hello. this is bbc news, with me, christian fraser. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. first, the headlines: a man arrested after three people were stabbed at manchester's victoria station on new year's eve has been detained under the mental health act. signals from the nasa space probe, new horizons, confirm it has successfully flown past icy mass ultima thule, the most distant object ever explored in the solar system. far—right politician jair bolsonaro has been sworn in as brazil's new president. he used his inaugural speech to promise to free his country from socialism and what he called political correctness. rescue workers in russia pull an 11—month—old baby boy alive from the rubble of a block of flats hit by an explosion. doctors say he is in a serious condition. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow. with me are nigel nelson, who's the political editor of both the sunday mirror and sunday people, and the political commentator, jo phillips. welcome to you though. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the telegraph says the transport secretary is introducing a new teenage railcard especially for 16— and 17—year—olds. the mail goes with a report on sugar intake, claiming that children consume 22 stone of it by the age of 10, fuelling the obesity crisis. the metro hails the bravery of police officers at manchester victoria station, after an officer was among three people injured in a knife attack there last night. the guardian says private landlords are ripping off local councils by charging large amounts for temporary accommodation, taking advantage of the growing number of homeless people. the times has an investigation

which claims that young women sent abroad forforced marriages have been charged by the foreign office for the cost of rescuing them. the millions of missed gp appointments is costing the nhs more than £200 million pounds is the top story in the express. and the daily star claims a coronation street star had a close encounter with a ufo, but they've kept quiet about it for fear of being ridiculed. well, i never. let's start, then, with the daily telegraph. the headlines as half priced railcard for16 headlines as half priced railcard for 16 and i7 headlines as half priced railcard for 16 and 17 —year—olds, but if you dig into the story, the real and announcement is that our average fa res announcement is that our average fares are going to go up 3.1%. which is fares are going to go up 3.196. which is not a good start to the new year for anyone spending a fortune on commuting to work. interestingly, chris grayling, the transport secretary, has written in the telegraph tomorrow, saying he wants

to draw a line under the chaos of 2018, and i am quite surprised that he says that. i should imagine most of the passengers who have had terrible journeys with the new timetables in may, strikes on various lines, unreliability, the service is getting worse, the trains are getting overcrowded around the country. the increase is going to be significant to people who probably haven't seen their salaries increase. and this rather convoluted sort of a half student railcard for 16 and 17 —year—olds, then this new thing, which is at 26 to 30—year—old, i think it is a millennium card coming in tomorrow, the student one doesn't come in until september. i looked on the national rail website, obviously pretending to be a young person in that age range, which would be stretching fantasy, to see whether i could book a ticket for tomorrow. could you? the railcard wasn't

listed, unless it is called something completely odd, so it is not there. so they will pay full price tomorrow, when they? yes, that doesn't appear to help people who are apprentices, people starting work on low salary. so what do you think, nigel, is it away to hide the real pain? i think very much so. you wonder at it, we have 16 and 17 —year—olds covered, 26 to 30 is, you wonder a bit about the 18 to 25 s, they don't have the railcard chris grayling came up with. yes, of course it is to disguise the fact that commuters will take a big hit oi'i that commuters will take a big hit on the el fares this year. what the association of british commuters is saying it is time to have an end of all of this, and one solution is nationalisation. privatisation doesn't seem to have worked. —— rail

fares. the taxman is already spending £6 billion in subsidies for the railways and affairs still go up. nevertheless they are advocating an overhaul of ticket prices across the board and they are suggesting this is a piecemeal way of effecting change. i mean, chris grayling, friendly, thank goodness he wasn't running the trip to, what is it called, ultima thule? nevertheless, if you are 16 or 17, trying to get into the workplace, it is expensive, a —— accommodation is expensive. into the workplace, it is expensive, a -- accommodation is expensive. not necessarily. you could still be getting a young person's railcard. this is what i don't understand. as nigel said, there is a gap for people between 18 and 25. those are exactly the age people starting work in low—paid, very junior exactly the age people starting work in low—paid, veryjunior roles, maybe apprentices. they fall outside the student railcard or any of the other ones. yeah. it seems a

