16/03/2018 The Papers

for now. -- but from us it is

goodbye for now.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Martin Lipton,

Deputy Sports Editor at The Sun,

and Benedicte Paviote, correspondent

with France 24 and President

of the Foreign Press Association.

Welcome to you both. Lovely to have

you here.

Many of tomorrow's front

pages are already in.

The FT Weekend leads

with a deepening rift between the US

and EU over steel tariffs

and proposed changes to digital tax.

The Daily Mirror says police

are investigating 12 new claims

of child sex abuse carried out

by gangs in Telford.

The I has more on the launch

of a murder inquiry after the death

of a Russian exile in London.

The Telegraph also has that story.

It says Nikolai Glushkov

was found strangled to death

in his own home.

The Express reports on comments made

by Prince Harry over defence cuts.

During a visit to the Army air were

a where he trained as a helicopter

pilot.

The Daily Mail has reaction

from the foster parents

of Ahmed Hassan after he was found

guilty of trying to bomb

a train in London.

The Times reports on a second sex

scandal to hit Oxfam

concerning the conduct

of its staff in Haiti.

So developments in the Russia story

still making the front pages.

Let's have a closer look.

We begin with the eye. Murder

inquiry after exiled Russian tycoon

dies in London. He appears to have

died from some compression to the

neck, suggesting he would've

strangled.

Indeed. It is interesting

because not just UK media but

international media are reporting on

this almost nonstop and the

implications. Nobody knows quite

where it's going to go. This is the

death on Monday and in outside

London. Interesting because a very

great friend and business partner of

Boris Berezovsky, himself found in

2013 in his bathroom on and Nikolai

never believed that was a suicide.

They were both prominent critics of

Vladimir Putin, and of course it's

important to underline that

counterterrorism police are now

investigating his death. On Monday

we were clearly told that was not

suspect and now as a result of a

special postmortem this compression

of the neck and of course let's

remember there has been previous

criticism made here in the UK by the

media and others that there was not

enough investigation that the police

resources have not been big enough.

14 deaths now being investigated as

a result of Amber Rudd's statement

on Tuesday before the announcement

of sanctions. A real ratcheting up,

all of this, while we await the

sanctions that eventually President

Vladimir Putin is going to implement

and announced.

We believe they are

coming, there may be some diplomatic

tit-for-tat expulsions as well but

it's just a matter of time according

to Sergey Lavrov when he was

speaking earlier in the day as well.

They are saying no evidence at the

moment with the poisonings in

Salisbury which of course have

dominated the news in the earlier

part of the week. But of course it

does bring our attention back to

dissidents of Russians in exile in

this country and there'll be many

more we understand from commentators

who will be fearful now.

Yes. The

other week, but that, but based on a

book that was a documentary

effectively, chronicling of Russian

involvement worldwide. There are a

lot of people who were at one point

allies of the Kremlin who fell out

with the Kremlin like this guy,

Nikolai Glushkov for whatever

reason. And I think there is no...

There is a link between this

apparent potential murderer and the

incident in Salisbury. But the same

guiding hand one fears may be behind

both in terms of the Russian state

does not like people who are rented

-- renegades, who turned their back

on mother Russia and what it's

about. If you fall out in the court

of King Vladimir you are in trouble.

I have to declare an interest. I was

supposed to be spending five weeks

in Moscow this summer, is going to

be a bundle of...

Look at the travel

advisory that's been updated. There

is a real fear of there being

anti-British sentiment and of course

what is interesting is the next

article we will look at.

You tell us

what it is.

Boris Johnson in the FT,

there is a statement that he made.

The headline is something he blames

a row with Moscow by claiming Putin

ordered by poisonings. He's

referring thereto the attempted

murders is being treated now because

they're both still alive yet

fighting for their lives. What I

think is interesting about this,

certainly is the fact that Boris

Johnson has really tried in that

statement with the Polish minister

next to him in a war bunker, which I

think was quite interesting to

differentiate the targeted

motivated, the attempted murder,

that target measured sanctions

announced by Theresa May on

Wednesday which we understand is the

first phase, and the Russian people,

that he does not want there to beat

Russia phobia, and of course that's

a very real fear. -- to be Russia

phobia. I think it's interesting

that Downing Street did not decline

to comment on the wording of the

foreign secretary and the FT here I

think words it quite well when it

says Britain had previously on the

attached unspecified responsibility

to Vladimir Putin and indeed when

the Prime Minister was in Salisbury

on her unannounced visit yesterday,

she said it is tragic that Mr Putin

has chosen to act in this way, but

as the FT quite rightly point out,

we are not sure if she was referring

to the attack on the family or on

Russia's responds verbally. Sergey

Lavrov and others calling it

fantasy, some theories in Moscow

saying this is Britain that weakened

by Brexit trying to distract.

