hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. first, the headlines at 11:30. the south african president, jacob zuma, has spoken of the enormous challenges facing the country and the governing anc, as it chooses his successor. thousand of homes in tewkesbury in gloucesetershire have been left without water for a second day, following a burst water main. severn trent water says work to repair the broken pipe is proving extremely difficult. police in canada say they're treating the deaths of the billionaire businessman barry sherman and his wifea ' and, the highly anticipated star wars: the lastjedi has been released this weekend. we'll hear mark kermode‘s thoughts on that, and the rest of the week's top cinema releases, in the film review. hello, and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are benedicte paviot, uk correspondent at the french broadcaster france 2a, and the defence editor of the evening standard, robert fox. the observer leads on brexit, and warnings from tory peers that they will vote against the government in parliament if the prime minister tries to bully them into supporting an extreme version of leaving the eu. the sunday telegraph's front page features an article by the prime minister with a quote "i've proved doubters wrong". and another of its stories highlights changes to company pensions, and new government plans reduce the automatic enrolment age from 22 to 18. in the sunday times, as well as their lead on borisjohnson‘s warning on brexit, there's a story on tuition fees, with the former universities minister david willetts, saying he wants

an urgent government review to scrap high interest rates on loan repayments. theresa may writes in the sunday express, saying she will not be ‘derailed' from her duty to deliver the public‘s decision to leave the eu. the mail on sunday claims left—wing trolls sent abuse to the pregnant wife of a tory mp after he heckled jeremy corbyn over his age. let's get started. the sunday telegraph, first of all. robert, you can telegraph, first of all. robert, you ca n start telegraph, first of all. robert, you can start us off. theresa may says she has proved doubters wrong. one might think she had a very tough week, but she sounds rather triumphant. it is rather like somebody who has taken too deep a scuba—dive, and has at last broken the surface. a rather elaborate metaphor, that you can almost hear

her gills heaving in and out. she has survived, is what you are saying. she is saying, strong and stable, one wonders if she will declare another election! there is a certain quiet triumphalism. she sees even her near rivals in utter confusion. the thing that she is not focusing on, which she knows is the problem, is parliament. lots of stuff in the papers over the weekend about parliament having its say, from quite extraordinary, well, very interesting, i should say, tory voices. that means that if the battle ahead. in the express peace, which is related, she does a piece for them, and she has an interview with the sunday telegraph, but she insists that it is her duty to deliver your democratic decision. brexit means brexit. the trouble is, very few of us really know the implication of what brexit is going to mean, five years hence. well,

what do you think? how was the prime minister doing? is she getting over the idea that this is all actually going quite well, really, despite everything? well, she is still in thejob. everything? well, she is still in the job. that's the point. she's still standing. i don't know if she has been taking any tips from the sidestepping, waltzing and tangling, it takes two to tango in strictly. she has tweeted about this. she is strictly standing, she is strictly defined. she is very much claiming victory for getting that green light of phase one two phase two. —— phase one to says two. but there are challenges looming. she says in this telegraph article that she has proved the doubters wrong. she has other challenges which are coming in the days ahead. it will be a crunch week, because there is going to be this cabinets preparing to discuss

for the first time. the full cabinet, but... it isjust going to be the opening cannonade, as we know. one of the things that we are not discussing and i am sure it will come up not discussing and i am sure it will come up over not discussing and i am sure it will come up over this holiday period is whether she is going to change her team. because one of the really bad moments was when david davis was asked by the house of commons committee, have you done the stress tests on what's the impact will be on the british economy? and he said no. it then turned out that civil serva nts no. it then turned out that civil servants in his and other departments had started doing them. but they had come up with some figures that they didn't particularly like. i can see a move around going on. ok... damon green, thatis around going on. ok... damon green, that is the other challenge that the sunday telegraph is talking about. that is a big, looming challenge ahead on the fate of damian green. and the fact that her embattled deputy could go. could go as early

as this week, according to the sunday telegraph. besides the fact that she needs a united cabinet which she obviously doesn't have. you've got what i been called be divergers and the liners. let's go onto one large character in this, boris. brexit must leave us a vassal state. i think this phrase, vassal state, that will pass into the language for a week or two. crosstalk. what is he actually saying? it is interesting. this will worry the prime minister, this lead article in the sunday times, brexit mustn't leave us as a vassal state. boris is going to be making an intervention, it would seem, in the coming days, to what he says is the government seeking to maximise the benefits of brexit. failing to get an agreement which allows divergences mean that the uk could... that we wouldn't be in the

european union, we would still be shadowing it as far as all the regulations are concerned, in the transition years? correct. that makes a boris johnson extremely unhappy. clearly this is also pointed reference to philip hammond, what he said in china, about wallowing during the implementation period or the transition period, whatever we want to call it, for two years. —— whatever we want to call it, for two years. — — following. whatever we want to call it, for two years. —— following. following all the rules of the eu, while not being pa rt of the rules of the eu, while not being part of it any more. robert, this is where we see the cracks in the cabinet. notjust cracks, yawning gaps. i think the wonderful abuse of the english language, of the political and which which comes up, as you say, we have the jacob rees—mogg thing. we cannot be a colony of the eu for two years. colony! on, get over yourself. equally, borisjohnson says philip hammond, this is a quote, "we can have a very original economy". i hope it isn't too original in boris‘ terms, because he is no economist.

