:00:14. > :00:16.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:17. > :00:25.With me are Martin Bentham, Home Affairs Editor
:00:26. > :00:27.for the London Evening Standard, and Rowena Mason, Deputy political
:00:28. > :00:35.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with...
:00:36. > :00:38.The Daily Telegraph reports on calls for courts to treat Asian gangs
:00:39. > :00:41.who groom white teenage girls as racially aggravated criminals.
:00:42. > :00:44.It follows the conviction of 18 people in Newcastle yesterday.
:00:45. > :00:52.The Independent has a photograph released by the North Korean regime
:00:53. > :00:55.Its story is about the standard of rented homes - it says millions
:00:56. > :01:01.of people are living in homes that contain serious safety hazards.
:01:02. > :01:04.The Independent has a photograph released by the North Korean regime
:01:05. > :01:10.appearing to show thousands of people rallying in
:01:11. > :01:12.The Daily Mail focuses on the contaminated eggs scandal,
:01:13. > :01:15.saying supermarkets are 'scrambling' to clear the shelves of products
:01:16. > :01:26.The Times reports that the scandal is likely to be far bigger than has
:01:27. > :01:27.been reported. The Metro has the same story,
:01:28. > :01:30.and the Food Standards Agency's estimation that 700,000 of the Dutch
:01:31. > :01:39.eggs were imported. The Guardian says that people living
:01:40. > :01:42.on estate in South London say they will have to leave because the
:01:43. > :01:49.buildings have been at risk of collapse for decades.
:01:50. > :01:56.Let's start with Donald Trump. Does not feature as much as you might
:01:57. > :02:01.expect. Trump's new threat to North Korea. We will see the daily
:02:02. > :02:06.Mirror's look later. He is saying that the rhetoric may be has not
:02:07. > :02:11.been strong enough. But in the same statement, says we cannot rule out
:02:12. > :02:16.negotiations. We're not sure which direction he is heading. They have
:02:17. > :02:19.been all the threats flying between North Korea and the United States
:02:20. > :02:24.and it is hard to see how Donald Trump could wrap it up further
:02:25. > :02:27.having said he wanted to bring down fire and theory on North Korea. He
:02:28. > :02:34.said today that wasn't even scary enough. So it is really quite
:02:35. > :02:39.astonishing. We were discussing earlier that it is not featured very
:02:40. > :02:43.heavily on the front pages, maybe it says something about how people view
:02:44. > :02:49.the credibility of the threats materialising into some action.
:02:50. > :02:55.Apart from the Mirror, they have a story saying that the US would quite
:02:56. > :03:02.like the UK to help them spy on Kim's nuclear bases. It says they
:03:03. > :03:07.could be involved but what would be the risk involves two RAF planes?
:03:08. > :03:12.Not very much, they are unlikely to be shot down. Whether it happens or
:03:13. > :03:18.not I don't know, the bigger risk is the nuclear Armageddon that might
:03:19. > :03:22.break out. There is not much risk to our planes, probably. But as Rowena
:03:23. > :03:26.says, it is interesting that you have footage of people in why, some
:03:27. > :03:32.quite relaxed about it, saying they have heard all about it. People hear
:03:33. > :03:39.my filly bit more nervous if we were in the firing line. The interesting
:03:40. > :03:46.thing about this was that trump's rhetoric is quite bellicose and Al
:03:47. > :03:50.Gore was making the point on Radio 4 that it is not trump being a
:03:51. > :03:55.hothead, this is a problem that other illustrations in the past have
:03:56. > :04:00.allowed to develop and therefore it is a big problem that is going to
:04:01. > :04:05.have to be confronted. And whether this method of his girls put
:04:06. > :04:09.pressure on China to exert some influence on North Korea and achieve
:04:10. > :04:14.something, it has achieved something through the sanctions of the UN
:04:15. > :04:18.Security Council, maybe all these hot words will lead to something
:04:19. > :04:21.actually being achieved. On the other hand, there is the massive
:04:22. > :04:27.danger that people could talk themselves into something abysmal.
:04:28. > :04:31.And North Korea's response is that if all think about putting its
:04:32. > :04:38.military plan into action and firing a missile very near to Guam.