com plete other ones. yeah. it seems a complete mishmash. yes, day one of the new year commute tomorrow and people will be taking a good look at that no doubt. the least surprising news is economists think brexit is not going to be good for us. yes, i presume everyone rather hoped we could avoid brexit on new year's day, but no, the financial times splashes on it. it is not good news. it seems whatever brexit we come up with, economists are pessimistic about it. either that or awful, says one. that is the kind of choice we've got. —— either bad or awful. they thought it would be that bad, this time they are not sure, there is chronic uncertainty, which is what they have come outwith, a survey from the ft, the annual survey from the ft, the annual survey of economists, and that's the problem, we just don't know. we are i'iow problem, we just don't know. we are now beginning the year and we haven't got a clue where brexit is going to go. the danger is obviously that parliament will become

deadlocked, and then what? do we have a general election, do we have another referendum? but all things are very much on the table once we see are very much on the table once we see where parliament goes. parliament should end up making its owi'i... parliament should end up making its own... making a decision. but it is quite likely they would be able to. the fact is businesses have been putting off their contingency plans and many of them have been telling us and many of them have been telling us that over the next few weeks they are going to have to press the button. they are going to have to. even gerard lyons, one economist who has advocated a managed no deal, who says ratsep might not be —— brexit might not be that for the economy. he said it is possible everything could come to a standstill. we have talked about rail fares going up. people's wages will feel the impact of higherfood people's wages will feel the impact of higher food prices and people's wages will feel the impact of higherfood prices and everything else as brexit kicks in. businesses have to plan for the future. they are not short—term. it is like politics. but as you say, the

forecasts are short—term, they are not good at the long—term game, and tony blair, talking about the economics, i wonder if people listen to that, because it wasn't about the economics. no, is -- it wasn't. it was an emotional thing. if you think about a second referendum, it will be emotional even though people know more about it now than in 2016. i still think you are going to get a very similar result. you might get just a very narrow rooney wind which i think would probably be more dangerous now —— and narrow remain win. with problems in the automobile industry or anything else, problems in supply for other companies, you can't say this is what will happen. nobody knows. well, they are split on what the bank of england would do. yes. they can't cut interest rates a ny do. yes. they can't cut interest rates any more. there isn't very far to go. exactly. this isn't very new

today, but think economists and financial commentators half expect another, if not full—blown recession, another hit because we tend to have in every ten years and the global economy is very fragile. and everything is balanced on a knife edge, that house prices i think are quite subdued, we have talked often about the state of the retail industry. in the high street. so it is quite possible that things could get quite tough i think. time for brexit! laughter. we will talk about it a lot in the new year. 0n the face of it, an interesting story on the fun of the times, forced marriage victims charged fees by the foreign office to be rescued —— front of the times. yes, very good story, a very thorough investigation, it quite complicated, and as is often the case it is not

quite the same as the headline. so this is a story that has been done through freedom of information looking at how the foreign office had helped repatriate young women who had been sent a broad by their families, in this case, to somalia, where they were said to have been sent to what were called correctional schools. now, the details of the conditions, the torture that these young women into endured was absolutely horrific and because they were sent by their families they couldn't call on them to be sent back to their country. what the women have said was that they were charged i think it was around £740 to get back to britain. now, what seems to be the case is that, although there is the forced marriage unit, which the government set up, which is around to provide free and accessible to everybody to help with forced marriages, the

foreign office is treating these victims, if you like, in the same way as if it was any one of the three of us who have lost our passport and have to be repatriated on holiday. and as rightly jo passport and have to be repatriated on holiday. and as rightly 10 said, these women were locked in coffin like enclosures, so it with cold water overnight, left in their own excrement, made to stare directly at the sun, they are victims... of torture. and yet they have been repatriated and they have been billed as british citizens for being repatriated. and although they were trying tojustify it repatriated. and although they were trying to justify it by saying they only pay back £5 a week, in principle it must be wrong. if you are rescuing a british citizen who is held against their will, as these women obviously are, then it seems to me that we should foot the bill for them and actually there are not many anyway. so, on the basis of that, it is not a huge cost. so the foreign office needs to look at their procedures. that is the point. in context, it amounts to a bill of

