18/09/2016 The Papers

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

With me are columnists Rosamund Urwin of the London Evening

Standard, and Neil Midgley of the Telegraph.

A warm welcome to you both, thank you for being here.

Tomorrow's front pages: the Times reports on the attacks in the US

Theresa May, who is due to fly to New York for the UN assembly,

will urge other countries to step up their counter terrorism efforts.

The Financial Times leads with the blast in New York.

The newspaper quotes the city mayor, Bill De Blasio, who said

"New Yorkers will not be intimidated."

The newspaper also reports a warning from the NSPCC about the rising

number of paedophiles contacting children online.

The children charity says that web cams and apps make

The Telegraph reports that David Cameron wanted to shut down

criminal investigations into the alleged abuse of Iraqis

by British troops but was overruled by Government lawyers.

The Daily Express's front page features the stars of ITV's

The newspaper says there is a real-life romance

The Guardian looks at tomorrow's BBC Panorama programme,

which reports that rebellious Labour MPs who have been challenging

Jeremy Corbyn's authority could face de-selection from their seats

if Mr Corbyn wins the leadership race.

And the Daily Mail revisits the story of Ben Needham,

who went missing on the Greek island of Kos in 1991 at 21 months old.

The Times, Rosamond, who talk about the attacks in the United States.

Calling it a triple strike, linking it to the UN General Assembly

meeting, though not necessarily any connection -- Rosamund. No, we don't

know there is any connection. The bomb that went off, one of the

devices are one of them didn't go off. It was fairly near the UN.

There is no proof there is any link. What it has meant, of course, is we

have renewed spotlight on these issues as we come up to the security

discussions. And then on top of that with the US presidential election

approaching, it will push terrorism back up the agenda. It has been high

on the agenda but it will be the hot topic for this week. No clear

indication, as we have said in the headlines, as to who might have been

behind this bomb in New York which injured 29. Yes, so we have got I

think now four separate things in America over the weekend, one bomb

in New York, a pressure cooker bomb that didn't go off, a blast in New

Jersey which injured no one, and a mass stabbing in a mall in Minnesota

but no apparent link, certainly between all four of them, although I

think IS has claimed responsibility for the Minnesota stabbing. And all

of this, actually... We have had the memorial for the anniversary, the

15th anniversary of 9/11. New York on the understandably, I suppose

terror attacks are always in the back of New York mines. Yes,

absolutely, and with the Minnesota stabbing, of course, so-called

Islamic State has taken, has claimed responsibility. In that case, we

actually have a suspect who is dead. The man responsible was shot dead.

So, you note that it is easy for them to make that claim. We don't

know that it definitely was them. And in the case of the others, they

think it wasn't international terrorism. It is where it is coming

from. Chelsea, in the neighbourhood of New York where these 29 people

were injured by the bomb actually going off, is a very gay

neighbourhood in New York. And obviously, the Orlando shootings

were obviously in a gay club, so it could be homophobic, the motive. The

picture here, exclusions rocked the city as world leaders gather for the

security talk. Looking again at the UN General Assembly, where they will

discuss the terror threat in general. Yes, and to reason may,

apparently, according to the Telegraph, will say that Britain has

a right to control its own borders are at the same time as Donald Trump

makes a strong link between immigration, even entry into the

country, never mind people staying for the rest of their lives, between

Muslims coming to the US and Islamic terrorism. The Metro, terror blast

rocks the city, and of course they have had attacks from abroad, and

domestic as well, so when there is no clear motive for anyone who has

claimed responsibility for that New York attack, then people don't know

whether to think, is it a foreign attack, is it homegrown? No, quite,

and currently they think it is not linked with international terrorism.

Of course, that could change in the next couple of days. Obviously, the

streets of New York will be heavily policed. Yeah, a thousand extra

offices, we gather. Which seems sensible. Let's turn Azema attention

to domestic politics, and, surprise, surprise, the Labour Party, and a

Panoram programme coming out tomorrow night which, amongst other

things, has Lord King in saying he doesn't think a Labour government

will come in his lifetime -- Panorama. What is this about? The

trade union leader Len McCluskey calling for a opponents of Jeremy

Corbyn's leadership to be, I quote, held to account. It is an odd thing

in a so-called democracy. The Labour Party, as far as I know, is supposed

to be an organisation in which there are can be different views, which

can be expressed through the ballot box in the leadership election. It

sounds rather Soviet, if not worse, that if you... Celt -ish, perhaps,

is that the word you are looking for? Once the election is over, it

is Game of Thrones, off with your head if you don't support me. You

wonder if there will be a leadership election against. You are a

supporter of the Labour Party. A.m. . What do you make of this contest?

Well, I think... Who do you want to win? I am supporting Allan Smith.

