story that i am more interested in. this chap was trump's chief of his campaign from june until august 2016, some might say a small period of time. but this story is about his involvement with viktor yanukovych in ukraine, forwhom involvement with viktor yanukovych in ukraine, for whom he was working for a number of years, in ukraine, for whom he was working fora number of years, taking millions of dollars. i have spent some time in kiev earlier this year. this man was a seriously unpleasant criminal, running a country, stealing billions of dollars, who has now fled after he was unseated. it was not a bloodless unseating. 100 were killed as a direct result of his actions. we had the war in crimea and he is now being harboured in russia. he is a seriously nasty piece of work and trump's right—hand man was working for him, getting thousands of dollars every month. he is now accused of laundering $18 million. i think that shows you the

type of man he is and we should not underestimate the influence of ukraine and russia on this story and how entwined it all is. but what is difficult for people to understand is how everything is linked. robert mueller is meant... if you listen to donald trump, it has nothing to do with him. then when he heard about george papadopoulos admitting to lying, he went a bit quiet on twitter. this was seen as indicative that he may be a bit worried. but he does not always show that he is worried about anything. in the ft it says it is a serious threat to the president. the white house has denied any tie—up, but these indictments are digging away at the side issues to get towards donald

trump himself. there were stories over the weekend that he would not bother standing in 2020, because it has all been too much for him. he does not like the spotlight on him. and away the fbi are working this, clearly robert mueller is only bringing in his indictments when he is certain. and as he gets these people like george papadopoulos, he has gone towards them and they have said, i will cooperate. has gone towards them and they have said, iwill cooperate. will manafort now start to operate will. with his business partner? it is the al capone way. you get them on tax evasion and then see if you can get them on something else. the financial times says the three indictments revealed the twin track approach taken by mr manafort in this investigation —— the approach taken by mr mueller. he is being clever and he has to be. trump taken by mr mueller. he is being cleverand he has to be. trump and his administration want rid of him,

and you can see why. manafort is under house arrest now. i assume the fbi will not let him, but i am sure he must be tempted to do as many others do and go to moscow and stay there for a bit. that story is clearly going to run. let's move to the front page of the metro, also something i suspect has a lot of legs on it. pestminster crackdown. lot of mps are worried at this time of night when the papers are shown oi'i of night when the papers are shown on television, because they worry if they are the ones who are going to be publicised. but they will only be publicised if they have done something wrong. and it sounds as if a few of them have done something wrong. in westminster, andrea leadsom was talking about how they wa nt leadsom was talking about how they want to see a tough and independent panel created so that victims can go to them with complaints and then be urged to go to the police. you would

think they normally should go to the police, but in an environment like this where there are powerful men, women don't want to make complaints because it can affect their career. hopefully, it will have some effect, but 36 tory mps are accused of sleaze. there are four labour mps at the moment also facing separate claims that they have sexually harassed women. there is clearly a big problem in society. let me bring in the front page of the daily telegraph, with the same story. they are saying the sex scandal could be worse than expenses. an exaggeration? it could be worse, but there is a danger that lots of different types of behaviour are all lumped into one dustbin and all men are being thrown into that dustbin. the power point is an important one.

this is the behaviour that harvey weinstein is being accused of, that he was using his powerful position to bully, attack and harass women who he felt he had power over because they wanted to be in his movies. when you move that situation to the house of commons, of course there are situations like that. sometimes, they arejust there are situations like that. sometimes, they are just clumsy men who have had a drink too many and are making a pass to a woman. that is not the same thing. people are 110w is not the same thing. people are now saying it is a witchhunt. others say it is just a way of getting men off the hook. the truth is somewhere in the middle. it is this use of the word inappropriate. where does inappropriate" and begin? i don't think we have set those boundaries yet as a society —— where does inappropriate end and criminal begin's you and i have both worked

in the house of commons, reeta.|j was lucky enough never to experience anything like that from an mp, but the power balance was not there. i was a journalist. i didn't want to bea was a journalist. i didn't want to be a politician, so they couldn't further my career apart from maybe giving mea further my career apart from maybe giving me a story, which is not the same kind of power balance. some of these women are saying politicians we re these women are saying politicians were trying to exert their authority in an unseemly way by saying, if you wa nt to in an unseemly way by saying, if you want to be a candidate, i can help you. in the telegraph, they say two women have left one minister's employer because of his behaviour. it could make or break those women's careers. they may no longer think they want to be in politics. for some people, the worms are turning

