hello. this is bbc news with lukwesa burak. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment, first the headlines. the bbc has learned that police have found traces of the nerve agent that was used to attack sergei and yulia scripal at the zizzi restaurant where they ate. the home secretary said the investigation has identified more than 200 witnesses. this investigation is focused on making sure that we keep people safe as a priority, that is what the cobra meeting was about, and also collecting all the evidence so and also collecting all the evidence so when it comes to attribution we will be absolutely clear where it will be absolutely clear where it will lead. no more changes to exams and a reduction in teachers‘ workload, the promise of the education secretary as he attempts to resolve the school recruitment crisis. talks between the eu, japan and us

on president trump's tariffs on steel and aluminium have broken up with no exemption agreed. the eu trade commissioner had called for the eu to be excluded from the tariffs. and in sport, ireland have won the six nations championship, beating scotland by 28—8 with a bonus point. meanwhile, england lose to france in paris, scoring just 16 points to their rival‘s 22 points. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are nigel nelson, political editor of the sunday mirror and the political commentator, jo phillips. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the observer leads on government

figures that reveal almost four times more men than women are in britain's highest paid posts. the sunday express says that the ex—russian spy sergei skripal and his daughter yulia may have been poisoned by the contents of a parcel that went undetected in the post. the sunday telegraph reveals that senior government figures are leading a plan to ban russian officials involved in corruption and human rights abuses. the sunday times claims that since becoming prime minister, theresa may has received over £800,000 of donations from russian oligarchs. the sunday mirror front page features claims that up to one thousand children could be involved ina new thousand children could be involved in a new child abuse and trafficking scandal. and the sunday people says that the russian president vladimir

putin is planning eight more attacks. of course, it's worth a reminder that russia has not yet been found responsible for the salisbury attack. worth reminding us that russia has not yet been found responsible for these attacks. so russia dominating the majority of the front pages, as it has for the past few days. so let's have a closer look starting with the express. interesting take. the one problem with this, there has been a complete sort of security clamp—down on basically any information coming out, and so, it's like a example of the new inco, when that happened, 2006, people were prepared to talk to you and now they are not, but what is being suggested here is that it was a parcel delivered to their house which may have contained the poison. —— alexander litvinenko. at the moment, we still do not know what the nerve agent was that they

ingested, the express has said it could be something which is labelled newcomer, a variety of different agents. it is more powerful, hugely powerful, a pinhead on your hand could kill you. there is a huge variety of those particular nerve agents, we are led to believe that the authorities know what the nerve agent is but they will not tell us, one assumes it is something they have tucked away here, and it is too secret to reveal. they will have a quandary but eventually it will have to come out. the news that you were reading says that traces have been found at the restaurant. traced back to the restaurant at which they dined, zizzi, really. they may have taken it in on their bodies. there is an awful lot of fantastic speculation, there is a human tragedy in all of this, but this is a cracking good story, it isjohn

va cca ro a cracking good story, it isjohn vaccaro meets mcmafia meets nigel nelson! —— john le carre but one week on it is full of stuff like, a neighbour has seen a courier arrived... well, my neighbours from the bc that, so in the absence of fa ct, the bc that, so in the absence of fact, lots of speculation. why a nerve agent, i have thought about that, have you picked up on that? one of the interesting thing is, why come in with something, a radioactive thing for alexander litvinenko, polonium, the russians, i'm pretty sure it is the russians that did this, they want everyone else to know about the fact that they did it, so the more exotic you can make the death, the more likely it is that people will believe it is you, and there is another side of this, it is a warning, yes, and... what are your friends like? you have heard this from your friends!

laughter one of the things they are doing, making this stuff, like a new toy, they want to go out and use it, they have a laboratory, making these different agents. i never understood what you don'tjust pushed somebody in front of a train if you want to kill them but the russians like the idea of this exotic way of doing it. it is drama. let's turn to the sunday people. we are still on the subject of russia, but now, a slightly different take. talking about how many spooks do i know, this is... look at this, a russian ex—kgb major, i have known him for several years, he has been targeted for assassination by the russians because he effected over here, boris karpichkov, and he claims he

received a call on february 12, with a hit list of eight names, his name was on it, and so was sergei skripal. what was interesting about that, he did not recognise the name, they served in different parts of they served in different parts of the russian intelligence network so he has never met sergei skripal, in britain or in moscow, and he served there. the name did not mean anything to him. it does now, three weeks later, the attack comes. you know, there has been a lot made... now they are looking at the wider family, some people are saying this isa family, some people are saying this is a message, if you do mess with... this is all speculation. and obviously, the police in salisbury, special forces investigating toxicology, have apparently been looking and examining the gravestock. .. i looking and examining the gravestock... i don't think we yet know whether they have exhumed the body of his wife... some flowers appear on the grave. his son died of

