28/09/2014 The Papers

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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow. With me are the author and journalist Rachel

Shabi and Matthew Green who's also an author and journalist.

Tomorrow's front pages. The Independent leads on the chancellor

George Osborne's pledge to cut tax on inherited pensions before the

2015 election. The Financial Times reports on an accusation that apple

is prospering from illegal tax deals with the irish government. The

Telegraph also leads with Osborne's announcement to scrap what the paper

dubs the" death tax". So too does the Guardian, which

focuses on what it calls 'panic'among conservatives that

there could be more defections to UKIP. It also reports that a new

drug that targets breast cancer could extend life by 15 months.

The Times reports on Hong Kong's crackdown of pro`democracy

demonstrators where tens of thousands of protestors are

blockading the centre of the city.The Daily Mail has an exclusive

interview with brain tumour patient Ashya King's's parents."They locked

us up and left him alone, crying like an animal" they say.

The Mirror reports on actress Lynda Bellingham's fight with her terminal

cancer. The paper says she wants to have one last Christmas with her

family. And in the Sun, George Clooney shows

off his new bride Amal Alamuddin. The couple married in Venice

yesterday. I was saying in the headlines, the

Conservative conference has been overshadowed by the defection, which

is a fair assessment. It is getting there isn't it. Don't you think?

They are alluding to the same thing, which is that George Osborne's

announcement about the abolition of this death tax that it's been

called, where it he is scrapping the 55% rate of duty you pay if you pass

on a pension pot after death ``. It has been played as a Tory comeback

from trying to assuage frayed nerves over the rather rocky beginning to a

conference that I suppose the Conservative party assumed they

would cruise through, it didn't turn out that way. The Guardian headline

alludes to everything you have said, unlike the others, which isn't

what David Cameron and George Osborne hope for. The others report

on the tax pledge, whereas the Guardian spells it out. They are

talking about panic over UKIP and rumours of other MPs leaving the

Conservatives. It would be a serious blow. The question is, will the

polls that show voters have more confidence in the Conservatives on

the economy translate into more votes? George Oz bone will hop on

that theme and see if he can reinforce the Conservatives economic

credentials `` George Osborne. The Times, Osborne hopes it will steady

Tory nerves. It has distracted the papers are way from scandal and

defection. Do you think this is what voters want to read about? That is

the question. This is a sweetener with an eye on the grey vote. It's a

crowdpleaser. Osborne, by his own standards, has failed. The economy

hasn't recovered as he pledged. In your opinion. By any measure. By the

measures he set for himself, by the pledges he made, he has failed. He

paints a different picture. He won't stand up at a Tory conference and

say, I have failed. He is more likely to offer these diversionary

sweetness. By any measure, living standards have fallen, most aren't

feeling the effects of economic... That is true, but do people trust

Labour to do any better, given what happened? Labour isn't offering an

alternative. The things most people ask for and being provided by either

party. Ed Balls didn't say anything. He said it would worsen before it

got better. There will be more austerity he was upfront about it.

They are following the same script. The polls show that what the public

want, increased minimum wages, will efforts to tackle tax evasion,

renationalisation of utilities, no major party is offering fees. If you

are asked to choose between austerity and light austerity, it

isn't an attractive proposition. Good news for people with pension

pots who are about to retire, approaching 75, knowing their money

will go further. And as living standards rise, that is

significant. Can be sent on other things. We will stick with the

Times, reporting on the crackdown on democracy protesters in Hong Kong.

We shouldn't underestimate the seriousness of this and the

ramifications not only for Hong Kong, though for the world.

Interesting to see the story on the front pages finally, it has been

buried for the last few days, particularly with the Conservative

conference and also with the air in Iraq, which we will talk about in a

moment. `` the airstrikes. These are the biggest protest since Hong Kong

was handed back to China in 1997 and there is concern about what happens

next. The Times leads with Hong Kong's government quashing rumours

that the Chinese military is going to be deployed to contain the

protest, which would be horrifying, hitting, given memories of Tiananmen

Square in 1989. Britain is very quiet. It has been interesting that

this isn't an international story resonating in domestic politics ``

horrifying, given memories. It promised one country, two systems.

