hello, this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines. commemorations have been held in belgium to mark 100 years since the battle of passchendaele. president trump says china isn't doing enough to halt the weapons programme of its ally, north korea. police in australia believe an alleged plot to blow up a plane was inspired by islamist extremism. four arrests have been made. violence continues in venezuela during controversial elections for a new parliament to change the constitution. and, coming up... conn iggulden talks tojim naughtie about switching to fantasy from writing historical fiction, in meet the author. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow. with me are the entertainment writer caroline frost, and the parliamentary journalist tony grew. tomorrow's front pages, starting with. .. this is the lead in the times. it is the insistence by the chancellor, philip hammond, that britain won't be turned into a tax haven after brexit. the ft reports that japan's largest and has chosen amsterdam for its banking headquarters as a result of uncertainty over brexit. the top story in the metro is the decision by president putin to expel 755 us diplomats from russia in what it calls a new cold war. the express claims that workers are cashing in their hard earned pension pots early and being overtaxed. the daily mail says british tourists are being

charged hundreds of pounds for scratches and dents on higher cause. this front page criticises channel 4 for broadcasting the diana tapes —— on higher cause. the times and more brexit headlines. this time from philip hammond, saying that we won't bea philip hammond, saying that we won't be a tax haven after brexit, caroline. yes, there has been lots of talk about his position in recent days. however, it seems to be that his is now the loudest voice when it comes to talking about where we are currently with brexit. sometimes it is different to other cabinet members as well. yes, most interestingly for journalists like tony here. the key phrase is that he will wish the uk to remain recognisably european following brexit. by which he is talking about

not slashing taxes, not changing regulations dramatically. he doesn't wa nt regulations dramatically. he doesn't want the uk to turn into a sort of singapore style on wave, by which it is somehow going to be completing with other countries for sort of deals against europe and the like —— it is going to be competing. this has not gone down well with everybody. tony, it's confusing for oui’ everybody. tony, it's confusing for our viewers when you have these talks going on in brussels and different messages are coming out of downing street, often from cabinet members, that don't seem to be in line with what is being talked about in brussels right now. this isjust another example of the chaos of the government. there is a fantastic line here. philip hammond gave an interview to a french newspaper saying that often he hears it said that the uk is going to participate in unfair competition. but he said it injanuary in unfair competition. but he said it in january to in unfair competition. but he said it injanuary to a german newspaper! what's going on at the moment is that there are two camps. the prime minister is away at the minute, c

have the chancellor and the home secretary, amber rudd, they want a soft brexit. then you have liam fox and borisjohnson, soft brexit. then you have liam fox and boris johnson, they soft brexit. then you have liam fox and borisjohnson, they want soft brexit. then you have liam fox and boris johnson, they want a soft brexit. then you have liam fox and borisjohnson, they want a hard brexit. theresa may's authority isn't as hard as it was. that is so sweet of you to describe the prime minister is having authority, because she doesn't have any! she can't sack anyone would do anything. but she is the prime minister. she is out of the country and she has left philip hammond nominally in charge. there are various useless trade deals that liam fox does and borisjohnson, they try trade deals that liam fox does and boris johnson, they try and keep out of the country as much as possible for this reason. the chancellor and the home secretary is not in it to announce soft brexit deals, infuriating the right of their own party —— sneaked in. infuriating the right of their own party -- sneaked in. is it chaos or is it that we just don't know things and different opinions are coming out at different times? thing is most worrying is that the noises we are getting from brussels, we don't know what we want, tell us what we want. we don't appear to know what

we want because the government is speaking in two different ways about what they want. hammond is saying we are going to be a european country. on the other hand, liam fox was running around saying, no, american style food standards, we are perfectly happy to accept chlorinated chicken. that's not a european approach to animal welfare. we don't know what we want. for any non—politico looking at this, nobody is happy. the people who voted for brexit are saying, that doesn't look like brexit, it looks like remaining by any other name. the remainders are saying, it still a brexit. neither side will come out of this, i can't think of one single person who thinks, that's the result i was after. that takes us nicely to the daily telegraph. johnson and fox are out of the loop on eu migrants. this is the talk about what happens when it comes to freedom of movement post—brexit. again, lots of

