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for the first half of the year largely due to warmer weather. But | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Ofgem says that the big six firms are set to double profit margins | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
over the next year. Welcome to the papers. With me are | :00:00. | :00:30. | |
Martin Bentham, whose the home affairs Editor from the London | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
Evening Standard and the Financial Analyst, Louise Cooper. Let's take a | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
look at the front pages. The FT reports European businesses are | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
starting to feel the effects of The Times says the cost of rebuilding | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
Afghanistan has surpassed the amount spent restoring Europe after World | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
War II. The Telegraph has a story about the increase in households | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
being forced to pay higher rates of stamp duty. The Metro carries a | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
story about a TV interview in which a UN official broke down in tears, | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
saying his organisation had reached "breaking point" in Gaza. The Mail | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
leads on a driver who killed a man while using two mobile phones at the | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
wheel of her car. The Guardian reports on the conflict in Gaza. It | :01:07. | :01:14. | |
says the number of people killed is greater than in both previous rounds | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
of fighting between Israel and Hamas. The Express has a story on a | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
funding boost for the NHS to help tackle cancer. And finally, the | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
Mirror describes how a Commonwealth Games cyclist from Sierra Leone was | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
held in isolation for four days ` before being cleared ` because of | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
fears about the Ebola virus. I'm going to start with the Guardian, | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
the headline is Gaza death toll goes past 1400. Israel going to continue | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
until the Hamas tunnels are destroyed. This was printed before | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
we got news of the humanitarian truce which has been announced this | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
evening, and hopefully that will be bolstered by a longer term, durable | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
ceasefire if negotiators in Cairo over the weekend can make something | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
stick. But nonetheless, Louise, the Guardian headline still holds that | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
the reason this number is so significant is that it is more than | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
the two previous Gaza conflicts we have seen in terms of casualties. | :02:17. | :02:27. | |
It is an appallingly large number of people. 80% of them, they say, all | :02:28. | :02:38. | |
civilians as well. I spent the last hour doing something useful. 20 | :02:39. | :02:48. | |
years ago that Yasser Arafat actually got the Nobel Peace Prize | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
for supposedly negotiating peace. Here we are, with the death toll | :02:54. | :03:02. | |
1400 in just the past few weeks. It seems every step forward is | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
accompanied by a step backwards, and little progress is made. But | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
sometimes, diplomatically things are going on behind the scenes that we | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
are not privy to. This agreement by both sides, and unconditional | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
humanitarian truce that will give people a breathing space. It is | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
fantastic news. What is crucial is if they can flush out something that | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
will stick. Israel promises to continue attacks until all Hamas | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
tunnels will be destroyed. That will be one of the key questions about | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
what happens to the amending tunnels. `` remaining. The Israelis | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
will have to presumably withdraw from Gaza. There will be a halt in a | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
rocket fire from Gaza as well, I suppose. All of those problematic | :03:59. | :04:08. | |
obstacles. It seems to be with that they have got a set point in morning | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
when you can shoot, but one minute past seven o'clock, you can't. Why | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
don't you just stop killing each other right now? Maybe it is to get | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
the word out to people? We are looking at you like the expert. We | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
have had ceasefires before where rockets were fired and that triggers | :04:34. | :04:41. | |
a new exchange. Does Hamas control those firing the rockets? You are | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
assuming they do, maybe they do not. Let us look at the Times. We are | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
talking about the tunnels. This is the picture of some Israeli soldiers | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
trying to clear one of the tunnels. This is the thing that is | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
interesting. They have got these tunnels where people can access | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
Israel. That is terrifying to the Israeli populace. It started with | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
that rocket fire from Gaza. It has changed completely into this title | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
issue. `` tunnel. Israel has galvanised opinion and | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
understandably it is very terrifying for them. They have been relatively | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
immune from suicide attacks as of the wall they built. And they | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
control the borders. Isn't it because they control the borders | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
that tunnels were built in the first place to get food, livestock, what | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
ever? And now they are being used for military purposes. They were | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
built from Egypt. But still, you learn to build a tunnels because | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
Israel puts a wall around you. Staying with the Times. Cost of | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
Afghan rebuild on scale with the Second World War. Corruption and | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
waste is pushing the figure that time. There was not a great deal of | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
infrastructure in parts of Afghanistan in the first place. You | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
have to wonder what they will end up with. There has been some progress. | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
I have been to Afghanistan in different points over the past | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
decade. There has been some progress, albeit very slowly. One of | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
