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from his own party's mps to find extra funding for universal credit. the fracking firm cuadrilla confirmed that it wasn't carrying out fracking today at its site near blackpool, citing bad weather as the cause of the delay. the company was allowed go ahead for the first time since 2011 after the high court rejected a last—minute challenge by environmental campaigners. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are rachel cunliffe, who's the comment and features editor at cityam, and the political strategist jo tanner, who worked for borisjohnson and david cameron. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in, and unsurprisingly the state of brexit negotiations features large. after getting hold of leaked emails, the observer says dup leader arlene foster is ready to trigger a no—deal brexit and now regards this as the "likeliest outcome." the sunday times splashes on a call from former brexit secretary david davis for the cabinet to rise
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up against theresa may's brexit plans, unless she changes course. the sunday telegraph also leads on trouble for the prime minister as the paper reports 63 tory euro—sceptics have issued a major new challenge to her authority. and the sunday express reports quotes from leading brexiteerjacob rees—mogg who urges the pm to stand up to eu "bullies." away from brexit, "plane mutiny keeps rapist in uk," says the headline of the mail on sunday. the paper reports officials were forced to abandon the deportation of somalian yaqub ahmed. and finally, the sunday mirror leads with a warning from strictly come dancing's neiljones. the paper says the star told seann welsh to keep his hands off his wife katya jones, following the dancing pair's now infamous kiss. so, lots about theresa may and brexit, as well as some strictly. we start with the independent. saudis may face severe punishment.
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this is donald trump warning the saudi government that if it is proved they had an involvement in jamal khashoggi's murder, they will face punishment. if is the crucial word. there has been a global outcry about what is widely believed to be an assassination of the saudi journalist at the consulate in turkey. people have called on donald trump to speak out against it. up until now he has been quite uncertain about it. he hasn't used particularly strong language. he finally came out and said that the saudis may face severe punishment if it can be proved if it was them. he said, could it be then, yes, but that also implies it couldn't be them. orthat he might even that also implies it couldn't be them. or that he might even be alive, as the saudis are claiming. turkey says they have evidence of this. it is widely believed in washington that there is evidence that he was assassinated at the embassy. why is donald trump not being stronger about it? we have to
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look at the business interests there. donald trump's first international visit as president, he signed an arms deal worth, i think, over 100 billion us dollars, with saudi arabia. he has his own personal business interests to there. there are concerns that some of his reluctance to speak out about this might be more to do with business than geopolitics. lots of commentators are saying, look, if there was not a big schism than we saw after the 911 attacks with america, then this, although he has to talk tough, will eventuallyjust quieten down. —— 9/11 attacks. to talk tough, will eventuallyjust quieten down. —— 9/11attacks.m to talk tough, will eventuallyjust quieten down. -- 9/11 attacks. it is interesting, there is almost the similar issue in what happened in salisbury and the poisonings, and the suggestion that russia was involved. when that first emerged there was this general look across to what other world leaders were going to say, because we are in this really odd position now of suggestions of evidence, but actually, we don't really know. the
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saudis are still claiming this journalist is alive. yet there is no sign of him. so what happens? and what western leaders in particular do as what western leaders in particular doasa what western leaders in particular do as a result, what even our own uk leaders do, there is a huge problem. saudi arabia, arms deals, all sorts of other deals that have been done over the years, they have caused many problems, huge human rights violations in that country. and that region. and yet we are still interested in the deals we do, and not actually about standing up to what we stand for. yes, they are an ally in the region, a strategically important one. let's move on to brexit. the sunday telegraph, brexiteers raise stakes against may. 63 backbenchers telling her they are not happy with what she is proposing. they are not happy with what she is proposing to agree, they do not want the uk to remain in any kind of customs arrangements after the transition period. they want a set time limit on that. and they
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are, all of the unity that perhaps we saw temporarily after the conservative party conference, that has sort of evaporated. i think 63 is an important number here, because this is not a small number of bench mps who regularly cause trouble for the government. —— backbench mps. and if we look at the sunday times ta ke and if we look at the sunday times take on this, the cabinet is even threatening to kill brexit, david davies leading the charge. it is whether they want to go as far as destabilising her as leader. this is the big oblong. we have constantly seen threats around, if you get rid of me, then actually, what do you get in response? the reality being that the mutiny challenge, this whole idea, is a big risk, actually, for the mps involved, because you can try to take down your leader, but if they win a vote of no—confidence, you can only it once. so then you are stuck with them. you