and saying, why didn't these women report it? we all know why they did, because they would become the story and people would say, a troublemaker. i am going to stop you there because we want to get through a few of these stories. the other story on the front page of the daily telegraph is kevin spacey‘s house of cards cancelled after harassment claims. they are doing a sixth series at the moment. netflix have announced they will not do a seventh. that was announced last night on buzzfeed when the story came out from anthony rapp, who was 14 in 1986 came out from anthony rapp, who was 14 in1986 and came out from anthony rapp, who was 14 in 1986 and kevin spacey invited him toa 14 in 1986 and kevin spacey invited him to a party and made a sexual advance on him. there has been a lot of controversy firstly about that and secondly about the fact that he says he can't remember it, but if it did happen he is sorry and he said, by the way, i am now living as a gay man, which people have seen as an attempt to somehow wriggle out of it . but at the same time, he has caused uproar by somehow conflating

making sexual advances against a child with homosexuality, which for a long time, the gay community have been trying to get away from that bigotry. a miscalculation? certainly, because it looks so cynical. if he provides the press with the story of him coming out of the closet, which is what he is doing, he then stops the attention. i have read a lot of members of the 93v i have read a lot of members of the gay community saying, this is outrageous. they are not saying he should have come out. but to come out today seems very cynical. and then to somehow link it, almost as if to say, this is just what happens if to say, this is just what happens if you are a gay man in the closet, you make inappropriate advances on young boys, no, it isn't. nobody believes that. he has made himself very unpopular with the community he has only publicly joined

very unpopular with the community he has only publiclyjoined today. let's move onto the front page of your paper, michael. aspirin cuts cancer risk. well, it is different to all the other front pages. this is good, because a lot of people ta ke is good, because a lot of people take aspirin every day. this is a study that has been done of 600,000 people who have taken this for at least six months, and it seems to have reduced the chances of being struck down by a number of digestive syste m struck down by a number of digestive system cancers by up to 50%, things like stomach, pancreas and bowel cancer fell. we had the decision of whether to go with something like kevin spacey or trump on the front page, but that is all inside the newspaper. this is the sort of thing a lot of people will talk about as well. and it has not been part of the news agenda during the day.

michael, we know the express often goes with a health story on the front. you and your colleagues are sometimes teased about that. but presumably, it must work for you. there must be a reason why you do so many health stories. is it because you think people are bored of the politics? i think you have to sometimes give people something different. you know there are so many newspapers that will go down similar lines. this story is part of something that is embargoed until tomorrow morning, so no something that is embargoed until tomorrow morning, so no one something that is embargoed until tomorrow morning, so no one will have read it already. newspapers are all fighting for their lives, so if you can give them something different, why not? and the other different, why not? and the other different thing you have given is the royal kiss. is that news? we believe that is the first kiss on the lips that prince charles and camilla have done in 2005. we have been talking about how in recent weeks, the royal family are getting more touchy—feely. they are not as

cold as the monarchy used to be and this is another example of it. she has been at a yoga retreat. she has been doing her downward dog. 12 yea rs, been doing her downward dog. 12 years, they have been married. doesn't time fly? thank you both very much. my client daisy. that is it for the paper tonight. you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. —— michael and david. and if you missed the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. bye— bye. we've already had a touch of frost across parts of southern england south—east wales this evening, but things are getting milder

through the rest of the night, cloud spilling in off the atlantic and set to bring a much milder night than last night for scotland, northern ireland and northern england. by the end of the night, temperatures will be in double figures for some of us. but with it comes the cloud and outbreaks of rain becoming more extensive through the night. partly clear skies. temperatures still in single figures to start your tuesday morning commute. grey in scotland, wettest in the highlands of scotland. there will be the odd splash further east. very misty if you're travelling across the pennines. there will be some rain across the north—west of wales and maybe the odd shower through parts of central and southern england and wales, but mostly dry. hazy sunshine. most places will have a dry and bright day. not as much sunshine as today. certainly a lot more cloud.

wettest of all in western parts of scotland, but across the board, temperatures are not far off where they should be for the time of year. we keep the north—south split as we go through tuesday night into wednesday morning. it stays dry across southern areas. a lot more cloud across northern england, scotland and northern ireland, but the rain becomes more focused in the western half of scotland as we go into the start of wednesday morning. that's because we have a weather front that will only work slowly southwards. any spots of rain elsewhere will be isolated. further south, a lot more sunshine once again. a weather front does eventually slowly make its way south as we go into thursday. not much wind around. for england and wales, that will mean quite a bit of cloud in places. rain and drizzle here and there. scotland, northern ireland and northern england are much

brighter, but feel much fresher. and a trend to colder conditions will then take us and into the weekend. this is bbc news. i'm reeta chakrabarti. the headlines at 11pm: president trump's former campaign manager, paul manafort, pleads not guilty to charges of conspiring to defraud the us. his lawyer says he denies all charges. it's also emerged that george papadopoulos, who advised the trump campaign on foreign affairs, pleaded guilty earlier this month to lying to the fbi about contacts who had links to russia. the government is promising action within days to deal with allegations of sexual harassment at westminster. the hollywood actor kevin spacey apologises after being accused of making sexual advances towards a teenage boy in the 1980s. on newsnight, trump top charges.

tonight we look at what's going on in washington and whether the