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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
With me are former Foreign Correspondent and author | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
Matthew Green and the journalist and writer Toby Young. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
The Treasury has given millions of pounds intended for war veterans | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
to unknown charities, claims the Sunday Times. | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
TheIndependent leads with reports that | :00:38. | :00:38. | |
in Africa are being used as animal feed. | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
on a Syrian migrant using a fake passport to reach the UK | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Three servicemen face prosecution for the death over | :00:49. | :01:09. | |
of a teenager 13 years ago - that's on the Telegraph's front | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
Princess Eugenie seeks the Queen's approval | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
for her upcoming marriage, according to the Sunday Express. | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
This death of a teenager, this seems to be an issue which never seemed to | :01:18. | :01:34. | |
go away. This as a result of a in Dasher investigation carried out, a | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
government-sponsored investigative team set up to investigate | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
allegations of war crimes against serving British soldiers during the | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
Iraq war. In this particular case, the three servicemen, who have been | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
told they may be facing charges, have already been cleared by a | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
military investigation by 2006 of any wrongdoing in connection with | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
this case. So this has caused consternation among the various | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
ex-military serving MPs. Should a line be drawn under this? If it is | :02:13. | :02:21. | |
deemed to be a criminal matter? Nobody denies that British soldiers | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
need to be held to account if there are substantial allegations made but | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
they have been through a judicial process already on there being | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
dragged through with the possibility of another investigation. The | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
psychological strain, not just on the three individuals, who are being | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
put on trial again, but for other service personnel who may be | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
connected to them all the fear they may be pulled into similar | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
investigations, is huge. I am certain that there are military | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
families up and down the country horrified by reading this and very | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
worried about what might happen next. | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
Another story, we have got long, I know Toby is champing at the bit! | :03:08. | :03:16. | |
Tory MP sets up new group to push for Brexit. The group is called | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
leave means lean. We know Brexit means Brexit, but nobody can tell us | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
what that means! The comedy continues. Theresa May has a | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
terrible task trying to execute something other than a total train | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
wreck with Brexit. And looks like there is a hard-core of Eurosceptic | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
Tory MPs who want to put pressure on her to go for hard Brexit, who don't | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
care about access to the single market, they just want Britain out | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
of the EU as soon as possible, come what may. This party is seems to | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
have national interest at stake, but it seems to be riven by some strange | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
mania. You may be reading too much into the Sunday Telegraph's | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
headline, if you go into the detail, it only names three. Three, I | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
thought says six? That doesn't as the pigment. Dominic Rob, Gerald | :04:12. | :04:20. | |
Howarth and another. But it says the group supports John Whittingdale, | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
who was part of the Vote Leave campaign and who demanded last week | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
that the Article 15 process be triggered in a matter of weeks, not | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
years. But Donald Tusk says that Theresa May has tipped him off that | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
the process. In February, that is not far off. Yes, and Theresa May | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
does not want to go into the next election with a question hanging | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
over half. She doesn't want to refight the referendum in the next | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
general election. She wants to fight Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party and she | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
is more likely to win if she fights the election on that basis. | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
The Sunday Times. Scandal as war heroes charity millions banished. | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
The suggestion that the Treasury gave away funds without checking. | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
You have done a lot of work with service personnel, particularly what | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
happens to them when they leave. These charities are doing a job on | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
behalf of the state? This is a hugely important story that the | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
Sunday Times has identified. The government knows that it has a huge | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
problem in dealing with thousands of men and women coming back from Iraq | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
and Afghanistan who have psychological injuries that can take | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
many years to surface. We don't have a system in place to provide them | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
with the care that they need to have a chance of getting well. The real | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
tragedy is that with the right help, even people who feel damaged to | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
their very core can sometimes make remarkable transformations. But | :05:59. | :06:07. | |
throwing money at charities and hoping that that will somehow work | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
is failing and this story is just another piece of evidence to support | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
that conclusion. Isn't it the case that there are some good charities | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
and some bad charities and some are well run, and some not? Yes, and the | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
difficulty here is that, if the Sunday Times was right, is that a | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
fund was set up by George was born in which 35 and in pounds were put. | :06:25. | :06:34. | |
These funds paid by banks and -- 30 ?5 million. There was pressure to | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
get this money out to charities and and the Chief Executive of one | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
charity, not one of the ones accused of misusing money, he has said that | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
they found ?5 million that has been misused and he thinks it is the tip | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
of the eyes bug. But you wonder what else we do? I don't suppose the | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
government wants to have to try and provide this kind of support on the | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
