00unity between North and South Korea as the Winter Olympics
0:00:00 > 0:00:04come to a close. Pyongyang says it will sit down for talks with the
0:00:04 > 0:00:06United States.
0:00:19 > 0:00:23Hello, and welcome to our look ahead at what the papers will be bringing
0:00:23 > 0:00:28us tomorrow. With us, Charlie Wells, Deputy SnapChat editor at the
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Economist, probably the best job title we have ever announced! And
0:00:32 > 0:00:35Rosamund Urwin A close second, financial services Chris Bond and
0:00:35 > 0:00:40with the Sunday Times. Nice to see you both. Many of the front pages
0:00:40 > 0:00:46are already in. Let's start with the Financial Times. It has a picture of
0:00:46 > 0:00:50Ivanka Trump watching the closing ceremony of the Olympics in
0:00:50 > 0:00:54PyeongChang, alongside one of North Korea's highest ranking generals.
0:00:54 > 0:01:00The Guardian goes with Jeremy Corbyn revealing Labour's Brexit policy
0:01:00 > 0:01:05tomorrow, confirming he wants the UK to remain in a Customs Union.
0:01:05 > 0:01:10Concerns over the quality of milk post-Brexit leads the front page of
0:01:10 > 0:01:15the i. The metro has a picture of the building fire in Leicester on
0:01:15 > 0:01:19its front page. The Ambulance Service say four people have been
0:01:19 > 0:01:24taken Joss Buttler. A chilling warning from the express. They say
0:01:24 > 0:01:29temperatures in parts of the UK could drop to -15 Celsius, with snow
0:01:29 > 0:01:34and blizzards expected across the country. While the Mirror says the
0:01:34 > 0:01:37cold snap dubbed the beast from the east could cause deaths and travel
0:01:37 > 0:01:47chaos. So, a fair old mix. We'll start with more Brexit. The Guardian
0:01:47 > 0:01:53is where we'll begin. Corbyn Brexit speech to put Theresa May on the
0:01:53 > 0:01:58spot. We have Kier Starmer today, the shadow Brexit Secretary,
0:01:58 > 0:02:01Rossman, talking about the idea of remaining within the Customs Union.
0:02:01 > 0:02:08But not the current one, something close to it.The operative word
0:02:08 > 0:02:12being a rather than the, verbal gymnastics. What he is not saying is
0:02:12 > 0:02:18that under Labour we would remain in the Single Market, that will upset a
0:02:18 > 0:02:24lot of his membership you obviously not only backed Remain but would
0:02:24 > 0:02:28like to stay in their -- who obviously. This has put Labour in a
0:02:28 > 0:02:31different position from the Conservatives, and a lot of pressure
0:02:31 > 0:02:35on Theresa May, because there are plenty of Tory rebels who would
0:02:35 > 0:02:41maybe be tempted to create an alliance and not backed her approach
0:02:41 > 0:02:45of taking us out of the Customs Union.Yes, and it wouldn't be the
0:02:45 > 0:02:49same one we are currently in. You have to be a member of the EU to be
0:02:49 > 0:02:55in this one, but they can concoct something similar.What a difference
0:02:55 > 0:03:00and a makes, talking about a Customs Union versus the Customs Union! All
0:03:00 > 0:03:05that said, customs unions are a good thing for the economy. And the way
0:03:05 > 0:03:09that they work is essentially they allow goods to move between
0:03:09 > 0:03:13countries without tariffs. And so right now, Britain's economy is very
0:03:13 > 0:03:18heavily linked with Europe's. And introducing tariffs and that would
0:03:18 > 0:03:23slow down manufacturing, it would make places like Dover or
0:03:23 > 0:03:29theoretically the Irish border hard borders, and much more difficult for
0:03:29 > 0:03:33goods to travel between, and it would have a very negative effect on
0:03:33 > 0:03:37the economy. This is positive news that Jeremy Corbyn seems to be
0:03:37 > 0:03:42moving in sort of a softer Brexit direction. I wonder if this is a
0:03:42 > 0:03:47turning point.But, of course, Labour are not in power. Although
0:03:47 > 0:03:52Theresa May is running a minority government, supported by the DUP.
