:00:00. > :00:00.And we will look ahead to the 2016 Olympics and Paralympics following
:00:00. > :00:09.the golden year in addition athletic. That is in the Mode to Rio
:00:10. > :00:18.with me, Nick Hope -- Road to Rio. Hello and welcome to
:00:19. > :00:21.our look ahead to what the papers With me are Michael Booker,
:00:22. > :00:24.of the Express, and financial Nice to have you both here, giving
:00:25. > :00:36.up your festive Sunday night. The Guardian says the failure
:00:37. > :00:39.of flood defences has cast doubt on the UK's readiness for what it
:00:40. > :00:42.calls a "new weather era" and features an image of elderly
:00:43. > :00:45.flood victims being rescued from The i says the floods in northern
:00:46. > :00:49.England have turned the streets into canals, beneath a similar
:00:50. > :00:52.picture of a York flood rescue. The Times also leads on
:00:53. > :00:55.the flooding and says David Cameron has put 1,000 troops on alert to
:00:56. > :00:58.deal with the impact of heavy rain. The Mail includes
:00:59. > :01:00.an aerial picture of the flood damage and asks why Britain is
:01:01. > :01:03.donating money to overseas flood prevention schemes while parts
:01:04. > :01:06.of the UK are under water. The Telegraph focuses on the NHS
:01:07. > :01:08.and research which says that Britain relies more
:01:09. > :01:11.heavily on foreign doctors than any Tomorrow's Express says there will
:01:12. > :01:15.be no let up in the severe weather and warns that the storm chaos
:01:16. > :01:18.could last until the New Year. The Telegraph focuses on the NHS
:01:19. > :01:20.and research which says that Britain relies more
:01:21. > :01:23.heavily on foreign doctors than any Tomorrow's Express says there will
:01:24. > :01:28.be no let up in the severe weather and warns that the storm chaos
:01:29. > :01:31.could last until the New Year. The Mirror reports that more than
:01:32. > :01:33.500 prisoners, including a murderer, The Financial Times includes an
:01:34. > :01:38.image of the floods and estimates that they have already cost ?1.5
:01:39. > :01:57.billion, but leads on a story about Which we will park somewhere on dry
:01:58. > :02:01.land. LAUGHS. Let's start with the floods, of
:02:02. > :02:10.course. Poor people in the north of England. The Times - and parts of
:02:11. > :02:12.Scotland - gripped the cities with more rain forecast, and David
:02:13. > :02:21.Cameron sense troops to help families. The troops can keep people
:02:22. > :02:26.safe, I suppose a. The front page, the people from the emergency
:02:27. > :02:32.services -- I suppose. Not much they can do but help people out and keep
:02:33. > :02:35.them safe, until the floodwaters go away, which won't happen for a
:02:36. > :02:40.while, with more rain forecast and storms on the way in the next couple
:02:41. > :02:45.of days. The river whose is not at its height until sometime tomorrow.
:02:46. > :02:51.-- Ouse. This knock-on effect for a long time, even though tomorrow will
:02:52. > :02:59.be a fine day. What can the troops do? It is there to reassure people.
:03:00. > :03:03.We have these COBRA meetings, to show the Prime Minister doing
:03:04. > :03:06.something. They are reviewing flood defence spending as well. That will
:03:07. > :03:13.do a lot of good for those who are flooded out at the moment! They are
:03:14. > :03:18.doing what they can, I suppose. If you look, the Times quotes ?2.3
:03:19. > :03:24.billion that will be spent on projects over the next six years. As
:03:25. > :03:29.we know, there have been calls for that to be increased, and that is
:03:30. > :03:34.currently under review. That is one of those. I like the front of the
:03:35. > :03:38.page on the Times. The other papers have gone with the same photo. This
:03:39. > :03:42.is a different photo of a girl in her onesie clutching her dog. That
:03:43. > :03:49.is another thing that has come out of these reports. The water level
:03:50. > :03:53.rose so quickly that people were taken unawares and literally were
:03:54. > :03:58.scrabbling out of buildings or homes or hotels... There was a picture of
:03:59. > :04:05.a guy in a Land Rover who looked like he was caught in shock. A
:04:06. > :04:08.number of people said that it rose so quickly that they were taken
:04:09. > :04:14.unawares. They had no food or clothing. They just left their homes
:04:15. > :04:21.because the water was rising so quickly. The Mail, the extraordinary
:04:22. > :04:26.picture on the front, swamped as we sent ?1 billion in aid to the most
:04:27. > :04:30.corrupt nations of the world. This is a picture of York. According to
:04:31. > :04:34.the article, it is drowning in a tidal filthy floodwater. This is not
:04:35. > :04:43.clean water. This has all sorts in it. It will take months for people
:04:44. > :04:48.to clean their houses. And at the same time, you can understand,
:04:49. > :04:52.someone is quoted in Rochdale as saying that we spend all this money
