08/07/2016

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:00:00. > :00:00.York and the New York police Commissioner. That is the main

:00:00. > :00:13.story. Now let's take a look at the papers.

:00:14. > :00:17.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:18. > :00:24.With me are the Political Correspondent for the Evening

:00:25. > :00:34.He is about to become political editor which is proof that we are

:00:35. > :00:47.The Guardian meets with the shooting of pi -- of five police officers in

:00:48. > :00:50.Dallas and the country is reeling from what it calls a massacre.

:00:51. > :00:55.The Mail leads with news that some financial firms are exploiting

:00:56. > :00:59.the falling value of the pound to rip off British holiday-makers.

:01:00. > :01:02.The Mirror carries a full-page image of the Dallas shooting suspect.

:01:03. > :01:07.The Weekend FT focuses on attempts to save the Port Talbot steel works.

:01:08. > :01:09.Conservative leadership contender Theresa May has given an interview

:01:10. > :01:15.She says the future will be brighter after Brexit although she backed the

:01:16. > :01:17.campaign to remain in the European Union.

:01:18. > :01:20.While her rival Andrea Leadsom has given her interview to the Times,

:01:21. > :01:22.saying that the fact she has children gives her the edge

:01:23. > :01:30.The Sun devotes its front page to the Dallas shooting suspect.

:01:31. > :01:33.Micah Johnson, the dead man believed to have been the suspect in the

:01:34. > :01:41.police killings. Inevitably, the front of the

:01:42. > :01:45.Guardian, the US reels from the Dallas massacre and a moving picture

:01:46. > :01:49.that has been in a lot of the papers. Yes, so much imagery from

:01:50. > :01:54.this incident is that you could have picked anything but the Guardian has

:01:55. > :01:58.done well to capture a lot of the shop and helplessness I think a lot

:01:59. > :02:03.of Americans will be feeling. -- the shock. This is was a monstrous

:02:04. > :02:10.incident and the story has taken a thoughtful look at tying in the

:02:11. > :02:14.horror of mass order -- smoulder, along with the themes of American

:02:15. > :02:21.society and the gun culture and race relations that have collided to

:02:22. > :02:24.bring about this tragedy. It is quite extraordinary what has

:02:25. > :02:29.happened. Every day, you think that is the worst use we can get the day

:02:30. > :02:33.and then you get something worse. Lorretta Lynch is the Attorney

:02:34. > :02:39.General in America and she is black and she says that America has now

:02:40. > :02:43.got feelings of helplessness, uncertainty and fear. It certainly

:02:44. > :02:47.has because this sounds like a lone gunman. You could have that in any

:02:48. > :02:55.city now and that is the big fear. The other is cup cat killers. What

:02:56. > :02:59.is going to happen next? -- copycat. This is terrible and you can only

:03:00. > :03:05.think, and they were all on a march, like lives matter. The march passed

:03:06. > :03:09.by peacefully. A black man kills white police officers and you think

:03:10. > :03:16.this is going to get worse before it gets better. It is the final insult

:03:17. > :03:19.of the horrific affair that the people who were there peacefully

:03:20. > :03:23.demonstrating and expressing their views in a way a democracy allows,

:03:24. > :03:31.that has been sabotaged and undermined by this awful incident.

:03:32. > :03:35.And it has the added difficulty for Americans that this was a man who

:03:36. > :03:40.two weeks ago may have been considered a war hero. Yes, we will

:03:41. > :03:45.get to the mirror with that. Extraordinary that, the impact these

:03:46. > :03:51.scenes have because so much is caught on camera because everybody

:03:52. > :03:55.has a camera phone and that quality is so good to be broadcast. There

:03:56. > :04:01.were two death that week and one of which, the guy was dying and it was

:04:02. > :04:08.shot by a policeman and his girlfriend was putting it out live

:04:09. > :04:11.on Facebook. What surprises me is how few of the papers have carried

:04:12. > :04:17.this on their front page. This is a serious and terrible thing that has

:04:18. > :04:22.happened, it has knocked Tony Blair from the front pages for which

:04:23. > :04:26.should be grateful. It is not on half the newspapers. Two top boys is

:04:27. > :04:32.carrying it, the mirror and the Sun. -- tabloids. The Mirror pointing out

:04:33. > :04:39.to Mako weeks ago, Micah Johnson had been thought of as a hero, he was an

:04:40. > :04:42.army reservist -- two weeks ago. Served in Afghanistan and who knows

:04:43. > :04:50.if that played into his behaviour last night. And this photo I find

:04:51. > :04:54.more extraordinary. We have a man in camouflage turning to look at the

