:00:00. > :00:00.Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling star in the sense of an ending, we
:00:00. > :00:00.will get James King's thoughts on that and the rest of the cinema
:00:00. > :00:16.releases in the film review. Hello and welcome to our look ahead
:00:17. > :00:19.to what the papers will be With me are journalist
:00:20. > :00:22.and broadcaster Helen Croydon and Business Editor
:00:23. > :00:24.for the Independent, Tomorrow's front
:00:25. > :00:29.pages, starting with: The Mirror says North Korea
:00:30. > :00:33.and the US are edging towards a nuclear war -
:00:34. > :00:36.it says Kim Jong-un threatens a "merciless response"
:00:37. > :00:38.to any provocation. The same story
:00:39. > :00:42.is on the Times front page, with China warning that a conflict
:00:43. > :00:46.could break out at any minute. The Telegraph concentrates
:00:47. > :00:49.on comments from CIA director Mike Pompeo, who has said rogue
:00:50. > :00:53.states should take note of Donald Trump's forthright
:00:54. > :00:55.military decisions in Syria The Premier League is set
:00:56. > :01:02.to announce a record loss due to new accounting rules and the fall
:01:03. > :01:07.in the value of sterling, that's according to documents seen
:01:08. > :01:10.by the Financial Times. The Daily Mail says learner
:01:11. > :01:13.drivers will soon be tested on whether they can follow
:01:14. > :01:15.directions from satnavs The Daily Express leads
:01:16. > :01:21.with the tension surrounding North Korea, with the country vowing
:01:22. > :01:24.to target American bases The Guardian reports on North Korea
:01:25. > :01:33.too, but also headlines the news that some doctors are being offered
:01:34. > :01:37.?95 an hour by hospitals And the i says teachers
:01:38. > :01:45.are preparing to take legal action to stop academy schools
:01:46. > :01:58.selecting pupils. They slip that in there to catch me
:01:59. > :02:04.out. Let's get on with it. Helen, journalist and author, Josie Cox,
:02:05. > :02:08.business editor with the Independent, we will start with some
:02:09. > :02:19.frightening is perhaps, the Daily Mirror. Absolutely, this headline
:02:20. > :02:23.will ravage US soldiers: we have seen other headlines like this but
:02:24. > :02:29.nothing quite as brutal. And it really sums up the weight of the
:02:30. > :02:37.rhetoric is heating up. We must emphasise it is Korea saying that.
:02:38. > :02:43.There is a lot being said. That is absolutely right. But nonetheless,
:02:44. > :02:48.this is starting to sound like fiction, quite frankly. Something
:02:49. > :02:52.more out of a thriller novel than anything I have seen before. What I
:02:53. > :03:04.think is interesting here is China's role. China is obviously a friend of
:03:05. > :03:08.North Korea, but at the same time, Trump has also seemed to turn
:03:09. > :03:13.towards China a little bit, and he is actually asking China to use
:03:14. > :03:18.their leverage to preventing from escalating to much. While Trump is
:03:19. > :03:25.playing very hard ball here and saying "We will bomb you if you are
:03:26. > :03:29.not careful" basically, at the same time, there is an element and a bit
:03:30. > :03:38.of a sense that he is saying "Help us out here, we don't in -- don't
:03:39. > :03:41.want things to end..." Trump is perhaps changing his tone, we all
:03:42. > :03:46.remember when he first became president he and noise China by
:03:47. > :03:50.going against convention and saying, we are not bothered about doing
:03:51. > :03:54.trade with you, he called up the leader of Taiwan, made a little
:03:55. > :04:02.friendly gesture towards them, and now he has kind of gone back and
:04:03. > :04:05.said, actually, China, we are serious... I think Trump is kind of
:04:06. > :04:10.realising that all these big things he said at the beginning of his
:04:11. > :04:15.presidency, like" I will get rid of ISIS, get tough on trade with
:04:16. > :04:20.China", things are heating up and he is having to backtrack on a lot of
:04:21. > :04:23.those things, and the complexity of everything comes to the surface. Yet
