26/03/2017 The Papers

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novel, The Doll Funeral. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be With me are Caroline Frost,

Entertainment Editor of the Huffington Post

and parliamentary Journalist all reporter? Journalist,

I prefer that to full. -- I prefer that too.

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with

the Metro leads with the Home Secretary putting

pressure on internet companies over access to encrypted messages

in the wake of the Westminster attack.

The Telegraph also covering that story and says

Amber Rudd is furious that the attacker's whatsapp

One of the main stories in the FT is the police

clamp-down on anti-corruption protests in Russia.

The Independent reports that there is a security

flaw in the laptop ban in hand luggage, suggesting there are no

The Express says that millions of families are facing

major council tax increases from next month.

Let's begin with encryption, we all understand it... All perfectly

plain... (!) Internet giant hired terrorist's final note, Home

Secretary furious, Whats App message kept secret, I'm not entirely sure

that that is a helpful or accurate headline? They have either

misunderstood the situation or they have beefed it up a bit for the

headline. Whats App is... End to end conscription! I believe that means

the message is encrypted from one phone to another, what's up itself

does not have access. A line in the story, Whats App says even its own

technicians cannot really read peoples messages. They are hiding

anything, it is just that they are unavailable to anybody. The Home

Secretary's frustration is that technology has moved on, 15 years

ago you could tap a phone, have mobile phone access, you would need

a court order or the approval of the Home Secretary to do that

investigation, with the new apps, no way for the security services to

access them, but we have come up against is American companies with

American values, then things like first Amendment freedom of speech.

Whats App says, it is protecting users private union occasion, one of

its core beliefs. To my mind, protecting the people of the United

Kingdom from being killed in terror attacks needs to be a core belief,

but if the UK Government turns around and says to Whats App, design

and app compliant with the law the farce or we will shut you down, and

Whats App does acquiesce, and allows a less secure version of Whats App

to be created because of legal situation, what is to stop

repressive regimes across the world making similar demands from US

companies? You can provide a back door in. People and bad people would

be able to access it, there is the tension. -- good people and bad

people, the tension between privacy, freedom of speech, wanting the

intelligence services to keep them safe. Always held this idea of

privacy being an absolute right, but you would need something pretty

substantial to trump it. There was outcry in the States after 911 when

George Bush was seen as being opportunist, and seeing the great

tragedy as a time of taking away people's privacy and getting into

laptops. You have to decide, which is more important, at the moment, in

the aftermath of the tragedy of last week, everybody probably leaning

towards security, I really don't mind if people want to look at my

stuff if it means that we are all safe, what kind of person, if you

have nothing to hide, nothing to fear. Great mantras around us. But

it has to be seen in the wake of a crime being committed, that gives

people rights to be a bit more disruptive. Whats App, part of the

fact they have invented a system which cannot be hacked or interfered

with or read from the outside, but you have to question, do you need

that high level of encryption when all you are doing is sending

photographs to friends? Seriously! LAUGHTER

We did not have that level of privacy. We are being given it,

doesn't seem to me necessary that it has to be that high-tech or secure.

