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Sheffield. Mark Cavendish has claimed his third | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
stage win on the Tour of Turkey. That is in 15 minutes, straight | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
after The Papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead | :00:08. | :00:21. | |
to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are Beth Rigby, | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
deputy political editor at The Financial Times, and the writer and | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
comedian David Schneider. Let's look at the front pages. We are going to | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
start with the Daily Telegraph and the arrest of Gerry Adams, which | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
features on its front page. The Sinn Fein President is being questioned | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
tonight about the murder of Jean McConville back in 1972. According | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
to the Guardian, there has been a huge surge in work is tied to zero | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
our contracts. The main Jeremy Paxman who is quitting Newsnight. | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
Financial Times has news of Government advisers apparently | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
making money during the privatisation of Royal Mail. The | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
express says an EU tax which could damage UK pensions has been given | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
the green light. The picture is of Bob Hoskins, who has died at the age | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
of 71. The actor also features on the Metro's front page. The lead | :01:16. | :01:23. | |
story is a warning from the World Health Organisation about the | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
effectiveness of antibiotics. We are going to chat through those stories | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
in a moment but we will start with the Daily Telegraph. Gerry Adams | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
arrested over a 1972 murder. He has been linked to this in some quarters | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
for many years that he has always denied it. An astonishing story | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
breaking tonight. It has just broken and the Daily Telegraph have managed | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
to get it on their front page. Gerry Adams has been arrested in | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
connection with the murder of Jean McConville in 1972. The background | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
to the story is that he was implemented in the killing `` | :01:59. | :02:06. | |
implicated in the killing by IRA veterans who gave taped interviews | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
for a Boston College project. These have been passed back to the Irish | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
police. He has been arrested tonight. He strongly denies the | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
involvement in it. The political fallout of this is huge, | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
potentially. It has come in just as local elections are happening. Sinn | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
Fein is saying it is completely politically motivated and one has to | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
wonder what will happen to Adams in terms of his career within Sinn | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
Fein. Is this the moment that he steps back, he retires? OK. These | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
are of course all allegations and he denies them all. He would argue, | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
David, that we are in the middle of an election campaign, the European | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
and parliamentary elections and so on, and the timing is interesting | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
because the allegations have been swirling for years. I am sure that | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
is a thing that he could say and perhaps it is the case. I don't | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
know. What worries me, as an Englishman sitting here in England, | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
you see Martin McGuinness with the Queen, something you could never | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
imagine in the 70s. You sort of go, oh, and you get misty eyed about it. | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
I was in Northern Ireland a couple of weeks ago and it just reminded me | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
that the bitterness is just under the surface for a lot of people. | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
That is what worries me about things like this. Hearing the details of | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
the murder, it brings out all the animosity that is just under the | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
surface for some people. Sure. The allegation was that Jean McConville | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
was a spy working on behalf of the British security services, and that | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
is why she was targeted by the IRA. Hearing those stories reminds people | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
in Northern Ireland of how far they have come. Again that is the English | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
being misty eyed and being a hippy, but you hope that they remember that | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
this piece that they have now is worth preserving. The danger is that | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
it pulls them back. On tape from beyond the grave Brendan Hughes, a | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
leading IRA man and former close associate of Mr Adams, said the | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
direct orders to kill Jean McConville came from Gerry Adams. | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
That is what he has alleged. The PSNI finally got their hands on | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
these tapes. It was a long and drawn`out process getting these | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
tapes from Boston. As we have been saying, he has denied any | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
involvement in this and Sinn Fein is suggesting this is politically | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
motivated. So we will see what develops there. Let's go on to the | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
Telegraph. David, huge surge in workers tied to zero our deals. | :04:57. | :05:06. | |
Cable urged to focus on employment issues. Whenever I hear the | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
Government talking about hard`working people I feel they | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
should be talking about hardly working people. Now the issue is not | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
unemployment but underemployment, this zero`hour thing. The Government | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
is crying out loudly and proudly about unemployment figures, but | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
there are so many people, and I know this from personal experience of | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
care workers that I come into contact with with elderly parents, | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
who are run zero`hour contract and don't have the security of knowing | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
how much money they will have. This is the underbelly of having | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
relatively stable employment through a very deep recession. The | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
unemployment figures have actually not been as bad as people expected. | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
But the quid pro quo is that people are working on much poorer returns. | :05:49. | :05:57. | |
Some people like that. Yes. That is the point the Government makes. Some | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
people like to have flexible working because they are caring for children | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
and elderly parents and so on. But the figures. One main people when a | :06:09. | :06:17. | |
year ago it was 583,000. `` 1.3 million people. It sounds like | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
unscrupulous employers are going for it and they can do what they want. | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
Labour are really on the attack on all this and it all plays into their | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
cost of living crisis argument, that they understand what real people are | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
going through and the nasty Tories don't. In Vince Cable's defence, the | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
