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:00:00. > :00:00.camera. A lucky escape indeed. More on all of that in 15 minutes after

:00:00. > :00:20.the papers. Hello, welcome to our look ahead to

:00:21. > :00:26.what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me, journalist and

:00:27. > :00:33.broadcaster Eve Pollard, and Guardian columnist. We will start

:00:34. > :00:39.with a Financial Times, Revenue and Customs claims for Sellers on Amazon

:00:40. > :00:44.and eBay are dodging VAT. Agencies are creeping up to half of the fees

:00:45. > :00:47.paid by NHS hospitals for locum doctors according to an

:00:48. > :00:53.investigation in the Telegraph. The metro says Christmas shoppers queued

:00:54. > :00:56.for a six hour traffic jam to get out of the blue centre in Kent.

:00:57. > :01:01.Figures showing more than 1 million migrants entered the EE you this

:01:02. > :01:05.year make the splash in the express. That story on the front of the

:01:06. > :01:13.Guardian, which carries a photograph of refugees arriving on the Greek

:01:14. > :01:16.island of Lesbos, while the ten one says five of the biggest investment

:01:17. > :01:24.banks paid no corporation tax last year despite making billions in

:01:25. > :01:28.profits. UK military advisers are dispatched to Helmand province. The

:01:29. > :01:35.Times says tens of thousands of union -- European Union officials

:01:36. > :01:42.are to receive a pay rise of 100 million euros. We will start with

:01:43. > :01:46.the Daily Telegraph, NHS hit by nurses pay scandal. This is to do

:01:47. > :01:50.with locum agencies. I have to admire the Daily Telegraph, and

:01:51. > :01:57.undercover story where they discover that a nurse who could be earning,

:01:58. > :02:02.say 20, ?30 an hour, the actual agency are getting double that

:02:03. > :02:06.often, because that is all she is getting but the agencies are

:02:07. > :02:09.creaming off the top. When we are all worried about the national

:02:10. > :02:14.health, and the Daily Mail, if you remember, had stories about the fat

:02:15. > :02:18.cats at the top of the health business getting paid more than the

:02:19. > :02:22.Prime Minister, now you find agencies are getting paid a fortune

:02:23. > :02:29.for nurses. Nurses are not getting that money. The agency is. I have to

:02:30. > :02:32.say, 20 years or so I was asking when I was still editing newspapers,

:02:33. > :02:37.would I produce at that time, very old days, a newspaper just for the

:02:38. > :02:42.national health that actually advertised jobs and actually you

:02:43. > :02:47.could drop it from one hospital to another. Surely there is a website

:02:48. > :02:52.you could make that could work, so you have to be qualified to go on to

:02:53. > :02:58.it, and say I want to work as a nurse, but surely that could be done

:02:59. > :03:07.rather than going round the back? Rather than going through an agency?

:03:08. > :03:11.And I think Geremew... Hunt? Hunt! Much more than the drugs we might

:03:12. > :03:17.need, the agencies are getting the money. Great story by the Telegraph.

:03:18. > :03:24.Some weather on the way, this evening and overnight different.

:03:25. > :03:31.One of the interesting elements of this is the investigation has

:03:32. > :03:35.already been endorsed by Jeremy Hunt. He says this investigation

:03:36. > :03:38.shows how some staffing agencies seek to turn big profits at the

:03:39. > :03:45.expense of our NHS and hard-working taxpayers. It is evident as to why

:03:46. > :03:48.we have introduced a tough new cap. There is an element of brass neck in

:03:49. > :03:52.that because one of the reasons hospitals are having to pay Sony

:03:53. > :03:56.agency staff is because they don't have the actual staff, and one

:03:57. > :04:01.reason for that is because Jeremy Hunt says they have to cut it off

:04:02. > :04:10.the health budget. He is not without sin here. So it is somewhat ironic

:04:11. > :04:15.to see him talking in these terms when actually his finger prints are

:04:16. > :04:18.on some of it! Don't you think, and we are already into a new

:04:19. > :04:25.government, but virtually, but surely this is the time to stop

:04:26. > :04:28.playing politics with the NHS. Sarah Wollaston, who is the chairman of

