:00:09. > :00:11.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers
:00:12. > :00:23.With me are Christopher Hope, the chief political correspondent for
:00:24. > :00:25.the Telegraph, and the political commentator Miranda Green.
:00:26. > :00:28.The Guardian leads with the floods in Cumbria, saying that
:00:29. > :00:30.the Prime Minister is coming under pressure over the government's
:00:31. > :00:38.The Times reports that ministers will review the country's storm
:00:39. > :00:41.The Mirror claims there's fury over cuts to flood defences,
:00:42. > :00:48.and highlights that the damage could run to some ?300 million.
:00:49. > :01:00.The Metro warns that northern England could be hit
:01:01. > :01:02.The Express thinks it is five inches.
:01:03. > :01:04.The Independent highlights the success of
:01:05. > :01:07.the French far-right party the Front National in the country's regional
:01:08. > :01:09.elections and says mainstream politicians are in "a panic".
:01:10. > :01:12.The Telegraph says thousands of new homes are set to be built
:01:13. > :01:16.on green belt land in what it calls "the biggest relaxation of planning
:01:17. > :01:22.The Mail carries a criticism from the health
:01:23. > :01:25.ombudsman that families affected by medical blunders are being fobbed
:01:26. > :01:36.Actually, it is you saying it is the biggest change to green belt
:01:37. > :01:43.policies for 30 years. You wrote that article and we will dissect it.
:01:44. > :01:50.Starting with the Daily Mirror. Few we over Cameron's cuts to flood
:01:51. > :01:55.barriers, as thousands of homes are hit. -- fury over. Is the government
:01:56. > :02:00.looking vulnerable? They are. Labour says there is a 40% fall in flood
:02:01. > :02:06.defences and that was the point made in the House of Commons today, but
:02:07. > :02:09.this is a classic case when Fleet Street does our industry proud. It
:02:10. > :02:15.is all about the people. On TV you get a bit of that, but look at the
:02:16. > :02:22.detail. They've gone right into the heart of people in Carlisle. Someone
:02:23. > :02:28.saying this person is paying ?98 per month for insurance with a ?6,000
:02:29. > :02:33.XS. The economics of living there are getting worse. On foot of rain
:02:34. > :02:37.fell on them. This is meant to happen once in 100 years. There have
:02:38. > :02:44.been similar events like this in the past ten years. I think really the
:02:45. > :02:50.Mirror looks great. They say water torture and this nails it. Your
:02:51. > :02:58.horror. And that coming from a lead writer of the Daily Telegraph. Well
:02:59. > :03:01.done to the Daily Mirror. It was touched on that this could be
:03:02. > :03:06.difficult for the government. If it is confirmed that they are cutting
:03:07. > :03:11.defences, clearly it seems that once they did put up won't any good
:03:12. > :03:15.anyway. Well, some of them. That's right. As you said, some of the
:03:16. > :03:20.broadsheet said the government is under pressure. But the daily Mirror
:03:21. > :03:26.has told that story brilliantly through these pictures. If we go to
:03:27. > :03:32.the inside pages of the Mirror, water torture. That's right. They
:03:33. > :03:38.have run together many different interviews with the people affected.
:03:39. > :03:42.Some of them are really hard rating. There is a woman who is heavily
:03:43. > :03:47.pregnant and you really feel for these people. The point is, after
:03:48. > :03:52.the last floods, which was only three years ago, places like
:03:53. > :03:57.Carlisle and places across Cumbria were supposed to have been protected
:03:58. > :04:02.with new flood defences. Clearly these are unprecedentedly bad
:04:03. > :04:09.weather events, as the government calls them, but we are witnessing a
:04:10. > :04:11.period in which climate change is resulting in these unprecedented
:04:12. > :04:16.weather events, so we have to prepare for them. There is a
:04:17. > :04:19.question of accountability, as you were saying, politically, about
:04:20. > :04:25.whether the right protections are in place. Actually, David Cameron went
:04:26. > :04:30.to visit Carlisle today and he has been quoted in this story as
:04:31. > :04:33.saying, what more can we do, that they will re-examine the whole plan
:04:34. > :04:38.for flood defences in these areas? Sit down with the Environment
:04:39. > :04:43.Agency, look at what has been built, look at the level of rainfall and
:04:44. > :04:46.flooding, what more can we do? So, they have clearly realise that if
:04:47. > :04:52.they are going to have these sorts of extreme weather patterns that we
:04:53. > :04:57.have to prepare for them. It will be very expensive and not just for the
:04:58. > :05:02.government. People who live in these areas, the sorts of insurance they
:05:03. > :05:07.will have to pay will be astronomical. I saw one of the
:05:08. > :05:10.pictures from Danny Savage's peace yesterday, showing these flood
:05:11. > :05:18.defences over the river. They are just bits of metal. And yet a foot
:05:19. > :05:24.of rain fell in 24 hours. It overwhelmed it completely. Going
:05:25. > :05:27.onto the Times, global warning warning. Floods caused by global
:05:28. > :05:35.warning, says the minister. This is the Environment Minister Liz Truss.
