to be appointed poet laureate next month. alongside that comes news that peers may be forced to declare the extent of their russian and chinese business interests in an effort to stem the tide of what the paper calls ‘red money'. some are calling it ‘the new cold war‘. meanwhile, china's amabassador to the uk has spoken out about the huawei affair in the daily telegraph — saying that britain should resist external pressure over decisions on chinese companies and make independent choices. according to the observer, labour will this week force a vote in parliament to declare a national environmental and climate change emergency — as confidential documents show the government has spent only a fraction of its budget to support clean air projects. as the local elections approach, the sunday express claims the conservatives are expected to lose more than 1,000 of their council seats.

the mail on sunday leads on the findings of a year—long investigation by the former tory peer lord ashcroft, which has found that thousands of lions are being bred and killed for their bones or by trophy hunters. and for the spice girl fan in you — the daily star says that posh spice is set to make a shock return to the girl band on their reunion tour this summer. it's going to make all the difference, isn't it? let's start with the sunday times. firstly, john, new iras as brexit helps it to recruit. this is the group had the violence in which the journalist leera mckee was murdered. obviously there is a long interview with the sunday times reporters —— lyra mckee. even though they acknowledge there is no chance of success in

achieving a united ireland. the campaign will continue and say it is symbolic and will go on. they almost apologise for the murder of lyra mckee, saying it is not intentional. it wasn't a planned attack, it was a spontaneous reaction to the arrival of heavily armed police. shooting was unintentional and there is nothing they can say that will not sound like a hollow apology. well, they said it, not me. the other interesting line they also say is that brexit is, in effect, acting as a recruiting sergeant for them because it reminds them that ireland is partitioned and divided. whether you believe that statement is another question. we have these talks are forthcoming. they are now feeling much more urgent because of lyra mckee's death. looma give something good can come out of something good can come out of something so extraordinarily

tragic... there is still no indication on whether it was targeted. she was tweeting about the violence. s ——if something good can come out of something... their position is that they didn't just refer to police, they talk about the crown forces. we don't have the full story, it's on page seven but this exclusive by the sunday times, they are exclusive by the sunday times, they a re clearly exclusive by the sunday times, they are clearly the new ira, saying, it's the fault of the crown forces and until ireland is no longer partitioned that, in a sense, they are kind of saying how can you blame us are kind of saying how can you blame us for doing that? they would be

wasting an opportunity. it's chilling and quite scary but these parallel talks, of course they will bea parallel talks, of course they will be a lot of hope in that. it's not the dup and sinn fein talking to each other, its parallel talks to see what progress can be made before that happens. staying with the sunday times. cash for lords crackdown. who knew that members for the house of lords don't actually have to declare the sources of their business interests. how much they have earned or whether money has come from. unlike mps in the house of commons who do. i don't know why ididn't of commons who do. i don't know why i didn't know that. i didn't know that you didn't know that and i assume most of the british public didn't know that so thank you to the sunday times for pointing it out.

apparently, a government minister is determined to crack down on it being," red money". lobbying firms around parliament and the city. this is money that paid to people to represent various interests in russia or china. nothing inherently wrong with that but we need to know. it is only right and proper. but a p pa re ntly it is only right and proper. but apparently we don't. the other element to this story is that ministers are thinking of actually ringing forward and espionage bill which will make it easier for them to kick out people who appear to be working legitimately here in the uk but are actually spying and that brings us to huawei. and that huawei story isjust not going to go brings us to huawei. and that huawei story is just not going to go away. it is talking about notjust

story is just not going to go away. it is talking about not just the leak but what the position will be. i think leak but what the position will be. ithink ben leak but what the position will be. i think ben wallace, the security minister, he says that action is needed to change these parliamentary rules. what i think is somebody reporting on united kingdom around the world, and living in this country, i think it's very interesting that he talks about the uk media being extremely vibrant, strong, holding the government, companies and society to the mainstream media, very strong, holding them to account. he says this is extraordinary that in politics this is not cleaned up. it is also interesting is he particularly think about salisbury and the nova choc attack and the attempted murder of a former russian spy' attempted murder of a former russian spy, sergei skripal and attempted murder of a former russian spy, sergei skripaland his attempted murder of a former russian spy, sergei skripal and his daughter yulia skripal. whether on purpose or not. —— novichok. he talks about being more savvy about where people

exploit our open society and economy. they want to make it much easier to actually expel people who are here from china, russia and other countries, on legitimate visas but who it turns out i hear in fact as intelligence officers. you mentioned qua way. it's on the sunday telegraph. "ignore spy fears over huawei", says china. there was something within the security council meeting that we will be giving china, quote unquote a loaded gun. they were people opposed to them getting the contract to work with 56. it is apparently going to go ahead. the chinese ambassador is saying relaxed, guys, relax. we look

