tv The Papers BBC News October 19, 2019 11:30pm-12:01am BST
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and south-east england, lincolnshire and south—east england, we are going to see low single figures, may below enough for some pockets of frost. we started on a chilly note, that low pressure in the north sea could feel a little more cloud along the east coast and a few scattered showers so here it could be called a disappointing but further south and west away from the low we should see the crowd breaking up, sunshine coming through and high speaking at 9— a0 degrees. so that's a story on sunday, just need to draw your attention to what's happening gci’oss your attention to what's happening across the new continent, this frontal system ever moved towards essex and kent coast overnights sunday into monday, and produce a mode whether but the high pressure is building in from the upper deck so is building in from the upper deck so that is the dominant force to the weather story on monday as you can see. largely fine and dry but we will need to keep a close eye on events will need to keep a close eye on eve nts d own will need to keep a close eye on events down into the south—east. that could be a little bit of a fly in the ointment. generally speaking,
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highs are likely to peek again at 9— a0 degrees. as you move out of monday and tuesday, that area of high pressure pushing informed that the deck will just slip its high pressure pushing informed that the deck willjust slip its way steadily southwards and that's going to allow weather fronts to double gci’oss to allow weather fronts to double across the high and push into the final thrust was not so potentially bringing the risk of some of it with a and certain windy weather. 0nly up into the finals of southern potentially on tuesday, elsewhere with a south—westerly food might be some more cloud along the west face to coast but a bit wilder —— milder as well because of the theme is generally a dry one across the country and highs of 11— 15 celsius. so as you move out of tuesday into wednesday, thursday, it's a similar feel to things. we keep the potential for somewhat all—weather into final, much of england and wales instead right and a little milder. take care.
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morning's papers in a moment — first the headlines. the prime minister is forced to send a letter to the eu requesting another brexit delay — but chooses not to sign it. the european council president donald tusk says he will now start consulting eu leaders on how to react. this comes after a special session of parliament where mps voted to ensure that all necessary brexit legislation must be passed before mps give approval to boris johnson's deal. the ayes to the right, 322. the noes to the left, 306. but despite this, the prime minister says he still intends to leave on time. i will not negotiate a delay with the eu. and neither... and neither does the law compel me to do so.
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the prime minister must now comply with the law. he can no longer use the threat of a no—deal crash out to blackmail members to support his sell out deal. as the politicians debated, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched through central london, calling for a fresh public vote on the brexit deal. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are martin lipton, chief sports reporter at the sun, and former conservative advisor mo hussein. good to have you both, a good night for it. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in —
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and it's probably no surprise to you that all of them lead on today's events in parliament. the mail on sunday accuse parliament of being a "house of fools", saying that instead of the nation starting to heal after brexit, mps are delaying leaving the european union. the independent online focuses on the people's vote march that took place outside parliament. it reports that a million marched, on the day that made the prime minister listen. the sunday telegraph concentrates on the prime minister's refusal to sign the letter to the eu requesting an extension, while asking eu leaders to stick to the october the 31st deadline. the sunday express asks the question: "why won't they let us leave?" the paper says there was outrage as parliament voted to obstruct the prime minister's brexit deal. the observer covers both the action in the commons, and the protests outside it. it says that the prime minister faces fresh action in the courts, while also covering today's people's vote protests. and the sunday times leads with the news that borisjohnson has sent three letters to the eu explaining the uk's position, and his own personal position.
