23/12/2016 The Papers

movies since then, but really made her mark as a writer. For the

moment, thank you very much, with the latest from Los Angeles.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will bring us

tomorrow, with as is the political commentator, James Miller, who

promised a glitter appeared on Twitter, but has not delivered. And

a journalist, Matthew Green, who is helpfully wearing a colour

appropriate tie. Nice to have you both. Front pages, the headline in

the i is, Isis killer shot dead by rookie. The European open border

policy being blamed for the suspect fleeing 1000 miles across the

country is, the Telegraph also leads that story saying that

counterterrorism experts are warning that open borders put security at

risk, the Guardian headline, end of the manhunt, it says that the

Moroccan authorities had warned Germany about the wanted man, the

Times, a picture of the body of the wanted man, under a blanket in a

Milan street, it also carries the story of a banking terrorist

blacklist which apparently is so useless it includes a three-year-old

member of the Royal family. The Daily Mail has advice for any but

unwell over the festive season, pushed by Christmas. The paper says

that health chiefs have prescribed self isolation to keep the pressure

off casualty units, and the daily Mirror, chocolate Santas could kill.

It reports that the Co-op has withdrawn them from their shelves at

button batteries were found inside. A bit of festive cheer. Let's make a

start with the story but so many papers are leading on. This man, the

Tunisian, who was shot dead, after this routine check in Milan, he was

the man wanted in connection with the attack in Berlin at the

Christmas market, the headline in the i, Isis killer shot dead by

rookie, setting out some of the main points of the story. The benefit of

this is it straight to the point, it does not have to try to find a new

angle, the fellow who, it certainly seems to be him, they have

fingerprint evidence from the cabin of the truck crashed into this

Christmas market in Berlin on Monday, they seem to have got it in

Milan, and yet, essentially, the policeman said, are you not that

fellow? He got out a gun and they had a shoot out. That is really all

you need to know. That is the long and the short of it, really. And the

fact that he was able to cross three different countries when he was the

most wanted man, with all these different aliases, and he was able

to get across into France, and back down into Italy, so that is one of

the... Issues that has been picked up by

a lot of the newspapers. There is this question of how he could have

managed to travel 3000 miles, undetected, across Europe, before

finally been caught, more or less by accident, by Italian police, but the

big question as well, for German security forces, who had him under

surveillance for many months, and had identified him as somebody who

might be planning attacks, but were not able to step in and either make

an arrest or gather the evidence they would need to act. So there is

a lot of talk about open borders but I think in many ways the bigger

question is for the German intelligence services. And they

would also tried to deport him, haven't they? But were not able to

do that. His family have criticised the Italian and German authorities,

I was reading, that they did not manage to deport him, but there are

processes that we have to go through in Europe, for people to be sent

back to their country. Yes, the whole

thing is it is... It is still a very British, the coverage, we perhaps

don't understand how Europe works, Europe is trying to be almost like a

country, which is why they don't have borders, this idea that they're

going to have more borders to somehow stop this stuff, I am not

entirely convinced by it, but that will never happen, politically,

because the whole point of the Schengen is that you can travel

around, but you can get picked up in Italy, as it turns out, more likely

than you could picked up in Germany. Yes, it was a routine check, this

might easily have not happened. That is right, but it is not possible to

have 100% security ever anywhere, and every time these attacks

happened there are these questions asked, and like James is saying,

through the lens particularly, particularly of the right-wing

press, inevitably it will be couched in terms of a failure of European

open borders, but the reality is that, you know, there are many of

these disaffected young men, in this case, he followed really a

pretty tragic past, from a small town in Tunisia, joined the wave of

migrants heading into Europe, spent time in jail in Italy where he

seemed to have been radicalised, and was a petty drug dealer in Germany,

where he presumably got infected by this ideological virus that caused

him to act in the way that he did, but you know, the idea that closed

borders are the answer to that, I don't dig it stands up to any

scrutiny. The Daily Telegraph is making the point, EU border warning,

as terrorist is found in Italy, the opening paragraph says that open

borders in Italy are putting security at risk, politicians and

