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:00:00. > :00:00.information have not been accessed. We will bring more on this at 11

:00:00. > :00:12.o'clock. Now it is time for the papers.

:00:13. > :00:16.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:17. > :00:21.With me are Benedicte Paviot, UK correspondent at France

:00:22. > :00:22.24 and Jack Blanchard, Political Editor

:00:23. > :00:27.Tomorrow's front pages, the Metro leads with the dispute

:00:28. > :00:30.between British Airways and it's cabin crew - the paper says more

:00:31. > :00:35.than one million people's holidays will be affected by the strike.

:00:36. > :00:38.The Mirror has an exclusive in which it says children as young

:00:39. > :00:44.as five are made to carry out manual labour in North Korea.

:00:45. > :00:47.The Express quotes the Brexit Secretary David Davis saying Britain

:00:48. > :00:56.will not compromise on curbing EU immigration in the renegotiations.

:00:57. > :00:58.The Guardian also leads with the cabinet minister's comments

:00:59. > :01:01.in which he says there will be no plans drawn up until

:01:02. > :01:08.Or at least it will not be made public until February.

:01:09. > :01:10.The Telegraph writes Britain's most decorated female soldier is calling

:01:11. > :01:12.for an end to the witch-hunt of veterans involved

:01:13. > :01:28.The i says that 50,000 people are trapped in Aleppo. And new mothers

:01:29. > :01:32.are being warned to look for signs of sepsis, according to the Daily

:01:33. > :01:40.Mail. The Times has its own investigation into bureau DeShawn --

:01:41. > :01:55.airport money changing stations. We start with the Guardian. A

:01:56. > :01:58.picture of the situation Aleppo. There was a lot of hope last night

:01:59. > :02:01.that a ceasefire was going to come into force. It lasted for a few

:02:02. > :02:08.hours and then the fighting started again. Many people are comparing

:02:09. > :02:13.this to the war in Lebanon, conflicts since the Second World War

:02:14. > :02:20.that really gripped the imagination in horror and intensity? Yes. What

:02:21. > :02:25.is very clear is that we are getting a lot of photography, a lot of

:02:26. > :02:30.filming, I understand the West have also sent drones but and

:02:31. > :02:37.documenting, as we speak, what is happening in Aleppo. Possibly, in

:02:38. > :02:45.the coming days and weeks of the situation in Aleppo, it will be

:02:46. > :02:50.over. But the massacre of civilians is staggering. I think it is very

:02:51. > :02:54.difficult to be sitting there and watching, in our living rooms, our

:02:55. > :03:01.offices, this kind of, in real-time, massacre of civilians. The battle

:03:02. > :03:08.for Aleppo may be over, but the battle for Syria is not over.

:03:09. > :03:12.Meanwhile, you have the regime, President Assad, that was crumbling

:03:13. > :03:18.only months ago, who, thanks to the Russian and Iranian backers, have

:03:19. > :03:23.pulled this off, in a sense. The people that are really paying the

:03:24. > :03:32.price are the civilians. It just beggars belief. I think a lot of

:03:33. > :03:36.people feel very powerless. Earlier this evening, you have a very

:03:37. > :03:44.interesting interview with somebody from the human rights organisation?

:03:45. > :03:47.Yes, from World Vision. What was very powerful about her testimony

:03:48. > :03:54.was that she was very factual, and it is such a dramatic situation,

:03:55. > :03:59.appealing for help. In the Guardian, this piece, it says about doctors

:04:00. > :04:02.and civilians, yesterday they were optimistic about what was happening

:04:03. > :04:11.there, and they are imploring the world to respect the ceasefire. That

:04:12. > :04:16.is part of the problem. Hope, when it presents itself, as it did last

:04:17. > :04:20.night, fills so many hearts with joy, and the possibility that things

:04:21. > :04:30.might improve. For it to be snatched away so quickly, it is terrible. But

:04:31. > :04:33.the point that was being made, we are seeing these images coming out,

:04:34. > :04:39.is it part of what has made this tragedy so striking, the fact you

:04:40. > :04:42.have eyewitness testimony, on iPhones, as the bombs are falling,

:04:43. > :04:47.they are talking about it going on in a way that did not happen in

:04:48. > :04:51.Bosnia, did not happen in Libya, which was only four years ago.

