24/03/2016 The Papers

This is very new and quite exciting, you are probably used to it because

it is the fourth night, but it is new to as!

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

With me are the broadcaster Anna Raeburn and the contributing

editor at Esquire Magazine, Andrew Harrison.

We have your chair is very low, very low tonight. Let's make a start.

The Independent leads with the sentencing of the former

Bosnian Serbs Leader, Radovan Karadzic.

Genocidal butcher of Srebrenica is sentenced to 40 years, it says.

Justice catches up with Karadzic, reports the Guardian.

The UK was not told about bomb fears, says the Telegraph,

referring to warnings over one of the Brussels bombers that Belgium

On the same story, The Times says the brothers suspected of suicide

strikes on Brussels Airport may have been planning to build

Donald Trump fronts the cover of the Daily Express.

He's predicting a Brexit off the back of dismay

Animals says the son of the former Sunderland player Adam Johnson who

has been jailed for six years the sexual activity with a schoolgirl.

New Day also leads with the sentencing of the disgraced

And the Daily Mail says foreign workers are being recruited

by the NHS are undercutting British staff.

We begin with a guardian, and the story of Radovan Karadzic finally

hearing his verdict and sentence after many years on the run and in

court. Here it is, justice catches up with Karadzic. During his five

years coming you chose to represent himself, which might have slowed

things down a bit? I think so, but he loves the sound of his own voice,

and nobody else does. This story is too little, too late for the people

who lost their loved ones, and one of the greatest defences in Europe

after the Second World War. There is a terminology here which is missing,

I think everybody wanted to hear him condemned to life imprisonment, they

didn't want to hear that he was condemned for 40 years. It does seem

to have baffled people, a sentence which given his age he probably

isn't going to come out, but it is the message it sends. It is the

symbolism, and follow-up stories inside the Guardian, relatives of

the and the communities affected saying, is the commission not

ashamed? If he can't be sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison

for this, what can you be imprisoned for? It is a strangely arbitrary

figure, as well. May lead to cancer genocide would do it instead of one?

Without being flippant,. -- maybe two counts of genocide would do it?

Without being flippant, this is the worst atrocity since the Second

World War, so I think there is a surprise to it, and clearly people

will find that this is not the full justice they were looking for. Not

only has he spun it out, which is the only victory he can have at this

stage of his life, but he has been handed down a sentence which...

There can be no adequate sentence for this, but the symbolism was

inadequate. And it was such a long wait for them, but it is very fresh

in so many minds, when you see those pictures replayed in the reports

after the sentencing, it was only in the 1990s, and it was so close to

hear, part of Europe. And yet there was no understanding that, if you

did this, you forfeited your rights to be treated as a human being, and

he has been treated as a human being in the best justice system that we

could devise, and it would have been nice if they had just said,

finished, no, end, for the rest of his natural life. It is on the front

of the Independent as well, this story. We were speaking to a

journalist earlier, Andrew, who said he had done an interview with

Karadzic early in the week, and he said, they will never find me

guilty. Even right up to now he was saying that. His defence was the old

defence of, the leader of the genocidal Government, which is, I

didn't know what was going on. This was the individual actions of

individual local army commanders and so on. The commission has found

otherwise, that he did know what was going on and is ultimately

responsible for it. When you reach the very rarefied legal heights of

what the leader of the country is doing and can they be held

responsible for what is happening on the ground, the president of these

things is an Nuremberg, they are the biggest Oracle moments, and this is

a big historical moment like that, it is closure. I don't think the

verdict is a surprise to anyone apart from Karadzic himself, it does

close the book. Letters just turn our attention to the times. --

Times. It says Brussels was plotting a radioactive bomb attack. Tell us

about this, it seems a nuclear industry official was being filmed.

It is one of those things, it doesn't appear to be worrying until

you have something to worry about, and then it is very worrying indeed.

