w and and he and epstein and prince philip and he has been unwell. this is been a very stressful time for the queen so you can understand why they do want to find a solution as quickly as they can. you think the royal family know how to handle media and pr but it is such a steep learning curve, nonstop. let's turn to the front page of the daily mail. megan on it. that either of you watch the programme last night?” that either of you watch the programme last night? i caught up on it. i didn't watch it at the time. it was, i was surprised... i wasn't surprised issues came up but i was quite surprised about the way in which that row kind of escalated. especially the way that lawrence fox double down on his position. i know he was an actor. i wouldn't have had any idea about his political style of use, but after he referred to as a white pill malcolm he took offence to that and says that was racist. that's a white privilege mail. quite interesting for him to do that

because those things are facts about his, he is a white privilege mail, he comes from an acting dynasty, he went to public school. —— private school. it was almost like he was fed up with people saying that to him. he kinda just napped. fed up with people saying that to him. he kindajust napped. but today, he is again retracted position. —— he just today, he is again retracted position. —— hejust snapped. he is standing by and i'm really quite surprised about that. interesting that once you put a label to something, it suddenly is heading home. i think with racism, ba me for example, other people say i wish we didn't have those labels. because it is that distinction that really is the foundation of a lot of this, the subject of racism. we put a level two it a light white privilege, that is what you are, that is the

history, and i suppose that is the understanding force at what you think? one of the interesting things about this is how this goes to the heart of the way i think harry and meghan feel they have been treated by the tabloid press. —— what do you think? and there had to has been the simmering undertone of racism that they believe they have been subject to and she has been subject to. this isa to and she has been subject to. this is a way of forcing the question into the open anyway and maybe in the long term, it is very incredible but i think long—term will be a good think of some of these issues are fleshed out in this way but clearly it is not been said that overtly by the couple but clearly this is part of the mix in their decision. let's go to the final story on this particular issue. what do you make of that headline? laughter. another form of the brexit headline. i might go down by myself get a discount

mug. it is a very good front page. what a way of encapsulating the whole torturous debate that is man—made of a simple picture. i do wonder though, they have not to quit off, that was quite a long time ago now. i wondering off, that was quite a long time ago now. iwondering if off, that was quite a long time ago now. i wondering if there was already discounted. january sales. i'm sure it is directly linked to what is happening. fantastic advertising. serious matters on the front page. the discussions around trade talks. yes. very interesting because one of the key questions which of course a lot of us who have been covering the brexit stock i have been wondering about is how the uk try and sort of balance set up the desire to start reaching out to the desire to start reaching out to the us and other countries to start negotiating new trade deals with

those nations. —— brexit saga. and trying to score off this difficult with the eu. in the telegraph story tonight says that the uk it will try and open talks with the us before the eu. which would be a major move. you have to wonder whether this is just brinkmanship on the part of the johnson government, trying to put more pressure on the eu. the eu will not like this. they want them and they trade deal to be prioritised. they have already been making noise this week. hogan, who was in the us, talking about this, and just saying that there is a time, we went not forfeit this brick michelle. we have to focus on getting the right deal and the time available. —— brinkmanship. the idea of the uk will be distracted by getting the deal with the us come also going to be difficult because if you want to get a deal with the us, you will have to diverge with some of those

standards on food and agriculture. which the eu will demand if you want a simple trade deal with the uk so i think it will cause all sorts of problems, and one last point out this, bandwidth. the government is already going to be very strict. we don't have enough trained negotiators as it is to deal with the eu deal, let alone the idea that you can go check it with the us one. in terms of timing, as you said, they are saying they can turn around something in a fortnight in the us. that sounds ridiculous. quite frankly. the idea that the civil service come as great as they are, can do anything in a fortnight is far—fetched. as you outlined there, they're all these different issues. the idea of the level playing field is so intrinsic to the eu and what they will stand for, if you do just wa nt they will stand for, if you do just want translate this, and i think domestically, borisjohnson want translate this, and i think domestically, boris johnson has want translate this, and i think domestically, borisjohnson has had a bit ofa domestically, borisjohnson has had a bit of a honeymoon. he has diffuse majority. his big thing was to say i

negotiated the exit deal with the eu. where theresa may didn't. sceptics will say that it's because you changed the eu red lines. but now comes the real difficult part. what are his priorities? if he wants to do that deal with the us, how does he guarantee that you don't have things like coordinated chicken is the big eye one? but that you don't diverge from eu standards? his ministers have kept them saying that the uk has led the way i'm standards when it comes to things like environmental protection and food but there is no suggestion that we will hold out when it comes to us negotiations and actually this will overs ha d ow negotiations and actually this will overshadow everything else. the situation in iran, whether we keep with our european partners, it will be sort of indicating initially, then borisjohnson be sort of indicating initially, then boris johnson indicated be sort of indicating initially, then borisjohnson indicated that we would prefer that trunk deal, it really is difficult to separate that

