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With me are Martin Bentham,
Home Affairs Editor | 0:00:32 | 0:00:33 | |
for the London Evening Standard,
and Times columnist Jenni Russell. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:36 | |
Many of the front pages are in,
so let's take a look | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
Many of the front pages are in,
so let's take a look. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:42 | |
The Telegraph leads with the ongoing | 0:00:42 | 0:00:43 | |
scandal surrounding Oxfam -
with claims of abuse in charity | 0:00:43 | 0:00:45 | |
shops involving staff,
as well as overseas aid workers. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
The I takes up the same
story on its front page - | 0:00:48 | 0:00:50 | |
focusing on the resignation
of Oxfam's deputy chief executive. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:54 | |
That story features
in the Guardian too - | 0:00:54 | 0:00:58 | |
which also has big picture
of British snowboarder Aimee Fuller, | 0:00:58 | 0:01:00 | |
falling victim of the gusty winds
at the Winter Olympics | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
in Pyeongchang. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:05 | |
The Metro carries a photo of one | 0:01:05 | 0:01:07 | |
of the survivors of the Grand Canyon
helicopter crash - | 0:01:07 | 0:01:10 | |
in which three people were killed. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:12 | |
The Express focuses on a report
which says that drugs used to treat | 0:01:12 | 0:01:15 | |
arthritis might also cut
the risk of dementia. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:20 | |
The Financial Times' top story
is Barclays' ongoing legal | 0:01:20 | 0:01:23 | |
battle over alleged cash injections
from Qatari investors. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:27 | |
And The Mirror leads
on apparent visits made | 0:01:27 | 0:01:31 | |
by Meghan Markle to the victims
and survivors of the Grenfell Tower | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
fire - with the paper
dubbing her as the 'new people's | 0:01:34 | 0:01:36 | |
princess'. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:39 | |
So our main story tonight - | 0:01:39 | 0:01:40 | |
the allegations against Oxfam staff
- makes most of the front pages | 0:01:40 | 0:01:43 | |
of tomorrow's papers. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:44 | |
So let's start with
the I's coverage. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:51 | |
And I am ashamed of this happened on
my watch, says the woman who | 0:01:51 | 0:01:55 | |
resigned, but possibly seven years
later? Yes. At least somebody has | 0:01:55 | 0:02:02 | |
taken responsibility, so credit to
her, in that at least. Clearly what | 0:02:02 | 0:02:06 | |
has happened here, she has admitted
she was international programmes | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
director at the time and failed to
do enough when the concerns about | 0:02:09 | 0:02:12 | |
the main perpetrator and one of his
staff were raised in Chad, and then | 0:02:12 | 0:02:17 | |
he was allowed to move to high ET,
where the new allegations have since | 0:02:17 | 0:02:22 | |
surfaced and led to all this
terrible concern about what has been | 0:02:22 | 0:02:26 | |
happening at Oxfam. She has
resigned, the Chief Executive | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
remains under pressure, because he
was not chief executive of the time, | 0:02:29 | 0:02:33 | |
but still, there ongoing questions
which we will talk about in a second | 0:02:33 | 0:02:37 | |
about how quickly they acted, not
just at the time in Haiti, but also | 0:02:37 | 0:02:42 | |
subsequent to that, and whether they
have done enough onwards. And the | 0:02:42 | 0:02:51 | |
Paton Tapp The i, do you get the
sense that the papers are making any | 0:02:51 | 0:02:59 | |
of that state? It is hard to know
what the chains of responsibility | 0:02:59 | 0:03:02 | |
are comment is difficult to know
what oversight Judy was, of the | 0:03:02 | 0:03:07 | |
Charity commission or what Oxfam
