06/01/2017 The Papers

as well, as Worcester drained 16 three-pointers.

That is all from us for now. Coming up, The Papers. The sport was a

little short tonight, but not to worry.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

With me are the business academic, Melanie Eusebe and Katie Martin

Tomorrow's front pages...

Welcome back, 2017. Glad you have not abandoned us. Let's have a look

at the front pages. The Financial Times says London faces at triple

whammy of transport strike action next week, after union discussions

broke down with underground staff set to walk out for 24 hours on

Sunday night. It comes amid industrial action on Southern rail

and British Airways. The Mail looks at the amount

of foreign aid paid out to some projects by the UK,

and a decision to pull funding aimed at empowering women and girls around

the world. The Times claims Theresa May has

been warned by a major Conservative Party donor that he'll

withdraw financial support if she pulls Britain out

of the EU's single market. The Telegraph looks at winter

pressure on the NHS, claiming to have seen a memo

from health bosses encouraging hospitals not to use terms

such as "black alert". The i also looks at demand on A -

saying hospitals are turning away And the Express says US scientists

have claimed that taking an hour-long nap after lunch is good

for your health. And the Sun reporting on Prince

Harry's first holiday together with his girlfriend Meghan Markle. They

have been to see the Northern lights in Norway.

Right, a leaked memo telling NHS officials not to speak about "Black

alert". Every year we speak about the increased demand on NHS

departments and this year is no different, but is it any worse? I am

not sure but I think in the area of high taxation and the health service

being one of the best locations for high taxation in the UK, we have a

right to be concerned. 42 times in one week in the lead up to

Christmas, when we do know this, and every year it is the same thing. The

weather is cold which means we need to take care of ourselves a little

more and people will be at the hospital more, so if it has been

happening all of this time, why have we not fixed it yet? Or if it has

not happened to this extent, then why is it happening to this extent

this year? Either way there is a problem. And of course what does

change over time, this ageing population, more people likely to

need care all year round, but particularly in the winter? Yes, no

getting around the fact people get ill overwinter, but it does sound

like this is worse than usual. Speaking about, as Melanie was just

saying, record numbers of people in ambulances turned away from hospital

as they do not have resources to help them. In record-breaking

territory, that does not sound good. One of the interesting elements of

the story in the Telegraph is they are speaking about trying to

encourage hospitals not to talk about this in overly alarming terms,

not to speak about, what do they cold, black alerts? The Guardian

speaking about how the Red Cross is saying the NHS needs to take action

to make sure we are taking better care of people. Terms like Red Cross

and black alert in relation to the NHS, not a good look. In addition,

some of the stories, looking at individual stories, lying underneath

this around deaths that have happened in

hospital corridors, it makes for very grim reading. Let's look at the

Guardian, though, because you mentioned the Red Cross.

Humanitarian crisis in the NHS, says the Red Cross. Doctors told off and

told a patient misery following death in corridors, and there are of

course individual stories which are desperately sad, and concerning. I

cannot remember a time when the NHS was described in that way by the Red

Cross, has it? No, I think there have been conversations before

regarding a crisis in the NHS, however the Red Cross commenting on

it as if... We do not expect that, the Red Cross to be commenting on

NHS services here in the UK. We expect them to be doing humanitarian

crises, but it feels like this is entirely almost preventable, and so

that is why, you know, when you think of the Red Cross, you sick of

hurricanes, tornadoes, natural disasters, you do not think of the

NHS needing support or comment -- you think of. Someone quoted here is

president of the society for acute medicine who speaks about why it is

particularly in that sort of penultimate paragraph, why the NHS

is really in such dire straits now? Yes, it certainly seems to be a

simple resources question. It is not like we are in the grips of some

kind of academic of any kind, this is a standard winter -- epidemic of

any kind. He is saying we have third World levels of staffing and beds in

what is supposed to be a first world country. The two just do not match.

No, and it speaks about people who died because they were on trolleys.

One person had a heart attack and another had an aneurysm and then

could not be saved. Let's move on and look at another story. To do

with Donald Trump this time. It is still on the Guardian. The hacker

accused of interfering in the US election. This is a picture of a

woman who is reckoned to be a very skilled Russian hacker. It speaks a

little bit about her and when she -- where she spends her time, working

for companies trying to find vulnerabilities in their systems and

she thinks this story has been completely overblown. I found her

comments interesting. She denied having knowingly worked for the

Russian government, it says here. LAUGHTER

That is different to not having ever worked for the Russian government.

