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:00:00. > :00:00.Sheffield. Mark Cavendish has claimed his third

:00:00. > :00:07.stage win on the Tour of Turkey. That is in 15 minutes, straight

:00:08. > :00:21.after The Papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

:00:22. > :00:24.to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are Beth Rigby,

:00:25. > :00:28.deputy political editor at The Financial Times, and the writer and

:00:29. > :00:34.comedian David Schneider. Let's look at the front pages. We are going to

:00:35. > :00:39.start with the Daily Telegraph and the arrest of Gerry Adams, which

:00:40. > :00:43.features on its front page. The Sinn Fein President is being questioned

:00:44. > :00:47.tonight about the murder of Jean McConville back in 1972. According

:00:48. > :00:51.to the Guardian, there has been a huge surge in work is tied to zero

:00:52. > :00:58.our contracts. The main Jeremy Paxman who is quitting Newsnight.

:00:59. > :01:00.Financial Times has news of Government advisers apparently

:01:01. > :01:06.making money during the privatisation of Royal Mail. The

:01:07. > :01:11.express says an EU tax which could damage UK pensions has been given

:01:12. > :01:15.the green light. The picture is of Bob Hoskins, who has died at the age

:01:16. > :01:23.of 71. The actor also features on the Metro's front page. The lead

:01:24. > :01:26.story is a warning from the World Health Organisation about the

:01:27. > :01:29.effectiveness of antibiotics. We are going to chat through those stories

:01:30. > :01:36.in a moment but we will start with the Daily Telegraph. Gerry Adams

:01:37. > :01:41.arrested over a 1972 murder. He has been linked to this in some quarters

:01:42. > :01:46.for many years that he has always denied it. An astonishing story

:01:47. > :01:50.breaking tonight. It has just broken and the Daily Telegraph have managed

:01:51. > :01:55.to get it on their front page. Gerry Adams has been arrested in

:01:56. > :01:58.connection with the murder of Jean McConville in 1972. The background

:01:59. > :02:06.to the story is that he was implemented in the killing ``

:02:07. > :02:10.implicated in the killing by IRA veterans who gave taped interviews

:02:11. > :02:16.for a Boston College project. These have been passed back to the Irish

:02:17. > :02:22.police. He has been arrested tonight. He strongly denies the

:02:23. > :02:30.involvement in it. The political fallout of this is huge,

:02:31. > :02:34.potentially. It has come in just as local elections are happening. Sinn

:02:35. > :02:38.Fein is saying it is completely politically motivated and one has to

:02:39. > :02:44.wonder what will happen to Adams in terms of his career within Sinn

:02:45. > :02:50.Fein. Is this the moment that he steps back, he retires? OK. These

:02:51. > :02:56.are of course all allegations and he denies them all. He would argue,

:02:57. > :02:59.David, that we are in the middle of an election campaign, the European

:03:00. > :03:04.and parliamentary elections and so on, and the timing is interesting

:03:05. > :03:08.because the allegations have been swirling for years. I am sure that

:03:09. > :03:13.is a thing that he could say and perhaps it is the case. I don't

:03:14. > :03:18.know. What worries me, as an Englishman sitting here in England,

:03:19. > :03:22.you see Martin McGuinness with the Queen, something you could never

:03:23. > :03:27.imagine in the 70s. You sort of go, oh, and you get misty eyed about it.

:03:28. > :03:32.I was in Northern Ireland a couple of weeks ago and it just reminded me

:03:33. > :03:37.that the bitterness is just under the surface for a lot of people.

:03:38. > :03:43.That is what worries me about things like this. Hearing the details of

:03:44. > :03:47.the murder, it brings out all the animosity that is just under the

:03:48. > :03:51.surface for some people. Sure. The allegation was that Jean McConville

:03:52. > :03:58.was a spy working on behalf of the British security services, and that

:03:59. > :04:00.is why she was targeted by the IRA. Hearing those stories reminds people

:04:01. > :04:07.in Northern Ireland of how far they have come. Again that is the English

:04:08. > :04:13.being misty eyed and being a hippy, but you hope that they remember that

:04:14. > :04:20.this piece that they have now is worth preserving. The danger is that

:04:21. > :04:24.it pulls them back. On tape from beyond the grave Brendan Hughes, a

:04:25. > :04:28.leading IRA man and former close associate of Mr Adams, said the

:04:29. > :04:32.direct orders to kill Jean McConville came from Gerry Adams.

