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Hello and welcome to our look ahead
to what the the papers will be | 0:00:16 | 0:00:20 | |
bringing us tomorrow. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:23 | |
With me are historian
and Daily Telegraph writer | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
Tim Stanley and Daily Mirror
columnist Susie Boniface. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:29 | |
Many of tomorrow's front
pages are already in... | 0:00:29 | 0:00:36 | |
Let's take a look at them. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:38 | |
The meeting between Donald Trump | 0:00:38 | 0:00:39 | |
and Kim Jong Un leads the FT -
with claims it was a | 0:00:39 | 0:00:42 | |
snap Trump decision. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:44 | |
Meanwhile the i says the proposed
face-to-face meeting | 0:00:44 | 0:00:46 | |
has stunned the world. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:48 | |
And The White House says
Donald Trump will take a hardline | 0:00:48 | 0:00:54 | |
position with North Korea,
according to the Guardian. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:55 | |
The search for clues
in the investigation | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
into the attempted murder
of the former Russian spy | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
and his daughter leads the Mirror -
with a picture of police | 0:00:59 | 0:01:04 | |
at the grave of Skripal's wife. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:07 | |
Threats of a cyber war
between the UK and Russia lead | 0:01:07 | 0:01:13 | |
the Express. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:14 | |
The Daily Mail warns
that parking charges | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
could rise by up to 45%
in some areas as councils | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
try to manage their budgets. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:21 | |
The Sun leads with reports that
actress Liz Hurley has returned | 0:01:21 | 0:01:25 | |
to the UK after her nephew
was reportedly stabbed. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:33 | |
So, the meeting between Kim Jong-un
and Donald Trump takes centre stage | 0:01:33 | 0:01:39 | |
in most of the papers along with the
spy story from Salisbury. Starting | 0:01:39 | 0:01:46 | |
with the Daily Mirror, and this
stark image, it says, poisoned spy, | 0:01:46 | 0:01:51 | |
clues from the grave, saying that
police have examined the graves of | 0:01:51 | 0:01:55 | |
Skripal! Wife and sun amid fears
that they were poisoned. We have not | 0:01:55 | 0:02:01 | |
heard that information efficiently
but there is a lot of speculation | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
about the death of other members of
his family? That's right. And before | 0:02:04 | 0:02:08 | |
we came on Susie was providing a
very good explanation of why they | 0:02:08 | 0:02:17 | |
might have gone to this particular
graves. The problem is that we know | 0:02:17 | 0:02:21 | |
so very little about what is going
on, so all we have is a series of | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
dramatic images of police officers
in these ridiculous chemical suits | 0:02:24 | 0:02:29 | |
and tents overgrazed. They're not
talking about eggs you mean anybody | 0:02:29 | 0:02:33 | |
is as yet, because that would be a
publicly and the coroner would have | 0:02:33 | 0:02:36 | |
to be involved. What they are doing
is examining the grave, because | 0:02:36 | 0:02:42 | |
Sergei Skripal's daughter is known
to have visited him because it was | 0:02:42 | 0:02:46 | |
the anniversary of her brother's
death. They are known or expected to | 0:02:46 | 0:02:51 | |
have visited his brave on the
anniversary of his death and his | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
mother is also buried nearby. So
they are examining those graves to | 0:02:54 | 0:02:59 | |
try to find the way by which the
nerve agent was administered but was | 0:02:59 | 0:03:04 | |
it in some flowers, was it on the
grave, was it something they touched | 0:03:04 | 0:03:09 | |
or eight, or as they have done in
the restaurant and the pub, how did | 0:03:09 | 0:03:13 | |
the agent get onto them? It is an
incredibly hard thing to establish, | 0:03:13 | 0:03:20 | |
presumably. It could be anywhere?
Exactly. And these images are going | 0:03:20 | 0:03:25 | |
to be quite alarming to the people
living in Salisbury. I have been | 0:03:25 | 0:03:29 | |
thinking while all of this were
going on, if this were America, a | 0:03:29 | 0:03:33 | |
honour would have called a press
conference by now to explain to us | 0:03:33 | 0:03:36 | |
in great deal what is taking place.
