18/09/2016 The Papers

to the latest exit polls. Paralympics GB bid farewell to Rio

in the closing ceremony tonight with 64 gold medals.

So, there we are, let's have a look at what is in the papers tomorrow

morning. With me to discuss the front papers Rosalind Irwin and Neil

Midgeley. Thank you both for coming in. Let's run you through the

front-pages as we have them so far and the Times report on those

attacks in the United States over the weekend. Theresa May, who is due

to fly to New York for the UN assembly, will urge other countries

to step up their Counter-Terrorism efforts.

The Financial Times leads with the attack in New York. The newspaper

quotes the City's Mayor who said that "New Yorkers will not be

intimidated". The same story in the Met row. The paper also reports a

warning from the NSPCC about the rising number of paedophiles

contacting children online -- the Met row. The children's charity says

webcams and apps make minors more vulnerable -- Metro. We have The

Telegraph reporting David Cameron wanted to shut down criminal

investigations into the alleged abuse of Iraqis but was overruled by

Government lawyers. Let's start off then Neil, with The Times, like

quite a few of the papers featuring the various attacks in America quite

prominently? Yes. New York is the latest city to suffer its wave of

attacks. Isis has claimed responsibility for

the stabbings. This is less than a week after the

anniversary of 9/11 and New York is a city massively scarred by

terrorism, probably more than any other. Roz Monday, a lot of world

leaders are coming with the UN General Assembly next week --

Rosamond. Yes, Theresa May will be going

there, as will the other leaders. There is a question of what this

means for the US presidential election. There is a line here that

actually says YouGov polling shows that Donald Trump actually is ahead

of Hillary Clinton marginal nationally, when voters were asked

who would be best to keep the US safe from terrorism. We have had a

lot of rhetoric on that from him. All of these very difficult things

in America, including the perceived racism of the police in many

American cities and the Black Lives Matter campaign, Donald Trump is

very good at saying it will all be fixed, trust me, the first day I'm

in office, similar rhetoric, as you say on terrorism but no detail of

how he'll achieve that. At the moment, the authorities don't seem

clear on who was behind this explosion, whether it's

international terrorism or whether it's domestic terrorism. America

suffered both in recent years, hasn't it? Yes, they think it wasn't

probably in the case of international terrorism at the

moment but we are yet to know much more. It's also prominent in the FT

as well. At the top there, they have New York blasts explosions rock city

as world leaders gather for security talks, to Neil again, focussing in.

But we don't know if there's any connection with the UN General

Assembly. No. It could be a coincidence of timing. My guess is

that the presence of the UN and its diplomats generally to the business

of New York as a city, doesn't tend to impact greatly on New Yorkers,

it's not something that's in their consciousness, apart from the

motorcade. They have said they are stepping up security for this

conference predictably. Deploying an extra 1,000 officers. Yes. I suppose

you could say 29 injured which is terrible, but it could have been so

much worse actually? No fatalities? Yes. And they are all out of

hospital. Minor injuries. Yes. Obviously America suffers a lot of

mass shootings, particularly in schools and colleges, so this, as

you say, slightly invidious to compare severity of attacks of this

nature, but nobody lost their life. The Met row's front-page which says

terror blast rocks the Big Apple, well I suppose it did metaphorically

-- Metro. Yes, indeed. People will be looking to France and thinking,

when does the next one drop, you know, once there is one attack, as

the French have seen in Paris and then in Nice, there can be more and

copy cats and you don't know what their motivations are. Domestic

terror, foreign terror, America suffered them both. Or just pad

people. -- bad people. Yes. The Guardian, Neil, another story about

the Labour Parties, internal wranglings, rebel MPs face the axe,

warns Corbyn allies. Len McCluskey speaking to Panorama on BBC One

tomorrow night, a plug for that! Thank you very much, we have been

plugging it all evening but we welcome another one from you! Yes,

saying that Labour MPs could face deselection if Jeremy Corbyn A wins

the leadership again and B they've been disloyal to him. I mean, you

could not get further in political sympathy. As far as you can get,

political sympathy from the Labour Party in all of its stripes, but we

need a strong opposition, we need a strong united opposition to hold the

Government to account and to make our democracy function properly.

