:00:16. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:19. > :00:20.With me are journalist and broadcaster
:00:21. > :00:27.Helen Croydon, and business editor for the Independent, Josie Cox.
:00:28. > :00:34.I will come to you in a moment. Let us start with a quick overview of
:00:35. > :00:35.The Papers. We will start with The Mirror.
:00:36. > :00:39.The Mirror says North Korea and the US are edging
:00:40. > :00:41.towards a nuclear war as Kim Jong-Un threatens a merciless
:00:42. > :00:52.The same story on The Times, with China warning that a conflict
:00:53. > :00:58.The Telegraph reports on the warning from the CIA director that rogue
:00:59. > :01:00.states should "take note" of Donald Trump's forthright
:01:01. > :01:04.military decisions in Syria and Afghanistan.
:01:05. > :01:08.The Premier League is set to announce a record loss due
:01:09. > :01:10.to new accounting rules, and the fall in sterling
:01:11. > :01:18.vote, that's according to documents seen by the Financial Times.
:01:19. > :01:21.The Daily Mail says learner drivers will soon be tested
:01:22. > :01:24.on whether they can follow directions from satnavs in a shake
:01:25. > :01:27.The Daily Express leads with the tension surrounding
:01:28. > :01:29.North Korea, with the country vowing to target American bases in
:01:30. > :01:47.The Guardian reports on North Korea too but headlines the news that some
:01:48. > :01:52.doctors are being offered ?95 an hour, that is not a shift, that is
:01:53. > :02:03.an hour by hospitals that are short of staff. And the I says teachers
:02:04. > :02:09.are stopping streaming. We will touch on some of those
:02:10. > :02:13.stories. But which will start, Josie and Helen the with the times and we
:02:14. > :02:22.have to go with what is going on in the Korean peninsula. It is scary
:02:23. > :02:27.stuff, this, it all comes off the back of President Trump's Armada,
:02:28. > :02:35.approaching the Korean peninsula, but now, Korea has reacted and says,
:02:36. > :02:41.they have said we can bomb, if the US makes a emtive strike we can bomb
:02:42. > :02:49.South Korea within minute, US troop bases are at risk in Japan, really
:02:50. > :02:54.it is flexing its military might. And, the question is, you know, what
:02:55. > :02:57.is Trump doing the right thing here, by flexing his military muscles?
:02:58. > :03:02.What do you think? Do you think he is? On the one hand this is the
:03:03. > :03:06.question, isn't it because Trump is Trump and he is highly whims sipical
:03:07. > :03:12.and provocative. We have to be tough, it is by taking the softly
:03:13. > :03:16.softly diplomatic approach to kind of military conflicts in the past,
:03:17. > :03:19.that is how Russia has gained too much pour, we have to be tough. At
:03:20. > :03:28.the same time, it is good to be tough if you have a strategy, so,
:03:29. > :03:36.President Trump is whimsical and egotistical. We had the attack last
:03:37. > :03:46.week on Syria and also yesterday, the big, the Moab bomb. He has had a
:03:47. > :03:48.positive reaction to that, Republicans andcrat, -- Democrat,
:03:49. > :03:55.they have said you did the right thing. That will make Trump happy.
:03:56. > :03:58.What we have to hope is Trump is not going into North Korea, fuelled by
:03:59. > :04:06.this hey, everyone thinks I'm brilliant because I'm going to a war
:04:07. > :04:09.President. He has got good adviser, general Mattis, we have to hope
:04:10. > :04:18.teleis a good responsible team behind him and is not just his Trump
:04:19. > :04:22.being Trump. Josie, North Koreans have said there pre-emptive strike,
:04:23. > :04:26.do you think that Mr Trump would do that or would they wait and see what
:04:27. > :04:32.North Korea does? North Korea, we are used to the tests, I think, I
:04:33. > :04:37.suppose worry is it could be their sixth nuclear test. Who do you think
:04:38. > :04:42.will show their hand first? Well I think what we have seen over the
:04:43. > :04:48.last couple of weeks is Trump is willing to act quite quickly, and
:04:49. > :04:51.quite sort of instinctively I suppose, gut reaction, knee jerk
:04:52. > :04:55.reaction and I think if he gets any excuse or if he gets any indication
:04:56. > :04:59.from the North Korean side, that there really could be, you know, an,
:05:00. > :05:04.a heating up even more of the situation. He is going to be the
:05:05. > :05:09.first to act. Is Because in the past we have said it is North Korea, it
:05:10. > :05:13.is blutser, sabre rattling, now there is reaction from, you know,
:05:14. > :05:18.the US, that is saying something and the Daily Telegraph, if we turn to
:05:19. > :05:24.the Daily Telegraph quickly, CIA, they are saying this is how we will
:05:25. > :05:29.act now. That is interesting. This is the first time he has spoken
:05:30. > :05:33.publicly in January and caused the CIA and Donald Trump didn't have a
:05:34. > :05:36.great reaction when he was first inaugurated because of the
:05:37. > :05:40.investigations into his links with Russia, now he is coming, he has
:05:41. > :05:44.waded in and said this is the right thing for we have to do something.
