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knee injury. We'll tell League, and Shaun Murphy may have lost his place | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
in world Snooker. -- we will tell you all about the Champions League. | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
With me are Cassell Bryan-Low from the Wall Street Journal and | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
Ben Chu, the economics editor at the Independent. | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
"Europe: Deal or No Deal" is the Telegraph's headline. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
The paper says there is no guarantee EU leaders will back David Cameron | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
over his renegotiation plans at crucial talks in Brussels. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
The Guardian says the Prime Minister is set for a battle | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
of brinkmanship in Brussels over the next couple of days. | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
The Times says the number of EU migrants working here has increased | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
That's also the lead for the Mail with the paper describing | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
the figures as a hammer blow for the Prime Minister. | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
"Higher education access gap grows" is the Independent's top story with | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
news that the proportion of students from poor backgrounds | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
going to leading universities has fallen in the past decade. | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
The i says 30,000 people have backed a campaign for meningitis vaccines | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
to be given to all children, after a mother shared an image | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
According to the Metro, so-called Islamic State is feared to | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
have secured the materials to make a dirty bomb after thieves stole | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
And the FT has further warnings from the Federal Reserve | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
Europe, no escaping it, especially in the next 48 hours or so. The | :01:35. | :01:55. | |
Daily Telegraph steals our title from a television programme, | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
Europe: Deal or no Deal. This is a story about David Cameron heading to | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
Brussels for 48 hours of intense discussions during which he hopes to | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
reach a deal on demands Britain has made. I think the chances are | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
generally looking good, but he is getting warnings today that there is | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
no guarantee they will reach a deal. The picture is of Angela Merkel, who | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
was addressing the Bundestag today. Her views matter enormously. She has | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
done David Cameron a big favour, coming out and saying, we want | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
Britain in the EU. It is a crucial time, and the assumption is that she | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
will throw her weight behind the demands that he is pushing for, and | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
that will swing a lot of the other EU members. As you say, Germany is | :02:58. | :03:06. | |
the dominant force and to have her on side is crucial for David | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
Cameron. We had a report earlier about who is lining up on which | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
side, and Northern Europe basically thinks we are OK on all of these | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
things, but there are a lot of countries, particularly on the | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
fringes, Greece and others, who are not at all happy with some of the | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
things we are asking for. Some Eastern Europe countries have | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
expressed concern about the measures, in terms of curbing access | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
to benefits for migrants, some others have expressed concern about | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
some of the wording of giving exception for the ever closer union, | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
feeling this is undermining the whole political rationale they have. | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
Of course, if we look at the Guardian, this has a very familiar, | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
rather bulky figure, who got off his bike. He was very circumspect, to | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
put it mildly, when he came out, about what he thinks at the moment. | :04:08. | :04:16. | |
This seemed like a bit of ritual humiliation, he was locked out. This | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
is a battle on two fronts. Of course David Cameron is in Brussels, he has | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
to persuade the member state to back him, and at home he has two persuade | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
his party to back him. Boris Johnson is seen as a key figure in all of | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
this because lots of Eurosceptics hope that he will decide that the | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
deal is not that great, and that he will campaign against it. That is | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
what the purpose was of him being in Downing Street, with David Cameron | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
leaning on him. It is tricky politics, because one assumes he has | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
leadership ambitions, but with him you never know which direction he is | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
going in. He has been playing FTSE on both sides, both sides want to | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
land him and he would be a key asset in either campaign. As you say, he | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
is believed to have leadership ambitions himself and he will be | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
weighing up the consequences of backing the wrong side in the | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
referendum, and his hopes for potential leader of the party. There | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
is talk of a plan B in case things do go wrong David Cameron. That we | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
could be in for another fortnight of this stuff. I think all sides want | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
to get this wrapped up, David Cameron wants to get its yield so he | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
can move on to a referendum. The Europeans want to turn back to the | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
big issues they have. If they can't reach a deal by Friday or possibly | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
even Saturday, this could be kicked down the road to the next scheduled | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
meeting in March. Officials are saying that they are unlikely to | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
