15/12/2015 The Papers

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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

With me are the Middle East correspondent for the

Wall Street Journal, Margaret Coker, and the business correpondent

The FT says that Bank of England governor Mark Carney has signalled

there'll be no haste to raise UK interest rates.

The Express reckons that falling oil prices could hit millions

The i warns of a Christmas travel nightmare, with rail links

The NHS watchdog has told doctors that they must show more respect to

dying patients after complaints from families, according to The Sun.

The Telegraph says the UK would be prepared to back ground forces

from a newly-formed coalition of Muslim countries in an attack on

The Mail leads with a story about Prince Charles being shown

confidential cabinet papers for many years.

The Guardian has the same story, but also carries a picture of

Tim Peake's Soyuz rocket blasting off on its way to

And the Times carries news of plans for

a European Union force which would protect the EU's external borders.

We will start with the Mirror, which has a clever mix of the Star Wars

premiere and a real life in space for Tim Peake. May the force be with

you, dad. That was among one of the most touching moments, him with his

family on earth and speaking to them from the International Space

Station. Absolutely. When his son got to the microphone and said his

goodbye to his father was very sweet. In America, lots of kids from

the 60s have dreams of being an astronaut. Finally, congratulations,

Britain. They were watching all over the country, which is good news for

the space agencies, to be honest. Absolutely, NASA in particular has

always been good with public relations, it has been a key part of

its activities, to get funding. If children are more interested in

space, maybe more people will study spines. This is where we may get

dividends. It costs about 300 million to the UK each year. The

astronaut going up is not the main payoff. Interesting looking at the

Times, they also have the advert for the first review of Star Wars, and

then a picture of Tim Peake entering the International Space Station.

What do you think kids would rather read about, Star Wars or Tim Peake

Les --? It depends on their Christmas list, doesn't it? What is

interesting to me as someone who started their career in the former

Soviet Union, the IS is a place where Russians and people over the

world co-operate on scientific discovery -- ISS. All in a days

work, according to the Times. That is just the start of it. Six months

of important experiments and no doubt more conversations with

schoolchildren and Britain from around the world with the ISS.

Absolutely. It has taken a decade. Six years of preparation. 2.5 years

training for this mission. Maybe there is a lesson for children,

exercise and you have to work hard and it may come in the end. 30 years

for Star Wars as well... LAUGHS. Now, onto other matters, the Times

dedicating some of its front page to the EU army to protect borders. The

subhead line, talking about thousands of troops planned. This

comes as the migrant crisis overshadows David Cameron, who is

trying to revive the renegotiation of the British membership. Yeah,

this is a fascinating story that leaves a lot of unanswered

questions. Right now this proposal is in the planning stage. The EU

moves very slowly. Will this be implemented? From the pictures we

are familiar with from summer, border control and security is a

huge issue right now. The existing institution, front axle, which helps

keep the see it safe needs more funding -- Frontex. The issue is of

course that there is multiple frontiers when tackling the migrant

crisis, it is not just about securing borders but about helping

people as well. And the question is what will the so-called EU army do?

Will it support people. Hand Atwater? We will discuss it -- hand

out water? Even if a country does not want the help of the force, it

could go in to help the country secure its borders. That is what

newspapers focus on today. Already, some countries have come and spoken

out against it. Clearly, that is an area which is quite testing. The

sovereignty of nations could be impacted. Even if this idea gets

through, it mightn't come through in the form in which it is being

discussed. And as the paper points out, while the focus is on the

migrant crisis, less focus on what David Cameron wants for the future

of Britain and the EU. That is true. He wanted the main agenda to be

about Britain. He has had some good news today. Mr Tusk has said there

is no taboo. Hopefully the issues will come up. Playing second fiddle

to the migrant issue. The next or you want to talk about in the

Telegraph is kind of linked with this -- next story you want to talk

about. If there was an persecution in Iraq and Syria, people wouldn't

perhaps be fleeing to Europe -- wasn't. The Daily Telegraph is one

of a number suggesting the UK could background force attacks on

so-called Islamic State. It is a story with a lot of caveats. The US,

the UK and others have said they were not put boots on the ground.

The question is who will. Arab states led by Saudi Arabia will put

together their own Muslim coalition of fighters. However, it is not

clear where any force will come from and what nationality. This seems

like an easy win for David Cameron to look tough on security and

terrorism without putting together a really concrete package about what

it means for Britain's defends expenses or its own forces. There is

a lot of nervousness about how far to go in Syria and Iraq. It took

David attempts to get backing for a -- Eric power. The action today it

is a move to avoid having to do that -- air power. What he is saying is

if Muslim countries try to solve it, we will support them. The hope

would be that countries like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan can solve the

problem, thereby making sure Britain does not have to do anything more.