:04:24. > :04:28.the message that the Daily Telegraph are putting out is coming direct
:04:29. > :04:36.from the CIA, who appear to be happy with this... Yes. The CIA as we all
:04:37. > :04:41.remember when Trump first came into office was at loggerheads with him
:04:42. > :04:46.and investigating him over his links to Russia. And now they are saying,
:04:47. > :04:54.yes, this is the right thing, we should be showing our military might
:04:55. > :04:57.to North Korea. But while I think, why didn't he do that before, we do
:04:58. > :05:03.have to show the military might, because this is scary stuff, they
:05:04. > :05:07.claim they can bond South Korea within minutes, -- bomb South Korea
:05:08. > :05:16.within minutes. They have threatened to attack US bases in Guam and
:05:17. > :05:21.Japan, but one part of me thinks, well, rather than do it now than
:05:22. > :05:25.later, because North Korea is only going to get stronger in its weapons
:05:26. > :05:31.testing, but equally, why didn't they do it sooner, for it got to
:05:32. > :05:39.this stage, it is we don't know the scale of the strength of North
:05:40. > :05:43.Korea's programme. The site is the only nuclear weapons test site in
:05:44. > :05:48.the world, that North Korea use. This is why people are so jittery
:05:49. > :05:53.because it is the only one that a jest -- exists. Josie, let's turn to
:05:54. > :05:57.the Guardian. And yes, North Korea is on the front page here, with a
:05:58. > :06:02.picture of Kim Jong-un, but the story that we are going to
:06:03. > :06:06.concentrate on concerns money, hard money, ?95 an hour if you are a
:06:07. > :06:11.doctor, and a senior one at that. Crisis at home as well as abroad by
:06:12. > :06:26.the sounds of things, it is all bad news these days. This is a story
:06:27. > :06:30.about a hospital in Peter Brock -- Peterborough, ?95 a shift, you are
:06:31. > :06:35.almost pocketing a grand day. But while this sounds excessive, they
:06:36. > :06:40.are offering this because there is no unavailable, we are in a crisis,
:06:41. > :06:45.we get headline a day on the poor conditions within the NHS, the
:06:46. > :06:49.problems, the shortfalls, I am just concerned that all this bad press
:06:50. > :06:53.around the NHS, which is not getting any better, is just going to breed
:06:54. > :06:57.even more problems, because how as a junior doctor would you have any
:06:58. > :07:01.appetite to go and work in a system that is so dysfunctional? If the NHS
:07:02. > :07:06.were a business, as a model, straightaway leaders of the business
:07:07. > :07:10.would say, right, we have not got enough staff, if we are having to
:07:11. > :07:14.pay ?95 an hour, literally in desperation, the first thing they
:07:15. > :07:18.would do is recruit more people, invest in training, that is what any
:07:19. > :07:27.good business would do. But I'm not sure that is what the NHS is not
:07:28. > :07:30.doing. This article shows the sheer desperation of staff calling on
:07:31. > :07:35.doctors, saying we are really desperate, why has to that point?
:07:36. > :07:39.And Web you start fixing the NHS? That is the problem. And it all
:07:40. > :07:44.might -- also makes you question quality of care, in these desperate
:07:45. > :07:51.situations. If they're sending out e-mails over Guardian is reporting,
:07:52. > :07:56.SOS e-mails, essentially. We must point out, if you do get a chance to
:07:57. > :08:06.pick up the paper, and you are tempted to go see your GP or you'll
:08:07. > :08:11.will nurse, this is that AMD doctors -- A doctors, don't have a go at
:08:12. > :08:16.your local nurse, this is for senior doctors in A Let go to and other
:08:17. > :08:23.extreme, and it is a zero our contract, this is your area of
:08:24. > :08:28.speciality, Josie. This is a story in the FT, based on an interview
:08:29. > :08:32.with Matthew Taylor, who was Tony Blair's former policy chief, and
:08:33. > :08:39.last October made headlines when Teresa may hide him to lead and
:08:40. > :08:46.independent review into working conditions -- Theresa May. The gig
:08:47. > :08:51.economy is exploding at a rapid rate, which is causing problems.
