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about how he sought counselling to cope with the death of his mother, princess diana. the guardian reports on the vote in turkey giving president erdogan the power for major constitutional reform. the times leads with north korean defiance in the face of pressure from the us. reaertinfjbetfkie; ens! ange—lee, are working together to find a solution. the mirror reports on president trump's message that he is poised, , to strike if necessary. the sun also lead on north korea. they say that the americans caused the north korean missile test to fail last night. the mail lead with the deterioration in uk russia relations, saying they are at an all—time low. and the ft focus on us commerce secretary wilbur ross, rubbishing international monetary fund claims of us protectionism. many of the stories we have been reporting on today feature on the front pages, but we start with fi‘s‘flé'g'fifi i? ?§% “3,147,342n575 37
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fi‘s‘flé'g'fifi '.7 ?7% “eh—“73477777 77 harry 7‘s‘552'g'77 '.7 ?7% “eh—“774777777 77 harry talking interview with vince harry talking about how he has coped with the death of his mother. it was 20 years of not thinking about it, he said, and to make use of total chaos. a very, very frank, no holds barred interview that the daily telegraph has managed to secure. our columnist has managed to secure. our columnist has a new pod cast in which she talks to famous people about their mental health, and their first guest is, amazingly, prince harry, who has talked in this very unfiltered, honest, dramatic way about the anguish and the grief over his mother's death. it won't surprise anyone to know that he has been struggling with this. he lost his mum when he was 12 years old, and he has had to deal with that, and live with that, in the public eye. what really is astonishing, what makes the interview historic, i a the interview historic, is a member of the royal family talking in such a candidate and frank matter about
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so a candidate and frank matter about so private a subject. he goes on to say later in the article, on the front page, which advertises the piece that he has done, the experience i have is that once you start talking about it, you realise that you are actually part . a but it is that silence, isn't club. but it is that silence, isn't it, that people feel unable to share with each other. the trauma, the upset, the grief that they have gone through. mental health issues are... it is still the boot, i think. but i think this historic interview will go massively fire to breaking down thoseissues go massively fire to breaking down those issues that people have about talking about it, as well —— taboo. it is immensely brave, and he is using an princely language, using very visceral, human terms —— unprincely. he said he wanted to punch someone out, all the time. and you look at him now, i think, in a com pletely you look at him now, i think, in a completely different light than
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before, when he made this interview. he is very much his mother's son. you are saying in the first part of this programme that it was reminiscent of his mother's frank interview about the divorce. it is also reminiscent to me of his mother reaching out to aids victims, a willingness to go somewhere where eve ryo ne willingness to go somewhere where everyone is a little bit uncomfortable, the media, the establishment unwilling to break it to do, crossed a line, and talk frankly, without any elitism whatsoever —— breaker taboo. being willing to go there and talk about it, in the same way she did with aids. how much of risk it that he has done this interview?” aids. how much of risk it that he has done this interview? i don't think this is a risk at all. i think people will praise him for his bravery in speaking about this. we we re bravery in speaking about this. we were talking offset about whether clare nce were talking offset about whether clarence house had seen this or not.
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remember, he is moving into a new phase of his life, he has a girlfriend, but in november he spoke out quite extensively about media intrusion into his partner's personal life as well. it was said at the time that it didn't seem to have gone through clarence house. there were a few ruffled feathers about how he had gone out an attack the media, and i wonder, with this interview, whether maybe he was shooting from the hit a little bit himself. so maybe there is that question about, wow, you about but i about- but i can't see so rawly about this, but i can't see any for him. he will get any downside for him. he will get praised for this. you can't really do an interview on the subject, can you, without laying it all out? absolutely. i guess if there is any risk, it is not about anyone thinking less of him for talking about the subject, if there is any risk it could be that some less scrupulous people in the press will
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ta ke scrupulous people in the press will take the view that he has opened himself up, so that invites us to go looking for more. i hope they won't. i don't think they will, because this feels so rave, so courageous, to almost go naked like this into the public with your deepest, rawest emotions, i think almost everyone will be touched by it and will respect it. don't forget, it is about promoting his charity as well. he wants u; is .,-,.é.;. $2 is 777 someone together. it is notjust someone talking about their private problems publicly. he clearly wants to send a message that people can and should talk about it, and even this figure is about it. public figure is talking about it. in the daily mail, uk relations with russia are at an all—time low. this is moscow's ambassador in london. saying that number ten has been raising tensions in europe. how?
