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Hello and welcome to our look ahead
to what the papers will be | 0:00:16 | 0:00:19 | |
bringing us tomorrow. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:20 | |
With me are The New Statesman's
special correspondent, | 0:00:20 | 0:00:23 | |
Stephen Bush and Rosamund Urwin,
Financial Services correspondent | 0:00:23 | 0:00:25 | |
at the Sunday Times. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:26 | |
Many of tomorrow's front
pages are already in. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:29 | |
The FT leads with more
on the pressure being placed | 0:00:29 | 0:00:36 | |
on Facebook to explain allegations
that data from millions of its users | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
helped President Trump
win the US election. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
The Guardian also has that story. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:43 | |
It says an investigation has been
launched into possible data breaches | 0:00:43 | 0:00:46 | |
committed by the firm
Cambridge Analytica, | 0:00:46 | 0:00:50 | |
which was used by Donald Trump's
election campaign. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:54 | |
Both Cambridge Analytica
and Facebook deny any wrongdoing. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
The Metro has more on the Foreign
Secretary's rejection of claims made | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
by Russia that the chemical used
to poison Sergei and Yulia Skripal | 0:01:00 | 0:01:05 | |
was made in the UK. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:09 | |
The I reports on President Putin's
landslide election win tonight | 0:01:09 | 0:01:11 | |
along with his reaction
to the dispute over the origin | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
of the nerve agent
used in Salisbury. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
The Telegraph has details on plans
by the government to introduce | 0:01:17 | 0:01:20 | |
stricter regulations and taxation
on tech giants operating in Britain. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:25 | |
The Times says the gambling watchdog
is to relax its drastic | 0:01:25 | 0:01:28 | |
recommendation to limit stakes
on fixed-odds betting machines. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:32 | |
The Mirror reports on the arrest
of TV presenter Ant McPartlin | 0:01:32 | 0:01:36 | |
after he was allegedly involved
in a car accident in south-west | 0:01:36 | 0:01:40 | |
London. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:41 | |
And the Sun is leading
on that story too. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:45 | |
It says the star was arrested
on suspicion of drink driving. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:52 | |
So a fair old spread of different
stories on the front pages but, of | 0:01:52 | 0:01:56 | |
course, Russia is never far away and
that is where we will begin with the | 0:01:56 | 0:02:00 | |
times. A landslide victory to put on
thanks to Britain and the suggestion | 0:02:00 | 0:02:05 | |
is that the confrontation with
Britain over various matters has | 0:02:05 | 0:02:09 | |
boosted and bolstered the victory
that Vladimir Putin is enjoying. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:15 | |
That is what people have said, that
some analysis of saying that it | 0:02:15 | 0:02:22 | |
turned out to be a boost.
Ultimately, the main factor in this | 0:02:22 | 0:02:27 | |
election was that Vladimir Putin was
able to choose his opponent, and | 0:02:27 | 0:02:31 | |
effectively was able to run the
rules of the election. His main | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
opponent was this hard because of a
fraud conviction that he says was | 0:02:34 | 0:02:38 | |
false. I don't really think that
Britain's reaction one way or | 0:02:38 | 0:02:45 | |
another has been that important, not
the least because it had Britain not | 0:02:45 | 0:02:49 | |
reacted at all than he would have
looked even stronger going into the | 0:02:49 | 0:02:52 | |
election. I don't really see what
else we might have done. The fact | 0:02:52 | 0:02:56 | |
that turnout dropped from 65 to 60%
is being commented upon. There is a | 0:02:56 | 0:03:04 | |
lovely line in this from a
spokesperson for the campaign. I | 0:03:04 | 0:03:11 | |
would like to thank the UK for
helping with this high turnout which | 0:03:11 | 0:03:17 | |
we ourselves could not have dreamt
of. Of course, that could quite | 0:03:17 | 0:03:21 | |
easily have they meet this happened.
One of the things that they did if | 0:03:21 | 0:03:25 | |
they offered little incentive to
come out and vote. Coffee, | 0:03:25 | 0:03:30 | |
chocolate, whatever. Of course it is
the only way people can oppose | 0:03:30 | 0:03:35 | |
Hooton's re- election, I not voting
at all. That is what you do when you | 0:03:35 | 0:03:41 | |
have no choice on the ballot paper.
If it is down to 60%, I think that | 0:03:41 | 0:03:48 | |
was two hours before polls closed,
so there is a chance the roads, but | 0:03:48 | 0:03:53 | |
if it is that then that is a slight
dent in his otherwise unstoppable | 0:03:53 | 0:03:58 | |
six more years. Looking at the sun.