told them and all of that is yet to | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
be covered. I think it is pretty
striking that having watched the way | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
that some of Oxfam's executors have
responded today. My faith in the | 0:03:13 | 0:03:19 | |
charity has really been shattered to
some extent. I assumed when the | 0:03:19 | 0:03:22 | |
stories first came out and it was
broken by my newspaper, the Times, | 0:03:22 | 0:03:26 | |
and I think it is a fantastic job
they did on it. But I think I | 0:03:26 | 0:03:32 | |
assumed it had to be a few
exceptions. And when you listen to | 0:03:32 | 0:03:35 | |
the woman who whistle-blower today,
saying that actually I brought all | 0:03:35 | 0:03:39 | |
these concerns, including the fact
that on a single day she had | 0:03:39 | 0:03:43 | |
allocations brought to her of
coerced sex in other countries by | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
three Oxfam workers in one day, she
took her concerns to the board, and | 0:03:46 | 0:03:50 | |
they told her that they had read her
paper and didn't want to listen to | 0:03:50 | 0:03:54 | |
her talking about it. He truly seems
they did not take seriously the fact | 0:03:54 | 0:03:59 | |
that if you send people who have
immense power into situations where | 0:03:59 | 0:04:03 | |
other people are dependent upon
them, then some people who was to | 0:04:03 | 0:04:06 | |
miss use that power will be
completely free to do so unless | 0:04:06 | 0:04:08 | |
there are consequences. Yes, so that
particular line is obviously the key | 0:04:08 | 0:04:14 | |
story on the front page of the
Telegraph, Martin. They are saying, | 0:04:14 | 0:04:19 | |
their headline, Oxfam workers offers
aid to sex, which is a very serious | 0:04:19 | 0:04:23 | |
allegation. Precisely, this is the
interviewer talking about, which was | 0:04:23 | 0:04:27 | |
on Channel 4 News. Clearly it is a
massive problem that has been | 0:04:27 | 0:04:34 | |
exposed, and one that has been far
too slow to be acted upon. And the | 0:04:34 | 0:04:38 | |
great irony of this is that of
course in disaster zones in | 0:04:38 | 0:04:42 | |
particular, one of the great things
charities try to do is set up safe | 0:04:42 | 0:04:46 | |
spaces and work to protect
vulnerable women in particular and | 0:04:46 | 0:04:48 | |
young girls, and of course some of
this is about the alleged abuse of | 0:04:48 | 0:04:52 | |
children, not just women, children,
even worse, and yet the charities | 0:04:52 | 0:04:57 | |
working to try to protect them on
one hand, and then the staff appear | 0:04:57 | 0:05:02 | |
to have been engaging in this type
of abusive behaviour, and whilst it | 0:05:02 | 0:05:06 | |
was known, and as you say, we don't
quite know how far this will go | 0:05:06 | 0:05:10 | |
faster we don't know if it will just
be restricted to Oxfam or whether | 0:05:10 | 0:05:13 | |
other charities... That is
incredibly unlikely, it is never | 0:05:13 | 0:05:16 | |
going to be the case that only one
organisation has the problem, as it | 0:05:16 | 0:05:22 | |
was that Harvey Weinstein was the
only powerful man abusing people in | 0:05:22 | 0:05:26 | |
his industry. We have to fit a
caveat, having spent a lot of time | 0:05:26 | 0:05:29 | |
abroad and with people that work in
aid, most of them are highly | 0:05:29 | 0:05:33 | |
motivated and a fantastic job. My
concerns about Oxfam here is that | 0:05:33 | 0:05:36 | |
they were not willing to recognise
when a few people are behaving | 0:05:36 | 0:05:40 | |
badly. Let's not tell the whole of
the aid sector, because there are an | 0:05:40 | 0:05:44 | |
awful lot of incredibly committed
people who work in appalling | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
conditions, doing very brave things,
and we should be grateful to them | 0:05:47 | 0:05:51 | |
for that. It is kind of the response
to the problem is most worse than | 0:05:51 | 0:05:54 | |
the original problem, or consumes
the original problem. I was in high | 0:05:54 | 0:06:00 | |
ET after the earthquake and have
been there a few times since, and | 0:06:00 | 0:06:04 | |
seen the things you are talking
about, people doing quite valuable | 0:06:04 | 0:06:07 | |
