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Hello, welcome to our look ahead to

what the papers will be bringing us

tomorrow. With me, the Political

Editor of the Sunday express and an

economics editor. We will talk

Russians and chemicals and all

sorts. A lot of fun to be had by

all. The Metro reports chemical

experts at Porton down waking to

find out if the former Russian spy

Sergei Skripal was poisoned. This is

a picture of his daughter Yulia who

is also critically ill. It says

dignitaries including Prince William

may not travel to Russia for the

summer's football World Cup.

The same angle on the story in the

male, and could the Royals snubbed

the World Cup?

The Telegraph says President Putin

swore revenge on those who took part

in the 201050 macro, which included

Sergei Skripal. The Sun says, what

is your poison? And the Guardian

leads on the same story, but gives

over space to North Korea's apparent

willingness to discuss getting rid

of its nuclear Arsenal as part of

direct talks with America. So a lot

chew over, starting with the Metro.

Camilla, Porton Down poison probe, a

lot of alliteration in that

headline. That is the Metro for you!

The key to this story is the

toxicology report, when it comes

out, and Porton Down are looking

into what could have affected these

people.

The top-secret military

facility in Wiltshire at the heart

of this and people are making

comparisons to Litvinenko, which was

a radioactive substance and we'll

concluded this morning when the

bench where these two unfortunate

people were found was not singled

out or had a cordon around it and

the hospital they tend it was not

close down the radioactivity was

instantly ruled out. So it begs the

question, what is the modus operandi

and the poison here? What substance

have they ingested and where is it

from? On the lips of everyone

including the Foreign Secretary

today.

48 hours on, we are no clear

but have had fighting talk from the

Foreign Secretary and indeed from

the Russian Embassy as well covered

in lots of the papers.

Not me, says

the Kremlin and the Embassy here.

They were taking the Michael out

Boris, suggesting his statement was

a little bit premature.

Malign and

disruptive with the words are

reduced.

They say, handgun, who are

you accusing of this, mate? It is

just a few days ago we went knocking

on Siberia's daughter get gas when

our gas supplies fell short of

competing that after importing the

beast of Siberia. A very delicate

time to have these conversations but

Boris clearly feels he has something

he has to follow up on.

Well, this

is interesting. The Daily Express,

Boris in threat to boycott World

Cup, Putin warned of a claim he

ordered poisoning of Russian double

agent. A similar headline here,

Britain's World Cup threat to

Russia. Camilla, Boris Johnson as

the Foreign Secretary, our leading

diplomat around the world, a

representative on the world stage,

standing in the Commons to say if it

is Russia, that is pretty century

because it might not be Russia, so

he must know something we do not

know.

We would hope that Foreign

Secretary is well briefed on the

detail around this. To be fair to Mr

Johnson, there is a sense of the

Foreign Secretary had to address

this, it has been running across the

newswires all day and there is a

suspicion there may be another case

of Russian poisoning on British

soil, we need to know. But these

might disagree, they have done an

investigation pointing out before

this happened, there have been 14

different poisoning or other

incident involving people who have

been enemies of the Kremlin and they

have gone unreported and under

investigated by the Home Office and

authorities. -- macro two. This is

high profile and has happened in

public view in peach macro. There

was a need for Boris to respond. His

words were initially misconstrued

and people thought he said the World

Cup team would not be competing, he

is talking about the delegation and

that includes Prince William cup

which could be diplomatically

tricky.

Hugely controversial,

awarding Russia this World Cup. It

was not something... To go further

is very in century. Reading the

words from the Russian embassy

accusing written of the demonisation

of Russia. So things getting very

tense indeed. The Telegraph is also

talking about some of the words

Putin was said to have used.

Sorry

to interrupt, the headline on the

front page of the Telegraph, Putin

swore revenge on poisoned Russian

spy. He said this in 2010. And this

spy swap involves the man now in

hospital, Mr Skripal. He was part of

that and this was the first Russian

swap ever, apparently.

It was the

first Russian swap ever and this is

eight years later. But if you read

the words of Mr Putin at the time of

his release, he said, traitors will

click the bucket, trust me, these

people betrayed their friends, their

brothers in arms. Whatever they got

in exchange for it, those 30 pieces

of silver they were given, they will

choke on them.

Quite extraordinary.

The suggestion a delegation would

not go to the World Cup, if it is

clear that Russia was involved in

this, and swilling cannot go now,

can he?

No, and it is interesting

from perspective National Prince

William. Royals need to remain

neutral and not get involved in

scandal. But as you pointed out, the

World Cup bid was already drenched

in scandal and Prince William talked

about Sepp Blatter and his

involvement at the time in

corruption scandals. So it is

tricky, but to be fair, on this, the

Royals do take the advice from the

Foreign and Commonwealth Office and

with Boris at the helm, what he says

has two apply.

You alluded to this

earlier about getting gas from

Siberia. If Russia was involved in

this, it is proved to be, and

Britain needs to rally round its

European partners for instance in

order to get more sanctions placed

on them, how much more difficult is

that, bearing in mind we are leaving

the European Union and the Germans

and French get their oil from

Russia.

