12/12/2015 The Papers

for election and casting their votes for the first time.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

With me are Mihir Bose from the Evening Standard

The Observer welcomes the historic climate change deal

in Paris, quoting the words of the French president

Francois Hollande who described it as a major leap for mankind.

The Independent shows a line of dancing polar bears celebrating

The paper also claims David Cameron is to make a dramatic climbdown

That story also makes the front page of the Telegraph,

pointing out the U-turn will be on the Prime Minister's central

The Mail carries an exclusive interview with

Shaker Aamer, the British man held at Guantanamo bay for 14 years.

The Express goes it alone saying more than 400 miles of roadworks

will be cleared just in time for the great Christmas getaway.

The Sunday Times claims that the man who shouted "you ain't no

Muslim bruv" during an attack at an East London Tube station now

fears retribution from the group calling itself Islamic State.

Lets you give me that landmark deal that we have out of Paris, it is a

lead on the Observer, but interestingly not mentioned on many

of the other papers. World leaders hail Paris deal on climate. They are

always aiming for nothing more than a two degrees increase above

preindustrial levels, and they are now looking like they're pledging

towards more like 1.5 degrees. This article doesn't give you a lot of

detail, does it? No, it doesn't. The comparison is what happened in

Copenhagen in 2009, chaos and so on, and we know how often world leaders

have met on climate change, so in that sense yes it is a major step

forward. But I think we need to be cautious. The leap may have taken

place, but I think mankind hasn't landed on firm soil yet. It is still

up in the air, because we don't know the details, and the devil is in the

details, and starting with America, most of these agreements will have

to be taken back to domestic legislature and assemblies, where

they all agree. India, for instance, have been very resistant to any

agreement. We will have to see exactly what they have all agreed

to, what timescale, and already the article he quotes some scientists

saying it will be difficult to get to 1.5 degrees. What were the

divisions they started off with? It is a wonder that there is any deal

at all, isn't it? Yes, I think there is something to be celebrated. It is

a big deal that we have agreed to agree. There are quite a few targets

that are very ambitious, one of them that has been spoken about is the

greenhouse gas emissions being cut down from 46 billion tons per annum

to near zero within the next 50 years. That is asking for quite a

lot, giving we are nowhere near close to switching. This is going to

be an interesting debate, and it will have to go back, and this has

been hailed as a great achievement. But will it go past the Senate? Or

even the House? Especially as we are going into an election year, will it

be parked until there is a new President? Obama claims that the US

has led this, but there are quite a few issues still to be dealt with.

