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:00:00. > :00:14.for election and casting their votes for the first time.

:00:15. > :00:17.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

:00:18. > :00:21.With me are Mihir Bose from the Evening Standard

:00:22. > :00:28.The Observer welcomes the historic climate change deal

:00:29. > :00:30.in Paris, quoting the words of the French president

:00:31. > :00:34.Francois Hollande who described it as a major leap for mankind.

:00:35. > :00:37.The Independent shows a line of dancing polar bears celebrating

:00:38. > :00:42.The paper also claims David Cameron is to make a dramatic climbdown

:00:43. > :00:55.That story also makes the front page of the Telegraph,

:00:56. > :00:58.pointing out the U-turn will be on the Prime Minister's central

:00:59. > :01:01.The Mail carries an exclusive interview with

:01:02. > :01:03.Shaker Aamer, the British man held at Guantanamo bay for 14 years.

:01:04. > :01:07.The Express goes it alone saying more than 400 miles of roadworks

:01:08. > :01:09.will be cleared just in time for the great Christmas getaway.

:01:10. > :01:12.The Sunday Times claims that the man who shouted "you ain't no

:01:13. > :01:15.Muslim bruv" during an attack at an East London Tube station now

:01:16. > :01:28.fears retribution from the group calling itself Islamic State.

:01:29. > :01:34.Lets you give me that landmark deal that we have out of Paris, it is a

:01:35. > :01:40.lead on the Observer, but interestingly not mentioned on many

:01:41. > :01:45.of the other papers. World leaders hail Paris deal on climate. They are

:01:46. > :01:50.always aiming for nothing more than a two degrees increase above

:01:51. > :01:54.preindustrial levels, and they are now looking like they're pledging

:01:55. > :02:00.towards more like 1.5 degrees. This article doesn't give you a lot of

:02:01. > :02:05.detail, does it? No, it doesn't. The comparison is what happened in

:02:06. > :02:10.Copenhagen in 2009, chaos and so on, and we know how often world leaders

:02:11. > :02:13.have met on climate change, so in that sense yes it is a major step

:02:14. > :02:20.forward. But I think we need to be cautious. The leap may have taken

:02:21. > :02:26.place, but I think mankind hasn't landed on firm soil yet. It is still

:02:27. > :02:31.up in the air, because we don't know the details, and the devil is in the

:02:32. > :02:35.details, and starting with America, most of these agreements will have

:02:36. > :02:41.to be taken back to domestic legislature and assemblies, where

:02:42. > :02:45.they all agree. India, for instance, have been very resistant to any

:02:46. > :02:49.agreement. We will have to see exactly what they have all agreed

:02:50. > :02:54.to, what timescale, and already the article he quotes some scientists

:02:55. > :03:01.saying it will be difficult to get to 1.5 degrees. What were the

:03:02. > :03:08.divisions they started off with? It is a wonder that there is any deal

:03:09. > :03:15.at all, isn't it? Yes, I think there is something to be celebrated. It is

:03:16. > :03:22.a big deal that we have agreed to agree. There are quite a few targets

:03:23. > :03:26.that are very ambitious, one of them that has been spoken about is the

:03:27. > :03:31.greenhouse gas emissions being cut down from 46 billion tons per annum

:03:32. > :03:36.to near zero within the next 50 years. That is asking for quite a

:03:37. > :03:46.lot, giving we are nowhere near close to switching. This is going to

:03:47. > :03:55.be an interesting debate, and it will have to go back, and this has

:03:56. > :04:03.been hailed as a great achievement. But will it go past the Senate? Or

:04:04. > :04:08.even the House? Especially as we are going into an election year, will it

:04:09. > :04:24.be parked until there is a new President? Obama claims that the US

:04:25. > :04:29.has led this, but there are quite a few issues still to be dealt with.

