0:00:19 > 0:00:26Hello and welcome to the lookahead to what the papers will be bringing
0:00:26 > 0:00:38us. Let's start with a look at the front pages. The Metro leader with a
0:00:38 > 0:00:41picture of Rebecca Dykes, the British embassy worker found dead on
0:00:41 > 0:00:48the side of the road in Beirut. The Financial Times said millennial is
0:00:48 > 0:00:52an gig economy workers have been left behind by pension reforms. The
0:00:52 > 0:00:59Daily Express looks at a warning of wild winds for Christmas, saying 70
0:00:59 > 0:01:05mph storm chaos is on the way. As with many of the papers, the
0:01:05 > 0:01:11Telegraph taking a picture of Rebecca Dykes as well as a message
0:01:11 > 0:01:17from the UK government that the Saudis must stop starving Yemen 's.
0:01:17 > 0:01:22In the Times, the Tories urging Theresa May to stay on over fears a
0:01:22 > 0:01:33leadership election would wreck post Brexited trade talks. -- Brexit. And
0:01:33 > 0:01:37across party allies being called saying Labour are the key to
0:01:37 > 0:01:45securing a soft Brexit. In the mirror, news that a British embassy
0:01:45 > 0:01:49worker has been killed in Beirut. And the Daily Mail lead with what it
0:01:49 > 0:01:53is calling middle-class pension crisis with more than 6 million
0:01:53 > 0:02:01failing to save enough for their retirement. Let us dealt in. You can
0:02:01 > 0:02:07start us off on the times. Time to think about Brexit...There's a
0:02:07 > 0:02:11change. This is more about the leadership which confuses me because
0:02:11 > 0:02:17I think Mrs May surprised everybody in the last few weeks and has done
0:02:17 > 0:02:23extremely competently so I do not know where this leadership contest
0:02:23 > 0:02:32comes from. It seems to me the paper is making up an agenda. Even mobbed
0:02:32 > 0:02:44is not think it is a good idea. -- Mogg. The timing is interesting. The
0:02:44 > 0:02:52election has to be in 2022 and much of this mess created by Brexiters
0:02:52 > 0:02:55will have to be sorted before then. I can see why people are beginning
0:02:55 > 0:02:59to think because she herself has said at some point she wants to see
0:02:59 > 0:03:06this thing through and then the Mac but I think it is such a wrong
0:03:06 > 0:03:11moment to be talking about Tory leadership contest. The people in
0:03:11 > 0:03:17this country are really trouble, divided parties, don't really know
0:03:17 > 0:03:22where we want to go and the idea of another leadership contest does not
0:03:22 > 0:03:28help the country feel at ease.It is fair to say, in recent months will,
0:03:28 > 0:03:31there have been mutterings that somebody else is needed at the helm.
0:03:31 > 0:03:38The story down saying that she must stay because if she goes the
0:03:38 > 0:03:41uncertainty and change in leadership would be disastrous for Brexit
0:03:41 > 0:03:47talks.Even a fortnight ago the knives were out after the problems
0:03:47 > 0:03:54with the DUP deal but commonsense has broken out in the Conservative
0:03:54 > 0:03:59Party and she pulled off a terrific agreement with the European Union
0:03:59 > 0:04:04and there was the European summit and they agreed that significant
0:04:04 > 0:04:10process has been made and they can move on to stage two and that is a
0:04:10 > 0:04:15terrific accolade for Theresa May. If you think the timing, because
0:04:15 > 0:04:20round two, the second phase of negotiations will start in the new
0:04:20 > 0:04:24year where there would be an agreement on the transition
0:04:24 > 0:04:27agreement and some agreement on the framework of the new trade
0:04:27 > 0:04:36relationship with the EU but, after Brexit, in the 29th of March, 20,019
0:04:36 > 0:04:43we have to organise the trade deal...And the transition period...
