:00:00. > :00:00.from the short list for the 2015 BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
:00:00. > :00:12.That is all in Sportsday in 15 minutes, first here is The Papers.
:00:13. > :00:16.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:17. > :00:21.With me are Neil Midgley, from Forbes.com, and Laura Hughes,
:00:22. > :00:25.who's a political correspondent at the Daily Telegraph.
:00:26. > :00:31.The Independent's front page has a picture of an illuminated
:00:32. > :00:33.Eiffel Tower in Paris where negotiators are said to be
:00:34. > :00:41.close to an "historic deal" on climate change.
:00:42. > :00:45.The Times says households are paying "extortionate" charges to Britain's
:00:46. > :00:48.energy networks for routine jobs such as moving meters.
:00:49. > :00:54.The FT looks at the Chinese investor caught up in the anti-corruption
:00:55. > :01:00.drive in China, where the private sector is increasingly nervous
:01:01. > :01:07.The Mail says millions of investors are to be forced to file tax returns
:01:08. > :01:15.The Express says a new blood test could predict arthritis years
:01:16. > :01:23.The Mirror reports on the schoolboy who died after falling under a bus
:01:24. > :01:31.And the Guardian says phone-hacking victims are expected to demand
:01:32. > :01:33.a review of the Crown Prosecution Service's decision to cease pursuing
:01:34. > :01:53.Let us get to grips with some of this. There is not one top story. We
:01:54. > :01:57.will start with climate change and what has been happening in Paris,
:01:58. > :02:01.but as they go to print the still just on the verge of a historic
:02:02. > :02:08.deal. I will believe it when I see it. There is still some time to go.
:02:09. > :02:12.The deadline for some agreement has been put back, it was supposed to
:02:13. > :02:17.happen today but now tomorrow, and as you were saying and as The
:02:18. > :02:25.Independent says, there is talk of this target of only a 1.5 degrees
:02:26. > :02:31.increase in global temperatures due to man-made climate change, as the
:02:32. > :02:35.scientists would say. Whether that will be agreed or there will be
:02:36. > :02:41.weasel words. I have heard reports that will be weasel words around to
:02:42. > :02:47.degrees at the final tally should be as far under two degrees as
:02:48. > :02:49.possible. The devil with these big international agreements is in the
:02:50. > :02:56.detail on what individual countries will promise to do to cut their own
:02:57. > :03:03.emissions and what mechanisms there will be to make sure that they stick
:03:04. > :03:08.to those promises. Neither of those counts, from what was reported today
:03:09. > :03:16.by the BBC and others, did not seem to be any clear idea of what sticks
:03:17. > :03:22.the individual countries were going to give away to get beaten with. Do
:03:23. > :03:27.you think this will end in a tight agreement? You have America who are
:03:28. > :03:32.pushing on China to adhere to a single way of measuring. China says
:03:33. > :03:37.that they measure it in a different way and that is where the conflict
:03:38. > :03:42.is. The cell and China and America are involved so it is a big deal. It
:03:43. > :03:47.is a step forward but people tend to find ways to wiggle out. I have not
:03:48. > :03:54.been following this in detail but what I did not hear today in the
:03:55. > :03:58.reports is anything about population control and it seems to me
:03:59. > :04:03.common-sense, and there is a documentary film called ten Billion
:04:04. > :04:07.that talks about the possibility that the world population will reach
:04:08. > :04:11.out within our lifetimes. Clearly the more people that there are the
:04:12. > :04:15.more carbon emissions there will be because there will be a certain
:04:16. > :04:22.amount of carbon emissions per head. It seems to be that without grasping
:04:23. > :04:31.that particularly unpleasant metal, this could turn out... It is
:04:32. > :04:34.interesting because with the flooding someone came out and said
:04:35. > :04:39.that it could be a result of global warming. It is a big story for us
:04:40. > :04:42.this week. It focuses the mind and a feeling that I've had from our
:04:43. > :04:47.correspondence led by up in speaking to today is that there is that says
:04:48. > :04:56.that this time we are ready to grasp the nettle because we are realising
:04:57. > :05:01.it is now or never. Is that rose tinted or do you think the vibe is
:05:02. > :05:04.better this time? I think it is and I think this week will have made
:05:05. > :05:09.people look at the story because it has affected them, they have been
:05:10. > :05:14.kicked out of their homes because of that potentially, and there are
:05:15. > :05:21.senior ministers... Not to minimise what happened in Cumbria, that is a
:05:22. > :05:27.relatively small proportion of the UK population. When the polling data
:05:28. > :05:33.comes back about whether people are prepared to pay extra at the petrol
:05:34. > :05:40.pump or in the supermarket for climate change commitments and lower
:05:41. > :05:48.carbon emissions, people said no. They want BT or cells to pick it up
:05:49. > :05:52.-- BP or shell to pick it up. It will be interesting to see what
:05:53. > :05:59.comes out. At the bottom of The Independent and in The Guardian we
:06:00. > :06:03.have the phone hacking story. This is the decision by the Director of
:06:04. > :06:08.Public Prosecutions not to pursue certain prosecutions and it is
:06:09. > :06:12.proving pretty controversial for some of the victims who were hoping
:06:13. > :06:15.to see this through to the end. Other we know that illegal things
:06:16. > :06:18.are going on she says there is not sufficient evidence for big
:06:19. > :06:20.corporate charges and a lot of the victims are now saying they are
:06:21. > :06:27.going to challenge the single back to the court that it is not enough.
