18/09/2016

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:00:17. > :00:19.Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

:00:20. > :00:24.With me are columnists Rosamund Urwin of the London Evening

:00:25. > :00:34.Standard, and Neil Midgley of the Telegraph.

:00:35. > :00:37.A warm welcome to you both, thank you for being here.

:00:38. > :00:41.Tomorrow's front pages: the Times reports on the attacks in the US

:00:42. > :00:45.Theresa May, who is due to fly to New York for the UN assembly,

:00:46. > :00:48.will urge other countries to step up their counter terrorism efforts.

:00:49. > :00:51.The Financial Times leads with the blast in New York.

:00:52. > :00:54.The newspaper quotes the city mayor, Bill De Blasio, who said

:00:55. > :00:56."New Yorkers will not be intimidated."

:00:57. > :01:01.The newspaper also reports a warning from the NSPCC about the rising

:01:02. > :01:02.number of paedophiles contacting children online.

:01:03. > :01:05.The children charity says that web cams and apps make

:01:06. > :01:11.The Telegraph reports that David Cameron wanted to shut down

:01:12. > :01:13.criminal investigations into the alleged abuse of Iraqis

:01:14. > :01:16.by British troops but was overruled by Government lawyers.

:01:17. > :01:19.The Daily Express's front page features the stars of ITV's

:01:20. > :01:25.The newspaper says there is a real-life romance

:01:26. > :01:29.The Guardian looks at tomorrow's BBC Panorama programme,

:01:30. > :01:32.which reports that rebellious Labour MPs who have been challenging

:01:33. > :01:34.Jeremy Corbyn's authority could face de-selection from their seats

:01:35. > :01:42.if Mr Corbyn wins the leadership race.

:01:43. > :01:46.And the Daily Mail revisits the story of Ben Needham,

:01:47. > :01:58.who went missing on the Greek island of Kos in 1991 at 21 months old.

:01:59. > :02:16.The Times, Rosamond, who talk about the attacks in the United States.

:02:17. > :02:23.Calling it a triple strike, linking it to the UN General Assembly

:02:24. > :02:26.meeting, though not necessarily any connection -- Rosamund. No, we don't

:02:27. > :02:32.know there is any connection. The bomb that went off, one of the

:02:33. > :02:38.devices are one of them didn't go off. It was fairly near the UN.

:02:39. > :02:44.There is no proof there is any link. What it has meant, of course, is we

:02:45. > :02:49.have renewed spotlight on these issues as we come up to the security

:02:50. > :02:55.discussions. And then on top of that with the US presidential election

:02:56. > :03:00.approaching, it will push terrorism back up the agenda. It has been high

:03:01. > :03:05.on the agenda but it will be the hot topic for this week. No clear

:03:06. > :03:09.indication, as we have said in the headlines, as to who might have been

:03:10. > :03:15.behind this bomb in New York which injured 29. Yes, so we have got I

:03:16. > :03:19.think now four separate things in America over the weekend, one bomb

:03:20. > :03:24.in New York, a pressure cooker bomb that didn't go off, a blast in New

:03:25. > :03:32.Jersey which injured no one, and a mass stabbing in a mall in Minnesota

:03:33. > :03:37.but no apparent link, certainly between all four of them, although I

:03:38. > :03:44.think IS has claimed responsibility for the Minnesota stabbing. And all

:03:45. > :03:48.of this, actually... We have had the memorial for the anniversary, the

:03:49. > :03:52.15th anniversary of 9/11. New York on the understandably, I suppose

:03:53. > :03:57.terror attacks are always in the back of New York mines. Yes,

:03:58. > :04:03.absolutely, and with the Minnesota stabbing, of course, so-called

:04:04. > :04:07.Islamic State has taken, has claimed responsibility. In that case, we

:04:08. > :04:14.actually have a suspect who is dead. The man responsible was shot dead.

