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Hello, this is BBC News
with Nicholas Owen. | 0:00:10 | 0:00:13 | |
We'll be taking a look at tomorrow
morning's papers in a moment. | 0:00:13 | 0:00:16 | |
First, the headlines. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:20 | |
23 British diplomats are to be
expelled by Moscow amid tensions | 0:00:20 | 0:00:23 | |
over the nerve agent
attack in Salisbury. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
The British Consulate
in St Petersburg will also close. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:28 | |
The Prime Minister has said Russia
must account for its actions. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:33 | |
We will never tolerate a threat
to the life of British citizens | 0:00:33 | 0:00:36 | |
and others on British soil
from the Russian government. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:44 | |
Meanwhile, counterterrorism police
have started contacting Russian | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
exiles living in the UK
about their personal safety | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
following the suspected murder
of businessman Nikolai Glushkov. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:56 | |
Amber weather warnings
are in force this evening | 0:00:56 | 0:00:58 | |
in north-west England,
Yorkshire, the Midlands, | 0:00:58 | 0:01:00 | |
London and south-east England. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:02 | |
Drivers are being urged
to be prepared before | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
setting out on journeys. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
US officials investigate claims that
a political consultancy mishandled | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
the data of millions of Facebook
users to support Donald Trump's run | 0:01:11 | 0:01:15 | |
for the White House. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:24 | |
And later in Meet The Author,
Rebecca Jones talks with the writer | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
Blake Morrison about his new book,
The Executor. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:37 | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead
to what the papers will be | 0:01:45 | 0:01:49 | |
bringing us tomorrow. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:49 | |
With me are the playwright
and New European columnist | 0:01:49 | 0:01:51 | |
Bonnie Greer and the economist Ruth
Lea. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:56 | |
Many of tomorrow's front
pages are already in. | 0:01:56 | 0:02:00 | |
The Observer has an interview
with a whistle-blower who alleges | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
that information from millions
of Facebook users may have been used | 0:02:02 | 0:02:06 | |
by a data company during the 2016 US
presidential election. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:10 | |
Both companies deny any wrongdoing
The Mail On Sunday says Theresa May | 0:02:10 | 0:02:15 | |
is planning a crackdown
on what the paper calls | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
Putin's McMafia - associates
of the Russian President with money | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
in the UK. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:23 | |
The Sunday Times warns that
a Russian cyber attack could turn | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
the lights out in Britain. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:28 | |
It reports that the
National Grid is on alert. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:30 | |
The Sunday Express has more
on Theresa May putting pressure | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
on Moscow with a possible travel ban
for 1,000 Russian tycoons. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:39 | |
The Sunday Telegraph
leads on the same story | 0:02:39 | 0:02:42 | |
as well as a photograph of a smiling
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
at a St Patrick's Day parade
of the Irish Guards. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:51 | |
And the Sunday Mirror leads
on the sex abuse scandal in Telford, | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
quoting a police insider who says
it was too much trouble to crack | 0:02:54 | 0:02:57 | |
down on grooming gangs. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:07 | |
Let's good to those newspapers.
