19/05/2014 The Papers

Another supporting great announces his retirement today. We look back

on the fabulous career of Jonny Wilkinson.

Welcome. With me are former state department official Colleen Graffy

and Jason Beattie, Political Editor of the Mirror. Tomorrow's front

pages...starting with... The Independent is leading with mortgage

prisoners. The Times is leading with Abu Hamza being found guilty in an

American court on terrorism charges. The Express is claiming

that scientists are saying that short, high`intensity workouts can

help event diabetes. The Guardian is focusing on Pfizer giving up on its

planned takeover of AstraZeneca. The Telegraph is leading with the Abu

Hamza verdict that also has the Prime Minister intervening in the

Richard Scudamore row. The Daily Mail says a test that could prevent

thousands of heart attacks and year will be rolled out across the NHS in

the next few months. The Financial Times is leading on the Pfizer story

and also on the story about American intelligence charging Chinese

officials with packing. We are going to start with the Times, Abu Hamza

facing life in jail. When he was here living in London, he had

praised the American care action and now he has been found guilty or very

close to the site of the 9/11 attacks. It is great to see justice

being done. There was concern that he would not be given a fair trial

in New York although that has been shown to be false. There was also

concerned over whether or not it should go through a military

commission rather than a normal trial. For the jury to come to a

unanimous verdict in less than two days was brilliant. It was also good

to see that his claims that he was just preaching religion and

everything was taken out of context did not hold up with the jury. They

had excellent evidence, including the kidnapping that took place in

Yemen, many years ago in which three Mac British citizens and an

Australian were killed. He was also an influence on the shoe bomber and

one of the 9/11 terror plotters. Theresa May has been saying that it

is a positive result but it begs the question, why wasn't he prosecuted

here? He did serve six years here for different crimes. He claimed

that he was being paid by MI5. That is quite the conspiracy theory.

Theresa May must be mightily relieved about this. If they had

found him innocent, he would have been likely to come back here and

then she would have had yet another internal legal battle. I am not

actually sure she can do that. I don't think you can do that under

international law. You have greater knowledge on this then we do. It

seems as if he will be there for a long time now. I am slightly

uncomfortable with some of the pictures of this. It is in quite a

few papers. Obviously, this is a vile man who has committed a number

of crimes but paper trail of Muslims in the media is a difficult one and

`` depiction, and I feel that it could be quite damaging. But it is

his picture. What else would you put on the front page? It is

particularly grotesque. Let's be clear, in the 1990s the area where

he preached was a haven for radical Islamists. It is a very different

place now though. He was very proud of his arm and I as everyone thought

it was from a Jihadist excursion. He played it off to say that he was

someone that should be followed as he had been there and done that

although that was not actually the case. Staying with this paper, the

story of the missing sailors. This is a story that is a tricky one for

the American authorities. The fact is coming they don't believe they

are alive. They say that they would not have survived more than 20 hours

past the time when they thought they could have found them. There is also

concern as the weekends have stopped transmitting. It is a big ocean and

they have already looked over 4000 miles. One question is, why can't

they make these transmissions last longer? We have had several cases

where batteries have died and in this day and age, it seems

extraordinary that we don't have longer lasting batteries. 100,000

signatures on a petition, everyone thinks it is worth one more go. It

seems charitable to say the least but they are not willing to do

that. I'm sure they will come to an amicable conclusion on this. Anyone

would want to volunteer their time to go out and search. For many

people here are, they are wondering why it isn't worth another go. I

have done a bit of sailing in my time. There of people who have

survived numerous days. There was a case in the 1970s of a young family

who survived for 100 days in the southern ocean. If you fall in the

cold water, in the Atlantic ocean, it is less likely but there have

been cases. One man cell overboard and they believe that it takes only

30 seconds to die of hypothermia in this water `` went. Many people are

still hoping that they are recovered alive. Let's move on. Richard

Scudamore. The chief executive of the Premier League. David Cameron

said that he would have sacked him if he was caught using an office

computer to send these sexist e`mails but that they have decided

that they are not going to do that. This it is pretty unpleasant. What

surprised everyone was that they are not going to give him even a minor

slap on the wrist. It is just, carry`on. I think what happened here

is a deeper problem, the institution of football does seem very far

behind when it comes to the quality, particularly when it comes

to women. I like to go to games and there are many women in the crowd.

