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The rape and murder of two teenage cousins in India | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
highlights once again the entrenched problem of sexual violence towards | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
TRANSLATION: When I went to the police they asked me what car system | :00:11. | :00:28. | |
I belong to and then I asked -- then they asked why I had come to them. I | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
begged and pleaded for help. I'll be asking the campaigner | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Gita Sahgal why politicians and the police seem incapable | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
of treating women as equals. In next week's Newark by-election, | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
the Conservatives will be trying to At least one illustrious toff has | :00:39. | :00:51. | |
had his nose bloodied here in the past. Charles I surrendered the town | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
to a people's army back in the Civil War, and it was never the same | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
again. Could a similar fate be about to befall David Cameron? | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
Ed Miliband says he no longer reads British newspapers. | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
Is he out of touch or ahead of the curve? | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
I'll be asking some of Fleet Street's finest and the bureau chief | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
The terrible images of two teenage Indian girls hanging from a tree, | :01:13. | :01:25. | |
apparently killed after a gang rape in Uttar Pradesh, have been beamed | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
around the world, drawing attention again to India's dismal record on | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
preventing sexual violence, despite tougher laws enacted after | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
the fatal gang rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi in 2012. | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
Two alleged perpetrators have been arrested and the search is on | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
A word of warning, Jim Reed's report contains very disturbing images | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
Put them in jail, we will just not accept this. So when the childs in | :01:50. | :02:10. | |
Delhi today. Students protested outside government offices. | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
Politicians inside grappled with another shocking case of sexual | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
violence. 150 miles away, the village of Katra Shahadatganj, a | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
very disturbing scene. Two girls murdered. Aged just 14 and 16, they | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
were found only in the morning. Both were raped before they were killed. | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
The girls disappeared crossing and Orchard Field to find a toilet. | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
Villagers angry at the police response refused to cut the bodies | :02:40. | :02:49. | |
down. One of the go's fathers said he went to the police but they would | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
not help because he was from a lower caste. | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
TRANSLATION: When I first went to the police, they asked me what cost | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
belong to and then asked why I had come to them. They said, you people | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
create trouble for yourselves. Two police officers have now been sacked | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
and a third has been accused of conspiring with the killers. A | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
spokesman told Newsnight the whole judicial system needs to change. | :03:20. | :03:42. | |
Discrimination based on caste is technically illegal in India but | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
human rights groups say it is commonplace. Young women from a | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
lower cost group are often the most vulnerable to sexual abuse. -- lower | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
caste. The case has been leading news bulletins or week in India. A | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
country which has been trying to deal with a string of high-profile | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
sexual assault cases. There is utter outrage... In 2012, a student in | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
Delhi was raped and murdered on a bus. That triggered nationwide | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
protests and a change in the law, making gang rape punishable by | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
death, even in cases where the victim survives. In India, rape as a | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
crime is still rarely reported. According to official figures, there | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
are just six cases for every 100,000 citizens, a fraction of the rate in | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
the UK. Just 9% of those make it a trial and just 2% ending conviction. | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
Both girls were cremated earlier this week in the village of Katra | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
Shahadatganj. Two suspects in their murder, both brothers, are in | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
custody. Police are searching for a third man. | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
Well, a short while ago, I spoke to Gita Sahgal, the former | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
head of Amnesty International's gender unit, and the great niece of | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
There was an attitude that in the wake of the horrific bus killings in | :05:06. | :05:21. | |
2012 that there would be a change in sexual attitudes towards women, but | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
in fact have things got any better for the vast majority of women in | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
India? I don't think things have got better for the vast majority of | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
women India but what has happened is there has been a big debate and | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
young people in particular are really not willing to tolerate what | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
they might once have tolerated, so women are coming out and saying they | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
will go out, they will be out in public, they will travel on public | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
transport, and they want to be able to do these things safely, and they | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
feel profoundly unsafe. And indeed I wonder if they feel that fear is | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
reinforced, in a way, by the recent elections? For example, we have the | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh saying, boys will be boys, | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
and his son now is chief minister. Of those attitudes are entrenched in | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
politics, why should things change? I think the elections showed some | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
pretty awful trends. He and various other politicians made remarks which | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
