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:00:00. > :00:13.trade deal in Brussels, following weeks of uncertainty.

:00:14. > :00:16.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:17. > :00:21.With me are the Home Affairs Editor of the Evening Standard,

:00:22. > :00:24.Martin Bentham, and the broadcaster Rachel Shabi.

:00:25. > :00:28.We also call you a writer and journalist, Rachel. Nice to have you

:00:29. > :00:30.here. Let's look at the front pages. The Telegraph leads on what it

:00:31. > :00:33.describes as the financial crisis It says nearly half of NHS

:00:34. > :00:37.authorities in England are drawing up plans to cut hospital beds

:00:38. > :00:39.and a third propose to close or downgrade Accident

:00:40. > :00:44.and Emergency departments. The Independent leads

:00:45. > :00:46.with the US Election campaign - it shows Jennifer Lopez

:00:47. > :00:49.campaigning with Hillary Clinton as she tries to appeal

:00:50. > :00:52.to the hispanic population. As the latest polls show

:00:53. > :00:55.Donald Trump may be winning over That is following the new FBI

:00:56. > :01:05.enquiry into Mrs Clinton's e-mails. The paper says a group of MPS say

:01:06. > :01:10.Theresa May's claims that the government is putting

:01:11. > :01:13.?10 billion extra into the National The Bank of England Governor's

:01:14. > :01:16.future is the front page It says Mr Carney is likely to make

:01:17. > :01:20.a statement this week ending speculation that he will step down

:01:21. > :01:23.before Britain leaves the EU. The devastation of Italy's

:01:24. > :01:25.earthquake makes the front page of the Metro, the worst

:01:26. > :01:28.quake in nearly 40 years. a Republican, of meddling in

:01:29. > :01:38.politics as it opens a new inquiry into Hillary Clinton days before

:01:39. > :01:49.the country chooses We will start with the Financial

:01:50. > :01:53.Times, Mark Carney stands ready to serve a full eight year term at the

:01:54. > :01:56.Bank of England. It was a bit controversial when he did not sign

:01:57. > :02:02.up for the full amount in the first place. To be fair to him, the reason

:02:03. > :02:07.was he has a family, four daughters, and they all had to come over here

:02:08. > :02:11.to settle. That is what he said at the time, because he was not sure

:02:12. > :02:16.how it would go, so committed to five years and would stay on. Last

:02:17. > :02:22.week or so, there was speculation he would not stay on, because he has

:02:23. > :02:25.been under attack from pro-Brexit MPs, and was upset by something

:02:26. > :02:31.Theresa May said about economic policy in her conference speech, at

:02:32. > :02:34.the Tory party conference, that he was going to decide and announce

:02:35. > :02:39.this week that he wasn't going to stay. Now the Financial Times says

:02:40. > :02:44.he is, although it is heavily caveat it. It is a great journalistic

:02:45. > :02:47.story. It talks about leaning strongly to towards the state in his

:02:48. > :02:53.post, so they are nailing their colours firmly to the mast, whilst

:02:54. > :02:55.at the same time in classic journalistic fashion giving

:02:56. > :03:00.themselves an escape route if he somehow decides later this week that

:03:01. > :03:05.he isn't going to. It is not certain, but it would be useful to

:03:06. > :03:10.have that continuity as we leave the European Union. You would think so,

:03:11. > :03:15.wouldn't you. I find it quite strange that there are, as you say,

:03:16. > :03:20.members of the Conservative government that have been

:03:21. > :03:27.undermining him, shall we say? Making comments that aren't entirely

:03:28. > :03:35.supportive. It seems a strange time to want to rock the boat in this

:03:36. > :03:40.way. The accusations are of him that during the EU referendum, and since

:03:41. > :03:46.then, he has been gloomy about the economic forecast. Well, you might

:03:47. > :03:49.just say that he has been value neutral, and the forecast is gloomy,

:03:50. > :03:56.as opposed to him spinning it in that way. It does seem a bit

:03:57. > :04:00.ridiculous to be making these comments about him. And certainly,

:04:01. > :04:07.at this time when you would need continuity. I think, beforehand, it

:04:08. > :04:10.is not what he has said since, but before the referendum, suggesting

:04:11. > :04:15.the likelihood of a recession if we voted for Brexit, and that growth

:04:16. > :04:18.would go down and it was likely to have a negative effect in the

:04:19. > :04:24.short-term, that was seen as a red rag by some people, and he was

:04:25. > :04:29.criticised in a select committee omitted before the vote. And of

:04:30. > :04:33.course, some of that has not been proved quite correct. It is not

:04:34. > :04:38.entirely incorrect that the sterling value has gone down, but we haven't

:04:39. > :04:42.seen that effect in the short-term, we haven't seen a recession, but it

:04:43. > :04:47.is possible we could do so at some point. Like when we leave the EU.

