start of a bright start on tuesday. see the see the cloud, the rain moving into northern ireland, things going downhill. it will be windy and wet and windy weather makes its way across the irish sea. temperatures from seven to ii across the irish sea. temperatures from seven to 11 degrees. even across all parts. we will all see rain through the day on tuesday. it is on the move toward the new continent. but the middle of the week it is out of the way but we still unsettled. some chores around the temperatures are doing quite well, 12 to 14 for cardiff and london. hello. this is bbc news with nicholas owen. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment — first the headlines. the chancellor, phillip hammond, has dismissed as "reckless" calls for him to increase spending in his first budget on wednesday. we are spending over £50 billion a year onjust paying the interest on our debt, more than we spend on defence

and overseas aid together. the white house demands that congress investigates whether barack obama ordered wire—taps on president trump before last year's election. a former director of national intelligence denies the claims. there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president—elect at the time, as a candidate or against his campaign. the french centre—right presidential candidate francois fillon says he won't withdraw his candidacy — but he admitted to misjudgements in dealing with allegations of corruption. the iraqi army says it's close to recapturing the main government building in western mosul from the so—called islamic state. this week how would jacobson, master of the art of serious but hilarious writing —— howard. on his latest

collection of newspaper writings and afairy collection of newspaper writings and a fairy tale inspired by donald trump. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the mirror columnist susie boniface, and the telegraph columnist tim stanley. good evening to you both. tomorrow's front pages. the ft, which says the chancellor's due to unveil tax rises in wednesday's budget, as he looks to protect the country from "unexpected challenges" from brexit. the times also looks at the budget — and it pictures french presidential candidate francois fillon and his wife at a rally in paris, amid calls for him to quit the race afterfraud claims. the i also looks at the budget — it says philip hammond has been told by doctors that the nhs needs billions of extra pounds. the nhs also makes the telegraph — which claims more than 600 bosses are earning six—figure salaries,

as the health service struggles with its finances. the metro has a warning about the mental health of university students, reporting that suicide numbers are at a record high. the express reports research claiming a mediterranean diet of fruit, vegetables and oily fish could slash the risk of breast cancer by a0%. the mail has an investigation into abortions, claiming some doctors have signed them off for women they've never met. the guardian investigates sexual harrassment and misconduct claims in universities, saying cases are at "epidemic levels". who would like to start? we will start with the financial times. we are looking at the business of tax increases, something that most people, this has escaped their attention. it is a bit of a surprise. philip hammond's first

proper budget and it is a brexit budget. he faced a choice, he could have decided to spend and invest in infrastructure and he could have decided to cut spending and cut taxes to turbo—charge the economy, oi’ taxes to turbo—charge the economy, or he could do what he is doing, essentially create a nest egg to get the country through brexit if the fiscal situation is difficult so it is more about saving money with a bit of spending on technology and science. what this means is an actual tax rise, the treasury has declined to comment, but one option according to the financial times is raising the national insurance class paid by the self employed by 3p in the pound. if you bear in mind last year was a record year for start ups and many of those are self employed people, that is what has got us through the recession, people working for themselves. to punish

those people with a tax rise, that seems extraordinary. very bad judgment. putting off entrepreneurs. yes, but enough self employed journalists, as well. laughter we know about how it works, but most people know they have to do a harder job than we do. there are no the 5 million people in the uk who are self—employed. —— there are nearly. these are people who are plumbers and electricians, builders, many other people. to raise their national insurance rate by a certain amount, it pays into this idea that if you are paying the self—employed rate of tax you are paying less tax than someone who is paye. we are looking for fairness. it doesn't ta ke looking for fairness. it doesn't take into account the fact that you don't have holiday paid for and you don't have holiday paid for and you don't have holiday paid for and you don't have any kind of medical

benefits paid for when you are self—employed and most people don't have pensions and you don't take time off or have sick pay. i have a child bhajji and i was back at work week later. —— i had a child last year. the chancellor feels he needs to get money from somewhere. he has to get money from somewhere. he has to pay for a couple of things and the reason he will be spending is because of political embarrassment. he has to pay to alleviate some of the problems with small businesses who will have bubbles with the business rate hikes, most of who are conservative voters — — business rate hikes, most of who are conservative voters —— who will have problems. and he needs to do with the social care crisis and that has got to come from somewhere. he has got to come from somewhere. he has got to come from somewhere. he has got to do something, then. but to ta ke got to do something, then. but to take money from people who are self—employed, to make up for those who are running small shops in central london, that is robbing peter to pay paul. it is not encouraging investors and drivers. it is not the right approach when

you are trying to tackle brexit, to raise taxes for those who are paying such an important role in the economy. i think that is a mistake. and now to the daily telegraph frontpage. mobile world —— mobile web revolution. this has been money which has been announced before in some instances, £1 billion investment into brexit proved britain, one of the things they will try to roll out is super fast 56. i live in a rural area and try to roll out is super fast 56. i live in a ruralarea and i try to roll out is super fast 56. i live in a rural area and i haven't even got 36. this is the self—employed having another problem. exactly! if you live out of london, you need to get 36 or 46 working first. the people who would