Every week there why isn't there some consultancy firm that is going

in and looking at these managers and teams, I know that sounds very

American, but could they not say, here is what is unacceptable, here

is language that you are using and this is how it affects people. It is

interesting that you hear `` say that. He says that these e`mails do

not reflect his personal view. Then why is he using that language? He

needs to think in terms of what language would be appropriate and

connects the dots. He still has his job. Exactly. Let's move on.

Millions face becoming mortgage prisoners if interest rates go up.

The bank has signaled that they will. It is from a think tank that

specializes in problems affecting people with limited incomes. What

they are saying is that 700,000 people are in a double bind. When

they have particularly high gearing, putting a small amount of

equity into their mortgage so that they are more exposed and at the

same time, many are self`employed which makes it more difficult to

change their mortgage. They are stuck with their mortgage provider

on a double bind so they cannot get into a fixed term with another

provider. A larger group of people who, between now and 2018, if

mortgage rates go up 3% could be exposed as well. They are in a

slightly better position as they can probably shop around. The issue here

is the politics behind it. It is 12 months until an election and if

people suddenly start realising that they cannot afford their mortgage,

it will feed into many agendas and it will cause a headache for George

Osborne. The Bank of England is independent and do so the suggestion

is that there is no political pressure, one would have thought,

just interest rates need to be put up when it is appropriate. We've

been hearing that interest rates are been hearing that interest rates are

going to go up for quite some time. What I can't understand is why it is

so difficult to get a mortgage that is for ten or 15 or 20 years. Here

it is every two years. It is bonkers. Compared to America. Was

there a suggestion about bringing in longer periods in terms of

mortgage? The major issue is the lack of housing. It keeps coming

back to the fact that we need to build more homes. Mark Carney gave

an interview where he said that there is a fundamental structural

flaw in the housing market. We do not build enough houses. But he

comes from Canada, where there is a loss of space. He has hit the nail

on the head. Why haven't we done anything about this? I am in an area

where everything south of the river is going up. They are very expensive

as well. In London, many developments are going up and being

bought by overseas investors which is a real problem. I am not

American, I just have to say. Not me! The Daily Mail. Life`saving

heart attack tests. Wonderful news. This is identifying the fact that

often individuals are sent home as they are not exhibiting heart attack

symptoms. Particularly women as they have different symptoms to men. They

will have nausea or other symptoms that are not quite as indicative of

those you see with men. This will prevent twice as many heart attacks

as before. It is amazing to think that something so cheap will be able

to do this. We are hoping that it will get put into hospitals as soon

as possible. I don't want to politicize this is but I quite like

that they have this story about people who say that ghosts have

saved their lives right above it in the headline. My favourite was the

two minute exercise and ?5 for a heart attack, it is all looking

good. The Chelsea Flower Show is on, it is all good. Full petal jacket.

It's a great headline! Everyone is going to be demanding a jacket like

that in the local shop. It's a wonderful occasion. I love the

engine unity and creativity with the different displays and I hope the

rain holds off tomorrow. I realise that I'm getting old because I have

started looking at people 's gardens and thinking, that's nice, but I

seem to have the opposite of green fingers. What is the word for that?

I don't know, man. You just kill plants. I have seen some amazing

fake grass. We need that in Los Angeles. Water prices have gone way

up. Thank you. The headlines are coming up and the latest on Abu

Hamza being convicted of terror offences in a court in New York.

Now, all of the latest sport news. Hello and welcome to Sportsday. The

headlines tonight: Louis Van Gaal will lead Manchester United next

season with Ryan Giggs as his assistant at Old Trafford. The

40`year`old midfielder announced his retirement from playing