work I do help people in desperate
situations, try to help them. They | 0:06:07 | 0:06:11 | |
must be completely dismayed today
first you think of those lovely old | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
ladies in the Oxfam charities shops
you going to, think how they must be | 0:06:14 | 0:06:20 | |
feeling, giving up their time
willingly and at the moment the | 0:06:20 | 0:06:22 | |
whole brand is in danger of being
tarnished, which is why the Chief | 0:06:22 | 0:06:25 | |
Executive at the time and all the
staff should have taken them | 0:06:25 | 0:06:28 | |
seriously. They should not have
breasted under the carpet. Think | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
much pressure there would have been
if they said we have discovered | 0:06:31 | 0:06:35 | |
this, we have sacked these people,
they will never work in the AIDS | 0:06:35 | 0:06:38 | |
sector again and this is what we'll
do about it. That defensive | 0:06:38 | 0:06:42 | |
behaviour by big institutions are
something we have seen over and over | 0:06:42 | 0:06:44 | |
again. Let's just move onto another
story in the front page the | 0:06:44 | 0:06:48 | |
Telegraph and stop the US saying
take back your jihadists. What is | 0:06:48 | 0:06:54 | |
that all about? It is all about the
foreign fighters who have been | 0:06:54 | 0:06:57 | |
captured in Syria and Iraq. The US
administration apparently suggesting | 0:06:57 | 0:07:03 | |
that those countries from which they
have come should take ownership and | 0:07:03 | 0:07:10 | |
deal with them, rather than
necessarily the Americans having to | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
pick up the problem, or indeed those
people floating around and | 0:07:13 | 0:07:18 | |
disappearing off elsewhere to cause
trouble elsewhere. It is angled | 0:07:18 | 0:07:23 | |
here, talking about the two
so-called Beatles, former British | 0:07:23 | 0:07:29 | |
citizens, who both had their
citizenship stripped from this | 0:07:29 | 0:07:31 | |
country. But only we will be having
them back and I think the Americans | 0:07:31 | 0:07:36 | |
will want to prosecute themselves
anyway. In that particular case | 0:07:36 | 0:07:39 | |
because of the appalling acts they
are alleged to have committed | 0:07:39 | 0:07:44 | |
against American citizens. Given how
unpopular government is, I don't | 0:07:44 | 0:07:51 | |
want this kind of election winning
slogan for we are bringing back as | 0:07:51 | 0:07:55 | |
his supporters to Britain to take up
time and jail space. Absolutely a | 0:07:55 | 0:08:01 | |
no-no. Moving on to the Guardian, a
sharp rise in admissions for eating | 0:08:01 | 0:08:07 | |
disorders. The story of interest to
many families of teenage girls. The | 0:08:07 | 0:08:16 | |
number of admissions to hospital
treating disorders has almost | 0:08:16 | 0:08:21 | |
doubled from 2010 from just over. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:25 | |
It goes along with the fact that
there has been a sharp decline in | 0:08:26 | 0:08:30 | |
mental health among teenage girls in
particular. The Kara Mbodj exact | 0:08:30 | 0:08:33 | |
figures but within the last ten
years their suicide rate has | 0:08:33 | 0:08:35 | |
doubled. Almost approaching that of
young men, which has always been | 0:08:35 | 0:08:41 | |
high. Medical experts think this is
all to do with the increased | 0:08:41 | 0:08:49 | |
pressure on girls in particular, and
it is social media, and having to | 0:08:49 | 0:08:53 | |
look and behave perfectly, and the
injured everything OK, and the | 0:08:53 | 0:08:58 | |
appalling popularity contest, as you
put your pictures and your feeds | 0:08:58 | 0:09:02 | |
online, seeing how many likes you
get. It is devastating people. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:05 | |
Basically they are all having to
live as if they are in the public | 0:09:05 | 0:09:07 | |
eye and they are only children. So
Martin, in terms of the detail of | 0:09:07 | 0:09:12 | |
this, this is so fuzzy, the sprint,
I can't see it, but the numbers | 0:09:12 | 0:09:17 | |
about 13,000. Yes. As it says, it
has doubled in basically a decade or | 0:09:17 | 0:09:28 | |
so. Which is shocking, isn't it?
