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Hello there. Well to Our Conor look ahead to what the papers are | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
bringing us tomorrowment With me are Pippa Crerar, | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
political correspondent at the London Evening Standard, | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
and Neil Midgley, media commentator Let's lock at some of the front | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
pages: The FT says Donald Trump has the backing of senior Republicans to | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
push through Rex Tillerson's nomination. This follows criticism | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
the oil boss is too close to Vladimir Putin. The I turns over its | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
front page to the crisis in Aleppo, as people leave the war torn city. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
The Metro leads with that story. The paper says the rush is on to save | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
100 children cut off from their parents and stuck in the city. | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
The Telegraph claims UK taxpayers have footed a 50 million bill for | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
all southern rail strikes this year. According to the Times ministers are | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
considering to break up Southern and pushing for an all out ban on rail | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
strikes. The Daily Mirror calls for a complete renationalisation of the | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
rail network, which it says it supported by unions, MPs and the | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
public. Thousands of banking jobs in the UK could be lost if ministers | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
don't agree a transitional deal on access to the sing the market. The | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
Express highlights a report which claims that positivity may be the | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
key to living a longer life. Its headline eye catching, revealed: How | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
to live longer. The secrets are in that paper. You are probably going | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
to buy it now, that's the whole point. | :01:43. | :01:52. | |
Onto the I. We've been hearing from our correspondents tonight, experts | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
on the region, this is the beginning of the end game, it might seem. Yes, | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
well weapons have fallen silent. As you say, it appears to be the end | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
game for Aleppo. There's two main areas that the papers are covering | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
of this story, one is of course, that the people of Aleppo themselves | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
and that many have been on social media, using Twitter and posting | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
videos online throughout the conflict and given people real | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
insight, real civilian journalism. Many of them have said farewell, | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
because they don't know what the future holds, whether they will find | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
themselves escaping the city and making it through to somewhere more | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
peaceful or whether they will leave and meet a tragic end. There's a | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
powerful photo here of a father carrying his child through the | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
rubble. It would be impossible for anybody to feel anything but gutted | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
about what's gone on there. The second element of what the papers | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
are covering is the blame game. British politicians in the House of | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
Commons held an emergency debate in which they discussed all the | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
different possibilities, aid drops, what could be done next. There were | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
powerful speeches, not least from George Osborne, the former | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
Chancellor who said, "We can't absolve ourselves of blame. MPs are | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
deceiving themselves if they don't think they played a role in this, | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
because in 2013 MPs voted against military action in Syria. | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
Andrew Mitchell told me tonight that if they had the vote now, obviously, | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
it wouldn't be a vote for military action, the lack of foresight three | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
years ago, many people including George Osborne are pointing to as | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
part of the problem here. Yes. Yes, they are. It's impossible to say how | :03:44. | :03:51. | |
those air strikes, which remember were planned in retaliation for | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
Assad using chemical weapons on his own people. It was nothing to do | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
with Aleppo, nothing to do with Russian involvement. That has come | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
subsequently, certainly military involvement on this scale. | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
Therefore, I do wonder if we unpick history at our cost. Also, when has | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
British military intervention in the Middle East actually done any good | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
at all? That's my question. That seemed to be the point made by the | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
US Congress as well. President Obama went to Congress, he didn't have to. | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
He could have unilaterally done this, he felt after Iraq and after | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
the mess the West has made of past engagements in the Middle East, that | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
he had to do that. Congress said no, just as the British Parliament. That | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
was after the British Parliamentary vote. Exactly. He decided he had to | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
do that to cover his own back. And it swung between humanitarian | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
intervention and not. Really British MPs and the Americans were scarred | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
by Iraq. When Ed Miliband first started talking with David Cameron | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
about the 2013 vote he was supportive and said he would like to | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
support it in the House of Commons. Then after a series of concessions | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
and then it became apparent to him he didn't have the support amongst | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
his own backbenches. He took a political decision not to. They were | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
hugely scarred by Iraq. You swing both ways. Nobody wants to repeat | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
Srebrenica or Darfur, unfortunately, we've got to hope that what's | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
happened in Aleppo, something like 5,000 people over the last month | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
alone have died there. It's just a tragedy. 82 killed in their own | :05:32. | :05:40. | |
homes, reminder of the Civil War in Lebanon and the massacre of | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
civilians by militias linked to the Israeli forces there. Onto the | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
Telegraph. The rail strike. Now rail strike costs taxpayers 50 million | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
while train company saves cash. All this is over who is supposed to shut | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
the doors. I mean that's what it boils down. To And who is supposed | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
to drive the train ie... A driver would be good. And well, but no. Not | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
one who isn't on strike. The driverless trains is what this is | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
all about. Again, like my simplistic view of British military | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
intervention in the Middle East, show me a an innovation that any | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
trade union has ever supported. Are you calling them Luddites? RMT, | :06:32. | :06:40. | |
ASLEF? Yes. Yes! I am. It's a great story showing that the taxpayer is | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
footing the bill for the strike, because what we've got here is a | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
situation where this line or set of lines haven't been privatised in the | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
sense of sold off to the highest bidder. It's a fixed price contract | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
that Southern Railway's parent has to run the services, but the | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
Government maintains control of both the revenue and the cost. Well | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