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so the sunday times, three letters to the eu, that is one way of putting it. stop when is a letter, not a letter, when the prime minister declined to sign it, it would appear. the front of the sunday times, pretty much across all of them, boris johnson sunday times, pretty much across all of them, borisjohnson opened a new front in his battle for brexit tonight, lodging an audacious bid to thwart mps and —— second delay britain ‘s departure. the one he was ordered to buy the benn act, which was to ask for the delay, the delay he said he would never ask for, an official wording, but he hasn't signed it. but it is basically cut and paste it, we used to do that as journalist, some of us still do. speak for yourself. this is a letter from the benn act, there was a
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second letter from the ambassador to the eu, so tim barrow, who said this is parliament's the eu, so tim barrow, who said this is pa rliament‘s letter, the eu, so tim barrow, who said this is parliament's letter, not the government's, and the third letter from borisjohnson to the eu saying "please don't give us the delay because i don't want one". we know he doesn't want one, what we do have the situation where a day that was supposed to bring us clarity has just brought more model. is that good for britain? is that good for parliament? i think it is hard to say it is. it would be argued by the likes of sir 0liver letwin is that they did not delay it for the sake of it, they delayed it because they don't trust the prime minister and others to deliver the deal in the right, correct way. ithink others to deliver the deal in the right, correct way. i think that's right, correct way. i think that's right, that is what they are saying, because they actually do want a deal, and would likely vote for a deal, and would likely vote for a deal when it comes in front of the house again. what is interesting here is the personal relationships of the prime minister, that the
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prime minister has built up with eu counterparts, so there will be lots of phone calls tonight and over the weekend, asking them to not supported delay, it seems to be working, the mo put out a statement saying mps make —— need to make a substantive decision on this, but it could be counter—productive, because if he keeps saying it is parliament's letter, if he keeps saying it is pa rliament's letter, not if he keeps saying it is parliament's letter, not his, what parliament's letter, not his, what parliament want is what the eu need to know, they need to know what the will of parliament will be. so they can work out what kind of deal is actually going to... it is notjust the prime minister and jean—claude juncker on the phone to each other every day and having a chat over a coffee, they have whole teams talking to each other all the time, and they have probably discussed the possibility of something like this happening, what happens if we don't get the boat through, what happens if they do have to ask for a delay, they are talking all the time, aren't they. everybody is talking to each other, is notjust the government, it is the opposition mps talking to their counterparts, so
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this would have been factored in. talking to their counterparts, so this would have been factored inm is playing out before us on the cameras. . . is playing out before us on the cameras... there is wargaming and things that are planned for, but there is irony here that the legal argument was about parliamentary sovereignty and taking back control of our laws, and now you have the prime minister telling eu leaders to not take so seriously what parliament has said. he doesn't rate what parliament has done particularly helpful. i think that irony will play out as well stop shall we move on to the sunday telegraph. i think this was one of the first tonight, quite a few of them have already changed the front pages, but the sunday telegraph sensor pages, but the sunday telegraph sensor has got all the detail in their on sensor has got all the detail in theiron mr sensor has got all the detail in their on mrjohnson refusing to sign their on mrjohnson refusing to sign the brexit delay letter. and again, you do feel you are in some kind of general election campaign, because he is positioning himself as the man of the people, it is parliament versus the people. it is not about
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the games being played, the thing is this second letter, "downing street wa nts this second letter, "downing street wants eu leaders to reject the delay to force mps to jews wants eu leaders to reject the delay to force mps tojews this week when approving johnson's deal and an ideal accent. " so if benn and angela merkel and other significant leaders basically say no, no delay, no extension, —— emmanuel macron and angela merkel. then parliament has to make a decision. and a lot of those who have been actively... thanks for that! yes, but it is black—and—white, yes and no. they would have to choose between the deal thrust out in the last week or no deal exit which i think many of them desperately railed against and said under —— circumstances can we
