11/12/2016 The Papers


11/12/2016

Similar Content

Browse content similar to 11/12/2016. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

Funerals are held in Turkey after two explosions

:00:00.:00:00.

near a football stadium in Istanbul killed 38 people.

:00:00.:00:00.

Many of the victims were police officers.

:00:00.:00:12.

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

:00:13.:00:15.

With me are Rosamund Urwin, Columnist at The London Evening

:00:16.:00:18.

Standard and Tom Bergin, Business Correspondent at Reuters.

:00:19.:00:26.

Good to have you both here, giving up your Sunday's nights, such is

:00:27.:00:38.

your dedication... And mine too! Let's look at the front pages...

:00:39.:00:42.

The Times says Theresa May will back steep rises to council tax bills

:00:43.:00:45.

this week in an attempt to plug a gaping hole in

:00:46.:00:47.

The Telegraph leads with comments from the Home Secretary,

:00:48.:01:01.

who has criticised what she calls the "unacceptable" rail strike

:01:02.:01:04.

that is expected to shut down one of the country's busiest commuter

:01:05.:01:07.

Donald Trump's attack on the credibility of

:01:08.:01:09.

The Metro leads on the reported spat between Nicky Morgan

:01:10.:01:15.

and Theresa May, over the Prime Minister's

:01:16.:01:17.

The Independent reports on fears that some countries

:01:18.:01:23.

will try to frustrate Britain's future status in the World

:01:24.:01:25.

And the Mail reports on the case of Alexander Blackman,

:01:26.:01:34.

the Royal Marine jailed for killing a fatally-wounded insurgent

:01:35.:01:36.

Let's look at how the Daily Mail reports -- the Financial Times looks

:01:37.:01:45.

at this story. He would say that, wouldn't he? It's unsurprising that

:01:46.:01:50.

he is unhappy that the CIA has said that Russia interviewed in the

:01:51.:01:53.

presidential elections. And of course, if we go back if you months,

:01:54.:01:58.

he appeared to call on Russia, to hack and release Hillary Clinton's

:01:59.:02:03.

e-mails. He backtracked on it after he said it, but we have quite a long

:02:04.:02:08.

history here. Anyway, what is interesting here is that we got both

:02:09.:02:14.

Democrats, as you would expect senators, but also Republicans, John

:02:15.:02:17.

McCain and Lindsey Graham, saying that the probe should not be a

:02:18.:02:24.

partisan issue. That it must go ahead, and President Obama is

:02:25.:02:27.

ordering a full intelligence review of Russia's meddling. The other

:02:28.:02:36.

complication, if you like, is the fact that somebody considered to be

:02:37.:02:41.

Secretary of State, is rather close to Vladimir Putin, we are led to

:02:42.:02:50.

believe? Yes, covering the oil industry, he took a poor view on

:02:51.:02:58.

sanctions, has a long business in doing deals with Russia, some of

:02:59.:03:04.

those. What is interesting, the Trump position was described as --

:03:05.:03:12.

trump described it as ridiculous. He did not approach the State

:03:13.:03:17.

Department to seek any kind of guidance on how he should handle

:03:18.:03:24.

these phone calls. It is not clear why he is ruling out Russian

:03:25.:03:28.

involvement so clearly, the CIA and the FBI are clear that Russia was

:03:29.:03:32.

involved. The FBI is a bit more cagey about the intention of the

:03:33.:03:36.

Russians, whether it was too back Hillary or not, but it was

:03:37.:03:41.

interesting. Before the election we saw Donald Trump regularly assert

:03:42.:03:45.

things that had no basis or fact. We've seen a couple of things since

:03:46.:03:48.

the election, the claim that there was a voter fraud against him in

:03:49.:03:52.

some jurisdictions. It will be interesting to see if he will

:03:53.:03:56.

continue with this policy of asserting things as fact without

:03:57.:04:00.

basis, and how it will play out as president. People can choose to take

:04:01.:04:06.

you from your comments before you get elected but you would expect a

:04:07.:04:11.

bit more candour and clarity with what you say. Some would say that

:04:12.:04:15.

there is an assertion without much fact, he's not having the daily

:04:16.:04:20.

intelligence briefing which is a long-standing practice that

:04:21.:04:23.

presidents and President-elects get. His quote is "I'm a smart person, I

:04:24.:04:30.

