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:00:00. > :00:00.150 people, a report suggests airlines should be told

:00:00. > :00:15.about their employees' psychiatric conditions.

:00:16. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:19. > :00:23.With me are Martin Bentham of the London Evening Standard

:00:24. > :00:35.Congratulations to him. He had a baby girl not long ago. And

:00:36. > :00:39.broadcaster, Lynne Faulds Wood who says she has brought her own

:00:40. > :00:44.percussion section with her. That necklace. We love it.

:00:45. > :00:45.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with:

:00:46. > :00:47.The FT says that George Osborne will deliver ?4 billion

:00:48. > :00:49.worth of spending cuts in this week's Budget.

:00:50. > :00:53.the i, which says that the gap between Britain's rich and poor

:00:54. > :00:56.The Metro says that campaigners attacked Mr Osborne

:00:57. > :00:58.over proposed cuts to disability benefits.

:00:59. > :01:03.Barack Obama's plan to warn Britons against leaving the EU "a piece

:01:04. > :01:04.of outrageous and exorbitant hypocrisy", according

:01:05. > :01:12.landlords and letting agents have become millionaires by collecting

:01:13. > :01:21.an investigation on the cost of childcare.

:01:22. > :01:24.It says nursery care for two children costs more than an average

:01:25. > :01:41."Woman's weekly salary," not a man's. And the daily Mail says there

:01:42. > :01:44.is a crushing verdict on Angela Merkel's immigration policy.

:01:45. > :01:49.So quite a lot of different headlines tonight. We'll start with

:01:50. > :01:52.the i. Cut now or pay later, it says. Fresh cuts of ?4 billion are

:01:53. > :02:00.expected in Wednesday's budget. How would we be paying later, is

:02:01. > :02:03.that clear, if we don't cut now? This is a question the from the

:02:04. > :02:08.Chancellor, George Osborne, who was talking about this today. He is

:02:09. > :02:10.basically saying - which is the narrative he has articulated all

:02:11. > :02:16.along since he has been Chancellor, is we have to get our economy in

:02:17. > :02:19.good shape, otherwise, the instability that is increasingly in

:02:20. > :02:26.the world that he looks at and thinks theres a problem for us, will

:02:27. > :02:28.cause us to have things like higher borrowing costs and basically

:02:29. > :02:33.greater costs to bear in the future. So, he is basically saying unless

:02:34. > :02:37.you get your economy sorted out in a trim shape and so on, therefore we

:02:38. > :02:40.will be in a worse position and everything will cost more and there

:02:41. > :02:43.will be great ever pain to come. That's his argue um. Not one that

:02:44. > :02:48.the Labour Party shares. The argument he made today is we are

:02:49. > :02:52.only talking about a half of 1% cut, 50 p in every pound the Government

:02:53. > :02:57.spends. That doesn't sound a a lot. He says ?4 billion cuts are in the a

:02:58. > :03:01.huge amount. Compared with the size of what the Government spends, I

:03:02. > :03:09.suppose, it doesn't look like that. It is where he is going for the cuts

:03:10. > :03:13.and one of the places he is going, I spent the weekend in a school for

:03:14. > :03:16.disabled children, Oldham, so disability is in my mind at the

:03:17. > :03:20.moment. That's one of the areas where he be looking to make the cuts

:03:21. > :03:24.and families could find themselves ?100 better off, in the area where

:03:25. > :03:29.we have been, Oldham, not exactly the richest area in the entire

:03:30. > :03:33.country and is going to suffer among the biggest cuts, whereas some of

:03:34. > :03:37.the more leafier bits of the Home Counties will suffer small cuts? How

:03:38. > :03:42.is it targeted geographically if it is made at a national level? Because

:03:43. > :03:46.some people have fewer people with problems in their areas than others.

