27/03/2016

Download Subtitles

Transcript

:00:00. > :00:17.Dublin, to mark the centenary of the Easter rising against British rule.

:00:18. > :00:21.Hello and welcome to our look at what the morning papers will be

:00:22. > :00:23.With me are Martin Bentham, the Home Affairs Editor

:00:24. > :00:26.for the Evening Standard, and the broadcaster Shyama Perera.

:00:27. > :00:32.Let's start with tomorrow's front pages.

:00:33. > :00:35.The Financial Times writes that business leaders are warning

:00:36. > :00:37.their investors that the trend in global tax crackdowns will hurt

:00:38. > :00:47.The i headlines that teachers are demanding an end to school tests for

:00:48. > :00:50.primary school students saying the system has an exam factory culture.

:00:51. > :00:52.The Daily Express warns of travel chaos on Bank Holiday

:00:53. > :00:55.Monday saying Storm Katie has the potential for a month's worth of

:00:56. > :01:00.The Daily Telegraph headlines the rift in the Tory party

:01:01. > :01:02.deepening after accusations David Cameron is ignoring ministers

:01:03. > :01:13.The Guardian leads with a call from the Shadow Chancellor to scrap

:01:14. > :01:17.a ?3000 tax cut for the rich, which he says shows we're not all

:01:18. > :01:20.The Mirror covers the death of a 7-year-old girl who died

:01:21. > :01:23.after the bouncy castle she was playing on blew away in Essex.

:01:24. > :01:26.The Daily Mail also has the same story and reports

:01:27. > :01:29.on growing demands for a ban on the inflatables at public events.

:01:30. > :01:31.And the Times carries a warning from Presidential hopeful

:01:32. > :01:34.Donald Trump that Britain is no longer safe for Americans to travel

:01:35. > :01:44.We will begin with Donald Trump's warning to Americans, that Britain

:01:45. > :01:49.is no longer safe. The presidential contender raising the alarm after

:01:50. > :01:54.the attacks in Belgium last week. A lot of Americans will think that

:01:55. > :01:59.anyway, won't pay? Yes, and although he has made some outlandish comments

:02:00. > :02:03.before, in this case he is very much in the mainstream of American

:02:04. > :02:11.opinion. He is saying that there is a danger in Europe, and therefore it

:02:12. > :02:17.is not safe. I'm not sure that he is saying people shouldn't go there,

:02:18. > :02:25.that Americans couldn't visit, and nor would that be the case. What he

:02:26. > :02:31.is saying here is in line with US travel advice, which is to say there

:02:32. > :02:35.is a danger and a threat across Europe, and there might be a tax on

:02:36. > :02:41.restaurants, sport events, or religious festivals. People should

:02:42. > :02:47.be aware that there may be potential attacks, but don't think it should

:02:48. > :02:52.stop people going about their business, coming to visit, going on

:02:53. > :02:56.holiday in different places. Let's hope it doesn't create paranoia in

:02:57. > :02:59.America. This is a man who wants to build a wall between the US and

:03:00. > :03:10.Mexico, and the Mexicans pay for it, why do we give to monkeys about his

:03:11. > :03:13.opinion? It is ridiculous. If Americans are listening to this and

:03:14. > :03:16.really think Britain is not safe, they ought to look at how many

:03:17. > :03:21.people are killed in gun attacks in their own country each year. That

:03:22. > :03:27.far outnumbers the number of people killed in terrorist attacks across

:03:28. > :03:33.the whole of the European mainland. We should not be going to the US, if

:03:34. > :03:45.this is a measure of what is safe and what is not. Let's move on to

:03:46. > :03:48.the other story. Millions hit by George Osborne's stealth raid on

:03:49. > :03:53.wages. This is to do with an increase in national insurance

:03:54. > :04:06.payments. Apparently he brought it in three years ago, 40 quid a month

:04:07. > :04:09.for someone who is earning ?40,000. This is our state pensions which

:04:10. > :04:13.they keep telling us not worth anything, so we ought to be taking

:04:14. > :04:17.out other pensions, and our children should learn that they are not going

:04:18. > :04:22.to get anything. Nonetheless, they are still taking money from us for

:04:23. > :04:27.pensions, and this is an extra ?40. Martin, you can probably put it into

:04:28. > :04:33.a better context. It is basically getting rid of the second pension,

:04:34. > :04:38.and people will have to potentially pay higher national insurance. It

:04:39. > :04:48.will particularly affect people in the private sector, which I thought

:04:49. > :04:52.had mainly disappeared anyway. In essence it is saying it could cause

:04:53. > :04:59.some employers to close their pension schemes, and at the same

:05:00. > :05:03.time if the government wants the people to provide for themselves and

:05:04. > :05:07.their role age, hitting pensions is not necessarily a good way of doing

:05:08. > :05:12.that, because people end up with less money. Except it brings in a

:05:13. > :05:20.lot for the Treasury. A quick look at the i, teachers demand no more

:05:21. > :05:23.tests. We had this coming from the NU T conference in Brighton. It

:05:24. > :05:31.seemed to go back and forth with school tests. I think the union has

:05:32. > :05:35.pretty much always disagreed, but I think they have a point. I think

:05:36. > :05:46.there are two macro issues. One is the content of the test, which they

:05:47. > :05:53.are saying are confusing and not properly thought through. And the

:05:54. > :05:57.other tests are too difficult. The other issue is the number of tests.

