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:00:00. > :00:00.fascinating world Snooker final. In Madrid, players have gathered to

:00:00. > :00:21.remember Elena Baltacha, who has died at the age of 30. Hello and

:00:22. > :00:24.welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us

:00:25. > :00:26.tomorrow. With me are Fay Schlesinger, home editor at the

:00:27. > :00:30.Times, and Sarah O'Connor, who's economics correspondent at the FT.

:00:31. > :00:34.We will be delving inside in a moment, but let's run through the

:00:35. > :00:38.front pages. The Daily Express has news of a super pill, that experts

:00:39. > :00:42.say will save millions of lives and add years to life. The Daily

:00:43. > :00:49.Telegraph says according to a national review, hundreds of asthma

:00:50. > :00:55.deaths could be prevented and is blaming GPs and health services. The

:00:56. > :01:02.Metro is carrying a photo of Elena Baltacha, a shining light of tennis.

:01:03. > :01:04.One in seven hospital beds is occupied by someone who was

:01:05. > :01:12.diabetic, according to the Daily Mail. They say it is costing the NHS

:01:13. > :01:19.?10 billion per year. The Financial Times is dominated by the takeover

:01:20. > :01:27.bid for AstraZeneca from Pfizer. The Times say that top doctors condemn

:01:28. > :01:31.shocking standards of care. The Guardian has details of a

:01:32. > :01:34.ministerial letter which the papers claim could mean jobseekers losing

:01:35. > :01:40.their benefits if they don't take zero our jobs. The Sun talks about

:01:41. > :01:49.the changing face of Britain, and how a third of the population could

:01:50. > :01:55.be nonwhite by 2051. We will turn to the Sun first.

:01:56. > :01:59.Melting pot UK is their headline. This is based on a report from the

:02:00. > :02:04.policy exchange, a rightleaning think tank, who have crunched some

:02:05. > :02:08.numbers and done some forecasting, and they think that by 2051 a third

:02:09. > :02:13.of the population in England and Wales will be nonwhite. That would

:02:14. > :02:17.be quite a big change from now, and would change the face of Britain.

:02:18. > :02:21.Not only in that sense, but it probably means we will be more

:02:22. > :02:27.religious, and there will be lots of interesting political implications

:02:28. > :02:29.as well. This is a 2`pronged story. There is nuance about how society

:02:30. > :02:33.will be made up, and sociological trends, for the politicians, they

:02:34. > :02:42.will be scouring through it and looking at what they need to do. In

:02:43. > :02:46.2010, the Tories got among the ethnic minority voters, and got

:02:47. > :02:54.16%, compared to 36 overall. It shows the massive distrust of the

:02:55. > :02:58.Tories among ethnic minorities. In the Asian community, there is an

:02:59. > :03:03.overrepresentation of small business owners and entrepreneurs, which are

:03:04. > :03:08.areas that the Tories claim to be fully behind. Yet they are not

:03:09. > :03:11.managing to crack the vote. You can't just lumped together ethnic

:03:12. > :03:13.minorities, of course you can't, there could be some who been here

:03:14. > :03:19.for several generations, newly arrived, here for lots of different

:03:20. > :03:23.reasons, or who are living in the North of Scotland. There is a huge

:03:24. > :03:29.range, but there is a problem that the Tories have in this area, and

:03:30. > :03:38.Labour are doing much better. We know that Lynton Crosby, the

:03:39. > :03:43.election guru for the Tories, has possibly said, don't bother with

:03:44. > :03:46.ethnic minorities. You need to appeal to middle`class Britain, get

:03:47. > :03:53.the economy going, don't be distracted by these things. This

:03:54. > :03:57.research is and that come 2050, with this trend continuing, the Tories

:03:58. > :04:01.will lose out. There is a quote saying that the Tories will be no

:04:02. > :04:09.more unless they manage to crack this area. It reminds me of the

:04:10. > :04:16.Democrats in the US. The Republicans have that idea, don't worry about

:04:17. > :04:20.the poor, just focus on the core voters, and they were hit very badly

:04:21. > :04:27.by this. They were pinning all of their electoral hopes of a group

:04:28. > :04:36.that is diminishing. The cover is the headline is very unbiased. It is

:04:37. > :04:38.a fact, and I just had a tweet from somebody who watched the 1030

:04:39. > :04:43.version of this programme, saying they were concerned by the Daily

:04:44. > :04:48.Telegraph headline. The headline is very balanced, that there is an idea

:04:49. > :04:51.that they are undermining English identity, figures ethnic minorities

:04:52. > :04:56.tend to see themselves as British, rather than English. I'm not

:04:57. > :05:00.particularly bothered by that, but there is a line being walked. Some

:05:01. > :05:06.of this will play into the hands of Ukip. Ukip's beef is with

:05:07. > :05:11.immigrants, and people who come to this country as they say to take our

:05:12. > :05:17.jobs. It is fascinating to look at for other reasons. Education is far

:05:18. > :05:21.better through some minorities, like the Indian community and Bangladeshi

