14/12/2016 The Papers

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o'clock. Now it is time for the papers.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

With me are Benedicte Paviot, UK correspondent at France

24 and Jack Blanchard, Political Editor

Tomorrow's front pages, the Metro leads with the dispute

between British Airways and it's cabin crew - the paper says more

than one million people's holidays will be affected by the strike.

The Mirror has an exclusive in which it says children as young

as five are made to carry out manual labour in North Korea.

The Express quotes the Brexit Secretary David Davis saying Britain

will not compromise on curbing EU immigration in the renegotiations.

The Guardian also leads with the cabinet minister's comments

in which he says there will be no plans drawn up until

Or at least it will not be made public until February.

The Telegraph writes Britain's most decorated female soldier is calling

for an end to the witch-hunt of veterans involved

The i says that 50,000 people are trapped in Aleppo. And new mothers

are being warned to look for signs of sepsis, according to the Daily

Mail. The Times has its own investigation into bureau DeShawn --

airport money changing stations. We start with the Guardian. A

picture of the situation Aleppo. There was a lot of hope last night

that a ceasefire was going to come into force. It lasted for a few

hours and then the fighting started again. Many people are comparing

this to the war in Lebanon, conflicts since the Second World War

that really gripped the imagination in horror and intensity? Yes. What

is very clear is that we are getting a lot of photography, a lot of

filming, I understand the West have also sent drones but and

documenting, as we speak, what is happening in Aleppo. Possibly, in

the coming days and weeks of the situation in Aleppo, it will be

over. But the massacre of civilians is staggering. I think it is very

difficult to be sitting there and watching, in our living rooms, our

offices, this kind of, in real-time, massacre of civilians. The battle

for Aleppo may be over, but the battle for Syria is not over.

Meanwhile, you have the regime, President Assad, that was crumbling

only months ago, who, thanks to the Russian and Iranian backers, have

pulled this off, in a sense. The people that are really paying the

price are the civilians. It just beggars belief. I think a lot of

people feel very powerless. Earlier this evening, you have a very

interesting interview with somebody from the human rights organisation?

Yes, from World Vision. What was very powerful about her testimony

was that she was very factual, and it is such a dramatic situation,

appealing for help. In the Guardian, this piece, it says about doctors

and civilians, yesterday they were optimistic about what was happening

there, and they are imploring the world to respect the ceasefire. That

is part of the problem. Hope, when it presents itself, as it did last

night, fills so many hearts with joy, and the possibility that things

might improve. For it to be snatched away so quickly, it is terrible. But

the point that was being made, we are seeing these images coming out,

is it part of what has made this tragedy so striking, the fact you

have eyewitness testimony, on iPhones, as the bombs are falling,

they are talking about it going on in a way that did not happen in

Bosnia, did not happen in Libya, which was only four years ago.

Absolutely. It is such a change. When we saw was being covered with

video cameras 70 years ago, it was such a big change to how people saw

war. We are seeing that technological revolution having the

same effect again. We had these horrendous situations before in the

past, but it always seemed very distant. You only really learned

afterwards what was happening. Now you can watch it in real-time,

extraordinary videos of doctors, people that are right there in

Aleppo, sending messages, desperately pleading for help.

People in the West are sitting there and wringing their hands. We saw in

the House of Commons today, there is nothing MPs can do. They are raising

a time and time again. All Theresa May can do is turn around and say

that Putin needs to make this stop. And, of course, he is not listening.

What the Russians decide to do, will the Russians and President Putin to

continue to give this back into Assad? What will run do? What will

the new President in America do? That will be key. The Metro, Yahoo

are going to be withdrawing their labour in a dispute over pay. -- BA

staff are going to be withdrawing their labour. The Telegraph suggests

that unions are coordinating strike action over the coming weeks. This

is the bottom of the Daily Telegraph. Unions accused of

conspiracy as BA cabin crew join strikers. Post Office workers are

going on strike. Of course, big problems on Southern Rail. You

represent a prounion newspaper, I guess I could say, the Daily Mirror.

