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hello, this is bbc news, with me, clive myrie. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines: a schoolgirl from london, who travelled to syria to join the islamic state group, says she now wants to return to the uk because she's pregnant. a suspect‘s arrested on suspicion of murder after the deaths of three men in their 80s in exeter. two of the victims are thought to be twins. inflation has fallen to 1.8%, its lowest level for two years. the 100—year—old survivor of a nazi war camp who died days after a drug addict tried to steal her handbag. today her attacker was convicted of manslaughter. and the prime ministerfaces the threat of another defeat in parliament over her brexit deal tomorrow, as some tory mps threaten to rebel. but she insists she will deliver brexit by the end of march. hello and welcome to our look ahead
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to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are political editor of the daily mirror, pippa crerar, and political correspondent at the times, henry zeffman. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the metro leads with the news today from exeter that police have linked the deaths of three men in their 805, and arrested a man on suspicion of murder. the times headline is "bring me home", and an exclusive report, the paper found a schoolgirl who ran away from london four years ago to join the islamic state group in syria. she's now in a refugee camp. shamima begum, who's i9 and pregnant, says she would do anything to return to britain to live quietly with her child. on the front page of the ft, the netherlands has already swept up british business, according to the dutch prime minister mark rutte. he tells the paper his country has
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seen only gains so far from brexit. meanwhile the guardian has this, "labour mps warn corbyn: back a second referendum or we quit", saying he faces up to ten resignations from his frontbench if he doesn't back another brexit vote. the daily mirror claims the former england goalkeep gordon banks, who died yesterday, missed out on a knighthood because officials lost his nomination papers. "new statins regime for over—40s", writes the i. the paper says there'll be a huge increase in the number of adults prescribed cholesterol—lowering drug in order to save lives. and as horse racing resumes, the daily telegraph has a photograph ofjockeys taking part in a space hopper race, under the title, "jockeys get back to horsing around". maybe we will leave those headlines from the sun. in fact we are going to talk about the sun, page two,
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valentines day massacre, brexiteers will leave her, theresa may, they reckon she is backsliding, they think that negotiations going forward without the suggestion that no deal is on the table, they don't like that. it feels like we have a crunch vote pretty much every week in westminster right now and actually this one, though previously some people thought it was going to bea some people thought it was going to be a big vote, for the last few days eve ryo ne be a big vote, for the last few days everyone thought it would be a damp squid and we could go and enjoy valentine's day in peace, now it seems that is not the case. conservative brexiteers who think that under a slightly arcane parliamentary procedure theresa may has snuck through an acknowledgement, they fear an endorsement of what the house of commons did two weeks ago where they said we really don't want a no—deal
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brexit. why does this matter? it matters because the whole basis of theresa may's negotiating strategy with brussels over the last few weeks has been to say if you give me a major concession on the controversial irish backstop i have a majority of the house of commons ready to back it in and you get a significant vote amongst the hard eurosceptics on the right of her party, then that fatally damages that argument for brussels because they will say we have been engaging with you in discussions about the backstop and they have peeled away a nyway backstop and they have peeled away anyway so why should we bother giving concessions? sure, but, pippa, is there a realisation on the pa rt pippa, is there a realisation on the part of theresa may that strong—arming the eu with the threat ofa no strong—arming the eu with the threat of a no deal isn't going to work. strong—arming the eu with the threat of a no deal isn't going to worklj don't think it comes down to anything as distinct as having a very firm strategy in this to be completely honest. i think we have got to the point now where people i
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speak to at westminster, cabinet ministers or numberten, speak to at westminster, cabinet ministers or number ten, are convinced privately that no deal won't happen, that the prime minister recognises how damaging it would be for the country and the conservative party, and ultimately when it comes to it she would do anything to avoid it. we know that she can't say that publicly because she can't say that publicly because she wants to be able to keep the erg, the tory hardliners on board, the conservative party for now, and she wants to be able to strengthen her negotiating arm with brussels, but let's face it, brussels also speaks, as though it is one person, people in brussels speak with people in the different political parties, read the newspapers, watch bbc news. they are not fools, they know what's going on here. there is this whole surface, what you can say publicly and what is acceptable, this negotiating strategy which isn't really strategy, it is treading water until we get to the proper
