29/01/2016

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:00:14. > :00:16.to our look ahead to what the the papers

:00:17. > :00:21.With me are the Evening Standard columnist Mihir Bose

:00:22. > :00:37.and Assistant Editor of The Times Anne Ashworth.

:00:38. > :00:40.Mihir seems to have brought with him someone else's opinions(!)

:00:41. > :00:41.Tomorrow's front pages starting with...

:00:42. > :00:43.The Times leads on a payout made to eight Republicans

:00:44. > :00:46.who had their convictions for being part of an IRA

:00:47. > :00:49.The Sun leads on the case of Tareena Shakil,

:00:50. > :00:52.the first British woman found guilty of being a member of IS.

:00:53. > :00:54.The i leads on a theory that Alzheimer's may

:00:55. > :00:55.have been transmitted between patients during particular

:00:56. > :00:59.In the Telegraph, the Head of the Army warns that

:01:00. > :01:01."fabricated" legal claims made against the military

:01:02. > :01:03.may cause soldiers to make mistakes during combat.

:01:04. > :01:07.made by a senior immigration judge that many migrants in Calais

:01:08. > :01:09.Hospitals are being told by regulators to get

:01:10. > :01:12.rid of staff to rescue the NHS from financial crisis,

:01:13. > :01:17.on comments by a World Health Organisation expert that the Zika

:01:18. > :01:19.virus could travel across the Atlantic to Africa,

:01:20. > :01:32.We will begin with the Zika virus story, an epidemic which may cross

:01:33. > :01:37.the Atlantic, devastating poorer nations with vaccines still

:01:38. > :01:42.potentially years away, this story has really taken off this week. It

:01:43. > :01:46.is the black swan... When they talk about these things that suddenly

:01:47. > :01:50.come out of nowhere, these crises, that nobody had been expecting and

:01:51. > :01:57.nobody had been planning for, looks like this virus is turning to that,

:01:58. > :02:01.because of the way in which we have seen... It has not been proven,

:02:02. > :02:06.there are babies born with microcephaly in Latin America, but

:02:07. > :02:10.it is linked to the Zika virus, and this story is telling us it could

:02:11. > :02:15.cross the Atlantic, because the climate in parts of southern Europe

:02:16. > :02:20.are actually good climate for the kind of mosquitoes which carried

:02:21. > :02:25.this virus. Not all Mosque eaters, dirt and species in particular. It

:02:26. > :02:32.is when it starts to threaten places like Europe and North America that

:02:33. > :02:37.clinicians really begin to pay attention. One of those classic

:02:38. > :02:40.things, like the Ebola virus, a short time ago, nobody had been

:02:41. > :02:45.paying much attention, and suddenly it was in the headlines, top item in

:02:46. > :02:51.the news, similar to the Zika virus, I hope I pronounce this correctly,

:02:52. > :02:59.the survival of this particular mosquito, which sounds like an old

:03:00. > :03:04.Egyptian goddess, but so far we thought that with mosquitoes and

:03:05. > :03:10.malaria, we knew what was happening, and suddenly, for this to emerge out

:03:11. > :03:14.of nowhere, it does make you feel a bit frightened. All of this talk of

:03:15. > :03:21.all of us being aware of what diseases to combat and how to combat

:03:22. > :03:26.it, you feel helpless. Clinicians are far away from getting a vaccine,

:03:27. > :03:30.and also, this idea that you may go to a country and then decided to

:03:31. > :03:36.come home and start a family and it might be a very unwise thing to do.

:03:37. > :03:41.Not everybody even has symptoms when they are carrying it. In adult it is

:03:42. > :03:48.minor. The symptoms of the Ebola virus can be a cough and a cold, it

:03:49. > :03:51.is a bit like that. In this story, advising people that come back,

:03:52. > :03:56.particularly Brazil, they should use condom is if their partner is likely

:03:57. > :04:01.to become pregnant or are pregnant. You have to be bitten by the

:04:02. > :04:06.mosquito carrying the virus rather than the Ebola virus which is

:04:07. > :04:10.patient to patient. Google tax whistle-blower speaks out, H MRC is

:04:11. > :04:16.not interested in stopping corporate tax avoidance. This is in the week

:04:17. > :04:24.in which we are having to make sure our self-assessment tax returns are

:04:25. > :04:28.in, and small tax bills to pay. This picture makes him look like a

:04:29. > :04:31.character from war and peace! Slightly differently dressed, but,

:04:32. > :04:36.there are two questions here, first of all, we have bad laws, Beasley,