counterterrorism experts are warning, there are measures, as we

saw in France, where, for... For a limited period, emergency measures

can be brought in were borders are closed, we did see that in France,

so Germany have that option. Absolutely but, the strange thing

about this is that it's as politicians and experts, I mean,

I... I will often talk politicians but they are not experts in

everything, to just go to a politician and Sarah does not make

it true but there is a very weird line in this, from a former

counterterrorism, head of counterterrorism, at the Met,

says... Schengen poses a huge risk of terrorism. We need European

countries to get their act together, sooner or later they will get across

the Channel. The whole point is that we are not in Schengen. So if they

are going to get across the channel anyway, what has Schengen got to do

with and it the old quote does not seem to make any sense but nobody

has even picked up on that to make sense of it. It is not too late,

Daily Telegraph, make a correction. The Daily Mail, feeling ill,

postponed Christmas. They be forced to turn away patients and health

chiefs are having to prevent the head of infection. This is the real

Christmas Grinch story from the Daily Mail. Health chiefs are

talking about, and again, we have to say... This is according to the

Daily Mail, so it needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. But apparently

health chiefs are sane self isolation will stop the spread of

illness and keep the pressure from casualty units. Self isolation at

Christmas doesn't sound like a pretty harsh prescription from the

NHS, doesn't it? That depends how well Christmas lunch goes for some

people, they might be tempted to do it even if they are feeling

perfectly fine. If you have the flow you are not going anywhere anyway.

You have no choice but to be isolated. It is a bizarre story in

the sense of, you know, what else are you going to do? But it is also

Daily Mail brilliance. Because it is, feeling ill? Yes. We are nearly

at Christmas, everybody is quite tired, feeling a sniffle, you look

at the news stand and go, yeah, that is me. And never mind that the copy

is fairly self-evident. It is an eye-catching headline. We

will go on to eliminate that may not be quite so eye-catching, but these

figures, the hundred 74,000 patient 20 casualty departments last week, I

don't know how that compares with normal, do you? You need a

comparative figure before you can actually make any sense of that. We

know that no new money was made available in the Autumn Statement,

that the NHS is going through an extremely pressurised... And

extremely pressurised phase in its finances, so it's perhaps not

surprising that the casualty wards are piling up and the health service

is under strain. In a way that should be the focus of the story. It

does say that hospitals and 95% full. I would hope that hospitals

are usually around about 95% full. If they were only 80% for the Daily

Mail would say, the doctors are knocking off and there is... I would

have thought the Daily Mail would have a truce on Brexit and wish a

Merry Christmas to the non-EU citizens who keep the NHS going, but

generally don't get much of a mention. No sign of that. This

headline may not have quite the universal appeal of the Daily Mail.

Banks are honest clients. And there is a three-year-old member of the

Royal family. A top story. On a blacklist. What is this list. I like

the contrast with the Daily Mail because to some extent if you are

not a three-year-old Royal, then why bother reading? I suppose honest

people want to read on. This is a database of more than 2 million high

risk individuals including criminals and senior politicians, which banks

use to carry out compliance checks, apparently a copy was accidentally

left online in the summer, it is not quite the same as accidentally

leaving on the boss, is it cost and Mark may be more people will see it.

Apparently the times have spent the last few months looking at it and

investigating it and now publishing their findings which amount to, yes,

there are lots of people on this list are probably not any danger to

anyone. Then why are they on the list? That is the question, but I

suppose banks are trying to... Dining... The amount of money that

gets laundered through many of our high street banks is pretty

shocking. And I guess this of one layer, in whatever

system is put in place to try to prevent that, although that is

obviously the bigger question, how much will is there really amongst

these institutions to take a firm line? Otherwise they would not have

to rely on blacklists with three-year-old Royals and a former

chairman of English Heritage on it, who insists he has never been

involved in any sort of party political activity, so it is pretty

clear that the database is casting its net pretty wide. I wonder how

long this story will run for, given the time we have been poring over,

four months. Yeah, I mean, I guess... It does have 2 million

names on the list, so... OK, it will not take them that long. The team of

officers spent the last three months reading through the list one by one.

