:00:00. > :00:19.With me are are Mihir Bose from the London Evening Standard
:00:20. > :00:34.Welcome to you both. We will plunge and in a moment, but first, let's
:00:35. > :00:38.take a look at the headlines. The Independent says Jeremy Corbyn has
:00:39. > :00:41.gone to war with the head of the military. It reports on the row
:00:42. > :00:47.between the Labour leader and the Chief of defence staff. The Metro
:00:48. > :00:53.has the same story as its lead. The Telegraph also covers the row, says
:00:54. > :00:58.Sir Nicholas Cornton launched a stinging attack on Mr Corbyn. The
:00:59. > :01:05.express says millions of people could get a tax windfall. The FT
:01:06. > :01:09.leads on Saudi Arabia's oil policy, saying the country is determined to
:01:10. > :01:16.protect its share of the global market. The eye says airlines are
:01:17. > :01:20.defying the Foreign Office by offering holidays to Sharma will
:01:21. > :01:24.shake, despite government advice. The Times focuses on Europe,
:01:25. > :01:27.reporting that the Prime Minister might be prepared to hold a
:01:28. > :01:36.referendum on Britain's's ownership of the EU in June next year. And the
:01:37. > :01:40.Guardian also looks at Mr Cameron's EU demands and warns top diplomats
:01:41. > :01:45.are warning that Britain is losing its clout.
:01:46. > :01:51.Let's begin with the Independent, a very striking picture. Absolutely. I
:01:52. > :02:00.wonder if Tony Blair has got a knife. I really do. What a wonderful
:02:01. > :02:03.photograph. That is serious disgust. It's a beautifully framed picture.
:02:04. > :02:09.You wonder if this might end up on Private eye. It is made for Private
:02:10. > :02:14.eye. Look at Blair's face, looking at the back of Corbyn, and wondering
:02:15. > :02:22.what has happened. We wonder whether he could striking down. He didn't
:02:23. > :02:25.striking down. What about the story that this photograph is
:02:26. > :02:30.illustrating? Corbyn goes to war with the head of the military. I
:02:31. > :02:35.think Corbyn in this sense, what the head of the military says is right,
:02:36. > :02:40.if you say you're not going to have a deterrent, you are destroying the
:02:41. > :02:46.basis of it. But for him to go public, an unelected person, the
:02:47. > :02:48.most important defence man we have, to publicly criticise a potential
:02:49. > :02:52.reply minister or a Leader of the Opposition in this fashion, I think
:02:53. > :02:58.Corbyn is right to say he shouldn't be doing it. He should have rung me
:02:59. > :03:01.up and said, you know, you are the Leader of the Opposition, entitled
:03:02. > :03:07.to know what the defence think and not go on Andrew Marr and say you
:03:08. > :03:12.are wrong. I think on this question, must dash we must have simply for
:03:13. > :03:19.Corbyn. It's more than simply. Should a serving officer, a senior
:03:20. > :03:25.officer, go on television on such a specific day to make this case? It
:03:26. > :03:28.is not what he said was wrong but I think that should have happened in a
:03:29. > :03:33.briefing with Corbyn. I think we should be looking at the fence is
:03:34. > :03:39.not a party political issue. And yet on that same programme, Maria
:03:40. > :03:44.Eagle, Labour's defence spokeswoman in the Shadow Cabinet, said there
:03:45. > :03:47.was nothing wrong with what he said. The issue isn't that there is
:03:48. > :03:51.anything wrong with the content of what he said... It's choosing the
:03:52. > :04:00.television to deliver the message. Yeah. We have a long tradition of
:04:01. > :04:07.civilian control. So let's be very clear. The idea of a man in uniform
:04:08. > :04:15.suddenly intervening in this manner is quite significant. Normally,
:04:16. > :04:22.defence chiefs say this as they are about to retire, their final speech.
