move through a breath briefly as we move through wednesday night into the early part of tuesday. a chilly start to thursday and here we go, the next area of low pressure pushing rain on thursday across the british isles and four friday the low pressure centre just parks up. windy day on friday with further showers to come. lively conditions in the week ahead with gales, spells of rain and on friday it looks like it will be colder coming to a wintry feel by next weekend. hello. this is bbc news with reeta chakra barti. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. but first, the headlines. police in iran say a protester has shot dead one of their officers, as demonstrations against the government continue for a fifth night in a number of cities. a british family of five, who were killed in a seaplane crash in australia, have been identified, including an 11—year—old girl. police are investigating after four young men were stabbed to death

in london in separate attacks over new year. and coming up, james naughtie meets the crime writer peterjames to talk about his latest novel. that's in 15 minutes on this week's meet the author. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me is the nroadcaster and campaigner, david akinsanya, and the comment and features editor at city am, rachel cunliffe. tomorrow's front pages first then, starting with. .. the front page story in the times, which says time—wasting patients are costing the nhs

£1 billion a year. the guardian says several stabbings on new year's eve brought the number of fatal stabbings in london to 80 for 2017. the daily mail says firemen with only a few days of first aid training are being sent to medical emergencies, due to pressure on the nhs. the i reports that millions of commuters will be waking up to the steepest hike in rail fares for five years — it calls the increase "the great train robbery". the metro leads with the sydney seaplane crash which killed british chief executive richard cousins and his fiancee — saying he found love again after losing his wife to cancerjust three years earlier. and the express warns that an atlantic storm could bring 80 mile an hour winds, torrential rain and flooding to britain tomorrow. to the p. let's start with the front page of the i might, shall we? it has that perennial newsday story, a

good headline. great train robbery. absolutely, great headline. the sad story, though, especially for commuters all over the country. rail fa res commuters all over the country. rail fares are going up by as much as 3.4%, just the news that he wanted to start the new year and i think there is really some anger growing behind us. obviously, railservice is one of the things that we as brits like to complain about, it is not something we are particularly good at as a country. the owners of the railways are still earning pay packets, i think, the railways are still earning pay packets, ithink, totalling the railways are still earning pay packets, i think, totalling £45 million. there is a feeling that service and pay is really not linked and it is kind of this cocktail of issues which is causing a lot of trouble and has caused the conservatives —— would cause the conservatives —— would cause the conservatives a lot of trouble over the next two years because a lot of these commuters are in tory seats and are starting to look atjeremy corbyn, who has promised

renationalisation of the railways and that is starting to look more appealing now. and it is 25 years, is the 25th anniversary now of when it railways were privatised. the fragmentation of the railway system makes it very difficult for people to plan, to put a case forward, because you are dealing with all of these different, separate organisations. i was just working out, the hometown where i grew up, basildon, it costs about £4000 a year for your annual journey basildon, it costs about £4000 a year for your annualjourney into work. i know most of my friends earn between £30,000 and £70,000, most of them get that as part of their package because there is no way they could pay out a lump packaged like thatjust to london could pay out a lump packaged like that just to london every day. could pay out a lump packaged like thatjust to london every day. the companies pay for it... yeah, a lot of companies fork out for it because you get the cheaper ticket if you fork out for the annual ticket. i think it is a real shame, we have more strikes coming out. i could not

work out from the newspaper today but it is saying there are processed at stations. i would quite like to know because i would quite like to go to the protest. it was not one of ours, no. and i make the point that as ticket prices rise, wages are stagnating. i think this is a political problem, is a market problem as well. it is very fragmented, there is no accountability and it is not clear how you link service to compensation when it comes to people who are running this. this goes hand—in—hand with things like the housing crisis, you have more and more young people, under the age of 40, who are struggling with housing costs and commuting costs. these are exactly the sort of voters that i think the conservatives are trying to win over andi conservatives are trying to win over and i think there is an election in the next couple of years, they are really going to get punished at the ballot box port, if they don't... and certainly, basildon is a marginal seat, it could be an issue. i think that a lot of people who use the railways, me personally, think

