:00:00. > :00:08.as well, as Worcester drained 16 three-pointers.
:00:09. > :00:18.That is all from us for now. Coming up, The Papers. The sport was a
:00:19. > :00:20.little short tonight, but not to worry.
:00:21. > :00:23.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:24. > :00:27.With me are the business academic, Melanie Eusebe and Katie Martin
:00:28. > :00:31.Tomorrow's front pages...
:00:32. > :00:42.Welcome back, 2017. Glad you have not abandoned us. Let's have a look
:00:43. > :00:47.at the front pages. The Financial Times says London faces at triple
:00:48. > :00:51.whammy of transport strike action next week, after union discussions
:00:52. > :00:55.broke down with underground staff set to walk out for 24 hours on
:00:56. > :00:57.Sunday night. It comes amid industrial action on Southern rail
:00:58. > :01:01.and British Airways. The Mail looks at the amount
:01:02. > :01:04.of foreign aid paid out to some projects by the UK,
:01:05. > :01:07.and a decision to pull funding aimed at empowering women and girls around
:01:08. > :01:11.the world. The Times claims Theresa May has
:01:12. > :01:14.been warned by a major Conservative Party donor that he'll
:01:15. > :01:16.withdraw financial support if she pulls Britain out
:01:17. > :01:19.of the EU's single market. The Telegraph looks at winter
:01:20. > :01:21.pressure on the NHS, claiming to have seen a memo
:01:22. > :01:24.from health bosses encouraging hospitals not to use terms
:01:25. > :01:34.such as "black alert". The i also looks at demand on A -
:01:35. > :01:37.saying hospitals are turning away And the Express says US scientists
:01:38. > :01:43.have claimed that taking an hour-long nap after lunch is good
:01:44. > :02:04.for your health. And the Sun reporting on Prince
:02:05. > :02:08.Harry's first holiday together with his girlfriend Meghan Markle. They
:02:09. > :02:12.have been to see the Northern lights in Norway.
:02:13. > :02:22.Right, a leaked memo telling NHS officials not to speak about "Black
:02:23. > :02:26.alert". Every year we speak about the increased demand on NHS
:02:27. > :02:31.departments and this year is no different, but is it any worse? I am
:02:32. > :02:36.not sure but I think in the area of high taxation and the health service
:02:37. > :02:44.being one of the best locations for high taxation in the UK, we have a
:02:45. > :02:49.right to be concerned. 42 times in one week in the lead up to
:02:50. > :02:53.Christmas, when we do know this, and every year it is the same thing. The
:02:54. > :02:57.weather is cold which means we need to take care of ourselves a little
:02:58. > :03:00.more and people will be at the hospital more, so if it has been
:03:01. > :03:04.happening all of this time, why have we not fixed it yet? Or if it has
:03:05. > :03:08.not happened to this extent, then why is it happening to this extent
:03:09. > :03:14.this year? Either way there is a problem. And of course what does
:03:15. > :03:25.change over time, this ageing population, more people likely to
:03:26. > :03:27.need care all year round, but particularly in the winter? Yes, no
:03:28. > :03:30.getting around the fact people get ill overwinter, but it does sound
:03:31. > :03:32.like this is worse than usual. Speaking about, as Melanie was just
:03:33. > :03:35.saying, record numbers of people in ambulances turned away from hospital
:03:36. > :03:38.as they do not have resources to help them. In record-breaking
:03:39. > :03:44.territory, that does not sound good. One of the interesting elements of
:03:45. > :03:48.the story in the Telegraph is they are speaking about trying to
:03:49. > :03:54.encourage hospitals not to talk about this in overly alarming terms,
:03:55. > :03:57.not to speak about, what do they cold, black alerts? The Guardian
:03:58. > :04:01.speaking about how the Red Cross is saying the NHS needs to take action
:04:02. > :04:06.to make sure we are taking better care of people. Terms like Red Cross
:04:07. > :04:12.and black alert in relation to the NHS, not a good look. In addition,
:04:13. > :04:13.some of the stories, looking at individual stories, lying underneath
:04:14. > :04:26.this around deaths that have happened in
:04:27. > :04:28.hospital corridors, it makes for very grim reading. Let's look at the
:04:29. > :04:30.Guardian, though, because you mentioned the Red Cross.
