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Trafford and tells reporters that he hopes to be the one. All that to | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
come and more in Sportsday, in 15 minutes after the papers. | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
us tomorrow. With me are former Government policy advisor and | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
academic Zamila Bunglawala and Oliver Wright, Whitehall editor at | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
the Independent. Let's have a look at some of the front pages. We will | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
start with the Metro. Its leading on the capture of Michael Wheatley, the | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
man known as the Skull Cracker. He had been on the run, open prison | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
since Saturday. Telegraph runs with the same story, reporting that the | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
justice minister is promising a change in prison release rules as a | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
result. The Daily Express has a different story, warning that extra | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
mile per hour gales are set to hit Britain in the next few days. The | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
Guardian features a photo collage of the social media protest against the | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria. The Financial | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
Times is reporting on Vladimir Putin's appeal to pro`Russian | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
supporters in eastern Ukraine to shelve the proposed referendum on | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
independence. We are going to start with the Metro, we have cracked it. | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
Police hold escaped robber after armed raid. The Skull Cracker, as he | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
has been charmingly named, back behind bars? They may have cracked | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
it, but it's a pretty long`running case. By my reckoning he's been in | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
prison for 34 years, on and off, his escaped three times, committed close | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
on 24 armed robberies. Most of the time simply after he has escaped, | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
once to a hospital, then to an optician. Clearly, there is still | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
stuff going on. It does lead you to slightly question why he was in an | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
open prison, given that he had escaped twice before from prison on | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
various different occasions, and carried out more armed robberies. I | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
think there are some policy and locations. Clearly, this is an | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
exceptional case and you can't make policy based on individual cases. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
But I think it plays into what the Telegraph is saying, clearly the | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
Conservatives are trying to make some degree of political capital, | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
saying, we are going to be tough on crime. But they have a fundamental | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
problem, the jails are full. If we bring up the front page, jail must | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
mean jail for violent criminals. The justice minister is apparently | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
promising to change the rules after the Skull Cracker's flight from an | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
open prison. It's interesting, you know, this story has moved into the | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
policy arena now? As Oliver says, it is an exceptional case. We might | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
have to change rules just for people like this. Regardless of how much | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
time we have spent with him in prison, we have not managed to | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
rehabilitate this man. Luckily he has been caught, but it is an | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
exceptional case, how a person that can be in prison for decades can | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
still commit the same crime within days of absconding. He could have | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
been released, potentially we might have the same problem. Given the | :03:09. | :03:18. | |
nature of his crimes, which could mean a tariff that would allow him, | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
after a certain amount of time, to be released, do you reach a point | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
with someone like him and say, you know what, the judge sits there and | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
says, you just keep running out, despite the fact you could do a | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
minimum term and be released, I'm going to have to lock you up for | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
ever, this is madness. It's an interesting play on the term, life | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
must mean life. Jail must mean jail. We are going to have to start | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
rehabilitating prisoners that we can rehabilitate, and what that means, | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
versus prisoners that we have even a chance to and cannot. It could have | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
happened again, he could do what he is famous for. The word | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
rehabilitation, it refers to the crime, I suppose, not necessarily | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
the person that committed it? When you think about it? I don't know. | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
Can you released that person back into society? They clearly felt that | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
they could, given the nature of crimes he committed. What we know | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
about open prisons is that is where they go when they are being prepared | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
for release. It's always dangerous, remember, the dogs legislation, it's | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
dangerous making policy on the back of individual cases. I mean this | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
word in a bad sense, he is exceptional. He does not typify the | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
vast majority of people in the prison system. Clearly there is | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
something very odd about him. If he was about to be released, why | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
abscond? He was only jailed for eight years in 2002, which would | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
make him eligible for parole four years ago. Chances are, he was about | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
to come out anyway. What kind of person, in any degree of sanity, | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
with abscond when you know you are going to get locked back up again, | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
when you are probably going to be released in a year? OK, onto the | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
Telegraph. Panic buys as families face house shortage. I remember back | :05:17. | :05:25. | |
in 1989, Nigel Lawson decided he was going to end double mortgage income | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
tax relief. There was a mad rush them, that is when I bought my | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
place. What did it do? It bang into prices up again. Is that what is | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
going to happen now? I don't know how many families by panic buy | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
houses. I wish I had money to panic buy! The story is that there are not | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
enough two or three`bedroom houses, especially in the south`east, which | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
we know Rostov is it a continuing supply problem which will push up | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
prices? How money families are doing this? We don't know. Houses are not | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
for many people. I don't understand if the market is going to cool for | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
long enough for people to even buy these houses. But we do have an | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
upward trend. This bubble is real, lots of people are feeling it. I | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
have a bit of sympathy for Osborne and the Treasury. It's difficult, | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
you have two different housing markets. You have the housing market | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
around London and a housing market in other parts of the country. In | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
other parts of the country, it isn't that bloated and people are finding | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
it very hard to buy. In London we say, there is a housing bubble, but | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
I don't think you would think that in parts of Cornwall, parts of the | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
north`east or north`west. How do you create a national policy that does | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
not have an effect somewhere else? I think it is really tricky. That | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
would make it very difficult for this government, trying to deal with | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
what a lot of people suggest is a housing bubble. We heard the OECD | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
yesterday suggest this is where we are heading. They may have to think | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
about interest`rate rises, that would be the Bank of England, | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
cutting back on help to buy. All of these little levers are going to | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
force people to think, we need to get in here before this happens and | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
