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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be | :00:00. | :00:18. | |
With me are Ben Chu - Economics and Business Editor | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
of the Independent and Caroline Wheeler, | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
political editor of the Sunday Express. | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
that children are eating half their recommended daily | :00:28. | :00:41. | |
allowance before they even leave for school in the morning. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
The Istanbul terror attack is the Independent's top story. | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
It's interviewed an IS defector who says the militant group | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
The same lead for the Eye - which carries a striking image | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
of the funeral of one of the victims. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
The Times leads with the rail price hike. | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
It says fares are now six times higher than those in Europe | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
and that one study says commuters now pay 27 pence for every minute | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
A similar page one story for the Metro, which reports claims | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
that thousands of commuters will now be spending 14% of their incomes | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
could be facing 20 years in jail over a plot to scam drug smugglers | :01:23. | :01:33. | |
It says the last remaining survivor of the RAF's 'Dambusters' raid | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
during World War II should get a gong. | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
And the Daily Mail focuses on foreign aid. | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
It claims Pakistanis have been queueing at cashpoints to use cards | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
loaded with British taxpayers' money. | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
Well, we will come to that story in a moment that we will begin with the | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
warning about sugar for parents but really it is about the children. A | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
new story to strike guilt and fear into the heart of households across | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
the land about what their children eat for breakfast. A remarkable | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
statistic. The average child is eating the equivalent of three sugar | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
cube is a day at breakfast alone which as a parent myself this is a | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
shocking figure and I start thinking about what my own child is eating. | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
All those sweet pastries and frosted flakes. They have a lot of sugar in | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
them and I am certainly going to be looking at the advice and see what I | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
want to know really what are the healthy breakfast options? There are | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
so many of these things that have sugar in them and you want to know | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
what they should be eating and what you should be offering and what is | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
out there. We were trying to think earlier about what our children eat | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
for breakfast and what is the healthiest option. We both came up | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
with porridge has been the one but then we both admitted that our | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
children like a dollop of honey or a little bit of sugar or something. | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
One viewer has tweeted to say that we should be doing it with a pinch | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
of salt. But as the Scottish way. I don't see my children will like | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
that. Your children don't mind? No, they don't. Then they have a honey | :03:30. | :03:39. | |
on top, however. Bad parent! It is the traditional way of making it. | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
The thing that got me is that the minute you think your giving your | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
child serial so as a parent you're instantly think that's the real is a | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
healthy start to the day. The other day I made scramble on toast and | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
they were, they were very happy with that. You don't have to give serial, | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
do you? But it is to do with time in the morning. We are desperately | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
trying to get to work on time and drop children off at various places | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
for the rest of the dates so you think about quick easy convenience | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
solutions. What upsets me the most is that, you write, we think that's | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
the real is healthy and we know that certain cereals are loaded with | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
sugar than we give children them. It is actually the other ones. You | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
check the back of the box and you see that they have three teaspoons | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
of sugar in every portion. The other thing that worries me is the fruit | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
juice. You know, the idea that we are starting off with a glass of | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
fruit juice which is one of their five a day but actually the guide | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
lines say they should act to have one portion of fruit juice a day | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
because it is full of sugar and I would imagine that those three sugar | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
cubes at breakfast, a couple of those are already in a glass of | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
orange apple juice or the hot chocolate, or whatever it is we give | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
them. It is interesting that they say that recent data suggests that a | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
war on sugar has now led to a slump in purchases of fruit and vegetable. | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
It is kind of going against the healthy message. Anyway so that is | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
the Telegraph. Let us turn out to the Times talking about rail fares. | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
This is the time of year when people go back to work, purchase a new | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
season ticket and find out that longer hold the price has risen | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
again. This has been happening year in and year out free long time now. | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
2.3% is the latest rise which is still more than the rate of | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
inflation and this is only for regulated fares as well. Many of the | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
other fares out there, they are not capped by the government, they have | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
increased by even more. One fare in Swansea has increased by 20%. | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
Imagine using VAT and not having a season ticket? That is serious | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
money. The biggest context is that the story is saying that rail fares | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
are far more expensive than they are on the continent, something like 14% | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
of the salary of an average UK worker compared to between two and | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
4% in France and Germany which is a bit of a spurious statistic because | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
they have a different funding mechanism. The government has made a | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
clear decision that they want more investment and more use of the | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
railway to be paid for directly by passengers which is why the fares | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
increased so much. In the continent comes from the general taxpayer | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
which is why the average fee will be less for passengers but they will | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
pay for it in other ways. The real issue is how efficient are our | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
railways and I think people have a problem with that. It is not coming | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
at the best time, is it? We have strikes and people are not happy. | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
Delays, overcrowding and the timing could not be worse. The other thing | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
we need to put into context is that many people have not had a pay rise | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
and so pay rises have been totally outflanked by these rail rises which | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
basically means that people are paying more money to go to work than | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
they were last year directly came into these companies, and are not | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
getting to work anyway! We saw over Christmas, you know, plenty of | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
coverage given to the Southern rail strike and people saying that they | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
were losing their jobs because they could not get to work because there | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