:04:31. > :04:32.Humanitarian crisis in the NHS, says the Red Cross. Doctors told off and
:04:33. > :04:36.told a patient misery following death in corridors, and there are of
:04:37. > :04:40.course individual stories which are desperately sad, and concerning. I
:04:41. > :04:46.cannot remember a time when the NHS was described in that way by the Red
:04:47. > :04:50.Cross, has it? No, I think there have been conversations before
:04:51. > :04:55.regarding a crisis in the NHS, however the Red Cross commenting on
:04:56. > :04:59.it as if... We do not expect that, the Red Cross to be commenting on
:05:00. > :05:04.NHS services here in the UK. We expect them to be doing humanitarian
:05:05. > :05:08.crises, but it feels like this is entirely almost preventable, and so
:05:09. > :05:13.that is why, you know, when you think of the Red Cross, you sick of
:05:14. > :05:18.hurricanes, tornadoes, natural disasters, you do not think of the
:05:19. > :05:24.NHS needing support or comment -- you think of. Someone quoted here is
:05:25. > :05:29.president of the society for acute medicine who speaks about why it is
:05:30. > :05:35.particularly in that sort of penultimate paragraph, why the NHS
:05:36. > :05:38.is really in such dire straits now? Yes, it certainly seems to be a
:05:39. > :05:44.simple resources question. It is not like we are in the grips of some
:05:45. > :05:49.kind of academic of any kind, this is a standard winter -- epidemic of
:05:50. > :05:52.any kind. He is saying we have third World levels of staffing and beds in
:05:53. > :05:58.what is supposed to be a first world country. The two just do not match.
:05:59. > :06:02.No, and it speaks about people who died because they were on trolleys.
:06:03. > :06:06.One person had a heart attack and another had an aneurysm and then
:06:07. > :06:13.could not be saved. Let's move on and look at another story. To do
:06:14. > :06:17.with Donald Trump this time. It is still on the Guardian. The hacker
:06:18. > :06:24.accused of interfering in the US election. This is a picture of a
:06:25. > :06:28.woman who is reckoned to be a very skilled Russian hacker. It speaks a
:06:29. > :06:33.little bit about her and when she -- where she spends her time, working
:06:34. > :06:37.for companies trying to find vulnerabilities in their systems and
:06:38. > :06:43.she thinks this story has been completely overblown. I found her
:06:44. > :06:46.comments interesting. She denied having knowingly worked for the
:06:47. > :06:48.Russian government, it says here. LAUGHTER
:06:49. > :06:53.That is different to not having ever worked for the Russian government.
:06:54. > :06:56.It sounds like she is very good at what she does, very good at picking
:06:57. > :07:00.out vulnerabilities, useful for a commercial point of view, but it
:07:01. > :07:04.says she is guilty of helping Vladimir Putin to interfere in the
:07:05. > :07:07.US election, according to the White House. The company has been
:07:08. > :07:13.sanctioned and she is not very happy about it. But clearly this Russian
:07:14. > :07:16.hacking story, you know, it is doing the opposite of dying down. Every
:07:17. > :07:25.day this story escalates and appears to get worse. Something has just
:07:26. > :07:27.dropped an AP, actually, the intelligence agencies saying
:07:28. > :07:32.Vladimir Putin used a hidden campaign to influence the US
:07:33. > :07:35.presidential election in favour of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.
