:00:15. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:19. > :00:22.With me are public affairs consultant Alex Deane
:00:23. > :00:39.Starting with the i, and the parents of Charlie Gard who have given up
:00:40. > :00:44.their legal fight to keep him alive. It is on the Sun's front page as
:00:45. > :00:48.well, picking up on comments made by Charlie Gard's parents outside
:00:49. > :00:52.court. The story also appears on the front page of the Metro and Charlie
:00:53. > :00:59.Gard is also the Daily Mail's lead story. The Telegraph front of the
:01:00. > :01:02.story on how consumers who buy internetting gauged appliances for
:01:03. > :01:07.them homes -- their homes are vulnerable to cyber attacks. The
:01:08. > :01:10.Times says that ministers are considering clamping down on
:01:11. > :01:14.developers who sell houses with escalating ground rents. Also a
:01:15. > :01:17.story on the Police and Crime Commissioner accused of pulling
:01:18. > :01:22.police away from an anti-fracking protest. The Guardian leads with a
:01:23. > :01:27.warning from the Bank of England on rising levels of personal debt. The
:01:28. > :01:35.Express fix on what it calls a row among doctors over the safety of
:01:36. > :01:38.starting is. So, it was inevitable given the huge public interest that
:01:39. > :01:46.there is in the story that this is the only picture on the front page
:01:47. > :01:50.and the photograph on the front page of the Daily Mail. Incredibly
:01:51. > :01:55.striking and while we are looking at the papers, they are united in
:01:56. > :02:00.morning trade Charlie Gard, who it seems, his battle has come to an
:02:01. > :02:03.end, but the next focus will be on what the parents are saying has
:02:04. > :02:11.caused this decision, which is that great form and is it prolonged the
:02:12. > :02:16.decision so long that he could no longer have the treatment. It is not
:02:17. > :02:20.that they are saying he could have been saved if he had had the
:02:21. > :02:23.treatment earlier but that if he could have promptly had the
:02:24. > :02:26.treatment instead of the court process, they might have saved him
:02:27. > :02:30.but now they have to give up because the process has taken so long. Right
:02:31. > :02:32.now, it is a very sad story that everybody rallies around and mourn
:02:33. > :02:36.server for the next age is very dangerous that the people on the
:02:37. > :02:40.other side of the argument. The doctors would say they work in the
:02:41. > :02:44.interests of the child and they presumed that there was nothing that
:02:45. > :02:50.could be done for him and whether there was or not is... And it is
:02:51. > :02:52.certainly true that many independent doctors who didn't work at Great
:02:53. > :02:58.Ormond Street Hospital of those doctors that there really was no
:02:59. > :03:03.hope of this experimental American treatment working, or any other
:03:04. > :03:07.treatment. Journalistically, I would like to add that it's just amazing
:03:08. > :03:14.the way a story like this catches fire. You know, it became a minor
:03:15. > :03:20.story in April and then suddenly, it just took off. Then you have Donald
:03:21. > :03:23.Trump commenting, you have the Vatican, you had controversial
:03:24. > :03:28.American pastor coming over here to way into the debate. They raised 1.2
:03:29. > :03:33.million on a crowdfunding website, social media funding Mac at the rate
:03:34. > :03:37.fuelling it but that is the way that human emotion stories which really
:03:38. > :03:42.tell the raw sorrow and anger and quite understandable sense of fury
:03:43. > :03:47.that the parents have gone through, are communicated to the public and,
:03:48. > :03:52.as I say, it is fuelled by social media and it has become an
:03:53. > :03:57.incredibly huge worldwide story. The front page of the Sun," we are so
