23/05/2017 The Papers

drive-in set to continue for the rest of the week. Lots of warm

sunshine coming through. As a consequence, it will turn very warm,

in fact, hot for some. Hello and welcome to our lookahead

key papers. -- Hello and welcome to our look

ahead to what the papers will be With me are Laura Hughes,

Political Correspondent at the Daily Telegraph

and Jack Blanchard, Political And there's really only

one story in town. And The Guardian reports

that the security services are urgently seeking to establish

if the Manchester suicide bomber, was acting alone or was

linked to a wider group. The Mail reports that troops

could be deployed on Britain's streets, in the wake

of last night's attack. The Times highlights his link

to Libya, saying the bomber recently The Daily Telegraph says

thousands of soldiers will be deployed on

the streets amid fears The Daily Mirror features

pictures of two of those killed at the Manchester

Arena, including the youngest victim known

so far, 8-year-old, While the Metro also carries

a picture of Saffie Roussos and reports that

Theresa May has raised the UK terror threat

level to 'critical'. First, we have the pictures are two

of the victims, Saffie and Georgina. Between them, some words, but also

the pop singer, Ariana Grande, that they both went to see it that

concert. Both excited. Both delighted. Like so many, hundreds of

young girls, were to be at that concert. Lots of women have actually

written some amazing pieces today about how significant that moment is

for a young teenage girl, to go to her first ever concert, maybe with

her friends, or parents have taken her for her birthday, or a Christmas

present. And it just showers how artfully brutal this attack was. It

was targeting young people enjoying a moment, actively going to see

enjoyment, and to have this moment that this attack chose to pick that,

you know, it was not even just... He will would have known who would have

been in a concert hall. And the vision of parents waiting outside

for their young daughters to come out, and then suddenly, it hits,

that something is going on, where is my daughter? That moment of panic.

It is so extraordinary, as Theresa May made the point, like many have,

they targeted young girls in this country who were having this

cultural moment, really, that a lot of us have. And they have taken out

a way. Yes. At the bottom end of the front page, soldiers on the streets.

This is the response from Theresa May, and an announcement in the last

hour and a half or so, I think it was, or maybe two hours, Operation

Tempura, we go to see guys, military personnel, on the streets, with

guns, the police? It was an extraordinary statement

that the Prime Minister made, to see her come out and say that another

attack could be imminent and to tell is that thousands of troops will be

on our streets tomorrow. This is something very rare in Britain. The

last time this happened I think was 2003 when there was a perceived

threat to Heathrow and that was targeted at the airport. The Prime

Minister was talking about troops at football matches, the FA Cup finals

coming up, presumably we will see the army outside. What we're used to

in the country and it shows how concerned they are that this is not

the end of this story. I have travelled to enforce between

Brussels for work and getting off the Eurostar over there and there

are armoured personnel carriers waiting at the station and troops

with machine-guns, it is not a pleasant atmosphere to arrive into

and you are immediately on guard and worried, when would you feel safe?