:07:36. > :07:41.Of course Donald Trump has said today it did not effect the outcome
:07:42. > :07:45.of the election and he is now, it seems, accepting from the 17
:07:46. > :07:50.different agencies that it did actually occur. So that is progress,
:07:51. > :07:54.a change? That is progress. Up until this point he has probably not had
:07:55. > :07:59.the briefings or access to the information to be able to see that
:08:00. > :08:04.definitively, yes, Russia interfered in the US election. Now it is nice
:08:05. > :08:09.to see he is changing his tune and let's hope for the best. Everyday is
:08:10. > :08:12.a surprise with Donald Trump so I am keeping my fingers crossed but I am
:08:13. > :08:16.glad he is finally acknowledging it. I think he has turned down the
:08:17. > :08:22.opportunity to have regular briefings that he might have had
:08:23. > :08:24.with some of security experts. He doesn't need them, proudly. He wants
:08:25. > :08:32.to be informed when there is something new to say, and clearly he
:08:33. > :08:35.wants to do things his own way but, you know, what might get interesting
:08:36. > :08:39.from here is, as we were just saying, he has had this briefing
:08:40. > :08:45.today, he has been sat down and told, this is what we know. Maybe
:08:46. > :08:49.the kind of reality of actually being president will start hitting
:08:50. > :08:52.him quite soon and he will start taking people like security
:08:53. > :08:55.officials and intelligence officials more seriously. I wonder whether he
:08:56. > :09:00.will be able to carry on, I mean, you might not have time, but whether
:09:01. > :09:06.he will be permitted to be quite so vocal and active on social media,
:09:07. > :09:14.January the 20th. I do not think they will be able to stop him. On
:09:15. > :09:18.Twitter? I certainly don't. Twitter is a new and for any president.
:09:19. > :09:23.Barrett Obama was the first president to have a Twitter account,
:09:24. > :09:27.to have... That was closely monitored and overseen, isn't it? I
:09:28. > :09:34.imagine it is not always necessarily by Obama who does it, the tweeting.
:09:35. > :09:39.But it is a new thing for any Government to have, that direct
:09:40. > :09:42.access to the audience. We are treading in waters we have never
:09:43. > :09:46.tried before so I am interested to see as well what will happen with
:09:47. > :09:50.the Twitter account after he is actually president, because I feel
:09:51. > :09:55.that he is not the type of man to have his voice that way. No, it will
:09:56. > :09:58.take somebody rather brave to brave to try to clip his wings but he is
:09:59. > :10:01.also saying he recognises now he needs to put together a team of
:10:02. > :10:07.people who know what they are doing when it comes to cyber espionage.
:10:08. > :10:15.People who know the cyber, as he would say. Yes, some kind of task
:10:16. > :10:18.force looking into how to prevent hacking, not that he seems to think
:10:19. > :10:24.it has done any harm so far but he does seem to be taking this more
:10:25. > :10:27.seriously. Clearly, to the extent that the Russians have somehow got
:10:28. > :10:31.into the Democratic party machinery online, it seems to have been
:10:32. > :10:35.relatively easy to do. It is quite easy to get into party machinery.
:10:36. > :10:40.How easy is it to get into actual government machinery? It is clearly
:10:41. > :10:44.time to take this seriously. It is also interesting, you know, why
:10:45. > :10:47.wasn't this addressed sooner of? Why have we got to the point where he is
:10:48. > :11:00.being briefed about it and the election has been and gone? Why did
:11:01. > :11:03.the sooner than this something was going on and do something about it?
:11:04. > :11:06.This suggestion is still the Democrats would not let the FBI have
:11:07. > :11:08.access to some of the e-mails they thought had been hacked, but
:11:09. > :11:10.according to this report which we are supposed to see more of next
:11:11. > :11:12.week Russia's calls were to undermine faith in the democratic
:11:13. > :11:16.process and denigrate Hillary Clinton, even if it did not derail
:11:17. > :11:19.the presidency, it is something the Republicans have said, that we all
:11:20. > :11:24.need to be concerned about. I think if we look at history, though,
:11:25. > :11:30.something is coming home to roost. There has been meddling in
:11:31. > :11:34.several... In our history, meddling in political elections is not
:11:35. > :11:40.something new, and maybe it is the first time we are feeling it here,
:11:41. > :11:45.or the US is feeling it, but however it is almost an about-face, because
:11:46. > :11:51.we all have a history, out of us, of meddling in each other's elections
:11:52. > :11:54.or other country's elections. Or having a preferred candidate... That
:11:55. > :11:58.is all I am going to say. I am pleased because I would have had to
:11:59. > :12:03.stop you but you have done it yourself. Under the Times. Angry
:12:04. > :12:09.donor threatens to stop funding the Tory party. Andrew Cook, who has
:12:10. > :12:18.donated ?1.2 million to the party, he is going to stop... Why? When?
