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:00:00. > :00:00.in from the east. Warm air following that, so the second half of the week

:00:00. > :00:00.could turn warm and humid. Keep up`to`date with the forecast over

:00:07. > :00:25.the next few days. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

:00:26. > :00:28.to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are Beth Rigby,

:00:29. > :00:30.Deputy Political Editor of the Financial Times, and John Kampfner,

:00:31. > :00:32.Director of the Creative Industries Federation. Tomorrow's front pages,

:00:33. > :00:35.starting with: The Guardian leads with the story that the Home

:00:36. > :00:38.Secretary has announced two inquiries into historic child abuse.

:00:39. > :00:41.Related to the same story, The Daily Mail's front page claims the Home

:00:42. > :00:44.Office gave money to groups linked to paedophiles. The Times calls the

:00:45. > :00:49.inquiries the biggest ever inquiry into sex abuse. While the Mirror

:00:50. > :00:53.highlights the fact that neither inquiry will be led by a judge.

:00:54. > :00:57.Their headline asks what have you got to hide? The Daily Telegraph

:00:58. > :01:05.leads with the airport security story. Their headline: 'You won't

:01:06. > :01:08.fly if your phone is flat.' The Daily Express hails what they

:01:09. > :01:11.describe as a major breakthrough in the fight against Alzheimer's, with

:01:12. > :01:14.a simple blood test. Mum`of`four Wendy Bush tells the Sun how their

:01:15. > :01:16.breast cancer awareness scheme has saved her life. And the Financial

:01:17. > :01:19.Times reports that the European Central Bank is under pressure to

:01:20. > :01:35.take action against a persistently strong Euro. We will have a look at

:01:36. > :01:38.the Times. Referring to the Home Secretary's announcements regarding

:01:39. > :01:44.child sex abuse. There will be the biggest ever enquiry into child sex

:01:45. > :01:51.abuse according to the Times. Yes, with sweeping... There are to make

:01:52. > :01:55.enquiries, at the main, generic one, will be sweeping. It is interesting

:01:56. > :01:58.how ministers and the government generally have suggested over the

:01:59. > :02:03.weekend that they would be more limited. But they would be less

:02:04. > :02:08.independent, and would just look at the general popular agitation for

:02:09. > :02:13.it, and this morning, Monday morning's papers were very adamant

:02:14. > :02:20.that it needed to be stronger. They tightened it all up. But it is...

:02:21. > :02:24.No, it will be, both sets of enquiries, and other ongoing

:02:25. > :02:30.specific enquiries, it will absolutely open up a can of worms.

:02:31. > :02:36.It will expose obviously the detail to come. But this culture of

:02:37. > :02:42.indulgence towards what we might call depravity in the 1970s and

:02:43. > :02:46.1980s, albeit technically illegal, but at the same time pretty much

:02:47. > :02:50.blind eyes were turned. And very much at the heart of the

:02:51. > :02:53.establishment. One has the impression that that will be the

:02:54. > :02:59.general atmosphere around the conclusions. As, it is interesting,

:03:00. > :03:03.talking about what triggered the government's seeming change of heart

:03:04. > :03:09.about an all`encompassing enquiry. We had to make people on the Andrew

:03:10. > :03:12.Marr Show yesterday. We were told that there may well have been a

:03:13. > :03:15.cover`up to protect the establishment, and Michael Gove said

:03:16. > :03:20.that he didn't see any need for an that he didn't see any need for an

:03:21. > :03:25.enquiry. It seems that the papers, and certainly the media, seems to

:03:26. > :03:31.have jumped on to the opinions of Mr Tebbutt more than Mr Gove. And

:03:32. > :03:35.picking up what you are saying, you saw the wind changing this morning

:03:36. > :03:40.when we heard that they will do what they need to do. This will not be

:03:41. > :03:45.some quick look at the Home Office issue about missing documents about

:03:46. > :03:51.allegations of paedophilia and child abuse. They will actually do a

:03:52. > :03:54.proper... It is the sense that perhaps there are some people in

:03:55. > :03:58.society protecting the rich and the powerful. Yes, well the

:03:59. > :04:02.disappearance of the documents. Doesn't this remind you of, I was

:04:03. > :04:06.thinking, this reminds me a little bit of what happened to the Catholic

:04:07. > :04:13.Church when they had that epiphany of, we can't keep covering up child

:04:14. > :04:18.abuse, and abuse of children and abuse of boys. We need to actually

:04:19. > :04:22.clean up our act before we can as an institution move on. And I think

:04:23. > :04:27.going back to this idea of the establishment covering up, you had