:04:15. > :04:18.So, you note that it is easy for them to make that claim. We don't

:04:19. > :04:21.know that it definitely was them. And in the case of the others, they

:04:22. > :04:27.think it wasn't international terrorism. It is where it is coming

:04:28. > :04:31.from. Chelsea, in the neighbourhood of New York where these 29 people

:04:32. > :04:35.were injured by the bomb actually going off, is a very gay

:04:36. > :04:41.neighbourhood in New York. And obviously, the Orlando shootings

:04:42. > :04:48.were obviously in a gay club, so it could be homophobic, the motive. The

:04:49. > :04:53.picture here, exclusions rocked the city as world leaders gather for the

:04:54. > :04:58.security talk. Looking again at the UN General Assembly, where they will

:04:59. > :05:03.discuss the terror threat in general. Yes, and to reason may,

:05:04. > :05:08.apparently, according to the Telegraph, will say that Britain has

:05:09. > :05:15.a right to control its own borders are at the same time as Donald Trump

:05:16. > :05:19.makes a strong link between immigration, even entry into the

:05:20. > :05:24.country, never mind people staying for the rest of their lives, between

:05:25. > :05:36.Muslims coming to the US and Islamic terrorism. The Metro, terror blast

:05:37. > :05:43.rocks the city, and of course they have had attacks from abroad, and

:05:44. > :05:46.domestic as well, so when there is no clear motive for anyone who has

:05:47. > :05:51.claimed responsibility for that New York attack, then people don't know

:05:52. > :05:56.whether to think, is it a foreign attack, is it homegrown? No, quite,

:05:57. > :06:01.and currently they think it is not linked with international terrorism.

:06:02. > :06:05.Of course, that could change in the next couple of days. Obviously, the

:06:06. > :06:09.streets of New York will be heavily policed. Yeah, a thousand extra

:06:10. > :06:17.offices, we gather. Which seems sensible. Let's turn Azema attention

:06:18. > :06:20.to domestic politics, and, surprise, surprise, the Labour Party, and a

:06:21. > :06:25.Panoram programme coming out tomorrow night which, amongst other

:06:26. > :06:33.things, has Lord King in saying he doesn't think a Labour government

:06:34. > :06:40.will come in his lifetime -- Panorama. What is this about? The

:06:41. > :06:44.trade union leader Len McCluskey calling for a opponents of Jeremy

:06:45. > :06:50.Corbyn's leadership to be, I quote, held to account. It is an odd thing

:06:51. > :06:55.in a so-called democracy. The Labour Party, as far as I know, is supposed

:06:56. > :06:59.to be an organisation in which there are can be different views, which

:07:00. > :07:05.can be expressed through the ballot box in the leadership election. It

:07:06. > :07:10.sounds rather Soviet, if not worse, that if you... Celt -ish, perhaps,

:07:11. > :07:18.is that the word you are looking for? Once the election is over, it

:07:19. > :07:22.is Game of Thrones, off with your head if you don't support me. You

:07:23. > :07:25.wonder if there will be a leadership election against. You are a

:07:26. > :07:31.supporter of the Labour Party. A.m. . What do you make of this contest?

:07:32. > :07:36.Well, I think... Who do you want to win? I am supporting Allan Smith.

:07:37. > :07:40.There are some people who could not have run against Jeremy Corbyn who I

:07:41. > :07:47.would not support --I am. John McLauchlan? Yes, there you go. I was

:07:48. > :07:54.saying before that I spoke with a liberal Tory MP last week who thinks

:07:55. > :07:57.this is embarrassing, the state of the Labour Party, and we need

:07:58. > :08:00.opposition for democracy to function well. I don't feel the Labour Party

:08:01. > :08:08.in its current state is fulfilling that purpose. And I think it is very

:08:09. > :08:14.unfair on a lot of really good MPs. Some of the names I noticed today,

:08:15. > :08:20.talk of Peter Kyle, MP for Hove, and he won against a sitting Tory MP in

:08:21. > :08:24.2015, he is a moderate. And why on earth would we think these people

