10/07/2014 The Papers

of 24 degrees. A bit of everything as we move into the weekend, hot and

humid, and then turning pressure on Sunday.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow. Tomorrow's front pages...starting with... The

FT leads on fears over one of Portugal's biggest banks which led

to a sharp selloff of shares across European markets.

Money worries of a different kind feature in the Metro. The paper says

young women are getting into debt at twice the rate of men their own age

as they try keep up with celebrity lifestyles.

The Telegraph leads on a major health study that shows men who have

vasectomies are at a higher risk of developing prostate cancer.

The Guardian reports on the concessions the Prime Minister made

in order to secure cross party support for emergency surveillance

laws. The Independent also leads on those

emergency laws and says the Prime Minister is planning to reintroduce

what they call a 'snoopers' charter where people's social media and

internet history would be recorded. And the top story in the Express top

story reveals that a million more people are to be offered free weight

loss surgery in a bid to stop them developing diabetes and heart

disease. The Mail also leads on that story,

saying it means two million people may be eligible for the surgery

overnight. And The Mirror has a story about a

mother who said she could intuitively tell a man she met a

random had received her dead son's heart in a transplant operation. So

let's begin... We will start with the Daily Mail. Thousands more to

get obesity operations on the NHS, a call for a huge increase in surgery

and even obesity charities condemn it. It is an interesting story. One

in four of us is classified as obese and they think by 2050, half of us

will be. The cost are actually huge for the NHS. Something has to be

done and this is attracting quite a bit of controversy. They have

criticism from campaigners and patient groups saying that these

people should just eat less and exercise more. I think they are

wrong on this account. When you get to be morbidly obese, it is a

psychological issue and doctors across the world recognise that the

most cost`effective way to deal with it is through bariatric surgery as

it is the only thing that works. A recent report came out that

obesity, studied in 138 countries, over 30 years, none of them had

managed to cut the growth. It looks as if the Daily Mail, the way it has

written this, even obesity charities condemned this. I think the issue is

that lots of people who are perhaps watching this programme now,

themselves or their relatives would like various drugs to combat cancer,

expensive drugs and they are denied those treatments often by the NHS

and they think, why are overweight people who are. Way largely because

they eat too much going to get this and I can't? At Eden Hazard he

suggested, 10% of the whole cost will be about treating lifestyle

related diseases including obesity `` Ian. What do policymakers do with

that? They are saying that if we don't tackle the obesity crisis, and

this is one of the best ways to do it, we will not be able to afford

any kind of expansion of healthcare in years to come. We need to

differentiate between people who are minorly obese or overweight and

issues with people who are morbidly obese which is what we are talking

about. It is quite interesting, in country's that have healthcare, this

is often paid for. `` countries. It is quite cost`effective however much

the opposite it might seem. We will have to grapple with these big

issues or the NHS will not survive. Berlin puts its foot down over US

espionage and expels a spy. We found out not long ago that the national

security agency was spying on Germany and in fact, bugging the

mobile of Angela Merkel. Now we have all of this happening. It seems to

be added to the Cold War developing. OK maybe not. I think

the truth is, most nations spy on one another, for commercial or other

reasons. America has a big interest at the moment in knowing if Germany

is getting close to Russia and Britain. We spy? I think we do,

wobbly not an America. Do you believe that? `` probably. I do. I

don't think there is the kind of surveillance that we see an America

and Germany `` in. Germany is the economic powerhouse of Europe and

they are close to Russia for energy supplies and trade and therefore, a

may not take the kind of action that is needed to restrain it Russia in

places like Crimea and Ukraine because of these commercial

interests and so America is spying on Germany to understand how to deal

with that issue. Isn't that the kind of thing that Americans could get

anyway by talking to the ambassador or Angela Merkel? I do get is pretty

basic and rudimentary information that is usually eavesdropped on. ``

think it is. But if it is her mobile phone, they may be getting some

pretty sensitive information. We are talking about people within the

heart of the defence administration within Germany, so that would be

sensitive information and it is a big issue for both countries. Where

are we with Mac we will stay with the Financial Times and Wonga. The

Church of England has decided to cut its ties with Wonga as the

Archbishop of Canterbury famously said that payday lenders were a

scourge on society and should be dealt with but in fact, the

organisation that he runs has been deeply involved. It has not been a

correct episode for the Archbishop and it is probably his biggest

public scandals since he took over so it is quite embarrassing. He

famously said that he was going to rival Wonga and use his commercial

acumen to set up a church led sort of loan system which I don't think

we have seen much evidence of. He is a former city councilman as well. He

knows how the markets operate. It was a big mistake, wasn't it? Not