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crunch point further down the line. it is brinkmanship, it is what these deals are always about with the eu. they know that, we know that. they will run down the clock as far as they can and at the last possible minute, with the tory party and brussels in london it is about who moves first. 0k, well, let's go to the guardian, labourmps moves first. 0k, well, let's go to the guardian, labour mps warned jeremy corbyn to back a second referendum or we quit. so potentially his own valentine's day massacre possibly. as we have known for two and a half years it is not just the conservative party being divided over how to approach brexit, the guardian reports up to ten members ofjeremy corbyn‘s frontbench will quit if he doesn't put his weight behind another referendum. it is we won't put his weight behind another referendum and i don't think it is a matter of another few weeks whether that does happen or doesn't. the one note of caution to sound withjeremy corbyn is almost the entirety of his front
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bench which after the eu referendum in 2016 calling for a change in leader and he was opposed to it. i should think he wouldn't be massively worried about ten or so. he is very serene about the way in which he is pursuing his brexit policy. and i kind of imagine that if these mps quit, he will say thank you for your service and i will carry on doing what i am doing. might keir starmer quit? carry on doing what i am doing. might keir starmer quinm carry on doing what i am doing. might keir starmer quit? it is unlikely. that would be a big blow, wouldn't it? it would. it is not... unlikely. there are perhaps 80 something, more than 100 labour mps evenif something, more than 100 labour mps even if the party line became in favour of another referendum, would be so anxious about it maybe because their constituents are anxious about it but because some of them don't think that there should be another referendum. meanwhile there are about four tory mps, maybe more, in
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favour of another referendum. very few on the front bench are hoping for another referendum. i don't think that is the case at all. so perhaps keir starmer might quit, it would be a big moment, but would it have an effect on the referendum? i am yet to be convinced. what about the younger members of the party that have swelled its coffers, swelled its membership, frankly, over the last three or four years, i mean, they seem to be very much in the let's have another referendum can and jeremy corbyn can't ignore them. no, well, he was elected as them. no, well, he was elected as the members' leader and made a big thing about party democracy throughout his leadership. so clearly he has had to listen to them. if you look at the confidence motion thrashed out over many hours meeting, the labour party conference in autumn, they reached this very delicate compromise, which was basically adopted unanimously, which was a series of hurdles to get through. so at the first instance it
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was a general election, if that was a table bay would look at other options including free negotiating the deal, getting their deal through, which they are currently doing and ultimately a people's vote would be on the table. now the fact that a people's vote, second referendum, was included in that motion at all was down to the strength of the members and of course the momentum as well, and i think what's interesting was jeremy corbyn is not now in a position where he is in any danger from his parliamentary labour party. well, from his party i should say. and he has been on a couple of quite profound occasions up to this point. but now, because he is not really at risk, momentum and the membership feel emboldened, they feel that they have managed to push him towards the labour leadership towards keeping a second referendum on the table as an option and we will see from momentum pushing him on other areas. there is a big meeting this week about climate change targets for example. we will see it in other areas like
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immigration. they don't think they are being disloyal by pushing him on policy because they can see that he is secure. it is quite an interesting shift which will inevitably also be a key factor when it comes to brexit and how it ends up it comes to brexit and how it ends up progressing from the labour party perspective. sure, briefly, henry, before we go onto something else, is it curious that you have two leaders in may and mr corbyn at a time when there are has been a crisis in leadership when dealing with the brexit conundrum and yet they are as safe as houses in their positions, respective positions? it is curious and it is even more curious because the only reason theresa may is safe as houses is because so many other mps dislike which sounds weird but it is because under the mechanism for getting rid of the tory leader, which some tory mps tried towards the end of last year, if you win the
