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:00:00. > :00:00.them get to the last eight on Wednesday. And we will tell you

:00:00. > :00:00.about the new leaders of Super League. That is all after The

:00:00. > :00:19.Papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

:00:20. > :00:27.to what the papers will be bringing tomorrow. I can sense some kind of

:00:28. > :00:31.gladiatorial combat. Tony Grew and Matthew Syed are here with us

:00:32. > :00:35.tonight. Tomorrow's front pages. On the story of the missing plane,

:00:36. > :00:37.the Telegraph has the transcript of the exchanges between the co`pilot

:00:38. > :00:42.and air traffic control ` their headline, "Last 54 minutes of flight

:00:43. > :00:45.MH370". The Mirror's take on the recordings

:00:46. > :00:47.is "Moment plane flew into dead space".

:00:48. > :00:49.The Financial Times leads with the crisis in Ukraine ` their headline

:00:50. > :00:53."Sanctions batter oligarchs' stocks".

:00:54. > :00:57.The i go with a warning for the Government ` "Doctors tell Hunt,

:00:58. > :00:59."You're damaging the NHS"". The Express says that the changes to

:01:00. > :01:04.pensions, following the budget, will result in house prices soaring.

:01:05. > :01:06.The Independent reports that a Matisse painting stolen by the Nazis

:01:07. > :01:10.has been returned to its rightful owners.

:01:11. > :01:13.The Times claims that viewers who fail to pay their licence fee may

:01:14. > :01:17.lose their reception in future ` their headline "Block TV signal for

:01:18. > :01:20.licence fee dodgers". And the Guardian features a picture

:01:21. > :01:33.of Kate Bush on their front page, with the story that she's to tour

:01:34. > :01:38.for the first time in 35 years. We will make a start with the story we

:01:39. > :01:44.have been covering every day for the last two weeks, and still it goes

:01:45. > :01:50.on. In the Daily Telegraph, the last 54 minutes of flight MH370. The

:01:51. > :01:54.paper has got hold of the transcript of the exchanges between the

:01:55. > :02:00.co`pilot and air traffic control. It is kind of anodyne. It is 54 minutes

:02:01. > :02:04.and it does not bring the story along. It is a series of three

:02:05. > :02:10.communications between the tower in Kuala Lumpur, instructing the plane

:02:11. > :02:14.to contact Ho Chi Minh City. This is apparently the moment at which the

:02:15. > :02:19.plane is most vulnerable, moving from the air traffic control of one

:02:20. > :02:23.country and into another. Pilots and experts have been saying this is a

:02:24. > :02:27.moment of vulnerability. One pilot says, if I was going to steal the

:02:28. > :02:31.aeroplane, that is the point at which I would do it. For quite a

:02:32. > :02:37.long time we have been talking about the last words from the plane, which

:02:38. > :02:41.were, all right, good night, having been told by air traffic control in

:02:42. > :02:47.Malaysia, please contact Ho Chi Minh City, good night. It is that

:02:48. > :02:53.crossover point. It is so banal. And yet we are still talking about it.

:02:54. > :02:57.It is a source of endless fascination. There were apparently

:02:58. > :03:01.two strange features about this otherwise entirely anodyne

:03:02. > :03:04.transcript. The one that Tony mentioned. The other, for what it is

:03:05. > :03:10.worth, is that the first message from the cockpit saying the plane

:03:11. > :03:13.was flying at 35,000 feet was an unnecessary message, because it

:03:14. > :03:18.repeated one delivered six minutes earlier. And it occurred at a

:03:19. > :03:23.crucial moment. That is when the signalling device sent its last

:03:24. > :03:27.message. These are the two anomalies in what is otherwise a perfectly

:03:28. > :03:34.normal set of communications between air traffic control and the lost

:03:35. > :03:37.airliner. It is an endlessly fascinating story. We live in a

:03:38. > :03:42.world where our smartphone knows where we are but we cannot find

:03:43. > :03:46.hundreds of people on a plane. And there are dozens of nations looking

:03:47. > :03:50.for it. My view is that it has sunk, but some of this evidence makes me

:03:51. > :03:54.think, what has happened? I think this will be leading the news for a

:03:55. > :04:00.while. There is possibly a wider story, which is that despite this

:04:01. > :04:06.accident, hijacking, or whatever it turns out to be, aviation has an

:04:07. > :04:09.impressive safety record. If you compare it with 70 years ago when

:04:10. > :04:14.the U.S. Postal Service were using it for air mail and there were

:04:15. > :04:18.crashes every week. I think there were 290 deaths from 2.9 billion

:04:19. > :04:23.passenger flights, and that safety record has not happened by accident.

