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:00:00. > :00:00.so-called Islamic State -- bomber. Sofar 14 of the victims have been

:00:00. > :00:00.named but police say they know the identities of everyone who was

:00:00. > :00:22.killed. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

:00:23. > :00:27.at what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the

:00:28. > :00:30.political commentator Lance Price and Allison Little, the deputy

:00:31. > :00:34.political editor of the Daily Express. Welcome to you both. The

:00:35. > :00:38.front pages tomorrow, starting with the Financial Times, which leads

:00:39. > :00:42.with police looking for a terror network and possible links to Libya

:00:43. > :00:47.and Syria following the Manchester attack. The Metro shows an image of

:00:48. > :00:51.troops taking to the streets following Theresa May's warning of

:00:52. > :00:56.an imminent terror attack on British soil. The Guardian has one of the

:00:57. > :00:59.pictures supposedly from the forensics investigation and

:01:00. > :01:04.published by the New York Times. It purports to show the bomb used in

:01:05. > :01:08.the attack. The Daily Telegraph reports on the Manchester attack are

:01:09. > :01:14.being flagged up to authorities multiple times over his extremist

:01:15. > :01:17.views -- attacker. The Daily Express reports on the deployment of troops

:01:18. > :01:22.across the country. The Sun talks about the police's desperate race to

:01:23. > :01:27.hunt down a terror network linked to the attack. The Times reports that

:01:28. > :01:32.authorities were warned of Salman Abedi's extremism views by a

:01:33. > :01:39.relative. And the Daily Mirror shows the picture of the attack's brother,

:01:40. > :01:46.arrested in Libya earlier today. So let's begin. We were remarking

:01:47. > :01:50.earlier that the image on the front page is that of troops on UK

:01:51. > :01:55.streets. What does that make you feel when you see that, Lance? It

:01:56. > :02:00.makes you appreciate the seriousness of the situation we face, not that

:02:01. > :02:04.we needed reminding of that, but I'm sure the security of services, the

:02:05. > :02:08.government, will be pleased to see this photograph on a lot of the

:02:09. > :02:13.front pages, it's partly there for reassurance to let the public know

:02:14. > :02:16.everything is being done to keep the streets as safe as they can be. Some

:02:17. > :02:21.people may feel there's a bit of people may feel there's a bit of

:02:22. > :02:25.window dressing about it, that it really is there more for reassurance

:02:26. > :02:29.and the practical benefits that this can have but it takes the pressure

:02:30. > :02:33.off the police service themselves. It will allow them to concentrate on

:02:34. > :02:38.the serious work to be done, which is of course ensuring that if there

:02:39. > :02:42.is a sell out there and there's the threat of further attacks, that that

:02:43. > :02:47.is being dealt with as effectively as possible under the circumstances.

:02:48. > :02:52.What is your reaction, Allison? In the papers we have seen so far, this

:02:53. > :02:56.photo is on all but one of the front pages. It is something that thank

:02:57. > :03:04.heavens from my point of view we are used to seeing on British streets,

:03:05. > :03:09.we are used to seeing it in Europe all we see our forces in other

:03:10. > :03:14.countries. There's been a break from electioneering this week, that is

:03:15. > :03:17.due to break out again after the pause to honour the victims of the

:03:18. > :03:24.bombing. The police Federation tonight has been pointing out that

:03:25. > :03:31.the Army are having to be brought in because of cuts to the police. That

:03:32. > :03:36.political dimension is working up again and I'm sure the Labour Party

:03:37. > :03:42.will want to make something of it but they have to tiptoe around the

:03:43. > :03:46.sensitivities and while the investigation is still going on. We

:03:47. > :03:50.will talk about political campaigning starting up a little

:03:51. > :03:55.later on. But now let's go to the front page of the Times, which has

:03:56. > :03:59.the same image pretty much of the day Lee Telegraph, troops right in

:04:00. > :04:02.front of Westminster, but the headline is:

