19/09/2016

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:00:13. > :00:15.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

:00:16. > :00:18.With me are Rob Merrick, Deputy Political Editor

:00:19. > :00:26.of the Independent, and broadcaster Natalie Haynes.

:00:27. > :00:33.Let's have a look at the front pages. We are going to start with

:00:34. > :00:37.the Times, reporting that NHS doctors will be required to register

:00:38. > :00:40.income from private work. The Financial Times focuses on Germany,

:00:41. > :00:47.where Angela Merkel has expressed regret over the refugee policy. Her

:00:48. > :00:50.party suffered defeat in regional elections. The Metro leads with the

:00:51. > :00:58.conviction of Christopher Halliwell for the murder of a woman. The

:00:59. > :01:02.Express says that Theresa May has rejected the idea that a good trade

:01:03. > :01:06.deal with the EU is impossible without free movement of people. The

:01:07. > :01:12.Guardian leads with the catch of the prime suspect for the New York bomb

:01:13. > :01:15.attack. The Telegraph has the same, saying that police are investigating

:01:16. > :01:20.whether the suspect was involved in other Islamist plots. The Mirror as

:01:21. > :01:24.the story about an illegal puppy farm where the owners made ?100,000

:01:25. > :01:31.but kept the animals in squalid conditions. The Mail says that GPs

:01:32. > :01:36.surgeries will offer consultations via WebCam in an attempt to reduce

:01:37. > :01:42.waiting times. We start in America, a New York bomb's Islamist links,

:01:43. > :01:47.front page of the Telegraph. 29 injured, amazingly nobody killed

:01:48. > :01:50.over the weekend in a series of what the police are now saying were

:01:51. > :01:57.coordinated attacks. Yes, and more by luck than judgment for some of

:01:58. > :02:01.the bounds -- bombs that they found didn't go off, this one which did go

:02:02. > :02:05.off was in a dumpster. And then an enormous number of questions. The

:02:06. > :02:10.first, most urgent one, who is it and can we catch them, is now

:02:11. > :02:15.answered, it appears, but the endless questions that produces, who

:02:16. > :02:19.were his contacts, are there other people, they seem to have suggested

:02:20. > :02:25.there isn't a cell he is part of in the New York area, so there's that.

:02:26. > :02:28.Five of his relatives have been stopped and questioned. He appears

:02:29. > :02:34.to have gone to and from Afghanistan. It is being roundly

:02:35. > :02:38.politicised, as you'd expect, by Donald Trump and in rebuttal, by

:02:39. > :02:43.Hillary Clinton. This all plays into the US election campaign. The

:02:44. > :02:51.authorities suggesting that these Islamist links, as a result of him

:02:52. > :02:54.going over to Pakistan, Afghanistan, not necessarily linking up with

:02:55. > :03:01.anyone else who may be involved in this specific plot in the States.

:03:02. > :03:05.That's right, as soon as you have considered the people who mercifully

:03:06. > :03:09.were not killed, that were injured, you immediately think about the US

:03:10. > :03:12.elections only six or seven weeks away. Donald Trump is quick out of

:03:13. > :03:18.the traps. He immediately launches what is a very familiar rant we have

:03:19. > :03:21.heard many times, if only he was president and he was tough and they

:03:22. > :03:26.didn't have a week immigration policy that he alleges that this

:03:27. > :03:31.sort of thing wouldn't happen. When we read about the prime suspect,

:03:32. > :03:36.it's a familiar tale. He's an American citizen, who in a fried

:03:37. > :03:41.chicken restaurant and loves cars. That is what the people interviewed

:03:42. > :03:44.today were apparently saying. His previous clashes with the law have

:03:45. > :03:50.the bane -- have been about noise disruption. He could have been

:03:51. > :03:58.radicalise, but the suspicion of them is that people are seizing on

:03:59. > :04:02.because of radical Islam to almost give themselves a cause in their own

:04:03. > :04:05.lives to carry out some sort of dramatic, headline grabbing act

:04:06. > :04:11.rather than having a history of radical Islam. The first week of

:04:12. > :04:17.that leaves you in that direction. Perhaps there are other suspects,

:04:18. > :04:21.the Telegraph suggests one person would need outside assistance to

:04:22. > :04:25.make aid bombs but elsewhere there are quotes that there is nobody

:04:26. > :04:30.connected with it and no terror cell. The fact is, you can get

:04:31. > :04:36.fertiliser and a timing device, you can get nails and all of these

:04:37. > :04:43.things off a shelf in Walmart. Yes. And loads of guns! That's another

:04:44. > :04:49.matter. Yes, but the numbers are not super convincing in terms of, you

:04:50. > :04:58.know, in order to make bombs in the US, where so many things we would

:04:59. > :05:00.consider to be weapons of war are readily available, it seems

:05:01. > :05:08.impossible to suggest that could be so. Back here, the Times, doctors

