president trump blames a deadly attack in the afghan capital, kabul. joy for australia. they've retained the ashes after bowling out england on the final day of the fourth test at old trafford. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are katherine forster, journalist at the sunday times and joe twyman, director at deltapoll. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. in the telegraph, borisjohnson draws up plans to stop the brexit extension mps want him to seek if they don't vote for a general election tomorrow. in the times, borisjohnson tells cabinet ministers they may have to accept a three—month delay.

in the guardian, boris johnson flies to ireland to meet the irish prime minister as he battles to save his brexit plan. in the financial times, the irish prime minister, leo varadkar, warns borisjohnson not to expect any consessions from the eu on the irish border issue. the daily mail leads with culture secretary, nicky morgan, saying she'll stand by borisjohnson and urges others to do the same. but she says he must tell the truth on what progress he has made in talks with brussels. in the express, their poll shows that britain is still backing brexit despite a constitutional crisis. it says the poll shows people still think he's the best person to deliver brexit. and the sun leads with little mix star jesy nelson admitting that she tried to take her own life because of abuse she suffered on social media.

let's make a start with the financial times. varadkar let's make a start with the financial times. va radkar plays let's make a start with the financial times. varadkar plays down progress on brexit deadlock. after all these months of being told there is no way to get rid of the backstop, it would be quite a change of something like that were to appear. the backstop has been a stumbling block for the brexit negotiations since its inception. borisjohnson is travelling for a meeting with leo varadkar, his first as prime minister, and the suggestion is that he is trying to secure some sort of deal, a change to the backstop, as a way of placating many opponents to the withdrawal agreement. but mr varadkar has been consistent, saying there isn't really an option to remove it. but the report says he is potentially open to a northern ireland only backstop, so northern ireland only backstop, so northern ireland being treated differently from the rest of the united kingdom. at the democratic unionists, the

conservatives' partner in government, have said that this is not acceptable, at least for now. they want britain and northern ireland to be treated exactly the same, at least when it comes to the backstop. but the back comic article also suggests that even the dup may privately be open to some concessions. we will have to see. we will have to see, but the fact he is going to dublin will at least satisfy some people who say that he should be out there talking to the eu partners. after all, that man in leeds said you should be in brussels this week. yes, he was given a very hard time last week, amidst all the other issues he had to deal with by the guy. what are you doing here? you are playing games! so yes, he is making an attempt. i have to say, i am sorry for being a doomster or a gloomster, i am am sorry for being a doomster or a gloomster, lam not am sorry for being a doomster or a gloomster, i am not wildly

optimistic. but at the same time, i think if there is no movement on the backstop, i can't see any real prospect of any deal getting through, because something has got to change. but of course, boris johnson was saying, you know, you will cut my legs away if you take away the option of us leaving on 31 october. so, you know, his position may not have been strengthened. it is varadkar going to give him anything? if you cut his legs away, is he dead in the debts, or is it that that moves him into the ditch? there is a strict order to these things. who knows, this is brexit we are talking about. there seemed to be some highly contradictory assessments and suggestions being made, the daily telegraph saying johnson can legally stop brexit extension, and then doesn't really

go on to explain how. it is very strange and it takes a very different line from the times, which says different line from the times, which sastohnson is in retreat. according to the daily telegraph, the headline johnson can legally stop brexit extension, i am not entirely clear exactly how. it talks about sending an accompanying letter saying that the government doesn't wa nt saying that the government doesn't want a delay. i think they know that already, even if they ask for one, that they don't want it. they are hopeful that the eu mightjust say we have had enough of you not giving an extension, what are you going to do with this? this is ridiculous. and france have made fairly tough noises in the past. macron talked about vetoing the extension and then didn't. the french foreign minister saying we can't go through this every three months. but it is very ha rd every three months. but it is very hard to see what this cunning plan

really is. yes, apparently there is a master plan, but we have not been told. well, in the left corner, as it were, we have the daily telegraph saying that you can't legally stop the extension, and in the right corner we have the times saying he is in retreat over the brexit delay. it is difficult to know which one is correct, and indeed they both might be. the times talks about a private climbdown that borisjohnson has now made with his senior ministers, where is the telegraph talks about no, instead they are going to send a letter saying we don't want an extension when asked why do you want an extension? because last time we we re an extension? because last time we were in this position, everything coming out of brussels said you can't just ask for an extension, coming out of brussels said you can'tjust ask for an extension, you have to say what you are going to use it for, much like when you are at school and you ask for an

extension on your essay. why? because i want more time. it doesn't really work like that, unless it does. would and acceptable extension be that we might have a general election? along with a second referendum, all of these things would be more than acceptable. but i imagine that when push came to shove, simply asking for an extension would be enough of a reason for having an extension, for brussels to grant it. but it is uncertainty, and that is the key here. we have a lot of known unknowns swirling around the issue at the best of times, but it is just carrying on with this, and i can't help thinking that at least part of this is about positioning the government in advance of the debate and possible vote tomorrow about a general election. yes, which they are likely to lose, catherine, aren't they? it is uncertain, but i would be beyond astonished if they

