0:00:00 > 0:00:00the road is it? Just drive!Calm down.
0:00:00 > 0:00:03And at 11:45pm in the Film Review, Mark Kermode
0:00:03 > 0:00:04joins Jane Hill to talk about Black Panther.
0:00:18 > 0:00:21Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
0:00:21 > 0:00:24bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:24 > 0:00:26With me are Anne Ashworth, Associate Editor
0:00:26 > 0:00:30of the Times and Bonnie Greer, Playwright and Writer
0:00:30 > 0:00:38for the New European.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42Lovely to see you both, we'll be having a chat in a moment.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44Most of tomorrow's front pages are in now.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47The Observer leads with Labour's attack on the privatised water
0:00:47 > 0:00:48industry, calling the amount
0:00:48 > 0:00:51in dividends paid to shareholders scandalous.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54The Mail on Sunday's front page says that Brendan Cox,
0:00:54 > 0:00:59husband of murdered MP Jo Cox, was accused of sexual abuse.
0:00:59 > 0:01:04His lawyers say he vehemently denies the allegations.
0:01:04 > 0:01:10The Sunday Telegraph reports on concerns
0:01:10 > 0:01:13from some EU countries that Chief Brexit Negotiator Michel Barnier's
0:01:13 > 0:01:21conduct could lead to the UK walking away from Brexit talks.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23The Sunday Express previews a speech from
0:01:23 > 0:01:26the Prime Minster, saying she will set out plans to make
0:01:26 > 0:01:33the UK a truly global, free trading nation.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35The Sunday Times has more allegations
0:01:35 > 0:01:37concerning the conduct of aid workers, suggesting that more
0:01:37 > 0:01:40than 120 people working for leading charities have been accused
0:01:40 > 0:01:47of sexual abuse in the past year.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50A mixture of front pages there.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52Thank you both for joining us tonight, let's pick up
0:01:52 > 0:01:54on some of those stories.
0:01:54 > 0:02:00We had a good chat in the 10:30 p.m., as we were saying, some great
0:02:00 > 0:02:06pages.Very strong front pages of a diverse range of stories and some
0:02:06 > 0:02:10very concerning. People waking up to some of this stuff about Oxfam
0:02:10 > 0:02:14tomorrow morning will be very dismayed by what they're reading.
0:02:14 > 0:02:20What was the Observer wasp slime? Allegations of staff involvement
0:02:20 > 0:02:30with prostitution allegations. -- Observer's line. This kind of thing
0:02:30 > 0:02:39is old. There were problems with the UN at the beginning of the century.
0:02:39 > 0:02:45It's an old story but what's mostly horrific is that it is Oxfam. In
0:02:45 > 0:02:51your mind and in your heart that's not what Oxfam is meant to be
0:02:51 > 0:02:56involved with, Oxfam has a feeling about it, all of them shouldn't be,
0:02:56 > 0:03:00though but this is especially shocking and it makes me more angry
0:03:00 > 0:03:07because I want them to clean this up. Part of this is about plain old
0:03:07 > 0:03:14oppression. It's the way you relate to people the way the majority
0:03:14 > 0:03:17cultural elites to people in developing countries. This is not
0:03:17 > 0:03:27unusual. -- majority culture relates.The thing that most
0:03:27 > 0:03:31concerns me about these stories is we have been led to believe, or
0:03:31 > 0:03:35perhaps we assumed, that the problems with Oxfam has been related
0:03:35 > 0:03:41to its conduct of its officials while in Haiti during the problems
0:03:41 > 0:03:48there. The Observer is reporting that the use of prostitutes in Chad,
0:03:48 > 0:03:52with many of these same individuals that were implicated in the Haitian
0:03:52 > 0:03:57thing, and it seems as if there has been a cover-up. I know that sounds
0:03:57 > 0:04:04like a cliche.That's the only way you can assume it can be.Maybe
0:04:04 > 0:04:08Oxfam has not told people as much as they needed to know. We do hold
0:04:08 > 0:04:15charities to account. We want them to comply with really high moral
0:04:15 > 0:04:19standards and also of openness. Because of their appeal to us.We're
0:04:19 > 0:04:27talking about Oxfam here. You've hinted that it's charities. The
0:04:27 > 0:04:32Observer does say," a former staffer saying that this is a sector wide
0:04:32 > 0:04:36problem and this is how it's reflected on the front of the Sunday
0:04:36 > 0:04:46Times -- does say that a former staffer.They may have been
0:04:46 > 0:04:50infiltration of the sector by paedophiles with 120 accused of
0:04:50 > 0:04:56sexual abuse, which is very concerning.Concern because Priti
0:04:56 > 0:05:00Patel is quoted as saying the former International Development Secretary
0:05:00 > 0:05:04warned predatory paedophiles have been allowed to exploit the aid
0:05:04 > 0:05:11sector. Wasn't she in charge of this sector? Hello! Am I wrong? She's not
0:05:11 > 0:05:17like anybody. Suddenly she comes and warns us and tells us about it, why
0:05:17 > 0:05:21didn't we know before? The implication is she had some kind of
0:05:21 > 0:05:25inkling, why didn't she say anything?It seems the current
0:05:25 > 0:05:30minister, Penny Worden, is trying to take action and questioning the
0:05:30 > 0:05:34government's significant lengths. That's great but I want to know why
0:05:34 > 0:05:39Priti Patel didn't say anything.We will leave it there on Priti Patel
0:05:39 > 0:05:44but the other thing is the problem is these charities possibly losing a
0:05:44 > 0:05:50lot of their funding, that's the big concern for the next few days.
