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:00:00. > :00:00.That's all of the sport, now on BBC News, Martine Croxall with The

:00:00. > :00:14.Papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

:00:15. > :00:21.to what the the papers will be With me are Business Journalist

:00:22. > :00:39.Josie Cox and journalist It's nice to know what 9:30am looks

:00:40. > :00:41.like! The front pages, beginning with...

:00:42. > :00:43.The Observer focuses on the Unite leadership battle -

:00:44. > :00:45.featuring an interview with the man challenging Len Mcluskey

:00:46. > :00:49.The Mail on Sunday leads with what it describes as the great

:00:50. > :00:51.foreign aid freeze - saying the government has agreed

:00:52. > :00:54.to halt new contracts after an investigation by the paper.

:00:55. > :00:57.The Sunday Times says the head of the rail union behind this week's

:00:58. > :00:59.industrial action has vowed to topple the Conservative

:01:00. > :01:02.The Sunday Telegraph also focusses on the unions -

:01:03. > :01:04.claiming Theresa May is facing pressure to curb

:01:05. > :01:10.And the Express says the High Street is heading for a record

:01:11. > :01:12.breaking Christmas - fuelled by Brexit.

:01:13. > :01:24.Let's begin with the Sunday Times. And, this idea of a loyalty oath for

:01:25. > :01:26.public office holders. It has been suggested by the Communities

:01:27. > :01:30.Secretary Sajid Javid, but following on from this report that Daimler

:01:31. > :01:41.Weise Casey has published into looking into how well integrated we

:01:42. > :01:44.are -- Dame Louise Casey. Yes, it is very far reaching. It applies to

:01:45. > :01:53.civil servants and even local council workers. I wonder how

:01:54. > :01:56.effective this would be. You can get people to swear an oath to anything

:01:57. > :02:00.but whether they fundamentally change their beliefs and values as a

:02:01. > :02:04.result is questionable. What kind of sanction would there have two B for

:02:05. > :02:11.it to be meaningful? We can say anything. If I want a job, I will

:02:12. > :02:17.say it. Do I feel it or believe it? There is a problem, there is a

:02:18. > :02:20.problem of integration. You know, within SummerSlam communities and

:02:21. > :02:27.frankly quite a lot of white people who do not want to integrate --

:02:28. > :02:31.within some Muslim communities. Just saying that you cannot get a job

:02:32. > :02:37.unless you come up with this oath? That will only end up in resentment,

:02:38. > :02:41.I think. And it is not just public office, it is everybody in society

:02:42. > :02:46.who have an investment or share in the same ideas. How do you bring it

:02:47. > :02:52.about? Exactly, it would apply to all migrants. Currently, it is just

:02:53. > :02:56.people seeking British citizenship. It is just so... Are we going to ask

:02:57. > :03:03.those people who happen to be indigenous Britons, right? To

:03:04. > :03:09.express tolerance when a lot of them are deeply intolerant of all

:03:10. > :03:13.backgrounds. This could be against discrimination laws and so on. What

:03:14. > :03:18.I think is that there was a problem and there has to be a more

:03:19. > :03:23.imaginative way of dealing with it. How? Louise Casey has certainly got

:03:24. > :03:28.the debate started... Don't get me started on her! Believe me, Yasmin,

:03:29. > :03:34.I won't! We have 13 minutes! There are a lot of things that we could

:03:35. > :03:38.actually... We have all kinds of activities. In Denmark there are

:03:39. > :03:43.fantastically local authority schemes to bring people together.

:03:44. > :03:49.Informally, casually, to be friends. We could do that. Moving on, the

:03:50. > :03:53.Telegraph. A fuse union stories this morning. It is nice to feel a proper

:03:54. > :04:01.newspaper and not just the front pages! Pressure on May.

:04:02. > :04:07.Prime Minister faces backlash over failure to impose emergency laws to

:04:08. > :04:13.curb crippling strikes. Southern Rail this week, it means a

:04:14. > :04:17.lot of difficulty for people trying to get about. What are the pressures

:04:18. > :04:24.that she is under? This has been going on for quite a long time.