:04:48. > :04:52.Which is what has forecast was. When we leave the EU, there will be a

:04:53. > :04:57.recession. We haven't left yet. I then think he did say that. I have

:04:58. > :05:03.got to say that I think he was giving perhaps... he was attacked

:05:04. > :05:07.for saying anything at all and intervening in a political way. I

:05:08. > :05:12.voted for Brexit, and didn't believe the scare stories, but I think he

:05:13. > :05:16.was doing what he felt to be the right thing. He argued that the time

:05:17. > :05:20.that it would be negligent not to have said what he thought. I think

:05:21. > :05:25.it is right that he does stay on, and hopefully he will do. If he is

:05:26. > :05:29.asked for his opinion, he will give it, wouldn't you think. Let's look

:05:30. > :05:42.at the Daily Telegraph. Why almost got the wrong paper. Hospital beds

:05:43. > :05:47.and a loonie units face axe -- accident and emergency units face

:05:48. > :05:50.axe. It will appeal to the government to step in, won't it,

:05:51. > :05:58.Rachel. The committee has said that almost half of NHS authorities are

:05:59. > :06:01.drawing up emergency plans to cut hospital beds, but also to close

:06:02. > :06:06.down accident and emergency departments. This is, as a

:06:07. > :06:10.consequence of what they have been warning about for some time now, and

:06:11. > :06:16.the warnings have become more and more severe of this massive

:06:17. > :06:24.shortfall in cash. The NHS now needs a huge cash injection to save it and

:06:25. > :06:29.it comes at a time when we have a government that is not only

:06:30. > :06:34.underfunded health and social care for the past eight years, but shows

:06:35. > :06:37.no signs of wanting to reverse that. I think the government would query

:06:38. > :06:43.what you have said that, because I think the real question is that they

:06:44. > :06:50.say they have put in eight billion, but Theresa May says she has put in

:06:51. > :06:55.10 billion. The government says it has delivered that, and it has put

:06:56. > :06:57.more in now, and that has questioned, and Sarah Wollaston, the

:06:58. > :07:01.chairman of the select committee, who is writing a letter tomorrow,

:07:02. > :07:04.saying the figure is not right. Although more money has been put in.

:07:05. > :07:09.The problem is that the extra money that is going in, it is not

:07:10. > :07:13.sufficient to cope with the vast the increasing demand in all sorts of

:07:14. > :07:19.ways. That is the classic problem the NHS has faced year after year,

:07:20. > :07:23.after year. It is a question of priority. We want a functioning NHS,

:07:24. > :07:28.and we need to invest more in it. There is the issue of demand. It is

:07:29. > :07:33.the same as GPs, they are overloaded because more people go to them. The

:07:34. > :07:41.GPs are overlaid did because the NHS is trapped. It is a knock on effect.

:07:42. > :07:45.It is something that seems to get more and more problematic. This is

:07:46. > :07:50.suggesting that the consequence of this is fairly dire things will

:07:51. > :07:57.happen. There were warnings, weren't there. There have been for quite

:07:58. > :08:02.some time. We are starting to see what it might look like. Let's stay

:08:03. > :08:09.with the Daily Telegraph, Britain to ditch its unfair fishing quotas

:08:10. > :08:12.after Brexit. This is supposed to provide a good deal, says George

:08:13. > :08:18.Eustace, the fisheries minister. What is going to change? One

:08:19. > :08:22.straightforward change would be that we are not part of the EU fishing

:08:23. > :08:27.quota system. Then we would strike a new arrangement of some sort, of

:08:28. > :08:31.which that is reinstated. The basic point about exiting the EU is that

:08:32. > :08:35.we would regain control of our fishing waters, fish our own waters

:08:36. > :08:40.and decide who fishes them. The argument is that therefore we would,

:08:41. > :08:44.in effect, be able to fish more and not have to restrict our fishing in

:08:45. > :08:49.the way that we do at the moment. Spanish trawlers most notoriously,

:08:50. > :08:53.babe may want to come in and take a large amount of fish that we have.

:08:54. > :08:59.That is the lodgement. The reality may be a different kettle of fish!

:09:00. > :09:06.If there aren't quotas of some sort, we could have overfishing again.

:09:07. > :09:18.We will overfishing on our own terms would be your argument. We might. Of

:09:19. > :09:25.course, fishing goes on and so we can still fish in a responsible way,

:09:26. > :09:30.just more of it. So there are two questions about how me fish can be

:09:31. > :09:33.taken out, and how the fish that is the right amount to response we take

:09:34. > :09:41.out is divided between the different countries that can fish. It is a

:09:42. > :09:44.whole other thing to sort out. Theoretically, what George Eustace

:09:45. > :09:48.says is correct. But he doesn't very much specified. He just suggests

:09:49. > :09:51.that things will change any fundamental way and so on. We would

:09:52. > :09:56.hope to get a better deal. We would hope to get a better deal. You can

:09:57. > :10:01.apply that line to just about everything. We don't know, but we

:10:02. > :10:06.feel like we will be OK. We have hidden cards that we haven't played

:10:07. > :10:10.yet. It has been a bugbear for people in fishing towns for a long

:10:11. > :10:19.time. So of course, to those people it will be a very appealing

:10:20. > :10:25.argument, perhaps. Let's look at the i. Trump closes the gap on Clinton

:10:26. > :10:28.to two points, the polls say. The Democrats hit out at latest

:10:29. > :10:35.investigation. This was an investigation that we understand the

:10:36. > :10:39.FBI has opened, e-mails on Hillary Clinton's Private e-mail account.

