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0:00:29 > 0:00:36Welcome both. Let's see if we can get it right. Many of the front

0:00:36 > 0:00:40pages are already in. Let's start with the times which has a picture

0:00:40 > 0:00:45of Donald Trump and his daughter on the eve of their first anniversary

0:00:45 > 0:00:56of his inauguration. The Financial Times. There is news of a potential

0:00:56 > 0:01:04new treatment for sufferers of IBS on the front of the eye. The express

0:01:04 > 0:01:07features a reaction that there will be no attempt by the government to

0:01:07 > 0:01:13review the parole board 's decision to release taxi rate this John

0:01:13 > 0:01:27Worboys. Much of it because it is contaminated. The Telegraph has

0:01:27 > 0:01:31Cabinet officer David Lillington has suggested that they could rejoin the

0:01:31 > 0:01:41EU in the future. The mirror leads with calls by victims of John

0:01:41 > 0:01:47Worboys for police to reinvestigate dozens of allegations of rape and

0:01:47 > 0:01:50assault. A variety of different stories. There were no real

0:01:50 > 0:01:56consensus on which one they should be leading an although the decision

0:01:56 > 0:01:59of the release of John Worboys does feature in a couple and of course

0:01:59 > 0:02:07Donald Trump. We will be talking about that at length in a minute.

0:02:07 > 0:02:11There is also much to talk about with him, isn't there? Let's start

0:02:11 > 0:02:23with the express will stop regarding the outcry because a six offender

0:02:23 > 0:02:28John Warboys is to be released from prison. There was talk that the

0:02:28 > 0:02:37government might to take a judicial review but they have said that now

0:02:37 > 0:02:46it is not going to happen.There would be little chance of the parole

0:02:46 > 0:02:51board's decision being overturned. I think the reason why there is so

0:02:51 > 0:02:59much anger around this is that the government set a hare running in the

0:02:59 > 0:03:14past week or so, by a nod and a wink same, we realise there is a lot of

0:03:14 > 0:03:20public anger so we will do what we can to keep him behind bars. Now

0:03:20 > 0:03:23they have decided that they cannot do anything at all. The government

0:03:23 > 0:03:35haven't handled it very well.There is an idea that two of his victims.

0:03:35 > 0:03:43They don't break its chances of success that type.It is difficult

0:03:43 > 0:03:45for the government because they did give the impression that they wanted

0:03:45 > 0:03:51to do it will stop when he was speaking in the House of Commons

0:03:51 > 0:04:02today he didn't have a particular had time, but you can see it on the

0:04:02 > 0:04:10front pages of the tabloids.The daily Mirror says it as well.

0:04:10 > 0:04:16Although he was convicted on 12 or so offences, the police think he may

0:04:16 > 0:04:24have attacked many more.Obviously the evidence for that might be more

0:04:24 > 0:04:31difficult. The problem is that people feel very strongly about it

0:04:31 > 0:04:37and David Gauke has looked as if he has folded at the first hurdle and

0:04:37 > 0:04:45that has contributed to this since that... Nick Bowles the Conservative

0:04:45 > 0:04:57MP had a go at to Reza gave -- Theresa May.There is a lot of

0:04:57 > 0:05:02discussion right now about the way parole boards operate and the fact

0:05:02 > 0:05:10that they are so opaque.It's not just the decision to release him. It

0:05:10 > 0:05:16was the way that his victims weren't informed before it was announced, so

0:05:16 > 0:05:21clearly it came as a dreadful shock to them. There needs to be more

0:05:21 > 0:05:27transparency. At the moment people are looking at it and thinking and

0:05:27 > 0:05:36an. Even just what he was convicted of how could it be right that he has

0:05:36 > 0:05:42only served nine years in prison. If the parole board were in some way

0:05:42 > 0:05:49able to come out and get some indication as to the reason behind

0:05:49 > 0:05:55it,...That would involve a change in the law. They are actually

0:05:55 > 0:06:10forbidden to give the reasons by law.The times.