want to attend an emergency meeting before that. Now, we might not quite | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
know what Boris thinks that we know what one newspaper thinks, the Daily | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
Mail. This is a classic story for the Daily Mail, looking at the | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
number of foreign workers in the UK, and it ties into the Europe debate. | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
A lot of this will be about immigration, and this particular | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
story is talking about the increase in foreign workers in the UK, 2 | :06:30. | :06:38. | |
million of the 3 million foreign workers are from the EU, and that is | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
where pressure has been put on David Cameron to bring those figures | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
down. He has been unable to keep his pledge of reducing net migration. We | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
would expect them to go on about this, but they have quite a lot of | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
interesting facts and figures at their command. They do, because the | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
labour market statistics have come out today, and I was looking through | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
that. What has happened to wages, to overall employment and part-time | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
employment. Some newspapers go straight to the bit where it tells | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
you how many foreigners are working in the UK, and they have these | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
figures. Apparently it is a big issue that the number has tipped | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
over 2 million for EU workers, and crept over the 3 million mark for | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
foreign workers in general. As is their won't, they will use this as a | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
bludgeon to say that it is terrible, and that he British PM | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
should get some action on this -- wont. An interesting figure is the | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
employment numbers that are at record levels, unemployment is | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
falling, so that is good news for the PM and the Chancellor, although | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
the one caveat is wages, which seems to have weak growth. That might be | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
an interesting... I don't think the Daily Mail in its theory about this | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
has got into this. It has often been said that the reason why wage growth | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
is slow is because of foreign workers taking lower salaries, and | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
so on. Does that hold water? It is a Ukip line, and it may get some | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
credence, but I think immigration actually doesn't have that dampening | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
effect. It fills gaps in the workforce rather than... There may | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
be some element of the lower end, but in general it is positive. The | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
proponents are saying that foreign workers also contribute to the tax | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
coffers, it is many are coming here to work. I saw somewhere that over | :08:42. | :08:50. | |
Europe as a whole, amongst them anything said today, the figures are | :08:51. | :08:59. | |
positive rather than negative in terms of the positive impact rather | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
than negative. The front page of the Financial Times, the Federal Reserve | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
frets over the growing risks to US economy amid market turmoil. This is | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
not terribly new, is it? What is new today is the fact that minutes were | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
released of this meeting, and we get some insight into the thinking of | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
Federal Reserve officials, and it tells us that they are struggling to | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
make sense of uncertainty over the outlook for inflation in the | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
economy. Bearing in mind that we have our own debate among Bank of | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
England officials about when to raise rates, and officials here have | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
tiptoed away from expected increases themselves, and Governor Mark Carney | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
earlier this month said the global environment remains very | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
unforgiving. Ben, what did you make of it when you read what the Fed has | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
been up to? There has been a huge sell-off in stock markets, the oil | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
price has crashed, although it came back a bit today. The Fed raised | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
rates since timbre, the first time it had done that in about a decade. | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
Everyone thought the cycle was turning, everything would go up, and | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
low and behold it has changed plans in less than a month. Nobody expects | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
them to rise all year in America. This has been a significant change, | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
and this is reflecting that mood. The headlines we are seeing is what | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
has been happening with share prices and stocks, and so on, and there has | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
been quite a big rebound in the past few days. Is this the sort of thing | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
that will turn out on its head and we shall see prices crashing down | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
again? Do they have a lot further to fall? This will send mixed messages, | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
I don't think shares will go into freefall, I think there are plenty | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
of other things making investors jittery, but clearly this reinforces | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
what the markets are already at end upon. I don't think the central | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
banks putting out minutes tends to change market views. Nobody really | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
knows what is driving the big market sell-off, there is nothing | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
disastrous in the data that would reflect this, in America all China, | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
so it is a bit of a conundrum. Fear seems to be feeding on itself. | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
Staying with the Financial Times, they have this story about Apple and | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