knowing that the church itself was involved with Wonga. It was

embarrassing and what was just alluded to is that he made a big

deal, shortly after he became The Archbishop of Canterbury, to say

that he would outcompete Wonga. What the church does no is that church

numbers are down in almost every part of the country `` know. One of

the things they usually get from every parish is collection money and

they are not getting it lately. So when he said that the Turks would

outcompete Wonga, `` church, my genuine question is why? The big

thing, the big promise that he made was an alternative offer. It was a

smart approach, but where is it? It would be quite sad if the church

doesn't follow through. They need to get some reporters on it to ask

questions. We need to sort this out. The Guardian. What is all this

about? A link to offshore tax havens at Nando's? . The Guardian has been

doing quite a bit of work on this and have been looking into everyone

who has money stashed away. Not just the Guardian. The Times as well. Am

I allowed to say that? Well this is just the latest one. The best weapon

against all this tax nonsense with company after company being caught,

we saw Starbucks as well, the public are now saying that there needs to

be far more transparency as the government has talked about it but

haven't actually done anything in terms of closing down these tax

havens. Air is too much going on. The strongest power will be just to

say that they will boycott these places. Are you going to forsake

your chicken? I haven't been for a long time. They are not doing

anything illegal, are they? They are not. We can condemn companies that

take aggressive forms of tax avoidance. Starbucks had struggled a

little bit since the revelations came out but we have a ludicrously

complicated tax system and the only people who seem able to understand

it are the highly trained and highly paid accountants. If the government

really wants to deal with this problem coming they will have to

simple by the tax system so that people cannot exploit these

loopholes. Because these people will always be able to afford the best

lawyers and accountants and they can always say that there is a moral

imperative to pay your fair share of taxes but beyond that the government

can't do much. You are absolutely right. They make it easy for them to

avoid tax. The harder we make it, the better it will be. It should

also be made known so that the public can decide whether they want

to give money to these people. We're going to go to the Independent. 1

million workers from public sector unions were out today protesting

cuts and pay freezes. The government says that less than half of that

took part. I am not sure that is the most attractive public`sector

servant that we have ever seen but that is the one the Independent has

chosen. It is interesting that he is almost on his own there, because

this is what the government has said. It was supposed to be one of

the biggest days of industrial action that Britain has seen and the

evidence seems to be that most of the services that were due to be

affected, most public`sector workers actually didn't go on the picket

lines and went to work. But one in five schools in England were

closed. These strikes were triggered by just 20% of members of trade

unions voting and yet, big disruption is possible when you have

very small turnouts. I think that is why the Conservatives are trying to

say that you can only have a strike if 50% of people take place in a

ballot. We had all the discussions yesterday, some MPs returned with

less than 10% of the vote. No MP had more than 50%. These arguments have

been swirling around for hours. I suppose the point is that everyone

agrees, the government agrees, and says that it is a good thing that

public`sector workers are in a worse state now than they were four years

ago. Gas, but they also don't have pension security `` yes. But when

you talk about the private sector, you are including bankers from the

Royal Bank of England. There has been a pay increase of 8% in many

places but if you take out bankers and a certain people who are earning

much more than your teacher or your garbage man, it is not point to be

right. There is no doubt that it is tough to be in the private sector

and I don't think anyone should hide from that. The correct answer is to

consider whether children not going to school is the issue. Nobody

doubts that they're working very hard in the public`sector and Don

reduced budgets but the reality is that we cannot afford to carry on

spending as we are. The debt is still rising and we have to resolve

it. Strike is not the best way to resolve it, in my opinion. On to the

Telegraph. Oh, nevermind. I have been told that it is the Metro. Here

we are. I can see why you really want to do this story. It is

important. Women/the plastic to keep up with female celebrities ``

flash. We have just been talking about the debt we are in as a nation

but Britain has a twin debt crisis and that his household and personal

debt. We have the highest in Europe and it is still very dangerous. That

is with interest rates at extraordinary historically low

levels. It seems a bit fun at face value but it isn't. Lots of young

people are already in huge amount of debt. If interest rates start to

rise, which is what the Bank of England has said will happen, people

are going to be in trouble and this is the sad thing, we think the

economy is growing and some people are beating to think that bad

economic times are behind us what we have big challenges ahead ``

beginning. Many thanks for that. We will have much more on the expulsion

of the US intelligence official in Berlin by the German government

following allegations of spying but now we will hear about the sports.