This

is why its so interesting. We are

used to diplomatic language being

incredibly restrained, because we

know that eight varies -- a can so

very easily be ratcheted up. For

Boris Johnson to have used this kind

of language so specifically and

targeted to Vladimir Putin is

extremely fast extremely significant

in diplomatic terms.

Absolutely.

There is the counterargument to this

situation with regards to whether

Putin was directly responsible for

ordering this is maybe it is that

who will rid me of this turbulent

place? People take him at his word

and his wish becomes their

obligation almost. Here we have

quite clearly the foreign secretary

making it abundantly clear that in

the view of the British government

this was a direct act targeted by

the Russian head of state. That is a

very serious charge and allegation.

From a foreign secretary.

This is

the official British government

policy. To be fair I don't think too

many people outside of the orbit of

Jeremy Corbyn momentum and Nigel

Farage rather bizarre bedfellows

would necessarily take any issue

with what Boris Johnson here has

that. I think this would probably be

one of those statements which the

vast majority of people up and down

the country here is active of their

political perspective would agree

with. It does seem that way, but the

one thing you got to remember with

Russia is if you are shaking sticks

they've got the bigger stick, and

therein lies... How far can Britain

go with this very dangerous bear in

the room?

I want to, if I may add

two words. Global support. The FT

refers to that and that joint

communique yesterday of Germany, the

US and France is very important and

of course what the government,

ministers have been doing in the UN,

British ambassador and the support

of the US ambassador, that has all

been extremely important at the UN

and also Neto. And there are clearly

more sanctions up Theresa May's

sleep and also we will see what the

global support -- sleeve. These are

very good intention and words and

beginning of actions, but let's see

what the Russian response is. This

could ratchet up so quickly.

Let's

look at the daily Mail. A betrayal

beyond belief. This is following the

trial of the man Essonne -- I'm

guilty of attempted murder after

setting up that device on the tube

train at person screen. We now know

that he was part of the prevent

programme which is supposed to be...

The radicalising people. Yes, the

evidence that came out in court was

that he told officials when he

arrived in the UK two years ago that

he had been kidnapped by Isis and

trained to kill by them. Even

claimed in court that actually it

was a fabrication he concocted to

persuade them that he needed to be

given asylum. The issue here is what

messages were passed on to the home

office, the police, to the security

services about this man who quite

clearly, and a guilty verdict of the

court which did not take very long,

there is with judgement, he was

planning mass murder. It's as simple

as that. He put a bomb on a train

which was a commuter train in

rush-hour with as I know young

children going to school, people

going to work, indiscriminate murder

it was on his mind. And he somehow

slipped through the net. It's a

legitimate question, you hear that

his foster parents knew nothing.

These are foster parents who had

taken in dozens and dozens of

children over the years.

Here they

are asking for donations because

they must be devastated. That bomb

was made in their kitchen -- they

are asking for explanations.

They

have this raid Saturday morning at

their house and they had no

understanding what was going on.

Armed police turning up at your

front door.

He was busy at Dover

about to be arrested unbeknownst to

him and the foster parents were in

the house and the police did not

know so they went the full scale of

getting mornings outside. There he

scary.

--

very scary.

It raises a

lot of questions about the merits

and pitfalls of the prevent

programme, but as many commentators

have said to us tonight it requires

that individual to want to change,

to want to turn away from whatever

attempts to brainwash them and be

neighborly them have gone ahead. We

are struggling a little bit, let me

tell you. The reason you are looking

at me rather than our gorgeous cast

is that both of the screens are

playing up and is not very nice for

you to look at I'm afraid. Sorry

about that. Try not to look at it

too much. I will stick to the

neighbours if we can. If I could

check the timing from you in the

gallery. Seven minutes, OK. Let's

move on and look at the express.

Page number two. We will not check

the Lloris at Dover says Grayling.

This will come as a bit of a shock

to the EU 27 that that after Brexit,

just come in, go out. There'll be no

text.

--

there'll be no checks.

This

is extraordinary. I watched your

earlier interview.

It seems that the transport

Secretary Chris Grayling have said

that we do not check the Lloris now,

we will not check them in Dover in

the future. I'm clear it cannot

happen. We will maintain a

free-flowing border at Dover. That

sounds like an invitation to put

anything on the loris. You don't

just have nice people watching

television. What happened to take

back control. This is quite

extraordinary. Is he saying this is

just from the British side which I

think is what he's saying, because

on the French side, this is the

beginning of the rest of the EE you

and the point is once you are in the

EU and that is which occurs many

things Britain was not in, the euro,

Britain is not in. Once the problem

the French will have to carry these

checks out. That has an economic

impact, and it's incredibly complex

to set up.

