17/09/2016

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:00:16. > :00:19.Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

:00:20. > :00:21.With me are former Foreign correspondent and author

:00:22. > :00:25.Matthew Green and the journalist and writer Toby Young.

:00:26. > :00:28.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with this.

:00:29. > :00:31.The Treasury has given millions of pounds intended for war veterans

:00:32. > :00:33.to some unknown charities, claims The Sunday Times.

:00:34. > :00:35.The Independent leads with reports that fish

:00:36. > :00:38.intended for human consumption in Africa are being used

:00:39. > :00:48.The Daily Mail reports on a Syrian migrant

:00:49. > :00:51.using a fake passport to reach the UK on a Ryanair flight.

:00:52. > :00:55.for the death of an Iraqi teenager 13 years ago,

:00:56. > :00:57.that's on the Telegraph's front page.

:00:58. > :00:59.Princess Eugenie seeks the Queen's approval

:01:00. > :01:12.for her upcoming marriage, according to the Sunday Express.

:01:13. > :01:25.A couple of stories on the Sunday Telegraph. Betrayal, as soldiers

:01:26. > :01:30.face Iraq prosecution. These are servicemen who could face trials.

:01:31. > :01:35.That is even though they thought it had been investigated and put to

:01:36. > :01:41.rest. That is right. Three servicemen accused of involvement in

:01:42. > :01:45.the death of an Iraqi teenager in the immediate aftermath of the

:01:46. > :01:48.invasion in 2003. They have already been three military investigation

:01:49. > :01:54.which has cleared then. Now it is looking like they may face another

:01:55. > :02:00.trial through a separate process and prosecution. Obviously, to have to

:02:01. > :02:04.go through the same trial twice, that is going to be stressful for

:02:05. > :02:08.anybody. Especially for military personnel, one of whom is reported

:02:09. > :02:16.to be suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and injuries. What

:02:17. > :02:20.is the justification? The issue is not so much that it is stressful to

:02:21. > :02:24.go through the same trial twice. It is a fundamental principle of

:02:25. > :02:29.justice that if you are tried and found not guilty you cannot be tried

:02:30. > :02:35.again for the same crime. This... It looks as if the Iraq Historic

:02:36. > :02:40.Allegations Team set up by the labour government to investigate

:02:41. > :02:47.various allegations of wrongdoing by British service personnel in Iraq

:02:48. > :02:50.are recommending that this investigation be reopened and that

:02:51. > :02:55.these three men be charged again. But actually the allegations which

:02:56. > :03:02.this organisation was set up to investigate were made by a law firm

:03:03. > :03:08.which closed in the summer over alleged regularities which seems

:03:09. > :03:13.scandalous. The Telegraph. Tory MPs set up a new group to push for

:03:14. > :03:18.Brexit. Who are these people? How many are there? Three Conservative

:03:19. > :03:28.MPs have been named in this story. The new group is called Leave Means

:03:29. > :03:33.Leave, an echo of Brexit means Brexit from Theresa May. Sir Gerald,

:03:34. > :03:38.Dominic, the former Justice Minister, and Owen Paterson, the

:03:39. > :03:41.former Environment Secretary. There are three others involved as well.

:03:42. > :03:47.It looks as if they are pushing for Theresa May to trigger Article 50

:03:48. > :03:51.sooner rather than later. They are urging her not to accept a deal

:03:52. > :03:58.which involves written remaining in the single market. -- Britain. They

:03:59. > :04:03.are claiming that no deal is better than a bad deal, especially if it

:04:04. > :04:08.involves us making trade agreements with those outside the EU. Why are

:04:09. > :04:11.you shaking your head? LAUGHING. It is the golf of

:04:12. > :04:17.rationality these people seem to be on the other side of. It looks like

:04:18. > :04:20.a car running towards the cliff and they want to press the accelerator

:04:21. > :04:26.rather than steering to an arrangement that might not be a huge

:04:27. > :04:30.blow to Rajesh business. If the country wants to leave the EU,

:04:31. > :04:36.meaning getting out of the single market, the only way to control the

:04:37. > :04:42.borders, get on with it, say some people. Or maybe try and figure out