:04:29. > :04:32.the health select committee, says the government should publish what

:04:33. > :04:37.they pay the agencies and what the agencies then pay the nurses. Surely

:04:38. > :04:40.we should actually stop playing politics, itch not be a left or

:04:41. > :04:45.right thing, it should be transparent. As a country we all

:04:46. > :04:53.feel we want the very best health service and the best value we can

:04:54. > :05:01.get. It is now up to the government to worry about how to deal with

:05:02. > :05:04.nurses and make it go public. But it is a market, companies get what they

:05:05. > :05:07.can get and they can only charge those kind of fees because the

:05:08. > :05:14.hospitals are so desperate to get the star. Journalists don't have

:05:15. > :05:18.agencies that get them a job. You apply. We staff are newspapers. But

:05:19. > :05:25.there must be a better way than going through an agency. I suppose

:05:26. > :05:27.you might be hoping Mr Hunt has digestive this investigation by the

:05:28. > :05:36.Telegraph and covering up with creative points. A newspaper that

:05:37. > :05:40.the eve would edit. Is a pretty old-fashioned idea! But a website.

:05:41. > :05:44.Some journalists would probe needed for peanuts. And you would leave

:05:45. > :05:54.them. Not sure about that but I am very happy to help. Interesting, new

:05:55. > :05:57.new committee film banned for being too religious. I ramble that story

:05:58. > :06:01.not too long ago about cinema chiefs who were in trouble because they do

:06:02. > :06:06.not allow a short film about the Lord's prey. I think the Archbishop

:06:07. > :06:14.of Canterbury was involved of love was some criticism of him. The

:06:15. > :06:18.Lord's Prayer. Now a similar row, this time a short film featuring

:06:19. > :06:29.Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus. It was for a campaign. A cinema has

:06:30. > :06:33.reduced the show this as well. It is a private company, they allow to do

:06:34. > :06:36.that. They don't allow any kind of religious film or message so it is

:06:37. > :06:44.not just Christianity that is affected. But actually, someone was

:06:45. > :06:49.saying earlier which reminded this had come to our mosque? Frankly you

:06:50. > :06:52.are looking for your tissue, because you know will be a tear-jerker, you

:06:53. > :06:58.are worried about where you put the popcorn. If it made a lot of people

:06:59. > :07:04.who follow in a religious way, that would be great. I think it is

:07:05. > :07:09.absolute wrong. We are a Church of England country, and think this idea

:07:10. > :07:13.that we don't have any politics. Actually, if they took all these

:07:14. > :07:19.ads, it perhaps it would be cheaper to go to the movies. You do feel

:07:20. > :07:25.they might be oversensitive. Would you care? I wouldn't care. I have no

:07:26. > :07:30.opinion. I would probably just think when is my film starting. That is

:07:31. > :07:40.the thing. Is the bubble in front going to wriggle all the time? Onto

:07:41. > :07:46.the Guardian. Afghan forces in Sangin receive food drops. Ten

:07:47. > :07:53.military advisers from Britain have gone out of this area. This is what

:07:54. > :07:56.is so terrible, had I had a son who fought in the army and died in this

:07:57. > :08:01.area, to see this happening now must be heartbreaking. Obviously this is

:08:02. > :08:09.a pretty difficult piece of land to hang onto. I do know that fighting,

:08:10. > :08:13.armies, and the way it is configured, but obviously this is a

:08:14. > :08:17.part of land that probably nobody wants but it moves to further

:08:18. > :08:21.forward. The Taliban, we have almost forgotten about the Taliban, because

:08:22. > :08:26.we have been so busy with Islamic State, but the Taliban are making

:08:27. > :08:31.inroads. In a way I am delighted we are helping them. Without any doubt

:08:32. > :08:36.our soldiers did die that it a very good job in this area in Helmand

:08:37. > :08:40.province. But of course people are saying we brought the soldiers home

:08:41. > :08:45.too soon and we should not have done this or that. I don't see how come

:08:46. > :08:55.the famous poem about Afghanistan, nobody gets out alive. No one wins.

