12/02/2018

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0:00:32 > 0:00:33With me are Martin Bentham, Home Affairs Editor

0:00:33 > 0:00:36for the London Evening Standard, and Times columnist Jenni Russell.

0:00:36 > 0:00:39Many of the front pages are in, so let's take a look

0:00:39 > 0:00:42Many of the front pages are in, so let's take a look.

0:00:42 > 0:00:43The Telegraph leads with the ongoing

0:00:43 > 0:00:45scandal surrounding Oxfam - with claims of abuse in charity

0:00:45 > 0:00:48shops involving staff, as well as overseas aid workers.

0:00:48 > 0:00:50The I takes up the same story on its front page -

0:00:50 > 0:00:54focusing on the resignation of Oxfam's deputy chief executive.

0:00:54 > 0:00:58That story features in the Guardian too -

0:00:58 > 0:01:00which also has big picture of British snowboarder Aimee Fuller,

0:01:00 > 0:01:03falling victim of the gusty winds at the Winter Olympics

0:01:03 > 0:01:05in Pyeongchang.

0:01:05 > 0:01:07The Metro carries a photo of one

0:01:07 > 0:01:10of the survivors of the Grand Canyon helicopter crash -

0:01:10 > 0:01:12in which three people were killed.

0:01:12 > 0:01:15The Express focuses on a report which says that drugs used to treat

0:01:15 > 0:01:20arthritis might also cut the risk of dementia.

0:01:20 > 0:01:23The Financial Times' top story is Barclays' ongoing legal

0:01:23 > 0:01:27battle over alleged cash injections from Qatari investors.

0:01:27 > 0:01:31And The Mirror leads on apparent visits made

0:01:31 > 0:01:34by Meghan Markle to the victims and survivors of the Grenfell Tower

0:01:34 > 0:01:36fire - with the paper dubbing her as the 'new people's

0:01:36 > 0:01:39princess'.

0:01:39 > 0:01:40So our main story tonight -

0:01:40 > 0:01:43the allegations against Oxfam staff - makes most of the front pages

0:01:43 > 0:01:44of tomorrow's papers.

0:01:44 > 0:01:51So let's start with the I's coverage.

0:01:51 > 0:01:55And I am ashamed of this happened on my watch, says the woman who

0:01:55 > 0:02:02resigned, but possibly seven years later?Yes. At least somebody has

0:02:02 > 0:02:06taken responsibility, so credit to her, in that at least. Clearly what

0:02:06 > 0:02:09has happened here, she has admitted she was international programmes

0:02:09 > 0:02:12director at the time and failed to do enough when the concerns about

0:02:12 > 0:02:17the main perpetrator and one of his staff were raised in Chad, and then

0:02:17 > 0:02:22he was allowed to move to high ET, where the new allegations have since

0:02:22 > 0:02:26surfaced and led to all this terrible concern about what has been

0:02:26 > 0:02:29happening at Oxfam. She has resigned, the Chief Executive

0:02:29 > 0:02:33remains under pressure, because he was not chief executive of the time,

0:02:33 > 0:02:37but still, there ongoing questions which we will talk about in a second

0:02:37 > 0:02:42about how quickly they acted, not just at the time in Haiti, but also

0:02:42 > 0:02:51subsequent to that, and whether they have done enough onwards.And the

0:02:51 > 0:02:59Paton Tapp The i, do you get the sense that the papers are making any

0:02:59 > 0:03:02of that state?It is hard to know what the chains of responsibility

0:03:02 > 0:03:07are comment is difficult to know what oversight Judy was, of the

0:03:07 > 0:03:10Charity commission or what Oxfam told them and all of that is yet to

0:03:10 > 0:03:13be covered. I think it is pretty striking that having watched the way

0:03:13 > 0:03:19that some of Oxfam's executors have responded today. My faith in the

0:03:19 > 0:03:22charity has really been shattered to some extent. I assumed when the

0:03:22 > 0:03:26stories first came out and it was broken by my newspaper, the Times,

0:03:26 > 0:03:32and I think it is a fantastic job they did on it. But I think I

0:03:32 > 0:03:35assumed it had to be a few exceptions. And when you listen to

0:03:35 > 0:03:39the woman who whistle-blower today, saying that actually I brought all