:04:28. > :04:37.that BBC documentary whereby the border skew, a senior Web the

:04:38. > :04:45.government in the 70s, told a documentary of a systematic

:04:46. > :04:51.cover`up. `` Fortescue. He said it might be debt, it might be a scandal

:04:52. > :04:55.involving small boys, any kind of scandal, they would help if they

:04:56. > :05:01.could and store it up as Brownie points. Now, I don't think if the

:05:02. > :05:05.government had tried to sit on this, it wouldn't have stuck all stock I

:05:06. > :05:10.think, as you have said, there has been a big... People want disclosure

:05:11. > :05:17.and they want transparency. The political class has been denigrated

:05:18. > :05:22.anyway since the Spencer scandal. And any attempt to cover up any kind

:05:23. > :05:27.of scandal will not wash. They are doing the right thing by getting it

:05:28. > :05:31.all out in the open. There is no self`interest for politicians to

:05:32. > :05:34.cover this up, because we are talking by and large one assumes

:05:35. > :05:41.about historical issues. And there may still be some who are around,

:05:42. > :05:49.but we are talking about a generation or two earlier. And just

:05:50. > :05:53.one post script thought on this, is Theresa May, last time you were on

:05:54. > :05:58.the papers, we were talking about how well she had read the public

:05:59. > :06:02.mood over the police. This time again, it is quite interesting, I

:06:03. > :06:09.don't know at what point she either initiated or agreed to the broad,

:06:10. > :06:13.sweeping nature of these enquiries. But again, I can't imagine that

:06:14. > :06:19.Michael Gove would have gone on a Sunday morning talk show yesterday,

:06:20. > :06:26.and said, without... They have been bounced. Exactly. Michael Gove is

:06:27. > :06:29.the voice piece of David Cameron and George Osborne. They will have

:06:30. > :06:33.calibrated what they wanted to say on this, and will have had it

:06:34. > :06:36.agreed. And everyone wheeled out for media appearances over the weekend

:06:37. > :06:39.would have had a very clear line. They have obviously changed

:06:40. > :06:43.position, and I think they were right to do it. I don't think you

:06:44. > :06:47.can sweep this under the carpet. But the Daily Mirror suggests it is

:06:48. > :06:50.being swept under the carpet. Furious government launches

:06:51. > :06:57.enquiries but neither will be led by a judge. Yes, I mean, we were

:06:58. > :07:00.retching our heads when we were looking at this `` we were

:07:01. > :07:04.scratching our heads when we were looking at this, that the more

:07:05. > :07:14.narrow enquiry is going to be led by the chief executive of the NSPCC.

:07:15. > :07:18.You would think he would... He will be assisted via top legal brain as

:07:19. > :07:29.well. So unless we have our FAQ is wrong, the more generic one will be

:07:30. > :07:38.announced later anyway. `` facts wrong. I think there is a political

:07:39. > :07:41.element. Or is it Right? When we find out the nature of who is

:07:42. > :07:48.leading the main one, I suppose, that will determine what will

:07:49. > :07:55.happen. Theresa May, when she stood up to announce this broad, National

:07:56. > :08:04.enquiry into all institutions, no holds barred, you know what I mean.

:08:05. > :08:09.Something about wrestling. She was unable to name the scope of the

:08:10. > :08:14.enquiry or the chair. It shows how quickly they have come around to

:08:15. > :08:19.this thinking. I don't think this is about trying to hide things. I think

:08:20. > :08:22.this is actually two separate enquiries that they are now, whether

:08:23. > :08:31.they did it reluctantly or not, once it starts, it will be out of their

:08:32. > :08:44.control and will happen. As with Leveson. Exactly. Berlin puts allies

:08:45. > :08:52.back into the cold. They are fed up with being spied upon by their

:08:53. > :08:56.so`called allies in the US and UK. This story is about the Germans

:08:57. > :09:02.being really fed up that they have found out that a German spy was

:09:03. > :09:09.being a double agent for the US. And it comes on the back of another

:09:10. > :09:16.diplomatic spat between these two countries, when it emerged, was it

:09:17. > :09:20.in the Snowden revelations? That Angela Merkel's phone calls have

:09:21. > :09:32.been capped by the US security services, leading to a diplomatic

:09:33. > :09:39.row. `` tapped. She is obviously really unhappy about it, describing

:09:40. > :09:43.the scandal of the double agent spy as a serious development. And we

:09:44. > :09:47.picked up this great quote where the German security spokesman said that

:09:48. > :09:55.they must focus more strongly on their so`called allies. I.e. ,

:09:56. > :10:02.France, the US... With friends like these... As someone once said. It is

:10:03. > :10:07.lifted the lid on what a lot of Americans seem to be getting up to.

