20/08/2014 The Papers

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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

With me are the journalist Lucy Cavendish and

Thank you for joining us this evening.

All of the paper 's lead with the murder of a US journalist James

Foley by Islamic State militants. The Independent says Britain and

America can no longer ignore the rise of the caliphate in Syria and

Iraq. The express says the masked man who appears in the Islamic State

video is now the world's most wanted man. The Telegraph leads with David

Cameron asking for patients in tackling British jihadists. The

metro says British Muslims are helping police and security services

to track down extremists in the UK. The Guardian says experts are racing

to identify the militant in the video who spoke with a British

accident. Let's begin with our look and we will start this evening with

the Guardian. As we were saying most of the papers are dominated by this

video and the indications of it. Apart from the obvious tragedy of

this story it didn't break terribly happily for the papers in terms of

the timing. They will be trying to come up with new lines. I think that

is exactly the problem. When I woke up this morning it was all over the

media and this shows you newspapers are behind. Online they are not but

in terms of your newspaper in your hand they have defined a new angle

because everyone has almost read about the story. A horrible and

horrific story. They all have to go on and make a decision about what

photographs and pictures they choose to show and do not choose to show.

The Guardian has gone for a close`up of this man who everybody is trying

to work out who you is. Potentially he is from here. They believe him to

have the first named John. This is apparently it. Lots of lingo stick

experts have obviously been analysing the video, and think that

he is from the London area. That is the big story for the newspapers

that is running. And not just the papers poring over trying to find

out who this man is but the security and intelligence services also. That

gives plenty of background materials for the papers to go at. This has

got to be the angle now, who is this person and who are the people behind

it? The Prime Minister says it looks like it was a Britain. As the

Guardian itself has reported extensively, with intercepts of

mobile phone records and this sort of thing, there is the opportunity

for the security services to check the voice, not only by experts

assessing geographically where they come from but actual recordings they

may have. With these capabilities they may put them into play at the

moment. For the newspapers this will be the story, who is this person?

Not much to go on, the accident and the shape of the head but we cannot

see much. The Guardian has interviewed a former hostage in Iraq

who recognised this individual and said he was one of three who were

involved in a number of hostage situations. So, yes, this will

occupy people for some time to identify this person. The subheading

on the Guardian says experts raced to identify London, but the main

headline, manhunt for a British murderer with hostages' fate in his

hands. That is also the angle effectively being taken slightly

differently now on the Daily Telegraph as well. It has a fuller

picture but with the headline: Another life in British jihadists'

hands. Lucy, that is a big concern because it is estimated there are

several journalists who have been captive in various parts of the

Middle East. It has changed the relationship between journalists and

what is going on. In years gone by, many years ago, there was a white

flag raced over journalists because they were doing a job and reporting.

I think they felt relatively immune from being captured and paraded and

used in the way that is happening now. We were discussing earlier

about why that is and there is some idea there is a rise in social media

and TV that actually gives some weight to capturing journalists and

parading them in this way. The photograph on the front of the Daily

Telegraph is shocking of another journalist. And obviously

journalists have lost their lives over many years, Mary Cole Bill lost

her life. We know it is a frightening thing to do and a brave

thing to do. `` Marie Colvin. And they are trying to expose some of

the issues at stake here. Absolutely. I'm sure it was the same

here in the BBC newsroom and the Reuters newsroom, the topic of

conversation for people who had concerns for colleagues in this

situation. Incredibly dignified statements from the family of Mr

Foley today, making those points. Obviously the talk here was this was

revenge for the attack. The suggestion perhaps that if there are

further attacks other journalists would be at risk. I suspect the US

won't put too much weight on that. It is an immediate reaction to these

events. One could argue that these kind of events are as much targeted

in engaging the US to provoke a reaction as much as they are some

kind of revenge attack. Looking onto the Independent, we often get

headlines that tell us what the next step is, or where we are going. I

wish he would tell me what the next step is. The Independent is asking

that very question, it has a map of where it says IS is present. It

seems quite confusing. Where do we go from here? It's a very open

question. Yes and I hope I will open the Independent tomorrow and find

out what the answer is it is right now I don't think anyone has an

answer. Tom and I were discussing various possibilities, the entire

world going in there to stop it happening which is not possible. I

don't know, I suspect people are sitting there wondering where we are

going from here. President Obama says he will not change his policy.

