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Rona Fairhead is to be the new chairman will per `` chairperson of | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
the BBC trust. A man will appear before magistrates | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
in London on Monday morning ` charged with assault in connection | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
with an attack on the Respect MP Welcome to our look ahead to what | :00:07. | :00:23. | |
the papers will be bringing tomorrow. The Liberal Democrat | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
commentator Joe Phillips and the political editor of the Sunday | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
people. Good evening, Nigel. Let's have a preview of some of the front | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
pages. So obviously, the missing boy, Ashya | :00:36. | :01:41. | |
King, being found. A bit too late for some of the papers. They | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
concentrate on events in Ukraine and talk about Iraq and Syria as well. | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
Let's start with the Observer. Ashdown slams knee jerk Tory | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
response to jihadi terror threat. Interesting, because we have been | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
told by Downing Street that there is no disagreement. One would imagine | :02:02. | :02:12. | |
so. It does say that Nick Clegg and David Cameron are trying to reach | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
agreement and they are probably trying to hammer out a difficult | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
staff because there is a whole is you about the liberties, about what | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
you can do about passports, whether you can make people stateless by not | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
allowing them back into the country. I have not seen in the actual | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
article that Paddy Ashdown wrote, we have only got the front page. I | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
think the subs will have gone for something to make it slightly more | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
stunning than it really is. But Paddy Ashdown is well respected on | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
foreign affairs more than anything else. He was the high revs and two | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
for Osney and Herzegovina. He has a very good track record in calling it | :02:58. | :03:09. | |
right. As a former special forces man he is not a bleeding heart | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
liberal. What he is saying will resonate. The language and the tone | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
of the language of David Cameron and to Reza May, that we are on severe | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
late `` severe alert, that a terrorist attack is likely, raises a | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
whole load of questions. Most people watching tonight we'll have thought | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
that this is rather frightening and worrying. What it then does is | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
inevitably make people look, perhaps not in the way that the security | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
services would like to look, at our friends and neighbours and fellow | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
passengers. It is the sort of thing that can indirectly and | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
unintentionally, promotes the sort of community tensions which are not | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
going to be very helpful. A climate of fear? Yes. And the one thing that | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
Paddy Ashdown says which is bang on is that Northern Ireland has been | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
under severe threat for the past four years, as it was in Britain for | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
much of the 1980s and 1990s when the IRA were posing the greatest threat. | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
So I think there was a point, which we have talked about before, do you | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
say stuff to put people on alert, or do you frighten the wits out of | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
them? The point is that Paddy Ashdown uses the word knee jerk, | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
critically of David Cameron. And David Cameron said it was important | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
not to have a knee jerk reaction! But it is important that there is. A | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
knee jerk reaction is what is called for. You don't know what you are | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
dealing with. We are doing the best we can over in Iraq. We are trying | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
to the Kurds over there. That in itself causes a problem in the | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
future because they could turn on Baghdad with the new arms that they | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
have got. When it comes to terror alerts, things actually happened. It | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
is not just words. It does not mean that nothing is happening. | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
Headteachers are being briefed, shopping centres are tightening up | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
security. There is a whole lot going on behind the scenes to make us | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
safer. If you have got jihadis coming back and you don't know what | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
they are going to do, I would rather we took precautions in the first | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
place, rather than that something happened. You can understand Paddy | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
Ashdown 's English in the end knee jerk reaction if we were talking | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
about homeland security, `` if we were talking about military action, | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
but not about homeland security. Azerbijan think we are gaining up | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
new! I'm up to it. `` I hope you don't think we are ganging up on the | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
year. Many people will be saying, people who are going off to Iraq and | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
joining Islamic State, they are 18 to 25. What has been happening? All | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
this behind the scenes stuff, where has that been happening to not | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
notice that this group was gaining so much momentum? It seems to me... | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
Letters criticising at the time, rather than what is happening. I am | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
talking about what is happening. We know they present a danger, but not | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
how much of a danger. Islamic State has a probabilistic and objective, | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
to redraw the map of the Middle East. Then they may stay there and | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
the people may not be a threat to us, but we do not know that. `` | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
Islamic State has a political objective. If we go to the Sunday | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
Times, they report that some of the most influential Muslims in the | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
country are criticising and condemning the Islamic State as | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
poisonous. And that is really where the heart of this issue can be | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
