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celsius. lots of sunshine. but 19 celsius. lots of sunshine. but the nights will be quite cool. a touch of mist and fog. that is your latest weather. good night. hello, this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment, first, the headlines: the mueller report says there is no evidence of the trump campaign colluding with russia over the 2016 us election. this was an illegal take—down that failed. and hopefully somebody‘s going to be looking at the other side. so it's complete exoneration — no collusion, no obstruction. senior conservatives have been holding talks with theresa may at her chequers country retreat on how to deliver brexit as ministers touted as possible
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replacements defended her. a 54—year—old shop worker has been stabbed to death in north—west london following a robbery earlier this morning. police say the till was stolen from the newsagents in pinner. a cruise liner that ran into trouble off the coast of norway has reached port after hundreds of passengers were winched to safety. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are home affairs editor for the evening standard, martin bentham, and playwright and columnist for the new european newspaper, bonnie greer. we are matching! yes, matching hair,
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low maintenance! many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the times goes with our top story this evening, president trump's campaign did not conspire with russia during the 2016 election, according to a summary of robert mueller‘s report. the telegraph leads with borisjohnson, who's been writing in the peper. in it he says says theresa may must "channel the spirit of moses", abandon her deal and "come out of the eu now". the ft claims that theresa may fended off a challenge to her leadership this weekend but struggled to win over some of her most ardent conservative opponents. the sun has a full page splash on the pm and brexit in which it calls on theresa may to resign if she wants to deliver brexit. the guardian says it has evidence that more than a dozen conservative councillors who were suspended for posting islamophobic or racist
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content online have had their membership reinstated. the daily mail reports on new figures that reveal children as young as nine are being admitted to hospital with severe disorders caused by cannabis. finally the mirror leads with a story that benefit cuts are driving some mum's to baby banks that hand out free nappies those of the front pages, let's kick off straightaway with the times on this front—page editorial. they were supporters of theresa may, but what is the advice they are giving out now? they think she should go, because she is basically holding things up, as far as they are concerned. it sounds like they need her to go and bring in new people. i circled something here ijust noticed, where they blame her for
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triggering article 50 far too early, but of course she was pressured to do it by people in the er g. not only to do it but put it into statute, because they were afraid it wouldn't happen if it didn't happen $0011. wouldn't happen if it didn't happen soon. so suddenly this is herfault. i don't hold any grief for her at all but i think we should get some fa cts all but i think we should get some facts straight to. there are a lot of possibilities coming up this week that are being touted as possible routes for mrs may to get her deal through. votes, indicative votes, potions... martin, you have been looking at this, how binding are indicative votes because blue they are not binding. there will be a number of votes this week, parliament will be able to vote on what it thinks should be the options of the way forward. that could
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potentially be a referendum, and always style deal or a variant of that at least. there will be various votes by parliament potentially on wednesday as to the way that parliament thinks we should be going. what theresa may wants of course is for her deal to be passed by parliament despite the two catastrophic defeat she has had so far. and what she wants to happen is that the prospect of some of these votes, motions by parliament, and parliament essentially backing a much softer brexit or the possibility of a long delay or a second referendum, that it may never happen, that that scares people who have been not supporting her plan to think, well we must support that otherwise it will never happen. but the indicative votes themselves are not binding, so today the brexit secretary has been saying if you get toa secretary has been saying if you get to a situation where parliament is saying one thing, and the executive, as in the prime minister and the
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cabinet, has a different view as to what should happen, and the logic of that would be a general election. obviously we are not in entirely logical times when normal president would apply. that shows the level of, you know... only the government can of, you know... only the government ca n affect of, you know... only the government can affect treaty, so whatever the parliament does is a gesture at best. i think it is correct, if there is a deadlock, a stalemate between the government and the parliament, we have to refresh the parliament. talking about refreshing, let's turn to the daily express, not saying that the paper is refreshing, but as a refresh of the leadership. this is another big story that has developed today. it looks like the crew has slightly died down, but let's talk very quickly about possible leadership names. the paper is saying it is
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time for her to go, and if her deal is not being passed she should go, because it would put someone in place that the brexit supporters would want to be more robust. the daily express is saying, get behind the prime minister and sort out brexit. they look diametrically opposed. the express is saying don't try to replace her. david livingstone was being talked about today as an immediate stopgap. but he says he doesn't want it. so he says. and other people, michael gove... these people are being touted, or were being touted in particular, they have come out today saying they don't want it and now was not the right time to change leader, but there was this theory and suggestion that they might be an immediate plot to get rid of theresa