:04:03. > :04:10.This is all about the various warnings that supposedly happened

:04:11. > :04:15.about candy. There do seem to be a lot of them -- country. It's not

:04:16. > :04:19.surprisingly the how many people come across the radar of the

:04:20. > :04:23.security services that it is physically impossible. We remember

:04:24. > :04:28.how difficult a job they have to try to track them all but clearly they

:04:29. > :04:32.have to pirate eyes and I think a lot of people will be looking at the

:04:33. > :04:36.number of warnings there were, some of the papers were saying there were

:04:37. > :04:41.five separate warnings going back as far as five years ago when this guy

:04:42. > :04:45.was obviously still a teenager. Whether or not because of the number

:04:46. > :04:49.of warnings there were and the people were doing what they had been

:04:50. > :04:53.asked to do under the Prevent controversial scheme, which is to

:04:54. > :04:56.let the security services know if they think there's someone in their

:04:57. > :05:01.community that could be a threat, people did that and yet look what

:05:02. > :05:05.happened. Yes. I'm wondering whether we are following a familiar pattern

:05:06. > :05:09.after these tragic events, we get over the shock of the event and we

:05:10. > :05:14.identify the victims and there's deep sorrow about that, and very

:05:15. > :05:18.quickly we get onto whose fault was it apart from the man who planted

:05:19. > :05:23.the bomb, the man who built the bomb, if you know what I mean. We

:05:24. > :05:30.are two days after this dreadful event and we are already saying

:05:31. > :05:34.British authorities made a mistake. Headlines like this... It is a very

:05:35. > :05:41.British thing to do, it was our fault. It is up to them to protect

:05:42. > :05:44.us? We do rely on them and if there were glaring errors, Lance is right,

:05:45. > :05:49.they have so much information and there's only so much they can do.

:05:50. > :05:54.They can't have known he was going to do this. The time will come when

:05:55. > :05:58.these questions need to be asked. Yes, agreed. Whether MI5 should be

:05:59. > :06:03.watching their own backs at this moment when they have a really

:06:04. > :06:07.important job to do to keep us all safe... We should remember, he may

:06:08. > :06:11.have been working with others, but there was one person responsible for

:06:12. > :06:17.this and that was Salman Abedi. Yes, that's what I'm saying. The one

:06:18. > :06:20.person responsible for this bombing, yes, but the suggestion is there's a

:06:21. > :06:26.network with these various arrests going on. Let's look at the front

:06:27. > :06:30.page of the Independent. We spoke earlier to the defence editor of the

:06:31. > :06:35.Independent, Kim Seung-gyu actor, who has written their front-page

:06:36. > :06:40.story, which is the authorities found explosives in other places

:06:41. > :06:46.where they have done these raids. -- Kim Sengupta. This appears to be a

:06:47. > :06:51.genuine scoop, assuming Kim Sengupta has his facts right, and I guess

:06:52. > :06:55.they wouldn't be reading this on the front page if they weren't

:06:56. > :07:01.confident. They are talking about a device blown up in a controlled

:07:02. > :07:06.explosion -- putting this. It is more than explosives that could have

:07:07. > :07:12.been used to put a device together, it was a device. They will be

:07:13. > :07:16.scrabbling around in other newsrooms to follow up on this. This helps to

:07:17. > :07:21.explain why they raised the security threat level last night and this is

:07:22. > :07:29.a very fast moving and wide ranging and scary situation. Especially if

:07:30. > :07:32.there are lots of devices around the place. The Guardian and the

:07:33. > :07:37.Independent are the newspapers that have put pictures on the front page

:07:38. > :07:42.of what we understand and believe to be part of the actual device itself

:07:43. > :07:46.that caused such havoc because of the leak in the US. We will go back

:07:47. > :07:50.to that in a moment but first the front page of the Daily Mail, it

:07:51. > :07:58.underlines the international dimension of this story, doesn't it?

