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:00:13. > :00:16.Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:17. > :00:21.With me are France 24 correspondent Benedicte Paviot,

:00:22. > :00:28.and the Editor of Newsweek in Europe, Matt McAllester.

:00:29. > :00:37.Welcome to you both. Tomorrow's front pages, starting with... The

:00:38. > :00:42.Financial Times, and it, like most of the others, lead unsurprisingly

:00:43. > :00:46.on the attacks in Belgium. The FT says so-called Islamic State has

:00:47. > :00:49.struck at the heart of Europe. The Metro carries a picture of the

:00:50. > :00:55.suspects thought to have carried out the airport bombings. The i says a

:00:56. > :00:59.manhunt is under way for one of the men, wearing a white coat, who

:01:00. > :01:04.survived the attacks. The Express highlights that the other two

:01:05. > :01:09.suspects were wearing one glove, possibly to hide the detonators of

:01:10. > :01:15.their bombs. The Telegraph calls the trio the black gloved suicide squad,

:01:16. > :01:19.and the bomber who got away. A picture of two of the battered and

:01:20. > :01:23.bloodied survivors dominates the front of the new day. Bloodbath in

:01:24. > :01:30.Brussels as the headline in the times. While the Mail wonders how

:01:31. > :01:37.many more Islamic State terrorists are ready to strike in Europe. So,

:01:38. > :01:42.let's might begin. As I was saying, all the front pages are dominated by

:01:43. > :01:48.the same story, exactly as you would suspect. Let's start with the

:01:49. > :01:52.Telegraph, Benedicte. The black gloved suicide squad and the bomber

:01:53. > :01:57.who got away. This is the picture of the men in the black gloves, it is

:01:58. > :02:02.sinister. Previously, sometimes after bombs, whether it is

:02:03. > :02:07.imperative on the London, Madrid, Frankfurt, unfortunately, take your

:02:08. > :02:11.pick, since it is the favourite soft target of bombers and terrorists,

:02:12. > :02:14.actually since the 1980s, airports, train stations, underground

:02:15. > :02:20.stations, and what the Daily Telegraph says is that these men may

:02:21. > :02:23.have looked like ordinary airline passengers as they pushed their

:02:24. > :02:28.trolleys along the departure hall of the Brussels airport. But they were

:02:29. > :02:34.anything but. Says the Daily Telegraph, they were hell bent on

:02:35. > :02:39.causing as by dangerous destruction on a massive scale. The suitcases

:02:40. > :02:43.contained not clothes but bombs. The two men on the left, allegedly were

:02:44. > :02:47.wearing black gloves because they were hiding a trigger. Even if

:02:48. > :02:55.somebody had pounced on them and had detected their evil, they would have

:02:56. > :03:00.blown themselves up. The man on the right is on the run, allegedly. Now

:03:01. > :03:05.he is interesting, because there has been a photo on Twitter published a

:03:06. > :03:10.few hours ago by the Belgian federal police. He is a man, it is not

:03:11. > :03:18.confirmed, he may or may not be a man who was previously known. His

:03:19. > :03:22.name is unfortunately very familiar to a lot of French people since the

:03:23. > :03:26.13th of November. This man's fingerprints were found on some

:03:27. > :03:30.suicide belts. He is a very close, if it is him, accomplice of Salah

:03:31. > :03:35.Abdeslam, who of course is tonight still in a Brussels jail awaiting

:03:36. > :03:40.extradition to France. And his true identity it seems is known. It is

:03:41. > :03:44.interesting, mats, because the interesting, mats, because the

:03:45. > :03:48.Telegraph mentions him. It is not entirely clear. They say here is the

:03:49. > :03:52.prime suspect. It is not entirely clear if he is the man in the hat

:03:53. > :03:56.though, is it? No, there is a huge amount before we dive into anything

:03:57. > :04:01.that is not known about this man, who is now the most wanted man in

:04:02. > :04:09.Europe. He seems to be potentially a bomb maker. We were saying earlier

:04:10. > :04:12.that he was not wearing a glove. That is a key indicator,

:04:13. > :04:16.potentially, that he was not a suicide bomber. And that he may have

:04:17. > :04:20.made these bombs and intended to escape. We are guessing, we are

:04:21. > :04:27.going with the tiny little clues that we have. You mentioned tiny

:04:28. > :04:30.little clues. It is interesting, Benedicte, in the Times, which

:04:31. > :04:34.carries the identity picture on its front page -- the identical picture.

