first, the headlines. turkish troops advance into northern syria, opening up a complex new front in the conflict. ukip's ruling committee unanimously backs a vote of no confidence in leader henry bolton. henry was disappointed, but he understands the party has a process to go through. henry was offered the opportunity to resign but he has made clear that he feels he is the right man to lead the party forward. fourteen foreigners are among 18 people killed in the attack on a kabul hotel. they're thought to have been deliberately targeted. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are ben chu, the economics editor at the independent and ruth lea, who's an economics adviser for the arbuthnot banking group.

many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the ft leads with news that the german government has taken a step towards breaking a four—month deadlock, as angela merkel‘s social democratic party voted in favour of formal coalition talks. the front page of the express features the bbc‘s interview with french president emmanuel macron and his comments that french people would also vote to leave the eu if they had the chance. the i says wildlife conservationists have issued a warning that the uk is aiding sales of ivory, because there is no outright ban on sales on the illegal goods. the telegraph leads with a story about the british army, the paper says that a lack of resources means our troops are struggling to keep up with military advances in other countries like russia.

this so it's a mixed bag of stories from those papers there, this with lots to discuss and more front pages still to come in. ben and ruth, let's start things off with our first story. is the children's. the story of a local, —— pendulum. with the government in the peripheral and time nobody looks like former coalition talks might be able to start, achieves success? —— angela merkel. this is good news for her, it has been for months now since the inconclusive results of the federal elections which everybody expected her to do well in and not have these difficulties. failed attempt to form a coalition with the liberals and the greens and now she has had to go back to her old partners, the social democrats, they voted today to open

talks for a new grand coalition. good news in the short term but really a reminder of how quickly political fortunes can change. angela merkel was talked about last summer of the strongest leader in the eu and now she is really hobbled, it initiates this together she will not be in the driving seat. presumably have to make a lot of concessions to martin schultz and the general consensus is that she will not be leading her party into the next set of federal elections in 2020. we have got so used to her being the leader of europe, haven't we? it is quite incredible to see her here really struggling to hold onto power. germany was the leader in europe, unquestionably. it is interesting about martin short, in september the spd did very badly. they suffered having been in the

party and martin schultz said i am not going into any more coalition 's. however it seems as though he has soft and that view —— softened that view and they will talk about the detailed coalition arrangement where there will be a lot of concessions from angela merkel to keep him on side. then the detailed agreement has to go to the spd membership, six months after the election, the membership may throw it out. she has gone almost certainly from hero to zero. there has really been a vacuum, who has stepped in to its? emmanuel macron. bsp to very many places. he has even hosted president trump in the eiffel tower. lots of people said they handled him very well. let's have a look at expressed. —— of the

express. what he said about the french if they ever had a chance to have a referendum on the eu, he thought they might vote for frexit, as it is known. will that happen? hasn't given them a choice any time soon. the point was he gives it will a binary choice in the referendum and people don't understand the implications. he is making the point that if you want people to to vote, you have to give something concrete to vote for which is also addressing the reasons why they are feeling that things are not the way they should be. he has told andrew marr that he didn't think the uk referendum gave this opportunity. he has been getting rave reviews from uk political analysts and pundits it isa uk political analysts and pundits it is a straightforward way he has approached all of these questions

thrown at him and i think that comes overin thrown at him and i think that comes over in this. would friends vote for frexit? quite possibly. —— france. bit of fresh air. we are so surprised when a politician answers a question. i think he has had a good visit and the truth is he won't let the french people have a vote on this at all. no. and what became the lisbon treaty in 2005, french voted against the initial constitution and it was ignored. that is called democracy by the way. he had a good meeting and also i assured his relationship with theresa may it was good. them agreed on the bilateral agreement on security and talked about britain getting a bespoke trade deal with the eu. there was a lot of other stuff which was noise but on the whole it was satisfactory. he will have a pivotal

role, assumedly. he said i am not doing the negotiating, it is up to michel barnier, but he is clearly going to be a figure in this. he and angela merkel are absolutely pivotal is that this is where the language of the brexit debate gets confusing, he says bespoke deal but it doesn't mean this bespoke deal that a lot of people who support brexit are hoping for which is a very, a lot of services involved and special carveouts for the u. k.‘s. services involved and special carveouts for the u.k.'s. it could mean anything from what i have described to a very limited deal which is what canada has, certainly far below what brexiteers and brexit ministers are roping. in —— are hoping for. he has been very clear about this, which again is refreshing. if you are not the eu you cannot be in the single market in the way that you previously were. you don't get the benefits of the

single market unless you are in the single market unless you are in the single market. that is a pretty sobering message for people hoping for a very good deal of getting the same benefits. all down to negotiation. as far as i am concerned, a bespoke deal doesn't need to cover very much a. a continuation of tariff free trade and something with financial services. this is saying that we have a deal where both parties benefit. let's move on to ukip. the guardian, ukip in crisis after leader loses vote of confidence. henry bolte and's reskill friend, with her for three weeks, henry bolte and's reskill friend, with herfor three weeks, sent henry bolte and's reskill friend, with her for three weeks, sent text which were deemed to be offensive and racist and he has seemingly ditched her. can he survive this?” don't think so silly didn't he go for a meal after having broken up?