thatjeremy corbyn's the railways, me personally, think that jeremy corbyn's idea the railways, me personally, think thatjeremy corbyn's idea of renationalising the railways might be an idea. it is sort of like the current system is not working so if you break the current system, maybe we'll get something better, maybe we won't. probably we won't. this is a debate that will be continued for sure. let's move to the front page of the guardian, which has this very grim story about four stabbings in london over the new year period. funnily enough, actually, i was in a park yesterday where one of their helicopters landed to take one of these guys that was stabbed hospital. it is a big issue in london. some of the figures, i think at last you serious stabbings in london, and what i was interested in this was alice and copeland's son was actually stabbed to death, what she was saying is that there is a lot of lip service paid to this and that none of the things being put forward actually going to change the situation. so having a billboard saying i must not carry a knife is not going to stop young people

carrying a knife, and what she says, andi carrying a knife, and what she says, and i agree, is quite powerful, is that people who have been involved in these incidents should come into schools to talk to schoolchildren, a mother to talk to school kids about what it is like as a mother to lose your child to knife crime. i think thatis your child to knife crime. i think that is incredibly powerful and i think the government should be investing in that sort of thing, as well as services, that people have been talking about for a long time. there are no youth services any more. educating them out of school hours, they just don't more. educating them out of school hours, theyjust don't exist any more. i would support her getting people into schools to talk to kids about it. i agree. obviously this is about it. i agree. obviously this is a law and order problem but it is also a social problem, and it is a problem with communities that feel distant or ignored. scared. and scared. yeah, i think that is why a lot of knife carrying goes on. scared into carrying a knife, it is

psychical. i think that is so sad, there is a part of me that wants to go back to the school days when we just had a punch—up and that was it. these days, if your honour is questioned, people turn to this too quickly and it is a real shame and i really feel for young people who are living in fear, especially in city areas. let's go to the front page of the metro, another sad story. devil tragedy of air crash brits. this is a story we have been running very prominently today. —— double tragedy. this is richard cousins, he lost his fiancee, her daughter, two sums, the daily telegraph has the same story actually on its front page, saying another uk family died in the same type of accident. this is sad, the detail in the daily telegraph is so shocking. i don't know anything about seaplanes, i

don't know if you do. this particular type of plane is known as applying nt, and they are kind of known for having issues. it says here that there had been 31 deaths in nine separate incident with this type of plan, and i obviously do not wa nt type of plan, and i obviously do not want to detract from this tragedy on the front page of the daily mirror, but it does seem that there is an issue with this model and that almost makes the whole thing worse because this could have been preventable. yeah, i mean they have been known to stall and this is like one of those flights we go to look at the coastline and stuff like that. so, the plan is moving about a bit and it looks to be that that is a problem that has come up, and that they do have to have more vigorous safety checks because of this problem. but it is just the sort of, imean it problem. but it is just the sort of, i mean it is not the sort of thing you want to you on new year's day. it is an awful story about a whole family being wiped out and when you read about this guy and his wife's fight with cancer and wanting to

have another partner, it is just... yes, the reason he was engaged is that his first wife wanted him to find someone else. is very tragic, an 11—year—old girl is well.|j find someone else. is very tragic, an 11-year-old girl is well. i know. lets move on to the front page of the times, which has a different story as its front page story. time wasting patients are costing the nhs £1 billion a year. yes, this is an issue that i don't think we'll surprise to many people who miss appointments, it is costs the nhs a lot of money. how much money? 1 million cataract operations or 200,000 hip replacements, just on the money that is being spent on these missed appointments. there we re these missed appointments. there were 7.9 million appointments missed in 2017, that seems extraordinary to me. one in 15. a lot of people feel that they are too busy with work or

