0:00:00 > 0:00:03for you, it is the Papers. Have a good one.
0:00:15 > 0:00:19Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
0:00:19 > 0:00:21bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23With me are Randeep Ramesh, Chief Leader Writer at the Guardian
0:00:23 > 0:00:29and Martin Bentham, Home Editor at the London Evening Standard.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31Many of tomorrow's front pages are already in...
0:00:31 > 0:00:33Let's take a look...
0:00:33 > 0:00:37Red Spy in UK Poison Terror is how the Sun described the Russian man
0:00:37 > 0:00:38hospitalised in Salisbury after being exposed
0:00:38 > 0:00:46to an unknown substance.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49That story also the lead for The i, which comments on how similarities
0:00:49 > 0:00:51maybe drawn between this case and that of Alexander
0:00:51 > 0:00:56Litvinenko in 2006.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59The events in Salisbury also the lead for the Telegraph,
0:00:59 > 0:01:02but the paper also reports on plans by Saudi Arabia to strengthen
0:01:02 > 0:01:03intelligence sharing with Britain.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06The Metro takes a closer look at some of the big winners at last
0:01:06 > 0:01:11night's Academy Awards.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14The top story in the Financial Times is how UK airlines' transatlantic
0:01:14 > 0:01:16routes may be cut after Brexit.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20The Guardian carries a large image of Sergei Skripal -
0:01:20 > 0:01:23the Russian man believed to be in hospital in Salisbury.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26The Financial Times bucks the trend and leads on how UK airlines'
0:01:26 > 0:01:30transatlantic routes maybe negatively affected after Brexit.
0:01:30 > 0:01:34One story, unsurprisingly dominates most of the front
0:01:34 > 0:01:36pages tonight of course - the possible poisoning
0:01:36 > 0:01:40of a Russian spy.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43And Bill Turnbull, BBC Breakfast presenter, opens up with his battle
0:01:43 > 0:01:54for cancer. Misses take a look at the Russian spy story and we will go
0:01:54 > 0:02:00with the sun. The sun having a lot of fun with this, but it is not a
0:02:00 > 0:02:07fun story. They have got a man cleaning up their innate biohazard
0:02:07 > 0:02:18suit. It is a story that does have echoes of Litvinenko, back in 2006.
0:02:18 > 0:02:24Yes, it plays into the idea that we are in a sort of proxy war with
0:02:24 > 0:02:30Russia, and he is President Putin apparently taking out one of his
0:02:30 > 0:02:35traitorous enemies, so the papers have viewed it, and this unfortunate
0:02:35 > 0:02:40chap is a must buy at -- retired spy Colonel, Sergei Skripal, found
0:02:40 > 0:02:45slumped outside a bench in Salisbury, of all places. Apparently
0:02:45 > 0:02:51poisoned by a mysterious substance. Following on from Litvinenko, if
0:02:51 > 0:02:59this is proved to be poison, and it does seem to have been perpetrated
0:02:59 > 0:03:04by someone with connections to Moscow, then the question is how can
0:03:04 > 0:03:07this be allowed to have happened again, after what happened with
0:03:07 > 0:03:14Alexander Litvinenko?There are a lot of ifs, and clearly it may turn
0:03:14 > 0:03:18out to be none of those things, but on the other hand if it does, I
0:03:18 > 0:03:22suppose the reality is it is not absolutely possible to stop somebody
0:03:22 > 0:03:28who is determined to do this, and of course we have been at loggerheads
0:03:28 > 0:03:31really with the Russians ever since then. Our diplomatic relations have
0:03:31 > 0:03:37never recovered and this will certainly prevent any restoration of
0:03:37 > 0:03:41diplomatic links with them, and ultimately the Russians, if they
0:03:41 > 0:03:46wanted to do this type of thing, if they wanted to do it, I suppose they
0:03:46 > 0:03:51are powerful enough potentially to be altered do it. However good our
0:03:51 > 0:03:54policing, counterterrorism operation is, which is pretty good, it is not
0:03:54 > 0:04:00fail-safe. They have plenty of other things to be looking at as well. I
0:04:00 > 0:04:04think that is probably the reality. This is another story where people
0:04:04 > 0:04:09think about the papers if they wanted to make up a story can you
0:04:09 > 0:04:15could not make up a story of this extraordinary nurse. It goes back to
0:04:15 > 0:04:19Litvinenko, there have been one or two others, Boris Berezovsky, who
