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:00:00. > :00:00.McFadden has been sacked for apparent disloyalty to leader Jeremy

:00:00. > :00:21.Corbyn -- Press. Hello and welcome to

:00:22. > :00:24.our look ahead to what the papers With me are Beth Rigby, the

:00:25. > :00:37.media editor of the Times and author and chief executive of the Creative

:00:38. > :00:40.Industries Federation, John Tomorrow's front pages, starting

:00:41. > :00:49.with the FT, which leads with the bid by

:00:50. > :00:51.Sainsbury's for Argos and Homebase, which it says is

:00:52. > :00:53.an attempt to bolster its position ahead of the entry of Amazon

:00:54. > :00:56.into the UK groceries market. Labour's reshuffle, and the sacking

:00:57. > :00:59.of Michael Dugher, leads the Independent, which also carries a

:01:00. > :01:02.picture of a tearful Barack Obama as Metro leads with

:01:03. > :01:05.the disappearance of the former Police have found three bodies

:01:06. > :01:09.in the garden of the family home. The Telegraph says that police

:01:10. > :01:11.failed to notice for six weeks that the Briton

:01:12. > :01:14.suspected of appearing in the latest free rein on the EU referendum after

:01:15. > :01:22.a manoeuvre by leading Eurosceptics. Mr Cameron brought the announcement

:01:23. > :01:24.forward after a meeting with cabinet ministers Chris Grayling and Theresa

:01:25. > :01:27.Villiers, according to the Times. The Express says the move is a

:01:28. > :01:30."huge boost" to the Leave Campaign. And the Daily Mail calls it

:01:31. > :01:45.a "victory for democracy". We will cross to America, The

:01:46. > :01:57.Independent. Obama's tears, the gun lobby's jeers. Pushing through

:01:58. > :02:06.stricter gun controls. He says enough is enough? Look at the power

:02:07. > :02:20.of still photography, for a moment. That picture, particularly the one

:02:21. > :02:30.used in the close-up, a massive tear. We were talking about how this

:02:31. > :02:35.was Obama's unfinished distance. -- business. He was going through his

:02:36. > :02:40.last year with a sense of, even if he doesn't get that far on this

:02:41. > :02:48.issue, or you get the sense that healthcare was his big campaign in

:02:49. > :02:52.the first term. That had moderate effect. This is going to be his

:02:53. > :03:00.defining moment in the second term, even if he doesn't go very far. We

:03:01. > :03:20.know that the plans he has a modest adjustments to the John Morse. -- to

:03:21. > :03:23.the are. -- are. It is curious to a European audience what is going on

:03:24. > :03:32.about. When you realise that the vast majority of Americans agree

:03:33. > :03:37.with the President's proposals for strict background checks, it is

:03:38. > :03:44.interesting, isn't it? Yes. He said he might not have the support for

:03:45. > :03:48.the Congress, but he does have the support of the people. He said he

:03:49. > :03:55.will push through the measures, he says in his speech, just because

:03:56. > :03:59.it's hard, that's no excuse not to try. He said it may not happen

:04:00. > :04:05.during his presidency, but he has decided to use his final year...

:04:06. > :04:11.Instead of being a lame duck, he is going to try and push forward. Why

:04:12. > :04:16.are the Republicans so resistant to it? Partly because of their own

:04:17. > :04:26.voter base, they are very resistant to any further gun controls. There

:04:27. > :04:36.is also a more this rule animosity between President Obama and his

:04:37. > :04:41.Republican rivals. They do not want to relinquish any power to him or

:04:42. > :04:48.his presidential authority. It will be quite a bitter fight. We saw the

:04:49. > :04:54.Republican candidates coming out to denounce what he was saying before

:04:55. > :04:57.he even said it. Yes, they said all kinds of things. In the radio

:04:58. > :05:02.address, he said he would make an announcement. But he had never

:05:03. > :05:04.actually said anything, and he is well within the presidential

:05:05. > :05:12.prerogative to push these things through. When it comes to gun

:05:13. > :05:16.control, in America, we British people are not going to get our head

:05:17. > :05:23.around what the Americans are thinking. But does it mean, somewhat

:05:24. > :05:27.on the right, do they need a Republican to say, enough is

:05:28. > :05:33.enough? More people are being killed by fellow Americans than terrorists

:05:34. > :05:44.in the United States. It is just not going to happen. It Obama is the

:05:45. > :05:50.most likely president to really campaign on this. A second term

:05:51. > :05:58.president, they are not fighting for re-election so they can choose their

:05:59. > :06:03.issues. Most go for foreign policy and fight a war somewhere. But he

:06:04. > :06:08.has gone with a domestic policy, he will make a little progress but not

:06:09. > :06:21.much. If there is a Republican president, they will surely reverse

:06:22. > :06:25.whatever he comes up with. With The Independent, rebels defiant as

:06:26. > :06:29.Jeremy Corbyn is ridiculed by the man he sacked. That is Michael

:06:30. > :06:39.Duggan, the Shadow Culture Secretary. We learnt in the last few

:06:40. > :06:44.minutes that Pat McFadden has been fired as well, apparently for

:06:45. > :06:54.disloyalty to Jeremy Corbyn. The most rebellious MP since 1997, I

:06:55. > :07:00.think. Apparently David Cameron has voted more times with the Labour

:07:01. > :07:16.Party than Jeremy Corbyn? If anyone knows the answer to that, please get

:07:17. > :07:25.in touch! So, two and have been sacked for speaking out against

:07:26. > :07:35.Jeremy Corbyn. He has sacked Pat McFadden, a very pro- European

:07:36. > :07:47.Labour MP who took the portfolio when Corbyn was elected. He has been

:07:48. > :07:53.fired for disloyalty. Arguably, Corbyn feels that Hilary Benn has