Absolutely frightening. The trouble | 0:09:28 | 0:09:34 | |
is, each individual person who
suffers that, it is heartbreaking | 0:09:34 | 0:09:37 | |
for their families and stop terrible
for them. It needs proper | 0:09:37 | 0:09:44 | |
investigation to find out what is
causing this. The fairer ways in | 0:09:44 | 0:09:51 | |
which some of those pressures can be
alleviated to that fewer people and | 0:09:51 | 0:09:55 | |
up this way. It is the wrong way to
be going, not the right way. But it | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
is also the case that government
cuts to children's mental health | 0:09:58 | 0:10:01 | |
services over the past few years, I
know Jeremy Hunt has said this way. | 0:10:01 | 0:10:05 | |
It is the wrong way to be going, not
the right way. But it is also the | 0:10:05 | 0:10:09 | |
case that government cuts to
children's mental health services | 0:10:09 | 0:10:11 | |
over the past few years, I know
Jeremy Hunt has a business now be a | 0:10:11 | 0:10:14 | |
target and a focus for the
government and make every much in is | 0:10:14 | 0:10:16 | |
the case that people working in
adolescent mental health services | 0:10:16 | 0:10:18 | |
often find when children are
referred to them because they are in | 0:10:18 | 0:10:21 | |
crisis, they can be given
appointments 80 months ahead, which | 0:10:21 | 0:10:23 | |
is worse than useless. That is half
your time in six form, if you are a | 0:10:23 | 0:10:27 | |
child. Yes. Cilic ourselves up at
all with the next Tory? Let's try! | 0:10:27 | 0:10:34 | |
No limit on entry exam fails for
aspiring teachers, so if you are a | 0:10:34 | 0:10:38 | |
teacher you can fail as many times
as you like, basically. This is the | 0:10:38 | 0:10:44 | |
The i. Used to be ruled out after
three tonnes of have to wait two | 0:10:44 | 0:10:51 | |
years to retake. The same does not
apply for the normal exams that | 0:10:51 | 0:10:56 | |
pupils take. Are they allowed to
teach during? This is before they | 0:10:56 | 0:11:04 | |
have qualified. The problem with
this is that it is the side-effect | 0:11:04 | 0:11:08 | |
of government policy, the fact that
teaching has become such a high | 0:11:08 | 0:11:12 | |
stress occupation, in which teachers
are being measured at the time on | 0:11:12 | 0:11:17 | |
how their children achieved, and
children of cream taught the test. | 0:11:17 | 0:11:22 | |
The quality -- children are being
put to the test. The pressure on | 0:11:22 | 0:11:26 | |
both children and teachers is
increasing dramatically, and so many | 0:11:26 | 0:11:29 | |
teachers are leaving and so many
more don't want to come into it, but | 0:11:29 | 0:11:32 | |
actually this is not an answer. The
answer is how do you make the | 0:11:32 | 0:11:36 | |
teaching profession less stressful,
more productive and more attractive. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:40 | |
Just try and shovel in some of the
people that aren't up to it by | 0:11:40 | 0:11:43 | |
saying never mind, can just keep
retaking interview fluke a parcel | 0:11:43 | 0:11:48 | |
stop sorry about that, it was your
fault, it was your story! The | 0:11:48 | 0:11:53 | |
mirror, Meghan's secret visits to
comfort Grun for victims. They have | 0:11:53 | 0:11:57 | |
visits plural, is it that committee
meeting? We don't know, but it seems | 0:11:57 | 0:12:01 | |
like a very good idea. It is not
very clear, it says has visited the | 0:12:01 | 0:12:07 | |
Grenfell Tower site, so we don't
know the answer to that one. Not a | 0:12:07 | 0:12:11 | |