:03:58. > :04:04.sorry we couldn't save you". They say they are haunted by the what
:04:05. > :04:09.ifs. And I take James' point entirely, the doctor treating
:04:10. > :04:16.Charlie Gard seemed entirely of one view and many doctors who weren't
:04:17. > :04:21.from, none of them would support what has happened, the threats and
:04:22. > :04:25.so on, but the point for me as a layman, many of us will be
:04:26. > :04:29.wondering, you say there is no hope but when you switch off the machine,
:04:30. > :04:35.that is definitely no Hove, right? So the chance of life is what the
:04:36. > :04:41.parents were seeking. A doctor on the programme this evening said are
:04:42. > :04:45.these expert, ordinarily kings of their domain, are they in some way
:04:46. > :04:51.reticent to take advice or maybe expertise from outside their
:04:52. > :04:56.hospital? I have two uncles that doctors but it doesn't make me a
:04:57. > :05:00.doctor and maybe I'm a bit naive, but I would always trust the
:05:01. > :05:04.integrity of the doctors and I am slightly suspicious of the Michael
:05:05. > :05:09.Gove line, we have had enough of experts, everybody knows better than
:05:10. > :05:12.experts, but I think the doctors do take a Hippocratic oath which almost
:05:13. > :05:16.all doctors follow to the letter and would have the child's best
:05:17. > :05:20.interests at heart and I absolutely agree that if I were the parent, I
:05:21. > :05:26.would be fighting as long as I could and as hard as I could to keep him
:05:27. > :05:30.alive, but sometimes, doctors are right. I don't trust expert but I do
:05:31. > :05:33.worry in this country that institutions, especially when they
:05:34. > :05:40.are used to being in command, don't like being told they are wrong and
:05:41. > :05:44.there might be a bit of that. And a great suspicion of experts in this
:05:45. > :05:49.country, as we well know. This is one of the other big stories of the
:05:50. > :05:54.evening, the visit of Liam Fox to the United States, this is the front
:05:55. > :05:57.page of the Independent. He is dismissing concerns that some might
:05:58. > :06:00.have in this country, if there is a future trade deal in the United
:06:01. > :06:05.States, they are correlated chicken and hormone raised beef. Some
:06:06. > :06:08.watchers of the Brexit process will wonder why he is there because we
:06:09. > :06:12.are not formally allowed to have negotiations with any other country
:06:13. > :06:16.whilst we are still in the EU protest Michel Barnier said, very
:06:17. > :06:19.French expression, how can you stop people talking? You can have the
:06:20. > :06:22.informal conversations with their to negotiation and that is what Liam
:06:23. > :06:26.Fox is doing and there is no bigger fish in the Pont than a deal with
:06:27. > :06:30.the United States. We are their largest investor, they are ours and
:06:31. > :06:35.so forth. Things people get hung up on, chlorinated chicken catches the
:06:36. > :06:39.mine because it sounds horrible, is food standards. And his bargaining,
:06:40. > :06:44.which is probably true statistically but a difficult one to swallow, is
:06:45. > :06:47.that this is a detail and what I would invite you to hang onto him
:06:48. > :06:52.thinking about that is that if you have been to the United States and
:06:53. > :06:56.jaw not vegetarian, you have eaten chlorinated chicken and hormone
:06:57. > :07:00.treated beef and you are fine and even if you are, you have eaten
:07:01. > :07:05.genetically modified food. Interestingly, at the end of this
:07:06. > :07:08.front page, it says the National farmers union, their president has
:07:09. > :07:12.said it is vital that any discussions on future trade deal do
:07:13. > :07:15.not serve to allow cheap food imports. This is interesting,
:07:16. > :07:20.everything to do with Brexit is about playing to the home crowd.
