hello. this is bbc news with lukwesa burak. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first the headlines. barack obama's spokesman says president donald trump's accusation that his predecessor ordered his phones to be tapped is "simply false". sinn fein describe the stormont assembly elections as a watershed — after coming within one seat of drawing level with the democratic unionist party. clearly, the unionist majority in the assembly has been ended and the notion of a permanent or perpetual unionist majority has been demolished. there are fears for the future of vauxhall plants in britain after a french car company which produces peugeot vehicles reportedly reaches a deal to buy general motors‘ european operations. hugh jackman returns

huthackman returns as wolverine in the marvel blockbuster logan. we will hear more about that in the film review. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the broadcaster charlie wolf and the chief political commentatorfor the independent, john rentoul. welcome back to both of you. firstly, let us have a look at the front pages. beginning with the observer who says that the uk's river is the watchdog is launching an enquiry into how the data of voters is being used during political campaigns. in sunday telegraph, allegations from president trump that barack obama

orchestrated an illegal watergate style phone tapping operation at trump tower. meanwhile, the mail on sunday says that tony blair attended a secret meeting at the white house to discuss working for donald trump asa to discuss working for donald trump as a middle east peace convoy —— envoy. the chancellor will use the budget to build up a war chest of boost britain's post brexit resilient. the independent leads with its own poll suggesting the majority of the ukase against government plans to cut corporation tax in favour of the money going towards the nhs. and, finally, the sunday express claims that nearly £150 million from the health budget was spent on overseas aid last year. so, those that were just some of the front pages this morning. we have a selection we will be discussing. john, charlie, why don't you start us, charlie, with the front page of

the observer? by my standards this is amazing. when i first started in journalism, we used to have scammers in america to hibberd calls of police departments. and these days, we just police departments. and these days, wejust get police departments. and these days, we just get tweets and twitter. this helps us see what mrs donald trump is coming outwith. and this morning it was a doozy. he has launched a verbal assault on barack obama accusing him of a wiretap in his office in new york. this is almost unprecedented. i won't say it is totally unprecedented. if you think back to, for instance, clinton and george w bush bush. they made a mess, they trashed it. a couple of days ago, however, trump said that when he took place over it was a mess. instead, he is finding stuff

thatis mess. instead, he is finding stuff that is going on. i guess he had a meeting with one of these people over national security that said we have been bugging you. what happened... that is not what they are saying is that. they say he simply read something, a news article. i'm not sure. we don't fully know this. he is not providing us fully know this. he is not providing us with evidence. but it is possible that he could have been wiretapped in that the fbi and the cia... this is something you may have had mentioned after 9/11, when the patriot act was being discussed. that would be the way for the cia if they wanted to investigate suspicions of possible terrorist or something like that. as i understand this, the cia and fbi went to this man, were rejected and came back. trump is essentially saying that barack obama trump is essentially saying that ba rack obama was trump is essentially saying that barack obama was behind it and... i

guess i would have to surmise, again, this is speculation, if the fbi were to do that because they felt there was a russian connection of some sort, i would have thought that something of that importance would have to go to the top. ijust cannot see... can you imagine the home secretary here? this is a paranoid fantasy of donald trump again. shades of that, yes. but i think there could be more to it. you would imagine, even, most democratic countries you would have to have probable cause before the wiretap was okayed. absolutely. if the fbi we re was okayed. absolutely. if the fbi were doing it officially then they would have had to have announced it during the election campaign as they announce their investigation into hillary. if they did it unofficially, then all sorts of things might be going on but... did you read that, you know, is such a

serious allegation that it has warranted a response from president obama he... i don't think anybody would suggest that obama himself would suggest that obama himself would have ordered it. but it is unprecedented, what donald trump has said. then again there are many that think that barack obama has been doing things, if not by himself but through his minions are getting things to happen such as, come these meetings the town meetings that senators returned to where they are facing protests. this is unusual. there are probably people there who are republicans who are mad at senators over healthcare. but there is... one man wrote about, for instance, you go into a town hall, there are only a handful of view. you sit separately and looks at the whole hall is... there are shades that may or may not be true. it is

also fair to say that donald trump has been hamstrung. he does not have a full cabinet yet and the democrats have been obstinate. maybe he is putting two and two together, possibly not getting seven but at least getting six. john. the mail on sunday. tony blair has been in the trump white house meeting jarrod kushner, the president is's son—in—law to discuss the middle east and trying to broker some kind of peace settlement which is what tony blair was involved with is representative of the quartet for some time until he stood down. an extraordinary story. it does... it's a sort of explain why that remarkable coincidence occurred when tony blair was in the same re sta u ra nt tony blair was in the same restaurant as kushnerjust after donald trump's election. the really