£7,000. still, iwould in context, it amounts to a bill of £7,000. still, i would like the people who sent the there to foot the bill, rather than the victims. the chair of the foreign affairs select committee has tweeted on this. the foreign office is proud of the work of forced marriages unit does. but we shouldn't charge the most vulnerable for their protection, or dissuade them from asking for it. they say this is public money and we have to get it back some way. we only charge them £5a back some way. we only charge them £5 a week. yes. they are victims. and the other point is they don't have their passport. they are provided with emergency travel documents, so they can't work. so therefore they can't earn the money to pay back £5 a week. therefore they can't earn the money to pay back £5 a weeklj therefore they can't earn the money to pay back £5 a week. i bet they change it after this. i think if he is watching, i am sure he will be sending tweets and getting on with it. now, the sugar timebomb, sending tweets and getting on with it. now, the sugartimebomb, we've talked a lot about this in the past, but these statistics are quite staggering. well, just astonishing,

comes from the charity, action on sugar, they say children at the age of ten have eaten 300 pounds sugar. we should get out the calculator, it comes to 22 stone of sugar that kids have ta ken comes to 22 stone of sugar that kids have taken in and, yes, £300 comes to 22 stone. the question is what you do about it. the telegraph, which also has the story, having faced being in touch with public health england, who has said what they have to do is press ministers to consider things like putting tax oi'i to consider things like putting tax on cakes and biscuits that put the prices up if the manufacturers don't reduce sugar content, which they promised to do —— pudding tax. there isa promised to do —— pudding tax. there is a suggestion that won't happen. it is not just is a suggestion that won't happen. it is notjust puddings, it is serial, yoghurt, juice. this is part of the problem. a lot of the things pa rents a re of the problem. a lot of the things parents are buying to leave them to be. and yoghurt and fruitjuice.

they are actually full of sugar. and it shouldn't take tax and government intervention for food producers to do this. we saw it with salt. it took all of that effort to suddenly say we have reduced the salt, and you think why did you put so much in in the first place? britain has the worst obesity rate in western europe. what do we do, take lessons from the europeans?” europe. what do we do, take lessons from the europeans? i thinkjo is right, manufacturers start the whole thing. they won't do it, because there would be a temporary blip on their sales. no—one would notice. after a while you don't notice. the same thing has been happening with salt. we don't notice it. we have become accustomed to it. salt. we don't notice it. we have become accustomed to itm salt. we don't notice it. we have become accustomed to it. if you want fruit juice, become accustomed to it. if you want fruitjuice, you would expect it to be free press. the effect on children's health is shocking, 26,000 under tens in hospital with rotten teeth —— fruitjuice. you

know, never mind obesity, look at the long—term effects of that, diabetes. down the line. it is appalling. this is the next story in the express that annoys me the most. there are lots of people who complain about the resources and the nhs at we all have a part to play in the cost efficiency in the nhs. it seemed million patients failed to turn up to the gp appointments. —— 15 million. yeah, and i think there was a story last week about people failing to turn up the hospital point its operations in things and you talk to anybody in the health service he was a frontline health professional, my son is a paramedic and year ago spare with the people that he is called out to using up resources . that he is called out to using up resources. i have got another friend was a registrar, maybe has ten people listed for operations, only two of them turn up. it is absolutely appalling that what is been so? do we find people? no, of course you can't do that. why not?

