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we have the latest from the European challenge cup. That is coming up. | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
With me are the broadcaster Penny Smith and Liam Halligan, | :00:18. | :00:25. | |
the economics commentator for The Daily Telegraph. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
"Nuclear Fallout" is the Metro's headline. | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
It refers to the row between Britain and Russia | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
after a public inquiry concluded the former Russian spy, Alexander | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Litvinenko, was probably killed with the approval of President Putin. | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
The i goes with the same story, saying the Kremlin views | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
The Times claims Russia could be linked to seven political | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
assassinations apart from Litvinenko. | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
The Guardian features the same story but also reports that | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
one of Britain's top gynaecologists advises that a fifth | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
of maternity units should close to ensure mothers get better care. | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
The FT's top story is that US and European stock markets have | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
recovered a little after the Central Bank prepared to launch | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
The Mirror claims that the Conservatives could snub UK | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
steel firms and use cheap imports to build new Royal Navy warships. | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
The Daily Telegraph's front page highlights the news that | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
the murder rate in England and Wales has risen sharply | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
And finally, the Sun has more on the inquiry | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
The paper says managers tried to hide accusations that an unknown DJ | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
seduced a 15-year-old girl, who later killed herself. | :01:38. | :01:54. | |
Russia in the frame for a string of murders. The picture on the front is | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
of the two assassins, according to this report, of Alexander | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
Litvinenko. And the suggestion is that other assassinations were | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
carried out in the UK, but not necessarily by these two. We have a | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
328 page report today. Everyone is wading through it. The headline, of | :02:19. | :02:28. | |
course, is that the FSB probably sanctioned the killing of Alexander | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
Litvinenko in 2006. Death by polonium in a London hotel. And that | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
means that the Russian government probably is implicated as well. I | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
think that what is interesting today, as well as the fact that this | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
should provide some relief to the grieving widow of Alexander | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
Litvinenko and his son, who has also been making media appearances today, | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
is that the Russians have responded in kind calling this report blatant | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
provocation and a politicising of what is in fact a criminal case. You | :03:05. | :03:14. | |
do get the sense, however, from Whitehall that despite the strong | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
rhetoric, the real point of today is to draw a line under this episode. | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
There is no talk of sanctioning Russia beyond the exist and EU | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
sanctions still in force... Except that they are considering, Theresa | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
May is considering, isn't she? She is considering to see if they should | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
issue fresh extradition requests for these two, one of whom is an MP and | :03:38. | :03:47. | |
the other is a Russian Army veteran. They said they don't want to call | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
for a boycott of the World Cup, which is in Russia in 2018. We are | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
not seeking to punish ordinary citizens. But if they were going to, | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
today would be the day to do it. But that wider point, in general, asking | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
for the extradition of these two is frivolous. It ain't going to happen. | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
If you really want to punish the Russians, you freeze President | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
Putin's assets. They have already said they will do that. But then on | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
the other hand, we do live in a global world and at the moment, | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
Islamic State is a bigger issue than this and therefore... And we need | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
Russia in order to try and get some sort of deal there. This has cast a | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
shadow over bilateral relations for a decade between Russia and the UK. | :04:42. | :04:50. | |
There is a lot of pragmatism, if I can put it that way, at the top of | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
the British government that we need Russia not only to tackle Islamic | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
State but also Russia as a member of the UN Security Council in terms of | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
the rapprochement with Iran, which is also very important. David | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
Cameron declares war on which can't lawyers. -- witch-hunt. They say | :05:13. | :05:23. | |
they. Access to public money for foreigners who have not been in the | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
UK for 12 months. -- they say they will choke off access. This is one | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
of those stories that you have to undertake. Essentially, they are | :05:33. | :05:41. | |
saying... And you can see from this headline, pm supports Daily | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
campaign to prevent the hounding of brave British soldiers. -- Prime | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
Minister supports. I want to put on my glasses to make sure I don't get | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
this wrong. Sweeping changes to legal aid agreements. And what it | :05:56. | :06:04. | |
says is that removing the financial incentive in what would be a legal | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
first, Number Ten is also plotting to take draconian action against | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
this person, who has led the charge against British troops. It involves | :06:18. | :06:26. | |
claims that British soldiers went on a killing and torture spree | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
following a fierce battle in southern Iraq in 2004. Documents | :06:30. | :06:38. | |
could have brought the inquiry to an earlier conclusion. The man in | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
question has said that over the last 12 years many cases of abuse made | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
against the Ministry of Defence in the occupation of Iraq have been | :06:52. | :07:00. | |
made successfully. No one is above the law. We cannot imagine that the | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
Prime Minister is proposing this should change. And what I would say | :07:04. | :07:12. | |
is that this is really an incredible story. More than 1500 compensation | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
claims against British voters. And a lot of public money for legal aid. | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
-- against British soldiers. And it is a no-win, no fee principle, which | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