that will Stoke the bubble even more? I think you are right. There | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
has to be a multiple effects with how we handle this. The London prize | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
has gone up in double digits in the last year. It will take more than | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
just fiscal measures to fix the problem. We don't seem to be talking | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
about building more houses, especially in the south`east. There | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
is space to do this. We have to talk about policy measures as well. | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
Labour says it wants to build 1 million homes if it gets into power. | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
Villa Matra right, but... Where? Exactly. | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
It rest on what is happening in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin beat a | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
retreat, according to the Guardian, over the referendum? We have been | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
here before, the Geneva peace talks, where he was saying, we will scale | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
back our support for the separatist 's, they will disarm, have | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
elections. Where did that go? I think we need to treat what he says | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
with a degree of scepticism. I think it is also true that it is not in | :08:17. | :08:25. | |
Russia's interest is for the whole situation to deteriorate, partly | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
because of sanctions and partly because it is on their border. There | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
is a sizeable majority that do not want to go to Russia. This is not | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
Crimea repeated. This is a much more difficult situation, 30% of the | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
population in eastern Ukraine are ethnically Russian, 70% are not. | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
Giving it to Russia or Russia intervening is not the solution and | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
Russia knows that. This may be the first sign that Vladimir Putin is | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
changing strategy. It may just be a slight game. There are two things at | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
play. If the result of the referendum is, we want to join | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
Russia, the Russians and Moscow may feel duty bound to actually do | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
something, as they did with Crimea. But if they did that, that could | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
bring a whole world of pain into sanctions? Absolutely. If people are | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
given the chance to speak, it would be terrifying if we did not listen | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
to what they asked for. But the referendum is being organised by | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
people that want to be part of Russia. How would he look if he | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
ignored the result? Which is why he is now saying, don't do it. That is | :09:41. | :09:52. | |
possible, that he does not want a flawed referendum, which it would | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
be. Or he does not want eastern Ukraine, that is fundamentally it, I | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
think. We will have to see what happens. It could be a temporary | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
move. He's trying to see where sanctions may go next. Because | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
Russia is hurting because of the sanctions and that is the long`term | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
measure that could take place. The other thing worth bearing in mind is | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
that there is domestic pressure on Vladimir Putin. We see it in the | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
West as being personified in him. But what he is doing is very popular | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
in Russia. If he was seen to be more conciliatory to the west, that would | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
not be as popular. The Guardian, red alert for Nigeria. The growing and | :10:35. | :10:43. | |
global protest against Boko Haram, this crackpot cult which has | :10:44. | :10:56. | |
abducted 200 girls in Nigeria. They have been missing for more than | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
three weeks and we still don't know where they are. When the Boko Haram | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
video came out, the man said, we are going to sell these girls, talking | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
about slavery, still, in Africa today. Nigeria is one of the | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
powerhouses of Africa. It is a positive economic story. Yes, we | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
know there is corruption, but we did not know this kind of problem was | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
still happening on this scale. We wonder what the ripple effects might | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
be. Lots of families not going to send their daughters to school, | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
because they fear they are going to be abducted and kidnapped. It is | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
great that the international community is picking this up, | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
probably because Nigeria has been slow to pick this up. Social media | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
does have these benefits. We heard David Cameron talk about the fact he | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
has daughters. We suspect there has been a lot of pressure, as well, | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
from the first lady on this kind of issue for President Obama. The | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
President is Goodluck Jonathan, he has not had much luck on this issue? | :11:57. | :12:07. | |
There is a perception in Nigeria that he is weak. He is a strange | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
guy. The governor got picked up at Heathrow airport on money`laundering | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
charges so he became governor. Benny was appointed to vice president then | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
the president died. He took over that and won the election in 2010. | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
There is a perception that he has been a weak president. But is not to | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
say a strongman president is not what Nigeria needs or wants, but | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
certainly, his handling of this crisis has not gone down well. | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
Public opinion in Nigeria will be sending the army but that is easier | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
said than done. Indeed. There is a vast area to cover. Back to the | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
Telegraph. Abu Hamza, apparently he had a deal with MI5 to keep Britain | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
safe while preaching hatred. It sounds at first glance like an | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
extraordinary story which we should not believe but it has the ring of | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
authenticity about. The period the paper is talking about is between | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
1997 and 2000 so before 9/11. What we do know is the security services | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
had a fairly ambivalent attitude towards Islamic fundamentalists, | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
that quite a few of them, we gave the Silent Hill and we allowed them | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
to carry on much to the fury of governments like Saudi Arabia and | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
Jordan, as long as they did not cause trouble in this country, we | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
turned a blind eye to what they did elsewhere. It is not impossible that | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
Abu Hamza was involved in this. There is an interesting line which | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
comes up at the court case in New York. He claims he has got | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
documentary evidence to prove it. The prosecution is trying to say | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
this evidence is inadmissible. I think it would be interesting to | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
hear. This might give a reason as to why, there were issues in terms of | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
prosecuting on a number of levels. Fire macro absolutely. This is | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
pre`9/11. There was a lot of difference about how we spoke about | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
the Muslim community in Britain and how we spoke about isn't as | :14:23. | :14:32. | |
overseas, we did not call it that. `` Islam. I think we would have to | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
physically see the documentation. I find it difficult to see how MI5 | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
knew pre`9/11 how dangerous this man could be, but also to see how we | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
were distrustful of the Muslim community in Britain before 9/11 so | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
it is a difficult story to pin down. I would like to see The Papers. I | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
think we all would. You will be back in our's time to look at the stories | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
behind the headlines. Stay with us here because at the top of the hour | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
we will have more on that chap there, he is the skull cracker and | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
is back in jail. Now it is time for Sportsday. There was a big football | :15:16. | :15:16. | |
match tonight. Hello and welcome to Sportsday. I'm | :15:17. | :15:31. | |
Lizzie Greenwood`Hughes. The headlines this | :15:32. | :15:32. |