:04:37. > :04:40.allowing corporations to do this sort of they need to be looked at,

:04:41. > :04:44.no point in saying that Google should be morally in the right,

:04:45. > :04:48.corporations are not in the moral business, they will try to pay less

:04:49. > :04:52.tax. The second thing, the Chancellor set out to claim, he made

:04:53. > :04:57.a great success of it, getting Google to pay all this money, we do

:04:58. > :05:02.not have the details of the settlement. To be convinced that

:05:03. > :05:07.Google did the right thing, we need some details of why they are paying

:05:08. > :05:16.this sort of money and not the much greater charge which the French are

:05:17. > :05:20.levying on him -- levying on them. This is the week and won 1 million

:05:21. > :05:24.people who are yet to file tax returns will have two get forms in

:05:25. > :05:28.face penalties, I think people are angry. This a year in which Inland

:05:29. > :05:33.Revenue will be able to clamp down because it has more information all

:05:34. > :05:37.of us, drawn from all kinds of sources, to make sure our forms are

:05:38. > :05:40.right. It seems to me that the scrutiny that is being applied to

:05:41. > :05:48.individuals is not being applied to corporate. We hear from every

:05:49. > :05:53.budget, that the goal of Revenue and Customs is to clamp down on tax

:05:54. > :05:57.avoidance, this whistle-blower says that he is not persuaded of that.

:05:58. > :06:01.That is probably out there in the country what a lot of people think.

:06:02. > :06:06.It seems as if Google has made a donation rather than paying tax. We

:06:07. > :06:17.could all decide to make a donation(!) ?150? That is not how it

:06:18. > :06:21.works. Google is doing what it is entitled to do by law, we should

:06:22. > :06:25.look at the law, we should change the law, to make sure the

:06:26. > :06:29.corporations pay the proper tax. Until the law is changed, people

:06:30. > :06:34.will be fed up. It is the fourth of the lawmakers. Now you are agreeing

:06:35. > :06:45.more than I thought you would! Stop that! Student loan jihadis to to fly

:06:46. > :06:48.to terror with tot. The 26-year-old from Birmingham who has been in

:06:49. > :06:54.court this week, she has been sentenced, she is being sentenced on

:06:55. > :07:00.Monday, a president, really, being set. What it says, particularly that

:07:01. > :07:07.she took a student loan to go there. This raises the whole question, what

:07:08. > :07:11.is happening the second or third generation children of immigrants,

:07:12. > :07:17.why are they in effect being attracted by this is the body, why

:07:18. > :07:21.would they think, why do she think that she could use a student loan to

:07:22. > :07:26.get there? She must be very alienated from the country, that is

:07:27. > :07:31.worrying thought. Why she registered at any UK academic institution? It

:07:32. > :07:38.seems to me to be an clear, she seems to be able to not use the

:07:39. > :07:44.money for fees merely to depart for Syria. This is interesting, about

:07:45. > :07:50.what is a member of IS, she was not necessarily a sworn member, but she

:07:51. > :07:55.went to join them. She seems to be a poor woman who felt lost and

:07:56. > :08:02.disengaged from society and saw IS as a route to some kind of

:08:03. > :08:06.fulfilment. It is interesting that a member of our society should feel

:08:07. > :08:08.like that, so disenchanted, that they should think of going to an

:08:09. > :08:15.organisation which will devastate them. Four months later, she

:08:16. > :08:27.realised, she came back. Outrage at pay-out for IRA gang, tell us about

:08:28. > :08:32.the pay-outs. Interesting story, the convictions were overturned because

:08:33. > :08:40.at the time of the trial, various facts were not disclosed. That is

:08:41. > :08:45.the role in this whole affair of an informant, an informant among the

:08:46. > :08:48.IRA ranks. At the Court of Appeal, convictions were overturned because

:08:49. > :08:55.it was not made clear that this man had a role in his double life, as it

:08:56. > :09:03.were, and now, they are going to be getting some compensation. ?200,000

:09:04. > :09:07.apiece, some will be able to get a second amount of compensation for

:09:08. > :09:10.another trial, another series of convictions, and I think that this

:09:11. > :09:13.will be yet another issue where people think, why is this happening?

