04/05/2016

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:00:21. > :00:25.Hello and welcome to our look at what the papers will bring tomorrow.

:00:26. > :00:34.With me the broadcaster Julia Hartley Brewer and political

:00:35. > :00:39.commentator Lance Price. We start with Donald Trump looking likely to

:00:40. > :00:42.secure the Republican nomination, David Cameron says he would

:00:43. > :00:47.apologise for calling him stupid divisive and wrong. The Metro leads

:00:48. > :00:51.with what they call a barbecue punch-up when a policeman allegedly

:00:52. > :00:55.punched his Chief Constable after finding out he was having an affair

:00:56. > :01:00.with his wife. New Day has an image of the Syrian child with the report

:01:01. > :01:03.of the announcement by the Prime Minister today that the UK will

:01:04. > :01:17.offer to take more children refugees. The Daily Telegraph has a

:01:18. > :01:24.story stating that embryos have lived for 13 days, one day short of

:01:25. > :01:28.the limit legal, the Daily Express has a story on refugees from Turkey,

:01:29. > :01:30.the Times front page is an image of a victorious Donald Trump after he

:01:31. > :01:36.became Republican presidential candidate following the Ohio

:01:37. > :01:40.governor, John Kasich, pulling out of the race. The Daily Mail praises

:01:41. > :01:44.David Cameron for making a U-turn on his decision not to allow 2000

:01:45. > :01:49.charge of Jews from Syria to resettle in the UK. Julia, embryo

:01:50. > :01:55.research raises pressure for law change. 14 days is the limit to

:01:56. > :02:02.which you can grow an embryo in the laboratory. And they got to 13 days.

:02:03. > :02:06.It was sad and 14 days, the idea that an embryo cannot split into two

:02:07. > :02:11.ins at that point so one single life has been created so there's a

:02:12. > :02:14.medical and ethical reason for this. But the view was, think, that he

:02:15. > :02:21.would not be able to grow them for this long outside the human womb

:02:22. > :02:23.although they have done that. We have scientific and medical

:02:24. > :02:28.developments all the time and these are very good. They will save lives

:02:29. > :02:34.in the long run. This is similar to the abortion law limit, 24 weeks, at

:02:35. > :02:37.which point you don't need a risk to the mother's life, that is done

:02:38. > :02:43.because the view was that foetuses could not survive after that stage.

:02:44. > :02:47.Now we know they can. 24 weeks, we are seeing babies of 23 weeks

:02:48. > :02:52.surviving while and living a healthy life. So we will see all these

:02:53. > :02:56.medical developments, these questions being raised, these

:02:57. > :03:00.ethical positions. What is important is that these law changes are not

:03:01. > :03:04.about what happens in America when you get people like Ted Cruz who has

:03:05. > :03:08.just dropped out of the presidential and Asian race, to have their say,

:03:09. > :03:14.you get experts, scientists and lawmakers humming together to find

:03:15. > :03:20.what feels right to most people. I think there will be a law change,

:03:21. > :03:24.done in the right way. Lands, the scientists will say that 14 days is

:03:25. > :03:30.not long enough. They haven't so far been held back by the law, it's been

:03:31. > :03:35.there for 30 years. That was a long hard look at what was ethically

:03:36. > :03:40.right. The scientists were quite content with that. They have not

:03:41. > :03:44.been able, as Julia says, to grow an embryo for anything like 14 days

:03:45. > :03:47.until recently, this is both a scientific and medical story, an

:03:48. > :03:54.interesting one that science has moved that far, as one scientist

:03:55. > :03:58.quoted says, it is not just for the scientists to decide, as a society

:03:59. > :04:01.we must take an ethical decision. I don't think about at this stage

:04:02. > :04:05.anyone is recommending a lengthy commission of the kind that the

:04:06. > :04:10.Warnock commission was but parliament will have to tackle this.

:04:11. > :04:16.I agree with Julia, I don't like to agree with you! I'll probably

:04:17. > :04:20.disagree later! I agree that, thank goodness we can have a rational

:04:21. > :04:24.debate about these things in this country. We look at the United

:04:25. > :04:31.States, we will discuss American later, if we were in a Fox News

:04:32. > :04:38.studio, or any studio... I can't see myself working for Fox News! They

:04:39. > :04:41.would be much more heat than light. As an atheist I don't feel the need

:04:42. > :04:46.for religious views to come into this. They always do. They get too

:04:47. > :04:52.much say on these things. This is about saving lives, during terrible

:04:53. > :04:55.diseases, helping with IVF, I have gone through that and I know people

:04:56. > :05:00.who could have been saved by medical advances that we are only seeing now

:05:01. > :05:03.because of stem cell research. It's an amazing wonderful thing that

:05:04. > :05:07.medical experts and scientists are doing. I think a lot of the

:05:08. > :05:12.arguments around the beginning of life get in the way of that. As we

:05:13. > :05:17.have said, there will be people who will be very opposed to that. But

:05:18. > :05:24.should be an interesting discussion in the months ahead. And the times.