0:03:39 > 0:03:43these concerns, including the fact that on a single day she had

0:03:43 > 0:03:46allocations brought to her of coerced sex in other countries by

0:03:46 > 0:03:50three Oxfam workers in one day, she took her concerns to the board, and

0:03:50 > 0:03:54they told her that they had read her paper and didn't want to listen to

0:03:54 > 0:03:59her talking about it. He truly seems they did not take seriously the fact

0:03:59 > 0:04:03that if you send people who have immense power into situations where

0:04:03 > 0:04:06other people are dependent upon them, then some people who was to

0:04:06 > 0:04:08miss use that power will be completely free to do so unless

0:04:08 > 0:04:14there are consequences.Yes, so that particular line is obviously the key

0:04:14 > 0:04:19story on the front page of the Telegraph, Martin. They are saying,

0:04:19 > 0:04:23their headline, Oxfam workers offers aid to sex, which is a very serious

0:04:23 > 0:04:27allegation.Precisely, this is the interviewer talking about, which was

0:04:27 > 0:04:34on Channel 4 News. Clearly it is a massive problem that has been

0:04:34 > 0:04:38exposed, and one that has been far too slow to be acted upon. And the

0:04:38 > 0:04:42great irony of this is that of course in disaster zones in

0:04:42 > 0:04:46particular, one of the great things charities try to do is set up safe

0:04:46 > 0:04:48spaces and work to protect vulnerable women in particular and

0:04:48 > 0:04:52young girls, and of course some of this is about the alleged abuse of

0:04:52 > 0:04:57children, not just women, children, even worse, and yet the charities

0:04:57 > 0:05:02working to try to protect them on one hand, and then the staff appear

0:05:02 > 0:05:06to have been engaging in this type of abusive behaviour, and whilst it

0:05:06 > 0:05:10was known, and as you say, we don't quite know how far this will go

0:05:10 > 0:05:13faster we don't know if it will just be restricted to Oxfam or whether

0:05:13 > 0:05:16other charities...That is incredibly unlikely, it is never

0:05:16 > 0:05:22going to be the case that only one organisation has the problem, as it

0:05:22 > 0:05:26was that Harvey Weinstein was the only powerful man abusing people in

0:05:26 > 0:05:29his industry. We have to fit a caveat, having spent a lot of time

0:05:29 > 0:05:33abroad and with people that work in aid, most of them are highly

0:05:33 > 0:05:36motivated and a fantastic job. My concerns about Oxfam here is that

0:05:36 > 0:05:40they were not willing to recognise when a few people are behaving

0:05:40 > 0:05:44badly. Let's not tell the whole of the aid sector, because there are an

0:05:44 > 0:05:47awful lot of incredibly committed people who work in appalling

0:05:47 > 0:05:51conditions, doing very brave things, and we should be grateful to them

0:05:51 > 0:05:54for that.It is kind of the response to the problem is most worse than

0:05:54 > 0:06:00the original problem, or consumes the original problem.I was in high

0:06:00 > 0:06:04ET after the earthquake and have been there a few times since, and

0:06:04 > 0:06:07seen the things you are talking about, people doing quite valuable

0:06:07 > 0:06:11work I do help people in desperate situations, try to help them.They

0:06:11 > 0:06:14must be completely dismayed today firstyou think of those lovely old

0:06:14 > 0:06:20ladies in the Oxfam charities shops you going to, think how they must be

0:06:20 > 0:06:22feeling, giving up their time willingly and at the moment the

0:06:22 > 0:06:25whole brand is in danger of being tarnished, which is why the Chief

0:06:25 > 0:06:28Executive at the time and all the staff should have taken them

0:06:28 > 0:06:31seriously. They should not have breasted under the carpet. Think

0:06:31 > 0:06:35much pressure there would have been if they said we have discovered

0:06:35 > 0:06:38this, we have sacked these people, they will never work in the AIDS

0:06:38 > 0:06:42sector again and this is what we'll do about it.That defensive

0:06:42 > 0:06:44behaviour by big institutions are something we have seen over and over

0:06:44 > 0:06:48again. Let's just move onto another story in the front page the

0:06:48 > 0:06:54Telegraph and stop the US saying take back your jihadists. What is

0:06:54 > 0:06:57that all about?It is all about the foreign fighters who have been

0:06:57 > 0:07:03captured in Syria and Iraq. The US administration apparently suggesting