And within the Republican Party there are still quite a few people

that belief we don't even have a problem with climate change. Rather

than replicating what we have had in the industrialised nations, do we

have a responsibility to help those developing a low carbon way? The

question again is what other details. We have a long history of

these funds being set up, but they are generally channelled back into

consultants and other countries, back into the developed world

anyway. How will this fund be used? We don't know. I think we need to

start mitigating the impact of climate change, and we will need a

lot more than $100 billion a year. It sounds a lot of money but it is

not when you think of the task ahead. Moving on the Telegraph,

Cameron climbs down on EU benefits. The PM is going to have a dinner

this week with some of his European Union leaders. He is apparently

going to have it out with 27 leaders on Thursday, there are wonderful

ideas that apparently his great proposal to make EU... It is a

strange way of phrasing a proposal that was never considered in any

detail by any of the year, because free movement of labour is a

fundamental point. Now he has said, we are parking it in case something

better comes up. I am not quite sure where this is supposed to be. He is

playing a double game, he is trying to satisfy the home audience. I have

been very strict, I am going to negotiate the last line, the last

limit, make sure we get all the benefits, but at the same time he is

telling the EU leaders not to worry, I know this is my hardest line but I

can back down from it. The question is, can he pull it off? A lot of

people already started saying, particularly those campaigning for

us to leave the EU, that he has given way already. Even before the

negotiations have started. The Daily Mail, jihadis must get the hell out

of Britain. This is a world exclusive. They have been speaking

for five days to Shaker Aamer, who was held for five years in

Guantanamo Bay. The paper says he is saying what many Muslims in the UK

do not say. I think quite a lot UK Muslims have been saying that,

and around the world, but I think we can park that headline. It makes a

great copy... I think there are allegations he has made that quite

problematic. story is somewhere further down,

they have chosen been aware that he was being

tortured. He has alleged that the torture he endured was witnessed by

quite damning. He also says that he was denied the right to make a video

appeal to stop Jihadi John from the heading British aid worker Alan

Henning. Apart from the allegations that he has made, the other one that

he was that he was willing to make an appeal and the authorities at

Guantanamo Bay wouldn't allow him to do that. That is an interesting

allegation he is making. We must make it clear that these are

allegations being made in the Daily Mail, but we have been on the phone

to the Foreign Office to get a reaction from the government to this

article. Our Foreign and Commonwealth office spokesperson

said the UK government stands firmly against torture and cruel inhumane

and degrading treatment or punishment. It goes on to say that

the UK does not make use of any so-called enhanced interrogation

techniques. We have consistently made clear our absolute opposition

to such behaviour and our determination to combat it wherever

and whenever it occurs. A pretty clear statement that in response to

this article. He also goes on to talk about how if you don't like

this country, if you are angry about this country, why are you here? The

point here is making a very valid. I would have thought they would be

echoed by a lot of people, a lot of Muslims and people of all faiths and

religions. One of the points he makes, where he notes that things

that are being said by Donald Trump are creating a rift, and that is

helping the extremists. Let's look at a connected story. The Times,

this witness in Leytonstone, he shouted out during the attack a few

days ago. He now fears that his life. It is an interesting story,

the Sunday Times has obviously spoken to him, we don't have full

details we only know that he is called John and that he works as a

security agent. The statement he made reverberated around the world.

It is interesting, because he says he didn't hear this man, the man who

made the attack, he didn't actually hear him think it to Syria. --

link. He didn't even know he was a Muslim, but he assumed by looking at

him that he was a Muslim. That raises another question as to why he

thought he was a Muslim. This is not in any way to value the statement he

made, but why should he immediately jump to the conclusion that he was a

muslin? That again raises other questions about how we look at these

things -- Muslim. ISIS has very nicely stated several things, and we

are buying into these assumptions. It says, he looked to be a

terrorist, and I would love to know what that looks like. So would I.

Another story, England and Wales clash in Euro 2016. How excited are

you both about this? I am very excited, because it will bring

together for the first time the two nations will clash. Wales have not

been to an international competition since the 50s. And in Gareth Bale

they have perhaps the greatest player in the British nation at the

moment has, and it will be very interesting to see how, whether

Gareth Bale and a couple other players, like Aaron Ramsey and so

on, can beat England. England's group on the whole looks quite

good. I am told that Group E is the tough one to be on. The Irish seem

to have got the worst of it. Yes, the republic are written with

Belgium and Sweden, I think. You have been paying attention! The

Sunday Express, we are looking at how much Donald Trump has to spend

to get his party nomination, compare to Hillary Clinton. It is

interesting, because they are trying to convince their own party faithful

to vote. Donald Trump is spending his own money so he doesn't have to

worry about raising money, which is what Clinton and the others have

been doing. Secondly, Trump has worked out what everyone thinks of

his views, and he has worked out that the more outrageous statements

he makes the more publicity he gets, so he doesn't need to spend money to

advertise, he just goes on a news programme and say that they should

stop Muslims or Mexicans coming in. It is not hurting him in the polls,

and I think his slogan, make America great again, appeals to a certain

sector of the community that looks back on a pre- civil rights and pre-

gender rights days with a sense of nest Ultra. It is a section of the

population that believes that that was truly great America. How that

conflates with voting patterns in a country that no longer has the

demographics of the 1950s and 60s is anybody's guess. I think he's not

going to get very close to the White House, but that is just me. I hope I

am not wrong, but I may be. I think this is his strategy, this is what

they wanted. We have seen this in other countries, politician emerges

and makes a section of the population feel that have lost out,

and that the only way they can regain power is by going in for such

beliefs, that he represents the people who have been disinherited,

as it were. Clearly, 35% of the republicans are supporting him, so

there is certainly a block that he can exploit. We have quite a way to

go, his strategies might change. They start early. That is the Papers

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