an iPhone that the FBI would like to crack or hack or whatever the right | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
term is. Why is there such a big argument? This story is rooted in | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
the suspected terrorist attacks that we saw in San Bernardino California | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
last year, and the FBI is continuing to investigate this and one of their | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
key pieces of evidence is an iPhone that belonged to the suspected | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
couple behind the attacks but they are having trouble getting into it | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
because iPhones are encrypted. The authorities have gone to the courts | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
to try to force Apple to unlock the phone. The authorities argue it | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
would be key to their investigation to find out who was behind this | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
terror attack. Apple is digging in its heels and saying it won't comply | :12:25. | :12:33. | |
with the order. Its argument is that it would undermine the security it | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
offers all its uses, because if you unlock one it would set a precedent, | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
and anyone who uses an iPhone could potentially be vulnerable, whether | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
it be hackers or cyber criminals. What you think of that argument? As | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
Apple have a case? They certainly have a case, but it will be | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
interesting to see how this plays in public opinion. Tech companies like | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
Apple have had a lot of bad publicity lately, avoiding tax et | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
cetera. This is one where they are saying they are standing up the | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
rights of the users, and that may play well. People may think, | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
obviously the US government has a case as well because it is trying to | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
stop terrorist networks, but there are civil liberties invocations. | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
Remember the Snowden revelations, they seem to suggest that these tech | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
companies were giving all sorts of rights of access to people's private | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
data that people didn't know about, and tech companies were stunned by | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
that. I think we are seeing a reaction to that, realising how | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
toxic it is in trying to change the perception. The reason encryption | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
and making things more secure is because there are criminals out | :13:49. | :13:49. | |
there desperate to hack into everything we have. It will be | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
interesting to see how this plays out, because authorities on both | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
sides of the Atlantic want to be able to compel tech companies to | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
give them the key, and we have not yet seen a mechanism legally for | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
them to do that here, so it will be interesting to see if the US does | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
that. Big companies throwing their weight around close to other | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
matters. Then, the Independent, the figures go up and down, but | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
something a bit definite. Explain this headline. This is about people | :14:22. | :14:30. | |
from poor backgrounds going to university, and since they | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
introduced tuition fees there has been a big focus on this. One of the | :14:35. | :14:42. | |
big fears was that this would stop people from poor backgrounds from | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
going through. That doesn't seem to have happened up until now, which | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
suggests a more worrying picture. It says that in the elite | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
universities, Oxford and Cambridge, etc, many of them have seen the | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
proportion of poor people getting through fall. Overall it is not | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
disastrous, but these very elite ones, they are having not such a | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
good picture. People are wondering whether we are seeing what we | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
expected happen, but it is definitely a worrying trend. It is | :15:19. | :15:26. | |
all about social mobility, isn't it? Is it a trend through other | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
universities and more universities, it would suggest that social | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
mobility is not doing too well. There is another element of this | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
story, which is that people from poor backgrounds tend to find places | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
at middle and lower ranked institutions, so they tend to go to | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
the lower ranked ones. We don't have a lot of time to talk about this, | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
families give up meat over health fears. More statistics being thrown | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
around. This is close to my heart, this story. I am 20 year-long | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
vegetarian and I have recently eating meat. This is a story about | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
how increasing numbers of people in Britain are giving up meat on health | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
fears. This is the latest of a string of stories about scares of | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
food, in the last few days it has been about sugar. In recent history | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
it has been fat and salt, but now it is meat. This comes on the heels of | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
warnings by the World Health Organization recently that processed | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
meats are definitely cancer-causing, and red meat is probably | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
carcinogenic. Are you going to go back to vegetarianism? I have never | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
been a veggie, what is interesting about this is that 29% have tried to | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
give up in the last year, which is astonishingly high. People I know | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
there is nowhere near that many. I wonder if the people they have | :17:01. | :17:09. | |
surveyed for this are faddy types of people. Thank you very much, that is | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
it. Up next, Sportsday. Welcome to Sportsday, | :17:15. | :17:26. | |
with me, Ore Oduba. On the way tonight: A tale | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
of three strikers. | :17:31. | :17:33. |