:04:25. > :04:30.Conservative governments and successive ones have tried to curb

:04:31. > :04:35.the power of the unions. Now, some of these strikes are perfectly

:04:36. > :04:38.legal, what will we do? Change the law again... I am quite interested

:04:39. > :04:44.that Theresa May is refusing to curb the powers of the existing

:04:45. > :04:49.conditions under which strike... I would have thought she would have

:04:50. > :04:54.gone for it. They are quite crossed that she is not. But I think that

:04:55. > :04:59.she is right to not immediately step into this and make laws because of

:05:00. > :05:05.strikes. One of these suggestions is that critical industries would have

:05:06. > :05:09.to commit to maintaining a certain level of service even in the event

:05:10. > :05:12.of a strike, which I think would still slow people down if they are

:05:13. > :05:16.trying to move around on the railways for example but would not

:05:17. > :05:20.be quite the impact that they are facing this week? And I wonder

:05:21. > :05:25.whether it is the impact that is needed in order to get the point

:05:26. > :05:29.across, and whether keeping crucial services or at least half of them

:05:30. > :05:33.running would in fact defy the point of the strike will together. And the

:05:34. > :05:38.same with The Daily Telegraph, a picture of a mother and son but not

:05:39. > :05:43.any of them... The Queen and Prince trials, in a photograph taken by

:05:44. > :05:49.Nick Knight, a fashion photographer, prior to the final night of the

:05:50. > :05:54.Queen's 90th birthday celebrations. Yasmin, what do you think? She looks

:05:55. > :06:01.really good. I like her frock. At her age she looks really good. And

:06:02. > :06:06.so does trials! -- Charles. He is looking very fondly at his mum. She

:06:07. > :06:20.never greens a lot. I would love to know what is going on in her mind.

:06:21. > :06:25.-- grins a lot. This headline... This is Len McCluskey, the head of

:06:26. > :06:34.the Unite union facing a challenge from someone else. They are

:06:35. > :06:39.accusing, Jeremy Corbyn, he is accusing Len McCluskey are basically

:06:40. > :06:45.not doing his job as the head of the Unite union. I wonder whether this

:06:46. > :06:50.is not a proxy of what is happening in the broader Labour Party at the

:06:51. > :06:54.end of such a divisive year indeed for the whole Labour Party. Yes, but

:06:55. > :07:03.I think, I have never heard of this chap before. He does have a point.

:07:04. > :07:11.Len... I can never say his surname properly... McCluskey. He is more

:07:12. > :07:16.politicised than a couple of union leaders have been in the past but

:07:17. > :07:20.there are limits, after which he fails himself and the Labour Party.

:07:21. > :07:29.The Labour Party has always suffered from this thing. At the hands of the

:07:30. > :07:32.union. -- unions. I think that there is a point here? Not all unions are

:07:33. > :07:38.politically affiliated of course, but if you are, you are inevitably

:07:39. > :07:42.going to be quite politicised and you? Yes, but you can do it subtly.

:07:43. > :07:51.This guy committee just talks all the time about politics within the

:07:52. > :07:55.Labour Party. He is a trade unionist. You can be more subtle,

:07:56. > :08:01.businesses who back the Tory party do not do this upfront all the time.

:08:02. > :08:05.It is a lesson? And they accused of behaving in a less than transparent

:08:06. > :08:09.way? Yes. But I think that they could learn a little bit from the

:08:10. > :08:16.other sector. Let's stay with the Observer. Look at this story at the

:08:17. > :08:22.bottom. TUC and businesses urge Made to act now on the rights of migrants

:08:23. > :08:27.in Britain. -- Theresa May to act now. The rights of EU migrants

:08:28. > :08:33.should be guaranteed, they say, so that they can remain in the UK after

:08:34. > :08:39.Ore, because a lot of industries rely on those workers, don't they?

:08:40. > :08:44.-- in the UK after Brexit. It is some thing that Theresa May has

:08:45. > :08:48.addressed only last week. She said that she wanted answers to these

:08:49. > :08:52.questions. But, she's also said that she is basically not going to do

:08:53. > :08:56.anything until the talks are triggered in March. Three months is

:08:57. > :09:01.a long time and a lot of people will be affected by this. And over 1

:09:02. > :09:08.million British people are also living in Britain. 1.3 million, I

:09:09. > :09:11.think. I think that it is unfair and wrong to keep people in... How many

:09:12. > :09:20.months as it been already since Brexit? Some of these issues are, in

:09:21. > :09:23.a way, protected by law. Article eight of the European human rights

:09:24. > :09:28.Convention says that you have a right to a family life, and... These

:09:29. > :09:32.are often bypassed. But we would still be part of the convention

:09:33. > :09:37.unless they decide otherwise. You get the right to permanent

:09:38. > :09:43.residents. Isn't there some worry unnecessarily? A lot of it is about

:09:44. > :09:49.rhetoric as well. And signalling, a willingness to show that

:09:50. > :09:53.collaboration with EU states that had been particularly hostile in the

:09:54. > :09:56.aftermath of the Brexit vote. A lot of my Polish friends are very

:09:57. > :10:02.anxious and feel that any minute now... They feel it, emotionally

:10:03. > :10:06.they feel insecure at the moment. The Polish Prime Minister, when she

:10:07. > :10:10.came over, she was sounding rather different to a lot of EU leaders.

