09/08/2017 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers

With me are Caroline Wheeler, Deputy Political Editor

and Jack Blanchard, Political Editor at the Daily Mirror.

Good evening to you both. Thanks for joining us.

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with -

The Express leads on the build up of tension between the US

and North Korea over its weapons programme, after Pyongyang

The Times features a photograph of thousands attended a rally

in the North Korean capital in support of Kim Jong-un,

The Guardian says that a senior Washington officials spent the day

trying to mitigate Donald Trump Jr's The Sun's front page is dominated

by the story that police paid a convicted child rapist ?10,000

to spy on a Newcastle The Metro alleges

the trial of the gang could have fallen apart

after the judge disallowed the informant's evidence

because of his criminal history. This story also features

on the front of the i, which claims the head

of a government task force says the investigation

"went way over the line". The Telegraph claims

the EU is facing an expenses scandal after senior officials

spent tens of thousands of pounds Some impressive opening pages

painting a picture of a worrying world. The fact that the child

rapist was paid ?10,000 by the police to be an informant. Quite

staggering headline for many people to get their head around tomorrow,

isn't it? It is. It's been discussed quite a lot in the last couple of

hours. One of the things that is interesting about this story is the

sun has focused on the amount of money that this individual was paid,

who himself was convicted of drugging and raping a girl and

inviting a pal to join in. Somebody with that kind of condition was put

amongst very vulnerable girls. I draw upon one of the BBC interviews,

with the person who led the prosecutions into the Rochdale

grooming gang. The line I seized upon is this idea, he said it was

something he would never have sanctioned, putting a predator along

with other predators alone with prey and not being in a position to

manage the risk to children. Are we speaking without knowing the full

details of knowing how the investigation was conducted and

knowing the full details. Victims of grooming who probably at some time

didn't know they were victims of anything. They thought they were

friends of the perpetrators. Put yourself in the shoes of the police

officers who know that the girls have been raped and can't do

anything about it. They must have felt this was the only option. It

can't have been an easy choice. These cases have proved very

difficult to secure convictions. Police have known these gangs are

operating but the number of convictions is very small and it is

only in the last few years we have seen any convictions at all. You

have to accept that it is very difficult for police to find

evidence of what is happening because a lot of these girls haven't

in the past been in a position to give good evidence. They found a guy

who was able to act as an informer. They held their nose and paid him to

let them know what was going on. They have been very heavily

criticised but this was a success. They have secured convictions and

stop this happening. However much we don't want people to see that people

like this have been paid, the judge said this, but secured convictions.

A different angle moving the story forward. Police constable attacks

failure to shame grooming gangs. The police chief is saying that there is

not enough shame and stigma attached to child sexual exportation in some

communities, pointing the finger at the Asian community from which these

men came. You have to look at the root causes of why this is

happening. There are some graphic details in some of the coverage.

Some of the background with the men. Some of the things that they had

said previously. Talking about white girls as, you know, white trash that

were there to meet their sexual gratification. It's a bit worrying

two point finger at an entire community. That's only going to

stoke up tensions there. Particularly with the police. To

label it as an Asian community, we are speaking about a specific group

within that community. Not whole swathes of people in that area. What

he's saying is that these communities we are talking about,

they can deal with the problem from within as well and stop it from

happening in the first place. There is a pattern here, whether we like

it or not, whether it is controversial or not. There is a

pattern with the people involved in these grooming gangs. It is going

pretty far to suggest that people in these communities think it is OK.

That is not right at all. There are communities trying to deal with this

issue. There is a pattern to it and it needs to be addressed and it

needs to be addressed at the grassroots level. Turning our

attention to another very worrying story on an international scale. A

photo there of tens of thousands of North Koreans attending a rally in

Pyongyang. Whether they chose to be there or not is another question.

Knowing North Korea. They are there in huge numbers. The headline sums

up where we are at. Stop all will destroy you, Washington once Kim.

This is a very tense situation. We have seen these flare-ups from time

to time but never like this before and it feels like it is coming to a

head. The reason is because North Korea are on the verge of being able

to attack America in a way that America has never felt threatened

before with a small state with nuclear weapons. An American

president was going to have to deal with this situation. Unfortunately,

... The president whose watch this happens on is the most erratic and

unpredictable we have ever seen. It's pretty unfortunate for the

world because you genuinely don't know what you're going to work up

to. We've had presents before issuing very careful worded

statements when it comes to North Korea because of the massive

implications of any military action. Here we have a president who just

tweets what he thinks. Exactly. That is why we see this escalation

because of the language being used. Today talking about the size of the

nuclear arsenal that the US possesses and can use against North

Korea. Sorry to interrupt. Just looking at the Daily Express front

page which carries the story. We can still sleep a night, evidently.

Nothing to worry about. The Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has

been trying to undo some of the potential inflammatory language that

Donald has been using. It is something that when you've got

Hawaii on a state of alert and being told about sheltering in concrete

buildings in the case of an attack. That shows the level of fear that

there really is that this is really escalating now. Part of the problem

is these mixed signals coming out of Washington. You've got trump

boasting about America's nuclear arsenal and threatening to use it.

His Foreign Secretary telling Americans that they can sleep well

and that the rhetoric isn't important and nothing serious is

going to happen. Who are you supposed to believe? Who is North

Korea supposed to believe? And actually it is South Korea who are

worrying a bit more to night. They are right next door. The capitalist

just a few miles from the body and is always a target. It's a worrying

place to be right now. -- from the border. Some really good journalism

in the Daily Telegraph. Revealing the EU expenses scandal. Senior

officials spending thousands on planes and hotels in figures

described as tip of the iceberg. One of those stories that some people

think this would have come out sooner but these kind of stories

take a lot of work. There's been a battle going on in Europe trying to

get this data out. There is some freedom of data campaign that has

eventually got it. They've only got a tiny bit of it. A couple of months

worth of expenses claims. The Commissioner's line is it is far too

much paperwork to make it public. Just looking at a couple of months

and you can see that Jean-Claude Juncker the head of the European

Commission and its over to Rome in a private jet for 25,000 euros for a

night in Rome. Well, that's quite a lot of money to be spending when

it's taxpayers money. You can imagine that the Daily Telegraph

were rubbing their hands with glee. All their Christmas is at once

because it is proof of the massive gravy train. Exactly what they've

been warning about. For a lot of people it was the reason for Brexit.

Now that proof is here that the money we've been paying in is

squandered on these over the top expenses. Showing the bloated

inflated European Union. That's the story they have got. It's worth

noting that the Daily Telegraph were also the paper that broke the

expenses scandal in the UK. That changed a lot of the culture in this

country. This is about very senior commission officials. MEP expenses

are clouded in secrecy. There is not the trans transparency we have now

in the UK. We didn't know about the expenses of MPs and gifts and travel

and hospitality. Since that light has shone on it, MPs expenses is now

very clean. Let's have a look at what a former Prime Minister does

when he hasn't got much to do. Ego surfing. There you go. He's gone

back to his usual holiday haunt near Padstow. The wet suit is not a

flattering look for Mr Cameron. Too many fish and chips. He won't be

delighted to see these pictures in the paper tomorrow. And there's been

a number of quite unflattering pictures. One with a cigarette. One

at a festival. He keeps popping up everywhere. Why are we so fascinated

by what David Cameron is up to? Because the pictures are so

hilarious. The ones at the music festival. There is something

inherently comedy about Cameron. Thank you very much for taking us

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