10/06/2014

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:00:00. > :00:00.British players on the tennis courts, on the day that an heirloom

:00:00. > :00:18.arose no because her role as Andy Murray's coach `` Amelie Mauresmo.

:00:19. > :00:22.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:23. > :00:27.bringing us tomorrow. With me are broadcaster Henry Bonsu and former

:00:28. > :00:30.trade minister Lord Digby Jones. Pretty much all of the papers are in

:00:31. > :00:35.now, let's have a look at some of them. Starting with The Metro,

:00:36. > :00:37.dedicating its front page to the increasing pressure international

:00:38. > :00:40.football chiefs are putting on FIFA president Sepp Blatter to resign.

:00:41. > :00:43.The Telegraph warns that millions of over 50's could risk harming their

:00:44. > :00:49.health if they follow new NHS guidance telling them to take

:00:50. > :00:52.statins. The Independent asks if the West will have to intervene in Iraq

:00:53. > :00:56.again, after Islamic militants seized control of the northern city

:00:57. > :01:00.of Mosul. The Guardian claims men in Asia are being kept as slaves to

:01:01. > :01:03.work on fishing boats in Thailand. The seafood they harvest is being

:01:04. > :01:06.sold to supermarkets including Walmart and Tesco. The Daily Mail

:01:07. > :01:12.leads on the fallout from a major backlog of passport applications.

:01:13. > :01:14.The Financial Times leads with OFGEM's calls for energy suppliers

:01:15. > :01:18.to cut costs for householders, following a drop in the price of

:01:19. > :01:24.wholesale gas and electricity. Energy prices also make the front

:01:25. > :01:27.page of the Scotsman. And The Times claims London Mayor Boris Johnson is

:01:28. > :01:29.heading for a clash with the Home Secretary Theresa May, over buying

:01:30. > :01:37.Britain's first water cannon. So let's begin.

:01:38. > :01:42.We will start with the Scotsman, is it me, or is it getting hot in

:01:43. > :01:48.here? It is! I can feel it coming through the cameras here, the blood

:01:49. > :01:51.boiling. Indeed. But many viewers at this particular story. Energy firms

:01:52. > :01:56.will be quizzed over price cut failures. Wholesale energy prices

:01:57. > :02:00.have fallen 38% in the last few years. Our bills haven't, what is

:02:01. > :02:04.going on? You would expect the energy firms to show they are in

:02:05. > :02:09.step with the public. Of course, they increased our bills and energy

:02:10. > :02:17.by 10.4% last year. If prices have fallen to their lowest since June

:02:18. > :02:21.2010, Ofgem has written a letter. That is all that has happened. The

:02:22. > :02:27.papers have jumped on this, to show that they are in step with British

:02:28. > :02:31.people 's concerns. There is a price squeeze that we are all feeling.

:02:32. > :02:37.So, these companies, they are all now under pressure to explain why

:02:38. > :02:40.they haven't yet passed those price reductions on to consumers. It is

:02:41. > :02:45.essentially a pressure on them, and I think one or two of them could go

:02:46. > :02:50.for broke and so, OK, we will be the first to cut prices. OK. You are a

:02:51. > :02:54.former trade minister, this is supposed to be a competitive market

:02:55. > :02:59.but the fact is, that all of the Big six, certainly, they are bound by

:03:00. > :03:04.the same cost pressures. Whether it is the cost of getting energy to our

:03:05. > :03:08.houses, the cost of having to deal with government initiatives, green

:03:09. > :03:12.initiatives, that kind of thing. It is not a competitive market though,

:03:13. > :03:20.is it? If you look at food, that is the biggest part of a household

:03:21. > :03:26.budget, but... I think it is energy. No it isn't. We know who won

:03:27. > :03:33.the battle against anorexia! We dealt with this, mate! Exactly! If

:03:34. > :03:40.you look at Fede, if the commodity costs of something, like wheat, or

:03:41. > :03:44.milk drops... You do not suddenly see one of the big for dropping

:03:45. > :03:50.their prices before everyone else `` food. It is not only an issue about

:03:51. > :03:55.energy, like you raised, but about domination of the market. The bit

:03:56. > :03:59.that I don't get, they have been under the cosh, they are every

:04:00. > :04:03.single piece of market research, saying that they are not trusted or

:04:04. > :04:08.liked. They have two win the trust back of the British people. Wouldn't

:04:09. > :04:13.you think that 24 hours before the story came, one of them would

:04:14. > :04:20.say... Wholesale prices have gone down. At midnight we will drop our

:04:21. > :04:24.prices. ``to. If there were 100 adverts in papers... I don't get

:04:25. > :04:28.it, like bankers, when they are losing money, they pay themselves

:04:29. > :04:33.bonuses. They don't get it. Is that because of group thinking? It is

:04:34. > :04:37.because they can. The other thing I don't understand, this story is not

:04:38. > :04:43.only in the Scotsman, also in the Daily Mirror, the Daily Express...