0:07:03 > 0:07:10that those countries from which they have come should take ownership and

0:07:10 > 0:07:13deal with them, rather than necessarily the Americans having to

0:07:13 > 0:07:18pick up the problem, or indeed those people floating around and

0:07:18 > 0:07:23disappearing off elsewhere to cause trouble elsewhere. It is angled

0:07:23 > 0:07:29here, talking about the two so-called Beatles, former British

0:07:29 > 0:07:31citizens, who both had their citizenship stripped from this

0:07:31 > 0:07:36country. But only we will be having them back and I think the Americans

0:07:36 > 0:07:39will want to prosecute themselves anyway. In that particular case

0:07:39 > 0:07:44because of the appalling acts they are alleged to have committed

0:07:44 > 0:07:51against American citizens.Given how unpopular government is, I don't

0:07:51 > 0:07:55want this kind of election winning slogan for we are bringing back as

0:07:55 > 0:08:01his supporters to Britain to take up time and jail space. Absolutely a

0:08:01 > 0:08:07no-no.Moving on to the Guardian, a sharp rise in admissions for eating

0:08:07 > 0:08:16disorders. The story of interest to many families of teenage girls.The

0:08:16 > 0:08:21number of admissions to hospital treating disorders has almost

0:08:21 > 0:08:25doubled from 2010 from just over.

0:08:26 > 0:08:30It goes along with the fact that there has been a sharp decline in

0:08:30 > 0:08:33mental health among teenage girls in particular. The Kara Mbodj exact

0:08:33 > 0:08:35figures but within the last ten years their suicide rate has

0:08:35 > 0:08:41doubled. Almost approaching that of young men, which has always been

0:08:41 > 0:08:49high. Medical experts think this is all to do with the increased

0:08:49 > 0:08:53pressure on girls in particular, and it is social media, and having to

0:08:53 > 0:08:58look and behave perfectly, and the injured everything OK, and the

0:08:58 > 0:09:02appalling popularity contest, as you put your pictures and your feeds

0:09:02 > 0:09:05online, seeing how many likes you get. It is devastating people.

0:09:05 > 0:09:07Basically they are all having to live as if they are in the public

0:09:07 > 0:09:12eye and they are only children.So Martin, in terms of the detail of

0:09:12 > 0:09:17this, this is so fuzzy, the sprint, I can't see it, but the numbers

0:09:17 > 0:09:28about 13,000.Yes. As it says, it has doubled in basically a decade or

0:09:28 > 0:09:34so.Which is shocking, isn't it? Absolutely frightening. The trouble

0:09:34 > 0:09:37is, each individual person who suffers that, it is heartbreaking

0:09:37 > 0:09:44for their families and stop terrible for them. It needs proper

0:09:44 > 0:09:51investigation to find out what is causing this. The fairer ways in

0:09:51 > 0:09:55which some of those pressures can be alleviated to that fewer people and

0:09:55 > 0:09:58up this way. It is the wrong way to be going, not the right way.But it

0:09:58 > 0:10:01is also the case that government cuts to children's mental health

0:10:01 > 0:10:05services over the past few years, I know Jeremy Hunt has said this way.

0:10:05 > 0:10:09It is the wrong way to be going, not the right way. But it is also the

0:10:09 > 0:10:11case that government cuts to children's mental health services

0:10:11 > 0:10:14over the past few years, I know Jeremy Hunt has a business now be a

0:10:14 > 0:10:16target and a focus for the government and make every much in is

0:10:16 > 0:10:18the case that people working in adolescent mental health services

0:10:18 > 0:10:21often find when children are referred to them because they are in

0:10:21 > 0:10:23crisis, they can be given appointments 80 months ahead, which

0:10:23 > 0:10:27is worse than useless. That is half your time in six form, if you are a

0:10:27 > 0:10:34child.Yes. Cilic ourselves up at all with the next Tory?Let's try!

0:10:34 > 0:10:38No limit on entry exam fails for aspiring teachers, so if you are a

0:10:38 > 0:10:44teacher you can fail as many times as you like, basically. This is the

0:10:44 > 0:10:51The i.Used to be ruled out after three tonnes of have to wait two

0:10:51 > 0:10:56years to retake. The same does not apply for the normal exams that

0:10:56 > 0:11:04pupils take.Are they allowed to teach during?This is before they

0:11:04 > 0:11:08have qualified.The problem with this is that it is the side-effect

0:11:08 > 0:11:12of government policy, the fact that teaching has become such a high

0:11:12 > 0:11:17stress occupation, in which teachers are being measured at the time on

0:11:17 > 0:11:22how their children achieved, and children of cream taught the test.

