14/04/2017 The Papers

Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling star in the sense of an ending, we

will get James King's thoughts on that and the rest of the cinema

releases in the film review. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be With me are journalist

and broadcaster Helen Croydon and Business Editor

for the Independent, Tomorrow's front

pages, starting with: The Mirror says North Korea

and the US are edging towards a nuclear war -

it says Kim Jong-un threatens a "merciless response"

to any provocation. The same story

is on the Times front page, with China warning that a conflict

could break out at any minute. The Telegraph concentrates

on comments from CIA director Mike Pompeo, who has said rogue

states should take note of Donald Trump's forthright

military decisions in Syria The Premier League is set

to announce a record loss due to new accounting rules and the fall

in the value of sterling, 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 The Daily Express leads

with the tension surrounding North Korea, with the country vowing

to target American bases The Guardian reports on North Korea

too, but also headlines the news that some doctors are being offered

?95 an hour by hospitals And the i says teachers

are preparing to take legal action to stop academy schools

selecting pupils. They slip that in there to catch me

out. Let's get on with it. Helen, journalist and author, Josie Cox,

business editor with the Independent, we will start with some

frightening is perhaps, the Daily Mirror. Absolutely, this headline

will ravage US soldiers: we have seen other headlines like this but

nothing quite as brutal. And it really sums up the weight of the

rhetoric is heating up. We must emphasise it is Korea saying that.

There is a lot being said. That is absolutely right. But nonetheless,

this is starting to sound like fiction, quite frankly. Something

more out of a thriller novel than anything I have seen before. What I

think is interesting here is China's role. China is obviously a friend of

North Korea, but at the same time, Trump has also seemed to turn

towards China a little bit, and he is actually asking China to use

their leverage to preventing from escalating to much. While Trump is

playing very hard ball here and saying "We will bomb you if you are

not careful" basically, at the same time, there is an element and a bit

of a sense that he is saying "Help us out here, we don't in -- don't

want things to end..." Trump is perhaps changing his tone, we all

remember when he first became president he and noise China by

going against convention and saying, we are not bothered about doing

trade with you, he called up the leader of Taiwan, made a little

friendly gesture towards them, and now he has kind of gone back and

said, actually, China, we are serious... I think Trump is kind of

realising that all these big things he said at the beginning of his

presidency, like" I will get rid of ISIS, get tough on trade with

China", things are heating up and he is having to backtrack on a lot of

those things, and the complexity of everything comes to the surface. Yet

the message that the Daily Telegraph are putting out is coming direct

from the CIA, who appear to be happy with this... Yes. The CIA as we all

remember when Trump first came into office was at loggerheads with him

and investigating him over his links to Russia. And now they are saying,

yes, this is the right thing, we should be showing our military might

to North Korea. But while I think, why didn't he do that before, we do

have to show the military might, because this is scary stuff, they

claim they can bond South Korea within minutes, -- bomb South Korea

within minutes. They have threatened to attack US bases in Guam and

Japan, but one part of me thinks, well, rather than do it now than

later, because North Korea is only going to get stronger in its weapons

testing, but equally, why didn't they do it sooner, for it got to

this stage, it is we don't know the scale of the strength of North

Korea's programme. The site is the only nuclear weapons test site in

the world, that North Korea use. This is why people are so jittery

because it is the only one that a jest -- exists. Josie, let's turn to

the Guardian. And yes, North Korea is on the front page here, with a

picture of Kim Jong-un, but the story that we are going to

concentrate on concerns money, hard money, ?95 an hour if you are a

doctor, and a senior one at that. Crisis at home as well as abroad by

the sounds of things, it is all bad news these days. This is a story

about a hospital in Peter Brock -- Peterborough, ?95 a shift, you are

almost pocketing a grand day. But while this sounds excessive, they

are offering this because there is no unavailable, we are in a crisis,

we get headline a day on the poor conditions within the NHS, the

problems, the shortfalls, I am just concerned that all this bad press

around the NHS, which is not getting any better, is just going to breed

even more problems, because how as a junior doctor would you have any

appetite to go and work in a system that is so dysfunctional? If the NHS

were a business, as a model, straightaway leaders of the business

would say, right, we have not got enough staff, if we are having to

pay ?95 an hour, literally in desperation, the first thing they

would do is recruit more people, invest in training, that is what any

good business would do. But I'm not sure that is what the NHS is not

doing. This article shows the sheer desperation of staff calling on

doctors, saying we are really desperate, why has to that point?

