0:00:16 > 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 Polly MacKenzie, Director of Demos.
0:00:23 > 0:00:28And Kevin Schofield, Editor of Politics Home.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Welcome to both of you.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32Many of tomorrow's front pages are already in.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34So let's take a look at them, starting with...
0:00:34 > 0:00:37The i, which leads with the agreement reached in Brussels
0:00:37 > 0:00:38today on the Brexit transition period, highlighting that
0:00:38 > 0:00:45a deal on the Irish border is far from settled.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47The Metro calls the deal a "breakthrough", saying both sides
0:00:48 > 0:00:56had to make compromises to reach it.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58But the Telegraph says it's a betrayal for fishermen as the EU
0:00:58 > 0:01:03will maintain fishing rights in UK waters during that transition
0:01:03 > 0:01:05period.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08The Financial Times features a picture of the agreement
0:01:08 > 0:01:09being announced, but its lead is the news Uber has
0:01:09 > 0:01:11suspended its driverless cars programme following a fatal crash
0:01:11 > 0:01:12in the US.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15The top story in the Express is a new treatment for age-related
0:01:15 > 0:01:21blindness which it claims could be a sight-saver for thousands.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24News of TV star Ant McPartlin's arrest on drink-driving charges
0:01:24 > 0:01:26and the announcement he'll be stepping down from his
0:01:26 > 0:01:32presenting duties for alcohol treatment is The Sun's lead.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35The main story on the front page of The Times is the claim a British
0:01:35 > 0:01:39company accused of interfering in elections is also facing
0:01:39 > 0:01:43accusations of blackmail and bribery against politicians -
0:01:43 > 0:01:52claims the firm strenuously deny.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Whilst the Guardian features an image taken from secret filming of
0:01:55 > 0:01:59Cambridge analytical's Chief Executive talking about the firm's
0:01:59 > 0:02:05operation. Blog about. Brexit dominating the front pages in the
0:02:05 > 0:02:09light of the agreement reached in Brussels. Kevin, take us to the
0:02:09 > 0:02:13Telegraph. They are going big on the fishing deal, what the deal that
0:02:13 > 0:02:18isn't, at this point.Yes, the deal that they have agreed is essentially
0:02:18 > 0:02:25that Britain will remain to all intents and purposes within the EU's
0:02:25 > 0:02:30fishing rules, essentially, through the transition period, which runs
0:02:30 > 0:02:34until the end of 2020. Now, this has caused a massive backlash,
0:02:34 > 0:02:39especially among Scottish Conservative MPs. If you by the
0:02:39 > 0:02:45election last year, the did well in Scotland. They got 13 MPs in total.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47It is worth remembering that there are more Scottish Tory MPs than
0:02:47 > 0:02:56there are do you -- DUP MPs. They do wield quite a lot of power if they
0:02:56 > 0:03:01are upset, which they clearly are, on this. One of the great slogans in
0:03:01 > 0:03:05Scotland during the general election last year was, vote Tory, get fish.
0:03:05 > 0:03:10The whole point was that they would go down to Westminster and fight
0:03:10 > 0:03:14hard to make sure that after Brexit Scottish fishermen would get access
0:03:14 > 0:03:18to their own waters without EU fishermen coming in as well. This
0:03:18 > 0:03:22transition deal clearly is not going to happen at least until after...It
0:03:22 > 0:03:30might change in a year and 18 month's time.Clearly the Prime
0:03:30 > 0:03:34Minister will be saying to the Conservative MPs, and Jacob
0:03:34 > 0:03:38Rees-Mogg on the heel is threatening to do a protest of throwing fish
0:03:38 > 0:03:44into the Thames tomorrow, a sight to see! She will be saying it is a
0:03:44 > 0:03:46temporary extension. But by the time you go back to the polls we will
0:03:46 > 0:03:53have those fish that we promised all constituents.The Tory MPs met with
0:03:53 > 0:03:58the Chief Whip Julian Smith this afternoon. If he had been intending
0:03:58 > 0:04:01to calm them down and get them back on board, I don't think it went very
0:04:01 > 0:04:06well! Apparently he completely lost the room. At one point said, well,
0:04:06 > 0:04:10there's nothing worried so much to worry about, the fishermen are going
0:04:10 > 0:04:15to vote Labour anyway, that went down very, very badly, especially
0:04:15 > 0:04:19amongst Tories who see the SNP as the main rivals north of the border.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23When the Prime Minister meets with MPs tomorrow she has a lot of bridge
0:04:23 > 0:04:27building to do in terms of trying to win them round on this point.Put us
0:04:27 > 0:04:31into another perspective on the Brexit deal, this is from the Times.