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may right here and now. that seems to have gone off the boil, so that she can get her deal, or a deal of some sort of agreed, from the eu. and then to have a new prime minister in place. ok, is that straight? let's turn to the times. he thinks he has been completely exonerated. the department of justice set up this enquiry, to find out whether the president of the united states campaign colluded with the russian government. collusion is not a crime but it is something that needed to be investigated. the conclusion is that the president's campaign did not collude with the russian government, although 25 russians have been indicted, but
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they weren't part of this. so, he is clear there. the second issue was in terms of the obstruction ofjustice, which was the second thing that came out of this, the special council concluded that it could not exonerate the president on that. this is what the attorney general put in his summary to the house. do americans care? yes, they do. this has become a kind of lightning rod that the president of the united states himself has lit. it is complicated, and apart from letting it happen he has made it a kind of attack on him by some aspect of the deep state. so now he has decided that the deep state has in fact put this whole thing in place and they are not investigating, guess who, hillary clinton! so, we are back with donald trump. the house of
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representatives' constitutional duty is oversight. and because the president has not been exonerated in relation to obstruction ofjustice, they have to investigate. you are saying this shortly after this had been released, this letter, that it is in effect the best day in trompe's presidency because the big charge against him has been thrown out. on the other point, which is a serious issue about obstruction of justice, i suspect the problem is that ultimately, a lot of people, it will become too obtuse for a lot of people to perhaps grasp. obviously, some people will be very focused on this but a lot of others i suspect we'lljust think well, there are bigger things to be concerned about in terms of... but it won't, because the bottom line is whether we have a
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president who tells the truth or not. people are very emotional about the president. i want to get to this fantastic the president. i want to get to this fa ntastic story the president. i want to get to this fantastic story about men and women. let's turn to the guardian, very quickly, what is this story about? it isa quickly, what is this story about? it is a racism row? counsellors who have had their membership of the party revoked because of his homophobic or racist remarks have quietly been reinstated. we don't know exactly why they have been reinstated, but clearly one of these examples is describing saudis as "sand examples is describing saudis as " sand peasa nts", and examples is describing saudis as "sand peasants", and other unfortunate comments. it may only be allegations, and it doesn't seem
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right, even without the details. mohammed amin said this had to be looked at, and baroness warsi has been talking about this for years. now, the story about people needing the services of baby banks, that is on the mirror. gordon brown has written a searing op—ed about this, and it seems with brexit happening the government is stalled on everything else. this is a situation about people using nappy banks to get basics for their children, their babies. anybody who has had children
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01’ babies. anybody who has had children or is around children, this is serious. this is as serious as it can get. if you can't clothe your child will keep your child clean, to have to go to a place where they get these things... shouldn't that read skinned parents, rather than just mums? because it takes to parents to make a baby. yes, it is embarrassing and horrible. we have record employment, very low unemployment, and most of the people going there are probably in work. that is a problem, that people who are working are still struggling, and that is an issue. the other issue is universal credit, it seems, that the delay in people getting their payment, this long wait you have before you get a payment, it is causing a problem. that picture is on the front of many papers. let's turn to the daily
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mail. children aged nine are being damaged by cannabis, mental disorders effectively. it says 3400 patients under the age of 19 were admitted to hospital last year because of mental and behavioural issues triggered by cannabis. i'm not sure how many nine —year—olds we re not sure how many nine —year—olds were amongst that, but clearly young children or young people. it is a problem, isn't it? some people would argue that the answer to this was legalising cannabis and having it dispensed in a controlled fashion, the only problem with that is first of all clearly when something is damaging, can the state have doubts if it is damaging, and of course you can argue that you may want to put it out in a limited quantity, but then people might want more, and so on. long and short of it is there is fio on. long and short of it is there is no harm being caused and a serious psychological harm that seems to be being caused by cannabis. also, this
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isn't colorado. a lot of people who are in charge of things are thinking about cannabis 25 years ago, 30 yea rs about cannabis 25 years ago, 30 years ago, 40 years ago. that is not what these kids are smoking, so this isa what these kids are smoking, so this is a very important wake up sign. the nhs is saying children are coming in with mental disorders. because the brain hasn't developed, has it? and they are smoking, we need to pay attention to this because these children are suffering in these hospitals. let's turn back to the times, it seems there is proof at last. we are born different! what is this essentially saying? the moving part about this is that they are trying to discover how brains develop, if there is a male brain and a female brain, and theissueis male brain and a female brain, and the issue is there are disorders that men have, like autism, more men have autism than women. they

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