provide 56, they are not very keen on this kind of idea. it is a difficult business. it is all very well to say roll it out. very expensive. i don't know how you go before you hit hate, it is beyond my understanding with it comes to the internet. —— h. he's putting a lot of money into research and development in universities which ties in the announcement from yesterday, creating tea levels which are the technological and vocational version of a—levels, so clearly they are putting emphasis on vocational training and research and development. the government has also committed itself to dominating 10% of the global space market by 2030 and they are opening a new space research centre. this is very bright and bold. they will be spending £500 million on helping universities to create robots who will be deep space mining. we went been putting man

interviewed others, we are going to be sending robots. —— man into the universe. we are leaving the eu and going up into space. maybe there is a bigger market than the eu out there. people might wonder about the viability of leaving earth what is going on. now donald trump, sighing barack obama ordered his phone to be tapped —— saying. barack obama ordered his phone to be tapped -- saying. it is not clear what the accuser is actually talking about, the first scandal in history. remarkable, just a couple of days, 635 saturday morning, the president said on twitter that obama had put a wiretap on trump tower. sean spicer said they demand that congress investigates this accusation that his boss has made. but they won't

comment on that until congress has, which is a way of trying to wrap the thing up in one go. donald trump, they are being investigated for supposed contacts with russia, and he is serious about that in he feels his agenda of fielding a wall and protecting jobs should be dominating —— building. he is trying to turn the story into a story of the establishment trying to deny him the election by wiretapping and besmirching his election. despite the fact he won. yes, he is fighting the fact he won. yes, he is fighting the election that he won. donald trump says many things in these comments on twitter. when he is on the toilet, first thing. let's not worry about the circumstances! but in this case it is probable that a committee will probably say there is no evidence, but he is counting on events having rushed past. and people having forgotten about it. he

has been called the deflector in chief. by some of his opponents. yes, and obama does not have the power to order a wiretap on any of his citizens. they would need to be a paper trail, disable his citizens. they would need to be a papertrail, disable is going on. this seems to be how donald trump is governing, to say something mad and then to go onto the next thing. —— to show what is going on. what he says changes every day, and although we pay interest to it, and it is fascinating in its data, it doesn't help anybody cover and analyse what his presidency is doing. but it appeals to his supporters and they love it. he is speaking their language. that is important. this is

a theme in conservatism that has been going on now eight years, the press, democrats and federal agencies have colluded in a grand conspiracy to stop the advance of conservative ideas and this is a similar accusation to the suggestion that the federal tax department targeted conservative groups under obama, the idea that the whole constitution has been perverted and undermined by liberals. it is possible there is some truth in it, marco rubio said the president maybe knows things that we don't know. he's the republican governor from florida. but it is governing by creating a persecution complex will and eventually this will be manifest in something else. they will turn against somebody. and out of france. the front page of the financial times. —— now to france. francois fillon at a big rally in paris. it was important that a lot of people

attended and they did. what is going on? it is complex for new readers. the french political system, it has a series of run—offs, everyone comes forward and says they would like to be president, they vote and it is the last two who go into the final. at this stage francois fillon is the principal conservative contender but it turns out he has been paying his wife and two children, ranging for them to be paid forjobs they might not have done, via the taxpayer. that has caused a scandal forced he doesn't deny that it. -- he doesn't deny that bit. he says there is a political assassination against him, as opposed to something which any modern political debate would focus on because your wife and children have been paid for work they have not done by the taxpayer. they need

a standard bearer in french politics because they have marine le pen coming up on the bike hand side and michelle wie one on the left. —— right hand side and then we have macron on the left—hand side. right hand side and then we have macron on the left—hand sidem right hand side and then we have macron on the left-hand side. it is likely that marine le pen will get to the final round, and so it is important that the right candidate makes it to the final round, as well, the one who can beat her. francois fillon was regarded as the candidate but now he is tainted. so who is going to run against marine le pen? it could be someone like macron, who is regarded as a blairite, many socialists don't like him. they need a candidate who is right wing, and who can take her voters and defeat the front national. francois fillon has lost a lot of support and he's quite

painfully fairly unelectable, you would imagine, but if marine le pen is the one who gets into the final run—off and is against emmanuel macron, it is likely that even conservative voters would vote with the blairite in order to vote against her. you vote against the person you don't want to get the job, fundamentally, in france, so the conservatives are pushing francois fillon to go through because they don't want macron to go through. it is a long game of chess. our politics is a bit mild, i suppose, but the daily telegraph has a story aboutjeremy corbyn, under attack from his own side, but this is about his tax returns. reportedly he released his tax returns to put pressure on the government when it comes to the issue of tax, but it is suggested not all of his income has been declared on his tax returns. it looks as though his income as an mp has been