0:04:19 > 0:04:26subsequently died as well, a businessman in Surrey, who also died
0:04:26 > 0:04:34in circumstances which some people think of mysterious. So there have
0:04:34 > 0:04:40been a succession. Any Russian who dies in order circumstances, the
0:04:40 > 0:04:45immediate conclusion that people want to leap to, it may or may not
0:04:45 > 0:04:51turn out to be correct but certainly an extraordinary concert.The i
0:04:51 > 0:04:57going with it as well. What is interesting about this man is that
0:04:57 > 0:05:04he was deemed a traitor by the Russians in 2006, and he ended up in
0:05:04 > 0:05:09the UK as a result of a spy swap. With the famous Anna Chapman, was
0:05:09 > 0:05:14part of a sleeper cell in the United States. Somehow he was viewed as an
0:05:14 > 0:05:17essential asset, and some of the papers are reporting he was the
0:05:17 > 0:05:25second most important after the other Russian defector. It was
0:05:25 > 0:05:33obviously worth something, and he provided various details of various
0:05:33 > 0:05:35Russian espionage activities. I suppose coming back to the point is
0:05:35 > 0:05:39how do we stop any of this. You can't really, because they only have
0:05:39 > 0:05:43to be right once, and we have to be right all the time. That is the
0:05:43 > 0:05:47problem when you are dealing with it. We would probably want to say to
0:05:47 > 0:05:51the Russians, two can play at this game but I am not sure whether that
0:05:51 > 0:05:55is really a British response was top we want to go around bumping people
0:05:55 > 0:06:01off Moscow? Probably not.I say probably for stop we had a very
0:06:01 > 0:06:04robust response after it was established that Litvinenko had been
0:06:04 > 0:06:10poisoned on the orders of the Kremlin, ultimately, as the inquest
0:06:10 > 0:06:14established. We couldn't really have done a great deal more. It has come
0:06:14 > 0:06:22in the context of some overt statements about the overt
0:06:22 > 0:06:26aggressive intent of Russia towards this country. So it is not as if we
0:06:26 > 0:06:33have been soft with them. The amount of blacklisting of Russian
0:06:33 > 0:06:36nationals, where their money goes, where their assets are, there is a
0:06:36 > 0:06:42series of sanctions we can impose, but we are not going to get to the
0:06:42 > 0:06:45stage and we are playing John Le Carre novels out on the streets of
0:06:45 > 0:06:50Moscow.No, but it does sound like that on the front page of the
0:06:50 > 0:06:53Telegraph 's top Russian spy fights for life after poisoning double
0:06:53 > 0:06:56agent who sold secrets to Britain found collapsed on bench in
0:06:56 > 0:06:59Salisbury. The big worry is what kind of chemical, as with
0:06:59 > 0:07:05Litvinenko, was potentially used to poison this man and his companion.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08Apparently a restaurant, late-breaking news this evening, a
0:07:08 > 0:07:10restaurant in Salisbury has been closed as a precaution because of
0:07:10 > 0:07:17all this.They are obviously concerned as to what the substances.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19Obviously we haven't had any information as to what the substance
0:07:19 > 0:07:22is and whether they have established that not. It took some time with the
0:07:22 > 0:07:27Litvinenko thing to establish exactly what would have been used.
0:07:27 > 0:07:33So it may be the case here. It is clear from all the pictures you can
0:07:33 > 0:07:40see, and the areas that had been cordoned off, that there is a great
0:07:40 > 0:07:47keel of concern about this.A major incident launched at the hospital
0:07:47 > 0:07:50where these people are being treated. Sticking with the front
0:07:50 > 0:08:03page of the Telegraph, Trump softens stance on Paris. Suggestions that he
0:08:03 > 0:08:08will properly and formally announce a trade walk something he believes
0:08:08 > 0:08:15he can win.It is an odd thing to start a walk even for Donald Trump,
0:08:15 > 0:08:20but on the issue of trade, if you were to clap tariffs on, that would
0:08:20 > 0:08:24hit US consumers. Politics is about perception, and for him, his base
0:08:24 > 0:08:30has viewed itself as one of the losers of globalisation, that they
0:08:30 > 0:08:34have pay the price well is others have got cheaper goods. He is
0:08:34 > 0:08:37probably trying to speak to that base was that we know there has been
0:08:37 > 0:08:39a row in the White House between globalists on the one hand and
0:08:39 > 0:08:44economic nationalists on the other, and economic nationalists have won.