from the fact that we are desperate to get a deal with the us. and boris johnson will have to find a way to outline what he actually wants. and i think we learned the lesson last yearin i think we learned the lesson last year in terms of the process. and the steps that have to happen before something is agreed. the eu was already saying that their mandate before anything starts, talking large. so you get a feeling of what actually the reality of it is. as you said, we don't have enough negotiators but the eu, this is what they do. they know, there are processes for this. staying with the telegraph, on the other side of the front page, violent offenders avoiding prosecution through the further prosecution. what does that mean exactly? very interesting story this. they are saying that basically far lower level offences, the telegraph story cites things like criminal damage, afraid, drug possession, low—level drug dealing,

offenders will be allowed to escape prosecution if they agree to rehabilitation as part of a deferred charge scheme that is already been ruled out with a number of police forces. the uphill there is that you can really cut cost, you can really reduce the number of prosecutions you have to go through, reduce the numberof you have to go through, reduce the number of people who end up dead already very overcrowded prisons. you can see there are a lot of advantages that i do, people will start to wonder what is the point of punishment if you're just going to simply deferred these defences? and the cost to the victims as well. what is interesting is from this piece, it seems like it has artie been used quite a lot. i don't recall, maybe reading about this before. it would be interesting to see if there's any data on how well it is working. it sounds almost like giving somebody a suspended sentence. by doing something with them and that period to stop reoffending, which sounds completely

illogical, a lot of these things, it depends about the resources that are put in. and how it is operating. the victims, some concern from the victims, some concern from the victims commissioner about the status of victims in this. —— it sounds completely logical. whether somebody who is charged with a client acknowledges guilt, and it where the victim fits into all of this. let's turn quickly to a page four of the daily mail. we have a brexit bonanza coming our way. laughter. sist of brexit bonanza coming our way. laughter. 31st of january. brexit bonanza coming our way. laughter. 31st ofjanuary. what details is that? it may not be quite the bonanza some have been demanding. getting big ben to chime on the 31st. but what boris johnson has announced tonight his plans for wait for it, a light showing an downing street and they will actually project a clock into downing street so everybody will know at the right moment at 11pm there will also be a light show on whitehall i think and also a big speech from johnson on the day, and

to stick with the theme in which the government has been pushing since they won the election in december, a cabinet meeting in the north to really prove that those who backed them that they really are on their side. so maybe not what some of the brexiteers want but a very difficult forjohnson and the government because they can't... absolutely. don't forget come early this week he was saying the public should ship in an they subsequently did. they raced out of the pound. interesting because before we sat down i checked with that fund looks like. the paper is quoted billy my quota it is below but it is currently at 243,000 and 31. what happens with all of that money? if it will not be used? the one that mark francois, the brilliant backbencher is to come in and says that if they don't raise the full amount, or if it is not used,it the full amount, or if it is not used, it will go to help for some people donating know what will happen to their money. we have a

coming up at 11:30 p:m.. thank you david bond and nicola bartlett. thank you forjoining us. 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 david bond and nicola bartlett. see you at the top of the hour. hello. thank you forjoining me. it really did look very threatening at times not just really did look very threatening at times notjust across a new forest, this was one particular view taken by one of our weather watchers, mostly showers pass come a wee bit a blue sky in the mix with the showers

for some never blue sky in the mix with the showers for some never very blue sky in the mix with the showers for some never very far away. what news of the forthcoming weekend but i think we will see a good deal more of this sort of thing. maybe eventually for some of you but i'm sure we will get there because the forthcoming weekend does promise the prospect of a drier and sunnier but colder weekend and perhaps anything we've enjoyed of late. british isles stuck in here. no pressure, not1 million miles away and so often this week, and this year, pointing to other low pressures waiting to come towards the british isles. what is this? saturday, high pressure builds in and forces that low—pressure down towards the burmese into the mediterranean. were it will cause an awful lot of problems. close of the home, high pressure on monday, and much of the forthcoming week dominated by that high. but it does mean the other face of winter is introduced to the british isles. and we start cold and crisp and bright. that low—pressure i talked about me just throw a veil of high cloud

across a good part of england and wales, tempering the sunshine. it doesn't stop it being a dry and a bright and a crisp day. where we had been at 13 or 14 at times in the past week. much closer to 68 degrees right across. still showers running to the northeast of scotland. having got to 8 degrees, perhaps on saturday. i did make the clear sky overnight, there will be much clearer and it becomes a much colder night. cold and crisp and frosty, a little bit of mist and fog, and then we are off and running good sunday and this could be blue skies all the way for the greater part of the british isles, say for this northwest quarter of scotland a mild relatively southwest a league temperatures to 10 degrees perhaps in the storm. elsewhere, not too much in the way a breeze, you will need a few layers but you get to 68 degrees with plenty of sunshine. but a frosty start from monday morning. -- 6-8d. and a frosty start from monday morning. —— 6—8d. and foggy for your committee on monday morning. all the while, still the cloud running again

to the north. more widely across scotla nd to the north. more widely across scotland and northern ireland, but at least it is a fraction mild here and further south, after that frosty start, we end up again with another cold and bright day, and that is the way we go on for the first half of the forthcoming week. enjoy your weekend.

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