:07:54. > :07:59.been very disloyal to him as well. There was a free vote about Syrian

:08:00. > :08:04.air strikes, but he stood up and made a very passionate speech urging

:08:05. > :08:10.his Labour benches to vote with David Cameron. Part of the talk

:08:11. > :08:16.about this reshuffle has been that Jeremy Corbyn will use it to stamp

:08:17. > :08:20.his authority on the party and move Hilary Benn to a different

:08:21. > :08:25.portfolio. It does not seem he is able to do that, because he cannot

:08:26. > :08:31.galvanise his own shadow cabinet to bend to his will. There are reports

:08:32. > :08:39.that he would face ten potential resignations from other shadow

:08:40. > :08:48.cabinet ministers. So, these are rather small fish in the shadow of

:08:49. > :08:55.the Cabinet. We have heard nothing of the big news, such as foreign

:08:56. > :09:02.affairs. What about the Prime Minister and his cabinet? The Daily

:09:03. > :09:16.Mail, victory fought democracy. MP EU, in -out campaigning. The express

:09:17. > :09:22.has done a similar story. The Times, interesting as well. Saying that

:09:23. > :09:28.David Cameron was forced to do this by the prospect of what we were just

:09:29. > :09:36.saying, the prospect of resignations within his own Cabinet. This is an

:09:37. > :09:44.extraordinarily difficult moment for the government, assuming it takes

:09:45. > :09:49.place in June or September. We have now got, in some ways it was

:09:50. > :09:56.inevitable, two sides of the Cabinet are going to be openly campaigning.

:09:57. > :10:02.Trying to stop it would have been almost impossible. The pro-

:10:03. > :10:10.campaigner have a very difficult... The anti- campaign is pretty

:10:11. > :10:17.straightforward. They don't believe David Cameron will bring back any

:10:18. > :10:21.meaningful reforms. Yet, many ministers, the mainstream of the

:10:22. > :10:32.Conservative Party who adopt his position which is very Euro

:10:33. > :10:36.centrist, they can't really campaign yet. They have got nothing to

:10:37. > :10:47.campaign on. This supposedly negotiation has not achieved

:10:48. > :10:51.anything noticeable. This is a victory of sorts for the campaign to

:10:52. > :10:57.leave? There was talk about this in the run-up to the party conference,

:10:58. > :11:03.Eurosceptics were asking David Cameron to give the Conservative

:11:04. > :11:09.Cabinet a free vote. He resisted. I think that the writing on the wall

:11:10. > :11:16.was clear. I think it was a question of when, not if for David Cameron.

:11:17. > :11:20.On the basis that he knew he could not convince his Cabinet to support

:11:21. > :11:24.a position of collective responsibility in Europe. He knew it

:11:25. > :11:30.would infuriate his Eurosceptic backbenchers. In terms of whether it

:11:31. > :11:37.is a victory for them, if you look at how the pro- EU wing of the party

:11:38. > :11:44.reacted, they were very disappointed that the PM hadn't forced it

:11:45. > :11:49.through. You compare that to those who are pro, who say it was a mature

:11:50. > :11:54.decision of party politics, that tells you what you need to know.

:11:55. > :12:01.Doesn't show you how, when you mention the two talismans for the

:12:02. > :12:07.pro- EU calls, people were saying that during John Major's time stop

:12:08. > :12:12.work he was undermined by the Eurosceptics in his party. It shows

:12:13. > :12:28.how far the party has moved, that these two elderly gents are still

:12:29. > :12:33.really the only two pro- European members. It takes a lot to find

:12:34. > :12:45.people who will openly state their opinions. Police blunder left a

:12:46. > :12:48.terrorist free? He is in the latest Islamic State video, arrested on

:12:49. > :12:55.terror charges. Apparently supporting Islamic State. He was

:12:56. > :13:00.then released, as long as he gave his passport in, which he didn't?

:13:01. > :13:07.There are two things. Firstly, we don't have border checks. Not when

:13:08. > :13:16.you leave, the same way you do when you are coming in. It is easy to

:13:17. > :13:28.leave. There are checks when you arrive, it is easier to leave. The

:13:29. > :13:31.second point is that there are 750 people that security forces believe

:13:32. > :13:36.have returned from Syria or Islamic State areas, fighting with the

:13:37. > :13:45.Jihadis. The security services cannot monitor that amount of

:13:46. > :13:51.people. So, this is talking about a police blunder. I would argue that

:13:52. > :13:56.it is quite difficult for security services to monitor all these

:13:57. > :14:00.people. It might be, given the changing threat we have seen over

:14:01. > :14:04.the past three or four years with these homegrown Jihadis coming out,

:14:05. > :14:10.it might be that the government might use this latest case to start

:14:11. > :14:15.really thinking about how they could control orders on people or restrict

:14:16. > :14:21.their movements. It should be that hard, it is a lot harder in mainland

:14:22. > :14:25.Europe where there are so many transnational land orders. Even if

:14:26. > :14:35.you are opposed, we are seeing in Denmark and Sweden... A famous

:14:36. > :14:44.bridge. Even the Spanish reimposed territory against terrorists with

:14:45. > :14:48.friends. It is still a lot easier to get across land borders rather than

:14:49. > :14:55.sea borders. I would argue this is a blunder and it is embarrassing.

:14:56. > :15:09.Odds of winning the lotto. I actually don't have that paper. I

:15:10. > :15:18.have it here. The odds are getting worse. What are they, millions and

:15:19. > :15:26.millions and millions anyway? It is just one in 14 million, and now it

:15:27. > :15:44.is one in 20 million. One in 45 million X! There is always a chance.

:15:45. > :15:55.Thank you. Stay with us on BBC News. Much more coming up in the sports.

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