:04:39. > :04:44.Far more newspapers on the egg story. The Daily Mail... The Food
:04:45. > :04:51.Standards Agency saying that 21,000 eggs were affected and it turned out
:04:52. > :04:56.to be 700,000! There is a question about not least in the Belgian and
:04:57. > :05:00.the Netherlands where they knew about this and the warnings were not
:05:01. > :05:04.passed on, and we are discovering this because they have arrived on
:05:05. > :05:07.our shelves in greater numbers and without thought. It is hard to get
:05:08. > :05:10.too worked up about it given that there doesn't seem to be much health
:05:11. > :05:17.risk according to the Food Standards Agency. Fortunately, it is something
:05:18. > :05:22.not very desirable, but probably with no negative consequences to
:05:23. > :05:26.people eating it. I think part of it, why it is interesting, is that
:05:27. > :05:31.although this pesticide not supposed to pose a health to human health,
:05:32. > :05:41.there's an element creeping in about a cover-up which is why people are
:05:42. > :05:44.suspicious. The numbers went up from 21,000 to 700,000, they think, and
:05:45. > :05:48.people might have been eating these eggs for quite a few months. So
:05:49. > :05:54.people may be beginning to doubt whether it is more harmful than the
:05:55. > :06:00.Food Standards Agency has been making out? Goes back to other
:06:01. > :06:10.controversies like Bobo horse meat, this issue of the food chain, --
:06:11. > :06:13.like the horse meat scandal, the issue of the food chain, how many
:06:14. > :06:19.countries is food going through before it reaches our shelves. Do we
:06:20. > :06:24.trust people providing our food and the people monitoring?
:06:25. > :06:30.The Times, modern slavery widespread in the UK. The tip of the iceberg
:06:31. > :06:36.that we have established. The National Crime Agency saying that
:06:37. > :06:40.every large towns and cities probably -- has people involved in
:06:41. > :06:45.this kind of slavery whether it is in agriculture or domestic labour.
:06:46. > :06:49.It is a really shocking story and modern slavery has been a huge focus
:06:50. > :06:53.of Theresa May which she was in the Home Office and tried to carry on
:06:54. > :06:57.when she was in Number Ten but the interesting element of the story is
:06:58. > :07:05.that prosecutions of slavery and trafficking fell last year from 129
:07:06. > :07:09.to 96. It is obviously taking some time for all these new measures that
:07:10. > :07:16.Theresa May brought in to clamp down on modern slavery to come through
:07:17. > :07:21.and work. To be fair to the National Crime Agency, they made the point
:07:22. > :07:27.that rather like terrorism, people are not necessarily charged under
:07:28. > :07:31.terrorism offences, they are charged... Well, not normal, but
:07:32. > :07:35.non-terrorist related offences. These may have been charged with
:07:36. > :07:42.rape or drugs or money-laundering offences. So they may not reflect
:07:43. > :07:48.the full picture. What is true, is that the anti-slavery Commissioner
:07:49. > :07:52.raised concerns that the anti-fashion -- the National Crime
:07:53. > :07:54.Agency and not been acting on information received and more
:07:55. > :08:02.broadly, they were saying today that they were shocked by the scale of it
:08:03. > :08:06.so it seems as if there has been a slight slowness to get on top of it.
:08:07. > :08:12.Now people are getting aware of it and realising the scale.
:08:13. > :08:17.Rowena, tell us about this Guardian story, fresh concerns over safety of
:08:18. > :08:23.tower blocks. Another shocking story by Peter Walker. It is about some
:08:24. > :08:27.tower blocks in south London where hundreds of people have been told to
:08:28. > :08:32.leave their homes because there is a different risk to the tower blocks,
:08:33. > :08:39.not the fire risk that had such tragic consequences in brimful
:08:40. > :08:44.tower, it is to do with gas safety and they have been told that they
:08:45. > :08:50.have to switch off all kinds of gas appliances and potentially move out.