different messages coming from different messages coming from different cabinet ministers. they'll even admitting it, they are playing it like a chess board, if that has been said, i'm not part of it. nobody is being vocally disloyal. certainly nobody is denouncing theresa may in her absence but they are distancing themselves, should the positions change in a week's time, they say, that doesn't mean i disagree. somebody here, doctor fox, his turn to say, i'm not part of this, it's not what i am for. but amber rudd and philip hammond snuck in with this similarly to the regulations on the tax, the single movement, the free movement, will be very much the same, the fact of remaining. tony, philip hammond saying something very different to liam fox. yes, absolutely. amber rudd last week effectively saying we are going to broadly look at what happens with migration. this is a reality —based approach is opposed toa reality —based approach is opposed to a fantasy —based approach. reality —based approach is opposed to a fantasy -based approach. when you say things like that, you are

going to worry the majority of people who voted for brexit. all i'm saying is that we're going to make a decision soon. this is the maximum point of danger. do we have a three—year transitional arrangement to stop us falling off the hard cliff, or do we go with the government who seem to think that everything is fine and we don't need to address the issues? businesses have been saying to the government, for example, agriculture, we need hundreds of thousands of seasonal workers to pick vegetables and fruit out of the ground. if we don't have them, we won't be able to pick fruit and vegetables. that's brexit, there is no freedom of movement. this is the point, brexit isn't a concept thatis the point, brexit isn't a concept that is fixed in stone. we have dozens of options available to us if we can do go shoot. that is not what people voted for, tony —— if we negotiate. then we are going to come toa negotiate. then we are going to come to a point where the government's is going to make a decision about whether it is going to go with what people perceive to be the problem is or whether they are going to be

honest with the electorate and say, we understand your anger and your vote but we are not going to harm the economy in a catastrophic way because you are slightly obsessed about immigration. you might not wa nt about immigration. you might not want what you thought you wanted! nobody is going to end up about what they wanted, that's the whole point. you're going to end up in a situation where nobody is happy, nobody is going to get what they want, but the government is trying to balance these different pressures. which they always have done, but brexit has brought it into ha rd done, but brexit has brought it into hard focus, the layman steps back in amazement. you mean if we have fruit and vegetable pickers we may not have many nurses. these are abstract concepts, suddenly we are being told effectively we are going to have to make those choices. you can see the reality of another referendum being called than an brexit, can't you? people who voted for brexit that didn't want immigration, didn't want the of movement, are not going to get it. it's like playing with mercury. people are tempting to say,

5296 mercury. people are tempting to say, 52% of the population who voted to leave the eu for 17 million different reasons. we can't turn around and say it was about immigration, trade, this and that... are going to be a lot of very unhappy people at the next general election. there are also people who will come round to the reality of the fact that if we don't want to catastrophically harm the economy, we at least need to make a transitional deal. let's move on. we'll see what happens. not everybody thinks like you. we'll move on to the financial times. oh, still an brexit! who set up this paper review! of you two did! japan's biggest bank plant a hub in amsterdam to cope with the disruption of brexit. this is an example of what we've been talking about. this huge banks, hugely influential in the eastern part of the world, that we obviously don't put our eyeballs on it but it

doesn't mean it doesn't affect us. they have said that even ahead of brexit they are looking around and moving a significant number of workers into a european hub, in that case it is amsterdam. they will be the first of many who will be looking. because it's going to be ha rd to looking. because it's going to be hard to find property, spaces, personal. it's like anything, once the cards fall down it is going to be imada free from. these people have jumped on the be imada free from. these people havejumped on the head and said, we're going to do this at our pace. they are going to get the lay of the land. it willdiminish they are going to get the lay of the land. it will diminish confidence in the remaining people. the case for staying in the city of london and any other uk hubs will significantly wea ken any other uk hubs will significantly weaken as a result. shall we have a look at the metro at some other stories. but in the boot in. new cold war as kremlin kicks diplomats out of russia. tony, some people will read that headline and say, hand ona will read that headline and say, hand on a minute, i thought president putin and donald trump we re president putin and donald trump were being friendly and starting a