Bonnie, would you start us off? The | 0:03:10 | 0:03:16 | |
Sunday express headline, nee stands
up to Putin, several | 0:03:16 | 0:03:20 | |
Sunday express headline, nee stands
up to Putin, several examples. She | 0:03:20 | 0:03:23 | |
made a pretty good speech in the
House of Commons the other day, it | 0:03:23 | 0:03:27 | |
was pretty strong and impressive for
a lot of people because she has been | 0:03:27 | 0:03:31 | |
caught up in Brexit. This was really
good. She has expelled 23 diplomats. | 0:03:31 | 0:03:37 | |
The Russians have expelled 23. She
is battling oligarchs and looking | 0:03:37 | 0:03:46 | |
into the travel and so forth. What
is interesting to me, I did not look | 0:03:46 | 0:03:50 | |
at the speech completely she gave to
the party, but hopefully she will | 0:03:50 | 0:03:54 | |
also look at the conference of the
Conservative Party. She has got a | 0:03:54 | 0:04:00 | |
lot of money thereto. I think that
is something she should be upfront | 0:04:00 | 0:04:05 | |
about. She needs to be upfront about
that because we need to deal with | 0:04:05 | 0:04:11 | |
all of this. There is a lot of
Russian money in this country. Ruth, | 0:04:11 | 0:04:16 | |
one confusion in my mind about this
is bearing down on dirty Russian | 0:04:16 | 0:04:22 | |
money, but then you here we are also
very dependent on this money. Which | 0:04:22 | 0:04:27 | |
is it? Are we dealing with criminals
and can we do things to them? When | 0:04:27 | 0:04:34 | |
it comes to dirty money, we're
talking about money-laundering. We | 0:04:34 | 0:04:39 | |
have criminal finances coming into
the country. One of her measures | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
issue will make it easy to see the
assets of Russians who | 0:04:42 | 0:04:48 | |
money-laundering. But on the other
hand, an oligarchs, we have been to | 0:04:48 | 0:04:53 | |
welcoming to them to come here and
buy up parts of Kensington. Part of | 0:04:53 | 0:04:59 | |
Kensington is known as red Square
because of so many Russians that | 0:04:59 | 0:05:03 | |
live there. But we will not say, I
am sorry, you've got to get out. I | 0:05:03 | 0:05:11 | |
suspect most are perfectly
legitimate and they are, of course | 0:05:11 | 0:05:15 | |
they will stay. But the whole idea
we have a very close economic | 0:05:15 | 0:05:19 | |
relationship with Russia needs
addressing because very little of | 0:05:19 | 0:05:23 | |
our trade is with Russia, less than
1% of our exports and less than 1% | 0:05:23 | 0:05:28 | |
of imports coming from Russia. I
suspect that where it gets | 0:05:28 | 0:05:34 | |
embarrassing is BP four example has
a high proportion of shares, so | 0:05:34 | 0:05:40 | |
there are economic connections. But
Russia is not a major trading | 0:05:40 | 0:05:43 | |
partner this country. So we can
afford to be mean to them? We need | 0:05:43 | 0:05:49 | |
to be on the other hand... And she
should do this, be even more | 0:05:49 | 0:05:53 | |
specific about the fact this is not
that the Russian people because we | 0:05:53 | 0:05:57 | |
are in a very fragile time anyway
and we do not need to have another | 0:05:57 | 0:06:01 | |
group that will be yelled on the
streets. We should be careful about | 0:06:01 | 0:06:06 | |
that. She should be specific. These
are specific instances it is | 0:06:06 | 0:06:13 | |
money-laundering bus stop Londoners
a nice place to live, why not? The | 0:06:13 | 0:06:19 | |
Sunday Times, the same sort of
story, blackout threat to Britain as | 0:06:19 | 0:06:23 | |
Putin hits back. What is that about?
Apparently, it is a part of GCHQ | 0:06:23 | 0:06:32 | |
suggesting that there could be
Russian cyber attacks on the | 0:06:32 | 0:06:37 | |
National Grid, for example, that
could put the lights out. In other | 0:06:37 | 0:06:43 | |
words, computer systems which are
very sophisticated, it could make | 0:06:43 | 0:06:47 | |
them dysfunctional. I do wonder if
this is scaremongering although, | 0:06:47 | 0:06:50 | |
having said that, I will hope the
lights do not go out. But I do | 0:06:50 | 0:06:55 | |
wonder if this is scaremongering. It
is fair enough. If the security | 0:06:55 | 0:06:59 | |
services do think there is a threat
from cyber attacks from Russia, the | 0:06:59 | 0:07:04 | |
right to say it, but it is all part
and parcel of the rhetoric that is | 0:07:04 | 0:07:10 | |
surrounding this whole Russian
British thing which is getting a tad | 0:07:10 | 0:07:15 | |
