24/08/2016

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:00:15. > :00:17.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:18. > :00:20.With me are journalist and broadcaster Aasmah Mir

:00:21. > :00:28.and the New York Times reporter Dan Bilefsky.

:00:29. > :00:30.Tomorrow's front pages: The front page of the Metro shows

:00:31. > :00:32.the devastation caused by the earthquake in central

:00:33. > :00:37.Italy, in which 120 people have been killed.

:00:38. > :00:40.The Times leads with the same story too, saying Italy's most historic

:00:41. > :00:44.The Guardian looks at a report by a think tank, which suggests

:00:45. > :00:46.the NHS would collapse without its 57-thousand workers

:00:47. > :00:55.The Telegraph reports on Government plans of permits for low-skilled

:00:56. > :01:00.EU migrants to work in the UK after Brexit.

:01:01. > :01:03.The FT says the US has warned the European Commission that it

:01:04. > :01:04.will consider retaliating if Brussels demands

:01:05. > :01:08.billions of dollars in underpaid taxes from Apple.

:01:09. > :01:11.The Express leads with a warning that toxic smog is set to sweep

:01:12. > :01:17.The Mail splashes with a call for a ban on microbeads in cosmetics

:01:18. > :01:30.and toiletries due to the damage they can cause to sea life.

:01:31. > :01:37.The Metro, devastation, one of the areas hit by the massive earthquake

:01:38. > :01:41.overnight. Two buildings, maybe three still standing in the middle

:01:42. > :01:48.of all of that? I think the picture is phenomenal, really. It gives you

:01:49. > :01:53.the absolute birds eye view of what has happened here. We are talking

:01:54. > :01:58.about entire villages, very remote, most of them on top of hills, some

:01:59. > :02:02.with populations of as few as 700 people, being pretty much wiped out

:02:03. > :02:08.in terms of buildings. At this point, the death toll stands at 159.

:02:09. > :02:20.It may, unfortunately, rise. This gives you an idea of the fact that

:02:21. > :02:24.in a small village, a small town like Amatrice, every person and

:02:25. > :02:29.every building is affected. You can see the rescue workers, people

:02:30. > :02:35.sifting through, in vain, almost, because it is such a picture of

:02:36. > :02:39.devastation, as the Metro rightly says. Questions clearly will be

:02:40. > :02:43.asked. At some point in the future, now is not the right time, questions

:02:44. > :02:47.about how stable some of the buildings were. So many of them seem

:02:48. > :02:57.to have just collapsed like a pack of cards. We are talking a very old

:02:58. > :03:00.part of the country, in terms of architecture, lots the buildings are

:03:01. > :03:04.medieval. They are not going to be constructed in the kind of materials

:03:05. > :03:09.that deal with this. I covered the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009, a

:03:10. > :03:15.similar area, not far from here. Very fragile, medieval buildings. An

:03:16. > :03:27.earthquake, I think you know about this as well, done, it was a shallow

:03:28. > :03:30.earthquake? The Mayor of Amatrice said that the town is not there any

:03:31. > :03:35.more. Because it was shallow, it was only six miles below the surface.

:03:36. > :03:38.They are more devastating than deep earthquakes because of the Dai

:03:39. > :03:44.Greene of the vibrations. It just hit massively, because of that.

:03:45. > :03:50.That's because of the intensity of the vibrations. 14th century

:03:51. > :03:55.buildings, even buildings from 100 or 50 years ago are not earthquake

:03:56. > :04:01.proof and they have not been retrofitted since. Especially when

:04:02. > :04:09.you consider that it was 6.2 magnitude, last year, Nepal, that

:04:10. > :04:16.was 7.8, and 700 people were killed. It was quite lower, but it still

:04:17. > :04:20.created such devastation. It's interesting when you say retrofit,

:04:21. > :04:27.it is possible to do that? It is, but it is very expensive. Questions

:04:28. > :04:30.will be asked, it is an area of incredible seismic activity. It is

:04:31. > :04:36.probably one of the worst areas for it in Western Europe, this

:04:37. > :04:42.particular part of Italy. The devastation, wiping out whole

:04:43. > :04:51.villages, areas. The picture on the front page of the Daily Telegraph

:04:52. > :04:57.was of a nun, on her cellphone. The convent she was in was destroyed?

