29/07/2016 The Papers

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

And Neil Midgley, columnist at the Telegraph.

The FT talks of surprise expressed in China, after the UK Government

announced a review for plans for a new nuclear power station,

which was being partly funded by Beijing.

The i says national security concerns may have contributed

to the government getting cold feet over the deal.

The Mirror says 53 Britons have contracted Zika -

amid warnings for tourists travelling to Florida.

An alleged programme of Russian propaganda on Britain is the lead

It also has a picture of Honeysuckle Weeks the actress

Shall I carry on with the front pages?

an environmental victory for campaigning to bring in a 5p

It says usage is down by 85 per cent.

Safety fears of overworked pilots is the Guardian's lead -

it also has an image of a jubilant-looking Hillary Clinton.

The Telegraph reports that the website of Donald Trump's wife has

been wiped from the web after allegations she exaggerated academic

achievements. Let's start with the times and

President Putin waiting propaganda war on the UK. They are focusing on

Sputnik. Tell us about Sputnik. Many would know them as a Russian TV

station who might be considered to have a political agenda. Their

background is they are a sort of propaganda wing of the Russian

government. I am not sure how many I have upset with that. The suggestion

that the Russian government are launching, as the article says,

conspiracy theorists in universities to use non-tactics. They are not

just claims -- they are just claims. A conspiracy theory. Apparently the

news agency, so-called, Sputnik, which has opened in Edinburgh, has

published a report suggesting the Labour MP Jo Cox may have been

killed because of a plot by supporters of the European Union to

sway the referendum result. She died before the vote. That is a dark

piece of supposed reporting, but is apparently a conspiracy theory that

has run on Russian television. Sputnik peddles the myth that the

west agreed never to expand Nato to Russia's borders. Well, did it? That

was a key plank apparently of Moscow's propaganda to excuse it

invasion of Ukraine. I don't think Nato said that. It is something

President Putin would like us to believe. If you are going to take

what some might perceive as dramatic military action around the border I

suppose you have to have a reason for wanting to. This is money

invested in various places. Good it be a genuine linguistic and cultural

enterprise? Every major power want soft power. We think of the BBC

World Service as being a bastion of independent journalism,

independently funded and has the same standards as we perceive the

BBC to have at home. That is not the way it is seen by governments in

China and Russia. Of course, both the Chinese and Russians have been

pumping money, particularly China, into their international broadcast

operations over the past years because they have seen, in part,

because Britain and again because the World Service in most places in

the world is seen as a Bastian of accurate and impartial reporting, it

contributes to Britain's soft power around the world. Lots of countries

have set up their own TV programme. Turkey, for example. And Iran. To a

degree, the problem with espionage and what we don't know is we do not

know what we don't know. Donald Rumsfeld territory! The Telegraph.

Traffic is ?100,000 Channel trips. The amount of money that's somebody

who is intent on smiting a large number of people can make. Some

people have been found guilty of trafficking people into ports on the

south coast of Britain. Dymchurch. Chichester. Charging up to ?7,000 a

time, per person, not per boat, for the cross-channel crossing. In a

boat that was leaking and cost them ?3000. They bought it online. They

had no life jackets. I think we remember this, the horrific scenes.

We have people in camps in Calais living desperate lies and so

whatever people think of refugee status, these are people, you would,

I would, do anything to get across, it including raising to Western

values what seems a lot of money. And they would have paid a lot of

money to make a perilous journey overland often. They have and it

highlights what has been in the news before, how few resources we in

Britain have to I suppose police the coastline. It is also a humanitarian

effort, if you try to pick up leaky boats that have maybe 17 people on

them, desperate to get to the UK, then clearly to an extent you are

policing your borders by trying to deter people from setting off on

that trip in the first place and you are also trying to find those boats

and stop people from dying when the boats fail. We only have four boats

to police the coastline. We are not just talking of the south, you think

of Orkney, Shetland, drugs and guns, they have to be alert for all the

things coming in there. It seems inconceivable we have four boats.

