:00:19. > :00:25.Hello and welcome to our bite-size look... Oh, dear. There you are. We
:00:26. > :00:31.have settles down. The look at the newspapers. With me are Tinbergen
:00:32. > :00:39.from Reuters and Daily Telegraph columnist Lucy Cavendish. -- Tim
:00:40. > :00:46.Bergen. The independent's FrontPage, no way back for Britain's joining
:00:47. > :00:49.the Syrian fight. Theresa May, doing something she said she would do some
:00:50. > :00:57.time ago but it is an exclusive anyway. The numbers are descriptive.
:00:58. > :01:02.Citizenship stripping powers is probably overstating it a bit. In
:01:03. > :01:08.April she said they would step up the use of these powers. If you
:01:09. > :01:14.fight as a jihadist, they will take away your passport. This has been
:01:15. > :01:18.exercised 30 times since May 2010, much more than happened previously.
:01:19. > :01:29.It is not an unpopular policy. Many people did not object to this. If
:01:30. > :01:32.people lose their passport, they could be subjected to torture.
:01:33. > :01:39.Probably not much sympathy for them in this country though. But Theresa
:01:40. > :01:50.May is doing what she said she was going to do. There you go. Top
:01:51. > :01:54.story! It is not going to be unpopular with anybody. Well they're
:01:55. > :02:03.not be any comeback at the European Court of Human Rights? -- will there
:02:04. > :02:07.not be? Possibly. You have to prove they are a jihadist and that will
:02:08. > :02:13.take some time. People do not go to Syria on holidays lately. Not
:02:14. > :02:20.particularly. Lets go onto another story because we don't have much to
:02:21. > :02:25.say about that. Rivers of blood panic. Vince Cable speaking out.
:02:26. > :02:28.Saying there will be no cap on remaining than Bulgarians and
:02:29. > :02:36.anybody else for that matter coming from elsewhere in the EU. Yes, this
:02:37. > :02:40.is very interesting. Tom is also pointing out that the Lib Dems want
:02:41. > :02:45.to differentiate themselves from the Tories. This is an area that they
:02:46. > :02:51.will be doing it in. We talk about the fact that there is a lot of
:02:52. > :02:54.panic about remaining than Bulgarians coming in. I think there
:02:55. > :02:58.is scaremongering going on by the Government that it will be awful and
:02:59. > :03:02.dreadful and nobody will have any work and they will be swamping in. I
:03:03. > :03:09.did think that is necessarily true and I think it is pandering to the
:03:10. > :03:16.UKIP potential voters. I like Vince Cable. It is a big analogy. The
:03:17. > :03:22.rivers of blood is so divisive, a very strong analogy to make. It is
:03:23. > :03:29.not quite what he has been saying, is it? Not using appalling images,
:03:30. > :03:33.have they? I think it is strong language but if you look around
:03:34. > :03:41.Europe, European leaders have been describing Britain as positioning
:03:42. > :03:45.themselves as the nasty people. I have been to Romania and lots of
:03:46. > :03:48.them are doing work in different countries and they come back to
:03:49. > :03:53.their families. There is this fluid idea. The sense that they will up
:03:54. > :03:56.sticks with all members of their family and plonk themselves in the
:03:57. > :04:05.middle of London or wherever, I think that is the panic too far,
:04:06. > :04:13.personally. Soldiering on over the festive holiday worse for the NHS.
:04:14. > :04:18.Many of us putting up with ailments. This is a strange message that too
:04:19. > :04:21.many people are swamping A practices because they are
:04:22. > :04:26.malingerers and now the NHS is saying that we do not seek medical
:04:27. > :04:30.attention early enough. It is quite confusing. He is not suggesting
:04:31. > :04:35.necessarily that you should go to A with every small ailment. Go and
:04:36. > :04:40.see your GP. You can't because you cannot get an appointment. I could
:04:41. > :04:46.not get my poor daughter in for her Paulinho. What do you do? Sit in a
:04:47. > :04:49.anywhere it is nice and warm? Get the chocolate bar from the vending
:04:50. > :04:55.machine on Christmas Day? It would be quite exciting. On the one hand,
:04:56. > :05:01.we are told not to go and bother people in A but on the other what
:05:02. > :05:04.are you supposed to do? The Financial Times, Mikhail
:05:05. > :05:08.Khodorkovsky, pledging to refrain from Vladimir Putin challenge. He
:05:09. > :05:13.has plenty of money so he could bankroll other opposition figures.
:05:14. > :05:17.It is interesting because other headlines were saying the opposite
:05:18. > :05:21.in some cases. He has made enigmatic comments and he has not made it
:05:22. > :05:27.clear what he is going to do. He has a lot of funds, so he could be a
:05:28. > :05:33.thorn in Vladimir Putin's sides. Does he have enough for some
:05:34. > :05:37.polonium? Who does not want to go back in a hurry. He wants to make
:05:38. > :05:43.sure that you can leave again if he does go back. That was it. Tom and
:05:44. > :05:46.Lucy will be back and we will have a proper go at them at 11:30pm. Time
:05:47. > :06:00.for the weather forecast now. Hello. We have got some rough
:06:01. > :06:04.weather to content with over the next couple of days in the run-up to
:06:05. > :06:05.Christmas which is likely to cause