:07:59. > :08:06.Jeremy Hunt himself from Libya and his brother and father both arrested

:08:07. > :08:12.in Tripoli -- Salman Abedi. Very stark headline, the G hardy family.

:08:13. > :08:18.Is that their? A classic Daily Mail front Page. --. They also have the

:08:19. > :08:28.picture of the younger brother in Libby on the Daily Mirror -- jihadi.

:08:29. > :08:32.Past experience shows not everything that you know two days afterwards

:08:33. > :08:38.about a family will turn out to be true. For example, it said here that

:08:39. > :08:42.the father and one of the brothers are IS supporters. I think I heard

:08:43. > :08:46.another commentator saying today the father was thought to be more pro-Al

:08:47. > :08:52.Qaeda year because in Libya al-Qaeda have said about IS that they are too

:08:53. > :08:57.brutal -- pro-Al Qaeda. I don't know if that's the case. I noted that in

:08:58. > :09:02.the Times, the Mail are saying this is a whole family and a whole

:09:03. > :09:07.network and we are fascinated by evil families, aren't we? The Times

:09:08. > :09:10.say... They also say it was claimed Salman Abedi called his family 15

:09:11. > :09:14.minutes before the attack in Tripoli to say goodbye but friends of the

:09:15. > :09:18.family said his father had been so worried about radicalisation in

:09:19. > :09:27.Manchester that he demanded he moved to Libya. People will jump to

:09:28. > :09:31.conclusions very quickly about all of this and that's a dangerous thing

:09:32. > :09:35.to do immediately after an incident like this. It's not to say

:09:36. > :09:40.journalists shouldn't ask these questions and go after the facts

:09:41. > :09:43.such as they are. But I do think it is important we remember the

:09:44. > :09:47.security forces themselves aren't in a position, and nor should they be

:09:48. > :09:52.wasting their time answering these questions, so we only get one side

:09:53. > :09:58.of it. It looks like there has been a failure on their part to follow up

:09:59. > :10:03.on leads, to respond to warnings and presumably even on an international

:10:04. > :10:08.level, because if this family was based where they were then they

:10:09. > :10:12.wouldn't just be keeping an eye on them as British intelligence, there

:10:13. > :10:16.would be others. Clearly big questions. It worries me that this

:10:17. > :10:21.is hampering the work of the security services. Or they are going

:10:22. > :10:24.to let journalists run around and chat about this stuff while they get

:10:25. > :10:27.on with the work of tracking down these people. There's the

:10:28. > :10:29.inevitability that you start with the people close to the person

:10:30. > :10:41.suspected. No surprise that members of his

:10:42. > :10:47.family have been arrested. The first thing you do is look at families

:10:48. > :10:57.because they are the people who would and know the perpetrator must

:10:58. > :11:03.closely. Let's go to the front page of The Guardian, this is same

:11:04. > :11:08.photograph that you have alluded to on the front page of The

:11:09. > :11:12.Independent. Supposedly a photograph of one part is believed to have been

:11:13. > :11:20.used on Monday that had been leaked to the US media and this is one an

:11:21. > :11:30.extraordinary image and also it is causing a row. It is unprecedented

:11:31. > :11:38.that a live investigation live in this country should then be revealed

:11:39. > :11:46.by the intelligence agency in one of our partners, perhaps our closest

:11:47. > :11:52.partner in the United States. On the radio, Amber Rudd saying she was

:11:53. > :11:58.very irritated and that is a British euphemism to say they are livid

:11:59. > :12:02.about this. The Prime Minister is going to confront the President when

:12:03. > :12:08.they meet later on tomorrow at a Nato meeting and say this is

:12:09. > :12:15.absolutely not acceptable at every level. The president himself has

:12:16. > :12:22.suffered from leaks that have perhaps come from... You never know

:12:23. > :12:29.how Donald Trump will respond but he has his views about leaks from

:12:30. > :12:33.security services in his country but this is a very, very serious

:12:34. > :12:38.situation and you would think people on both sides of the Atlantic would