The only issue is with this new agenda unveiled today. We don't have

the details. How will these foreign countries and to Syria to secure the

area? They say they also don't want another void to be filled by the

Assad regime, if ISIS is removed. It is difficult to see how it will

work. And where is the UK are going to get the air assets to support

another mission? Where do the bombers come from, logistics and

cargo planes? There is the defence budget issue in the UK. Lots of good

headlines without a lot of meat behind them. What is different about

tackling Islamic State is the continued incentive to involve

Muslim countries, to involve... It doesn't become bad foreign policy

that many experts have blamed on creating Jihad. Depending on how far

back in history you want to go, people will argue that Al-Qaeda is a

response to every bad regime in Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf

monarchies which don't support democracy. And that it evolved.

Yes, into something extreme. -- if you are on the road to

radicalisation, in Syria and Iraq where there are Muslims fighting, it

went to sleep you from joining ISIS. Shall we move on to the Guardian?

Interesting story on the front page, next to the

to the heir of the throne. Continued focus on Prince Charles's

relationship with politicians. In one sense the argument is that this

has gone on for decades, back to the 1930s, in that the heir to the

throne has to prepare for his final position and therefore should access

this information. That is the The criticism today is Prince

Charles is unlike some previous monarchs in that he takes a

political road and lobbies certain issues. We had the private letters,

which were finally published after the London debate. The argument is

that Prince Charles has information which helped him lobby for his pet

causes more effectively, and that does not fit with his constitutional

role -- helps him. That is the basis. What is interesting is this

has come from a freedom of information request from an NGO, and

Thai -- and anti-Monarch. We would all like more access to government

documents. When you look at the parallel in the US, with Wikileaks

and the diplomatic cables spread out across the Internet, one thing

that, when US officials got over the embarrassment, what they started to

say was, you will see that what we say in public is what you will see

that we have said in private. I would say that maybe Prince Charles

can take some of that comfort as well. I think people pretty much

know what he believes in and the causes that he adopts. He has never

been shy of saying that. Let's move on to the inside pages of the Daily

Mail to get more information on their lead story. The arrogance of

doctors still using banned deaf pathway. This follows complaints

from families of loved ones that have died and how they were treated

by NHS staff -- death pathway. When you are told you are terminal and

have no right to care or comfort and you will be left to die, it really

is a nightmare. It rings all of the bells when it comes to, as an

American or European, in that the government has run a mark.

Continuing scandals on this subject, it looks quite bad -- amck. The

government launched a report last year to say that we shouldn't have

this. Some officials say it is being continued in places. It is obviously

a worry for people with family in hospitals, who potentially might be

the kind of people to be put on this pathway. We will read more about

what the Daily Mail says. It points out that people are often quick to

point the finger and blame. Sometimes at the wrong people. Is it

the doctors, the nurses, or the pressure put on them from above as

well? The pressure is budgetary. It is basically creating more spare

beds. This isn't the issue. There is not enough money to go around for

the services we need and people are looking at ways to be more

efficient, would be the description. Inappropriate

deaths... That is not the kind of wording a family member would use

when discussing this. It seems a policy which everyone has agreed is

not a good idea. But it basically grew out of the need to free up

space and to save money, so it is... And then how are we going to

solve this problem? We have been saying that since 2012, according to

the Daily Mail. One headline, did NHS kill my mother to free up a bed

in 2012. Lonely death on the care pathway. July 30, 2015, here it is

again. And December, 2015. It has been going on for a long time.

Indeed, it is surprising. People are coming and finding that, I mean,

family members have been denied water and food and literally been

left to die because someone decided they were dying. One of the points

made today is that doctors don't always know if someone is dying or

not. Someone who is being helped along the way on the basis of

possibly an erroneous decision about whether they will die or not, there

is mention in this story that some individuals who may have recovered

were actually put on this pathway, which is very worrying. The Daily

Telegraph, the intriguing story, as it often is with the Daily

Telegraph, who always has a high story count why eating lettuce is

not so green. Who wants to go for it? LAUGHS.

Yeah, well, I am leery of things that smack of junk science! I am not

so sure where they are going with this. If you believe everything the

papers say about food and you would starve to death! And I am a print

journalist. We've just had a very big climate change conference. We've

just had an enormous amount of international tension. On carbon

emissions and global warming. It is very contrary to come back and say

the vegetables you eat are things we should focus on. I don't think those

sitting in Paris last week considered lettuce as the major game

changer on climate issues! We have been warned about bacon and other

meat. They said that bacon is bad for us, and yet, we cut down trees

to make space. My bacon sandwich in the morning is much healthier. Are

you going to put letters in it? I am thinking about the environment and I

will keep the letters in the fridge and the shop. Always a pleasure.

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