:05:36. > :05:39.It are saying this way of slightly deflecting some of the issue away
:05:40. > :05:44.from, the government hasn't done enough on defences, or is she simply
:05:45. > :05:49.stating what a lot of scientists are suggesting, that if the air is
:05:50. > :05:51.warmer it holds more moisture? It is a really interesting question
:05:52. > :05:57.because there might be a little bit of deflection. It's not our fault,
:05:58. > :06:04.we couldn't legislate for this. At the God. But that is an interesting
:06:05. > :06:08.question. Obviously the background to this is that in Paris with got
:06:09. > :06:13.these big climate change talks going on, howl urgent does the British
:06:14. > :06:16.government as an entity really see the Paris climate change talks,
:06:17. > :06:21.because they haven't really given the impression that written is
:06:22. > :06:25.pushing on this issue at all. And yet here we have a part of our own
:06:26. > :06:31.country seriously affected by climate change. -- Britain. But in
:06:32. > :06:36.the Tory party there is quite a lot of scepticism regarding climate
:06:37. > :06:42.change. Actually for the environment secretary, someone that clearly
:06:43. > :06:49.saying this is caused by global warming, that's a bit of a moment in
:06:50. > :07:02.the debate. I like the cartoon. It says, priority one from David
:07:03. > :07:07.Cameron, have we got enough wellies? Yes, previously some of the
:07:08. > :07:11.ministers had to borrow than! But more than 40,000 homes are still
:07:12. > :07:15.without electricity. Big problems there. And of course all of this is
:07:16. > :07:20.happening one week, ten days, two weeks before Christmas? Yes and they
:07:21. > :07:28.might get more flooding in the next few days. All we want is a fresh,
:07:29. > :07:31.dry wind to blow through in the next few weeks and are probably won't
:07:32. > :07:35.happen. You really do feel for people in that situation. Moving to
:07:36. > :07:43.the Independent. It is all happening in France. France's fascist
:07:44. > :07:51.uprising. The Socialist party withdraws candidates. Key regional
:07:52. > :07:58.battles. Yes, a situation that even the front mass -- Front National is
:07:59. > :08:04.saying is the result of the shootings and the terror attacks.
:08:05. > :08:10.It's a massive worry. These are local elections. We are seeing a
:08:11. > :08:16.rise in this kind of Front National, which is alarming. Here, UKIP
:08:17. > :08:26.managed to new to the far right to a degree. This is a worry for France.
:08:27. > :08:35.They still have emergency measures in place in Paris. There has been
:08:36. > :08:40.this concern about their sanity is very alarming. Interesting how the
:08:41. > :08:47.French try to deal with this kind of uprising, as it were. The centre
:08:48. > :08:53.right and the left come together usually and it is debatable as to
:08:54. > :08:59.whether it will work. Absolutely. Next weekend will be the second
:09:00. > :09:03.round of these elections. They need to engineer a tactical vote against
:09:04. > :09:07.the Front National, which will mean already some of the Socialist
:09:08. > :09:11.parties pulling candidates in certain areas, which will mean
:09:12. > :09:16.probably the centre right party can defeat the Front National.
:09:17. > :09:20.Interestingly, Nicolas Sarkozy is having a second coming in France,
:09:21. > :09:23.but he isn't playing ball and he says he thinks this is wrong and it
:09:24. > :09:27.is the kind of political stitch up which delivers the electorate into
:09:28. > :09:32.the hands of the Front National. It is a bit like what we have in
:09:33. > :09:35.Britain, the idea of the political establishment and people were
:09:36. > :09:42.rebelling against UKIP. Not quite as extreme. UKIP is a different beast.
:09:43. > :09:46.It is interesting and of course it isn't just a reaction to the attacks
:09:47. > :09:50.in Paris, it is also to do with the migrant crisis over the last few
:09:51. > :09:57.months, which has changed the political temperature across Europe.