don't need to be told the same thing every day". Before he is even

:04:31.:04:35.

elected, if we get this report, a full investigation that is supported

:04:36.:04:41.

by both of the parties, it cast doubt the legitimacy of his

:04:42.:04:46.

presidency, if there is some sort of Russian involvement? Even without

:04:47.:04:49.

him knowing anything about it, nobody is suggesting that he was

:04:50.:04:53.

aware of it. At the end of the day, he's the president. And both sides

:04:54.:04:58.

have said that he's going to be president, there's no particular

:04:59.:05:01.

reason to rerun the election, even if you find there is Russian

:05:02.:05:07.

involvement. Today, Nate Silver, the well-known American pollster, or he

:05:08.:05:11.

was saying that it could have had an impact.

:05:12.:05:16.

You can separate the two on his legitimacy with knowing the fact.

:05:17.:05:21.

They don't have too get in the way of one another. I looked back, the

:05:22.:05:26.

US meddled in the 1996 presidential election in Russia. Obviously, Boris

:05:27.:05:33.

Yeltsin getting re-elected. There are allegations that they were

:05:34.:05:38.

receiving, a nudge from the White House. Political consultants from

:05:39.:05:42.

Washington out there. It's not to say that nobody else has ever done

:05:43.:05:47.

this... No, it isn't. Let's not even get started on Latin America.

:05:48.:05:52.

The Daily Express. Anger at new bid to block EU exit. It's another legal

:05:53.:05:59.

challenge? Yes, any effort, I guess, to block EU exit would cause anger

:06:00.:06:07.

for the Daily Express, they are very keen on Brecht said. -- Brexit.

:06:08.:06:18.

We've counted at least four. This is another one, basically the argument

:06:19.:06:21.

is even if the government have the right to take us out of the EU, does

:06:22.:06:25.

it mean they have the right to take us out of the European free trade

:06:26.:06:29.

area? The latest legal challenge is saying that they don't. You know, we

:06:30.:06:35.

have to see what happens in court. But we became aware of this at the

:06:36.:06:39.

end of last month, and the number of lawyers in London kicked it about

:06:40.:06:42.

and generally thought that the government did have the power to do

:06:43.:06:48.

this. And one or two happened naturally together. I'm not sure how

:06:49.:06:51.

much legs this claim will actually have. The Daily Express could sleep

:06:52.:06:57.

safely. All I am thinking, it's more evidence for the fact that we should

:06:58.:07:02.

not be reducing an incredibly complex thing to a binary question

:07:03.:07:06.

that we put to the public. We should have had a more sophisticated

:07:07.:07:08.

approach. It would have been a much longer

:07:09.:07:12.

question, like the one the Italians were trying to answer one week ago!

:07:13.:07:14.

About bike chambers and things like that. But

:07:15.:07:25.

if they dare do it, and many MPs have said that they would not, but

:07:26.:07:31.

if they really did not want us to leave the single market, MPs would

:07:32.:07:36.

be able to vote against it in Parliament, surely? Technically, if

:07:37.:07:39.

they wanted to but you have to look at the facts on the ground at the

:07:40.:07:43.

moment. And the facts on the ground at the moment, MPs could stop

:07:44.:07:47.

Theresa May from triggering Article 50. That seems to be the current

:07:48.:07:52.

legal position. MPs this week in Parliament expressed great

:07:53.:07:54.

unwillingness to do that. It seems the way that this one will play out,

:07:55.:07:59.

we will trigger a tackle 50, negotiate and maybe there will be a

:08:00.:08:05.

second thought at some stage we get that deal -- trigger Article 50. Any

:08:06.:08:14.

activity, legal action to cancel Brexit before that, it looks

:08:15.:08:17.

somewhat unlikely given the comments we saw from MPs and others over the

:08:18.:08:23.

last seven months. It feels like any divorce, just creating a lot of work

:08:24.:08:27.

for lawyers and filling their pockets! 50 them in the Supreme

:08:28.:08:35.

Court the other week... Hmm. Home Secretary strike warning, this is a

:08:36.:08:41.

walk-out where if you travel on Southern Railway any time, we hear

:08:42.:08:46.

some pretty bad stories about how it is run. This will only add to it.

:08:47.:08:55.