new relationship, a new era. what's happened? the president isn't a tyra nt happened? the president isn't a tyrant yet, so the us congress has overwhelmingly passed new sanctions that make it really difficult for the president dry and, you know, reduce the amount of sanctions that are already against russia. it is a big blow for donald trump. the vote was overwhelming be passed in the house and senate and his spokesperson indicated he would sign the bill. it is a blow for donald trump. the law that ijust referred to that the president may or may not sign doesn'tjust to that the president may or may not sign doesn't just apply to russia, it also applies to north korea and iran. the president, allthis controversy about his links with russia, it will be difficult for him to block this law. pre—empting his signing, but a mere putin has retaliated already by expelling back to the cold war 755 us diplomats. it leaves me to ask exactly how many diplomats the us has in russia, that's quite a lot! a small fraction?! again, president trump couldn't be seen to be being too

friendly with russia. absolutely. he is caught between a rock and a hard, cold place in this case. nothing he could do. he's been accused pre—election of cosying up to the russians. now he couldn't do anything about this. all this does is prove there is a little bit of a chocolate teapot in the white house when it comes to this committee is not having a very good week anyway. he hoped this will have gone under the radar, and clearly it hasn't. he hoped this will have gone under the radar, and clearly it hasn'tlj wonder what that does for their plans to tackle cyber crime together as well stop you love all of those problems! but he has got no diplomats left! we saw this with him pleading that he was going to ban transgender people from the military la st transgender people from the military last week. tweets are not commands. his staff do not change orders through tweets. if you want to change policy, you go through the chain of command. he said he had spoken to us military commanders about it. they don't appear to have

any idea he did speak to them. they did make it clear that tweets are not part of the chain of command. he wants to have a cyber relationship with president putin but he is disgusted with the people he meets to discuss it with. this is one thing that will undo him in the end, he doesn't follow the chain of command. that turn our attention to the past, really. passchendaele, although many people save up the past hopefully create a better future as well. —— say that the past. the independent always do it differently and really capture it. it is poppies with messages from members of the public in the uk, actually. actually on the poppies, near the first world war battle ground. caroline, you said earlier that you feel that these commemorations of the first world warand commemorations of the first world war and second world war battles seem war and second world war battles seem to become a bigger deal recently. i think they have. it is a beautiful image, it completely ca ptu res beautiful image, it completely captures it, lovely, understated and

lacking in people. i mean, mercifully selfie free. that's something that i think these occasions do merit a red dignity from onlookers. certainly the way they are presented from the media. we had this chat in the newsroom before we came on. as i grew up, i thought the past was another country, unless you had somebody in yourfamily who country, unless you had somebody in your family who bought, country, unless you had somebody in yourfamily who bought, a grandfather who is stories you listen to. now it is one of social media and video messaging, we have become very sophisticated at making these messages relevant and fresh to us. these messages relevant and fresh to us. certainly when you do get the benefit of hollywood films being made, big budget retellings, and they do bring it home. something like the film dunkirk telling the story of the evacuation to a whole new audience for whom these stories will have a fresh resonance that i don't think has come along before. it is bittersweet. it is the centenary as well. the commemorations are a lot bigger than usual. tony and i were discussing as

well before we came on air that we are meant to learn the lessons of war, and here we are 100 years on still very much at war in various parts of the world. you know, you just think on the idea that the first world war was the war to end all wars. you know, the second world warcame along... all wars. you know, the second world war came along... actually, having said that, the amount of conflict in the world is at the lowest i think it's ever been. ironically, we live ina much it's ever been. ironically, we live in a much more peaceful world. but it obviously doesn't feel like that. the daily telegraph featuring one of the many pictures you will see tomorrow morning, the duke and duchess of cambridge attending those centenary commemorations. again, caroline, it's these young royals that are so might do attract more young people to take part or at least ta ke young people to take part or at least take notice of these, ratios. certainly.