:03:47. > :03:52.So it disproportionately pulls across the country. On the front of

:03:53. > :03:57.the i he says the gap - a couple of headlines there underneath the main

:03:58. > :04:01.headline - and the send one being - gap between Britain's rich and poor

:04:02. > :04:06.now wider than ever. As far as I can see from the information we have got

:04:07. > :04:09.so far on what he is going to do on Wednesday, he is not doing anything

:04:10. > :04:12.to stop that gap. This is because the economy isn't as big, hasn't

:04:13. > :04:17.grown as much as we thought, isn't the size as it was, the us a of

:04:18. > :04:23.budget responsibility says it is smaller than we thought. George

:04:24. > :04:27.Osborne is warning the economy is in the worst state it has been since

:04:28. > :04:31.the crash eight years ago. And the cuts are on top of the cuts

:04:32. > :04:35.scheduled, so it is not ?# billion on its own, which makes it harder to

:04:36. > :04:40.find the savings and I spokes that also would be, point you made there,

:04:41. > :04:44.would be - the counterargument that certainly Labour would articulate

:04:45. > :04:48.and indeed other parties that are opposing the Tories, would say,

:04:49. > :04:52.actually, his economic strategy, the Tories say it has helped, put us in

:04:53. > :04:55.a better position to weather the economic storm we face and they

:04:56. > :04:59.compare it with the European economies, which have probably done

:05:00. > :05:02.worse than we have, so there is perhaps some merit to that but

:05:03. > :05:07.Labour at the same time would certainly say - actually investing

:05:08. > :05:10.for growth in the long-term infrastructure investment would have

:05:11. > :05:14.helped us be in eight bore position. Whether that is right is unknown. It

:05:15. > :05:18.is mystifying three months ago in his 7th budget he was saying we were

:05:19. > :05:23.in great shape now we have ?18 billion black hole four months

:05:24. > :05:29.later. The OBR says the economy is not what it was, he has to react? He

:05:30. > :05:33.has to rect a. Why didn't he see that coming. He is saying ah, but

:05:34. > :05:38.China. But that was happening three months. I'm sure we will not be

:05:39. > :05:43.hearing the full story. #50i89' sure we will get plenty more before

:05:44. > :05:54.Wednesday. Boris rage at I crit Obama. This is the quote -- at

:05:55. > :06:02.hypocrite. He says." Barack Obama's reasons to urge Britons to remain in

:06:03. > :06:07.the European is outrageous and exorbitant hypocrisy." He has

:06:08. > :06:11.already been meddling nine months ago, maybe Boris didn't notice that.

:06:12. > :06:15.Is it meddling if he is asked? Bore sis calling it that. He is saying

:06:16. > :06:21.basically America would not stand for the things we had to stand for

:06:22. > :06:24.in Europe. This is Boris' column, I guess in tomorrow's Telegraph coming

:06:25. > :06:29.out in large chunks here. He is saying it is laughable the way we

:06:30. > :06:32.put up with things like - he has a hole list of them, the International

:06:33. > :06:36.Criminal Court in The Hague. The Americans wouldn't have anything to

:06:37. > :06:40.do with that, they wouldn't have anything 20 could with the

:06:41. > :06:43.convention of law. He is basically saying that Obama coming out in

:06:44. > :06:47.favour of us staying in Europe is not something the Americans would

:06:48. > :06:54.ever stand for. It is like comparing chalk and cheese. They haval Bill of

:06:55. > :06:58.Rights in America, and we don't have that. It is trying to compare a

:06:59. > :07:02.country that's part of a yawn that is nothing like America. That's

:07:03. > :07:06.true. -- part of a union. That's another point that it makes that the

:07:07. > :07:10.United States has its own federal union, but they all speak English,

:07:11. > :07:14.there are lots of cultural similarities between them in the way

:07:15. > :07:17.it isn't in Europe. But point is broadly correct - he makes the point

:07:18. > :07:21.that the Americans are not part of the International Criminal Court.