0:04:43 > 0:04:49Can I finish, please. We have a transition period so the trade deal
0:04:49 > 0:04:54can be finalised and it cannot be finalised until we are a third
0:04:54 > 0:05:00country in any case. We are talking about the spring of 2021 before we
0:05:00 > 0:05:04get through the transition agreement and hopefully the detailed trade
0:05:04 > 0:05:10agreement will come into operation so you are talking 2.5...But there
0:05:10 > 0:05:16is an interesting paragraph at the end in the Times, the timetable is
0:05:16 > 0:05:20likely to dismay those in Parliament to believe the best chance of
0:05:20 > 0:05:27securing the top job lies in an early contest and David Davis and
0:05:27 > 0:05:32Boris Johnson a mention.It is guesswork. Those two names come
0:05:32 > 0:05:42quite closely after some comments from Michelle Barnier, the EU chief
0:05:42 > 0:05:46negotiator, about cherry picking the best Brexit. David Davis and Boris
0:05:46 > 0:05:53Johnson would disagree with that and they would come at loggerheads...
0:05:53 > 0:05:59Some people say I do not understand why this man gets any presence at
0:05:59 > 0:06:04all but there you are, he belongs in a sort of costume drama but he said
0:06:04 > 0:06:09something, like, you are not going to give away all of these and Boris
0:06:09 > 0:06:14Johnson has said Suckling but this is one of the problems in the Tory
0:06:14 > 0:06:20party, these endless struggle that goes on and not just over Brexit. It
0:06:20 > 0:06:27never seems to settle.As far as I can see, the Cabinet talks, they
0:06:27 > 0:06:36will meet next week...Is everybody going to fall into line?The rugged
0:06:36 > 0:06:40site that the subcommittee has some sort of coming together of the view.
0:06:40 > 0:06:47And the negotiator for the EU would say that. David Davis, Theresa May,
0:06:47 > 0:06:53they will take their negotiating position and I suspect that if they
0:06:53 > 0:07:01are rational, both sides will come to some mutually agreeable...I am
0:07:01 > 0:07:07sorry but I not sure they are rational.In the Guardian, they have
0:07:07 > 0:07:15a different approach...A lot of the arguments we were having earlier,
0:07:15 > 0:07:21Ruth were saying... The Raikkonen is that disagree with you, Ruth, and
0:07:21 > 0:07:3082% in surveys done...By the FT... Not just the FD, and every time I
0:07:30 > 0:07:36said this, they are foreign, lefties, Irish, but they are
0:07:36 > 0:07:40economists and they have said this thing is not going to happen in the
0:07:40 > 0:07:49way that...No, no...This is in the Guardian. For the sake of the
0:07:49 > 0:07:55nation, for the sake of our future generations, because we have lived
0:07:55 > 0:07:59our life and we have to think about the future generations, that the
0:07:59 > 0:08:04right enough people within all parties but even within Labour, who
0:08:04 > 0:08:10might want to work with the kind of sensible, rational Tories to come up
0:08:10 > 0:08:17with a better model because when we are heading seems to me utterly
0:08:17 > 0:08:22wrong and it seems wrong... There is a new poll done today which shows
0:08:22 > 0:08:27that Remainers and Leavers, the Remainers have gone up substantially
0:08:27 > 0:08:33by 11 points.What you make of this story?
0:08:44 > 0:08:48Could Labour rebels be picked off to join the Tories?I could not believe
0:08:48 > 0:08:55this for a second. I wonder what the strategy of these rebels is.
0:08:55 > 0:09:01Assuming there is a framework agreement next autumn which I think
0:09:01 > 0:09:05is a strong possibility, what will they do? Vote against it? There will
0:09:05 > 0:09:13be no deal! What is the game?I don't understand. Apparently by
0:09:13 > 0:09:20going over the head of Jeremy Corbyn, they could put hard
0:09:20 > 0:09:24Brexiteers back in their box, they say.Theresa May makes these
0:09:24 > 0:09:32decisions, but is she a hard Brexiteer?She is not the only one.
0:09:32 > 0:09:36She is the Prime Minister. She is constantly under pressure from this
0:09:36 > 0:09:40other lot. She should not be the only one making these decisions.Is
0:09:40 > 0:09:46there an appetite among Labour backbenchers to get involved with
0:09:46 > 0:09:51the government?I would be very surprised.I think there is such a
0:09:51 > 0:09:55strong... I really admire the 11 Tories who did what they did last
0:09:55 > 0:10:00time with the vote, it could not have been easy for any of them. We
0:10:00 > 0:10:07know what is happening with them. There are Labour MPs...Like to?
