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0:00:11 > 0:00:16We'll be taking a look at tomorrow papers in a moment.
0:00:16 > 0:00:18With two of my favourite guests.
0:00:18 > 0:00:23First, the headlines.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Haiti's Ambassador to the UK tells the BBC he believes Oxfam
0:00:26 > 0:00:28did cover up a scandal, involving aid workers
0:00:28 > 0:00:30and prostitutes.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33The charity alerted UK authorities to what happened
0:00:33 > 0:00:41after the earthquake in 2010.
0:00:41 > 0:00:53That is the lead story today on BBC News. We can take you through the
0:00:53 > 0:00:59papers and in a moment I will speak to...
0:00:59 > 0:01:01With me are Anne Ashworth, associate editor of the Times.
0:01:01 > 0:01:11And Bonnie Greer, playwright and writer for the New European.
0:01:12 > 0:01:13A general look at the front pages.
0:01:13 > 0:01:14The Observer leads with Labour's attack
0:01:14 > 0:01:16on the privatised water industry.
0:01:16 > 0:01:24Calling the amount in dividends paid to shareholders "scandalous".
0:01:24 > 0:01:26The Mail on Sunday's front page says that Brendan Cox,
0:01:26 > 0:01:29husband of murdered MP Jo Cox, was accused of sexual abuse.
0:01:29 > 0:01:35His lawyers say he vehemently denies the allegations.
0:01:35 > 0:01:39The Sunday Telegraph reports on concerns from some EU countries
0:01:39 > 0:01:41that chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier's conduct
0:01:41 > 0:01:48could lead to the UK walking away from Brexit talks.
0:01:48 > 0:01:54The Sunday Express previews a speech from the Prime Minster,
0:01:54 > 0:01:57saying she will set out plans to make the UK "a truly global,
0:01:57 > 0:02:01free-trading nation".
0:02:01 > 0:02:05The Sunday Times has more allegations concerning the conduct
0:02:05 > 0:02:08of aid workers, suggesting that more than 120 people working for leading
0:02:08 > 0:02:17charities have been accused of sexual abuse in the past year.
0:02:17 > 0:02:28A mixture of stories. I hope you are both well. Very well, yes. You were
0:02:28 > 0:02:35warming up on Twitter, as well, I noticed!People seem to be staying
0:02:35 > 0:02:43in tonight at watching.It is the weather outside. We start with the
0:02:43 > 0:02:50Observer. The Oxfam story. The Times break this but the Observer have it
0:02:50 > 0:02:55on the front page.The crisis engulfing perhaps the most famous
0:02:55 > 0:02:57charity, Oxfam, seems
0:02:57 > 0:02:57engulfing perhaps the most famous charity, Oxfam, seems to be
0:02:57 > 0:03:03spreading out. There were allegations of a cover-up, conduct
0:03:03 > 0:03:08all senior Oxfam people in Haiti. The Observer newspaper is telling us
0:03:08 > 0:03:14that the same thing seems to have happened in Chad with some of the
0:03:14 > 0:03:19same individuals who were let go from Oxfam, mentioned as working in
0:03:19 > 0:03:26Chad and leading the Oxfam operation in that country at the time. This
0:03:26 > 0:03:31seems to be... Oxfam saying there was no cover-up but it seems to me
0:03:31 > 0:03:36the Charity Commission was not fully informed of the events and the
0:03:36 > 0:03:40charities who was subsequently employing some of these people were
0:03:40 > 0:03:46not properly informed of the conduct of these people.Whether it is true
0:03:46 > 0:03:52or not we know the UN peacekeepers, some of them have been accused of
0:03:52 > 0:03:57this in times past. This is a sad old horrible story. The sooner we
0:03:57 > 0:04:03get to the bottom of this, it has to do with a oppression, it is a form
0:04:03 > 0:04:09of oppression. We need to get to the bottom of this as soon as possible.
0:04:09 > 0:04:16What fascinates me, Priti Patel was the former International Development
0:04:16 > 0:04:20Secretary, warned that predatory paedophiles have been allowed to
0:04:20 > 0:04:25exploit the aid sector. Did she just find this out, or did she know when
0:04:25 > 0:04:30she was in charge of this sector?We have jumped onto the Times
0:04:30 > 0:04:41newspaper. It is the same story. But it is talking about, almost a crisis
0:04:41 > 0:04:46in the charity.Almost endemic in the charity sector. If we have
0:04:46 > 0:04:50someone in charge, the implication is she is telling us something
0:04:50 > 0:04:53either she has told others and it did not get through, or she is now
0:04:53 > 0:05:02saying something about it. This is a catastrophic situation. It has to be
0:05:02 > 0:05:08dealt with. We should not think it is new because it is not new.What
0:05:08 > 0:05:12does it do to your thoughts when you think of charities?Would you think
0:05:12 > 0:05:18twice now? A lot of people will feel dismayed and feeding their
0:05:18 > 0:05:23contributions and taxpayer money is going to organisations that are not
0:05:23 > 0:05:30run in a properly regulated and responsible way. We expect high
0:05:30 > 0:05:36standards of them than the ordinary organisation, to be exemplary of
0:05:36 > 0:05:42high behaviour -- good behaviour of the highest moral standards. The
0:05:42 > 0:05:50Sunday Times leader saying there are 120 people accused of sexual abuse
0:05:50 > 0:05:54in major charities and paedophiles might be infiltrating the sector.