Are there suggestions that the unions are coordinating this? Only

in the right-wing press and certain conservative MPs he would love to

use this situation as an opportunity to get leveraged for new anti-strike

laws, just weeks after the last set of anti-union laws. These are

disputes that have been long-running. If you know anything

about these disputes, the dispute at BA has been going on for several

years. Since 2010, they have been taking on groups of staff and paying

them a tiny wage, compared to the existing cabin crew. Some of them

are on a basic salary of ?12,000 per year, an average of up to ?16,000.

The union says they have to sleep in cars between shifts and moonlight in

other jobs. This is not part of a massive conspiracy. It does look

weird, doesn't it? Post office workers going on strike just before

Christmas? Rail strikes? BA just before Christmas? No Christmas

flights. No Christmas parcels. There is certainly an argument that the

union might be trying to use its power when it can wield the most.

The idea that they are phoning each other up and organising it, I think

it is far-fetched. They spend more time squabbling with each other.

Course to rethink the free bus pass? Absolutely. This is interesting.

This is the story about withdrawing free bus passes. It is Simon

Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England. He was telling MPs that

there was no point in giving people free bus passes and free bus

transport if there is nobody to provide the basic care that they

need. It is all about the the combination of, on one hand, NHS

medical care, emergency, outpatient, impatient, but also, if don't have,

and there have been so many cuts because of austerity measures, 40%,

I think, over the last few years because of austerity measures, what

is the point in putting that money into bus passes? I think they are

incredibly important. I think it is not just people that are ill, I

think it is about social interaction. I think there is

something fundamental. A society that cannot provide, even in

austerity times, proper social care and that kind of thing, having free

transport, I think we need to look at ourselves. We need to question

priorities. Let's move onto the next story, and I am not just saying that

because you are here. Child chain gangs of North Korea, the kind of

campaigning story we expect in the Daily Mirror, no showbiz tittle

tattle! We do occasionally like a bit of that. But this is a terrific

story, Russell Myers, our chief investigative reporter, he has been

to North Korea to look at the reality of life behind that curtain.

A lot of the reporting of what happened in North Korea is done in

quite a joking way, it seems a bizarre regime in the West. We tend

to find a lot of humour in it. What he's doing here is actually showing

the reality of life. Has this extraordinary footage of lines of

young children working in what they call chain gangs. I am not sure they

are literally chained up, but they might as well be. Lined up on

railway lines. Extraordinary, hammering at Stones, carrying them

around, doing hard labour in blazing sun. Some of them are five, six,

seven years old. It really brings home the horror of what life is like

in this regime, in a way that it is very difficult to do. It is such a

closed regime. It is very hard for journalists to get in, anybody to

get in and see what is going on. A really good exclusive. You were

saying in order to do this kind of story, it does not necessarily shift

front pages, I know it is difficult for the red tops, in a very

competitive market, you have to have celebrity tittle tattle to get this

kind of stuff out? People love to read about them, and there is

nothing wrong with that. The Mirror hides itself on being a campaigning

newspaper, particularly on worker exploitation. It is fantastic that

the newspaper puts resources to it and we have a journalist that can

get out there. Very risky reporting. They might not invite him back. Lets

not ask how he got into the country. Finally, clean living kids, they

don't want to smoke or drink any more. Yes, quite extraordinary. It

seems that, according to the NHS survey, we have the cleanest living

generation on record. Jack, you were referring to them as a boring

generation? They are addicted to their screens. It is often asked why

British children, and adults, drink so much. In France, we drink, but we

also eat up the same time, that is a significant difference. Apparently,

these clean living children are snubbing cigarettes and alcohol.

They will cost less to the NHS. Sadly, the clean living headline

does not include the fact that they don't exercise and seemed to be

horribly obese. We need a new definition of clean living? All

right. Thank you so much for looking at some of the stories. Many thanks

to you for watching. Much of England and Wales saw some

sunshine today and we got to 15 Celsius, very mild indeed. It turned

into a decent sunset. Thanks to a weather watcher in Surrey