out of control. Apparently, the will
of God some kind of heads up from | 0:07:15 | 0:07:19 | |
American intelligence because for
sure there is a threat and it is a | 0:07:19 | 0:07:24 | |
credible threat. If there is a
credible threat to this happening to | 0:07:24 | 0:07:29 | |
the American great. Maybe this is
something that is going back and | 0:07:29 | 0:07:33 | |
forth. I take your point about
Russia, but Russia is a bad actor | 0:07:33 | 0:07:38 | |
and everybody knows this. If this is
in fact true that this happened in | 0:07:38 | 0:07:44 | |
this country, we need to take this
seriously. Going back to energy, | 0:07:44 | 0:07:50 | |
about gas, there is a lot of talk
about, oh, well, we do not depend on | 0:07:50 | 0:07:55 | |
Russian gas, but it plays an
important part in energy supplies | 0:07:55 | 0:07:59 | |
across Europe, so when they and we
might find that difficult. Only | 0:07:59 | 0:08:03 | |
about 1% of our gas supplies
actually come from Russia were as | 0:08:03 | 0:08:07 | |
36% of German mystic gas consumption
comes from Russia. A lot of eastern | 0:08:07 | 0:08:13 | |
Europe is almost totally dependent
on Russia for gas. It is interesting | 0:08:13 | 0:08:18 | |
about this rhetoric and tit-for-tat
un argy-bargy with Russia, on the | 0:08:18 | 0:08:22 | |
whole, the rest of Europe is keeping
remarkably quiet. If you really | 0:08:22 | 0:08:27 | |
wanted a major sanction an Putin to
make it hurt, it would have to be a | 0:08:27 | 0:08:31 | |
concerted effort by Europe. And I do
not think they would do that. It is | 0:08:31 | 0:08:38 | |
gasp from. And it is also the
borders as well. I think it seems to | 0:08:38 | 0:08:44 | |
me, looking at Britain, taking
Britain to lead, seeing how Britain | 0:08:44 | 0:08:49 | |
will proceed through this, it is
extremely complicated. They will not | 0:08:49 | 0:08:54 | |
come in with major sanctions. It is
too dangerous. But we are in a | 0:08:54 | 0:09:00 | |
situation in the world where Putin
has pushed the envelope once too | 0:09:00 | 0:09:05 | |
often, and I do not know what people
will do. Cyber attacks? Well, | 0:09:05 | 0:09:15 | |
America is another... We could spend
three hours in America, so we won't | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
do that, but there is a long
complicated chain of madness going | 0:09:18 | 0:09:22 | |
on over there now in relation to
this and it is becoming part of the | 0:09:22 | 0:09:25 | |
narrative here. I think it is a good
warning that let's not worry too | 0:09:25 | 0:09:31 | |
much. Bonnie, let's go on to a
by-product of what has been going | 0:09:31 | 0:09:37 | |
on. And the Corbyn MP 's plan new
party. A headline on the Sunday | 0:09:37 | 0:09:44 | |
Times. The problem that happened
was, Jeremy Corbyn's statement after | 0:09:44 | 0:09:54 | |
the Prime Minister's statement which
a lot of people felt was ill judged, | 0:09:54 | 0:09:57 | |
not that it was wrong but ill
judged. Some people are very upset | 0:09:57 | 0:10:02 | |
about it, it is affecting poll
numbers as well. There is always | 0:10:02 | 0:10:05 | |
some kind of talk about something
happening in the Labour Party. I | 0:10:05 | 0:10:10 | |
would not think that would get too
far. I was very interested last week | 0:10:10 | 0:10:16 | |
because Theresa May gave two
speeches in the Commons on Monday | 0:10:16 | 0:10:20 | |
and Wednesday, and the response from
Corbyn was rather ill judged. He did | 0:10:20 | 0:10:25 | |
not judge the tone or the mood of
it. We don't want to get too much | 0:10:25 | 0:10:31 | |
into his position on this, but what
he is saying is, we must be sure of | 0:10:31 | 0:10:36 | |
what we're doing. Not many Labour
MPs have gone as far as putting | 0:10:36 | 0:10:41 | |
their names down on a piece of
paper. It was the reaction by a | 0:10:41 | 0:10:49 | |
Labour MP, Yvette Cooper, for
example, and various others were | 0:10:49 | 0:10:51 | |
saying, this is not a time to have a
party political disagreements. As | 0:10:51 | 0:10:55 | |
far as I could see, it really opened
up the divisions in the Labour | 0:10:55 | 0:11:01 | |
Party. Partly it was theatre. It was
the one moment for it. Then they | 0:11:01 | 0:11:08 | |
jumped into it, Yvette Cooper. This
is where it is now. Let's go back | 0:11:08 | 0:11:15 | |
now to the Sunday... Go to the
Sunday Telegraph. Anger as Gibraltar | 0:11:15 | 0:11:23 | |
is left out of Brexit transition.