Lib Dem Business Secretary, he is actually very concerned about | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
zero`hour contract but he is working in a coalition with Conservatives. | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
Two years ago they were trying to completely deregulate employment law | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
through the reforms that were a series of reforms put forward by a | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
Tory donor that said let's do away with maternity and paternity rights | :07:01. | :07:01. | |
and completely deregulate the employment market. Vince Cable | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
managed to block that. What he is going to try and do, I think, and | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
zero`hour contract, bar the worst excesses of it such as exclusivity, | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
where an employer does not give you a contract but then says you must | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
not work for anyone else, which is deeply unfair? He must empathise | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
with that because he had exclusivity for the coalition! How he must want | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
to work with Labour on bass and tear up his own zero`hour contract! `` on | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
this. What comes into this is the debate on minimum wage. I think it | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
is absolutely incumbent on the Government of that as the economy | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
does pick up that they are seen to be tackling zero our contracts and | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
poor employment conditions for people and tackling low wages. | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
Otherwise they are not going to bring people with them by 2015. I | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
hope so. What they are doing is saying, don't look at the people | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
suffering, look at the great statistics and the unemployment | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
figures. But in their defence it is surely better to have a job in a | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
recession even if it is a pretty awful job? But that is how people | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
are exploited. You say it is better to have a job. Be grateful. But if | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
you can't live on the money that you own, that also creates problems. | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
Then they need to have top ups from the Government, housing benefits. It | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
is about paying a decent wage, not any job. Employers need to make sure | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
that as the economy picks up, there is a trickle down to workers. I | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
think if they don't do that... Labour will continue to talk about | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
the cost of living crisis? Yes. I don't think it is politically | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
tenable for the Government not to do more on both these things. OK. | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
Staying with the Guardian, Paxo is off. Clive, don't do the same! The | :08:57. | :09:08. | |
BBC would collapse, man! No, no, I'm holding his place up... There is | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
more pressure on you now. The end of an era. It really is! You know, we | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
sort of suspected something when the beard appeared, personally. When a | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
man who is tired of shaving, he is tired of life at the BBC! That is | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
what I reckon. I thought... He stopped wearing socks as well with | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
his shoes ` no, I have made that up! What happens under the desk stays | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
under the desk. If only people knew what was going on under here! Yes, | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
it is really ` obviously, his house style was being fed up. It is hard | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
to really notice that he's now REALLY fed up. Also, in Westminster, | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
if you are talking to a politician and they have got to go on Newsnight | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
and you say, "Who is on tonight?" It is Paxman. They are terrified. He is | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
so effective at what he does. I think it is going to be hard to ` he | :10:10. | :10:20. | |
is irreplaceable. Yes. I saw Piers Morgan tweeted... There you go. | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
David Moyes is free now! That can only end well. On a serious note, it | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
is a blow. He's come in, he's reinvigorated the programme. Within | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
my kind of little bubble in Westminster, the programme is | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
getting traction and people are watching it again and people are | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
talking about it. Then he loses his start player. That is difficult. | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
Apparently, he informed the BBC last year, so the BBC has known... Was it | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
around the beard time? It all makes sense now! So, the impression is | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
that he knew this was coming and hopefully he's been plotting a | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
succession, if that is the right word. Clive, come on! Easy. Do your | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
pitch now. A couple of people, two have suggested it might be a good | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
idea. Why would I leave a programme like this? Why would you? Just | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
kidding! OK. We will go on to the Metro. This is scary. This is a | :11:23. | :11:34. | |
story saying that antibiotics are becoming useless against | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
increasingly resistant strains of bacteria. This is a World Health | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
Organisation warning. It is funny, isn't it, that in the West, in | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
modern Western society, advanced Western society, we are now | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
developing, you know, advanced oncology drugs et cetera and if your | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
cancer, 50% of patients survive a decade or more. Yet, right at the | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
other end of basic medicine, companies obviously aren't | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
developing antibiotics that actually protect the mass majority of the | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
world. It is a really worrying story. Yes. I interviewed a | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
microbiologist tonight who said they have known that this kind of problem | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
was going to be developing over the last few years. And the World Health | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
Organisation, the authorities around the world, haven't really got on top | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
of the situation. There is a sense where, you know, I mean we are all | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
to blame. Blame was placed on patients failing to finish courses | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
of treatment. We were so ` 20 years ago, we were very casual about | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
antibiotics and it is all coming home to roost. We only get the | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
front`pages. I don't know what the action is that we need to take. Who | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
says we have to act quickly? You feel you do have to do something | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
about it. Alright. OK. I this I we will end it there. No time for Bob | :12:58. | :13:06. | |
Hoskins this time round. Beth, David, you will be back in an hour. | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
Thank you for that. Stay with us because at the top of the hour, we | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
will have much more on the news that the President of Sinn Fein has been | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
arrested over an historic murder inquiry. We will have the latest | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
from Belfast. Now, it is time for Sportsday. | :13:24. | :13:41. | |
Hello and welcome to Sportsday. Coming | :13:42. | :13:42. |