Piles of poison. The Foreign | 0:03:58 | 0:04:09 | |
Secretary saying that Russia has
been stockpiling the nerve agent for | 0:04:09 | 0:04:12 | |
quite sometime. I think this was
Boris this morning. He is saying | 0:04:12 | 0:04:17 | |
exactly that that they are stock
stock boiling -- stockpiling it. The | 0:04:17 | 0:04:26 | |
suggestion was that it might come
from within the UK. But Boris | 0:04:26 | 0:04:32 | |
Johnson says that the trail does
lead inevitably to the Kremlin. And | 0:04:32 | 0:04:38 | |
the Daily Telegraph goes one further
without saying that Russian | 0:04:38 | 0:04:43 | |
dissident bodies could be exhumed to
test for Novichok. They want to look | 0:04:43 | 0:04:49 | |
for traces of it. There have been
various people critical of what you | 0:04:49 | 0:04:55 | |
put's regime who have lived here in
the UK and died in mysterious | 0:04:55 | 0:05:00 | |
circumstances. The Telegraph is
suggesting that some of these people | 0:05:00 | 0:05:03 | |
will be dug up and have their bodies
tested for the presence of this | 0:05:03 | 0:05:07 | |
nerve agent. Because it is
undetectable in its preprepared | 0:05:07 | 0:05:10 | |
form. So you have two harmless
agents that are only deadly when | 0:05:10 | 0:05:16 | |
combined, it could be some people
who have been attacked with it and | 0:05:16 | 0:05:21 | |
we have not noticed until now. The
Telegraph suggests that we will dig | 0:05:21 | 0:05:25 | |
it up. If that happens, that puts
the government in a bind because at | 0:05:25 | 0:05:29 | |
the moment they have expelled 23
diplomats and there has been some | 0:05:29 | 0:05:33 | |
tit-for-tat expulsion. At that
point, if things start to escalate | 0:05:33 | 0:05:36 | |
it is not clear what the British
government can do that will not | 0:05:36 | 0:05:40 | |
leave them looking weak and unable
to respond to the Russian | 0:05:40 | 0:05:44 | |
government. Moving on to look at
Facebook and, more widely technology | 0:05:44 | 0:05:51 | |
firms to dig the Guardian, firstly.
Pressure on Facebook and data firm | 0:05:51 | 0:05:56 | |
over a mass breach of personal data
files. This is that Cambridge | 0:05:56 | 0:06:01 | |
Analytica. And a reporter who has
been looking at them for quite some | 0:06:01 | 0:06:10 | |
time with some deep investigation,
what is the suggestion here? The | 0:06:10 | 0:06:13 | |
suggestion is that data was
improperly obtained by Cambridge | 0:06:13 | 0:06:19 | |
Analytica under the cover of being
for research purposes. It was | 0:06:19 | 0:06:24 | |
actually used to make advertisers
and influence the American | 0:06:24 | 0:06:26 | |
presidential election. Alexander Nix
testified to the Commons Select | 0:06:26 | 0:06:33 | |
Committee in the past and he is now
being accused of being economical | 0:06:33 | 0:06:37 | |
with the truth. He and Mark
Zuckerberg will be callback to | 0:06:37 | 0:06:41 | |
account for how Facebook keeps
control of the user's data and | 0:06:41 | 0:06:45 | |
prevents it from being used in ways
we may not like. Both organisations | 0:06:45 | 0:06:52 | |
and Facebook say that we have done
nothing wrong at all. But it is | 0:06:52 | 0:06:58 | |
quite sensitive, the use of people's
data. We are supposed to give our | 0:06:58 | 0:07:02 | |
consent for how it is used. I always
wonder if this is one of those | 0:07:02 | 0:07:06 | |
things that really splits people.