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countenance that. so if it is a difficult choice, not a choice that has to be made, then i suspect they end up, whether or not they want to, they have to back the deal that has been agreed by the government.- the same time, the eu don't want the uk to leave without a deal, there is something in it for them as well, so there are a lot of commentators saying it is highly likely they will give them some kind of extension. saying it is highly likely they will give them some kind of extensionlj think give them some kind of extension.” think that is right, i think it will be probably a short technical extension, so a vacancy of the legislation passes,... extension, so a vacancy of the legislation passes, . .. the letter says january 31. it could be less than that. it says unless there is a deal in the interim. they want to keep pressure on mp5, who is making a decision, nobody wants to be blamed for having an ideal, so the optics are imported —— important as the substance. from the eu's
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perspectives they have had to deal with two deals now with uk governments, both of which have not been agreed in parliament, and they would be wary of doing that again. they have other things to think about, they have their new budget to think about next year for example, which we, having left, should not really be a part of. i do think they wa nt really be a part of. i do think they want to move on, so they will try and be helpful, but they will keep the pressure on mp5, because mps do need to make a decision on this. 0liver letwin features in the cut in the front of the sunday telegraph, and the brain game is out there. big today. the cartoon is a bit of fun, was it 0liver letwin with the lead pipe in the library, as one player is asking of his rival. there is plenty of blame, because nobody wa nts to ta ke plenty of blame, because nobody wants to take responsibility for anything that goes wrong, and this has been the issue for 3.5 years. there has been an awful lot of
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positioning, people across the whole political... table have seemingly changed positions diametrically over 3.5 years. so what was black 1—dayers why the next. i don't think that benefits anyone. mo, do you think of there will be a general election soon, do you think people will vote over brexit? even if there isa will vote over brexit? even if there is a deal and it goes through, do you think people will still punish parties or reward parties because of how they handled the whole brexit saga? how they handled the whole brexit 7 i how they handled the whole brexit saga? i think that might be a part of it when the referendum happened people did not vote on party political lines. there were people from both parties and sli who had very different views. yes, there will be protest votes or voter fatigue... but politicians and people who have defected? yes, and people who have defected? yes, and people have changed their mind, but other things will come to the fore, police and their streets, education,
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cost of living, i don't think it willjust be cost of living, i don't think it will just be about cost of living, i don't think it willjust be about brexit, but i don't think mps will be thanked for still not getting to a conclusion on this. i think it is better say that those winston and borisjohnson will be hoping that people are voting on the brexit issue, jeremy corbyn less so. “— the brexit issue, jeremy corbyn less so. ——jo the brexit issue, jeremy corbyn less so. —— jo swinson and borisjohnson. there is clarity on the positions of jo swinson and the liberal democrats, and borisjohnson are the conservatives, but people still don't know which way corbin voted in the referendum. a lot of people suspect the fight just back despite normally being a remainder he voted leave. there are a lot of issues that labour are in a lot of the mass than the other two parties. the 0bserver have changed the headline in the last hour, "johnson faces fresh court action after rejecting delay to brexit. " this is a form of
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tory cabinet minister —— former tory cabinet minister, mo and i were discussing who we thought it might be, we cannot say that. this person said irisjohnson was clearly behaving in way that was against the spirit of the benn act, this is clearly against the spirit of the act, not consistent with the assurances given by downing street to the scottish courts about applying for an extension, it would also put government law offices in an uncomfortable position. i think there is a court case in scotland thatis there is a court case in scotland that is due on monday. there is no worry about this because this idea that we should be forced into the courts and physical case is ridiculous but these are the same people that said they would easily win in the supreme court. hilary benn has treated a reaction secular boris are not signing a letter was churlish but that doesn't seem to be any sense of anger or court action
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just yet. it's interesting because wages that eu takers? does that you ta ke wages that eu takers? does that you take the letter at face value as an official play or actually say, look, there's no way the government will sign off this delay. why should we go through the problem of offering it when the government isn't going to a cce pt it when the government isn't going to accept it. let's find a way of forcing the british parliament, the house of commons to actually do something as opposed to deciding what it doesn't like. but there is a risk if they don't give the uk an extension. they don't wanted —— they don't want an odour brexit. the eu are cornered as well. it's very much who will blink first. i do think that the next age does sit with us, does it with parliament, with uk in terms of trying to work out where we go terms of trying to work out where we go next. and i think things like this are almost factored into the
