21/10/2016 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

With me are Claire Cohen, women's editor at the Daily

Telegraph, and Peter Spiegel, US editor of the Financial Times.

Nice to meet you. Thank you for giving up your Friday night for us.

The Daily Mirror reports from the front line of the battle

to push Isis out of the Iraqi city of Mosul.

The Times says its investigation has revealed more than 150 police

officers are under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct.

The Financial Times has news of a merger between AT

and Time Warner that could create the world's biggest

The Daily Telegraph leads on what police say was a foiled plot

Theresa May had tough words for EU leaders

at her first summit in Brussels, according to the Daily Express,

telling them to "grow up" and accept Brexit.

The Mail features a story of a man who has been removed from the care

of his mother after she brought him up as a girl. We can start with the

merrier. They don't always do this but I big picture story. -- The

Mirror. One mile away from Isis. Dispatches from the front line. We

need to go inside to get the bulk of the story, but this is the plan to

try and take back most from IES. It is going very slowly and it is a

very harrowing by the photographer who is embedded with the Kurdish

fighters from northern Iraq. I spent some time reporting on the Iraq war

in 2003-2004 and it rings very true. Not knowing exactly what is going

on. They see an explosion and they don't know where it is coming from.

There are explosions. The interesting thing to me is those

years with the Kurdish fighters in the north, the real story is going

to be the Iraqi forces themselves, because they disintegrated when I is

assured and most reporters have not been able to spend any time with

Iraqi forces. We have some compelling accounts but we do not

have much of what the official Iraqi forces are doing. One thing that

jumped out at me is Colonel Mohammed quoted, a senior military commander,

who says we are not just fighting for our own sake but for the rest of

the world. He is appealing to the west to take note of their

successes. He also says that when we stop here we will them everywhere.

The Mirror reports this is the same terror franchise that has big

destruction in Paris and Brussels. -- Paris and Britain is always in

its sights. They do not know what they are up against. Up to 8000

jihadis prepared to fight to the death hiding in tunnels. They have

discovered the big network. There is a sense they do not know what

they're up against. It is also worth mentioning the attacks. Another

hundred miles away. You push them down in one place and a pop-up

elsewhere. This is an effort by the Iraqis to create a pool where they

gradually take back the territory. If they lose any big oil centres

that would be a setback. Colonel Mohammed says this could take tissue

or three months -- this could take two or three months, but I think we

are in for a long slog here. It will take a long time to retake the city.

Point-mac they said that they were making better progress than

expected, but you cannot assume that will always be the case. It is

Americans that said that. They are embedded with the fighters. Had an

American casualty in the last 24 hours. Sometimes the Pentagon has

some happy talk in the early stages of an operation because you move

quickly until you get into the urban areas. I expect that Colonel

Mohammed is probably more reliable. He is still saying some quite

notable things. I guess what strikes me about is that we knew about in

advance, so if we knew, I new. That is a tactical thing that the

coalition has tended to do towards civilians. You do not want

civilians, you need to signal to them to get into bomb shelters. You

can think of it as a bad strategic move, but it is a way to try and

protect civilians from war. Some of the violence they are seeing is

designed to help them. The story will come out in the coming days.

Point-mac we can look at The Telegraph. May box at Brexit talks

in French. I know the negotiator very well for the EU. She is French.

Therefore, he speaks French. He came to Brussels for the first time six

years ago speaking no English. His English is better but he has

requested documents are given to him in French, which is not outrageous.

There has been a claim that he is demanding all detox being French,

but that is not our understanding. This is a bit off an attempt by

Downing Street to show that Theresa May is tough and standing up to the

French, but it was always anticipated that there would be

translators and ease the graduations. The two languages of

the EU are French and English, the German is also one of those seldom

used. I think it is a fun story but it does not hold up to scrutiny. I

don't know how we would participate if it was not in French. I'm sure

that whoever is involved they would want to be speaking in their own

language. It is complicated. If you read down in the story it does back

up what Peter said and they have denied it and have not decided what

language they will use yet. I guess, ideally, he would want to talk in

French, but there is no suggestion that must be the case. It is just a

excuse for Toulouse are made to look strong. It says that she slapped the

stone. She is saying they are immature. She's trying to rebuke the

fact that Britain is on the naughty step. She has to satisfy a home

audience and the 27 leaders of the EU will have to negotiate with her.

It is a difficult place to be. The Europeans have been talking tough.

She arrived yesterday to this discussion about Brexit. Going into

the meeting yesterday, we saw the president of France and the

Chancellor of Germany talking very tough on this, saying that if you

want hard Brexit this will be a hard ago shisha on. It is difficult for

the French because there is an election coming up and he is running

against front Nash and a who are in favour of leaving the year. -- front

national. They need to show their domestic audience it will be

difficult. We want a smooth Brexit. We can look at The Times. Hundreds

of police sex pests uncovered, they are facing tough new punishments.

The suggestion this has been going on and we do not know about it. It

is a shocking story. There are currently 156 sexual misconduct

inquiries being carried out into police officers in England, Wales

and Scotland. It suggested has been going on for a number of years. 400

members of the public have made complaints in the last five years.

They have just made complaints, there are other people that are not

coming forward, vulnerable woman. There is no suggestion there are men

involved who are being abused. Police officers abusing their power

and having sexual relationships. We were talking about this before we

went on, the numbers here. This disclosure comes from only one in

four forces that gave the numbers to The Times, so we do not know what

the fool story is. How many priests are in the UK, because 150 out of

the police, but we don't know what percentage of being accused of this.

