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tv   The Papers  BBC News  March 17, 2018 11:30pm-11:46pm GMT

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hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines. 23 british diplomats are to be expelled by moscow amid tensions over the nerve agent attack in salisbury. the british consulate in st petersburg will also close. the prime minister has said russia must account for its actions. —— the prime minister has said russia must account for its actions. we will never told a greater threat to the life of british citizens and others on british soil from the russian government. meanwhile, counter—terrorism police have started contacting russian exiles living in the uk, about their personal safety following the suspected murder of businessman nikolai glushkov. snow and ice grip parts of the uk as drivers are warned to prepare before setting out tonight. us officials investigate claims that a political consultancy mishandled the data of millions of facebook users to support donald trump's run for the white house.
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la ra lara croft returns to the big screen, this time played by elusive it can do. find out what we're made of it and the rest of the week's top cinema releases full of —— alicia vikander. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the playwright and new european columnist bonnie greer and the economist ruth lea. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the observer has an interview with a whistle—blower who alleges that information from millions of facebook users may have been used by a data company during the 2016 us presidential election. both companies deny any wrongdoing. the mail on sunday says theresa may is planning a crackdown on what the paper calls putin's
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‘mcmafia' associates of the russian president with money in the uk. the sunday times warns that a russian cyber—attack could turn the lights out in britain. it reports that the national grid is on alert. the sunday express has more on theresa may putting pressure on moscow with a possible travel ban for 1,000 russian tycoons. the sunday telegraph leads on the same story, as well as a photograph of a smiling duke and duchess of cambridge at a st patrick's day parade of the irish guards. and the sunday mirror leads on the sex abuse scandal in telford, quoting a police insider who says it was "too much trouble" to crack down on grooming gangs. let's start. a nice headline here,
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the pm's ward on vladimir putin's ‘mcmafia' million, cracking down on dirty money. i'm unsure where ‘mcmafia' starts and ends and where russian oligarchs who just happen to have a lot of money starts on end. that is one of the issues. we have had a lot of russian money in the system for a long time. it is propped up quite a few things. in some bits of the party as well. i think is the public clamour to find out who is here, who actually is in the country, how are they in the country? one thing is important to stress, this isn't about ordinary russian people. russian people who are here. this is about people who have loads of money in kensington and knightsbridge and in the countryside, everything on to find out what the money is, where is it coming from, what is it being used
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for, what is it popping up? how is that leaving? what is going on? part of the problem, and this has been coming on for a long time, is that there are little vendettas and sort ofa there are little vendettas and sort of a little thing going on in the country between various factions of the country and we need to know what it is. indeed. ledecka weapons are being booked for but they are hard to find, aren't they, bruce? -- political. she wants to make it easier to seize money, criminal money, but bonnie says we have a lot of money in the country and we are led to understand most of it is legitimate and we are not trying to have a war with the russians in the country, but it is quite legitimate to save if this is criminal money we don't want it or you and i suspect there has been quite a sort of a, people have been relaxed about it is the kindest way of putting it, but i think it is part and parcel of
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theresa may's attack on russia because she is thought of driving up the rhetoric against russia from the disgraceful behaviour in salisbury. they have been stories of 20 years, various sort of people living in london particularly who have had vendettas against other people who live in london and it is a bit like i'm from chicago and it feels like chicago yesterday were all of these sort of other countries exist alongside vows where people were doing hits against people and driving people out of town. and now she is needing to deal with this because we don't know what happened in salisbury. but russia is not, i mean, is not a key trading partner for example of the uk at all, is it? i'd think about less than 1% of exports and 1% of imports come from russia but of course there are useful russian investments, indeed, quite useful for russia in the russia is also bp has a big share in
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their fuel company. you don't want to be like america... know, and the dissidents there, they were asked why didn't you move to london and set of new york and one of the things he said was because of what is going on in london. it is a lot of madness. it is underground. we need to get it sorted. what the sunday times, the same thing, but their headline is blackout threat to britain as pretty hits back. —— vladimir putin. the national cyber security centre which is part of gchq, the security services, are warning there could be a russia and cyber attack on the systems, the national grid, the computer systems, which were actually cause them to dysfunction and they could put the lights out and basically i think this is a timely warning that they should actually used their defences against cyber attacks and indeed
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gchq is actually giving advice as to how they should boost their defences andl how they should boost their defences and i think it is timely. russia of course has form on this, estonia... well, exactly. there is a warning in the united states as well. she would be irresponsible if she did not actually try and sort of beef up security as well. what about this gas? we don't depend on russia for oui’ gas? we don't depend on russia for our gas supplies, ruth? but other people do and it is a key point?|j think so, my understanding is 1% of out think so, my understanding is 1% of our domestic consumption is actually imported from russia which is miniscule. we do import gas but it is from norway and qatar and places like that but people on the continent, they are dependent on russian gas. germany for example, about 36% of its domestic consumption comes from russia. it makes a terribly dependent on russia
