02/09/2016 The Papers

-- which is likely to see Usain Bolt's last performance before

retiring. I am joined by Kate Devlin and and

Oliver Wright, policy editor of The Times. Thanks for coming in. The

front pages: The FT leads with a host Brexit future of the city and

how it all reinvent itself after its biggest shake-up in almost 30 years.

-- it well. A photograph of mother to raise on the front of the

Independent. 19 years after her death she is to be canonised at the

Vatican on Sunday. The Telegraph says obese people are routinely

refused operations by the NHS. The express runs a warning from the

French interior minister as its lead story. It says he is going to

bulldoze the migrant camp at Calais. The Guardian has a picture of the

Bishop of Grantham saying he is the first Church of England bishop to

come out as gay. The Times has a report by its war correspondent

saying a civilian rebel who once shot him is now working for the CIA.

And watch out for the giant cannibal spiders in your homes, according to

the daily Star. Lots of different choice. We will start with the

Telegraph. And the story about the NHS denying operations to the ODs. I

wouldn't say it is particularly new. -- obese. This features a

constituency in North Yorkshire. Yes. They are talking about doing

this because of money reasons. There are financial concerns. I think they

will cause a lot of concern for the public. On the face of it, it is not

so much denying but postponed. On the face of it there is a sensible

health argument. People will be given a year if they are obese to

try and lose weight, six months if they are a smoker to come off

cigarettes, and then they will have to wait until there are operations.

This has been going on in the NHS for a long time. This is one health

authority in one part of the country. There is probably a decent

clinical reason for doing it. But if you need a hip replacement, they are

much more likely to be successful in the long term if people are not

obese. It seems to be a realisation by the Health Authority in North

Yorkshire that if you say to people, well, if you have a BMI rating of

over 30 you probably ought to lose some weight. If you don't, you will

have to wait. This has been dressed up as an NHS crisis, more about

rationing, but I think this has been going on for a while. What was your

however? This is what people have worried about for years. It is the

slippery slope. The fear is that if money problems means we will focus

on who we will not give operations to, then big money problems mean

fewer operations to wider groups of people. If you are obese, actually,

not having a hip or knee operation is probably unlikely to make you

lose any weight. Not least because you will be struggling to walk

around. Surely the basic point is that you eat less you lose weight.

As much as it is about mobility. There is a certain point. The NHS

has always rationed. There was this public perception that was put about

by politicians that the NHS is there for everyone. If you have a problem

it will be there for you. But in different ways the NHS has always

carried out a degree of rationing. Financial pressures are making it

more acute than in the past, but I'm not sure it is a huge change. To be

clear, it says the ban will not apply to cancer patients or those

with some conditions which could become life threatening, or if

exceptional circumstances can be shown. It does say that the

restrictions echo others in Hertfordshire, North West and London

in the past two years. On this particular thing, particularly about

money. Also, they have to be careful that they are not just postponing

further problems further down the line. If you don't treat people they

can start to develop other health problems which are linked. They can

turn out to be much more expensive than the NHS finally gets around to

getting the money together to treat them. And the big fear is the start

of the slippery slope, what the critics would say. A lot of people

out there are smokers, they've always worried this would be coming

you know, something that would start happening on a grand scale. I think

they will be worried about this story. The Times, this is quite a

complicated story, but it shows the murkiness of the sides, the blurred

lines of the sides of the war in Syria. On one level this is a

personal story about what happened to him and what happened to the man

who shot him when he was snapped in Syria. That was in 2014. -- when he

was kidnapped. This has much wider implications for us in the West

choosing sides in that conflict in Syria. Anthony's piece is saying in

a nutshell that the man that shot him twice in the leg when he was

kidnapped in Syria has now appeared in a video as part of a CIA backed

militia group in Syria. He is talking about the man he knew and

what happened to him and the betrayal in that sense. He is

talking about what Betty went on by the CIA when this guy came over from

Turkey, it appears, quite recently. -- vetting. What did the USA do when

they said you are against the Assad regime, we will supply you with

weapons, we will provide everything you need. Questions of who are you

supporting, what was he then, what is he now, and it is an interesting

and important piece. The irony is that Anthony Loyd was denounced as

being a CIA spy. And it appears this man is now working with the CIA. It

also appears to be an opportunist. He kidnapped Anthony Loyd because he

thought he could ransom him and make money from it. Now he appears to be

working, masquerading as a rebel. It does ask very serious questions. And

when kidnaps happen, it can go to the highest bidder, and sometimes

the highest bidder could be Isis. The independent, the future of

Hinkley Point nuclear-power station comes up in a couple of pages. It

makes the front page of the Independent and the Telegraph. The

angle on the independent is the headline that Theresa May has flown

out to China for the first major summit. It is in China. And they're

likely to be some awkward questions asked about Theresa May and the

future of Hinkley Point project which is being financed largely by

the Chinese. Theresa May will come face-to-face with the Chinese

premier, we think. That will be an awkward meeting entirely. The

Chinese were flabbergasted and not a little angry a couple of weeks ago.