0:06:16 > 0:06:25It was... Social media history wasn't disclosed.This is a

0:06:25 > 0:06:29follow-up story to that and it's about how that is going to have

0:06:29 > 0:06:36knock-on effects in other trials possibly. It's obviously a real

0:06:36 > 0:06:41problem. We don't know why the police didn't disclose this

0:06:41 > 0:06:44information but presumably it's because they feel under pressure to

0:06:44 > 0:06:49achieve convictions. So you've got the vicious cycle where public

0:06:49 > 0:06:55opinion really wants to see people put away for these terrible offences

0:06:55 > 0:07:08but that is leading to miscarriages of justice. This morning they say it

0:07:08 > 0:07:17is to investigation. I'm not casting aspersions for saying that but the

0:07:17 > 0:07:26facts speak for themselves. These are people who... All the while

0:07:26 > 0:07:32there was clear evidence that he wasn't guilty. It is incredible

0:07:32 > 0:07:36really, the amount of power that the Justice system can wield over

0:07:36 > 0:07:53someone.It undermines confidence. Of course it does. Donald Trump. His

0:07:53 > 0:08:08one year in... In office as president. He is on the front page

0:08:08 > 0:08:15of the times with his daughter. There is an analysis of 25,000

0:08:15 > 0:08:19tweets. We thought he had them all in one year but no he is not a

0:08:19 > 0:08:30prolific.That would be 70 tweets a day. It is more like 17 tweets a day

0:08:30 > 0:08:35over four years.It seems like more. He does get quite a lot of attention

0:08:35 > 0:08:41for each one and now he has 280 characters to play with.There is an

0:08:41 > 0:08:47analysis in The Times. There seems to be some method to it.I don't

0:08:47 > 0:08:54know about method... The times analysis is fascinating because it

0:08:54 > 0:09:02picks out that the word he uses most often is great. It has these fancy

0:09:02 > 0:09:11graphs showing the frequency that he uses phrases, such as crooked

0:09:11 > 0:09:16Hillary.He doesn't sleep a lot. Apparently you only sleeps only four

0:09:16 > 0:09:31hours a night will stop. What let out at me was that Britain, the word

0:09:31 > 0:09:37Britain, appears only seven times whereas France appears 21 times. I

0:09:37 > 0:09:50guess that is partly to do with the terrorist attacks in France. Theresa

0:09:50 > 0:09:59May is looking for reassurance. Towards the end of this article it

0:09:59 > 0:10:05does say that there is some kind of strategic use of social media. Is

0:10:05 > 0:10:09that reading too much into it?I wrote an article once saying that

0:10:09 > 0:10:17the way Donald Trump uses twitter is brilliant, clever. But ever since

0:10:17 > 0:10:22then you have just realised that it is not at all. It is all instinctive

0:10:22 > 0:10:26and is based on something that he has just seen on television. He just

0:10:26 > 0:10:31five them off. It is the sort of stuff that goes down very well with

0:10:31 > 0:10:37his supporters. His ratings are not great. They have been drifting

0:10:37 > 0:10:42downward since the election but he still does have a lot of support in

0:10:42 > 0:10:48America and those people are not shifting.And likely doesn't have to

0:10:48 > 0:10:55pay for the of an! .One of the first things I was taught that the

0:10:55 > 0:11:01young journalist was never to use exclamation marks.I can't stand the

0:11:01 > 0:11:09use of the double! In particular. Capitals look like you are shouting

0:11:09 > 0:11:15at someone. That is Donald Trump after being in the presidency for

0:11:15 > 0:11:23one year. Nowhere else.It feels like longer.Let's look at the

0:11:23 > 0:11:32Telegraph.