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have to pick your moment. and they could be all sorts of unintended consequences from that. absolutely, and the threat of a general election is very real. lots of people have great concerns we could have an election this side of christmas. david davies suggesting that the cabinet should use its collective authority, which is very different to collective responsibility, which was generally the term we associate with the cabinet. and the sunday express , with the cabinet. and the sunday express, jacob rees—mogg sane, stand up express, jacob rees—mogg sane, stand up to the eu bullies. he thinks they've got away with far too much and it is time theresa may spoke up for britain. and he would do a betterjob were he to be the prime minister, is the subtext. is it subtext? i don't think it is subtext. the problem you have is that the dup will not accept a deal that the dup will not accept a deal that separates northern island from the rest of the uk. most of the tory brexiteers will not accept the uk remaining a customs agreement. and the eu, at this point, will not
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accept northern ireland not being in some kind of customs agreement, to address the irish border issue. you cannot solve all three of those things. something has to give. which ta kes things. something has to give. which takes us nicely to the observer. leaked emails reveal dup chief ready for no deal brexit. this is arlene foster, of course, who is involved in this confidence and supply arrangements and the election. —— arrangements and the election. —— arrangement since the election. they are not just ready, arrangement since the election. they are notjust ready, they are expecting it, they think it is the most likely outcome. it is really interesting to think that election was called, which was all about ensuring they would have the numbers to get this eventual brexit deal through, led to the dup confidence and supply deal having to be done. and it is the dup which now appears to be ready to effectively pull that arrived from underneath the prime minister. —— pool that arrived from underneath the prime minister. —— poolthat rug. because they are so concerned about what this deal looks like for them, about
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theissue this deal looks like for them, about the issue of northern ireland and the issue of northern ireland and the irish border. it is really interesting how the border has now become the main brexit issue. there was a poll out last week showing that a majority of leave voters, including leave voters in northern ireland, would rather brexit happen the way they wanted to, rather than be concerned with the peace process in northern ireland. —— want it to. so brexit is a higher priority for leave voters than maintaining stability along that border. these two ideological issues, one of them brexit, and one in peace in ireland, really coming up against each other. let's go to the sunday times again. me too gagging ban. this is a suggestion that employers will not be able to buy victims‘ silence if they resolve an issue of sexual harassment. i found this piece really worrying, actually. the suggestion is that nondisclosure agreements, agreements that are signed by both parties, will be outlawed in cases where victims make
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complaints of sexual assaults which is ofa complaints of sexual assaults which is of a criminal nature. i cannot believe there are employers out there that would really want to do that. i mean, i presume you are talking about cases where they are quite senior figures in a company, where a company would therefore even try to put that in place, but the idea that you knew of something that was criminal and you would therefore wa nt was criminal and you would therefore want to silence somebody, i find it shocking. i am quite relieved that there is a suggestion about this, because i think it is terrible you would try to buy that silence. because i think it is terrible you would try to buy that silencem tells you what the victim‘s position must be, if they are so intimidated that having undergone an attack like that, they are prepared, or they feel, like they have no choice to signa feel, like they have no choice to sign a nondisclosure agreement. feel, like they have no choice to sign a nondisclosure agreementm also tells you a lot about the internal conflict resolution departments of these companies, if they say, well, come to us and we will look after you and deal with it internally, and you end up with situations where they are banning them from talking about potentially criminal issues. i think there is a
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certain amount of corporate responsibility here. if you are banning people from speaking about what is happening to them, you are preventing them from warning and protecting others who might be in a similar position. i agree completely. i don‘t understand how that has been allowed to go on for so that has been allowed to go on for so long, and why indeed companies felt they could justify that in the past. i wonder, if felt they could justify that in the past. iwonder, if this felt they could justify that in the past. i wonder, if this does not get through, whether something similar will be introduced, not fray criminal matter but for something like equal pay. it has been a controversial issue, this suggestion. i think the idea of gagging anybody, i know that there are reasons, when there is a suggestion of these compromise agreements and things, when people leave companies, and there are legal reasons for that, because it means that you settle about a particular complaint. i can see some of the rationale for that. at when you get into things that are actually breaking the law, when you are talking about criminal activities,
