24/05/2017 The Papers

Good evening, welcome to the look ahead to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow. I enjoyed by the political commentator Lance

Price and Alison little they get the political editor of the Daily

Express. Tomorrow's front pages starting with the Financial Times

which leads with police looking for a terror network and possible links

to Libya and Syria following the Manchester attack. The Metro shows

an image of troops taking to the streets following Theresa May's

warning of an imminent terror attack on British soil, The Guardian has

one of the pictures supposedly from the forensic investigation published

by the New York Times. It purports to show the bomb used in the attack.

The Daily Telegraph reports on the Manchester attacker being flagged up

to authorities multiple times over his extremist views. The Daily

Express reports on the deployment of troops across the country.

The Times reports that authorities were warned of the bombers extremist

views by a relative. And pictures of the attacker 's brother arrested in

Libya earlier today. Only one story on the front pages, I wonder if we

can start in a sense, rather than with the text but with the images

and an almost every front page is an image of troops on UK streets. What

are your feelings looking at these pictures? Personally I find it

rather learning, it does not make me feel safe, it flags up there is a

crisis, we are almost at war which I think is part of the point of them

being there, they are designed to reassure, these soldiers are around

in Whitehall and at the moment they are a bit of a novelty and people

are interested in seeing them because thankfully from my point of

view we are not used to seeing them on our own streets. In other

European capitals. Yes, and we tend to see our own soldiers deployed on

TV in other countries. We don't tend to see them round here. We don't

normally see armed police on the streets either. We have a

principally an armed police force to CC weapons and the sort of

extraordinary looking machine guns... And the equipment we have

got... It's a shock to the system, but that is what it is designed to

be, they are therefore two reasons, they clearly have a role to play and

if the threat level is as high as we are told and there is a possibility

of another attack at any point then you mobilise any defences you have

got. But I think they are also they are for reassurance and I think the

government and security services will be pleased to see these

pictures on the front pages because that's the message they want to send

out and the reason they were marching down Downing Street as we

saw earlier today is that this is the picture they want to see. They

are going to be static, they will be outside buildings, we are not going

to be seeing them marching around on the streets. Hopefully not, and if

we see them running we are in trouble. The idea is they will do

static guarding to give the police more time to do the stuff only the

police can do. And the real work of course, that's going to be done by

the intelligence services, continuing to be done by the

intelligence services and the police who are doing everything they can to

see if there is a sale and where that threat might come from. These

guys cannot help with that but they can protect some of the iconic

places in the country that might be a target. Let's take a quick look at

the front page of The Guardian as it has the other striking image of the

day, photographs supposedly of the bomb used in Manchester published in

the New York Times. It's certainly, this is supposed to be our strongest

ally, these pictures turning up. Amber Rudd this morning said she was

a bit irritated, very British, irritated that the Americans named a

suspect before the British police were ready to do so. And now there

are pictures from the police investigation. Nobody has denied the

from that. Quite distressing pictures, you can see blood and the

detail. Theresa May will be seeing President Trump at the Nato summit

in Brussels tomorrow and as journalists and as British people we

would love to see a huge bust up over this. We don't seem to be

blooming Trump himself but if they are supposed to be our best friend

they have a funny way of showing it. It's extraordinary, unprecedented,

that a serious investigation should be compromised by a leak from the

American intelligence, law enforcement agencies which is

clearly what has happened. I don't think you can exaggerate the degree

of puree there will be in Downing Street and Scotland Yard that this

has happened. At every single level, and it will be from Theresa May, to

the president, at every level they will be making it absolutely clear

this potentially compromises the investigation carried out which is

very serious indeed. Also of course how do you think the families of

those who are still fighting for their lives feel when they see

pictures like this? OK, much more on all of this at 11:30pm, I know you

will come back with a more detailed look at those front pages. Breaking

news to bring you know which is that a seventh person has been arrested

in connection with the bombing after searches in central England. A

seventh person arrested here in the UK. Let's take a look at the

weather.