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:00:00. > :00:00.north. All in all, it stays relatively quiet for the next few

:00:00. > :00:00.days to come. And that will be the forecast right until the end of the

:00:07. > :00:22.weekend. Welcome to BBC News. We will be

:00:23. > :00:29.taking a look at what the papers are bringing us tomorrow in just a

:00:30. > :00:32.moment. Let's have a look at the front page is now. The Telegraph has

:00:33. > :00:38.what appears to be a reversal of medical advice for the taking of

:00:39. > :00:41.aspirin to prevent strike. The paper is reporting that 1 million people

:00:42. > :00:46.have been told not to take the medication if they have a particular

:00:47. > :00:51.heart condition. A legal loophole that allows GCHQ to spy on British

:00:52. > :00:57.People's Facebook Twitter messages. The same story is on the front of

:00:58. > :01:02.the Mirror. GCHQ says that without surveillance, there would not be

:01:03. > :01:06.adequate levels of intelligence. The Guardian has more detail about this

:01:07. > :01:10.apparent loophole, reporting that GCHQ is considering certain social

:01:11. > :01:16.media legally acceptable to monitor because the data lies outside Rajesh

:01:17. > :01:21.borders. Cosmetic surgery is the `` outside UK borders. Cosmetic surgery

:01:22. > :01:26.is on the front page of the Daily Mail. Jeremy Hunt says the procedure

:01:27. > :01:31.should no longer be available on the NHS. And the Times says nurses are

:01:32. > :01:37.calling for patients to be charged ?10 to see their GP. OK, we will

:01:38. > :01:43.begin with the story on the front of the Financial Times. How ISIS charts

:01:44. > :01:49.its brutality in an annual report. The Financial Times has a very

:01:50. > :01:52.interesting thing about ISIS. Apparently, they have been

:01:53. > :01:59.functioning like a corporation, issuing reports, and not exactly

:02:00. > :02:07.collecting donations but telling their supporters what they plan to

:02:08. > :02:17.do, how many cities they will take, and what their donors' money is

:02:18. > :02:20.doing. This has been happening for two years. The Financial Times

:02:21. > :02:26.appears to be both horrified and amused by this. This is something

:02:27. > :02:30.quite new, to say the least, we're what we call a terrorist

:02:31. > :02:33.organisation is acting almost like a corporate entity with a goal in

:02:34. > :02:38.mind, which is actually to create a state. The question is this. If they

:02:39. > :02:44.have been tracked like this for two years, why hasn't anybody done

:02:45. > :02:48.anything about this? A lot of this information was found on memory

:02:49. > :02:50.sticks in a raid in one of the areas they controlled in either northern

:02:51. > :03:03.Iraq or Syria. I cannot remember which. But they found this

:03:04. > :03:07.information and this was on that data. But they have been monitoring

:03:08. > :03:12.this organisation for years. It is bizarre it has not come up. The

:03:13. > :03:17.Financial Times is leading on this. If you have potentially millions of

:03:18. > :03:20.dollars from outside donors funnelled into your organisation,

:03:21. > :03:28.you have got to produce a report when you think about it, haven't

:03:29. > :03:32.you? One thing we have been saying is that this neatly underlined the

:03:33. > :03:36.fact that this is not some kind of ragtag army sweeping through the

:03:37. > :03:40.Middle East. It's push through Iraq has been planned for several years

:03:41. > :03:43.full of and here we have a few annual reports from the organisation

:03:44. > :03:48.in which they set out metrics and essentially advertise to donors that

:03:49. > :03:52.if you give us some money, this is what you can expect to get for it.

:03:53. > :04:00.And there are some quite precise things they have. Assassinations, is

:04:01. > :04:05.revised explosive devices and so on. It is the professionalisation of

:04:06. > :04:08.terrorism. Amusing is the wrong word but it is the fact that we are

:04:09. > :04:12.receiving metrics in terror and those are two things we don't

:04:13. > :04:16.commonly associate in the same field and that is why it does feel a

:04:17. > :04:20.little bit... And it is great for the Financial Times to put this on

:04:21. > :04:25.their front. It is great but it also shows how we, Western journalists,

:04:26. > :04:30.tend to show pictures of a particular aspect of terrorism and

:04:31. > :04:34.this is actually deeply organised. And suddenly, we get the feeling

:04:35. > :04:38.that this has burst onto the scene when of course it has been going on

:04:39. > :04:42.for two years and has been planned. And it makes you think, why do we

:04:43. > :04:43.get to this point? When ordinary people are being murdered,

:04:44. > :04:58.basically, before anything is done. sleeper cells that are ready to pop

:04:59. > :05:05.up, including Baquba, the place they were fighting over last night.

