of the brexit divorce bill. the telegraph also leads with the agreement on the brexit bill. there is also a picture with meghan markle, and has a buzzard matchmaker. the i says the reported brexit deal is close, whereas the times see the —— says the uk will be paying eu bills for years to come. this one in the guardian, £50 billion divorce bill. and the suggestion that david davis might be a matchmaker for the royal wedding! the express suggests there's a rise in diabetes sufferers also developing cancer. laura, lance, welcome to both. laura, lance, welcome to both. laura, i start with you. it was the telegraph that began at all this evening with the reports suggesting a deal had been reached. let's look at the front page first of all. talk us at the front page first of all. talk us through it. yesterday my colleague peter foster over in brussels got the story and it is a

massive moment, obviously. i think it shows that the prime minister is very determined to get britain to a place where in december we come to some sort of agreement with the eu and move onto trade talks, and that is the priority. some papers have taken the is the priority. some papers have ta ken the stance is the priority. some papers have taken the stance that britain has caved in the eu demands and it is interesting to the prime minister has gone ahead and this figure is significantly higher than the one she proposed in her florence speech and this might upset a lot of tory eurosceptics. the ft have an interesting line in their story, that we will never actually know the final cost of the brexit bill because it will be paid out in increments and not in one big lump sum, so increments and not in one big lump sum, so we increments and not in one big lump sum, so we will only know when the last citizen entitled to an eu pension has died. that is a long wait, lance! an argument in parliament today about not disclosing all the information, and presumably this would even exist if it is that far down the line? yes,

that has been part of the problem all the way along. britain has signed up during our membership of the eu to all sorts of things that are variables. we don't know exactly what the bill will be, but what is interesting, as laura says, and the papers have a slightly different take, the relatively loyal daily telegraph talks about britain and the eu agreeing whereas the financial times basically a remainer paper, says britain has bowed to eu demands and it is pretty clear that britain had made all the concessions, have agreed to pretty much everything the eu was asking for, but they are now talking about how they can present that to look like less of a headline figure than it would otherwise be, keeping in mind it could come back the other way. and in a previous life he worked in downing street and you understand the importance of kind of managing stories, particularly controversial ones. what do you make of the suggestion,

the eu will talk up the figure and britain will talk it down? will that be convincing? actually i don't think that is what will happen because i think the eu will make it easier for britain on this point, so if britain wants to talk it down and say the total figure will not actually be that much, there is money coming back, and so on and so forth, the pound is weaker, and other things to enable them to reduce the headline figure, the eu and a couple of eu officials have said that in the financial times, that's fine, let them say it is less, and basically they have agreed to everything they asked. because this is just to everything they asked. because this isjust one to everything they asked. because this is just one of the sticking point and there are another two big hurdles we need to cross. and irish border. that's right. the court of justice in guaranteeing eu citizens' right after brexit, and i think the main issue at the moment is ireland and demands for there not to be a return to the hard border and there is chaos going on in northern ireland's parliament, chaos going on in ireland today. no northern ireland parliament at all at the

moment. a massive sticking point, and we have the dup making points, the prop up the government, because theresa may failed to secure a majority, so suddenly they are very influential and what is it really matters. it was always much easier to settle on the money side because you could make concessions, whereas oi'i you could make concessions, whereas on the border between northern ireland and the republic, it is much harder because basically britain is asking for two irreconcilable things. the whole of the uk comes out of the customs union and the single market and there is no hard border with the rest of the eu. you have to get the government of ireland to consent to this, effectively for the talks to move on. every single eu member state has a veto. it is interesting because many papers have done this, looking briefly at the is front page. the deal is close, sort of hedging their bets, really. it is closer. still not a done deal and we are told that perhaps will not be until next week. next week. there are suggestions

people are sitting round the table trying to put together some sort of truth document, shared ideals where they can come out and say, look, here it is in black and white, we have all agreed, happy families, let's move on. lance another story on the front of the financial times which is in many ways as interesting, about the ability of oui’ interesting, about the ability of our banks to cope with brexit. yes, and it is the bank of england who are now stress test the banks. after the financial crisis the banks now have to prove to the bank of england they can withstand pressures that may come, and what is interesting is the way in which they have gone about this process, because they have made various assumptions about what could happen if the brexit associations go badly and there is a ha rd associations go badly and there is a hard brexit, and it includes things like a fall in house prices, unemployment at 9%, a drop in gross domestic product, and 4.7%. calamitous figures which the bank of

england are building into their assumptions, their are worst—case assumptions, their are worst—case assumptions basically on what could happen if it all goes badly wrong.|j can hear cry from the eurosceptics. they just can't get can hear cry from the eurosceptics. theyjust can't get over it! well, they said it was likely there would be this kind of brexit, and they think the banks will be able to cope andi think the banks will be able to cope and i think it is at liberty response would ask them to put some money aside. we all need to put some money aside. we all need to put some money aside, don't we? you never know what is right the corner —— i think it is actually responsible for them to ask for money to be put aside. this one, trying to make the university sector more competitive, to seek you need to go out and attract more foreign students, need to bea attract more foreign students, need to be a bit more entrepreneurial. pa rt to be a bit more entrepreneurial. part of the deal of that vice chancellors became rather like chief executives. and now the woman who has become the target of this row about how much the error has announced she is off. yes, she has suffered from a change of the weather on all of this —— about how

much the errant has announced she is. -- much the errant has announced she is. —— how much they earn. wages did seem is. —— how much they earn. wages did seem to be extraordinary. when this is professor dame glynis breakwell who was earning £468,000 a year. —— and this is. again, there is spin on the figures, so the university are trying to suggest she has not had a payoff but actually add up the fact that you will not go until august, she has another six month after that... on full day. full pei, saw her critics, of which there are many, her critics, of which there are a her critics, of which there are many, say she is getting up old the buyer of about £600,000 which is not too bad. is this an fair? i think it could be seen is that when you think of the debt students are taking on themselves —— is this unfair?|j mean, themselves —— is this unfair?” mean, i wonder if the coverage is on fear, she is one particular woman. yes, but people in the public sector have their wages frozen —— i mean i wonder if the coverage is unfair.