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borisjohnson this are almost factored into the boris johnson government. this this are almost factored into the borisjohnson government. this is a government that was founded by the supreme court, accused of misleading the queen, and ijust question how much of this really cuts through and how much of this really plays into their hands in terms of boris is trying to deliver brexit or these institutions are against him. they're trying to thwart the will of the people and this is certainly the argument that some will be quite happy to make. and what a difference a few days makes. the poem need to stop saying that now when it comes to politics but the headlinesjust stop saying that now when it comes to politics but the headlines just a few days ago, that we were discussing on the papers were very different. has borisjohnson pulled it off? has he actually done it? there was actually a sense of some relief, i wouldn't say celebration in brussels they negotiated a deal, a plan was there to be voted on. it felt like things were at least moving forward. the beginning was over. backslapping, a lot of people are very happy about that which i
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think is understandable because this process has been going on for so long but it was always, it was their outsourcing of decision—making they had agreed, goes to parliament, will see in the next few days is movement toward referendum again outsourcing the decision—making to the people because mps don't want to make a decision, they can't make a decision. it's notjust parliament thatis decision. it's notjust parliament that is divided, is the country as well. the picture on the front page of their server, sums up the mood, a certain section of society right now. there's a million people on the street and they have every right to be on the street. it is personalised views across the divide. that's... the divide is wider than ever, you are either remain or lever, there is no middle ground was a pretty distressing pictures of the vitriol poured on on michael gove today, no
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different to the vitriol that has been thrown at the remain side from the previous... and those who had gone to court to put their case and this nuttiness that has gone both ways. this country... a schism basically. it's awful, there is no consensus, no common ground, there is no nuance. you are the for me or against me. and this is 3.5 years of this, it's gotten worse over that period. at some point that has to be an end to it. it feels like hotel california, you can check at any time you like and you never leave. we have to at some point because u nless we we have to at some point because unless we are get to a position where we can start to heal, we won't. and i'm seriously worried that when there is no healing process inside. the mail on sunday points out that britain could have begun to heal after the end of a
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brexit purgatory is afforded, instead posturing mps had an agonising delay, they call them the house of bulls and again more naming and shaming but of course the flipside of the argument is that these politicians are just safeguarding the country and trying to do its best but even teresa may and of course you'd expect her to say this but she pointed out that we could be guilty of being a contact, of misleading the country., b can't ——we can't keep delaying this process. and he would know better than her? having tried this several times, three times and getting it voted down. this is... just can't get going on like this. this captures people '5 frustration. it's a bit disingenuous because we could have been seven months now into a transition. people had voted to leave by the end of march and some of the people who are now the
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biggest champions for we must live, must not waste time, any more money, have voted against a way of living, to avert us, some minor cabinet and one is a prime minister sol to avert us, some minor cabinet and one is a prime minister so i don't think it is easy as leave mps want one thing, remain mps think it is easy as leave mps want one thing, remain mp5 or something else. all mps have something to answer for else. all mps have something to answerfor in else. all mps have something to answer for in this but this naming and shaming! answer for in this but this naming and shaming i don't think is helpful because these are mps were trying to do theirjobs is also based on a lack of distrust within the party and the lack of distrust of the pm and the lack of distrust of the pm and the lack of distrust of the pm and the people around him unfortunately. is the dealer we agreed with the eu this week marketed differently from the one that teresa may was trying to sell seven months ago? there are some differences but i think it's going to have a 95% the same thing. the main issue has been the backstop. that has been the main contest. and now it a front stop. the sunday express, lavender let us leave? a black front page of the sunday
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express, very depressed sunday express, very depressed sunday express, outrageous parliament votes obstruct boris's read through brexit deal. the families... this is the problem. there's been fermentation. without the legislation, without the proper safeguards, scrutiny, they're washing it. that would have been the headland. another rushing out the door. as an old joke but if you start from here, i wish to enter the space. but three and a half years after the vote, we haven't got any further forward in the listing of all, borisjohnson sees himself as the latter—day winston churchill and this isn't the beginning of the end. evenif this isn't the beginning of the end. even if we do get... it's the end of the beginning. the real hard yards, after we've left. the of negotiating to do once plan goes through. he has ideas of negotiating. we got to move