:04:23. > :04:26.At some point, they make a speech about what is happening in the world
:04:27. > :04:30.and their worries. That is when they have a final say and by then they've
:04:31. > :04:36.retired, are taking their pension and can play golf. It's a bit
:04:37. > :04:39.worrying, unless he is on his way out. He might be if Jeremy Corbyn
:04:40. > :04:45.becomes Prime Minister. Let's leave that one and moves on to the times.
:04:46. > :04:48.This very interesting. This will get them jittery in Westminster and
:04:49. > :04:53.maybe elsewhere as well. An EU referendum as soon as June next
:04:54. > :04:56.year. Clearly, David Cameron is ratcheting this up. First of all,
:04:57. > :05:05.and we've already heard this, that if the EU turn a deaf ear, he would
:05:06. > :05:10.advise the British electorate to vote on opting out and secondly, we
:05:11. > :05:15.are going to have his letter for the first time specifying what the
:05:16. > :05:19.demands are. There has been debate about what the demands are. What
:05:20. > :05:20.is setting out is his position and saying, yes, the referendum is
:05:21. > :05:34.quick. This like, but a check on the Tories who
:05:35. > :05:39.want to leave. Including some members of his own Cabinet. We have
:05:40. > :05:43.been told that the Foreign Secretary and others might campaign for
:05:44. > :05:52.Britain to leave. Last week, there was a story about Theresa May. He is
:05:53. > :05:55.taking a risk and the times has it right, it's a gamble. Their argument
:05:56. > :06:01.or the suggestion is some people might be pushing him in this
:06:02. > :06:11.direction. The Times thinks this is the option being pushed by George
:06:12. > :06:19.Robson -- Osborne. Given what might happen... This summer's migration
:06:20. > :06:22.crisis has intensified the pressure. If you don't renegotiate on the
:06:23. > :06:28.freedom of movement of labour which is at the heart of the Treaty of
:06:29. > :06:33.Rome, we have to leave and Cameron has to find a way around that. I
:06:34. > :06:42.think I am worried that so much of this will be conflated and should it
:06:43. > :06:45.not go his way, I think he is possibly going to sleepwalk Britain
:06:46. > :06:49.out of Europe, the EU, without realising. That is a serious gamble
:06:50. > :06:53.and I wonder if that has been debated. I welcome this because it
:06:54. > :07:05.is time that serious things were set up. There is this kind of jingoistic
:07:06. > :07:09.idea. It would be good to have the run-up. Let's go for June. Even the
:07:10. > :07:16.Foreign Secretary said only a month or so ago on BBC News that it's been
:07:17. > :07:22.shadow-boxing up until now. Hasn't been a real negotiation. If we go in
:07:23. > :07:28.June and if Cameron loses, let's say, then surely his opposition
:07:29. > :07:35.would become very difficult. Who knows, we might find ourselves in an
:07:36. > :07:44.Osborne fight against Boris Johnson in June. Let's look at the front of
:07:45. > :07:49.the Financial Times and the suggestion that George Osborne might
:07:50. > :07:53.have found a way out of his self imposed over tax credits. They might
:07:54. > :07:58.be more recalled room than planned. It's an interesting one. Always
:07:59. > :08:07.think that he has locked himself into a strange position because of
:08:08. > :08:12.the idea of austerity not as a policy but as an ideological stance.
