06/02/2017 The Papers

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

With me are journalist Mina al-Oraibi and the

Good to have you both with us. Let's begin with...

The Commons Speaker John Bercow's opposition to President Trump

addressing Parliament during his state visit to the UK,

is one the top stories for the Telegraph..

While the 'I' says 'Speaker silences Trump' on it's front page.

The Guardian's take is that senior figures have accused

The Times has a picture of the tight security for the Israeli Prime

Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Downing Street.

While the Metro leads with the death of Stefano Brizzi in prison,

the man jailed for murdering a police officer and

The FT says French bond prices have fallen to their lowest

levels in 18 months, coming amid fears that

a scandal surrounding the centre-right candidate

for the Elysee Palace Francois Fillon paying family members

for work they allegedly didn't do, could bolster populist candidates

And finally, the Daily Express reports on a terminally

ill man with cancer, being cured by a new wonder drug.

Let's begin with one of today's big talking points. John, the Speaker 's

bid to silence Trump. It is extraordinary. It is, not just him

saying, I will not have this guy speaking in front of the Houses of

Parliament, but it is because he is sexist, racist, and unfit to speak

before MPs? It was outstanding, many people believe that the Speaker of

the House of Commons is meant to be neutral in such matters, they are

there to moderate the political debate. But apparently, he is saying

no, I'm only neutral on domestic matters, not foreign affairs. This

is foreign affairs. The language that he uses, he effectively said

that Donald Trump is racist and sexist, and we, in this country,

believe in an independent judiciary and liberty for all people and

respect regardless of colour or creed, and stuck it to him, quite

frankly. MPs applauded, they are not meant to, a huge round of applause

from the SNP and a lot of Labour that benches, not so many on the

Tory side... I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall that

Number 10! In one of the other papers, the Parliamentary sketch

writer for The Guardian newspaper, you said that he hates Theresa May,

John Bercow, and there is no love lost between them, and Theresa May

has always treated him like dirt? And I think this is his way of

saying that, as Speaker committee gets a say on manner. -- he gets a

say. This is not an automatic right, but an honour that must be earned,

and someone like Donald Trump is an unfit for the honour. It comes with

debate about the state visit. Definitely channelling a lot of

anger that some people feel about this. President Shi of China, he

locks people up in Chinese gulags. He does but does not claim to be

leader of the free world and the special relationship... It is

interesting. The Daily Telegraph repeated in their article about this

special relationship. He's not the only person who can make this

decision. Three people can but, having said that, he has effectively

ruled it out. Clinton came here and made a speech in Westminster, so did

Nelson Mandela. And Barack Obama. He has been around for longer than

Trump, but I also heard today, on one of the channels that this notion

of him speaking to Parliament, it has been mooted, when Mrs May went

to the States, and word came back that it was not his kind of thing. I

did not know if it was there. Let's move on. A story that we were

talking about earlier on, Brexit, Donald Trump and the trials and

tribulations of the NHS, they have tended to push a lot of news of the

front pages in the last few weeks. Including Syria, and the front page

of the Times newspaper seems to be back,

Assad hangs opponents? Credit to the Times for covering this story,

Amnesty International says that there is document had evidence that

these prisoners have been killed. And they are referring to a military

prison which is not warriors before the war started in 2011 and the

uprising, if you went in it would be unlikely that you came out, or if

you did it would be many years later with torture. It comes after a push

for a renewed diplomatic effort, there have been talks in Geneva over

the last couple of days, to put this on the table to remind people what

the Assad regime is capable of, it is important as we go into these

talks. Recently, there has been an effort to make it seem as though the

regime and opposition are on an equal footing. While both sides have

committed a crime, various sites, it is to say that by far, the Assad

regime is responsible for them. And the killing of this kind, on this

scale, and coming from Amnesty International, we assume that it is

well sourced? Yes, and it comes at a time when the attempt to

rehabilitate President Assad, or legitimise his rule, is gaining

momentum. Donald Trump made overtures to the Russians, and we