And Web you start fixing the NHS? That is the problem. And it all

might -- also makes you question quality of care, in these desperate

situations. If they're sending out e-mails over Guardian is reporting,

SOS e-mails, essentially. We must point out, if you do get a chance to

pick up the paper, and you are tempted to go see your GP or you'll

will nurse, this is that AMD doctors -- A doctors, don't have a go at

your local nurse, this is for senior doctors in A Let go to and other

extreme, and it is a zero our contract, this is your area of

speciality, Josie. This is a story in the FT, based on an interview

with Matthew Taylor, who was Tony Blair's former policy chief, and

last October made headlines when Teresa may hide him to lead and

independent review into working conditions -- Theresa May. The gig

economy is exploding at a rapid rate, which is causing problems.

What he is proposing is that we introduce a premium on minimum wage,

the people who actually do zero our work have our contracts. -- zero

hour contracts. Which would give employers less incentive to mark

around, basically, and call them up at 7am and say they don't need to

come into a shift. There are several problems here, first of all it will

not sit well with employers because they have so many other pressures

facing them at the moment, the rise in business rates, minimum wage has

gone up, and on top of that we have a load of economic uncertainty

coming into play as a result of Brexit. It doesn't solve the

problem, putting a premium on the pay rate is only going to be a very

minimum amount per hour, whereas you have rules instead, perhaps to give

them notice, you cannot just cancel a shift on the day that the work is

supposed to be done, perhaps fine the company instead. I don't think

that adding another pound or two now will deter these things. -- pound or

two and ally. We will stay with money, car loans could be the source

of the new financial crisis. A very quick summary? Just as we are

getting out, the wounds healing of the credit crunch crisis, which was

all caused ire at borrowing too much money, it is now transpired that we

are borrowing too much money on cars. ?30 billion a year, is

shocking when you look at the figure. When comes to cars, in a way

it is worse than houses because we never really pay it back, because as

soon as you pay back your car is appreciated, and you want a new one

or you will upgrade your car. Cars are depreciating items, so to borrow

so heavily on it is double danger, even more dangerous than borrowing

on a house. Josie, I am desperate to get to men and height, how is that

for a tease. Very quick summary of the Telegraph, again, the EU is to

axe its green targets, or rather that EU -- the UK is to axe the EU's

green targets. The UK is at the moment committing to getting 15% of

all its energy from renewable sources by 2020, it does not look

like that is going to happen, those targets look way too ambitious, and

effectively the UK is saying, right, let's cut the targets, Brexit is

happening, it might be irrelevant anyway. Let's turn to the Times,

this is on page three. Very important news. Man has not always

been statuesque, we are not at our peak height. There is this myth that

as centuries have gone on and we have got healthier Batman's height,

-- that men's height, it doesn't mention women, but men's height has

gone up. The peak -- the peak of male height was in the 1600, just

after the Black death, in fact. And then we regressed, and they think it

was that after the Black death which killed so many millions of people,

we all had my land -- more land per capita, so we were at our peak

health, more food, and we were at -- at our peak height. Josie, men's

height, does it matter? What a question. Does it matter to you as a

woman? You can be honest. No. My partner is 6-foot fight, so I... You

have got to say yes! Whether it is an indication of health, I am not

sure these days. It gives a nice short little look into abolition and

how history... The reason women are supposedly programmed to be

attracted to a taller man is because it symbolises strength and the

ability to better hunt and fight... My husband is over six foot. That is

it for the papers tonight, thank you Josie and Helen. Stay with us here

on BBC News, because coming up next is the film review.