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tv   The Papers  BBC News  February 12, 2017 11:30pm-11:46pm GMT

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in from the east. there could coming in from the east. there could be some disruption. it stays windy as we head into monday night. a front ringing some showers to south—west england and wales. for the rest of us a dry day on tuesday. how much sunshine is open to doubt. milder over the south and west. as we head towards the middle of the week, the odd shower followed by another front bringing heavier and possibly thundery showers as well. some showers around for the middle of the week. mostly dry by thursday and for all of us it will be much, much milder than it is right now. hello, this is bbc news we will be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first the headlines at 11:30pm: north korea has hailed its test firing of a ballistic missile
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into the sea of japan as a success. north korea's leader, kimjong—un, said the test had added impartial in performing his dfltiéét la la land has been named best film at the baftas. emma stone won a best actress prize for her role in the musical, which picked up a total of five awards. ken loach's drama i, daniel blake won the bafta for outstanding british film. labour's deputy leader, tom watson, has denied the party has been considering possible successors to jeremy corbyn by testing the popularity of shadow cabinet members using focus groups. 14 retired bishops have written an open letter to church of england leaders, accusing them of failing
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to reflect fully the views of gay christians in an official report on the church's stance on sexuality. denser washington direct and stars in fences, the story of a working—class african—american father raising his family in the 19505. father raising his family in the i950s. find out whether mark kermode thinks it is an oscars contender in the film hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are caroline frost, entertainment editor at the huffington post uk, and tony grew, parliamentary journalist. let's start tomorrow's front pages with the daily telegraph. alongside a picture of the duke and duchess of cambridge arriving at the baftas, the paper quotes the justice secretary, liz truss, as saying wicked offenders won't be released early in order to meet prison population targets.
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the express says there is fury at a new bid to wreck theresa may's brexit bill when it goes through the house of lords. we all need tasers to fight terror is the metro's headline, following a survey of metropolitan police officers suggesting two in three believe the stun guns should be carried routinely while on patrol. the times is predicting a high street revolt over proposed rises in business rates. the paper says pubs and restaurants fear they will vanish. what a waste, declares the mail, which claims mandarins have wasted billions of taxpayers' money on failed schemes such as crashing drones and plane tickets for asylum seekers. and alongside a picture of emma stone, who has taken best actress award for her role in la la land at the baftas, the guardian reports that whistle—blowers face a full—frontal attack by number ten downing street. let's now move on to look at some of
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those papers. who wants to start us off? tony, perhaps you can get us started with the daily telegraph's front page. forgetjail numbers, criminals will do time. he was saying it and what is it about? criminals will do time. he was saying it and what is it abounm isa saying it and what is it abounm is a speech that the justice secretary is expected to make tomorrow. it marks a significant change in one aspect ofjustice policy. theresa may likes tojoke, i say it is a joke, i have never heard anyone laugh at it, so i guess she just likes to say it, when ken clarke was just a secretary, she liked to lock them up and he liked to let them out and now there is a newjustice secretary to let them out and now there is a new justice secretary and to let them out and now there is a newjustice secretary and it seems locking them up is the new priority. this is a change from liz truss's predecessor, michael gove, who talked about reducing numbers and called for the release of 500
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prisoners serving minimum term public protection sentences. he wa nted public protection sentences. he wanted more emphasis on rehabilitation and prevention. what liz truss is expected to say tomorrow is the government now thinks that people who have been convicted of crimes she regards as we could well serve longer sentences and this is seen as a reaction to some of the public who feel that people are given a sentence and don't serve the full sentence, there is something wrong with that of the system. interesting to use the word wicked. labour had called for the prison population to be halved as it was in 1990. i had forgotten that was ever a target. it seems jolly unrealistic. it sounds good, it sounds very promising, ringing down on overcrowding in prisons and all the problems that that causes. the chain goes on. you go to prison in unfavourable circumstances and you come out often much more likely to
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offend, in some cases, and labour made this great promise. for me this is very much trying to square the circle, trying to reduce the people in prison but not really going into the small print of how you are going to perhaps cut problems and the social problems that come. we know that inequality and drug addiction and mental health problems are all pa rt and mental health problems are all part of this big social chain that lead so many people to jail and until you tackle that, this use of the word wicked can be bandied around, but you need to really define your terms, i think, if you are going to specify who will stay in and who will come out. let's press on. the times, i think we will look at next. a high street revolt over the rates rise. this is business rates, a lot of pubs and restau ra nts business rates, a lot of pubs and restaurants will vanish. interestingly, the story here, a lot of big—name companies. we often hear of big—name companies. we often hear of small businesses terrified of rate rises. but these are big ones.