0:04:31 > 0:04:37And their front page, it's not the lead, we will talk about that
0:04:37 > 0:04:40shortly, but the transition deal over Brexit is held by businesses,
0:04:40 > 0:04:44they are taking a more positive view.Yes, businesses seem to be
0:04:44 > 0:04:48pleased. Although there is a massive gap over the border with Northern
0:04:48 > 0:04:53Ireland, and really until that is resolved, this is just, you know,
0:04:53 > 0:04:57words. But the CBI is please. We have another quote from Jacob
0:04:57 > 0:05:01Rees-Mogg, who seems a lot happier than he was about the fish. The key
0:05:01 > 0:05:05argument is that this is just a temporary transition, and they are
0:05:05 > 0:05:08wielding with great pride this idea that they can negotiate trade eels.
0:05:08 > 0:05:13But of course, if those trades eels require regulatory death alignment,
0:05:13 > 0:05:17I don't and that's one of the words were allowed to use -- if these
0:05:17 > 0:05:21trade deals. That causes a problem with Northern Ireland, so until that
0:05:21 > 0:05:28is fixed you can't do innovative trade deals at all, and trade deals
0:05:28 > 0:05:33don't cover services, so the economy is still a mess!It has written into
0:05:33 > 0:05:43the backstop suggestion that the EU have, if all attempts to not having
0:05:43 > 0:05:47hardboard fails, Northern Ireland will remain in the Single Market.
0:05:47 > 0:05:53That has been dismissed by Downing Street.DUP clearly don't want that
0:05:53 > 0:05:58either, but the EU or insisting, both sides have said, we don't want
0:05:58 > 0:06:04it hardboard, but that's just words. Saying it is fine but meaning --
0:06:04 > 0:06:08making it happen is something different.David Davis as the
0:06:08 > 0:06:12argument today, if a very good you'll ends up being done, then the
0:06:12 > 0:06:15border issue to an extent goes away because the relationship will still
0:06:15 > 0:06:20be so close between one side, non-EU and the other side that is still the
0:06:20 > 0:06:25EU.Absolutely, if there is still a deal whereby our regulations and
0:06:25 > 0:06:29economies remain closely integrated. The problem is if we want to start
0:06:29 > 0:06:35letting in American chlorine washed chicken or doing what the Labour
0:06:35 > 0:06:39Party was talking about, banning FOI grass from the UK market as an
0:06:39 > 0:06:45animal rights policy. How do you talk -- stop that coming in over the
0:06:45 > 0:06:49border?Is that the biggest challenge in these talks?Without a
0:06:49 > 0:06:54doubt, that is the one thing... They have managed to reach agreement on a
0:06:54 > 0:07:00lot of the big things, EU citizens, the divorce bill, other aspects. But
0:07:00 > 0:07:05the one thing that has been front and centre of the discussions from
0:07:05 > 0:07:08the very beginning and they are still no closer to reaching an
0:07:08 > 0:07:12agreement, it is the Irish border. This is why you get a hard
0:07:12 > 0:07:17Brexiteers saying, the Irish should leave the Customs Union as well,
0:07:17 > 0:07:24forgetting that we haven't ruled island since 1916. That move on to
0:07:24 > 0:07:29Uber, in the light of this pedestrian being killed in the
0:07:29 > 0:07:33United States, Kevin, they are going to suspend self driving tests.Yes,
0:07:33 > 0:07:38you can see why, this poor woman was crossing the road when she was hit
0:07:38 > 0:07:45by a driverless Uber car. This is something that has always concerned
0:07:45 > 0:07:52me about driverless cars. Will it be a real rush towards heading in that
0:07:52 > 0:07:56direction, ultimately all cars being driverless, if you put all your
0:07:56 > 0:08:03faith in a machine, it's very easy for it to go wrong. It clearly has