liver disease, he was cremated, i believe, the wife died of cancer, some years ago. “— believe, the wife died of cancer, some years ago. —— examining the graves. it is about the wider family but also, how long, he has been here for a long time. the next question, so for a long time. the next question, so many questions, what can the british government do in retaliation, if we turn to the sunday times, we have an article here, but it has been described as a response to a poisoning scandal, not too sure if they are saying they are going to carry out some of these measures, without the evidence...? this is a story about... theresa may promised to distance her party, the conservative party, from russian donors, when she became prime minister. it has been revealed that

russian oligarchs and their associates have registered donations of more than £800,000 tinged she became prime minister, that is quite a lot more than previous conservative party leaders. — — a lot more than previous conservative party leaders. —— since she became prime minister. these people are willing to pay quite a lot of money for some of the things mentioned here, not the russians solely, anyone who wants influence is willing to pay things like £160,000 to play tennis with david cameron. £30,000, to have dinner with the defence secretary, evan williams. strikes me as frightfully overpriced(!) usually so! and his ta ra ntula. overpriced(!) usually so! and his tarantula. there is this stuff about, where are you taking money from, you are right, it leads on to, what do you actually do, do you hit people in the wallet? turning to the telegraph... the paper goes into this a little deeper, and it is... that is enough... a visa ban? this

is what the telegraph are talking about what could be done, and this isa about what could be done, and this is a sanctions regime, to do it alongside the us and canada, and the idea is to freeze assets, target people, very difficult to do things like that, i'm not sure how much vladimir putin would care if we did, but within london, about £90 billion of russian money comes through london. clearly, it would cost us quite a bit to lose it but when we get to a stage like this, yes, we must do so. one thing i don't understand why they don't do, chucked out a few russian spies, that seems to hurt them more. our spies would have to leave moscow, but it seems to me that is the way forward , but it seems to me that is the way forward, to show a bit of strength. also this act, which has been hovering around for a few years,

magnitsky act, one of the people on your hip list —— hit list. bill browder got it brought in in america because it was his lawyer who died in prison on what they said were trumped up charges, no reason why we couldn't do something like that. staying with the telegraph, further down, chaos for accident and emergency, a bit of a meltdown...?lj think i speak with a certain interest in this because my son is a paramedic. i do sometimes wonder about the calls they are sent out to, as do most ambulance crews who are probably working tonight. and we completely, everybody understands the dispatcher has got a terrifically difficult job, and the dispatcher has got a terrifically difficultjob, and if someone says, terrifically difficultjob, and if someone says, i have chest pains, you know you do not know if they are having a heart attack or whatever it is but when we heard the report last week of some repeat callers, one

person making over 3000 calls, to an ambulance service, there has to be somewhere that you are gauging these, because there are people going to hospital who perhaps do not need to be in accident and emergency and people who need to have other services, mental health, social services, mental health, social services, care for all the people... you can't put it all on the ambulance service and then expect them to be out on the streets responding to what is happening immediately. let's go back to the express , immediately. let's go back to the express, i love this story, did you know this happens... express, i love this story, did you know this happens. . ij express, i love this story, did you know this happens... i guess something like it. we all go on hostile environment courses now and go through the kidnap stuff, but meghan markle, the one she has gone on, it beats the lot, the express is saying that she was sent off to hereford, the sas headquarters, to be put through her paces, and rather than news the blank ammunition that i have been used to when we have

gone on these courses, she gets live and mean is on. the sas officer who founded the course says, i guarantee that she would have been petrified. he seems to say rather gleefully! laughter not as much as the woman who would have been her mother—in—law, princess diana, her hair caught fire! she did insist on sitting by the window. a point that is interesting to take out of this, normally you go through the course once married, however, they are... she, megan, in particular, is going through beforehand because, i will read this out, member of the royal family is according to one military source because of heightened security issues at this time, they have had to put her through that early rather than later. we are only weeks away from the wedding, may 19... obviously imprinted on your mind! that is why, my invite stuck

in the post(!) if you are going to do it, why wait? the way they talk about some of the details, you do not realise that they have to know what they are doing. some of us are old enough to remember princess and busting out of a crowd with a gun, very serious. —— princess anne, bursting out of a crowd with a gun. big day tomorrow, isn't it. mothering sunday, yes. the sunday times here is talking about new politically correct cards that you have two sent out. waitrose sending out gender neutral is one, happy you day, rather than mother's day, which i think is horrible. i prefer the ones from scribblers, if you are dealing with a same—sex couple, two mothers is better than one would be

one of the cards, and another one that i like, dad, thanks for being the most amazing mother. they seem to have a bit of wit about them. the worst thing is that we should rename the day completely... to make it gender neutral. guardian ‘s day of ca re rs gender neutral. guardian ‘s day of carers day. which is all. blue it ta kes carers day. which is all. blue it takes it away from what it was, which is mothering sunday, part of the easter pattern of lent. many people will not be aware of that. but it is like when you say happy holidays instead of happy christmas, we are having holidays because it is christmas. this is to do with ancient church stuff that carried on