08/12/2015 The Papers

see them top the group in what is the last round of matches. We will

have it all for you in 15 minutes. Hello and welcome to

our look ahead to what the papers With me are the broadcasters

Lucy Cavendish and Richard Madeley. The Financial Times leads

on the problems in the mining sector, amid the worst slump

in commodity markets for a decade. The i reports on the floods in the

north of England and the questions The Express says scientists believe

a cure for Alzheimers could be The actor Eddie Redmayne is pictured

on the front of the Telegraph at the London premiere

of his new film, The Danish Girl. Its lead story is the anger in

Britain over Donal Trump's comments. Its main picture is

of the rock band Eagles of Death Metal who visited the scene

of one of the Paris attacks today. The Metro leads on demands from MPs

to ban Mr Trump from this country. The Mail describes Mr Trump's

remarks as 'incendiary'. And the Times says thousands of

criminals will have their jail terms cut under plans by Michael Gove to

lower the prison population. I am sure we will be coming to

Donald Trump, but we will start with the Guardian and the flood. An

interesting story at the bottom, Tories face grid is over delayed

defences in flood zones -- criticism. It is said that there is

a plan to put in a ?4 million project to protect houses from

flooding which has not happened. He wants to talk to David Cameron about

it and find out why it has not happened because it was a vital

funding in 2011. Had that project gone ahead, and it does look like it

should have, people would not be suffering in the way they have been

suffering now. There is a big issue about the flooding, which is, there

is lots of evidence where it shows it is very difficult to prevent this

because our weather patterns have changed. We now have these huge and

heavy rain falls, which I don't think we have experienced. It is

something that is happening more often than not now. It is very

difficult to know how to defend these places, as far as I can see.

Also, if you look at any system of public works it is always behind.

Always being left behind and there are many inexplicable reason. It is

always the case. Not only was the rain falling in 24-hour is, it is

the most rain that has fallen in Britain since records began in the

early 1800. We have also had since 2000, six of the wettest years on

record. How far ahead you predict that these floods will rise. These

areas have had more rain than they have ever had before, so of course

they flooded. Given that the scheme was completed and signed off on, and

everybody thought it would work, but it didn't. There is no guarantee

that this ?5.1 million that would have been spent would have made a

difference. It is a moot point. I would not jump and down on my high

horse about it. The argument is that the floodplains have been built on,

and so the places that naturally flooded and then went back and now

been built on it. I remember when I was a kid, and I grew up on a river

and we went to school now -- on a canoe. It is terrible. You must have

covered flood stories and it is horrible. It is beyond description,

the stench, the destruction. Many of these places become I'm in -- many

of these places cannot be insured. Let us turn to Donald Trump. It is

hard to avoid him. The Mail have called on him regarding his claims

to say that parts of Britain are no go areas because of Islamic

extremism. He has the ability to grab headlines. He just doesn't

care. He's quite to lash out over here while simultaneously making the

comment about United States. As they say, in a very rare political

intervention, Scotland Yard within hours of hearing about this

statement issued a statement saying that he could not be more wrong. You

would expect them to say that that the British police have no go areas,

but I happen to think that it is true. I can't remember a signal

story in the last five to ten years when Islamic extremism became the

feature that it is in our society, I can't remember ever hearing an

allegation that there was the cancellation of streets and areas

that they police would not go to, including mosques. Obviously, they

tread carefully, but there are regions with mosques and I have seen

police being a force there. This is Donald Trump making it up as he goes

along and he will say anything. I just find him so contemptible. You

interviewed him, what was he like? Ghastly. I can't decide if it is the

same one, his hair. He wandered around being very rich and

powerful, Master of the universe type. But you said that he failed to

get this across to you but he came off as a little twerp. But it is

horrible because people are taking it seriously. He was preaching to

the converted. I think it is just not as what he is saying.