:06:28. > :06:30.This has been going on for years and Andy Coulson and others have gone
:06:31. > :06:35.down. The cost of this whole thing is now ?40 million. The newspapers
:06:36. > :06:40.are giving different figures but it is a lot of money. There is some
:06:41. > :06:45.public appetite and Hugh Grant is going to come out to speak about
:06:46. > :06:51.this. How much more do we want this to go one? It is a story that I
:06:52. > :06:55.sensed the public got tired off quite quickly after the Milly Dowler
:06:56. > :07:01.revelations came out in July 2000 and 11. People were appalled and
:07:02. > :07:04.rightly so and there were more revelations during the levels
:07:05. > :07:14.report. We might get part two of the Levenson report. And the terms of
:07:15. > :07:20.reference, there is provision for a second part to take place after the
:07:21. > :07:27.criminal investigation by the police into phone hacking specifically. If
:07:28. > :07:39.that judicial requiring was to take place, -- judicial inquiry, he would
:07:40. > :07:46.be able to call witnesses from e-mail grip. -- from the Miller
:07:47. > :07:50.group. They are not saying that phone hacking did not happen at The
:07:51. > :07:53.Mirror, they have paid out, they appeared civil damages to people
:07:54. > :07:58.saying that they know they have to phone. The Crown Prosecution Service
:07:59. > :08:01.is saying that they do not have enough evidence against any
:08:02. > :08:05.individual journalists. They were licking at full call data from
:08:06. > :08:09.different phones within the office, they did not know which journalists
:08:10. > :08:15.had made which calls on which days. These were office phones. That is
:08:16. > :08:18.something rather Crown Prosecution Service before it brings a criminal
:08:19. > :08:22.prosecution has to be really sure it has another evidence. People are
:08:23. > :08:26.often frustrated by that because they know that there was bad
:08:27. > :08:32.software was going on, but it is the detail that has to stand up in court
:08:33. > :08:37.which is something different. That aside I have been 154 arrests but
:08:38. > :08:43.only 45 convictions. That is nearly ?1 million of public money. There
:08:44. > :08:49.was a lot of talk about deregulation of the press. Do you think people
:08:50. > :08:53.were interested in hearing about how the press were going to be regulated
:08:54. > :08:59.or do you think that was being tired old these to this. It's about Milly
:09:00. > :09:04.Dowler, people did not want to get involved in the nitty-gritty? Is not
:09:05. > :09:07.in the nitty-gritty and I think that is the basic principle of the free
:09:08. > :09:11.press and that is what most people recognise and realise and want. All
:09:12. > :09:15.these disgusting things came out which most journalists would agree
:09:16. > :09:20.when appropriate. It has never really been a Tory issue, regulating
:09:21. > :09:24.the press. David Cameron was never keen on it and he has always said
:09:25. > :09:29.that the pressure be free and it should regulate itself. It was an Ed
:09:30. > :09:33.Miliband issue and he was very keen on making a big song and dance about
:09:34. > :09:37.the fact that he had taken on Rupert Murdoch was the first party leader
:09:38. > :09:41.to do so, but now that the Tories do not have the drag of the Liberal
:09:42. > :09:49.Democrats and coalition as they did before, dragging them towards a more
:09:50. > :09:54.interventionist regulation of the press, I think that is probably a
:09:55. > :09:58.dead letter for them. We will stay with The Guardian and a story that
:09:59. > :10:03.keeps giving. Donald Trump is on the front page again. The story just
:10:04. > :10:07.keeps going and today Hillary Clinton came out and said that he is
:10:08. > :10:12.just not funny any more. It has gone too far. The reaction from
:10:13. > :10:15.politicians has been interesting. George Osborne stood in for David
:10:16. > :10:20.Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions are quite a few MPs said
:10:21. > :10:24.that he should be banned from the country because the things that he
:10:25. > :10:28.had been saying is hate speech. George Osborne argued that you have
:10:29. > :10:33.to give these people are boys about you challenge them and argue against
:10:34. > :10:36.them and welcome them here. The BBC is Boris Johnson who said that he
:10:37. > :10:41.should not be allowed in the country. There's a conflict about
:10:42. > :10:46.what people believe but the story is extraordinary and the petition is
:10:47. > :10:51.just... It is Bjorn 400,000 now. I figured has 500,000 signatures now.