0:03:52 > 0:03:58Yes, and she is facing this sort of really tricky week. I mean, it's the
0:03:58 > 0:04:03big Brexit week. She's making a speech on Friday setting out what
0:04:03 > 0:04:07the future EU- UK relations look like. On top of that, she's also got
0:04:07 > 0:04:13the withdrawal treaty publication, and we're going to see obviously the
0:04:13 > 0:04:17conversation about the Irish border, which I think we can get to.We will
0:04:17 > 0:04:22do in one second.That will be dominant as well. All of these
0:04:22 > 0:04:26things that have been in the background and we are all very aware
0:04:26 > 0:04:30of will be right at the forefront this week.Let's look at the FT. EU
0:04:30 > 0:04:35stands firm of Northern Ireland border in Brexit withdrawal treaty.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38Northern Ireland and the concern about inflaming tensions if there
0:04:38 > 0:04:43were to be a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of
0:04:43 > 0:04:46Ireland, it comes back into the news and then disappears again, doesn't
0:04:46 > 0:04:52it?Everyone can agree that nobody wants to go back to the time before
0:04:52 > 0:04:55the Good Friday Agreement, and nobody wants to see a hard border
0:04:55 > 0:04:58between the two countries. What is really interesting that you mention,
0:04:58 > 0:05:02this seems to be settled, and then it's not. And that speaks to the
0:05:02 > 0:05:08difficulty of securing this negotiation between the UK and the
0:05:08 > 0:05:12EU, it's a dynamic process that can change over time.I have to say, I
0:05:12 > 0:05:16find it shocking that this wasn't talked about more in the run-up to
0:05:16 > 0:05:23the referendum. I know somebody who went to a meeting before the
0:05:23 > 0:05:27referendum with their Brexit supporting Tory MP, and they asked
0:05:27 > 0:05:31him, you know, what would happen if we had a hard border between
0:05:31 > 0:05:35Northern Ireland and the Republic? And he said, I haven't thought of
0:05:35 > 0:05:41that! I mean, this is extraordinary to me. My family come from Ireland
0:05:41 > 0:05:44originally, so it was very much at the forefront of my mind, but I
0:05:44 > 0:05:48really cannot believe it was not talked about more.I remember maybe
0:05:48 > 0:05:53a year or two ago on this very programme, we had a story on a front
0:05:53 > 0:05:57page about Northern Ireland. And I remember one of the commentators
0:05:57 > 0:06:01saying, it must be a slow news day! It is something people
0:06:01 > 0:06:05underestimated, how big this issue would be.Here we have the European
0:06:05 > 0:06:11Commission absolutely clear that there needs to be sort of regulatory
0:06:11 > 0:06:13alignment for Northern Ireland with the EU to stop that hard border
0:06:13 > 0:06:22reappearing. But for the DUP, of course as a result of this
0:06:22 > 0:06:26confidence and supply arrangement with Theresa May's government, they
0:06:26 > 0:06:29don't want Northern Ireland to be treated any differently to the rest
0:06:29 > 0:06:33of the UK.That is utterly bizarre to me, they say they don't want a
0:06:33 > 0:06:37hard border but they are in favour of Brexit and what appears to be a
0:06:37 > 0:06:42pretty hard Brexit. You think, how can those two things go together? It
0:06:42 > 0:06:46doesn't make any sense to me, their position.Hopefully there are
0:06:46 > 0:06:51lawyers that can work this stuff out and it would be some kind of fudge,