were no trains to get them there. It is going to be a doom and misery | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
started the year, particularly the strike is ongoing. And the strike | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
start tomorrow on the platforms because we understand that there | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
will be a range of protests that have been organised by action for | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
rail. They will be taking place at over 100 stations throughout the day | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
tomorrow including London and Manchester. Cardiff, Bristol etc. | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
The main protest will be at Manchester Piccadilly in King's | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
Cross. A flash mob organised by the campaign for better transport. Do | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
you really think that will get the message across? I think it will | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
infuriated commuters. The first day back to work and we roll returning | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
after a lengthy festive break, and given the weather holidays have | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
fallen this year. The first day back to work, increased their rises, | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
rubbish services combined with further disruption caused by these | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
groups that claim to be, that support to be supporting the | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
transport system,. Jeremy Corbyn possibly not seen the funny side of | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
McClusky either. Prepared to stand down. A 24% you think he is | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
justified in issuing this warning? Here is justified and it is | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
interesting that he is doing it because McClusky has always been the | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
supportive union figure, the one who was always gone into battle for | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
Jeremy Corbyn. Where did the Love go? You could argue that he has seen | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
the writing on the wall at last. The polls are quite bad and it is time | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
to put pressure on Corbyn to start thinking about an exit strategy if | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
things do not improve. McClusky is in the midst of his own battle as | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
the boss of The Unite union and the interpretation a lot of people have | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
put on it is that this is a way of sparring with his main rival for | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
that job and a proxy war over the Labour leadership to try and defeat | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
his rival. That sounds quite plausible to me. You also need to | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
think about that at the end of the day, the unions have a certain | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
degree of cloud. Given their proximity to the leadership and the | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
fact that they are pouring in vast sums of money into the pockets of | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
individual MPs their power is only as much as the party is able to | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
achieve at the general election. You want to be a fair party that is able | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
to get into power and polls have shown that 24%, the lowest support | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
ratings since July 1983 which was the time of Michael foot. The | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
writing is on the wall but as you say, I think there is a lot of | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
politicking going on there. His main rival in this contest is Jarrod | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
Coyne who was a moderate himself and will be sold off, you know, pursuing | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
an agenda which is not quite so pro- Jeremy Corbyn. He has to choose a | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
different tack, I think, in order to show up the support he needs. People | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
looking at the front page of the Daily Mail tomorrow morning and | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
thinking of how much they spent over Christmas. Goodness. Well, the mail | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
has a long-standing campaign against this foreign aid budget that the UK | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
has. We will one of the few countries that spent directly on | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
foreign aid. They think it is a terrible use of resources and | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
especially the time austerity. This is the latest instalment of their | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
forceful and angry campaign. They say that people in Pakistan are | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
being issued with cash cards so they can get foreign aid money directly | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
rather than as food or whatever. A terrible scandal that shows why we | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
should stop spending so much money. Willis talking earlier about how | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
there is very little context given. Who are these people? And what basis | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
are they being given this money? And without that information it is | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
impossible to make any sort of decision about whether or not this | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
is money well spent will not. And we've just spent all this money, you | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
make the comparison and we are feeling the pinch and all this money | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
is going to these people living abroad literally into their pockets. | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
The interesting thing that they say is that the amount giving in direct | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
cash has gone up and there have been concerns around corruption around | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
the scheme. It is also right to put it that this is historic. This has | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
been going on for five years. However the new International | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
developments that Terry has been very very clear that actually she is | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
aware of what is going on and she is taking her time to review the entire | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
aid budget and to make sure that basically the British taxpayer is | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
getting some kind of value for money and that actually aid should not | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
just be about a bottomless pit it should also be about as spending in | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
a sensible way that gives us something back in terms of, you | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
know, the national interest. Some of the money has been going in to help | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
us with counterterrorism, for example. If you look at the area | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
that this money is in, and think about what was going on in | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
Afghanistan and winning the hearts and minds, etc, etc. But, also, I | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
think we do need to know more. It is a knee-jerk reaction to say that | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
this is an abhorrent situation but on the base of it, yes there will be | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
many people who are annoyed that this is going on and I think without | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
further information it is a dangerous sort of conclusion to draw | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
that this is ultimately a bad thing that is happening. More detail | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
inside the paper, hopefully. Quickly, the Daily Express. An extra | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
incentive to stick to your health. The paper as saying that it will | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
help you defeat dementia particularly if you have type 2 | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
diabetes or are obese. Does that make you think that you need to | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
stick at it this year? We were talking earlier about fitness and | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
health. Any message of this kind of nature at this time of year is | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
always going to try and move readers, definitely. I think many | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
people rethink that they need to keep in shape, keep down their fat | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
consumption etc. It is good for us. But I, kinda, a regular will | :13:59. | :14:06. | |
reminder is always warranted although I do prefer the headlines | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
that say chocolate make you smarter or that drinking wine is good for | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
you. In a way that contradict themselves because they say keep | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
feet to defeat dementia and then they have a think yourself thin diet | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
plan. Just do the metalwork, don't worry about exercise. -- just do the | :14:22. | :14:34. | |
mental work. That is it for the papers. Coming up next week a sports | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
day. | :14:37. | :14:37. |