:04:55. > :05:00.camera, perhaps not aware what is going on over his shoulder. As the

:05:01. > :05:04.gunman apparently walks behind a concrete pillar and shoot somebody

:05:05. > :05:11.in the back. I would not put that picture on the front page. Before a

:05:12. > :05:19.man dies, yes. There was a story not so long ago of a person he used to

:05:20. > :05:24.work in a TV station and who shot a reporter and filmed it and put it on

:05:25. > :05:27.the internet and there were editorial decisions to put the

:05:28. > :05:31.moment before that happened on the papers and maybe that was what the

:05:32. > :05:36.shed and we will see more of that. The happy pictures on social media

:05:37. > :05:39.of the many you referred to, Philando Castile, bleeding to death

:05:40. > :05:44.in a car after being shot and his girlfriend put that on Facebook. And

:05:45. > :05:51.we had this evening an example of that which we played off -- played a

:05:52. > :05:56.little of, the serving black police officer who posted something on her

:05:57. > :05:59.Facebook page denouncing racist police who served in the uniform.

:06:00. > :06:05.And the emotions of delivering that on Facebook have much more power

:06:06. > :06:10.than an interview. If that is what I was thinking of, that was so

:06:11. > :06:17.dignified, it was not a rant. She became more emotional as it went on.

:06:18. > :06:21.It was not over the top, it was a cry from the heart. Police in

:06:22. > :06:28.America must wonder what could happen next. Yes. Anybody can get a

:06:29. > :06:34.gun in America. Extremely difficult job they do. And you tend to focus

:06:35. > :06:39.on these mass shootings and they reach across the Atlantic to our

:06:40. > :06:44.News pages. But the gun problem in America is a steady flow of

:06:45. > :06:48.shootings that happen underneath these mass shootings. Something like

:06:49. > :06:53.30,000 people a year die from gun related injuries. If you include

:06:54. > :07:01.just the injuries that survive, it is 100,000. And something like, even

:07:02. > :07:04.though only 50% of the population is African-American, around 50% of the

:07:05. > :07:09.gun murders affect black people. So it is intricately tied to the race

:07:10. > :07:16.relations in America and this has brought this out. When I was waiting

:07:17. > :07:19.earlier, there was a woman reporter in Washington on the News Channel

:07:20. > :07:23.saying part of the problem is the old police officers would be

:07:24. > :07:29.differently trained and less softly, softly and more go in and grab them.

:07:30. > :07:33.Now officers get trained differently and some of the problems get caused

:07:34. > :07:38.by the lack of training of the older officers. Now the domestic matters

:07:39. > :07:42.which feature on some of the front pages, beginning with the Telegraph.

:07:43. > :07:49.This is an interview with Theresa May. You must be in seventh heaven

:07:50. > :07:55.as a political correspondence and shortly to be editor? Yes, and

:07:56. > :07:59.completely exhausted, I have not slept for a month since EU

:08:00. > :08:04.referendum and unexpected things keep happening. Everything gets

:08:05. > :08:10.turned upside down and that is why this Tory leadership contest is so

:08:11. > :08:14.exciting because Theresa May. Two women going into the membership vote

:08:15. > :08:18.and she showed theoretically be the big favourite but nobody is taking

:08:19. > :08:22.anything for granted. Remember Ken Clarke and Iain Duncan Smith going

:08:23. > :08:26.into a leadership ballot and everybody said it would go for Ken

:08:27. > :08:30.Clarke. He is the experienced man, and they went for Iain Duncan Smith.

:08:31. > :08:34.And David Cameron against David Davis and tell that big speech at

:08:35. > :08:38.the Tory conference. As Theresa May puts it on the front page of the

:08:39. > :08:44.Daily Telegraph, politics could do with some bloody difficult women!

:08:45. > :08:52.That is a Ken Clarke quote. She is quite right. Yes, she seems to be

:08:53. > :08:55.making a point that the UK can look forward to this bigger and brighter

:08:56. > :09:00.future which is interesting. That was the main theme of the first

:09:01. > :09:04.speech of Andrea Leadsom so she perhaps has seen this would be an

:09:05. > :09:11.advantageous beam and she wants a piece of that action, so in this

:09:12. > :09:15.article, she is perhaps presenting a brighter face to the public after

:09:16. > :09:21.being seen as this stern taskmaster who will take the EU and batter them

:09:22. > :09:26.into shape. When you meet her, and I have met her a couple of times and

:09:27. > :09:30.never interviewed her, she comes across as quite shy. She is very,

:09:31. > :09:37.very friendly. Which was a surprise to me because she has a very stern

