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Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers

will be bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Ruth Lea,

Arbuthnot Banking Group

Economic Adviser.

And Ben Chu, Economics Editor

at The Independent.

Welcome to both of you.

The Telegraph has a warning

from the Home Secretary,

that there could be a "clearing out"

of Mps and ministers over

the Westminster sexual

harassment scandal.

The Metro reports on the mass

shooting in Texas in which at least

20 people are reported

to have been killed.

25 people are reported

to have been killed.

It also pictures the Queen,

amid the Paradise Papers leak

into offshore funds.

The Guardian also reports

on the Paradise Papers,

which it calls the world's

second biggest data leak.

That story also makes

the front page of the Times.

The paper also carries a story about

GP consultations via smartphones.

The Mirror also pictures the Queen

and reports on Strictly's shock

exit as singer Aston Merrygold

became the latest contestant

to dance off of the show.

And the Express reports on icy

weather conditions set to hit the UK

with the country set to suffer

polar winds and snow.

Take us to the Guardian and the

Paradise Papers.

The latest big

tranche of information about people

using tax havens. The big picture

story is the Queen who indirectly

has about 10 million invested in

these tax havens. It is important to

put this in a bit of context. She

has about 500 million in assets

managed by Duchy of Lancaster, her

personal wealth. About 2% is in

these private equity tax havens. It

is not surprising. Very often

private equity -based offshore. If

you are looking at a comparatively

wealthy person to the Queen comedy

would expect this kind of

allocation. This does not say that

Duchy of Lancaster is right to have

done it but the fact is, for a

portfolio that size it is not

unusual. The issue is, should they

have been more cognisant about how

this would have looked. Duchy of

Lancaster will have questions to

answer. Again, as I stress, we

should get it in a bit of context.

I

sense agreement from you.

I do. It

is not the Queen, it is the Duchy of

Lancaster who invests. They may have

been more cognisant about the PR

issue. But what is interesting about

this story, these Paradise Papers,

we have been here before. The Panama

papers last year which picked up on

David Cameron's father. And it

brings the whole morality of tax

haven. Zero tax, highly secret. In

themselves, they are not necessarily

doing anything illegal. This is

about tax avoidance, the use the

jargon term. But there is always the

implication of something shady about

this tax havens. Monaco, a shiny

place for shady people. The question

is, who to be the first mover about

doing something like this. I suspect

it will not be the British overseas

territories because there is too

much to lose.

That is the problem.

Unless everybody moves, there is

always somewhere to put your money.

That's right but we should not use

that as an excuse not to act. One of

the problems with the story, we have

these leaks. It is almost Groundhog

Day. What is the next stage? What

policies do we need to see adopted?

We came... Behind the scenes there

was some decent work they came out

after the Panama papers. We need

transparency about the ownership of

trusts. Fans are often offshore so

it is not necessarily a huge issue.

Bet with me for a moment I need to

take us to Texas. This is the press

conference after the shooting.

We

mourn their loss but we support

their family members. We appreciate

the first responders and what they

have done to help respond to this

challenge. They are continuing in

their efforts as they put all the

pieces of a very complex puzzle

together, to try to provide the

community all the answers they need

and deserve. Unfortunately, I am sad

to tell you, to confirm at least at

this moment in time, there are 26

lives that have been lost. We do not

know if that number will rise or not

but we know it is too many. This

will be long suffering morning for

those in pain. We ask God's comfort,

for God's guidance and for God's

healing, for all those who are

suffering. As governor, I ask for

every mum and dad, at home tonight,

that you put your arm around your

kid, you give your kid a big hug and

let them know how much you love

them, knowing that support each

other. Tell your friend and your

neighbour that you support them and

that you will work with them. I am

very proud of the way that we have

so many people working together to

respond to this. Already, talking to

the emergency team in Texas, it has

been reported that the emergency

medical task force from San Antonio

was deployed to help respond to the

magnitude of this tragedy. San

Antonio area hospitals and trauma

centres have called a naked with

regards to patient movement and

patient care. The Red Cross has set

up family assistance centres to help

all families affected by this. One

thing that is very important for

everybody is affected by this,

whether you are a family member Ora

non- family and member is that you

reach out to counselling research is

made readily available in abundance.

Now, we have so many people who have

helped respond and co-ordinate

already. I express my gratitude to

the President, who called from

overseas. My gratitude to senators

who I have spoken to as well as

members of the Texas Legislature.