0:08:03 > 0:08:09come with tragic consequences. They have decided to pull the plug.The
0:08:09 > 0:08:12idea is that self driving vehicles will be safer because they behave
0:08:12 > 0:08:16predictably. The problem is that they are starting to react with all
0:08:16 > 0:08:21sorts of unpredictable things, like other drivers on the road or in this
0:08:21 > 0:08:24case a pedestrian, and training the machine to gradually recognised that
0:08:24 > 0:08:28is proving much more difficult than the sort of technology pioneers
0:08:28 > 0:08:32imagined it would be.It raises questions as to how far forward
0:08:32 > 0:08:35other countries move. There is a reference in the piece to Gatwick
0:08:35 > 0:08:41Airport planning to test self shuttle buses this summer. -- self
0:08:41 > 0:08:45driving shuttle buses. The move is in one direction, it is a question
0:08:45 > 0:08:48of how it is regulated and everything that goes with it.Thing
0:08:48 > 0:08:54that Brexiteers have said, we can be a place like Arizona that deregulate
0:08:54 > 0:08:59in order to enable more technology innovation. In some ways that is a
0:08:59 > 0:09:02compelling argument, we can have the flexibility of a smaller market and
0:09:02 > 0:09:06allow people to do things like health driving cars. The problem is,
0:09:06 > 0:09:10that comes with real risk and a political cost as well. The real
0:09:10 > 0:09:17cost of human life.And shuttle buses at an airport, it's a Muller
0:09:17 > 0:09:21to be self-contained space. When cars are on the open road driving
0:09:21 > 0:09:25for miles and miles and in heavy traffic, stop and start and the
0:09:25 > 0:09:29pedestrians, it is brought and full of danger.Take us to the Guardian,
0:09:29 > 0:09:34this is the Cambridge Analytica story, the files, as the Guardian is
0:09:34 > 0:09:40calling them. Data firms caught boasting about tricksters swing
0:09:40 > 0:09:45elections.This is the third day the Guardian has been headlining on this
0:09:45 > 0:09:50story, they have done some impressive longform journalism and
0:09:50 > 0:09:53have been pushing this story for a year, basically. We have now had
0:09:53 > 0:09:58these revelations, an undercover recording, of these data firms
0:09:58 > 0:10:06executive making extraordinary both about plans to basically blackmail
0:10:06 > 0:10:09politicians with honey trap prostitutes in the Ukraine. It feels
0:10:09 > 0:10:14like a thriller. But it feels really quite real.We should say that they
0:10:14 > 0:10:20deny any wrongdoing and this is very much reported, as you say, and this
0:10:20 > 0:10:23is day three. Interesting, actually, because Facebook have become caught
0:10:23 > 0:10:25up in all of this because of the suggestions that names were
0:10:25 > 0:10:31harvested. And the New York Times, this is Reuters reporting the New
0:10:31 > 0:10:36York Times and I think we might be able to show this, with the Facebook
0:10:36 > 0:10:40security chief Alex Stein Moss, who is said to leave after classes of
0:10:40 > 0:10:46disinformation. You can see that page from the New York Times. --
0:10:46 > 0:10:50clashes over disinformation. It's all very conjugated.Billions were
0:10:50 > 0:10:56wiped off Facebook's shared price -- are complicated. That is... What
0:10:56 > 0:11:00this guy has boasted about is shocking, but it's the fact that
0:11:00 > 0:11:02millions and millions, tens of millions of people's Anzor Gubashev
0:11:02 > 0:11:08is what harvested -- personal details were harvested against the
0:11:08 > 0:11:14law by Facebook. It throws up all sorts of details as to how this
0:11:14 > 0:11:18could possibly happen, Facebook was Maqsood ready measures, and then how
0:11:18 > 0:11:23this information was used perhaps to steal election results. Certainly