have the guy who was the frontrunner, we will talk about it

later on, Francois Furlong, said that he would be willing to talk to

the Russians and Boris Johnson has intimated that perhaps the price for

peace is President Assad staying in power -- Francois Fillon. It reminds

us to be careful? And it reminds us that a lot of these decisions are

made at the top echelons of power. Some would argue saying that

President Assad should be removed before any change in Syria

happening, for five years ago, but to say even if he stays in power, or

does not commit you have a security of power, where you've been involved

in such worried atrocities committed cannot ignore them and keep them

there. But everyone for Turkey to the USA are changing their tuned but

in the end, if it stops the killing and this kind of massacre, then

anything could be acceptable. It is difficult to believe that the person

in charge of this is capable of turning a page but we will have two

C. Staying with the Times newspaper, more homes for new buyers in housing

plans. I was on duty here in the newsroom yesterday and there was a

suggestion that the Conservative Party was moving away from the idea

that everyone should own their own homes, and they would push the idea

that renting was a good thing because you cannot get a decent

house in this country, there are not enough of them around as people

cannot afford them. Now, another housing plan? I would suggest

respectively that you could have been on duty at any time over the

last ten years and seen this headline! That was my reaction,

we've heard it all before and the truth of the matter is, successive

governments have been moment Bill in their efforts -- lamentable. The

reason we are in this mess is because they have failed

disastrously to get it off the ground. Credit where credit is due,

they are having a crack, according to this press release now. Land will

be earmarked to fix the broken housing market, that is their word,

not mine, broken. And what it will apparently end is a system whereby

local councils can determine themselves how many houses are

built, and they have different criteria. We don't have a uniform

plan across the country. And they want to revive the high Street, boy,

does it need that? In my community, estate agents and coffee shops are

the only shops left. Chicken shops and nail bars? Around my place! In

my high Street, it's not disappeared but it has been diminished. If it

works, but when? France, let's head over the Channel, Francois Fillon

and his mistake. This was the centre-right politician who shoo-in

to win in the Eliseu Palace to win the elections in April, a scandal

concerning whether or not he was paying family members for work that

they did not do. He has come back? Yes, he apologised but is still in

the running. It appears that we are seeing French bonds reacting and

people and traders are worried about getting predictions wrong in 2017

again! You see them reacting more than they would ordinarily, almost

compensating for a lack of judgment. We are seeing this, and it is

interesting because of the scandal, talking about 900,000 euros. They

said that he is taking it out and the uncertainty is that it helps the

far right leader, Marine Le Pen, because she is pushing forward in a

way that nobody expected. That is what they are scared of. They are

scared that his staying actually hurts everybody else that is trying,

at this moment, to be someone like Marie Le Pen who one year ago we did

not take as a serious threat to reaching the Eliseu Palace but it

seems it could happen. I'm not sure that many people would cry about

traders losing their shares, but there you go! Ooh, I'm particularly

worried about the millionaires in the city who might be losing stuff!

That was a joke, by the way... John, you suggested to me that you were

around for the coronation of the Queen? You are looking good on it, I

have to say! I vividly remember the headmaster of my primary school near

Huddersfield gathering us together and saying that the king had died.

And he had died on this day all these years ago. I was five or six

years old and my reaction was, OK, can we go and play now? Does that

mean we have a day off? And I remembered the coronation, because

like my parents and thousands of people in the UK at the time, they

bought their television sets to see the coronation. The Sapphire true

belief. It's the kind of thing that way, probably, will not see for a

very, very, very long time -- the Sapphire Jubilee. You need to be

came from a young age, or Queen,. I find it amazing that it is the

day, as you say, that her father passed away. While she marks the

day, it is interesting, as John was discussing with me earlier, that she

always marks the day in private. Because there is a lot of reflection

also about losing her father. Indeed, she was at Sandringham

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