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:00:00. > 3:59:59following criticism of his government's handling of the ferry

:00:00. > :00:21.tragedy. Hello and welcome to `` to our look

:00:22. > :00:39.ahead at the morning papers. Whitney is Lucy Cavendish, a Telegraph

:00:40. > :00:46.journalist. `` with me. The front pages. The Independent leads on new

:00:47. > :00:51.rules to drive the long`term unemployed into work. It says they

:00:52. > :00:58.will be forced to attend job centres every day. The FT says talks between

:00:59. > :01:02.China and the US appear the most promising abutments and 20 years on

:01:03. > :01:07.climate change. The metro says a triple killer has been awarded ?800

:01:08. > :01:12.in compensation after prison guards broke his nasal clippers and failed

:01:13. > :01:17.to apologise. The Telegraph says that high taxes are stifling

:01:18. > :01:22.entrepreneurs in Britain. The Guardian says a leading doctor has

:01:23. > :01:36.questioned whether understaffing on maternity wards is contributing to

:01:37. > :01:43.Britain's hi def `` high levels of maternity deaths. There are no

:01:44. > :01:48.suggestions that the deaths in Afghanistan were a response of enemy

:01:49. > :01:59.action. We have `` photographs on the front page of the Telegraph of

:02:00. > :02:03.the soldiers who died. Obviously it is tragic and when the story broke

:02:04. > :02:07.everybody thought they had been shot down. The Taliban wanted the claim

:02:08. > :02:12.that was the case but it seems it was not the case and there was an

:02:13. > :02:16.investigation of what has happened but the photographs really bring it

:02:17. > :02:20.home to you, these people who were just about to leave Afghanistan, and

:02:21. > :02:26.it is really tragic and terrible for their families. Every time we hear

:02:27. > :02:34.these wonderful tribute about these amazing people who always have so

:02:35. > :02:38.much promise. Yes, I suppose the MoD has become more sophisticated in

:02:39. > :02:44.messaging than maybe in the past, with these deaths they have issued

:02:45. > :02:50.statements from former colleagues and so on. The MoD wants to make the

:02:51. > :02:56.point that these are real people and there is a real human cost. They

:02:57. > :03:03.want to respect these people by making that point. Sometimes you

:03:04. > :03:08.forget people are still out there and it is still happening. The

:03:09. > :03:17.dangers in this part of the world are so many, even making the seems

:03:18. > :03:24.secure. Yes, flying a helicopter is dangerous even in the North Sea. The

:03:25. > :03:27.soldiers are at a huge risk. It reinforces the point that projecting

:03:28. > :03:31.military force is very dangerous and expensive in terms of lives even if

:03:32. > :03:36.people are not in the firing line at a particular point, which is to be

:03:37. > :03:42.amended when we look at other potential conflicts around the

:03:43. > :03:51.world. Let's move on and look at the independent. The first story is that

:03:52. > :03:55.the jobless must sign on every day. The government will dock money from

:03:56. > :04:00.the unemployed if they don't comply. At the moment you have to go every

:04:01. > :04:08.couple of weeks and say you are able to work. Wonder how they are going

:04:09. > :04:17.to cope with the queues. I made a spreadsheet about this! Of course

:04:18. > :04:20.you did! If it takes only two minutes for somebody to seek each of

:04:21. > :04:25.these individuals, and it will probably take more, they are going

:04:26. > :04:33.to have to hire over 2000 people to process this. They are certainly

:04:34. > :04:36.going to create 2000 more jobs. It is very expensive policy, it might

:04:37. > :04:42.seem like a good idea but it will not be cheap. I am not sure it is a

:04:43. > :04:45.good idea because how are you supposed to find a job if you are

:04:46. > :04:50.going to the job centre every day. Part of it is that you have to show

:04:51. > :04:54.you are actively looking for work, you don't just go and sign on. There

:04:55. > :04:59.are various schemes where you have to do voluntary work and if you

:05:00. > :05:05.don't turn up your benefits are cut. All sorts of things are in

:05:06. > :05:09.place at the moment. There is a problem here that partially this

:05:10. > :05:15.takes the box of people who think feckless unemployed people, and they

:05:16. > :05:19.don't want jobs. It is a lot more complicated than that on the ground.

:05:20. > :05:24.A lot of people who I know who are unemployed are really struggling,

:05:25. > :05:28.they can't find jobs, they are depressed, they have completely gone

:05:29. > :05:32.out of the market and it is hard to get back in. People who are

:05:33. > :05:39.long`term unemployed often have motor `` have multiple issues they

:05:40. > :05:46.are trying to overcome. They could have health issues, mental health

:05:47. > :05:53.issues, all kinds of reasons. Every time there is a programme like

:05:54. > :05:59.Benefits Street, afterwards we have columnists saying this shows how

:06:00. > :06:06.many people don't want to work. Those are extreme cases. This is

:06:07. > :06:11.what this is trying to tackle and it is a very strong measure. There are

:06:12. > :06:14.two sides to it, on the one hand they want to make sure that

:06:15. > :06:20.everybody who can work goes out and gets a job. This policy, is this the

:06:21. > :06:23.thing that is going to achieve it? It is certainly not going to

:06:24. > :06:27.overcome some of the reasons why these people are not in the

:06:28. > :06:35.workforce, problems with skills or other reasons. There is a way out of

:06:36. > :06:39.it, you can volunteer to do voluntary work for six months. You

:06:40. > :06:45.would have to do voluntary work for six months. Apparently Oxfam will

:06:46. > :06:54.not take them because they are being forced to volunteer! There are jobs

:06:55. > :06:59.like working at city zoos, I think that might be quite a good thing to