The industrial dispute is about the introduction of driver only

:08:56.:08:57.

operation trains which obviously Southern Railway like to bring in.

:08:58.:09:02.

Staff do not want that. They claim on their side that there are safety

:09:03.:09:07.

issues around that, and it is better to have somebody to do ticketing and

:09:08.:09:13.

customer service. The way that most people simply experience this is a

:09:14.:09:17.

complete nightmare getting to work. They have quite little sympathy with

:09:18.:09:22.

both sides in the end. The way that this has played out, Southern have

:09:23.:09:26.

not handled it well in terms of PR either, all along the way. Now we

:09:27.:09:30.

have another three-day strike this week. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday,

:09:31.:09:35.

Whateley. What hope is there that it will carry on? We have seen other

:09:36.:09:39.

strikes recently averted, relatively last-minute. The Daily Telegraph is

:09:40.:09:44.

going a step further and saying that the government should look at taking

:09:45.:09:50.

action. And looking at the strike rules and union rules to have some

:09:51.:09:54.

sort of impact on it. The situation here seems to be one of technology.

:09:55.:09:59.

The train company says that they can operate perfectly safely without

:10:00.:10:04.

having conductors. The rail regulator agrees with the train

:10:05.:10:07.

company. We've had these for 30 years and we don't seem to have...

:10:08.:10:12.

We have enough period of time to compile it, if they were

:10:13.:10:16.

tremendously unsafe. The union compiled a dossier and looking

:10:17.:10:19.

through it, there were accidents and driver only trains -- on driver only

:10:20.:10:24.

trains but when you look at them, it's not clear to link to the fact

:10:25.:10:29.

that it was a driver only train. This is obviously going to continue.

:10:30.:10:34.

The next step would be driverless trains and driverless cars, maybe it

:10:35.:10:40.

is a sign of things to come? And this story, lastly, the High Court

:10:41.:10:45.

ruled that the union was allowed to stage a walk-out. Tomorrow, they

:10:46.:10:48.

will be in court appealing that decision, again it is more work for

:10:49.:10:53.

the lawyers! The other story in The Daily Telegraph, Boris refuses to

:10:54.:10:57.

back down as he meets Saudi king. This is where the Foreign Secretary

:10:58.:11:03.

was not particularly countrymen to about Saudi Arabia a few days ago,

:11:04.:11:07.

and then he had to do his diplomatic best whilst meeting came Salman. --

:11:08.:11:15.

Kenya Salman. Normally, you something less

:11:16.:11:25.

positive to say to them. You could say that his comments today, as The

:11:26.:11:29.

Daily Telegraph was saying, he's not backing down, but not soothing the

:11:30.:11:35.

situation, the Saudis can only read it has saying, Boris does have an

:11:36.:11:43.

underwhelming view of us and our behaviour, we will have to wait and

:11:44.:11:47.

see the final impact, when it comes to trade deals or arms purchases.

:11:48.:11:52.

Although the Foreign Minister here is being very diplomatic himself,

:11:53.:11:56.

saying that Mr Johnson's comments had been misconstrued and taken out

:11:57.:12:00.

of context which is quite generous? That is what Boris and soap was

:12:01.:12:04.

claiming that it is interesting. Theresa May has put him in such a

:12:05.:12:08.

high-profile position but one that keeps them quite far away from

:12:09.:12:13.

government, and also, you know, in the everyday sense. It does not give

:12:14.:12:18.

him anything to do with Brecht said. So, it is quite interesting as to

:12:19.:12:24.

how it will play out -- Brexit. He is such a loose cannon at times but

:12:25.:12:29.

the Foreign Secretary has taken a lot of money away from his Telegraph

:12:30.:12:33.

column and his book that was meant to be coming out this year. He had

:12:34.:12:36.

to hand back a lot of money... We cannot have that. The Times have

:12:37.:12:42.

an investigation on their front page.

:12:43.:12:47.

