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o'clock. Now it is time for the papers. | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
With me are Benedicte Paviot, UK correspondent at France | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
24 and Jack Blanchard, Political Editor | :00:22. | :00:22. | |
Tomorrow's front pages, the Metro leads with the dispute | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
between British Airways and it's cabin crew - the paper says more | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
than one million people's holidays will be affected by the strike. | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
The Mirror has an exclusive in which it says children as young | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
as five are made to carry out manual labour in North Korea. | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
The Express quotes the Brexit Secretary David Davis saying Britain | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
will not compromise on curbing EU immigration in the renegotiations. | :00:48. | :00:56. | |
The Guardian also leads with the cabinet minister's comments | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
in which he says there will be no plans drawn up until | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
Or at least it will not be made public until February. | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
The Telegraph writes Britain's most decorated female soldier is calling | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
for an end to the witch-hunt of veterans involved | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
The i says that 50,000 people are trapped in Aleppo. And new mothers | :01:13. | :01:28. | |
are being warned to look for signs of sepsis, according to the Daily | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
Mail. The Times has its own investigation into bureau DeShawn -- | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
airport money changing stations. We start with the Guardian. A | :01:41. | :01:55. | |
picture of the situation Aleppo. There was a lot of hope last night | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
that a ceasefire was going to come into force. It lasted for a few | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
hours and then the fighting started again. Many people are comparing | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
this to the war in Lebanon, conflicts since the Second World War | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
that really gripped the imagination in horror and intensity? Yes. What | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
is very clear is that we are getting a lot of photography, a lot of | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
filming, I understand the West have also sent drones but and | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
documenting, as we speak, what is happening in Aleppo. Possibly, in | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
the coming days and weeks of the situation in Aleppo, it will be | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
over. But the massacre of civilians is staggering. I think it is very | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
difficult to be sitting there and watching, in our living rooms, our | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
offices, this kind of, in real-time, massacre of civilians. The battle | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
for Aleppo may be over, but the battle for Syria is not over. | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
Meanwhile, you have the regime, President Assad, that was crumbling | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
only months ago, who, thanks to the Russian and Iranian backers, have | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
pulled this off, in a sense. The people that are really paying the | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
price are the civilians. It just beggars belief. I think a lot of | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
people feel very powerless. Earlier this evening, you have a very | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
interesting interview with somebody from the human rights organisation? | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
Yes, from World Vision. What was very powerful about her testimony | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
was that she was very factual, and it is such a dramatic situation, | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
appealing for help. In the Guardian, this piece, it says about doctors | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
and civilians, yesterday they were optimistic about what was happening | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
there, and they are imploring the world to respect the ceasefire. That | :04:03. | :04:11. | |
is part of the problem. Hope, when it presents itself, as it did last | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
night, fills so many hearts with joy, and the possibility that things | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
might improve. For it to be snatched away so quickly, it is terrible. But | :04:21. | :04:30. | |
the point that was being made, we are seeing these images coming out, | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
is it part of what has made this tragedy so striking, the fact you | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
have eyewitness testimony, on iPhones, as the bombs are falling, | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
they are talking about it going on in a way that did not happen in | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
Bosnia, did not happen in Libya, which was only four years ago. | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
Absolutely. It is such a change. When we saw was being covered with | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
video cameras 70 years ago, it was such a big change to how people saw | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
war. We are seeing that technological revolution having the | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
same effect again. We had these horrendous situations before in the | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
past, but it always seemed very distant. You only really learned | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
afterwards what was happening. Now you can watch it in real-time, | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
extraordinary videos of doctors, people that are right there in | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
Aleppo, sending messages, desperately pleading for help. | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
People in the West are sitting there and wringing their hands. We saw in | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
the House of Commons today, there is nothing MPs can do. They are raising | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
a time and time again. All Theresa May can do is turn around and say | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
that Putin needs to make this stop. And, of course, he is not listening. | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
What the Russians decide to do, will the Russians and President Putin to | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
continue to give this back into Assad? What will run do? What will | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
the new President in America do? That will be key. The Metro, Yahoo | :05:58. | :06:13. | |
are going to be withdrawing their labour in a dispute over pay. -- BA | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
staff are going to be withdrawing their labour. The Telegraph suggests | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
that unions are coordinating strike action over the coming weeks. This | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
is the bottom of the Daily Telegraph. Unions accused of | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
conspiracy as BA cabin crew join strikers. Post Office workers are | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
going on strike. Of course, big problems on Southern Rail. You | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
represent a prounion newspaper, I guess I could say, the Daily Mirror. | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
Are there suggestions that the unions are coordinating this? Only | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