:09:14. > :09:18.The laws have been tightened since but a lot of people will say, how

:09:19. > :09:24.did this come to this, particularly when people who were injured in IRA

:09:25. > :09:29.attacks are yet to have any regrets? The point is, these trials took

:09:30. > :09:38.place, in one case, 25 years ago, it is a long time ago. The law has been

:09:39. > :09:41.tightened. But the law was defective, the law that has been

:09:42. > :09:45.tightened means that if the crime has been committed it cannot be

:09:46. > :09:49.reversed. The decision being reversed not on the fact that the

:09:50. > :09:53.crime was committed, it was, but that not all of the information was

:09:54. > :09:56.given to the defendants. It is how the troubles will haunt us for

:09:57. > :10:07.decades, we think that they have moved into the past but they will be

:10:08. > :10:09.there with us. Troops at risk from parasitic law firms... Head of army

:10:10. > :10:14.and Defence Secretary joining forces to condemn claims against the

:10:15. > :10:17.military, the suggestion here, that fabricated legal claims made against

:10:18. > :10:22.the military could undermine Britain's ability to fight future

:10:23. > :10:26.was, how did that make that leap? If you are going to bring these claims

:10:27. > :10:31.against soldiers, the Ministry of Defence is going to spend a lot of

:10:32. > :10:35.money trying to defend cases which are completely spurious, they are

:10:36. > :10:38.saying, it will affect morale as well, soldiers fighting for Britain,

:10:39. > :10:43.in what they believe to be a just war and a good moral cause. And the

:10:44. > :10:47.possibility that some of the soldiers may bring action against

:10:48. > :10:54.other military personnel for being sent into battle not properly

:10:55. > :10:58.prepared. The war machine becomes not something done on the

:10:59. > :11:05.battlefield, but done in the courts of law. There will be accusations of

:11:06. > :11:11.a witchhunt against soldiers, but is it a witchhunt if it is an

:11:12. > :11:17.examination of facts? Very murky waters, about what happens on the

:11:18. > :11:24.field of battle. I think we need to recognise that if you are in the fog

:11:25. > :11:28.of war, things are going to happen which may not necessarily be the

:11:29. > :11:34.things that should have happened. And what we seem to have got into

:11:35. > :11:40.this, lawyers are everywhere, whatever situation you have got,

:11:41. > :11:48.lawyers are making loads of fees. Tax claims for Google, for pursuing

:11:49. > :11:53.troops... I would like to know, as a taxpayer, where we are. At the

:11:54. > :11:59.beginning of the Iraq war, we were talking about a morally certain war,

:12:00. > :12:02.so far we have not even had the Chilcott enquiry properly. I feel

:12:03. > :12:11.that I should mount a defence of lawyers... (!) hairdressers are the

:12:12. > :12:17.most popular people, so I have read. If you have a legal issue, you need

:12:18. > :12:23.professional advice, it is very expensive to get unprofessional

:12:24. > :12:30.advise! But all lawyers are ambling chases! I don't believe that they

:12:31. > :12:35.are(!) LAUGHTER This is the Maoist cult leader,

:12:36. > :12:39.Aravindan Balakrishnan, and his daughter, Katie Morgan Davies, who

:12:40. > :12:46.spent 30 years of her life held captive by her own father, she has

:12:47. > :12:50.waived anonymity. May we all be as magnanimous as she has been, she

:12:51. > :12:54.repeated the words here of Nelson Mandela, " I have my father". Nelson

:12:55. > :13:00.Mandela said that if you leave written with hatred and anger and

:13:01. > :13:04.bitterness, you are still in prison. She was imprisoned for three decades

:13:05. > :13:08.by her own father. Extraordinary, that she has come out in public and

:13:09. > :13:15.she has said that she is now going to be moving on from this. You have

:13:16. > :13:17.got to admire her. This is a person who was diagnosed as being a

:13:18. > :13:23.narcissist with a personality disorder, and he tells his daughter

:13:24. > :13:27.that out there are other fascists... That she would combust if she left

:13:28. > :13:33.the home, this is the power he exerted on this family, on his whole

:13:34. > :13:36.cult. And still he has supporters! Still people say that he was right,

:13:37. > :13:41.and he has been victimised, and things like that. As you say, the

:13:42. > :13:47.daughter has really elevated herself to a totally different level in what

:13:48. > :13:51.she is saying. I was on the bus with him quite often going to court in

:13:52. > :13:55.the morning, he looked so mild and make, mild-mannered man. You could

:13:56. > :14:03.barely work out that this man could have been guilty of such crimes. The

:14:04. > :14:07.most evil person doing ordinary things, the banality of evil. What

:14:08. > :14:09.we will be back at 11:30pm, that is all for the moment. Stay with us,

:14:10. > :14:23.coming up next, sports day. Hello and welcome to Sportsday

:14:24. > :14:27.with me, Ore Oduba.