:08:51. > :08:57.Decamp, is the word they use, decamp for several weeks or days in which
:08:58. > :09:03.is a strange word to have to use to them. This is in Southwark Council's
:09:04. > :09:09.territory. It says that these blocks, and may apply elsewhere,
:09:10. > :09:13.after the disaster many years ago, southern tower blocks were built
:09:14. > :09:18.with these big slabs of concrete bolted together on site and for some
:09:19. > :09:22.reason, which I can understand what it is, the commendation of those
:09:23. > :09:26.concrete slabs and gas, if there's an explosion in one flat, what must
:09:27. > :09:30.happen is that the concrete slab breaks and it causes the whole thing
:09:31. > :09:35.to collapse. It is saying that these tower blocks were meant to have been
:09:36. > :09:41.reinforced, the Council for they had been reinforced, but it turns out
:09:42. > :09:48.they have never been reinforced. These residents have been living in
:09:49. > :09:53.these blocks which could come down like a pack of cards if there was a
:09:54. > :09:57.gas explosion. And it might affect other tower blocks so it comes back
:09:58. > :10:02.to the issue about the checks that are done on tower blocks and safety
:10:03. > :10:07.and so on and the chain of command in this whole area. And the fact
:10:08. > :10:12.that it takes a terrible tragedy like Grenfell Tower for people to be
:10:13. > :10:19.checking about this kind of risk. Let's look at the FT. Tiny story
:10:20. > :10:27.here. France urges fairer taxation of US tax. Martin, you spotted this,
:10:28. > :10:35.what is it about? -- US technical companies. The French and the German
:10:36. > :10:40.companies have put some proposals to the next European Council meeting in
:10:41. > :10:44.Finland next month and they are complaining that the French economy
:10:45. > :10:51.minister has said that as B, which is France's second -- which has
:10:52. > :10:58.France as the biggest market has paid something like ?99 in France in
:10:59. > :11:04.the past year and they are not paying any tax on the millions they
:11:05. > :11:08.are making. It is familiar from Google and so on. These
:11:09. > :11:13.multinational corporations which are operating across, making huge
:11:14. > :11:17.amounts of money, and not paying tax in the countries they are based on.
:11:18. > :11:21.This is a European attempt to find some way of ensuring that what our
:11:22. > :11:28.fair taxes are paid by these companies. In the European Union,
:11:29. > :11:33.there might be a fair chance of getting them to pay within the
:11:34. > :11:35.European Union but it's probably requires an international effort and
:11:36. > :11:38.not all countries will feel so inclined.
:11:39. > :11:42.That is what politicians have been banging their heads against for a
:11:43. > :11:47.long time. You have these international summits and there have
:11:48. > :11:51.always been low tax jurisdictions and it has always been difficult for
:11:52. > :11:54.the companies that want to do something about it to act
:11:55. > :11:58.unilaterally but it seems like France is having a good go at it.
:11:59. > :12:04.Let's finish with the Daily Telegraph. When you are drinking
:12:05. > :12:08.that chilled diet drink and feeling virtuous because you gave up the
:12:09. > :12:13.full sugar variety, we have got bad news. Diet drinks could make you put
:12:14. > :12:20.on weight. What is the science behind this? Apparently, if you have
:12:21. > :12:23.a diet drink, the body normally associate sweetness with lots of
:12:24. > :12:39.calories and burn them off, or tried to burn some of them. And if the
:12:40. > :12:42.diet drink doesn't ... With the diet drinks, it doesn't get the message,
:12:43. > :12:48.there is a mismatch between the sweetness of the drinks and the
:12:49. > :12:54.banning of calories, so it makes you fat and is pointless. Very alarming
:12:55. > :12:59.for people who drink a lot of diet fizzy drinks. But I suppose there
:13:00. > :13:08.are other reasons that you might drink the strings, for your teeth.
:13:09. > :13:11.The bubbles are very good. Drink water. The reward circuits
:13:12. > :13:16.don't register the right sort of makes between sweet and calories.
:13:17. > :13:19.They don't taste so good anyway, so you might as well the full fat
:13:20. > :13:24.version! That it fully papers for tonight.
:13:25. > :13:31.You can see all the front pages on BBC's website. If you missed the
:13:32. > :13:38.programme, any evening you can watch it later on the BBC iPlayer. Rowena
:13:39. > :13:40.and Martin, lovely to see you both. Coming up next, the weather.