There is another journalist on the front page of the Telegraph looking

in a desperate position and we are in a desperate state. I've no idea

what the answer to that is. It seems to be a Catch`22 situation. On the

one hand the obvious answer is to go in and take some kind of military

action. There are so many problems with doing that, not least of them

is the concern that that removes pressure on the Baghdad government,

sorry, Baghdad's new leader to come up with a more inclusive government

than al`Maliki had. This paper captures it, we have to do something

that we don't know what it is. We have to be clear. The atrocities

have been happening before this. This has just brought it into our

Muliaina, this person, we think this John is from the UK. The beheadings

and burying people alive, this has been a terrible state of affairs

over the past few weeks. David Cameron returning from holiday and

many said that he should have returned early and parliament should

have been recalled. The pressure is mounting on the government to do

something. It's easier to say to do something but what? The situation in

Syria has now changed as well. I imagine there will have to be

patience which is what he is what he's calling for. And I can see

continued pressure for trying to get something done on the Prime

Minister. Absolutely. Britain has not been to the fore of this in the

way the US and France and Germany. It is difficult for Germany to get

involved overseas because of their background. Perhaps there will be

pressure and the UK will move forward in those areas like

providing arms. It is a tragic story, but let's move on to a

slightly lighter note, back to the Guardian. It is the second story

with the headline: GCSE changes disadvantage to schools with tough.

It is GCSE results day tomorrow so the clock is ticking down. This

story, Lucy, particularly poignant in so many households. Poignant in

many households, especially ones whose children have taken their

AS`level is and find them downgraded. We will not say who. We

will not name any names. Not just in the Cavendish house but across the

board. I would not be happy about these downgradings and upgrading is

and telling pupils what their A*s are and now they are C grades. It is

incredibly confusing is and they keep changing the system, one minute

they are going back to a levels, the next year getting rid of AS`level

is. It leaves pupils in a difficult position and I imagine there are

lots of people waiting for their results tomorrow thinking, what is

going to happen to me? And they may not get to carry on and do the

things they want to do and that's not great. You cannot keep saying

you were an a grade student at now a C grade student. What is being said

here is the government's decision to effectively take the exams at the

end rather than stagger them will affect some schools much more than

others. Exactly. It is a he says she says kind of story. Some schools

have a preference for staggering them, as you said, and the waiting

macro is currently 60 ` 40 towards coursework and that will be inverted

`` waiting. They say this will not have a negative impact and nobody

will be hurt but it is such high stakes for the individuals. You can

say there has been grade inflation and the Department for Education

should do something about that but at the end of the day individual

children will have their futures at risk. The statistics say boys do

better taking lots of exams at the end rather than girls who work more

steadily over the year. Moving on to the last story we are going to cover

this hour. Back to the Daily Telegraph and a story I know that

you are keen to comment on. I don't know if it was because it was a bad

weekend, but how to keep your barbecue food safe. Do you want to

explore that? As a Reuters journalist I don't usually like to

offer opinions on things but they say we should not barbecue things,

we should cook it in the oven and lightly singe it on the outside. To

give it a horrible barbecue flavour! Not to burn it is too much because

then it would have carcinogenic build`ups. The fun of the barbecue

might be lost by doing that. Have you got a fancy one? He has a gas

one, it is not a barbecue, it is a total fake. You cannot have a gas

barbecue. You are not a fan of barbecues? I'm sick of them, it is

always covered in horrible soot and the chicken is or was pink and

everybody gets sick. I think they should ban barbecues. Strong stuff,

Lucy. Thank you very much for your input this hour. It big thanks to

Lucy and Tom and they will be back with me in about an hour's time for

another look at the stories making the news tomorrow. Stay with us on

BBC News because at 11pm we will have more on the international

outrage after the murder of American journalist James Foley by an

Islamist militant. Next it is time for sports day.

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