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Gulliver knocks out the defending women's champion. The latest tennis | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
news from Qatar. That is coming up in 15 minutes. | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
With me are Rowena Mason, the political correspondent at the | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
Guardian, and Ben Chu, the economics editor at the Independent. | :00:21. | :00:29. | |
The FT leads on the turmoil in global financial markets. | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
The Metro reports on the killing of the actress Sian Blake | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
The Express focuses on house prices and the threat | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
The Independent says Whitehall officials signed off a controversial | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
letter by the NHS's top independent medic, questioning whether striking | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
junior doctors would be available to help in the event of a Paris-style | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
The Telegraph says health chiefs have been criticised | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
for producing nanny state alcohol guidelines that warn people against | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
The Guardian leads with that new advice. | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
The Times leads on the Syrian town besieged by President Assad's | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
forces, where 40,000 people are in danger of starving to death. | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
And the Mail says an organisation that backed | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Jihadi John is now targeting young Muslims at their universities. | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
The Financial Times. Is China sneezing and we are about to catch a | :01:27. | :01:45. | |
cold? That is the worry because China has clearly had another | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
terrible day with its markets falling and having to freeze its | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
stock markets for the second time in a very short period and concerns | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
have been expressed today by George Osborne that there is this dangerous | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
cocktail of potential risks. The prospect of a global slowdown that | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
could affect us over here. The British economy has been doing OK by | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
several measures. Record job figures... The Chancellor says all | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
of this is in jeopardy now and that it might not necessarily be his | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
fault. It tends to do this when there are doubts about the strength | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
of the global economy. He will say that the UK for all the progress we | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
have made is not immune from global headwind. He did that during the | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
Greek crisis last year. I think it is essentially an insurance policy. | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
It is not that he expects things to fall apart but if they do, it will | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
be able to say that he specifically warned about these dangers and no | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
one can accuse him of being complacent. That is what he has done | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
today in Cardiff. In terms of the economics of it, it is all down to | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
the Chinese stock market falling and the domino effect. That is ironic | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
because there is no real correlation between the Chinese stock market and | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
the Chinese economy, which is the second biggest economy in the | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
world. If that stutters, that really will affect us. But it is not clear | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
there is any link between the Chinese stock market and the Chinese | :03:28. | :03:37. | |
economy. Is it that their economy is in turmoil or is having problems | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
because there is not enough growth in the economy? What is the issue if | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
it is not the market? China is a big source of global demand for | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
commodities but increasingly services and everything else. | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
Because we are an increasingly globalised economy, if the world's | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
second-biggest economy slows down, not even goes into recession, just | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
to slows down, that can have big effects. That is what people are | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
reading into the stock market frenzy. They think there is | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
something more serious happening in China. As a political correspondent, | :04:11. | :04:19. | |
the state of the British economy and the stewardship of it by George | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
Osborne, that very much determines whether he will be running the party | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
when David Cameron steps down. That is right. He will be in with a much | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
better shot if people see him as a safe pair of hands, particularly in | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
a time of economic turmoil, so it suits him to be able to point to | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
external events such as this potential slowdown in China as the | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
cause of any potential problems in the UK. If you look at what Labour | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
is saying, John McDonnell turned the Chancellor's metaphor on its head, | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
saying that if there is a dangerous economic cocktail, it is George | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
Osborne himself who has been mixing it. He says it is the level had | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
consumer debt and overseas borrowing and things like that that will cause | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
possible problems of the UK. -- the level of consumer debt. Whitehall | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
officials sexing up the case against junior doctors. We know that they | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
will be going on strike next Tuesday and this feeds into the acrimony | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
between the two sides in this dispute. Yes. A very senior figure | :05:36. | :05:44. | |
in NHS England wrote quite an incendiary open letter directed at | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
the junior doctors in November, saying that if there was another | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
Paris style attack and you were on strike, can we have any guarantees | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
you would be able to get back insufficiently QuickTime to help | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
those who were injured? The junior doctors took great umbrage at this, | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
saying that this was undermining their credibility as doctors. And | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
they always suspected Jeremy Hunt had something to do with this. They | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
seem to have found the evidence that he did have something to do with | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
this, that this was a co-ordinated piece of propaganda, if you like, on | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
the Health Secretary to undermine the image of the doctors and prevent | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
them from going on strike. This is a fantastic story and it really | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
emphasises what a massive public relations battle the whole thing | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
is. They both want the public with them. Sir Bruce Keogh, who is | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
supposed to be independent, one might assume that he would have from | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
time to time consultations with the Secretary of State as well as the | :06:48. | :06:56. | |