There could be lots of reasons why | 0:03:36 | 0:03:39 | |
that is not going on but until then
come it looks like Chernobyl. Some | 0:03:39 | 0:03:44 | |
of these images are quite
frightening because they are going | 0:03:44 | 0:03:47 | |
to, it paces. We are reassured that
because these agents tend to | 0:03:47 | 0:03:52 | |
degrade, they pose no threat to the
public. They are trying to find the | 0:03:52 | 0:03:56 | |
source of it so that they can figure
out what was going on. One reason | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
why they might not be leading us
through the evidence, as we might | 0:03:59 | 0:04:04 | |
expect, could be because they are
living it up to the politicians to | 0:04:04 | 0:04:06 | |
take charge of that, because this is
after all likely to be a political | 0:04:06 | 0:04:12 | |
story as well as a criminal
investigation. Nevertheless we are | 0:04:12 | 0:04:15 | |
left trying to piece together for
ourselves what is going on from the | 0:04:15 | 0:04:18 | |
little we are told and the images
that we see. And I think that when | 0:04:18 | 0:04:23 | |
all this is over some people are
going to raise concerns about the | 0:04:23 | 0:04:26 | |
fact that the public has not been
kept as informed as we might want to | 0:04:26 | 0:04:30 | |
be. And the fact that the military
have been sent into Salisbury, | 0:04:30 | 0:04:36 | |
seeing that, although it might be to
try to reassure people... On the | 0:04:36 | 0:04:39 | |
contrary! It is the military who in
recent years in Afghanistan and Iraq | 0:04:39 | 0:04:45 | |
have had the most expertise in
chemical weapons and nerve agents, | 0:04:45 | 0:04:49 | |
so that is why they are there,
because they're the experts are. But | 0:04:49 | 0:04:54 | |
the history of politicians getting
bricked first in these kind of cases | 0:04:54 | 0:04:59 | |
is patchy and bad. There is a
political element to this but it is | 0:04:59 | 0:05:03 | |
a crime. And part of what these guys
are doing probably is, as they did | 0:05:03 | 0:05:11 | |
with Alexander Litvinenko, trying to
trace the polonium-210, across | 0:05:11 | 0:05:15 | |
London and into hotels and
eventually to the teapot itself, | 0:05:15 | 0:05:18 | |
that is what they did and they will
be trying to do the same thing | 0:05:18 | 0:05:23 | |
around Salisbury, trying to find the
traces of where the nerve agent | 0:05:23 | 0:05:25 | |
might have been so that they can pin
it on to one individual who was in | 0:05:25 | 0:05:30 | |
one of those places at various
times. But frankly if it is that | 0:05:30 | 0:05:33 | |
safe and it has degraded, why do
these guys have to wear these suits? | 0:05:33 | 0:05:40 | |
Is it because they are afraid their
faces are going to melt off? And if | 0:05:40 | 0:05:44 | |
that is the case then it is not as
safe as they're saying. So Tim is | 0:05:44 | 0:05:48 | |
right. Seeing as we are all aware
that it is very likely Russia, there | 0:05:48 | 0:05:56 | |
is no political reason why they
cannot give us more information, as | 0:05:56 | 0:05:59 | |
they would do if it was anybody
else, let's face it. It is | 0:05:59 | 0:06:04 | |
reasonable to infer that the reason
why one might use a nerve agent like | 0:06:04 | 0:06:08 | |
this is to create panic and to send
a message. It is frightening to | 0:06:08 | 0:06:12 | |
think that because somebody
routinely goes to a grave once a | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
year one might put the agent on that
grave and kill them that way, it's | 0:06:15 | 0:06:20 | |
really quite frightening. These
visuals underscore that message. Do | 0:06:20 | 0:06:25 | |
you think this could be extended? We
had MPs this week calling for the | 0:06:25 | 0:06:30 | |
opening of the investigation into 14
other cases. Talking about a number | 0:06:30 | 0:06:34 | |
of other people who have come from
Russia and who have died and people | 0:06:34 | 0:06:40 | |