:04:44. > :04:47.It is a big story. British Gas says that they buy their gas in advance,

:04:48. > :04:52.so wholesale prices do not sleep through immediately. That is

:04:53. > :04:57.rubbish! If you think about it, you basically hedge, don't you? ``

:04:58. > :05:03.sleep. Then, you know exactly what you're fixed cost is. ``seep. Other

:05:04. > :05:07.costs are rising, they say. Like transport. What I don't understand

:05:08. > :05:12.is that there is nothing new in this. This is an suddenly, director!

:05:13. > :05:21.These prices are going down... I will tell you who should be worried

:05:22. > :05:27.``eureka. Ed Miliband goes down and gets populist... Let's have a price

:05:28. > :05:31.freeze. But it must work both ways. If you get the energy market that is

:05:32. > :05:35.cyclical and you have frozen the price by statute, they are not going

:05:36. > :05:39.to drop it, are they? They will say they will not raise it or drop it.

:05:40. > :05:44.That is a big lesson to him. That's a good point, if Ed Miliband had

:05:45. > :05:48.been in power and he had frozen prices six, seven, eight months

:05:49. > :05:55.ago... We would all be in trouble now, wouldn't we? It depends on

:05:56. > :06:01.where you fix this price. It depends on energy rates. I wouldn't trust a

:06:02. > :06:10.politician to run a bath, let alone a business. They did the job for

:06:11. > :06:15.business, but not in politics. It is poli`tricks! You cannot have

:06:16. > :06:20.politician saying they will fix the prices of eggs. Then you would have

:06:21. > :06:25.a lot of people saying "how dare they!" But the energy companies

:06:26. > :06:32.should be able to say... They missed a trick. One of them could have

:06:33. > :06:36.publicly started. I expect they are watching it now. They all watched

:06:37. > :06:45.this, of course! And if not, we know where they live! ``watch. That is an

:06:46. > :06:52.interesting comment, we do not encourage that kind of behaviour!

:06:53. > :07:00.Let's move on! On to the Financial Times, an important story this. What

:07:01. > :07:10.we are seeing is the potential continuing fracture of Iraq. People

:07:11. > :07:13.forget about this, but a few years ago, Mosul was never off the

:07:14. > :07:22.television. And the Lodz. We are talking about a radical Sunni

:07:23. > :07:32.group. Operating in Syria, Isis. `` ``Fallujah. Mosul has essentially

:07:33. > :07:37.been taken over. People are pointing the finger at President Obama, who

:07:38. > :07:44.promised that he would end the war in Iraq. He has wound down the

:07:45. > :07:48.presence to nothing, but now they are saying you should have left a

:07:49. > :07:51.presence there because now look at what has happened. He was dammed if

:07:52. > :07:58.he did and darned if he didn't. Everyone, including the Republicans

:07:59. > :08:02.and John McCain, are saying that. `` dammed. I go through Parliament

:08:03. > :08:06.Square to get to the Lords, and there is always a demonstration. You

:08:07. > :08:14.leave Iraq, and this is what you get. It is interesting, here is a

:08:15. > :08:20.country that is trying so hard to rebuild. And because it is not in

:08:21. > :08:26.the news, these things happen. Today, I bet you that there are

:08:27. > :08:31.people having such a hard time in Crimea in the minority, in Libya,

:08:32. > :08:34.Syria... They are not in the news, for some reason, we do not believe

:08:35. > :08:38.that it's happening. This has been happening here for a long time.

:08:39. > :08:42.Because it doesn't make the news, we don't think it is happening. You

:08:43. > :08:46.wouldn't expect this to be on the front page of the Financial Times

:08:47. > :08:54.really. That is interesting, as to why. It is strategic. Because of

:08:55. > :08:58.Iraqi oil. I think they care about human beings as well! I know you

:08:59. > :09:03.find that difficult on the BBC... But the concern is, in Western

:09:04. > :09:11.capitals, that Isis, this brutal group, they are the ones leading the

:09:12. > :09:20.beheadings in Syria. They have taken to strategic cities. Let's move on

:09:21. > :09:27.to the Guardian, `` two. Fishmeal sold in shops in the UK. We spoke

:09:28. > :09:32.about this at 10:30pm. I am glad it has been brought up again. Excellent

:09:33. > :09:36.journalism by the Guardian, this is exactly where the power of Western

:09:37. > :09:40.commerce can make a difference to people 's lives. If you are going to

:09:41. > :09:43.stop this, or stop the abuse of textile workers in Bangladesh,

:09:44. > :09:47.whatever it may be, at the end of the day, there are two agents who

:09:48. > :09:52.can do this, the massive buying power of the big supermarkets of the

:09:53. > :09:55.Western world, and secondly, you and I, whether we are going to start

:09:56. > :10:00.quizzing our supermarket destinations, down the road, where

:10:01. > :10:04.do you get your fish from? What do you do? Those two things together