0:05:54 > 0:05:58That will leave people asking a great many questions.I think it
0:05:58 > 0:06:05will be an unnerving week ahead. It should be if this is going on. Let's
0:06:05 > 0:06:13go back to the Observer. We heard Jeremy Corbyn talking about
0:06:13 > 0:06:19nationalisation and his hopes. What do you think about it?Just as an
0:06:19 > 0:06:23idea? I am of the school who believes these things should be
0:06:23 > 0:06:30nationalised. Why? It may sound strange but I do not think people
0:06:30 > 0:06:36should own water. I do not get what that is about. I understand owning
0:06:36 > 0:06:41pipes but the water I do not understand. I think trains need to
0:06:41 > 0:06:46be under control of the government. The problem for Labour is who will
0:06:46 > 0:06:52pay? How will it happen? You have to get them back. Somebody said they
0:06:52 > 0:06:58will just not renew the franchises. Is that how it works? There would
0:06:58 > 0:07:06have to be compensation paid to shareholders, which includes a lot
0:07:06 > 0:07:08of us through pension schemes as shareholders in utilities such as
0:07:08 > 0:07:12water companies. There is still huge disquiet in the corporate sector and
0:07:12 > 0:07:16the City about the way companies such as Thames Water have been run,
0:07:16 > 0:07:24the dividends paid to former shareholders, such as the Australian
0:07:24 > 0:07:27institution by Thames Water. Thames Water is trying to put its house in
0:07:27 > 0:07:34order. While we see evidence of perhaps skimping on maintenance of
0:07:34 > 0:07:40these utilities, people will start to think, maybe nationalisation
0:07:40 > 0:07:47would not be a bad idea. Nationalisation is oversight. If we
0:07:47 > 0:07:51have a government supposedly in charge of these things we should
0:07:51 > 0:07:55assume they are watching out for us. You put it in the private sector
0:07:55 > 0:08:06because you think it will be better. It is not better. How does Labour do
0:08:06 > 0:08:13it? How was it paid for?Does it make the regulators more muscular?
0:08:13 > 0:08:17We have regulators for these businesses. Maybe they do not have
0:08:17 > 0:08:26sufficient power to intervene. Ofwat, regulating the water
0:08:26 > 0:08:30industry, maybe it needs fresh powers to see the system works. Why
0:08:30 > 0:08:35has it not happened? I wonder if these companies have not been under
0:08:35 > 0:08:39the scrutiny they might have been. The bus I regularly uses being held
0:08:39 > 0:08:45up by a burst water main and I feel resentful about Thames Water's
0:08:45 > 0:08:50behaviour at the moment. Maybe we need to be tougher.Talking about
0:08:50 > 0:08:55being tough, let's turn to the Telegraph and our favourite subject,
0:08:55 > 0:09:09Brexit.It is interesting. Everyone is trying to figure out how to
0:09:09 > 0:09:14explain why this is not working or why it looks crazy. What the
0:09:14 > 0:09:19Telegraph has done is they will find someone on the other side acres zero
0:09:19 > 0:09:24in on because it works. People are like, I don't know what is but give
0:09:24 > 0:09:29me a name. They have come up with Michel Barnier, who is saying do
0:09:29 > 0:09:35what you said you are going to do. We have a meeting and we have to be
0:09:35 > 0:09:40able to take something back to 27 countries. He is saying, what is
0:09:40 > 0:09:46Brexit?Is the Sunday Telegraph basically trying to say the shell
0:09:46 > 0:09:54Barnier is out of step with the rest of the EU? That he is being too
0:09:54 > 0:09:58demanding. Everybody quoted in the story is saying he will need to step
0:09:58 > 0:10:03back, calm down, and demand a little less, otherwise Britain can just
0:10:03 > 0:10:09walk away. Who are they quoting? Every official quoted seems to back
0:10:09 > 0:10:14up the central theme of the story, that Michel Barnier is overstepping
0:10:14 > 0:10:21his authority, trying to bring Britain to the brink. Nevertheless
0:10:21 > 0:10:26it is an interesting thing. The brink of what? What the cost would
0:10:26 > 0:10:33be to the EU if we just walked away. The cost will be to the UK. The EU
0:10:33 > 0:10:39did not say get out. We said we want to leave. We want a trade deal and
0:10:39 > 0:10:45the EU is saying this is how you can have it. Somebody in the UK is
0:10:45 > 0:10:51saying we want this and that. The UK does not have any cards on the table
0:10:51 > 0:10:56as nobody wants to be honest about that.It is interesting because
0:10:56 > 0:11:03picking up on what you said, Anne. I do not know whether you listen to
0:11:03 > 0:11:14Any Answers after Any Questions. There was a consensus Michel Barnier
0:11:14 > 0:11:17was scaremongering. That was the feeling coming from the British
0:11:17 > 0:11:25public.We are looking for a bogeyman.And he would be the
0:11:25 > 0:11:31person. What about Japan? Japan told us yesterday, we are here to make
0:11:31 > 0:11:37money and if we are not making money, we are out of here.Is Japan
0:11:37 > 0:11:42scaremongering also? We are not leaving this subject because if we
0:11:42 > 0:11:47turn to the Sunday Express, still Brexit, but the headline is that
0:11:47 > 0:11:54Theresa May sets out a road map to a successful Brexit.What is that?How
0:11:54 > 0:12:01many road maps have we had? What do they say it is?This is another
0:12:01 > 0:12:06crunch time. We keep coming to a crunch moment where Theresa May will
0:12:06 > 0:12:13sit down and said to them all, we have to concentrate.They just had a
0:12:13 > 0:12:22weekend away at Chequers. They had one a week ago.It is only one year
0:12:22 > 0:12:27away and we are supposed to be leaving the EU.We have to have this
0:12:27 > 0:12:31together by October because they are coming together in October and they
0:12:31 > 0:12:36will vote on our plan, whether they want to go ahead with trade deals.