When you look at the robust response

from just the immediate area, I want

to express my gratitude to the share

of Wilson County, the district

attorney from this area. And to DPS

regional director. Each of those

three will be speaking shortly. To

the man of Stockdale, to the

Department of Homeland Security, to

the ATF and the FBI, the sheriff

office, the various county office

and police departments. And I have

no doubt that there are other law

enforcement and agencies that have

responded to this. No we appreciate

the profound way in which everybody

has come together. I just turned

things over to sheriff Joe Tackit in

whose jurisdiction the crime

occurred and in whose jurisdiction

we are here now.

Thank you governor.

Thank you for your kind words. We

all in here know what happened today

and it is something we all say does

not happen in small communities but

we found out today it does. We need

your support. Media, do not blow it

out that it should never have

happened because it does happen and

we are sincerely feel sorry for all

the people involved. We do not know

names of any of the victims at this

time because we are still working

the crime scene. As we get names, we

will be family members and let them

know what we have. At this time we

have no names of the victims.

Thank

you. The district or Tony, Audrey

Lewis.

Thank you al, we may you have

lots of questions but understand

that these, our number one priority

and golf is to be victims and their

families. We want you to respect

that as well. We want to notify

families before the media and get

notified. It is critical that if we

have bad news to bear they need to

hear it before it is announced in

the media. We have lots of law

enforcement working well together

both Federal and local state

agencies and we highly commend the

professionalism that is occurring.

It was we need to make sure the

crime scene is handled properly, it

takes time and, unfortunately, that

leaves a lot of victims families

wanting ans is which we do not have

at the moment. We will provide that

information as soon as we can say

they have the information they need.

We appreciate the work of all law

enforcement. We do not feel the

reason it continuing threat and I

think the media has done a pretty

good job to make sure that has been

pronounced to the public. We are

working diligently both to inform

the family and preserve the crime

scene so it can be investigated

properly.

The DPS regional director

is next.

Everybody here wants facts and

information. But if you want to know

the motive, you'll

information. But if you want to know

the motive, you'll be disappointed.

We have certain facts we can

release, but to protect the

investigation's integrity, we will

have two release it in a timely

fashion and collect the facts and

make sure it is correct before we

release it. We are here assisting

the sheriff. There are multiple

agencies involved. Where are all

working together to support the

sheriff in this situation. At

approximately 11:20, a suspect was

seen at a petrol station, crossed

the street to the church, and

started a fire at the church. That

suspect into the church and

continued to fire. As he exited the

church, a local resident grabbed

this rifle and in gauge that

suspect. The suspect dropped this

rifle, which was a worker assault

rifle will stop a local citizen

pursued him at that time. -- Ruger.

A short time later, at the suspect,

right at the county line, it he

crashed out and was found deceased

in this vehicle. At this time, we do

not know who was self-inflicted or

if he was shot by a local resident

who engaged in gunfire. We know that

he was damp in the vehicle. He has

not been completely identified. He

was a young light male, maybe in

this early 20s, dressed in All Black

tactical type gear and was wearing a

ballistic vest. The way of getting

him identified is that there were

multiple weapons in the vehicle,

which is being processed by our

special operations group. There is a

lot of work to be done in this

investigation. We know that there

are 23 found deceased inside the

church. Two were deceased outside

the church. One that was being

transported, injured, has deceased,

bringing the total to 26. We have

approximately 20 that are being

transported with injuries that range

from minor to very severe. We know

that ages range from five years old

to 75. There is a lot of work to be

done. We are only hours into this

investigation, which is going to

take a significant length of time.

We will continue to provide

information as it becomes available.

We know that you have many questions

and many we cannot answer. We have

multiple crime scenes. Where the

church, outside the church, where

the vehicle was located... We have

following up on the suspect and

where he is from, this residence. We

have many people to interview. Web

Texas Ranger is that all the

hospitals, identifying those who are

injured. So not a lot of information

at this time. But we have many

people working on this. Every

resource we have available is

working. At the end of this

investigation, we will be out to

answer any reasonable question as to

what happened.

So we're going to

take you away from that press

conference at this point in time.

The central message you would have

heard from Greg Abbott was that 26

people have been confirmed damp at

that shooting in Sutherland Spring

's. He said the shooting was the

worst in the state's history, and

pressed the work of the emergency

services. -- confirmed dead. We

interrupted the press review in

order to bring you the latest air

from Texas. So it makes sense at

this time to turn to what the papers

were already saying about events in

Texas prior to the press conference.