:07:21. > :07:25.Obviously it is important to develop links with the US for when we leave
:07:26. > :07:28.the EU but this is a turf war that might be developing between the Fox,
:07:29. > :07:32.who has been complaining this week that he is not getting enough
:07:33. > :07:35.coverage, and Michael Gove, who has said he wants to enforce
:07:36. > :07:40.environmental food standards and indeed Andrea Leeds said today she
:07:41. > :07:46.was worried that British farmers would be disadvantaged -- Andrea led
:07:47. > :07:51.some. So there will be a big battle. Like any good trade union, the NFU
:07:52. > :07:56.are sticking up the interest of their members. That is what they are
:07:57. > :08:00.paid for! A story on the front page of The Times which is rumbling on
:08:01. > :08:04.the shopping precincts and pubs, the rip-off scandal of leaseholds. So
:08:05. > :08:08.you buy a new house, you get a decent deal and tact in in the small
:08:09. > :08:13.print is the ground rent, the leasehold and you think I have 999
:08:14. > :08:16.years, it looks like a small leaseholder and lo and behold, it
:08:17. > :08:20.starts to go up pretty quickly and the Government says it is going to
:08:21. > :08:26.end this. People are not realising that they are buying a house they
:08:27. > :08:30.don't fully owned, and their leasehold, which we are used to
:08:31. > :08:33.seeing in flats, is being attached to new-build homes, which means you
:08:34. > :08:38.may be paying up to, concrete examples, of ?10,000 a year being
:08:39. > :08:42.paid in ground rent. That is going to make homes unsellable in the
:08:43. > :08:47.future if that escalation continues, and it's not right. There is no
:08:48. > :08:53.principal reason for doing it. One example here of someone who bought a
:08:54. > :09:00.house in Bolton for ?200,000, a family home, her ground rent went up
:09:01. > :09:06.3000% and will hit almost ?10,000 a year. This is a scheme that people
:09:07. > :09:11.are: greedy and nobody seems to have highlighted it before and I think
:09:12. > :09:14.Sajid Javid has done a good job, bringing it to our attention and
:09:15. > :09:17.using colourful language that will catch the eye and saying enough is
:09:18. > :09:22.enough, if house-builders aren't prepared to step off the ground rent
:09:23. > :09:26.gravy train, I will derail it and that will go down well with the
:09:27. > :09:31.people who are in it and that is 43% of new builds being leaseholds, an
:09:32. > :09:36.extraordinary percentage of the market. It has put people in a
:09:37. > :09:39.horrible position but one has to point out that they took the
:09:40. > :09:45.decision to take that misprision of the under professional advice and
:09:46. > :09:51.they have something to answer to. -- Take That position. They are saying
:09:52. > :09:55.you can buy it but it is 2,000 and then a few years down the line, it
:09:56. > :09:58.is a lot more. I'm not going to blame the people hoodwinked into
:09:59. > :10:02.these deals but if they were professionally advised and it wasn't
:10:03. > :10:06.flagged to them properly, someone has to suffer that. There may be
:10:07. > :10:10.more legal action on that, you are right. In the Times, anti-fracking
:10:11. > :10:17.police chief accused of pulling force from protest, the police and
:10:18. > :10:21.crime commission of the North Wales. It is very interesting, with Police
:10:22. > :10:23.and Crime Commissioner is, you can argue it either way, they should be
:10:24. > :10:28.professional and run by like police officers or it is good to have
:10:29. > :10:32.democratic principle in. The good thing about -- the thing about
:10:33. > :10:35.elected Police and Crime Commissioner is issue will from time
:10:36. > :10:39.to time get conflict-of-interest were what a person stood for before
:10:40. > :10:42.they took office as PCC and what they are now doing in their job and
:10:43. > :10:46.this seems to be a clear example of someone who has an agenda,
:10:47. > :10:51.anti-fracking, in charge of the police, who have a duty to protect
:10:52. > :10:56.those carrying out unlawful business and directing them not to do so, so
:10:57. > :11:02.police officers are pulled away from protecting those who are trying to
:11:03. > :11:08.carry out their fracking activity. As you say, the way the Times tells
:11:09. > :11:13.it, it does look quite questionable and the residents who are "Backing
:11:14. > :11:22.fracking" are calling it cronyism and it is true that Mr Jones was a
:11:23. > :11:25.member of "Phrack three Wrexham". His forces sending officers to help
:11:26. > :11:28.out in Lancashire Blackpool and he is saying how can they do that when
:11:29. > :11:33.there are capacity issues at home and he is saying it is nothing to do
:11:34. > :11:37.that. Many people will look at the fact he
:11:38. > :11:44.was in anti-fracking campaigner, and they will question it. Are the
:11:45. > :11:48.memories of what caused all the problems in 2008-9, are they
:11:49. > :11:51.starting to wear off? The Bank of England is saying that they are
:11:52. > :11:58.increasingly alarmed by the amount of money being borrowed on easy
:11:59. > :12:01.terms. The Guardian says people are complacent about building up debt
:12:02. > :12:05.but when you have a central bank that prints money, which is what
:12:06. > :12:08.quantitative easing is, and keeps rates so low that you can't make
:12:09. > :12:12.money if you are a saver and you can't make real returns in the
:12:13. > :12:16.economic environment because interest rates are so low, how can
:12:17. > :12:19.you say I am shocked to find out there is gambling going on in this
:12:20. > :12:26.establishment. How can this have happened? It is a shocker. It is
:12:27. > :12:30.interesting that it was maybe 25 years ago that Gordon gecko said
:12:31. > :12:36."Greed is good" in Wall Street, the famous film about Wall Street
:12:37. > :12:40.operatives and it seems to be the motivation of a lot of people, the
:12:41. > :12:45.greed or consumerism that is driving this huge consumer boom at the
:12:46. > :12:49.moment, but the bank is warning there is a spiral of complacency
:12:50. > :12:52.that could lead to another crash. That is quite alarmist to put it in
:12:53. > :12:57.those terms but he is warning we could be going in that direction.