:05:06. > :05:10.15,000 fighters spread across the country. You can expect relatively

:05:11. > :05:15.detailed planning to have gone on in the part of the country that they

:05:16. > :05:22.haven't... When you look at the other side as it were, a call to

:05:23. > :05:26.arms very late or even children being called into the effort. Bouet

:05:27. > :05:33.comedy effectively having a re` shuffle today. `` Nouri al`Maliki.

:05:34. > :05:38.You would be very optimistic about the future for the country as it

:05:39. > :05:43.stands. My point again is that this organisation has been tracked for

:05:44. > :05:49.two years. Suddenly, all of this comes out on the front page. Let see

:05:50. > :05:55.it other newspapers pick this up. This is something very, very new and

:05:56. > :05:59.very precise. It also gives us an indication that this organisation

:06:00. > :06:04.which is trying to create a state, it has branched out to people

:06:05. > :06:10.outside of their entity and getting money from it and showing a return

:06:11. > :06:14.for their money. It goes back to, why haven't we been watching this

:06:15. > :06:22.before? This is their annual report, ISIS. On to the Times. A

:06:23. > :06:31.Muslim man failed `` faces claims of corruption. We will remember the

:06:32. > :06:36.case of on election night. Something odd was going on. We could tell that

:06:37. > :06:39.was the case because of the enormous delays. You will remember on

:06:40. > :06:46.European election night, holding up into higher country's

:06:47. > :06:54.result. Here we are seeing the first indications of what might have gone

:06:55. > :06:57.wrong. An independent is accused of having groups around the various

:06:58. > :07:03.polling stations, perhaps hindering what was going on, allegations that

:07:04. > :07:09.will be tested in the High Court. Nevertheless, the accusations have

:07:10. > :07:17.been outlined today. It does feel like Tower Hamlets is a bit of an

:07:18. > :07:20.electrical `` electoral entity. There are three political parties

:07:21. > :07:30.that are concerned about what is going on. It is something that is

:07:31. > :07:34.not understood outside of the area. It is a micro` political climate.

:07:35. > :07:39.Few people have properly penetrated it, perhaps what is going on in the

:07:40. > :07:47.High Court will judge that. If it is found that will be wrongdoing, the

:07:48. > :07:50.election will be rerun. Was the mayor faces claims of corruption. Is

:07:51. > :07:56.it because he is a Muslim? What is that about? The story is about, as

:07:57. > :08:07.is said, the very complex entity that is Tower Hamlets. Why is this a

:08:08. > :08:10.headline? Also the fact that he was born in Bangladesh, what has that

:08:11. > :08:14.got to do with anything? The story does not tell you it has anything to

:08:15. > :08:18.do with anything. This is the sort of thing that stirs are up the kind

:08:19. > :08:25.of problems that we are having now. I don't agree with it. OK. Onto the

:08:26. > :08:28.Independent. Millions living in overcrowded conditions. Because of

:08:29. > :08:33.failure to build new homes. The side`effect of rising house prices

:08:34. > :08:37.and people not being able to get on the housing market but those people

:08:38. > :08:42.who do have houses are squashed in. I think being an immigrant myself,

:08:43. > :08:48.one of the things that maybe I can help to understand is there is a

:08:49. > :08:54.real attachment, particularly in England to green spaces. People

:08:55. > :09:02.don't want houses and housing built on landscape, basically. One of the

:09:03. > :09:06.problems is that a lot of land and space where houses could be built,

:09:07. > :09:10.where they should be built are allowed to be built because people

:09:11. > :09:13.do not want the space invaded. There is something that people don't want

:09:14. > :09:20.to talk about because it is assumed or felt that everybody gets about.

