11/12/2015 The Papers

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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

With me are Neil Midgley, from Forbes.com, and Laura Hughes,

who's a political correspondent at the Daily Telegraph.

The Independent's front page has a picture of an illuminated

Eiffel Tower in Paris where negotiators are said to be

close to an "historic deal" on climate change.

The Times says households are paying "extortionate" charges to Britain's

energy networks for routine jobs such as moving meters.

The FT looks at the Chinese investor caught up in the anti-corruption

drive in China, where the private sector is increasingly nervous

The Mail says millions of investors are to be forced to file tax returns

The Express says a new blood test could predict arthritis years

The Mirror reports on the schoolboy who died after falling under a bus

And the Guardian says phone-hacking victims are expected to demand

a review of the Crown Prosecution Service's decision to cease pursuing

Let us get to grips with some of this. There is not one top story. We

will start with climate change and what has been happening in Paris,

but as they go to print the still just on the verge of a historic

deal. I will believe it when I see it. There is still some time to go.

The deadline for some agreement has been put back, it was supposed to

happen today but now tomorrow, and as you were saying and as The

Independent says, there is talk of this target of only a 1.5 degrees

increase in global temperatures due to man-made climate change, as the

scientists would say. Whether that will be agreed or there will be

weasel words. I have heard reports that will be weasel words around to

degrees at the final tally should be as far under two degrees as

possible. The devil with these big international agreements is in the

detail on what individual countries will promise to do to cut their own

emissions and what mechanisms there will be to make sure that they stick

to those promises. Neither of those counts, from what was reported today

by the BBC and others, did not seem to be any clear idea of what sticks

the individual countries were going to give away to get beaten with. Do

you think this will end in a tight agreement? You have America who are

pushing on China to adhere to a single way of measuring. China says

that they measure it in a different way and that is where the conflict

is. The cell and China and America are involved so it is a big deal. It

is a step forward but people tend to find ways to wiggle out. I have not

been following this in detail but what I did not hear today in the

reports is anything about population control and it seems to me

common-sense, and there is a documentary film called ten Billion

that talks about the possibility that the world population will reach

out within our lifetimes. Clearly the more people that there are the

more carbon emissions there will be because there will be a certain

amount of carbon emissions per head. It seems to be that without grasping

that particularly unpleasant metal, this could turn out... It is

interesting because with the flooding someone came out and said

that it could be a result of global warming. It is a big story for us

this week. It focuses the mind and a feeling that I've had from our

correspondence led by up in speaking to today is that there is that says

that this time we are ready to grasp the nettle because we are realising

it is now or never. Is that rose tinted or do you think the vibe is

better this time? I think it is and I think this week will have made

people look at the story because it has affected them, they have been

kicked out of their homes because of that potentially, and there are

senior ministers... Not to minimise what happened in Cumbria, that is a

relatively small proportion of the UK population. When the polling data

comes back about whether people are prepared to pay extra at the petrol

pump or in the supermarket for climate change commitments and lower

carbon emissions, people said no. They want BT or cells to pick it up

-- BP or shell to pick it up. It will be interesting to see what

comes out. At the bottom of The Independent and in The Guardian we

have the phone hacking story. This is the decision by the Director of

Public Prosecutions not to pursue certain prosecutions and it is

proving pretty controversial for some of the victims who were hoping

to see this through to the end. Other we know that illegal things

are going on she says there is not sufficient evidence for big

corporate charges and a lot of the victims are now saying they are

going to challenge the single back to the court that it is not enough.