:04:24. > :04:25.An anonymous reporting system, international cooperation, the

:04:26. > :04:30.willingness to search for the data recorder, deconstruction of the

:04:31. > :04:32.cockpit voice recording transcript, all these things ensure that when

:04:33. > :04:37.mistakes happen there are institutional changes, procedural

:04:38. > :04:41.changes to ensure they do not happen again, which is a model for other

:04:42. > :04:48.areas of transportation, medicine and lots of other things beside. The

:04:49. > :04:51.track record is not an accident. Do you think, given that those

:04:52. > :04:57.instinctive efforts to make sure it is safe, there will be even more

:04:58. > :04:59.they will learn from this? The Malaysia and authorities in

:05:00. > :05:03.particular have been criticised about their response, the fact that

:05:04. > :05:07.they seem to be giving out false information, which may be unfair,

:05:08. > :05:12.because they are giving out information they believe to be true

:05:13. > :05:16.at the time. As always, Matthew is half right. Safety is good in some

:05:17. > :05:21.parts of the world. In developing nations, that is not the case.

:05:22. > :05:26.Friends who fly in some parts of the world are very concerned about the

:05:27. > :05:29.aircraft. This might be a wake`up call for Malaysia. Maybe its

:05:30. > :05:34.infrastructure and control and safety systems are not as strong as

:05:35. > :05:37.in Europe and the US. But if you compare it with shipping, where

:05:38. > :05:42.ships fly under flags of convenience, where inshore and has

:05:43. > :05:49.bedevilled the international cooperation, if something goes down

:05:50. > :05:52.in British jurisdiction, the aviation authority, the independent

:05:53. > :05:56.aircraft investigation scheme will look at it, try and learn lessons,

:05:57. > :06:03.and any other interested parties, manufacturers of engines. The

:06:04. > :06:06.international cooperation is first class. The fact that this is a

:06:07. > :06:10.bowling means that Boeing will be spending a lot of time, money and

:06:11. > :06:17.resources on this search, because they will need to know. It is

:06:18. > :06:21.probably also worth saying this is not just altruistic. There is a

:06:22. > :06:25.powerful commercial imperative because the cost of these airliners

:06:26. > :06:30.is significant. It is not just the cost of replacing it, but the cost

:06:31. > :06:34.of having an aircraft out of operation. There are good commercial

:06:35. > :06:40.reasons. They want the rest of us not to be put off. 239 people on

:06:41. > :06:47.board. Two weeks of frantic waiting. It is an awful situation

:06:48. > :06:53.for those people because they have no answers. They don't know whether

:06:54. > :06:58.they are coming back or not. You want to remain optimistic until you

:06:59. > :07:02.know that hope has gone. One quick point, one thing about people who

:07:03. > :07:06.have been victims of accidents, they often say that the one consolation

:07:07. > :07:12.we can take from this is that it will not happen again. The pilot who

:07:13. > :07:16.landed the airliner on the Hudson, the miraculous ditching, he said the

:07:17. > :07:20.reason we have the fly by wire technology, the crew re`source

:07:21. > :07:24.allocation management and all the things which led to that successful

:07:25. > :07:29.ditching, is because the blood of people who had died was preserved in

:07:30. > :07:32.institutional knowledge. We learned the lessons, and that might at some

:07:33. > :07:37.stage provide consolation for the families of those we think have

:07:38. > :07:44.died. But we have never seen a case like this. The Daily Express love a

:07:45. > :07:50.house price story. This time, linked to the changes to help people use

:07:51. > :07:55.their pensions, not having to buy an annuity. At some point next year,

:07:56. > :07:58.you will not have to buy an annuity, which is a gamble, whether you get

:07:59. > :08:02.the right one, whether it will generate enough income for you.

:08:03. > :08:08.People say, take out the lump sum and buy property. You can understand

:08:09. > :08:11.why they would want to do that. They will either have a relatively low

:08:12. > :08:15.income for the years between taking the annuity and when their

:08:16. > :08:19.retirement comes to an end, the euphemism used by Ed Balls for when

:08:20. > :08:23.people die. If they take out the lump sum the danger is twofold, the

:08:24. > :08:27.one the Daily Express identifies, they could go into housing,

:08:28. > :08:30.inflating house prices and making it harder for young people to get on

:08:31. > :08:35.the property ladder. The other significant issue is that if people

:08:36. > :08:38.overextend themselves, it is their responsibility, which is the point

:08:39. > :08:42.the Lib Dems and the Conservatives are making, a strong libertarian

:08:43. > :08:46.position, but if they do, who will be picking up the baby 20 years down

:08:47. > :08:52.the line? It could be the taxpayer. This gives a difficult calculation

:08:53. > :08:57.and Labour have not come ``, with a response for this. If they come out

:08:58. > :09:00.in favour, it may be that something comes back to bite them but if they

:09:01. > :09:10.don't, there are political risks associated with that, too. Hello.