:12:19. > :12:22.If? He says, Sir Andrew Cook, he will find it impossible to continue
:12:23. > :12:26.supporting the party if the Prime Minister Theresa May endorses
:12:27. > :12:30.leaving the EU single market. This is interesting because it just
:12:31. > :12:35.demonstrates Theresa May cannot win. She either keeps the donors to the
:12:36. > :12:40.party happy, you know, who are largely businessmen, people in the
:12:41. > :12:45.City, business interests, who do not want to see a hard Brexit, or she
:12:46. > :12:50.keeps the Eurosceptic wing of the Tory party and the vast majority of
:12:51. > :12:57.the British population happy. The majority who voted? Yes, that is
:12:58. > :13:04.what I mean. Before I get lots of complaints. It was only 37% of the
:13:05. > :13:08.British people in total. But it is not just up to Theresa May, is it?
:13:09. > :13:12.The other 27 members of the EU and what kind of deal they permit
:13:13. > :13:17.Britain to have. Yes, it is about the deal we are permitted to have,
:13:18. > :13:21.however it has been fairly clear, clearly iterated that we are not
:13:22. > :13:29.going to be able to get the free market without exceeding on some of
:13:30. > :13:33.our freedom of movement demands and requests, so whatever demand comes
:13:34. > :13:38.out, and Sir Andrew is correct in this sense -- he will not have
:13:39. > :13:43.access to the free market unless we allow freedom of movement. We might
:13:44. > :13:46.have to pay to remain part of it. Yes, I mean the notion we can have
:13:47. > :13:53.our cake and eat it here I think is somewhat fanciful. That is basically
:13:54. > :13:58.what Sir Andrew is saying, he has got a factory, several factories, at
:13:59. > :14:03.least one of them is almost entirely dependent on access to the European
:14:04. > :14:07.market, he is saying. He's speaking about the UK sleepwalking to
:14:08. > :14:12.disaster if it sacrifices the Single Market. In favour favour of Brexit
:14:13. > :14:15.see, they point to other countries, who managed to trade with the
:14:16. > :14:20.European Union but are not inside the European Union, have never been
:14:21. > :14:25.inside, yet they seem to be able to do business with the block. They
:14:26. > :14:28.have some degree of freedom of movement and some degree of paying
:14:29. > :14:36.to play, so if we are not prepared... Do the? It is somewhat
:14:37. > :14:40.different. Just this notion that, you know, after 40 years it is going
:14:41. > :14:44.to be this divorce and the other side of the equation in the EU says,
:14:45. > :14:49.you know, fine, take everything, have whatever you like. It is a
:14:50. > :14:54.tough deal to strike. It is not just a la money or support. It is an
:14:55. > :15:00.acrimonious divorce, as we know, and it will take years to negotiate the
:15:01. > :15:06.settling of interests. You mention Canada, and you're right. If Canada
:15:07. > :15:10.and the US came out of the North American Free Trade Agreement it
:15:11. > :15:13.would, people would assume it would take hundreds of years just for them
:15:14. > :15:18.to untangle themselves from one another, and so there are some
:15:19. > :15:24.things we can compensate for, some things we cannot compensate for, and
:15:25. > :15:28.Sir Andrew really highlights the key tension, that we are going to have
:15:29. > :15:32.to address, the interests of business, really of business and
:15:33. > :15:36.particularly in the Conservative Party because it is a business
:15:37. > :15:40.interest heavy party, and it is freedom of movement, which really
:15:41. > :15:44.the electorate or the people who voted to leave, that is their
:15:45. > :15:47.primary interest, one of their primary interests, so it will be
:15:48. > :15:50.interesting to see how Theresa May navigates this because quite frankly
:15:51. > :15:53.I think the matter what we feel about her she has been put in an
:15:54. > :15:59.extremely difficult position where they are going to be no winners. On
:16:00. > :16:02.the Daily Telegraph Brexit is to blame apparently for Jamie Oliver's
:16:03. > :16:08.Italian nightmare. He is having to close some of his restaurants and he
:16:09. > :16:14.says Brexit is to blame because of uncertainty over the future. Yes...