:12:58. > :13:01.Interest rates are artificially low. It punishes savers and encourages
:13:02. > :13:06.this kind of spending. It says it has helped the economy to grow.
:13:07. > :13:11.Speaking of which is true in the short term. We are going to the
:13:12. > :13:14.Telegraph and the rugby story. We have brilliant women's teams doing
:13:15. > :13:18.so well at the moment in the football and the cricket and the
:13:19. > :13:23.rugby women are the world champions and that they have all lost their
:13:24. > :13:26.job. I can't understand, even if you think the right thing to do is end
:13:27. > :13:30.of the contracts, they are moving their focus from full 15 rugby to
:13:31. > :13:33.playing sevens, which is a fast-moving, exciting game and I
:13:34. > :13:40.enjoy both films, they are both great forms of rugby, but who in
:13:41. > :13:45.their right mind says, days at you win the World Cup, let's get rid of
:13:46. > :13:49.our contracts for our victorious squad, shake the whole thing up and
:13:50. > :13:53.make some of them effectively redundant? That is definitely the
:13:54. > :13:57.Gerald Ratner School of ER. What interests me is that you are
:13:58. > :14:01.personally to blame for this because a Labour MP saying it is a kick in
:14:02. > :14:05.the teeth and to treat women like this, particularly in light of how
:14:06. > :14:11.women working for the BBC got paid... So everything is to do with
:14:12. > :14:21.BBC pay. With three guys talking about the papers! Moving swiftly on.
:14:22. > :14:24.Men of a certain age. Maybe we could all go out for a pint because it
:14:25. > :14:28.says here drinking to forget could be harder than you think, so I
:14:29. > :14:32.brought this expert panel together, these expert drinkers who could tell
:14:33. > :14:36.me whether that is true or not. We have a long time thought that you
:14:37. > :14:40.would drink to plot their jaw memories, but a very interesting
:14:41. > :14:44.study undertaken by the University of Exeter demonstrates that there is
:14:45. > :14:49.a limited, and they want to underscore this, limited, positive
:14:50. > :14:52.affect from drinking and that, actually, what you think of as the
:14:53. > :14:56.well-established negative effects of drinking too much can be
:14:57. > :15:02.counteracted by the ability to have recall. So if you are drinking to
:15:03. > :15:06.forget, try something else. It has destroyed a lifetime of hope that I
:15:07. > :15:09.would forget. And listening to blues music telling me to drink and all of
:15:10. > :15:15.my woes will disappear, I'm just going to have to drink to forget
:15:16. > :15:19.that music. A sharpener tonight. That is it for the papers, you
:15:20. > :15:24.consider front pages of the paper online on the BBC News website, it
:15:25. > :15:28.is all there for you, seven days a week. And if you missed the
:15:29. > :15:32.programme, you can watch it later on BBC iPlayer. Thank you to Alex and
:15:33. > :15:45.James, it has been a pleasure having you. Thanks for watching.
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