that they are too busy with work or that their surgeries are too full and they cannot get an appointment at the right time, so put off going to have an appointment that they really need because they feel like they do not have the time to do that. so you have these twin problems people booking them and missing them, and blocking them to people who really need them. and apparently, they cost £120 slot. i did not know that, but every appointment cost £120 to the nhs. i am very lucky because i was one of these guys who did not go to a doctorfor 20 years. these guys who did not go to a doctor for 20 years. there are a lot of men like me, and i started to go... and the reason i did not go to the doctors is because the one thing, ifound the doctors is because the one thing, i found receptionist the doctors is because the one thing, ifound receptionist to be really ru d e thing, ifound receptionist to be really rude and i do not like that to justify myself to them stop loop you can do it online now. that is what i am saying, the practice i am 110w what i am saying, the practice i am now are brilliant. -- you can do it online now. there is really no excuse online now. there is really no excuse for missing an hour. the same

thing with mental health services, i know they are really good at making sure they keep in touch with their patient. there is no reason. it is the cost, that is the problem. it seems that everything now has a cost without rhythms and all this sort of thing, everything has been worked out. and when you see these figures, you have to say to yourself that it is wasting a lot of money and we have to take responsibility for its. the 70th anniversary of the nhs, they want people to rethink how they use it and there is an argument that this, obviously it is a problem of individuals but it is also a system problem, and that there are ways which are already coming into fruition, giving people in —— appointments in person. there are lots of ways that we can use technology and the existing infrastructure to take the pressure off services. obviously, that in no way excuses not turning up for an appointment, but there are lots of

ways with online appointments and text messages, that we can use technology to help solve this problem. let's take a look at the other story on the front page of the times. retired peers awarded a meal ticket for life, what is that? that is no surprise, is it? come on. does that mean you worked up about it? is no surprise, is it? come on. does that mean you worked up about mm does mean that i worked up about it. it isa does mean that i worked up about it. it is a bit like public school, old university, old, elitist... that is how it feels to me. ijust think that most of these retired peers are rich anyway, aren't they? the one they talk about the most common lord ashcroft, he has got more money than anyone, hasn't he? what is outrageous, is that meals are subsidised. that is a good headline. the thing that bothers me when you look at other areas of government spending is that it gives them an

opportunity to influence policies and the continued interactive current members of the house appears in the house of commons in this very protected, privilege space, and that is something that we should be interested in for issues of accountability. why are they getting this privilege space? and that is far more important than the money. 0k. far more important than the money. ok. let's move on to the front page of the financial times, which has predictions for the economy that growth will slow to 15% this year. it isjust what growth will slow to 15% this year. it is just what you want to stop 2018. well, we are full of good news, aren't we? this january? low growth, which we heard from phillip hammond, in the budget having to revise a lot of these figures looking at roath. business investment is on hold, which is obviously a huge issue for productivity. productivity continues to be low, they are predicting that inflation will recede, which depending on which part of the economy you are in, is good or not so much. consumer spending will

cease, which again is good in terms of consumer debt, which is a real problem but it is not so good in terms of the retail sector. inflation will increase. it does have buried in the third column, something that i think is worth mentioning which is that on a more positive note, they predicted that exports would rise this year as british companies benefit from global acceleration and of course, the drop in sterling and brexit. i think that is something to be very positive about it basically, the point of this story is that if we don't get to grips with the productivity or if measuring productivity or if measuring productivity in a way that enables us productivity in a way that enables us to make growth predictions, then we are in trouble. wright, david? everything she said. the thing is, my worry is obviously brexit and how things are going to be in the future and the long—term.

i know that cars are assembled here in bits and pieces are done but i am worried about what we will be giving to the world afterwards. financial services are the main one and that is something that my paper in particular is set on protecting. financial services are what messed us are. financial services are what messed us are. we could be debating this for a long time. one final story, the front page of the sun. mars bars did it apparently they are out because they have over 200 calories. we are now been told by government is that we should not be giving children any more than 200 calories of treats in a day. these poor children will have to eat rice ca kes. children will have to eat rice cakes. is the headline overwritten? banned from eating? they can do whatever they want to do. there is a great traffic here on page five that

shows the exact amount of chocolate you can give a child. this much for eight weeks, less for dairy milk, even less for a bounty. i must say, the amount of chocolate i consumed asa child... the amount of chocolate i consumed as a child... i turned out all right. what i liked at the end was the last line that said you need to get kids moving as well. right. a simple lesson, really. thank you both did it back is it —— back use it for the papers peterjames created a detective, roy grace, who leads an army who leads an army of readers through the routine and mystery of his work. apparently straightforward crimes are not quite what they seem. we care about him, we sympathise with him, we worry on his behalf. the police procedural novel has an enduring appeal and in need you dead,