:07:22. > :07:25.They are one of the very few countries that haven't signed up to

:07:26. > :07:28.it and so on. They protect their own independence and own sovereignty

:07:29. > :07:33.very, very strongly, understandably and what Boris is saying is - why on

:07:34. > :07:37.earth should we listen to them lecturing us about this? The other

:07:38. > :07:41.point, I suppose, that you might say is - of course one of the reasons

:07:42. > :07:44.the Americans want us to stay in the European Union and always have done

:07:45. > :07:47.is not necessarily for our own interests but because they want us

:07:48. > :07:51.to exercise a good influence on what they see is a good influence on the

:07:52. > :07:55.other members of the European Union. So, it is in the American's

:07:56. > :07:59.interests for to us stay n whether it is in our own, it a different

:08:00. > :08:02.issue. Having said - no, we really do have a special relationship,

:08:03. > :08:08.having been critical of David Cameron, the other day. Staying with

:08:09. > :08:14.the Daily Telegraph News in Brief at the bottom. Western tourists killed

:08:15. > :08:18.in Ivory Coast gun attack. Probably came too late for first editions to

:08:19. > :08:23.do much on this story but again we are seeing what appear to be

:08:24. > :08:29.Al-Qaeda-affiliates wreaking havoc in parts of South Africa. Yes, six

:08:30. > :08:33.gunmen invading the beach and hotel used by Westerners and tourists in

:08:34. > :08:38.this country. It is a very depressing story. There have been

:08:39. > :08:43.two other attacks in recent times in other parts of West Africa and one

:08:44. > :08:48.in Mali which has had a history of problems and another one in bu keen

:08:49. > :08:52.yes fas sow which I don't think had and certainly the Ivory Coast which

:08:53. > :09:02.has had difficulties of its own with civil wars and so on -- Bukino Fask.

:09:03. > :09:06.So, it does seem there is a growing danger of this appalling terrorism

:09:07. > :09:11.creeping into a region which hasn't had it before which is very

:09:12. > :09:15.depressing And France saying they'll offer support, as a form Ercol any.

:09:16. > :09:20.The trouble with the small countries, I went to one exactly a

:09:21. > :09:25.year ago in this area, they don't have security forces standing by. So

:09:26. > :09:29.if six gunmen appear on a Bev in a small place, there is not -- on a

:09:30. > :09:34.beach in a small place there is not going to be ability to stop them

:09:35. > :09:39.wreaking havoc. There isn't any any country, unless you have a

:09:40. > :09:44.completely militaristic society. There are softs targets everywhere.

:09:45. > :09:48.Yes, and it'll stop people going there, because they were worried

:09:49. > :09:55.about Ebola and now the attacks. We have seen that in North Africa, it

:09:56. > :09:57.hammers the countries and their tourist industries, which is

:09:58. > :10:03.extremely important. They are countries we should try to go to.

:10:04. > :10:09.The Times, the attacks in an carria. Since this paper was printed which

:10:10. > :10:14.says 27 people were killed, we are now hearing more like 34 people

:10:15. > :10:20.killed and 100 wounded. -- Ankara. Another awful story. Turkey has had

:10:21. > :10:30.three attacks in Ankara in the last six months and another one in inStan

:10:31. > :10:36.bull. And awful bot of instability there. The prens of the Islamic

:10:37. > :10:40.State which carried out a couple of attacks in Turkey and it is a

:10:41. > :10:49.fundamentally important country in that region for all sorts of

:10:50. > :10:54.regions. And facing this type of attack and instability and where it

:10:55. > :11:00.leads is worrying. It shows anyone can do anything almost anywhere. The

:11:01. > :11:04.wonderful thing is we haven't had more attacks really. I think the

:11:05. > :11:10.number of attacks is increasing in Turkey. It is suggested that such is

:11:11. > :11:13.the dissatisfaction with the intelligence services in Turkey,

:11:14. > :11:18.it'll turn against the Government. Public opinion will turn against the

:11:19. > :11:22.government and there might be a move to try to get the government to talk

:11:23. > :11:25.to some of these consideredish groups which doesn't seem likely at

:11:26. > :11:30.the moementd. -- Kurdish groups. The part stems from the Turkish

:11:31. > :11:34.authorities having a very robust, to say the least, crackdown against the

:11:35. > :11:38.consideredish groups, blaming them for an original attack last July I

:11:39. > :11:45.think it was, which I think was carried out by IS as it turned out.