0:06:51 > 0:06:55wouldn't it?One of the that I keep hearing from Brexiteers is that
0:06:55 > 0:06:59technology will solve this problem and we will have very advanced
0:06:59 > 0:07:02capabilities so even if there are different regulations between the
0:07:02 > 0:07:05two countries, a computer can check through to make sure everything is
0:07:05 > 0:07:10fine.What about all the people... I don't understand it, the people who
0:07:10 > 0:07:19cross over every day who work on one side and live on the other, or
0:07:19 > 0:07:21people who own land on both sides, farmers would land on both sides.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24All of these elements that you describe can be got around by some
0:07:24 > 0:07:32creative thinking, can't they?We voted now in June 2016, and I
0:07:32 > 0:07:37haven't seen that many bright ideas yet being created on this.Thank
0:07:37 > 0:07:43goodness we haven't got to come up with them! That is look at the Ahye,
0:07:43 > 0:07:47another Brexit related story. Britain may be forced to take
0:07:47 > 0:07:51inferior US milk, white?It sounds like in a hypothetical free trade
0:07:51 > 0:07:55agreement between the US and the UK, the US, at least at this point,
0:07:55 > 0:08:02seems to be lobbying, or at least dairy lobbyists seem to be pushing
0:08:02 > 0:08:07to have the ability to Selt lower quality milk here in the UK. And
0:08:07 > 0:08:12this is really interesting to me. And it's something that has a lot of
0:08:12 > 0:08:16Americans scratching their heads about Brexit as well. I know we are
0:08:16 > 0:08:20just talking Brexit, Brexit, Brexit, but a lot of Americans look to the
0:08:20 > 0:08:24EU as very beneficial, and the regulations, especially related to
0:08:24 > 0:08:29consumer products, food and other goods that they put out keep
0:08:29 > 0:08:34consumers say. In the regular so, United States, our regulations are
0:08:34 > 0:08:38not as strict and not as favourable to the consumer. Here is an odd
0:08:38 > 0:08:42circumstance, in a hypothetical situation in which the UK and the US
0:08:42 > 0:08:46have some sort of a trade agreement, the UK is getting bad products.Why
0:08:46 > 0:08:51would we need to bother taking this stuff?We don't have to. We hear,
0:08:51 > 0:08:56but my thought on this is that we are getting Korine Geggan -- we do
0:08:56 > 0:09:01not have the full Uri here, we are getting Korine chicken, milk from
0:09:01 > 0:09:06cows with other infections, this is the Mad Max style world that David
0:09:06 > 0:09:11Davis promised we were not headed towards, the dystopian vision!It is
0:09:11 > 0:09:14a really effective talking point for people who want to remain as close
0:09:14 > 0:09:19to the EU as possible. I remember during the debate in 2016 you would
0:09:19 > 0:09:24hear these comments from Brexiteers saying, oh, well like the EU can
0:09:24 > 0:09:29tout us how curved our cucumbers can be and how hot our testers can get.
0:09:29 > 0:09:38Those are very specific consumer issues. -- how hot our toasters.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40Here we are seeing a very specific consumer issue that will get people
0:09:40 > 0:09:42to potentially thinking the other direction.Of course, we should have
0:09:42 > 0:09:46seen that in advance of the referendum.The whole idea of curvy
0:09:46 > 0:09:50bananas has never actually been true, has it was this is really a
0:09:50 > 0:09:54question of whether the American dairy industryis going to...
