the japan times reports on the unprecedented face—to—face meeting between delegates from south korea and the north korean leader kim jong—un. politico looks at the italian elections and predicts weeks or months of political instability as the country ponders different alliances to take office. the telegraph website reports on a campaign being launched today by public health england, warning that britain needs to go on a diet. and vulture turns to the oscars — and how this year's ceremony drew in one of the smallest recorded audiences. but does it really matter, the website asks. so let's begin. with me is alpesh patel, ceo of praefinium partners. we hardly ever have the daily

mirror, we thought we would look at the tabloid headlines because it is the tabloid headlines because it is the kind of story that they love. the headlines, the big splash on the front page. russian mi6 spy poisoned. the newspapers are brave journalist two, they are already starting to blame the russian. can they make it clear, vladimir putin, sally and i are wearing red in solidarity, we are being forced to do this story. i look at russia today, how are they going to defend this? are they even talking about it? they talked about it and said maybe they were taking some drugs, this couple who are now in hospital, because that is where you take your opioids. another reason they had was why would you kill a non— threat? it obviously has nothing to do with russia, things like revenge are on

russian. we don't know if they are involved, we could be imagining it like election interference, it could just be somebody who decided to help vladimir putin. the broader question, which is something i put to our professor earlier on in the programme is that what does this do to the already difficult relations between the us, russia and the uk? as you mentioned, there is a whole investigation going on in the us into the parents in their election, not least all of the other issues. there are matters like syria for example. this had wide —— this has wide implications of. if there is a connection or it is found that there we re connection or it is found that there were certain drugs that could only have been sourced from them there will be some whingeing and it will make no difference what however. it is unfortunate and begs the question why did we not know more? why are these individuals not protected? the

sad thing is that he was a british asset, he is in hospital, the sad truth is there are is two people who are hospitalised. don't know if it is the russians but there is a smoking gun. why did they get away with it? of course the investigation is under way and we don't know what the results or conclusions of that art, when i got dressed this morning ididn't art, when i got dressed this morning i didn't know what a tyre i should wear. “— i didn't know what a tyre i should wear. —— attire. with look at the japan times, no surprise at all that on its front page it has south korean envoys meet with kim jong—un. extremely important to japan and the whole region. compared to 12 months ago, are we not breathing a sigh of relief? diplomacy. i have to give credit to another president here, it is president donald trump. when he was playing hard ball is president donald trump. when he was playing hardball and now look at where we have come. we all thought

he isa where we have come. we all thought he is a fool, why is he being so mean? it has brought in to the negotiating table and donald trump has been tweaking a lot less about this issue. recently, he gave a speech on sunday where he was asked, mrtrump, how do speech on sunday where he was asked, mr trump, how do you deal with a mad and? said it is not my problem. why do you think north korea has decided to come to the table now?” do you think north korea has decided to come to the table now? i am not being tongue in cheek, i believe it is donald trump. is it notjust about the fact that the sanctions have been tightened quite significantly? donald trump. not just by donald trump. he was leaving it in the un. —— leading. just by donald trump. he was leaving it in the un. -- leading. let's move on. looking at the fire scenario —— five scenarios for italy's next

couple and on the front it says that the leader of the league, one of the anti— establishment parties that did really well. this can go on for weeks, it will go on for weeks, but the question is what will the outcome be? i love how it said five scenarios. not one or two, five. the old joke goes, the italians have a87 cheese. the good news for the rest of europe and brexit and although it is the eurozone's third—largest economy there won't be much of a spin over. we are use to them having three recessions per year so we won't have a broad economic impact. you say that but i have to say for those watching us in italy, young people, unemployment is extremely high. you say ok it won't have an

impact but actually they want change. the interesting point is, it is, of the eu's founding countries, this is the one which will most likely have a coalition that won't be led by a major party. 5—star taking cow of the south. it has become divided like that because the poorer south has suffered and that is why you have the populist movement. people without the voice, the young, just like the young saying we are fed up. it will be interesting to say how they get on. -- c. interesting to say how they get on. --c.i interesting to say how they get on. —— c. i was thinking about matteo renzi, it he got elected with big ideas and big vision but couldn't get anything through. having said that, it shows that the populist movements have not died, people haven't given up hope that some