means anyone can get involved. But they have found instances... It has | :07:31. | :07:42. | |
put a time limit on it and making sure that cases can only be brought | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
that are sponsored by legal aid by alleged victims who are actually | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
resident now in the UK. The Express. Migrant houses will go to flood | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
victims. This is an interesting story, of course. As a result of the | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
migration crisis, local councils across the UK have been required by | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
governments to house a certain number of families fleeing the civil | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
war in Syria. Britain's response has been to go to refugee camps and | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
identify families rather than taking families who make it to Britain | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
under their own steam in order to stop an exodus, if you well. Cumbria | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
has been told to take 30 Syrian families. That was in November. | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
Since then, we have had big storms and the terrible flooding in the | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
Lake District and we have had news now that the crisis it can bring | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
council has been granted an exemption by the government on this | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
requirement. -- Cumbrian Council. That means those houses can be given | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
to provide temporary accommodation to flood victims. That would make | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
sense to a lot of people. One-man is quoted here, Matthew Connolly, and | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
he says he totally understands there is now a local crisis which eclipses | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
what is happening internationally and we need to sort ourselves out | :09:15. | :09:24. | |
first. There is a general feeling that this makes sense. OK. The | :09:25. | :09:33. | |
Mirror. Ultimate betrayal. Proud industry decimated. I feel terribly | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
sorry for all of these communities. It does have a whiff of Wembley | :09:41. | :09:49. | |
miners went to the wall. -- of when the miners. I was born in a mining | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
area and after the event, you just think... When you look at the | :09:56. | :10:04. | |
numbers, it is, for example, over 1000 jobs going in one place, 2000 | :10:05. | :10:15. | |
jobs elsewhere. And then more in Scotland. That already is more than | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
4000. But with those jobs also go so many other jobs and a whole area, an | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
area that becomes decimated, and it is totally understandable that there | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
are people saying... I do understand that if you are in the EU, you have | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
to put these things out to tender and so on, and it is all about | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
getting the best deal, but at the same time, you cannot help but | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
thinking that other countries have done it, other countries have bailed | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
out their industries... Despite all of that devastation and decimation, | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
they could be using foreign steel to build... The Mirror put their finger | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
on something here using Freedom of Information and some other dry | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
questioning of ministers. There will be frigates built on the Clyde. The | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
Mirror is a feeling that the government may use steel for those | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
frigates that is sourced abroad. Why would they do that? According to the | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
Mirror, because they are trying British workers. According to the | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
government, they are duty bound to get the best deal for taxpayers that | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
they can. In 2014, the average price of British steel was between 800 and | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
900 euros per metric ton and the average price of Chinese steel was | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
around this 580 euros per metric ton. Since then, the pound has got | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
stronger, which exacerbates that problem. Some people say that the | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
Chinese are really dumping their steel at low prices in order to | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
decimate our industry but it is extremely difficult to prove. The | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
point is that we are all taxpayers and I think there would be a lot of | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
people who would say that a better deal for us would not be to have | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
loads of people unemployed and have these areas completely wiped out. | :12:14. | :12:26. | |
Families using elderly relatives to steal cash. This is contactless | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
payment cards. I don't like them. I do. It means you can... I told you | :12:33. | :12:44. | |
that in confidence! Payments have chuckled in the last year. -- | :12:45. | :13:03. | |
tripled. These are horrible people stealing from elderly residents, | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
mostly women over 80, who do not know that these cards don't require | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
a PIN number and... Is this really a widespread problem? It seems to be. | :13:14. | :13:23. | |
According to this charity that has conducted the study, it is a | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
problem. I must say that despite the potential for abuse, I do think it | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
is inevitable that there will be a lot more of this. With contactless | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
card in any form. In the end we will have chips inside our wrists. I | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
already have that. You can buy the drinks later. The Times. Think big. | :13:49. | :13:59. | |
You have the biggest brain. Mine is very small. Mine is tiny. If I shake | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
my head really hard, I can hear it rattling. We are getting to the | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
point where we walk into a room and we cannot remember what we went in | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
there four, and yet we can apparently is all 4.7 billion bugs | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
in our head, including Tolstoy and Russell Brand. Do you want that one | :14:20. | :14:27. | |
in your head? This is one of those great nerd stories. Is by the | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
professor of computational neurobiology in California. I'm not | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
sure I believe that. But don't we just love a Boston story? The part | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
of the brain that Heelsville memory has capacity ten times greater than | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
previous thought. -- deals with memory. 670 million webpages. They | :14:50. | :14:58. | |
say they have unlocked the design principle. We discovered the key to | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
unlocking the design principle for how hippocampal neurons deal | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
with... Hippopotamus neurons? I love the idea of hippopotamus roaming all | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
over the place. Anyone going on holiday this summer, why not take | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
4.7 billion books with you? And then forget your passport! | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
Coming up next, it's time for Sportsday. | :15:28. | :15:30. |