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charges in Germany. And Mauricio Pochettino's future | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
with the club. That's in Sportsday after the papers. | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
Good to see they are keeping hydrated at the BBC sports centre. | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
bringing us tomorrow. With me are Paul Johnson, deputy editor of The | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
Guardian, and entrepreneur Shazia Awan. Tomorrow's front pages. We | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
start with the Daily Telegraph. It claims that the Chancellor's planned | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
minimum wage rise is aimed at winning Labour votes. But business | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
leaders fear it may put jobs at risk. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
That call by the Chancellor for an above-inflation increase in the | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
minimum wage makes the lead in the financial times. | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
The Express says homeowners can look forward to more soaring prices, | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
adding ?25,000 to the average property value. | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
And a starving child in a refugee camp in Damascus. . And Dame Judi | :01:07. | :01:14. | |
Dench and Cate Blanchett go head to head at the Oscars. | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
Several front pages are focusing on the Chancellor's ideas for the | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
minimum wage. The Daily Telegraph says the announcement is an attempt | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
to win Labour votes at the next election. | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
A bit of a turn-up isn't it that we've now got a Conservative | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
Chancellor championing an above-average increase for the | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
minimum wage? That's a bit of a turn-up. It is a theatrical moment, | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
a dramatic moment. It endorses what somebody in power can do. It is not | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
a pledge, because the Low Pay Commission have to endorse this. But | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
this is meant to do two things. One, it is meant to endorse George | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
Osborne's ability to use this catchphrase, which is worn and | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
irritates many people, "We are all in it together." He can say I'm | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
looking at the bottom of the poor working people, as well as those at | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
the top. But it also says, is I can outflank Labour on this. Shazia, we | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
must mention it, as you did stand as a Conservative candidate in one of | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
the constituencies they were fighting. What's happening within | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
the Conservative Party as far as you can tell? A few years ago they were | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
saying no, the minimum wage is a terrible idea, it will cost jobs, | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
and it hasn't. Perhaps it is rather a cynical look at it from my point | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
of view but it seems that all the main parties are gearing up for a | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
May 2015 general election, and all of a sudden these things are being | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
pushed out there. . Ed Miliband is making a speech tomorrow about the | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
economy. I just think it is that time where all of the parties are | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
trying to rally support however they can. This rise from ?6.31 to ?7, you | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
could look at it the other way as a business owner and think, is this | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
going to put a strain on the money that I have within my business, and | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
could it lead to job losses in the long term? That's what the CBI have | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
come out with today. Would it really entice Labour voters to the | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
Conservatives? I think it makes the Conservative Party a warmer and more | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
acceptable image. It was meant to grab the headlines, as Shazia says, | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
on the eve of a big speech by Ed Miliband. But one of the other | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
principal problems of this is we could see this being outflanked. The | :03:49. | :03:57. | |
living wage for instance is set at ?8.80. That's voluntary but one of | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
the biggest proponents of that is one Boris Johnson. Coventry council | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
has started doing that. Can we really continue with the minimum | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
wage as it is when to the taxpayer there is an enormous expense of | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
having to pay people in work these benefits? Nobody can survive on ?7 | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
an hour if they are working full time. You can't cover the basics | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
with that. It is a tricky issue. George Osborne is trying to appear | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
as warm and fuzzy as he can by trying to address this. The real | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
struggle that the cost of living has risen so fast before wages have seen | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
a rise. 2008 was the last time we saw a significant change there. The | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
idea of sharing the recovery with everybody. Let's look at the | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
Guardian. NSA, this is the American National Security Agency, gathers | :04:59. | :05:07. | |
200 million texts a day. This is a story that the Guardian's had mile | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
age out of with the information that you got from Edward Snowden. Tell us | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
how this works. What's the point of gathering 200 million texts a day. | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
It is a ridiculous amount of information. It is an extraordinary | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
story. This is Operation Dish Fire, which is mounted by the Americans. | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
Basically this says it can collect untargeted and unwarranted items. | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
200 million texts a day. Rather creepily, 800,000 credit card | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
transactions a day. These are targeted by the NSA abroad. Some of | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
this information is passed back and is at the use of GCHQ. That on the | :05:51. | :05:59. | |
surface would be illegal. GCHQ say no, we are restricted here and | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
haven't gone outside the law. I want to know who signed a paper to say | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
this is legal. For the first time we've had a telecoms company in | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
Britain, a very big global company - Vodafone - are saying on the surface | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
we are really shocked by what's happening. On the surface it doesn't | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
look legal to us and we want to meet the Government next week to discuss | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
this as soon as possible. This is a story you've mentioned Shazia that | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
the NSA was on the front page as. Are people still interested in this | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
It is a difficult one. There's so much mileage in this story. It seems | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
to have been going on and on. I don't think we've seen the the end | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
of it, because it is such a blatant invasion of peop's privacy. But it | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
is the metadata, it is about the traffic that moves back and forth... | :06:55. | :07:03. | |
And what can be taken from that. It is not a content. The you don't need | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
