:00:00. > :00:00.where there was a real humdinger between two former world champions.
:00:00. > :00:13.Sportsday in 15 minutes after the papers.
:00:14. > :00:16.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers
:00:17. > :00:20.With me are guests joining are the Times Columnist Matthew Syed
:00:21. > :00:31.and Melanie Eusebe - Professor at the Hult Business School.
:00:32. > :00:35.Before we get into discussion, let us look at what the papers lead
:00:36. > :00:38.The Times leads with news that so called Islamic State fighters
:00:39. > :00:39.have captured large parts of eastern Afghanistan.
:00:40. > :00:41.The conviction of Maoist cult leader Aravindan
:00:42. > :00:51.The same story dominates the Mirror's front page -
:00:52. > :00:56.focusing on the dramatic testimony from Balakrishnan's daughter.
:00:57. > :00:58."PM may be forced to back Brexit" is the Telegraph's headline.
:00:59. > :01:01.The paper claims David Cameron has said he may have to campaign to
:01:02. > :01:06.leave the EU - if other European leaders ignore his demands.
:01:07. > :01:10.Meanwhile the FT claims there are concerns at the
:01:11. > :01:15.European Central Bank about David Cameron's plans for treaty change.
:01:16. > :01:20.According to the Mail, thousands of European doctors
:01:21. > :01:23.and nurses will be allowed to work in the UK without checks
:01:24. > :01:29.Finally - the Express says the UK is bracing itself for "the wildest
:01:30. > :01:51.All of that and more but let's start with the story which pops up in a
:01:52. > :01:56.lot of papers, the Daily Mirror captive slave for 30 years by my
:01:57. > :02:03.dad. This is a horrendous story but it is rare but it is intriguing and
:02:04. > :02:08.fascinating and horrifying. The story is shocking for so many
:02:09. > :02:18.reasons. Yes, the abuse lasted for 30 years but it was in a communist
:02:19. > :02:22.collective and she was kept in the collective for 30 years where he
:02:23. > :02:29.made her believe that he was God and she would be killed by lightning or
:02:30. > :02:36.spontaneous combustion if she disobeyed him or left. I can't
:02:37. > :02:42.imagine the reign of fear she was living under. He was convicted.
:02:43. > :02:45.Let's see what the sentencing says but from where the Daily Mirror
:02:46. > :02:53.comes from, there is no punishment dear enough for him. January 29 is
:02:54. > :02:57.the date he will be sentenced. He has been told to expect a
:02:58. > :03:04.substantial sentence. It is an extraordinary story. What does it
:03:05. > :03:10.tell us about society, is it a freak one-off? It tells us about the power
:03:11. > :03:14.of mind control, this sadistic egomaniac kept him in prison in the
:03:15. > :03:19.house and gave her these messages consistently, coupled with physical
:03:20. > :03:23.abuse and it is inevitable you will start to adopt and take on these
:03:24. > :03:29.attitudes because she had no access to other sources of information. He
:03:30. > :03:37.didn't want the to leave so he could continue to entrench them in
:03:38. > :03:43.invisible handcuffs. I'm so glad he has been caught and will be
:03:44. > :03:49.convicted and sentenced. It is relatively rare to see this extreme
:03:50. > :03:54.end but cults are a widespread phenomenon. And people who want to
:03:55. > :04:01.control other people will use the most extreme methods and it is vital
:04:02. > :04:05.you have laws. How did it go undetected for this long? Very
:04:06. > :04:10.manipulative and pretty clever in terms of his statistic aim. It is
:04:11. > :04:15.extraordinary, when we think of cults we tend to think of a farm in
:04:16. > :04:20.the middle of nowhere, this was in the middle of the biggest city in
:04:21. > :04:28.the country. Exactly and one of the biggest cities on the planet and
:04:29. > :04:35.gentrification in the area, Brixton is a cultural Mecca and so I don't
:04:36. > :04:41.understand... I really don't understand and I feel for her
:04:42. > :04:45.because I... The invisible handcuffs, to know the world is
:04:46. > :04:49.outside and to not be exposed to it and have access to it and to
:04:50. > :04:53.honestly think I will be hit by lightning if I don't obey this
:04:54. > :04:58.person, for 30 years, I can't imagine the fear she was living
:04:59. > :05:02.under. On a positive note, I don't know if you saw the interview with a
:05:03. > :05:08.daughter which was a compelling interview. Partly because she made
:05:09. > :05:13.so vivid the reality of her life but also because of her rationality and
:05:14. > :05:17.her love and forgiveness. She quoted Nelson Mandela saying I don't want
:05:18. > :05:22.to take the hate with me. I want to be reconciled with my father and the
:05:23. > :05:27.interviewed somebody who helped her to deal with the emotional trauma
:05:28. > :05:35.and said she is coming on well and she will be able to live a full
:05:36. > :05:43.life. In fairness to Maoists, a Maoist cults. There is no mention in
:05:44. > :05:47.the Little red book of this. He was guilty of a lot of things, famine
:05:48. > :05:53.and cultural Revolution but he wasn't somebody who have
:05:54. > :05:58.supernatural powers. Wright, moving on to another significant story, the
:05:59. > :06:07.Independent. Sharia courts, the inside story. What we make of this?