:05:09. > :05:13.told to review all income from private work. It is to expose

:05:14. > :05:17.conflicts of interest. A long time ago, before the junior doctors

:05:18. > :05:22.dispute, which feels like it's been going on for years, they were trying

:05:23. > :05:26.to enforce a new contract on the consultants. I think I'm right to

:05:27. > :05:30.say that they broke away from that attempt. This reminds us that at

:05:31. > :05:34.some point they have to go back to consultants and try and impose a new

:05:35. > :05:38.contract on them. That might be tougher, because the consultants are

:05:39. > :05:41.at the top of the tree and presumably have more power, but I

:05:42. > :05:45.suspect they might have less public sympathy. We think about the fact

:05:46. > :05:48.that they may not be available on weekends and they are probably on

:05:49. > :05:53.the golf course, that's the stereotype. This story suggesting

:05:54. > :05:58.they will be forced to expose private earnings. It says that about

:05:59. > :06:02.half of 46,000 consultants carried out private work. There don't seem

:06:03. > :06:07.to be any figures for how much they might earn. A figure from a decade

:06:08. > :06:11.ago of 30 4000. If they are forced to reveal private earnings, they

:06:12. > :06:16.will oppose it fiercely, I'm sure. The chairman of consultants saying

:06:17. > :06:24.here it will be used for political reasons. The reason would be to try

:06:25. > :06:30.and shame the consultants into doing more NHS work. On the face of it, it

:06:31. > :06:33.seems fair enough, doesn't it, if there is a potential conflict of

:06:34. > :06:38.interest? You should have to declare that, surely? The conflict of

:06:39. > :06:44.interest seems to be at one extreme, an ugly suggestion that perhaps,

:06:45. > :06:48.let's say, a not very ethical doctor might allow is waiting list to

:06:49. > :06:51.extent on the NHS because then he would get more private patient.

:06:52. > :06:58.Given that the average earnings of these consultants are ?112,000 per

:06:59. > :07:03.year, call me extremely naive, but that seems to be quite a whack of

:07:04. > :07:08.money. Seems like perhaps a very small number of not very nice people

:07:09. > :07:12.might then go, perhaps I can also do this to my financial advantage. You

:07:13. > :07:17.would assume that the conflict of interest was relatively rare. And

:07:18. > :07:21.that we were trying to think before we came in of other jobs where you

:07:22. > :07:24.have to declare if you have another income, other than being a

:07:25. > :07:27.politician, because then the conflict of interest would be over

:07:28. > :07:31.it. I don't think you have to declare it if you are a teacher and

:07:32. > :07:34.do private tutoring. Nobody as far as I know is that, you know those

:07:35. > :07:40.teachers who deliberately teach badly to an exam so they can get

:07:41. > :07:46.extra tutoring money... It is to shame consultants into doing this

:07:47. > :07:52.other NHS work. Using junior doctors to sweep up. They are trying to

:07:53. > :07:57.force junior doctors into working longer hours and the same must refer

:07:58. > :08:05.to consultants. The Guardian, attempt at peace deal, as key labour

:08:06. > :08:09.vote nears. Mr Corbyn is going to win, but the point is, will he be

:08:10. > :08:14.able to get back the majority of the Parliamentary party? Sigh and people

:08:15. > :08:19.lots desperate lots of people might wonder why this subject is so

:08:20. > :08:22.important because with Labour so far away from power it doesn't feel very

:08:23. > :08:32.important. The reason it is important, I think, is that, if

:08:33. > :08:35.Corbyn agrees and the NEC vote in elections to the Shadow Cabinet, it

:08:36. > :08:38.would provide a reasonable justification for some of the big

:08:39. > :08:42.names who quit over the summer to come back, on different terms, that

:08:43. > :08:47.they had been elected rather than chosen by the leader. Perhaps there

:08:48. > :08:50.is still going to be a showdown meeting tomorrow. This story

:08:51. > :08:55.suggests perhaps a peace deal is in the offing and it won't quite be the

:08:56. > :08:59.showdown with expected and perhaps there will be a deal under which the

:09:00. > :09:04.Shadow Cabinet, or some of it is elected, with the proviso that if

:09:05. > :09:08.they then Mr Hague and are seen to be undermining Corbyn, that he would

:09:09. > :09:17.have power to remove them. -- if they then misbehaves. Perhaps this

:09:18. > :09:22.just postpones the inevitable. Jeremy Corbyn knows that, if he is

:09:23. > :09:26.to have any success at all, at least at PMQs, he needs the mob behind

:09:27. > :09:32.him, baying and screaming and shouting and backing him to be held.

