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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 | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
weekend. Welcome to BBC News. We will be | :00:07. | :00:22. | |
taking a look at what the papers are bringing us tomorrow in just a | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
moment. Let's have a look at the front page is now. The Telegraph has | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
what appears to be a reversal of medical advice for the taking of | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
aspirin to prevent strike. The paper is reporting that 1 million people | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
have been told not to take the medication if they have a particular | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
heart condition. A legal loophole that allows GCHQ to spy on British | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
People's Facebook Twitter messages. The same story is on the front of | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
the Mirror. GCHQ says that without surveillance, there would not be | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
adequate levels of intelligence. The Guardian has more detail about this | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
apparent loophole, reporting that GCHQ is considering certain social | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
media legally acceptable to monitor because the data lies outside Rajesh | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
borders. Cosmetic surgery is the `` outside UK borders. Cosmetic surgery | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
is on the front page of the Daily Mail. Jeremy Hunt says the procedure | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
should no longer be available on the NHS. And the Times says nurses are | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
calling for patients to be charged ?10 to see their GP. OK, we will | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
begin with the story on the front of the Financial Times. How ISIS charts | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
its brutality in an annual report. The Financial Times has a very | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
interesting thing about ISIS. Apparently, they have been | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
functioning like a corporation, issuing reports, and not exactly | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
collecting donations but telling their supporters what they plan to | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
do, how many cities they will take, and what their donors' money is | :02:08. | :02:17. | |
doing. This has been happening for two years. The Financial Times | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
appears to be both horrified and amused by this. This is something | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
quite new, to say the least, we're what we call a terrorist | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
organisation is acting almost like a corporate entity with a goal in | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
mind, which is actually to create a state. The question is this. If they | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
have been tracked like this for two years, why hasn't anybody done | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
anything about this? A lot of this information was found on memory | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
sticks in a raid in one of the areas they controlled in either northern | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
Iraq or Syria. I cannot remember which. But they found this | :02:51. | :03:03. | |
information and this was on that data. But they have been monitoring | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
this organisation for years. It is bizarre it has not come up. The | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
Financial Times is leading on this. If you have potentially millions of | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
dollars from outside donors funnelled into your organisation, | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
you have got to produce a report when you think about it, haven't | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
you? One thing we have been saying is that this neatly underlined the | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
fact that this is not some kind of ragtag army sweeping through the | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
Middle East. It's push through Iraq has been planned for several years | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
full of and here we have a few annual reports from the organisation | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
in which they set out metrics and essentially advertise to donors that | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
if you give us some money, this is what you can expect to get for it. | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
And there are some quite precise things they have. Assassinations, is | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
revised explosive devices and so on. It is the professionalisation of | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
terrorism. Amusing is the wrong word but it is the fact that we are | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
receiving metrics in terror and those are two things we don't | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
commonly associate in the same field and that is why it does feel a | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
little bit... And it is great for the Financial Times to put this on | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
their front. It is great but it also shows how we, Western journalists, | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
tend to show pictures of a particular aspect of terrorism and | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
this is actually deeply organised. And suddenly, we get the feeling | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
that this has burst onto the scene when of course it has been going on | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
for two years and has been planned. And it makes you think, why do we | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
get to this point? When ordinary people are being murdered, | :04:43. | :04:43. | |
basically, before anything is done. sleeper cells that are ready to pop | :04:44. | :04:58. | |
up, including Baquba, the place they were fighting over last night. | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
15,000 fighters spread across the country. You can expect relatively | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
detailed planning to have gone on in the part of the country that they | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
haven't... When you look at the other side as it were, a call to | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
arms very late or even children being called into the effort. Bouet | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
comedy effectively having a re` shuffle today. `` Nouri al`Maliki. | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
You would be very optimistic about the future for the country as it | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
stands. My point again is that this organisation has been tracked for | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
two years. Suddenly, all of this comes out on the front page. Let see | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
it other newspapers pick this up. This is something very, very new and | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
very precise. It also gives us an indication that this organisation | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
which is trying to create a state, it has branched out to people | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
outside of their entity and getting money from it and showing a return | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
for their money. It goes back to, why haven't we been watching this | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
before? This is their annual report, ISIS. On to the Times. A | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
Muslim man failed `` faces claims of corruption. We will remember the | :06:23. | :06:31. | |
case of on election night. Something odd was going on. We could tell that | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
was the case because of the enormous delays. You will remember on | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
European election night, holding up into higher country's | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
result. Here we are seeing the first indications of what might have gone | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
wrong. An independent is accused of having groups around the various | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
polling stations, perhaps hindering what was going on, allegations that | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
will be tested in the High Court. Nevertheless, the accusations have | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
been outlined today. It does feel like Tower Hamlets is a bit of an | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
electrical `` electoral entity. There are three political parties | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
that are concerned about what is going on. It is something that is | :07:21. | :07:30. | |
not understood outside of the area. It is a micro` political climate. | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
