21/08/2017 The Papers

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

With me are the Defence and Security Editor for the Daily Mail,

Larisa Brown and Jim Waterson, Political editor at Buzzfeed UK.

Returning to us. Let's have a look at some of tomorrow's front pages.

The Metro leads with Spanish police shooting dead the main suspect

One of the stories on the front page of

the Financial Times is the solar eclipse seen by millions

The Telegraph says families could get discounts

on their supermarket shopping if they hit weekly exercise "step

The Express leads on the news that doctors involved in arthritis

research are launching a nationwide campaign to highlight the impact,

the disease has on the estimated 10 million across Britain.

The I carries a picture of today's eclipse,

which it calls the most watched in human history

And the Daily Mail says high street banks are shutting more than ten

branches a week in a wave of closures. The Guardian covers the

England woman striker who has accused the national team manager of

discrimination. He has been cleared of any wrongdoing. And the Times

reports on research that people with long-term gum disease are 70% more

likely to develop dementia. Let's begin with our guests. Jim,

can you start, it's the eclipse. It is going to be the picture on many

front pages. We like the times with lots of different images. With a

story like this it's always the battle of the art editors! I think

the Times is the winner with the nice sequence of it passing over the

moon in front of the sun. That is the right way round, isn't it! Yes

it is. It's just one of those striking images.

I think we'll have to wait about 90 years for the next one! And remember

the last one, I was just a child. I remember I was standing on a

hillside. In America, especially the midwest, we were talking to people

as they watched it this evening and it was a beautiful, clear sunny day

then, and then the temperature drops and everything goes black. Strikes a

chord. It makes an emotional. Many people we spoke to were very

emotional. Some of my favourite coverage is the town that won the

cosmic lottery, Nasa said they would have the best coverage, ten years

ago, so thousands of people have been flocking there. It was

wonderful. One woman was interviewed, it is a cafe, it used

to be a brothel but they'd had stood on it into a cafe to accommodate all

the visitors! Changing human behaviour! Very positive. Your

newspaper, let's go to them, a couple that we recognise, Donald and

Melania Trump. I like the headline. It is even more orange than me! Ace

this is a brilliant picture, because moments before, he looked at the

solar eclipse about his glasses. The one thing you never to do. I think

it was a worry that he might damage is A side. He is clearly fine and

has gone on to make his prime-time address tonight -- he might damage

his eyesight. He took his glasses off long enough to wave at the

crowd. He is of course a politician of sorts. Let's stay with the Daily

Mail. That front-page main story, banks abandon the high Street. Jim,

perhaps you would take us through what this has found. This is about

how four years banks pledged to customers that they would not close

branches, they would be your local friend, your community, the last

bank in your small market town and now they are closing on Mars,

because people are doing so much online banking that it is

decimating, more than decimating, the footfall in the high street

banks. Their arguments are that we can save money if we close them. If

you can imagine the Daily Mail reader in a small town, I need this

community, I need my bank open, I have elderly relatives who don't use

online banking. And you sometimes need to go to your bank. I went

there to ask about money from abroad. You cannot always assume

everything is on the Internet. This is an important story because a lot

of elderly people will be extremely worried by this. For some people,

elderly people don't always know how to do online banking and it is a day

out for them, so if you have about ten miles away... Post offices were

supposed to be the centre of the community and they have been closing

like mad. I think your newspaper mentions small businesses. People

need to pay in money. A lot of people do things in cash. There were

concerns that it would affect the high street, people do that so they

can go to the bank, if there is no bank fewer people will go to local

shops on the main shopping streets. I can't believe I'm taking the side

of the banks, I'd probably go to the physical bank once or twice a year,

someone still insists on paying you with a paper check... I write

checks, Jim. Jon Daly I haven't had one in ten years. I tried to give

one to one of my sons the other day and he sneered. I go to banks quite

frequently and I think it is a great shame. Tale to be discussed. Let's

go to the times. Back to the times, I should say. The headline is US

demands Afghan troop boost. I got the impression that we were either

out of Afghanistan or desperate to be out of Afghanistan. A lot of

people assume that but we have 500 troops still in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Donald Trump tonight will do his hugely anticipated prime-time

address about Afghanistan and the new American plan to defeat the

Taliban and Islamic State in the country. The Times reports that he's

going to provide another few thousand troops to boost the troops

there, they also have an exclusive saying that America will put

pressure on Britain to send more troops. We've already said we will

send an extra 100 in the next few months. Forgive me, but sense

neither here nor there. Not like the 10,000 that the Americans will have.

It seems quite a small number. Although we don't know how many the

Americans want us to sand. They could ask for many more. Three years

ago, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was sort of, we were

winning and the Taliban were on the back foot, and fast forward to

today, and you've got 80% of Helmand province has now been taken back by

the Taliban and you also have Islamic State fighters in the

country that have been pushed out of Iraq. Is this a classic thing of

America getting into a quagmire? A lesson from history, nobody has gone

into Afghanistan and come out of it well. The thing about Trump is that

he ran on a campaign policy of bringing the troops home and

stripping overseas battles, and after saying again and again

explicitly that he would take troops out of Afghanistan, six months in,

he's about to sign of all these extra and going over. As regards UK

politics, can Theresa May seem to be jumping to Donald Trump's whim on

sending troops abroad. It would not be a popular move to send more

troops to Afghanistan, as far as I can see, and it will be hard to say

that if the Trump presidency is what is demanding the back-up that makes

it an even harder sell. Talking about going back on things that he

said before the election, you wonder where this is coming from. James

Mattis is the US Defence Secretary. A tough guy in a military sense...