:16:15. > :16:18.A big pause there, Melanie? LAUGHTER
:16:19. > :16:22.This is tough because I love interpreters and what Jamie Oliver
:16:23. > :16:27.is doing here and around the world for the -- I love entrepreneurs.
:16:28. > :16:31.However, you will see some of his colleagues in the industry, how can
:16:32. > :16:35.you blame Brexit for closing restaurants? My restaurants are
:16:36. > :16:38.actually on the upper right now, and really before the Brexit thought it
:16:39. > :16:45.seemed Jamie did have somewhat a history of closures as well, from
:16:46. > :16:49.the Conservative MP, there. Yes, the suggestion he needs to look closer
:16:50. > :16:55.to home for the way he runs his... I think we will see a lot of that, a
:16:56. > :16:58.lot of blaming on Brexit. It is like with clothes shops trying to sell
:16:59. > :17:06.horrible clothes, they always blame the weather, say it is too warm, too
:17:07. > :17:13.wet, to ... But you are not casting aspersions on his quality of food? I
:17:14. > :17:18.have not eaten in one of his restaurant for a long time but I
:17:19. > :17:23.think it will be easy to blame this uncertainty for a lot of things.
:17:24. > :17:27.Let's look at the hits and misses at a tech conference in Las Vegas, the
:17:28. > :17:30.consumer Electronics show, speaking about the winners and losers in the
:17:31. > :17:33.Internet of things, things like your fridge connected to the Internet, so
:17:34. > :17:37.they can tell you when you're running out of milk, or when the
:17:38. > :17:40.temperature is not right and you can switch heating on through your
:17:41. > :17:48.mobile phone and all that sort of thing. What has been popular and
:17:49. > :17:53.what has been? Selfie drone that follow you around, I am quite
:17:54. > :17:57.excited by that idea. Are you? Like a miniature helper that will help
:17:58. > :18:03.you. In the past people may have had a parrot on your shoulder. You don't
:18:04. > :18:09.fancy it, do you? Milliwatt? Who is speaking to me... Someone is
:18:10. > :18:14.speaking to me in the gallery. They are telling me the time, oh, I
:18:15. > :18:20.thought they were trying to tell me about a clever tech thing. I do not
:18:21. > :18:25.fancy that, I drone hovering over me! No, this event in Las Vegas,
:18:26. > :18:30.these are all the marvellous things we can do within your Internet of
:18:31. > :18:35.things, and there just seems to be plenty of examples of types of
:18:36. > :18:39.technology that have been developed for no obvious reason, just because
:18:40. > :18:45.you can. A voice activated bin, a fishing drone. I also saw this app
:18:46. > :18:50.very could write on a phone and it could print out a post-it note and I
:18:51. > :18:53.thought, have you not got ten? LAUGHTER
:18:54. > :19:04.These seems to be solutions in search of problems. -- have you not
:19:05. > :19:09.got a pen? No, I would be swatting it away like a flight, I drone. And
:19:10. > :19:15.then these selfies. I must pick and that before someone else does --
:19:16. > :19:21.swatting it away like a fly. That is all from us Friday night. Do not
:19:22. > :19:25.forget you can follow that online. And we are there as well. Each
:19:26. > :19:30.edition will be posted shortly after we finish and it is an eye player as
:19:31. > :19:32.well. We are now getting back to normal know that the festive season
:19:33. > :19:36.is over. Thank you both for coming in. Nice to see you. Coming up next
:19:37. > :19:37.is the