Gibraltar, we do not hear a lot | 0:11:23 | 0:11:31 | |
about what is going on there and
their views. We don't. I did | 0:11:31 | 0:11:35 | |
actually look at the draft
transitional agreement and Gibraltar | 0:11:35 | 0:11:40 | |
was not mentioned. But there is
time. Do not panic! There is plenty | 0:11:40 | 0:11:46 | |
of time to actually come to a
relationship for Gibraltar. It is | 0:11:46 | 0:11:50 | |
also interesting that Spain is
saying, what about us? Actually, I | 0:11:50 | 0:11:59 | |
am not sure that Spanish position is
very sound one because we are | 0:11:59 | 0:12:03 | |
negotiating with the European Union.
But some deal will be done. You can | 0:12:03 | 0:12:08 | |
understand them being edgy about all
of this. Now they have got this. And | 0:12:08 | 0:12:15 | |
the EU gave Spain the veto. Now,
that will have to be sorted out as | 0:12:15 | 0:12:20 | |
well and I am sure Gibraltar do not
see themselves in the whole mix. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:26 | |
That is horrible. It is all very
much of a mess. But whether it will | 0:12:26 | 0:12:33 | |
actually use the veto is a different
issue. But the habit on the table, | 0:12:33 | 0:12:37 | |
and whether the user or not we do
not know but they have it, and | 0:12:37 | 0:12:41 | |
Gibraltar knows they have got it,
and maybe that's why they are not in | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
here. I think it will be sorted out.
We would talk in a few months' time. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:51 | |
This is an important week, coming up
all of this. You thought things are | 0:12:51 | 0:12:58 | |
broadly on track? They are broadly
on track. There will be a council | 0:12:58 | 0:13:02 | |
meeting at the end of this week, in
March, when it looks as though it is | 0:13:02 | 0:13:09 | |
highly possible that the council
will actually agree to the | 0:13:09 | 0:13:13 | |
transitional arrangements put in
place. They had been negotiated | 0:13:13 | 0:13:16 | |
already with Michel Barnier. And it
looks to me as though we are almost | 0:13:16 | 0:13:23 | |
there. A few concessions we do not
like back-ups. I will listen and see | 0:13:23 | 0:13:31 | |
what she's saying. The rest of the
war does not look good at all. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:35 | |
Apparently a bit it is because we
did not get a lot of information. If | 0:13:35 | 0:13:39 | |
this is supposed to be secret, I
have no idea, but meanwhile are | 0:13:39 | 0:13:45 | |
drifting out of the city and they
say it is not because Brexit but we | 0:13:45 | 0:13:48 | |
do not why. That is what they said.
I want to get one story in quickly, | 0:13:48 | 0:13:56 | |
the Sunday Times from page, it is
only short, but what is this | 0:13:56 | 0:14:04 | |
transgender e-mail about? What is
happening in universities is that | 0:14:04 | 0:14:08 | |
people are being asked, what you
want to be called, he, she? Young | 0:14:08 | 0:14:13 | |
people now want to determine who
they are and what they are in the | 0:14:13 | 0:14:19 | |
world. Universities are saying, at
the end of your e-mail, put your | 0:14:19 | 0:14:22 | |
name down and say how you would like
to be addressed, and that is what it | 0:14:22 | 0:14:27 | |
is about. That is what students want
and what they deserve. Is it | 0:14:27 | 0:14:31 | |
complicated? If people feel strongly
about this, I have no problems about | 0:14:31 | 0:14:39 | |
accommodating that strength of
feeling. In other words, I am not | 0:14:39 | 0:14:43 | |
worried! It is what students want
and how students see themselves, and | 0:14:43 | 0:14:49 | |
that is most important of all. OK,
well, I am grateful to you both as | 0:14:49 | 0:14:55 | |
ever. That is it for this hour.
Bonnie and Ruth will be back 11:30pm | 0:14:55 | 0:15:01 | |
for another look at tomorrow
morning's newspapers. | 0:15:01 | 0:15:12 |