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The Oscar-nominated I Am Not Your Negro is now rated by Samuel L. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Jackson. Find out what Mark Kermode thinks of it in The Film Review. -- | :00:07. | :00:20. | |
narrated. Hello, and welcome to our look ahead | :00:21. | :00:21. | |
to what the papers will be With me is the journalist, | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Lucy Cavendish, and Tom Bergin, Tomorrow's front pages then, | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
starting with this. The stop story for the Times | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
is about efforts by UK ministers to push for what it describes | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
as "very punitive sanctions" against Russia if the country | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
refuses to cut ties with President The Daily Telegraph leads | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
with claims that Russia and Iran are threatening to retaliate | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
against the United States with military action if the US | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
launches more airstrikes on Syria. The paper quotes a command centre | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
made up of Russian and Iranian forces accusing President Trump | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
of crossing "red lines." On its front page, The Daily Mail | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
carries the same story. It also has a picture | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
of Chris Bevington, the British man who was killed in the attack | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
in Stockholm on Friday. The Metro is also among those | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
leading on the threats Its front page also shows | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
a picture of the coffin of the Westminster Attack victim | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
PC Keith Palmer prior The US military is the focus | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
for the Financial Times. It leads on the US President's | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
decision to increase US naval power The Independent's main story, | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
billed as an exclusive, is about the rising number | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
of domestic violence victims withdrawing charges | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
against their alleged abusers. And the Guardian says that most | :01:32. | :01:32. | |
asylum seekers are placed Lots of the papers, as you might | :01:33. | :01:52. | |
expect, are going with the aftermath of the cruise missile strikes by the | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
United States against Syrian forces earlier in the week. The Daily | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
Mail's headline, Russia up the ante on Syria. We will hit back say army | :02:01. | :02:09. | |
chiefs. Anonymous warning of real war. -- an ominous. The idea was | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
chemical warfare was used by Syria and that is the red line that Barack | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
Obama put down and did nothing about. He was not president then, | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
but Donald Trump of course ridiculed Barack Obama's line on that. Russia | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
is clearly using very threatening tones. It is hard to know exactly | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
what this would mean underground. But the reality is the US has got | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
troops, and according to reports, it could be 500 US troops within Syrian | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
border is. So consequently, there are targets the Russians could hit. | :02:50. | :03:00. | |
They could hit them and say they were aiming for Islamic State and | :03:01. | :03:14. | |
create the deniable excuse. But this was done with Syria and Turkey after | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
Turkey shut down one of their gets. They pulled back from that. -- jets. | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
Just because we are seeing threatening statements does not mean | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
Russia will follow through. The other option is sanctions, which | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
would not need the agreement of the United Nations. They have not been | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
able to pass resolutions because of the veto by Russia. This is | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
something Boris Johnson has proposed recently. That story has moved on | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
slightly. There has been a lot of worry is about the fact that Boris | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
Johnson is not going to go to Russia, which he said he was going | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
to do. -- worries. But we have moved on with the idea of sanctions. The | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
problem with that take, and it is difficult to figure out what effect | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
the sanctions have. There are already sanctions in place and that | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
has not been anything clearer about what those sanctions would be. How | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
would you work out whether it is having an effect. This is ominous, | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
that threat of real war, that is in the Daily Mail. Obviously sanctions | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
would be a better option. But what sort of sanctions can be put in | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
place? There are often financial sanctions. The Times, tough new | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
sanctions on Vladimir Putin. Boris Johnson says he is being ridiculed | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
on Twitter by Russian people. It is like Monty Python sketch. Trading | :04:45. | :04:55. | |
insults. The talk more recently with tighter banking sanctions, at the | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
end of the day we could turn off the taps in the oil pipes and shut the | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
Russian banks off with a swift messaging system. There are things | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
we could do. The question is do we have the intention of rushing things | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
that far. So far, the sanctions have been incremental. So there is more | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
coherence between what the US and UK are doing than within the Trump | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
administration. We have had Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador to the UN, | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
sort of talking about regime change, you know, removing Bashar al-Assad | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
from power. There is a big question mark about... Well, there seems a | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
shift, Bashar al-Assad was never going to be removed from power, it | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
felt like. And now that does seem to have shifted completely. But with no | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
suggestion of what the next sort of powerplay would actually be. I mean, | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
the compensation seems to be learning quite quickly, in its own | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
view. President Trump said after he saw the images on television of the | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
child victims, he changed his mind, which is interesting. You know, | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
politicians don't usually admit making a dramatic change of mind in | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
such a short time. There is nothing wrong with changing your mind. Maybe | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
politicians should do it more often. But it does mean that there are | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
inconsistencies that you are referring to and it is natural they | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
would occur. Of course, one would hope you would think over time they | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
become more consistent. It is not a good idea to have many different | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
ideas. Talking about Korea and moving naval vessels over there. We | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
have a lot of fronts to be considering. Now, staying with the | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
Times. Sorry, I am moving on to pick the NHS seeks ?10 billion as a cash | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