:04:35. > :04:40.It too mentions this prime suspect, and picks up what you were

:04:41. > :04:47.mentioning, his traces of DNA were found on two explosive belts in the

:04:48. > :04:51.Paris massacres. That is right, the 13th of November infamous Paris

:04:52. > :04:56.attacks, multi-location, exactly what is feared around Europe and

:04:57. > :05:00.other places like London. That is right. His DNA traces were found,

:05:01. > :05:09.underlies the times, an two explosive belts. One used on the

:05:10. > :05:13.attack at the Bataclan Theatre, the other at the Stade de France. That

:05:14. > :05:17.is where the French president was actually at a football match, and

:05:18. > :05:21.where, thanks to the vigilance, actually, of the security teams

:05:22. > :05:26.there, the men were forced to explode their belts outside the

:05:27. > :05:30.stadium, and did not manage to either kill the president or indeed

:05:31. > :05:36.the thousands of people watching, or the death toll would have been even

:05:37. > :05:40.higher. Matt, what do you make of the times? There is another little

:05:41. > :05:46.clue, we are looking for these tiny clues, and that is that in the same

:05:47. > :05:52.neighbourhood, allegedly, that this suspect lived in Brussels, the

:05:53. > :05:57.police today found an explosive device, the Times says, chemicals,

:05:58. > :06:02.and here is the key bit, and Isis Flagg, according to prosecutors.

:06:03. > :06:05.Anybody can on an Isas flag. It is easy to come by. But the fact that

:06:06. > :06:12.they found one might be a dotted line between what happened today at

:06:13. > :06:15.this man, and the people in Raqqa in Syria, their headquarters, the

:06:16. > :06:19.capital of the so-called caliphate of the Islamic State, who clearly

:06:20. > :06:23.are showing that they have the ability as Al-Qaeda at once did and

:06:24. > :06:31.maybe still has two reach out into the capital is, Madrid, London,

:06:32. > :06:35.Paris, and now Brussels. The other interesting detail, I don't think it

:06:36. > :06:38.is in the Times article, but very much on French media, is the fact

:06:39. > :06:44.that they found a bowl with nails. What this seems to possibly a credit

:06:45. > :06:49.is the fact that -- in all with nails. An attack like today, the two

:06:50. > :06:55.tax we have witnessed, the first in the airport and an hour or so later

:06:56. > :06:59.near the EU institutions, the parliament, you know, the council,

:07:00. > :07:04.would indicate that possibly this was a preplanned terrorist attack

:07:05. > :07:11.that was brought forward. One French expert was actually saying, usually,

:07:12. > :07:15.bombers will not bomb where they are then going to go and hide. For

:07:16. > :07:22.example, Salah Abdeslam went back to Belgium wants he had gone to Paris.

:07:23. > :07:26.-- once he went to Paris. There is a theory, although not proved, that it

:07:27. > :07:30.could have been a pack that was actually meant for France. Of

:07:31. > :07:34.course, this will cost a lot of worry two months before Euro 2016.

:07:35. > :07:38.And today the Frenchman is to the interior has again announced more

:07:39. > :07:42.controls at the Borders. Interestingly, he has revealed that

:07:43. > :07:45.10,000 people since the much more stringent controls on the night of

:07:46. > :07:51.the 13th of November, have been turned down at the Borders. What we

:07:52. > :07:54.hear a lot in the British press is about how porous these borders.

:07:55. > :07:59.10,000 people have been stopped from getting into France. So we come back

:08:00. > :08:03.to freedom of movement has well. As you hinted at the beginning, Matt,

:08:04. > :08:13.it can be easy in these situations to start to fill the vacuum of facts

:08:14. > :08:15.with speculation. A lot of this we just don't know. Nonetheless, a

:08:16. > :08:18.chilling headline in the Mail. How many more jihadi bombers are out

:08:19. > :08:23.there? A question I suggest a lot of people's clips. I think so. The

:08:24. > :08:29.male's key point comes from the Howard of the police agency Europol.

:08:30. > :08:35.-- the head of. He warns that as many 5000 jihadist on the run across

:08:36. > :08:39.Europe, 700 in the UK alone. That far outstrips the ability of the

:08:40. > :08:43.combined intelligence and security agencies to monitor all these people

:08:44. > :08:50.around the clock. You know, it takes many intelligence agencies to keep a

:08:51. > :08:56.night on one person. -- to keep an eye. And we have civil liberties and

:08:57. > :09:00.court orders that are required. But what we do know is that we do not

:09:01. > :09:04.know a lot and we have seen that the last few days with Abdeslam. He was

:09:05. > :09:09.the most wanted man in Europe, for four months he was living right in

:09:10. > :09:14.the heart of the place, the part of Brussels that the police, that

:09:15. > :09:20.really everybody has no is a place that has been home to attackers and