BMA. That is true. He is a member of the medical establishment, so he | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
does have an interest in trying to prevent the strike from going ahead, | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
but some of the language being used in these exchanges... One official | :07:04. | :07:12. | |
said that the risk of a major incident should be pressed quite | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
strongly in the media wants the strikers announced their intention | :07:16. | :07:25. | |
and Sir Bruce Keogh should be as hard edged as he could be on that. | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
It seems that they were egging him on. To sex it up. One could say | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
that. Alcohol guide. Health chiefs attacked over nanny state alcohol | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
guides. And quite tough as well, these new suggestions on the part of | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
the authorities on how much alcohol we should be consuming. I don't | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
often find myself agreeing with libertarian think-tanks, and when I | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
saw their name mentioned in this article... But we are talking about | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
booze! LAUGHTER. On this one, they do have a point. The recommended | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
weekly allowance of alcohol is down from 20 minutes to 14 units, which | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
works out to about a pint a day. -- 20 units. But the evidence does not | :08:20. | :08:28. | |
seem particularly strong. It does seem that the medical establishment | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
has taken it upon itself to decide that the level of safe risk is lower | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
than many people are consuming. That is fair enough if this were not | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
sanctified as being official advice. If people could make it | :08:45. | :08:54. | |
their own mind, that would be fine, but the scientific evidence of risk | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
does not necessarily back this up. Yes, but it is incumbent on any | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
society to protect its citizens and if the authorities feel that | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
drinking a pint a day... It is obviously a strongly held view. | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
There have been many warnings in recent years some experts on alcohol | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
that everybody is drinking too much and there has been a lot of pressure | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
on the government to bring in minimal alcohol pricing. -- | :09:28. | :09:36. | |
minimum. There is no getting away from the fact that we do have a | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
large health problem with alcohol in our society. We might not like it, | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
but they are telling us that is what is best for us. Is there a | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
psychological thing going on? They say that scientifically maybe two | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
points of the cable will tell everyone is on point because we know | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
they will want to have 2 bytes. -- ten pints will be OK but we will | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
tell everyone that one pint is the... -- two types. You have got to | :10:04. | :10:16. | |
treat people like adults and say that these are the scientific risks | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
that we know about. Be informed but take the decision yourself. The | :10:23. | :10:38. | |
Guardian. Clinton and Tony Blair's special relationship. Transcripts of | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
conversations they had when they were both in power have been | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
released. This is fascinating. I would advise anyone to go and read | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
the complete transcripts of these conversations. This article is full | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
of eliminating snippets of conversation, including the death of | :10:58. | :11:06. | |
Princess Diana. -- illuminating. They are calling each other body -- | :11:07. | :11:20. | |
bud and mate. You sometimes wonder how they found the time for all of | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
this medicine in Smalltalk, but it is really interesting. And at the | :11:24. | :11:34. | |
same time, -- all of this small talk but it is really interesting. He was | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
certainly comfortable with whoever was in the White House. Remember | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
that famous advice he gave to the Washington ambassador? To get up the | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
cars of the White House and stay there. -- to get up the INAUDIBLE. | :11:54. | :12:07. | |
I'm sorry? ! I'm not sure there is anything that is particularly | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
surprising here. What isn't it surprising is the prescience of Bill | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
Clinton talking about stateless terrorists. This was back in 1997. | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
He was spot on about that being an evolving threat. And he talked about | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
his concerns for the children of Princess Diana at the time, that | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
they would have a tough time in life. Yes. There is a conversation | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
that happened just after the death of Princess Diana in which Tony | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
Blair was calling her a rock of stability in the sense that she | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
connected with the outside world. Talking about how William is quite | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
like her. Clinton replies by saying that he feels so bad for her. He | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
says she was just getting hold of her life... The Mirror. The ?2.7 | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
billion pension cash grab. Experts warn that poverty may follow. I did | :13:11. | :13:19. | |
see quite a few Lamborghinis... Apparently lots of pensioners are | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
cashing in pensions. Is a sense, this is what the Chancellor wanted | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
to happen when he unveiled his organisation policy. He wanted -- | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
liberalisation policy. He wanted people to take control of their | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
money. There were concerns at the time that everyone would spend | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
irresponsibly and would have to fall back on state support in later | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
years. These figures out today suggest that many people did draw | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
money down and that a minority bought annuities with them. I'm not | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
clear what people will do with the money they have drawn down. They may | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
invest it. It is not quite a clear slam dunk, saying that people have | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
gone crazy and behaved irresponsibly, but I do think that | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
the most important statistic to come out of this is that only 20% of | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
people consulted the government advised that this about what to do. | :14:22. | :14:31. | |
That is the same to watch. -- the thing to watch. And talking about | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
pensioners, although not you specifically, the Daily Mail. Still | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
sprightly at 183. The oldest creature on earth. This is Jonathan | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
the tortoise. He has recently been living a healthy, low alcohol | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
lifestyle. And he has a new lease of life after being put on a more | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
nutritious diet of apples, carrots, cucumbers and guava. I just wonder | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
if he has drawn down his pension yet. Yellow Lamborghini in the back | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
of the photograph. Coming up next, | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
it's time for Sportsday. | :15:22. | :15:25. |