Go on,. A few months ago James Mattis admitted that the war was

failing and Afghanistan, quite frank comments and I think people have

realised that there must be any strategy, so this is Trump taking

advice from his generals. James Mattis winning the battle, one might

say. The next stories interesting, but in wondering if it could plug

capability gaps, although we are understood to be reluctant to send

more troops. Sounds like we would the bare minimum, help with bases in

the region, sent their cargo planes, with the unpopularity of Trump in

the UK I can't see anything involving Britain pushing into an

American led war to be a good look at the moment, even for a Tory

government. And there's talk of Trump saying to Afghanistan, stop

harbouring jihadists. Barack Obama made those comments clear in 2009

when he did his last prime-time address in Afghanistan so it is

rehashing an old argument although quite an important one. Indeed. Now

to the Daily Telegraph. Larisa, would you get us off on this story.

Keep fit to get money off your weekly shopping! It's brilliant.

This phenomenon at the moment of people wearing the Fitbit and some

supermarkets say they could get discounts on their weekly shopping

if they meet the step targets. Would you like me to explain a step

target? Could you explain Fitbits? Gadget on your wrist which documents

how many steps you take each day. A lot of people wearing it because

they go out and about and they tried to certain target. Are thousands and

thousands of steps. And young people like to compete with each other and

say, I have done more steps than you today. If you had a certain limit of

steps each day, you could be rewarded and this NHS scheme, free

cinema tickets for example, if you get 12,500 steps three days a week.

This is a new radical NHS policy designed to tackle obesity!

Seuk-hyun Baek I am afraid I'm being cynical. We always come up with

these ideas. -- and being cynical. We always come up with his ideas.

Sadly the extent to the NHS can influence human behaviour and

convince people, rather than doing 12,000 steps to get a ticket, just

spend money to go and watch a film and sit down rather than doing some

exercise! I have my doubts as to whether the NHS can design towns

where this can happen. As a developer is building a new

development they will have things built in. This is a reference to the

government 's idea of encouraging healthy living. It's tagging onto

this idea of building new towns which will not be full of unhealthy

slobs, miraculously, if you offer incentives, there might be a way to

convince people to take part in healthy living programmes. Who is

paying for this. Cinema are not charities. We'll NHS England have a

huge budget to do this? I thought they were short of money. They are

short of money. I imagine it's a tie-up with a private company that

wants publicity. The key thing is the extent to which the can

influence people. I imagine a lot of people would like free cinema

tickets and discounts from the supermarket. The other interesting

thing is, if they could convince people to stay healthy and in later

life, savings would be enormous. If you could get all those people...

That I fear that the people already minded to exercise will take part in

these programmes and the people you need to target would stay in, on the

server. My dad has a Fitbit, I bought one for Christmas, normally

he wouldn't go out walking and I think he will love this. He wears it

every and tells us are many steps is done and I think this is the kind of

thing which will get him out more. Let's go to the Financial Times,

Jim. I think you take an interest in a subject like this. North - south

divide of rail and road spending must end, is a business chiefs.

Project after project of northern transportation sidelined, and

invested in, not getting enough money, it still cost a bomb to get

from York to Manchester and it takes an hour and a half and yet you can

get across London from about ?8 relying on trains. Disproportionate

spending. Having grown up in the North of England and now living in

London the quality of transport here is so much better and more

affordable and when you a small two carriage train rattling across

between major cities in the north and there is one every hour whenever

I go on the reporting trip that there you realise how unfair it is.

You are a North Yorkshire lad. Fitbit, you are from Preston. I

disagree. We spoke about this earlier, smack Larisa, you are from

Preston. You are always on time and you can get a seat, whereas

commuting to work in London is terrible. Is that not the point,

there is a great publishing on the move, whether on the roads in the

south, although roads seem crowded everywhere to me these days yet the

trains are crowded and that is we've got to spend your money. I'm in

favour of Crossrail in London because you have to support growth

in London. Let's talk about it. The day after the Transport Secretary

Chris Grayling accidentally let slip that Leeds - Manchester might not be

electrified, the following day he announced he was backing Crossrail

which could cost tens of billions of pounds. When you are sitting there,

I know some journeys in the north are lovely but if you are commuting

to Manchester so often it's disgusting and overcrowded. You'll

be very annoyed that the money is again going to the capital. Larisa,

the Bake-Off is back, although it's on Channel 4 and here's a picture on

the front of the Guardian, Prue Leith, Noel Fielding, Millie Berry,

although there is a bit of a problem, Prue Leith has spoken about

the ad break stash Mary Berry. She says that if people don't want the

ad breaks they can watch the show later and skip the adverts. Which

given that Channel 4 has paid tens of millions of pounds to get the

show from the BBC and ensure they are delighted with that! The chief

executive, J Hunt, says, we are a commercial broadcaster and we do

need to pay the shows like Bake-Off. That sounds like a gritted teeth

remark. All publicity is good publicity. Indeed.