This has been going on for years and Andy Coulson and others have gone

down. The cost of this whole thing is now ?40 million. The newspapers

are giving different figures but it is a lot of money. There is some

public appetite and Hugh Grant is going to come out to speak about

this. How much more do we want this to go one? It is a story that I

sensed the public got tired off quite quickly after the Milly Dowler

revelations came out in July 2000 and 11. People were appalled and

rightly so and there were more revelations during the levels

report. We might get part two of the Levenson report. And the terms of

reference, there is provision for a second part to take place after the

criminal investigation by the police into phone hacking specifically. If

that judicial requiring was to take place, -- judicial inquiry, he would

be able to call witnesses from e-mail grip. -- from the Miller

group. They are not saying that phone hacking did not happen at The

Mirror, they have paid out, they appeared civil damages to people

saying that they know they have to phone. The Crown Prosecution Service

is saying that they do not have enough evidence against any

individual journalists. They were licking at full call data from

different phones within the office, they did not know which journalists

had made which calls on which days. These were office phones. That is

something rather Crown Prosecution Service before it brings a criminal

prosecution has to be really sure it has another evidence. People are

often frustrated by that because they know that there was bad

software was going on, but it is the detail that has to stand up in court

which is something different. That aside I have been 154 arrests but

only 45 convictions. That is nearly ?1 million of public money. There

was a lot of talk about deregulation of the press. Do you think people

were interested in hearing about how the press were going to be regulated

or do you think that was being tired old these to this. It's about Milly

Dowler, people did not want to get involved in the nitty-gritty? Is not

in the nitty-gritty and I think that is the basic principle of the free

press and that is what most people recognise and realise and want. All

these disgusting things came out which most journalists would agree

when appropriate. It has never really been a Tory issue, regulating

the press. David Cameron was never keen on it and he has always said

that the pressure be free and it should regulate itself. It was an Ed

Miliband issue and he was very keen on making a big song and dance about

the fact that he had taken on Rupert Murdoch was the first party leader

to do so, but now that the Tories do not have the drag of the Liberal

Democrats and coalition as they did before, dragging them towards a more

interventionist regulation of the press, I think that is probably a

dead letter for them. We will stay with The Guardian and a story that

keeps giving. Donald Trump is on the front page again. The story just

keeps going and today Hillary Clinton came out and said that he is

just not funny any more. It has gone too far. The reaction from

politicians has been interesting. George Osborne stood in for David

Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions are quite a few MPs said

that he should be banned from the country because the things that he

had been saying is hate speech. George Osborne argued that you have

to give these people are boys about you challenge them and argue against

them and welcome them here. The BBC is Boris Johnson who said that he

should not be allowed in the country. There's a conflict about

what people believe but the story is extraordinary and the petition is

just... It is Bjorn 400,000 now. I figured has 500,000 signatures now.

I'm not sure that he would want to come because clearly it is not safe

to walk on the streets here. There are parts of London you can go into.

Could he become the president of the United States and because he is such

a wealthy man and has been bankrolling his campaign for the

Republican nomination, unlike Hillary Clinton, he does not have to

go out to big donors and get a coalition of the willing to fund the

campaign, he can say whatever he likes. That can go down very well.

People have been patented Nigel Farage and I think that is unfair.

Where the comparison holds some water is that Nigel Farage before

the last election and during the last parliament was the maverick

politician in Britain and he was the one who supposedly said what the

ordinary man was thinking. She wasn't hateful in the way that

Donald Trump has been. He didn't get anywhere, but the American system is

different and if you have enough money you can buy your way quite a

long way down the track and getting the Republican nomination is

different from winning the presidency, because the nomination

is largely decided by the Republican base of evangelical and Christians.

The American electorate hopefully will take a different view. The

Times is talking about thousands being caught up in an energy price

rip-off. This is the watchdog looking at what we're being charged

to a meter. What is most bizarre is the difference in price. On one side

of the road you can be quoted ?5,400 and then something completely

different on the other side of the road. I think it is an interesting

story and the danger is that people are turning to a legal suppliers of

the servers to might not move the meter in a safe way. This is very

dangerous. Energy companies are not very popular with the company 's

cop-mac public. What I didn't realise is that there are ten

different companies who own the networks that bring the electricity

and gas to our houses, as opposed to the National Grid which is the

backbone of the system which is owned by one company. You have the

National Grid and then his distribution companies and then the

retail energy companies, from whom you buy a relative city and who are

using these networks to distribute it. It is fiendishly complicated.

Only a privatised, national monopoly could come up with such a difficult

to regulate system with so many different moving parts and it is not

a surprise that the energy regulator doesn't seem to have been able to

keep up with it. We were going to look at the FT in China but we don't

have time although we will come back to it in the next hour, a story

about a Chinese tycoon who seems to have found themselves in trouble

over anti-corruption. We will talk about this and some of the other

stories. That is all from

The Papers this hour. They will be back with me at 11.30pm

for another look at the stories