this is bbc news. our latest headlines: the foreign secretary is in washington in an attempt to stop president donald trump abandoning the iran nuclear deal. the uk is enjoying a record—breaking heatwave. it is the hottest early may bank holiday weekend on record. police are appealing for witnesses after a number of shooting incidents over the bank holiday weekend in london and manchester. vladimir putin has been sworn in for a fourth term as president of russia, marking 18 years in power. en met the author this week, my guest is the american writer madeline miller, who turns the world of greek mythology into an intimate human drama in her novel about the greatest encha ntress of human drama in her novel about the greatest enchantress of them all, circe. hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are are journalist dame joan bakewell, and the political correspondent for the times lucy fisher. tomorrow's front pages, starting with: the financial times' front page features a picture of vladimir putin on his stairway to kremlin, sworn in for a fourth term as russia's president, and a story on how the department of international trade is set to axe jobs. the metro leads with the foreign secretary, boris johnson's, statement that donald trump has the chance to be in the running for the nobel peace prize. the telegraph says rail bosses are proposing to overhaul confusing railfares, after admitting it is sometimes cheaper to buy two tickets in order to complete a single journey. the times has the same story. it says millions of passengers are being ripped off by current fare structures. the express leads with calls

for extra armed police on the streets, following a spate of violent crimes over the bank holiday weekend. the guardian leads with a proposed financial boost for every 25—year—old in britain, to help fix an intergenerational gap in wealth. the sun says violent crime committed by children under ten rose by 38% last year. the daily mail leads with criticism by boris johnson over the government's plans for trade after brexit. so thank you both very much for joining us. let's start with the metro, which is talking about torres johnson's visit to the united states —— boris johnson. give trumper nobel peace prize. the only person who could believe this is trump himself,

because you can't flatter him too much and it is need to get him to not back down from the iran deal. otherwise it is ludicrous. this man threatened to blast north korea out of the water. he has put up military spending and upped intervention in the middle east, so it is ludicrous but it might just the middle east, so it is ludicrous but it mightjust swing it, because if borisjohnson but it mightjust swing it, because if boris johnson flatters but it mightjust swing it, because if borisjohnson flatters him enough, he might succeed. that is clearly the aim. i suppose the dangerfor boris clearly the aim. i suppose the danger for boris johnson is clearly the aim. i suppose the dangerfor borisjohnson is if it doesn't come off. fascinating that the best way to appeal to donald trump is to go on fox & friends, rather than using his meeting with mike pompeo and mike pence. it will be interesting to see what happens, whether he and angela merkel and president macron can have any effect. eu officials suggesting they haven't quite clinched it. it would

be very serious indeed if after all of this flattery, the united states pulls out from the iran deal, because that would effectively nullify the whole deal. it is really quite patronising that trump wouldn't see boris johnson and quite patronising that trump wouldn't see borisjohnson and he had to appeal to him by going on television. it does hope that the president was watching at the releva nt president was watching at the relevant moment. it is demeaning for him to be treated like that. so the arguments of people like macron, who isa arguments of people like macron, who is a big hit with trump, may well carry the day more than boris johnson will do, but it is absolutely crucial, really. a lot rides on this, that trump should not withdraw from it. absolutely, and looking closer to home, the express with a dramatic picture there, talking about the latest spate of violence in london, manchester, oxford, and this time shootings

instead of some of the stabbings we have seen recently. that's right, i was horrified to see last night a 13—year—old being shot with a shotgun pellets, nice to hear that shooting was not fatal. but another spate this weekend, there have been 50 murders in the capital in the first three months of this year. in the first three months of this yea r. clearly in the first three months of this year. clearly something has to be done. i am year. clearly something has to be done. iam not year. clearly something has to be done. i am not sure the call by one tory mp for more armed officers is the right way forward, but a lot of discussion about why we are seeing this spike inviolate crime. there is clearly a n this spike inviolate crime. there is clearly an epidemic of this kind of crime, and someone was bound to call for more guns on the street. it is a familiar response but an easy one. the more profound response is to think what is happening to our young people? what is so sour and bad about their lives that they are falling into fights with each other, oi’ falling into fights with each other, or not even with people that they know, just passing by shootings. what is going wrong but they are not

finding satisfaction in life, mi of the richest countries the world. there is something badly wrong. and there seems to be a lot of handwringing, but nobody seems to have a clue how to actually get to the bottom of this. a lot of the evidence shows this is about opportunities, skills and education, how you can tackle these issues leading to teenagers getting involved with gangs and crime, and early intervention. there are also big questions asked about police cuts, we have seen 15,000 officers cuts, we have seen 15,000 officers cut from the street since 2010. although the government suggested has had no effect at all, it is difficult to say unless police officers don't count for anything, those officers were doing absolutely nothing, how that could possibly not have had an effect. i did see somewhere that one of the appeals to how this can be attacked is to appeal to the mothers. that appealed to me, of course, the idea that the mothers of these children have

enormous influence on people's lights, as we know, mothers of small children, and that really important input from that community would be very valuable in shaping their lives and them purpose, and intention, ambition and fulfilment of some kind. lots of different stories to get through this evening. let's look at the financial times, which has a very powerful picture of president putin on the stairway to the kremlin once again. it must the pretty familiar to him. yes, this is his fourth term. he is so good at these arresting photo opportunities, often shirtless on the back of a horse or out hunting, he knows how to strike a good post. it is interesting also to see that we may view putin with a lot of suspicion but domestically his ratings are still very high. he has been either president or prime minister for 18 yea rs president or prime minister for 18 years but when you look at his

