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:00:00. > :00:00.non-essential travel to Florida, after the state confirmed that four

:00:00. > :00:16.people probably contracted the Zika virus from local mosquitoes.

:00:17. > :00:23.Hello, and welcome to our lookahead at what the papers will be bringing

:00:24. > :00:27.us tomorrow. With many other political commentator Joe Phillips

:00:28. > :00:35.and Dawn Maria from France who is the editor in chief of Yorkshire

:00:36. > :00:40.Women's Life. The Observer reports of former pensions minister believes

:00:41. > :00:46.the protection for state pensions should be dropped to save billions

:00:47. > :00:49.of pounds. The Sunday express leads on the same story, claiming millions

:00:50. > :00:52.of people face a cut to their retirement income if the government

:00:53. > :01:02.abandons the policy. The Sunday Telegraph says the -- Theresa May

:01:03. > :01:08.will pledge to fight modern slavery. It also reports on the risk of the

:01:09. > :01:13.Zika virus in Florida. The Sunday Times says prominent campaigners to

:01:14. > :01:16.remain in the EU and former Cabinet ministers are in line for knighthood

:01:17. > :01:22.in David Cameron's resignation honours list. The paper also reveals

:01:23. > :01:27.four active terror terror plots inside the UK being investigated why

:01:28. > :01:31.the police. The Mail on Sunday says women who have sex changes on the

:01:32. > :01:35.NHS are being given free fertility treatment so they can have babies

:01:36. > :01:39.after they become men. And the Sunday Mirror reports that the BBC

:01:40. > :01:45.will still face legal action from Cliff Richard despite a promise to

:01:46. > :01:52.play his new records. Let's begin. We will start with the Observer this

:01:53. > :01:55.our, and a story about pensions. And this beginning to suggest, anyway,

:01:56. > :02:01.that some are saying the triple lock, the mechanism by which it is

:02:02. > :02:07.calculated, is simply too expensive. A person who is saying this in an

:02:08. > :02:11.interview with the Observer is a baroness who was a pensions minister

:02:12. > :02:14.in David Cameron's government. She previously advised the Blair

:02:15. > :02:19.government on pensions and what she is basically saying is we can't

:02:20. > :02:24.afford it. At the moment the guarantee which came in in 2010

:02:25. > :02:35.guarantees that pensioners either get inflation or... Average earnings

:02:36. > :02:40.or 2.5%. So given that 2.5% is more than double that rate of inflation

:02:41. > :02:45.at the moment, and double most in the public sector, most pay rises,

:02:46. > :02:49.it is quite unsustainable. The office for Budget responsibility

:02:50. > :02:53.says that if you carry on with the triple lock it will add more than 1%

:02:54. > :02:57.of national income to spending on pensions by the middle of this

:02:58. > :03:02.century. So I think it is a question. Float it and put it out

:03:03. > :03:05.there. Baroness Altmann is never shy about coming out with her own

:03:06. > :03:10.opinions whether they are government policy or anyone else's policy at it

:03:11. > :03:13.is one of those things along with many that the new government is

:03:14. > :03:18.looking at and it is something that the new Secretary of State is going

:03:19. > :03:24.to have to look at as well. And a lot of your readers and subscribers

:03:25. > :03:30.for Yorkshire Women's Life are expats and pensioners, some of them,

:03:31. > :03:33.as well. What are they saying about this issue? They didn't think that

:03:34. > :03:39.we would vote to leave the EU and they are concerned that once Article

:03:40. > :03:43.50 is evoked, what is going to happen in that period. They are

:03:44. > :03:48.worried that pensions will go down so it is a question of watching and

:03:49. > :03:53.waiting to see after we invoke Article 50. A recent survey

:03:54. > :03:56.suggested this current generation of 30 and 40 -year-olds would be the

:03:57. > :04:01.first generation to be poorer than their parents. That is a situation

:04:02. > :04:05.which many politicians will be very uncomfortable about. That's true,

:04:06. > :04:10.and the conversations I have had with my colleagues in Yorkshire have

:04:11. > :04:16.shown there is a real fear and are worried that thirtysomethings are

:04:17. > :04:21.worried about getting housing and jobs. Even if they get a pension

:04:22. > :04:25.there is a real fear. There is a pitch against the younger generation

:04:26. > :04:33.and a lot of older people who have paid into the system, not all

:04:34. > :04:36.pensioners are rich. The other thing is that pensioners of course a vote

:04:37. > :04:41.in droves so this is a very contentious issue. And whatever

:04:42. > :04:47.party wants to be in government it is difficult. As you say, they vote.