0:12:36 > 0:12:42We have to be ready by October.The broader question is whether Theresa
0:12:42 > 0:12:47May will bring together her party. Those people who are vehement
0:12:47 > 0:12:53Brexiteers and those who disagree with them. We have been seeing the
0:12:53 > 0:12:56division between those parts.You know that the pound is collapsing
0:12:56 > 0:13:03because of this. What I am trying to understand, I thought there was a
0:13:03 > 0:13:10meeting this week about that. She had a summit this week about
0:13:10 > 0:13:15bringing the factions together.Is this another summit? I think we have
0:13:15 > 0:13:21a speech coming up.There is a very big speech coming up and it seems to
0:13:21 > 0:13:25me the Conservative Party is more divided on this issue that it has
0:13:25 > 0:13:32ever been.They have always been divided and maybe now this will
0:13:32 > 0:13:38surface and we can see it for what it is.The Sunday Telegraph, we are
0:13:38 > 0:13:45talking about pensions. Savers to be discouraged from raiding their
0:13:45 > 0:13:53pensions. Who has got a pension?The pension freedoms were supposed to
0:13:53 > 0:14:01give us control over our pension funds. They were one George
0:14:01 > 0:14:05Osborne's largest reforms as Chancellor. There are now growing
0:14:05 > 0:14:12concerns that people are using their pensions up too early. They have the
0:14:12 > 0:14:17freedom to withdraw them and they are not anticipating how long they
0:14:17 > 0:14:23will live.This is human nature. George Osborne said when he did
0:14:23 > 0:14:28this, now you can use your pension the way you like and that is what
0:14:28 > 0:14:34they are doing.The problem is that if people deplete their pensions,
0:14:34 > 0:14:39they will fall back on the support of the state, so there needs to be
0:14:39 > 0:14:43curbs on these freedoms and there was concern when they were
0:14:43 > 0:14:49announced.My point is of course, this is what was said when the
0:14:49 > 0:14:55Tories announce this. What are you going to do, what is the curve?They
0:14:55 > 0:15:00did not do that. There are people, whatever the circumstances, will be
0:15:00 > 0:15:06thrifty. And some people see a lump sum and will fritter it away and
0:15:06 > 0:15:10there are concerns people are not realising how long they will live
0:15:10 > 0:15:15and using up all their money.And the cost of living is going up. Very
0:15:15 > 0:15:22quickly, the Sunday Times.Cheating teachers, what is going on? Did any
0:15:22 > 0:15:28of your teachers give you help with examinations? Not my teacher.Where
0:15:28 > 0:15:34is it happening? Why is it happening? If it is, it is about
0:15:34 > 0:15:40performance tables.Where is this happening? Are they allowing
0:15:40 > 0:15:46children to see copies of state examinations? How do you do it? It
0:15:46 > 0:15:51is evidently happening if they have to have a clamp-down.Are they
0:15:51 > 0:15:57getting results and thinking why are so many people...? An indication of
0:15:57 > 0:16:01the questions so when you do your revision you know what to prepare
0:16:01 > 0:16:06for.If you are a parent and desperate for your child to get
0:16:06 > 0:16:14through these exams, would you be happy with that?No.We are really
0:16:14 > 0:16:21hard line. I would not. It is a bad example to set for your child and I
0:16:21 > 0:16:28would be crying my eyes out. Also, life is not easy. There is a lesson
0:16:28 > 0:16:35to be learnt at school. You have to work for what you want.You will be
0:16:35 > 0:16:43coming back after 11:30pm. You can join Anne and Bonnie and myself at
0:16:43 > 0:16:45the top of the hour.
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