because there would be an absolute outcry. there would be an outcry certainly. you are fighting the poon certainly. you are fighting the poor. you would have the problem that the most vulnerable, you can't get there, they have got dodgy legs, how would you differentiate? but you can cancelan how would you differentiate? but you can cancel an appointment. and a lot of people do not bother.|j can cancel an appointment. and a lot of people do not bother. i think you have to start considering the fine because if the health service is losing this amount of money in people can't get to see gps because they are chock—a— block... people can't get to see gps because they are chock-a-block. .. over £1.5 million a day. yeah, so you've got to encourage people then the least cancel the appointment. if you go to a dentist that is not an nhs dentist, it will be charged if you do not turn up. but there are to meet people who think actuallyjust as not matter. i know, but you would end upfinding as not matter. i know, but you would end up finding the people who are least capable. you have a two, three strikes and your out in the system,

where if you are a perpetual offender, then you are charged? then they will just call 999. offender, then you are charged? then they willjust call 999. meanwhile, they willjust call 999. meanwhile, the guardian reports that councils are paying extortionate fees to landlords for temporary accommodation. yes. sorry, no, do go on. no, according to the guardian, it is up to £1 billion that they are actually lashing out on this and obviously they are being hit by government cuts and they have not got that kind of money. the reason being that landlords make more of a profit by a doing it this way, by using temporary accommodation for the homeless and renting it then to councils, rather than actually doing it in the private sector. it is a bit chicken and egg this because they can't afford the social care space, is that right? they can't afford proper accommodation and

so... afford proper accommodation and so... well, they have not got any, there is no social housing.“ so... well, they have not got any, there is no social housing. if you are putting this kind of money into temporary accommodation, that money surely will be better spent on... yes, of course it would, but then where do you build those properties? ordo you where do you build those properties? or do you buy those properties? certainly a lot of the london boroughs are at the top of this list of cost because i think it is only 6% of london's private rental market is available to families on benefits. they will quite often be renting places outside of their own borough and putting people in temporary accommodation and people who are registered homeowners. that shouldn't this be, nigel? because you just look at, if you just put it in context, it is a 71% increase on because they were playing in 2012, 2013, so in six years, it has gone up 2013, so in six years, it has gone up 71%. 2013, so in six years, it has gone up 7196. that is where labour got it

wrong and that is actually about the stick and carrot being, which we we re stick and carrot being, which we were just talking about. if labour had put a cap on housing benefit, it would have stopped private landlords making so much money, but i think because unfortunately they were seeing it through the prism of... you think they should put a cap on housing benefit, rather than putting a cap on what private landlords can charge? well, i think it is too late now, because in those days housing benefit was being paid directly to private landlords, so it was to the prism of not the landlord but to the benefit of the claimant, and the landlords just kept putting up the rent. but it is not the local authority's, they have got to find places to actually housed people. —— fault. letters go back to the daily telegraph because my second surprising story of the days that

there is a shortage of lose for those of us to go the theatre. i know many women, it does not mention it here... but i'd imagine i go to london west end theatres, they are old, they are small, and they do not have room. they do not have room. and it is particularly acute this for women. is a survey of london's west end theatres, an average of one women's blue per 38 audience members. you know what is the man? ca res ? members. you know what is the man? cares? i suspect it is a lot better for men, yes. you're absolutely right, they are old theatres, partly because of the buildings and a lot of them are listed buildings, there is and it is inconvenient, pardon the pun. it was also in a lot of these days when a lot of these theatres were built, ladies did not go to the loo. they would rather squeeze themselves into their corsets and keep their ankles were

recovered. new theatres are better. yes. and quite rightly, but it is absolutely ridiculous. i am afraid if there is a queue outside the ladies, i will use the gents. you're quite right to. can i suggest a solution because when i go into trendy london bars now, they have unisex loos. could you not do that? and then if it were so small, you'd be squeezing past everybody. it is not polite to be squeezing past your fellow theatre—goer trying to get into one of the charts. the same applies to anywhere in the theatre, doesn't it? you can certainly use out doesn't it? you can certainly use our lives, i have got no problem with that at all. thank you, that is very nice. can we move on? i was going to say the front page of the daily telegraph, there is a very nice story about roger federer and serena williams have played against each other. for the first time. is

extraordinary. it is amazing. serena williams were saying that she was so excited, she wanted to take photographs, bring and order on the court because it was roger federer, evenif court because it was roger federer, even if you are serena williams. roger federer did win. and it was doubles, wasn't as? it was mixed doubles, wasn't as? it was mixed doubles, absolutely. they had grown up doubles, absolutely. they had grown up playing tennis together, so this was a great moment. —— it. up playing tennis together, so this was a great moment. -- it. it must have been extraordinary for each of them to see the others serving, rather than watching it. you could see rather than watching it. you could see from both of their comments, they obviously had a really good time today. i almost want to see the singles. that is it for the papers tonight. don't forget, you can see the front pages on the bbc news website at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme you can watch it on bbc iplayer. thank you very much to nigel nelson and jo phillips.

