30/03/2016 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

With me are the political commentator Ayesha Hazarika

and Neil Midgley, the media commentator from the Telegraph.

Welcome to you. We can take you through the front pages as we have

them at the moment. The I, which has the headline

"Deal or no Steel" - a reference to calls

for the government to step in to prevent the closure

of the Tata Steel plant Fears over the future of the British

steel industry are also the main The Financial Times has a picture

of the former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar's

presidential palace, smiling as the country's first

civilian president in more than 50 The Guardian says David Cameron has

flown back from his holiday for emergency talks

on the steel crisis. "Betrayed" is the Mirror's headline

- a reference to the steel workers The New Day references the sale

of Tata's British assets The Express says scientists

are to study the habits and diet of the residents of an Italian

village where 300 residents have lived to at least one

hundred years old. And the Telegraph carries claims

that the BBC has been "sexing up" Shakespeare, in a new adaptation

of Richard III, starring Benedict We will be talking about that in a

minute. We can kick off. The Financial Times, the Tata Steel

story, thousands of jobs at risk. The FT saying battle to save

steel-making as Tata Steel says the business is worth nothing. They paid

6.2 billion for the business and say it is now worth nothing. The

statistics that stood out from the story, you think, why do they just

give it away. Take on the business from scratch and see if they can

turn a profit? It turns out the pension fund deficit is ?15 billion,

one of the top 20 liabilities in the whole of the UK and so there is more

at play than it being effectively a worthless business because of the

cheap costs of Chinese steel imports. You wonder who would want

to buy this business which they say loses ?1 billion a day. It is a huge

problem because the market will not be mandated with offers but it is

one of those things where everyone is looking to the government.

Whether you call it nationalisation, a bailout, a lot of parties, the

Labour Party, Plaid Cymru, everyone is hoping that the government will

come together with a temporary renationalisation to buy the plant

time to think what it will do. That could costs the taxpayer. It comes

down to values and priorities. When these industrial sites go, the

community goes and it is the devastating consequences for the

community. It is the lack of planning by successive governments

of all colours, which is at issue. I remember when the Consett steelworks

closed in 1980. I remember Ravenscraig in Glasgow. The future

of the British Steel industry has been... It is precarious. It has

been going one way for 45 years in our lifetime. And yet, here we are

again, on the verge of another crisis again with tens of thousands

of people about to lose their jobs and no apparent plan. In your paper,

the Telegraph, they say there is an EU row over the deal to save it.

They say Tata Steel suggested EU rules restricting state aid are to

blame for the decision to sell. In a single market, as happens in the EU,

countries come together and there is supposed to be one market for their

goods and services, there are sensible rules against individual

governments subsidising their own companies otherwise the French could

subsidise their banks and put British banks out of business if

they chose to. The state aid rules are there for a good reason but

here, it is simply not possible for the British Government legally to

just bear out Tata Steel and save here is a few billion to tide you

over. Brussels are apparently cross with the British Government for

standing in the way of a plan to increase import tariffs across the

EU on steel, which privately according to the Telegraph story

Brussels sources say would have helped to save the steel industry.

The Times newspaper, the migrant story perhaps has faded a little

from our attention in the past few days but they have a shocking story

about Turkish border forces shooting to kill refugees who are fleeing

civil war in Syria. They say 60 migrants have been killed by guards,

this is according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. A

heartbreaking reminder of how desperate the situation is. They say

16 mu. -- 16 migrants including children. And they say the number

could be higher. It cast doubts on the EU migrant deal that was struck

whether it is working. Can we class Turkey as a safe third country? What

do you think? I think it looks difficult because if people,

families and children are being shot, I would probably say no. No

one is in favour of children getting shot. What the story does not say is

why, why the Turkish government, if they have been shooting people dead,

why they are doing it. Clearly there is a crackdown in Turkey to stop

people coming across the border. Huge numbers of Syrians have come

across the border in the past years and there is reference of the story

to the border being called the jihadist highway because of the

number of foreign fighters using it as a gateway. Clearly that is not

children. People in Syria are so desperate. I do not think it will

put people off because the horrible stories of people drowning has not

put people off. We can move on to the Daily Mail with the report they

say from the Royal College of Physicians, which highlights how

dying patients are routinely left dehydrated and in pain in their

final hours. This is a worrying finding and we have to see the full

report and get the full factss but it is deeply worrying with echoes of

the scandals we saw years ago, I cannot remember the hospital. Mid

Staffordshire Hospital, which was devastating. The NHS needs to look

into this. Again, it is more stories about the pressure that the NHS is

under and you feel the NHS is at breaking point. Regardless of

whether you like all owes Jeremy Hunt and there are plenty of people

in the NHS who loathe the Health Secretary, something he said when

the Mid Staffordshire hospital report came out, he said we have to

put compassion in the NHS and this report emphasises that. It does not

cost anything to give somebody a glass of water on their dying day.

We need the true facts of where staff are in terms of who is to

blame. I think you are right about compassion but having demoralised

overworked staff does not help you with your compassion problem. Neil,

a story right up your street. The BBC riding into a storm over sexing

up Shakespeare. Those sex maniacs at the BBC in a new adaptation. It is

the ongoing adaptation of the history plays. I have seen... I saw

the first. There was a lot of homoeroticism in the first one. It

was a Richard. The sexing up of the Bard is not new to this film but

Benedict Cumberbatch apparently is going to be having all sorts and in

particular in a scene not in the original play. Not in the original

script! The BBC is accused of not only sexing up the Bard but

inserting... I do not see the problem, millions of fans of

Benedict Cumberbatch will say this is why I pay my licence fee. Are you

a bit of a... ? Definitely. Big fan. Ready and in Sherlock Holmes and

great Sunday night television. In fairness to the BBC, Sunday night

dramas have been cracking. War and Peace, the BBC was accused of

inserting incest that was not in the novel. How can you mess with Tolstoy

in the name of titillation? You are looking forward to it? I certainly

am. The Daily Express. It sounds like science fiction. The village of

the 100-year-olds. Scientists studying diet to find the key to

long life and this is a village in Italy. It looks like a

science-fiction story when it is put next to a picture of Adele, who is

taking a break. She is not accused of being 100! Apparently 300 people

in a small Italian village... Beautifully pronounced. With a fair

wind and bags of chav! Charm stop this could be useful

because the elderly population, 300 of them have lived over the age of

100. Scientists are now studying the lifestyles in the village and they

are convinced it boils down to Mediterranean diet, daily exercise,

and extensive use of the Herb rosemary. So if you have a bit of

leg of lamb like I did with my dear mother. The British advice is

boring. It is rosemary. They eat rosemary. And they probably have

nice wine. Who wants to live to 100? I have just turned 40 and I find it

a struggle! And you will be shunned on your dying day the NHS. I will

probably need some water! Good to have you here. That is it tonight.

Before you go, these front pages have come in while we have been on

air. The Independent newspaper giving their front page over to

England's world Twenty20 semifinal win against New Zealand. That is the

main picture, anyway. And in the Sun newspaper, turning back digital

clocks on cars, due to a loophole, and is not against the law when a

car is resold. Those are the papers we have just got in and all our

online on the BBC News website where you can read a detailed review of

the papers. Many thanks. That is it, goodbye.

We might be heading into April but given the right conditions you can

get cold nights at this time of year and tonight is a case