showed they thought there was some electoral mileage in supporting | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
people who raped. And that really is astonishing. They were reacting | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
against the movements of women coming out, of trying to speak to a | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
constituency that they felt would appreciate their remarks and say it | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
was open season on women and rape. And misogyny can be worn as a badge | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
of honour by many different politicians. A number of other | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
politicians have said, if you wear the wrong sort of clothes, you are | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
at risk. This isn't, of course, you need to India. People have said this | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
in Great Britain, they have said it in America, in many other places. I | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
think what is particularly appalling in India, though, is that we have a | :07:16. | :07:25. | |
country where rape has been quite consciously used as a weapon of | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
division and a weapon of war. In religious conflict, in caste | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
conflict. And where you have the state itself implicated in many | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
cases. Police, of course, have been criticised over this horrific latest | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
rape and hanging, and that if anything is to be done by virtue of | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
what we saw in 2012 and this, it is a kind of re-education of the | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
police, and that clearly hasn't happened. There are people trying to | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
conduct change in rounds of various police forces but, no, it is | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
endemic, and the problem is, it comes from the top. I don't think | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
one can blame simply the individual policemen. You have been campaigning | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
against sex or violence and rape for many, many years, not just in | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
India, but also in Britain. And I wonder if you are despondent or if | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
you can see something which might lead to change? I think I can't | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
afford to be despondent. I think things are very bad and I don't | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
actually think they are going to get worse because rape is simply a sign, | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
one sign, of a society that is increasingly being brutalised, and | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
if society in general is being brutalised them rape will go on | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
happening and we have a very long history of it. Rape happens across | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
different religious communities and then it has happened repeatedly in | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
massacre after massacre in India. In every single year since | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
independence. So we have a brutal history. And a very brutal present. | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
Gita Sahgal, thank you very much for joining us. | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
If the Conservatives could have planned the electoral calendar, | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
the last thing they would have wanted after UKIP's performance | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
in the European elections would have been a by-election caused | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
by the disgrace and resignation of the incumbent Tory MP. | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
But next Thursday, in the East Midlands seat of Newark, | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
where Patrick Mercer had a 16,000 majority, | :09:28. | :09:28. | |
We sent Stephen Smith to this historic Civil War site to see how | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
the parties are lining up for battle. Four centuries ago, | :09:35. | :09:48. | |
the parties are lining up old stones of Newark Castle ran to | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
the sounds of musket and Pike, as the old order wobbled on its axis. | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
At least one illustrious toff had the old order wobbled on its axis. | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
has his -- had had his nose bloodied here in the past. Charles | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
has his -- had had his nose bloodied surrendered the tower to a people's | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
army during the Civil War and it was never the same again. Could the same | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
fate be about to befall David Cameron? Now UKIP is mustering its | :10:15. | :10:28. | |
still keep -- it's Roman in a bid to take Newark from the Tories. | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
still keep -- it's Roman in a bid to say the party harks back to some | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
mythical England that never really was. I wonder when UKIP feels | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
Britain was last at its best? How far would you to turn the clock | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
back? What an question! Nobody is turning the clock back. We're | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
looking at the future of Great Britain as a nation connected with | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
the world, not an offshore province in a nation called Europe. You seem | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
to have a down on gay marriage, immigration, of course. If you look | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
at the MEPs elected last week, they include more than a quarter as | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
women, and Asian-Muslim and also an openly gay UKIP MEP from Scotland. | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
These are Conservative Party balloons. Bright, pretty baubles are | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
a speciality of the Tory balloons. Bright, pretty baubles are | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
who is a director of a well-known London auction house. You don't feel | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
you are a slightly rarefied object, with all due respect to being here? | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
As a career politician? I think most people here respond to having | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
someone who is a bit younger, has some energy, wants to get things | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
done but has some experience before going into politics. What I hope I | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
have proved in the last six months is genuine care for the area. I've | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
moved here with my family and spent a lot of time... But the UKIP Khai | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
has been here all his life, hasn't the? -- UKIP guy? Well, I can't | :12:01. | :12:12. | |
think of anything he has achieved in the last four years. Once again, the | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
big guns have been wheeled out in Newark. The grandees of the major | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