:04:58. > :05:07.This photograph has been compared to Dante 's Inferno, a very moving

:05:08. > :05:11.tableau of a nun, caked in blood, on her cellphone. Apparently there were

:05:12. > :05:15.several nuns from the convent, pulled out of the rubble by a man

:05:16. > :05:19.that saved their lives. Had it not been for a matter of minutes, they

:05:20. > :05:23.would have perished. There you see her, possibly minutes afterwards,

:05:24. > :05:29.trying to talk to somebody, looking absolutely devastated. It is

:05:30. > :05:42.incredible what has happened. The rescue operation is still going on.

:05:43. > :05:48.As Aasmah was saying, 150 killed, but many are still trapped? With

:05:49. > :05:52.this type of tragedy, teams came from all over Italy, a six-man team

:05:53. > :05:58.came from the Vatican as well, to try their best to help. We have seen

:05:59. > :06:03.this time and time again. It is a horrible story, a horrible aftermath

:06:04. > :06:07.that we see played out on TV news screens. There is very little hope

:06:08. > :06:13.that people will be found alive, but you do hope that there will be those

:06:14. > :06:17.stories, those small stories of hope, where somebody is discovered

:06:18. > :06:24.perhaps a couple of days down the line. There will be one, there will

:06:25. > :06:28.be two. But not many. No, it is interesting covering the Nepal

:06:29. > :06:31.earthquake just over a year ago, you have all of these rescue teams

:06:32. > :06:36.getting in and they are trying to save lives. They know they will

:06:37. > :06:41.probably only save one or two, but that justifies, in their eyes, and

:06:42. > :06:44.drives them. Then they sadly be hundreds of people under the rubble,

:06:45. > :06:49.but if they can get one person how to live, and that could well happen

:06:50. > :06:53.over the next two or three days... And as we have seen covering

:06:54. > :06:57.earthquakes, the social fabric of a country like Italy, where family is

:06:58. > :07:00.so strong, it will hopefully help save the depression that can come

:07:01. > :07:05.after such an experience. In this case, entire towns have been

:07:06. > :07:11.demolished. It will be difficult. Staying with the Telegraph, internet

:07:12. > :07:15.giants passing the buck on terror? This is a story in which MPs are

:07:16. > :07:19.warning that Facebook, Twitter, Google and other social medias are

:07:20. > :07:26.deliberately failing to stop terrorists from using the websites

:07:27. > :07:28.to promote their beliefs. This is interesting, having investigated

:07:29. > :07:35.terrorism, many law enforcement people will tell you that in today's

:07:36. > :07:40.age of Twitter, millennial jihadists use Facebook, Twitter and other

:07:41. > :07:42.social media to describe in real time what they are doing, how they

:07:43. > :07:46.are becoming radicalised, where they are going to go. It has been a real

:07:47. > :07:51.asset for law enforcement to track these people. There are many people

:07:52. > :07:56.that would disagree with MPs, allowing them to have Facebook and

:07:57. > :08:02.Twitter be transparent, providing footprints which allows police and

:08:03. > :08:05.counterterrorism... At the same time, it helps them spread their

:08:06. > :08:10.message. It may provide a footprint that authorities can use, but they

:08:11. > :08:16.display their message at the same time? They are preaching hate filled

:08:17. > :08:20.messages and they are reaching a young and vulnerable audience, you

:08:21. > :08:25.could argue. I think what the MPs arguing, and this is the chairman of

:08:26. > :08:33.the home affairs select committee, saying that these big companies do

:08:34. > :08:39.not seem to be keen to take down or delete messages, profiles, as

:08:40. > :08:43.quickly as, for example, during the Olympics, a lot of people were

:08:44. > :08:50.saying they did not take down Anjem Choudary's profile on social media,

:08:51. > :08:53.but they were very quick, when there were copyright issues of somebody

:08:54. > :08:55.putting up a video of anything to do with the Olympics, it would be

:08:56. > :09:00.deleted pretty much straightaway. I think that there is a bit of a