does seem to be something going on there and it is interesting because jarrod kushner and his wife do seem to be the sort of moderate centre of the donald trump white house and if you could get some kind of progress in the middle east and would come from that source. interesting to know if his side issue here. he will come into contact with ivanka, who is friends with the former wife of rupert murdoch. eyebrows at the time i believe were raised. rupert murdoch read a lot into it. how is tony blair regarded ? murdoch read a lot into it. how is tony blair regarded? we know about his special relationship with president bush. how was he regarded amongst the encircle? again, i think... if nidal nigel farage can

be well looked upon, the way the americans look upon it is that these quys americans look upon it is that these guys who seem to have knowledge about what they are talking about. trump likes nigel because he has the sense of thoughts on brexit, etc and he likes people who seem to have some subtle level of experience that could help him. yes. tony blair knows a lot about the middle east. unquestionably. and, yes, he is extremely well—known and well appreciated in the united that. we will not hang him out to dry as they try to do here. so, trump thinks that dogmatic black and white level. ican that dogmatic black and white level. i can seem very much, you know, taking tony blair on. as i said earlier, donald trump worth $12 billion is probably the only guy who could afford tony blair. let us look at the sunday times and the two stories there that caught our attention. the first of which is the picture. tells the story behind the picture. tells the story behind the picture. i stared at this for

sometime i first saw it. i'll try to work out why donald trump had a slab of wax stuck to his head. it is a map of palestine. a map of palestine. it is actually his tie which has blown up in the wind and you can see it as sellotape on the bottom, which holds it together. what a treat. i need to learn from that because my tie always looks like msn splits at the bottom. what i obviously need a sellotape to hold it together. shops are about to run out of tape. you are stealing all oui’ out of tape. you are stealing all our secrets. in the model world, his wife and daughter would have done just that, they take the back of a jacket to make things fit. ukip surprisingly, charlie, with your knowledge of women's undergarment stop they do take down bits. knowledge of women's undergarment stop they do take down bitslj knowledge of women's undergarment stop they do take down bits. i know that. let's move on. sunday times

and the stay with this. the uk story at the chancellor's £60 billion brexit fighting fund. this is the advance spins at a budget from the chancellor. this is philip hammond, the straight no spin chancellor who is preparing the ground for the budget which is... fake news! they can use! is shown to lower the expectations of people because financial forecasts suggest he has more money to play with the new 40 at so he says we cannot risk a spending spree. i take that to mean he can risk a small spending spree. perhaps he can put money into the nhs and into social care which are the pressure points. he does not wa nt the pressure points. he does not want to get people carried away with the idea that he has plenty of money in his back pocket. the question is, of course, when he gets the $60 billion. people say there will be cuts. that exactly the forecast

surplus that he may have in 2020 it is not actually real money that he has got yet. that will be a chest mark. 0k. -- chestnut. if you asked people what they would do on the money they would tell you... this is, again, not fake news, this is manufactured news with all due respect to this very fine newspaper. they have done one of these opinion surveys , they have done one of these opinion surveys, a slow news day, again. an overwhelming majority of the british people want theresa may to stop cot to corporation tax —— to stop cuts to corporation tax —— to stop cuts to corporation tax and give the money to the nhs. this is according to an exclusive poll for the independent. the problem with this

again is, yeah, you asked people and they would give you an opinion and it is just that. i do they would give you an opinion and it isjust that. i do not they would give you an opinion and it is just that. i do not fault them for that. but sometimes it is not as simple as that. for instance, the cry you normally get from the anti—war people, about how all much the cost is. you can't use our money for other things, does not work that way. manufactured news is an unkind way. manufactured news is an unkind way to describe opinion polls. newspapers often do that. this is actually an important story. there is no question that the british people do feel that the nhs is underfunded at the moment. it is in a period of crisis. it had several years of smaller increases than it needs and this is a big test for philip hammond in the budget, how much it will give to it. the suggestion in some of the papers are that he will kick the can down the

road to use an american phrase, and try and solve the problem in the autumn. i need to bring this to a close. john and charlie, thank you so much. do you know what, let's just stop here and head to the film review. it is lovely to see both of you. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases, as ever, is mark kermode. hello, mark — what's in store? so a very mixed bag — we have logan, a superhero movie that isn't really a superhero movie.

viceroy‘s house, a very handsome period drama from gurinder chadha. and certain women, the latest low—key offering from kelly reichardt. so wolverine, back with us. yeah, although in a way that kind of missells it. so this is basically a superhero movie that isn't about superheroes — it's about ageing, and it's about arthritis, and it's