parties have been here in recent days, reeling from the explosion of | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
UKIP showing at the European elections. So are the locals | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
suitably impressed by all this action? These are the dungeons at | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
Newark Castle. He would go so far as to say they would like to see | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
politicians incarcerated here. -- few would go. It is difficult to | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
find much love for them. How do you feel about voting in general? Do you | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
want the truth? I don't know. I think it's a waste of time. I'd end | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
really bother with it. I never ready have done. Do you ever vote here? | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
I'm not voting. Why not? I don't want to. Do you generally? No. I do | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
get it, I don't vote. They kick and scream if we don't get our word | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
across. If not, how can we moan? scream if we don't get our word | :13:13. | :13:21. | |
won't find scream if we don't get our word | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
turn in Newark market. But if the bloom is well and truly off party | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
politics, as some believe, how are the candidates responding? Labour | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
won the seat as recently as 97. But all the attraction seems to be with | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
UKIP. Look, this is normally a safe seat for David Cameron so I am sure | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
this is giving him a huge headache. But people feel let down that their | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
energy bills are up and some people voted Lib Dem in 2010 and now let | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
down because they support a tax cut for millionaires and tuition fees. | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
And people are saying, I'm the only truly local candidate in this race. | :14:01. | :14:09. | |
I couldn't see your leader's face on the leaflet there. Is he a liability | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
view? No. This is all about local issues and campaigns and talking | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
about what we have done across the constituency. Nick Clegg has been a | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
brilliant leader for us and we have achieved an awful lot with him | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
leading the party in government and I hope he will stay as our leader | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
for years to come. Some here are striving to get to Westminster. | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
Others streamed their George Osborne's runaway cat, happy to have | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
as little as possible to do with the place. | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
And this is the full list of candidates that are contesting | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
any in other parts of the United Kingdom but there is now evidence of | :14:50. | :15:05. | |
a disturbing further dimension. Stormont politician Anna Lo is the | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
UK's only parliamentarian of Chinese origin and was the first vice-chair | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
of the Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities. But now she says | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
she's had enough of racist abuse by loyalists and sectarianism and is | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
getting out of Northern Irish politics and perhaps Northern | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
Ireland itself, her home for more than 30 years. She joins us now. | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
Somebody who went to Northern Ireland at the height of The | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
Troubles, and lived there through all The Troubles, you say you feel | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
vulnerable and even scared. So why? Well, we certainly have seen an | :15:47. | :15:55. | |
increase of racist attacks on ethnic minorities in recent months. I was | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
on a - I was very, very angry when the First Minister of Northern | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
Ireland, head of our Government, coming out to support a Past wor who | :16:07. | :16:15. | |
had made very -- Pastor who had made very racist, sweeping negative | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
comments on a Muslim community and so I was very angry and I was very | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
concerned for people in ethnic minority communities and there may | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
be further increase in racism in Northern Ireland. But what's | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
happened to you personally, have you felt abuse? Yes, I certainly have | :16:37. | :16:47. | |
experienced threats. I have experienced abuse, online abuse and | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
also a recent incident in a shopping centre. You were chased? Yes. And | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
are you sure it is only coming from loyalists, I gather that's what you | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
are saying? Well, it's difficult to know, but the majority of the online | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
abuse would appear to be from loyalists in reaction to our party | :17:11. | :17:21. | |
stance on the flags issue and my comments calling for the union flags | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
to be taken down from lamp-posts and to have paramilitary murals painted | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
before the start of the Giro d'Italia which took place in | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
Northern Ireland and I got a backlash from loyalist communities. | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
Do you feel that Northern Ireland is your home? Northern Ireland is very | :17:43. | :17:51. | |
much my home. As you said, I came there in 1974, at the height of The | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
Troubles. I loved the place, I love the people and I worked in the | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
voluntary sector, in social services and in politics now for seven years. | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
I gather you spoke to Martin McGuinness on the phone, | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
I gather you spoke to Martin you talk about? He was sympathetic | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
and wanted to come and see me after the executive committee meeting, | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
afternoon but unfortunately I had to afternoon but unfortunately I had to | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
be back to my constituency office but we had a good chat on the phone. | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
He but we had a good chat on the phone. | :18:33. | :18:40. | |
anything that would perintad you but we had a good chat on the phone. | :18:41. | :18:50. | |
overwhelming show of for for you, particularly what you | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
overwhelming show of for for you, week, would you reconsider leaving | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