:09:01. > :09:03.disconnect between the two. Obviously people will see one as

:09:04. > :09:08.being much more dangerous than the other. I'm not sure why they would

:09:09. > :09:13.not act. MPs are saying that they were damaging their brand. It

:09:14. > :09:19.doesn't necessarily make sense to me. It is money, isn't it? If you

:09:20. > :09:23.start impairing somebody's right to say something... Where do you draw

:09:24. > :09:28.the line? A lot of people would say you should draw the line with

:09:29. > :09:32.Islamic State, but that line seems to be in the wrong place for a lot

:09:33. > :09:36.of technology companies, compared to the general population, it seems? I

:09:37. > :09:43.think within the general population, they would like more control. To

:09:44. > :09:48.counter what I was saying earlier, I was amazed when I was investigating

:09:49. > :09:54.the terrorists involved in the Brussels and Paris bombing, a lot of

:09:55. > :10:03.them had open Facebook profiles, you could see them posing with an AK-47.

:10:04. > :10:11.That is worrying, for sure. Brussels, tax demand on Apple, Dan?

:10:12. > :10:14.Well, this is a long, ongoing battle between Washington and Brussels

:10:15. > :10:18.overregulation. We had the case of Google, Microsoft, they came in the

:10:19. > :10:23.cross hairs of the European Commission. Now we have the United

:10:24. > :10:29.States, chastising the European Commission for clamping down on

:10:30. > :10:34.Apple over tax, alleged tax evasion. This is an ongoing battle we have

:10:35. > :10:39.seen, where the Americans feel that European regulators are unfairly

:10:40. > :10:46.targeting US companies and applying and their demands. K. Well, what is

:10:47. > :10:50.likely to happen if this is done by Brussels? What are the Americans

:10:51. > :10:58.threatening to do? They can apply geopolitical pressure and take

:10:59. > :11:02.revenge by starting to regulate European companies operating in the

:11:03. > :11:06.United States, with greater force. The European model has always been

:11:07. > :11:10.more consumer centric, the American model is always, to some extent,

:11:11. > :11:19.more business centric. A clash of ideology? It good job we are not in

:11:20. > :11:30.it any more, isn't it? That is one way of putting it! This is all

:11:31. > :11:39.nonsense, because it is Bake Off! It is back. Tears after the Jaffa

:11:40. > :11:44.disaster? Is I didn't say it, I was busy revising for The Papers. They

:11:45. > :11:53.tried to recreate Jaffa Cakes, a bit of a divider, a bit like Marmite.

:11:54. > :11:57.The thing about this programme, it is on BBC One, who knows how many

:11:58. > :12:09.millions of viewers, and everything is so ramped up. To populist? It is,

:12:10. > :12:13.it used to be cool on BBC Two. It is so ramped up that you have people in

:12:14. > :12:21.the first episode crying, throwing things in the bin. They said the

:12:22. > :12:28.cake was moist, everybody was giggling. That is British humour,

:12:29. > :12:33.you are not quite used to it. The last British Bake Off final, it had

:12:34. > :12:44.huge attention in the United States. Nadia became a dramatic of identity

:12:45. > :12:50.politics, Islamic integration, I got hate mail from readers of the New

:12:51. > :12:55.York Times that were unhappy that I said that she had won. I spoiled it

:12:56. > :13:04.by saying that she won. Well, quite right! I would have been angry! It

:13:05. > :13:18.has a global following. So, if this went back onto BBC Two, maybe BBC 4,

:13:19. > :13:19.radio 4? Thanks for checking out the papers.

:13:20. > :13:23.Don't forget all the front pages are online on the BBC News website

:13:24. > :13:27.where you can read a detailed review of the papers - bbc.co.uk/papers -

:13:28. > :13:30.and you can see us there too, with each night's edition

:13:31. > :13:32.of The Papers being posted on the page shortly

:13:33. > :13:35.Thank you Aasmah Mir and Dan Bilefsky.

:13:36. > :13:57.The heat and humidity of recent days is triggering some thunderstorms. It

:13:58. > :14:00.was a hot one, to say the least, the hottest day of the year so far

:14:01. > :14:01.across the south-east. Much more