:12:39. > :12:47.be concerned about. In the last half an hour, a counter police saying

:12:48. > :12:56.trust has been breached between the two intelligence communities and

:12:57. > :13:02.that is extraordinary. I suppose as well as the breach of trust, the

:13:03. > :13:08.fact that such images that should appear from a live investigation,

:13:09. > :13:15.there is also the human factor of that, you can see these bloodstained

:13:16. > :13:21.weapons... It is absolutely ghastly, distressing and very real stop we

:13:22. > :13:27.know there was a blood but it is a shock to see it and quite heartless

:13:28. > :13:31.to put that picture... There is a bit of a question of The Guardian

:13:32. > :13:38.putting it on the front page only because in their story, in the

:13:39. > :13:47.second column, a senior US sources are clearly distressing to the

:13:48. > :13:57.victims's family and still they put it there. The human story, the story

:13:58. > :14:07.is of the Vic Demps. A touching story of a gay man killed. --

:14:08. > :14:14.victims. He was he appeared on television and radio, outspoken and

:14:15. > :14:22.lived life to the full and very touching to see that story. I

:14:23. > :14:28.expected to see more images of victims on the front of the pages.

:14:29. > :14:35.Yesterday we had the heart wrenching pictures of students. More adults

:14:36. > :14:41.have been named the day and it is striking how many were parents,

:14:42. > :14:50.mothers, in some cases the couples, and children who have become

:14:51. > :15:00.orphans. Whole lives destroyed. In the back page of The Times,

:15:01. > :15:11.appointed bleak positive story, we won it bought Manchester. -- for

:15:12. > :15:20.Manchester. I think they had one of the players earlier saying we won it

:15:21. > :15:32.for the victims. Pride of Manchester in another paper. Slightly tearful

:15:33. > :15:38.faces. For sure. Let's have a think about the timing of all of this. We

:15:39. > :15:53.have had political campaigning suspended and it will start up in a

:15:54. > :15:58.gentle way tomorrow with the Ukip manifesto. And then again on Friday.

:15:59. > :16:03.Will it have a different tone? I think it will. For one thing, when

:16:04. > :16:24.it starts Theresa May is going to be abroad, in Brussels and then to

:16:25. > :16:30.Cicely for the G7 summit. -- Sicily. The Tories are sensible, they will

:16:31. > :16:34.not seek to politicise this. They will not need to. They will have the

:16:35. > :16:41.pictures of Theresa May and subliminally the question will be

:16:42. > :16:49.asked, can you imagine Jeremy Corbyn responding in this way. Inevitably,

:16:50. > :16:52.there is already creeping into the discussion whether or not the cuts

:16:53. > :16:57.to police numbers, which is undoubtedly a fact which has

:16:58. > :17:02.happened under the Conservatives, is one reason why we have to sit in the

:17:03. > :17:06.army on the street. I wonder if Jeremy Corbyn will return to the

:17:07. > :17:12.then he came up with a couple of weeks ago whether he might reach the

:17:13. > :17:21.rate that the ball on Terror has not worked and has not made us safer. --

:17:22. > :17:26.the wall on Terror. Is this going to be a very different last two weeks?

:17:27. > :17:33.I suspect the first couple of fewdays we will have a different

:17:34. > :17:42.feel to it. Pretty soon after that, rightly or Rob Lee, we will get back

:17:43. > :17:51.to the campaign were having earlier. -- wrongly. Before this appalling

:17:52. > :17:55.incident happened, the Tories were on the back foot with plans for the

:17:56. > :18:03.elderly and other aspects of the manifesto. It will be a hard fought

:18:04. > :18:08.last two weeks of the campaign. Thank you both very much. Don't

:18:09. > :18:17.forget you can see the front pages online on the BBC website. It is all

:18:18. > :18:23.there for you. If you miss the programme you can watch it later on

:18:24. > :18:29.the BBC iPlayer. Thank you very much. Next, all the days sport. From

:18:30. > :18:33.me, good night.