boost from hedge funds. Now, the government will say, hold on a | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
minute, we gave you the billions of pounds extra that you needed to be | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
why is this ?10 billion needed? -- needed. Partially because there is | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
so much money needed, but also interest rates are so low it is a | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
golden opportunity to raise money for infrastructure without having to | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
go back to the government and asking for more money. Umm of course, hedge | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
funds are not known for generally giving people money, and that's the | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
problem, at low interest rates, and being kind to people. They need to | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
make money ultimately. They are ultimately in it to make money. So, | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
at some point, the NHS has in borrowing money that they will have | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
to pay back, and some more, that they don't have. How is that | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
actually going to work as white that reminds me of the private finance | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
initiative, doesn't it? It is difficult to borrow your way out of | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
poverty, especially not spending that money that you borrow on some | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
kind of cash flow generating asset. The issue is that hedge funds do not | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
have the biggest balance sheet in the world. Because that which they | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
raise capital is significantly higher than that which the borrows | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
at. If you are the NHS, the cost you could borrow money off the | :08:13. | :08:21. | |
government, possibly of the Government Works Loan Board, or go | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
to a hedge fund, the hedge fund will be more expensive. There is this | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
real concerns are that this may not be the cheapest option. -- concern. | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
How come they cannot get this money off the usual funding mechanisms | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
from the government for infrastructure? Is it because it | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
does not meet the usual standard to apply? There are many elements here | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
which would make one be concerned that these could end up being, not | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
just a windup Pailan, but quite expensive. -- pay loan. So many of | :08:52. | :09:00. | |
these PFI loans that were signed previously, hospitals got into | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
trouble with them. Wood and a taxpayer be concerned at the track | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
record? -- wouldn't. The Sun. We will tread carefully. A campaign for | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
justice says the front page. 35 years after the IRA murdered | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
four-year is, the Hyde Park bomber must pay. -- four people. It is a | :09:25. | :09:34. | |
horrible attack. People remember it from the images of the horses that | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
were killed, very visual. They were depicted on the television and | :09:43. | :09:52. | |
newspapers. There was an IRA attack back in 1982. Though it has been | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
convicted of that. There have been investigations and a trial. The Sun | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
is now saying they are unhappy with the outcome of an attempt to, you | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
know, prosecute somebody for that to be and they want to take a civil | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
action and are trying to raise money for that. -- that. That is a very | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
unusual thing for a newspaper to do. And within the context of a, well, a | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
really complicated conflict, which is now in the process of the end | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
result, that is also bringing some risk. You have to choose which evil | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
acts you want to put right. Then people could see you are picking | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
favourites. The fact this is the Sun is especially the case because this | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
was almost certainly, one of the most, I think, controversial | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
headlines in newspapers. The Irish bustards headline. The day after. | :10:47. | :11:02. | |
The Sun decided to put pictures of dead horses and said Irish, not IRA. | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
That was perceived as racist. The Sun would not be an independent | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
arbiter on such issues. It is definitely going to cause some | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
disquiet. Newspapers always run all sorts of campaigns, but raising | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
money for a court case, that is what sets this part. It is a civil case. | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
Again, I would really question why The Sun is doing this campaign now. | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
Newspapers have always been good at campaigning. Many are proud to say | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
they do good campaigning. I am not sure why it is campaigning right | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
now. And, you know, it is very difficult, because we cannot look at | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
the legalities of it. It would be a civil case, obviously. We will keep | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
an eye on it. The Telegraph, finally. Pay of Southern Rail boss | :11:54. | :12:09. | |
almost doubles. Charles, getting on to half a million almost in salary. | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
Of course, nearly a third of Southern's services were late last | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
year. And chaos and misery. We have seen it all over the media and | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
Twitter. Absolutely everywhere. People are having a really horrible | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
time. No seats, trains all over the place, striking. It doesn't actually | :12:31. | :12:38. | |
say why, but this gentleman, his salary is going up half 1 million. | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
He may decide he will not take it because of the situation he is in. | :12:45. | :12:53. | |
But who knows? It is a PR disaster. This is difficult. Often someone's | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
pay get scrutinised. But if it is in their contract, the company needs to | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
pay it. There may be no performance aspect to it either. The negative | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
outcomes you are referring to, the tardiness, it may not be his fault. | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
He could be being measured on different parameters. The buck has | :13:13. | :13:21. | |
to stop somewhere. Yes. But it is all eagle. And it is in his | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
contract. The issue is that comes into that rampant executive pay | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
issue we are seeing. -- legal. We have seen it be totally disconnected | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
from performance. Executive pay is rocketing up in performance is not | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
doing the same thing. It keeps on rising. That is the issue MPs are | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
looking at and recommending changes to. But the government has no | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
appetite for that. That is it for me papers tonight. Don't forget, all of | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
the papers are on line on the BBC News website. You can read a | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
detailed review. It is there for you seven days a week to be you can see | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
us there as well. Each night is posted shortly after we have gone | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
home. -- week. Thank you both of you. Coming up next, The Film | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
Review. | :14:17. | :14:18. |