:00:00. > :00:00.and it has been a good day for England's cricketers. That's all in
:00:00. > :00:14.Sportsday in 15 minutes, after The Papers.
:00:15. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers
:00:19. > :00:23.With me are Tims Collins, Former Tory MP and Managing Director
:00:24. > :00:25.of Bell Pottinger Public Affairs, and Paul Johnson,
:00:26. > :00:32.'Diamond Wheezers', is the Sun's take on the Hatton Garden heist and
:00:33. > :00:36.claims an ex-girlfriend handed them over to police after being jilted.
:00:37. > :00:40.The Mirror also goes with that story and says the hunt is on
:00:41. > :00:42.for ?10 million worth of valuables that are still missing.
:00:43. > :00:46.The Mail claims it's a ?20 million fortune that's missing,
:00:47. > :00:52.along with 'Mr Big', who is still on the run.
:00:53. > :00:52.Their picture is of the late Alan Rickman, whose death was announced
:00:53. > :00:57.The Independent says, "Coe declared fit to clean up
:00:58. > :01:01.athletics", but the paper asks, "Was he part of the problem?"
:01:02. > :01:04.The Express leads with pensions and says that in the next 15 years
:01:05. > :01:06.three quarters of those reaching retirement age
:01:07. > :01:11.The Telegraph goes with the same Work and Pensions data,
:01:12. > :01:14.but this time focuses on those who will be worse off.
:01:15. > :01:18.The i devotes its front page to news that ten Labour MPs could lose their
:01:19. > :01:22.The Guardian claims that a worldwide split in the Anglican
:01:23. > :01:38.We will start with the coverage of the Hatton Garden heist, which took
:01:39. > :01:43.place audaciously, as it was described, last Easter. They picked
:01:44. > :01:50.a long bank holiday weekend. The language around this is gangster
:01:51. > :01:53.territory. If you look at the front pages you could be forgiven for
:01:54. > :02:01.thinking the UK has lost turns the clock back 20 years. It features a
:02:02. > :02:07.Mr Big, a jilted mole, cast that includes the big man, Billy the
:02:08. > :02:16.Fish. Extraordinary. Seven found guilty. The average age is 63. The
:02:17. > :02:23.oldest 76, who arrived on the scene of the heist, as we now call it. But
:02:24. > :02:33.we would be mistaken to think this was a group of cuddly, old grandads.
:02:34. > :02:43.The Daily Mirror has another picture. Hatton Garden secrets.
:02:44. > :02:48.There's a of money missing. There is a lot of money missing. I think the
:02:49. > :02:54.Mirror slightly missed one angle. Normally you would expect they would
:02:55. > :02:58.try to have a go at the government. But this bit might have missed. In
:02:59. > :03:04.the Mirror, ?10 million has gone missing. According to the Mirror,
:03:05. > :03:14.police said, we offer a ?20,000 reward to find the goods. That is
:03:15. > :03:28.austerity Britain for you. It is really just another story about
:03:29. > :03:38.pensions. Plus, where is Basil? The ghost? I love that report we did
:03:39. > :03:41.today where Daniel actually squeezed through the concrete that they
:03:42. > :03:46.drilled through. It made me feel ill, because I am a little bit cost
:03:47. > :03:51.to pick. But they were very determined. -- claustrophobic. If we
:03:52. > :03:55.didn't have somebody else pushing from the other end he would still be
:03:56. > :04:03.there. On the one hand it is extraordinary ingenuity. And in a
:04:04. > :04:13.public place in the pub bragging about it. The Daily Express and the
:04:14. > :04:17.Telegraph is where we will go next. Date are telling us different things
:04:18. > :04:24.depending on what you look at. -- data. The Express says millions get
:04:25. > :04:29.pension boost, at the Telegraph says that many will miss out on that.