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confidence vote, which she did, then you can't be challenged again for a year, so theresa may as you set correctly can't be challenged as tory leader. she can only decide to quit, that is the only way she can be tory leader before december 2019. jeremy corbyn at least has a mandate from the labour party membership, conservative members haven't voted since david cameron in 2005. yes, it is. it is notjust about leaders. there is a much more profound wide—ranging frustration in the country that where both political, major political parties are and the extent to which they represent the sort of diversity of opinion and the frustration as you say with the brexit process from leavers and remainers. absolutely, 0k. on to brexit process from leavers and remainers. absolutely, ok. on to the financial times, pippa, dutch remainers. absolutely, ok. on to the financialtimes, pippa, dutch sweep of uk business, continuing the brexit theme. the dutch are saying, look, come here, british business. we love you. and apparently they are doing that, even though there is a
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no deal that is not inevitable. yes and of course i know deal would be very damaging for the dutch economy, being so close to the uk, and i think it's clear that businesses which have started to move over to the netherlands, they clearly... the 42 companies have relocated in the la st 42 companies have relocated in the last year, they are doing so without any firm knowledge, none of us have, as to how it is all going to pan out and that is the big problem for companies trying to establish what they are going to do. rt, who was a close ally of theresa may, the first european leader she would speak to —— rutte. he supported her in some of her more tricky conflicts with the other eu leaders, he is now basically rolling out the red carpet to british businesses and saying that 250 more are close to taking the decision to move there. clearly that would be bad news for the british economy though i don't know
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what size the businesses are. and the very uncertainty many big businesses have cited as being a problem now and there are various examples of brexit preparations for companies ranging from barclays to citigroup and bank of america who have been able to make contingency arrangements for what happens. ba rclays arrangements for what happens. barclays spent arrangements for what happens. ba rclays spent £200 arrangements for what happens. barclays spent £200 million, allocated £200 million in spending oi'i allocated £200 million in spending on the post brexit bill. they can sustain that. they have the capacity to sustain that. big multinational organisations, they have the staff and the money. the problem is the small and medium—sized businesses who are not as prepared and who don't know how to deal with the uncertainty in the same way. all right, let's move on to the times, henry, and an excellent scoop from anthony loyd in northern syria, one of the three schoolgirls, i think many remember those sort of cctv
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images of them i think it was arriving at some kind of bus depot with turkey, the three of them together, one of them we understand has died and the other one, one of the other ones is still alive, but this girl has now been speaking from the it isa it is a really extraordinarily detailed interview from anthony loyd. lots of people will remember, it was quite a totemic moment in the rise of isis, these three british schoolgirls from bethnal green in east london flying out to join isis. she says she wants to come back to the uk, basically because she is nine months pregnant, it is her third child, her previous two had, in fact, died. third child, her previous two had, infact, died. but third child, her previous two had, in fact, died. but she is quite openly and in quite clear language unrepentant about her decision to go over there in the first place. she says "i don't regret coming it". she said her life in rat —— —— alive
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have been quite normal. and she said it had not faced hurdle. it will be a fascinating talking point whether she comes back, are the government behaves towards, the authorities behaved towards if and when she does come back. i think it is the most amazing interview, getting under the skin of somebody the vast majority of this country will find it difficult to understand the motivations of. people might have difficulties understanding the motivation of this comment from the shadow chancellor of the exchequer on the front of the daily mail. outrageous mcdonald bra ntz on the front of the daily mail. outrageous mcdonald brantz churchill a villain. this was in a queue and i ——o a villain. this was in a queue and i -- q and a. he was asked churchill a hero ora -- q and a. he was asked churchill a hero or a villain and he responded villain. he referenced the welsh