:07:00. > :07:04.do, but if you are volunteering how are you going to find a job? To look

:07:05. > :07:10.for jobs generally you have to be online, a lot of people can't afford

:07:11. > :07:17.the Internet charges. You can get into a real self`perpetuating motion

:07:18. > :07:21.feeling you are unemployable. Coming after another attempt to use a more

:07:22. > :07:31.firm approach to get people into the workforce, and that was not very

:07:32. > :07:38.successful, with Atos. The administrative difficulties. This

:07:39. > :07:43.could be very difficult structural. The Guardian, understaffing in the

:07:44. > :07:51.NHS linked to baby deaths. Reasonable to ask if resource crisis

:07:52. > :08:00.has a tragic impact, this is a top doctor voicing alarm. It is a

:08:01. > :08:09.shocking number of a bees dying in a first world nation. `` babies.

:08:10. > :08:17.Apparently we have the third worst stillbirth rate among 30 high income

:08:18. > :08:26.countries. When people go to have a baby they basically assume... I had

:08:27. > :08:29.my babies at home because I was worried about high intervention

:08:30. > :08:33.rates. The issue about that and women who want to have even a home

:08:34. > :08:40.birth is that the insurance the midwives to see people at home has

:08:41. > :08:45.been taken away. The midwife who I had who helped me give birth, she

:08:46. > :08:49.could no longer do that, she is not allowed to practice that any more.

:08:50. > :08:53.You have a real problem with what is going on. Women really have to go to

:08:54. > :08:58.hospitals, there are not enough midwives, not enough money. People

:08:59. > :09:03.are sitting in corridors. There is a lot of interventions, a lot of panic

:09:04. > :09:06.about these statistics so I think a lot of women are getting themselves

:09:07. > :09:11.into a lot of difficulty giving birth because of the stress. Isn't

:09:12. > :09:16.there a problem with some of these statistics because some of them

:09:17. > :09:20.relate to 2009, when Labour were in power and a lot of money was still

:09:21. > :09:28.being spent in the NHS. These figures were still stubbornly high.

:09:29. > :09:31.We very frequently seem to be getting interviews from senior

:09:32. > :09:37.medical figures complaining about underfunding so there is an issue

:09:38. > :09:41.that one looks at this a bit sceptically to say, well, the person

:09:42. > :09:46.would say that, they want more money to come into their business. But he

:09:47. > :09:49.does raise some serious questions, he is saying we should be looking

:09:50. > :09:55.into this and asking the question. To me, it begs the question, are we

:09:56. > :09:58.looking into it? Are people going through the data trying to

:09:59. > :10:03.understand why there are the problems? He says it is not just

:10:04. > :10:08.about funding, he says there are potentially bad decisions being made

:10:09. > :10:12.by medical staff. At a coroner's inquest they might not get the level

:10:13. > :10:17.of detail useful to see what improvements can be made. A lot of

:10:18. > :10:20.stillbirths are unexplained and they also say there has been a big

:10:21. > :10:25.increase in the birth rate and there is not enough staff to cover that,

:10:26. > :10:38.while funding has also been slashed a bit. Let's move on to the

:10:39. > :10:57.Independent, Pope Francis says two former Popes are being made saints

:10:58. > :11:04.in a joint ceremony. I love all that, I think it is great, we should

:11:05. > :11:16.make as many saints as possible. You don't think it is nonsense? Why is

:11:17. > :11:23.it nonsense? It is great. When you put this into your computer what

:11:24. > :11:31.does it say? This is really interesting, everybody is going

:11:32. > :11:37.through the Vatican equivalent of Kremlinology. We have Pope John

:11:38. > :11:45.XXIII, considered to be quite liberal, he was behind Vatican II

:11:46. > :11:49.and a lot of other reforms, whereas John Paul II was seen as quite a

:11:50. > :12:02.strict Catholic in terms of his the ology. But he travelled a lot and he

:12:03. > :12:12.was very well`known. Do you have to get elected, how did it work? It is

:12:13. > :12:22.not quite a democracy! They must have a hotline to Saint Peter. It

:12:23. > :12:26.makes for a lovely picture. Finally, the Daily Telegraph, we

:12:27. > :12:34.always seem to touch on this stuff with you two. Being married can make

:12:35. > :12:39.you depressed. After years of advice saying married makes `` being

:12:40. > :12:46.married makes you happier and longer lived, studies say it can also lead

:12:47. > :12:50.to depression. I am going to quibble because I don't think the research

:12:51. > :12:57.has said this. The research as far as I know has said that married men

:12:58. > :13:01.are happier and single women are happy. When you put it in the

:13:02. > :13:06.computer that is what it is going to tell you. Married women have to do

:13:07. > :13:13.too much work in their marriage whereas men have a very nice time

:13:14. > :13:22.being looked after. So being married if you are woman can make you

:13:23. > :13:30.depressed. Anyone would think you were married to Tom. I would.

:13:31. > :13:39.Depressed if I was! I suppose for men, there is the contentment that

:13:40. > :13:44.comes with being married. He has his breakfast made. My three`year`old is

:13:45. > :13:51.very good at making breakfast for me! This feeds into the cliches that

:13:52. > :13:58.women hope they'll change their man and the wife won't change. I wasn't

:13:59. > :14:03.surprised. I've got to stop Tom waxing lyrical about marriage again.

:14:04. > :14:07.Hope his wife's watching! Back again at 11. 30 for a look at the stories

:14:08. > :14:21.making the front`pages again. Coming up next, it's Click.

:14:22. > :14:26.Hello, I'm on my way into the office. Traffic is a nightmare. I

:14:27. > :14:27.will