:05:22. > :05:27.community, better than some white boys. It is necessary to be careful

:05:28. > :05:36.to make generalisations. Let's turn our attention to the times. `` the

:05:37. > :05:40.Times. Hundreds of asthmatic and is dying needlessly, that is their top

:05:41. > :05:45.story. I think this is genuinely a shocking story for many people,

:05:46. > :05:54.because most of us know somebody who has asthma to a greater or lesser

:05:55. > :05:58.extent. It is such a common illness, especially among children. You see

:05:59. > :06:06.kids at school, you feel like loads of them have inhalers. The idea that

:06:07. > :06:11.1200 people die each year from asthma, including 40 children, it is

:06:12. > :06:15.quite shocking. If we were on a par with other Western European

:06:16. > :06:18.countries, you could say, well, we are doing our best. We are doing

:06:19. > :06:23.worse than most countries in Western Europe, so we are obviously doing

:06:24. > :06:28.something wrong. This study says that what is happening is that

:06:29. > :06:32.children or adults are going to hospital with an asthma attack, and

:06:33. > :06:35.they are sent home without any checks being done, and a large

:06:36. > :06:39.proportion of those who die from asthma attacks have been to hospital

:06:40. > :06:45.in the past month and are not being monitored. They have been given an

:06:46. > :06:49.inhaler, and that is it. I think this year is the first time that

:06:50. > :06:53.schools are allowed to keep spare inhalers. There was a ban on that,

:06:54. > :06:59.but now they can. We are making steps forward, but it makes you

:07:00. > :07:06.wonder. You have a good point about the view of the NHS from the US.

:07:07. > :07:09.Stories like this play into the idea that socialised healthcare is a

:07:10. > :07:12.terrible thing, because of things like this. Session with cutting

:07:13. > :07:16.costs instead of giving the best care. Most British people would

:07:17. > :07:20.think, that is nonsense, the NHS is fantastic. When you see things like

:07:21. > :07:23.that, the Royal College of physicians finds that one of the

:07:24. > :07:29.main reasons that two thirds of these deaths are preventable is that

:07:30. > :07:33.doctors are trying to cut costs and are prescribing the wrong kinds of

:07:34. > :07:39.inhalers to the wrong patients. Also, if you have asthma, you may be

:07:40. > :07:41.seen by a nurse, and they are saying that sometimes those health

:07:42. > :07:45.professionals don't have the right level of experience or expertise.

:07:46. > :07:49.There are other story, which will hopefully have people jumping for

:07:50. > :07:59.joy, a new scanner could end check`in misery. This is by the

:08:00. > :08:04.science correspondence, and it is all about bottles of liquid at the

:08:05. > :08:10.airport and all these things. There are 65 airports, including Heathrow

:08:11. > :08:24.and Gatwick, that are trialling this new kind of scanner, which is using

:08:25. > :08:29.rum and spectroscopy. `` Rahman spectroscopy. It is a way of

:08:30. > :08:38.scanning liquids to make sure that they don't have explosives in them.

:08:39. > :08:52.The limit on our liquids comes from the 2010 bombing attempt. Isn't it

:08:53. > :08:56.so annoying way you go through airports and you have to strip off

:08:57. > :09:00.and put all of your things in bags, and I was saying earlier that once

:09:01. > :09:04.brought peanut butter back from a trip abroad, and they confiscated it

:09:05. > :09:09.because they said it could be a liquid. They do need to find ways,

:09:10. > :09:14.if we are going to show Britain to be open for business, what you don't

:09:15. > :09:17.want his queues of people, and it feels like it is getting worse

:09:18. > :09:23.rather than better. It will let people's lives a lot easier, and a

:09:24. > :09:28.lot of goodwill will come from it if it works. I think it is the best

:09:29. > :09:33.story I've heard all year! It is very exciting. You hear so many

:09:34. > :09:41.stories, I won't bore you with mine. The one group that is great for is,

:09:42. > :09:45.think of all those cosmetic companies who have made a fortune

:09:46. > :09:53.from selling cosmetics in tiny bottles `` it will be bad for them.

:09:54. > :09:57.It will be the end of the special travel accessory rack. There is a

:09:58. > :10:02.downside to every story. Let's turn our attention to the Guardian. We

:10:03. > :10:06.mentioned this when we were doing the runthrough of the top stories.

:10:07. > :10:10.Jobseekers told they must take zero our jobs. A suggestion that they

:10:11. > :10:18.could lose their benefits if they refuse to take a zero hours job.

:10:19. > :10:22.What do zero hours contracts mean? It is one where you have a contract

:10:23. > :10:25.of employment with your employer, but they won't tell you how many

:10:26. > :10:29.hours you will have. It could be zero, it could be 48, or whatever.