:04:30. > :04:33.They are both right as it depends on when you retire. If you're under the
:04:34. > :04:48.age of 43 you will probably worse off. These are part of the changes
:04:49. > :04:51.new to the system and really goes to the heart of the politics of this,
:04:52. > :04:56.the fact that people over the age of 43 vote in much greater numbers than
:04:57. > :04:59.those under the age of 43 and this is what
:05:00. > :05:03.The system will be designed by people who are elected to look after
:05:04. > :05:05.the people who will vote. Is that really how it is bought through? I
:05:06. > :05:11.don't know. It is an interesting story. The Express says low-paid
:05:12. > :05:20.women in particular will benefit from this. ?36 week. You would have
:05:21. > :05:24.to be pickup elation about how much that means to you by the time you
:05:25. > :05:31.get to 2030. I suppose compared to what they are currently getting it
:05:32. > :05:33.looks decent. There are lots of different systems, depending on
:05:34. > :05:39.whether you opted out of the state owning system. Essentially everybody
:05:40. > :05:42.will retire on the same flat rate pension, which is obviously better
:05:43. > :05:47.for many people who haven't been able to build up a contribution
:05:48. > :05:50.record, but worse for those, especially younger people, who have
:05:51. > :05:54.a chance to put more into the system but now won't be rewarded for doing
:05:55. > :06:03.so. Jeremy Corbyn critics fear bloodbath. Ten Labour MPs facing a
:06:04. > :06:10.fight to keep their seats. There was a boundary commission. There have
:06:11. > :06:14.been many before. But the Tories certainly perked up at this one. In
:06:15. > :06:23.order to reduce the number of seats down to 600, it looks like 35 of
:06:24. > :06:27.those would be Labour held seats. That would have a significant effect
:06:28. > :06:33.on the electoral mathematics. It is no wonder that the Conservative
:06:34. > :06:39.rebalancing, this is what it calls rebalancing, this is what it calls
:06:40. > :06:45.it. Then in some cities you would get three Labour held seats moving
:06:46. > :06:52.to two. Consequently some are at risk of their seats. But none of
:06:53. > :06:57.this has started yet. The word bloodbath strikes me as being a bit
:06:58. > :07:03.hyperventilating. Three well-known MPs might be at risk. The point is
:07:04. > :07:06.that what Jeremy Corbyn says is that he is not in favour of what is
:07:07. > :07:08.called mandatory reselection. In other words, if you are standing as
:07:09. > :07:14.a Labour MP for the same constituency he says you shouldn't
:07:15. > :07:20.automatically face reselection from the local party. But if your
:07:21. > :07:24.constituency is disappearing and you are having to compete with the
:07:25. > :07:27.neighbouring Labour MP and you are paying musical chairs then there is
:07:28. > :07:33.absolutely no guarantees and there are many people on the moderate Tony
:07:34. > :07:40.Blair or soft Labour MP side that might get pushed out of it. Church
:07:41. > :07:48.of VoIP is split over gay rights but liberals pay price, says the
:07:49. > :07:52.Guardian. -- church avoids split. It has been on the cards for a while.
:07:53. > :07:55.Different parts of the Anglican community and the world are feeling
:07:56. > :07:59.differently about gay marriage. We often forget that the Church of
:08:00. > :08:03.England is a global entity. It is an organisation that has got followers
:08:04. > :08:06.in many parts of the world. What essentially has happened is that
:08:07. > :08:12.North America, like much of Europe, has become very socially liberal,
:08:13. > :08:16.but Africa is anything but. So many of the African Church of England
:08:17. > :08:22.bishops not only are opposed to the idea of endorsing gay marriage, they
:08:23. > :08:25.actually want all gay people to be made criminals and are lobbying the
:08:26. > :08:30.government for that, which is an extraordinary illustration. But what
:08:31. > :08:35.has happened is the Archbishop has sided with the Africans on the basis
:08:36. > :08:40.that as we all know in all sorts of respect Africa is growing and it is
:08:41. > :08:46.a big challenge for all of us in the 21st century that the new emerging
:08:47. > :08:50.powers are much less socially liberal than Europe and North
:08:51. > :08:58.America. Your paper says the split has been averted, but is that
:08:59. > :09:02.for now? I think so. This has been going on for 20 years and has been
:09:03. > :09:09.at the heart of so much bloodletting in the Anglican Church, 85 million
:09:10. > :09:12.people around the world. It has been going on for 20 years and I think
:09:13. > :09:15.the Archbishop of Canterbury believes the church is too obsessed
:09:16. > :09:21.about this and should be more interested in global issues, like
:09:22. > :09:24.religious violence, religious intolerance, climate change, et
:09:25. > :09:29.cetera. He is trying to move things on. Whether this works I think is
:09:30. > :09:35.highly doubtful. You've got some of the Africans denied saying,
:09:36. > :09:39.Kenyans in particular, saying this is the beginning, not the end.
:09:40. > :09:42.Somebody else is quoted as saying this is extremely fragile, so we may
:09:43. > :09:50.not even get to the end of the week on this. Back to the Telegraph. The
:09:51. > :09:53.story on the front page. It says 1 million Syrians facing starvation
:09:54. > :10:02.because of dozens of seizures across the country. -- seiges. The town of
:10:03. > :10:08.them are dire was desperately waiting for aid. -- town of Madaya.