There are some people who could not have run against Jeremy Corbyn who I

would not support --I am. John McLauchlan? Yes, there you go. I was

saying before that I spoke with a liberal Tory MP last week who thinks

this is embarrassing, the state of the Labour Party, and we need

opposition for democracy to function well. I don't feel the Labour Party

in its current state is fulfilling that purpose. And I think it is very

unfair on a lot of really good MPs. Some of the names I noticed today,

talk of Peter Kyle, MP for Hove, and he won against a sitting Tory MP in

2015, he is a moderate. And why on earth would we think these people

shouldn't be... These people need to be in the Labour Party. Do you think

Allan Smith has a chance of winning? No. I look forward to the 2017

Labour leadership election -- Owen Smith. How on earth is Jeremy Corbyn

going to form and adequate shadow cabinet? The talent has been

severely depleted by... -- an. People refusing to serve. Initially,

really good people went to the back bench when he won. It was depleted

further by resignations. There is a very apposite picture in the

Telegraph of Jeremy Corbyn, well, they have said, leadership contest,

it is a knock out. And saying that he was actually visiting a boxing

club that trains homeless people in north London. The Telegraph says he

is unlikely to be pulling any punches. Boom boom, though he

appears to be punching himself. Yes, as with many other forms of

competition, he doesn't seem to understand the rules. More than one

person is supposed to take part. LAUGHTER.

Yes, quite. It is a rather good image, though, isn't it? It is, but

his supporters would say he is massively popular with the party's

members. With the members... And he has driven up Labour membership as

well. But you have to think who joins... As a member, who joins

parties? I am saying this as one myself, we have to accept not

everyone is as interested in politics as us. What is the purpose

of an organisation? The purpose of the Labour Party, presumably, is to

be elected into government. It is like saying a massive corporation

has increased the number of employees. If it isn't selling any

goods, there is no point in it being there. The same is trouble Labour

Party. Interesting analogy, thank you very much. Let's go on to the

Daily Mirror, they have an interesting story about the

investigation into the disappearance of Ben Needham in Kos, and the

number one suspect's son, cops thought I was Ben. This story goes

that a quarter of a century. When he disappeared, what he is saying is

that... White at one stage into the investigation of his disappearance,

the cops, the police thought that this chap, the son of a man who is

now dead, there are accusations that have been heavily denied by the

family, I should hasten to add that, that he was involved in the

disappearance. The allegation is that he was crushed to death in an

accident. There was a building site... It is all very complicated.

The father was driving the digger. That is key to it. This chap on the

Mirror father was driving a digger in a field next to where Ben Needham

was playing and there is some circumstantial evidence that father

was seeing the following day looking shaken after Ben Needham's

disappearance, that the digger hit Ben Needham and killed him and there

was therefore some kind of cover-up. The Mirror has said that this man

had a son, and he says he has had his DNA tested to show he wasn't Ben

Needham, in other words, the digger driver who is thought to have maybe

killed Ben, or abducted him, passed him off as his own son, but when you

look at this chap, at the risk of racial profiling, he looks about as

Greek as they come. They have different coloured eyes... I am not

sure we can tell much on that. Let's go onto the Independent, they have a

striking story about the youngest child to die trying to reach the UK.

He was legally entitled to enter Britain but he was hit by a truck in

Calais. As far as I can tell, he was in the Jungle in Calais, he got so

tired of waiting, presumably, so many other unaccompanied minors in

the camp, which has risen, by the way, to 1022, up 55% in a month, he

lost faith that he would ever get to the UK, and so he went off to try to

do it by himself and he was on the French motorway and he was hit by a

truck and killed. It is a terribly tragic story, and it does, once

again, through into focus our government's policy on refugees,

generally, unaccompanied child refugees, in particular. In the

context of the Brexit vote which was clearly a massive statement from

many millions of people in the country that they don't want mass

immigration. In fact, that is the populist political statement with

which Theresa May has to wrestle a she tries to engineer Brexit. We are

talking about children here, and I just cannot believe people cannot be

persuaded that it isn't an unacceptable thing to have so many

children who are unaccompanied stating in these horrendous

conditions and trying to come over here when they have... The argument

the other way is that if you take in 1000, then that will encourage

parents in wherever they are, Afghanistan, to send their children,

more and more children, on a very dangerous journey alone across

Europe in the hands of traffickers. How desperate one has to be to do

that, as a parent. Let's go on to the Telegraph. They

also have a story about this. The attorney general vetoing to stop the

investigation into British soldiers of using Iraqis. -- abusing. Week,

the British setup a thing to look into this. Three men are now facing

trial. David Cameron wanted to stop this investigation completely

because they have or are being tried as a military hearing, found not

guilty. The Telegraph's line tomorrow is the attorney general

said it would be illegal to disband the investigation despite the fact

that many complaints have been made by the law firm public interest

lawyers which has subsequently been closed down after irregularities in

its work in Iraq. And the mail have another story about the Royal Marine

accused of killing a member of the Taliban. Will he ever get justice?

Mail readers gave him money to campaign his sentence. They have

linked it to the story that has been in the Telegraph. And the British

troops, as they put it, have been hounded by ambulance chasing

lawyers. And we just have time to talk about Pippa and the perils of

being Kate's sister. I saw the first-ever public speaking

engagement. The reason for this is that she has a new book. Or just

recipes. -- gorgeous. I got sent a copy of her first book, not this one

and if there is a test, I can't remember who came up with it that

you pick up the page 99 to tell a lot about this book. Why page 99?

I'm not sure. It was a literary critic -- literary critic's idea. It

was a picture of Pippa Middleton. Will you both be reading Pippa's new

book? I can't say it is going to be top of my Christmas list. Thank you

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