tackled, within the Muslim community. Because the question that | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
is not being answered is why our young men and women going out to | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
Iraq and Syria in the first place? Exactly. There was an interview with | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
somebody in Iraq who lost a leg who said that people are having the | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
National Health Service and education to a country that is being | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
blasted apart? The idea that the Muslim community is getting involved | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
is fantastic. The fact that demands are doing their bit by a sea fatwa | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
is against people who want to go out to Iraq and Syria is good. What we | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
need to do is understand why this is happening. But the urgency is to | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
prevent anything else happening like suicide bombers in Britain. But this | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
is far more significant than any invention by `` any intervention by | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
Paddy Ashdown. He won't like that! Tell. This is getting `` that is | :08:14. | :08:22. | |
tough! This is getting the message out to the Muslim community. There | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
are genuine problems getting the message out to groups of people. You | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
don't want to say that that person because they are wearing these | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
clothes or reading the Koran is a terrorist, any more than you | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
would... We all remember what it was like for Irish people in the 1980s | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
and 1990s. We remember what it was like for the Muslim community after | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
911. Exactly. That is the point that Paddy Ashdown was making. The | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
problem, and I think the biggest threat, the biggest challenge to | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
dealing with it is that IS are so media savvy and so social media and | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
the videos etc. They are getting to young people in a way that Imam 's | :09:10. | :09:19. | |
and the families of failing to. Another story emerging on some front | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
pages, including the Sunday Times. The news that the BBC is to get its | :09:23. | :09:36. | |
first female head of the BBC trust. She seems to be perfect in every | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
way. Which is why she got the job. Shall rename? Rhona Fairhead. I have | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
been working on the story myself and there is nothing in the background | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
that would suggest there is any problems or anything like that. All | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
the problems that BBC chairman has been facing over recent years, | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
especially Jimmy Savile, they seem to have gone for an archetypal safe | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
pair of hands. Do you think it is in `` a financial safe pair of hands? | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
She is talking about changes to the licence fee. She searches | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
open`minded and she is willing to look at the licence fee and other | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
forms of governance, which is presumably good news for the | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
government. But we don't know much about other than what is here in the | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
BBC press release. Onto the mail. An uncomfortable read | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
for David Cameron on the front page of the Mail on Sunday. Shock poll, | :10:38. | :10:52. | |
Cameron faces UKIP bloodbath. Nigel Farage's staggering 44 point lead | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
over the Tories. This is staggering. Broadly, Douglas Carswell has a | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
12,000 motor `` majority and according to the polling, he would | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
end up with a 15,000 majority. I think this is probably the most | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
exciting time in British politics since Margaret Thatcher fell. The | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
whole landscape is changing. Everything depends on how well | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
Douglas Carswell does in the by`election in Clacton. If he does | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
really well, other Tories who are not sure about defecting will be | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
encouraged. If he takes Labour voters away, especially, and brings | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
them over to UKIP, you will have Tories with small majorities who may | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
think they should do the same thing. You will suddenly see, as David | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
Cameron approaches his party conference, not that far away, for | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
weeks, he is losing Douglas Carswell, first UKIP MP comes in. | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
Tory defections, it could well be that they might play a part in some | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
kind of coalition government after the general election. With stories | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
like this, people like me said commentators, this is about a | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
by`election, people vote differently in general elections. We can't say | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
that any more, we saw what happened in the European elections. Yes, and | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
what is interesting about this poll is that Tory voters were asked | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
whether they thought Douglas Carswell was a hero or a traitor. | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
49% of them thought he was a hero. I think that is really significant | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
because of all the parties, the Conservatives are the most loyal. | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
They don't like defectors. I think it is fascinating. Just one more | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
story. The Sunday Telegraph, new heart drug will cut deaths by a | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
fifth. Which is fantastic. It is a new drug. It is called Elsie Z 696. | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
It seems to be a genuinely miracle drug. We are talking about heart | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
attack deaths going down by 20%. If we can market this drug as soon as | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
possible and replace the older ones, all we can do is welcome that. The | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
most important thing is that rates of admission to hospital 21% down | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
which has an impact on cost. So even if the drug is more expensive, it | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
save money. Thank you for taking us through the papers. You are coming | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
back at 11:30pm. We will talk more about knee jerk reactions. Till | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
then, thank you. Coming up next on BBC News, it is Reporters. | :13:37. | :13:39. |