09/11/2015 The Papers

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coming up in the next 15 minutes. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are Susie

Boniface, the Mirror columnist also known as Fleet Street Fox, and

Kiran Stacey, Energy Correspondent Tomorrow's front pages are in. Some

of them are. The Metro reports on the doping scandal that has rocked

the world of athletics. Russia could be banned from taking part in

athletics events at next year's Olympics. The Financial Times

reports that David Cameron was heckled by campaigners wanting to

see Britain leave the European Union. Supporting of Aung San Suu

Kyi are pictured on the front of the Guardian, one in particular, a very

vibrant photographs. More allegations of payments made to NHS

bosses. And the Times says that having a roll of fat around your

waist doubles the risk of an early death.

No comment! We will talk about that later. Let's

talk about this extraordinary Russian doping story. Spies, bribes

and threats. I suppose what is interesting is, this is not just a

huge doping scandal but allegedly it is state-sponsored, back to the days

of Soviet communism, Eastern European communism, when we knew

that all of those athletes were in state programmes of doping? Exactly.

Although this is a shocking report, it is not a massive surprise. I

remember watching the Olympics in the 1980s and watching the East

German athletes. It was quite clear they were obviously taking

steroids. They were obviously cheating. We already know that in

China they have got these ridiculous schools that push children through

from a very young age and force them to do all kinds of stuff which is

designed to bring them on and make them Olympic athletes. If you

succeed in the Olympics, you are somehow more prestigious as a

nation. We think that in Britain. But we tend not to hothouse them in

the same way. It is not massively shocking. I am more shocked by the

fact that Sebastian Coe, a man who is numbered two to a man being

investigated for taking bribes, he was there for seven years while all

of this was allegedly going on. Involved at numbered two and now at

number one in an organisation that has had serious problems with his

processes in order to allow this to happen. He is now investigating it.

It strikes me as something an outsider should be investigating.

Not to say that he has done anything wrong, of course. But it should be

an outsider. You have got to look clean as well as be clean. If

Sebastian Kehl is in charge that it is not going to look clean.

Sebastian was closely associated with the London Olympics. --

Sebastien Coe. The Metro says the London games was sabotaged. It seems

such a shame because it was a wonderful event. S it feels like the

moment when we got the big report into Lance Armstrong. The details in

this report are absolutely incredible. 325 pages. Athletes told

that if they test positive they have to pay amounts of money to make it

go away. A shadow laboratory set up on the outskirts of Moscow. Getting

rid of positive results. Cheating on an epic scale. Russian intelligence

services operating in those laboratories, as though the KGB have

nothing else to do with their time! I think this is really serious. You

see cycling now, and outsiders do not trust it. Athletics will go

through that period. The thing about Lord Coe, he has been at the top of

the sport a long time, but a couple of weeks ago when these stories

started appearing, he said it felt like an attack on athletics. Those

are the words of a man who is ready to do a root and branch clear out.

That will worry fans, frankly. I am sure there is more to come on that.

Let's talk about another story, Britain's relationship with the

European Union. The FT says that Cameron is flagging national

security in the whole Brexit struggle. He is eyeing a quick deal.

Tomorrow he will set out his key demands for European Union reform.

Yes, the FT has managed to quote some of them. They are really

boring, as you would expect. They are really dull. They are the kind

of thing that would make you not want to read on or even as a

journalist write the article. Cameron is a PR man. He knows how PR

works. If you do not want anybody to pay attention, ride the most boring

press release you possibly can! He wants to write competitiveness into

the DNA of the European Union. Come on. The fourth demand is about

restricting access to welfare payments among migrant workers. He

says this is the most difficult. He is even going to start quoting some

figures saying they are ridiculously high. As long as he makes this as

boring as possible, journalists will not be able to maintain their

interest to keep reporting on it. Keep it as boring as possible and

the voters will not maintain their interest in trying to find out about

it. So when we come to a referendum, nobody will be remotely interested

and we will all vote for the status quo, which is what he wants. Do you

find it boring? No! Absolutely love it! The demands are vague. We know

that -- what David Cameron wants to do. The idea of restricting access

to tax credits is the most difficult of these things to do. There are

plenty of people in Europe with think it goes against the entire

make-up of the EU, to try to discriminate against EU workers in

this way. It all sounds very bland but I think there is something in

here that will be quite difficult to achieve. I am sure he will find a

way of calling it a success. We have got another story. The NHS looking

beyond taxpayers for funding, needs to look beyond taxpayers are

funding? This is the head of the hospital regulator, David Bennett,

who says we're close to the limit of what people are prepared to pay.

There is a funding hole. We have to find some way to fill it without

using tax. That opens up suggestions about increased privatisation,

selling things off, paying to see your GP etc. The other option would

be to explain sensibly to the great British public, who are fairly sane,

most of them, that if they want an NHS, which most of us do, you need

to pay more for it than we currently are. We have an ageing population.

We have more health needs. We have obesity. We have to pay more taxes.

The Guardian, on that point, says that George Osborne, his spending

means that the British state will be spending 44% of spending on health

and the elderly. That is a staggering proportion. The highest

proportion since records began in the 1990s. It tells us two things.

One, that our society is getting older and sicker and it is taking

more to keep it running. The other thing is it tells us that older

people vote. Osborne has cut funding for everything else. One of the

reasons for that is that older people vote. The classic is the

triple lock on pensions. Almost the most disastrous policy the coalition

enacted. The minimum pensions can go up is by 2.5% a year. That is a huge

chunk of public spending. When everything else is being smashed, if

you're guaranteeing this massive chunk, you cannot balance of

spending. It is inevitable all the money goes on health care. A quick

look at the Guardian. A lovely picture from my and my. -- Myanmar.

Aung San Suu Kyi poised for power. Is she? She is banned by the

constitution from taking power. Although she has won some

parliamentary elections, she will not have total control of the

Government or the country. Therefore she will not be able to enforce lots

of reforms which people may want. Therefore people would become more

disappointed in her. This is a British grandmother. Her children

are British, her husband was British. She is a British granny who

is devoted 15 years of her life to being in detention. Finally,

middle-aged spread and all that kind of thing. A roll of fat doubles the

risk of an early death. You are definitely not in that category.

When you look at the headline you think, this sounds fairly obvious.

If you are fat, you're more likely be unhealthy. The story is actually

unusual and interesting. If you have a roll of fat you are more likely to

die sooner than somebody who is all be so all over. Somehow being fat

everywhere else gives you protection against the damaging effects of

being fat in the middle. They have no idea why this is. Get obese all

over or lose weight. I have got a bit of a Tommy, so I am getting

worried. Nothing more from the BBC canteen tonight.

See you again at half past 11. That is it from me for now. Now it is

time for Sportsday. Lord Coe wants answers by the end of

the week with Russian athletes facing