0:11:32 > 0:11:37The UK could rejoin EU in future. We haven't even left through Brexit yet

0:11:37 > 0:11:44and we might one day go back in. Yeah, he has taken over from Damian

0:11:44 > 0:11:48Green as the de facto Deputy Prime Minister, I thought when Damien

0:11:48 > 0:11:54Green left we had seen the back of that description. But no -He's the

0:11:54 > 0:11:57de facto, de facto Deputy Prime Minister.If you're keeping up! He's

0:11:57 > 0:12:07next in line. He's a heart beat away from being Prime Minister and one of

0:12:07 > 0:12:14the leading Europhiles in the Cabinet, he was staunch pro-EU

0:12:14 > 0:12:19Conservative MP, in this interview with the telegraph, Gordon Rainer

0:12:19 > 0:12:23has got a great line where he speculates that once we've left

0:12:23 > 0:12:28maybe in a generation's time, we could talk about rejoining again,

0:12:28 > 0:12:32which logically, of course, anything could happen in the future. But at

0:12:32 > 0:12:35this point precise moment in time, politically, it's a bit a daft thing

0:12:35 > 0:12:40to say, think I.-- I think. It makes the point that Europe would

0:12:40 > 0:12:43probably have to be, and probably will be rather different by then.

0:12:43 > 0:12:46Again, that's part of the speculation about what might happen

0:12:46 > 0:12:52in the future. You know, who knows what might happen. I do think once

0:12:52 > 0:12:57Brexit does happen, I think the European Union might well want to

0:12:57 > 0:13:02think again about how it operates. It might change. But, you know, as

0:13:02 > 0:13:12Kevin says, it's a gift to the daily Brexit graph. I'm surprised at David

0:13:12 > 0:13:15Livington, one of the cleverest members of the Cabinet. I'm

0:13:15 > 0:13:18surprised he didn't see that question coming and work round it.

0:13:18 > 0:13:23Maybe he's answer today that way for a reason. Who knows.Well, maybe.

0:13:23 > 0:13:27Let's stay with the Telegraph. That gets us nicely from Europe to the

0:13:27 > 0:13:33next story about Carillion on the FT. Carillion, channel bridge,

0:13:33 > 0:13:36suggested by Boris Johnson, there it is, the car going off the end,

0:13:36 > 0:13:42because they haven't finished building it. Job fears rise on the

0:13:42 > 0:13:50FT. Cherry-picking of assets looks fairly inevitable.Yeah, as

0:13:50 > 0:13:56Carillion has gone bust, obviously, there will be a scramble to pick up

0:13:56 > 0:14:03the profitable bits of what is left. You know, there are obviously

0:14:03 > 0:14:07concerns about the jobs in the long run. What's interesting about the

0:14:07 > 0:14:13jobs is how many of them are being guaranteed for the moment. All the

0:14:13 > 0:14:20ones in the public sector contracts are 90% -- and 90% of the private

0:14:20 > 0:14:24sector contracts are being kept going, which actually, you know,

0:14:24 > 0:14:28suggests that things might not be quite as bad as we feared when we

0:14:28 > 0:14:32heard they'd gone bust.You hope not with all the people whose jobs

0:14:32 > 0:14:37depend upon it. The Kier group has offered to take on 200 people. The

0:14:37 > 0:14:42banks are being encouraged to extend credit.Yeah it's not just the

0:14:42 > 0:14:47employees that clearly are very, very worried at the moment. It's the

0:14:47 > 0:14:52other companies in the Carillion supply chain, who are relying on

0:14:52 > 0:14:57Carillion paying them in order to pay their employees. Obviously

0:14:57 > 0:15:00they've gone bust owing millions and millions of pounds. So there's an

0:15:00 > 0:15:05awful lot of companies who are left out of pocket as well. That has a

0:15:05 > 0:15:10knock-on effect. As you say, the banks are being encouraged to be a

0:15:10 > 0:15:16bit lenient with them. There's many ripples to this particular story. I

0:15:16 > 0:15:20think it's got a long way to run. All those services and contracts do

0:15:20 > 0:15:24need, you know, if the work needs to be done, it needs to be done by

0:15:24 > 0:15:28someone.That's right and probably at a slightly higher price, because

0:15:28 > 0:15:32the companies that are going to come in, will obviously, I mean, the

0:15:32 > 0:15:36reason Carillion went bust, one of the reasons was because it had

0:15:36 > 0:15:39underpriced the contracts. In the end, the taxpayer is going to have

0:15:39 > 0:15:43to pay more. In a sense, that's just compensating for the fact that we