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it is shocking, but generally, the idea that in any workplace you are setting up systems that prevent people from speaking out, whether it is about equal pay or criminal matters or whether it is actually them not liking the practices of the business, and you are stopping that from happening, ithink business, and you are stopping that from happening, i think we should be worried. staying with the sunday times. i don‘t no how much this story bothers you. a clean pair of heels. this is seann walsh, the comedian, and his strictly come dancing partner cathy jones, comedian, and his strictly come dancing partner cathyjones, they went out for a drink and they kissed. the problem is that she is married and he has a girlfriend, or had a girlfriend, rebecca humphries, who wrote an open letter that she put on twitter. back in action tonight, they did what was described asa tonight, they did what was described as a chaste charleston. does it bother you? no, ithink it as a chaste charleston. does it bother you? no, i think it is good for ratings. not so good for rebecca, and not so good for katya jones' husband, but we certainly know more about these two then we would have done otherwise and probably had more people tuning in to watch. ultimately, this is one of
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those things, the strictly curse, it is called, you idea that people get close because they are dancing, with these intimate moves. maybe it is like that scene out of dirty dancing, patrick swayze and jennifer grey, the beginning of their romance. ijust think this has been good for ratings, on a show that has probably started to see the numbers starting to decrease because it has been on for such a long time. it gives it a reinvigoration. speaking of reinvigoration, how long do you think the great british bake—0ff has to keep going before we get people kissing backstage over a pavlova? how many more years before that happens? i couldn't possibly answer that. revealed, britain‘s worst female snorers. who are they? a p pa re ntly female snorers. who are they? apparently it is me. i know! women in the 25— 3a age group are the worst snorers. i‘ve heard this story so worst snorers. i‘ve heard this story so many times, it doesn‘t say how they came up with this. it says a
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survey, they came up with this. it says a survey, were they came up with this. it says a survey, were they polling the people on their own? were they using technology to see if they sought? 0r we re technology to see if they sought? 0r were they polling the partners? i wonder if maybe it is that men complain more about women snoring than the other way around. complain more about women snoring than the other way aroundm complain more about women snoring than the other way around. if you ask somebody is based nor, most evil will say no, because most people don't know. —— if they snore. i went on holiday, my friend kelly, she handed me a set of earplugs as we we re handed me a set of earplugs as we were sharing a room and i said, what are these for? she said, apparently i snore quite a lot. charb was shocked by. and i did decide to use them, sorry. it has always been, traditionally, it has been thought that men snore more. my husband gets the odd dig in the ribs in the middle of the night. the odd dig in the ribs in the middle of the nightlj the odd dig in the ribs in the middle of the night. i find that works. never the has ever told me that i have but they could have been scared to tell me. ash back nobody has ever. and apparently everybody snores less after the age of 75 stop how do we know this? i want to know the science behind this. that is
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something to look forward to. something that improves with age. that‘s it for the papers tonight. 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 bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. a big thank you to my guests this evening, rachel cunliffe and jo tanner, and from all us. coming up next is the film review. it hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week‘s releases is mark kermode. good to see you again. what have you been watching? we have first man, a film about the moon landing. mandy, a hallucinogenic horror
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thriller, with nick cage, which i‘m not going to get you to try and watch that. wow. and bad times at the el royale, a kind of mystery retro thriller. first man, one of the big films of the week. i really liked it. it‘s the la la land director and his leading man ryan gosling, telling the story of neil armstrong‘s moon landing. it is a picture of space exploration and it‘s not the kind of elegant dance of the stanley kubrick 2001. this is a nuts and bolts and rivots affair in which we are made very aware of the fact these are people trying to do things in flying tin cans, that danger and death lurks at every corner. here‘s a clip in which we see our hero attempting to try out a prototype lunar module. here we go.

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