It put a pause of this multi-billion pound nuclear-power plant. They have

issued a series of threats about the UK Government and what it thinks it

is doing over this. There is going to be a tense weekend entirely for

Theresa May. The angle on the Daily Telegraph is different, suggesting

Theresa May is a long way off from making a decision and will not be

pressured into it. She always had this impression of taking a long

time to make decisions. The interesting thing is how she adapts

in Downing Street when they are pressured to do things within a

short timescale. Much greater than they perhaps were in the Home

Office. She appears to be sticking to the way in which she behaved

before which was, I will take my time over it. This could be a case

in point. This is her first foreign summit. It is in China. An

international meeting of the G20. She has got a meeting with the

Chinese premier. The Chinese have made their concern and frankly

displeasure already clear. If she is intending to give the go-ahead to

Hinkley in the end, not doing it at this meeting is stupid. Because the

Chinese know how to humiliate someone. I think it will be

difficult for her. The decision about Hinkley Point is difficult for

Theresa May. The reality is, if she doesn't go ahead with Hinkley Point

she has to fill the gap to keep the lights on. Hinkley Point is actually

quite advanced. How you will do that and keep within your carbon target

will be difficult. If you do decide to go ahead, why hang around, why

cause yourself the extra diplomatic headache by going to China and

saying I haven't made up my mind yet. You should probably get on with

it. We will have to see another diplomatic nightmare. Barack Obama

said that the UK would be the back of the queue after the Brexit vote.

That will be a difficult one. She will have to have different stances

to the Chinese as to the Americans. Fly on the wall. She needs trade

deals from all of them. The meeting scheduled at the end of the G20, the

British press pack will be interested in that and they will be

shepherded onto the plane within minutes of the meeting ending. It

has been carefully choreographed to avoid trouble. A story of a

different kind in the Guardian. The first Church of England bishop has

come out as being gay. This is Nicholas Chamberlain, the Bishop of

Grantham. This raises all sorts of questions. It is said that

Archbishop Welby has been told and he has said he is in a long-term and

committed relationship. He is fine about it. He doesn't feel misled

about it. Interesting story. Yes. The other interesting bit to it is

that this doesn't look entirely voluntary. It appears the Sunday

newspaper got hold of the story and was going to run it this weekend. As

a consequence of it, Bishop Chamberlain has come out in advance

and said, I'm gay, I'm in a relationship, it is a celibate

relationship, therefore it doesn't break any of the Church of England

rules. I was going to say, that's the crucial bit, isn't it? It is.

One thinks back to a few years ago and Jeffrey Johns who was also

openly gay, and there was a huge row about whether or not he could be

made a bishop. In the end he went to St Albans, which was gay, sort of,

post which was high in the church but it wasn't specifically Bishop.

The ramifications will be big. What do you make of it? It's really

interesting, both the grown-up attitude that there is within the

church hierarchy, and also their childish attitude. It seems to be a

case of do ask don't tell, but don't tell the public you do. It puts them

in a very difficult position if you are just Welby. A couple of weeks

ago he talks about his horror of how the Church of England treats

lesbians and gay men. -- if you are Welby. Yet there is this agreement

at the top of the church hierarchy that in order to keep everything

together, to keep the show on the road, that they have to tie

themselves up in these knots. I'm not terribly sure that is what

people want in their church leaders. What I think they want is some

leadership. Let's see what the ramifications of that. Onto the

Daily Mail. It looks like the beads have had it. These plastic beads

which are supposed to be in everything from toothpaste to shower

gels, etc, which have been choking the planet. It looks like the

campaign has succeeded. This is a huge victory. They have been

campaigning. It was a quick victory. I'm looking at the headlines, they

appear to have started this on the 25th of August, and tomorrow is the

3rd of September, pretty much one week. One wonders if they knew they

would win this campaign before they set it off. You are in a cynical

mood. Or is this the kind of thing that happens with new governments,

keen to keep the press happy. This has captured people's imagination.

It has. It has been an issue for quite a while. There is not much

doubt that these things should be banned. Most of the major

manufacturers were getting to the stage where they were phasing it out

anyway. I think the government is saying that they will ban it by the

end of next year. I think almost all major manufacturers are saying that

they were not going to be producing this stuff anyway. Not hugely

problematic. An easy campaign to win. Not too many dilemmas involved

in it. It is a product whose time has probably come. And when it they

have. The FT weekend, the last one, animal farm is low ill wind as study

takes shine off healthy country life. Who would like to explain

this? I love this story. It is fabulous. Well done to the FT for

putting it on their FrontPage. It would not work half as well if it

was on the front page on a Monday or Tuesday. -- front page. People will

splatter over their cornflakes as they make their way to their country

homes for the weekend. To realise it was all for nothing. And to realise

that the country air is polluting their lungs just as much as it was

in the towns and cities. And we are looking at the animal waste, which

is the pollutant, and ammonia in it. Yes, that's the problem. If you

think it is great that you living next door to lovely farm animals --

you are living next door to lovely farm animals, perhaps it would be

better to be more isolated and on an island. The animal farms are indeed

causing the problems. Does this spell an end to your country pile? I

wish I had one. I don't know. It is a counterintuitive story. You think

all of the fresh air Darcey wonders. It is kind of interesting. -- does

your lungs wonders. There has always been this focus on pollutant in the

cities. Carbon dioxide in the air, but it is a broad and rounder

question we need to be looking at. Always thinking that it is an urban

problem. People living within one kilometre of 15 farms would be 1%

worse. Gorgeous detail. The fact that if you see hay some -- the fact

that if you see some haze drifting in the distance, you might just

think it is the lovely warmth, but that is the pollutant. You are in

fine mood this evening. All of the Papers are online. Also, you can see

us there with each night's addition being posted on the page shortly

after we finish. Thanks to Kate and Oliver. Goodbyes. -- goodbye.

Good evening. We will start with a quick look at the latest satellite

sequence. It started pretty cloudy across England and Wales. Some rain

to go with it. But it has been moving