0:11:22 > 0:11:26The quality -- children are being put to the test. The pressure on

0:11:26 > 0:11:29both children and teachers is increasing dramatically, and so many

0:11:29 > 0:11:32teachers are leaving and so many more don't want to come into it, but

0:11:32 > 0:11:36actually this is not an answer. The answer is how do you make the

0:11:36 > 0:11:40teaching profession less stressful, more productive and more attractive.

0:11:40 > 0:11:43Just try and shovel in some of the people that aren't up to it by

0:11:43 > 0:11:48saying never mind, can just keep retaking interview fluke a parcel

0:11:48 > 0:11:53stop sorry about that, it was your fault, it was your story!The

0:11:53 > 0:11:57mirror, Meghan's secret visits to comfort Grun for victims. They have

0:11:57 > 0:12:01visits plural, is it that committee meeting?We don't know, but it seems

0:12:01 > 0:12:07like a very good idea.It is not very clear, it says has visited the

0:12:07 > 0:12:11Grenfell Tower site, so we don't know the answer to that one. Not a

0:12:11 > 0:12:16very cheerful topic but at least she is doing something positive to try

0:12:16 > 0:12:20to help people there, and good for her.The important thing is we all

0:12:20 > 0:12:26remember to Theresa May turning up to visit the Grenfell Tower victims

0:12:26 > 0:12:30looking absolutely petrified, surrounded by her security detail.

0:12:30 > 0:12:33Doing a few handshakes with some of the firefighters and other people at

0:12:33 > 0:12:37the fire and then fleeing without actually beating any of the victims.

0:12:37 > 0:12:41And that so much increased everyone's rage at the time. And in

0:12:41 > 0:12:44the Queen turned up unannounced, think of was the following day, and

0:12:44 > 0:12:48Prince Harry, and they spent time with the victims, and they shook

0:12:48 > 0:12:52hands, and they talk to them, and you could see how moved the Queen

0:12:52 > 0:12:55was, and you could see that it completely calmed a very few BREL

0:12:55 > 0:13:00situation at that point. There is still in the society something very

0:13:00 > 0:13:04special about being visited by royalty. I think at times of such

0:13:04 > 0:13:11enormous divisions in this area. It is a good thing.And in the people's

0:13:11 > 0:13:15and says, that is special for people. We just have time for one

0:13:15 > 0:13:19more, a picture story, the Financial Times has got these interesting

0:13:19 > 0:13:24portraits of the Obamas.Exactly, I like the bit in particular about

0:13:24 > 0:13:30Barack Obama. To negotiate to have less grey hair and smaller ears, but

0:13:30 > 0:13:33the portrait artist said nowhere, and there it is. What is and all.

0:13:33 > 0:13:39Not many warts, in fact, most people would be happy to look like he did.

0:13:39 > 0:13:42That is a great tradition of poultry, all portrait artists

0:13:42 > 0:13:47throughout the centres have tried to flatter their subjects. --

0:13:47 > 0:13:51throughout the centuries. I was a bit struck, having the portrait of

0:13:51 > 0:13:57Barack Obama is pretty fabulous, and you really see his characters with.

0:13:57 > 0:14:01He looks thoughtful, intelligent yet composed. But I don't think that

0:14:01 > 0:14:06this picture of Michelle Obama looks like at all.I'm with you.She likes

0:14:06 > 0:14:11it, apparently.She's not going say she doesn't.If we think of all the

0:14:11 > 0:14:14sitting she must of had and all the time, to manage to produce a

0:14:14 > 0:14:17portrait that actually doesn't look like this woman? I think that is a

0:14:17 > 0:14:24fail.These are going in the Smithsonian, right, in the National

0:14:24 > 0:14:27portrait Gallery?The great thing is it is the first time obviously that

0:14:27 > 0:14:30a black president has been there by definition, so it is a breakthrough

0:14:30 > 0:14:36in that sense.We have two Corletto day there. Thank you so much

0:14:36 > 0:14:41rejoining us. Come back again -- we have to call it a day. That is it

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