degree of populism, some degree of people power worth fed up with vested interests. there is still a spark. public health england warning us spark. public health england warning us that if we do not stick to a new diet calorie guideline, cutting down, there will be difficulty as a country for obesity and the impact on the health service. country for obesity and the impact on the health servicelj country for obesity and the impact on the health service. i came in this morning and your editor told me you picked this story because i am on the air. you know what annoys me about these stories? don't please blame us, the consumer, it is too complicated. calories are too complicated. calories are too complicated. i am sorry, i get the impression that you are too obese, your children are too obese. they are pointing the finger to a great degree at the food industry and what is in prepacked, cheap food. we need to do more against the manufacturers

and the own brand supermarket. i compare own brand compare to a brand which i know is more expensive and you think the supermarket is cheaper, the amount of crap to put in there to make it cheaper is part of the problem. we need to attack the supermarket, the manufacturers and the food pricing. we say this all the time, it is hard to people to manage a food budget and bad food is cheaper. fast food is cheaper. the poor parents reading this will think, what the heck do you want me to do? get a move now. legislate if you have two. who doesn't need that much salt, sugar and fat. it is on the responsibility of the manufacturers and they are not moving fast enough and they are looking at their fat profits. this is why i picked this story. a00 calories for breakfast, 600 for lunch and 650. is that doable? no, i

have tried it and failed to. that is not the answer. actual whatever i picked out of the fridge like everybody else, it is a lot easier than us trying to manage it. very briefly, before we move on. did you watch the oscars? of course i did, i watched it up at 3:30am as a new dad. 0f watched it up at 3:30am as a new dad. of course this topic by the looks of us, quite a bit of viewers didn't. why are we not watching the 0scars? didn't. why are we not watching the oscars? the reason is, it used to be lot whiter and that is the campaign. is that why? too many ethnic minorities, too many women. figures are down. the rest of it and there are down. the rest of it and there are people with different gender complications. 0nce are people with different gender complications. once they start getting brown people on tv, it goes downhill. having said that, advertising figures are up to is used to have a big audience in one

place. could use of. advertising fast food. thanks are coming in. —— good news. thanks for watching the briefing, from me sally bundock, and the rest of the team, goodbye. hello there. temperatures continue to gradually rise, that means any snow confined to the high ground in scotland and communities that have been hard hit by the severe fall of snow continue to dig out as the snow gradually melts away. but it is going to be a long road. looking at the weather picture for the next few days. the jet stream is well to the south of the uk and that means is there's nothing to move this area of low pressure along, so instead it will sit, spinning around over the top of the uk and there will be some fronts around the low, bringing spells of rain and hill snow. for the early risers, tuesday morning, it will be a wintry start of the day across higher parts of scotland. you can see some white here on the charts as the rain moves into the high ground and turns to snow.

quite a chilly start to the day as well, some pockets of frost out and about, so prepare yourself for a futures of ice first thing in the morning. looking at the weather on tuesday, the most severe weather will be a cross higher parts of scotland, if we zoom in and focused on this area, we are looking at around a 200 metre elevation for the worst, we could get around 5—10 centimetres but that means some of the higher scottish routes will be affected and could well be disruptive due to the weather. towards the coast and low down as well, it is rain that will be falling, but the rain combined with melting snow could bring a problem of some surface water flooding across low—levels of eastern scotland as well. elsewhere the weather is quite quiet, a few showers across western areas, spells in the south—east where temperatures reached 12 degrees but snow still coming down on the high ground in scotland. most of the snow will tend to ease off as we go into tuesday night into wednesday, but another front will sneak across the english channel and curling back along south—east england and east anglia, so on wednesday morning it looks like it could be a wet start to the day.

the rain will ease and we will see some brighter skies working in, again and number of showers across the west and showers still wintry across the highest parts of scotland but the temperatures recovering, looking at highs of six in edinburgh. a quiet day for most areas on thursday, a few mist and fog patches and an area of rain not far from the south coast of england, some wet weather here but otherwise, many areas will stay largely dry with some bright or sunny spells at temperatures between six and nine degrees celsius. things will stay on the cool side on the whole of a northern half of the uk but it will be relatively mild in the south in the run—up to the weekend. that is your weather. hello, this is breakfast, with louise minchin and dan walker. a former russian double agent is in critical condition after he was exposed to an unknown substance in salisbury. 66—year—old sergei skripal and a woman in her 30s were found

unconscious on a bench on sunday. last night, police closed a restaurant in the city as a precaution. good morning, it is tuesday 6 march. also this morning: counting the calories. health officials in england call for portion sizes to be cut, as they say the public need to go on a diet.