Some people do seem to be rather | 0:07:06 | 0:07:11 | |
blase about how their data is used,
actually. And then there is another | 0:07:11 | 0:07:15 | |
group of us who really feel that
this is a pressing issue of our time | 0:07:15 | 0:07:19 | |
that needs addressing. I think we
will see a lot more scrutiny of the | 0:07:19 | 0:07:23 | |
tech firms in this regard. And I
think we will, you know, the whole | 0:07:23 | 0:07:28 | |
thing of their original sort of
slightly idealistic fix the world... | 0:07:28 | 0:07:34 | |
This is where it turns. It actually
says OK, we have some real problems | 0:07:34 | 0:07:38 | |
with the way this operates --
companies operate. We have things | 0:07:38 | 0:07:42 | |
like this where it comes out and we
have a light shone on them and they | 0:07:42 | 0:07:48 | |
do not look great. That leads us
nicely to the Telegraph and the wild | 0:07:48 | 0:07:52 | |
West era of technology firms. A
cabinet minister responsible for | 0:07:52 | 0:07:56 | |
overseeing them says that things
will get more difficult. How? This | 0:07:56 | 0:08:00 | |
is not just about regulation. It is
also talking about tax cost, of | 0:08:00 | 0:08:08 | |
course, many of these companies not
only have gotten away with a | 0:08:08 | 0:08:13 | |
regulation like existence for a
while, I have also not paid much in | 0:08:13 | 0:08:17 | |
the way of corporation tax. And so
he is talking about looking at the | 0:08:17 | 0:08:22 | |
way they operate, the major
technology firms, and looking at | 0:08:22 | 0:08:29 | |
forcing them to accept increasing
regulation. Some companies are ahead | 0:08:29 | 0:08:34 | |
of us. Germany has strict rules,
rules about finding tech companies | 0:08:34 | 0:08:40 | |
if they do not handle abusive or
hate speech adequately. I wonder why | 0:08:40 | 0:08:49 | |
we have been behind other countries.
We have been talking about the | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
problems of lack of regulation and
certainly lack of tax being paid for | 0:08:52 | 0:08:56 | |
years. It is probably because our
legal structure is permissive. If it | 0:08:56 | 0:09:03 | |
is not strict forbidden you can do.
Or so, for a long time, pervading | 0:09:03 | 0:09:08 | |
ideology of the government party has
been that basically freedom is great | 0:09:08 | 0:09:13 | |
and, yeah, these are just wonderful
entrepreneurs. Thing the tech firms | 0:09:13 | 0:09:18 | |
have been able to do and Matt
Hancock almost says this is become | 0:09:18 | 0:09:23 | |
an entirely new type of company who
does not need to follow any of the | 0:09:23 | 0:09:27 | |
old rules. Are Facebook pretends it
is not a publisher. Actually, as he | 0:09:27 | 0:09:34 | |
says, that era of pretending that
these are not normal companies that | 0:09:34 | 0:09:38 | |
should follow normal rules is, I
think, thankfully, coming to an end. | 0:09:38 | 0:09:41 | |
Yes. They have really -- reached a
certain level of maturity. Looking | 0:09:41 | 0:09:46 | |
at city AM added every -- different
story. Campaigners plead for a tax | 0:09:46 | 0:09:54 | |
break as 18 pubs close every week.
This is a campaign that always | 0:09:54 | 0:10:02 | |
fights for tax breaks at pubs. Here
they say that pubs are being hit by | 0:10:02 | 0:10:06 | |
a triple whammy of high beer duty,
business rates and VAT. This is | 0:10:06 | 0:10:13 | |
where it is squeezing a lot of
businesses, not just pubs. But they | 0:10:13 | 0:10:18 | |
point out that 460 pubs closed in
the second half of 2017. Does | 0:10:18 | 0:10:22 | |
obviously sound like a high number,
that is almost 18 a week. Most are | 0:10:22 | 0:10:28 | |
in London however at the same time,
they have to find ways to operate | 0:10:28 | 0:10:35 | |
and some pubs are frightening in
this environment. How much of it is | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
down to our changing habits? People
drinking at home more? Pubs have a | 0:10:38 | 0:10:46 | |
long standing problem of people
drinking less alcoholic drinks in | 0:10:46 | 0:10:49 | |
general and drinking more of them at
home. However, business rates are a | 0:10:49 | 0:10:53 | |
big looming problem for the high
street and a big looming problem for | 0:10:53 | 0:10:57 | |
the government as well. The effect
of them so far seems to have been | 0:10:57 | 0:11:01 | |
much more severe than many people
expected. ICD my own part of London, | 0:11:01 | 0:11:05 | |
businesses that succeed in terms of
bums on seats but do not succeed in | 0:11:05 | 0:11:09 | |
terms of making enough money because
of the raise in business rate. I | 0:11:09 | 0:11:15 | |
think the lobby group has a point
here and we are in danger of having | 0:11:15 | 0:11:19 | |
an homogenous high-street. Business
rates disproportionately hit certain | 0:11:19 | 0:11:23 | |
places and London would be one of
them. That is it for the papers | 0:11:23 | 0:11:27 | |
tonight. You can see all the front
pages of the papers online. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:31 | |
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