That is exactly it, it is

the fact we are on this road where

we have to put more pressure on

Russia, there is already pressure

and sanctions in some areas, but

areas such as energy have largely

been left alone because we know we

do have a problem with energy

supplies. Even more true if you are

Germany. We have seen the pictures

of Angela Merkel and Putin over the

years looking more friendly that

other political leaders and that is

because Germany is so reliant on

Russia. This is an incredibly tricky

time underplaying the screws could

be even trickier.

There are

countries in Europe that did not

want tough sanctions put on Russia

for putting their army into Crimea

and is taking parts of that area and

putting their troops into Ukraine.

This is going to be very difficult

indeed.

Even if it is 14 and

explained deaths that lay at the

Kremlin's doors and who knows if

that's true, we will have a hard

time convincing the rest of Europe

to back us up.

It is not just Boris

Johnson, Defence Secretary Gavin

Williamson warned about cyber

attacks on our energies lies.

He was

widely ridiculed for that! Now Gavin

Williamson is a saint! Perhaps! We

shall see! We shall see. Financial

Times, the Korean detente and

Pyongyang hinting at the end of the

nuclear arms push, what you make of

that?

I wonder if the Winter

Olympics has played a part in this!

Obviously there has been a meeting

of the mines and talking about

denuclearisation, Trump in the

middle trying to take some credit

for this new-found approach and a

peace accord. You are saying what do

I make of it? We said backstage,

these momentous news events keep

happening! They are great for copy,

but it does leave journalists

saying, where can I take this now?

Some North Korea, they have spent

the last 30, 40 years trying to get

a viable nuclear weapon and now they

are within inches of getting this

weapon and they turn around and say,

we are willing to give it up for

security guarantees. Don't call me a

cynic, and call me a cynic! I am not

impressed!

You think this is a

double bluff?

Something has not

quite gone to plan for North Korea.

Well, we had a great time in the

Winter Olympics! It is interesting

because if it is to do with the

Winter Olympics, that could soften

their minds. All that snow! And does

it really matter whether we go to

Moscow for the World Cup? Maybe it

does, just to put the opposite

position on it.

If through the power

of teamwork and having face-to-face

meetings for the first time in a

long time through the neutral motion

of a global sporting event has had

an impact on relations, I know we

should be cynical and reserve

judgment, but we should also say,

OK, get on with that and we will

support you as the rest of the world

wants them to have peace between

them and not to have Kim Jong-un

blasting missiles into the sky!

It

is interesting President Trump

trying to take credit when Mike

Pence was refusing to have anything

to do with the North Korean

delegation at the Games.

It is all

about the tweets. Little rocket man

has brought us to this!

He is

keeping his options open, the US is

either -- willing to go hard in

either direction! Thank you, Donald!

Back to the Telegraph, a sad story

concerning a former alumna of this

parish, Bill Turnbull. And a man who

has revealed that he is suffering

from prostate cancer and it has

spread to his bones. The story on

the front of the Telegraph, prostate

cancer screening fails to save

lives.

This is a study done in

America. Into a test you can request

from your GP. They say that it is

not that good an indicator and it

can instead make you more anxious

about things that are not there or

give you a false sense of security

when things are wrong. Which is

devastating news. Was something that

you are saying does affect a lot of

older men in particular and is

something we have to get to grips

with. The Cancer Research UK charity

have funded the study and we were

hoping for the opposite outcome but

we have something saying, this test

is not up to much.

Cases like Bill's

are important and he admitted he

should have got it checked out

sooner, four years in, there is a

common thread to prostate cancer

cases where men put off going to the

doctors because it is an intimate

area of the body and the symptoms

can be embarrassing. So that is

difficult. If this test tells us

anything, you need to go and get

checked out rather than blood tests

if you have suspicions to have a

full examination.

The problem is

those who do not have symptoms.

I

spoke to someone from Cancer UK

today and she was saying that it is

about the risks, the risk factors as

to how you should look at this. If

you are black for instance, you have

a higher risk of contracting

prostate cancer, if you are over 50

and there is a history of the

disease in your family. That should

be the baseline from which you

should proceed to decide whether you

have the test or not. But the test

is not fail-safe, no question about

that, and it can suggest you have

got it when you have not.

Or it can

miss it when you have.

It is hit and

miss, absolutely. We wish Bill well

on that. We will end with the

Telegraph and this cartoon. It will

be there eventually. It says here,

Brexit talks, it is good news and it

has two characters leaving the talks

and says, it is good news for our

anti-obesity campaign, we will not

be having our cake and we will not

be eating it. That is certainly the

suggestion from the European Union

when it comes to Brexit. And it

plays on Rush Johnson's famous

suggestion that we would be able to

leave the European Union and get

everything we want.

Although there

has been a lot of talk not just from

Boris Johnson also from Jeremy

Corbyn wanting to be in the customs

union and renationalise the railway

which is apparently a European

impossibility, ahead of Philip

Hammond is doing his big speech. And

now he is going to say, we need

services because it accounts for 96

billion pounds worth of exports.

And

that really is a bit amazing the

idea of having your cake and eating

it and across Europe, ministers

already going, I don't think so!

We

will see what happens with that.

Camilla and Dharshini, many thanks.

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