the guardian - backlash as the bbc‘s male stars dominate the top palest. i've got a better story than that. the bbc's story dominates, but the pension story dominates, but the pension story is important. the pension story is important. the pension story is important to me, because it doesn't affect me, but young ben here... sorry, it's your generation thatis here... sorry, it's your generation that is going to lose out. basically, john cridland at the confederation of british industry has written a report saying that we all need to work longer, not until 60 but until 69. you will get your pension at 68 eventually. so what will you do in all of those years way you do not have the job any more? where are we going to find jobs for people as they get older?

ami jobs for people as they get older? am i going to go on the buses? and if older people stay in theirjobs, does that mean fewerjobs for young people? that's the danger. it was a surprise announcement today. when you get to the end of the parliament, the government tends to rush out the bad news. was it a deliberate bit of timing? it's true that in the final couple of days before a holiday, you will see a slew of documents published, written statements by ministers, and perhaps it's not accidental timing. it affects a lot of people. if you are in your late 305 or 405, you will have to wait an extra year to get your state pension. there is this debate about intergenerational fairne55. debate about intergenerational fairness. let's not go there. ageuk we re very fairness. let's not go there. ageuk were very sympathetic to you. they said it is picking the pockets of the under 40s, like you. it's

terribly difficult. you cannot kill people off. we have to pay for it somehow. and germany found their a nswer somehow. and germany found their answer was to invite a lot of other people from other countries to come over. there -- it is based on the idea of increased life expectancy. there was a report recently saying that life expectancy had stalled, as had investment into the nhs. there i5 had investment into the nhs. there is an interesting point about intergenerational fairne55. successive governments have done a brilliantjob of successive governments have done a brilliant job of driving down poverty in older people in the last 20 or 25 years, that there is a growing problem of working people in poverty. thi5 growing problem of working people in poverty. this is an attempt to help that a bit. if you are waiting to 68

until you get your pension and you haven't got a job, that's a lot of money in benefits. the story on the bbc dominating pretty much every front page, including the metro. chris evans revealed to be the top earner on £2.2 million for his radio 2 show. is he worth it? i heard on the bbc yesterday or the day before, chris evans saying, or something he said a yearago, chris evans saying, or something he said a year ago, he said that he didn't care about money, he would do it for... and he stopped himself from saying nothing. 2.2 million is nothing. we should ring him up and askedif nothing. we should ring him up and asked if he will work for nothing! the reporting of top stars' salaries, has that damage the bbc,

oi’ salaries, has that damage the bbc, or is that transparency that will somehow help the bbc? the assumption at the beginning of the day was that it would damage it. these are big numbers. star5 it would damage it. these are big numbers. stars at the top of television. what do you think? i think... i will have a gin and tonic as well. i think the way the bbc has handled it, on its shows, it is ruthlessly interviewing people at the top of the company. there is an open market, and the bbc have said they are pitched below the open market for some. and the apparent gender inequalities that have been focused on for the last day or so. the telegraph has got a brilliant one, where they show that most of the top paid stars are men, and here

we have dan walker on 250,000, and louise mentioned, who is not listed. she must earn less than a. he comes from sport. i think sport is still male dominated. but he makes more on his salary because he does sport. male dominated. but he makes more on his salary because he does sportm is not always like—for—like. his salary because he does sportm is not always like-for-like. for the average person looking at all the di5paritie5, it doesn't say exactly what it is for next to the salary. dan pointed out that they get paid the same, but he does football focus and other programmes. the sun have chosen to ignore that. let's look at the telegraph. this hammers home the point of the day which is the

question about gender equality. there is only one who 5queak5 in at the bottom of the top nine. when you look at the whole 90 or 100 people who earn above £100,000, there'5 only a who earn above £100,000, there'5 onlya third... who earn above £100,000, there'5 only a third... that is true across all the economy. i worked at the bbc for ten years as a presenter, and i don't think i will have featured on the list. the eight menu feature on here i think are all white, middle—aged blokes. yes, the lack of representation at the top is questionable. but when you look at a lot of different industries... but to praise tony hall, he's really doing something about it. he says that he wants complete gender equality within the bbc by 2020. is