:08:25. > :08:28.shouldn't be... These people need to be in the Labour Party. Do you think

:08:29. > :08:37.Allan Smith has a chance of winning? No. I look forward to the 2017

:08:38. > :08:43.Labour leadership election -- Owen Smith. How on earth is Jeremy Corbyn

:08:44. > :08:50.going to form and adequate shadow cabinet? The talent has been

:08:51. > :08:55.severely depleted by... -- an. People refusing to serve. Initially,

:08:56. > :09:00.really good people went to the back bench when he won. It was depleted

:09:01. > :09:06.further by resignations. There is a very apposite picture in the

:09:07. > :09:11.Telegraph of Jeremy Corbyn, well, they have said, leadership contest,

:09:12. > :09:15.it is a knock out. And saying that he was actually visiting a boxing

:09:16. > :09:19.club that trains homeless people in north London. The Telegraph says he

:09:20. > :09:27.is unlikely to be pulling any punches. Boom boom, though he

:09:28. > :09:31.appears to be punching himself. Yes, as with many other forms of

:09:32. > :09:36.competition, he doesn't seem to understand the rules. More than one

:09:37. > :09:40.person is supposed to take part. LAUGHTER.

:09:41. > :09:45.Yes, quite. It is a rather good image, though, isn't it? It is, but

:09:46. > :09:51.his supporters would say he is massively popular with the party's

:09:52. > :09:55.members. With the members... And he has driven up Labour membership as

:09:56. > :10:02.well. But you have to think who joins... As a member, who joins

:10:03. > :10:06.parties? I am saying this as one myself, we have to accept not

:10:07. > :10:15.everyone is as interested in politics as us. What is the purpose

:10:16. > :10:19.of an organisation? The purpose of the Labour Party, presumably, is to

:10:20. > :10:22.be elected into government. It is like saying a massive corporation

:10:23. > :10:26.has increased the number of employees. If it isn't selling any

:10:27. > :10:30.goods, there is no point in it being there. The same is trouble Labour

:10:31. > :10:36.Party. Interesting analogy, thank you very much. Let's go on to the

:10:37. > :10:42.Daily Mirror, they have an interesting story about the

:10:43. > :10:51.investigation into the disappearance of Ben Needham in Kos, and the

:10:52. > :11:01.number one suspect's son, cops thought I was Ben. This story goes

:11:02. > :11:06.that a quarter of a century. When he disappeared, what he is saying is

:11:07. > :11:12.that... White at one stage into the investigation of his disappearance,

:11:13. > :11:19.the cops, the police thought that this chap, the son of a man who is

:11:20. > :11:23.now dead, there are accusations that have been heavily denied by the

:11:24. > :11:28.family, I should hasten to add that, that he was involved in the

:11:29. > :11:35.disappearance. The allegation is that he was crushed to death in an

:11:36. > :11:40.accident. There was a building site... It is all very complicated.

:11:41. > :11:45.The father was driving the digger. That is key to it. This chap on the

:11:46. > :11:49.Mirror father was driving a digger in a field next to where Ben Needham

:11:50. > :11:52.was playing and there is some circumstantial evidence that father

:11:53. > :11:57.was seeing the following day looking shaken after Ben Needham's

:11:58. > :12:02.disappearance, that the digger hit Ben Needham and killed him and there

:12:03. > :12:11.was therefore some kind of cover-up. The Mirror has said that this man

:12:12. > :12:18.had a son, and he says he has had his DNA tested to show he wasn't Ben

:12:19. > :12:22.Needham, in other words, the digger driver who is thought to have maybe

:12:23. > :12:27.killed Ben, or abducted him, passed him off as his own son, but when you

:12:28. > :12:31.look at this chap, at the risk of racial profiling, he looks about as

:12:32. > :12:37.Greek as they come. They have different coloured eyes... I am not

:12:38. > :12:46.sure we can tell much on that. Let's go onto the Independent, they have a

:12:47. > :12:52.striking story about the youngest child to die trying to reach the UK.