:09:58. > :10:01.But there is the risk that if the centre right and left and sort
:10:02. > :10:07.things out that the Front National could end up winning a substantial
:10:08. > :10:14.number of votes. Whatever it is. Yes. It could. Also, what is really
:10:15. > :10:18.interesting about it, and probably why the Independent has put it on
:10:19. > :10:22.the front, is it may prefigure what happens in the presidential election
:10:23. > :10:26.in France, because lots of people think that Marine Le Pen herself
:10:27. > :10:30.will get through to the second round of the presidential race and then it
:10:31. > :10:33.will be a question of who can beat her in the second round. So even
:10:34. > :10:40.though this is not about controlling the government... It is 18 months
:10:41. > :10:52.away. And famously her father did that and managed to get through to
:10:53. > :10:59.the second round. Anyway, moving on. Explain yourself on this one. It is
:11:00. > :11:05.at the top of the paper. People need to live somewhere and we need to
:11:06. > :11:09.find more space. This is an interesting thing for the Tory voter
:11:10. > :11:15.but the government says we should try to allow people to live on the
:11:16. > :11:21.green belt. It says younger people under 40 want to get on the green
:11:22. > :11:28.belt. This is to protect the land around towns and cities that stops
:11:29. > :11:32.urban sprawl. There has been a manifesto pledge from many Tory
:11:33. > :11:35.campaigns, but they say perhaps we need to release some of the value
:11:36. > :11:41.for these younger people. It might work just about. Is this a concrete
:11:42. > :11:48.proposal? It's a consultation. Concrete is very nice. Ugly
:11:49. > :11:55.concrete. It is an ideal, but it is one with feeling, because it's a
:11:56. > :11:59.consultation. The question now is how people will be abated. There are
:12:00. > :12:03.people who by this newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, and one would have
:12:04. > :12:10.thought they might be very anti- this kind of idea. One would, yes.
:12:11. > :12:13.But it is interesting, politically, because you reach the tipping point
:12:14. > :12:20.when people support of the anxiety protecting their own lifestyle or
:12:21. > :12:23.view turned into so much anxiety about their grandchildren never
:12:24. > :12:28.being able to afford a place to live, that they start to sacrifice
:12:29. > :12:31.some of their view for the grandchildren. That's why the
:12:32. > :12:36.government is starting to test public opinion a little bit on
:12:37. > :12:43.this. It is the moral case. If ministers were braver about making
:12:44. > :12:47.it we might have a chance. I think if they took a chance they may find
:12:48. > :12:53.it would yield a lot of dividend. They might want to do that. All
:12:54. > :12:58.right. Going to the Guardian. Tyson Fury. How he picked a fight with the
:12:59. > :13:04.world. This is a man, the heavyweight champion of the world.
:13:05. > :13:15.Undisputed. Is the undisputed? He has all three volts. OK. -- belts. I
:13:16. > :13:20.have been told he is missing one. Not bad. You would think he would be
:13:21. > :13:24.a national hero. He is a bit like Jeremy Corbyn. He has a beard and
:13:25. > :13:28.nobody thought he would win. Now people are going over what he
:13:29. > :13:33.said... Tyson Fury, Jeremy Corbyn, works well! Now they are thinking
:13:34. > :13:39.some of his comments about a woman's Place is with a baby on her
:13:40. > :13:46.back and he says he hates nobody and he stands by his views on anti-
:13:47. > :13:50.women, et cetera. -- place. But 80,000 people have signed a
:13:51. > :13:57.petition, saying he should be up for BBC Sports Personality of the Year
:13:58. > :14:00.this year. Having heard him interviewed, he does seem to be
:14:01. > :14:06.confusing a personality with a good personality. Do you know what I
:14:07. > :14:11.mean? He says he won this fight and he has got a personality that is
:14:12. > :14:19.bigger than life, but there is a personality and then a personality.
:14:20. > :14:26.Is this award for sporting achievement, or is it for being a
:14:27. > :14:37.role model in society and everything that brings with it? It is both. It
:14:38. > :14:42.is the watershed. Thank you. That is what I was struggling towards. The
:14:43. > :14:50.question is, according to the people signing the petition, that he could
:14:51. > :14:57.potentially be the latter. I do not wish to insult the BBC sports
:14:58. > :15:00.personality broadcast. But I have watched it and sometimes the people
:15:01. > :15:16.who win it have no personality at all. A brilliant racing car driver.
:15:17. > :15:25.Is it for a achievement? It is the whole package. You managed to get
:15:26. > :15:33.yourself out of that hole. I think he had it all there, he should have
:15:34. > :15:40.kept his mouth zipped. It is a bit of a problem. He was slagging off
:15:41. > :15:48.somebody on the short list. It has been great having you. Stay with us.
:15:49. > :15:50.Much more coming up on the top of the tower. It is