1 “mt: “mt ‘ instinct is wait: “mt : if‘ai‘ii “aghtit 1: itfifisit 1it could. —— my instinct is that it could. —— my instinct is that it could. what will, but we don't know how that will play in terms of the election. i suppose for the democrats as you are saying the danger is it plays into his hands. but isn't there also possible upside for them that it doesn't swing some potential voters to their way, it is all to play for the selection. it will be embarrassing for him, there is no doubt about that. that's why he's desperate to do the distraction techniques. to make people look the other way. there was a lot of suggestion that iran was partly a way of making people look elsewhere. but also to reinforce his hard man image and that he is the protector of the country. he is prepared to do whatever it takes to keep his people safe. as i was saying, i think a lot for happens in the actual election will be affected by what goes on in the economy this year. he has been in power for the economy this year. he has been in powerfora term the economy this year. he has been in power for a term already, if he is riding the wave of his tax cuts relatively low interest rates, and

the trade were kind of not having heard as much, then that might work to his favour. but if we do see a slowdown, if the trade were dose search or reignite, and if the rest of the world slows adults it wilson might be in countries in 2020, i think that will be the big thing that impacts his chances. it was a booklet new site it is all about the economy, stupid. always, let's look at the next orifice of —— it was bill clinton who said it's about the economy, stupid. david attenborough has been talked about the climate, the crisis we've been hearing increasingly and now berlin have agreed to deal with the regions to eliminate the use of coal power by 2038, something angela merkel had committed to, now she's flushing out how it will work. this is a huge amount of money going towards a deal that has been struck, a

decentralised country, in the regions. a federal and local, the local regions have power and some of the private corporations involved in this system. it's a 40 billion euros, a lot of money, and it signals i think her seriousness about this because germany is very committed to reusable austerity, black zero, running budgets. and it goes against an increase in spending. the fact she's giving money to it does suggest that this isa money to it does suggest that this is a big step forward. i think the question now is are we going to be seeing more of this stuff at the european level? to ship the power to push this out to the rest of europe or will it be something confined to the northern countries? coal a massive industry in germany, critics saying the compensation will not make enough difference to the people who will lose their way for hoods and the businesses that will have to go and the businesses that will have to 9° by and the businesses that will have to go by the wayside. it's absolutely

huge. i think it is about 40% of germany's electricity comes from coal. that's a huge amount and also they are phasing out nuclear power. nokia power has often been seen as the greener way of producing power. this is a mammoth task. there has to bea this is a mammoth task. there has to be a little bit of angela merkel here trying to set a big legacy for herself. she's obviously on her way out. it is the longest retirement since frank sinatra. she not going until 2021. but if she can pull this off and set this direction, that would be a huge legacy for her. it's interesting to see... some time to meet this target, 2038 but i want to do. let's move on to the metro, the headline tied my payback time this is all about social media companies with some companies assaying having to hand over user data and pay millions of houses tackle mental

health. caused by their sites and this is that that this young girl molly russell took her own life after her dad said and many agreed that she viewed self—harm content on instagram. yeah, i think that she viewed self—harm content on instagram. yeah, ithink this that she viewed self—harm content on instagram. yeah, i think this is another step towards the attempts to properly regulate and tax these huge, a huge multinational digital companies but multinationals more broadly because we have had scandal after scandal over the last ten years mainly about multinational corporations shifting tax, not paying what they should trying to avoid regulation. all the more severe with these huge digital giants that are so integrated into all of our lives. they are like utilities, a lot of the time you can't not use some of the google or facebook or whatever. and yet, they are completely almost out of the reach of many national governments to regulate and there has been slow movements to work together to change

that. the pace has not come quickly enough. ending to a situation where we can say governments have more control over at the data produced by the users... —— getting to a situation. instagram has placed to remove images of self—harm. there is a shift stop you i have written so many times a story about the government is pushing for... for social media companies to take more action themselves or else we will regulate, we will crack down on this type of behaviour. and yet nothing seems to happen. what is the tipping point? there was a consultation last year on online harm and there were about 2000 responses to that. and i think the government is do to respond to that in the coming months. but i think borisjohnson's instincts tend to be on the more liberal side. he's not massively interventionist, probably less than theresa may would be on this. i'm not quite sure how tough he actually