:04:48. > :04:52.Roz Altmann was campaigning to get a better deal for women whose pensions

:04:53. > :04:57.are now coming in at 66 instead of 60, which is what we all thought was

:04:58. > :05:02.going to happen. And that was knocked on the head. The younger

:05:03. > :05:06.people, as you said, who are in their 20s and 30s now, are looking

:05:07. > :05:12.at attention drifting further away like a beach ball. They are probably

:05:13. > :05:17.going to work until they are in their 70s. It is one of those things

:05:18. > :05:21.like saving for a pension. If you can spend 20 quid on cups of coffee

:05:22. > :05:26.and buns during the week you can spend 20 quid to keep in a pension

:05:27. > :05:29.pot. We are financially pretty illiterate in this country about

:05:30. > :05:34.saving for pensions, shoring stuff up, and the government is going to

:05:35. > :05:38.have a look and maybe look at the universal benefits pensions like the

:05:39. > :05:44.winter fuel allowance which everybody gets, which not everybody

:05:45. > :05:49.needs. It is certainly going to be very controversial. I want to stay

:05:50. > :05:56.in the Observer at change to Syria, and the headline there. Families in

:05:57. > :06:00.Aleppo fear safe passage may be a trap. This is of course the fact it

:06:01. > :06:04.has been agreed, at least that is what every one is saying, between

:06:05. > :06:08.Russian and Syrian forces, that they will be corridors of allowing people

:06:09. > :06:14.trapped in Aleppo to leave the city. What has happened is Islamic State

:06:15. > :06:19.has lost about ?100 million according to a US Major General, and

:06:20. > :06:22.they are losing ground as well. There is also the continued

:06:23. > :06:26.airstrikes. So people have decided in their hundreds and thousands that

:06:27. > :06:31.rather than wait for humanitarian aid, it is best to actually leave

:06:32. > :06:38.their city. And I feel that that is something that you would do, if you

:06:39. > :06:42.were under such siege and having to deal with Islamic State on one side

:06:43. > :06:46.and air strikes you would take a chance and try and leave through

:06:47. > :06:52.those corridors. If you thought there was somewhere safe to go, and

:06:53. > :06:55.that is one of the issues. I thought people were feeling extremely unsafe

:06:56. > :07:00.and would rather take their chance in Aleppo. They don't trust the

:07:01. > :07:04.Russians and Syrians who are offering them safe passage.

:07:05. > :07:10.Basically saying why would we trust a government which has been bombing

:07:11. > :07:15.us continually? It is a rock and a hard place, the decision. They are

:07:16. > :07:21.not dealing with the UN, not with the Red Crescent. Would you trust

:07:22. > :07:28.them? It is an appalling situation. It is the Stalingrad style siege for

:07:29. > :07:33.2016. It is absolutely horrific, what is going on. Certainly the

:07:34. > :07:38.pictures we have been showing this weekend show a city in ruins.

:07:39. > :07:42.Absolutely. The Sunday Telegraph with a very different story, saying

:07:43. > :07:48.that Theresa May, the new Prime Minister, on a mission to end the

:07:49. > :07:51.evil of slavery. This is a headline which almost any Prime Minister

:07:52. > :07:57.would enjoy seeing attributed to them. Theresa May has hit the ground

:07:58. > :08:03.running, and she has initiatives popping up, and through briefings as

:08:04. > :08:08.well in most of the papers so far, this is very much a personal issue.

:08:09. > :08:11.It is an issue she took very seriously as Home Secretary. It is

:08:12. > :08:17.quite interesting, she is talking about slavery. When you think about

:08:18. > :08:21.slavery, what do you think of? Remember the cocklepickers in

:08:22. > :08:27.Morcombe. Think about every town, every city in this country where

:08:28. > :08:34.there are probably nail bath is, car washes, people living 31 people in a

:08:35. > :08:37.4-bedroom house. These people are working but we don't know the

:08:38. > :08:42.conditions. What she is saying is very much echoing what she said as

:08:43. > :08:47.Home Secretary. The police are not doing enough to investigate it. So

:08:48. > :08:53.she is personally going to cheer a Cabinet committee to actually sort

:08:54. > :08:57.this out and make sure that when people report it, whistleblowers or

:08:58. > :09:01.whatever, it is properly reported. The government did ring in the

:09:02. > :09:07.modern slavery act which she drew up, so it is obviously an issue

:09:08. > :09:09.close to her heart. And she is wasting no time in addressing some

:09:10. > :09:15.of these things she obviously feels she needs to sort out weekly. She

:09:16. > :09:19.has a history of looking at a quality issues, women's issues, so

:09:20. > :09:24.for her to take this forward is no surprise and I am glad she is taking

:09:25. > :09:28.it forward. Slavery is quite hidden in a lot of community so it is often

:09:29. > :09:33.not seen. There is often domestic abuse, people that are au pairs,

:09:34. > :09:38.women that are trafficked, so for police to take it seriously on

:09:39. > :09:44.Theresa May's watch is something I would like to see go forward and I

:09:45. > :09:47.am glad to see it happening now. Moving on to the Sunday Times, it is