:04:52. > :04:59.Absolutely. It is such a change. When we saw was being covered with

:05:00. > :05:04.video cameras 70 years ago, it was such a big change to how people saw

:05:05. > :05:08.war. We are seeing that technological revolution having the

:05:09. > :05:10.same effect again. We had these horrendous situations before in the

:05:11. > :05:15.past, but it always seemed very distant. You only really learned

:05:16. > :05:19.afterwards what was happening. Now you can watch it in real-time,

:05:20. > :05:22.extraordinary videos of doctors, people that are right there in

:05:23. > :05:26.Aleppo, sending messages, desperately pleading for help.

:05:27. > :05:31.People in the West are sitting there and wringing their hands. We saw in

:05:32. > :05:35.the House of Commons today, there is nothing MPs can do. They are raising

:05:36. > :05:40.a time and time again. All Theresa May can do is turn around and say

:05:41. > :05:47.that Putin needs to make this stop. And, of course, he is not listening.

:05:48. > :05:53.What the Russians decide to do, will the Russians and President Putin to

:05:54. > :05:57.continue to give this back into Assad? What will run do? What will

:05:58. > :06:13.the new President in America do? That will be key. The Metro, Yahoo

:06:14. > :06:20.are going to be withdrawing their labour in a dispute over pay. -- BA

:06:21. > :06:25.staff are going to be withdrawing their labour. The Telegraph suggests

:06:26. > :06:29.that unions are coordinating strike action over the coming weeks. This

:06:30. > :06:34.is the bottom of the Daily Telegraph. Unions accused of

:06:35. > :06:38.conspiracy as BA cabin crew join strikers. Post Office workers are

:06:39. > :06:47.going on strike. Of course, big problems on Southern Rail. You

:06:48. > :06:51.represent a prounion newspaper, I guess I could say, the Daily Mirror.

:06:52. > :06:57.Are there suggestions that the unions are coordinating this? Only

:06:58. > :07:00.in the right-wing press and certain conservative MPs he would love to

:07:01. > :07:05.use this situation as an opportunity to get leveraged for new anti-strike

:07:06. > :07:07.laws, just weeks after the last set of anti-union laws. These are

:07:08. > :07:11.disputes that have been long-running. If you know anything

:07:12. > :07:15.about these disputes, the dispute at BA has been going on for several

:07:16. > :07:19.years. Since 2010, they have been taking on groups of staff and paying

:07:20. > :07:28.them a tiny wage, compared to the existing cabin crew. Some of them

:07:29. > :07:31.are on a basic salary of ?12,000 per year, an average of up to ?16,000.

:07:32. > :07:34.The union says they have to sleep in cars between shifts and moonlight in

:07:35. > :07:39.other jobs. This is not part of a massive conspiracy. It does look

:07:40. > :07:44.weird, doesn't it? Post office workers going on strike just before

:07:45. > :07:51.Christmas? Rail strikes? BA just before Christmas? No Christmas

:07:52. > :07:55.flights. No Christmas parcels. There is certainly an argument that the

:07:56. > :07:57.union might be trying to use its power when it can wield the most.

:07:58. > :08:04.The idea that they are phoning each other up and organising it, I think

:08:05. > :08:09.it is far-fetched. They spend more time squabbling with each other.

:08:10. > :08:17.Course to rethink the free bus pass? Absolutely. This is interesting.

