so front page of the sun," we are so sorry we couldn't save you". they say they are haunted by the what ifs. and i take james' point entirely, the doctor treating charlie gard seemed entirely of one view and many doctors who weren't from, none of them would support what has happened, the threats and so what has happened, the threats and so on, but the point for me as a layman, many of us will be wondering, you say there is no hope but when you switch off the machine, thatis but when you switch off the machine, that is definitely no hove, right? so the chance of life is what the pa rents were so the chance of life is what the parents were seeking. a doctor on the programme this evening said are these expert, ordinarily kings of their domain, these expert, ordinarily kings of theirdomain, are these expert, ordinarily kings of their domain, are they in some way reticent to take advice or maybe expertise from outside their hospital? i have two uncles that doctors but it doesn't make me a doctors but it doesn't make me a doctor and maybe i'm a bit naive,

but i would always trust the integrity of the doctors and i am slightly suspicious of the michael gove line, we have had enough of experts, everybody knows better than experts, everybody knows better than experts, but i think the doctors do ta ke experts, but i think the doctors do take a hippocratic oath which almost all doctors follow to the letter and would have the child's best interests at heart and i absolutely agree that if i were the parent, i would be fighting as long as i could and as hard as i could to keep him alive, but sometimes, doctors are right. i don't trust expert but i do worry in this country that institutions, especially when they are used to being in command, don't like being told they are wrong and there might be a bit of that. and a great suspicion of experts in this country, as we well know. this is one of the other big stories of the evening, the visit of liam fox to the united states, this is the front page of the independent. he is dismissing concerns that some might have in this country, if there is a

future trade deal in the united states, they are correlated chicken and hormone raised beef. some watchers of the brexit process will wonder why he is there because we are not formally allowed to have negotiations with any other country whilst we are still in the eu protest michel barnier said, very french expression, how can you stop people talking? you can have the informal conversations with their to negotiation and that is what liam fox is doing and there is no bigger fish in the pont than a deal with the united states. we are their largest investor, they are ours and so largest investor, they are ours and so forth. things people get hung up on, chlorinated chicken catches the mine because it sounds horrible, is food standards. and his bargaining, which is probably true statistically but a difficult one to swallow, is that this is a detail and what i would invite you to hang onto him thinking about that is that if you have been to the united states and jaw not vegetarian, you have eaten chlorinated chicken and hormone treated beef and you are fine and

evenif treated beef and you are fine and even if you are, you have eaten genetically modified food. interestingly, at the end of this front page, it says the national farmers union, their president has said it is vital that any discussions on future trade deal do not serve to allow cheap food imports. this is interesting, everything to do with brexit is about playing to the home crowd. obviously it is important to develop links with the us for when we leave the eu but this is a turf war that might be developing between the fox, who has been complaining this week that he is not getting enough coverage , that he is not getting enough coverage, and michael gove, who has said he wants to enforce environmental food standards and indeed andrea leeds said today she was worried that british farmers would be disadvantaged —— andrea led some. so there will be a big battle. like any good trade union, the nfu are sticking up the interest of their members. that is what they are paid for! a story on the front page

of the times which is rumbling on the shopping precincts and pubs, the rip—off scandal of leaseholds. so you buy a new house, you get a decent deal and tact in in the small print is the ground rent, the leasehold and you think i have 999 yea rs, leasehold and you think i have 999 years, it looks like a small leaseholder and lo and behold, it sta rts leaseholder and lo and behold, it starts to go up pretty quickly and the government says it is going to end this. people are not realising that they are buying a house they don't fully owned, and their leasehold, which we are used to seeing in flats, is being attached to new—build homes, which means you may be paying up to, concrete examples, of £10,000 a year being paid in ground rent. that is going to make homes unsellable in the future if that escalation continues, and it's not right. there is no principal reason for doing it. one example here of someone who bought a house in bolton for £200,000, a family home, her ground rent went up

3000% and will hit almost £10,000 a year. this is a scheme that people are: greedy and nobody seems to have highlighted it before and i think sajid javid has done a good job, bringing it to our attention and using colourful language that will catch the eye and saying enough is enough, if house—builders aren't prepared to step off the ground rent gravy train, i will derail it and that will go down well with the people who are in it and that is 43% of new builds being leaseholds, an extraordinary percentage of the market. it has put people in a horrible position but one has to point out that they took the decision to take that misprision of the under professional advice and they have something to answer to. —— take that position. they are saying you can buy it but it is 2,000 and then a few years down the line, it isa then a few years down the line, it is a lot more. i'm not going to blame the people hoodwinked into

these deals but if they were professionally advised and it wasn't flagged to them properly, someone has to suffer that. there may be more legal action on that, you are right. in the times, anti-fracking police chief accused of pulling force from protest, the police and crime commission of the north wales. it is very interesting, with police and crime commissioner is, you can argue it either way, they should be professional and run by like police officers or it is good to have democratic principle in. the good thing about —— the thing about elected police and crime commissioner is issue will from time to time get conflict—of—interest we re to time get conflict—of—interest were what a person stood for before they took office as pcc and what they took office as pcc and what they are now doing in theirjob and this seems to be a clear example of someone this seems to be a clear example of someone who has an agenda, anti—fracking, in charge of the police, who have a duty to protect those carrying out unlawful business and directing them not to do so, so police officers are pulled away from