someone must awarded to her at the university. exactly, and she has not rejected it, but accepted it, which you could argue was normal, 0liveira, but the former education secretary has been very bulk of —— very vocal on this. lance, you will know this, the questioning of whether the whole tuition fees model something to be looked at. it is interesting that all the three main parties seem to have gone one way or another over this, and a relatively short at the time. the whole issue of how we fund our universities is very much open for discussion now. and i think all parties would agree on this as well. we do want first—class universities, and you have to find out how to pay that and how to find the best. this was unsurprising yesterday. the daily express, harry and meghan ‘s wedding

announcement yesterday, a picture of st george's chapel on the front page, and that story about diabetes. now this is quite interesting, isn't it, laura? two different alternatives. i was being a bit flippant mentioning david davis as a possible matchmaker for the royal couple. it can't be both of these. we have the front page first of all of the telegraph which shows meghan markle hugging a friend of hers, so she is one matchmaker. yes, and the telegraph sport ended she did not deny she was indeed the matchmaker, so we deny she was indeed the matchmaker, so we do have an actual non—redaction from her —— telegraph spoke to her and she did not deny. in the world ofjournalism, it means, well, the obviously did it, didn't they? so journalss often work with slightly different interpretations of the english language than the rest of the world! —— journalists often work with. language than the rest of the world! -- journalists often work with. and this other woman, we were discussing

how to pronounce her surname...m misha wants to contact first night we are happy to be given advice on pronunciation. the bad news for both of them of course is that whatever happens now, meghan markle can't wear either of their outfits on the wedding day. you are right! and, yes, it doesn't matter, does it? in the greater scheme of things, but it is good both of the papers have gone for completely different people. has someone for completely different people. has someone been winding them up?” wrote for violet because i don't see any sourcing for this front page. but it is a lovely picture. yes, and a lovely story. how much of the energy and effort do you think of journalists over the coming six months will be spent on meghan markle and prince harry? do you think she quite knows what she has letters of m4? i think she does, yes. she is obviously as very canny

woman and he will have told her, you do realise what this will mean? and lam sure do realise what this will mean? and i am sure she will have spoken to kate, and she... ithink i am sure she will have spoken to kate, and she... i think she's going in with her eyes wide open —— kate, and she... i think she's going in with her eyes wide open -- do you think she knows what she has let herself in for? and all the coverage are around when it was announced they were going out on the first place, people were digging then, and it is unlikely to much... there are rarely signs she will do this on her owfi rarely signs she will do this on her own terms. which is quite important. i think the public would respect that. absolutely. ithink i think the public would respect that. absolutely. i think we have to end on story that has made the front of the telegraph, not on the other front pages yet but i have a suspicion it is going to be, and this is the decision made to promote one great british product, nothing to do with brexit! nothing to do with any other story. completely unconnected with this newspaper review. we are told viagra is to be

sold in chemists, so you don't have to get a prescription from your doctor, but of course you do still have to go into a chemist and have that slightly embarrassing discussion with the pharmacist, so much difference this will likely make... intriguing to see whether it will eliminate the problem of people buying things that are not really what they claim to be online because they are a bit too embarrassed to admit they it. especially when it is available for men over the age of 18, so we were wondering whether or not perhaps the odd stag do might be livened up by something that was obtained from the pharmacist. indeed. i think we will leave it there are! laura hughes, and lance price. thank you all very much for joining us on the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you — seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers — and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer.

thank you, laura and lance. goodbye. i will be back at i! i will be back at 11 o'clock. good evening. another cold night tonight with patchy frost around, skies clearing in many parts of the country, showers across these western area is beginning to push out to sea, more wintry showers across northern and eastern scotland, down the eastern side of england where it will be particularly windy as well. a risk of some icy patches tonight, more especially across the northern half of scotla nd especially across the northern half of scotland were those wintry showers will continue, but across many western areas, northern ireland, west wales and the south—west, those showers are there at —— fewer than today with my sunshine. she is more likely a cross eastern scotland and the north—eastern side of england with more wintry nest there as well. temperatures here, 7 degrees, possibly three celsius in the central belt of scotland. widespread frost across the uk on thursday morning. those showers come back into northern ireland, west wales and the south—west. more wintry

showers for scotland, and eastern england has another kolbe, temperatures this is bbc news. my name is shaun ley. the headlines at 11pm: theresa may says the uk must be "bold and confident" and form new relationships in the world after brexit — she's in the middle east for a three day trip — amidst speculation the size of the divorce bill is close to agreement. theresa may, the prime minister, is keen to stress the uk still has a high standing in the rest of the world. north korea fires an unidentified ballistic missile according to the south korean military — raising tensions again in the region. the united states says it flew higher than any other launch and poses a threat to the world. the pope avoids any mention of the rohingya on a visit to myanmar despite previously describing their treatment as religious persecution. the wedding of prince harry and meghan markle is to take place at st george's chapel, windsor next may.