the latest roy grace story, peter james produces another taught and hypnotic tale. welcome. peter, why do you think so many people get hooked on policemen and women and the trials and tribulations of their everyday lives? well, i think good crime fiction actually reflects the world in which we live, in a better way than any other genre. i started my career writing spy thrillers. not very good ones! i'd just had my first book published and we got burgled. a young detective came to the house to take fingerprints and he was married to a detective and he said to me, if you ever want your research help with the police, give me a call.

my then wife and i became really good friends with them, had a barbecue and all of their friends, as is normal, were also cops, everything from response, traffic, neighbourhood policing, child protection, crime scene investigators. as they told me their stories, i started to realise that nobody sees more human life in a 30—year career than a cop. i think part of my love of crime is seeing the real world. what we also get in these roy grace novels, it moves through time, a glimpse of what is new, the new equipment, the new technique the new way of looking at something. beginning to inhabit that world. yes, the police and the villains are always playing catch up with each other. the villains use the internet for their activities and the police cotton on. every now and again, the police are the innovators and i've used a couple of examples in recent novels.

one is a forensic podiatrist called haydn kelly, who discovered that he is a world authority on gait analysis and is used regularly by police forces. somebody‘s gait is as unique as their dna. just by a single footprint... you can't disguise it? can't disguise it, james, he could pick you out walking in a crowd. the other thing i've used in my latest book is very low—tech, after the london riots the police were trying to identify the looters and they were all wearing hoodies and baseball caps. you and i can probably recognise 23% of faces we've ever seen. the average cop, with all their training, can only do 24%. the world best computers, 25. scotland yard discovered there's a tiny group of people, they've nicknamed them super recognisers, who can pick out somebodyjust by the flare of the nostrils, the flare of their lips, the earlobe, and they've got people who can get 95% accuracy. they've already had 150 convictions from the riots

just using these people, who are a mixture of police and civilian volunteers. one of the problems with discussing a novel like this, a thriller, need you dead, is that we can't talk about it in any great detail because we give away what happened and people want to know. but it's another story in which the things are not as they seem and what appears to be rather straightforward and simple and the beginning, a cut and dried case, suddenly becomes a much, much more complicated and all kinds of avenues open up. as you say, that's life, isn't it? we think something is clear and we know really that it never is. yeah, i love walking down the street and looking at houses and thinking, what's really going on behind those doors? that's also part of the fascination of genre. for me, you read what seems to be a simple story and it gets deeper and deeper.

also, i see myjob, as an author of crime thrillers, to keep the readers on their toes and guessing. my third stage play has been on tour and i was doing a q&a onstage, with shane ritchie and laura whitmore a few weeks back and a guy in the audience said, why do you make the endings so damn hard to get? and i said, i think i've done myjob, sir! as long as you don't play tricks. there's a kind of honour among crime writers, it seems to me, that you mustn't pull a fast one, that makes the reader feel tricked. they may feel confused, they may feel stupid that they didn't spot it, but it's got to be fair, somehow, don't you think? you've always got to play fair, i agree. part of the attraction of the crime genre, people love doing puzzles, most of us love doing a crossword or whatever it is. every major crime, murder or whatever it is, is a huge puzzle

and the detectives have to painstakingly piece together, bit by bit. if you're doing yourjob right as a writer, you're feeding a few of those clues out to your readers as well, so you don't want them to get ahead of you but you can't suddenly have, and in one bound, he was free, kind of ending. i was fortunate to spend some time with ed mcbain, evan hunter, his real name, who was a master of this form, the 87th precinct novels, anyone who knows them in new york. he was one of two writers who got me into crime writing. really? yeah. his style was just fabulous, there was a chandler—esque quality. he used to spend hours, days, weeks with new york cops, looking at how they sat, what they ate, quite apart from the technical stuff, absolutely immersing himself in it and writing his beautifully chiselled novels. how did you get into it, his work? i've been weaned, obviously, on the english traditional crime