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on. i wanted to go views away from brexit so they can sleep tonight. that and on some good news. the back page of the sunday express wisdom as you are saying earlier it would have been the front page on another day. absolutely. 0nly been the front page on another day. absolutely. only the sunday times has any robbery on the front of normally it would be a massive story, a great picture of 0wen farrell on the back of the express. the headline would sums it up, bring on the all blacks. there you go, chance, eddie jones mastermind, trying to dethrone new zealand. they 90, trying to dethrone new zealand. they go, some good news in the world today. thank you very much for taking us through sunday papers. 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 —
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and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you martin and mo. next on bbc news it's the weather for the week ahead. hello there, after what has been something like three weeks of rain affecting the uk, looks like the pattern is going to change a bit. having more of a say in the outlook but also into next week for a while before we start to see some more rain, in particularfor before we start to see some more rain, in particular for scotland before we start to see some more rain, in particularfor scotland and northern ireland that on. the first half of the weekend still dominated by low pressure, with showers in this area of card bringing more organised rain, is led to more rising 11 —— river levels. that rain is weakening a little bit, patchy rain affecting the borders into northeast england, parts of yorkshire on sunday, elsewhere a few
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showers but probably not many, sunny skies were northern ireland, suffer scotla nd skies were northern ireland, suffer scotland in the south—east of england. but for many of us, those temperatures will be a little bit lower than we've seen on saturday. what's left of that rain would tend to beat out even more during sunday evening, showers beginning —— becoming fewer las vegas pressure is starting to build. the fly in the ointment is the area of the pressure close to the south—east corner threatening rain but the main feature is high pressure coming in from the other did. it means a cold and frosty start in scotland on monday, we still got the chance of some rain in south—east corner of england and nish i was also, few and far between because pressure is higher. there will be some sunshine, wind picking up later in the north—west of scotland, temperature 10 degrees in the central belt, 1a in the south—east. the rain tends to fade away and we still have high pressure as we head into the better pa rt pressure as we head into the better part of the week but it is ranking a little bit, areas of the pressure and for the front stop playing
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around the north of the uk. so we will find some cloud, outbreaks of rain affecting the northern end of this just rain affecting the northern end of thisjust got them. rain affecting the northern end of this just got them. but also its either to be dry. cloud thinning and breaking at times to give some sunshine, lighter winds across england and wales, those temperatures on tuesday not really changing a great deal. into the middle part of the week, some complications, not least from this area of the pressure directing some rain in the south—east of england but it looks like most of the rent will be on that chain of weather fronts moving into scotland and northern ireland. so here cloud, outbreaks of rain and a bit heavy over some of those western hills. some of that rain crossing the irish to, further south should be dry, sunshine and temperatures beginning to creep up 15 or 16 in the south—east of ingham. as we head into thursday, most of those weather fronts are weakening, the more persistent rain heading out into the north sea, is a much reach —
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mcgregor cold front moving down engine that unveils, most of the rain over the hills turn —— tending to pit out through the day, showers in scotland and northern ireland, northern scotland with a northerly breeze it's going to feel quite goes across england and wales, temperatures are continuing to rise and some sunshine, 17 degrees across southern parts of england. as we head towards the end of the week this is what we expect to happen. rain heading northwards across northern parts of the uk and that is the driver of an area low pressure. i want to show the jetstream because it's all over the place. massive undulations on the jetstream, at one point it splits into two in breaks up. 0ver point it splits into two in breaks up. over the past few weeks we have been on the wrong side if you like of the jetstream, dominated been on the wrong side if you like of thejetstream, dominated by been on the wrong side if you like of the jetstream, dominated by the pressure but it looks like blood pressure but it looks like blood pressure will be in the atlantic and level of high—pressure extending across the uk and with more of a south—easterly breeze it shouldn't be too cold under that high, it should be dry.
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