:08:18. > :08:23.This is the story about withdrawing free bus passes. It is Simon

:08:24. > :08:27.Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England. He was telling MPs that

:08:28. > :08:32.there was no point in giving people free bus passes and free bus

:08:33. > :08:39.transport if there is nobody to provide the basic care that they

:08:40. > :08:46.need. It is all about the the combination of, on one hand, NHS

:08:47. > :08:51.medical care, emergency, outpatient, impatient, but also, if don't have,

:08:52. > :08:54.and there have been so many cuts because of austerity measures, 40%,

:08:55. > :09:00.I think, over the last few years because of austerity measures, what

:09:01. > :09:04.is the point in putting that money into bus passes? I think they are

:09:05. > :09:08.incredibly important. I think it is not just people that are ill, I

:09:09. > :09:12.think it is about social interaction. I think there is

:09:13. > :09:17.something fundamental. A society that cannot provide, even in

:09:18. > :09:23.austerity times, proper social care and that kind of thing, having free

:09:24. > :09:30.transport, I think we need to look at ourselves. We need to question

:09:31. > :09:34.priorities. Let's move onto the next story, and I am not just saying that

:09:35. > :09:40.because you are here. Child chain gangs of North Korea, the kind of

:09:41. > :09:44.campaigning story we expect in the Daily Mirror, no showbiz tittle

:09:45. > :09:50.tattle! We do occasionally like a bit of that. But this is a terrific

:09:51. > :09:53.story, Russell Myers, our chief investigative reporter, he has been

:09:54. > :09:57.to North Korea to look at the reality of life behind that curtain.

:09:58. > :10:02.A lot of the reporting of what happened in North Korea is done in

:10:03. > :10:06.quite a joking way, it seems a bizarre regime in the West. We tend

:10:07. > :10:09.to find a lot of humour in it. What he's doing here is actually showing

:10:10. > :10:15.the reality of life. Has this extraordinary footage of lines of

:10:16. > :10:18.young children working in what they call chain gangs. I am not sure they

:10:19. > :10:23.are literally chained up, but they might as well be. Lined up on

:10:24. > :10:28.railway lines. Extraordinary, hammering at Stones, carrying them

:10:29. > :10:32.around, doing hard labour in blazing sun. Some of them are five, six,

:10:33. > :10:37.seven years old. It really brings home the horror of what life is like

:10:38. > :10:42.in this regime, in a way that it is very difficult to do. It is such a

:10:43. > :10:47.closed regime. It is very hard for journalists to get in, anybody to

:10:48. > :10:51.get in and see what is going on. A really good exclusive. You were

:10:52. > :10:54.saying in order to do this kind of story, it does not necessarily shift

:10:55. > :11:01.front pages, I know it is difficult for the red tops, in a very

:11:02. > :11:05.competitive market, you have to have celebrity tittle tattle to get this

:11:06. > :11:10.kind of stuff out? People love to read about them, and there is

:11:11. > :11:16.nothing wrong with that. The Mirror hides itself on being a campaigning

:11:17. > :11:19.newspaper, particularly on worker exploitation. It is fantastic that

:11:20. > :11:23.the newspaper puts resources to it and we have a journalist that can

:11:24. > :11:30.get out there. Very risky reporting. They might not invite him back. Lets

:11:31. > :11:33.not ask how he got into the country. Finally, clean living kids, they

:11:34. > :11:41.don't want to smoke or drink any more. Yes, quite extraordinary. It

:11:42. > :11:47.seems that, according to the NHS survey, we have the cleanest living

:11:48. > :11:51.generation on record. Jack, you were referring to them as a boring

:11:52. > :11:56.generation? They are addicted to their screens. It is often asked why

:11:57. > :12:03.British children, and adults, drink so much. In France, we drink, but we

:12:04. > :12:06.also eat up the same time, that is a significant difference. Apparently,

:12:07. > :12:13.these clean living children are snubbing cigarettes and alcohol.

:12:14. > :12:17.They will cost less to the NHS. Sadly, the clean living headline

:12:18. > :12:28.does not include the fact that they don't exercise and seemed to be

:12:29. > :12:30.horribly obese. We need a new definition of clean living? All

:12:31. > :12:34.right. Thank you so much for looking at some of the stories. Many thanks

:12:35. > :12:51.to you for watching. Much of England and Wales saw some

:12:52. > :12:56.sunshine today and we got to 15 Celsius, very mild indeed. It turned

:12:57. > :12:58.into a decent sunset. Thanks to a weather watcher in Surrey