07/11/2015 The Papers

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Welcome to the Papers. Good evening to both of our guest is. Let's have

a look at some of the front pages. The Daily Star leading with the

downing of the Russian plane in Egypt last week. It says that spy

chiefs here suspect British jihadi is made the jet on. The Sunday

express says that extremists with British accents were overheard

celebrating the death of the passengers and crew. Aviation

experts say that tragedy will cause a fundamental overhaul of airport

security across the globe. The story also makes the front page of the

Sunday Telegraph. Its leaders are planned by the EU to pay African

countries to take back asylum seekers. The Mail on Sunday claims

that James Hewitt, Princess Diana's former lover, has offered some of

her private letters for sale. And, the Sunday Times reports a

high-profile footballers face losing millions of pounds after making poor

investment choices. So, the lack of developments on this

aircraft crash seems to lead everything. We have here on the

Independent, it is 50-50 that CCTV was not being watched. They have

spoken to an official at Sharm el-Sheikh airport, who spoke on the

condition of anonymity, and they said that there is closed circuit

TV, which is fair is much to spy on the employees as it is to spy on the

passengers, but that it was routinely not being watched. So,

there was a camera that was focused on the baggage handlers to make sure

that people were not putting stuff into luggage that shouldn't be there

for taking stuff out. Members of staff doing this. But that camera,

the feed was regularly not being watched. A 50-50 chance of it not

being watched. On the inside pages, CCTV station was routinely abandoned

at Sharm el-Sheikh airport, says the headline. This is focusing not just

on who may have got on the plane, who had access to it. Yes, there may

not have been a suicide bomber taking the bomb on the plane with

them, but it may have been somebody paid for somebody sympathetic to the

jihad who was working at the airport and may have slipped the bomb into

an item of baggage. Where is the baby getting this information from?

It is speaking anonymously to people at Sharm el-Sheikh, people working

there. They are also reporting that a lot of the CCTV cameras are

broken, so not working to begin with. They have identified various

slips in security at that airport in the days leading up to the plane

coming down. They are also referring to... Which is what a lot of them

are talking about, the jihadi chatter that is being picked up by

various intelligence agencies. Let's move on to the Sunday Express, whose

front pages dominated by that. This is not necessarily people involved,

is it? Will people reacting? We don't know, it is a very loosely

held together story. The Sunday Express is basically saying that

jihadis were overheard in Egypt celebrating the plane coming down,

but why wouldn't they be? That is what jihadi is going to do. To my

mind, given what the story says inside this is quite an inflammatory

headline, because what it says is that GCHQ could overhear jihadis in

Egypt celebrating the plane going down, and some of those celebrating

had British accents. Inside it says British link to jet bomb... Yes, and

then it says there has also been some internet traffic suggesting

that there was British involvement in the attack. This is from a GCHQ

source. That, clearly, if it is true, it would be a smoking gun or

closer to it. The quote from a GCHQ source, an anonymous source, goes on

to talk about the British jihadis in Egypt fighting with Islamic State,

who were trained in Syria and who have an electronics background.

Speculative then? Completely speculative, and the worry is that

this is all coming just as the UK is discussing whether to give more

surveillance powers to British intelligence. And here they are

saying, look! Look what we can hear with all our wonderful intercept

capacity. What they are hearing is not very much and nothing that is

very conclusive that all. At least not what they are telling us. I was

going to say, that is what the papers have managed to pick up.

Obviously they are mandatory and chatter -- monitoring chatter, which

isn't that clever if you are jihadis and if you are involved in a terror

attack. But if you are jihadis you will celebrate this. If he didn't

celebrate it you would have to review what you are doing as a

jihadi. The fact that they are celebrating it doesn't mean

anything, it is the implication that they are linked in any way. It is

internet chatter suggesting there was British involvement in the

attack, that is different from chatter celebrating it. And

different again from what it appears the Americans are saying, which is

on the front page of the Telegraph, which is that people at ISIS HQ were

also celebrating. There are so many different streams, lots of

celebrating going on in the Middle East, from bad people, apparently.

Certain parts of the Middle East. Obviously... Sometimes you get

multiple groups claiming responsibility for one attack. A lot

of Middle East experts say that Islamic State is not really in

Egypt, it is groups affiliated with or supporters of all who have

claimed a partnership with Islamic State who could be responsible for

this if it is a bomb. If it is, that will be the first time ferrite

Islamic State affiliates in the Egyptian Sinai, but if they were

behind it and it would be the first time they have internationalised

their attacks, because in the past year their attacks have mainly been

on Egyptian security and Egyptian... There have been attacks

in the north of Sinai, so nowhere near Sharm el-Sheikh. This would be

the first time they have got involved in something International.

With all of this, whether it is true or speculative, a lot of newspapers

are also reporting on scrutiny of airports not only in Sharma fake but

elsewhere in the world as well. There are some other news stories in

the papers tomorrow, shall we move on to the Telegraph and an attack on

a secret EU deal for migrants that is actually no longer a secret? It

has been leaked to the Sunday Telegraph. They are saying that the

EU has come up with a proposal to pay African countries to take back a

lot of the migrants who have come over to the EU during the course of

recent months. The quid African countries, who have skills

and experience which the EU economy needs. People like doctors,

entrepreneurs. Whoever it is in the EU who is coming up with us, I guess

that is how they would spend it. That they are trying to ensure that

the migration that does happen to the EU is migration that is

economically beneficial. The way the Telegraph is painting it is that

they are actually... Week, the EU taxpayer, are

effectively bribing African countries to take back the migrants

we don't want. To take back asylum seekers that we don't want, which is

kind of not There maybe some human rights groups

who have something to about that. Under international law you

being persecuted. Even if you are paying for it, yes! There is no easy

answer to the migrant crisis. is no easy answer but I don't think

this is the answer. No one claiming that there is an easy

answer, but this... I think this is really insidious, the idea of

ranking migrants entire... Asylum inside, that is

what -- asylum aside, that is how our entire immigration system

works. Who don't we want? People who clean our streets or people who run

our NHS? It wasn't that long ago that Theresa May said that we had an

asylum seeker system we are very proud of, but this doesn't sound

like something that will go down very well with many people. Clearly

if the quid pro quo for that is talking about economic migrants,

clearly if you are Doctor Who is being encouraged to come to the from

Africa, you are by definition not an asylum seeker. So there is some

muddy nest between which two categories of migration we are

talking about. All of that needs investigation on a case-by-case

basis. -- if you are are Doctor who is being encouraged. And here we

have a letter to Donald Tusk at a public letter by David Cameron that

will be released. This will be saying if you don't do this list of

things we will quit the EU. That doesn't seem like a great way to

start the negotiation, with an ultimatum. You risk those 27

European heads of state going, all right, fine, leave. It just seems a

bit of a weird way to enter this conversation. Are you saying this is

more for rust and it is for them? It is an open letter, so there is the

answer. I think it is interesting if Cameron is making a threat about an

exit from the EU, and one that he would support and campaign for in

the British referendum, which is coming up next year, then that may

be a shift from what we have seen before from this government, who

have been saying, we hope to get the deal that we can champion to the

British people for staying in the EU. You think it gives a mixed and

confusing message to the public from David Cameron, saying I want to stay

in but I'm willing to pull out, we have a referendum, you decide. It is

a spin doctor's nightmare. It always has been, there has within a

confused approach and it is because the party is completely about it.

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