14/04/2017 The Papers

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

With me are journalist and broadcaster

Helen Croydon, and business editor for the Independent, Josie Cox.

I will come to you in a moment. Let us start with a quick overview of

The Papers. We will start with The Mirror.

The Mirror says North Korea and the US are edging

towards a nuclear war as Kim Jong-Un threatens a merciless

The same story on The Times, with China warning that a conflict

The Telegraph reports on the warning from the CIA director that rogue

states should "take note" of Donald Trump's forthright

military decisions in Syria and Afghanistan.

The Premier League is set to announce a record loss due

to new accounting rules, and the fall in sterling

vote, that's according to documents seen by the Financial Times.

The Daily Mail says learner drivers will soon be tested

on whether they can follow directions from satnavs in a shake

The Daily Express leads with the tension surrounding

North Korea, with the country vowing to target American bases in

The Guardian reports on North Korea too but headlines the news that some

doctors are being offered ?95 an hour, that is not a shift, that is

an hour by hospitals that are short of staff. And the I says teachers

are stopping streaming. We will touch on some of those

stories. But which will start, Josie and Helen the with the times and we

have to go with what is going on in the Korean peninsula. It is scary

stuff, this, it all comes off the back of President Trump's Armada,

approaching the Korean peninsula, but now, Korea has reacted and says,

they have said we can bomb, if the US makes a emtive strike we can bomb

South Korea within minute, US troop bases are at risk in Japan, really

it is flexing its military might. And, the question is, you know, what

is Trump doing the right thing here, by flexing his military muscles?

What do you think? Do you think he is? On the one hand this is the

question, isn't it because Trump is Trump and he is highly whims sipical

and provocative. We have to be tough, it is by taking the softly

softly diplomatic approach to kind of military conflicts in the past,

that is how Russia has gained too much pour, we have to be tough. At

the same time, it is good to be tough if you have a strategy, so,

President Trump is whimsical and egotistical. We had the attack last

week on Syria and also yesterday, the big, the Moab bomb. He has had a

positive reaction to that, Republicans andcrat, -- Democrat,

they have said you did the right thing. That will make Trump happy.

What we have to hope is Trump is not going into North Korea, fuelled by

this hey, everyone thinks I'm brilliant because I'm going to a war

President. He has got good adviser, general Mattis, we have to hope

teleis a good responsible team behind him and is not just his Trump

being Trump. Josie, North Koreans have said there pre-emptive strike,

do you think that Mr Trump would do that or would they wait and see what

North Korea does? North Korea, we are used to the tests, I think, I

suppose worry is it could be their sixth nuclear test. Who do you think

will show their hand first? Well I think what we have seen over the

last couple of weeks is Trump is willing to act quite quickly, and

quite sort of instinctively I suppose, gut reaction, knee jerk

reaction and I think if he gets any excuse or if he gets any indication

from the North Korean side, that there really could be, you know, an,

a heating up even more of the situation. He is going to be the

first to act. Is Because in the past we have said it is North Korea, it

is blutser, sabre rattling, now there is reaction from, you know,

the US, that is saying something and the Daily Telegraph, if we turn to

the Daily Telegraph quickly, CIA, they are saying this is how we will

act now. That is interesting. This is the first time he has spoken

publicly in January and caused the CIA and Donald Trump didn't have a

great reaction when he was first inaugurated because of the

investigations into his links with Russia, now he is coming, he has

waded in and said this is the right thing for we have to do something.

This raises the question of why they are they only going in now? North

Korea has been a threat for years and years. The red lines. The whole

time the fear has been maybe they have got nuclear weapons but the

longer you leave it the worse that threat get, we have just got to hope

that they haven't got the capability to launch a long range nuclear

missile. But we don't know, at least with, you know, other conflict,

Syria, Afghanistan, we know what they are up to, we knew that Assad

had stocked of chemical weapon, we don't know what the enmany I is so

we have to hope... Equally we have to wait and sow what we are hearing

from the US and from Trump is just rhetoric or whether it is action and

whether they will put their money where their mouth is so to speak. It

It is not just horticultureia that the CIA are reacting to, they

mention Iran, you would have thought the tensions has stopped but they

mention Iran, as well, to take note. I think part of after that is to do

with the fact they are kind of, they have been fortified by what we have

seen with Afghanistan and Syria, and the response as you say internally

from the US especially that the trusm administration has got for

those actions and I think this is just kind of like a general warning

saying don't mess with us, we have the ability and the capacity to

retaliate, and equally at the same time North Korea is saying, if you

mess with us you will probably regret it. And Iran is going to side

with North Korea. Mr Trump was never a fan of the deal in the first

place. I would like do you pick up Josie, we will turn to the FT, and

zero hours contracts. In the news yet again. That is is right, yes.