These people received jail terms, which is supposedly a deterrent. You

can imagine if there are ?100,000 per trip, that is a few house

burglaries. You would have to do a lot of other crime to net that kind

of ill gotten gains. These people, one of them brought them in on his

yacht. It shows the perception, whether it is the reality is another

matter, but the perception of these people, is it safer them to do it? I

don't mean logistically safe in un-seaworthy vessels, but they feel

there is little chance of getting caught. When we hear there are four

vessels, they might well think that. The express newspaper, police ID,

500 child victims of sexual abuse. This is an operation that Police

Scotland RAM. It was over a six-week period. It was an operation led in

Scotland. In terms of the way UK police forces work, in Scotland

there is one police force doing all the policing affectively for one

country. South of the border you have 43 forces, Home Office forces

and the Police Service of Northern Ireland. You think if they have 77

arrest in a small period, 30 million abuse images, 10 million of which on

one computer, you think Tom how many more would we discover if all the

efforts of policing were driven that way? Against the climate of police

cuts, reality bites perhaps it is they cannot afford to do -- you

think that how many more would we discover? A lot of them are overseas

and it is live streaming of abuse, which is horrific.

Resources are one thing but the cross-border nature of any

cybercrime is what makes it difficult to police because it is

difficult to stop something being put in front of a camera in a less

well policed jurisdiction overseas, even if it is being received by

criminals in Scotland. The Shia -- the numbers. 500 victims. 30

million images. It is slightly mind-boggling. Those are the images

they have found. The stuff on the .net is difficult to find. It is

anonymous. They can disguise details. It is very hard to police

what is anonymous. 10 million images on one computer is something beyond

consuming pornography, that is an obsessive collecting and you wonder

how those images are created in the first place, who is creating them

and where they are coming from. 500 victims is clearly the thin end of

the wedge. It is difficult enough to protect children in this country

where we hopefully have more resources available and children in

schools are made aware of the dangers of internet usage but in

other parts of the world where resources are less available it is

difficult for parents to protect their children. Millions of images.

Without prejudging anyone case, millions and millions of images of

people being abused. This is happening and showing, to a degree,

it isn't something nobody is doing, it is something that maybe as a

society we are not good enough at detecting. Rehabilitation. If some

of these people arrested go to prison eventually, what kind of help

is there to rehabilitate? There was a programme I think was called

Circles of Accountability and Support for previously convicted

paedophiles who had been released and who had a circle of people they

could call if they felt the urge to offend again, so those people could

support them in not offending. Of course, that is a controversial

approach to bringing anything like that out into the open and suggests

that it can be dealt with effectively in the community. That

is a controversial approach. I think that programme has excess. The FT,

China surprised at UK nuclear delay. The Hinkley Point decision. May be

seen as rethinking relations. Theresa May again saying, hold on, I

am in charge. To a degree she is entitled to. You are talking a

different political direction. We think back to a couple of years ago

when Chinese dignitaries were in the UK and many journalists were

screaming human rights abuses, why are you not mentioning them? It was

briefed at the time because I was briefed they did not want to mess up

lucrative financial deals with China, but frankly there are human

rights abuses concerns with China at the time swept under the carpet. Is

it old-fashioned to wonder whether any foreign country, particularly a

rich one the size of the intelligence agencies, would there

be a national security concern? There clearly is a concern about

China and hacking. To put it broadly. Cyber-espionage. That has

been a concern around China for a long time. Obviously there is

tension between the facts China is one of the world's biggest economies

and recently they were one of the world's fastest growing economies on

the one hand and in the other hand a serial human rights abuser and

suspected of espionage as well. These are tensions they have to

resolve the whole time and they have to resolve them in terms of Arab

countries and weapons contracts. Also, if there is an international

incident where a diplomat said the wrong thing these are people with a

stake internationally in 7% of our power supply. In one plant.

Currently people can be sanctioned and ambassadors called to embassies.