:04:53. > :04:57.on foreign aid, billions of pounds each year, a lot of it going on
:04:58. > :05:02.flood schemes in Serbia, corrupt nations as well. You can understand
:05:03. > :05:07.why people will say that. They can see this money going over there and
:05:08. > :05:11.they can see that it could be going in here making flood defences
:05:12. > :05:16.better. You can understand why people are saying that. Money is
:05:17. > :05:21.limited, that is the point. It was an anonymous resident. The quote
:05:22. > :05:28.was, our taxes could be used on those who earned the money. It is
:05:29. > :05:35.kind of the point. What I would say about EU money, you know, the
:05:36. > :05:39.foreign aid budget goes on antiflood schemes. If it is that money, we
:05:40. > :05:44.cannot control where it goes. It could go to all kinds of places we
:05:45. > :05:50.don't control. The foreign aid budget, 12 billion per year on
:05:51. > :05:55.overseas aid. 1 billion to the 20 most corrupt nations. The way that
:05:56. > :05:58.newspapers and readers are, the Daily Mail will use this to talk
:05:59. > :06:01.about foreign aid because they know that their readers don't like it.
:06:02. > :06:06.The Guardian twisted to climate change. They know that their readers
:06:07. > :06:11.are interested in that. That is how the papers work. It is not the first
:06:12. > :06:14.time the Daily Mail has made this link between flood defence spending
:06:15. > :06:21.and overseas aid. It has been made before. The Express have a lot of
:06:22. > :06:24.the same readers as the Daily Mail. In the letters, it is always, why is
:06:25. > :06:29.money being spent on foreign aid when it could be spent here? That is
:06:30. > :06:37.what people believe. We have a commitment to foreign aid. You can
:06:38. > :06:40.criticise whatever it is spent on. The Independent, the drowning of the
:06:41. > :06:46.north of England, misery for Manchester, Leeds and York. And
:06:47. > :06:52.beyond. These are cities that haven't seen floating like this
:06:53. > :06:55.before. I like the photo. If you see the houses, they are up under
:06:56. > :07:00.unbelievable levels of water, halfway up to the front door. This
:07:01. > :07:06.is why they have chosen the photo. One family have put up a Christmas
:07:07. > :07:11.star and one have put up a Christmas wreath. What do we do at Christmas?
:07:12. > :07:15.Make our houses look beautiful. We did that for our mother's room.
:07:16. > :07:20.People buy carpet and furniture because they want their homes to be
:07:21. > :07:27.nice. Nice and comfy. Look at the right hand side window. They don't
:07:28. > :07:31.want them to get all wet. It is a poignant photo. At a time when
:07:32. > :07:37.people want to be in their lovely homes, they are being trashed with
:07:38. > :07:41.sewage and... Just horrible. The Telegraph, flood hit areas clean up
:07:42. > :07:46.before the next deluge. You must wonder whether it is worth it? In
:07:47. > :07:48.Cumbria, cameras were returning to the same places every couple of days
:07:49. > :07:53.when people thought the worst was over and then it would come back.
:07:54. > :07:57.There is a relatively nice picture on the front of the Telegraph, with
:07:58. > :08:04.kids helping out. It has united quite a lot of places in these
:08:05. > :08:09.terrible times. It just looks as though they will have to keep doing
:08:10. > :08:13.it. What choice do they have? Some places in Cumbria have flooded three
:08:14. > :08:22.times. The papers, and the Express... (CROSSTALK). The mud in
:08:23. > :08:26.the street, that is in everyone's houses. They are picking up on the
:08:27. > :08:31.same line, the Environment Agency has warned, as with the Met Office,
:08:32. > :08:35.more rain is to come. And it will be worse in the days to come.
:08:36. > :08:41.Especially Tuesday and Wednesday. And a new era in the weather. The
:08:42. > :08:47.Telegraph, another story, the NHS has the most foreign doctors in the
:08:48. > :08:54.EU. How many do we have and white? More than a third of NHS doctors,
:08:55. > :08:58.35%, come from abroad -- why? We are ahead of every country in the EU
:08:59. > :09:01.other than Luxembourg, and three times that of Germany. The UK is
:09:02. > :09:07.most dependent on foreign nurses as well. And we are a massive... At the
:09:08. > :09:11.same time, we are exporting doctors. A lot of doctors train here, and I
:09:12. > :09:17.think it is costing the taxpayer ?250,000 apiece. Fair enough, they
:09:18. > :09:21.can go abroad. Stories like this try to make them guilty about it. We
:09:22. > :09:26.have heard about the stress they are under in the NHS. You wonder why, if
:09:27. > :09:31.you have the choice, should we go abroad to Australia? You wonder why
:09:32. > :09:38.foreign doctors come here if it is so lousy. I think the numbers are
:09:39. > :09:49.startling. 35 -40% of doctors born overseas. 5% in Italy, 19% in France
:09:50. > :09:54.and 10% in Germany. People come here because it is a great place to live.