:05:45. > :05:49.This raises the question of why they are they only going in now? North
:05:50. > :05:56.Korea has been a threat for years and years. The red lines. The whole
:05:57. > :05:59.time the fear has been maybe they have got nuclear weapons but the
:06:00. > :06:04.longer you leave it the worse that threat get, we have just got to hope
:06:05. > :06:09.that they haven't got the capability to launch a long range nuclear
:06:10. > :06:14.missile. But we don't know, at least with, you know, other conflict,
:06:15. > :06:19.Syria, Afghanistan, we know what they are up to, we knew that Assad
:06:20. > :06:24.had stocked of chemical weapon, we don't know what the enmany I is so
:06:25. > :06:29.we have to hope... Equally we have to wait and sow what we are hearing
:06:30. > :06:33.from the US and from Trump is just rhetoric or whether it is action and
:06:34. > :06:40.whether they will put their money where their mouth is so to speak. It
:06:41. > :06:46.It is not just horticultureia that the CIA are reacting to, they
:06:47. > :06:51.mention Iran, you would have thought the tensions has stopped but they
:06:52. > :06:56.mention Iran, as well, to take note. I think part of after that is to do
:06:57. > :06:59.with the fact they are kind of, they have been fortified by what we have
:07:00. > :07:04.seen with Afghanistan and Syria, and the response as you say internally
:07:05. > :07:07.from the US especially that the trusm administration has got for
:07:08. > :07:12.those actions and I think this is just kind of like a general warning
:07:13. > :07:16.saying don't mess with us, we have the ability and the capacity to
:07:17. > :07:20.retaliate, and equally at the same time North Korea is saying, if you
:07:21. > :07:27.mess with us you will probably regret it. And Iran is going to side
:07:28. > :07:32.with North Korea. Mr Trump was never a fan of the deal in the first
:07:33. > :07:37.place. I would like do you pick up Josie, we will turn to the FT, and
:07:38. > :07:43.zero hours contracts. In the news yet again. That is is right, yes.
:07:44. > :07:49.There you go. So this is a story in the FT, it is
:07:50. > :07:54.an interview that they did with Matthew Taylor who was Tony Blair's
:07:55. > :07:58.former policy chief, and he was basically given the job by Theresa
:07:59. > :08:04.May back in November to look a the changing face of the labour market
:08:05. > :08:07.and specifically the rise of what we call the gig economy, the zero hour
:08:08. > :08:10.contract, people being on working in jobs where they don't know in the
:08:11. > :08:15.morning whether they will be called up and say yes, we need you to come
:08:16. > :08:20.into work, no we don't need you. What he is saying or proposing is
:08:21. > :08:27.that temperature minimum wage is topped up for these kind of jobs to
:08:28. > :08:34.provide a premium, and the idea is that this would discourage employers
:08:35. > :08:38.from taking advantage of the gig economy workers, and yes, so it
:08:39. > :08:43.would be provide the best of two world, provide flexibility for
:08:44. > :08:48.people in the jobs and it would ensure that employers can keep zero
:08:49. > :08:54.hours contrajts on their books. I am not sure that a minimum wage, you
:08:55. > :08:58.know or rather a surplus on the wage is the right way, the minimum wage
:08:59. > :09:03.debate is about is it great in it offers flexibility and certainly as
:09:04. > :09:09.a freelancer and lots of people in the media are freelancer, I like the
:09:10. > :09:13.idea of zero hours contract but does it make workers very insecure, so
:09:14. > :09:19.that is the debate. I think a way to get round that, because, one of the
:09:20. > :09:25.problems, of this, is there is a report highlighted by one worker
:09:26. > :09:31.saying that they... They are told to be ready at seven. Then they got a
:09:32. > :09:38.phone call says we don't need you. I think a better way of tackling is is
:09:39. > :09:49.what about bringing in minimum notice period. Then they would have
:09:50. > :09:53.to pay half, you know, because by introducing a anyone mum wage, for
:09:54. > :09:57.skier row -- zero hours contracts, what the employers will do is reduce
:09:58. > :10:00.the base minimum wage and add the surplus on top. There is a question
:10:01. > :10:08.whether it is enough in the first place. We will stay with wage, turn
:10:09. > :10:13.to the Guardian, and how about ?95 an hour, an hour. But, Josie you
:10:14. > :10:20.were saying if they are short and we are talking about the NHS here, they
:10:21. > :10:23.are going toing to pay. It is a hospital in Peterborough City
:10:24. > :10:29.Hospital, which apparently is offering doctors ?95 an hour, as
:10:30. > :10:33.this staffing crisis in the NHS has escalating, and, yes, it is an awful
