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we re were clear and where you don't skies were clear and where you don't have the breeze in the north of the british isles, down in the south you may well have a cool start and a dry one. but all of this behind me, i can't even cover it, is storm brendan, named by the irish whether authorities as a combination of wet and windy weather piling its way into the western side of the british isles, and another very gusty day. this could well be disruptive. the met office have a yellow warning for the strength of those winds, gusts up the strength of those winds, gusts up to 80 mph through the western isles. we will keep a close eye on that. the wind is coming in from the south, so again those temperatures after the chilly start really won't be too low by any means at all. next week storming at times, after some spells of rain, some wet and windy fairand some spells of rain, some wet and windy fair and some disruption to your travel plans. so stay
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hello. this is bbc news with lukwesa burak. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment, first the headlines: britain's ambassador has been arrested during anti—government protests in tehran after iran finally admits it shot down a passenger plane by mistake. 176 people died in the crash. tonight, the canadian prime minister says he expects a full investigation. this is an extremely serious matter. canada and the world still have many questions, questions that must be answered. the queen and other senior royals will meet at sandringham on monday to discuss harry and meghan‘s decision to step back from their roles.
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power—sharing is restored in northern irealnd, as key ministers are appointed at the first assembly meeting for three years. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the broadcaster, lynn faulds wood, and the journalist and commentator, anne ashworth. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. there's really only one story in town tonight — monday's ‘showdown at sandringham', as dubbed by the sunday express. the queen and duke of sussex will meet face to face for a series of meetings and consultations, to discuss his and meghan‘s future roles. the mail on sunday says the summit is unprecedented, and that harry and meghan will be confronted with what it calls
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the dire financial impact of abandoning the royal family. the sunday times concentrates on the relationship between brothers harry and the duke of cambridge, prince william. the paper reports on william's sadness over the sussexes‘ decision. the sunday mirror, meanwhile, claims the couple told eltonjohn about their decision to step back before they told the queen. and away from the royals, the other story this weekend dominating the front page of tomorrow's observer. reports that the regime in iran is shaken by the wave of anger in the country after tehran admitted shooting down the ukrainian passenger jet. finally, the independent reports on the labour leadership contest, running an interview with candidate jess phillips, who says the party needs an ordinary leader to win.
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those are the front pages. let's start with the one story dominating all front pages. the sunday times, and it is the brothers angle on the story. with prince william saying, "i've put my arm around my brother all our lives, i can't do it any more. " speaking of his great sadness. personally i wondered if that was a bit patronising but i am a bit republican and i'm not sure i think the whole of britain is awash with stories about the royals. this is more of an english story but that's probably because i am scottish. it's extraordinary, the sunday times has some revelations here which includes harry's thinking that the leak of why this is all over the papers now has come from prince william's side or prince charles's side, that's one of their revelations. haven't got the whole of the sunday times yet, so we can't
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flesh it out for you. they are also saying senior royals want the head of the queen's private secretary, siryoung, ona of the queen's private secretary, siryoung, on a plate. of the queen's private secretary, sir young, on a plate. the other revelation they have here is the security of harry and meghan might be downgraded and instead of having guns, protection squad officers could be armed with tasers, which seemed curious. you have outlined why this story is so compelling to everybody, wherever they stand on the monarchy, because it's the story ofa the monarchy, because it's the story of a ref within a family which needs to change, knows it needs to change, believed it had the agents of change in harry and meghan, who were meant to take the monarchy into a new error, and meanwhile they are coming to the point where they are accusing each other of leaking stories and we have this headline of william saying
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of his brother, apparently to a friend, that he cannot support him in the way he has done since they we re in the way he has done since they were children, since the death of their mother. stop talking to friends, it is always a friend!“ the blame game is coming out now but coming from the royals themselves, allegedly, why leak it all? you haven't seen it anything yet because tom bradbury, the itv news presenter and a friend of harry's, he has a story in the sunday times which is headlined "meghan‘s nuclear option", in the news review section, so we haven't yet seen that either, but he is saying he has some idea of what might be aired in full, a is saying he has some idea of what might be aired infull, a no is saying he has some idea of what might be aired in full, a no holds barred interview, presumably with him, and he doesn't think it will be pretty. he is basically saying, "i've got some strong stuff i can get out of these people, "and this will get even more charged. staying with this story in
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the express, let's turn to the showdown at sandringham. monday at sandringham, we will all be in boring meetings then one way or another but monday, the whole royal family is getting together to try to flesh out the future. it is the sandringham summit and there will be discussions of everything from the rolls that meghan and harry will hold to even the tax bill that they might get should they decide to base themselves in canada. that's the granular detail to which this is coming out. it seems to me there doesn't appear to be a great deal of time to have these deliberations, which go to the heart of what we think our monarchy should look like 10-20 think our monarchy should look like 10—20 years from now, which is why this is interesting. also, to what extent, if you exit from the royal family, what support should you have from the british taxpayer? we know the figures this morning in some polls show that people are asked if