:09:11. > :09:14.Itching to say something. At the moment, if you have a private

:09:15. > :09:17.pension, you have to buy the annuity. The government is saying,

:09:18. > :09:21.this is your money and you should know how to spend it. It has taken

:09:22. > :09:25.the present a few days to work out the unintended negative

:09:26. > :09:28.consequences. This is potentially disastrous for the government. We

:09:29. > :09:33.already have a housing boom and bubble in the south`east. If people

:09:34. > :09:36.are investing their pension in property, they will not be buying in

:09:37. > :09:40.depressed northern towns. They will be buying in the south`east, where

:09:41. > :09:43.we already have a housing bubble starting to develop and it is

:09:44. > :09:49.difficult for people like me, frankly, to get on the property

:09:50. > :09:54.ladder at all. But you are in favour of the policy? I am sort of in

:09:55. > :10:01.favour of it. I think most people cannot be trusted with half ?1

:10:02. > :10:04.million. That is patronising, isn't it? We are getting rid of annuities

:10:05. > :10:08.because they are not providing people with the return that they

:10:09. > :10:12.require. That may well be to do with the state of the market, so it might

:10:13. > :10:16.be a short`term vote winning policy but it could end up with hundreds of

:10:17. > :10:22.thousands of people saying, I spent my money on a Lamborghini and now I

:10:23. > :10:25.need a state pension. I think we should trust them. If people have

:10:26. > :10:32.saved for their retirement, we should trust them. I am going to

:10:33. > :10:38.move you on. Doctors tell Jeremy Hunt is damaging the NHS. What would

:10:39. > :10:40.he say in the sponsor? That the Coalition Government have brought

:10:41. > :10:46.forward reforms meaning the GPs are in charge of the health service. It

:10:47. > :10:49.is important to note that the health service is different in Wales,

:10:50. > :10:53.Northern Ireland and Scotland, but in England we now have Clinical

:10:54. > :10:58.Commissioning Group 's which are responsible. I find it difficult

:10:59. > :11:01.that doctors, probably the highest paid public sector workers, are

:11:02. > :11:06.complaining about their outrage over a decision to block a 1% pay rise to

:11:07. > :11:10.doctors. They are not the people who are going to the food banks. The

:11:11. > :11:18.countries in crisis and all public sector workers being squeezed. So it

:11:19. > :11:30.is a bit of brass neck for the highest paid public sector workers

:11:31. > :11:36.to complain. If you speak to people who work in the NHS, they will say

:11:37. > :11:42.they are in a mess. The NHS, the key thing it needs to do is to develop a

:11:43. > :11:47.high performance culture. Use as much data as possible to drive

:11:48. > :11:54.outcomes onwards and upwards. In medical culture, it is a covering up

:11:55. > :12:00.of mistakes, sometimes the regulator is covering up the stakes. That is a

:12:01. > :12:03.significant, cultural change that goes beyond questions of structure

:12:04. > :12:12.and all the things this story is about. The idea, which I think it's

:12:13. > :12:16.very powerful, of using the data from GP to drive the Centre for

:12:17. > :12:27.clinical excellence across England and Wales, that must go through. We

:12:28. > :12:32.need to get serious. People do not trust them with data because they

:12:33. > :12:36.lose it. They put tax records on a compact disc and leave them on a

:12:37. > :12:42.train. The Government cannot be trusted to handle IT in the way it

:12:43. > :12:48.should be handled. That is why some people are concerned about it. If we

:12:49. > :12:55.can get it right, the reputation of Britain as a world leader in medical

:12:56. > :13:02.science can only be enhanced. Now in the financial Times. Sanctions

:13:03. > :13:05.batter oligarch stocks. Who would have thought that someone with

:13:06. > :13:13.billions of pounds of wealth would start to feel the pinch so soon.

:13:14. > :13:19.Putin said the sanctions might be biting but it is a musky terabyte,

:13:20. > :13:29.it does not make any difference. `` a musky tome bite. These

:13:30. > :13:36.interconnections between the people at the top. I do not think it will

:13:37. > :13:40.be enough to change Russia 's behaviour. America is saying to

:13:41. > :13:48.companies, you are not going to do business. The EU squabble over what

:13:49. > :13:58.they will do. The US have hit them and hit them hard. People are not

:13:59. > :14:03.processing payments. That shows you some of America 's economic muscle.

:14:04. > :14:09.We are going to look at Michelle Obama, unusually, playing ping`pong.

:14:10. > :14:16.We are in the presence of table tennis royalty here. She is hugely

:14:17. > :14:27.popular, isn't she? More than her husband. You do the sport. The First

:14:28. > :14:31.Lady, it is interesting, Michelle Obama was down in the 40s at the

:14:32. > :14:38.start of this presidency and she is way up in the 70s, 80s. She is a

:14:39. > :14:51.huge asset for a president who is seen as lacklustre. The other thing

:14:52. > :14:58.is, given his knowledge of everything now is, what I love about

:14:59. > :15:04.this is this is actually `` has actually got great echoes of the

:15:05. > :15:11.original ping`pong diplomacy in the 1970s. They went to China, the first

:15:12. > :15:20.since the Long March. It was a seminal moment in history. It is all

:15:21. > :15:24.about the hinterland. Thank you to our producer who gave us extra time

:15:25. > :15:36.to talk about those stories. I will be in trouble. Next is the sport.

:15:37. > :15:44.Hello and welcome to Sportsday. Coming up... He took them there but

:15:45. > :15:45.he won't be with them. Robin van Persie is out for four to six weeks,