wells hello. this is bbc news with lukwesa burak. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment — first the headlines. wo. 0h, wo. oh, my god. a major incident is declared by police in south wales as flooding and landslides caused by storm dennis lead to a number of road closures. heavy rain and strong winds continue to lash large parts of the uk, with hundreds of flood alerts in place, including five severe warnings. itv cancels tonight's edition of love island out of respect for the family of former presenter caroline flack. the broadcaster says it's devastated by her death.

thousands of passengers have faced major disruption at heathrow airport, after a systems failure affected all terminals. the airport says the technical problems have now been resolved. announcer: now calling only those american guests from emerald deck who are... us citizens quarantined for days on a cruise ship injapan are leaving after america sends two planes to take them home. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are rob merrick, the deputy political editor at the independent, and ruth lea, who's an economics adviser for the arbuthnot banking group. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. in the times, europe talks tough on trade —

a french minister has warned europe and britain will ‘rip each other apart‘ during negotiations for a deal. the telegraph says dementia patients are being dumped in hospital and that the closure of care centres puts 100,000 people a year in a&e. leading the guardian, another doctor from the same firm as a rogue breast surgeon who was jailed for 15 years — is accused of harming patients. in the mirror, we've lost it all — despair over the impact of storm dennis after a record number of emergencies across britain. the mail's headline is ‘flack feared a show trial‘ the paper claims that the tv star warned police she would take her own life after being charged for the assault of her boyfriend. the metro also has that story and carries the tribute from caroline flack‘s boyfriend promising to get answers after her death.

starting off our chat with storm dennis. the front page of the guardian. what do you make of that picture? i think the guardian has the best for the worst picture, if you like. the aerial shot of the lake. flooded beyond repair, more and more misery. 0ne lake. flooded beyond repair, more and more misery. one part of the country last week, just a week ago in yorkshire, now it is south wales. interesting today that the environment minister was acknowledging the influence of climate change, making these extreme events climate change, making these extreme eve nts m o re climate change, making these extreme events more frequent. these sorts of things begs the question about whether the government is doing enough. it can acknowledge the impact of climate change, it doesn't seem to be doing anything significant to mitigate that. and for many years, of course, we have

been warning about more frequent events but we cut the amount of flood schemes we were putting in place and i'm not saying that this area would have been protected, i don't know this to be the case, but there are other areas of the country that were promised flood schemes and it wasn't put in place. i now the government is acknowledging these things will become more frequent. the first thing i want to say is it must be absolutely shocking and appalling to be under these floods. we have had one storm after another storm and the ground is saturated. these are extreme events and without going onto much about climate change, the problem is, we are responsible for 1% of the global total. are you going to tell me that china are going to stop building cauliflower —— china are going to stop building cauliflower — — coal—fired china are going to stop building cauliflower —— coal—fired power stations? i don't think they are. we have to say we are taking...

emerging nations are very unlikely to follow. this isn't to take away from how appalling this is. people who are actually suffering from these floods. the front page of the mirror does look at this suffering. we have lost it all. that is the reality. it is shocking. it is not just that your house is full of, you know, water. it is going to be filthy. to actually sort of clean up the house and dry it out, it is going to take months. the damage must be horrendous. i feel desperately sorry for these people. why don't you take it is to the budget. doubts over the budget, doubts over the timing, doubts under the content. last week when sajid javid resigned as the chancellor, they said it was going to be definitely on the 11th but three

days later, it shows that they are still unable to tell us the date. it is remarkable. it is only three and a half weeks away. the government is trying to rewrite its fiscal rules with just a few weeks to go. the chancellor made way because it appears he wasn't prepared to opening the spending in the way that borisjohnson opening the spending in the way that boris johnson wants. he opening the spending in the way that borisjohnson wants. he had imposed some spending rules which were already loosening the fiscal position so the country was going to be spending more money that it seems the prime minister wants to spend more money on top of that. we have a new chancellor. we will have some new chancellor. we will have some new fiscal rules was that expected? the treasury is a subsidiary of numberten the treasury is a subsidiary of number ten which is what happened essentially last week but i think the truth is we don't know what is going to be in budget. it is a fair bet that the fiscal rules will be slackened further so there will be extra expenditure and extra

borrowing stop extra strain on the economy was not notjust on infrastructure spending but also it says here, numberten infrastructure spending but also it says here, number ten reportedly was to change the day today spending rules on day—to—day spending which is the current spending to increase nhs and social care expenditure. i think that is really quite interesting because that tells you where their priorities are i think on the spending. added to which the philip hammond in the last budget which was in autumn 2018, believe it or not, it seems 100 years ago, it actually increased nhs spending quite a lot and he was talking about an extra 20 billion over the next few years. it seems to be the focus of where they want to increase their current spending. but we will have to wait. yes, yes, we are all waiting. the front page of the times. europe talks tough on trade. we are going to rip each other

apart. an extraordinary comment from the french foreign minister today. we expected a tough battle ahead on brexit but we didn't know it was going to be cage fighting. a few weeks ago, the eu were all lovey—dovey, we're going to miss you, we will miss you, come back if you, we will miss you, come back if you want, now they are going to rip us you want, now they are going to rip us apart. this is where ruth and i are going to disagree. the uk will win. i am going to say who is going to win is whoever has a united strategy against the one who has been stumbling from one chaotic position to another. ruth will tell you why i am wrong. beyond belief, we had plenty of cards in our hand, believe me. what are they? 95 billion trade surplus the eu has with us on goods. think about it, 95 billion for top germany has 30

billion. that is not trivial. especially when you think the german economy is struggling because other markets are weakening. gdp was flat in the fourth quarter. germany does not want to see its market, it is you could — — not want to see its market, it is you could —— lucrative uk markets being damaged in any way. believe me, boris is going to go for a canada me, boris is going to go for a ca na da style me, boris is going to go for a canada style free trade agreement andl canada style free trade agreement and i think that is what we will get. very quickly, ruth. how are the books balancing the eu books looking? they have to find other countries to pay for them. this year will be the current seven year budget next year it will be up to germany and various other contributor countries to actually spend more. 0r contributor countries to actually spend more. or they will actually give less to the countries that are

net acquirers. when you see this comment about the eu and britain about to tear each other apart, it is worth taking a step back. we were talking about the enormous challenge of climate change in the future where we need to be working together with countries, not just across europe stop we have the crazed demagogue in the kremlin and the white house who are the real threats and here we are about to go to war with people who are our friends and allies. we are not going to war with them, they will do a deal, they will be pragmatic, take my word for it. you promised you would whack the stories and you are doing it, ruth, thank you. really worrying story, dementia patients dumped in hospitals, why? it seems to be, i say i think this has to be the

government's priority when it comes to spending, current spending because quite clearly there is a proper social care and this specific aspect of this is that the telegraph investigation showed quite a lot of the day care centres that looked after dementia sufferers to alleviate the burden on the carers, have closed. far too many of these have closed. far too many of these have closed. far too many of these have closed. that seems to coincide with a large number, a sharp rise, in the numberof with a large number, a sharp rise, in the number of dementia patients that are in hospital. this is going to bea that are in hospital. this is going to be a problem, i'm afraid to say, that will require extra money and it is going to get worse because we have an ageing population. we cannot get away from that. what was mentioned about it in the tory ma nifesto ? mentioned about it in the tory manifesto? they certainly use the word care, and a social, but they didn't have a plan. when boris johnson came in, he said he had a plan for social care and was going to tell us what it was. he then went

on to admit that he had no plan. they ran away from the issue in the election campaign because of course during theresa may's ill—fated campaign, the dementia tax went back to bite —— came back to bite her. hence we have no idea what the government really wants to do on social care and then the premise admits it was going to be five years before any thing was in place. i feel sorry for the dementia patients being empty in hospitals. i think it is 900,000 people who have lost social care over the last decade, free social care, they used to receive some. there is really no reason to think things are going to improve anytime soon. the question is what are they going to do with this extra money? my speculation, i mean, we don't know, we can only speculate, you don't know and i don't know. it could well be that especially thinking of the story, they are looking for extra funding but we will find out. we will stay

with the front page of the daily telegraph and the story we're looking at now, if we just in, conservatives' bbc vendetta will cost votes, according to backbenchers. there is concern that the number ten's vendetta against the number ten's vendetta against the bbc will cost them votes and damian green, also a very moderate former cabinet minister has said that destroying the bbc wasn't in our manifesto. there's going to be a consultation on replacing the license fee with a subscription model but we will wait for that consultation. the number ten source said about the consultation, we will whack it. i am not quite sure what they will whack. are they going to work the bbc? it is a vendetta

against the bbc. i don't believe the government is going to abolish the license fee. instead they are into decriminalising. it is going to cost the bbc a lot of money and weaken the bbc a lot of money and weaken the bbc. i see it as an agenda to put the wind up it, to make it more scared, to make it less willing to stand up to the government. i should say it is notjust the conservatives who play this game. i thought what was particularly depressing today, another leadership —— another labour leadership. he saw candidates a sort of standing up but they were saying well, the bbc is no friend of the labour party. but is it the bbc‘s job to be the friend of any party? no party should demand that right. it is depressing that it is hard to find any politicians willing to put ina hugh

find any politicians willing to put in a hugh —— good word. find any politicians willing to put in a hugh -- good word. it is not the politicians that pay us, it is the politicians that pay us, it is the public. that is right. we are waiting to see what happens about it. apps very little happens about it. apps very little happens about it. we don't know. i keep saying this, we don't know. we are reviewers, we have to pretend that we do! we can find out once we have the answers. ruth and rob, thank you very much, it was very fun and thank you for watching. 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 7 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, rob merrick and ruth lea. that's all from us.