0:09:54 > 0:10:00Lobbied us to change our rules.The Financial Times, President Xi Sinn
0:10:00 > 0:10:07Fein hangs his grip on power -- Xi Jinping. If they change the
0:10:07 > 0:10:11constitution, he can go on longer. He is doing a President Putin, he
0:10:11 > 0:10:15did the exact same thing. In the Russian Constitution, you were only
0:10:15 > 0:10:21allowed bust my terms, eight years. Putin took a little holiday and was
0:10:21 > 0:10:25Prime Minister for a little while and went back to the presidency. Now
0:10:25 > 0:10:29we are seeing a similar attempt in China, although not that route to
0:10:29 > 0:10:33it. So, the president is going to be formally re-elected this coming
0:10:33 > 0:10:42week. And when the national people's congress meets, and he now wants
0:10:42 > 0:10:47obviously to solidify his position there for a lot longer.Yes, and a
0:10:47 > 0:10:50lot of western democracies have wanted to push China more towards
0:10:50 > 0:10:54the sort of systems that we have. It doesn't seem to be headed in that
0:10:54 > 0:10:59direction at all-star law a lot of China watchers were very hopeful
0:10:59 > 0:11:02when Xi Jinpingtook power, that he would follow the course of his
0:11:02 > 0:11:05predecessor and stick to them all is. The rules answers session were
0:11:05 > 0:11:12put in place to avoid chaos. After Mars udon and a series of very
0:11:12 > 0:11:16turbulent issues, it was agreed in the late 80s that we need to have a
0:11:16 > 0:11:20China, China needed to have two terms, they needed to limit power
0:11:20 > 0:11:25and have more peaceful transitions. It seems like Xi Jinping, who has,
0:11:25 > 0:11:30for most of his term, and his predecessor has been talking about
0:11:30 > 0:11:35how to create stability, trying to avoid chaos and focus on building
0:11:35 > 0:11:38the economy, this seems like something of a shift, he is starting
0:11:38 > 0:11:42to focus a lot more on power and solidifying power. That is
0:11:42 > 0:11:46disconcerting and also a little bit scary, because now that he could
0:11:46 > 0:11:51theoretically be president for life, his policies might change. He is
0:11:51 > 0:11:55more powerful than a lame duck president who has one year left. He
0:11:55 > 0:11:58can pursue different policies than he could.But the point is, this is
0:11:58 > 0:12:03just one of his three jobs. He is actively also party General
0:12:03 > 0:12:07Secretary, which he could be for life. And that doesn't have a term
0:12:07 > 0:12:12limit. And then he is also top of the military. It's only a limit on
0:12:12 > 0:12:26this one.He must have more hours in the days and I have! Let's look at
0:12:26 > 0:12:30The And the, an extraordinary blast of cold weather.It sounds like
0:12:30 > 0:12:35commuters were angry to find that their rail journeys were disrupted.
0:12:35 > 0:12:42The figure that keeps being thrown around is -15 degrees. Parts of
0:12:42 > 0:12:46Britain are going to get very, very cold. It sounds like transport is
0:12:46 > 0:12:51certainly going to be effective.The hilarious bit is that they have done
0:12:51 > 0:12:56this before, the snow has fallen before it has even gone and 0
0:12:56 > 0:13:00degrees. They have already decided to cancel the trains.Before a
0:13:00 > 0:13:04single flake has fallen!You can understand why people are not happy
0:13:04 > 0:13:12about that. It rather adds to the feeling in Britain that our rail
0:13:12 > 0:13:15services are not up to much if they can't cope with leaves or snow or
0:13:15 > 0:13:19any of the kind of normal things.It is dull better than American
0:13:19 > 0:13:22trained!The Daily Mirror is saying the same thing, beware the beast
0:13:22 > 0:13:26from the east, it will kill! This is the other issue, the number of
0:13:26 > 0:13:34winter deaths. It does cause...Lets not forget, this is going to be
0:13:34 > 0:13:37pressure on the health service, which has already had an incredibly
0:13:37 > 0:13:40difficult winter. Well, you know, people have been waiting on
0:13:40 > 0:13:44trolleys. Obviously you would hope that as the weather got better these
0:13:44 > 0:13:48things with ease. But actually now they are saying we are going to have
0:13:48 > 0:13:52horrible weather, more pressure on the NHS.It speaks to this, the
0:13:52 > 0:13:58gated issue of naming storms. There is a public health and safety issue
0:13:58 > 0:14:02that suggests that sometimes naming storms is good, it causes more
0:14:02 > 0:14:06public awareness, people can talk about the beast from the east and
0:14:06 > 0:14:09the newspapers can blast it across their front pages. But you can't go
0:14:09 > 0:14:14too far. If you create too much awareness, it can look like an over
0:14:14 > 0:14:17reaction and people will stop responding to allow from safety
0:14:17 > 0:14:21procedures.It looks like it is going to be pretty rough in some
0:14:21 > 0:14:25places, whether it has got a name or not. But the papers for this hour,
0:14:25 > 0:14:31but Charlie and Rosamond will be back again at 11:30pm for another
0:14:31 > 0:14:37look at the papers. The camera is quite busy tonight, isn't it?! Of,
0:14:37 > 0:14:42it's deliberate, of course it is! Next, Meet The Author.