:05:25. > :05:28.An interesting thing, some would say laudable, Britain beckons child

:05:29. > :05:34.refugees. I would question that headline. Bad headline suggests that

:05:35. > :05:39.we are enthusiastic about it. -- that headline are just as much.

:05:40. > :05:44.Dragged kicking and screaming into red! David Cameron did not want to

:05:45. > :05:49.do this. He was faced with almost certain defeat. This amendment was

:05:50. > :05:54.proposed by Lord dubs. We know that he himself was rescued from the

:05:55. > :06:00.Nazis as a child by the Kindertransport. David Cameron says

:06:01. > :06:07.it won't go through this ping-pong process any more and he is accepting

:06:08. > :06:11.and reluctantly. Because he had to. A combination of Unionist votes, and

:06:12. > :06:15.Tory rebels would have forced him to do it anyway. It's still a

:06:16. > :06:20.relatively small number of people, very welcome, although a relatively

:06:21. > :06:26.small number of children. Jeremy Corbyn and Labour have said it is

:06:27. > :06:31.still not enough. We are talking about 1000 or 2000 extra on top of

:06:32. > :06:35.the 3000 already arranged. There is no question at all, David Cameron

:06:36. > :06:39.was dragged into this kicking and screaming. I think there are some

:06:40. > :06:44.nice headlines. Saying, we need to adopt these children. I think

:06:45. > :06:49.everyone wants to do that. We must think of the cost to the children in

:06:50. > :06:53.this country. We'll have a massive shortage of foster places from

:06:54. > :06:59.British kids. Is a backlog of 800 children for them. We saw the story

:07:00. > :07:03.of Kandyce Downer, the legal guardian who killed a child in her

:07:04. > :07:09.care because there was a shortage of foster carers. Let's face realities,

:07:10. > :07:13.?50,000 is the cost of looking after a child that year, average and is

:07:14. > :07:16.worth more than that. We have children who are desperately in

:07:17. > :07:20.need, we must be realistic about whether or not the right solution

:07:21. > :07:25.will be for these children to be taken away from their family links,

:07:26. > :07:35.if they are in France, they are in a safe country, they have no need to

:07:36. > :07:38.be in this country. It is what refugee groups talk about, they talk

:07:39. > :07:43.about these children being very vulnerable, and accompanied, in

:07:44. > :07:50.France... Often suffering terrible physical and sexual abuse. What

:07:51. > :07:53.other problems it may create for Britain, they will be much better

:07:54. > :08:02.off in Britain than they will be in the countries that they fled from.

:08:03. > :08:07.Or in squalid refugee camps. New Day says that Britain is to offer hope

:08:08. > :08:12.to loan charge of the Jews. Now the Duchess of Cambridge. A lot of these

:08:13. > :08:28.children, we are talking about children who are 15 or 16, these are

:08:29. > :08:35.not small children. They do have family links in the UK, they are not

:08:36. > :08:40.just random children. We're focusing on New Day because this could be one

:08:41. > :08:45.of its last days. On the inside pages of the Guardian they have what

:08:46. > :08:49.appears to be well sourced story that Trinity Mirror, the owners of

:08:50. > :08:54.this newspaper, will announce that Friday will be the last edition of

:08:55. > :09:00.the paper, after only ten weeks. It was a bold experiment. Whether it

:09:01. > :09:04.ever stood much chance of success I don't know, whether there was a

:09:05. > :09:13.niche for the paper. It looks like a brief flaring up. Not many more new

:09:14. > :09:18.days for the New Day. We saw the closure of the Independent,

:09:19. > :09:27.wonderful newspaper. I have been writing for the New Day. Perhaps it

:09:28. > :09:31.was your fault! The idea was to have more acceptable news, to make it

:09:32. > :09:35.more reader friendly, to have my news stories. Perhaps the readers

:09:36. > :09:42.don't want that. Punch where are the readers going? Reading online. I

:09:43. > :09:46.have younger siblings who never dream of buying a newspaper, they

:09:47. > :09:50.think it is fashioned. Some journalists may have had their

:09:51. > :09:53.doubts about the format, yet they will still worry that now it is not

:09:54. > :09:58.possible to launch in newspaper and what does it say about buying

:09:59. > :10:07.habits? How long will we do newspaper reviews? How long will The

:10:08. > :10:11.Papers be going? It will do us all out of a job! You can't buy

:10:12. > :10:20.newspapers and no you can't review them! Go and buy newspapers! The

:10:21. > :10:31.prime list will not apologise The man he called the "Stupid" camp. He

:10:32. > :10:37.might have to have injured in a! It looks as if Donald Trump will be

:10:38. > :10:44.coming to Britain in August. A lot over Americans living here. Donald