This is the Daily Express, with the

front page strapped with a

photograph of the church, Saint 27

were dead. We now know 26. But a lot

of detail inside.

Yes, you just

shrug your head in despair when you

read the story. I ramble when Ben

and are deeply pavers last time, we

were on the back of the lost leg

shootings, and all the debate was

about gun control in the United

States, where it seems too easy to

get lethal weapons and use them.

Whether anything will happen after

this is extremely doubtful. But

these massacres were just go on and

on and on because there is nothing

to stop them. It is dreadful.

Is

that you're reading as well, Ben? --

your.

Yes. This is within weeks of

the lost leg as massacre where more

than 50 people were killed and

hundreds injured. There is a numbing

effect to these massacres. When they

come in this sort of succession,

people, you know, cannot process,

and cannot think of a response. Just

listen to that testimony, one of

things struck me was that he wasn't

- a member of the public to the

arrival of certifying on him. And

this is the myth in America that you

have your guns to protect against

maniacs and criminals. But they

don't stabilise. This guy managed to

kill six people. He might have

stopped going higher, but arming

people to the teeth is hardly a way

to create a safe society.

You cannot

protect a church, can you?

You

cannot protect an open society. Las

Vegas was extraordinary. Airy was in

the hotel and smash through the

window and shot at random at these

defenceless people. It was

extraordinary.

The front of the

Financial Times. Then, this is

interesting, because we don't

necessarily talk about Saudi Arabia

having a crackdown on corruption,

but here is a front page to that

effect.

Yes, usually when we talk

about corruption, it is them trying

to cover it up, if you remember the

BAE story from a few years ago. But

this is the opposite way. A

crackdown, as you say. The real

power in Saudi Arabia now, Prince

Mohammed Salman, he gets information

if you weeks ago that there was

going to be a crackdown, and this is

being played out in dramatic style

with 11 Princes, at dozens of senior

officials, and businessmen,

including a big investor in Twitter

and Citigroup amongst those

detained. So a big and unusual

story, underlying that something big

is happening in Saudi Arabia.

People

who might have thought they were

untouchable, Ruth?

Yes. The Crown

Princess Novy will escape regardless

if he was a minister or a prince.

And there are plenty of Princes in

Saudi Arabia, because the founder of

Saudi Arabia had thousands of

children, and they had thousands of

children, and they are all princes,

or princesses, as it may be. But

this Crown Prince is being extremely

progressive because obviously women

can now drive cars, which is insured

Nri. That in which amused me about

this was that they had to close the

private airport at Riyadh, because

they did not want these arrested

people to get in their private jets

and fly away. So there you are.

Moral tale: Don't have a private

jet.

It is not a bit worry for me...

Really? You don't have one? -- big

worry.

Then, looking at the Times.

This story is about wait times.

Yes,

now using just get your phone and

use and app, and talk to agree to

the GB. And that might be offputting

to some people, because they want to

speak to a GP, and you might get a

second-rate service. But others

might say this is great, because you

don't have to walk down to the GP's

surgery when you just need some

advice or sunny whatever, but it is

coming. The NHS bosses have signed

up on it. We will see how it goes.

It is early days. We will see how

the public will like it.

I mean,

there are one or two concerns being

added this piece, Ruth?

Yes, I think

a lot of doctors, they would like to

the patients, and vice-versa. But if

your symptoms are vice --

straightforward, it could be useful.

We will see hard work. This is only

a trial. What worries me about it is

that if something goes is really

wrong, and somebody has a false

analysis over the phone, then there

will be all hell to play, I suspect,

and that could damage the whole

idea. But an idea.

There is an

interesting warning there about

greeting a two tier NHS.

Yes. This

is sort of saying that with all the

smart phone patients be the young

fit ones, and the ones clogging up

the surgery will be the old Abercraf

at once. I don't see that as an

issue. It could be, but isn't that

the best use of NHS resources? --

old unhealthy ones. You could use

less resources than you are using at

the moment.

If it works.

Yes, and on

that note, you can see the front

pages of the papers online on the

BBC News website. It is all at their

seven days a week. And if you missed

the programme and evening, you can

watch it later on the BBC iPlayer.

Thank you Ruth and Ben