:04:43. > :04:47.some sort of solution that causes the least amount of damage to

:04:48. > :04:52.Britain's economic success and global standing. How damaging do you

:04:53. > :04:57.think it would be to the British economy if we had no trade agreement

:04:58. > :05:01.with the EU when we eventually did leave the EU? That would not mean no

:05:02. > :05:07.trade with the EU. That would mean trade under WTO rules rather than

:05:08. > :05:12.free trade agreements of some kind. That might not be disastrous if we

:05:13. > :05:18.had compensation through other trade agreements with other places. What

:05:19. > :05:23.will that be, five years? Ten years, before we get that new deal?

:05:24. > :05:27.Legally, I think we need to leave the EU, withdraw from the EU, before

:05:28. > :05:32.we can start making free trade agreements with other parts of the

:05:33. > :05:36.world. But we don't have to make a free-trade agreement with the EU. We

:05:37. > :05:41.are ticking along quite well before we even started having this

:05:42. > :05:46.conversation. It seems like a monumental task now to try to

:05:47. > :05:50.totally re-engineered this enormous system, for what actual gains at the

:05:51. > :05:54.end of that? The gain is that we can... British sovereignty is

:05:55. > :06:01.restored to the British Parliament. Is denied per cent of our laws are

:06:02. > :06:09.made by a 28 unelected officials. -- 58. It is just kind of like a

:06:10. > :06:15.face-palm moment when groups like these are trying to do something

:06:16. > :06:20.when the government does not even know what Brexit means. It seems

:06:21. > :06:25.like a total folly. I don't think groups like this will have a great

:06:26. > :06:34.deal of influence. Theresa May is anxious to forge a deal which

:06:35. > :06:39.commands consensus. They want to help Leavers and Remainers. I feel

:06:40. > :06:46.reassured. The act of alchemy that is about to help us out of the

:06:47. > :06:52.situation. It is a bit late now. Scandal as millions disappear from

:06:53. > :06:57.the Treasury. Funds given away without checking. Funds given to

:06:58. > :07:00.charities, various charities, to try to help the many, many service men

:07:01. > :07:07.and women who are leaving the forces and need support. This is a huge

:07:08. > :07:12.issue. I have written about this in my new book Aftershock... A

:07:13. > :07:18.shameless plug. But go on. LAUGHING. It looks at this very

:07:19. > :07:23.subject. 100 years ago we had an epidemic of shellshock on the Battle

:07:24. > :07:28.of the Somme. Sentries have passed and we have not got a system in

:07:29. > :07:32.place still to help soldiers and other service personnel suffering

:07:33. > :07:36.from psychological injury. -- centuries. The government has thrown

:07:37. > :07:42.money at a number of charities, some of which which are doing great work,

:07:43. > :07:45.but there are many which have great questions over then. There is a

:07:46. > :07:50.political vacuum in Westminster to look at this problem and get all the

:07:51. > :07:55.parties involved to come up with a solution that actually... Or a

:07:56. > :08:00.system... That actually works. But it hasn't happened in. If you

:08:01. > :08:03.formalise it and do it through government it is going to cost the

:08:04. > :08:13.taxpayer a lot of money. I think this looks awfully like the scandal

:08:14. > :08:16.we saw last year over Kids Company with the Department for Education

:08:17. > :08:21.giving large amounts of taxpayer money to them without doing proper

:08:22. > :08:26.due diligence. This look the same. ?35 million worth of libor fines

:08:27. > :08:33.were set aside by the Treasury. And that money is pledged to these

:08:34. > :08:36.various charities that work with those suffering Post-Traumatic

:08:37. > :08:39.Stress Disorder it looks like not much due diligence was done before

:08:40. > :08:47.deciding who to award this money to. The Sunday Times the cancer

:08:48. > :08:52.treatment to pay for HIV drugs. It protects healthy people from

:08:53. > :08:57.developing HIV. There are three people who the paper has identified,

:08:58. > :09:00.Toby, who might as a result of that miss out a life-saving cancer

:09:01. > :09:07.operations to pillow these three people have got a rare blood cancer.