There you go. So this is a story in the FT, it is

an interview that they did with Matthew Taylor who was Tony Blair's

former policy chief, and he was basically given the job by Theresa

May back in November to look a the changing face of the labour market

and specifically the rise of what we call the gig economy, the zero hour

contract, people being on working in jobs where they don't know in the

morning whether they will be called up and say yes, we need you to come

into work, no we don't need you. What he is saying or proposing is

that temperature minimum wage is topped up for these kind of jobs to

provide a premium, and the idea is that this would discourage employers

from taking advantage of the gig economy workers, and yes, so it

would be provide the best of two world, provide flexibility for

people in the jobs and it would ensure that employers can keep zero

hours contrajts on their books. I am not sure that a minimum wage, you

know or rather a surplus on the wage is the right way, the minimum wage

debate is about is it great in it offers flexibility and certainly as

a freelancer and lots of people in the media are freelancer, I like the

idea of zero hours contract but does it make workers very insecure, so

that is the debate. I think a way to get round that, because, one of the

problems, of this, is there is a report highlighted by one worker

saying that they... They are told to be ready at seven. Then they got a

phone call says we don't need you. I think a better way of tackling is is

what about bringing in minimum notice period. Then they would have

to pay half, you know, because by introducing a anyone mum wage, for

skier row -- zero hours contracts, what the employers will do is reduce

the base minimum wage and add the surplus on top. There is a question

whether it is enough in the first place. We will stay with wage, turn

to the Guardian, and how about ?95 an hour, an hour. But, Josie you

were saying if they are short and we are talking about the NHS here, they

are going toing to pay. It is a hospital in Peterborough City

Hospital, which apparently is offering doctors ?95 an hour, as

this staffing crisis in the NHS has escalating, and, yes, it is an awful

lot of money, we were working out a ten hour shift, you were pocketing a

grand, but ultimately there is no-one viable to do the job. They

point out it is A It is A It is yet another headline that is

telling us, screaming in our face, that the NHS is in crisis, something

needs to change an my concern here is, that this, this is is a vicious

cycle. This is going to, the more stories that come out like this, the

fewer people are going to want to pursue a career in the medical

tracks by. If they are giving ?5 an hour maybe they will. This is great

investigation, they have highlighted e-mails that have come from admin

staff going to medical staff, and highlighted the urgency in the

messages which demonstrates how desperate they are. In one say it

says sorry to send so many messages I am practically begging at this

point. That was one from the John Radcliffe Hospital. There soot one

saying can anyone help, it really is a matter of keeping the department

safe, so, I mean that just really raises questions of whether it is

safe for these do, to be working, if they are calling on people who have

weekend plans but they are being incentivised. They are crossing

their fingers. Easter is crunch time with with the holiday. OK very

quickly this made me giggle. The Mail, drivers must use SatNav to

pass the test. I often shout at my SatNav, so I am not sure I would

have passed my test if I had to use this in my test. What do you make of

this? No three point turns. It is great. It is, time change, so the

tests were set in the time when cars were different, so every time I a

drive a car, I don't own one. Aren't the roads the same? You need the

same skills? You don't. Because the cars are automatic, power steer,

they say we won't have the three point turn, we will have to the

learn how to use a SatNav system. That is a sensible reflection of how

cars are changed. You don't need to learn thousand use a three point

turn. I did do them. I can't drive. When I do pass the test I think I

will be happy I don't have to do a three point turn. Reversing round

the corner is the killer. It has become a multitasking. There is so

much technology in cars that part of the skill of driving is to learn to

multitask, you have to listen to your SatNav and drive. It is right

they test that. Maybe the test should be avoid your phone while you

are being tested. Introduce the distractions. I wonder if we can get

one more in, talking about car, and, they are saying that car loans could

be, could equal or have echoes of the subprime mortgage crisis, that

is worrying. This is a story in the Telegraph saying that the amount

being or borrowed to buy new cars has trebled in the last eight years,

to ?30 billion a year. Adds you say, echos of the subprime crisis, and it

is scary, this is getting out of control and I think the issue is we

are forgetting what the subprime crisis was like, and what damage

that really did cause. Our memories are fading. Unlike, in a way it is

worse with cars because you can never pay it off. If if they were

over-11ing with houses you would pay it off, but a car depreciates, you

still need another car. Would you stretch yourselves? The past we

would stretch ourselves for a mortgage, would you stretch yourses

for a car? No. Financially? No. But I live in London so I don't need a

car. It would be different for someone who doesn't have the

transport link we have and do need a car to get round. We will end it

there but the Bank of England are investigating this, because there

are huge, huge concerns, but you will be back in half an is now yes.

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