0:10:07 > 0:10:18Chuka Umunna. There is one example. This has got to be bigger than a
0:10:18 > 0:10:23political party. What is going to happen and what is happening is so
0:10:23 > 0:10:33important! Two it is very important. Political allegiances could dissolve
0:10:33 > 0:10:39for the greater good.It would be great to have more voices, but you
0:10:39 > 0:10:44believe politically it is impossible?I think it is a
0:10:44 > 0:10:48political nonstarter. I am prepared to admit I am wrong.In terms of
0:10:48 > 0:10:58what we might see as you move into phase two, we are hearing about the
0:10:58 > 0:11:05Canada plus plus plus deal. The story focusing on Michel Barnier.
0:11:05 > 0:11:09David Davis, sorry, last week, watching him perform, he was
0:11:09 > 0:11:17half-asleep!He was tired.All of these studies he commissioned which
0:11:17 > 0:11:25he refuses to let us look at. We still have not seen 52 of them!He
0:11:25 > 0:11:30has released them but has kept information back for commercial
0:11:30 > 0:11:35sensitivity.He cannot do that! He has even said that actually they
0:11:35 > 0:11:39have not been done.He was talking about the impact on the economy.
0:11:39 > 0:11:47Yeah. We need to know that!He has given that evidence to the exiting
0:11:47 > 0:11:52committee. But it is commercially sensitive.Some of the work has not
0:11:52 > 0:11:58been done. He has said it but you will not agree on that. I think she
0:11:58 > 0:12:16is right to say that.We will stay with the Guardian. The picture of
0:12:16 > 0:12:22Rebekkah Dykes. We don't know much about this story, but what do we
0:12:22 > 0:12:40have?This dear lady was working for the Department of International
0:12:40 > 0:12:43Development in Beirut and she was kidnapped and strangled. It would be
0:12:43 > 0:12:46inappropriate to speculate as to why she was killed and the circumstances
0:12:46 > 0:12:54of her death.A family spokesman saying we request the media take
0:12:54 > 0:13:04care with her privacy. The Times. Social media. The perils thereof.
0:13:04 > 0:13:10According to the Times Facebook has finally conceded that social media
0:13:10 > 0:13:16can harm health, and it proposes users improve their well-being I
0:13:16 > 0:13:23posting more updates and comments. How does this work? -- by posting.
0:13:23 > 0:13:27It is an addiction. It is an addiction. Now it is out there you
0:13:27 > 0:13:34cannot put the genie back into the bottle at all. Academic studies,
0:13:34 > 0:13:39especially for young people, it is extraordinary how they feel they are
0:13:39 > 0:13:43living if they are opposed...It is not real if there is no photograph.
0:13:43 > 0:13:48There is a whole thing going on where Facebook says it recognises
0:13:48 > 0:13:54the problem but says go and do more of it! It understands nothing!
0:13:54 > 0:14:00Talking about putting the genie back in the bottle. Do you agree? There
0:14:00 > 0:14:05was a survey a few weeks ago, I cannot remember who did it, many
0:14:05 > 0:14:09young people said they would rather social media was never invented and
0:14:09 > 0:14:16could live happily without it. That is a pie in the sky.It is done. I
0:14:16 > 0:14:23understand that people look for admiration all of the time and it
0:14:23 > 0:14:26does not always come. They also contrast and compare their
0:14:26 > 0:14:33lifestyles with others, and others look better. What is happening is
0:14:33 > 0:14:38that they feel undermined by this. They are probably addicted to it is
0:14:38 > 0:14:44a pillar it is a form of addiction. Some psychologists are worried that
0:14:44 > 0:14:49the core of each individual, the selfhood, if you like, is now
0:14:49 > 0:14:56distorted.The self is now dependent on what other people think of us.