I would like to know how this compares to other countries. I

imagine the United States, my country, does not have a good record

on that. It would be interesting to see how they stack up against other

countries. Any one of these cases is too many and the numbers are quite

high. We can look at the Financial Times. Hackers silence Internet on

US coast with an attack on a web address service. This affected our

website today. The FT and the New York Times and Twitter and other

major Web services that have a server in the US. It started on the

ease coast of the US and it spread to the west Coast. Even though we

use this service, we had never heard of the company. They are a small

company that turned what you write in to a web search into digits. It

is a phone directory for the Internet. If they don't have that

translation service you cannot access websites. This was clearly

one of the biggest tax we have seen in recent years and they are getting

worse stop they have figured out ways to do this and more

sophisticated ways. We were talking to security experts who are saying

they are starting to use things like refrigerators and baby monitors

because they are less secure. Your baby monitor can be attacked a

certain websites. Multiple, thousands of people, signing onto

websites. Great opportunities and cyber security. The US to party of

Homeland Security does not know who did this or why they did it. The

concern seems to be that it is a precursor to something happening on

the US Election Day. There is a suggestion this has been done by

people for political means. I was affected by this. When did your

Twitter go down? About an hour ago. Sorry if you're trying to contact

me. Here is a picture of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump at this

dinner, but it was Donald's bad taste in and the campaign heads a

new low. Hillary Clinton look quite amused. She likes to laugh at Donald

Trump. This was a memorial dinner which is a pre-election ritual in

New York. Traditionally it is quite good-natured and the candidates come

together with the Catholics and the New York elite and they laugh at

themselves. That is what Hillary Clinton did, she made a few jokes

about things Trump had ripped four, the Donald Trump went in hard and

used it like our secondary debate. He was booed. I'm not sure it is a

new low for him, it has been quite low for a long time. This is one of

the moments that happens occasionally when you're meant to

self that you, but Trump does not do that. He made one decent joke when

he made fun of his speech were made at the convention, saying Michelle

Obama gives a speech and everyone loves my wife gives the same speech

and everyone hates it. It was the only good joke he gave. He says that

Hillary Clinton is only pretending to like Catholics but she hates

Catholics. He got booed. Then he said, I don't know what they are

booing at me or you. Then someone shouted, we are building at you,

Donald. It is a tired then and I'm not sure his voters going to be

upset if you'd read to them. It will be interesting to see how it plays.

Deed think he has given up? Their strategy is to rally the base and

get people angry so they turn up to vote and suppress her boat by saying

the independents who think she is corrupt will not show up, but

energise those who will show up. Do not think he is laying the ground

work from reasons for his defeat? His voter bases quite

conspiratorially, the stuff about not accepting the result, he is

trying to rally his people to show up and make sure it is not wrecked.

I don't think it is going to work, the Republicans have tried it in the

past, and the Kennedys, to generate outrage just before Election Day and

generally it doesn't work. I would say that Hillary Clinton is going to

win. A couple of stories in The Times. Minister sabotage built to

clear gay men. It was to remove sexual offence charges from people

who are still alive. There was a justice minister involved and he

topped the Tote, which means that he topped for too long. I think this is

a dish of spectral story. It was thought yesterday they gay men would

be pardoned, not only posthumous labour those who are still alive,

for historic sex offences. This is after Alan Shearer was pardoned in

2014. But that is only going to apply to people on a posthumous

basis. The living can already apply to have their records wiped. Nigel

Adams is very angry about this and said it was disrespectful. He said

that he was fighting back tears. Wes Brown was upset about it too. This

was brought by an SNP MP, John Nicholson. This morning it sounded

like it was good to happen. I did not realise this was still an issue,

that they had not already pardoned everyone. All the reporting we had

this morning and last night when this bill was coming to the comments

was that it was going to be easily wade through and frankly he

presented the paper in front of me and I was amazed that it had not

gone through. It is tragic for a number of people who are still

alive. It was interesting, I heard a lot of people on your broadcast

talking about this who were convicted of this and are still

alive and are angry because they do not want to be pardoned because

there is nothing wrong with that. That is not what this minister was

trying to do. The minister is still planning to support an amendment to

the law that would allow a blanket pardon for those still alive, but it

is not going to happen today. Another story in The Times, a level

art history gets a lifeline by archaeology may be dead and buried.

They are looking at what A-level subjects will have to stop for

various reasons, they cannot find examiners, it is difficult because

this together. There was a bit of concern about art history. There was

a bit of an outcry about A-level art history being scrapped. I did

English and art history at degree level, so I feel quite passionate

about this. It is the ongoing suggestion that humanity is seen as

-- suggestion that humanity is seen as Mickey Mouse subjects, but we

cannot all be maths wizards. But pure maths is also going to hit the

dust. I did not take an A-level, so I'm not sure I have strong opinions

on this. I was a history major and if we do not train people to know

how to write we will not have newspapers any more. People always

say to me what should you studied to become a journalist, English? That

is fine, if you want, but the best news rooms are full of people with

lots of different experience. They keep having to do this embarrassing

U-turns. They tried to drop them at this -- drop feminism from the

politics curriculum. In The Telegraph, a Park has banned dog

walkers. Thousands of open spaces are no longer open to professional

dog walkers. 3300 open spaces have seen dog walkers bands will stop I

think this is after the 2014 ASBO spell control. The kennel club has

spoken out and accused councils of waging a war on dogs. I don't know

if that is entirely fair, because it is professional dog walkers. UDC

people trying to handle five or six dogs, which must be quite tricky.

Difficult to clean up after as well. It does seem like punching the

majority for the actions of the minority. That visit from the papers

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enjoy your weekend. Next, it is the weather.

Good evening. The weekend is approaching and we all have that

Friday feeling. It has not been too bad a day and it has been dry, but

there is a lot