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mining village that when sir winston was home secretary 19 10 cents troops in to quell riots and shoot at people. there are many people on the left, particularly in wales, have inherited that resentment and hatred of churchill as a result of that. churchill was a great war hero in the second world war and he helped to defeat the nazis with allied support, it wasn'tjust britain, but he is, looking back with the benefit of history, a very divisive character. there are individual issues like gallipoli. he was clearly on today's turns a bigot and a racist. and he had some rather outdated views about colonialism. —— terms. for many people he is a mixed bag. if don mcgahn had not been so impulsive and said what he thought immediately and reflected a bit, while there was plenty that is wrong with winston churchill and this time, perhaps with the passage of
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time, perhaps with the passage of time we would have judged him bitterly —— john mcdonnell. many people, particularly traditional labour voters he is held up as a hero. henry, part ofjohn mcdonnell‘s appeal and jeremy corbyn as well is that they tend to speak their mind a lot of the time, they not seen as merely mou politicians who say one thing to one constituency and another to another constituency, although some may to labour's view of brexit and suggest thatis labour's view of brexit and suggest that is part of the whole facade. but speaking plainly is something that appeals to a loss of his supporters and, particularly folks in momentum, they might find this interesting. absolutely. straight talking on his politics was the phrase. i think many labour voters and members in particular will find is appealing, notjust becausejohn mcdonnell was being honest about how he feels, but because they agree with how he feels. that is an interesting point. it speaks very precisely to one of the splits
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within the labour coalition, the coalition of labour voters, rather than the labour members, a lost of labour members, particularly in traditional labour seats, perhaps sees that were traditionally working—class, had one particular industry that employed lots of people in that area, that town. —— lot. they will see winston churchill isa lot. they will see winston churchill is a british icon. they might acknowledge the issues that we just spoken about, but they will avril see him as a hero, perhaps the greatest british hero. a loss of labour voters will think otherwise. it is rare to find an issue that so precisely addresses that split. it was the 2017 general election, it was the 2017 general election, it was those kinds of patriotic labour voters that theresa may was trying to peel away from the labor party. the lesson of that is that they might have felt a bit comfortable and unsure aboutjeremy corbyn in downing street and john mcdonnell in
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11 downing street, but they ultimately, where it matters, held firm and voted labour. and they probably will do again whenever the next election is. ok. the front page of the mirror. your paper, they are treating you well. yes. keeping me busy. on a scandal. england hero lost out. gordon banks who died yesterday. he was 81. missed out on a knighthood. one of our reviewers last night was asking why it he didn't have a knighthood. and they didn't have a knighthood. and they did not know the answer to it. nomination papers were sent in three years ago and then got lost somewhere in the whitehall system and the daily mirror has spoken to his former colleagues and friends who nominated him in the first place and they have revealed that there was a plan afoot for him to be granted a knighthood, but he lost out because of this whitehall blunder. what we have done is juxtaposed the great english hero,
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gordon banks, world—class footballer, with somebody slightly more controversial, sir philip green, who, of course, the prime minister was suggesting to date might end up having his knighthood stripped of him because of its ongoing row about nondisclosure agreements and previous to that the way he treated bhs pensioners —— today. it is a very topical issue, knighthoods in general. we put them both on the front page to contrast the different treatment of the two men. it is an interesting front page. the daily telegraph, mouldy jam. what is all this about? i don't mind scraping a bit of mould of the top of the game. there is nothing wrong with that stipulate theresa may told her cabinet that she agreed with that. she said she thinks there is nothing wrong with scraping away a bit of mould from the top of your jam. that is just frugal. people
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like to say in westminster when talking about brexit that one day there will be a chilcott stal enquiry as to how parliament handle brexit. i can just enquiry as to how parliament handle brexit. i canjust imagine the council of that enquiry holding up summer today's front pages —— chilcott style. march 29th, brexiteer, westminster was convulsed about whether you scrape of throwaway mouldy jam. maybe that sums the whole thing up. it has been good to have you looking at some of the stories. thank you for that. and q4 watching. —— and q4 watching. 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, political editor of the daily mirror, pippa crerar, and political correspondent at the times, henry zeffman. good evening. here's your latest sports news.