0:14:56 > 0:15:00That is true for all of us to a point. We live in a society and
0:15:00 > 0:15:04depend on others. But when everything is tied to what others
0:15:04 > 0:15:10think of you, and they can be unkind and thoughtless and cruel, it is a
0:15:10 > 0:15:15horrible thing. And I get so much hate mail. The only way I survived
0:15:15 > 0:15:19it is by not looking. I am old enough not to do that.We will talk
0:15:19 > 0:15:25about pensions. Two different angles on the story. The headline,
0:15:25 > 0:15:29middle-class pension crisis. What are they saying?The Daily Mail
0:15:29 > 0:15:37talks about middle classes while the Financial Times talks about
0:15:37 > 0:15:40millennials and the big economies. They are saying that even with the
0:15:40 > 0:15:48pensions, we are talking about increasing contributions. -- gig
0:15:48 > 0:15:56economy. Nevertheless, there will be many people outside the remit will
0:15:56 > 0:16:02not be in a position to save enough for old age. I am afraid this is a
0:16:02 > 0:16:06truth and I don't know how to get around it. Certainly, government
0:16:06 > 0:16:09reforms have made the situation better for those who are employed.
0:16:09 > 0:16:15But for those not employed, problems will continue.Even here? This
0:16:15 > 0:16:20surprises me, for those earning more than 55,000, they would have to save
0:16:20 > 0:16:2750%!Those are figures plucked out of the air. The moral of the tale is
0:16:27 > 0:16:33we live in an ageing society with more and more demands made of the
0:16:33 > 0:16:36new generations, future generations, of taxpayers. People will be
0:16:36 > 0:16:41expected to save for old age for themselves. And it will be
0:16:41 > 0:16:46difficult.Especially, as the Financial Times talks about, the
0:16:46 > 0:16:51changing role of employment, especially the gig economy.Those
0:16:51 > 0:16:54poor people delivering food on bicycles, they get almost nothing.
0:16:54 > 0:17:03How do they save? How are they supposed to save? Older people are
0:17:03 > 0:17:06really not thinking about how the young have to live. I saw someone
0:17:06 > 0:17:13saying they are having cappuccinos and eating avocados and not saving
0:17:13 > 0:17:21and this rubbish, you are earning £5 an hour!It is not just a pension
0:17:21 > 0:17:32issue, it is broader.How can you save?Most people in the gig economy
0:17:32 > 0:17:37like it because it gives them freedom. Though some people will not
0:17:37 > 0:17:41safe enough for old age.Food for thought. We will finish with The
0:17:41 > 0:17:49Telegraph. Just talk us through this one. Saudis must stop starving
0:17:49 > 0:17:58Yemen.It is interesting and important. Because, you know, the
0:17:58 > 0:18:02Tories, all governments, have been sucking up to Saudi Arabia for
0:18:02 > 0:18:06decades, the royals, everybody. I have not heard such a strong
0:18:06 > 0:18:11statement on Yemen coming from a Secretary of State. And on the front
0:18:11 > 0:18:18page of The Telegraph! I think it is really important. The story in
0:18:18 > 0:18:22Yemen, we know about Syria and what is happening in places in Iraq and
0:18:22 > 0:18:26so on, most people know nothing about what is being done in Yemen.
0:18:26 > 0:18:30And actually, reporters are being kept out as well. And it is the
0:18:30 > 0:18:36children! There is typhoid! There is, you know, cholera! All of these
0:18:36 > 0:18:42things happening, no water, absolute starvation, a policy of starvation.
0:18:42 > 0:18:46And this focuses on aid that should get through, but an accusation that
0:18:46 > 0:18:52Saudis are preventing it.The new International Development Secretary
0:18:52 > 0:19:02replacing pretty -- Priti Patel, they are warning Saudi Arabia is
0:19:02 > 0:19:10blockading aid. I think the Yemen civil war is horrific. Perhaps not
0:19:10 > 0:19:17enough attention is paid to it. But it is tragically part of the Saudi
0:19:17 > 0:19:21Arabian, Iranian, conflicts, the struggle for the control over the
0:19:21 > 0:19:26Middle East. These poor people in Yemen are in the middle of this
0:19:26 > 0:19:36horrendous conflict, it this is racking their lives. -- this is
0:19:36 > 0:19:44wrecking their lives.The aid depot across from Saudi Arabia had
0:19:44 > 0:19:49medicine and food just sitting there.The UN elected Saudi Arabia
0:19:49 > 0:19:56on to the human rights committee. I cannot believe that happened!There
0:19:56 > 0:20:02is a lot more to talk about all of those stories, but that is it from
0:20:02 > 0:20:06us tonight. Don't forget, all of the front pages are on line on the BBC
0:20:06 > 0:20:09News website. You can read a detailed review of the papers seven
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