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tv   The Papers  BBC News  January 9, 2019 10:45pm-11:00pm GMT

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the times describes her brexit strategy as "in tatters" as tory rebels join forces with labour over an alternative to her deal. and the metro leads with the chief executive of amazon's divorce from his wife, jeff bezos is separating from his spouse of 25 years. kate, brexit. that is where we start, and theresa may is losing control? there are some suggesting that she perhaps never had control of brexit, but clearly there is an attempt by parliament to rest the future direction of how we get out of the european union away from the government? indeed, one could argue that since the snap general election of 2017, it has been spiralling out of 2017, it has been spiralling out of their hands. but i will paris —— paraphrase eric is a list presley by saying it is all shook up —— elvis presley. you will be nice to see how
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to get back on track. i think the feelings of distrust are now at an all—time high, especially among the mps who feel as if the speaker has pushed through an amendment that was never supposed to see the light of day. but at the moment giving the agree —— amendment has gone through, what this realistically means is that if and possibly when the prime minister's withdrawal agreement fails next tuesday in the house of commons, she will have 21 days to go back and renegotiate with the eu, speak to mps and have more receptions. she will have three days. in addition to that, it means mps will have much more say and be able to amend what is in that plan b strategy. so this opens up all kinds of possibilities that the prime minister has been saying are off the table, like a second referendum or general election, it opens up a managed no deal, new deal, anything is possible. but that is not true for the eu, mps might start voting on things, but it does not mean that you will except that. jane, theresa
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may again reiterating today that if it is not her deal, it is no deal. she believes that is very much on the table, despite yesterday's though suggesting that has been receded a bit into the background. she is still sticking to her guns on this, even though the writing seems to be on the wall? she is, and the point of her strategy was possibly to say it is either my deal or no deal. that is how mps have responded to this, saying she will not run down the clock, but speed up this process, and that is the effect of the amendment today, it will be three days. we only have 40 sitting days of the house of commons to sort this out. there is not enough time to have a 21 day period, so whilst i think burke out straightaway beyond his brief today, it was the right thing to do. mps, it made sense for them to say we have to speed up the process, we been doing this for long enough, this is the future of the country, not a ruse to second—guess what the pm will do. this is the
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future of the country at stake. the telegraph, let's look at what speakerjohn bercow did. the telegraph says mr speaker takes control, it and other damaging for theresa may as he hands over power to the product ——... someone argue that's what the whole process is supposed to be about? of the british parliament being sovereign and taking control, that is what brexit was about. but we get the criticism of the speaker that he acted out, he was out of order? a lot of people bring —— believe in bringing sovereignty back to the uk parliament, but opposed to lawlessness. and if you watch that debate today and the point of order, it felt extremely out of control and is the telegraph says here, the speaker ignored the legal advice he was given an parliamentary president, that word is key. if the speaker can pick and choose whatever he will bring in and ignore all the history behind the way that these things operate, all bets are off,
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not just around brexit things operate, all bets are off, notjust around brexit but things operate, all bets are off, not just around brexit but any amendment or motion or piece of legislation in the future. the speaker actually admitted today straight up that he had considered what the president would be in making this variable decision about the greed amendment. so it is really short—term political gain. ithink possibly at the expense of a process thatis possibly at the expense of a process that is respected and envied around the world, which is the uk parliament and its sovereignty and the way it acts. budging, the that you suggested is that the belief is that the government was sending this down the track to the very last minute so that mps, there has to be tied in that vote to try and avoid a no deal, and the speaker, seeing what was going on or what he believed was going on, decided to intervene decisively, despite the fa ct intervene decisively, despite the fact he was going against president? i think it is possible to separate the two. if mps were right to demand to speed up the process, which i believe they were, did john bercow stray beyond what he should be doing
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and ride over precedent? probably not. purportedly he went against the advice of the senior clerk, which is advice of the senior clerk, which is a bad idea, and i think none of the actors of this have common cold, they'll have history. there is a huge tension there, so today there was a lot of settling of scores. it was a lot of settling of scores. it was not his point of order, but points gory of order. it was bad blood, everybody is, to use a cliche, she is in her last few months, and so isjohn bercow, likely to stand on the summer. so they are getting at what they want to do now because this is kind of their last chance. getting onto the daily mail, as you say, the conservatives have their problems with speaker perko for quite sometime now, and i expect extension that shows the daily mail has problems with him. this is the front page, out of order. at the top of
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that, "this egotistical preening p°ppin9 that, "this egotistical preening p°ppingj that, "this egotistical preening poppingj has showed his anti—brexit bias before the national interest and isa bias before the national interest and is a national disgrace to his office". was there a problem for the very beginning that we all know how this man voted in the referendum?“ definitely not helpful, although i do believe that a person who is good at thejob do believe that a person who is good at the job can separate their personal views from their day—to—day task. of the problem is that the speaker did not play politics today, his other views are obviously going to trickle into that and it will be ha rd to to trickle into that and it will be hard to separate those issues. and i think it is easy and quite right to point fingers at the speaker today, i think the daily mail putting the big language there, it is kind of spot on. we cannot ignore the other players in this. theresa may had the opportunity to have that meeting before christmas —— meaningful vote. the amendment might not have come into play then, she could be
