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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
With me are journalist Matthew Green and Anne Ashworth, | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
The Observer says the Church of England has delivered | :00:23. | :00:33. | |
"withering criticism" of David Cameron's Middle East policy, | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
The Mail on Sunday says the BBC is in crisis following a complaint | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
from South Yorkshire police over its reporting of the police search | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
The Sunday Times features a picture of a Yazidi girl alongside | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
a story that Islamic State militants have massacred 300 Yazidi men. | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
And the same girl appears on the front page | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
Below it, though, is an energy story, it says prices have soared | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
The Government's response to the expansion of the Islamic State | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
is the main focus for the Sunday Telegraph. | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
It says the Prime Minister is warning that | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
the dangerous ideology could bring terror to the streets of Britain | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
And the Sunday Express says watchdogs are planning to crack | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
So, let's begin on that crop of very different stories. Matthew, what do | :01:26. | :01:42. | |
you make of the Observer's story on the church's attack on David | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
Cameron's Middle East policy? It is a very strong story here. They have | :01:50. | :01:58. | |
had sight of a letter written by the Bishop of Leeds, making a very | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
scathing attack on David Cameron's response to Islamic extremism around | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
the world, not just in Iraq but Nigeria and elsewhere. This Bishop | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
says he lacks a coherent strategy, there is no vision. He makes | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
reference to the fact that Britain stood by while France and Germany | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
offered to take the Christians who had fled from Mosul in Iraq. He is | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
putting the spotlight on David Cameron's handling of the crisis. It | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
is not the only criticism that David Cameron is facing. There is a story | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
on the Independent on Sunday on the front page, in which there is | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
another attack on the government's strategy. From a senior general who | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
is saying the government's spineless lack of leadership and the absence | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
of any credible strategy, alarm and double loss of nerves. The church | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
and the army are coming out with very fierce criticisms of government | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
policy on this. Is there any recognition in these attacks that it | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
is a very complicated picture and it may well be the West itself has not | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
got its act together? We have seen this in Europe this week. I think | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
there is some truth in that. There is a rather grandstanding tone to | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
this letter from the Bishop. One might argue that bringing in | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
religion to foreign policy at a moment like this, when it might be | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
better to have less polarisation, might be a better idea. Some are | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
arguing with the church should be reaching out to Muslim communities | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
in Britain at a time like this, rather than pouring more fuel on the | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
fire. It would be interesting to know how this represents public | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
opinion, whether this senior in the church is speaking for ask, whether | :03:48. | :03:58. | |
we should be in there more than a humanitarian corridor. We have not | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
had much indication of public opinion. I suppose the church has a | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
tradition of intervening in these questions. It is also interesting | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
that it is not the Archbishop of Canterbury, it is a less senior | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
figure. I wonder if we see some church politics here. Perhaps | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
Archbishop Welby did not want to speak out so someone has spoken on | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
his behalf. The letter says it is backed by the Archbishop. What that | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
means is not clear. It sounds like he has endorsed it in some way but | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
he has not signed it. Is your paper interest did in testing public | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
opinion in this area? The most interesting thing would be to see | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
how people feel, whether those scenes on Mount Sinjar have changed | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
people's view on this or whether they recognise that it is a very | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
complex situation. And I am wondering what the states around are | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
doing. The silence of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan on this is | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
something that most people would be thinking, it is a threat to them, | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
what are they doing? I want to just move on to a related story, there is | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
so much about the Middle East in The Papers this weekend, on the Sunday | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
Telegraph front page, headline, PM, our generational struggle against a | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
poisonous ideology. In a sense, this is him trying to answer his critics. | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
It is an extraordinary almost Churchill in a statement saying this | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
is the biggest fight of his political career, of our lifetimes. | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
It is Ray unclear what remedies he is proposing. We keep hearing the | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
word, military prowess. What does that mean? It does not mean boots on | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
the ground. But also, one can see that Cameron is on the moral high | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
ground here because he proposed action against Syria. He can say, | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
look, I was aware what was happening in that region. If you had listened | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
to me, I think there is a against it. At the same time, all this | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
shrill commentary from all sides that something must be done, it is | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
pretty clear that there is no quick solution to what has happened. The | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