this is so strange. just to draw that together, he is obviously cooking up an arrangement with philip hammond. let's do this together, and it is an interesting duopoly, it is a meeting of opposites. yes, as far apart as they could possibly be. and temperamentally. philip hammond is a tremendous man of details. nobody has ever seriously accused maurice johnson of being that. speaking very briefly about the tone of the debate, which is invoked by boris johnson, he has apparently rounded oi'i johnson, he has apparently rounded on hardcore eurosceptics who called for the deselection of 11 conservative mps to help defeat the government last week. the famous rebels. there have been death threats. he says this is absolutely obscene and i think this is very important, the fact that boris johnson makes this point in the lead article. let's move on. robert, i think it is your turn again. automatic pensions. this is the

observer, automatic pensions for young people at work. well, they are saying that any young person in employment earning £10,000 and over must go into the pension scheme, must go into the pension scheme, must go into the pension scheme, must go into the general dispensation. this is a small detail which is almost cosmic. certainly it has huge implications. it comes to this point, too many pensioners, too many non—productive people, and how on earth are we going to keep public and private pension system is going as the pop relation gets older? —— population. this is a step towards it. one of the things that we do know is that young people do pull it off the evil hour, such as it is, but it is in there a summation, of buying into a pension scheme. the fa ct buying into a pension scheme. the fact is that with the present welfare dispensation, i'm talking

about 15, 20, 25 years from now, it is unsustainable. so they are trying to get young people to buy in and say very early on. any resonance here with what goes on with president macron in france, and the source of reforms he wanted to do? i don't know what the pension situation their makers, but are there any similarities? well, france also has an ageing population. and people lower down the scale are hard pressed to save enough money. well, thatis pressed to save enough money. well, that is the point, if you are earning £10,000 or more, certainly in the london area, that would be a pittance. there are no tuition fees in france, though. so you do not begin your adult life of the 1000 or whatever it is in doubt. it is also the problem that people are living so the problem that people are living so much longer entering state pensions and other benefits. i mean, it has suddenly expanded in the last 20 years to an extraordinary degree. when the 65—year—old pensioner

exists, the maximum average of state employers, drawing pensions, that averaged 13 years. it would be double that now. it is. it is almost 23 years now. let's move on to a christmas time story. amazon faces christmas time story. amazon faces christmas parcels enquiry on the front page of the sunday telegraph. parcels not arriving in time. do you use amazon? i do occasionally use amazon but i am not an is on prime subscriber, unlike my fellow reviewer, who pays £79 a year, i gather. —— amazon prime. because he has been promised deliveries within two days. and it is those people who have been let down? yes. they are not happy. interestingly, amazon's helpdesk has apologised, saying that this is a busy time of year. wow, funny, that. sometimes it is 48

hours and at other times it isn't. i think the smile that is on the side of the amazon parcels will have been wiped off some of those boxes when they arrive late. big, bad company time for you, is it? (inaudible). what was that? they will make a huge amount of money, a huge amount of sales over christmas. £1.4 billion in 2016 in profit. it is better to promise three days, don't promise two days and then say it is a busy time. i want to take your points about the image of amazon. one of the things that was chilling, which came out of the story of the murdoch deal, murdoch selling to disney, your media editor spelt it out fa ntastically. your media editor spelt it out fantastically. the world of communication is going to be

dominated by three or four, communication is going to be dominated by three orfour, possibly five giants. that is why i said, u nfortu nately, five giants. that is why i said, unfortunately, it is not going to be the bbc. one of the really big ones is going to be amazon. the fact is that they have an image problem. they have a severe image problem because they run roughshod over some of the people that are contracted indie gig economy to deliver for them, and this high—handed attitude which you have indicated here. you have suffered from this, you've got parcels you are expecting... herston mark it may not necessarily be amazon's fault, there is quite a look bit of stealing going on. but i have had parcels which never arrived. you do need a reliable service. i do love amazon, but we are still talking about books, thankfully. if you want a book go to your local bookseller. you have to be prepared to pay for that, but i agree entirely. on to another story. robert, you can start as on this one. royal wedding fever. the

sundays press frontpage, at hotel room £629. have you booked your hotel room for the royal wedding in windsor? talk about cheese eating surrender monkey, i am going to be in italy guiding a tour when it happens. and i shall be on the high seas. so neither of you will be watching that, or the fa cup? i will not be shedding a tear from either michael. this is a fabulous piece, my esteemed colleague and i had a problem, we are told that 90% of hotel space is in windsor are booked out. —— 98% of hotel spaces. but come on, how many hotel spaces are there in windsor? we asked everything on our smartphones and they cannot tell us. there are quite a few hotels in windsor. so, this is a few hotels in windsor. so, this is a story that i am sure the french are grouped and fascinated by, and you will be covering it right the

way through to the bitter end? well, i haven't booked my hotel, which is... i've been concentrating too much on brexit. i do know that i will be there. have you got your glossy 2018 royal calendar? finally, quickly, come on. there is a picture of people on the front page holding up of people on the front page holding upa of people on the front page holding up a glitter ball, because they are the winners of... yes, 42, the oldest champion in the bbc's show's history. we should also point out he had a fantastic strictly come dancing partner. full credit to her. we wondered if you could give us the inside story as an excavator?” might do, after this. is it going to be in