:06:08. > :06:12.So, essentially it is an Expose explaining there is a parallel
:06:13. > :06:19.system of Islamic justice and it is operating in the shadow of the law
:06:20. > :06:28.and with this, when because sharia law is quite... I can't think of the
:06:29. > :06:32.word. It is quite certain... Prescriptive in terms of marriage
:06:33. > :06:37.and the sanctity of marriage and what that means is on the flip side
:06:38. > :06:43.when there is a case of domestic abuse, women can be locked into
:06:44. > :06:48.abusive relationships under this shadow sharia law operating in the
:06:49. > :06:54.shadow of British law. A study was done by a legal scholar in the
:06:55. > :06:59.Netherlands after attending 15 hours of hearings at Islamic Council in
:07:00. > :07:02.late as well as Birmingham Central Mosque sharia. The reason I struggle
:07:03. > :07:09.with my words is because sometimes when I have to be careful because it
:07:10. > :07:15.feels like it can be loaded particularly regarding what is
:07:16. > :07:19.happening right now and so everyone knows I am a feminist however I
:07:20. > :07:28.would like to know more about this story before I make the poll. It
:07:29. > :07:31.gets to the heart of multiculturalism and issues. I will
:07:32. > :07:39.be less careful, I do not think the root cause of the problem is
:07:40. > :07:43.courts, it is legal -- religious doctrine. They are saying to women
:07:44. > :07:48.you need to stay with your husband, the woman is entitled under the law
:07:49. > :07:53.to seek redress from the courts were divorce if they have a plausible
:07:54. > :07:57.case. But they feel they cannot go against the judge because they have
:07:58. > :08:02.religious authority and therefore it is morally unacceptable to go
:08:03. > :08:09.against it. If we put our faith in the judges because they have some
:08:10. > :08:12.religious baggage or ancient scriptures rather than rationality,
:08:13. > :08:16.science and what we think about morality and the secular laws, we
:08:17. > :08:26.will go wrong. That is the root cause. I could see you listening
:08:27. > :08:32.with interest. A lot of people will feel instinctive reaction to this
:08:33. > :08:37.story. Most definitely. And the story lends itself to an instinctive
:08:38. > :08:43.reaction however there are choices as well that these women have made.
:08:44. > :08:48.It isn't just necessarily about the judges and courts and the law is not
:08:49. > :08:52.listening to them, it is also them not reporting it because that is
:08:53. > :08:58.their belief system. That is why I have to be careful and all of us
:08:59. > :09:01.should be a bit more careful when we report on these. I don't think any
:09:02. > :09:05.religious scholar disagrees if you look through the centuries of
:09:06. > :09:10.religions they have often been used as tools by men to repress women.
