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Let's see if we can get through the papers. | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
With me are Reuters business correspondent and author, | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
Tom Bergin, and broadcaster Joan Bakewell. | :00:26. | :00:26. | |
The Metro leads with the killer storm in the US, saying | :00:27. | :00:40. | |
Britain is poised for new floods as the storm crosses the atlantic. | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
The Telegraph's headline says patients are being given replacement | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
"IVF hope for older women," is the i's lead, saying | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
a controversial cell technique aims to make older eggs young again. | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
The Independent features a picture of one | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
of four dead whales, which have washed up on the North Sea coast. | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
The Express looks at why diet is key to beating arthritis, | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
saying that simple changes could ease agony for millions. | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
"Osborne in 3 billion pound vow to beat malaria," is the Times's lead | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
story, which says taxpayers are to fund the bulk of a new deal with | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
And the Guardian says asylum seekers in Cardiff are being issued with | :01:13. | :01:21. | |
coloured wristbands for food handouts. | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
We will start with the story on the front of the Times, George Osborne | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
in ?3 billion vow to beat malaria. I never liked the word vow. Taxpayer | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
funds with deal with Bill Gates. Him and his wife, Melinda, have been | :01:39. | :01:47. | |
battling malaria three years. They have been very generous and their | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
foundation has poured money into this. The vow of 3 billion is not | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
new money. It is coming from the existing budget. It is not new cash | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
at all -- three million. It has been taken from the budget, the | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
international development budget, and it will help do something about | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
this. I am not sure people welcome because the spill of malaria affects | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
us all, if it is affecting Africa, as it does and the idea is to | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
eliminate malaria, building on a commitment made by George Osborne | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
when visiting Uganda. This is the kind of deal that gets done in | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
Davos. In the luxury surroundings. I can guarantee you some of the | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
development budget over a drink. The fact it isn't you money, I wonder if | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
it will make a difference to the effectiveness in other parts. | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
Robbing Peter to pay Paul? I suppose it is not new money, so it will have | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
an impact... George Osborne made clear he wanted to spend the aid | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
budget more effectively. One of the things that jumps out at me, I can't | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
help but wonder if it is not also about helping George Osborne. He | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
obviously has ambitions to succeed David Cameron but he has got an | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
image problem. He doesn't look like a nice guy. He has been the person | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
to deliver the bad news art Bell over -- deliver the bad news over | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
the last couple of years. This mightn't be hurtful to his political | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
career. This would obviously serve that purpose. It would help his | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
image if he gave up the high viz clothing. And stop being | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
photographed in factories which are closing down. I suppose he is trying | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
to show that Britain can be effective overseas. That is very | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
good. Not just handing out money. It is often criticised that we give | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
money to places and we don't know where it will end up. It is easy to | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
knock the international development. What does it mean? Giving to people | :03:49. | :03:59. | |
money. This is going on a thoroughly good cause. Let's look at the Daily | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
Telegraph. Send soldiers to EU borders. Britain is told this. Who | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
is doing the telling? The Czech President giving this advice. | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
Britain does not take orders from the Czech President, as wise as they | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
might be on occasion. In this particular case, he is advising, | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
maybe a more kind of robust response, a militaristic response to | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
the refugee crisis. Clearly, eastern European countries are very | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
concerned. And there is a problem. Vast numbers are coming to Europe. | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
Certain countries say they cannot handle those. The question is what | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
to do. The suggestion is Britain and others should send soldiers to the | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
borders and take a more robust approach. The question is, are | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
people ready for that? Do people want a situation whereby there is a | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
heavily militarised European border? Whether the public is ready is | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
unclear. We get away with it a little bit, don't we? When you call | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
in the military, you are taking another step. This is the difference | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
between Eastern European members of the European Union and the West. In | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
fact, they are much more aggressive in keeping people out. The barbed | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
wire is going up in Hungary and elsewhere. They want the European | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
countries to send in 500 soldiers to patrol the border is. It is just | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
another step -- borders. The whole thing is a mess. The crisis will get | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
better. There are big meetings going on, they will go on until some | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
solution, which is not yet on the horizon, arises to deal with this | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
problem. Shall we move on to the FT? A couple of stories. First, leaving | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
the EU will damage UK's global influence according to big Pharma. | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
This is drug makers this time. We have heard warnings from other parts | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
of the industry. Saying that it would mean isolation for | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
scientists. I've heard that they would really miss not so much | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
funding from the EU but the opportunity to participate in | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
research. I think there is a sense that... Being part of the EU opens | :06:17. | :06:26. | |
up science to mutual sopping of information, research, enterprise, | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
checkouts, various ways for testing drugs. I think that Big Pharma is | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
probably right. The influence would be diminished. It is in the interest | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
of global companies to see we remain part of a strong EU. There were huge | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
drug companies before the European Union was in its current form. So, | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