:10:45. > :10:52.Trump, sorry, what is his name, David Cameron! Not only did he say

:10:53. > :10:57.that he thought Donald Trump's views were divisive and wrong, he clearly

:10:58. > :11:00.said, if he came to visit Britain he would unite the country against. I

:11:01. > :11:05.think it is the second part of that that will cause or problems than the

:11:06. > :11:10.first. Donald Trump would become president of the United States

:11:11. > :11:15.unless he moves from his position... The truth is that a lot of people in

:11:16. > :11:20.America to like him. As all British prime ministers do, David Cameron

:11:21. > :11:26.has welcomed worse people than Donald Trump. And goodness knows

:11:27. > :11:30.that I'd despise Donald Trump but when he welcomed the Chinese

:11:31. > :11:35.president, and manhole locks up people for dissent en masse, there

:11:36. > :11:40.are thousands of people behind bars there, and Saudi kings, with the

:11:41. > :11:45.flag lowered to half-mast... Donald Trump sounds great compared to them.

:11:46. > :11:52.He is much less stupid and wrong than some of the people we have

:11:53. > :11:58.welcomed. On the front page of the Financial Times, Lance, Donald Trump

:11:59. > :12:06.is going to have to have a woman as vice president. We will see Donald

:12:07. > :12:09.Trump Mark two from tomorrow. He will try suddenly to be

:12:10. > :12:14.all-encompassing, welcoming and uniting the party. It just won't

:12:15. > :12:20.wash. We've already seen large numbers of Republicans say publicly

:12:21. > :12:25.that they leaving the party. Moving to Canada! Some of them to Mexico if

:12:26. > :12:30.they can get there before he builds the wall! They'll have to get over

:12:31. > :12:33.the wall! Good news for the Democrats although they should not

:12:34. > :12:40.one second be complacent because he will fight a vicious campaign. We

:12:41. > :12:44.all said he couldn't win the nomination, no way, I have to say

:12:45. > :12:49.that I don't think Hillary Clinton has it in the bag. My goodness, I

:12:50. > :12:54.hope she has is the better of a bad two. My worry is that if these are

:12:55. > :12:58.the best two people that a country of 320 million people confined to

:12:59. > :13:06.run the country, and they might deserve one of these two, taxed at

:13:07. > :13:09.does the rest of the world? Back to the Daily Telegraph. Women should

:13:10. > :13:19.not travel alone, says a Moslem commentator. An extraordinary story.

:13:20. > :13:22.This group is affiliated to the Muslim Council of Britain and they

:13:23. > :13:27.have been condemned by Justine Greening for being medieval. They

:13:28. > :13:32.say women should not travel distance of more 48 miles, without a male

:13:33. > :13:39.companion, and they should cover their faces. Frankly not acceptable

:13:40. > :13:44.in this day and age. So do women who have only just been allowed to vote

:13:45. > :13:50.and still not allowed to drive and have to cover their faces -- Saudi

:13:51. > :13:56.Arabian women. Why are we giving this credence? Why do we care?

:13:57. > :13:59.Because these are people getting local council funding supposedly

:14:00. > :14:04.representing a Moslem community in this area, self appointed men, and

:14:05. > :14:10.they are being allowed to propagate. If someone told black people to

:14:11. > :14:16.cover their faces, people would be outraged but because it is women...

:14:17. > :14:21.! Surely the story should be that council gives money to dodgy Moslem

:14:22. > :14:27.group. Sadly, there are many people in this country who seem to think

:14:28. > :14:32.that shall I law is actually a viable -- sharia law is actually a

:14:33. > :14:36.viable way to live in 21st century Britain and I am afraid it is not.

:14:37. > :14:43.The headline implies that they are more significant than they are. A

:14:44. > :14:49.bunch of cranks. Affiliated to the British Muslim Council,

:14:50. > :14:54.representatives of ordinary people, I don't think they are, if they are

:14:55. > :14:58.going to have council funding then they must not have these things.

:14:59. > :15:05.Julia, Lance, thank you both for coming in. We will talk about the

:15:06. > :15:11.elections tomorrow. Don't forget to vote! You can get away with saying

:15:12. > :15:15.that. That is it for The Papers. When more newspaper has arrived,

:15:16. > :15:19.leading with a story about successful transplants of organs

:15:20. > :15:24.infected with HIV, experts claim that this could mean that more

:15:25. > :15:31.healthy organs will be available, bringing fresh hope to patients on

:15:32. > :15:34.waiting lists. On the BBC News website, read a more detailed review

:15:35. > :15:39.of the papers. It is all there. And you can seek us there as well with

:15:40. > :15:45.each night's edition of The Papers posted on the page shortly after we

:15:46. > :15:47.have finished. Julia, Lance, thank you, I will see you soon. Thank you,

:15:48. > :15:50.goodbye.