:04:33. > :04:37.That is what he has alleged. The PSNI finally got their hands on

:04:38. > :04:42.these tapes. It was a long and drawn`out process getting these

:04:43. > :04:47.tapes from Boston. As we have been saying, he has denied any

:04:48. > :04:50.involvement in this and Sinn Fein is suggesting this is politically

:04:51. > :04:56.motivated. So we will see what develops there. Let's go on to the

:04:57. > :05:06.Telegraph. David, huge surge in workers tied to zero our deals.

:05:07. > :05:09.Cable urged to focus on employment issues. Whenever I hear the

:05:10. > :05:12.Government talking about hard`working people I feel they

:05:13. > :05:17.should be talking about hardly working people. Now the issue is not

:05:18. > :05:21.unemployment but underemployment, this zero`hour thing. The Government

:05:22. > :05:25.is crying out loudly and proudly about unemployment figures, but

:05:26. > :05:29.there are so many people, and I know this from personal experience of

:05:30. > :05:33.care workers that I come into contact with with elderly parents,

:05:34. > :05:38.who are run zero`hour contract and don't have the security of knowing

:05:39. > :05:41.how much money they will have. This is the underbelly of having

:05:42. > :05:44.relatively stable employment through a very deep recession. The

:05:45. > :05:48.unemployment figures have actually not been as bad as people expected.

:05:49. > :05:57.But the quid pro quo is that people are working on much poorer returns.

:05:58. > :06:02.Some people like that. Yes. That is the point the Government makes. Some

:06:03. > :06:08.people like to have flexible working because they are caring for children

:06:09. > :06:17.and elderly parents and so on. But the figures. One main people when a

:06:18. > :06:20.year ago it was 583,000. `` 1.3 million people. It sounds like

:06:21. > :06:24.unscrupulous employers are going for it and they can do what they want.

:06:25. > :06:30.Labour are really on the attack on all this and it all plays into their

:06:31. > :06:33.cost of living crisis argument, that they understand what real people are

:06:34. > :06:40.going through and the nasty Tories don't. In Vince Cable's defence, the

:06:41. > :06:43.Lib Dem Business Secretary, he is actually very concerned about

:06:44. > :06:49.zero`hour contract but he is working in a coalition with Conservatives.

:06:50. > :06:57.Two years ago they were trying to completely deregulate employment law

:06:58. > :07:00.through the reforms that were a series of reforms put forward by a

:07:01. > :07:01.Tory donor that said let's do away with maternity and paternity rights

:07:02. > :07:05.and completely deregulate the employment market. Vince Cable

:07:06. > :07:11.managed to block that. What he is going to try and do, I think, and

:07:12. > :07:15.zero`hour contract, bar the worst excesses of it such as exclusivity,

:07:16. > :07:20.where an employer does not give you a contract but then says you must

:07:21. > :07:24.not work for anyone else, which is deeply unfair? He must empathise

:07:25. > :07:28.with that because he had exclusivity for the coalition! How he must want

:07:29. > :07:37.to work with Labour on bass and tear up his own zero`hour contract! `` on

:07:38. > :07:42.this. What comes into this is the debate on minimum wage. I think it

:07:43. > :07:46.is absolutely incumbent on the Government of that as the economy

:07:47. > :07:50.does pick up that they are seen to be tackling zero our contracts and

:07:51. > :07:53.poor employment conditions for people and tackling low wages.

:07:54. > :07:59.Otherwise they are not going to bring people with them by 2015. I

:08:00. > :08:03.hope so. What they are doing is saying, don't look at the people

:08:04. > :08:07.suffering, look at the great statistics and the unemployment

:08:08. > :08:11.figures. But in their defence it is surely better to have a job in a

:08:12. > :08:17.recession even if it is a pretty awful job? But that is how people

:08:18. > :08:23.are exploited. You say it is better to have a job. Be grateful. But if

:08:24. > :08:30.you can't live on the money that you own, that also creates problems.

:08:31. > :08:34.Then they need to have top ups from the Government, housing benefits. It

:08:35. > :08:39.is about paying a decent wage, not any job. Employers need to make sure

:08:40. > :08:43.that as the economy picks up, there is a trickle down to workers. I

:08:44. > :08:48.think if they don't do that... Labour will continue to talk about

:08:49. > :08:50.the cost of living crisis? Yes. I don't think it is politically

:08:51. > :08:56.tenable for the Government not to do more on both these things. OK.