in the right-wing press and certain conservative MPs he would love to | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
use this situation as an opportunity to get leveraged for new anti-strike | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
laws, just weeks after the last set of anti-union laws. These are | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
disputes that have been long-running. If you know anything | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
about these disputes, the dispute at BA has been going on for several | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
years. Since 2010, they have been taking on groups of staff and paying | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
them a tiny wage, compared to the existing cabin crew. Some of them | :07:20. | :07:28. | |
are on a basic salary of ?12,000 per year, an average of up to ?16,000. | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
The union says they have to sleep in cars between shifts and moonlight in | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
other jobs. This is not part of a massive conspiracy. It does look | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
weird, doesn't it? Post office workers going on strike just before | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
Christmas? Rail strikes? BA just before Christmas? No Christmas | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
flights. No Christmas parcels. There is certainly an argument that the | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
union might be trying to use its power when it can wield the most. | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
The idea that they are phoning each other up and organising it, I think | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
it is far-fetched. They spend more time squabbling with each other. | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
Course to rethink the free bus pass? Absolutely. This is interesting. | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
This is the story about withdrawing free bus passes. It is Simon | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England. He was telling MPs that | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
there was no point in giving people free bus passes and free bus | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
transport if there is nobody to provide the basic care that they | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
need. It is all about the the combination of, on one hand, NHS | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
medical care, emergency, outpatient, impatient, but also, if don't have, | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
and there have been so many cuts because of austerity measures, 40%, | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
I think, over the last few years because of austerity measures, what | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
is the point in putting that money into bus passes? I think they are | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
incredibly important. I think it is not just people that are ill, I | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
think it is about social interaction. I think there is | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
something fundamental. A society that cannot provide, even in | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
austerity times, proper social care and that kind of thing, having free | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
transport, I think we need to look at ourselves. We need to question | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
priorities. Let's move onto the next story, and I am not just saying that | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
because you are here. Child chain gangs of North Korea, the kind of | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
campaigning story we expect in the Daily Mirror, no showbiz tittle | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
tattle! We do occasionally like a bit of that. But this is a terrific | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
story, Russell Myers, our chief investigative reporter, he has been | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
to North Korea to look at the reality of life behind that curtain. | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
A lot of the reporting of what happened in North Korea is done in | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
quite a joking way, it seems a bizarre regime in the West. We tend | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
to find a lot of humour in it. What he's doing here is actually showing | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
the reality of life. Has this extraordinary footage of lines of | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
young children working in what they call chain gangs. I am not sure they | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
are literally chained up, but they might as well be. Lined up on | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
railway lines. Extraordinary, hammering at Stones, carrying them | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
around, doing hard labour in blazing sun. Some of them are five, six, | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
seven years old. It really brings home the horror of what life is like | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
in this regime, in a way that it is very difficult to do. It is such a | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
closed regime. It is very hard for journalists to get in, anybody to | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
get in and see what is going on. A really good exclusive. You were | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
saying in order to do this kind of story, it does not necessarily shift | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
front pages, I know it is difficult for the red tops, in a very | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
competitive market, you have to have celebrity tittle tattle to get this | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
kind of stuff out? People love to read about them, and there is | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
nothing wrong with that. The Mirror hides itself on being a campaigning | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
newspaper, particularly on worker exploitation. It is fantastic that | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
the newspaper puts resources to it and we have a journalist that can | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
get out there. Very risky reporting. They might not invite him back. Lets | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
not ask how he got into the country. Finally, clean living kids, they | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
don't want to smoke or drink any more. Yes, quite extraordinary. It | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
seems that, according to the NHS survey, we have the cleanest living | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
generation on record. Jack, you were referring to them as a boring | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
generation? They are addicted to their screens. It is often asked why | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
British children, and adults, drink so much. In France, we drink, but we | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
also eat up the same time, that is a significant difference. Apparently, | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
these clean living children are snubbing cigarettes and alcohol. | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
They will cost less to the NHS. Sadly, the clean living headline | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
does not include the fact that they don't exercise and seemed to be | :12:18. | :12:28. | |
horribly obese. We need a new definition of clean living? All | :12:29. | :12:30. | |
right. Thank you so much for looking at some of the stories. Many thanks | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
to you for watching. Much of England and Wales saw some | :12:35. | :12:51. | |
sunshine today and we got to 15 Celsius, very mild indeed. It turned | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
into a decent sunset. Thanks to a weather watcher in Surrey | :12:57. | :12:58. |