These are matters that are really difficult for the government. They

are on a stronger pitch when they turn around to Google and say, you

are printing extremist ideology and information, you are a publisher,

not a tech company. There is greater scope to legislate in that area, to

force them to remove stuff. I think there is a hunger for privacy, not a

justifiable need, but there is a hunger in the market, as a way of

differentiating yourself from other platforms that are hanging it all

out like washing. Especially the youth of today. I have Whats App, I

am not useful... Not tonight. Am I? Thank you! LAUGHTER

Britain to remain subject to EU regulation even after "Brexit", here

we have the great repeal Bill, submission be called the great

retention bill, by which we will take all of the EU regulations into

UK law, I will use that as a catchall term, until we can decide

which bits we want to keep, and do away with. It does then mean that we

will be subject to those institutions and oversight that a

lot of people want to get rid of, 52%, apparently. This was a great

setup, last June, when the "Brexit" vote was made clear, my goodness,

the next day, the great cartoons were the fact we would need all of

this European expertise to swing "Brexit" into life. As we always

know, satire is nine months ahead of truth, here we are. Up to 34 EU

regular Tory agencies up to a staggering 19,000... You can see why

they would not necessarily want this... 19,000 regulations. What

other way round it is there? You have got to have oversight, we do

not have other supranational bodies to do it. European agencies regulate

various things, like energy, communication, transport. Now, the

UK is either going to have to create its own regulatory agencies, in the

next 18 months to two years, before we leave, or, more likely, more

obvious, more convenient, UK will remain under the jurisdiction of

some of those agencies, probably for two years, five years... So the UK

can then decide what is own regulatory regime is going to be. I

suspect that will be part of the deal that Theresa May is going to do

when she figures Article 50. So complicated. When we say we are

leaving the EU, there are things we have to keep in mind, which we do

not have the capability to do these things by ourselves at this stage

and cooperation with European partners and continuing to come

under some of those EU agencies for a period of time is going to be

necessary to stop we are going, we are going, definitely(!) if an

opposing critical person who is still pro-remain, even after

triggered, if they were to step forward as an independent one policy

party, and there was a general election, and they won,

hypothetically, would that trigger... ? Hypothetical or not, we

are in a situation... If the government changes, if the

government changes, UK Government changes its mind, there is another

myth that Article 50 is irreversible but if the UK turned around and

said, we would like to stay, I very much doubt that the EU would argue

it but that is hypothetical and if I'm being honest, I don't think it

will happen. Nick Clegg, George Osborne, some amazing new single

issue party... And don't... Don't forget Tony Blair! Yes, indeed.

Major flaw in airport laptop and full. Simon Calvert, this is an

exclusive, we often have him on the news channel. Electronic devices

banned on certain flights from certain places, what is the floor?

For some reason, this story, he has rattled this through at great speed

to get it through on the front page, there is a little bit blurred in

terms of attacking what the floor is, it seems to be that the ones

going through Ataturk airport in Istanbul, are having problems with

the new people coming in from land side, somehow missing the security

checks everyone is going through. At some point, people turning up with

laptops and iPad, they are being told it has to go in the hold but at

some point, the chain is broken down. Not a comprehensive system of

checks. People have been through security checks, then they are

commingling with people who have not had them, so they could possibly and

then something and get on a plane. This policy has been confused since

it started, inconsistencies left and right. Russia takes to the streets,

huge demonstration, not just in Moscow but other cities across

Russia, hundreds and hundreds of people arrested, including the main

opposition leader. Alexi Navona. This links to what we would talking

about earlier, this is one way these demonstrators and activists are

communicating with each other, in the knowledge that the Russian

security services will not be able to hack into their messages or read

them. -- Alexei Navalny. Anyone that takes a stand is on the streets

against Vladimir Putin in Russia in the current climate is brave and

deserving of our support. A part of me thought, if we interfere in our

-- if they interfere in our elections, then we should interfere

in their areas. Marine Le Pen, the French election. This is the

suggestion that Dmitry Medvedev, the Prime Minister, is living well

beyond his means, all sorts of assets that he could not afford. I

don't think he is the only Russian person in a position of authority to

be accused of that. Very brave people, this seems to be moving

towards something, whether it is the beginning of something, whether it

will be suppressed... Sparks protest, now to have these great

numbers, whether they will prove to be some kind of uprising, the Arab

Spring, the red spring, it will all depend upon how Vladimir Putin

reacts, knowing that the rest of the world is watching including his

great observer, Donald Trump. Daily Express, millions face big council

tax rise, 90% of local authorities in charges height, even the chance

to increase council tax is, which has been flat for many years.

Capped. -- Council taxes. Social problem. When I see these things I

think, we were saying earlier, if it is a council tax, in theory, it

makes the money more accountable, look around your own local borough

and parish and see if bus stops are lit at night, is litter being picked

up? Duty of care to your own neighbourhood, I think this is a

good thing but it does mean one less thing for the government, palmed

off... Ready palmed off the licence fee. Other channels are available(!)

and taxes on businesses. Looks like you have devolved power to local

authorities but with it comes a big responsibility. Also comes six years

of slashing central government, the amount of money the central

government pays to councils, they have been hit by both sides, they

could not raise taxation, the government does not want council tax

going up by 10%, and the government is cutting back money, councils are

in crisis. Things that are really important, key services, it can't

just always be about elderly care. The focus is there because that is

where the headlines are. Domestic violence. They are left with just

that she too is stuff that they have two fun. Shall we finish on

something rather different, the Metro. Duty calls. TV's most

compelling cop show is back with a 5-star review. Three of the main

characters. I was a bit late to this, which series is this? Four. I

picked it up at series three, did not matter, this is a fantastic

show. Recognised us by moving tonight, for the first time, to BBC

One, expectations high, it has gone from being a midweek BBC Two stuff

to the Blu-ray band slot of 9pm Sunday evening viewing, but I think

it has been built and they will come, it is by far, I am saying it,

the finest television crime drama that we have in this country. --

blue riband. I have seen this episode of which we speak. No

spoilers. Who is this actress? She is the woman of the moment, she was

in the replacement. A friend of mine thinks I look like her. They have

enough of the familiar, Adrian Dunbar, Vicky McClure, who are

excellent, every time, and then they have a guest antagonist, in this

time, it is ten D Newton, a list glamour, every single time, they

have provided the spark. -- Thandie Newton. I am a really big fan of it.

It is some of the most tense television I have ever seen, I was

watching it downstairs, as I came in, plugged my headphones in! That

is the papers for this hour, they will be back at 11:30pm, for another

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