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A British national living in Sierra Leone tests positive for Ebola. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
It's the first person from the UK known to have contracted the virus. | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
Welcome to our look ahead to what the papers | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
With me are Matthew Syed, a columnist for The Times | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
and broadcaster and campaigner David Akinsanya. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
The Observer says diplomats in Washington are considering | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
sanctioning air strikes in Syria ` targeting Islamic State militants. | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
The Mail on Sunday says the decision to fly home the British | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
charity worker, found to have caught Ebola, was | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
The Sunday Telegraph says data shows the number of immigrants who vanish | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
after being found with false passports is increasing | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
and that this doesn't bode well for any attempts to catch jihadist | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
The Sunday Telegraph is where we start. That story about border | :01:03. | :01:22. | |
controls in chaos. What do they purport to be revealing here? The | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
context is revealing. MI5 said that if a lot of the jihadi 's who have | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
gone to Syria comeback en masse, and there are 250 of them, they will not | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
be able to cope. What the Telegraph reporting is essentially the story | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
about our porous borders. 3527 immigrants and squandered after | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
failing border checks last year and only 846 were found. This is a | :01:51. | :01:59. | |
worrying statistic. 76%, 2700, remain at large. The potential of | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
brutalised young fanatics coming back from an area where they have | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
been desensitised to violence and probably motivated to carry out | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
atrocities, this is worrying. David, is it true that they seem to know | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
where the weak areas are? They talk about seaports handling coachloads | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
of visitors and also Eurostar. It is worrying that it is obvious where | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
the easy route. They use this term porous borders and you think, we are | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
an island and if we can't staff those borders then honestly I think | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
the general public just believe that `` they can't believe how we deal | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
with border control in America. When you go to America, you have to say | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
who you are. It is not clear how the system works because it sounds like | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
they are quite good at spotting illegal immigrants but then somehow, | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
they disappear. It is as if you are told we know you are illegal, and | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
along the road to where they are being held, they can run off. That | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
is exactly right. It is also mentioning that there is a good new | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
story on the statistics towards the end of the story. It says the total | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
number of immigrants who absconded after being stopped has fallen from | :03:17. | :03:26. | |
9262 in 2010 to 3527 last year. So the numbers have gone down. But the | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
proportion of people who are subsequently recovered has gone | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
down, too. It is that phrase subsequently recovered which need | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
more analysis. But we are seeing that Keith Vaz chairing the Home | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
Office `` the Commons home affairs committee says he will seek and not | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
explanation from the Home Secretary. So possibly we will hear talk in the | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
house about more resources. Let's stay with the Daily Telegraph | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
because there is a small article about British Christians forced to | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
hide their belief. This is taken from an interview given by the | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
former Attorney General Dominic Grieve. He is saying that there is | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
an aggressive form of secularism is taking place in the country. There | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
have been loads of things that have happened, people who are supposed to | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
be registrars who are refusing to take part in gay weddings, people | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
with guesthouses and British Airways as well, where... I mean, me | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
personally, I don't agree with religion being involved in | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
everything we do. It is an important part of my beginning, I went to | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
Sunday school and to church, but when you're talking about people's | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
human rights, I can see how the Christians feel they're being pushed | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
aside. I think this is ridiculous from a normally quite sensible | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
politician in Dominic Grieve. He is saying an aggressive form of | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
secularism, but we have freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
he is comparing what he says is the intimidation of Christians with what | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
is happening to Christians in the Middle East where they are being | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
beheaded and murdered en masse. That is a frankly absurd comparison. We | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
have bishops in the House of Lords, an established church, and we are a | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
tolerant country. If secularists want to critique Christianity, they | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
are entitled. Christians can hit back and critique a fearsome. `` | :05:24. | :05:35. | |
atheism. It is in a man sticking his neck out. We know from the Tony | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
Blair and Alistair Campbell era, we don't do God, politicians stay away | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
from this topic. He is saying politicians should not be afraid of | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
doing God. But there will be people who agree or disagree. There is no | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
legal prohibition on politicians saying they are Christian or Jewish | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
or whatever. The reason Blair did not do it is because he thought he | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
would be intimidated, you thought you would lose votes. It is just | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
pragmatic. In America, they have a different view. Most of the | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
presidential candidate proclaim Christianity. They are affected to | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
be clear. I think it is dangerous where we have a powerful set of | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
values which are by and large tolerant and permit freedom of | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
expression, that must be expression for a jury `` atheist who disagree | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