:12:53. > :12:58.He was legally entitled to enter Britain but he was hit by a truck in

:12:59. > :13:04.Calais. As far as I can tell, he was in the Jungle in Calais, he got so

:13:05. > :13:10.tired of waiting, presumably, so many other unaccompanied minors in

:13:11. > :13:15.the camp, which has risen, by the way, to 1022, up 55% in a month, he

:13:16. > :13:22.lost faith that he would ever get to the UK, and so he went off to try to

:13:23. > :13:27.do it by himself and he was on the French motorway and he was hit by a

:13:28. > :13:32.truck and killed. It is a terribly tragic story, and it does, once

:13:33. > :13:36.again, through into focus our government's policy on refugees,

:13:37. > :13:41.generally, unaccompanied child refugees, in particular. In the

:13:42. > :13:46.context of the Brexit vote which was clearly a massive statement from

:13:47. > :13:53.many millions of people in the country that they don't want mass

:13:54. > :13:57.immigration. In fact, that is the populist political statement with

:13:58. > :14:02.which Theresa May has to wrestle a she tries to engineer Brexit. We are

:14:03. > :14:06.talking about children here, and I just cannot believe people cannot be

:14:07. > :14:11.persuaded that it isn't an unacceptable thing to have so many

:14:12. > :14:13.children who are unaccompanied stating in these horrendous

:14:14. > :14:19.conditions and trying to come over here when they have... The argument

:14:20. > :14:25.the other way is that if you take in 1000, then that will encourage

:14:26. > :14:29.parents in wherever they are, Afghanistan, to send their children,

:14:30. > :14:32.more and more children, on a very dangerous journey alone across

:14:33. > :14:34.Europe in the hands of traffickers. How desperate one has to be to do

:14:35. > :14:45.that, as a parent. Let's go on to the Telegraph. They

:14:46. > :14:54.also have a story about this. The attorney general vetoing to stop the

:14:55. > :15:33.investigation into British soldiers of using Iraqis. -- abusing. Week,

:15:34. > :15:40.the British setup a thing to look into this. Three men are now facing

:15:41. > :15:44.trial. David Cameron wanted to stop this investigation completely

:15:45. > :15:49.because they have or are being tried as a military hearing, found not

:15:50. > :16:02.guilty. The Telegraph's line tomorrow is the attorney general

:16:03. > :16:05.said it would be illegal to disband the investigation despite the fact

:16:06. > :16:12.that many complaints have been made by the law firm public interest

:16:13. > :16:19.lawyers which has subsequently been closed down after irregularities in

:16:20. > :16:29.its work in Iraq. And the mail have another story about the Royal Marine

:16:30. > :16:39.accused of killing a member of the Taliban. Will he ever get justice?

:16:40. > :16:44.Mail readers gave him money to campaign his sentence. They have

:16:45. > :16:53.linked it to the story that has been in the Telegraph. And the British

:16:54. > :16:58.troops, as they put it, have been hounded by ambulance chasing

:16:59. > :17:13.lawyers. And we just have time to talk about Pippa and the perils of

:17:14. > :17:18.being Kate's sister. I saw the first-ever public speaking

:17:19. > :17:27.engagement. The reason for this is that she has a new book. Or just

:17:28. > :17:31.recipes. -- gorgeous. I got sent a copy of her first book, not this one

:17:32. > :17:37.and if there is a test, I can't remember who came up with it that

:17:38. > :17:49.you pick up the page 99 to tell a lot about this book. Why page 99?

:17:50. > :17:57.I'm not sure. It was a literary critic -- literary critic's idea. It

:17:58. > :18:04.was a picture of Pippa Middleton. Will you both be reading Pippa's new

:18:05. > :18:15.book? I can't say it is going to be top of my Christmas list. Thank you

:18:16. > :18:16.for being with us. Coming up next on BBC News, we will be going to the