This kind of intervention just is not helpful. One of the lines here

is, they are saying some of these MPs behave sod disgracefully showing

no respect for Jeremy Corbyn as a leader obviously voting against him

and you think, how many times did he vote against his leaders. How

disgracefully have these MPs been behaved against. Many of these

so-called rebel MPs against Jeremy Corbyn have suffered up to and

inClauding death threats and other kinds of social media abuse, verbal

abuse, threats. They appear to come from the very far left. But the

Corbyn side would say he's still remarkably popular amongst Labour

Party members? Yes. One of the MPs that there was a story about today,

being amongst those sort of that they want to axe, was Peter Kyle and

I find it very frustrating, as somebody who is a Labour supporter,

because he was one of the few Labour MPs who actually beat a Tory sitting

MP. There is a very small band of them in 2015. The fact that, because

he's a moderate obviously, that he's sort of up for the chop, as it were,

it's very frustrating because you would think that was somebody who

clearly can appeal to a wider audience. This kind of intervention

makes it more likely that the Labour Party will split, you know, if you

are deselected as an official Labour candidate as a sitting MP you are

much more likely obviously to bind together all of you and form the

modern day equivalent of the SDP. Lord Kinnock on is Panorama tomorrow

saying he doesn't think there'll be another Labour Government in his

lifetime. As a Labour supporter, I'm not talking about your lifetime,

which is, let's hope, many decades to come, but I mean do you think

Lord Kinnock is being real listic when he says that? He says he won't

go necessarily if he loses the next general election and there is a

question of what Jeremy Corbyn wants to actually achieve. You know,

there's plenty of speculation about that, it's about creating this body

of exceedingly left-wing mens who've become a bigger force in politics

which obviously this would seem to lend itself to. Do you think the

party will split? I think the shadow of what happened before when they

split is looming very largement. You talk to Labour MPs, they are scared

about that and say the thing is that you are punished at the next

election of being the people who break away and from then on it's not

an easy thing to split. The problem is, obviously, that the membership

isn't representative remotely of Parliamentary Labour Party. Or the

country. Absolutely. Or even of Labour supporters. But that, as a

problem, there is no obvious solution to that. The Independent

have a very striking headline, the Youngest child refugee to die in the

quest to reach the UK, a 14-year-old Afghan boy they say with a legal

right to enter Britain was hit by a truck as he tried to cross over?

Yes. He says he was waiting in Calais, so I assume that's the

jungle camp, and he got so tired of waiting that he went off to try and

get into Britain by himself and was hit by a truck on a French motorway.

I mean, what a short brutal, sad tragic life he led. Yes. I've got a

statistic here that they estimate the number of unaccompanied minors

in the refugee camp, being over 1,000. That is just shocking. Our

policy incidentally is to send people who are in this country when

they reach adulthood back to Afghanistan. There's been a lot of

people who've turned 18, ground up here mostly and spent much of their

childhood here and that's the Government's policy.

Let's go back to the Telegraph and back to the Labour Leadership

briefly. They have a picture of Jeremy Corbyn obviously it's a

knockout, they say, the leadership. He's been knocking himself out, not

sure whether that's... Punching himself in the head. Not sure

whether that's what will happen in the contest because most pundits

think he'll win comfortably. He's more lakely to be giving the

punches. He's visited a boxing club that trains homeless people in North

London. No doubt the constituency advantage is where he seems to

retreat to. He wasn't pulling his punches says The Telegraph. One of

your types of puns there. Are the gloves off? ! Yes, made for the

headline writers. More seriously, The Telegraph have an interesting

story about how the Attorney General says, vetoed an attempt to stop an

investigation into the abuse of Iraqis by British troops. What do

you make of that? This story's been bobbling along for a while. We the

UK set up a Task Force called ihaf to investigate alleged abuse of

Iraqis by British soldiers when we were in the country -- ihat. We did

that so we wouldn't be investigated by the International Criminal Court

for war crimes and now, there are three soldiers in particular, as The

Sunday Telegraph reported today, facing criminal proceedings for

alleged abuse of an Iraqi. They were cleared by military hearing ten

years ago and many, if not all of the allegations against the British

forces came from public interest lawyers which you will recall is a

law firm which closed down, had its legal aid reformed in -- removed in

the summer when it was shin that there were alleged irregularities.

I'll leave the lawyers to work out what that means, but that was over

the work in Iraq. David Cameron wanted to close down the new

investigations into the soldiers but the Attorney General told him he

couldn't, it was illegal, and Johnny Mercer, the chair of the Defence

Select Committee also a Tory, also up in arms about this, that nobody

seems at this point to know what the actual point of ihat is, it's all

sort of gone away. OK. On a slightly lighter note or very much lighter

note, The Express, always there to cheer us up, and a nice picture of

the stars of ITV hit show Victoria. They are apparently in a real life

romance to match the on-screen romance? Yes, rumours that they have

found love on set. Are you a fan of the show? I'm afraid I haven't been

watching it. I have. I was a big fan of hers, she was fantastic in Doctor

Who. I can't work out who is prettier, they are at an awards

show. There's been a lot of viewers saying she's rather prettier than

Queen Victoria. She is. Interesting that the news of their supposed

relationship came out this morning just before episode five of eight.

It's dog very well in the ratings. It's beating Poldark narrowly. The

conSol Tated ratings come in, which means how many people watched it

over the week. Then the margin gets larger. What do you think of the

shows, both hugely popular, being up against each other, does that matter

any more in the days when everybody records everything? John

Whittingdale would say it does and the BBC shouldn't be scheduling the

same dramas. Maybe they should make different dramas at different

stages. There are 168 hours in week, you would think the BBC and ITV

could find two different ones. That Sunday night 9 o'clock slot is very

sought after. We have two good quality dramas, one with an

historical element, learning something. One with his chest! Maybe

the BBC should be saying the Poldark stars are in a relationship as well.

I think they are both already spoken for.

Maybe. Thank you both, Rosamond and Neil. We'll be back at 11. 30 for

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