:10:08. > :10:15.The Germans seem to have been particularly hit on. Angela

:10:16. > :10:20.Merkel's personal mobile phone! One works with the assumption that that

:10:21. > :10:25.they either tried to or succeeded in listening to everyone. It is

:10:26. > :10:30.probably a sort of virility test. If you won't listen to, then you didn't

:10:31. > :10:36.matter. They were listening to my telephone. As we were saying

:10:37. > :10:40.earlier, there is a much greater anxiety, and I think legitimate

:10:41. > :10:47.anxiety, in continental Europe about privacy and about the storing of

:10:48. > :10:53.data by authorities. But also for the Germans. I mean, they are not a

:10:54. > :10:58.military force. So it is like, why... These are sort of issues of

:10:59. > :11:06.national security, the Germans aren't... Barrow very staunch NATO

:11:07. > :11:13.ally. Exactly. But they are also a very well`established powerhouse. Is

:11:14. > :11:19.a commercial, and then that, particularly offends their freedom.

:11:20. > :11:31.Staying with the Telegraph. You won't fly if your phone is flat. I

:11:32. > :11:35.will be in trouble because my phone is always flat. You will never be

:11:36. > :11:39.able to find the phone charging stations at the airport now. The

:11:40. > :11:43.bottomline is that if you can't switch your phone on power it up you

:11:44. > :11:47.won't be able to get on the flight. So it is not just your phone being

:11:48. > :12:02.taken away, you won't be able to flight. `` to fly. We were recalling

:12:03. > :12:08.that after 7/7, the ninth anniversary of which was today, the

:12:09. > :12:12.security that followed also did involve making sure that your

:12:13. > :12:18.electronic items were powered up, so this isn't entirely new. But there

:12:19. > :12:22.is an element of back to the future about this. It goes back to what you

:12:23. > :12:28.said earlier about the sophistication with which those who

:12:29. > :12:32.would do harm on flights, in terms of can you hide a device in your

:12:33. > :12:37.body, or in your phone? You are saying maybe it is only a matter of

:12:38. > :12:43.time before we have full body scanners. My view is that to force

:12:44. > :12:46.everyone to go through this, when clearly 99.9% of people that fly

:12:47. > :12:51.would be of no interest to the security forces at all, seemed a

:12:52. > :12:55.little bit over the top. But that is only because I always get caught out

:12:56. > :13:05.with my make`up in my handbag and my phone not charged. All right. We are

:13:06. > :13:09.running out of time. We will talk about Doctor but they sell like

:13:10. > :13:21.hotcakes but readers find them in digestible. A brief history of Time

:13:22. > :13:29.by Stephen Hawking. I think... Controversial here, basically, I

:13:30. > :13:33.read The Goldfinch, it was a wonderful book. When you go on

:13:34. > :13:43.holiday, do you really want to sit there with a weighty academic tome?

:13:44. > :13:48.With Capital, for instance. It is the sort of book you have to have so

:13:49. > :13:54.that you can quote. I don't know as well. The reason I was going a bit

:13:55. > :14:00.controversial was that I write that there is a division between the

:14:01. > :14:13.sexes, that men will more typically take a non`fiction book, and women

:14:14. > :14:23.will take... Chick lit? Are you suggesting that I would only take

:14:24. > :14:28.Das Capital? Just that men are more likely to read non`fiction books.

:14:29. > :14:36.But women are more likely to read. Book sales are skewed towards women.

:14:37. > :14:39.Women are brainier. The moral of the story is just to take a good novel,

:14:40. > :14:51.isn't it? And leave the brain growth... 50 Shades? I read some of

:14:52. > :14:57.it. You read some of it? Which bits did you read? I read some of it but

:14:58. > :15:02.I didn't find it very interesting, to be honest. You didn't find it

:15:03. > :15:12.very interesting? I preferred The Goldfinch. You ditched it for

:15:13. > :15:22.Capital, didn't you? You prefer your real`life to 50 Shades. Thank you

:15:23. > :15:26.for joining me to look at the stories behind the headlines, and

:15:27. > :15:33.interesting revelations. Always good to learn a little bit. Stay with us

:15:34. > :15:38.here on BBC News. Much more at the top of the hour about those two

:15:39. > :15:40.enquiries into child abuse. But coming up next, it's time for World

:15:41. > :15:42.Cup Sportsday.