:10:09. > :10:18.This has been played out in several different places. Yes, and it is
:10:19. > :10:22.slightly episodic. Madaya rose to the surface after very harrowing
:10:23. > :10:26.photographs, people in a very poor state. But the overall picture is
:10:27. > :10:32.absolutely appalling and harrowing. What we have is at least 400,000
:10:33. > :10:36.people dead in the Syrian civil war, which five years of civil war is
:10:37. > :10:42.marked in March. You've got 9 million people who fled their
:10:43. > :10:45.lives... Fled for their lives, fled their homes. The equivalent of the
:10:46. > :10:55.entire population of London on the run. This is something the world has
:10:56. > :10:59.not seen for a long time. The story also reports, this study was done by
:11:00. > :11:08.an organisation called Seige Watch, it has been widely reported that
:11:09. > :11:17.this besieged towns have been blocked in by both sides. Some have
:11:18. > :11:26.been encircled by troops loyal to Assad. Only two by IS. This is
:11:27. > :11:30.another indication by the Prime Minister says it is very difficult
:11:31. > :11:39.to see how they will be a future for Syria with Assad still in charge.
:11:40. > :11:45.The Times. This is Phillip Coleman quitting this festival in protest
:11:46. > :11:50.over of unpaid authors. He is speaking because he says that it is
:11:51. > :11:54.at odds with one of his other roles, to stand up for rights of authors.
:11:55. > :12:02.This is a really interesting story. It turns out he is president of the
:12:03. > :12:08.group, that gives him some status in this. Literary festivals are really
:12:09. > :12:16.booming in Britain. The average pay is up to ?200. He says many authors
:12:17. > :12:19.don't get paid, but you pay the electricians, the people who put the
:12:20. > :12:31.brochures together, but printers, the people who erected the tents. He
:12:32. > :12:38.says, why not the authors? He says well-known authors don't need the
:12:39. > :12:42.publicity or the money, and the ones who are poorer aren't making a great
:12:43. > :12:45.living at all out of writing books. So they should be paid in the sense
:12:46. > :12:50.of fairness. He says, I've had enough of this, I'm out. But some
:12:51. > :12:56.festivals would really struggle if all authors had to be paid. They
:12:57. > :13:01.would. I know some authors who are incredibly poor, they literally find
:13:02. > :13:04.it very difficult to get money together, sometimes to find a meal.
:13:05. > :13:10.It is not as though large numbers of these people are well-paid. The
:13:11. > :13:27.problem is, this is clearly an organisation where festivals... Are
:13:28. > :13:33.you going to say that actors need to be paid for promotions as well? What
:13:34. > :13:35.we are talking about actors, we are talking about this more festivals.
:13:36. > :13:43.It looks like the intervene and say that any festivals
:13:44. > :13:58.we support will be paid. At authors might not be grateful if this means
:13:59. > :14:03.festivals invite fewer authors. Creative people feel they are
:14:04. > :14:08.encouraged to work for profile. Let's have a look at the Mail.
:14:09. > :14:17.Finally. A picture on the front page of Alan Rickman with JK Rowling. Of
:14:18. > :14:20.course he played Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films. Brought to
:14:21. > :14:29.the attention of the younger generation. King of the baddies. He
:14:30. > :14:34.was by all accounts of wonderful human being. Some people have
:14:35. > :14:40.commented on how much he was beloved by other cast members. He was a
:14:41. > :14:47.brilliant billion, but he was more than that. -- villain. Remember that
:14:48. > :14:51.fantastic film Truly, Madly Deeply? He was an enormously talented actor
:14:52. > :14:57.and it is such a shock that he has now gone. He was said to an
:14:58. > :15:02.interviewer, I don't play villains, IP interesting people. One critic
:15:03. > :15:07.described him as saying he had a face that was a cross between an
:15:08. > :15:15.eagle and a big cat. His voice appeared between the somewhat
:15:16. > :15:18.lips, like a ventriloquist. And I read he had a wicked sense of humour
:15:19. > :15:22.and he likes to play pranks on his fellow actors and the crew when
:15:23. > :15:32.onset. Quite a wicked sense of humour. I saw a clip of him on the
:15:33. > :15:38.Jimmy Fallon show. He spoke in the interview after he had inhaled some
:15:39. > :15:53.helium. It has been remarkable. The story broke at about 12:30pm and
:15:54. > :15:56.since then we have had about 500,000 viewers -- 5 million. But more
:15:57. > :16:02.traffic from America. Very interesting. Lovely to see you.
:16:03. > :16:04.Thank you very much for sparring with each other. Coming up next,
:16:05. > :16:07.Sportsday.