protecting those who are trying to carry out their fracking activity. as you say, the way the times tells it, it does look quite questionable and the residents who are "backing fracking" are calling it cronyism and it is true that mrjones was a memberof and it is true that mrjones was a member of "phrack three wrexham". his forces sending officers to help out in lancashire blackpool and he is saying how can they do that when there are capacity issues at home and he is saying it is nothing to do that. many people will look at the fact he was in anti—fracking campaigner, and they will question it. are the memories of what caused all the problems in 2008—9, are they starting to wear off? the bank of england is saying that they are increasingly alarmed by the amount of money being borrowed on easy terms. the guardian says people are

complacent about building up debt but when you have a central bank that prints money, which is what quantitative easing is, and keeps rates so low that you can't make money if you are a saver and you can't make real returns in the economic environment because interest rates are so low, how can you say i am shocked to find out there is gambling going on in this establishment. how can this have happened? it is a shocker. it is interesting that it was maybe 25 years ago that gordon gecko said "greed is good" in wall street, the famous film about wall street operatives and it seems to be the motivation of a lot of people, the greed or consumerism that is driving this huge consumer boom at the moment, but the bank is warning there is a spiral of complacency that could lead to another crash. that is quite alarmist to put it in those terms but he is warning we could be going in that direction. interest rates are artificially low.

it punishes savers and encourages this kind of spending. it says it has helped the economy to grow. speaking of which is true in the short term. we are going to the telegraph and the rugby story. we have brilliant women's teams doing so well at the moment in the football and the cricket and the by football and the cricket and the rugby women are the world champions and that they have all lost their job. i can't understand, even if you think the right thing to do is end of the contracts, they are moving their focus from full 15 rugby to playing sevens, which is a fast—moving, exciting game and i enjoy both films, they are both great forms of rugby, but who in their right mind says, days at you win the world cup, let's get rid of our contracts for our victorious squad, shake the whole thing up and make some of them effectively redundant? that is definitely the gerald ratner school of er. what interests me is that you are personally to blame for this because

a labourmp personally to blame for this because a labour mp saying it is a kick in the teeth and to treat women like this, particularly in light of how women working for the bbc got paid... so everything is to do with bbc pay. with three guys talking about the papers! moving swiftly on. men ofa about the papers! moving swiftly on. men of a certain age. maybe we could all go out for a pint because it says here drinking to forget could be harder than you think, so i brought this expert panel together, these expert drinkers who could tell me whether that is true or not. we have a long time thought that you would drink to plot theirjaw memories, but a very interesting study undertaken by the university of exeter demonstrates that there is a limited, and they want to underscore this, limited, positive affect from drinking and that, actually, what you think of as the well—established negative effects of drinking too much can be cou ntera cted drinking too much can be counteracted by the ability to have

recall. so if you are drinking to forget, try something else. it has destroyed a lifetime of hope that i would forget. and listening to blues music telling me to drink and all of my woes will disappear, i'm just going to have to drink to forget that music. a sharpener tonight. that is it for the papers, you considerfront pages of that is it for the papers, you consider front pages of the paper online on the bbc news website, it is all there for you, seven days a week. and if you missed the programme, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you to alex and james, it has been a pleasure having you. thanks for watching. hello, good evening. all of our weather is coming in from the atla ntic weather is coming in from the atlantic this week. we started the week with some huge contrasts. this was the western parts of scotland in the highlands where we have blue skies and temperatures in the low

20s. this was southwold in suffolk with grey skies, cool wind and rain, struggling to make 15 degrees. still afair bit struggling to make 15 degrees. still a fair bit of cloud coming into eastern areas of england overnight, that frees and drizzly showers on and off through the night. further west and north, some clear spells overnight and following the sunshine of today, loads of 13 or 1a degrees. that nagging breeze will eventually lesson across the east, the showers will move away and some sunshine comes through and for most parts of the uk, a dry day with some sunny spells. we will see some changes in the south—west later on. ahead of that, some warmth and sunshine could trigger one or two rogue showers in the south—west and wales, but not many but with sunshine breaking through across eastern england, away from the north sea coast, temperatures inland 20—22. similar to northern ireland, clouding over late in the afternoon and more cloud

across northern parts of scotland with sunshine elsewhere. temperatures not quite as high as today and the risk of a shower later on in the afternoon but the really wet weather is lurking out in the atlantic. we have to go back a bit to see that, it is a mess of weather fronts but everything gets much more organised by wednesday, a deepening area of low pressure sweeping these weather fronts in from the atlantic, giving us wind and rain, particularly wet and windy start for wednesday for the rush—hour in western areas. that will push its way eastward, we will all get some rain, perhaps not much the south—east and east anglia but it struggles to clear away. 0ther south—east and east anglia but it struggles to clear away. other areas seeing sunshine after the rain that will give us a late boost in those temperatures. the rangers eventually clear away from east anglia and the south east and north—east scotland during the evening but the main driver is that deep area of low pressure close to the north—west and around that, dragging in some slightly cooler and fresher air through thursday and friday. some

sunshine around but there will be some showers, heavy showers and some really strong winds that the north—west. this is bbc news. i'm christian fraser. the headlines: the parents of the terminally ill baby charlie gard give up their legal fight to get him experimental treatment in the us. they now accept that no medical intervention can help him. we are now going to spend our last precious moments with our son charlie, who unfortunately won't make his first birthday, injust under two weeks‘ time. the government announces a new strategy to develop batteries that store power from green energy sources. the international trade secretary, liam fox is in washington, laying the ground work for a possible post—brexit trade deal with the us. and on newsnight, a rare public appearance from a man whose name dominates washington bar to space we rarely see. jarrod kushner appeared