:10:52. > :10:55.I'm not sure that he would want to come because clearly it is not safe
:10:56. > :11:00.to walk on the streets here. There are parts of London you can go into.
:11:01. > :11:03.Could he become the president of the United States and because he is such
:11:04. > :11:09.a wealthy man and has been bankrolling his campaign for the
:11:10. > :11:13.Republican nomination, unlike Hillary Clinton, he does not have to
:11:14. > :11:17.go out to big donors and get a coalition of the willing to fund the
:11:18. > :11:22.campaign, he can say whatever he likes. That can go down very well.
:11:23. > :11:30.People have been patented Nigel Farage and I think that is unfair.
:11:31. > :11:33.Where the comparison holds some water is that Nigel Farage before
:11:34. > :11:39.the last election and during the last parliament was the maverick
:11:40. > :11:42.politician in Britain and he was the one who supposedly said what the
:11:43. > :11:50.ordinary man was thinking. She wasn't hateful in the way that
:11:51. > :11:53.Donald Trump has been. He didn't get anywhere, but the American system is
:11:54. > :12:00.different and if you have enough money you can buy your way quite a
:12:01. > :12:06.long way down the track and getting the Republican nomination is
:12:07. > :12:10.different from winning the presidency, because the nomination
:12:11. > :12:20.is largely decided by the Republican base of evangelical and Christians.
:12:21. > :12:29.The American electorate hopefully will take a different view. The
:12:30. > :12:33.Times is talking about thousands being caught up in an energy price
:12:34. > :12:38.rip-off. This is the watchdog looking at what we're being charged
:12:39. > :12:45.to a meter. What is most bizarre is the difference in price. On one side
:12:46. > :12:47.of the road you can be quoted ?5,400 and then something completely
:12:48. > :12:51.different on the other side of the road. I think it is an interesting
:12:52. > :12:57.story and the danger is that people are turning to a legal suppliers of
:12:58. > :13:02.the servers to might not move the meter in a safe way. This is very
:13:03. > :13:09.dangerous. Energy companies are not very popular with the company 's
:13:10. > :13:12.cop-mac public. What I didn't realise is that there are ten
:13:13. > :13:20.different companies who own the networks that bring the electricity
:13:21. > :13:23.and gas to our houses, as opposed to the National Grid which is the
:13:24. > :13:27.backbone of the system which is owned by one company. You have the
:13:28. > :13:31.National Grid and then his distribution companies and then the
:13:32. > :13:36.retail energy companies, from whom you buy a relative city and who are
:13:37. > :13:42.using these networks to distribute it. It is fiendishly complicated.
:13:43. > :13:47.Only a privatised, national monopoly could come up with such a difficult
:13:48. > :13:53.to regulate system with so many different moving parts and it is not
:13:54. > :13:58.a surprise that the energy regulator doesn't seem to have been able to
:13:59. > :14:02.keep up with it. We were going to look at the FT in China but we don't
:14:03. > :14:07.have time although we will come back to it in the next hour, a story
:14:08. > :14:11.about a Chinese tycoon who seems to have found themselves in trouble
:14:12. > :14:12.over anti-corruption. We will talk about this and some of the other
:14:13. > :14:12.stories. That is all from
:14:13. > :14:14.The Papers this hour. They will be back with me at 11.30pm
:14:15. > :14:20.for another look at the stories