describing the move as ‘playing for time'. the mailfront pages also leads with the story, bemoaning ‘another year in brexit limbo'. the metro reports that french president macron is threatening to declare all brits living in the country illegal immigrants in the event of a no—deal brexit. the times has a special investigation claiming that an autistic women with a history of exploitation was the subject of a court order which allowed her to be exposed to high levels of risk. the express says esther rantzen thinks scrapping free tv licences for the over 75s would be an act of cruelty. the mirror has an interview with poisoned spy sergi skripal‘s mother. and the guardian has a picture of eastenders actor danny dyer dressed as an elizabethan nobelman, to promote a new popular history tv series. so, a vaired set of front pages — let's take a look at some of those stories in more detail. the telegraph, theresa may offers to extend transition by a year.

the telegraph, theresa may offers to extend transition by a yeahm seems the prime minister has said in her roughly 20 minutes of the remarks to the other eu 27 that she would be prepared to extend the brexit transition period to roughly about another year, just under. that hopefully this would help to ove i’co m e hopefully this would help to overcome the deadlock, the deadlock being having multiple aspects and the irish backstop is the major one but their prime minister still committed to her chequers proposal but the eu have more or less at that won't work for us. there is a lot to stop get over the line. from my perspective, over two years since the vote, we are still in a place where there is clearly no deal. they have not come to the arrangement they need to come to. i'm not against a transition period in principle or even against extending it on principle. short—term loss for long—term gain, but what makes us think that extra year will help them get it over the line? the tactic seems to be to push this back, to

avoid and deflect, why give them that extra year? george question marks it's the only option available to theresa may in the circumstances. play for time and hope something turns up. it will further alienate the eurosceptic wing of her party who say we will be leaving perilously close to the next general election, 2022. originally some people said there would be no transition at all, then it was two years are now three years. this will increase the fear of some that britain could end up in a permanent transition. often i am reminded of the introduction of income taxes a temporary measure to fund the cost of the napoleonic wars. three centuries later, it is still here. there always been some who say we have left the eu in name but we are essentially still part of most of the key institutions and it would be a slightly odd compromise, which would end up annoying everyone for different reasons. it plays into the

argument, if you extend something for a year, what would you do in that year? what will enable you to do that you can't do in the current time limit? you are clearly doubtful if there will be anything new. over the summer we saw mps saying we need oui’ the summer we saw mps saying we need our expenses budget to increase because brexit is so difficult. there is complaining from this wing and that wing. most voters just want to know what the deal is going to be. business certainly will need to know what it will be because they are worried about that in security. it has not been laid out at all what the extra year would do. george, if there is frustration about this, the daily mailfront page there is frustration about this, the daily mail front page captures it. i sense from the headline it is not best pleased with this prospect. sense from the headline it is not best pleased with this prospectm has alighted on the fact this would mean paying roughly an extra £10 billion a year to the eu, because although you will be outside of the political structures, you will have to follow the rules, pay budget contusions and there is a big row

over universal credit at the moment. theresa may made a big promise, the end of austerities,, something david cameron never said. it is one thing to say and another to deliver it. universal credit is currently hmmfi universal credit is currently forecast to cost some families thousands of pounds. there's a lot of pressure from tory mps at the moment to provide greater support and relief for them, to reduce the level of cuts. if we are looking at another 10 billion to the eu, that will be a financial headache for the government, among other things. philip hammond was quoted on the front page yesterday saying how much that divorce bill would be whatever happens. yes. there are different calculations on this. philip hammond really wanting to stay to the eu that mothers, saying we have to pay that mothers, saying we have to pay that bill regardless. i think others might disagree. i think george made an important point, when it comes to domestic policy, and as we edge a bit closer to a general election, a lot of voters are already tired of

brexit. they will be very tired of it into life in three years' time. if issues like housing and welfare, if we haven't seen any progress in the health service also, i don't think you will get by even if you have the brexit deal at that time to say you have done very much. george, the front of the metro, still with brexit but specifically with emmanuel macron‘s role in all of this. out of all the eu leaders, he has been taking the toughest line. he sees himself as the guardian of core eu values and liberal values against what he would see as the populist tide, brexit, trump and so on. here he is threatening if britain does leave with no deal, it will be much harder for brits to get into france, and they will have to, they would need a visa simply to visit for a summer holiday. anyone wanting to stay longer than three months would have to apply for extended permission, quite a tough

line on immigration. part of me wonders if this is a pitch to the national minded french, because a manual macron's approval ratings are at record manual macron's approval ratings are at re cord lows manual macron's approval ratings are at record lows for a french president at this stage. marine le pen's far right national rally gaining support. maybe there is something with this populist line of punishing the brits if they walk out with no deal. i think the wording here is remarkable. obviously, the rights of eu and uk nationals is of one of the first things to be discussed and got over the line in brexit talks. here emanuel macron says they will be illegal immigrants. he sees the benefits of a no—deal brexit. he sees france as being the go to place, especially for business and financial services, if that were to happen. i think it's a little too much to say he is actively pushing for it but you will see the benefits of that. i'm surprised by this language. for someone surprised by this language. for someone who surprised by this language. for

someone who sees surprised by this language. for someone who sees the benefits of immigration on free movement, this is purely political and i think a bit nasty. his government is proposing it, it says. not over the line yet. staying with emmanuel macron. as you are here george, the new statesman tomorrow, i think we can show it as we talk. you are looking at, as we see, europe's's civil war, in which you would argue he features quite prominently. he does. on one side you have macron and france, centrist liberal line, and france, centrist liberal line, and the other side, the leader of hungary, facing disciplinary action currently for breaching freedom of the press, cracking down on the independence of the judiciary. poland as well. and the point we are making is everyone is fixated on brexit but for the eu, in some ways the bigger headache is poland, hungary and italy. italy one of the original eu member states, now the first major eu country with a