:09:48. > :09:53.not their main story, which we discussed in the first session,

:09:54. > :09:59.instead on this power we are going to look at the terrorist story,

:10:00. > :10:04.which the headline is police... We are going to do the review of

:10:05. > :10:09.Cameron cronies at the moment, are we? There is a leaked list of 48

:10:10. > :10:16.remain campaigners, donors, and in other words those that served under

:10:17. > :10:19.David Cameron are now to be given these knighthoods and various

:10:20. > :10:25.honours. The surprising thing is that some of them being mentioned

:10:26. > :10:30.are serving Cabinet ministers. Yes, which is most bizarre and very

:10:31. > :10:34.irregular. One of them is Philip Hammond, the new Chancellor, who is

:10:35. > :10:38.amongst nine people being proposed for a knighthood. It is only a list,

:10:39. > :10:43.and it has been leaked, and it is, as somebody has said here, it is

:10:44. > :10:48.amazing they haven't included Larry the cat. It does appear to include

:10:49. > :10:53.almost all the staff in Downing Street but also people like Will

:10:54. > :10:58.Straw, the director of the remain campaign. There is also the usual

:10:59. > :11:04.controversial thing about big Tory donors. So Ian Taylor, who has

:11:05. > :11:08.handed the Tories more than ?1.5 million and contributed quite a lot

:11:09. > :11:13.to the remain campaign. Whether these actually go through, I mean,

:11:14. > :11:16.they still have to be scrutinised. There is a scrutiny process. And

:11:17. > :11:22.they are party donors. Scrutiny is quite but I think people are a bit

:11:23. > :11:29.sort of ho-hum about honours because very rarely are the people there. On

:11:30. > :11:33.the other hand some of these long serving civil servants and AIDS, you

:11:34. > :11:43.know, it is quite a tough job doing it. It is the only reward you get.

:11:44. > :11:47.-- aides. And the police tracking four terror plots. The idea that

:11:48. > :11:50.there are at least four active terror plots in Britain being

:11:51. > :11:56.investigated by police and security services. Should we be surprised, or

:11:57. > :12:01.is that just worrying? It is worrying, but we have seen the

:12:02. > :12:04.attacks in Germany and France and we are living in heightened security

:12:05. > :12:07.Times at this moment. We are living in a time where Islamic State is

:12:08. > :12:12.actually asking their footsoldiers to make more attacks on western

:12:13. > :12:19.interests. What was interesting here is the same intelligence officer

:12:20. > :12:22.told the Sunday Times that there were four or five cases and the

:12:23. > :12:27.sensible plot where they were planning to actually attacked

:12:28. > :12:29.written. That is quite concerning but it sounds like the intelligence

:12:30. > :12:35.in this country is really good, from what I understand and we need to

:12:36. > :12:39.actually give credit to the secret services and MI5, really. They don't

:12:40. > :12:44.get the credit that they deserve, I think, for keeping us safe. We don't

:12:45. > :12:50.hear, one senses, about lots of plots. I think you're absolutely

:12:51. > :12:53.right. They don't get the credit, and sometimes I think we have all

:12:54. > :12:58.been rather cynical when they say they stopped this, that on the

:12:59. > :13:02.other. In this current climate, when I don't think there is one single

:13:03. > :13:08.person watching but isn't slightly worried they go to work or on

:13:09. > :13:11.holiday, or what they are up to, and if we know that 900 people have been

:13:12. > :13:17.prevented from travelling to Britain, to Syria, to join terror

:13:18. > :13:22.things and this threat, you know, the new security Minister has been

:13:23. > :13:28.having talks with retail bosses in big shopping centres. So those are

:13:29. > :13:34.the sort of things they are looking at is obviously the experience in

:13:35. > :13:39.mainland Europe has shown some holes in security. I want to end on a

:13:40. > :13:46.lighter note, just briefly. All the papers in some form have something

:13:47. > :13:53.on JK Rowling casting a new spell, where Harry Potter and the Cursed

:13:54. > :14:00.Child, and what I like about this photo is her shoes, with this winged

:14:01. > :14:05.angel on the back. And the lovely thing about this is the show has

:14:06. > :14:10.been in preview for six weeks and nobody has revealed the plot. So it

:14:11. > :14:14.is a bit like the Mousetrap, you don't say a word. It is lovely that

:14:15. > :14:19.people have entered into the spirit of things and it is supposed to be a

:14:20. > :14:25.fabulous show. And the producer of it, Sonia Friedman, has persuaded JK

:14:26. > :14:29.Rowling to come out with something else. And if it encourages people to

:14:30. > :14:35.read it almost doesn't matter what it is. I am always somebody who has

:14:36. > :14:38.encouraged people to read and that is something I am passionate about

:14:39. > :14:46.and if that is what happens here, and that is a good thing, obviously.

:14:47. > :14:52.Dataset for the papers for this power. -- that is it for the papers.