Interesting, he has made the front page of many papers, not just here

but on the other side of the Atlantic as well. There is a lot of

Twitter action about him. He has the same programme, but can you imagine

someone like dust being so stupid like this running for office. He

would have lots of money to make that happen. In the Daily Mirror

someone else outrage is twice -- Tyson Fury. After his homophobic

rant the cops are looking into him. I don't know if the cops are looking

into this slur, but everything I've read about this story, I think it is

clear that he has done nothing illegal. I don't think he is

inciting race hatred, he is simply expressing extreme opinions which

most people consider ridiculous. Homophobia though? He did not quite

equated to paedophilia, but from the analysis, objectionable as it may

be, it wasn't specifically illegal that he should be prosecuted for. I

think that the real interesting story is what the BBC is going to do

over the sport award. He has been nominated by a panel which then

refers to the BBC for Sports Personality of the Year. What the

BBC are saying is that they have no right to make a political judgement.

He has not done anything illegal, therefore, as the new world champion

he is entitled to be put in that category for the public to vote for

that. I would disagree with you. To be nominated as Sports Personality

of the Year is something in the round, but if he was monitored as

British boxer of the year it would be hard to say that that cannot go

through. I think we can all feel that what we are talking about is

the person in the round, everything that makes him a human being, not

just a sportsman, the way that they behave, what with charity and how

they act with other people. How can this guy devoted as a personality be

accepted in a real way? I agree with Richard. I don't think you can be

voted sports personality of the year if he holds his views that most

people find it very difficult. It is something that most people find

offensive. I'm not quite sure how the interview happened and how his

management team did not go in and sit on him. It is a sports

personality. USA that he should be judged on the sports personality

where as the BBC are saying he should be judged on his sporting

prowess. You cannot remove the words personality from the equation. I

feel that it should be someone that people can look up to and look what

they've done, haven't they done well and aren't they a decent person and

fabulously committed person. That put things in jeopardy. I can

understand that he did something that was incredible and that is why

his name is in the mix, 100,000 people have signed a petition and I

think we should... We will see what the BBC does next. This is a

terrible story about Andrew Waters whose son with Down's syndrome could

not be resuscitated. It is terrible. This boy was in hospital with an

infection and on the nights that he has had down syndrome, it said that

do not resuscitate. One of the reasons why was because he had down

syndrome. That was not discussed with the family, they had not

discussed that at all. They then found out that that had happened and

quite rightly, are utterly appalled. I think it is really

shocking and perhaps off to the Sun -- hats off. It is something we need

to look at. It is an effective front page. You are right because the

truly shocking nature of this, as in all these cases of these no

resuscitate issues, they have to list all of the factors. And he was

dying, and he recovered, but he was dying. One of them was not Down

syndrome, but they put it down. It is terrible finding out afterward.

The reason the family found out, when he recovered and came home to a

welcome home party come though I'm packing his bag and they found the

notice that had been crumpled up and thrown into a pot of his bag. It was

incompetence on a gross scale and to their credit, the hospital has

profusely apologise, as they should. It has been a real campaign.

It will run and run, and a lot of people will find it quite offensive.

That us try to squeeze in two stories. -- let. Prisoners tried to

have their jail terms cut. We are being told we are to be tougher on

criminals, and a long sender should mean it. The reality is that the

prisons are overcrowded and we don't have enough sales to be

accommodated, so we let them out early. It is just an endless lunar

cycle that does not seem to stop. What can you say. It is to predict

will. Next time you see a politician saying that the policy of this

government is that the prisoner should serve their time and do

longer a to think in six months time... People get sentenced. They

say that they will be released moments early if they can go home.

Who is going to put them on the bus? And finally, middle class

children are bigger drinkers. Is a report that has come out that

the young people from middle-class backgrounds are more likely to have

tried alcohol, and they are talking about at home. I imagine they are

talking about a sort of glass of wine with a meal from a young age

and they will go on to be much bigger drinkers than other kids from

lower social starts. It is this thing about following the French

model, if you present your children as they grow up with a glass of

water and a glass of wine, they will learn to drink responsibly. It is

true in France, they have much less drunken behaviour on the streets.

But I have to say this, cirrhosis of the liver is much more common that

it is here because a lot more children start drinking earlier. You

are finger-pointing now, and we've got to leave it there. That's it

from the papers. Lovely to talk to you. Coming up next, it is

Sportsday.