It sounds like she is very good at what she does, very good at picking

out vulnerabilities, useful for a commercial point of view, but it

says she is guilty of helping Vladimir Putin to interfere in the

US election, according to the White House. The company has been

sanctioned and she is not very happy about it. But clearly this Russian

hacking story, you know, it is doing the opposite of dying down. Every

day this story escalates and appears to get worse. Something has just

dropped an AP, actually, the intelligence agencies saying

Vladimir Putin used a hidden campaign to influence the US

presidential election in favour of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.

Of course Donald Trump has said today it did not effect the outcome

of the election and he is now, it seems, accepting from the 17

different agencies that it did actually occur. So that is progress,

a change? That is progress. Up until this point he has probably not had

the briefings or access to the information to be able to see that

definitively, yes, Russia interfered in the US election. Now it is nice

to see he is changing his tune and let's hope for the best. Everyday is

a surprise with Donald Trump so I am keeping my fingers crossed but I am

glad he is finally acknowledging it. I think he has turned down the

opportunity to have regular briefings that he might have had

with some of security experts. He doesn't need them, proudly. He wants

to be informed when there is something new to say, and clearly he

wants to do things his own way but, you know, what might get interesting

from here is, as we were just saying, he has had this briefing

today, he has been sat down and told, this is what we know. Maybe

the kind of reality of actually being president will start hitting

him quite soon and he will start taking people like security

officials and intelligence officials more seriously. I wonder whether he

will be able to carry on, I mean, you might not have time, but whether

he will be permitted to be quite so vocal and active on social media,

January the 20th. I do not think they will be able to stop him. On

Twitter? I certainly don't. Twitter is a new and for any president.

Barrett Obama was the first president to have a Twitter account,

to have... That was closely monitored and overseen, isn't it? I

imagine it is not always necessarily by Obama who does it, the tweeting.

But it is a new thing for any Government to have, that direct

access to the audience. We are treading in waters we have never

tried before so I am interested to see as well what will happen with

the Twitter account after he is actually president, because I feel

that he is not the type of man to have his voice that way. No, it will

take somebody rather brave to brave to try to clip his wings but he is

also saying he recognises now he needs to put together a team of

people who know what they are doing when it comes to cyber espionage.

People who know the cyber, as he would say. Yes, some kind of task

force looking into how to prevent hacking, not that he seems to think

it has done any harm so far but he does seem to be taking this more

seriously. Clearly, to the extent that the Russians have somehow got

into the Democratic party machinery online, it seems to have been

relatively easy to do. It is quite easy to get into party machinery.

How easy is it to get into actual government machinery? It is clearly

time to take this seriously. It is also interesting, you know, why

wasn't this addressed sooner of? Why have we got to the point where he is

being briefed about it and the election has been and gone? Why did

the sooner than this something was going on and do something about it?

This suggestion is still the Democrats would not let the FBI have

access to some of the e-mails they thought had been hacked, but

according to this report which we are supposed to see more of next

week Russia's calls were to undermine faith in the democratic

process and denigrate Hillary Clinton, even if it did not derail

the presidency, it is something the Republicans have said, that we all

need to be concerned about. I think if we look at history, though,

something is coming home to roost. There has been meddling in

several... In our history, meddling in political elections is not

something new, and maybe it is the first time we are feeling it here,

or the US is feeling it, but however it is almost an about-face, because

we all have a history, out of us, of meddling in each other's elections

or other country's elections. Or having a preferred candidate... That

is all I am going to say. I am pleased because I would have had to

stop you but you have done it yourself. Under the Times. Angry

donor threatens to stop funding the Tory party. Andrew Cook, who has

donated ?1.2 million to the party, he is going to stop... Why? When?

If? He says, Sir Andrew Cook, he will find it impossible to continue

supporting the party if the Prime Minister Theresa May endorses

leaving the EU single market. This is interesting because it just

demonstrates Theresa May cannot win. She either keeps the donors to the

party happy, you know, who are largely businessmen, people in the

City, business interests, who do not want to see a hard Brexit, or she

keeps the Eurosceptic wing of the Tory party and the vast majority of

the British population happy. The majority who voted? Yes, that is

what I mean. Before I get lots of complaints. It was only 37% of the

British people in total. But it is not just up to Theresa May, is it?