:09:08. > :09:12.They have had a number of treatments to prepare them for a potentially

:09:13. > :09:15.life-saving stem cell transplant. But they have now been told they

:09:16. > :09:22.cannot have this operation because the NHS has been ordered by the High

:09:23. > :09:27.Court to set aside 10- ?20 million to pay for any treatment which is

:09:28. > :09:34.designed to prevent people who are at high risk of getting HIV rather

:09:35. > :09:39.than people who are actually suffering from HIV. A preventative

:09:40. > :09:42.drug programme, this is. The reason this is a little bit scandalous is

:09:43. > :09:47.that it seems to prioritise spending on preventative medicine rather than

:09:48. > :09:54.treating those actually ill. Moving on to the Mail on Sunday. Anarchists

:09:55. > :10:00.flying on Ryanair. Tell us about this. We could do with more

:10:01. > :10:06.information on these. Oh, come on. This group, No Borders, accused of

:10:07. > :10:11.stirring up trouble with migrant and refugee camps across Europe We don't

:10:12. > :10:16.have much more information on the paper. But the story boils down to

:10:17. > :10:25.the fact a Syrian migrant was able to buy a cash Ryanair ticket in

:10:26. > :10:30.Athens airport, use a fake passport to get through security, then claim

:10:31. > :10:34.asylum. What sticks out to me is that he did present himself to

:10:35. > :10:39.authorities and claimed asylum so he has therefore been discovered. May

:10:40. > :10:45.be the banner headline should not be as alarming as it should have been.

:10:46. > :10:52.He says he could have been a jihadi. He was not. Vital African fish

:10:53. > :10:57.stocks raided to feed the West, that is on the Independent. This is

:10:58. > :11:00.confusing on a number of levels. The impact it could have with food

:11:01. > :11:10.security in Africa. The story is that West African fish stocks are

:11:11. > :11:19.being diverted by various large Western food organisations. And the

:11:20. > :11:23.fish, instead of feeding hungry West Africans in coastal communities, is

:11:24. > :11:29.instead being used by these large organisations to feed pigs,

:11:30. > :11:34.chickens, and salmon, in the developed world, in order to produce

:11:35. > :11:40.cheaper meat and fish for us. And the justification for it, it is hard

:11:41. > :11:44.to find one. Making money, isn't it? That is the justification that is

:11:45. > :11:48.trashing the oceans globally. This is a huge problem for, obviously,

:11:49. > :11:52.West Africans living on the coast, who depend on fish for a large part

:11:53. > :11:57.of their protein intake. Let's look at the bigger picture. Have seen

:11:58. > :12:02.fish stocks declining around the world, a certification caused by

:12:03. > :12:07.greenhouse gas emissions, coral bleaching from the coral reef to the

:12:08. > :12:13.Caribbean. -- acidification. The Sunday Times. She has done us proud

:12:14. > :12:20.to be big headed babies are brightest. Who is the brightest

:12:21. > :12:27.here? It is not me. I have a small head. Strangely shaped. I have a big

:12:28. > :12:34.one. Is filled with useful brain? At least metaphorically. It is an

:12:35. > :12:39.interesting story. It is not that the circumference and volume of your

:12:40. > :12:44.head could be linked to medical and intellectual health. But this data

:12:45. > :12:48.looks robust. It has 500,000 people as a dataset studied over quite a

:12:49. > :12:59.long period of time. One of the interesting aspects of this study is

:13:00. > :13:04.that they have... As reported in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, 17

:13:05. > :13:13.genes have been found that dictate quite easily who will go to

:13:14. > :13:19.university. This is the problem with a tutor-proof test to get into

:13:20. > :13:23.grammar school. You could just measure their heads. That sounds

:13:24. > :13:30.simple. Like go around with one of those sticks to find out who goes

:13:31. > :13:36.in. It sounds like we are close to unravelling something major about...

:13:37. > :13:44.Were you about your tummy to be quiet? No.

:13:45. > :13:52.LAUGHING. That is the papers for the night. Toby and Matthew. Both of you

:13:53. > :13:56.are big headed. Good work, both of you.