31/01/2017 The Papers

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

With me are journalist and broadcaster Aasmah Mir

and Matt McAllester, Editor of Newsweek International.

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...

The Telegraph leads with comments by President Trump's

senior trade adviser, who has accused Germany of using

The paper also pictures Ken Clarke speaking during the Brexit

UK faces return to inequality of Thatcher years is the Guardian

headline. The squeeze is will hit the poor hardest.

The Metro says rail operators have announced a big

shake up in train fares - which they claim will see passengers

always being offered the cheapest available price.

The same story on the Times, which also features claims that thousands

of newly qualified doctors are unprepared to do basic tasks.

According to The Mail, health tourism is costing the NHS millions

of pounds because of what it calls chaotic billing.

Trump euro, attacking Germany over the euro now. He has trained his

guns on the continent of Europe. Some people would say this is

unprecedented because Donald Trump is very aggressively going for

Brussels, now going for Berlin. On the other side, people would say

he's doing what he said he would do, looking out for American interests.

What his accusing Germany of doing here is profiting from a weak euro,

and the flip side of that is that the dollar is underperforming hugely

because of this. Donald Trump has to put his money where his mouth is,

quite literally. So you can see this both ways. Very aggressive,

unprecedented, never seen before policy of calling out people that

until now have not been. On the other side you can see this is

Donald Trump calling out people for manipulating currencies, which is I

think what he is potentially saving to the detriment of the American

economy. Is it manipulation or is Germany simply taking advantage of a

weak euro? Which is a result of a host of things going on in the

European Union? It is not just Germany according to President

Trump, it is Japan and China. He's going round the world picking fights

rapidly. There is a sense of potential retaliation here because

yesterday Chancellor Angela Merkel sort of told him off, reminded him

what the refugee Convention is. And so there is a sense within the first

few days of this Administration of tit for tat. The question of whether

there is manipulation or not is being lost in trouble against the

world at this point. This will be hugely popular with his supporters,

I'm stating the obvious here but we have to remember that. To 50%

perhaps of the electorate or the world population, this is aggressive

tit for tat, but to the other 50% he's doing what he said he would do.

He said in that interview with Michael Gove, he suggested that you

don't see many share these on the streets of Berlin. He's got a point,

hasn't he? The response was make better cars! Which is fair enough, I

suppose. The Guardian, Trump travel ban. Opposition to the travel ban

grows, we know what Amber Rudd thinks of it. She is against it, and

also we have one of the powerful, richest tech barons in the United

States, the founder of Amazon who has put his weight behind it. For a

while the tech companies were on the defence. Traditionally firmly

and when Trump was elected they went and when Trump was elected they went

to Trump Tower, met with him and realised that especially companies

like Google who have contributed to individuals greatly as Democratic

candidates they had to make friends with the new administration. That's

lasted about five seconds and what happened was with this ban huge

numbers... In Silicon Valley there basically no that doesn't have a

relative or family member or a colleague or themselves if they came

from another country so it is almost next essential threat to a key part

of the American economy. They are fighting back. Isn't this just the

liberal left again as far as Trump supporters are concerned? Getting

hot and bothered about something that is not important. This travel

ban makes sense to them. Yes, but what they have to consider is this

is the new media, we are talking about media tech companies and if

you are talking about affecting the workforce of these companies, that's

something you could argue might impact the American economy as well

so we have to put that aside and look at the bigger picture. Apple is

the most profitable company in the United States so you -- would you

want to hurt that engine of growth? As I say, as 48% of Americans

support this economy, and the poll suggests they do, then this person

is talking rubbish. Yes, he and Congress will make these decisions

over the next four years. Hasn't he also made this point the travel ban

is for 90 days, not a permanent thing so if Jeff Brazil is concerned

he will not get some bright spark from Somalia or whatever, he seems

to be sort of shouting about something that perhaps isn't going

to be a problem. It's the sense of uncertainty. We see it is Germany

today, what will it be tomorrow? It is hard to keep up actually. You

were right to point out it is a temporary ban, if I'm able to use

that word. You are not! You will get a tweet tonight at 4am. How dare

you! He says they had to implement it quickly so the bad dudes didn't

rush in, so why after 90 days would be lifted so they could come back in

anyway? You are right to raise it but it's unlikely this will only be

for 90 days. That's my feeling anyway. It does seem odd, there

hasn't been an attack on American soil by foreigners since 9/11 and

restrictions are very tight so they must be doing something right, so

why upset all of that? Why we come back to the 40%. There are stories

today and a lot of reporters in the state are going to the heartland,

Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, the key states that swung it for Trump,