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tottenham produced a brilliant second—half display to dominate the bundesliga leaders borussia dortmund at wembley and take control of their champions league last 16 tie. son heung—min broke the deadlock two minutes after the break with a side—foot volley from jan vertonghen‘s cross. vertonghen who was really impressive slid in on serge aurier‘s delivery to double the lead seven minutes from time and three minutes later substitute fernando llorente headed in christian eriksen‘s corner — with spurs holding on for the clean sheet ahead of the second leg in three weeks' time in the night's other champions league tie, real madrid left it late to beat ajax 2—1 in amsterdam. after karim benzema put real ahead with a stunner, the dutch side had done well to level the game at 1—1, especially after having a goal ruled out by var. but the defending champions continued to press and marco asensio scored the winner in the 87th minute. liverpool managerjurgen klopp has been charged by the fa following comments he made in a post—match interview
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after the premier league game at west ham last week. klopp's been accused of questioning the integrity of the match referee or implying bias. that game finished 1—1 at the london stadium. world heavyweight boxing champion anthonyjoshua is set to fight in the us for the first time. it's been announced that he'll defend his wba, wbo and ibf titles against american jarrel miller on the first ofjune at new york's maddison square garden. joshua, who's still undefeated, last fought in september, when he beat russian alexander povetkin at wembley. it's not the fight many hoped to see, but with deontay wilder and tyson fury set for a rematch he was running out of options. the big baby miller has that come to new york, come here, i am a big fat quy: new york, come here, i am a big fat guy, i new york, come here, i am a big fat guy, i like eating cheeseburgers, i talk a of smack, we will have some fun and we will sell out madison square garden. it was an offer that
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joshua and eddie hearn couldn't refuse. some of the fans will be upset. that is the business. if you ask for too much money you missed the bus. it is that simple. west indies fast bowler shannon gabriel will miss four one day internationals against england following comments he made in the final test in st lucia. gabriel was charged by the icc for breaching their code of conduct. they didn't say if it was a homophobic slur, but based onjoe root‘s reaction — in which he said "don't use it as an insult, it's ok to be gay", the presumption is it was. racing resumed today following a six day suspension after the equine flu outbreak because of that, it was free entry at musslebrugh today — this was the first race of the day at plumpton. trainers and staff are having to follow strict criteria as the british horse racing authority look to limit its spread further. the aptly—named clearence won the opener at kempton park's meeting there's been a big shock at the welsh open snooker. masters championjudd trump has been knocked out by the world number 72 duane jones in their second round match in cardiff. trump has been the form player this season but struggled against his welsh opponent,
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losing the match by four frames to two. ronnie o'sullivan is through to the third round through. he was a four two winner against china's yuan sijun. o'sullivan made three breaks over 90 in the match. england have released joe cokanasinga and dan robson back to their premiership clubs to play this weekend. both are recovering from injury and have been given the chance to play in what is a rest weekend in the six nations. england head coach eddiejones has named a 25 man training squad that meets today for a three day camp ahead next saturday's match with wales. that is all the sport for now. hello there. it feels like spring has sprung. the highest temperature we had on wednesday was actually here in the mali —— moray firth, eight average of 40 degrees. at the next
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two days though savages could get even higher. —— 14 degrees. it is high because the air is coming from a long way south, all the way from the canaries. mild by day, but the potential for some chilly nights, especially when we have clear skies. we have those across a good part of england and wales. a touch of frost in places, particularly around the chilterns. multiple scotland and northern ireland, where there is more cloud around. —— much milder. we are looking at sunny skies. one 01’ we are looking at sunny skies. one or two mist and fog patches in southern england and into east wales. further north, the cloud is around, eating all the while. we should see some sudden coming through. a little bit hazy across northern parts of the uk. the more direct sunshine, the blue skies will be across england and wales. the temperatures 12—14, maybe 15 around the moray firth. the weather front kept at bay by the area of high pressure sitting to the south east of the uk, drawing up those out the
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south—westerly winds. a bit light through thursday and into friday. there will be a fair bit of sunshine around once again. mist and fog patches across england and wales. should not last too long. change coming into the far north—west, more cloud, a bit of rain and drizzle arriving in the north—west of scotland. still double figures. the temperatures could hit 16 degrees, it isa temperatures could hit 16 degrees, it is a north—east wales and north—eastern scotland. over the weekend, not a huge amount of change. still mild. it will still be dry for most places as well. more cloud around, probably, on saturday. particularly noticeable across more southern parts of england and wales. write a further north with some sunshine. most places will be dry. weather fronts on the scene but they are very weak. south south—westerly breezes. it is still mild. temperatures 12— 14 degrees. still got dry weather continuing across the eastern half of the uk on saturday. the high is getting pushed
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away further, allowing the weather front to push into the western side of the uk and bring some rain and drizzle. i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore, welcome to newsday. the headlines: police in the philippines arrest the head of a news website highly critical of president duterte for an alleged cyber offence dating back seven years. the fact that an arrest warrant has been issued, well, really interesting and i will follow. i am just shocked that the rule of law has been broken to the point that i can't see it. no regrets aboutjoining the islamic state group but hoping to return home. a london schoolgirl lifts the lid on her brutal life in syria. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme. a valentine's day plea from japan's same—sex community — 13 couples demand the government recognises their relationships
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