Politically when it

looked like it is France's problem

now. The mainland Europe's problem

now.

The thing is, something I read

today and I believe it was confirmed

by the Department of transport that

it would appear that post Brexit

British driving licenses will not be

valid in the European Union and one

presumes vice versa. Unless there is

a special permit. If you cannot

legally drive in the UK, if this

does happen and come to pass, you

will have to show that permit. is a

border check. There'll have to be

some of checking. -- some degree of

checking.

Someone said this is not

true. There are checks, so I think

that the Union for the people who do

actually checked lorries are going

you don't even know what's going on

at the border and you are the

transport secretary. Actually this

shows the huge complexity of this

and as for the frictionless border

on Northern Ireland, that ain't

over.

No, it is not. The daily

telegraph older workers face a tax

hikes to boost NHS funding. Is this

a bit of a retread of their old

national insurance increased which

were moved in and dropped?

This

morning I read this addition there

would be a 1% potential increase in

the national insurance to pay for

extra spending in the health

service. Clearly there are different

views within cabinet because this is

another proposal suggesting that the

burden of this extra money should

come from older workers,

particularly it says here pensioners

working past 65. They should not

have to pay, contributions,

obviously they don't at this

juncture. And it will raise £2

billion per year. Of course the

Brexit argument about 350 million

per week which obviously we know

they have shied away from even

though it was on a very nice, shiny

bus, is an expectation of many that

voted for Brexit that there would be

additional funding and there's this

argument of how will we find this

funding and you are the easiest

target? The older, more wealthy

workers. They thought that was a

brilliant idea when he came to think

in the social cost that is in the

manifesto. That was a disaster.

It

will not be long before someone

claims age discrimination if they go

ahead with this.

Absolutely. That is

not sound like a viable plan, plus

if one looks at the average age of a

conservative voter, talk about

shooting yourself in the foot.

That

was the problem last time.

The

manifesto is the same.

Staying with

the telegraph, let's look at a photo

on the front page, strong and cradle

it says. Theresa May holding a baby.

Which used to be standard fare for

politicians around election time but

I don't remember seeing Theresa

May...

Because as Andrea Leadsom

rather carelessly shall we say put

out, Theresa May has not had

children of her own so therefore she

is the age of having grandchildren

and she has not got them for that

very reason so it's an image we have

not seen at any point before. Maybe

we happen to us on secretary but I

cannot remember because it was not

literally then so you are not

looking for it.

A lovely picture.

The baby is only six days old, a

fine head of hair for a tiny baby.

That is one for the family album,

taking in walking them. Very sweet.

Quite extraordinary when you think

Sharon national Security Council on

Monday for two hours, going to the

house making a statement and

answering questions, Tuesday

ultimatum for the Russians, all that

planning, Wednesday morning another

one hour or more with the Attorney

General, defence minister, foreign

Secretary, all of that going on, go

back to the not sanctions,

unannounced visit to Salisbury,

quite extraordinary.

This is a

tonic, holding a baby.

I think so.

She was genuinely engaged.

Returning

to the jam on cream debate. The

Queen settled in for us. How so?

I

think there are two scones, some

people say...

Gronk.

I don't know. I

have to admit, maybe from my Irish

grandmother, I put the cream,

sacrilege...

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Will you tell us which way? She does

not look like she is improving. It

looks like a Photoshop picture.

I

clearly have blue blood somewhere in

my DNA because I like her Majesty

appear to have preferred jam first

then green. This appears to be

officially the Royal way. We should

all know this and take it to heart.

Many are judging it Bia-Bi

expression captured on this

photograph. It looks like she is

going with -- by the expression

captured on the photograph. It

looked like she likes the jam first

and then the cream.

Isn't there a

saying something about liking

doorjamb? It is probably your cake

and eat it.

It could be a French

expression we are not familiar with.

Anyway the Queen settled it but it

will not be settled. It will come

back again to that age-old question.

Andrew on Twitter wondered how far

Martin's conveyer belt of papers

would reach tonight. I will start

marking it like a long jump pit. I

think that if a record.

That is

pretty impressive.

Benedict brought

chocolate for us tonight so she

went. -- so she wins.

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Of course it is French chocolate.

What other kind would you bring?

Thank you, Martin and Benedicte.

Goodbye.

See you later.