:09:55. > :09:59.Why else would they come here? The increase is quite substantial as
:10:00. > :10:05.well. If you look at the nurses, 29% of nurses born abroad, but only ten
:10:06. > :10:12.years ago the figure was 15%. So, we are increasing the reliance on
:10:13. > :10:18.overseas doctors and nurses in order for the health service to continue.
:10:19. > :10:24.Why is it a problem? It is pointed out... (CROSSTALK). The researchers
:10:25. > :10:27.have found hospitals with higher numbers of nursing and Doctor staff
:10:28. > :10:31.has the highest level of dissatisfaction and rating. They
:10:32. > :10:37.have put that there with these figures and the member of the
:10:38. > :10:44.Patient Association says it could jeopardise care. Until June this
:10:45. > :10:47.year it wasn't legal for regulators to test the language skills of
:10:48. > :10:52.doctors if they came from within the European economic area. The law was
:10:53. > :10:56.only changed after we had the Nigerian GP who worked in Germany
:10:57. > :10:59.and killed a British pensioner by giving him a massive dose of
:11:00. > :11:05.painkillers. Only until June this year you did not have to test
:11:06. > :11:08.language skills. Being a doctor or a nurse, communication is essential.
:11:09. > :11:13.That is rather worrying. Thankfully the law has changed. The Financial
:11:14. > :11:18.Times. London grows as Labour's heartland under Jeremy Corbyn, who
:11:19. > :11:24.is picking up young voters in the capital. They are all bearded
:11:25. > :11:33.hipsters in the capital! Were you once a bearded hipster?! Never! I
:11:34. > :11:36.can see you as one. Attracting ten times as many members in the
:11:37. > :11:40.capital, as in Scotland, the heartland, deriving 20% of the
:11:41. > :11:47.membership from London. It is young and trendy, possibly bearded,
:11:48. > :11:54.possibly men and women, lefties... The only place Labour did well was
:11:55. > :11:59.in London. And also, I think, you know, free-market capitalism has
:12:00. > :12:02.failed in London housing policy. And many young people look at London and
:12:03. > :12:06.say that there is no chance they will ever owned their own house in
:12:07. > :12:13.London. Or even a flat or anything in London. And the rent is taking
:12:14. > :12:17.90% of salaries. The failure of London's housing policy is what is
:12:18. > :12:23.driving many young people towards Jeremy Corbyn. They need the
:12:24. > :12:30.heartland, they need the north, in order to pay attention. Labour's
:12:31. > :12:34.heartland. With or without beards. The FT, the chocolate that doesn't
:12:35. > :12:40.melt when the mercury rises. Why do we need this? Emerging markets, warm
:12:41. > :12:44.countries without refrigerated lorries and air-conditioned shops.
:12:45. > :12:47.They need heat resistant chocolate because then of course they can
:12:48. > :12:52.expand the market and sell it to these hot places and get them to eat
:12:53. > :12:57.far too much talk as well. That is why it is the holy grail of the
:12:58. > :13:11.industry. There is a race between Barry, a Swiss chocolate here, and
:13:12. > :13:17.Nestle -- Chocolatier. And Barry's spectacularly named a spokesman says
:13:18. > :13:22.it fundamentally changes the game. Although I suspect he says it much
:13:23. > :13:29.more nicely. However, the US chocolate maker Hershey, gave it to
:13:30. > :13:32.American soldiers in the Second World War. They have done it for
:13:33. > :13:39.many years. I would argue that chocolate is quite foul. He/she goes
:13:40. > :13:55.again! -- here it she goes again. Leave her them alone. Coming up
:13:56. > :14:00.next, in a moment Nick Hope resents the Road to Rio. But first, I've got
:14:01. > :14:02.to thank Michael and Louise. I have done that already. So, I will just
:14:03. > :14:16.say goodbye. -- presents. Rio gold traditionally comes
:14:17. > :14:20.in the form of sand, but that will change in the summer
:14:21. > :14:24.of 2016, with the Brazilian city