Now, he has been analysing it. Analysed it, not just read through

it. It is maybe not as interesting as the

Panama... The Panama files, not quite. I mean, it is a good story

but it does slightly have the air of one that may have been sitting

around in a basket waiting to be run and a quiet moment has arrived. That

is not meant as a criticism, it is merely an observation. We all

struggle towards Christmas, and all have stockpot stories waiting on the

shelf for a quiet news day, gosh, we spent ages putting this together

every year. For people like us on the TV. That is always fresh. We do

our best. Let's go back to the Telegraph. This is a story they have

been covering. President Obama criticised for abandoning Israel.

The United Nations voted on a resolution put forward to condemn

the building of settlements in occupied Palestinian territory. And

ordinarily, Matthew, the United States would veto such a resolution.

But not tonight. That is right. This resolution is more or less are

saying what many people in the international community think, that

these settlements, that Israel has been building, they are illegal, and

should be stopped. The resolution also stresses that Israel has a

right to it and security. But President Obama has broken with

convention by refusing to veto it. It seems to be a sign of his growing

frustration with the government in Israel, which is one

of the most right-wing that has ever been elected, and which seems to

disdain the idea of a two state solution, which was very much US

policy. President Obama is taking this opportunity to signal his

feelings on the issue. Whether he is abandoning Israel, I think that is

questionable, given that the US has just signed its biggest ever

military aid package, worth $38 billion, but there is a very

powerful pro-Israel lobby in US politics and they spend a lot of

money and they have a lot of friends. But Barack Obama is not in

office for much longer and Donald Trump has signalled it will be

different with him in charge. You know, Palestine- Israel is obviously

incredibly complex, but you can boil it down to a soap opera, you have

got President Obama apparently fed up with Benjamin Netanyahu, who he

never really got on well with, and not Donald Trump piles in with a

tweet saying, things will be different after January 21 he

becomes president, so there are all sorts of issues at stake, but there

are big personalities as well, that is perhaps the way to get into the

story. The US ambassador to the UN said, we are just reflecting what is

happening on the ground, in their view, our policy is, you cannot have

a two state solution and keep building. Exactly. It is a policy

that many internationally agree with. It is just that US politics is

so framed that it is very difficult for politicians of either party to

break with the sort of constant support of Israel in the security

class. You wonder about the timing of it, so close to the end of the

President Obama tenure, if that has anything to do with that, feeling

that he can do so at this point, when he would not have made this

choice a few months back. Although apparently they have been agonising

over it for months in the White House, what are we going to do about

this thing, so it is not simply going, I am a way out the door, I

will do what I say, is usually conjugated

issue for any reader. And although the Palestinians are celebrating

they have been incredibly frustrated with President Obama is well these

last eight years, he is not popular among either side actually, for

failing to go further in, well, resolving is the wrong word, but at

least progressing some sort of settlement. I suspect that will not

change, Donald Trump is hardly the man to fix Israel/ Palestine. He is

making the right noises though, different noises. Daily Mirror.

Chocolate Santas could kill. There is a recall here of some festive

sweets. We should say that we try to find

something a bit more cheerful. The last papers before Christmas. As a

newspaper man, I like this story. And a father of two?

I heard this on the radio and thought, that is a good story, it

should be on the front pages. And working from home a lot I have the

pleasure of listening to the Jeremy Vine show, he had a thing on,

surgeons in September, this news story about kids are swallowing

these little batteries, and they do all sorts of damage to the wind

pipes. If you wanted to damage small children the best way to do it would

be to put tiny batteries in chocolate Santas. I do wish you

would not make the statement quite like that. They seem to think that

tampering has taken place after they left the factory and before they got

to the Co-op. So we don't know exactly what is going on. But it is

the sort of story that is a bit like the Daily Mail one, eye-catching, to

sell papers. And also, a small child could

mistake it for a suite. Yes, a little silver, glowing suite. It is

very difficult at this point, so close to Christmas, to recall things

like this, surely. Absolutely. 165,000 of those things are out

there, that they need to get back. And to be fair, not only is it a

good story, but putting it on the front page will also help.

That is it from the papers this hour. We will have another view at

11:30 p.m.. All the front pages are online on our website where you can

read a detailed review of the papers, seven days a week, BBC .co

.uk/ papers, you can see us there also, each night's edition is posted

on the page shortly after we finished, it is also an iPlayer,

thank you to James and Matthew, red glitter, in James's pocket, we might

see it later. See you in a bit. Good evening. It will continue to be

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