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:00:00. > :00:00.Rail enthusiasts have welcomed the return of the Flying Scotsman

:00:00. > :00:00.Hundreds of people gathered to catch a glimpse of the restored steam

:00:07. > :00:15.engine as it travelled to the Borders, Midlothian and Fife.

:00:16. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

:00:19. > :00:26.With me are the Iraqi-British journalist, Mina,

:00:27. > :00:30.and the Political Columnist for The Independent, Steve Richards.

:00:31. > :00:33.The Mirror describes the incident at Old Trafford as a blunder,

:00:34. > :00:36.after the discovery of a training device led to Manchester

:00:37. > :00:44.A similar headline in the Metro predicts red faces

:00:45. > :00:54.A disappointed pair of United fans is the image

:00:55. > :00:56.on the Guardian, which also reports on fears of a

:00:57. > :01:00.The Telegraph also focusses on the bomb scare

:01:01. > :01:02.in Manchester and also has a picture of the Queen

:01:03. > :01:13.The Queen is also on the front of the Times,

:01:14. > :01:16.which also reports on millions of pounds being invested in Google

:01:17. > :01:19.by the Church despite the web-giant's record on tax.

:01:20. > :01:21.The backlash facing Boris Johnson for his comments

:01:22. > :01:23.about Hitler and EU is the Eye's top headline.

:01:24. > :01:35.Let's begin with the Daily Mail's coverage at Old Trafford -- Daily

:01:36. > :01:40.Mirror's. Big match called off after suspect device left after training

:01:41. > :01:45.exercise. The papers haven't held back in their criticism? And it was

:01:46. > :01:49.because there was a dummy device, a lot can be said about the decision

:01:50. > :01:53.to cancel the game, the first Premier League game that's cancelled

:01:54. > :01:58.because of security fears, but no one can doubt the fact you need to

:01:59. > :02:03.make a difficult decision and say we have a device, let's do this. The

:02:04. > :02:06.blunder is the fact you have a private firm responsible for this

:02:07. > :02:13.device being left in the rest room at the stadium. The words we are

:02:14. > :02:17.seeing in the papers, blunder, fiasco, dummy and so forth are

:02:18. > :02:24.playing on the word dummy bomb and quite rightly so. People have

:02:25. > :02:27.travelled to the game, it's so important, people want to see what

:02:28. > :02:33.happens and it will actually take place tomorrow but the fear and

:02:34. > :02:36.panic you have that 75,000 people had to be evacuated safely. There is

:02:37. > :02:39.anger but there is more anger about the fact the device was left in the

:02:40. > :02:47.bathroom and not being cleared out after a training exercise last

:02:48. > :02:50.week. The mayor of Greater Manchester and the Police

:02:51. > :02:56.Commissioner criticising whoever did this. Reading the headlines, blunder

:02:57. > :03:03.is now coming up a lot. It's not, though, this was a terribly confused

:03:04. > :03:07.event, they are saying blunder, you quoted the mayor of Manchester as

:03:08. > :03:12.well saying that. The blunder is not in the decision to call this huge

:03:13. > :03:20.match off, it was in leaving this device from a security exercise last

:03:21. > :03:23.week, that is the blunder. This will turn into quite a big story and

:03:24. > :03:28.these premiership matches are worth a fortune, the stakes were quite

:03:29. > :03:32.high, Manchester United were playing for a place in the Champions League

:03:33. > :03:36.and it was called off because of the consensus emerging in what has been

:03:37. > :03:43.a complicated and confused and fast moving story towards the sense now

:03:44. > :03:46.that a terrible error has occurred. An hour ago we were talking about

:03:47. > :03:51.security implications and all the rest of it, but now it's looking

:03:52. > :03:58.like the focus on who and how was this device left from a security

:03:59. > :04:02.exercise a week ago. In some ways maybe they should be praising the

:04:03. > :04:07.reaction a bit more in the papers. For all they knew it was a bomb. 20

:04:08. > :04:16.minutes before kick-off, absolutely. A brave decision. Moving

:04:17. > :04:20.on to the Times, lots of stories to pick from the front page of the

:04:21. > :04:26.Times. But we are going to focus on the headline about security firm

:04:27. > :04:31.fake bomb triggering evacuation. A more held back headline, more about

:04:32. > :04:41.the facts rather than who is at fault. Each paper is trying to work

:04:42. > :04:57.out exactly what happened, who took the decisions, what was the context

:04:58. > :05:00.in which this device was found, the private security company and the

:05:01. > :05:04.implications of that. It will be a massive operation to get the match

:05:05. > :05:12.going again. The stakes will be high for Manchester United. It works as a