that's all very well, if you think you know what the costs are going to | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
be. You think, oh, we might get more revenue and attract a few more | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
passengers onto this line. Fixed price contract with your builder, | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
for example, when you renovate your house is generally a good thing, | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
because your builder takes the risk of things running over. In this | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
case, this has come back to haunt the Government. Of course, now there | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
is less revenue, less fares being paid, because fewer people are | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
travelling because no trains are running. Also the Government has to | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
pay the cost of the compensation. So this atomisation of the railways | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
that was the way that the Major Government privatised the railways | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
is coming back to haurnt the Government now. To the Daily Mail | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
then. Daily Mirror. Sorry. Renationalise - no that wouldn't be | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
the Mail. That would be a story! Daily Mirror. Renationalise our | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
railways now! Do you think that's been given added impetus by this? | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
It's really popular with the public. A lot of people think it's just like | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
the papers, lefty socialists that want to renationalise the railways. | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
Loads of people do. Every poll done it suggests the majority of the | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
Brits would like to renationalise. We like to complain about the state | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
of the railways. These are people all under the age of 35, who don't | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
remember what it was like. Quite possibly. But it is something, I | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
mean, the Government is certainly thinking about doing, and the Times | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
picks this up, is stripping GTR, the parent group of its massive | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
franchise in the new year. Other senior rail industry figures are | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
concerned that it's going to be like a poison effect and start a ripple | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
affect around the industry and cause more strikes. There's a feeling that | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
the unions are considering launching coordinated action in other areas as | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
well. They want to nip this in the bud. What then happens to it is | :09:05. | :09:15. | |
really an unknown. Sadiq Khan has called for a renationalisation of | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
the Southern franchise. He wants Transport for London to run it. He | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
says that's the long-term solution, more local democratic | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
accountability. That's nationalisation of another sort. But | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
the Government is currently discussing all options. They started | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
holding talks again with unions tonight. It's something. The company | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
and the unions, which won't stop this current round of strikes, but | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
hopefully might prevent the action happening again at Christmas and | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
disrupting the ailways then. Financial Times, Mr Trump? This is | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
brilliant. I mean, he's got more millionaires in his Cabinet than you | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
would see at the average country club. Billionaires! Millionaires and | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
billionaires. This guy has been given an award by Vladimir Putin and | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
he's putting forward as America's top diplomat. Yes. Not only is he | :10:04. | :10:13. | |
putting him forward as America's top diplomat, Rex Tillerson head of | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
Exxon Mobil, the oil company who is very close to Putin, or so we | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
believe, not only has he got to be nominated by Trump, he has to be | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
confirmed by Congress. Trump is worried that even a Republican | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
Congress, which is what he's got, won't necessarily confirm him in | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
this new role as America's top diplomat. Trump is rolling out, as | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
the Financial Times says, heavy weights to blunt the Tillerson | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
nomination revolt, including Bob Gates, former Defence Secretary and | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
Condoleezza Rice who was high up in the Bush administration. Red blooded | :10:53. | :11:01. | |
Republicans, both of them. Both of them unimpeachable. When you get to | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
the fourth paragraph of the story, you realise that Exxon Mobil is a | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
client of Mr Gates' consulting firm, whose founders include Miss Rice. | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
Yeah. Millionaires and billionaires all round. I know! I know! And | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
what's perhaps, I'm just trying to get my head around this, because it | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
seems so bizarre that you would have someone so close to Vladimir Putin | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
being put forward as America's top diplomat. The suggestion is that | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
this is all Nixon going to China in reverse, this is trying to isolate | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
the Chinese by co--ying up to Russia. I think the relationship | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
between the States and Russia over the next few months is definitely | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
the one to watch. We've had the CIA a few days ago suggesting that the | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
Russians, it was proven they were interfearing with the US election. | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
We've now got a Secretary of State who received a medal from Vladimir | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
Putin and whose, Moscow's senior foreign policy chief is saying, he's | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
not just close to Putin. He's close to all of us. He wanted sanctions | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
watered down against Russia as well. Trump has made a big thing about his | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
not being an outsider, that he's, Washington outsider. That would | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
bring a breath of fresh air into relations. The impact of that | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
relationship is massive. Not just for China, but the rest of the world | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
as well. To appoint an oil executive who is close to Russia and has no | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
experience is likely to cause, ruffle a lot of feathers around the | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
world. It's going to be interesting. Finally, Einstein and the shrinking | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
father Christmas. The faster an object travels according to | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
Einstein's special theory. That object could be Santa Claus. | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
Exactly! How does Santa fit down the chimney. Good question. The answer | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
is that Santa and Rudolph and all the rest of them have to travel so | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
fast to get presents to all the children around the world that | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
Einstein's theory of relativity dictates that they get smaller, | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
physically smaller, which is what happens to all objects, as you will | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
know, according to the theory. It proves that father Christmas exists, | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
a fact which my three young children will be delighted to hear. Exactly! | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
Many thanks for looking at some of the stories behind the headlines. | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
Thanks to you for watching and goodbye. | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
Hello there. We start with a quick look at the satellite sequence over | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
the last few hours. It shows this cloud in the Atlantic just getting | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
closer and closer to us. It will bring rain with it. Ahead of that, a | :13:56. | :13:57. |