0:05:50 > 0:05:55Yesterday when the Times broke this story about the Haitian incidents, I
0:05:55 > 0:05:59read the comments underneath the story, sometimes those comments are
0:05:59 > 0:06:05meaningless but other times they say something about the public mood and
0:06:05 > 0:06:08people were horrified wondering where their money was being used,
0:06:08 > 0:06:12their contributions and taxpayer funded donations were going because
0:06:12 > 0:06:16we contribute in various different ways.This is a discussion in the
0:06:16 > 0:06:22sense of what these charities need to do is get this cleaned up, that's
0:06:22 > 0:06:27the first order of business, we need to regulate and clean things up.To
0:06:27 > 0:06:31wrap this up, some of the people have been saying that the
0:06:31 > 0:06:37safeguarding measures that are in place are the ones that will decide
0:06:37 > 0:06:40who continues with their funding and lots of people are saying if you
0:06:40 > 0:06:44don't co-operate, you will lose your money, and this is charity wide, not
0:06:44 > 0:06:49just about Oxfam. Let's move on. We're going to go back to the
0:06:49 > 0:06:56Observer and nationalisation. The thing I love is John McDonnell is
0:06:56 > 0:06:59saying it is cost free renationalisation but what does that
0:06:59 > 0:07:04mean?That could never be so because shareholders would need to be
0:07:04 > 0:07:07compensated for the value of their holdings and remember, that's not
0:07:07 > 0:07:14just a few guys in the city, it's all of us, we hold shares in the
0:07:14 > 0:07:18privatised utilities through our ISAs and pensions. There is
0:07:18 > 0:07:22considerable disquiet in the city about the way some of these water
0:07:22 > 0:07:26companies have been run, particularly Thames water. The
0:07:26 > 0:07:30companies are trying to put everything in order. They've closed
0:07:30 > 0:07:37down the Cayman Islands subsidiaries it had. But the accusation still
0:07:37 > 0:07:41stands that these utilities were starved of maintenance money and
0:07:41 > 0:07:45therefore we are having burst water mains.This is the other interesting
0:07:45 > 0:07:53part to me, the press reports John McDonnell as if he is crazy. But
0:07:53 > 0:07:58they were all over him at Davos. These people are hard-nosed business
0:07:58 > 0:08:01people, if they think he's nuts they're not going to be there for
0:08:01 > 0:08:05him so he's getting lots of attention not just because they
0:08:05 > 0:08:09might think Labour is going to win the next election but they are
0:08:09 > 0:08:13paying attention to him. We need deeper analysis, I don't understand
0:08:13 > 0:08:17how he will make this work on the surface, but people in the City
0:08:17 > 0:08:21think he can because they're listening to him and that's what we
0:08:21 > 0:08:26need to talk about with deeper reporting.Let's turn to our
0:08:26 > 0:08:31favourite subject... The Telegraph. Two Brexit stories, starting with
0:08:31 > 0:08:38the Telegraph. Excuse me, winter flu. Barnier is risking a UK
0:08:38 > 0:08:42walkout. The Telegraph group goes on the
0:08:42 > 0:08:46bogey man theory of Brexit, if you can't make any sense, let's find the
0:08:46 > 0:08:51bad guy. I read this story and I don't see anybody on the record here
0:08:51 > 0:08:56so I'm wondering who these officials are. It sounds like a lot of gossip,
0:08:56 > 0:09:00the sort of stuff you get in a tea room, it would be great if the
0:09:00 > 0:09:05Telegraph told us what countries, Nordic countries, which ones?What
0:09:05 > 0:09:09the Sunday Telegraph is trying to say is Barnier is out of step with
0:09:09 > 0:09:14other officials and the rest of the. He's been too aggressive in his
0:09:14 > 0:09:19approach.They say other people have said it, that's my point, who are
0:09:19 > 0:09:24they? There's nobody on the record. In a nutshell your assessment of the
0:09:24 > 0:09:31front page of the Express?It's a very, very big headline. Roadmaps...
