24/08/2016 The Papers

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

With me are journalist and broadcaster Aasmah Mir

and the New York Times reporter Dan Bilefsky.

Tomorrow's front pages: The front page of the Metro shows

the devastation caused by the earthquake in central

Italy, in which 120 people have been killed.

The Times leads with the same story too, saying Italy's most historic

The Guardian looks at a report by a think tank, which suggests

the NHS would collapse without its 57-thousand workers

The Telegraph reports on Government plans of permits for low-skilled

EU migrants to work in the UK after Brexit.

The FT says the US has warned the European Commission that it

will consider retaliating if Brussels demands

billions of dollars in underpaid taxes from Apple.

The Express leads with a warning that toxic smog is set to sweep

The Mail splashes with a call for a ban on microbeads in cosmetics

and toiletries due to the damage they can cause to sea life.

The Metro, devastation, one of the areas hit by the massive earthquake

overnight. Two buildings, maybe three still standing in the middle

of all of that? I think the picture is phenomenal, really. It gives you

the absolute birds eye view of what has happened here. We are talking

about entire villages, very remote, most of them on top of hills, some

with populations of as few as 700 people, being pretty much wiped out

in terms of buildings. At this point, the death toll stands at 159.

It may, unfortunately, rise. This gives you an idea of the fact that

in a small village, a small town like Amatrice, every person and

every building is affected. You can see the rescue workers, people

sifting through, in vain, almost, because it is such a picture of

devastation, as the Metro rightly says. Questions clearly will be

asked. At some point in the future, now is not the right time, questions

about how stable some of the buildings were. So many of them seem

to have just collapsed like a pack of cards. We are talking a very old

part of the country, in terms of architecture, lots the buildings are

medieval. They are not going to be constructed in the kind of materials

that deal with this. I covered the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009, a

similar area, not far from here. Very fragile, medieval buildings. An

earthquake, I think you know about this as well, done, it was a shallow

earthquake? The Mayor of Amatrice said that the town is not there any

more. Because it was shallow, it was only six miles below the surface.

They are more devastating than deep earthquakes because of the Dai

Greene of the vibrations. It just hit massively, because of that.

That's because of the intensity of the vibrations. 14th century

buildings, even buildings from 100 or 50 years ago are not earthquake

proof and they have not been retrofitted since. Especially when

you consider that it was 6.2 magnitude, last year, Nepal, that

was 7.8, and 700 people were killed. It was quite lower, but it still

created such devastation. It's interesting when you say retrofit,

it is possible to do that? It is, but it is very expensive. Questions

will be asked, it is an area of incredible seismic activity. It is

probably one of the worst areas for it in Western Europe, this

particular part of Italy. The devastation, wiping out whole

villages, areas. The picture on the front page of the Daily Telegraph

was of a nun, on her cellphone. The convent she was in was destroyed?

This photograph has been compared to Dante 's Inferno, a very moving

tableau of a nun, caked in blood, on her cellphone. Apparently there were

several nuns from the convent, pulled out of the rubble by a man

that saved their lives. Had it not been for a matter of minutes, they

would have perished. There you see her, possibly minutes afterwards,

trying to talk to somebody, looking absolutely devastated. It is

incredible what has happened. The rescue operation is still going on.