0:15:43 > 0:15:48were getting a very good deal before at Carillion's expense.Let's look

0:15:48 > 0:15:52at the Daily Mail. What a waste revealed, it says. Half a million

0:15:52 > 0:15:57tons of rubbish that we put out for recycling is being dumped in

0:15:57 > 0:16:02landfill or burned instead. I think most of the recycling that I put out

0:16:02 > 0:16:05got blown across the garden this week in the wind. We had to pick it

0:16:05 > 0:16:09up! This has been suspected for a long time, that the contamination as

0:16:09 > 0:16:13well, if you've not sorted it out properly, it's useless.Yeah, I

0:16:13 > 0:16:20mean, I know that our own recycling, everything, cardboard, plastic,

0:16:20 > 0:16:26tins, newspapers, everything goes in the one bucket, so I mean...You get

0:16:26 > 0:16:32a bucket? In west London.A massive big wheelie bin.So do I. Not paper,

0:16:32 > 0:16:37paper and card is separate.So when you do it, you kind of feel good

0:16:37 > 0:16:40about yourself. You think that you're helping to save the planet.

0:16:40 > 0:16:44Well, this kind of bursts that particular self-righteous bubble. It

0:16:44 > 0:16:50shows most of it, sorry 4% of it, a decent chunk.This is a bit of a

0:16:50 > 0:16:54Daily Mail headline, this. Because actually if you read the small

0:16:54 > 0:17:00print, it's only 4% of recycling. But it had gone up from 1. 7% in

0:17:00 > 0:17:042011. So the trend...Yes, but this is giving the impression that it's a

0:17:04 > 0:17:09waste of time to recycle because it's being thrown away or burned.

0:17:09 > 0:17:12That's not the case.What I would like is them to bring back the

0:17:12 > 0:17:16bottle return system, where you could take them back and get your

0:17:16 > 0:17:225p.Remember that, and blue bottles as a kid for 10p. You supplement

0:17:22 > 0:17:27your sweet money. You didn't realise you were recycling.You didn't.Your

0:17:27 > 0:17:34pocket money.Flesh it out for penny sweets, if such things still exist,

0:17:34 > 0:17:39I have no idea. Let's finish with the Guardian, woman has baby, on the

0:17:39 > 0:17:45front page. She's making light of it too. This is the Prime Minister of

0:17:45 > 0:17:50New Zealand. She's going to take six weeks off while she has this baby in

0:17:50 > 0:17:56June she says and then get back to work.It's obviously a brilliant

0:17:56 > 0:18:04good news story for equality of the sexes, because it just, it further

0:18:04 > 0:18:09allows us to treat pregnancy, having children as a normal part of life

0:18:09 > 0:18:14and something that even Prime Ministers do.It hasn't happened for

0:18:14 > 0:18:18a long timementNo, it hasn't. We had a slight experience of it with

0:18:18 > 0:18:34Tony Blair. He didn't have a baby. It was Benazir Bhutto.There was

0:18:34 > 0:18:38Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.But they weren't giving birth and coming

0:18:38 > 0:18:44back six weeks later.It's not the long time to be off work.Baby has

0:18:44 > 0:18:48two parents, who's going to step in? The husband.The daddy, Clark. Good

0:18:48 > 0:18:54for him. Why not. He's going to be the first man of fishing and a stay

0:18:54 > 0:18:57at home dad. I think you might have to rethink that Clark, I don't know

0:18:57 > 0:19:04how much fishing you'll be getting done.Baby in a papouse.Little more

0:19:04 > 0:19:07time consuming that people perhaps realise. That's all for the papers

0:19:07 > 0:19:12tonight. Are we done? Yes, don't forget you can see the front pages

0:19:12 > 0:19:16online on the website. It's there for you seven days a week at

0:19:16 > 0:19:20bbc.co.uk/papers. If you miss the programme any evening, you can watch

0:19:20 > 0:19:23it later on the BBCi player. Kevin, John, nice to see you. I'm going to

0:19:23 > 0:19:28go and talk to the lawyer about my transgression. Coming up next, it's

0:19:28 > 0:19:32the weather. ?