on britain as an open society where there is an open society for everybody. 0pen playing field. if you go back to the sunday times story, a report from an institute saying sorry, it is a danger giving them this contract because they are in with the chinese government and we will be exposing britain to a security rest. we need a 56 network, don't we? we need a partner. they will be safeguards at the very heart of that 56 network. we are most sensitive information and huawei wouldn't be let anywhere near that. when you talk to security experts, apparently it would be hard to do that. another report in the sunday times say it is a core branch of the

chinese state apparatus. an interesting few lines in this exclusive story in the sunday times, may's deputy david livingstone denied that the company was intimately linked with the chinese government and their intelligence services are saying it was a private firm. we cannot forget that mobile phones, text messages, what extraordinary times! split in the government, it's become normalised. this is not normal. an official has lead to something of this significant nature. —— david lidington. the highest nature of

discussions. staying with the telegraph. isis terrorist are free to target tourist hotspots. tourist masterminds have been freed up to carry out further sure link style attacks on tourists because they are no longer preoccupied with islamic state. the caliphate is gone. it has been wiped out. all that territory in iraq and syria, it's been eliminated. we can't assume for any minute that they are going to go away and this story, like another story in another paper tomorrow morning, they are saying they will continue their work but in a different way. one story says it will be targeting tourist resorts like kenya, et cetera. it says they will hit here as well. the security forces have been alerted to that fa ct. forces have been alerted to that fact. it's common sense, i regret to say, that would be the next step if they've been broken up. is an

ideology, notjust they've been broken up. is an ideology, not just about territory. it's part of the wider discussion about what you do with these people. if you try to make them stateless, oi’ if you try to make them stateless, or do you welcome them back to try to do radicalise? two the fact of the matter is if ijust talk about my two countries, britain and france, they share that problem. —— the fact of the matter. they can't all have been cooking, all the cooking must have been absolutely outstanding in in syria and iraq under isil. it sounds like a joke but it's not a joke. it's a threat to our society. 0n the one hand, you feel like you are participating in scaremongering about africa and the maldives and these countries rely on that, they need the tourism in the same way that sri lanka does. but what do we do with these people that

need to return and it's not good to make anybody stateless. neo-nazi groups defying legal ban. groups that are no longer supposed to be operating anymore but are they under the radar or doing it openly? this isa the radar or doing it openly? this is a story about in 2016, national action became the first far right group to be prescribed as a terrorist organisation since the world war ii. they are always playing catch up. a lot of the groups change name but they are the same people. this is the difficulty, we live in an open society, whether it was palmer who was killed at the gate, how many times have i walked past parliament? do we want to be a state in which we have a policeman behind every individual? no. that is the difficulty. it also harks back,

ina sense, the difficulty. it also harks back, in a sense, to the possible spying and the problems in the house of lords or not. of accountability. of course, lords or not. of accountability. of course , we lords or not. of accountability. of course, we have this open society and yet we want accountability and security but they will never be 100% security, but we do need people cooperating. whether it is northern ireland or others, with the authorities. give us your biggest roar. . . authorities. give us your biggest roar... lord ashcroft, i never knew he had an interest in wildlife. literally thousands of lines are being bred to be killed by callous individuals, so their bones can be turned into medicines and trinkets in the far east. they have chapter and verse on this was a very impressive investigation. year-long? yes. lord ashcroft is criticising the brief government of being

complicit in this. horrendous exa m ples complicit in this. horrendous examples will stop 5a lines being killed. injust examples will stop 5a lines being killed. in just two days! examples will stop 5a lines being killed. injust two days! line examples will stop 5a lines being killed. in just two days! line skins being smuggled into the us via britain hidden inside deerskin. so they are not detected. they are trying to get greater profits from the barbaric bone trade was a bit will horrify people, this story, and there are pictures to go with it. i have to say, hats off to the mail and whoever has been responsible for this investigation headed by lord ashcroft. we have a picture of a line that was set free. 0h ashcroft. we have a picture of a line that was set free. oh it's not just a story happening in south africa, lots of europeans and westerners are going out there. there is an image of a drugged lion and then you get these trophy

pictures. there are britons as well going out and paying thousands of poundsjust so going out and paying thousands of pounds just so they can have a photo. slaughtering these animals in an enclosure. it's not like they are literally out in the wild. an enclosure. it's not like they are literally out in the wildlj an enclosure. it's not like they are literally out in the wild. i truly don't understand what would drive somebody to want to do that. we see on places like twitter, pictures of these people standing over the carcasses of animals. you just think, what on earth is going through your heads? there is nothing more magnificent than seeing them roaming in the wild. even in a gaming park. michael gove is going to be sharing a meeting on the issue in the next fortnight. i think it's become just too controversial. let's finish. matt has beautifully blended a couple of