:09:33. > :09:36.Yes, as opposed to giving him the baleful eye. Saying nothing. He

:09:37. > :09:42.needs them as much as they might need a job in the Shadow Cabinet. I

:09:43. > :09:50.think that's true. It doesn't always seem that he thinks that. There's a

:09:51. > :09:54.lot of talk about the membership. It seems that certainly his rhetorical

:09:55. > :09:58.choice is to say, basically, I have the support of hundreds of thousands

:09:59. > :10:02.of people and it sort of doesn't matter what a bunch of people who

:10:03. > :10:06.happen to work in the same building as me think. Perhaps that is true,

:10:07. > :10:10.but it doesn't look like it is true from the outside. From the outside,

:10:11. > :10:13.it looks like a backstabbing mess. I think they probably do need each

:10:14. > :10:25.other. Is that there are enough to say? He need some of them, purely

:10:26. > :10:30.from a numerical point of view. He runs the Queen 's official

:10:31. > :10:32.opposition. They need to scrutinise legislation, to hold government to

:10:33. > :10:37.account. Purely for that reason, he needs more people. If he is to be

:10:38. > :10:41.able to claim that he can somehow bring Labour back together, he has

:10:42. > :10:45.to to persuade some of the big names to come back, and this might be a

:10:46. > :10:54.way of doing it, at least in the short term. This is all for you,

:10:55. > :11:00.algorithms. I love them! Humans can beat algorithms by relying on gut

:11:01. > :11:06.reading. This focuses on 18 hedge funds and edges, not a statistically

:11:07. > :11:11.significant sample. I would imagine there are more than that in the

:11:12. > :11:15.world. -- 18 hedge funds managers. It turns out that gut instinct is a

:11:16. > :11:23.more reliable indication of trading them algorithms. And so it's

:11:24. > :11:27.interesting, I suppose. It's not, as I say, authoritative, not least

:11:28. > :11:30.because I would guess that people who don't have very good gut

:11:31. > :11:34.instincts have long since lost their job, having lost their hedge funds

:11:35. > :11:39.hundreds of million pounds in a matter of seconds. Wood George W

:11:40. > :11:48.bush famously said that he uses his got to make decisions. That went

:11:49. > :11:54.well! Your gut tells you good things, doesn't it? This story

:11:55. > :11:57.introduces a flat in the -- a fascinating new word which I've

:11:58. > :12:01.never heard, the ability to sense the state of 1's own body and

:12:02. > :12:06.apparently count your own heartbeat without holding your pulse. I know

:12:07. > :12:13.that my number of heartbeat went up when I was asked to talk about his

:12:14. > :12:18.story involving algorithms. Eye of the tiger, that's what happened to

:12:19. > :12:21.me. It appears to be good news for hedge fund traders, that they can

:12:22. > :12:28.convince people they are better than algorithms and still received

:12:29. > :12:31.obscene bonuses. Finally, the Brownlee brothers, what a story,

:12:32. > :12:37.brotherly love, one helping the other over the finish line. I almost

:12:38. > :12:42.can't talk about this without crying. In a minute, when my

:12:43. > :12:48.mascara... I can barely talk about it. In which Alistair Brownlee

:12:49. > :12:53.defend his Olympic gold and we watch Jonny, who won silver at Rio and had

:12:54. > :12:57.won bronze at London, we watched him be outstripped by his brother. We

:12:58. > :13:03.were all going, well, the World Series and it will be fine. Alistair

:13:04. > :13:07.couldn't win the World Series, because he missed races at the

:13:08. > :13:12.start, so it was Jonny's for the losing and he was in the lead but it

:13:13. > :13:17.was so hot and he overheated and he got disorientated. To see his

:13:18. > :13:20.brother just stop, he came and picked him up and dragged him over

:13:21. > :13:24.the line. People have said, he should have left him because he

:13:25. > :13:28.would have got help quicker, but I'm not sure that is true. He was on a

:13:29. > :13:33.stretcher about the second after crossing the finishing line. My

:13:34. > :13:36.favourite bit is where Alistair is basically carrying his brother and

:13:37. > :13:40.he basically pushes them over so he gets there first. A girl could cry

:13:41. > :13:48.about this. We would all do this for our brother, wouldn't we must remark

:13:49. > :13:52.my brother is heavier than me! I have got a big brother and I can't

:13:53. > :13:57.imagine I would do that. Surely the greatest satisfaction comes from

:13:58. > :14:02.beating your own... It doesn't feel like sport! You are head of the

:14:03. > :14:05.Parliamentary football team as well. Here it comes.

:14:06. > :14:11.Don't forget, all the front pages are on the BBC News

:14:12. > :14:14.website, where you can read a detailed review of the papers.

:14:15. > :14:20.It's all there for you seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers.

:14:21. > :14:24.with each night's edition of The Papers being posted

:14:25. > :14:25.on the page shortly after we've finished.

:14:26. > :14:28.Thank you, Rob Merrick and Natalie Haynes.