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they will support meghan and harry outside the royal family, they seem resistant to paying. the millennials, younger people, weren't as interested in what they did than older people. i believe millennial women in particular are very interested in national energy guarantee. this is the descendant of an enslaved african who came into out an enslaved african who came into our royal family and has been a great role model of fashion —— national energy guarantee. when you look at this, monday's meeting is going to be like... the bne box that was ticked when you look at the royalfamily was ticked when you look at the royal family hasn't worked out and people are saying, why not? they have brought in somebody of colour. they can look i—way but what you is something different. the support wasn't there maybe, maybe the
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understanding wasn't there with what comes with that. if you look at two when diana joined the royalfamily, she felt unsupported and one of the things both harry and meghan seem to be saying is they haven't been supported either but they have been kept on the outside of what's happening. i think somebody quoted the pictures on the piano of the queen's speech where it was the key royals, if you like, william and his son, george, and charles, and that was it, and there was no meghan and harry. who knows how much this is actually affecting things?” harry. who knows how much this is actually affecting things? i am obsessed with the thing we don't know that would unlock an awful lot of the mysteries. let's turn to the mail on sunday. picking up on that, what have they actually done wrong? it's not clear why they are being tried in the court of public opinion
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in quite the way they are. this is vicious. if they didn't like what the british tabloids did to them before, they are going to feel a lot more unhappy now, and it seems to be people are leaking. the mail on sunday is a very complex, granular detail read of everything, including the tax, security arrangements. there's also the mention that harry is fragile. what are we to understand from that? are there mental health issues? should we be aware of that? he has already talked about that. it is interesting how this, ina about that. it is interesting how this, in a very, busy global news week, this story has come to dominate all others. if you read the various it's we've got so far, it has been talked about since may and it has been building and it says somewhere in all the papers and in
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print, that the senior royals didn't wa nt to print, that the senior royals didn't want to talk about it but to the couple's this may, senior royals we re couple's this may, senior royals were reluctant to discuss their plans with them so the pair decided to ta ke plans with them so the pair decided to take time out with a six week sabbatical to canada in november and december, and presumably while they we re december, and presumably while they were there got even more dismayed about what was happening. my take is this is the 21st—century, we've got birds living in a gilded cage the way they used to centuries ago in the ottoman empire. we don't have working royals with a map as to how to live their lives and they are regularly getting into trouble when they try to become working royals. so many questions. we don't really know what's going on behind closed doors. let's turn to the front page of the observer, this is the other big story, and anger coming from within iran against their government, against their supreme leader. the story that should be leading the front pages because we
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know that a week ago we thought we we re know that a week ago we thought we were facing world war three. following the admission by the iranian regime that it was them shot down the ukrainian flight, the iranian people are taking to the streets and demonstrating. let's remember, several weeks ago this was the case that many people were taking to the streets in iran so unhappy about the oppressive nature of the regime, of whom solomon nayacavou, the leader who was taken out by an american drone strikes, they saw him as the emblem of all of that —— soleimani. the way this is playing out is not the way the iranian regime may want and this could be exactly playing into president trump spot idea of what would happen, but who knows what his strategy for the middle east is.“ seems to be changing, doesn't it? there is a terrible atmosphere at the moment. the uk ambassador was
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on the moment. the uk ambassador was on the news earlier, he was taking pictures of the protests and he got arrested. he's been released but he was arrested for some time. also when you have got at least one missile, although there is some suggestion maybe two were fired off. bellingcat, which is this extraordinary grouping of people who have got the ability to track anything in the world, because they get people's images from their photographs and cameras and they can pinpoint things. it is like a tinderbox out there where all sorts of things can go wrong very quickly. pa rt of things can go wrong very quickly. part of that, linking this story, the sunday times, a warning from the defence chief that britain must prepare to fight wars without america. extraordinary, this story by ben wallace that america won't be the world's policeman any more. it can be read in all kinds of
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ways. is ita can be read in all kinds of ways. is it a bid for more money for defence in the budget on the 11th of march? it could be that. it's also a way of saying that nobody knows what president donald trump spa strategy is in the middle east or anywhere else. at the same time when trump is increasing the number of troops in the middle east, there is 14,000 more than there were in may last year. with an incoherent strategy, ben wallace '5 concluding we can't rely on them because trump is soma curial, give me more money for decent defences. is quite a list of what he wants, he says we are very dependent on american cover, intelligence, surveillance, assets, we need to diversify. a big pitch for more money. a story that would have led the paper in any other week but this. let's end
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on the front page of the independent. my question to finish off, willjess phillips have the support of momentum, because that matters at this stage. jess phillips is an mp in the birmingham area, very funny, outspoken and popular but also not hugely experienced yet, so does she become labour leader?” hugely experienced yet, so does she become labour leader? i have this feeling that keir starmer may have got it in the bag. he is already exuding a certain authority. he could be someone that could take on borisjohnson at pmqs. could be someone that could take on boris johnson at pmqs. but momentum? momentum is supporting rebecca long bailey battery is seen as the corbyn continuity candidate and is that what the membership wants? it's not about the public, it's about —— it's not about the membership, it's about the public. we have to wait until february the fourth. thank
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you very much. 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. a big thank you to my guests this evening, lynn faulds wood and anne ashworth. that's all from us tonight. next on bbc news, it's the film review. hello and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases, mark kermode is back. i can say happy new year. happy new year! we are in award season, so we have a very good selection of movies because it's all the sort of big contenders.

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