29/08/2014

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:00:00. > :00:00.media at a press conference today, and we will round up a busy night of

:00:00. > :00:26.super league. That is in 15 minutes. Hello. With me this evening at

:00:27. > :00:30.Jeremy Cliffe from the Economist and Alison Phillips from the daily

:00:31. > :00:37.Mirror. That has look at some of the papers.

:00:38. > :00:40.Climate of fear, this is the news of the UK's terror threat being

:00:41. > :00:41.raised. The daily Mirror says more police

:00:42. > :00:46.will be on the streets and at airports.

:00:47. > :00:49.The Times says the Prime Minister will negotiate with the Lib Dems

:00:50. > :00:53.over antiterrorism measures. The Daily Telegraph reports that a

:00:54. > :00:58.laptop seized in Syriac contained research on how to make a biological

:00:59. > :01:03.bomb, and religious justification on using it.

:01:04. > :01:08.The Daily Express has a picture of the missing 5`year`old who is

:01:09. > :01:10.seriously ill, who was taken from hospital by his parents. The Daily

:01:11. > :01:15.Mail claims consumers are panic buying hype powered vacuum cleaners

:01:16. > :01:19.before an EU ban on their sale comes into force.

:01:20. > :01:28.The Financial Times said Labour is considering a health tax.

:01:29. > :01:33.As we would presume, the main headlines are about the terror

:01:34. > :01:37.threat tomorrow. Difficult one for editors, because you don't want to

:01:38. > :01:41.be accused of being sensationalist, but when you have words like

:01:42. > :01:46."highly likely" being issued by the Prime Minister... This comes after a

:01:47. > :01:53.long summer of bleak news from around the globe. It will have been

:01:54. > :01:57.increasingly worried, at home we have seen young British men going to

:01:58. > :02:02.fight alongside ISIS, and now there is the concern about many of them

:02:03. > :02:06.coming back. But also the fear that if it all continues, what the

:02:07. > :02:11.long`term future could be. Theresa May has said an attack is highly

:02:12. > :02:15.likely. We didn't do a story like the slightly today, we appreciate it

:02:16. > :02:20.will add to the concern, these feelings of fear. `` lightly.

:02:21. > :02:26.However, people need to know where we are with this. Does this change

:02:27. > :02:31.the way we live our daily lives? I think so. I completely agree, I

:02:32. > :02:35.don't think this is sensationalist, it is as you say a report on what

:02:36. > :02:40.the Government's telling us, but there is a debate to be heard about

:02:41. > :02:44.how we as ordinary citizens use this sort of information. I was listening

:02:45. > :02:49.to the radio, and there was a debate about whether or not this is

:02:50. > :02:52.directed at us. Are we supposed to take these different levels of

:02:53. > :02:57.threat into account and change our behaviour? My understanding is it is

:02:58. > :03:00.addressed more at organisations like the police and transport

:03:01. > :03:02.authorities. But it affects the atmosphere in which we live our

:03:03. > :03:08.lives. Until about 2006 the public were not

:03:09. > :03:18.informed what was the security was `` to security there was. Lots of

:03:19. > :03:27.biggest Egyptians, local authorities, the risk has gone up so

:03:28. > :03:33.lots of things kick in for that. `` big institutions. The Independent

:03:34. > :03:40.has the headline, "climate of fear" . The media does not want to be

:03:41. > :03:42.responsible for that, but terrorist organisations like Islamic State

:03:43. > :03:48.are. In some ways, terrorism is on the day working for them, isn't it?

:03:49. > :03:52.Is David Cameron said today, this is a fight we will be fighting for

:03:53. > :03:57.generations ahead, most likely. `` as David Cameron said. I think this

:03:58. > :04:03.front page does a good job of bringing home how much the events

:04:04. > :04:08.abroad and are reflected in our daily lives, there is this picture

:04:09. > :04:10.from Cardiff of people about their daily activities, walking through

:04:11. > :04:16.security barriers in preparation for the NATO summit. And the article

:04:17. > :04:24.talks about Iraq, Syria, are to lose to the Russian `` we used to go to

:04:25. > :04:27.these `` it points out quite rightly this is now hitting home, one cannot

:04:28. > :04:34.simply allot the drawbridge on crises happening apparently a long

:04:35. > :04:38.way away. `` pull up the drawbridge. I would imagine a lot of people do

:04:39. > :04:42.not want to lose the freedom we enjoy. If we have rings of steel and

:04:43. > :04:47.security checks at Tube stations and airports... We have been there

:04:48. > :04:50.during the IRA Troubles, no one particularly wants to go back to

:04:51. > :04:54.that and we have been through those periods and come out the other side.

:04:55. > :05:03.And this is a tightrope David Cameron has to walk, can he do what

:05:04. > :05:05.he needs to do to protect people's security without infringing more

:05:06. > :05:09.than is necessary? It is a test for the security

:05:10. > :05:13.services, and also a big test for the Prime Minister in his handling

:05:14. > :05:19.of this. He is trying to distance himself from what in `` some see as

:05:20. > :05:22.infringements on civil liberties by the past Labour Government. He made

:05:23. > :05:26.a big song and dance about the fact his Government was going to get rid

:05:27. > :05:30.of control orders. Neither are suggestions he might be bringing

:05:31. > :05:34.them back as soon as Monday. But it makes it easier for him to bring

:05:35. > :05:39.back control orders and sees passport if we are at a higher level

:05:40. > :05:47.of risk as well. The Daily Express says, new fears of

:05:48. > :05:52.jihadi attack. I mean, as I was saying before, it is very difficult