:04:30. > :04:32.And within the Republican Party there are still quite a few people

:04:33. > :04:39.that belief we don't even have a problem with climate change. Rather

:04:40. > :04:42.than replicating what we have had in the industrialised nations, do we

:04:43. > :04:47.have a responsibility to help those developing a low carbon way? The

:04:48. > :04:53.question again is what other details. We have a long history of

:04:54. > :04:56.these funds being set up, but they are generally channelled back into

:04:57. > :05:00.consultants and other countries, back into the developed world

:05:01. > :05:05.anyway. How will this fund be used? We don't know. I think we need to

:05:06. > :05:09.start mitigating the impact of climate change, and we will need a

:05:10. > :05:13.lot more than $100 billion a year. It sounds a lot of money but it is

:05:14. > :05:23.not when you think of the task ahead. Moving on the Telegraph,

:05:24. > :05:26.Cameron climbs down on EU benefits. The PM is going to have a dinner

:05:27. > :05:33.this week with some of his European Union leaders. He is apparently

:05:34. > :05:38.going to have it out with 27 leaders on Thursday, there are wonderful

:05:39. > :05:56.ideas that apparently his great proposal to make EU... It is a

:05:57. > :06:00.strange way of phrasing a proposal that was never considered in any

:06:01. > :06:08.detail by any of the year, because free movement of labour is a

:06:09. > :06:12.fundamental point. Now he has said, we are parking it in case something

:06:13. > :06:18.better comes up. I am not quite sure where this is supposed to be. He is

:06:19. > :06:24.playing a double game, he is trying to satisfy the home audience. I have

:06:25. > :06:29.been very strict, I am going to negotiate the last line, the last

:06:30. > :06:33.limit, make sure we get all the benefits, but at the same time he is

:06:34. > :06:39.telling the EU leaders not to worry, I know this is my hardest line but I

:06:40. > :06:45.can back down from it. The question is, can he pull it off? A lot of

:06:46. > :06:48.people already started saying, particularly those campaigning for

:06:49. > :06:57.us to leave the EU, that he has given way already. Even before the

:06:58. > :07:02.negotiations have started. The Daily Mail, jihadis must get the hell out

:07:03. > :07:09.of Britain. This is a world exclusive. They have been speaking

:07:10. > :07:14.for five days to Shaker Aamer, who was held for five years in

:07:15. > :07:18.Guantanamo Bay. The paper says he is saying what many Muslims in the UK

:07:19. > :07:25.do not say. I think quite a lot UK Muslims have been saying that,

:07:26. > :07:30.and around the world, but I think we can park that headline. It makes a

:07:31. > :07:32.great copy... I think there are allegations he has made that quite

:07:33. > :07:39.problematic. story is somewhere further down,

:07:40. > :07:57.they have chosen been aware that he was being

:07:58. > :08:11.tortured. He has alleged that the torture he endured was witnessed by

:08:12. > :08:18.quite damning. He also says that he was denied the right to make a video

:08:19. > :08:28.appeal to stop Jihadi John from the heading British aid worker Alan

:08:29. > :08:33.Henning. Apart from the allegations that he has made, the other one that

:08:34. > :08:37.he was that he was willing to make an appeal and the authorities at

:08:38. > :08:41.Guantanamo Bay wouldn't allow him to do that. That is an interesting

:08:42. > :08:45.allegation he is making. We must make it clear that these are

:08:46. > :08:48.allegations being made in the Daily Mail, but we have been on the phone

:08:49. > :08:54.to the Foreign Office to get a reaction from the government to this

:08:55. > :08:56.article. Our Foreign and Commonwealth office spokesperson

:08:57. > :08:59.said the UK government stands firmly against torture and cruel inhumane

:09:00. > :09:09.and degrading treatment or punishment. It goes on to say that

:09:10. > :09:13.the UK does not make use of any so-called enhanced interrogation

:09:14. > :09:17.techniques. We have consistently made clear our absolute opposition

:09:18. > :09:21.to such behaviour and our determination to combat it wherever

:09:22. > :09:32.and whenever it occurs. A pretty clear statement that in response to

:09:33. > :09:35.this article. He also goes on to talk about how if you don't like

:09:36. > :09:43.this country, if you are angry about this country, why are you here? The

:09:44. > :09:47.point here is making a very valid. I would have thought they would be

:09:48. > :09:52.echoed by a lot of people, a lot of Muslims and people of all faiths and

:09:53. > :09:59.religions. One of the points he makes, where he notes that things

:10:00. > :10:07.that are being said by Donald Trump are creating a rift, and that is

:10:08. > :10:18.helping the extremists. Let's look at a connected story. The Times,

:10:19. > :10:25.this witness in Leytonstone, he shouted out during the attack a few

:10:26. > :10:30.days ago. He now fears that his life. It is an interesting story,

:10:31. > :10:34.the Sunday Times has obviously spoken to him, we don't have full

:10:35. > :10:38.details we only know that he is called John and that he works as a

:10:39. > :10:45.security agent. The statement he made reverberated around the world.