say it was supposed to be natural
courses but some people are saying | 0:06:40 | 0:06:44 | |
it needs to be reopened? I suspect
so. It gains added political | 0:06:44 | 0:06:50 | |
salience from these images, because
if a foreign power is using a nerve | 0:06:50 | 0:06:54 | |
agent to kill its critics abroad, as
well as that being totally | 0:06:54 | 0:06:58 | |
unacceptable and criminal, if they
have put members of the British | 0:06:58 | 0:07:01 | |
public at risk as well, and some
people are talking about this as an | 0:07:01 | 0:07:06 | |
actor of war, this is very, very
serious. It is almost an act of war | 0:07:06 | 0:07:11 | |
which has been perpetrated by a
state upon which we are reliant for | 0:07:11 | 0:07:14 | |
many of our gas supplies and for
keeping peace on the other side of | 0:07:14 | 0:07:19 | |
the EU and upon which we are reliant
for our own property market, because | 0:07:19 | 0:07:24 | |
so much money comes into London and
spreads through the country as a | 0:07:24 | 0:07:26 | |
result of. It is an impossible
situation for the politicians to be | 0:07:26 | 0:07:31 | |
in if it is Russia which is
responsible. Perhaps that is why | 0:07:31 | 0:07:34 | |
they want to sit on it. There are
people who are concerned and if | 0:07:34 | 0:07:38 | |
someone from a foreign nation is
able to reach across here and put | 0:07:38 | 0:07:43 | |
his finger on somebody and
extinguish their life... That is | 0:07:43 | 0:07:47 | |
terrifying. Let's move on to the FT
and another story which is on the | 0:07:47 | 0:07:56 | |
front of lots of papers, as you
would imagine. This is the idea that | 0:07:56 | 0:08:00 | |
President Trump and Kim Jong-un
might meet face-to-face. The meeting | 0:08:00 | 0:08:04 | |
was a snap Trump decision, it says
here. Thursday night was I think the | 0:08:04 | 0:08:11 | |
most interesting and exciting night
yet in the trap presidency. Tim, | 0:08:11 | 0:08:16 | |
pour you! Well, I always disregard
all the soap opera stuff, all the | 0:08:16 | 0:08:23 | |
Russia staff! What is Melania Trump
wearing?! Within 24 hours, Trump | 0:08:23 | 0:08:33 | |
signed an order slapping tariffs on
steel and aluminium, and a couple of | 0:08:33 | 0:08:37 | |
hours later South Korea's
national-security adviser stood in | 0:08:37 | 0:08:40 | |
front of the west wing and announced
that Trump had agreed to a meeting | 0:08:40 | 0:08:45 | |
with Kim John Barnes of this is
really quite significant. He is not | 0:08:45 | 0:08:48 | |
the first president to be invited to
meet the North Korean leader. He is | 0:08:48 | 0:08:55 | |
the first sitting president to agree
to do it in principle. One suspects | 0:08:55 | 0:08:59 | |
that one reason why it was left up
to the South Koreans to announce it | 0:08:59 | 0:09:03 | |
is so that the administration at
some point in the future duck out of | 0:09:03 | 0:09:07 | |
it if it wishes. And in the last 24
hours the administration has been | 0:09:07 | 0:09:11 | |
making it very clear that it is
keeping the pressure on and North | 0:09:11 | 0:09:14 | |
Korea has to make clear concessions
before the meeting goes ahead. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:19 | |
Nonetheless, a timetable has been
set. It was said in the announcement | 0:09:19 | 0:09:22 | |
that he would meet him by me. So,
this is happening very, very | 0:09:22 | 0:09:28 | |
quickly. And it has the potential to
turn this situation around. This is | 0:09:28 | 0:09:33 | |
a genuine diplomatic coup. And the
South Koreans were very clear that | 0:09:33 | 0:09:39 | |
it was down to the pressure that
Trump had put on the North Korean | 0:09:39 | 0:09:43 | |
regime. If he pulls this off, this
is the beginning of turning all our | 0:09:43 | 0:09:49 | |
perceptions of the Trump
administration around. Is that the | 0:09:49 | 0:09:51 | |
prize that he has got? That's the
prize. There's a lot of ifs. As you | 0:09:51 | 0:09:57 | |