This council tax discussion has been brewing for a long time, social care

:12:48.:12:52.

does not have the funding it needs. Councils are bearing the brunt of

:12:53.:12:57.

those costs. And the NHS takes it because people are not moved out of

:12:58.:13:00.

hospitals quickly enough into social care. Chancellor Philip Hammond

:13:01.:13:04.

wanted to address this in the Autumn Statement last month. And

:13:05.:13:10.

essentially, there was a desire not to... They did not want any more

:13:11.:13:16.

costs on that squeeze, the jams, the squeezed middle group, and The Times

:13:17.:13:22.

investigation is setting out a lot of the problems, that we knew were

:13:23.:13:26.

there, but they got quite concrete things, at least 250 residential

:13:27.:13:30.

care homes have closed since March. A huge number of complaints. People

:13:31.:13:36.

stuck on walls. Some doctors have referred to it as bed blocking. I

:13:37.:13:40.

would add that it is slightly more complex because those people going

:13:41.:13:45.

into social care have incredibly complex needs and should stay for a

:13:46.:13:48.

bit longer in hospital because they need to go to places that had to

:13:49.:13:53.

provide incredibly detailed and complex care, C don't want to shut

:13:54.:13:58.

them out of hospitals -- so you do not. Any increase in council tax

:13:59.:14:05.

bills will... That money will be spent on social care, is that

:14:06.:14:09.

guaranteed? I guess one could. It is part of the bigger problem, as you

:14:10.:14:14.

mentioned with the NHS, this funding. Going into a position where

:14:15.:14:20.

you have inflation next year. Wage growth is expected to be moderate.

:14:21.:14:25.

The expectation is in 2017 we have flat, at best, real income growth.

:14:26.:14:30.

The question is, where does the money come from? People will feel

:14:31.:14:34.

the squeeze, and it will be Brexit related. Whether you believe it is

:14:35.:14:39.

good or bad for the economy, we will see inflation and wage growth will

:14:40.:14:46.

be moderated. These things are under more threat at the moment, it seems

:14:47.:14:50.

there will be more to come with this space... Let's finish with the

:14:51.:14:54.

headline of the night, in the metro. The wronged trousers, that reminds

:14:55.:15:00.

one of Wallace and Gromit, of course! Politics again, Westminster

:15:01.:15:09.

left stunned over the farce over the PM's clothes.

:15:10.:15:12.

Some leather trousers came in for criticism... Why are you looking at

:15:13.:15:17.

me? It's too obvious to ask Rosalind about this! It interesting, is it

:15:18.:15:23.

one of these things that only comes up about women, that women are

:15:24.:15:28.

pressured? In some ways, no. George Osborne was beaten up over his ?10

:15:29.:15:33.

Biron Burger when he is trying to look street, I guess... And there

:15:34.:15:38.

was the stance thing as well... And they mentioned his hair cut at one

:15:39.:15:43.

point. It then again, David Cameron, I believe, he had expensive Savile

:15:44.:15:47.

Row suits and it was not questioned. Look at the French Prime Minister on

:15:48.:15:51.

television, men do not appear to be criticised, perhaps because it is

:15:52.:16:00.

casual. Theresa May created a rod for her own back when she started

:16:01.:16:07.

talking about equality. And she spent ?995 on these expensive

:16:08.:16:10.

trousers. Was it cause she was wearing them at a photo shoot? Maybe

:16:11.:16:15.

she had been dressed by the stylist, do you mean? There's been a lot of

:16:16.:16:21.

interest in her shoes over the years as well... I know, I can't get

:16:22.:16:28.

enough! But there is something slightly interesting in this story,

:16:29.:16:32.

Nicky Morgan, the Education Secretary, she has been very

:16:33.:16:35.

critical of the government in the past over grammar schools, and was

:16:36.:16:39.

being allowed to come in and meet with other ministers. She is in

:16:40.:16:44.

favour of a soft Brexit. She was heavily pro-remain. She has been

:16:45.:16:52.

cast out of this meeting. I think there is an argument of playground

:16:53.:16:55.

politics, it does not seem a reason to cast someone out. It doesn't seem

:16:56.:17:00.

very sisterly, to comment on another woman's clothes, and... Alistair

:17:01.:17:09.

Burt was told, don't bring that woman to Downing Street again, and

:17:10.:17:13.

she replied, I don't get bored by a man to these meetings. We will do it

:17:14.:17:17.

all again hopefully with a few more stories for you at half-past 11. You

:17:18.:17:21.

will both be back again. Coming up next, Meet The Author.

:17:22.:17:34.

You can understand the brain in many ways if you are not a scientist, as

:17:35.:17:38.

a biological mechanism

:17:39.:17:39.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS