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Hello, this BBC News. We will take a look at the morning's papers in a | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
moment that here are the headlines. More storms are respected to batter | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
the UK in the coming days, engineers are still working to reconnect | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
thousands of homes across the UK which remain without power. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
Talks aimed at settling contentious issues left outstanding from the | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
peace process in Northern Ireland have broken off for the evening and | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
are set to resume on Monday. The family of a soldier killed in | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
Afghanistan say he was an exceptional young man. Captain | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Richard Holloway was killed in action on Monday. | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
Student supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt have clashed | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
with police at the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo, one | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
person has been killed. And how football is helping to | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
rebuild Afghanistan's fortunes after years of war as well as other | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
features from across the world in Reporters later on. | :01:12. | :01:24. | |
Welcome to our look ahead of what the papers will be bringing us | :01:25. | :01:32. | |
tomorrow. I am joined by Jeremy Cliffe from The Economist and Craig | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Woodhouse from The Sun. What a better way to meet them over the | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
front pages. The Observer warns that millions of homeowners will be | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
plunged into debt and could lose their homes in the wake of even a | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
small rise in interest rates. The Sunday Times leads with a warning | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
from the prime minister saying senior MPs are fearing for the | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
future of the United Kingdom. The Independent on Sunday has an | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
exclusive report that the Government is to set up a register for women | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
undergoing breast implant surgery. The Mail on Sunday from page says | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
that Romanians and Bulgarians will flock to Britain in much greater | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
numbers than thought previously. The Sunday Express is leaving with the | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
plight of storm victims who did not receive enough help. The Sunday | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
Telegraph reports that hundreds of pregnant foreigners are flying to | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
the UK just days before the birth in order to receive free care on the | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
NHS. Its front page also features the BBC's Fiona Bruce standing next | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
to the most expensive painting to have been uncovered by the Antiques | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
Roadshow. We will start with the Observer | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
which is a worrying headline for many people, mortgage rises which | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
may plunge many into perilous debt. We have got used to having such low | :02:54. | :03:02. | |
interest rates that we have maybe forgotten what it is like to have | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
mortgage rates go up month by month. We have been living on virtually 0% | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
interest rates which is great news if you have got a mortgage that | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
terrible news if you have savings. This story is worryingly predicting | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
that everybody knows that interest rates will go up in the not too | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
distant future, we are thinking sometime after 2015 which has now | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
been linked to the unemployment rate. And so many people who can | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
afford a house only because rates are low will not be able to afford | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
them, possibly around 2 million people depending on the speed at | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
which rates go up. We have seen this before, people just hanging on as | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
long as mortgage interest rates are level and we know people are | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
struggling to pay bills so this would add yet another further | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
squeeze. . As the bigger picture, the piece charts that people should | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
have used the low interest rates to pay off their debts and have not | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
done that but this overlooks the fact that real wages have been | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
falling for several years and to keep up the same standard of living | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
they are used to, people have been looking to debt to fill the. I | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
wonder if people have savings to fall back on because the temptation | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
when you look at the interest rate is to say, it is good for mortgages | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
but it is so low for savings, what is the point in saving? Lots of | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
people have done that and this story mentions the fact that a quarter of | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
people asked by a survey paid for Christmas by borrowing. One silver | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
lining is that interest rates will not go up until about 2015 so if you | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
have got a mortgage, you should squirrel money away between now and | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
then to provide a financial offer. And Mark Carney and the committee | :04:51. | :05:01. | |
that sets interest rates, have a choice about whether they do this. | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
There is a tacit understanding between Mark Carney and George | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
Osborne. There has been an assumption that the Bank of England | :05:15. | :05:23. | |
keep interest rates loose and tight cuts have been running in | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
conjunction with that. If interest rates are going up, it means and | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
implement is going down and the economy is ticking over, bad news | :05:33. | :05:43. | |
for mortgage owners but good news for savings if they go up. Tories | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
fear Scots will break away, this is a warning to David Cameron in The | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
Sunday Times that it might be a yes vote for independence. Ward Forsyth | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
-- Lord Forsyth has warned David Cameron that he needs to get | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
involved in this. Polls suggest that most Scots will vote to stay in the | :06:09. | :06:17. | |
union but this is interesting, Lord Forsyth is telling David Cameron to | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
go up to Scotland and get involved. Not many Scots like the Tories at | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
the moment that is what the election showed so there is a debate to be | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
had as to whether a conservative figure in the prounion campaign | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
would be a good thing or bad thing. Alistair Darling is doing most of | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
the legwork. Absolutely and there are Tory critics saying he is not | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
doing a very good job and the campaign is not being run in a very | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
good way but many Tories would be delighted if Scotland disappeared | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
because it would mean 50 Labour seats disappearing for ever and I | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
cannot say that publicly but there are plenty of them saying that in | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
the Westminster Parliament bars. The detail of how a break would be | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
managed will cause problems potentially for those who want an | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
independent Scotland. We have an article last week saying it is not | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
that straightforward about how quickly Scotland could become a | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
member of the EU in its own rights are lots of detail to be picked | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
over. But the detail is where it is at. There is a middle third of the | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
boat who are the swing voters who could go either way depending on | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
whether it will benefit the country economically and that rides on | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
whether it can be part of the European Union and what currency it | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
will views. There is no emotion in any of this debate. We'll blew still | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
be on the union Jack? Those are the things that will make English or | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
Welsh people sit up and say they do not want it being taken off the | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
flag. It is all being very dry at the moment. This is our country. But | :08:04. | :08:14. | |
it doesn't matter what the English think all the Welsh link because | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
they don't have a vote. For Alex Salmond, his greatest success so far | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
has been to summon up some of that emotion and the date of the | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
referendum I think coincides with the Battle of Bannockburn. He is a | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
man who knows how to use national symbols to summon up passion and | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
Craig is correct to say that the prounion side could take advantage | :08:42. | :08:50. | |
of that. We will get David Cameron with the union flag on his face! | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
Let's look at the Independent. An exclusive on its front page, action | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
on implants and their is a breast implant, one of the PIP variety that | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
caused so many problems when they began leaking in the women who had | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
them done. This is a national register which apparently would | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
prevent a repeat of this scandal. I don't know how a register would | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
prevent it, surely it is the type of implants you use grid Jamaat it | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
seems we have got similar sources because I have got almost the exact | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
same story as this. Is yours and exclusive? I was led to believe so! | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
At the moment, where as if you have a hip operation or a knee operation, | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
it is logged so it is marked with EU have ceramics or metal so there can | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
be product recalls -- it is marked so that if you have ceramics. After | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
the scandal with PIP, Bruce Keogh did a review of cosmetics and there | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
will be a range of things and others by the Government of this is one -- | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
of which this is one. I imagine there is a slump in confidence | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
around things like this, whatever variety. Precisely, there are lots | :10:10. | :10:18. | |
of bits of evidence of cowboy activity because they are not part | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
of the core services of the National Health Service is. Many have them | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
done by private surgeons so people will now ask what they are getting | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
when they sign up for these and will look closely at the small print. | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
They are trying to stop these people preying on people with poor body | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
confidence so they will not be time-limited offers, people saying | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
they will give you a boot job for a cheaper price if you make a decision | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
by next week. Will it stop people going abroad? I would not think so. | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
In The Mail on Sunday, exposed: The true cost of our open borders. | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
Apparently Bulgarians and Romanians will come here in far greater | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
numbers than forecast. Interesting how we know that. This is a Daily | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
Mail story they got from inside the Home Office apparently from one of | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
their sources which suggests that some estimates - we're not told | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
which ones - two conservative. I have to say, if that is the case, | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
then that is all to be good. Britain has got a demographic crunch coming | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
and we need hard-working people from Eastern Europe. Those who have come | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
from Poland and other EU accession states have worked hard and paid | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
taxes to a much greater way than they have claimed benefits. If you | :11:43. | :11:51. | |
ask people if they are happy for people to come and work hard and pay | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
taxes, people don't mind. It also depends where you ask that question. | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
People in areas heavily affected will take one view of the countries | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
that have come already and other places will not. Certainly the | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
controls on immigration being lifted on Wednesday, that is when we will | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
expect the surge. Looking at the Express, with the question, why | :12:18. | :12:27. | |
didn't anybody help us? With Cobra meeting, they do not usually meet | :12:28. | :12:36. | |
unless there is a serious problem. The Government being criticised and | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
energy companies criticised. Things need a proper looking at. It begs | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
the question, who can do what? When I was looking at David Cameron | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
visiting stricken homes, you have to wonder, this is surely a job for the | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
energy companies when it comes to getting the lights back on, for | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
local councils when it comes to local transport but what can they | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
Prime Minister do? I think the pie minister has been on a difficult | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
tightrope, he does not want to be seen to be making political hay but | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
he wants to be taking an interest. I do not know what he personally can | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
do about this. It is the oversight, there are so many different people | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
and organisations involved and I think it is important that somebody | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
has a central grip. There are probably lots of people off because | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
it was Christmas to try to fix it and there may be worse weather on | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
the way. If only we could control that. Let's move on to the Telegraph | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
and the final story of this, the picture story of the front page. | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
Let's skip to that. The antiques road show ?400,000 masterpiece. This | :13:52. | :14:09. | |
was a picture that was found on ten macro. A priest bought it for ?400. | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
Ella macro and now it is worth 400,000. I might go and worship at | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
his church! He obviously has a delightful paintings. Kudos is due | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
to your own Fiona Bruce, who I believe spotted the painting and | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
said he should have it checked out, because apparently the chap had | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
taken it to an assessor, who said it is definitely a forgery. It turned | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
that he was wrong. Yes, and Fiona had said that she had just done a | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
whole programme on van Dyck paintings, and she had picked up a | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
few tips. I think it will pay for new bells in that church. Quite a | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
lot of bells for ?400,000! You would have thought so. Well done to him. I | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
am sure they will sound extremely sweet when they chime for the first | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
time. That is it for this hour, but we will be back at 11:30pm for | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
another look at the stories on the front pages. Stay with us. In half | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
an hour, . -- in quarter of an hour, more on the flood devastation. | :15:08. | :15:11. |