that achievable? of course it is, if you want to achieve something. ethnicity is important as well. not just gender equality? no, gender and ethnicity. there is a debate about whether this will drive up prices, because people want to match other people's 5alarie5, or it could drive down prices, because this fundamentally i5 down prices, because this fundamentally is money. and how this look5 fundamentally is money. and how this looks to the public. there is a debate about which way this will go. how do you choose? is it marketplace, or you can do audit on them? i marketplace, or you can do audit on them ? i used marketplace, or you can do audit on them? i used to do watchdog. do you give people who get big audiences more money than people who don't? i don't think so. it is just the marketplace of presenters and how

good you are. but overall, this transparency, which the bbc was forced into, has it been a good exercise? should other media organisations also be transparent? but they are not paid by the public. there is some public funding on channel 4. the great buzzword is taxpayer5' money. when you look at all the top departments, i know political advi5er5 all the top departments, i know political advisers who earn below 5ix political advisers who earn below six figures and they have to publish what they get. some of them were saying, we have this transparency and it is the same cash. we are moving into an era of transparency, and a big corporation opening itself up and a big corporation opening itself up probably does benefit. and a nice cartoon in the telegraph. two newsreaders, and man and a woman, in the studio. and now my mail

colleague will read the autocue more expensively! it is a classic cartoon. let's move off bbc pay and onto the sun. they have the prime minister sacked threat to cabinet. is she threatening to sack some of the cabinet, all of the cabinet? there is no such thing as an understacker born minister. we have had days of infighting and private conversations becoming public, things being leaked. it gives a sense of a government in chaos. the prime minister has already lost her majority in an election she called off her own accord, so she is trying to calm the nerves a bit, and say that if these people carry on in fighting... whose nerves is she going to calm by saying, i could

sack the lot of you? there is no such thing as an understacker will prime minister either. somebody called charles walker, vice—chair of the 1922 committee — do you know what that is? somehow or other we have to modernise what is happening in parliament. why is this a committee with influence? it is a committee with influence? it is a committee of backbenchers, set up in 1922. there is an interesting point, she doesn't have the power to sack cabinet ministers. page two of the times. britons eat 50% more sugar than they admit. the average man thinks he eats a lot less, but he eats 32 spoonfuls of sugar, was it a

week, a day? huge amounts. measured through something called bio markers, found a big link between high sugar diet and obesity. i think we all knew that, but we didn't know how much sugar we eat.|j we all knew that, but we didn't know how much sugar we eat. i would fall into that category, because of fruit juice, fruity yoghurt '5... fruit yoghurts is shocking. it is. you should have read my column is about 30 years ago. good health advice from both of you. thanks for being with us. that it for the papers tonight. don't forget, you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you, seven days a week, at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, lynn and ben. goodbye. good evening. the drama of the last

couple of days is beginning to ease. things are calming down a little bit. we have seen further thunderstorms during today, the focus across thunderstorms during today, the focus across some thunderstorms during today, the focus across some western areas, especially north wales and north—west england. one or two thundery downpours have developed across the evening in somerset, moving into bristol. a lot of rain from these storms. this was the scene in north wales. showers continuing to move eastwards during the night and tending to ease off in intensity. generally, things will calm down overnight. a mike unite across east anglia and the south—east, but fresher out west.

tomorrow, a lot of cloud and some areas of patchy rain across the eastern half of the country first thing. things will brighten up, we will see some sunshine and fresh air across from the atlantic. temperature is a little cooler than they have been. a bit more cloud developing across the south west and west wales. not the intense downpours we've seen today. through the midlands, some spells of sunshine. rain continues in the far north of scotland. showery rain will be working in through northern ireland through the day, which is a sign of what will be coming in on friday. this area of low pressure moving in very slowly across the western half of the british isles. the south—west, wales, the west

midlands eventually getting some rain. the rain hanging back into northern ireland, but for northern and eastern scotland, should mainly stay dry. low pressure remains with us stay dry. low pressure remains with us into the weekend. this low— pressure us into the weekend. this low—pressure spinning on top of the british isles. some spells of sunshine, and also some showers, some heavy and thundery, but nothing quite as dramatic as we've seen over the last day or so. this is bbc news.

i'm ben brown. the headlines at 11: millions will have to wait a year longer to get their state pension as the government speeds up plans to raise the retirement age to 68. the bbc reveals the pay of its top stars, sparking fierce criticism, over high wages and sexism. the new leader of kensington and chelsea council has been heckled and booed at a meeting about grenfell tower by survivors and local residents. and in newsnight, we find out about thejobs for the and in newsnight, we find out about the jobs for the boys and girls on screen and on the microphone. we will hear about how the bbc is going to change all of that.