and they think it is great. For once someone we voted for is doing what

they said they would do. And doing it very quickly. Someone we voted

for is pandering to our fears. That is not how they put it... Pandering

to or addressing our fears. Absolutely, I'm not passing an

opinion, simply throwing stuff out there. It was a campaign, whether

you supported it or not, that was fundamentally about fear. It's a

terrible situation America is in everything is going wrong. Obama was

always about hope, this just resonated. If you say there is a

bogeyman out there and you are the person who can deal with it, you are

laughing, I suggest. If you bring up the front page of the Financial

Times, it is... KC. The great survivor, Kenneth Clarke. No, kinky

-- King Canute! I just thought of that. The bill giving the Government

the right to trigger Article 50 shouldn't go through, he's saying

and he isn't a lone voice, is he? The thing about Ken Clarke is he

stuck to his beliefs for years and years, and this will obviously put

him at odds with his party and Theresa May, and we know people like

Anna Soubry for example who didn't vote out but who will back it. Much

to be admired, you could argue, Ken Clarke is going against the grain,

and what an interesting picture it was yesterday being applauded by

Labour and SNP ministers. It is the kind of thing you never thought you

would see but you are not surprised that the things we see in Parliament

any more. And maths, the irony through all of this is that the

majority of my lifetime, the backdrop to Europe was squabbles

within the Conservative Party. At this incredibly important moment in

British history, it is the squabbles in the Labour Party that are

actually perhaps more to the fore in the situation across the ventures.

Absolutely, when you have one Conservative MP very much at the end

of his career with nothing to lose, to be honest, he's a bit like John

McCain in the United States, his six last years and he will say whatever

he likes about Donald Trump, it is completely different in the Labour

Party which is completely fragmented over this. You would think they

couldn't find any more reasons to split and fragment and Article 50

has done that. There were signs of it during the election campaign.

Jeremy Corbyn's seven out of ten enthusiasm for staying in the

European Union foreshadowed what we have now. You try to get your

average rail ticket, you have got to go through a menu that goes on for

years, longer than the Bible, but now they are going to slim things

down for us. The story is they will trial uncertain line is much simpler

fares. There are actually 16 million different types of rail fares in

Britain, so it is longer than the King James Bible. That was a joke!

15 million, and it will all be fine. Extreme million. 16 million

apparently. That is fake news, that cannot be true. How will they make

it simpler? They will cut out a lot of, if you go here you have to buy

an extra ticket, more of a direct through line. They will tell you at

the beginning how you can get the cheapest fare as opposed to being

given an affair that is expensive and then having to split the

journey, buying lots of single tickets and making it cheaper that

way. It seems ridiculous. Anything to do with rail fares is ridiculous

with both sides blaming each other, and rail companies saying we cannot

do this because the Government is in charge of this and that and the rest

of it. I would love to think we will get the cheapest rail fare but don't

hold your breath. That's not going to happen. Back to the Financial

Times. We are all about automation, bank teller is being usurped by ATM

machines, checking out at the supermarket, now we have a robot

that can play poker and beat people. I remember when I was a kid getting

a first video game. For Christmas I want one of these, a robot that has

just beaten four of the world's top professional poker players and has

won nearly 1.8 million so the game is up for human beings around the

poker table. I was going to say you can have a pretty stern face if you

are robot, pretty stern RoboCop. Thank you very much for looking at

some of the stories behind the headlines. That is it from my guests

tonight, and thank you for watching. Goodbye.

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