24/02/2018 The Papers

She was best known for playing

Alice Tinker in The Vicar of Dibley.

Britain is set for its coldest

February week in five years

as freezing air, dubbed

'The Beast from The East',

arrives from Russia.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Martin Lipton,

the deputy sports editor

of The Sun, and Benedicte Paviot,

president of the Foreign Press

Association, as well as UK

correspondent for France 24.

Before our chat, we'll

look at the front pages.

Following the UN's resolution

for a ceasefire in Syria,

the Observer carries the picture

of two children in Eastern Ghouta,

where it's thought hundreds have

died in the past week.

Brexit leads the Sunday Telegraph.

The piece is from the

senior Cabinet member,

David Lidington, in which he claims

that the SNP could split the UK

economy and ruin trade deals.

Let's stay with Brexit,

and the Sunday Express reports

that the Prime Minister will declare

Britain's best days lie ahead

in a major speech

coming up next week.

The Sunday Times carries claims

about high street tycoon

Philip Green's business plans.

The Mail on Sunday reports

that the Ministry of Defence

is setting up a helpline

for British troops suffering

from conditions including PTSD.

And the Independent has a picture

of the actress Emma Chambers -

best known for playing

Alice Tinker in the TV series,

The Vicar of Dibley -

who has died at the age of 53.

A nice mixture of front pages there,

we shall start. Shall we start with

the Observer? In the lead story

really for us today was that draft

resolution that was passed in New

York at the UN, what are your

thoughts on that, realistically?

Sadly, one fears that not a lot will

actually happen. Within minutes of

the Security Council resolution,

which was unanimous and all 50

members of the Security Council

voted for the 30 day ceasefire, the

bombs started falling again in this

province, this on clay on the

outskirts of northern Damascus. The

regime in Syria cares not at all

about the lives of these people, it

does not, and unless Russia can be

brought to the table and forced to

do something about it, because

Russia the strong power in the

Middle East, then nothing will

change and we will have is more

children killed.

What is that say

than about the effectiveness of the

UN, what do you think?

Well, there

are very many questions, I mean we

have had many criticisms, some from

the US ambassador, Nikki Haley, to

the UN, some from France's UN

representative, saying that if this

was not passed yesterday or today

that it really could be curtains, I

mean, for the respect of the UN,

could spell the end of the UN

itself. It is quite extraordinary.

Let's be very clear, this week of

intense bombardment, which has

proceeded finally after this

prevarication because of Russia,

really, that bombing on Eastern

Ghouta, possibly 500 people, over

100 of them children, killed just

this week and that is where delay

in, and what is being talked about

is simply allowing aid deliveries,

medical evacuations, children to see

daylight, Fred to go in. They

understand one of the aid charities,

it is not in the newspapers but I

had an interview, they have been

ready since the 14th of February

when they last went in, but of

course, they need the ceasefire to

be able to go in. They needed day to

go in, at least a day to go out.

They do not know what conditions

they are going to be dealing with.

And bombarded by the Syrian

government forces, backed by the

Russians, but it is basically Bashar

Al-Assad bombing his own people,

killing them.

OK, let's turn, we are

going to stay with the Observer and

university chiefs having 5-star

expenses. I mean, the figures here

are shocking, I think an annual bill

of 8 million in expenses by vice

chancellors, is that right?

There an

awful lot of numbers here but is a

Channel 4 programme but it has been

linked to the Observer, and these

are the questionable claims made by

the University vice chancellors,

including a pawn star Martini.

You

stopped right there that you forgot

the fine dining, the 5-star hotels.

I did not know what a pawn star

Martini was.

We do now. We looked

up, we did our research.

We

understand it is called research.

Apparently, it is passionfruit,

vodka with vanilla essence, and you

have Prosecco on the sideline juices

well.

Freshly squeezed lime juice as

well.

It is the only way.

It is

lovely.

And £1600 for one new vice

chancellor for his pet dog to be

relocated from Australia. This is

properly scandalous when lecturers

are being told that they should not

be taking industrial action over

potential cuts to their pensions,

this is absolutely quite a

revelation, I have to say.

OK, let's

turn to the Telegraph and possibly

another scandal that will get you

head up today. What do you think

about this, the aid charities

scandal? What has really upset you

about this story?

I think the thing

that makes it very difficult to come

to terms with is that it is clear

from the decisions that have come

out that a number of charities, not

only were aware of this sort of

behaviour of sexual abuse

perpetrated by aid workers in

various parts of the world, and I

understand that the view was that

the good we do outweighs the bad

that some of us do, and I can see

why that might be argued, it just is

not a moral argument that is

acceptable. But this has only come

out subsequently and these major

charities were aiding and abetting

this behaviour, they were not doing

anything about it, they were passing

them on to other jobs other similar

ilk within the aid industry and if

someone is taking advantage their

position to sexually abuse young

kids, to take advantage of teenage

prostitutes of any gender, what on

earth are they doing in this, these

jobs? Is absolutely horrendous. It

really, you can understand why there

is now a genuine fear among a lot of

these charities that they are going

to lose a lot of their donors.