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and in fact a lot of eastern europe and in fact a lot of eastern europe and the balkans are almost 100% dependent on russia. this means that vladimir putin has a strong case in his hand when it comes to negotiating with various european countries when it comes to... so the other countries say they thought of support our point of view, but when reality comes, well... i think what ruthis reality comes, well... i think what ruth is saying, i'm sure, you know, they have to be careful, germany has to be careful, france has to be careful, but if it happened the way it looks, this is an attack on sovereignty and our partners have to stand up and they have to do it for national integrity and let the chips fall where they may actually, vladimir putin doesn't expect that to happen because part of what he is dealing with is dealing with dissension which is a natural state of democracy and he is coming in and trying to disrupt that so it has to be done. we do and how it will end but it has to be done. he has a very
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strong hand of cards. absolutely. however, the sunday times talking about another side issue coming on, jeremy corbyn has been going around saying what he does, and they say the reason antique auburn mp planning a new party? —— anti—corbyn mps. does anyone think there is a chance of coming into life? you are asking me? right. you are a labour supporter. i am definitely a labour supporter. i am definitely a labour supporter. i am definitely a labour supporter. i don't see, i am saying this as living here for a long time but my feeling is i don't see that the united kingdom does that sort of thing. i see france which basically fired their two main parties, they sacked them, and made another party. italy is doing something that is different. i don't know if the
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united kingdom does this. i think people feel very strongly about labour, the labour party, people feel strongly about jeremy, and labour, the labour party, people feel strongly aboutjeremy, and i think the idea of another party being made, i don't think that is what, i could be wrong, but i don't think that is what this country does. we remember the gang of four, don't we? we do! it was the new sort of michael foot at the time, wasn't it? yes. didn't, didn't... it isn't in the culture, is it? at the end of the day it was subsumed into the liberal democrat party with the exception of david owen who wouldn't be subsumed into anything but it faded. i think you were right, the 2—party faded. i think you were right, the 2— party system faded. i think you were right, the 2—party system in the country, apart from the snp in scotland is extremely strong. it is about feeling. if you are a labour party supporter it is a feeling, if you are conservative, it is a feeling, it is not just
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are conservative, it is a feeling, it is notjust a party. i don't how this is... but that is right, the first part post system doesn't help small parties in the country. but i thinkjeremy corbyn continues to say what we need is a proper investigation, we have not seen the evidence and so on, and a lot of labour mps evidence and so on, and a lot of labourmps are unhappy evidence and so on, and a lot of labour mps are unhappy with that but are they really putting their name to anything as radical, notjust a new party perhaps but even a, i don't know, you leadership or election? the trouble is we don't have the story! i think it was noticeable in the debates last week when theresa may was making those statements on monday and wednesday that the weak auburn didn't quite get the tone of the house right, didn't get the mood of the house right. that was the mistake, more than what he said, it was that he didn't catch the mood. no. that was the problem. let's get back to something else that rumbles away in oui’ something else that rumbles away in our lives were about the last 20 yea rs, our lives were about the last 20 years, brexit. the front page of the sunday telegraph, gibraltar left out
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of brexit transition, explained to us of brexit transition, explained to us what the story is about? as we know, we were hoping to have a transitional period when we leave the european union at 20, 19, and the european union at 20, 19, and the commission has put together the d raft the commission has put together the draft agreement —— march 2019. my understanding is it is left out poor old gibraltar. when you say left out? it seems to have been left out, it has been left out of the transitional arrangements. the truth is that it will have to be some accommodation for gibraltar is all of the other uk dependencies when we do leave the eu. my suspicion is that by the end of this year, gibraltar will actually be dealt with. but, travolta rins understands that and still sensitive about this issue, do they not, bonnie? we are
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on opposite sides of this question. she is a remainer. it seems to me, and we talked about this quite politically, that it seems to me that the government of weather is guiding brexit should've actually laid out for the people are kind of framework or map. —— collegiately. it looked shambolic. this has got to be fairly gibraltar resident shopping. i'm not in a position to say whether it will happen or not. you are closer to this than me. but for the residents, this has to be a shakeup and for the residents, this has to be a sha keup and they for the residents, this has to be a shakeup and they didn't vote for this to happen anyway so it is another sort of part of the tapestry that just looks like another sort of part of the tapestry thatjust looks like a mess. a threadbare... it will be sorted, it will be sorted. you get things like this! what does that mean? our kith
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and kin gibraltar will be sorted. we have to live it there. —— leave. 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 our website. and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, bonnie and ruth. next up, it's the film review. but it's good night from me. hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is jason solomons. good to see you, jason. what have you been watching? this week, we'll go
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to raiding and cliffhanging with the new lara croft in tomb raider. look at the meaning of art and find our inner ape in swedish satire the square. and we dip into biblical times for the real story of mary magdalene, as played by rooney mara, opposite

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