:10:05. > :10:08.will make a difference to people 's lives in Thailand. Put it on the

:10:09. > :10:13.front page of a newspaper. Get it spoken about on the BBC, and

:10:14. > :10:18.everything else, that is the only way to get these massive... The

:10:19. > :10:21.power of a supermarket is huge. That is the way to drive it forward

:10:22. > :10:30.economically. Tesco, Morrisons, Walmart, the Co`op... Huge financial

:10:31. > :10:34.concerns, like Costco. And the biggest supermarket in Europe, they

:10:35. > :10:38.are French. They are all on board here, saying they will look into

:10:39. > :10:44.this. They say that slavery is unacceptable. The question is, what

:10:45. > :10:49.will they do? In three months time, the Guardian could run this again.

:10:50. > :10:57.How was it for you? The journalists who wrote this very good let's hope

:10:58. > :11:02.they do well. It was entered for the one world media awards, you hear the

:11:03. > :11:07.stories about these guys, from Burma and Thailand, tricked into this. It

:11:08. > :11:14.is a long`term debt bondage, 20 years of no pay. You will not get

:11:15. > :11:21.governments in the developing world to change this. They do not want

:11:22. > :11:27.civil disturbance, they want a quiet life, this government. The only way

:11:28. > :11:31.you can do this is the buying power of a Western multinational, if you

:11:32. > :11:38.get them on board, venue and I appreciate that we could have to pay

:11:39. > :11:46.more Bush. `` and then you and I. `` can pay more for our fish. Then you

:11:47. > :11:58.ask, are you in the can process? We do not ask that. David Cameron, no

:11:59. > :12:02.action on EU migrants. The PM defies calls to regain border controls. Did

:12:03. > :12:07.he really have a lot of leeway to do anything? Not really. By treaty, we

:12:08. > :12:13.have agreed the free movement of goods, services and people for many

:12:14. > :12:18.different countries. I think it is 27 or 28. It is 28 now. And that

:12:19. > :12:23.migration has not fallen into the tens of thousands but has gone up

:12:24. > :12:29.again. Two more than 20,000. That is a pledge that will be met by the

:12:30. > :12:33.next general election. ``to. The Prime Minister is under pressure to

:12:34. > :12:36.bring back border control for those within the European Union, he

:12:37. > :12:40.cannot, he has admitted that, but is going to do more to stop people from

:12:41. > :12:48.outside of the EU coming in. What really worries me is that a lot of

:12:49. > :12:52.the businesses in which I advice, we have a problem with skilled labour,

:12:53. > :12:56.India is a good example, the home of a lot of good quality unskilled

:12:57. > :12:59.labour, they want to come here and work hard, bring skill and create

:13:00. > :13:05.wealth for themselves and for Britain. They want to live in peace.

:13:06. > :13:12.What is happening, on the back of "sorry, I cannot do anything about

:13:13. > :13:20.EU migration...". It is the brown people. Not necessarily. And

:13:21. > :13:26.Canadians, there are not a lot of brown people in Canada. Get a chip

:13:27. > :13:36.off your shoulder. Seriously, we should be having quality Indian

:13:37. > :13:44.migration. Of course. And, some from the EU should not be coming. What is

:13:45. > :13:48.happening, "oh, we cannot do anything about inside the EU" . You

:13:49. > :13:51.sound like you from UKIP! Most people are hovering on the border

:13:52. > :13:55.between the Tory party and you could, they will look at this and

:13:56. > :13:59.say, maybe I should not return to the Conservatives `` UKIP. My

:14:00. > :14:05.argument was nothing to do with UKIP or Tory, but business needs. You

:14:06. > :14:08.have two create tax and build schools and hospitals.

:14:09. > :14:27.been given clearance by the Home Secretary. He does not listen to her

:14:28. > :14:32.and she has been distracted with the row between her and Michael Gove. It

:14:33. > :14:40.is all about who will succeed Mr Kamran. I have missed lead you, it

:14:41. > :14:46.is three `` misled `` Mr Cameron. They won't have been built in

:14:47. > :14:52.Britain, that's what annoys me. Henry, thank you so much for the

:14:53. > :14:54.exhausting... It wasn't bad as the previous hour, was it? Thank you for

:14:55. > :15:05.looking at the stories behind the headlines. Stay with us on BBC News.

:15:06. > :15:07.At the top of the hour, ALT industry correspondent looks at what the

:15:08. > :15:12.suggestion is the energy companies aren't passing on to us. Various

:15:13. > :15:16.falls in the cost of wholesale crisis for energy `` our. Before

:15:17. > :15:36.that, it is time for Sportsday. Good evening and welcome to

:15:37. > :15:39.Sportsday. UEFA make their voice heard of a number of European

:15:40. > :15:42.football chiefs urged Sepp Blatter to step down as FIFA president in

:15:43. > :15:43.the wake of recent corruption