0:11:23 > 0:11:30Trump has said that thanks to this, this was part of the reason that he
0:11:30 > 0:11:34managed to get elected, it makes you wonder what influence they have.We
0:11:34 > 0:11:38have got a couple of minutes left and I want to try and squeeze two
0:11:38 > 0:11:43more in. Polly, we have the front page of the Son. As you might
0:11:43 > 0:11:47imagine, they are talking about an argument -- the sun.It is a
0:11:47 > 0:11:52horribly tragic story. With a clear need for him to take some time off
0:11:52 > 0:11:57and seeks treatment. You know, I think like more and more people,
0:11:57 > 0:12:02this addiction to painkillers is something where, just like in the
0:12:02 > 0:12:06US, we need to look really carefully at what policy we have doesn't want
0:12:06 > 0:12:11people, it sure that we invest in rehab services. It's all right for
0:12:11 > 0:12:13Ant McPartlin, he can probably afford rehab and we hope it really
0:12:13 > 0:12:17helps. The tragic thing is there are thousands of families who will be
0:12:17 > 0:12:21affected by addictions like this who just aren't actors those services.
0:12:21 > 0:12:26And also the impact it will have on ITV local who can't afford those
0:12:26 > 0:12:30services. Ant and Dec come without a pair, you can't have one without the
0:12:30 > 0:12:34other. They are buffets of Saturday night TV all round the it's not just
0:12:34 > 0:12:38Saturday night takeaway -- they are the face of Saturday night TV. They
0:12:38 > 0:12:43are very key to the whole ITV market. If one of them isn't very
0:12:43 > 0:12:48well, sadly, the whole thing comes crashing down.Let's conclude with
0:12:48 > 0:12:53the Daily Express, which has certainly an arresting headline.
0:12:53 > 0:13:02Miracle cure for sight loss, Pollock was -- Polly?I don't know about
0:13:02 > 0:13:08medical claims, but it is a module. You. Open -- it is a module. You.
0:13:08 > 0:13:16Now we have got themselves helping to cure blindness, it feels like a
0:13:16 > 0:13:19miracle cure narrative about themselves might be coming true. I'm
0:13:19 > 0:13:23a medical perspective, that is very exciting.It is very exciting to
0:13:23 > 0:13:26think that we have seen conditions that previously nobody thought were
0:13:26 > 0:13:33curable. Thanks to the ground-breaking medical
0:13:33 > 0:13:37breakthroughs, it yours can be found. It shows the importance of
0:13:37 > 0:13:42funding -- a cure can be found. It shows the importance of funding
0:13:42 > 0:13:46research as much as possible, there are sure is out there for lots of
0:13:46 > 0:13:51conditions.Two patients miraculously regained their vision,
0:13:51 > 0:13:58an 86-year-old man and a woman in her early 60s were suffering from
0:13:58 > 0:14:01age-related macular degeneration and they are not suffering from back any
0:14:01 > 0:14:08longer.More than 600,000 people are affected by this condition.That is
0:14:08 > 0:14:12a result of great investment in research and development and
0:14:12 > 0:14:15regulations to support its.As you rightly pointed out, we have ended
0:14:15 > 0:14:19up on a more uplifting note!
0:14:19 > 0:14:21That's it for The Papers tonight.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24Don't forget, you can see the front pages of the papers online
0:14:24 > 0:14:25on the BBC News website.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27It's all there for you, seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30And if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it
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0:14:31 > 0:14:33Thank you, Polly and Kevin.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36From us all, goodbye.