:08:13. > :08:16.It is not given him much manoeuvre space. This was a battle he chose
:08:17. > :08:19.and it was an unnecessary one. It will be interesting to see if he
:08:20. > :08:25.gets some wriggle room and how he takes a Ford. The suggestion is that
:08:26. > :08:31.he could have found about ?2 billion down the back of the sofa, by
:08:32. > :08:36.lowering interest rates payments. Because of the low interest rates,
:08:37. > :08:41.the debt service charge falls and he could reduce that to reduce the tax
:08:42. > :08:45.credits. If he does that, it does mean that he is doing a bit of a
:08:46. > :08:54.U-turn. So far, George Osborne is a man who doesn't do you terms. He is
:08:55. > :08:57.the next great leader. He is the next great leader and I think
:08:58. > :09:02.whatever he does, he is in a position where I think his light
:09:03. > :09:09.will dim little bit. Yeah, and I think that idea of austerity as his
:09:10. > :09:12.ideological stance will take a real beating, regardless of what he does
:09:13. > :09:19.with this one. It's interesting. With other developed punts happening
:09:20. > :09:25.in Europe and it seems certain now that the Portuguese government will
:09:26. > :09:31.fall and an alliance from the left will take power. The environment
:09:32. > :09:33.around Britain is shifting potentially and therefore that
:09:34. > :09:39.presumably makes the choice that George Osborne has to make even more
:09:40. > :09:42.politically delicate for him. And I wonder if this story hasn't come
:09:43. > :09:46.from a Treasury leak, suggesting that he has room for manoeuvre.
:09:47. > :09:49.Between now and the Autumn Statement, there will be a Treasury
:09:50. > :09:52.leak, suggesting that he has room for manoeuvre. Between now and the
:09:53. > :10:00.Autumn Statement, there will be lots of maybe a complete U-turn but.
:10:01. > :10:04.Let's move on and talk about the story. This is the back page of the
:10:05. > :10:09.Guardian, the sports section of the Guardian. It's talking about what
:10:10. > :10:12.looks like could a pretty grim day for athletics. Yes. What is
:10:13. > :10:16.interesting is the Guardian has given some detail about the
:10:17. > :10:21.reporting out tomorrow, from Dick Pound, the first head of the world
:10:22. > :10:25.anti-doping agency. It's looking into allegations that the
:10:26. > :10:29.international athletics Federation covered up doping allegations,
:10:30. > :10:32.particularly in relation to Russia. What interesting, Pound has always
:10:33. > :10:37.been a believer that there is a lot of doping that goes on in sport.
:10:38. > :10:41.This is a man who believed Lance Armstrong was a man who took drugs
:10:42. > :10:48.and he turned out to be true. If any of these... If there is one man who
:10:49. > :10:53.can say X happened, it will come out. OK, we've had all sorts of
:10:54. > :10:57.corruption crises in sport, Fever and so on, but this is different.
:10:58. > :11:01.This is corruption on the field of play. If you are watching something
:11:02. > :11:04.and cannot believe the man who has won the gold medal has done it
:11:05. > :11:11.through his own sweat and tears and what have you,... It's hugely
:11:12. > :11:17.corrosive. The fact it hit such a vast area, I think, with Fever you
:11:18. > :11:23.could kind of say, you know, I'm a cricket fan. You could kind of walk
:11:24. > :11:26.away from it. Here, you have very little way of walking away from it.
:11:27. > :11:34.But I think there is another problem for Sebastian Kehl, because how much
:11:35. > :11:38.did he know? He's literally just arrived in August. His predecessor
:11:39. > :11:46.has been arrested by the French police. Sebastien Coe has been given
:11:47. > :11:51.a very difficult inheritance here. What is interesting is it involves
:11:52. > :11:56.Russia. We will wonder what a certain Mr Putin will say. We should
:11:57. > :12:00.move on before we get into dangerous territory. I have to declare an
:12:01. > :12:04.interest in this story. My dad was a postman for 40 years. I like this
:12:05. > :12:10.story. I'm glad you to suggest that, not me. Go ahead. I love big dogs so
:12:11. > :12:21.this is a major story. I am completely on the side of this
:12:22. > :12:26.village and the mastiff. It's a lovely name, this Welsh town.
:12:27. > :12:30.Apparently, the Royal Mail has stopped delivering to an entire
:12:31. > :12:36.street because of one mastiff, which has attacked postwoman. This is a
:12:37. > :12:40.form of collective punishment and contravenes the Geneva Convention.
:12:41. > :12:47.The mastiff might be looking after the entire street! Thank you both
:12:48. > :12:54.very much. We will see you in an hour. Thank you for being with us.
:12:55. > :13:00.Don't forget, we would be back in our's time. I will be back at the
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