with Christians. To draw a comparison with what is happening to | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Christians in the Middle East is ridiculous. | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
Let's turn our attention to the Observer, their main story, | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
to launch air strikes on senior ices territories in Syria. Dominating the | :06:53. | :06:53. | |
news this question about where do we | :06:54. | :07:04. | |
engage in Syria. The White House seems to be saying they may be ready | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
to think about military action there. I think there are big | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
questions as to whether or not to incorporate with President Assad. | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
After what was a stand`off with Isis, there is now serious conflict | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
between the de facto Syrian government and the Islamic fanatics. | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
And I thing it is a really difficult judgement about whether or not one | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
colludes with a dangerous and iniquitous dictator who has been | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
responsible for thousands of deaths in order to get rid even more severe | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
and dangerous enemy on the one hand, or one the other hand, we don't want | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
to have anything to do with either of you but we will go into Syria and | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
bomb Isis from there anyway. The Times had a leader today saying that | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
corporate `` collaboration with President Assad would be terrible. | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
Others have a different view. What changed our foreign policy towards | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
Isis was the effect on public opinion of the beheading. That | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
change the context. And even when you read this, you see that already | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
these people are using vehicles and things that well provided for people | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
who we thought were good. And now, all of a sudden, the roles have | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
changed again. A lot of people were saying at the time of going into | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
Iraq that this would open a can of worms. And it really has. The more | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
you think about this... People say President Obama is being weak, but I | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
think you thinking rather than rushing in rather `` like we did | :08:38. | :08:54. | |
before. I agree. The situation is so complicated in the Middle East. | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
Saudi Arabia, the oil, how it interacts. All of it is so difficult | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
to understand that any political policy will have myriad unintended | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
consequences. I agree that you have to pause but there are consequences | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
of inaction as well. And I think you are absolutely right, understanding | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
the context is important but if you wait to long, that can have very | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
profound effects, too. We will talk more about this through the evening. | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
At the bottom of the Observer, Ed Balls is quoted as saying Scots | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
would have to join the euro. We are ready for a big week in Scotland and | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
the suggestion by the Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls that joining the | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
euro would be the least bad option for its economy if adverts for | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
independence. Seconding the idea that sterling is out of bounds. | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
Again, it is one of those arguments that you can see politicians | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
positioning themselves. I don't know whether it will be OK for them to | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
keep the pound. They say that they are a part of it and they created | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
it. But if they are not going to get the pound, then the euro will be | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
their only other option. What is great about their first debate was | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
when Alistair Darling punctured the cell certainty of Alex Salmond which | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
is considerable. Is there a plan B? Andy Reid struggled to come up with | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
an answer to that. `` and he struggled. I think it is uncertainty | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
that is dominating a lot of the fears about independence and I think | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
that Ed Balls saying that the pound is not an option, it just cost more | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
doubt. I think it is more likely that they will not vote to go | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
independent, I hope so. The final debate tomorrow, so we will keep our | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
eyes on that. The mail have gone very big on the | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
news that the UK has its first Ebola infection. They say a British | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
charity worker, their top story, UK Ebola alert as infected medic to fly | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
home. The Department of Health saying this story is pure | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
speculation and they haven't given much detail about this person. They | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
have not given details, they have said it was a medic. I read in here | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
somewhere that the government, that it has come from the top, and people | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
have agreed that he can come back and there will be no problem to | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
people in society. And that'll be the fear. I am sorry, I care about | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
this man, but I care about the other 392 people in Sierra Leone who have | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
been affected and I care about the fact that how it is funny that the | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
doctors have managed to get two doctors cured with tested drugs by | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
ZMapp, and those drugs have run out now. Aren't you concerned about the | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
other people? Foreign people who get taken back to their own countries | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
stand a better chance because they know poverty and health care in | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
these West African countries is not good. So I hope they will come up | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
with something that is going to work for all those people. | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
Back to the Sunday Telegraph, why I it is a kidney to a stranger. This | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
is a psychologist who decided she would give away one of her kidneys. | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
I love this story. Wonderful. Isn't it great to hear a story of true | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
altruism. She says, she has decided not to have children and she thought | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
if I'm not going to create a live, why not help save one. True altruism | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
and a great counterbalance to all the doom and gloom around us. It | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
beautiful clothes there. We ended on a high point and we will get back to | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
the doom and gloom in an hour, I'm sure! Thank you, Matthew Syed and | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
David Akinsanya. | :12:54. | :12:57. |