roots of this go back several years to the rise of Nouri al`Maliki as | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
Prime Minister of Iraq. He has presided over this sectarian | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
government which has created huge amounts of disenfranchisement and | :06:35. | :06:43. | |
alienation. That will not be solved with a few air strikes. It is not | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
clear what the remedy will be. Fire macro it is also unclear about what | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
everybody thinks this whole crisis now stems from. In the Prime | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
Minister's statement, he says it is nothing to do with our last | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
intervention in Iraq. But it has everything to do with the last | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
intervention in Iraq. The way the shears were allowed to take power, | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
the Sunnis were marginalised, it enabled them to get the hands on | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
sophisticated weaponry, it is all a consequence of the last | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
intervention. That has framed the discussion so much in military | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
terms. Do we reinstate Iraq, do we send more troops or do nothing? | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
There has to be a whole spectrum of options. Certainly work with the US | :07:32. | :07:43. | |
and Iran to try and patch things up. One thing I wanted to point out is | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
the Prime Minister does seem to be drawing links between what is | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
happening there to what could happen here. There could be attacks in the | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
street. Do you think that a sensational lies in things? It is | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
always the way British politicians seek to link public opinion here to | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
foreign policy actions. The people who are really suffering in all this | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
are the Iraqis and Syrians. The devastation that is taking place | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
there dwarfs anything that is likely to happen in the UK. Let's move on | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
to the other story on the front page of the Telegraph, which is the | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
discovery in Tilbury docks of the 35 people smuggled in a shipping | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
container. One of them has died. Is it bringing any new like to what | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
happened? The details here are still fairly sketchy. We are not sure | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
where these people come from. It sounds like they are from south | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
Asia. It is probably not directly linked to a conflict zone but with | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
all this turmoil in the Middle East, that will raise questions about | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
whether we will see more of this illegal immigration. It also puts | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
the spotlight on how this happens. This is not just the odd truck | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
driver bringing over people stuffed in the back of a container, it is a | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
huge multi`billion`dollar trafficking industry linked to all | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
other kinds of organised crime and it needs a global response. We were | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
hearing from a correspondent earlier that the numbers coming over have | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
gone up on 11,000 to 18,000. And the French say it is a problem they | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
cannot contain on their side of the Channel. I'm just looking at the | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
front pages and thinking, have we ever seen an August like this? So | :09:32. | :09:40. | |
many events of huge magnitude happening. Whatever happened to the | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
silly season, the events we would normally be discussing at this time | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
of year. These stories have been grim human misery. Let's move on to | :09:51. | :10:00. | |
the Sunday Times. The front page has two quite contradictory stories in a | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
way. They may not be related. A big headline saying rise of the new | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
underclass costs ?30 billion. There are half a million problem families. | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
And then in the corner the governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
saying we are to recovery. It is interesting. It is a huge issue of | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
exclusion and families who are falling through any kind of net. But | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
it is also interesting how the story is cast. It is costing us ?30 | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
billion but it is costing these families their whole futures. It | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
would be interesting to see how people end up in this position. | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
There was fascination with Benefit Street, the Channel 4 documentary a | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
few months ago but I would like to see more reporting on the ground | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
about how this happens. And the measures that are taken. The story | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
says there is some success with a group of families where they have | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
managed to get the children to go to school and improve their health. It | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
is almost a good news story. You do not need to stay on benefits street, | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
you do not need to become a bee sent helpless, we can help you. I am | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
fascinated by the story about us being halfway to recovery. The | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
Governor of the Bank of England appears to speak in riddles. He has | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
been called the bad boyfriend because you cannot work out what he | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
means. Earlier in the week it did not seem like he was suggesting that | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
things were that good. Wages were not rising and increasing interest | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
rates would be delayed. Now he is saying we are half way there. | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
Interest rates might possibly go up. I am as confused as ever. I know | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
central bankers like to be men of mystery that this one is perhaps | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
overdoing it in my view. Do you agree? It is the classic metaphor, | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
halfway to wear? Give us some numbers. Whatever the finish line, I | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
love that expression. Halfway to what, we do not know. Nearly there | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
but who can tell. That is it from The Papers. We will be back at | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
11:30pm to do more of the same. Do stay with us here on BBC News. A man | :12:21. | :12:35. | |
is found dead in the Tilbury shipping container. Coming up next | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
is a roundup of the best reporting from the BBC in reporters. | :12:42. | :12:57. |