the continent necessarily if you've got the metadata. Tomorrow if Barack | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
Obama replies to his NSA panel, he wants to hake this a global event. | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
He is holding a press conference, he's been in touch with David | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
Cameron over what he's going to say. A press conference at 4 o'clock | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
tomorrow, because he's so worried about the reactions in Europe | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
particularly, trying to explain why the NSA spied on Angela Merkel, on | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
heads of state, on the EU, on EU commissioners and on charities. But | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
they are exactly the people you would expect to be spied on rather | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
than the likes of us. I don't think the Germans have reacted in the same | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
way! The Mail has a campaign to look inside the secret courts that can | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
lead to children being taken from their parents, or older people being | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
forced into care homes. They are saying victory at last. Decisions | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
will be open to public scrutiny. The Mail claiming a bit of a success | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
here Shazia. It is odd that we pride ourselves on a judicial system which | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
is tremendously open and yet in this part of the courts, we know precious | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
little about what goes on. Absolutely. I find it strange that | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
decisions about something as important as vital as children | :08:27. | :08:35. | |
staying with their families or not canner or whether they are going to | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
be put into care aren't in the open, and everything is done in a cloak | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
and dagger way. It is time that things came more out into the open. | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
So that people involved in these decisions, councils and social | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
workers, will have to be more answerable. It is laudable. Open | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
justice demands the publicity here. I think it is admirable what the | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
Mail's done and to secure victory is terrific. The Mail doing something | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
admirable, wow! I never thought I would hear that. From a Guardian | :09:12. | :09:25. | |
man, that's a first. They have a focus on people trapped by the | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
fighting in Syria. This is a picture of a little girl who, incredibly, | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
died shortly after this photograph was taken. Looking at her conditions | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
there, it isn't really a surprise. She lost her battle to cling to | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
life. The image of her face is becoming the symbol of a wider | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
nightmare. You wonder what we have achieved with the chemical weapons | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
declaration in Syria and whether that has won a great deal of fruit | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
for the people caught up in it. This is an extraordinary front page. It | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
is a haunting picture. Sometimes, on occasions like this, a picture like | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
this portrays that individual suffering, especially of a child, | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
and it will gather momentum around it. When you read this story, you go | :10:12. | :10:20. | |
back to that debate. Britain has given ?500 million, and our | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
government is during proud of that, to help the refugees. But there is | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
another debate to say, shouldn't we take in more refugees? It is a | :10:30. | :10:39. | |
difficult place to get to Britain from Syria. Shouldn't we be taking | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
more in? There is a real danger of destabilising the area around Jordan | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
and Lebanon. It might encourage us to give more money ourselves as | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
individuals, but diplomatically and politically, you wonder where it is | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
going to go. This is such a haunting picture and a classic example of a | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
picture speaking a thousand words. Anyone who looks at this certainly | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
can't ignore it. It will reignite the debate about whether we should | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
open up our borders more to these people. Let's move on to the Daily | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
Express. Another of its favourite subjects, house prices. Apparently, | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
they are going to soar by ?25,000. You wonder who this is helping. If | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
you are trying to get a foot on the ladder, you will struggle if prices | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
are going up like this. Absolutely. Particularly in London, presses are | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
through the roof. It makes it very difficult for young people to get a | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
foot on the housing ladder. Even with these different schemes that | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
are around to help people. We keep coming back to the problem that not | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
enough houses are being built. Supply and a are not working. The | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
rental market is under pressure. This concept of the average house | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
price is nonsense. The geographical differences, you have got London | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
acting completely differently. There are vast regional differentiation | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
is. The maths don't add up. Let's look at one of the other stories in | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
the Daily Telegraph. Women leave motherhood too late, warns medical | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
chief. You are brave person to that, aren't you? Ahad teacher a few years | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
ago suggested it in a speech to young women. Don't think you can | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
have it all, because you might come unstuck. Dame Sally Davies says the | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
average age of the first-time mother in the UK is now 30, the oldest in | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
the world, tied with Germany. She goes on to say that women are now | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
seeking an education. Some of them are travelling, some are having | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
careers. That may be behind this. It probably is, but that doesn't alter | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
the fact that if you want to have a family at 40, you might struggle. It | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
might be medically difficult at 40 to have a baby, but then it might be | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
medically difficult for some women to have a baby at 21. I am very | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
surprised at this article and her views, because it is a very | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
old-fashioned viewpoint, saying that women are leaving motherhood too | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
late. Women are having an education and a career of their own. Why can't | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
we have it all? All I know is that when women have them, it is | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
exhausting. You will both be back with us at 11:30pm to look at the | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
stories making the front pages. Stay with us, because at 11 o'clock, we | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
are hoping to speak to Chiwetel Ejiofor, the Oscar-nominated star of | :13:47. | :14:06. | |
12 Years A Slave. Coming up next, Sportsday. Welcome to | :14:07. | :14:07. |