:09:21. > :09:26.That there, it is necessary for green space and landscapes. It will

:09:27. > :09:29.was in a village in Yorkshire and people were talking about the ever

:09:30. > :09:37.to see the vistas. That is at the bottom of all this. It is a cultural

:09:38. > :09:43.thing that, I think people outside of the United Kingdom are

:09:44. > :09:47.particularly, don't get. And that is really at the root of it and it is

:09:48. > :09:51.not talked about directly. It is talked around. There is a lot of

:09:52. > :09:56.space but people don't want that space built on. I am not saying it

:09:57. > :10:02.is good or bad but I am saying it is not a question that people engage

:10:03. > :10:08.with. It is about how much land, the law of land. Is that the problem, do

:10:09. > :10:14.you think? That we are not prepared to go after greenbelt land, or brown

:10:15. > :10:19.field sites. As a result, we will have problems building the houses we

:10:20. > :10:29.need. Absolutely. The unwillingness to build on our tarnished land is

:10:30. > :10:33.deep embedded in the psyche. You only have to look at the buildings

:10:34. > :10:36.that are going up to no and do a random that they are much smaller

:10:37. > :10:42.than previous housebuilding generations. Take an example from

:10:43. > :10:44.Lewisham where I live. There is a big corporately owned block that is

:10:45. > :10:49.being turned into housing. The planning application was for a whole

:10:50. > :10:52.series of 1`bedroom flat. Then they realised they could get more money

:10:53. > :10:58.if they converted those flats into studios. So there is no separate

:10:59. > :11:01.bedroom. They could squeeze more money because the price per square

:11:02. > :11:05.metre has gone up so much and that is the issue because you can squeeze

:11:06. > :11:10.money out of people. Developers are building, basically, tiny little

:11:11. > :11:15.rabbit hutch is. They are within the law. The measurements and

:11:16. > :11:22.specifications for properties are legally... It also has to do with a

:11:23. > :11:27.deep antipathy to the city and to urban space which is also part of

:11:28. > :11:33.the culture in this country. I live in the west end. Near Oxford Street

:11:34. > :11:38.and the same thing is happening. There was a huge baby`boom at the

:11:39. > :11:44.beginning of the century. This is going to have to be faced. I think

:11:45. > :11:46.the question is whether or not local councils are feeling they can stand

:11:47. > :11:50.up to developers when they say, they want to shrink the size of the

:11:51. > :11:55.properties and squeeze more money. That is where the relationship is

:11:56. > :12:00.quite interesting and Ricky largely uncovered. That takes us to the

:12:01. > :12:05.Daily Telegraph. Average house is ten times the salary of most people.

:12:06. > :12:10.So, you know, one of these rabbit hutch houses, the booklet afford

:12:11. > :12:16.anyway. This is a bit about the device. A man who goes to Singapore

:12:17. > :12:19.and is guided his accent because the taxi drivers turn around and ask

:12:20. > :12:25.him, where should I buy in London? Because they argued in Help to Buy.

:12:26. > :12:31.This is something people aren't talking about. This is very

:12:32. > :12:35.dangerous. George Osborne has been warned about this by the IMF. In

:12:36. > :12:40.saying that we are in a situation where we are getting very close to

:12:41. > :12:44.it becoming untenable. Banks are starting to increase the ratio of

:12:45. > :12:52.salary to lending. This is where we are, we are a culture where bricks

:12:53. > :12:56.and mortar... This matters because in the next fortnight, the Bank of

:12:57. > :13:01.England will increase the amount of money you can borrow. It will feel

:13:02. > :13:06.like an interest rate rise through the backdoor but of course, that

:13:07. > :13:09.only affect households rather than businesses because it is pushing up

:13:10. > :13:17.the cost of growing for people blocking them from getting

:13:18. > :13:22.mortgages. This is why this kind of story matters because you simply

:13:23. > :13:30.won't be able to extend your salary to have a mortgage that big. This is

:13:31. > :13:36.the kind of thing that... He flip`flops about interest rates,

:13:37. > :13:39.Mark Carney. I am not sure we have got to the bottom of what he is

:13:40. > :13:46.like. That is interesting! Explained. We have got, Mark Carney

:13:47. > :13:50.came in with a big idea where he would give an indication of when

:13:51. > :13:55.interest rates would rise. Forward guidance was based on an implement

:13:56. > :13:58.than it turned out unemployment so he replaced it with fuzzy guidance

:13:59. > :14:06.and that didn't work. He said, whatever happens, I will not raise

:14:07. > :14:10.interest rates. Many said, there an interest rate rise around the

:14:11. > :14:16.corner. The markets have reacted with confusion and some panic. I am

:14:17. > :14:24.not sure he is the genius that he said he was. If he raises the

:14:25. > :14:33.interest rate, something like a million people will be in trouble.

:14:34. > :14:38.It has been great having you. Stay with us here on BBC News. Much more

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