the problems is, highlighted this report, most projects have been | :06:41. | :06:50. | |
hampered by poor planning, shoddy construction and bad oversight. A | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
lot of money has been going astray. That clearly is a problem. It is a | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
difficult country to keep a grip on. All of the systems, the checks and | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
balances, I'm not in place. What the Times has done is compare the cost | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
of the war in Afghanistan to the Marshall plan of rebuilding | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
Germany. They have worked out into the's prices, the Marshall plan cost | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
the equivalent of ?61 billion. American taxpayers have offered | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
?61.5 billion and Britain ?890 million for this development. | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
Germany is in a pretty bad state after the Second World War. And here | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
we are, Afghanistan is costing more. But if you want to try and stop | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
fundamentalism rising up and people being radicalised, you give people | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
jobs and a better life. The report is saying the amount of corruption | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
and wasted money. That is the question and I agree with it. It is | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
a question of the management. That has been a problematic issue. That | :08:12. | :08:20. | |
is the real question. It seems very poorly. The Financial Times, the | :08:21. | :08:30. | |
property loan. ?122 billion of property in England and Wales is | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
held in offshore funds and tax havens. We did not know who is | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
buying it up? This is a bit of them, especially in London. They quit and | :08:43. | :08:52. | |
anticorruption watchdog and they talk about corrupt leaders have used | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
shell companies to hide assets. That is one issue. There is a separate | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
issue. Sometimes these companies are being used to avoid stamp duty. The | :09:06. | :09:20. | |
government has changed that. My favourite, there is a bit here that | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
says, laundering which make regulations require real estate | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
agents to carry out due diligence. There is a reference from an estate | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
agents and, when you have accompanied hidden offshore, it is | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
almost impossible for an estate agent to find out what is going on. | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
You have to make a professional judgement whether you are satisfied | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
with the information provided. So if you say, yes, I am happy with the | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
information, I get hundreds and thousands of pounds commission or if | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
I say no, I am not happy at, I do not get any commission. I wonder | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
what the answer could be. Sometimes the level of cynicism on the BBC | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
papers got back cynicism towards real estate agents failing hundreds | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
of thousands in commission. `` owning. Let us look at the | :10:23. | :10:36. | |
Independent. ?300 million genetic revolution. Trying to map our entire | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
DNA. But always alarms some people. Too much would be known about us. | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
What we know is that different drugs work well on you depending on your | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
genetic make`up. You have got a disposition towards certain | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
illnesses depending on your genetic make`up. What your genome looks like | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
will affect your health in the future and how it is treated. At | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
some point in the future, AGP will know your whole dinner. `` genome. | :11:11. | :11:19. | |
What worries me is the organisation sorting this out say they want drug | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
companies to have access to all of that data. Almost makes you feel a | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
little naked having that information in your file. The interesting thing | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
about the drug companies. As long as it is properly regulated and | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
controlled. That always works. If they develop new drugs to help us, | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
they need to have access to material like this. That aren't `` are | :11:46. | :11:56. | |
problems, but they have a positive role. I am not sure I want to know | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
too much of what is going to happen down the line. There is a | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
probability that things will happen. It's not that you will exactly know. | :12:09. | :12:16. | |
If you have got a perfect set of DNA. You are not much use to the | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
drugs companies, I suppose. We are going to do a compare and contrast | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
exercise with how women are photographed and featured on the | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
newspaper. We know the Daily Telegraph likes to put a pretty lady | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
on the front. The model Miranda Kerr. She has been fought over by a | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
number of men, compared to Helen of Troy. Compare the Daily Mail. Here | :12:41. | :12:54. | |
we have a picture of Zara Philips. She is on the front page. I think | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
they traditionally choose on flattering photographs. The one on | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
the Daily Mail is not too bad. But the one on the Metro. What a brutal | :13:06. | :13:15. | |
photo in the Metro. Tom Cruise looks gorgeous, Zara Philips is pulling a | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
face. And there is another one on the front page of the Express. She | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
does not look too bad. Picture editors, leave her alone. I am not | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
even a royalist. It did not even occur to you. I think they look | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
perfectly reasonable. It is the sensitivity of it. The one on the | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
Metro looks a bit hideous, but the others look reasonable. Tom Cruise | :13:47. | :13:57. | |
is looking pretty good. That is what you say. Louise has a bit of a | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
fondness for Tom Cruise. Goes back a long way. That is it for the night, | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
before we get any more carried away. Lovely to have you both. Coming up | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
next, it is time for Commonwealth games Sportsday. I will be back | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
again at midnight for another look at the main news, particularly the | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
truce that has been announced in the Gaza conflict this evening. | :14:30. | :14:33. |