:10:46. > :10:51.It is interesting, because he says he didn't hear this man, the man who

:10:52. > :10:58.made the attack, he didn't actually hear him think it to Syria. --

:10:59. > :11:02.link. He didn't even know he was a Muslim, but he assumed by looking at

:11:03. > :11:06.him that he was a Muslim. That raises another question as to why he

:11:07. > :11:12.thought he was a Muslim. This is not in any way to value the statement he

:11:13. > :11:17.made, but why should he immediately jump to the conclusion that he was a

:11:18. > :11:25.muslin? That again raises other questions about how we look at these

:11:26. > :11:33.things -- Muslim. ISIS has very nicely stated several things, and we

:11:34. > :11:38.are buying into these assumptions. It says, he looked to be a

:11:39. > :11:45.terrorist, and I would love to know what that looks like. So would I.

:11:46. > :11:50.Another story, England and Wales clash in Euro 2016. How excited are

:11:51. > :11:54.you both about this? I am very excited, because it will bring

:11:55. > :12:01.together for the first time the two nations will clash. Wales have not

:12:02. > :12:07.been to an international competition since the 50s. And in Gareth Bale

:12:08. > :12:12.they have perhaps the greatest player in the British nation at the

:12:13. > :12:16.moment has, and it will be very interesting to see how, whether

:12:17. > :12:20.Gareth Bale and a couple other players, like Aaron Ramsey and so

:12:21. > :12:32.on, can beat England. England's group on the whole looks quite

:12:33. > :12:39.good. I am told that Group E is the tough one to be on. The Irish seem

:12:40. > :12:50.to have got the worst of it. Yes, the republic are written with

:12:51. > :12:59.Belgium and Sweden, I think. You have been paying attention! The

:13:00. > :13:10.Sunday Express, we are looking at how much Donald Trump has to spend

:13:11. > :13:14.to get his party nomination, compare to Hillary Clinton. It is

:13:15. > :13:18.interesting, because they are trying to convince their own party faithful

:13:19. > :13:22.to vote. Donald Trump is spending his own money so he doesn't have to

:13:23. > :13:26.worry about raising money, which is what Clinton and the others have

:13:27. > :13:31.been doing. Secondly, Trump has worked out what everyone thinks of

:13:32. > :13:37.his views, and he has worked out that the more outrageous statements

:13:38. > :13:44.he makes the more publicity he gets, so he doesn't need to spend money to

:13:45. > :13:54.advertise, he just goes on a news programme and say that they should

:13:55. > :13:59.stop Muslims or Mexicans coming in. It is not hurting him in the polls,

:14:00. > :14:07.and I think his slogan, make America great again, appeals to a certain

:14:08. > :14:14.sector of the community that looks back on a pre- civil rights and pre-

:14:15. > :14:19.gender rights days with a sense of nest Ultra. It is a section of the

:14:20. > :14:24.population that believes that that was truly great America. How that

:14:25. > :14:28.conflates with voting patterns in a country that no longer has the

:14:29. > :14:34.demographics of the 1950s and 60s is anybody's guess. I think he's not

:14:35. > :14:42.going to get very close to the White House, but that is just me. I hope I

:14:43. > :14:48.am not wrong, but I may be. I think this is his strategy, this is what

:14:49. > :14:51.they wanted. We have seen this in other countries, politician emerges

:14:52. > :14:55.and makes a section of the population feel that have lost out,

:14:56. > :15:01.and that the only way they can regain power is by going in for such

:15:02. > :15:06.beliefs, that he represents the people who have been disinherited,

:15:07. > :15:10.as it were. Clearly, 35% of the republicans are supporting him, so

:15:11. > :15:16.there is certainly a block that he can exploit. We have quite a way to

:15:17. > :15:24.go, his strategies might change. They start early. That is the Papers

:15:25. > :15:27.for tonight. Lovely to see you both. Up next, The Film Review.