:10:34. > :10:37.lot of money, we were working out a ten hour shift, you were pocketing a
:10:38. > :10:42.grand, but ultimately there is no-one viable to do the job. They
:10:43. > :10:46.point out it is A It is A It is yet another headline that is
:10:47. > :10:51.telling us, screaming in our face, that the NHS is in crisis, something
:10:52. > :10:55.needs to change an my concern here is, that this, this is is a vicious
:10:56. > :11:01.cycle. This is going to, the more stories that come out like this, the
:11:02. > :11:08.fewer people are going to want to pursue a career in the medical
:11:09. > :11:13.tracks by. If they are giving ?5 an hour maybe they will. This is great
:11:14. > :11:18.investigation, they have highlighted e-mails that have come from admin
:11:19. > :11:22.staff going to medical staff, and highlighted the urgency in the
:11:23. > :11:29.messages which demonstrates how desperate they are. In one say it
:11:30. > :11:33.says sorry to send so many messages I am practically begging at this
:11:34. > :11:37.point. That was one from the John Radcliffe Hospital. There soot one
:11:38. > :11:42.saying can anyone help, it really is a matter of keeping the department
:11:43. > :11:47.safe, so, I mean that just really raises questions of whether it is
:11:48. > :11:52.safe for these do, to be working, if they are calling on people who have
:11:53. > :11:57.weekend plans but they are being incentivised. They are crossing
:11:58. > :12:03.their fingers. Easter is crunch time with with the holiday. OK very
:12:04. > :12:07.quickly this made me giggle. The Mail, drivers must use SatNav to
:12:08. > :12:12.pass the test. I often shout at my SatNav, so I am not sure I would
:12:13. > :12:17.have passed my test if I had to use this in my test. What do you make of
:12:18. > :12:23.this? No three point turns. It is great. It is, time change, so the
:12:24. > :12:28.tests were set in the time when cars were different, so every time I a
:12:29. > :12:35.drive a car, I don't own one. Aren't the roads the same? You need the
:12:36. > :12:38.same skills? You don't. Because the cars are automatic, power steer,
:12:39. > :12:42.they say we won't have the three point turn, we will have to the
:12:43. > :12:47.learn how to use a SatNav system. That is a sensible reflection of how
:12:48. > :12:54.cars are changed. You don't need to learn thousand use a three point
:12:55. > :12:58.turn. I did do them. I can't drive. When I do pass the test I think I
:12:59. > :13:03.will be happy I don't have to do a three point turn. Reversing round
:13:04. > :13:07.the corner is the killer. It has become a multitasking. There is so
:13:08. > :13:12.much technology in cars that part of the skill of driving is to learn to
:13:13. > :13:16.multitask, you have to listen to your SatNav and drive. It is right
:13:17. > :13:20.they test that. Maybe the test should be avoid your phone while you
:13:21. > :13:26.are being tested. Introduce the distractions. I wonder if we can get
:13:27. > :13:34.one more in, talking about car, and, they are saying that car loans could
:13:35. > :13:38.be, could equal or have echoes of the subprime mortgage crisis, that
:13:39. > :13:42.is worrying. This is a story in the Telegraph saying that the amount
:13:43. > :13:48.being or borrowed to buy new cars has trebled in the last eight years,
:13:49. > :13:51.to ?30 billion a year. Adds you say, echos of the subprime crisis, and it
:13:52. > :13:55.is scary, this is getting out of control and I think the issue is we
:13:56. > :14:00.are forgetting what the subprime crisis was like, and what damage
:14:01. > :14:04.that really did cause. Our memories are fading. Unlike, in a way it is
:14:05. > :14:09.worse with cars because you can never pay it off. If if they were
:14:10. > :14:14.over-11ing with houses you would pay it off, but a car depreciates, you
:14:15. > :14:18.still need another car. Would you stretch yourselves? The past we
:14:19. > :14:23.would stretch ourselves for a mortgage, would you stretch yourses
:14:24. > :14:27.for a car? No. Financially? No. But I live in London so I don't need a
:14:28. > :14:30.car. It would be different for someone who doesn't have the
:14:31. > :14:34.transport link we have and do need a car to get round. We will end it
:14:35. > :14:38.there but the Bank of England are investigating this, because there
:14:39. > :14:43.are huge, huge concerns, but you will be back in half an is now yes.
:14:44. > :14:47.For our final Payners. Please do Helen.
:14:48. > :14:52.That it is from the Payner, we have the headlines coming up and of
:14:53. > :14:53.course, another look at The Papers at 11.30. Stay tuned. This is BBC
:14:54. > :15:11.News. Quite a cool day for most us today
:15:12. > :15:12.and chilly in some parts of the country. And this isn't