What is your feeling about what is happening? Is this China trying to

get more control? Clearly. China has written eight on the agreement made

about the vote in 2017 `` renegged. It seems that China is carefully

controlling the candidates you are allowed to vote for. Doesn't Hong

Kong operate better with independence? Doesn't it produce

more money, income, isn't it more financially stable with its

independence rested Mark does that mean it shouldn't want a democratic

vote? `` independence? It wants to pursue as much independence as

possible. It won't take China renegging on agreements made a very

kindly. It is clear where the protest is coming from. The standard

script, quite legitimate democratic protest beaten down with

heavy`handed policing and getting bigger. We have seen that play at

time and again. It is different in Beijing, it is more difficult to

predict how this will play out. Not many places where there hasn't been

a protest in the world in the last few years. Moving onto the

Telegraph, as you pointed out, we are going to look at the RAF's

involvement in military airstrikes. At the bottom of the paper, we have

a different slant on the involvement in a personal one. One of the

pilots. David Haines, the British aid worker who was beheaded in Iraq

by ISIS, he worked for the RAF as an engineer, and aircraft engineer.

There is a personal element for the pilots doing these are bombing

missions over the coming weeks `` an aircraft. That is what the story is

highlighting. It will be personal for those pilots. That doesn't take

away the questions about whether the strategy will work up which is

something that was debated in parliament vigourously last week,

though has now fallen off the agenda. There are questions about

whether these missions will be adequate as a response. The last

thing you want in a bombing campaign is for it to be motivated by some

kind of justice. That should be the last thing it is about. That's what

the debate has been about. The idea that you can bomb away and ideology

has been proved to be and sounded many times. That's the one take away

from the 13 years of the war on terror, that this isn't the way to

solve the problem. It seems shocking that we are taking this same tactic

again. Another line keeps filtering, appearing in this article, the words

of Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, every now and then you

hear a minister warned that there could be British casualties. There

are likely to be headlines that a British man, fighting for Islamic

State, dead, killed by a bomb from the RAF. It is a line that they keep

slipping out. We will return to the Guardian now, when this story came

through, it created quite a debate in the newsroom and it is

interesting, isn't it? A headache for David Cameron and the

Conservatives is Brookes new mart, who quit his post over the weekend

because of allegations in the Daily Mirror and it now seems that there

could be an intra` and claim brought against the newspaper `` Newmark.

Certainly, the Guardian has picked up on this story and is raising

questions about whether what the Sunday Mirror was doing was ethical.

They say the story that brought down Newmark was run by a freelancer who

had reached out using a fake Twitter account, presenting as a young woman

to several Tory MPs. It is implied in the story that he was trawling

for victims. People are asking in parliament if this is justified as a

journalistic technique. Was what he was doing, sending lewd pictures,

such a big public interest issue that it justifies what the papers

say amounts to entrapment? It would be in the public interest if he was

doing that on a regular basis. That's the issue. Working as a

journalist, I thought the job was to find out what was going on, rather

than create a situation. There is a fundamental question about the role

of a journalist that is at stake. Do you agree? Yes. I struggle to see

the public interest in something like this. It's not like it's

exposing corruption or something over which there would be a more

serious concern. The journalist could argue that he was

investigating the behaviour of public ministers on social

accounts. Was it investigating or was it creating conditions? What's

emerging are questions over the images used to, so obviously... Who

is this woman whose picture is on this Twitter at count? `` account.

Dashing over pictures were used? `` does she know. Should he have

resigned? I don't know if he should have resigned. It is unusual to

defend a Conservative, but I don't think he should have resigned over

it, I don't think that warrants it. It is stupidity. He hasn't committed

a crime. Conversations like this would have overshadowed the party

conference. They were nipping it in the bud. A lot of thanks to you, it

Mr and Mrs Kruger this weekend `` Clooney. They have brought light

relief. Just under the headline of the Conservative announcement, the

ring that says it all. I don't know why it takes four days to get

married, but this has been quite an extravaganza. There was a headline

doing the rounds on social media, coming from businesswomen media, and

it has turned it around, seeing that internationally acclaimed barrister

marries an actor, which doesn't seem to be a statement of gender so much

as the kind of things we are preoccupied by `` saying. You are

just jealous. Four days in Venice. Think you for taking us through the

papers. Stay with us on BBC News, we will be back with more after how the

Conservatives are fighting back following the loss of a further MP

to UKIP. Coming up next, The Film Review. `` thank you.

Hello and welcome to The Film Review, on BBC News. To take us

through this week's films, Mark Kermode. What have we got? We've got

Maps to the Stars, the