populist government in place, threatening to disregard eu budget rules. brexit for the eu is seen as containable. they believe they are disappointed britain is leaving but it doesn't challenge the fundamentals of the eu. but when you have a memberlike fundamentals of the eu. but when you have a member like italy, that it's not something so easy to manage. interesting to throw forward. britain isn't looking at what will happen to the eu in the future after it is no longer a member but there are some interesting dilemmas for that organisation. yes, and that forward thinking is so important, because this is the fight europe will have on its hands. to a lesser extent, north america as well. donald trump in the oval office right now, which brings us page of the financial times. the us is pushing back on the eu when it comes to certain types of financial regulations. there is a tension and all of it will impact trade and free movement of goods, services and people, definitely within the eu as

populist tendencies rise but also globally. when you have the us threatening to crack down on market access if the eu pushes forward with certain kinds of financial regulations, that could lead to global disaster. they are starting to dig their heels in. is hard to read the us's approach to this at the moment. 0n the one hand, it is america first but on the other hand they are looking at the uk and thinking, there is a trade deal to be done and it is hard to read that at the moment. yes, i think what frustrates the us to an extent is this confusion of the uk's position. in some senses, it's the same problems the eu have. it is very clear from the trump administration that if there was a trade deal with the uk, it would be on the us's terms. which of those negotiation partners has a bigger bargaining power in that situation is, that is a risk to the uk. we will have a bit ofa a risk to the uk. we will have a bit of a begging bowl going around the world. in terms of measuring one

against the other, it is obvious which one is bigger. we only have a few minutes left which means we're going to whisked back to the telegraph to discuss kleenex tissues. oh, boy! kleenex forced to rebrand its man sized tissues after receiving complaints that the brand was sexist. instead of being called man—size they will be called extra large. i have a bit of sympathy for these arguments around gender products, putting girls in pink and boysin products, putting girls in pink and boys in blue. you have to be the stewardess, you a re boys in blue. you have to be the stewardess, you are the pilot. i have some sympathy for that but no one is offended by man—size, that term. i think the world is starting to turn a bit upside down. this is not a gender tissue, it's a phrase thatis not a gender tissue, it's a phrase that is universally accepted and i found i had to believe that people walked away crying when they were picking up their kleenex. are you the person offended ? picking up their kleenex. are you the person offended? i'm comfortable enoughin the person offended? i'm comfortable enough in my masculinity to buy extra large tissues rather than

man—size. extra large tissues rather than man-size. would you have been offended if you had seen in a shop? don't you think we're going a step too far, saying this is sexist? think we are demeaning that word so much when we say brand cliches like this are fundamentally sexist. no? anyone? that his time but we can go back there again in 45 minutes' time. thank you both. that is it for the papers this hour. 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. thank you kate and george. goodbye. hello. this quiet autumn weather looks like continuing into the

weekend. we did have some thicker cloud and a bit of rain and drizzle and that weather front across south—eastern areas. another one is coming in from the atlantic, to arrive on friday. in between this high pressure is building up from the south—west. a lot of the cloud is melting away. we have a beautiful picture here from newcastle. mind you, it is turning pretty chilly already. still some cloud on the week weather front across southern england and east anglia and rain and drizzle will fade away. a bit of cloud coming in on the breeze into the north west of scotland. the rest of scotland, northern ireland, northern england will see temperatures at least in rural areas close to freezing. milder where we have the cloud across southern counties of england. the cloud will come and go throughout the day on thursday. it should be a brighter day, some sunshine at times. more cloud coming into the north west of scotla nd cloud coming into the north west of scotland on the south—westerly breeze, in between very little

cloud, mostly sunny and dry as well. temperatures just a shade lower than today but with the light winds and the sunshine, it should feel quite pleasant. i pressure building in and that will shape our weather over the next few days. coming on to be high pressure by the end of the week, another weather front. this weakens as abundant high pressure and slows down as well. most of the rain and that will be across the north and west of scotland on friday morning. very little for northern ireland. as the band of cloud moves southwards, the band of cloud moves southwards, the rain dies out and we get some sunshine following in scotland. away from northern england, good sunny spells, early mist and fog patches, temperatures 13—17, slightly above average for this time of year. the weather front not producing any rain by the afternoon and is out of the way, high pressure remains the one co nsta nt. way, high pressure remains the one constant. another weather system comes in, a warm front, bringing some low cloud and some outbreaks of rain to the north and west of scotla nd rain to the north and west of scotland primarily. some strong winds as well. not much rainfall eastern scotland, some sunshine here. drier and brighter for northern ireland, sunshine for england and wales but mist and fog

in the morning. temperatures 15—17, warmer than it has been recently and eastern scotland. stays pretty mild right away through the weekend. most places will still be dry. there will be some sunshine, the morning morning mist and fog. this is bbc news. i'm julian worricker. the headlines at 11pm: theresa may addresses eu leaders in brussels, urging them to show courage, trust and leadership to reach a brexit deal. by working intensively over the next days and weeks, i believe we can achieve a deal — a deal that i believe everybody wants and a deal that is in the interests notjust of the uk, but also of the european union. ina in a blow to the prime minister, eu leaders abandon the idea of calling a special summit on brexit next month due to a lack of progress on the talks. severe disruption to railjourneys to and from paddington today and warnings there will be more in the morning after damage to overhead power lines. turkish investigators enter the residence of the saudi consul

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