0:08:44 > 0:08:49There has been some background to Trump's outburst, but he has
0:08:49 > 0:08:52ploughed this furrow for some time, and it did with him rust belt's
0:08:52 > 0:08:58vote. So I don't think he is being, he is not reversing.He is also
0:08:58 > 0:09:02doing that old-fashioned thing of making a promise of an election and
0:09:02 > 0:09:07following through.That is a shocker, isn't it?I suppose we
0:09:07 > 0:09:12can't blame him for doing that, whether it turns out to be
0:09:12 > 0:09:17counter-productive or not, that is another issue.I suppose the eye
0:09:17 > 0:09:22given should be, should he have made it a promise in the first place? We
0:09:22 > 0:09:28are talking about global GDP growth rising. Anything from 1.5%, 2%,
0:09:28 > 0:09:35perhaps even more by the end of the year. The major economist Saul, it
0:09:35 > 0:09:38seems convincing, in terms of moving upwards. This is the kind of thing
0:09:38 > 0:09:43that could hit them.I suppose if it's partly because of that he can
0:09:43 > 0:09:51get away with it. Possibly.There is a public concern about goods which
0:09:51 > 0:09:54are made cheaper through labour standards and environmental
0:09:54 > 0:09:59standards being low. And for Americans that is a valid public
0:09:59 > 0:10:04concern. For too long, politicians haven't. In some respect, give him
0:10:04 > 0:10:18credit. It may be economic nonsense. It may benefit.Absolutely. Onto the
0:10:18 > 0:10:23Huffington Post, Martin. A story that has been bubbling throughout
0:10:23 > 0:10:26the day, Theresa May's housing announcement gives no guarantee of
0:10:26 > 0:10:31more homes. This is the verdict of the Huff Post. Theresa May and the
0:10:31 > 0:10:35government have been saying, look, if you are a developer and you get
0:10:35 > 0:10:38land and you get planning permission, build a house on it,
0:10:38 > 0:10:42rather than sit on it, waiting for the land prices to go up. Umaga yes,
0:10:42 > 0:10:46there is a lot of intent from the government. I suppose the question
0:10:46 > 0:10:49is, and there have been lots of statement of intent from various
0:10:49 > 0:10:55governments over quite a long period now I think. Some of them have not
0:10:55 > 0:11:00come to deliver a great deal in the way of large and as an extra houses.
0:11:00 > 0:11:05That is obviously the allegation here. The point you make there that
0:11:05 > 0:11:09taking back houses, land, that has not been built on, some of the
0:11:09 > 0:11:13developers have questioned this and have said there is not undeveloped
0:11:13 > 0:11:17land they are just sitting on. On the other hand it is clearly
0:11:17 > 0:11:20potentially a problem, so that could help. I think the other thing that
0:11:20 > 0:11:24is always missing from this debate personally is if you are talking
0:11:24 > 0:11:27about house prices, which is often what is talked about, and
0:11:27 > 0:11:30affordability, just building more homes on its own does not address
0:11:30 > 0:11:35the full scale of things, because you have advice led investment,
0:11:35 > 0:11:40foreign investment coming in, there is a great money flying at housing
0:11:40 > 0:11:44in general and that gets overlooked. You can build an awful lot more
0:11:44 > 0:11:48houses but it won't necessarily bring houses prices down.Clearly
0:11:48 > 0:11:52the Huff Post is a cynical beasts. A lot of people would say this
0:11:52 > 0:11:54government, the last government before that, the government before
0:11:54 > 0:11:57that, they have all talked about building more houses and all of them
0:11:57 > 0:12:03have done nothing about it.There is an easy way of building houses,
0:12:03 > 0:12:06councils and old houses, you borrow to invest. This government has
0:12:06 > 0:12:12refused to do that, which means it all sounds very radical but it is
0:12:12 > 0:12:16just a tweaking of this system that is not working.Sticking plaster.
0:12:16 > 0:12:21People understand that they will probably be penalised despite the
0:12:21 > 0:12:27good intentions.OK, briefly, the front page of the FT, Italy said for
0:12:27 > 0:12:31EU clash after winning four populists. No suggestion that Italy
0:12:31 > 0:12:34wants to leave the European Union, but there could be a feud dates
0:12:34 > 0:12:39there. Let's go straight to the back page of the metro finally. Exclusive
0:12:39 > 0:12:44interview with the BBC, Dan Roan, our sports editor. And Mr begins
0:12:44 > 0:12:53making it clear that he is not a cheat.This is very unsatisfactory
0:12:53 > 0:12:56all-round. Sir Bradley Wiggins is saying that he didn't cheat, he
0:12:56 > 0:13:03absolutely didn't do what the Commons committee has alleged, which
0:13:03 > 0:13:06was preaching the ethical boundaries, not actually breaking
0:13:06 > 0:13:09the rules, per se, because the rules allowed what took place, these
0:13:09 > 0:13:18therapeutic aids that he had. He is insisting he has been thrown under
0:13:18 > 0:13:24the line, but it doesn't look great good. You would like to think
0:13:24 > 0:13:28sportsmen and women can win without any sort of assistance, and it does
0:13:28 > 0:13:33appear at it too much that this has happened.He was a shining light for
0:13:33 > 0:13:41British sport. It has dimmed somewhat as a result of all of this.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44You would like to win in a way that everyone thinks you deserve to win.
0:13:44 > 0:13:51Clean. And of course he maintains his innocence. Absolutely. Good to
0:13:51 > 0:13:55see you both, many thanks for that. That is it for the papers tonight,
0:13:55 > 0:14:05don't forget you can see all of them on the BBC news website. If you've
0:14:05 > 0:14:08missed the papers any evening, you know how to log into iPlayer by now
0:14:08 > 0:14:16I sincerely hope. Thanks again.