Few people have properly penetrated it, perhaps what is going on in the | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
High Court will judge that. If it is found that will be wrongdoing, the | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
election will be rerun. Was the mayor faces claims of corruption. Is | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
it because he is a Muslim? What is that about? The story is about, as | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
is said, the very complex entity that is Tower Hamlets. Why is this a | :07:57. | :08:07. | |
headline? Also the fact that he was born in Bangladesh, what has that | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
got to do with anything? The story does not tell you it has anything to | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
do with anything. This is the sort of thing that stirs are up the kind | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
of problems that we are having now. I don't agree with it. OK. Onto the | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
Independent. Millions living in overcrowded conditions. Because of | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
failure to build new homes. The side`effect of rising house prices | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
and people not being able to get on the housing market but those people | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
who do have houses are squashed in. I think being an immigrant myself, | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
one of the things that maybe I can help to understand is there is a | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
real attachment, particularly in England to green spaces. People | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
don't want houses and housing built on landscape, basically. One of the | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
problems is that a lot of land and space where houses could be built, | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
where they should be built are allowed to be built because people | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
do not want the space invaded. There is something that people don't want | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
to talk about because it is assumed or felt that everybody gets about. | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
That there, it is necessary for green space and landscapes. It will | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
was in a village in Yorkshire and people were talking about the ever | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
to see the vistas. That is at the bottom of all this. It is a cultural | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
thing that, I think people outside of the United Kingdom are | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
particularly, don't get. And that is really at the root of it and it is | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
not talked about directly. It is talked around. There is a lot of | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
space but people don't want that space built on. I am not saying it | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
is good or bad but I am saying it is not a question that people engage | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
with. It is about how much land, the law of land. Is that the problem, do | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
you think? That we are not prepared to go after greenbelt land, or brown | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
field sites. As a result, we will have problems building the houses we | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
need. Absolutely. The unwillingness to build on our tarnished land is | :10:20. | :10:29. | |
deep embedded in the psyche. You only have to look at the buildings | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
that are going up to no and do a random that they are much smaller | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
than previous housebuilding generations. Take an example from | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
Lewisham where I live. There is a big corporately owned block that is | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
being turned into housing. The planning application was for a whole | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
series of 1`bedroom flat. Then they realised they could get more money | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
if they converted those flats into studios. So there is no separate | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
bedroom. They could squeeze more money because the price per square | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
metre has gone up so much and that is the issue because you can squeeze | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
money out of people. Developers are building, basically, tiny little | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
rabbit hutch is. They are within the law. The measurements and | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
specifications for properties are legally... It also has to do with a | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
deep antipathy to the city and to urban space which is also part of | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
the culture in this country. I live in the west end. Near Oxford Street | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
and the same thing is happening. There was a huge baby`boom at the | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
beginning of the century. This is going to have to be faced. I think | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
the question is whether or not local councils are feeling they can stand | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
up to developers when they say, they want to shrink the size of the | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
properties and squeeze more money. That is where the relationship is | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
quite interesting and Ricky largely uncovered. That takes us to the | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
Daily Telegraph. Average house is ten times the salary of most people. | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
So, you know, one of these rabbit hutch houses, the booklet afford | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
anyway. This is a bit about the device. A man who goes to Singapore | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
and is guided his accent because the taxi drivers turn around and ask | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
him, where should I buy in London? Because they argued in Help to Buy. | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
This is something people aren't talking about. This is very | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
dangerous. George Osborne has been warned about this by the IMF. In | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
saying that we are in a situation where we are getting very close to | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
it becoming untenable. Banks are starting to increase the ratio of | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
salary to lending. This is where we are, we are a culture where bricks | :12:45. | :12:52. | |
and mortar... This matters because in the next fortnight, the Bank of | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
England will increase the amount of money you can borrow. It will feel | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
like an interest rate rise through the backdoor but of course, that | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
only affect households rather than businesses because it is pushing up | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
the cost of growing for people blocking them from getting | :13:10. | :13:17. | |
mortgages. This is why this kind of story matters because you simply | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
won't be able to extend your salary to have a mortgage that big. This is | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
the kind of thing that... He flip`flops about interest rates, | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
Mark Carney. I am not sure we have got to the bottom of what he is | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
like. That is interesting! Explained. We have got, Mark Carney | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
came in with a big idea where he would give an indication of when | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
interest rates would rise. Forward guidance was based on an implement | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
than it turned out unemployment so he replaced it with fuzzy guidance | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
and that didn't work. He said, whatever happens, I will not raise | :13:59. | :14:06. | |
interest rates. Many said, there an interest rate rise around the | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
corner. The markets have reacted with confusion and some panic. I am | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
not sure he is the genius that he said he was. If he raises the | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
interest rate, something like a million people will be in trouble. | :14:25. | :14:33. | |
It has been great having you. Stay with us here on BBC News. Much more | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
at the top of the hour. The latest on the situation in Iraq. Now it is | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
World Cup Sportsday. | :14:42. | :14:45. |