tv The Papers BBC News August 18, 2019 11:30pm-11:46pm BST
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hello. this is bbc news with carole walker. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment — first the headlines. the man in charge of planning for a no—deal brexit, michael gove, says leaked documents showing shortages of goods and a hard border with ireland are out of date and worst case scenarios. police in kent say a six—year—old boy who fell into the river stour in kent while fishing is unlikely to be found alive. the iranian supertanker, the grace one, which was seized injuly for allegedly smuggling oil to syria — is leaving gibraltan waters. funerals are held for the 63 people killed in a suicide attack at an afghan wedding.
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the islamic state group has claimed repsonsibility. and coming up after sport — james king reviews quentin tara ntino‘s latest release in the film review. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the chief features writer at the financial times, henry mance, and the broadcaster and psychotherapist, lucy beresford. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. and starting with the financial times, there's the incredible picture of the didcot towers getting demolished, alongside their main article about the white house announcing a new round of tax cuts. the daily telegraph is leading on borisjohnson accusing former ministers of undermining brexit
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talks with eu leaders. ‘tory divisions over brexit deepen amid row over no—deal dossier leak‘ — that's the headline for the front of the guardian. brexit themes continue on the front page of the i, saying michael gove has played down leaked crisis plans for brexit. the mail is saying there is a crackdown on gp surgeries that closedown mid week. the cricketerjofra archer is on the front page of the times in a thrilling second ashes test at lord's. and bad news if you don't like ads — the times says mainstream channels could be allowed to show more ads, in their battle against online rivals. let's start, as we always do, with the accent. the leaked document warnings of queues at the ports and shortages of foods and medicines and
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problems at the border with ireland. borisjohnson is a former minister and we have no admission from david gork of philip hammond. boris johnson's government isn't worried about people leaking documents and thatis about people leaking documents and that is why it has appointed gavin williamson back into the government who was accused of leaking things over huawei. this is a nasty exchange people like philip hammond think it can't go ahead. people at borisjohnson think it can't go ahead. people at boris johnson wants to think it can't go ahead. people at borisjohnson wants to have it on the table. they can go to the eu and
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say look, give us what we want we are leaving on october the 31st was not and the recommendations are coming just as the government is trying to say that it has got no deal and it is pretty good shape? trying to say that it has got no deal and it is pretty good shape7e it is hard to see who else would have leaked this because the government would have wanted to float it there to see the water. ——to float it there to see the water. — —to test float it there to see the water. ——to test the water. float it there to see the water. --to test the water. it is tricky because reports came out last week from the head of the french ports who was saying he was quite impressed with how the uk government has been planning its reparations for no deal. the idea that when michael gove said earlier today that this report is old news, not fake unused but old news, trying to minimise the impact of the revelations, fundamentally, it is, as we have said before, it is the tory party at war within itself and thatis tory party at war within itself and that is arguably the most frustrating thing. the eye picks up
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on that because michael gove who is now in charge of the no deal planning was pretty swiftly out of the blocks, trying to play down the significance of this —— the i. the blocks, trying to play down the significance of this -- the i. he is saying it is out of date and they have done lots of things. interestingly, business leaders don't seem to agree with michael gove on this. they say that business is unprepared and it is more difficult to prepare for a no deal in october when warehouses are full. on christmas and it was in march and there is also the risk of being told they don't believe it is happening. the government strategy is to say that there will be minimal rings but don't worry about food, medicines and it will be fascinating to see if it comes to no deal whether it will then bear the brunt because it hasn't warned people things are coming down the track. and the government is treading a delicate line because they want to say that
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they have all the contingency planning in place and doesn't want to scare people. the danger is that if people do panic and we start seeing people stockpiling and panic buying, that will make problems worse. if you are not realistic as a government and you run the risk that if that something goes wrong and there are bumps in the road than the electorate will say hang on, you didn't prepare us. nevertheless, i ee, didn't prepare us. nevertheless, i agree, there was a report saying businesses are unprepared, some businesses. in the financial services industry, they are not only prepared, they are always prepared, they are always road testing lots of different scenarios. i think there are companies and industries that are companies and industries that are better prepared than others. i gather that there is a huge advertising campaign coming up soon which is going to rival, if you see said, tell him, to actually explain notjust to the
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said, tell him, to actually explain not just to the electorate but said, tell him, to actually explain notjust to the electorate but in particular to businesses, what they need to do in the very short term before leaving on the 31st of october. there is lots of other stories in the paper and if we look at your paper, the financial times, blue—chip bosses, they are suffering up blue—chip bosses, they are suffering upa loss! blue—chip bosses, they are suffering up a loss! our hearts are bleeding! i know the audience will be in tea rs. i know the audience will be in tears. exactly! this is a study of the pay at the ftse 100, several companies of whom have suffered. there is a discrepancy about who is getting paid what. regardless, it seems that people are paid well if things go well and if things go badly, they get a nice payoff anyway. but, pay has fallen to the lowest level since 2014 which is when companies had to produce these figures so it is now a mere 3.4