Northern Ireland? I am absolutely heartened and really grateful and | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
appreciate the thousands of messages from people of Northern Ireland. And | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
the two rallies organised by people from the public and also NGOs | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
the two rallies organised by people really has restored my faith in the | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
good people of Northern Ireland. I really has restored my faith in the | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
know we have a very small minority of people | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
know we have a very small minority you stay in Northern Ireland, do | :19:27. | :19:28. | |
know we have a very small minority think? Yes, I will. Well, thank you | :19:29. | :19:29. | |
very much. think? Yes, I will. Well, thank you | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
It might be the depressing nature think? Yes, I will. Well, thank you | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
adverse commentary think? Yes, I will. Well, thank you | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
just the grubby newsprint but whatever it is, | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
in British newspapers. If this was said about you, would | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
you even If this was said about you, would | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
an interview with a website Ed Miliband | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
an interview with a website Ed much British news. You get a lot of | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
advice in the newspapers of what much British news. You get a lot of | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
should do. It's much more important to follow your own path. Instead, | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
should do. It's much more important his favourite reading material is | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
the American online news compendum Real Clear Politics. Is that a good | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
idea for a man who wants to be British Prime Minister? MrsThatcher | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
couldn't find much time for the papers. Newsnight asked the | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
Government's two leaders what they read and we can exclusively reveal: | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
Nick Clegg reads a range of newspapers and frequently watches | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
news output across a range of platforms. He reads a novel at the | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
end of the day before going to bed. Sir Harold Evans has edited the | :20:43. | :21:08. | |
Sunday Times and The Times. Elinor Good sman a freelance journalist and | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
former political editor of Channel 4 and Karl Cannon is the Washington | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
Bureau Chief of Real Clear Politics. Is Ed Miliband right to ignore | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
British newspapers? Well, I understand why he has revolted by | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
some of the attacks on him which - but I am surprised for a Labour man | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
wishing to take the bread out of the mouths of starving hacks. I mean, is | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
there no sympathy left for the working classes who carry a pen? On | :21:39. | :21:47. | |
a more serious point... Seriously. It's a grave deficiency, the curious | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
thing is I am an admirer of the web, my wife started The Daily Beast, you | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
have to know that some websites are not reliable. They may flatter | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
MrMiliband you with don't flatter the concept of integrity. The actual | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
buzzfeed website that got this interview, it's hard to tell on that | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
site what's news and what is advertising. You have to be careful | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
in dismissing newspapers. I have to say not always are newspapers | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
accurate. But it's understandable that Ed Miliband may not want to be | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
drawn in to, for example, adverse comment, even from perhaps | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
commentators that he admires. I can quite understand why he doesn't want | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
to read the papers every day and perhaps why aides don't want them to | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
see them in - he would be so depressed, look at Nick Clegg, I | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
mean, he says he does read the papers, God knows how he can manage | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
it. He would choke over his breakfast. We have recent surveys | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
which show that 73% of adults still read a daily newspaper each day, | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
isn't there a danger that Ed Miliband is out of touch with the | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
majority of the voters, voters he badly needs? An awful lot of | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
floating voters don't read the papers which is one of the problems | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
politicians have in communicating with them. Obviously this is a | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
danger that he may be bounced in some way out of a TV studio, what's | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
your about what One Direction were up to a cab or whatever. The serious | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
danger is that politicians do need the minuteae of the coverage every | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
day, as Tony Blair admit, become obsessed with tomorrow's headlines | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
and micoro-manage. The serious danger is at the moment for Clegg is | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
just being demoralised and for Miliband too. Imagine seeing | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
yourself eating a bacon buttie like that. You must be flattered that Ed | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
Miliband says you are the go-to website at Real Clear Politics but | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
it's extraordinary, I look at your website and there is a tiny amount | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
of British political news. It's all American news. Well, he spent a | :24:00. | :24:08. | |
couple of years in Boston as a kid and we - there is real clear sports | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
and energy, I wonder if he is going to the site to find out how the | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
Boston Red Sox did. In seriousness, if you want a good report op | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
American politics, we have our own coverage. It's a good place to get a | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
report. As a British politician, it's probably not enough for you. | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
Especially a man who is only a year to the next election. Do you think | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