:05:13. > :05:17.news story on so many levels. As we mentioned earlier, there are massive

:05:18. > :05:23.security implications now for big football live events, these huge

:05:24. > :05:27.stadiums. At the same time there's huge sums of money involved in every

:05:28. > :05:34.game and a decision to call one off is a massive, massive decision! The

:05:35. > :05:37.blunder headlines that are coming out and the statements from people

:05:38. > :05:41.in Manchester are more about the origins of this device than the

:05:42. > :05:45.decision to call it off. And the fact it remained there before a

:05:46. > :05:51.match, there will be head scratching because of that tonight. The Daily

:05:52. > :05:56.Telegraph says football bomb scare sparks Euro 2016 fears. Even this

:05:57. > :05:59.was a blunder that somebody left behind, there will still be

:06:00. > :06:05.questions about how it was able to remain for as long as it did. The

:06:06. > :06:09.good part of the story is we are asking questions without an attack

:06:10. > :06:13.happening. All too often you get an attack and people are asking about

:06:14. > :06:17.the security protocols, I'm sure there are protocols but the fact

:06:18. > :06:21.there was a device in a restroom that had been there several days

:06:22. > :06:25.before the match raises questions. Perhaps this pushes more scrutiny

:06:26. > :06:29.about the plans before Euro 2016 and other things in the summer, and it

:06:30. > :06:33.is on Tuesday, you're right, but this is the problem with reading

:06:34. > :06:39.tomorrow's papers tonight. Thank you for that. This is me quoting a

:06:40. > :06:44.paper... We are in Monday morning territory now. Apologies to the

:06:45. > :06:50.viewers. That has really confused the viewers watching it on iPlayer.

:06:51. > :06:55.We have totally lost them. The Guardian sticks with the theme of

:06:56. > :07:00.terrorism. This is interesting, isn't it, Steve? A bold statement at

:07:01. > :07:03.the beginning of the year that there would be thousands more police

:07:04. > :07:09.officers on the streets, this seems to be down to shortages and people

:07:10. > :07:12.not wanting to step forward. It's a classic example. Often prime

:07:13. > :07:15.ministers and home secretaries make statements and there's an assumption

:07:16. > :07:21.that things will change overnight and they hardly ever do for all

:07:22. > :07:25.kinds of reasons. This reason it appears is that there's a reluctance

:07:26. > :07:29.from police officers to go ahead with this because culpable at it

:07:30. > :07:36.used is a bit confused in British law. It seems as if there will not

:07:37. > :07:39.be the numbers police regard as necessary in the near future --

:07:40. > :07:44.culpability. It seems they are looking for about 3000 volunteers to

:07:45. > :07:51.come forward to fill 1500 extra needed volunteers of police officers

:07:52. > :07:56.that our armed. It's difficult because of culpability and also we

:07:57. > :08:01.have a culture in the UK of people not carrying arms. You said earlier,

:08:02. > :08:04.what happens is when you have police officers carrying arms you have

:08:05. > :08:09.terrorists and criminals and others carrying arms as well. It changes

:08:10. > :08:13.society and that should be taken seriously. It's interesting, the

:08:14. > :08:17.whole of the front page of the Guardian, I don't know if we can see

:08:18. > :08:26.it on the screen, it's really interesting because you have the

:08:27. > :08:28.photo of two people who were looking forward to seeing the match, and you

:08:29. > :08:31.have the story about the Manchester United bomb, then you have the story

:08:32. > :08:33.about the shortage of armed officers. What's interesting is the

:08:34. > :08:38.whole of the front page virtually is in the context of the threat posed

:08:39. > :08:43.by terrorists. There hasn't been an attack... I know people are always

:08:44. > :08:50.warning that one is likely, that's the phrase I think, but there hasn't

:08:51. > :08:53.been. But just the possibility could command with two entirely different

:08:54. > :08:57.story is the whole of the front page of a paper. Terrorism is a

:08:58. > :09:01.nightmare, you have the disappointed child in the arms of his father on

:09:02. > :09:06.the front page at Old Trafford, but some of those tears will be shocked

:09:07. > :09:12.and dismayed, I presume it is his father giving him a coach, he will

:09:13. > :09:18.be glad he's OK, and you have to balance that with keeping him safe

:09:19. > :09:25.with armed officers -- a hug. Our shopping centres will be disrupted

:09:26. > :09:28.and so will our travel to work, it's a balance between freedom and also

:09:29. > :09:35.making sure we can do things safely. British people tend to get

:09:36. > :09:40.on with it when you look back over the decades. It's not the first time