didn't because the opposition parties have made it very clear they will not vote for an election now. so it seems highly unlikely that we are going to leave on 31 october, i would have thought it was highly unlikely. i would think it was also... i can't see how the government are going to get around this... you know, if they are legally compelled to ask, i don't see the way out. obviously i am not privy to the inner workings of dominic cummings's mind, or indeed borisjohnson's mind, but it is very difficult to see what happens next. it is also having amber rudd saying that there is nothing going on other than a no deal, work towards a no deal scenario. yes, this has been a consistent theme since borisjohnson came to downing street. there are fewer negotiators actually in brussels, that is what we hear. people have been withdrawn from

meetings only to contact eu officials to ask what happened in those meetings. it is unclear, is this part of the negotiation strategy. it has also been suggested there is no point doing anything until the last minute because that is when these sorts of things are sorted out. well, it leads to a lot of potential brinkmanship and therefore risk. parliament is due to be prorogued this week, as well, so will things calm down for political journalists? i doubt it, over the summer there was in theory no politics but it was constant politics. what a difference it has made when the mps actually came back. through the summer boris johnson has been out there, this is my plan, we are going to deliver brexit, we are going to defeat jeremy corbyn, all these plans that sound fabulous, but now of course we have collated with parliament. the reality of the parliamentary

arithmetic, which is that parliament have been very successful in saying they don't want this, they don't wa nt they don't want this, they don't want that, they don't want the other, but we still don't know what parliament do want, apart from they don't want us to leave with no deal. lets not forget we have the unparalleled excitement of the party co nfe re nce unparalleled excitement of the party conference season coming up, as well. goodness knows what is coming up well. goodness knows what is coming up with those, but i for one can't wait. i will be each pole enjoying myself as much as i do every year. yes, you haven't quite got that sincerity thing down yet. yes, but ifi sincerity thing down yet. yes, but if i can fake that... the guardian. no mmr should mean no school place, say gps. this is a call from leading gps saying that all parents should have to prove that all five —year—olds have had both recommend —— recommended doses of the mmr vaccine before they are allowed to

enter primary school. this is hugely, hugely important. herd immunity is the concept that enough people have to be immunised in order for those people who can't be immunised to be safe. people who can't be immunised because they have specific medical conditions which prevent them from being vaccinated, orfor instance, prevent them from being vaccinated, or for instance, newborn prevent them from being vaccinated, orfor instance, newborn babies prevent them from being vaccinated, or for instance, newborn babies who can't be vaccinated. and if children are not vaccinated, they can catch measles, mumps, rubella, and they can pass it on to those people who have not been vaccinated. herd immunity figure is around 90— 95% for measles, which means 90— 95% of the population have to be vaccinated for it to work. and in some areas that figure is well below 90%, placing at risk people's health. but the idea of making it mandatory is quite a big step. it is, but it already does happen in some other countries. and i do think, and i have got three children, measles does kill people. i mean, because kids were vaccinated, it wasn't a

common problem. i think people have forgotten how serious measles can be. we can be left brain damaged, andl be. we can be left brain damaged, and i hope this comes in. so gps are urging matt hancock, the health secretary, and obvious see the education secretary, gavin williams, andl education secretary, gavin williams, and i think it is important to force people. don't we have a social obligation in our community to do what needs to be done to protect not just our child, but the other children around? and we are at the point where some of those parents took the decision because of the wrong claims about the safety of the mmr. now we are getting to university and we are seeing mumps and measles. yes, i mean, my 17—year—old, when he was born, i was literally in the hospital with little baby, my father and

mother—in—law, they came and said, just in the wake of andrew wakefield, what are you going to do about vaccination? but i did loads of research and despite this sort of hysteria, i didn't see any sort of evidence so i just hysteria, i didn't see any sort of evidence so ijust got the jabs. but it has had a massive, massive knock on effect. it has gone on a long time. all right, he was discredited. that took some years. and some people still believe it, don't they? there is an interesting caveat in here, it says the only exceptions will be for children whose parents have registered a conscientious objection to the measles, mumps and rubella, or those whose health means they can't have it. i don't see waving a letter saying you are a conscientious objector to protecting you from measles going very well, but it also says that vaccination against smallpox was compulsory for all children in 1853. smallpox, which killed lots of people, and

then was eradicated through a process of vaccinations. finally, on the guardian, not this time. the aussies when is ben stokes fails to repeat his ashes miracle. it could have gone either way, but at the moment is looking like not only will they retain the ashes, but they could win the ashes. if the final ashes test goes australia's way. the ashes test goes australia's way. the ashes will be staying in australia, sadly. ben stokes is pictured after his heroics in the last test. he was unable to replicate that this time around. it is a situation that is not ideal, but the best england can hope for is a victory in the next match, which would mean that the series is drawn. have repeat your interest in the cricket? doesn't this look exciting? —— have we piqued. my husband is australian, so

i can't escape it. that's it for the papers tonight. 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, joe and katherine. do buy a paper tomorrow, won't you? next on bbc news, it's the film review. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. so, mark, what do we have this week? very interesting week. we have rojo a film set in argentina about corruption.