:08:56. > :08:58.It seems to be the pattern, that we get embroiled and no one seems to

:08:59. > :09:02.know how we get out, presumably because we had no plan when we went

:09:03. > :09:07.in. I saw a magical and terrible thing about Raqqa the other day,

:09:08. > :09:12.which showed the rot tunnels going all the way from Turkey to Raqqa. I

:09:13. > :09:21.didn't know they existed, I presume the Army did but that is a pretty

:09:22. > :09:29.hard thing to deal with. The problem is these are very difficult areas to

:09:30. > :09:33.hang onto. Guys have got killed and for what? A very small number of

:09:34. > :09:36.special forces going in this case but you do have the wonderful stop

:09:37. > :09:42.the number of engagements we are being asked to be involved in seemed

:09:43. > :09:46.to be growing. Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan now. How many people

:09:47. > :09:51.have we got any army, are you going to join up? Not immediately, no, I'm

:09:52. > :09:54.not sure that is quite my calling, but people do it and we are grateful

:09:55. > :09:59.that they do, and we wonder whether we should be cutting them at this

:10:00. > :10:01.point. All these foreign entanglements, you wonder whether we

:10:02. > :10:07.should be cutting the Foreign Office. This particular area, I

:10:08. > :10:12.imagine there are a number of soldiers in this area who have been

:10:13. > :10:16.dying to go out, because they know how that works. They also know how

:10:17. > :10:26.difficult it is, dealing with the Taliban. Your paper, the Guardian,

:10:27. > :10:29.calls for David Cameron to step in after US bars British Muslim family

:10:30. > :10:33.from going to Disneyland. This is the ordinary, we have all been

:10:34. > :10:38.watching the various comments and antics from Donald Trump, about

:10:39. > :10:45.banning all Muslims from America, anything that will never happen. But

:10:46. > :10:49.you worry about what will the knock-on effect be, how will the

:10:50. > :10:56.influence the thinking? You have a story, a British family from East

:10:57. > :10:59.London who were going to Disneyland. For the very last minute they were

:11:00. > :11:06.told they could not have these is, they were not allowed to board a

:11:07. > :11:14.flight from Gatwick to Los Angeles. So that dream trip they had planned

:11:15. > :11:20.was scuppered. There have been other cases as well, British Muslims

:11:21. > :11:24.getting into the States. Everyone who has applied here for an American

:11:25. > :11:29.Visa, you have to do it, you have to do it in advance. Have to have it

:11:30. > :11:33.before you get on the plane. You have, because the British

:11:34. > :11:41.authorities check you have. The left-hander is not working with the

:11:42. > :11:47.right hand in America. I hope they have sorted it out and given them a

:11:48. > :11:51.free trip. To the Metro very briefly, six hour nightmare the

:11:52. > :11:56.shoppers, it will get even busier on Wednesday. Although I would hate to

:11:57. > :12:00.be in that queue, and we keep hearing everyone is buying

:12:01. > :12:05.everything on the web, isn't it great that people are spending?

:12:06. > :12:10.After some years where their money was really tight and may couldn't.

:12:11. > :12:13.Apart from the fact that we are spending 40 billion more than we are

:12:14. > :12:25.actually taking in as households. It is all on tick. All on credit cards.

:12:26. > :12:33.To the Financial Times. Zimbabwe turns to the Chinese economy in a

:12:34. > :12:38.bid to revive its flattened economy. You can use Chinese money to buy

:12:39. > :12:49.your products. It is surprising that there is nothing Robert McGarvey has

:12:50. > :12:56.to do -- Robert Mugabe has to do. You feel we should be to bring some

:12:57. > :13:11.pressure to bear. It just remind you of your impotence really. Where can

:13:12. > :13:15.you get hold of it? They have written off 40 million in Zimbabwean

:13:16. > :13:21.debt. Tourists can spend their currency there. Chinese have been

:13:22. > :13:25.buying up lots of commodities in Africa. I am guessing Mugabe will

:13:26. > :13:32.have a few notes hanging around that you can share. You will be back in

:13:33. > :13:34.and our's time, many thanks. Stay with us here on BBC News, much more

:13:35. > :13:49.coming up but now Sportsday. Hello and welcome to Sportsday,

:13:50. > :13:52.I'm Jessica Creighton.