:09:11. > :09:14.This is a manifestation of something which is a deep history, I am not
:09:15. > :09:18.saying all religions today do that but it has had that historical
:09:19. > :09:26.dimension. I have never seen from page based on 15 hours of data and
:09:27. > :09:30.research. Blatantly it says after 15 hours of hearings and you are on the
:09:31. > :09:36.front of the paper. That needs to be more... The scholars are never
:09:37. > :09:45.allowed in. This is the first time they have had the access. The Times
:09:46. > :09:48.newspaper, this is basis. Isis invaded Afghanistan. Islamic State
:09:49. > :09:55.fighters have captured swathes of eastern Afghanistan. Another one of
:09:56. > :09:59.these images, Isis fighters in training. A powerful story and it is
:10:00. > :10:05.about the extension of the caliphate, about the extent to which
:10:06. > :10:10.Isis can further its objectives by having more geographical territory
:10:11. > :10:15.and Anthony Lloyd, the Times reporter has been kidnapped and shot
:10:16. > :10:21.by fanatics but it continues to go out to reveal the truth. At a time
:10:22. > :10:27.when journalism has quite a low reputation, I think it is important
:10:28. > :10:31.we see the truth at ground level and do not just rely on what the
:10:32. > :10:37.government tells us and this is a vivid story and troubling. Anthony
:10:38. > :10:43.Lloyd is one of the great modern correspondence. Goodness me, every
:10:44. > :10:50.day we hear another story of Isis or Isil or Islamic State and this move
:10:51. > :10:53.into Afghanistan is troubling. Yes, they have said that due to the
:10:54. > :10:58.withdrawal of the Western combat forces and the splintering of the
:10:59. > :11:04.Taliban, this is the expectation and has caught everyone by surprise did
:11:05. > :11:10.terms of that move and in terms of the way they are governing the area,
:11:11. > :11:16.it is quite public. You can find it on YouTube, public beheadings,
:11:17. > :11:21.strict adherence to Koranic teachings and it's quite surprising
:11:22. > :11:29.because it is quite open. Moving to something different, the Financial
:11:30. > :11:32.Times, Cameron EU currency call alarms the ECB. The ECB is the
:11:33. > :11:40.European Central Bank, European Union... With your business hat on,
:11:41. > :11:47.what do you make of this? Well, it is quite straightforward. We have a
:11:48. > :11:55.treaty and 19 out of 20 member states Right now have a common
:11:56. > :12:01.currency with Denmark and the UK opting out that. And so now says he
:12:02. > :12:08.wants the union to be more of a multi-currency union however the
:12:09. > :12:14.ECB, marry a drag be says this will open up the slippery slope for the
:12:15. > :12:23.EU having more than one or two or three currencies and some of them
:12:24. > :12:28.would also... They said the Polish premier describes the Euro as a bad
:12:29. > :12:32.idea making Poland a second grease. You can see the splintering
:12:33. > :12:38.throughout the EU regarding whether we should have won currency or many.
:12:39. > :12:41.Good news. It is crazy to have one interest rate and currency for a
:12:42. > :12:46.number of nations that have different faces of the economic
:12:47. > :12:51.cycle. It gives an advantage for the countries outside the Euro zone. Of
:12:52. > :12:55.course. It will devalue instead of staying at a high interest rates in
:12:56. > :13:01.the middle of a recession. There is no problem with having a single
:13:02. > :13:05.market and consistent set of rules for competition but having a single
:13:06. > :13:12.currency goes against everything I learned in macro economics. That is
:13:13. > :13:17.true however if you look at... It would be unevenly split. How do you
:13:18. > :13:22.apply or determine who should have the single currency and two should
:13:23. > :13:27.be without? Let individual countries to side and then you have consistent
:13:28. > :13:31.balls in terms of markets and retail and regulation but you have people
:13:32. > :13:41.deciding on their own interest rates. This will be the debate David
:13:42. > :13:51.Cameron will be having. I want to look at the Aravindan Balakrishnan
:13:52. > :13:57.story. And the Oldham win is buoyant for Corbin. It was a big victory. I
:13:58. > :14:03.am not somebody who is a big Corbin supporter but I feel sympathy, if
:14:04. > :14:09.anything went wrong it would be the Corbin effect, Labour bombs out.
:14:10. > :14:16.They increased their majority from a respected former MP. They say it is
:14:17. > :14:22.the new guy, Jim McMahon. There is nothing Corbin seems to be able to
:14:23. > :14:27.do that makes a cut through. I'm not saying I like his policy but it is a
:14:28. > :14:34.significant achievement for the Labour leader. As an independent
:14:35. > :14:41.observer, is the media ganging up on Jeremy Corbyn? Yes, I do. OK! On
:14:42. > :14:46.that succinct analysis, we will see you later on. Those were the front
:14:47. > :14:55.pages. That is it for this hour. Thank you to my guests. We are back
:14:56. > :15:02.at 11:30pm for another look through the stories making the news. Stay
:15:03. > :15:08.with us on BBC News. At 11pm, more on the mass shooting in California,
:15:09. > :15:20.being investigated as an act of terrorism. Next, Sportsday.
:15:21. > :15:23.Hello and welcome to Sportsday - I'm Matt Smith.