some might argue, if you want to collaborate, you will find our way. | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
S universities have made a similar comment. -- universities. It is | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
quite well understood that big businesses favour membership. We are | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
just seeing more of the same. I am not sure if this is the strongest | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
thing, participation in favour of the campaign. The exit campaign is | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
saying that actually small businesses are much more mixed and | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
would prefer to go out. But we have not seen any polls that are very | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
good on that. It is interesting. He says, she says, it is quite a | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
superficial level. It would be interesting to take it to a more | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
detailed level. That is quite complicated. Trade deals, we have | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
the exit campaign saying we should leave and cut trade deals, for those | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
who want to stay in the issue is, well, that is not very realistic. | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
Almeida trading partners don't want to cut deals with us -- our main | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
trading partners. This is a level of detail which is more difficult to | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
publish. Plenty of deals going on with Iran, 114 Airbus jets to | :08:01. | :08:13. | |
Rahane's business bonanza -- Rouhani. And the Chinese are right | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
on the next plane and did a deal. Now they are doing a deal with the | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
French. They were in readiness. They had made big plans. So have other | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
countries. We are not there yet. We tried to. We hope to be. It is | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
interesting, they upload and in to become a major country in the | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
region. We all know the great rivalry with the Saudis will be | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
problematic. They are getting stuck in. It will be very interesting. | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
With lots of planes flying to and fro it could be a big travel hub. | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
Absolutely. And Iran have said they want to be a travel hub. They want | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
to be players in the aviation industry. Maybe come rivals to the | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
Gulf players like Qatar and MRes. That is a reflection of their bigger | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
political ambitions, to be a regional superpower -- Emirates. Not | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
just in terms of security but also economically. They have potential to | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
do that. They have vast oil reserves and they have population. This will | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
be something that will start to worry their neighbours. We know that | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
oil prices are going down and the industry isn't booming. Tourism | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
could boom, couldn't it? They could well start with weekends over there, | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
or longer, or tours. Once the country opened up we will be | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
queueing up. Returning to the Times. BBC will plead with pensioners to | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
give up free TV licences. This is because the BBC is going to bear the | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
cost of free licenses for the over 75. The idea is that well-known | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
people connected with the BBC will be asked to support this idea. S not | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
wheeled out but asked to support -- not wheeled out. They will stride | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
out. This is an interesting one. It is a campaign to ask people to not | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
accept the free licence fee and to pay it and help make up the | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
shortfall that has been imposed upon the BBC. I have to say, if we look | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
at previous campaigns, where people are encouraged not to accept things | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
for free, they don't work very well. The winter fuel allowance is an | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
example. It is a bigger issue here, the government was looking at the | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
BBC are many in the Conservative Party are not the biggest fans of | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
the BBC and feel it is not their biggest fan, despite the fact that | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
BBC gives a considerable amount of time to politicians. Maybe | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
politicians might want to think about that. So, whether this | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
particular campaign will work, that'll be open to see. Of course, | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
Joe, with your track record, they might ask you to... I do back the | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
idea but I think it is more symbolic than anything else. We back the BBC. | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
Don't let them ruin it. We have one of the most precious institutions in | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
the world of media, and the Tories seem to want to dismantle it, and | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
people are speaking out and trying to defend it. A has said it is to be | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
in places and that it has to think carefully about how it spends the | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
license fees and whether it should be trying to fulfil the areas of the | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
market refuses to fulfil. The market is quite busy and it is not to be | :11:35. | :11:43. | |
unremarked that there are voices in the year of the government that are | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
trying to dismantle it. Not to mention the person who owns the | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
Times. That is true. Also, it is a deliberate attempt to deal with the | :11:51. | :12:00. | |
BBC why hamstring tactics. It is virtually unconstitutional in terms | :12:01. | :12:10. | |
of the way the BBC was set up. And Murdoch is having a big say. | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
Well... What am I supposed to say to that? What I will say is the | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
government will say it can spend its money it chooses. Our money. Our | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
money. Crikey, let's move on. You are going to get me into trouble. | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
Falling giant, spectators transfixed by one of format dead whales on the | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
beach -- four. They are drawn to this sad sight. It is heartrending. | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
The photography is, you know, beautiful journalism but a tragic | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
story. And a terrible moment to find beautiful creatures like this on the | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
shores having been beached against their instincts. Not supposed to be | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
close to shore. They are the most beautiful creatures. People are | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
drawn to them. There is fascination about a major national tragedy. | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
Hopefully the investigators can find out why they are. People have been | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
looking at this for a long time with thoughts about chemicals in the | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
water, whether it could be Sonar, with suspicions in the past, or | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
perhaps it is something seismec, and we would love to get more | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
information. Too many are beaching on the coast. Tom and Joe, lovely to | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
speak to you. That is it from the papers tonight. Coming up next, it | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
is the Film Review. | :13:43. | :13:50. |