You hope that that is not the society we move towards, you hope

this is a short term measure while they try and figure out who else was

involved in the plot. There has been a state of emergency in Paris for

over a year? And how long are we going to have these troops? Theresa

May said it could be up to 5000. This kind of brigade at I

understand, is on standby for occasions like this and that

obviously the reason they have done this is that they decided in a COBRA

meeting, that meeting is what triggered it, what are they basing

this decision on? That is the question. Do they have intelligence

that this man was not acting alone and he was part of a larger network

could there still be people out there? What prompted them to do

this? Or are they concerned that there may be copycat attacks? It is

a transformation that we will see right across the country,

potentially. Airports, you know, football stadiums, anywhere where

many people will gather. But does it... You talk, Jack, about seeing

troops on the streets in Brussels, I have seen them there as well and in

Paris. Does that make you feel safer? Different people react

differently. Some people feel safer, seeing an armed presence. Certainly

not everyone. I have spoken to other people who do not feel safer when

they see men with guns wandering around on the streets. It seems like

a natural reaction to where we are right now, there is much expert

analysis of what this guy did last night who are saying that commie

now, this does not tend to be something you do on your own. If

there is any possibility that there is a bomb maker out that planning

further attacks and they need to do what they can to keep people safe

and, especially at big events like we saw last night. My point is when

I am in Paris and I see these soldiers with their automatic

weapons, I think if there is a suicide bomber who wants to blow

himself up, he would just run in blow himself up. The soldier will

not have time to turn react, shoot the guide and stop this from

happening. While we have a public show of security on the street,

there has got to be much more invested when the scenes. Get

intelligence gathering. Keeping an eye on suspects. That is where the

real work has to take place, isn't it? And one hopes that those

resources will now be there. And in fairness to our services they have

done a brilliant job over the last 15 years. It is amazing how rare

this has been and how long it is taken for one to get through, if you

like. We have been told over and over that it is a matter of when,

not if, and I think they have foiled a dozen or so big plots. We cannot

be critical of the in a general sense. Inevitably, I think many

people realise that this day is going to come. We have had a

statement from the mayor of London following the COBRA meeting and

Theresa May announcing that the threat level has been increased, the

Mayor of London has put out a statement saying that the National

threat level has been raised to critical an advice of the security

experts in the aftermath of the barbaric terrorist attack in

Manchester. He says that London stands in solidarity with the people

of Manchester, those who seek to harm and divide us through barbaric

acts of terrorism will never succeed, we will never be cowed by

terrorism. That is the latest from the Mayor of London. On to the Mira

now. Georgina Callander there on the front as well Saffie. A similar

picture to what was on the front page of the Daily Mail. You are

pointing this out, Laura, that this... The softest of targets. A

rite of passage for many young girls, going with their mothers to

their first concert. And killed by evil, that is what the Daily Mirror

has on its front page. The scale of how mini people will been affected

by this as well, we have seen in an pictures of two young girls but

21,000 young people were at that concert. It is one of the biggest

venues, possibly the biggest in North England. I spoke to a group

from the outskirts of Manchester, people who know people who know

people who was there, somebody's cousins or dads friends daughter

everybody will have been affected by this in some way. It is that, you

know... Especially for the young people, they will have to live with

that. And then it is all over the media and it is everywhere. It is

difficult to escape. And given the political campaigning has been

stopped, we will wake up tomorrow and see the army potentially on the

streets, this is not something that will be easy for anyone to even stop

thinking about for a bit. And ever present is danger, obviously, but

one that you can put at the back of your mind. But if you see troops on

the streets... Given how many people were in that concert, each one of

those people will have family and... You think how many people are now

going to be looking at their weekend plans. Will they go double concert

or festival over the summer? Any of sporting event. Friends of mine in

Paris no longer go to a crowded place. What appearance meant to tell

their children now? On the front page of the times. Libya terror

link. This man, they have a name for him, he was born in Manchester.

Salman Abedi. From Libyan stock, his parents came here as refugees in the

mid- 90s. This suggestion is that this man flu back from Libya quite

recently. That is a new kind of angle that has emerged this evening.

That he actually may have just only recently returned on Libya. And what

was he doing that in Libya? Was he being trained in a camp to do the

things that he has come back to do? There will now be a massive effort

out there to work out what he was doing, who he had associations with,

who did he fly out and fly backwards? Was he on our radar? Did

we know about this movement? Were the security services watching?

There will be many questions and, again, Libya is a sore point given

Britain's role in the country and questions again will be asked about

that. The Guardian as well. Young life stolen by terror. Two pictures

of the same girls on the front and on the bottom of their people

holding pictures, placards saying that they love Manchester. And,

indeed, an interesting phrase now. Manchester, United. Red and blue

together. Anyone who watched the footage of the vigil tonight would

have been deeply moved by it. I know Manchester quite well and I know how

proud people are of the city and how much of a sense of the community

there is there. It was incredibly powerful to see so many people out

there in the late evening sunshine coming together. I don't if you saw,

there was a poet who read our pome about Manchester that is incredibly

powerful to watch. Everyone should really see that. I think the new

Mayor of the city has done a terrific job today. He is only two

weeks into the job and he has spoken for the city. Manchester has been

through some thing similar to this before, this is not the first time

they had been targeted. Nothing as serious as this, obviously, but it

is a city that has come back from this before and will come back

again. And there were amazing stories, as there always are and we

should focus on them. People, heroes that rushed towards the scene. Was

London taxi drivers. People offering free lifts, offering their homes,

charging phones, food, water, a homeless man who ran straight into

the middle of the scene and I saw a scene earlier, someone set up a page

to raise money for him so he has somewhere to sleep tonight. There

are extraordinary stories and are always up and it is important that

we celebrate that. One coward but thousands... Anyone who went away

much today or a tribute... There is one of him and far more of us. Looks

at the helpers, it is a nice phrase. You always see it in the footage on

the photos, there are always people helping everytime full it is an

instinctive action of almost everybody. We only have a couple of

minutes left. We will end with the Daily Telegraph. Interesting,

commentary on the bottom is there from Allison Pearson. There has been

a load of debate about how we as a nation or how any Western nation

should respond to this kind of attack. There is a sense for some

people that the idea that we should just carry on, soldiers through is

not enough. People need to get angry and society needs to get angry. Is

there a sense that, perhaps, we as a nation, in dealing with these kinds

of attack, are not getting angry enough? Certainly in this commentary

it has been made clear and she thinks there should be internment

camps. It is belittling to tell people how they need to respond to

this and to tell them that they are not angry enough. Everyone I spoke

to today is gutted by what happened in Manchester but it is about acting

on the right way and the response is important. This terror attack is not

a sign of strength, a sign of weakness. The most cowardly thing

that you can do. And they will not harm institutional democracy, they

will only do that if we react in the wrong way to something like this.

Shouting at people that they need to get angry and set off internment

clamps is the wrong result. That is precisely what terrorists want you

to do and that is why we should not do it. We are angry, of course, but

we must be rational and think about how we respond to this in a way that

keeps our society is strong. We saw the response of Theresa May, that

was quite strong. Whatever you think of her, whatever your alignment, she

is good at delivering that message of we will not be cowed we will not

be defeated. I think that is actually come as a country, what to

do. I remember after the bombings in 2007, everyone was on the tube the

next day and carried on. That is how we win. The response of Britain to

things like this is magnificent and people on the sidelines shouting

that we need to get angry and reacting on the wrong way will not

help. Many thanks to both of you to look at the only headline, really

the outpouring of grief following that atrocity last night in

Manchester. Many thanks for that. That is it for us. Thank