novel, agatha christie, dorothy l sayers. but with all of those books there was a kind of tradition, you start with a dead body in chapter one and the rest of the book is kind of a puzzle to solve it. first of all, graham greene's brighton rock was the first time i'd read a crime thriller where the victim is still alive at the end of chapter one. and the menace created in the first paragraph of that. the first line is great, "within three hours of arriving in brighton, hale knew that they meant to murder him." you have to read on. and then somebody said that i might like ed mcbain and i read conman first and then i've read everything he wrote. what i love about that style of storytelling is that he, incredibly gripping, you really feel ed mcbain knows what he's talking about. people who read fiction are smart from the fact they really but people don'tjust want a good story, we want to learn something about life and the human condition. talk about roy grace.

when we first meet roy grace in the first novel, dead simple, he is 39, just coming up to his 39th birthday and his wife, sandy, who he loved and adored, has vanished from the face of the earth. he literally comes home and she's gone. and for ten years, that was when he was 30 and for ten years he's been looking for her, doesn't know if she's been abducted, kidnapped, run off with a lover, and he functions as a very successful homicide detective but all the time he's wondering, is she going to suddenly turn up? and during the roy grace series, which is obviously ongoing, i seed a bit more about what happened and speculations. and i chose that route to go because what really good detectives do is solve puzzles and i thought, rather than having a detective with a drink problem and a broken marriage i thought it would be more interesting, because today a detective with a drink problem wouldn't last 24 hours in the british police. much more interesting to have a detective with a private puzzle he couldn't solve. if i was ever unlucky enough to have a member of my family murdered, roy grace is the detective

i'd want running the investigation. and the reader knows that and they are with you all the way. peterjames, author of the latest roy grace novel, need you dead, thank you very much. jim, thank you very much. a very good evening to you. some lively weather on the way for the british isles in the week ahead. strong winds almost every day with gales are even severe gales, particularly tuesday night into wednesday and also some rain to boot. a different story outside at the moment. the wind is falling light and most of our showers will die out over the next few hours and

thenit die out over the next few hours and then it will turn chilly into the small hours of tuesday. remember that if you get up early to head out to work, you may need the deicer and the scraper. the chilly weather will not last for long because wet weather coming in from the west will be milder along with cloud and rain. a frost the eastern scotland and sunshine to start the day. cloud in the west with rain arriving. sub you rush—hour and windy for northern ireland, dry the chilly across northern england and down into the midlands and east in england. or wales, heavy rain and squally winds through the morning rush hour. for the south—west, patchy rain and strong wind as well, especially around the coast. this weather system is in a hurry and will move across the british isles quickly on tuesday so in the west that means bright prospects coming in the afternoon. across northern england and scotland, wintry weatherfor a while and much clearer across the east by the end of the afternoon. staying showery across scotland and

windy throughout. a breatherfor many in the afternoon but then we watch this, the next area of low pressure that looks like it will bring miserable weather into the west for the evening rush—hour, sweeping across the british isles overnight into wednesday. severe gales across as central swathes of the uk. conditions behind it are none too pleasant for wednesday. spells of sunshine but the wind will be strong in the shower was will be mean. heavy downpours of rain, heavy downpours of rain and squally weather. a heavy filter wednesday even though there will be some sunshine and clear skies we draw breath again as we move into the small hours of thursday. chilly start of the windfall the sky and then we start again, the next area of low pressure comes across the british isles and parks itself up for friday. more strong wind, more shower. this is a lively week. gales

and spells of heavy rain and then from friday onwards it looked like we will see colder weather heading our way. happy new year. welcome to newsday on the bbc. i'm mariko oi in singapore. —— the headlines... as beijing bans the import and recycling of plastic waste, how will the rest of the work deal with millions of tons of garbage usually sent to china? south korea says it welcomes an offer from kim jong—un to send a delegation south to discuss possible participation in the olympic games. and i'm kasia madera in london. also coming up in the programme... california becomes the largest state in the us to legalise recreational use of cannabis. how do you hold a winter olympics in an area with barely any natural snowfall? we find out how china is preparing to stage the games in 2022.