:09:41. > :09:44.we've seen this kind of threat. The balance between the two, it was and

:09:45. > :09:48.remains an issue to some extent with Northern Ireland, both within

:09:49. > :09:52.Northern Ireland and on the mainland. And that threat is

:09:53. > :09:58.reimagining. Indeed. The whole threat of carrying on as normal

:09:59. > :10:02.while being protected is massively complicated and will produce endless

:10:03. > :10:06.front pages in the weeks and months to come even if, touch wood, we

:10:07. > :10:12.don't get this attack. Boris Johnson doesn't escape some of the front

:10:13. > :10:22.pages, this is the i, we can see the headline. I know this is something

:10:23. > :10:27.you feel strongly about, Steve? This referendum is producing wacky front

:10:28. > :10:32.pages. The Daily Mirror on its front page has Cameron writes for the

:10:33. > :10:36.Mirror... Yes, really. Even they are joking about it, it must be one of

:10:37. > :10:40.the first time is a Tory Prime Minister has written for the Daily

:10:41. > :10:44.Mirror putting the case for the In campaign. Then you have Boris

:10:45. > :10:50.Johnson being put under intense media scrutiny and political

:10:51. > :10:54.scrutiny... Although he's one of the most famous politicians in the

:10:55. > :10:59.UK... For the first time in his career. The comparison he made, he

:11:00. > :11:04.was making the point that Hitler wanted a superstate, and he was

:11:05. > :11:08.arguing the EU is basically going to become a superstate and Britain

:11:09. > :11:14.should get out of it. But by using Hitler... You saw what happened to

:11:15. > :11:17.Ken Livingstone the other day, you generate a kind of feverish

:11:18. > :11:24.response. But the question is whether it gets the response he

:11:25. > :11:27.wants. I don't think it will be the kind of thing that will convince

:11:28. > :11:30.undecideds that he will become this great authoritative figure to

:11:31. > :11:35.follow. It certainly gets headlines and he's on the front pages again,

:11:36. > :11:39.he's on the front pages a lot, but that doesn't necessarily mean votes

:11:40. > :11:45.for the Out campaign. I think he's having quite an erratic campaign so

:11:46. > :11:49.far. Not that surprising. It's his first big national campaign. Cameron

:11:50. > :11:54.and Osborne have fought general election is. Labour politicians have

:11:55. > :12:01.fought general election is. This is his first big exposure. -- general

:12:02. > :12:05.elections. As mayor of London, even though it's only London, it is the

:12:06. > :12:08.capital and he's been on the international stage for a long

:12:09. > :12:16.time. He knows exactly what he's doing and he is saying surely this

:12:17. > :12:19.is an experienced campaigner. He is banking on getting emotions going

:12:20. > :12:23.and he also wants to grab headlines and be in the news for as long as

:12:24. > :12:28.possible and he's planning his next move is. I'm not sure it's a wise

:12:29. > :12:32.way of doing it but he thinks this bombastic character...

:12:33. > :12:36.Internationally we are seeing people getting attention because of

:12:37. > :12:39.statements we find ridiculous but people are saying, he is speaking

:12:40. > :12:50.off-the-cuff and that is attractive --. It will be interesting to find

:12:51. > :12:53.out if he has made a thoughtful calculation. Politics is.

:12:54. > :13:03.TRANSLATION: Pouring in front of our eyes, you have Donald Trump in the

:13:04. > :13:09.US and other outsiders in Europe flourishing -- politics is

:13:10. > :13:15.transforming. There was a survey a couple of weeks ago that said both

:13:16. > :13:19.campaigns were lacking fact, both of them were lacking proper hard facts

:13:20. > :13:23.about what this and that meant. A lot of it was presumptions and

:13:24. > :13:30.feelings and predictions. I don't blame them for that. At the moment

:13:31. > :13:37.we are Bombay bombarded by fax and it becomes impossible to make any

:13:38. > :13:41.judgement at all. -- bombarded by facts. Every now and again the BBC

:13:42. > :13:46.does fact checks and they find that one assertion doesn't go with the

:13:47. > :13:51.facts. This is a battle and of course you are going to use all

:13:52. > :13:55.sorts of emotional stuff to win your argument. The biggest

:13:56. > :13:59.numbercrunching is people that are undecided and they may not vote,

:14:00. > :14:02.that's the biggest problem not for politicians only but also for

:14:03. > :14:08.journalists. We have to leave it there but thank you for taking us

:14:09. > :14:12.through the papers. I'm sure we would have had plenty more to say.

:14:13. > :14:14.Thank you for joining us as well. Stay with us, coming up next is The

:14:15. > :14:15.Film Review.