:08:57. > :09:08.Staying with the Guardian, Paxo is off. Clive, don't do the same! The

:09:09. > :09:15.BBC would collapse, man! No, no, I'm holding his place up... There is

:09:16. > :09:21.more pressure on you now. The end of an era. It really is! You know, we

:09:22. > :09:25.sort of suspected something when the beard appeared, personally. When a

:09:26. > :09:33.man who is tired of shaving, he is tired of life at the BBC! That is

:09:34. > :09:39.what I reckon. I thought... He stopped wearing socks as well with

:09:40. > :09:43.his shoes ` no, I have made that up! What happens under the desk stays

:09:44. > :09:49.under the desk. If only people knew what was going on under here! Yes,

:09:50. > :09:56.it is really ` obviously, his house style was being fed up. It is hard

:09:57. > :10:00.to really notice that he's now REALLY fed up. Also, in Westminster,

:10:01. > :10:04.if you are talking to a politician and they have got to go on Newsnight

:10:05. > :10:09.and you say, "Who is on tonight?" It is Paxman. They are terrified. He is

:10:10. > :10:20.so effective at what he does. I think it is going to be hard to ` he

:10:21. > :10:24.is irreplaceable. Yes. I saw Piers Morgan tweeted... There you go.

:10:25. > :10:31.David Moyes is free now! That can only end well. On a serious note, it

:10:32. > :10:36.is a blow. He's come in, he's reinvigorated the programme. Within

:10:37. > :10:39.my kind of little bubble in Westminster, the programme is

:10:40. > :10:44.getting traction and people are watching it again and people are

:10:45. > :10:48.talking about it. Then he loses his start player. That is difficult.

:10:49. > :10:53.Apparently, he informed the BBC last year, so the BBC has known... Was it

:10:54. > :11:00.around the beard time? It all makes sense now! So, the impression is

:11:01. > :11:04.that he knew this was coming and hopefully he's been plotting a

:11:05. > :11:11.succession, if that is the right word. Clive, come on! Easy. Do your

:11:12. > :11:15.pitch now. A couple of people, two have suggested it might be a good

:11:16. > :11:22.idea. Why would I leave a programme like this? Why would you? Just

:11:23. > :11:34.kidding! OK. We will go on to the Metro. This is scary. This is a

:11:35. > :11:37.story saying that antibiotics are becoming useless against

:11:38. > :11:41.increasingly resistant strains of bacteria. This is a World Health

:11:42. > :11:46.Organisation warning. It is funny, isn't it, that in the West, in

:11:47. > :11:52.modern Western society, advanced Western society, we are now

:11:53. > :11:58.developing, you know, advanced oncology drugs et cetera and if your

:11:59. > :12:04.cancer, 50% of patients survive a decade or more. Yet, right at the

:12:05. > :12:11.other end of basic medicine, companies obviously aren't

:12:12. > :12:15.developing antibiotics that actually protect the mass majority of the

:12:16. > :12:20.world. It is a really worrying story. Yes. I interviewed a

:12:21. > :12:24.microbiologist tonight who said they have known that this kind of problem

:12:25. > :12:27.was going to be developing over the last few years. And the World Health

:12:28. > :12:32.Organisation, the authorities around the world, haven't really got on top

:12:33. > :12:36.of the situation. There is a sense where, you know, I mean we are all

:12:37. > :12:42.to blame. Blame was placed on patients failing to finish courses

:12:43. > :12:45.of treatment. We were so ` 20 years ago, we were very casual about

:12:46. > :12:48.antibiotics and it is all coming home to roost. We only get the

:12:49. > :12:53.front`pages. I don't know what the action is that we need to take. Who

:12:54. > :12:57.says we have to act quickly? You feel you do have to do something

:12:58. > :13:06.about it. Alright. OK. I this I we will end it there. No time for Bob

:13:07. > :13:10.Hoskins this time round. Beth, David, you will be back in an hour.

:13:11. > :13:15.Thank you for that. Stay with us because at the top of the hour, we

:13:16. > :13:19.will have much more on the news that the President of Sinn Fein has been

:13:20. > :13:23.arrested over an historic murder inquiry. We will have the latest

:13:24. > :13:41.from Belfast. Now, it is time for Sportsday.

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