:05:58. > :06:03.I think all the way through, there is an enormous amount. I don't know

:06:04. > :06:07.which is the better method, but what we need to do is find out why so

:06:08. > :06:16.many 11 -year-olds going to secondary school have insufficient

:06:17. > :06:21.literacy to make the step up to secondary school work, and why they

:06:22. > :06:29.will often leave school without education and training. Surely a

:06:30. > :06:35.test would tell a school if a child is struggling. Well, they apparently

:06:36. > :06:46.do now, but it doesn't improve on the number of 17 -year-olds who are

:06:47. > :06:52.semiliterate. Palmyra has fallen out of the hands of the so-called

:06:53. > :06:55.Islamic State again. It was fantastic to watch the footage of

:06:56. > :07:01.this on the news. Obviously, we can't see inside Independent, which

:07:02. > :07:08.I thought were finished, so I'm surprised to see the front page. We

:07:09. > :07:13.are pleased, thank you for sending its. Obviously it is fantastic, I am

:07:14. > :07:18.one of those people who tries to leap ahead in their brain and

:07:19. > :07:26.thinks, this is a great coup for the Russians, and does that mean it is a

:07:27. > :07:30.great coup for us ultimately in strategic and political terms? They

:07:31. > :07:35.have got it back from ISIS, but what does it mean in terms of the future

:07:36. > :07:44.of Syria. Surely it mean that President Assad will have a future.

:07:45. > :07:48.I think that is the case. What is tremendous news really is not just

:07:49. > :07:55.the liberation of the architectural site, but also the fact that it is a

:07:56. > :08:02.significant blow for the Islamic State. Hopefully, all the problems

:08:03. > :08:07.we have seen in Europe and Brussels last week, and they see Islamic

:08:08. > :08:10.State is defeated in Iraq and Syria, it will just get worse and worse

:08:11. > :08:19.rather than better, which is obviously what we hope will happen.

:08:20. > :08:24.The FT, and the Pope's message. Defending migrants as the flow

:08:25. > :08:32.slows. Is this part of his Easter message, expressing dismay at the

:08:33. > :08:36.way migrants are treated. What was interesting is this figure, saying

:08:37. > :08:43.that daily arrivals from Turkey to Greece are down from 930 278 since

:08:44. > :08:49.the EU deal was agreed that people would be sent back from Greece to

:08:50. > :09:00.Turkey. Then there would be an admission of people from Turkey on a

:09:01. > :09:05.1-to-1 basis. If that figure becomes a reality over or retract the

:09:06. > :09:11.period, it would be a very positive thing, because you don't want people

:09:12. > :09:19.coming over and risking their lives and having that is their only route

:09:20. > :09:23.seeking refuge from Syria. When it was first introduced, it made no

:09:24. > :09:28.difference. Hundreds of people took that perilous journey across the

:09:29. > :09:32.sea. I think once they are on their way, even psychologically, it is a

:09:33. > :09:37.journey that has to be completed, or they lose their lives. It is one

:09:38. > :09:45.that message gets back, when people start to understand there is a

:09:46. > :09:49.different mindset, and that takes time. There are all sorts of

:09:50. > :09:56.potential problems, they might find other ways of trying to do it. The

:09:57. > :10:06.people who are there can be on the top of the queue to come over. And

:10:07. > :10:12.other story on the FT, Japan's hard up pensioners turn to crime for free

:10:13. > :10:22.board and lodging behind bars. I think pensioners in Japan are

:10:23. > :10:28.suffering the same gradations as our pensioners claim. They are behaving

:10:29. > :10:32.badly in order to be put behind bars, because thankfully in Japan

:10:33. > :10:38.there is only 70% occupancy of their prison cells. If you get a cell in

:10:39. > :10:46.Japan, you have your own pretty and your own TV, and you don't have too

:10:47. > :10:50.worry about being put in a cell was somebody who is not suited for it.

:10:51. > :10:58.On that basis, for pensioners, there is quite a good deal to be had in

:10:59. > :11:06.the prisons. But it is more than just a disrespect for the law, isn't

:11:07. > :11:10.it? It does suggest... It has been calculator that a lot of people are

:11:11. > :11:14.committing crimes, and the suggestion is they are doing it

:11:15. > :11:17.deliberately. The other side of it potentially is the suggestion that a

:11:18. > :11:21.lot of elderly people live alone, they don't get any support, and

:11:22. > :11:24.therefore they can't sustain themselves, particularly those who

:11:25. > :11:29.commit crime, come out of prison, had no family, and much like younger

:11:30. > :11:33.people do in that situation, if there is no support around and they

:11:34. > :11:42.fall back into it and commit crime again. It is like warden controlled

:11:43. > :11:47.residential. On that basis... We make people pay for that over here.

:11:48. > :11:57.Let's move on to a story we are a bit clueless about. The Daily Mail,

:11:58. > :12:01.how to diet in your sleep. I was just having a little look on the

:12:02. > :12:09.internet, and the Daily Mail ran a story about this three years ago.

:12:10. > :12:20.Slim while you sleep, it is coming to do with eating smoothies. We hope

:12:21. > :12:30.this is true, don't we? How might it work, let's speculate. You stay up

:12:31. > :12:38.late scoffing chocolate biscuits, so... Apparently when you sleep it

:12:39. > :12:41.does something to your metabolism. There was a doctor who used to say

:12:42. > :12:47.to it in a 10-hour window. If you had your first meal at 9am, you

:12:48. > :12:53.finished at seven p.m.. He said he could eat whatever you wanted in

:12:54. > :12:57.your 10-hour window. Ultimately, it is eating less and moving more. We

:12:58. > :13:20.talked about this on Friday night, I think. I have been told I was very

:13:21. > :13:27.rude to shush you. John Kerry has said he is concerned about Americans

:13:28. > :13:31.travelling to Europe as well. That is the paper for tonight. Lovely to

:13:32. > :13:36.see you both, thank you for giving up your Sunday evening, your Easter

:13:37. > :13:38.no less. Up next, The Film Review.