:10:30. > :10:34.They won't commit to a certain number. The employer has a lot of

:10:35. > :10:39.flexibility, and you have very little, because you need to be

:10:40. > :10:42.available to work in case they send you a text message and say, we need

:10:43. > :10:48.you tomorrow. They have been controversial, we have had a lot of

:10:49. > :10:52.new data about them taking over the market. The change seems to be that

:10:53. > :10:55.previously there was no obligation to take that kind of job because of

:10:56. > :11:03.the potential pitfalls. There has been this exchange of letters, and

:11:04. > :11:11.the Labour MP has raised the possibility that that may change. In

:11:12. > :11:14.theory, these contracts can be very well defended, with the idea that

:11:15. > :11:20.unemployment has been a big problem in this country, it has now come

:11:21. > :11:25.down to 7%, but we have the tourism industry. It changes day today on

:11:26. > :11:30.basis of the weather. If a theme park suddenly needs loads more

:11:31. > :11:34.people for a gorgeous bank holiday weekend, they should have

:11:35. > :11:38.flexibility to do that. The idea has always been that if you are a worker

:11:39. > :11:46.you have the choice to take a zero hours or not. This suggests that you

:11:47. > :11:52.do have to. I think the contract are defensible within this current

:11:53. > :11:56.climate, but as we come out of recession it could become

:11:57. > :12:00.problematic. Clearly, the tone of the story has put the cat among the

:12:01. > :12:04.pigeons at the DWP, because they have released... Some people in the

:12:05. > :12:10.Guardian have been very much against it for a long time. They headline

:12:11. > :12:17.they are saying that jobseekers are told they must take them. That is

:12:18. > :12:20.not actually what they are saying. The DWP is saying that it is not

:12:21. > :12:24.that people will be forced, there will still be discretion, but it may

:12:25. > :12:31.well be that a zero hours contract is a good opportunity. If an

:12:32. > :12:36.employer is saying, if you have this contract you can't work or anyone

:12:37. > :12:41.else, the DWP are saying in that case we wouldn't insist on it. The

:12:42. > :12:44.department is giving themselves some flexibility, which I think is

:12:45. > :12:55.understandable stock yellow this is happening at exactly the same time

:12:56. > :12:59.as whether `` that they are talking about whether to ban the contract

:13:00. > :13:06.altogether. It seems a bit confused. We have been covering this

:13:07. > :13:11.story all evening, Boko Haram in Nigeria saying that the 270

:13:12. > :13:17.schoolgirls snatched may well be sold as slaves in the marketplace.

:13:18. > :13:21.Ghastly, really. There is a video that the Guardian have seen with a

:13:22. > :13:25.man claiming to be a spokesman of Boko Haram, saying that women aren't

:13:26. > :13:30.worth anything, that they shouldn't be in education, and that they are

:13:31. > :13:36.no better than slaves. The frightening thing about this story

:13:37. > :13:46.is the idea that the new front that this extremist organisation will

:13:47. > :13:48.face, is about female education. In the developing world, female

:13:49. > :13:51.education is exactly what we need to get rid of extremist groups like

:13:52. > :13:57.this. That is what they are going to for, you will get mothers across the

:13:58. > :14:01.developing world, and they will say, I could send my child will school

:14:02. > :14:05.but if she is at risk of kidnap and I won't do that. The other thing

:14:06. > :14:14.that is fascinating is the Twitter campaign around it. It really did

:14:15. > :14:17.get picked up. I had friends who saw it on Twitter before they saw it in

:14:18. > :14:21.newspapers, because I think newspapers were quite slow to get it

:14:22. > :14:26.on the front page. Politically Nigeria, there has been a lot of

:14:27. > :14:33.criticism of Goodluck Jonathan, the president, we saw today this

:14:34. > :14:36.television press conference he made, which is one of the first

:14:37. > :14:42.opportunities he has taken to comment on it. It has been three

:14:43. > :14:45.weeks, and he has given no public statement. You can understand why

:14:46. > :14:49.there has been huge anger in the country about why they aren't doing

:14:50. > :14:54.more, and why they aren't questioning and arresting people who

:14:55. > :15:04.are activists, rather than people who actually did it. There is a

:15:05. > :15:08.strange twist, with the wife of Goodluck Jonathan suggesting that it

:15:09. > :15:13.is a conspiracy campaign against her husband, and that it never actually

:15:14. > :15:16.happened. We are going to talk about the Daily Mail, Tesco declaring war

:15:17. > :15:23.on pound shops. You can have ten seconds. You get Premier League

:15:24. > :15:28.footballers in pound shops, they are so popular. It goes with the idea

:15:29. > :15:34.that we are not ashamed to shop at little shops, and it is the lasting

:15:35. > :15:38.effect of the recession. We are starting to get richer again. You

:15:39. > :15:48.would think that might move, and we would go back to Waitrose. At the

:15:49. > :15:54.other end of the market, Waitrose is doing quite well, so it is

:15:55. > :15:59.polarising. Tesco are going to trial 60 stores, and might increase to 300

:16:00. > :16:05.with a pound I'll, and we will see how they do. That is giving you a

:16:06. > :16:16.flavour of what you might find it tomorrow's papers. Do you stay with

:16:17. > :16:28.us. We will have the latest on the abduction of those girls in Nigeria

:16:29. > :16:30.`` do stay. In the meantime, it is time for