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they are, and these hikes are due to come in at the end of march, or april, and they will have huge cost implications. if you go into the small print is the government have been swift to point out, in fact rates will fall for many businesses and remain the same. this is very much trying to... philip hammond is doing what chancellors do, which is move pots around to enable councils to spend money where it is most needed. they are having to tackle the lobby ready, politically powerful bigger chains, who do certainly have pool on the high street and in parliament. —— pull. it is linked to the value of property. people think of london but a lot of places are hotspots around the country. they emphasise this again and again and again, big businesses, which have real value of
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over £100,000. that is why households are worried about eye watering rises. oxford street is particular concerned they will face a significant rise. as someone who lives in london, i have been on oxford street and business is not bad for them. they can afford to pay more for social care. i have very little time for this story. if it was hitting small business, i would be concerned. these businesses, peter express, wagamama, the last timei peter express, wagamama, the last time i was there, they didn't seem to be struggling. —— pizza express. and a lot of small firms also complain about this. and one of the problems is the government has been slowly strangling councils for the last six years. massive cuts in their budgets, and they are coming up their budgets, and they are coming up with these solutions that you can raise rates and council tax, but actually, i think we all know that local council funding will need a lot more than they will raise
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through these rate rises. there are a lot of stories around tonight, an important one here. north korea. they are sizing up the trump reaction to this missile launch. it is fascinating. north korea sets off yet another one of its missiles, at the very time when president trump is meeting and playing golf with the japanese prime minister, so mr trump comes out and says i supportjapan. that is at least a clear statement of policy, isn't it? it is good that he got the name of the country right, and didn't insult anyone. he didn't mention south korea, who have a dog in the fight, being across the borderfrom north korea. it is a rogue state, and very few countries have influence over north korea, really only china. this is the first big foreign policy test for president trump and so far he hasn't started a nuclear war, so we should be pleased about that. that is, of
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course, true. but it is a very serious situation, where as you say china is in there, we don't know, mr trump's attitude to china seems to swing around depending what issue he is facing. it is a difficultjob, being president of the united states. not as much fun as he anticipated. i'm sure those tweets fired off to arnold schwarzenegger involve a bit of nostalgia. we really are rattling along. who considers themselves an expert in what happens at things like the races 7 what happens at things like the races? the times has this great story, drink curbs to stop bad behaviour at the races. i'm sure there is no bad behaviourfrom you anywhere at any time, carolyn, not tell us what the story is about. very similar to other sports in the past, even making's boon sport has involved over imbibing and a certain
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amount of reverie which hasn't ended well —— own sport. they will only be able to buy three glasses of water and no more than four alcoholic drinks ata and no more than four alcoholic drinks at a time, which were just about finished me off. do you mean having them or not having them?” think the cost would be prohibitive. nobody has seen bad drinking at the races nobody has seen bad drinking at the ra ces u nless nobody has seen bad drinking at the races unless they have been to the melbourne cup, and i say that to all australians watching this. i am sure you hold that title with pride. at some point they have to decide if they actually want drink. they are being seen to be socially responsible, but obviously they are still coining it, and these drinks are not cheap. if they really want people not to drink, they shouldn't be available. at a football match you can't bring drink in at all, but cricket now, massive amounts of drinking, almost everywhere else. wimbledon, ulph courses, everywhere. racing used to be a middle—class sport and some working—class people
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have come along and urinated into a glass, and the whole thing has changed as mac golf courses. —— golf courses. the second day of the festival was marred by photographs of footballers getting drunk, women baring their breasts and two people urinating into their beer glasses. something must be done.” urinating into their beer glasses. something must be done. i hadn't quite looked at this as a class —based issue, i must say. let's go on to the daily mail. their front page here. what a waste, they say. what is the waste they are referring to? what is it about? surprisingly, in an extremely complicated organisations such as the government, waste does happen. they have information from 20 government departments and put it to find out where government money has been wasted, important to point out that money the government has admitted
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they have wasted, and they have recovered sums of £300,000. the first horrible example they pick up on is almost £2 million squandered on is almost £2 million squandered on deportation fight for failed asylu m on deportation fight for failed asylum seekers, which is something where the daily mail might have an interest. this is where they paid for the tickets and they didn't go. they have something called the court system, which the daily mail doesn't approve of is the judge enemies of the people. that these people shouldn't be deported, and quite rightly, the cost of their ticket comes back to the government. they are complaining that raf drones which are tested crashed, which is the point of testing drones. and a ride off by the mod, which is very wasteful, and defence is notorious for overspend and problems with equipment. obviously you could pick out things that sound a bit silly, but it does seem ready awful, doesn't it, some of the things that
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go on. it is the old pennies and pounds argument, isn't it? if you are allowing money to go wasted on small things, what about the big things? in the mail seems to have identified them. that is what it is all about. —— the daily mail. identified them. that is what it is all about. -- the daily mail. you could say £626 being wasted on christmas bonuses, that is an extra £10 each of those individuals got. i think this is chipping away at trustworthiness. that the government can't be trusted with that much money. i don't know what they are proposing, that they should have less of it, that there should be a transparency issue... we will see what comes out in the response. and you were there tonight. at the royal albert hall, freezing away, but there is emma stone, who got the best actress award. she doesn't look as though she is wearing enough.” was wearing slightly more than that, you will be pleased to hear. she has a massive smile on herface, she won the gong for wearing this out fit in minus three degrees and her sterling
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work in la la land. but the real star of the night was the duchess of cambridge. and their pictures on the front of the daily telegraph there. as usual, they stole the limelight on the red carpet. yes, in an alexander mcqueen down. i can tell from looking at it, it is black with ice cream cones on it, that is alexander mcqueen. for once you have done your homework. what you said in the first section is really true, you have these huge us stars who are their own planet, ego, and a minor royal walks into the shop and their knees go weak. not that they are minor royals. we understand the point exactly. that is the papers for the sour. —— that's it for the papers this hour. thank you, caroline and tony. coming up next, it is the film review.

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