predecessor, or as yeltsin, there is a lot he has brought to russia in terms of making the streets safer, improving the economy, although he has failed to diversify it away from oil and gas. new ambitions for the next term. what is interesting as well, in the film of his inauguration, was the enormous glamour and incredible richness of the palace in which he was being crowned, virtually. it is an enormously powerful role that he has. even so, there is trouble in the streets. we saw that opposition to him is around. i am sure it is enormously repressed, but news of it is reaching the west, and there is discontent because the standards of living once you are outside glistening moscow and st petersburg, the standards of living is very low. people's ambitions are higher because they are aware through the media at what life is like in other places, so there is a great deal of unrest and a sense of repression. he

has unrest and a sense of repression. he ha s offe re d unrest and a sense of repression. he has offered leadership, he is a strong leader, this incredible czarist palace taking control again. there is no apparent heir being prepared as well. clearly he won a massive majority, but his major rival, navalny, was banned from standing against him. and the candidate who there was seem suspicious, she was a socialite connect it to putin. it will be interesting to see how tensions ramp up interesting to see how tensions ramp up with the west, following the salisbury poisoning, russia's involvement in syria. the guardian has a fantastic headline, a call for all uk citizens to get £10,000 when aged 25. i am sure lots of people approaching the age of 25 will say relieved by deer.

can we have ice creams as well? expensive ice creams. it is an interesting idea. it has been around for sometime and has been developed by resolution foundation, chaired by david willetts, who is an ex— burt in many things, a cabinet conservative and universities minister. something has got to be done about the inequality between wealth among the older and the poverty of the young who can't get on the property ladder. it is going to get worse because of the whole ai, artificial intelligence revolution which is coming our way, in which people will lose jobs. we are moving to a society in which there are not enough jobs to keep people employed. and it may well be that we need to really rethink how we keep people that, housed, clothed, when there aren't enough jobs to sustain that. it may be that the hack to have money from the

state, put there by people who do havejobs, in order to give state, put there by people who do have jobs, in order to give them some sort of life. yes, they have to find a way to pay for this, haven't they? that is absolutely right. it isa they? that is absolutely right. it is a pretty radical idea and it builds on this idea of a universal basic income, which has been around for a while. i think it is interesting there is such unfairness that when people a state of capital, making them feel they have a stake society, would be a fascinating idea. to my mind, being under 30 with my peers, some of whom have been handed a lump sum by their pa rents to get been handed a lump sum by their parents to get on the housing ladder, this appeals to me in the idea of reducing inequality, giving eve ryo ne idea of reducing inequality, giving everyone a seed fund to get going and perhaps try and get on the property ladder. it is an interesting idea, but how it will be funded is the key question. that is the big question indeed. and talking about cost is, the telegraph, one of about cost is, the telegraph, one of a couple of papers looking at rail

bosses admitting it is cheaper to split tickets. something i admit i had been aware of for quite awhile. as someone who travels regularly, you search around and it is extraordinary the difference it can make. i don't know how it works out and how these rates of pay are established. if you go searching on the internet you get all sorts of different offers, and the idea of having to split the journey in order to get it more cheaply is absurd. they are earning up to it, they are saying... who is it, the rail delivery group, well, they have a lot to answer for. they are going to overhaul the system. how did we get into this terrible mess? i don't know. certainly kpmg have found out that only one in three travellers thinks they are getting the reasonable ticket price. well, that is just not enough. reasonable ticket price. well, that isjust not enough. and clearly some people will find it easier than

others to do the proper research and make sure they are really getting the cheapest fare. that is also why it is so unfair. there are websites which exist to try and use in algorithm to find the cheapest way to split tickets. i have seen stories before about a single journey between edinburgh and london and someone having 50 tickets, one between every single train station. there is a point where it becomes ridiculous but with savings of up to 90% you can see why some people pursue that. but not every one understands how to find these rates and it is incumbent on these companies to be more transparent about it all. let's see how this goes. i think they are going to have a three month trial making it more transparent but trust is very low in the rail companies. i have a senior rail card, and when you sign up and book a ticket online and they say have you got a reduction card, the number of offers of different kinds of cards that exist, i mean, there

must be 15 different rates of getting productions. this needs sorting out. i mean, does everyone have one? i have no idea but i get some kind of reduction because of the senior rail card. do you get a rail cards were being young, for being middle—aged? rail cards were being young, for being middle-aged? there is a whole array. it has been an amazing weekend, and lots of people have been enjoying ice creams, but a warning here, also in the telegraph, that vanilla ice cream could be in short supply. i have learned something here today, that 85% of vanilla pods come from madagascar. and because of various national disasters, a cyclone last year, political unrest, the price has spiked and it is worth more than its weight in silver, prompting a shortage. it is a very enchanting story. i think the idea of ice cream being beyond the price that people can afford, it is tragic, isn't it?

for children, and we all love ice cream. it can only be short—term, can't it? i think the concern is that producers of ice cream are just going to