yes, apparently she restrain to get help. i don't see how he can survive, the national executive committee has the confidence but the bigger question is will ukip survive? i think this will become a rump party. nigel farage is in the wings with his friend aaron banks and they will put some sort of movement together no doubt after the loot, leave movements are already there and to keep the reason they's feet to the fire, what ever glory... it all sounds violent. nigel farage did say that there is a role for a party like ukip, if it can pull itself together because there are people who feel that the government might the backsliding on brexit, a soft brexit, you may not notice we have left, maybe there is a role but at the moment it is not working out

for them. the thing about ukip is, they have always had the stories of sort of, loose cannons around them, this is not a new phenomenon, it has been going back for years with some of the slightly bigoted people attracted to it. it did seem to be a big hindrance in the past, support going up and did very well in the european elections, came top. despite stories, the trouble is that since and the election, it has no traction at all it seems, it seems to have collapsed in support. most leaders, if you're executive committee says they have no confidence, there is no chance he would carry on but such is the state, henry bolte and obviously thinks he has earned chance of the membership backing him speaks to the dysfunction in the movement. do you think they can survive without a

character like nigel farage? it seems without him, they cannot.” think they are employed in, quite frankly. i think nigel farage will be back on our screens because he does not like to spell away. did he ever leave ? does not like to spell away. did he ever leave? there is an organisation called leave means leave, i suspect that he will take that over. now, the times. trust in social media hits record low amid fears over fake news. it is interesting that mainstream media, a bump in people 's trust of mainstream media, tv, radio and newspapers. this talks to all sorts of things about twitter and other social media, people don't necessarily trust it. you could argue it is an encouraging story because people are waking up to the fa ct because people are waking up to the fact that fake news exist and one of the main platforms for it is facebook. the trouble is, you are

comparing mainstream newspapers and television is with facebook is not comparing like with like as a source, a lot of people don't know it. betting if you open up facebook, it. betting if you open up facebook, it is not a producer of news it is a platform for all sorts of content coming onto it from all sources. so one quarter of people trust the tech publishing giants, that is encouraging people seem to be waking up encouraging people seem to be waking up to reality that they are not reading some in from the content producerjust a reading some in from the content producer just a random reading some in from the content producerjust a random string of stuff. newspapers and tv actually ta ke stuff. newspapers and tv actually take responsibility for what goes on this topic you could argue about its politically —— validity, but someone has taken charge of it.” politically —— validity, but someone has taken charge of it. i assume for a lot of young people getting their news from facebook and twitter, it is completely different, getting and digestive and news very differently from an older generation.”

digestive and news very differently from an older generation. i think thatis from an older generation. i think that is where the tory party fell down so badly during the last election. in this particular article there is another important point made that people are concerned about how extremism is portrayed on the social media and the cyber bullying. patrols and all of that. we have heard a lot about this recently, so not merely do they think it is fake news but they also think it needs more regulation. there is a freedom on social media that a lot of people like but it is abused. something has to be done. can you regulate facebook tom twitter in the same way? markers after burke is actually taking some serious action in recent weeks to actually move a lot of journalism off of the feeds, downgrading it in response to these concerns that it is feeding social media bubbles and all of this fake

news getting pushed into people 's lives through the platform. actually, maybe we will see how it goes but that's it is neglecting its off to some extent a bit there is the point that a lot of social media is self—selecting. the point that a lot of social media is self-selecting. you choose the ones you want to hear and they are often people who agree with you and there is a lot of talk about this discussion that people disagree with each other is disappearing. discussion that people disagree with each other is disappearingm discussion that people disagree with each other is disappearing. it could be true, but was it so different in the past? you bought the paper that reflected your, i was going to see prejudices, or opinion. —— says. people are selective in what they read, they are and they have to be. let's move on, finally, to the telegraph. it has got a little piece here. there has been a lot of people in westminster very upset about big then, the fact it is being

refurbished and not act to its former glory for many years. covered in scaffolding, it is resurrected now and then and some saying that when we leave the eu it should be bonging. passports and again seemed to be the big symbols of brexit.” am all in favour. these totemic images of britain, as you were saying, david liddington, the cabinet minister is not saying it won't happen, he is saying there are presently no arrangements for it. it seems to be a way of the telegraph bouncing the government into saying that it definitely will bong.” shall raise a glass to you.” that it definitely will bong.” shall raise a glass to you. i think what we are seeing here is the start ofa campaign, what we are seeing here is the start of a campaign, maybe. will you launch a petition to get this going?