:11:46. > :11:47.So, there is an argument that the Turkish authorities have been

:11:48. > :11:51.fuelling this, in a sense by their robust attitude to the Kurds. On the

:11:52. > :11:54.other hand, clearly, you can quite see that the Turkish authorities

:11:55. > :11:59.think - well we can't stand for this and we have to do everything we can

:12:00. > :12:05.to try to protect us. And going to your point just now. They have a

:12:06. > :12:09.powerful mill trip avery effective. Perhaps too -- military, and very

:12:10. > :12:16.effective, perhaps too effective police state. But it is impossible

:12:17. > :12:27.to stop these things. And 14.5 million people live in Istanbul. .

:12:28. > :12:32.And let's look at the Merkel story. It is thought to be a test of the

:12:33. > :12:36.immigration policy having let a million migrants into Germany. It

:12:37. > :12:40.wasn't long ago that Angela Merkel seemed dismissive of this

:12:41. > :12:44.anti-immigration party, the AFD, that look to have done well. She

:12:45. > :12:48.obviously doesn't like the message they are putting out but... Well

:12:49. > :12:52.nobody would like the message. Some of the messages have been... Some of

:12:53. > :12:59.the Germans do, that's the point, isn't it? So... It is very

:13:00. > :13:06.right-wing. Yesterday was Super - we are talking Monday's papers. Today

:13:07. > :13:09.was Super Sunday in Germany where 1 million people voted and voted

:13:10. > :13:13.strongly for this right-wing party that was started by a bump of

:13:14. > :13:17.academics. There we g people do like it. The trouble is the election

:13:18. > :13:20.coming up next year for Angela Merkel and she might well find

:13:21. > :13:24.herself in deep trouble. This is a kind of barometer of what is going

:13:25. > :13:29.to happen there. But when you look at the attacks? Do you know how many

:13:30. > :13:33.attacks there has been on hostels for migrants in Germany in the last

:13:34. > :13:38.year. Nearly 1,000. Last year there was a crowd gathered in a small town

:13:39. > :13:42.when a hostel that has been prepared for migrants was set on fire and

:13:43. > :13:47.they were cheering and so there is something horrible happening in

:13:48. > :13:50.Germany, yet last September, do you remember the pictures when they were

:13:51. > :13:55.welcoming them in on trains into Munich and they were applauding

:13:56. > :13:59.them. So there is this right-wing element that is really nasty. It is

:14:00. > :14:03.bigger than that. They are a symbol of an extreme perhaps at one end but

:14:04. > :14:06.obviously there is a general feeling, it seems in Germany that

:14:07. > :14:12.actually Angela Merkel got it wrong and went far too far. Yes, 1.1

:14:13. > :14:16.million migrants last year. In a short space of time. The Germans

:14:17. > :14:20.them serves the German government is trying to control that and stop it

:14:21. > :14:26.and taking a completely different approach to it now to what it was

:14:27. > :14:30.doing less than a year ago. Back to the Daily Telegraph briefly - young

:14:31. > :14:35.people waste time on GP years. This is Chief Executive of one of the

:14:36. > :14:39.world's largest advertising agencies, Mr Martin southerly say

:14:40. > :14:46.you are really wasting your time travelling the world -- Mr Martin

:14:47. > :14:52.Sorrell. I have a another daughter, a big gap to them. This one is about

:14:53. > :14:56.to go on a gap year. I hate to criticise a person, we have learned

:14:57. > :14:59.he is going to earn ?7 #0 million, he has learnhood ?150 million over

:15:00. > :15:02.the last five,'s successful businessman but I think personally

:15:03. > :15:07.he is talking rubbish, that really, wasting time is not necessarily aed

:15:08. > :15:11.about thing. It is what it is B he is talking about trips too badly

:15:12. > :15:16.organised and lacking focus, you are not going on a business trip I think

:15:17. > :15:27.actually it might help them grow up. I am in the against them, I do did

:15:28. > :15:35.not have one. They look fun. Our son did well, and did him no harm, I

:15:36. > :15:39.hope he is not watching, he got a first.

:15:40. > :15:44.They are winging it. Sorry, Sir Martin, we don't agree

:15:45. > :15:47.with you. I'm sure he will lose sleep over that.

:15:48. > :15:54.for another look at the stories making the news tomorrow.

:15:55. > :15:56.But coming up next it's - Meet the Author.