What

a lot of people are saying that the

real money for these charities comes

from the government, that is their

core funding but they do not want to

lose the support of the public.

Would you stop donating?

Know, but

what Penny Mordaunt is demanding my

Monday is for almost 200 UK

charities to disclose any

safeguarding issues and there is no

doubt that some of them are eating

humble pie, and this is why more

sexual misconduct claims are coming

out. But to be clear, on Oxfam, the

only 10% of the money, I understand,

£32 million in the last natural

year, actually went Oxfam. They also

get other donations and there is no

doubt that by Tuesday, they had lost

over 7000 individual donors and

subscriptions. What is the big

question mark at the moment for

those charities and for the rest of

us is we do not know what big

corporations, they are observing for

the moment, are not making public

that they all looking at it, et

cetera. So it is about the initial,

a small number of people who seem to

have targeted these organisations,

let's remember that there is

fantastic work that is done by these

aid charities, whether they are

French or British, and by the way,

the British scandal is making

international headlines. But France

and other countries are looking at

this and I think the most

interesting thing that has come out

that apart from safeguarding rules

and the whistleblowers line in all

of that, is very much this idea put

up by Save the Children and I think

one of the worst possible things

about preying on vunerable people is

for one person to do that, not be

reported on and be able to move onto

another charities.

OK, well, we will

see what happens this demand. The

Sunday Express has led the Brexit

and apparently we have some good

days ahead.

This is wonderful.

Theresa May will tell the country

the best day is really do lie ahead

of us, she will be... Because we

have an ambition. OK. And we will

have an ambitious future in our

ambition and we are going to make

that ambition into reality and we

will have an ambitious policy and a

great relation ship, and the best

exit is about our national future,

part of the way we improve the lives

of people all over the country.

Excellent, so Brexit will be the

beginning of a bright new chapter in

a national story.

Do you feel

better?

And our best days, I want to

point this out again really do lie

ahead of us. That is excellent news

and I am delighted to read it, I

think the whole country will rejoice

in this brilliant speech on the

Prime Minister, who once again

has...

And when is the speech?

Friday?

Friday, in the north-east.

Yeah, I am so happy.

That is what is

said that the decisions we make now

will shape this country for

generation.

The Sunday Times.

Reigning on the Prime Minister's

parade before she makes that beach

and before the United front becomes

very public about this day away at

Checkers, is that actually the

Archbishop of Canterbury is not

agree at all and is warning that the

catalyst of British introspection,

xenophobia and self-pity. I had to

say that on the European continent,

this has been reported somewhat

before. Justin Welby as saying that

actually this is very, very serious,

he is actually also saying that what

he is witnessing, seeing and hearing

about is more hate crime, more

divisions within this country, and

he is basically by worried about

that.

OK. We have three more stories

we are going to squeeze in. The Mail

on Sunday, that makes you happy,

does it as yellow well, it is a

start. We have troops come back from

various parts of the world who are

suffering from their involvement.

--

well, it does. This will be the

first round-the-clock helpline for

them to ring for help, basically

when they need someone to talk to,

to listen to them, to give their

problems. The mental stress, the

mental harm that warfare does to

people is now accepted, I think.

People were shot forward in the

First World War because they could

not cope with it and thankfully we

have moved on, they still happen,

these things still happen. It is how

you deal with people, how you give

them a chance to read out and deal

with -- to readapt to civilian

existence.

They quickly, we have a

minute. The rugby, who is following

it, who is a fan?

We were rubbish.

And we, as in England?

Scotland

thoroughly deserved to win, they

were much better. England's Rugby

World Cup hopes destroyed up at

Murrayfield. The first lost to

Scotland since 2008 and rightly so,

they were excellent.

I'm going to

point you to the front page of the

Telegraph, why did this your

interest?

Well, because I just think

he has a way off, I think it

actually has a French flavour, maybe

it is my education and my

sensitivity, but it is basically two

University academics walking along

and saying if a philosophy...

I can

read that...

Lecturer.

Thank you,

lecturer. And that is, I could just

see that as a dissertation in the

baccalaureate. As the Vice

chancellors make expenses claims,

pawn star martinis and go to 5-star

hotels, the lecturers are fighting

for their pensions. And meanwhile,

the poor students who have to do

exams, I do not know if they get any

money back.

I'm going to say a very

good night and thank you to you

both.

It has been a pleasure.

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