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million per executive, that is the median figure, and that is to do with the base salaries are stagnating but also the complex incentive schemes that no—one really understood and were an easy way of handing out millions of pounds. they are basically going. these people are basically going. these people are not going to be out with a begging bowl, are they? not really theirargument begging bowl, are they? not really their argument was that if they were not paid a big sum, they could walk elsewhere, supposedly to overseas companies, that has been disproved. that if you lose yourjob here, there are probably lots of other places you can go for the bit is just a brilliant example of not quite people power but i suppose that investors are flexing their muscles, saying, you know, want us to support you but you are taking us for a ride. something that is going to be far closer to the concerns of many people will be a story picked up many people will be a story picked up by many people will be a story picked up by the daily mail, doctors
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ordered to stop half day closing. it does seem extraordinary that when we hear so many people are really struggling to get appointments at the gps, that some of them are closing. i had no idea that this was going on, that this was a thing. yeah, it is really hard to get an appointment at my gp, sometimes you have to wait three weeks. they are open six days a week! but some places will be penalised financially for closing maybe half a day a week or taking extra long lunches, that actually that might bring new appointments into the system simply by having extra hours into the week. it does seem extraordinary that there are surgeries taking half days off. i know of surgeries where that is the case but i think you probably have to look at the underlying issue which is, are there are enough doctors available and i think doctors available and i think doctors have said that weekend opening which is something the
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government was very keen on, it was not feasible because they simply we re not feasible because they simply were not the people to work the hours. you could force these surgeries to stay open and perhaps they could have one doctor they are ona they could have one doctor they are on a wednesday afternoon and one doctor the following wednesday at the fundamental problem is do we have enough doctors to cater for the need of an ageing population and have they been trained and that doesn't seem to be the case. the guardian has an unusual story here. videogame addicts left to get help overseas. lucy, what is this about? the story is about the fact that there are so few places that can actually cater for providing tree bent for teenaged gaming addicts —— treatment. i stress the word teenager because there are places in the uk, facilities for gaming addicts who are adults but you need addicts who are adults but you need a different set up if you are dealing with adolescents. there is an increasing cohort of teenage gaming addicts and the gaming industry is arguably bigger than the
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film industry in this country, it is hugely powerful, but comes with it lots of problems. what we have is gaming addiction which ten years ago you wouldn't have even known it was a thing. now it comes under what is under impulse control disorders and people are able to get treatment at unfortunately not so much in the uk. nhs resources are so stressed that teenagers are having to go overseas. and of course we know that it is a growing problem in london because it is so easy for them to do it these days on their phones, they are bombarded with adverts from some of the gaming companies during big football matches and so on. yeah, the guardian has been to a clinic in the netherlands. it has reports of kids who are playing 18—19 hours of gaming a day and it is blaming these new types of games, different to super mario and nintendo, these are
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kids that are so addicted that they are going weeks without showers apparently. that seems a very extreme thing. it seems extreme at that point because we are talking about adolescence. we wonder whether —— parental controls. i understand it is difficult to deal with a really surly teenager but you need a relationship with them whereby you say you are not allowed to have this piece of equipment in your room. they can often be the first line of helping someone. a couple of weeks ago we were hearing about the fortnight that competition —— fortnite competition and the millions of dollars that were one. —— won. millions of dollars that were one. -- won. that was a terrible story. my kids were saying, you could win $2 million! onto mainstream tv.
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apparently, we could be getting more tv ads? at the moment, there is a limit on the amount of ads that they can show and that is an average of seven can show and that is an average of seven minutes in our but in the prime time, they are saying they can sell it for higher rates and they put more ads. the great takeoff had 17 minutes of ads in a seven ——75 minute show. —— the great british takeoff. —— ba keoff minute show. —— the great british takeoff. —— bakeoff four. they are in competition with people like netflix who have no ads. do you suddenly then lose more net —— more viewers to netflix? we have a tradition in this country are producing brilliant ads. we can all remember the ads that we watched as children. if i said certain strapline is to you, you would know
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what the ad is. it is a shame it is being treated as a negative thing because the ads are stellar in this country. but are these ads in the same league as some of those famous ads from decades back? perhaps that isa ads from decades back? perhaps that is a new inspiration. yes, you can have more ads but they can be better quality. it does seem as though it can be better — make counter—productive. they want more revenue but when we are being bombarded for more ads, perhaps more ads for gambling companies, this is not necessarily going to be the saviour that these companies, these tv companies, might hope. they will find that with some cash cows that they really try where they can get high audiences, that they will try to soak up the additional minutes and not disillusioned —— not the solution visitors. don't they
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realise that as soon as the advert comes on, we pick up our mobile phone? —— disillusion. comes on, we pick up our mobile phone? -- disillusion. a great picture on the front of that sunday times. young jofra archer at lords. i was there yesterday. it is so exciting to have a man of this calibre with this particular style of bowling in the team. it is really exciting. it looked like we might have been able to win. we got a draw but it makes the rest of the test much more exciting. and it was a very exciting day, despite the fact it ended in a draw. i think england probably declared too late and that is why that is a look of frustration rather than pure joy we is why that is a look of frustration rather than purejoy we have. is why that is a look of frustration rather than pure joy we have. all set up for the next fascinating test match starting on wednesday. i think. lucy, henry, thank you both very much indeed.
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