The other 27 members of the EU and what kind of deal they permit

Britain to have. Yes, it is about the deal we are permitted to have,

however it has been fairly clear, clearly iterated that we are not

going to be able to get the free market without exceeding on some of

our freedom of movement demands and requests, so whatever demand comes

out, and Sir Andrew is correct in this sense -- he will not have

access to the free market unless we allow freedom of movement. We might

have to pay to remain part of it. Yes, I mean the notion we can have

our cake and eat it here I think is somewhat fanciful. That is basically

what Sir Andrew is saying, he has got a factory, several factories, at

least one of them is almost entirely dependent on access to the European

market, he is saying. He's speaking about the UK sleepwalking to

disaster if it sacrifices the Single Market. In favour favour of Brexit

see, they point to other countries, who managed to trade with the

European Union but are not inside the European Union, have never been

inside, yet they seem to be able to do business with the block. They

have some degree of freedom of movement and some degree of paying

to play, so if we are not prepared... Do the? It is somewhat

different. Just this notion that, you know, after 40 years it is going

to be this divorce and the other side of the equation in the EU says,

you know, fine, take everything, have whatever you like. It is a

tough deal to strike. It is not just a la money or support. It is an

acrimonious divorce, as we know, and it will take years to negotiate the

settling of interests. You mention Canada, and you're right. If Canada

and the US came out of the North American Free Trade Agreement it

would, people would assume it would take hundreds of years just for them

to untangle themselves from one another, and so there are some

things we can compensate for, some things we cannot compensate for, and

Sir Andrew really highlights the key tension, that we are going to have

to address, the interests of business, really of business and

particularly in the Conservative Party because it is a business

interest heavy party, and it is freedom of movement, which really

the electorate or the people who voted to leave, that is their

primary interest, one of their primary interests, so it will be

interesting to see how Theresa May navigates this because quite frankly

I think the matter what we feel about her she has been put in an

extremely difficult position where they are going to be no winners. On

the Daily Telegraph Brexit is to blame apparently for Jamie Oliver's

Italian nightmare. He is having to close some of his restaurants and he

says Brexit is to blame because of uncertainty over the future. Yes...

A big pause there, Melanie? LAUGHTER

This is tough because I love interpreters and what Jamie Oliver

is doing here and around the world for the -- I love entrepreneurs.

However, you will see some of his colleagues in the industry, how can

you blame Brexit for closing restaurants? My restaurants are

actually on the upper right now, and really before the Brexit thought it

seemed Jamie did have somewhat a history of closures as well, from

the Conservative MP, there. Yes, the suggestion he needs to look closer

to home for the way he runs his... I think we will see a lot of that, a

lot of blaming on Brexit. It is like with clothes shops trying to sell

horrible clothes, they always blame the weather, say it is too warm, too

wet, to ... But you are not casting aspersions on his quality of food? I

have not eaten in one of his restaurant for a long time but I

think it will be easy to blame this uncertainty for a lot of things.

Let's look at the hits and misses at a tech conference in Las Vegas, the

consumer Electronics show, speaking about the winners and losers in the

Internet of things, things like your fridge connected to the Internet, so

they can tell you when you're running out of milk, or when the

temperature is not right and you can switch heating on through your

mobile phone and all that sort of thing. What has been popular and

what has been? Selfie drone that follow you around, I am quite

excited by that idea. Are you? Like a miniature helper that will help

you. In the past people may have had a parrot on your shoulder. You don't

fancy it, do you? Milliwatt? Who is speaking to me... Someone is

speaking to me in the gallery. They are telling me the time, oh, I

thought they were trying to tell me about a clever tech thing. I do not

fancy that, I drone hovering over me! No, this event in Las Vegas,

these are all the marvellous things we can do within your Internet of

things, and there just seems to be plenty of examples of types of

technology that have been developed for no obvious reason, just because

you can. A voice activated bin, a fishing drone. I also saw this app

very could write on a phone and it could print out a post-it note and I

thought, have you not got ten? LAUGHTER

These seems to be solutions in search of problems. -- have you not

got a pen? No, I would be swatting it away like a flight, I drone. And

then these selfies. I must pick and that before someone else does --

swatting it away like a fly. That is all from us Friday night. Do not

forget you can follow that online. And we are there as well. Each

edition will be posted shortly after we finish and it is an eye player as

well. We are now getting back to normal know that the festive season

is over. Thank you both for coming in. Nice to see you. Coming up next

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