:05:53. > :05:54.not to present a headline that is good to worry people over breakfast

:05:55. > :05:59.tomorrow morning because that is what we are being told, that is a

:06:00. > :06:04.reality. The other big story being covered by BBC News and no doubt the

:06:05. > :06:10.papers tomorrow is the search for 5`year`old Ashya King, who has a

:06:11. > :06:15.brain tumour. It is such a sad story. He was last seen on the

:06:16. > :06:19.cross`Channel ferry to Cherbourg. It is believed the family are now

:06:20. > :06:23.driving through France. It seems extraordinary the family have not

:06:24. > :06:28.been found, they have the registration number of the car... He

:06:29. > :06:33.will need a wheelchair. And a feeding tube. Apparently this is not

:06:34. > :06:36.strictly illegal. Parents can take their children out of hospital when

:06:37. > :06:41.they are receiving treatment. That in itself is not against the law. I

:06:42. > :06:44.found that remarkable. I think unless the hospital have gone to get

:06:45. > :06:48.an order to get him looked after, which I don't think is the case

:06:49. > :06:53.here... But this is a very poorly little boy, and who knows what the

:06:54. > :07:00.parents are going through. We do not know why they told the boy

:07:01. > :07:02.out. `` took the ball out. They have been documenting his treatment for

:07:03. > :07:07.so long as well. `` boy.

:07:08. > :07:11.The Daily Mail dedicates its front page pretty much to a consumer

:07:12. > :07:19.story. "The great vacuum cleaner stamp paid". `` stampede. We're

:07:20. > :07:23.being told to anticipate a buying frenzy tomorrow as people stormed

:07:24. > :07:26.department stores to buy high`powered vacuum cleaners before

:07:27. > :07:32.it is too late. The EU is cracking down on these. And while obviously

:07:33. > :07:36.the fact that the EU gets involved in these things drives us all up the

:07:37. > :07:39.wall, I have to say I think these stories sometimes overlook the

:07:40. > :07:43.bigger picture which is that practically everyone apart from the

:07:44. > :07:47.fiercest Eurosceptics think we should be part of the single market

:07:48. > :07:51.in some way. If you're part of the single market you have to sign up to

:07:52. > :07:54.common rules and regulations. You can disagree with individual rules,

:07:55. > :07:59.but the bigger picture is that this is something we have to put up with.

:08:00. > :08:10.And while Earth do you need a vacuum cleaner? That is like a fire are. ``

:08:11. > :08:15.Ferrari. But in some ways, a particularly ``

:08:16. > :08:19.this is the kind of stuff people care about, but the EU has an

:08:20. > :08:24.influence over, from bananas to vacuum cleaners to hairdryers.

:08:25. > :08:28.But the people who really care about it are the people who make vacuum

:08:29. > :08:31.cleaners which I imagine is where the story has come from. They will

:08:32. > :08:39.be doing well after this! As cynical we all are.

:08:40. > :08:47.`` how cynical. The Financial Times, they lead on Ukraine, and the latest

:08:48. > :08:52.situation in `` just on the eastern edge, where the claims of a Russian

:08:53. > :08:59.invasion now. Some striking reporting now, from the Financial

:09:00. > :09:02.Times's man on location. He describes the residents digging

:09:03. > :09:11.trenches and preparing for the invasion of rubble. One is quoted

:09:12. > :09:15.saying, I will use my shovel to fight if necessary. `` the invasion

:09:16. > :09:20.of rebels. It seems Russia is invading this part of Ukraine rather

:09:21. > :09:27.like what happened in Crimea. According to NATO. The Russians deny

:09:28. > :09:33.anything like this is taking place. The Daily Telegraph very much linked

:09:34. > :09:38.to that story, don't mess with us, we have nuclear weapons, Putin warns

:09:39. > :09:44.the West. I suppose we didn't need reminding of that. He was speaking

:09:45. > :09:48.at a kind of youth rally, I don't know if he was trying to whip up

:09:49. > :09:57.greater enthusiasm, but it is a really old smack of statement. He is

:09:58. > :10:11.talking like a boardroom thug. # a really bald statement. `` just above

:10:12. > :10:19.that, bake of complaints hit 800. `` the great British bake off.

:10:20. > :10:23.I have missed the whole scandal, but I know it has infuriated many

:10:24. > :10:30.people. A grown man make a big Alaska, an elderly lady took it out

:10:31. > :10:36.of the freezer, his date Alaska melted and he failed in the contest.

:10:37. > :10:43.He stormed off, and the lady, who I feel sorry for, has become a

:10:44. > :10:47.national hate figure. There have been 800 complaints to the BBC, but

:10:48. > :10:50.it is not entirely certain whether there were complaints about the dish

:10:51. > :10:57.being taken out of the freezer or just about the editing which has

:10:58. > :11:00.made this lady into a criminal. Surely the point of the programme is

:11:01. > :11:06.to provide light relief among these terribly depressing stories. And

:11:07. > :11:12.even this now is descending into low skulduggery. Where can we turn?

:11:13. > :11:16.It goes to show we can take our minds of some of the great horrors

:11:17. > :11:21.of the world at the moment, and still have a huge debate about when

:11:22. > :11:23.is the right time to bring out an Alaska and whether it was edited in

:11:24. > :11:27.a fairway. Thank you for taking us through all

:11:28. > :11:42.the papers, you will be back at 11:30pm.

:11:43. > :11:47.the news that Britain's terror threat level has been raised. ``

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