Ibrahim and Khalid el-Bakraoui, the suspects in the Brussels bombings,

were believed to be involved in an Islamic state plot to scatter

radioactive material over a large area. A senior Belgian nuclear

official was secretly filmed, according to the authorities, and

why did they know about this last year, yesterday the brothers were in

the surveillance, they were linked. It is suggested that they were

trying to get hold of radioactive material. The concept of a dirty

bomb terrorist attack isn't a new one, it is slightly Tom Clancy, but

we have to think in those terms now. The Times is definitely spinning at

the evidence as far as it will go, but I think that is the way security

authorities have to think now, what are the indications of what is going

on? Why would they have a nuclear industry official under

surveillance, so it is deeply worrying, and it is something they

have to factor into future security plans. And they are now guarding

Belgian's two Tomic plants with a lot of soldiers, as you might

suspect. Staying on this story with a different tack, the Daily

Telegraph says the UK was not told about bomb fears, the suggestion

that there is a failure somewhere in how Europe shares intelligence. It

is the Telegraph, so there is a Brexit cast over this. Saying

Britain will be safe outside the EU because we won't there is an

argument that we will not be able to share intelligence, but they are

saying that in this case it wasn't happening. Anna, you were talking

about the very unusual security communications situation in

Brussels. I was fascinated, because I knew it is very easy, it seems to

me, after the event, the people who are specialists in is available is

for the gathering of intelligence, to point fingers and say, Belgium

wasn't doing this, they weren't thorough, but the situation in

Brussels is quite different from the situation we have here. There are

several local police forces, they have to share information and get on

with each other, and there is a federal force over the top, and the

structure of how information is passed is incredibly clumsy, and

that would slow it and distort it as fast as it came. So the issue is not

that Europe is sharing it of Asian with written, it is that there is --

not that Europe isn't sharing information with Britain, it is the

fact that there is a difficulty with intelligence within Belgium. I have

heard on two news agencies tonight that six arrests have been made in

Brussels as part of a police operation following those attacks,

that is coming from Reuters and the AFP News Agency, so another line

coming out there. We are going to look now at Day,... Which camera? We

are all over the place! It is because of how they have laid it

out. This is a story of Adam Johnson being sentenced to six years in

prison for sexual activity of a schoolgirl of 15. We were talking

outside about how they have laid this out, and having your view,

Andrew, it doesn't work? They are trying to carve out a new identity

for themselves is a different newspaper, possibly doing news in

less aggressive manner, targeted towards the female reader trying to

find a new way of doing it, but this doesn't work, because what this is

really, this is what we would call a side bar, not a front page. It is

one of those fact boxes that you see in a corner of a feature with a

bunch of statistics, the number of football fans who look up to him,

the weekly salary, it is statistics, not a front page, and I imagine

myself at a newsagent, you can't read that, it is not a bold

statement, front-page headline, and I didn't understand it. Is there a

different agenda, would women find this easier to read? They might if

it were on a magazine front, but I don't think it works, I didn't know

any of that it was fascinated to listen to it, you both know more

about this than I do, but that isn't a magazine cover, and it won't work,

it is a newspaper. But more worrying still is that if this is aimed at

women, the bulk readership of the women of this country read the Daily

Mail, and this is about as far from the Daily Mail as you can get. I

like the colours, if that makes any difference! Let's look at the

picture on the Independent of, I thought this was a statue, it is

Barack Obama have in impromptu state dinner with a woman who has draped

herself over him. It is the tango, they are in Buenos Aires. Body

language! You very rarely see Barack Obama look awkward, because he is

graceful, but the feet and the way he is holding her is suggested that

this girl was told to drape herself over the president, and the cameras

would line up, and he looks uncomfortable. He wishes she would

go away and sit down! It looks like a stunned, and the one on the front

of the times is even more odd, he looks like a statue in his own back

garden there. She has flung herself on top of him, and I think you can

read from his facial expression that he wants this to end. It is a great

front-page picture, and surely old -- old-fashioned picture editor on

the front page, this is part of the formula, but you can feel him dying

a little inside. You can. And look at the hand, it is hardly on her.

The handset is, I have to put my hand here because otherwise it will

look wrong, but I don't want to get involved in this. Michele Knight

have something to say. She would look prettier in that frock. It is

not nice to have things sprung on you, as I know! Finally, artificial

intelligence fails to beat real stupidity. This is a chat robot, an

artificial Twitter account, supposed to have created its own personality,

and what happened, Andrew? They designed this baying to in valve and

learn. That is not the story! Hold on. Here we go. Artificial

intelligence fails to beat real stupidity. They programmed this

thing, chat robot, to act like people on Twitter. It is supposed to

be like a young woman, using slang, being impersonal. And within hours

it had evolved to be sexist, misanthropic, racist, and very

sexually explicit in a way that we can't describe on the BBC. It became

the lowest common denominator almost instantly, and the times describes

it, Microsoft's new chat bot does indeed sound like a human, but not

someone you want to follow in a hurry! You would run away from it.

It hasn't really worked. Finally, it seems it has got harder to win the

Lottery. We always knew it was hard, 440 million chances you have of ever

winning, but this is such a cruel story. You have to get your five

numbers, you match five numbers on the ?25 million national lottery

draw, only one of the jackpot, but they earned just ?15. Barely worth a

trip to the shop! It isn't worth the bother, is it? I wouldn't be

changed. You would still turn up and do the papers for us.

It is a bit of trial and error, this then. We will get used to it, won't

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