:10:40. > :10:43.But there has been criticism of the FBI director for doing it so close

:10:44. > :10:49.to the election. The Democrats and others, to be fair, have pointed out

:10:50. > :10:55.that it is a bit strange to have made these comments about the

:10:56. > :10:59.e-mails just ten days ahead of the election. Particularly since we

:11:00. > :11:03.don't really know whether this is a new batch of e-mails, it could be an

:11:04. > :11:07.old batch, it could be something that has already been investigated,

:11:08. > :11:12.they may not even be her e-mails. There are a lot of unknowns about

:11:13. > :11:20.this. A, it wasn't qualified in that way, and it being released so close

:11:21. > :11:29.to the election has caused ire in Hillary Clinton's the income. Harry

:11:30. > :11:33.Reid, who is a senator, a Democratic senator, leader in the Senate, he

:11:34. > :11:37.has come out saying that the FBI director may have broken the law by

:11:38. > :11:41.publicly disclosing these steps so close to election day. But if he

:11:42. > :11:47.hadn't and it had come out later, would that have been worse? Like

:11:48. > :11:58.Mark Carney, if he does not say something before a crucial vote, you

:11:59. > :12:03.win or lose either way, don't you? In this case, if he had sat on it

:12:04. > :12:06.and it had turned out to be incriminating, and after the

:12:07. > :12:12.election Hillary Clinton wins and there is some terrible revelation,

:12:13. > :12:19.which is unlikely, but he would be accused of covering up. He is down

:12:20. > :12:24.to either way. The reality probably is, fortunately for Hillary, it has

:12:25. > :12:32.cast a sudden cloud, hasn't it, over her prospects -- dammed either way.

:12:33. > :12:37.It is something that has been bad news, and a bullet of weak point in

:12:38. > :12:43.her armoury come and it has opened up, which is not good news for her.

:12:44. > :12:49.In the Guardian, Brexit. German family seeks British citizenship.

:12:50. > :12:57.Tens of thousands of German dues fled the country and want to become

:12:58. > :13:01.citizens. Why do they feel the need to do this? They want to be members

:13:02. > :13:07.of the EU. They don't want to lose their EU passport according to

:13:08. > :13:12.German authorities, 400 applications from the UK are being processed.

:13:13. > :13:18.There are another 100 or so enquiries in the pipeline.

:13:19. > :13:23.Obviously, the commentaries that this would be difficult, a lot of

:13:24. > :13:33.these petition Jewish families might be families that fled Germany, fled

:13:34. > :13:37.the Holocaust, fled the Nazis. A significant psychological challenge

:13:38. > :13:41.is how it is put. There are also lots of Israelis living in Berlin,

:13:42. > :13:46.for examples. There has been a sort of reckoning with all of that as

:13:47. > :13:55.well. And if you years ago, Spain said that Sephardic dues, dues that

:13:56. > :14:00.were expelled from Spain in 1492, before the Muslims were kicked out

:14:01. > :14:08.by the Catholic rulers there, they can get Spanish citizenship. --

:14:09. > :14:23.dues. I take all of this with a pinch of

:14:24. > :14:31.salt. It is not big numbers. What the motivation is is completely

:14:32. > :14:37.unknown. Is it an interesting thing? Vaguely interesting, but it is the

:14:38. > :14:40.idea that everyone will flee the country whoever wins the election

:14:41. > :14:44.and so on. In 15 seconds, tell us why Bangladesh are on the front page

:14:45. > :14:50.of the Guardian, Martyn. They have beaten England for the very first

:14:51. > :14:54.time. Great for them. Not good for us, a bit humiliating, but good luck

:14:55. > :14:56.to them. They have become an increasingly strong Test match

:14:57. > :15:02.playing team, and that has got to be a positive thing. 108 runs they have

:15:03. > :15:10.beaten them by. That is it for the papers this hour. But we will be

:15:11. > :15:12.back, it it is Sunday and you get a double dose.

:15:13. > :15:15.Don't forget, all the front pages are online on the BBC News website

:15:16. > :15:17.where you can read a detailed review of the papers.

:15:18. > :15:20.It's all there for you - 7 days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers

:15:21. > :15:23.and you can see us there, too, with each night's edition

:15:24. > :15:34.of The Papers being posted on the page shortly

:15:35. > :15:38.Now it is time on BBC News for Meet The Author.