very cheerful topic but at least she
is doing something positive to try | 0:12:11 | 0:12:16 | |
to help people there, and good for
her. The important thing is we all | 0:12:16 | 0:12:20 | |
remember to Theresa May turning up
to visit the Grenfell Tower victims | 0:12:20 | 0:12:26 | |
looking absolutely petrified,
surrounded by her security detail. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:30 | |
Doing a few handshakes with some of
the firefighters and other people at | 0:12:30 | 0:12:33 | |
the fire and then fleeing without
actually beating any of the victims. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:37 | |
And that so much increased
everyone's rage at the time. And in | 0:12:37 | 0:12:41 | |
the Queen turned up unannounced,
think of was the following day, and | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
Prince Harry, and they spent time
with the victims, and they shook | 0:12:44 | 0:12:48 | |
hands, and they talk to them, and
you could see how moved the Queen | 0:12:48 | 0:12:52 | |
was, and you could see that it
completely calmed a very few BREL | 0:12:52 | 0:12:55 | |
situation at that point. There is
still in the society something very | 0:12:55 | 0:13:00 | |
special about being visited by
royalty. I think at times of such | 0:13:00 | 0:13:04 | |
enormous divisions in this area. It
is a good thing. And in the people's | 0:13:04 | 0:13:11 | |
and says, that is special for
people. We just have time for one | 0:13:11 | 0:13:15 | |
more, a picture story, the Financial
Times has got these interesting | 0:13:15 | 0:13:19 | |
portraits of the Obamas. Exactly, I
like the bit in particular about | 0:13:19 | 0:13:24 | |
Barack Obama. To negotiate to have
less grey hair and smaller ears, but | 0:13:24 | 0:13:30 | |
the portrait artist said nowhere,
and there it is. What is and all. | 0:13:30 | 0:13:33 | |
Not many warts, in fact, most people
would be happy to look like he did. | 0:13:33 | 0:13:39 | |
That is a great tradition of
poultry, all portrait artists | 0:13:39 | 0:13:42 | |
throughout the centres have tried to
flatter their subjects. -- | 0:13:42 | 0:13:47 | |
throughout the centuries. I was a
bit struck, having the portrait of | 0:13:47 | 0:13:51 | |
Barack Obama is pretty fabulous, and
you really see his characters with. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:57 | |
He looks thoughtful, intelligent yet
composed. But I don't think that | 0:13:57 | 0:14:01 | |
this picture of Michelle Obama looks
like at all. I'm with you. She likes | 0:14:01 | 0:14:06 | |
it, apparently. She's not going say
she doesn't. If we think of all the | 0:14:06 | 0:14:11 | |
sitting she must of had and all the
time, to manage to produce a | 0:14:11 | 0:14:14 | |
portrait that actually doesn't look
like this woman? I think that is a | 0:14:14 | 0:14:17 | |
fail. These are going in the
Smithsonian, right, in the National | 0:14:17 | 0:14:24 | |
portrait Gallery? The great thing is
it is the first time obviously that | 0:14:24 | 0:14:27 | |
a black president has been there by
definition, so it is a breakthrough | 0:14:27 | 0:14:30 | |
in that sense. We have two Corletto
day there. Thank you so much | 0:14:30 | 0:14:36 | |
rejoining us. Come back again -- we
have to call it a day. That is it | 0:14:36 | 0:14:41 | |
for the paper tonight. Don't forget,
you consider front pages online, on | 0:14:41 | 0:14:44 | |
the BBC news website, seven days a
week. If you missed the programme | 0:14:44 | 0:14:50 | |
you can watch it later on BBC
iPlayer, any evening. | 0:14:50 | 0:14:54 |