said when you started, this is the
idea. We have the idea. We have had | 0:09:57 | 0:10:03 | |
the idea that he comes to Britain
for a state visit, the idea that | 0:10:03 | 0:10:08 | |
he's going to build a wall. None of
these things have yet happened. Kim | 0:10:08 | 0:10:13 | |
Jong-un has renegade on every
international promise he has ever | 0:10:13 | 0:10:16 | |
made, flat. -- has reneges to. My
lifetime in journalism has taught me | 0:10:16 | 0:10:25 | |
that if you want to understand a
story, try and work out who benefits | 0:10:25 | 0:10:28 | |
from it. Who benefits from Kim
wanting to offer to stop testing and | 0:10:28 | 0:10:33 | |
meeting Trump. Kim benefits, not
Trump so much. Kim is the one who is | 0:10:33 | 0:10:40 | |
strong and who has made the reach
across. Trump is in a weakened | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
position when he says yes. What
happens next. How can they both come | 0:10:43 | 0:10:49 | |
away from it being the strong man
for their citizenry? They can't both | 0:10:49 | 0:10:55 | |
win out of that summit, it would be
very, very typical. So I think the | 0:10:55 | 0:11:04 | |
chances of it actually happening are
fairly slim and you have to remember | 0:11:04 | 0:11:08 | |
that every time Trump agrees to do
something he changes his mind fairly | 0:11:08 | 0:11:10 | |
quickly on many things. It would be
very easy for Kim if Trump says | 0:11:10 | 0:11:16 | |
something on Twitter one day to
withdraw the application and then it | 0:11:16 | 0:11:20 | |
is Trump's fault. Again there are
things which Trump has changed his | 0:11:20 | 0:11:25 | |
mind about, nobody is denying that,
but there are other things he has | 0:11:25 | 0:11:28 | |
been consistent on. He said during
the campaign, I will protect | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
American jobs - he has done it. And
he has consistently said he was | 0:11:31 | 0:11:38 | |
prepared to meet Kim Jong-un. It was
missed but he actually said last | 0:11:38 | 0:11:42 | |
Saturday at a dinner that he would
meet him. He made a joke about it. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:48 | |
He said, I will go and meet Kim
Jong-un and people talk about the | 0:11:48 | 0:11:52 | |
dangers of meeting a madman but that
is just a risk that Kim Jong-un is | 0:11:52 | 0:11:56 | |
going to have to take! He has got a
good sense of humour! Let's be | 0:11:56 | 0:12:00 | |
realistic. It is not in Kim's best
interests to give up the nuclear | 0:12:00 | 0:12:07 | |
programme is in that is what keeps
him in power and what keeps the | 0:12:07 | 0:12:10 | |
world's attention. For him, the win
is that America backs off, and for | 0:12:10 | 0:12:15 | |
America it is that the American
president has helped to reduce | 0:12:15 | 0:12:19 | |
tension in the Korean peninsula.
Moving on, the Saudi prince who has | 0:12:19 | 0:12:23 | |
been here this week, red carpet
rolled out, leaves the UK with a | 0:12:23 | 0:12:27 | |
hint of finally landing Typhoon
gets. Again, it is an idea! Another | 0:12:27 | 0:12:36 | |
bit of PR brilliance. When we have
visits by foreign dig trees, | 0:12:36 | 0:12:44 | |
agreements they sign while they are
here are agreed in advance. What's | 0:12:44 | 0:12:51 | |
happened here is that the Saudi
prince has met with the Defence | 0:12:51 | 0:12:54 | |
Secretary and written a memo of
intent, in other words, yeah, I will | 0:12:54 | 0:12:59 | |
have some planes! Don't worry about
the price, we will agree that | 0:12:59 | 0:13:05 | |
another time. That his all that has
happened. Added to which the Saudis | 0:13:05 | 0:13:08 | |
have been saying this for the last
four yes. We need to sell Thai fax, | 0:13:08 | 0:13:15 | |
BAE Systems, we don't sell very many
and we need to give the company | 0:13:15 | 0:13:18 | |
going, so they have done something
which has boosted our position. The | 0:13:18 | 0:13:26 | |