0:09:31 > 0:09:35Always roadmaps, it's become one of the great cliches of our age,
0:09:35 > 0:09:39anything that sets out terms and conditions of anything in a clear
0:09:39 > 0:09:43fashion is a roadmap but apparently Mrs May will deliver one of the key
0:09:43 > 0:09:49talks at Chequers.I thought she already had them last week, wasn't
0:09:49 > 0:09:53there talks at Chequers?There will be new talks and a series of
0:09:53 > 0:09:57speeches which will culminate in the speech she needs to deliver to bring
0:09:57 > 0:10:03the different factions together.But they can't figure out what the
0:10:03 > 0:10:07Conservative Party, the governing party, is how they're going to
0:10:07 > 0:10:12deliver Brexit.That's interesting that she mentions the pound has gone
0:10:12 > 0:10:16through the floor. None of these have anything to do with the stock
0:10:16 > 0:10:20market.Very interesting.And rising interest rates, which I would have
0:10:20 > 0:10:25thought would have been interesting. The Bank of England is talking about
0:10:25 > 0:10:29raising interest rates in April and if you don't have a fixed mortgage!
0:10:29 > 0:10:36Let's move on to the Independent, what did you make of Kim Jong-un's
0:10:36 > 0:10:42sister, or the message?I'm fascinated by this woman. She has
0:10:42 > 0:10:47this Western Gloucester because she was educated in Switzerland and she
0:10:47 > 0:10:53looks tremendously unlike her brother -- gloss. She is a poised
0:10:53 > 0:10:58slightly girlish figure in nice tailoring but we do not know what
0:10:58 > 0:11:05lies beneath and whether she may be the power behind things.I think
0:11:05 > 0:11:09it's very interesting because of course they are completely playing
0:11:09 > 0:11:13Donald Trump because Donald Trump is one of these people, he a one off,
0:11:13 > 0:11:19let's put it that way, who needs an enemy. -- he's. They are shaking
0:11:19 > 0:11:23hands, she's never been there before, look at these two, they are
0:11:23 > 0:11:27telling Donald Trump to take a walk and he will have to do something to
0:11:27 > 0:11:35get the focus back on him.Mike Pence saying that we are tight,
0:11:35 > 0:11:40Japan, the US, South Korea, we are tight.How funny, and then they
0:11:40 > 0:11:46carry on with TTIP without the US so who cares.They are both Koreans but
0:11:46 > 0:11:49the North Korean and South Korean languages are totally different.
0:11:49 > 0:11:54Instead of labelling here the sister, I am going to give her her
0:11:54 > 0:12:04proper name, Kim Yo-jong. Quickly, we did the pensions earlier, I want
0:12:04 > 0:12:13to skip ahead if possible to the Eurotunnel.You know, Doris has Nero
0:12:13 > 0:12:19tendencies, he fascinates me -- Boris. Remember he had Boris
0:12:19 > 0:12:23Ireland. Thank goodness this was killed, the $50 million bridge of
0:12:23 > 0:12:29flowers, that was his idea. -- Ireland. Now he wants to do a
0:12:29 > 0:12:35tunnel. He is like Nero!Link across the macro channel that would bring
0:12:35 > 0:12:41our country closer contact with France once we leave the EU. --
0:12:41 > 0:12:48Channel.The deeper story with Boris is about the building.France is all
0:12:48 > 0:12:52about big infrastructure projects but the most interesting statistic
0:12:52 > 0:12:58in this story is do we need something? Apparently only 54% of
0:12:58 > 0:13:03postal tunnel capacity is currently used so there may be nobody...Going
0:13:03 > 0:13:09back to Boris and the Nero tendencies.Who's getting the money
0:13:09 > 0:13:15to build these? All that kind of stuff! We are going to go on and on
0:13:15 > 0:13:18and on, not enough time!
0:13:18 > 0:13:23Thank you, Bonnie and Anne.
0:13:23 > 0:13:24Next on BBC News, the Film Review.