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renegotiating and have gotten her deal through, very unlikely but who knows what could've happened? kicking the can down the road has been the attitude of this government for every one, brexit. one of her issues of the comeback an issue democrat a new planet three days, how are they going to get one back in three days? that is beyond me. there are many fingers a point here, but pointing it at the speaker in the papers tomorrow is the right would be pointing at. but overall, many factors have come in to the fa ct many factors have come in to the fact that this is the last chance. let's go to the financial times, christmas sales hit decade low.“ terrible news, we had the slightly before christmas there were sluggish and bad weather, people were not going out and shop and more online than ever before. i remember going christmas shopping on oxford street in mid—decemberand christmas shopping on oxford street in mid—december and it was almost empty. the ft is reporting that
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whilst the discounts have done amazingly well, it is firms like sainsbury's are down, there's a lot of uncertainty about the year ahead. people don't want to start fleshing out on huge christmas present because of what might happen with brexit, are we going to get a new deal? you don't want to spend too much money they're. notjust businesses that don't like uncertainty. hands up anyone who wishes they were divorcing jeff pays us “— wishes they were divorcing jeff pays us —— basis? let's put it this way, i would think very few people wish for divorce —— bezos. i would think very few people wish for divorce -- bezos. but the wealthiest woman on the planet, that is not the worst—case scenario. as it happens, jeff and his wife announced today through his twitter account they are getting divorced, it is actually a very nice announcement. they respect each other and tend to ruminate —— in a way. it seems very simple, but
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people are now asking, what kind of pay—out will she get? people are now asking, what kind of pay-out will she get? is the richest man of the world. and she him before he was the richest, he was poor. amazon is booming, it has made them very rich. by california law, the spouse has to get half of it.|j don't know that, that is very possible. minimum half. especially because they have four kids and she married him long before he had the money. i quickly looked up the forbes rich list to see who the wealthiest woman in the world now is, andi wealthiest woman in the world now is, and i believe... at the moment it is christy walton, who is worth 36- $37 billion. if she it is christy walton, who is worth 36— $37 billion. if she gets half, she will nearly double what it means to be the wealth is one of the world. the telegraph. the national theatre. stumbled their lines, is that the way to suggested? yes, i feel very sorry for whoever did
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this, but it has been a huge closely guarded secret from kensington palace, the first patronage of the duchess of sausage was about to be announced later this week. it is of the national theatre. the it team uploaded the picture, proud to announce our patron, which used to be the queen, which is a nice twist on this, she has passed this on to her granddaughter in law. it is embarrassing for them, but also a nice thing to announce, it is good to celebrate. she has a background in acting so it will be good for her. any heads you'd like to roll over this? let's hope not. it's that awkward moment where you schedule something 24 hours too soon, but in this case, it's kind of a big deal. been there, done that on many occasion. you'll be back in 45 minutes. that's it for the papers for this hour. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online
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on the bbc news website. it's all there for you, seven days a week at bbc. co. ukforward/papers, and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you to my guests, kate andrews and jane merrick. we'll all be back for a slightly longer look at the papers at 11:30pm. but for the moment, goodbye. hello there. after a chilly couple of days, something a little milder as we move towards the weekend. air from the north, how does that work? at the northerly airstream usually means a cold arctic blast for us. it is all to do with the area of high pressure in the fact we are on the eastern flank of it, and the air that will eventually topple him for us will come in from the north or northwest, but it has been across the atlantic so it has been modified. even as it arrives on thursday, it means a milder story
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across scotland and northern ireland, click a cloudy one. they will be a chilly start across much of england and wales, with the cloud and warm weather front in association with it and the milder airwill association with it and the milder air will slowly sink their way south on thursday. it will struggle at 6-7d on thursday. it will struggle at 6—7d in london and cardiff, back to double digits for cardiff. thursday night into friday, it is light, but we've switched into the model s milder air. it will be a marine map first thing in the morning, which will be frost free. first things first, temperatures down to the single digits and lower into fewer rural spots, but generally a mild story for friday. quite a cloudy picture, brightness quite limited, perhaps sheltered eastern spots are seeing the best of the sunshine. temperatures started to push back of individual —— double figures quite widely. come the weekend as we start to pick up and northwesterly or
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westerly breeze, we get a proper atla ntic westerly breeze, we get a proper atlantic feed to our weather. definitely a milder picture, quite a winter dish with the picture at times, those isobars coming and closely together, but the highest us also that will take out most of the rain that england and wales, it could be quite a bit of clout out there. scotland and northern ireland will get the weather spells on saturday. hopefully there will be some brightness to be found across eastern areas. has front sunday, eight similar picture, area of high pressure stays to the southwest of us. another front trying to topple him from the west. still it would be story, ran from the north and east. some areas mainly dry, seeing some clout, but hopefully perhaps a little bit more in the way of sunshine across the uk as the hole on sunday, certainly milder temperatures of 11—12d. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11: mps have inflicted another defeat on the government — at a decisive moment in the brexit process. ba sybarite, 308, the nose to be
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left 297. -- be ayes. mps voted to give theresa mayjust three days to come up with a new brexit plan — if her current one is defeated next week. the only way to avoid no deal is to vote for the deal. is an the prime minister bringing back exactly the same deal she admitted would be defeated four weeks ago? —— isn't. the house of commons has now embarked on five days of debate, leading to the main vote on the prime minister's brexit
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