:09:38. > :09:40.us -- stern exterior. Ever since she has come out as wanting to be the

:09:41. > :09:48.next Prime Minister, she has completely transformed into this

:09:49. > :09:55.smiley clever woman. And showing it. Before, she just did the job and she

:09:56. > :09:59.hid away. She also has said she does not want parallels drawn between

:10:00. > :10:02.these two women but I am afraid Andrea Leadsom is not up for not

:10:03. > :10:07.drawing parallels. And that takes us drawing parallels. And that takes us

:10:08. > :10:12.neatly to the Times. She has done something which is drawing a

:10:13. > :10:17.parallel different personal experiences, if not political. It is

:10:18. > :10:22.better I do not talk about this. We have tried to work out the

:10:23. > :10:25.calculation that went into her making the comments in this

:10:26. > :10:29.interview. Steam coming out of your ears at the moment, we will speak to

:10:30. > :10:34.you in a minute! She has suggested she would be a better Prime Minister

:10:35. > :10:37.because she has children and she is a mother. Taken on its own out of

:10:38. > :10:47.context, that could be Bury North tweet know in the she could not have

:10:48. > :10:53.children -- that in the last week. And that it was a difficult thing to

:10:54. > :10:57.accept. She said they were affected by it, she never played it up. Yes,

:10:58. > :11:03.she was very dignified. And so this is a very low blow. And Andrea

:11:04. > :11:09.Leadsom alludes to the fact that maybe Theresa May could be hurt by

:11:10. > :11:14.it. And she talks about it. She says she feels, the quote is genuine, I

:11:15. > :11:19.feel being a mother means you have a real stake in the future of our

:11:20. > :11:23.country, a tangible stake. Is that unreasonable? She says, I am sure

:11:24. > :11:29.Theresa May will be really sad she does not have children so I do not

:11:30. > :11:34.want to be the, Andrea has children and the razor does not, I think that

:11:35. > :11:38.would be really horrible. That is exactly what you are doing, Madame!

:11:39. > :11:45.And she says, motherhood means more empathy. This is not empathetic,

:11:46. > :11:50.this is saying, I have children, you have not. I think it is horrible. We

:11:51. > :11:56.have seen in this contest how playing the person instead of the

:11:57. > :12:00.ball has backfired. Yes. It is interesting because the last time we

:12:01. > :12:04.saw that, it was down to MPs to pick the winning candidate and now it is

:12:05. > :12:07.down to the Tory membership so Andrea Leadsom may have made a

:12:08. > :12:15.calculation that this line of attack will play well with a lot of small

:12:16. > :12:19.seated Conservatives. In the last couple of minutes, Andrea Leadsom

:12:20. > :12:24.has tweeted, re-tweeted the cover of the times and added the words, truly

:12:25. > :12:30.appalling and the exact opposite of what I have said, I am disgusted. I

:12:31. > :12:34.am sorry, we journalists and we do not make things up, we really do

:12:35. > :12:40.not. That happened 30 years ago and it does not happen now. This is in

:12:41. > :12:45.quotes. Everybody was Mac mobile phone... We do not know what was not

:12:46. > :12:50.included. It does not matter. The stuff in quotes is leaving me

:12:51. > :12:57.flabbergasted that somebody of judgment... Even if you do give her

:12:58. > :13:03.the benefit of the doubt. Which I will not, I am struggling. Even so,

:13:04. > :13:08.she has said things in quotes which have been easily put into this kind

:13:09. > :13:13.of story and that suggests a judgment. One last story. Greedy

:13:14. > :13:18.currency firms exploiting holiday-makers because of the fall

:13:19. > :13:26.in the money macro. 1 euro for ?1 if you are lucky! I am amazed at the

:13:27. > :13:30.Mail which I used to work for a long time ago, they consider that the

:13:31. > :13:35.best story at the moment with such awful things happening on the world

:13:36. > :13:41.stage, shame on them for that. And if you go on holiday, do not buy

:13:42. > :13:45.your money at the airport. Watchdog would give that advice. There are

:13:46. > :13:51.plenty of places, most people have got a phone to find the best way to

:13:52. > :13:52.change money. I wish I had listened to you back then!

:13:53. > :14:02.Don't forget, all the front pages are online on the BBC News website,

:14:03. > :14:04.where you can read a detailed review of the papers.

:14:05. > :14:07.It's all there for you, seven days a week, at bbc.co.uk/papers.

:14:08. > :14:09.And you can see us there too, with each night's edition

:14:10. > :14:13.of The Papers being posted on the page shortly