that there is a change in the way - are newspapers more brutal, less | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
considered, is there more to concern politicians, is the debate more | :24:45. | :24:58. | |
base? I think New York's got a problem. We may have lost New York. | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
We are taking it as read as if Miliband doesn't really read the | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
papers. He himself admits that he is given a digest. After all, he was | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
speaking on this news station, I think politicians always want to | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
give the impression they don't read the newspapers. John Major did the | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
same. To suggest that you read the papers every day, every headline, it | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
implies a certain weakness, that you are about to be bossed around by | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
them. Seriously I don't think he completely ignores what's going On | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
Our Way On Our Way -- on, on the British agenda. What do you think Ed | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
Miliband is missing in terms of his political direction and development | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
by not reading the newspapers? Well, I think you never know, who know | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
what is a newspaper's going to turn up. I was thinking as you were | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
talking of various fantastic stories that emerged in the newspaper with | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
the depth to do them properly and photographs, etc. At the same time, | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
there is no doubt about it, newspapers in print are in serious | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
decline. But you have to never underrate what a newspaper may turn | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
up when you have really good reporters on the job and what | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
surprises me somewhat about Ed Miliband, although I totally | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
symphathise with his revulsion f you want to know what people are | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
thinking, even with about ten million newspaper readers, you need | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
to Joe what undercurrents are emerging through the newspapers -- | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
you need to know. It would be inconceivable for earn American | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
President to say they didn't look at the Chicago Times or the was wassen | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
to -- Boston Globe, it would be inconceivable for them to admit | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
that? No, actually George W Bush gave an interview to a respected | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
journalist at ABC and then went to Fox news and said he didn't read | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
newspapers, I was kind of astonishing, liberal critics said | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
see, he is dumb and admits it. I had dinner with President Bush at the | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
White House, I was President of an association and I asked him, I said | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
what is this, you don't read newspapers? He said, well, I kind of | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
read newspapers but I don't read the columnists, the opinion columnists. | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
Then Laura Bush overheard us and piped up and she said, he does too | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
read the newspapers. I wish he would quit saying that. I said - I said, | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
MrsBush, the President does read newspapers? She said, he brings them | :27:39. | :27:46. | |
into bed every morning. I would take a grain of salt with it that Ed | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
Miliband never really reads newspapers. It would be | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
inconceivable an American President would cite a British website as his | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
main go-to for political information? It's a very good | :28:00. | :28:09. | |
website. An unusual for an American President to cite, or American | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
candidate for presidency to cite a British political website as his | :28:14. | :28:23. | |
go-to for information. The problem about saying that's your go-to | :28:24. | :28:30. | |
website t may seem cool in sort of northern intellectual circles around | :28:31. | :28:33. | |
Hampstead or wherever as such still exists but it's not exactly making | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
him one of the people. You can just look at Twitter and things today and | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
you can see and the aggrieved tone of some of the British newspapers | :28:43. | :28:48. | |
suggesting this reinforces the idea that Miliband is out of touch. Thank | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
you very much. We try not to pander to politicians on Newsnight but | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
tonight for Ed Miliband's delectation we have decided to | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
include the online digital content of the papers, The Huffington Post, | :29:02. | :29:11. | |
UK first. The Culture Secretary to review all aspects of the BBC, | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
including the licence fee. Buzzfeed, problems everyone in northern call | :29:18. | :29:28. | |
-- in Cornwall can understand. And Real Clear Politics. | :29:29. | :29:31. | |
Well, time was when spelling bees were all the rage, in America they | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
still are. Fr the first time since 1962 the final of the annual Scripps | :29:37. | :29:42. | |
National Spelling Behas been tied between two contestants. We thought | :29:43. | :29:45. | |
you might like an opportunity to play along at at home. Here is the | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
word that gave Ansun Sujoe his joint victory: Feuilleton. Good night and | :29:51. | :30:03. | |
good luck. Any pronounceations? Feuilleton. | :30:04. | :30:15. | |
Can you please repeat the word? Sure. Feuilleton. No more questions. | :30:16. | :30:24. | |
Get the letters out there. OK. Whatever. | :30:25. | :30:27. | |
LAUGHTER However you say it, just spell it. | :30:28. | :30:40. | |
Correct. APPLAUSE AND CHEERING | :30:41. | :30:52. | |
Co-champions for weekend looks mostly fine across the | :30:53. | :31:19. | |
vast majority of the UK, avoiding the rain. This is how Saturday | :31:20. | :31:23. | |
looks. Some cloud around and the odd shower down the spine of England and | :31:24. | :31:28. | |
Wales but most places are avoiding these. Northern Ireland looking OK. | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
Scotland having spells of sunshine. Any showers will be very isolated | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
indeed with temperatures inland responding to the sunshine nicely. | :31:38. | :31:41. | |
Some cooling sea breezes on the coast. The odd shower popping up | :31:42. | :31:45. | |
over the Pennines and the Midlands, but these will be fairly isolated. | :31:46. | :31:50. | |
Reasonable spells of sunshine across the south-east with temperatures a | :31:51. | :32:00. | |
degree or two higher than they have been. Over the western coast | :32:01. | :32:01. |