BAE Systems share price has gone up
as a result but all it is is a | 0:13:26 | 0:13:31 | |
promise that at some point in the
future we will spend billions. I | 0:13:31 | 0:13:35 | |
could sign this memo and it would
mean the same thing! We have had the | 0:13:35 | 0:13:41 | |
Labour leader saying this is
unacceptable, we should not be doing | 0:13:41 | 0:13:43 | |
this? Britain's relationship with
Prince Mohammed is very, very close. | 0:13:43 | 0:13:48 | |
There are only two foreign countries
which have continued to support | 0:13:48 | 0:13:52 | |
Saudi Arabia so strongly, and that
is America and Britain, and it is | 0:13:52 | 0:13:55 | |
partly because of this, because we
sell them so much stuff, which | 0:13:55 | 0:14:00 | |
raises questions among those who
question that. It has been a week of | 0:14:00 | 0:14:06 | |
extraordinary diplomatic
turnarounds. He has try to give the | 0:14:06 | 0:14:09 | |
impression that he has forward
looking, he wants to move away from | 0:14:09 | 0:14:14 | |
oil, granting women the right to
drive, putting himself forward as a | 0:14:14 | 0:14:22 | |
progressive force and Britain also
to get that statement of intent as | 0:14:22 | 0:14:26 | |
well so that Britain will have this
close economic relationship with a | 0:14:26 | 0:14:31 | |
power which is not just a Draconian
feudal monarchy but one which is | 0:14:31 | 0:14:34 | |
forward-looking. But frankly the
judgment of whether or not Saudi | 0:14:34 | 0:14:38 | |
Arabia is really changing is whether
he gets out of Yemen, and he shows | 0:14:38 | 0:14:42 | |
no signs of doing that. Very
quickly, Daily Mail, counselling | 0:14:42 | 0:14:48 | |
parking -- council parking charges
to sort. This is a long-running | 0:14:48 | 0:14:53 | |
story about local authority funding
and austerity since 2010 and the | 0:14:53 | 0:14:57 | |
fact that council taxes have gone up
and many councils have few parts of | 0:14:57 | 0:15:02 | |
the budget which they can increase
but now they have been told they can | 0:15:02 | 0:15:06 | |
increase council tax due to the
social care crisis. The Daily Mail | 0:15:06 | 0:15:10 | |
has done a story which says that one
of the parts of the budget they can | 0:15:10 | 0:15:14 | |
automatically increase on their own
is car parking charges. The truce is | 0:15:14 | 0:15:18 | |
that they may well increase by
45%... The residents permits could | 0:15:18 | 0:15:23 | |
be a lot more. They could be, but
they're not going to get nearly as | 0:15:23 | 0:15:30 | |
much from that as they will do from
council tax increases. So, this is a | 0:15:30 | 0:15:35 | |
very small part of the budget. When
there is a cap on something | 0:15:35 | 0:15:42 | |
somewhere you have to increase your
income from something else. The kind | 0:15:42 | 0:15:45 | |
of thing which will infuriate
people. Absolutely, I recently | 0:15:45 | 0:15:50 | |
passed my test and became a driver.
That's the most exciting thing which | 0:15:50 | 0:15:54 | |
has happened this week! I've been
driving for about nine months. It | 0:15:54 | 0:15:59 | |
has changed my relationship with my
council, because I've realised | 0:15:59 | 0:16:04 | |
that... All these potholes! My
beautiful, lovely card! Poor tilde | 0:16:04 | 0:16:13 | |
is getting destroyed by these
potholes in the road! Council tax is | 0:16:13 | 0:16:16 | |
already very repressive really, --
very progressive. It doesn't say | 0:16:16 | 0:16:27 | |
anything about your income. -- very
regressive. I think we could do a | 0:16:27 | 0:16:32 | |
song about that! Breaking news -
he's passed his driving test! And | 0:16:32 | 0:16:39 | |
that is it from the papers
tonight's. That is for use seven | 0:16:39 | 0:16:46 | |
days a week on the BBC website. And
if you missed the programme any | 0:16:46 | 0:16:52 | |
evening you can watch it later on
the iPlayer. Thank you very much to | 0:16:52 | 0:16:56 | |
Tim and to Susie. And good driving! | 0:16:56 | 0:17:00 |