Many would say that is a doomsday scenario and it would not happen and

you can see these questions and discussions need to be had as

companies have conceded. There is the issue of EDF, a heavily indebted

company. Even the board were hardly unanimous, ten voting for, seven

against and one resigning. Not a ringing endorsement. When you look

at two other similar power stations they are building elsewhere in the

world, both years behind schedule and well over budget, and it was

instructed when it was announced this morning that the British

Government was delaying its final decision on this project. The EDF

share price went up I think by 9% almost instantly because I think

there is a certain amount of, let's wait and see. They are not going to

backtrack on it, the British Government, we have to have power,

we have to have a mixed way of producing energy. It has to be

thought out and decided upon. This is unlikely to be Theresa May

walking into Downing Street saying, I am in charge, I will do it for the

sake of it. It shows she is perceived to be more on the right

wing of the party compared to David Cameron. You see a difference in

political view and I suppose it is good to be looked at afresh,

whatever the result. The Mirror. 53 Zika virus cases in Britain. It

would seem these are cases that have been brought back into the country.

Yes, it is important to be careful with something that causes so much

concern and which seems to be spreading. To use a broad term. To

distinguish this, that 53 people appear to have brought the virus

back from abroad where they were bitten by mosquitoes in Brazil or

somewhere else where the virus is now endemic. With the story we had

yesterday from Florida, where four people in the US in Miami, had

caught the virus by being bitten by a mosquito in Florida. Which is very

different. I do not think there is any suggestion there is a

possibility that you can, yet, catch the Zika virus in the UK. Let's move

on and talk about a plastic bag victory. Your plastic bag victory it

says. 85% drop in plastic bag use. It is huge. They base it on 6-7

months of figures. Apparently 5p worth of banks is equivalent to 3

million pelicans, say the government. How much does a pelican

way and multiply it by... It might have been a Secretary of State for

Wales. Apparently the equivalent of 300 bewails, or so. Who has been

weighing them. 1000 sea turtles. -- blue whales. The fact the plastic

bags, when they are washed out to see kill wildlife on the one hand

and on the other is saying we have two-way plastic bags and see how

many of various different kinds of creatures they are equivalent to!

There is a serious point to it. It is strange. Olympic size swimming

pools and London buses, isn't it? Who would think a five pence charge

would make the difference? I am guilty, I walk around with banks. If

you are spending whatever it might be, a weekly shop, ?10 in a shop,

what is 5p on top of that? I would have thought people would be as

reckless as I. Clearly not. Clearly you are more reckless! As more shop

online and have it delivered, as I do, when I get my shopping

delivered, they put it in loads of plastic bags for which I am charged.

Don't you hand them back? Of course you can hand them back and you get

the 5p back will stop I am suspicious about what happens to the

banks. I don't think they can be easily reused as opposed to be

cycles. The recycling, I am not sure how much takes place. Really? Let's

not get into that. And the energy it uses. I rarely have enough plastic

bags at home because I use shopping bags. I am bladed -- loaded. I

probably have trip as 50 worth at home. A voice in my here. -- my ear.

This is awful. I am sorry to put you off your supper. Cockroach milk. Is

that what you made my coffee with? It could be the next super food. If

you are consuming any thing which you are enjoying at this moment,

please look away now. Cockroach milk, the milk exuded by a certain

kind of cockroach could be the most nutritious substance on the planet,

it turns out. There are cockroaches that do not lay eggs. They sound

like mammals. They give birth to live young and feed them with a

dense milky substance and this is where it is stomach churning, which

crystallises in the stomachs of young cockroaches. It's their

leaches into their bodies, the nutrition that they need. A heady

mix of proteins, fats and sugars. Harvesting this, it would be tricky?

I think it is tricky and scientists are not sure. They physically have

to get in there and process. They are not sure it is fit for human

consumption. I think it is a quiet news day. If you look at the

newspapers today, it is why we have 800 words of copy on two, three

lines. It got our attention. When they make cockroach milk chocolate I

might be tempted. Really? More on the website. Seven days a week, and

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have finished. Thank U. Good evening. Friday brought us a

mixed bag of weather. We had summary sunshine and big showers and

thunderstorms as well as funnel clouds. This is the sun setting in

Hertfordshire. It is a