:08:52. > :08:56.What he is proposing is that we introduce a premium on minimum wage,
:08:57. > :09:09.the people who actually do zero our work have our contracts. -- zero
:09:10. > :09:12.hour contracts. Which would give employers less incentive to mark
:09:13. > :09:16.around, basically, and call them up at 7am and say they don't need to
:09:17. > :09:20.come into a shift. There are several problems here, first of all it will
:09:21. > :09:25.not sit well with employers because they have so many other pressures
:09:26. > :09:29.facing them at the moment, the rise in business rates, minimum wage has
:09:30. > :09:32.gone up, and on top of that we have a load of economic uncertainty
:09:33. > :09:36.coming into play as a result of Brexit. It doesn't solve the
:09:37. > :09:42.problem, putting a premium on the pay rate is only going to be a very
:09:43. > :09:46.minimum amount per hour, whereas you have rules instead, perhaps to give
:09:47. > :09:50.them notice, you cannot just cancel a shift on the day that the work is
:09:51. > :09:54.supposed to be done, perhaps fine the company instead. I don't think
:09:55. > :10:02.that adding another pound or two now will deter these things. -- pound or
:10:03. > :10:07.two and ally. We will stay with money, car loans could be the source
:10:08. > :10:15.of the new financial crisis. A very quick summary? Just as we are
:10:16. > :10:20.getting out, the wounds healing of the credit crunch crisis, which was
:10:21. > :10:23.all caused ire at borrowing too much money, it is now transpired that we
:10:24. > :10:31.are borrowing too much money on cars. ?30 billion a year, is
:10:32. > :10:37.shocking when you look at the figure. When comes to cars, in a way
:10:38. > :10:42.it is worse than houses because we never really pay it back, because as
:10:43. > :10:48.soon as you pay back your car is appreciated, and you want a new one
:10:49. > :10:54.or you will upgrade your car. Cars are depreciating items, so to borrow
:10:55. > :10:57.so heavily on it is double danger, even more dangerous than borrowing
:10:58. > :11:02.on a house. Josie, I am desperate to get to men and height, how is that
:11:03. > :11:08.for a tease. Very quick summary of the Telegraph, again, the EU is to
:11:09. > :11:15.axe its green targets, or rather that EU -- the UK is to axe the EU's
:11:16. > :11:19.green targets. The UK is at the moment committing to getting 15% of
:11:20. > :11:23.all its energy from renewable sources by 2020, it does not look
:11:24. > :11:28.like that is going to happen, those targets look way too ambitious, and
:11:29. > :11:33.effectively the UK is saying, right, let's cut the targets, Brexit is
:11:34. > :11:37.happening, it might be irrelevant anyway. Let's turn to the Times,
:11:38. > :11:48.this is on page three. Very important news. Man has not always
:11:49. > :11:54.been statuesque, we are not at our peak height. There is this myth that
:11:55. > :11:59.as centuries have gone on and we have got healthier Batman's height,
:12:00. > :12:06.-- that men's height, it doesn't mention women, but men's height has
:12:07. > :12:14.gone up. The peak -- the peak of male height was in the 1600, just
:12:15. > :12:19.after the Black death, in fact. And then we regressed, and they think it
:12:20. > :12:25.was that after the Black death which killed so many millions of people,
:12:26. > :12:34.we all had my land -- more land per capita, so we were at our peak
:12:35. > :12:39.health, more food, and we were at -- at our peak height. Josie, men's
:12:40. > :12:48.height, does it matter? What a question. Does it matter to you as a
:12:49. > :12:57.woman? You can be honest. No. My partner is 6-foot fight, so I... You
:12:58. > :13:03.have got to say yes! Whether it is an indication of health, I am not
:13:04. > :13:10.sure these days. It gives a nice short little look into abolition and
:13:11. > :13:13.how history... The reason women are supposedly programmed to be
:13:14. > :13:19.attracted to a taller man is because it symbolises strength and the
:13:20. > :13:26.ability to better hunt and fight... My husband is over six foot. That is
:13:27. > :13:31.it for the papers tonight, thank you Josie and Helen. Stay with us here
:13:32. > :13:33.on BBC News, because coming up next is the film review.