i enjoyed your company, thank you for being with us. hello there. the first few days of 2019 starting ona the first few days of 2019 starting on a largely sunny at cold and frosty note really, with a area of high pressure firmly in charge of oui’ high pressure firmly in charge of our weather. spare a thought for those just a little bit further eastwards, where we have got a cold plunge of arctic air walking in across eastern areas of europe, bringing some snow and even blizzard conditions for some over the next few days. there will be since it is whether a round, eventually filtering all way down the south—east europe. in the meantime, high pressure is keeping all that kind of fun away from the uk and instead we have got a cold and frosty start of the day on wednesday. most areas will have some sunshine but you see this cloud coming down the north sea, that could produce and showers in the likes of lincolnshire and norfolk,

but here it should be mostly dry and fine. okolie day, between seven and 11 celsius. we are going to keep clear conditions across most of the country and with the wind staying light, it is a good recipe for getting a sharp frost and indeed in the countryside, we could get temperatures down to about —7, minus eight degrees or so. —4 in aberdeen and in newcastle as well. our weather pattern really is not going to change very much over the next few days and there good reason for that. the jetstream few days and there good reason for that. thejetstream at few days and there good reason for that. the jetstream at the few days and there good reason for that. thejetstream at the moment is taking this very amplitude pattern and when we get this big waves in the jetstream like and when we get this big waves in thejetstream like this, they do not tend to move very far very fast and so we get the weather patterns start in the earth's surface and that is why the area of high pressure we have at the moment is not going to shift around any time soon. thursday, another cold and frosty start, another david is going to be largely dry with some sunshine. we may see a few showers running down some of the north sea closed towards

coastal areas of kent. otherwise, quite chilly again. temperatures through to seven celsius. high pressure still there as we look at the forecast on thursday and by this stage, we have low pressure and cold air working stage, we have low pressure and cold airworking in the stage, we have low pressure and cold air working in the parts of south—eastern europe. we may well see some snow even getting down to low levels across parts of greece. that is one to watch over the next few days. friday brings much the same weather really, although there will be some subtle changes. an increased threat of seeing some from, particularly across the north—west of the uk as we start to get more moist here. also cloudy weather but that is where the temperatures are going to be lifting, nine degrees in stornoway and blew it. that is going to be the warm spots to end the week. for most of us, it is dry, again there will be some frost around and against an sunshine but an increasing tendency to see more on the way of cloud across the weekend and also a greater risk of seeing some mist and fog patterns that could be slow to

clear. as we head into sunday, there are some uncertainty that of the computer models pushed a band of rain in the western areas. uncertainty about detail, for most parts of the uk, sunday will probably be another dry day that turning increasingly cloudy and those temperatures getting close to normalfor those temperatures getting close to normal for the those temperatures getting close to normalfor the time of those temperatures getting close to normal for the time of year. in the next week, a bit of a battle zone between an atlantic influence and low pressure. the area of high pressure we have been used to over the last few days, we may well see a high pressure mainly affecting southern parts, where the weather is most likely to be dry. across the north and west, we may well see some rain at times that there is some uncertainty in the forecast detail. temperatures are likely to be pretty close to normal for the time of year. that is the latest weather. bye for now. i'm rico hizon in singapore, the headlines: the controversial right—wing populist, jair bolsonaro, is sworn in as brazil's new president and promises to free his country from socialism. and a moment in history, according to nasa, the first image

of an icy world from the very edge of our solar system. i'm lewis vaughanjones in london. also in the programme: a remarkable rescue in russia where a baby boy's pulled from rubble 36 hours after a gas explosion. and how japan's changing to cope with ageing — the lessons being learned from the country's oldest village.