:09:21. > :09:25.to jihadists. He was living right there. I think that is what feeds

:09:26. > :09:30.into this intense anxiety in France and Belgium and I think everywhere

:09:31. > :09:34.in Europe, that there are, as the Mail says, how many more are up

:09:35. > :09:38.there? We just don't know. We should distinguish between the people who

:09:39. > :09:43.were prepared, like the two men with the black loves, who are prepared to

:09:44. > :09:47.blow themselves up, kamikaze attackers, who were probably trained

:09:48. > :09:52.in Syria, whoever the man on the right, the man whom it would seem is

:09:53. > :10:00.a bomb maker. And people who are tacitly hiding, helping, financing,

:10:01. > :10:06.in small or big waves, lending their flats etc. It is time that everybody

:10:07. > :10:10.kind of grew up, it may seem an obvious thing to say, you are guilty

:10:11. > :10:17.of helping somebody, murder, maybe innocent civilians. We duly in open

:10:18. > :10:21.democracies. -- Guidolin. I don't think there is any suggestion, apart

:10:22. > :10:26.from some people, that we should lose our freedom of speech,

:10:27. > :10:29.movement, religion. But how we counter this threat I think is about

:10:30. > :10:34.winning hearts and minds. And I don't think we are doing that. Matt,

:10:35. > :10:39.I want you to rifle back through your pile of papers, your front

:10:40. > :10:43.pages, back to the Telegraph. They have linked the events of today to

:10:44. > :10:48.questions over open borders, raised by David Cameron. Tell us a bit more

:10:49. > :10:52.about that? It was really raised by Lord Howard, the former Tory leader,

:10:53. > :10:54.who this evening has said that the Schengen agreement, the agreement

:10:55. > :11:00.that allows freedom of movement within the EU, is acting as a

:11:01. > :11:06.welcome sign to terrorists. He made this speech this evening to a think

:11:07. > :11:12.tank in London. Earlier today, Ukip chimed in on the same theme. These

:11:13. > :11:21.open borders that the EU citizens and member states in joint are just

:11:22. > :11:25.a big target -- enjoy. Jihadists in Syria can move very easily and

:11:26. > :11:30.quickly through Turkey, Greece and up into Europe. Of course, the UK is

:11:31. > :11:34.not a member of the Schengen agreement. We are not. This feeds

:11:35. > :11:39.into the other great story of our day, which is the debate over

:11:40. > :11:44.Brexit, really. And the anxiety in this country in particular over the

:11:45. > :11:50.EU. We are heading towards this referendum on June the 23rd. Like it

:11:51. > :11:55.or not, the events of today have almost immediately been politicised.

:11:56. > :11:59.David Cameron's comment is that this is inappropriate to even discuss it

:12:00. > :12:05.at this stage, today when at least 31 people have been killed and up to

:12:06. > :12:09.200 injured and these things should not be discussed. Getting away from

:12:10. > :12:14.it is terribly hard, because we were discussing the top of the Express,

:12:15. > :12:18.seven migrants tried to sneak into Britain, that Azharullah photograph

:12:19. > :12:22.of the three men in the airport. It is a story that is infusing every

:12:23. > :12:26.part of our news at the moment. Dominating get, and it will, I

:12:27. > :12:32.predict until long after the 24th of June whatever the result is --

:12:33. > :12:37.dominating it. We have got the front of the FT, referendum makes waves

:12:38. > :12:43.for Brits on Costa Blanca. Briefly tell us what that is? 2 million

:12:44. > :12:47.Britons could actually swing the vote. 2 million Britons living in

:12:48. > :12:51.the rest of the EU and their votes, they can take part will stop if you

:12:52. > :12:57.have lived less than 15 years abroad you can vote. And you could actually

:12:58. > :13:00.sway the result. Of course, we know it is also a question of the

:13:01. > :13:05.turnout. But who knows how close it is going to be? If we don't believe

:13:06. > :13:08.in polls since the last election or before the last election, I think it

:13:09. > :13:16.is the most unpredictable, difficult result to predict, and I hope we

:13:17. > :13:23.know the result. But we will on the 24th of June. Absolutely. We must

:13:24. > :13:26.leave it there. You note... Such a serious day, I am really grateful

:13:27. > :13:34.that you have both come into talk to us. Benedicte and Matt, thank you so

:13:35. > :13:38.much. That is it from us. Don't forget that the front pages are

:13:39. > :13:45.online on the BBC News website, where you can read a detailed review

:13:46. > :13:51.of the papers. And you can see us there too, with each night's edition

:13:52. > :13:55.of the papers being posted on the page shortly after we have finished.

:13:56. > :13:58.Thank you again for our guests. Bye-bye.