:10:11. > :10:16.Probably in recognition of the fact that there needs to be some

:10:17. > :10:23.reciprocity. It's an anxious time if you are an EU migrant. And the

:10:24. > :10:27.attitudes now developing in our country towards them. So... They do

:10:28. > :10:33.not feel that welcome or integrated, I think, quite a lot of them now.

:10:34. > :10:36.The Mail on Sunday, the great foreign aid freeze, a stunning

:10:37. > :10:39.victory says the newspaper, for their campaign.

:10:40. > :10:43.As Britain suspends new aid contracts after we expose fat cat

:10:44. > :10:54.dirty tricks. What are those dirty tricks? We both have mixed feelings

:10:55. > :11:00.about this. The big story here, Ian Birrell is a very good journalist,

:11:01. > :11:05.about how many executives, if you like, the CEOs of big charities, the

:11:06. > :11:09.bonuses that they earn, it is a fair enough story but I think that there

:11:10. > :11:14.is something else also happening here which makes me uncomfortable.

:11:15. > :11:18.It's kind of an attack on aid itself. But isn't it the right kind

:11:19. > :11:23.of age to the right kinds of places? Making sure money gets to where it

:11:24. > :11:27.is meant to be, rather than going in other directions? I would say so and

:11:28. > :11:31.it is such a big industry it is difficult to police as a whole.

:11:32. > :11:44.Transparency is so paramount. I think Ian has a good point here. The

:11:45. > :11:48.wording is very strong. He's talking about a dramatic halt to new

:11:49. > :11:51.contracts. It sells like a review going into something that has to be

:11:52. > :11:57.reviewed, but it would be interesting to see the outcome. We

:11:58. > :12:02.face cuts here on so many fronts. The best way, isn't it? To get

:12:03. > :12:08.people to support the idea of us giving foreign aid. Showing that it

:12:09. > :12:12.is properly having an effect? It is, but what is awful is that some of

:12:13. > :12:17.The Papers in the last few months have said, let's stop and look after

:12:18. > :12:20.our own. If you do not want refugees to come here, you better keep up

:12:21. > :12:26.with some good aid projects, actually. Otherwise, you have to

:12:27. > :12:33.work at the source or people will do what they've been doing and die and

:12:34. > :12:41.coming to Europe. You cannot have it both ways, really. Let's go back to

:12:42. > :12:50.the Sunday Times. Strictly winner, hip hip, Ore, our BBC Sports

:12:51. > :12:54.presenter... He is lifting up his partner in her spectacular yellow

:12:55. > :12:59.gown, it is not just a dress. She was so surprised when they won, her

:13:00. > :13:02.face was extraordinary! Neither of us have been committed to strictly

:13:03. > :13:10.watches this year... Maybe we should have been, it looked fantastic this

:13:11. > :13:15.year. I am so impressed at how quickly the contestants pick up

:13:16. > :13:20.those steps. Ore had never danced before. Some competitors have

:13:21. > :13:25.dancing their background. Sport is his thing, obviously. No, I think

:13:26. > :13:34.that the way that they do it... Ed Balls for God sake! He did really

:13:35. > :13:38.well. It would have thought? He certainly committed, didn't he? His

:13:39. > :13:51.gangland style, I watched it half a dozen times... It is so joyful! --

:13:52. > :13:56.here's Gangnam Style. And we've just spoken to the parents

:13:57. > :14:03.of JoAnn and Kevin Clifton... And those dresses! The wardrobe

:14:04. > :14:09.department at the BBC News Channel is not quite as well at providing

:14:10. > :14:18.the sequence! She says, dressed in black for this morning... --

:14:19. > :14:22.sequins. That's all for The Papers this morning.

:14:23. > :14:25.Thank you to both of you. A reminder that we look at my's front pages

:14:26. > :14:33.every evening at 10:40pm during the week. -- we look at tomorrow's front

:14:34. > :14:45.pages. A man is adrift

:14:46. > :14:49.after a storm at sea.