As Aasmah was saying, 150 killed, but many are still trapped? With

this type of tragedy, teams came from all over Italy, a six-man team

came from the Vatican as well, to try their best to help. We have seen

this time and time again. It is a horrible story, a horrible aftermath

that we see played out on TV news screens. There is very little hope

that people will be found alive, but you do hope that there will be those

stories, those small stories of hope, where somebody is discovered

perhaps a couple of days down the line. There will be one, there will

be two. But not many. No, it is interesting covering the Nepal

earthquake just over a year ago, you have all of these rescue teams

getting in and they are trying to save lives. They know they will

probably only save one or two, but that justifies, in their eyes, and

drives them. Then they sadly be hundreds of people under the rubble,

but if they can get one person how to live, and that could well happen

over the next two or three days... And as we have seen covering

earthquakes, the social fabric of a country like Italy, where family is

so strong, it will hopefully help save the depression that can come

after such an experience. In this case, entire towns have been

demolished. It will be difficult. Staying with the Telegraph, internet

giants passing the buck on terror? This is a story in which MPs are

warning that Facebook, Twitter, Google and other social medias are

deliberately failing to stop terrorists from using the websites

to promote their beliefs. This is interesting, having investigated

terrorism, many law enforcement people will tell you that in today's

age of Twitter, millennial jihadists use Facebook, Twitter and other

social media to describe in real time what they are doing, how they

are becoming radicalised, where they are going to go. It has been a real

asset for law enforcement to track these people. There are many people

that would disagree with MPs, allowing them to have Facebook and

Twitter be transparent, providing footprints which allows police and

counterterrorism... At the same time, it helps them spread their

message. It may provide a footprint that authorities can use, but they

display their message at the same time? They are preaching hate filled

messages and they are reaching a young and vulnerable audience, you

could argue. I think what the MPs arguing, and this is the chairman of

the home affairs select committee, saying that these big companies do

not seem to be keen to take down or delete messages, profiles, as

quickly as, for example, during the Olympics, a lot of people were

saying they did not take down Anjem Choudary's profile on social media,

but they were very quick, when there were copyright issues of somebody

putting up a video of anything to do with the Olympics, it would be

deleted pretty much straightaway. I think that there is a bit of a

disconnect between the two. Obviously people will see one as

being much more dangerous than the other. I'm not sure why they would

not act. MPs are saying that they were damaging their brand. It

doesn't necessarily make sense to me. It is money, isn't it? If you

start impairing somebody's right to say something... Where do you draw

the line? A lot of people would say you should draw the line with

Islamic State, but that line seems to be in the wrong place for a lot

of technology companies, compared to the general population, it seems? I

think within the general population, they would like more control. To

counter what I was saying earlier, I was amazed when I was investigating

the terrorists involved in the Brussels and Paris bombing, a lot of

them had open Facebook profiles, you could see them posing with an AK-47.

That is worrying, for sure. Brussels, tax demand on Apple, Dan?

Well, this is a long, ongoing battle between Washington and Brussels

overregulation. We had the case of Google, Microsoft, they came in the

cross hairs of the European Commission. Now we have the United

States, chastising the European Commission for clamping down on

Apple over tax, alleged tax evasion. This is an ongoing battle we have

seen, where the Americans feel that European regulators are unfairly

targeting US companies and applying and their demands. K. Well, what is

likely to happen if this is done by Brussels? What are the Americans

threatening to do? They can apply geopolitical pressure and take

revenge by starting to regulate European companies operating in the

United States, with greater force. The European model has always been

more consumer centric, the American model is always, to some extent,

more business centric. A clash of ideology? It good job we are not in

it any more, isn't it? That is one way of putting it! This is all

nonsense, because it is Bake Off! It is back. Tears after the Jaffa

disaster? Is I didn't say it, I was busy revising for The Papers. They

tried to recreate Jaffa Cakes, a bit of a divider, a bit like Marmite.

The thing about this programme, it is on BBC One, who knows how many

millions of viewers, and everything is so ramped up. To populist? It is,

it used to be cool on BBC Two. It is so ramped up that you have people in

the first episode crying, throwing things in the bin. They said the

cake was moist, everybody was giggling. That is British humour,

you are not quite used to it. The last British Bake Off final, it had

huge attention in the United States. Nadia became a dramatic of identity

politics, Islamic integration, I got hate mail from readers of the New

York Times that were unhappy that I said that she had won. I spoiled it

by saying that she won. Well, quite right! I would have been angry! It

has a global following. So, if this went back onto BBC Two, maybe BBC 4,

radio 4? Thanks for checking out the papers.

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Thank you Aasmah Mir and Dan Bilefsky.

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