taxpayer? That may be the case, that's a political decision. But | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
there needs to be somebody in Westminster who is in charge of this | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
brief. There is a Fetterman 's Minister, but there was nobody at | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
the top of the pyramid -- veterans minister. But there is nobody at the | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
top of the pyramid so is making sure the money is being spent on the | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
right people in the right way. There has been a policy of shovelling this | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
money at charities with different ideas and clashing personalities and | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
expecting that it will deliver adequate service. Part of the | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
problem is that there are large sums of government money going to | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
charities. This feels like an echo of the case last year involving Kids | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
Company which found that -- in which we found that money had been | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
channelled to a charity that had not been properly scrutinised. | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
This paper has found three people who are suffering from a rare blood | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
cancer who might not get a stem cell operation because the NHS has got to | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
fund this HIV drug. Is this just a case of competing demands on NHS | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
funds? This is quite an alarming story and it says that it looks as | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
though it is the cost of this particular HIV treatment which is | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
why it is being stopped. And I guess it is part of a larger story about | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
the NHS is being strapped for funds. And the NHS has been told it had to | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
at least consider funding this HIV treatment by the court. It's a | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
dilemma as to whether you invest money upfront to prevent a higher | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
cost further down the line... With HIV sufferers. Yes, but in the | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
meantime you see people losing out. It must be heartbreaking for people | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
going through this chemotherapy to be told that this treatment will not | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
be available. Mail on Sunday, migrants flying | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
migrant in on Ryanair. I'm not sure has a bit airline is, but the | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
significance of what they have done is what, Matthew? Dramatic headline, | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
the story is not quite so dramatic! A Syrian migrant has apparently been | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
given a fake passport, bought a Ryanair ticket in cash, went through | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
the checks on a fake passport and came to the UK where he probably | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
claimed asylum. Sounds like the system is working quite well if he | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
turned himself into the authorities on arrival! But fake passport? Yes, | :09:44. | :09:52. | |
the story is the creation of this anarchist pro-refugee group, no | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
borders. This is the kind of thing that people will do to show that | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
there are loopholes in anti-refugee security apparatus. If anything, | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
this will make the British Border Force tighten controls on refugees | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
potentially coming in on full staff bought on airlines rather than | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
actually help the No Borders calls, so it is an odd one for them to be | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
involved with. They have shot themselves in the foot. Typically, | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
the stories are done with newspapers with anti-refugee agenda. We only | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
know of one particular case but it highlights the fact that it can be | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
done, people can get through. Yes, but that's not really news, is it? | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
It's a new way of doing it, by a different group. | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
Let's finish with this story in the Independent. It's a fantastic story, | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
a picture of fishermen in Senegal landing a cache of sardines. You | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
think, fine, but the argument is that it is exclusive, these fish | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
stocks are needed in Africa and they are being brought to the West. Yes, | :11:06. | :11:14. | |
that's the story. That the potential impact on the population of West | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
Africa. It can be devastating. Because they won't have as much fish | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
to eat because their fish stocks are being depleted by these various | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
companies who are funnelling the finish to check on, salmon and pig | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
farms in the West. I'm not sure from the fish point of view it's such a | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
tragedy, the story says "Fish destined for human mouths in South | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
Africa", it's as if the fish swimming happily towards a west | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
African mouth and they have been rudely diverted by Western capital. | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
A strange way of framing the story. But there is a series is seeing in | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
that the state of our oceans, it is parlous. The population of fish | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
stocks, fished by humans has collapsed by 50% over the last few | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
decades. We know that climate change is causing ocean acidification and | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
be seen the bleaching of coral reefs in the last few months. This is a | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
tragedy for fishermen in West Africa but it is a global problem that we | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
will all pay the price for. The argument of this article is that | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
this food is needed in Africa, a constant which of course has food | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
insecurity. Yes, fish is the main protein source for coastal | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
communities. But the fact is, this fish is being hoovered up by these | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
enormous floating industrial plants. They look like Manhattan tower | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
blocks on their sides at night, covered in light, hoovering up these | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
fish and they are being pulped and used as chicken feed so that we can | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
have cheaper chicken. It is obviously insanity. It is the kind | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
of thing that is wrecking the planet. That is it for this hour, | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
but Matthew and Toby will be back at 11:30pm when I'm hoping that we will | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
be able to do the Sunday Times story, big headed babies are | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
brightest. We will be measuring our crane and -- craniums. Next on BBC | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
News, Reporters. | :13:25. | :13:28. |