is going to be. that from the royal couege is going to be. that from the royal college of psychiatry. what's move on to the grenfell inquiry and the guardian now. it had links to one of the cladding firms involved. tell us more about this. quite complicated but new information brought in, who was an engineer who was brought in a charity who had links to the firm that was responsive for the cladding. is not a direct link of such but obviously if you were one of the family members, that's unacceptable. and they are really upset about it. the family spent the night and they made it clear that they think there should be more independence. the prime minister has released a statement saying the premise or reaffirm his commitment to get to the truth of what happen, learn lessons to deliverjustice to the victims stomach and look ahead to the next stage. it will be an

issue. coming on the back of all the mistakes after mistakes the government has made in this and the families coming out and saying they haven't heard enough and... the way they were treated by the council, when they raise concerns initially, people who have been re—house, massive parity for the government which is not good. onto a later story here, in the guardian the shocking news this evening, sandi toksvig is a standing down as one of the presenters, you're a big bake—off fan. are you upset?|i the presenters, you're a big bake-off fan. are you upset? i am sad to see her go for some i'd like to know what is going on for some is that behind the scenes tension? when the programme transition to channel for, i was one of the many viewers who was resistant to the change. —— channel 4. it retained its unique british sense of humour. and it kept its fear is posted there were great pair the two of them. quite an

eccentric little duo. said it is being broken up. we will see who replaces her. nowhere in that, i am sure she's off to do other projects. it must be quite intense when you film. 0k, it must be quite intense when you film. ok, the times here, i have been building up to this now. that's going on behind the scenes if we will get this out in one go. big ben long backfires. thank you, brilliant! tell us what this is about. this is a subject close to my paper's heart. definitely some kind of shenanigans going on behind the scenes. the public, about 7000 people have contributed their own money to allowing big ben to bong for brexit. because big bend is undergoing repairs so it is

assignment. and parliament tree officials say it was a five and £1000 to restore it for brexit night which seems an extra ordinary amount, but people forwarded given 100,000 pounds in 24 hours. but now parliamentary officials are saying that they probably can't do it a nyway that they probably can't do it anyway because... because that will cost a lot more because people have to go in to do it and then repair... a lot of money to begin with. they had official outside... it's a symbolic part of our... so is boris johnson excepted it won't happen? the problem is borisjohnson it was him who said a bong for big bend. he wants to do this festival on brexit day, some sort of a party where... there being cagey about it. to be fairto numberten, there being cagey about it. to be fair to number ten, they are trying to consider both sides of the

country on this debate. there is that fine line between exuberance, celebrations, and people who will be extreme upset about it. but one thing we know, big ben ain't going to be belonging. thank you for watching the papers. thank you to both who would be back at 1130 at the papers for some and you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc website and bbc data, and if you miss the programme, you can watch it on the bbc iplayer. sam and grace who was see you later. hello there. after all the rough weather, the wet and windy weather we've had to contend with this week, you will be pleased to hear things are about to calm down but notjust

yet. the earliest satellite picture shows this stripe of god bringing out brinks of rain, showery clouds falling behind, and you see this book here. a brisk wind affecting the far north and north—west of scotland. starting friday morning with temperatures generally between four and with temperatures generally between fourand 9 with temperatures generally between four and 9 degrees. as you go through the day we will see quite a few showers, hefty ones across parts of england and wales. this will contain hail and thunder at times. this band of showers pushing down across scotland and northern ireland, snow mixing and over the hills above 300 metres in scotland and more showers put in to the far north—west later in the day. some sunny spells in between, the air sta rts sunny spells in between, the air starts to turn colder from the north—west and it stays quite windy in the north of scotland, quite windy here through friday night into the early hours of saturday. further showers, low levels at this stage, further south, dry and clear spells. it will be a colder night with temperatures close to freezing and below freezing in a few places. that leads us into our spell of comb

weather, drier and brighter for the weekend, some overnight frosts but look at the pressure chart. the areas of low pressure that have been dominant get muscled out of the way by this big area of high pressure, the strong powerful area of high pressure which is really going to settle things down through the weekend. a lot of dry weather out there with some sunshine after that cold start on saturday. some showers blowing in across scotland where it stays fairly windy through the day. top temperatures on saturday down and where they have been between six and where they have been between six and 9 degrees but there will be more sunshine and it will not be as windy for most. it might feel a little more pleasant. saturday night into sunday it will be another cold one starting off with sunday frost in the morning, temperatures at freezing or below some spots in the countryside could be —3 or —4. but after that cold start it is looking like a fine day with long spells of sunshine. more clowns of the north—west of scotland, rain may be for the northern isles, still breezy

here. temperatures between six and 9 degrees and another chilly night for many in the south on sunday night and a greater chance of far to take us and a greater chance of far to take us into monday morning. —— of fog to ta ke us into monday morning. —— of fog to take us into monday morning.

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