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well, very undiplomatic language, taking a pop at borisjohnson, who has perhaps had as a weeks. he presented his idea to the g7 that there should be new sanctions on russia, which was rejected. he was also due to go to moscow and cancelled his visit because rex tillerson, the us secretary of state, wanted to go there as well. very undiplomatic language for the uk to be using. thinking of the cambridge spy ring, alexander litvinenko, there have been bad moments. in the 1850s we were at war, but you can't get much worse than that. there is an interesting thing about the putin regime, a willingness to use undiplomatic language, and even, as we were saying earlier, to troll people. the russian embassy twitter account
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sometimes goes after personalities and teases and trolls them. it fits in with that picture. our relations atan in with that picture. our relations at an all—time low? well, the context of this is britain sending troops to estonia to put down a marker, along with nato, to say we will not accept russian aggression wlll not acceptrussjanaggressmn! will not acceptrussjanaggressmn! whee it comes 0ur things at 0urthings atan low? no. and there is more all—time low? no. and there is more stuff that britain could do if it wa nted stuff that britain could do if it wanted to send a message. this country as a source of enormous wealth for the russians. there is a lot of investment, a lot of buying of property, a lot of money which goes through london, and any government which really wanted to punish the russians could start addressing that. if the russians think things are bad, it could get a whole lot worse. we will go to the guardian. calls for a recount as erdogan claims new power in turkey. the opposition are not repaired to concede they have lost, they of ”5 votes i
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of ”5 votes to seems seems that some biggie-mtg- the ballots did not have the of the ballots did not have the stamp on it. you can official stamp on it. you can understand why the opposition... every opposition says this, so it is understandable, and the result was very narrow, and therefore they are more inclined to challenge it because it could make a difference, but also this is a leader who has been arresting journalists, jurors, who are in other words',"why wou‘td you trust hii‘nfif’ is words',"why wou‘to you trust ‘riirntif is the state, to efficiently and he is the state, to efficiently and accurately and erdogan 73.127 "7 ' " " ' he is the state, to efficiently and accurately and erdogan in z: is? "7 ' " " ' he is the state, to efficiently and accurately and erdogan in a 2:27 "7 " " ' {it efiurss ft i557 sissos'fiz haw—st"; ; z??? § has 3.17 eifiss i7 5577 77777753577 hm ; 727? § has just been difficult position. he hasjust been given the tools to use great power, but on the other hand because the country is so divided, if he is wise
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he will not use that great power.m is the worst possible outcome for turkey, and he very deliberately very terms during campaign, a very bitter the election campaign, a very bitter and rancorous election campaign, quite an emotive speech he gave afterwards. saying that i wants to back the to - back the death eventually to bring back the death penalty, so then you have international bodies saying, be very cautious about how you proceed. and of course, with the eu, turkey has long dreamt ofjoining the eu. [gag 3757171313757es e7j—isu» ‘7 [egg 2153551522517 e7j—isu» ‘7 ‘have [egg 2153551522517 e7j—isu» ‘7 ‘ have a strong man in power, do [egg 2153551522517 e7j—isu» ‘7 ‘ a ve a strong man in power, do [egg 2153551522517 e7j—isu» ‘7 ‘ a benign‘ong man in power, do [egg 2153551522517 e7j—isu» ‘7 ‘ a benign dictatorshipjower, do [egg 2153551522517 e7j—isu» ‘7 ‘ a benign dictatorship orver, do [egg 2153551522517 e7j—isu» ‘7 ‘ a benign dictatorship or not do [egg 2153551522517 e7j—isu» ‘7 ‘ a benign dictatorship or not a o have a benign dictatorship or not a benign dictatorship on the borders of the eu? how does that impact on things, and how will the eu react to this as well? tomorrow, bear in mind they have been giving 3 billion euros a year to solve that slight migrant issue we have going on in greece as well. so it
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% election. the more uncertainty, this election. the rubberstamp the needed did not come. he thought he would get 55%. he didn't get it —— the he he thought he would get 55%. he prosecution, the “7—72.27:— 1'5‘3zzzz-7 ‘"*4‘lt—‘--:~— of staff of the iraqi army is 717177 777 37577 777 7172 77521 £7§§.i§ .. . .. ... 717177 77 77777 77 7177 77771 7777717 .. . .. ... toti-r'rmgthis. ~ f 717177 77 77777 77 7177 77771 7777717 .. . .. ... toti-r'rmgthis. is—~~ ~ — 717177 77 77777 77 7177 77771 7777717 .. . .. ... toti-r'rmgthis. ison ~ — 717177 77 77777 77 7177 77771 7777717 .. . .. ... to two-g this. ” is on the ' . trying to bring this. this is on the back of the chilcott enquiry, which we all know about, which was published last year. jeremy wright qc, the attorney general, has said there are a number of reasons that can't be done. it is quite involved legalese, he has said you can't have aggression under english law, that courts should not rule to create criminal law, they should interpret the law. but again, we are talking about whether we are going to get involved in various disputes around
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the world. of course, iraq for many people still looms large in some people still looms large in some people may say can we move on? i think if we did a poll of the audience and said should tony blair be prosecuted, it would be very interesting to see what they thought. he is not a popular man in this country, it is fair to say. the legal process still continues for certain people. interesting to see the government intervened to try to quash this. it looks as though the private prosecution doesn't have a leg to stand on because he has effectively already been granted immunity, and there was a private prosecution —— if there was a private prosecution, stuff under the official secrets act would be dredged up. do people want to move on? i don't know. on the one hand iraq was an enormous shock to the country, and it is something we are still living with the consequences. it still informs our foreign policy,
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it is one reason we didn't get directly involved with bringing down assad in 2013. on the other hand, do we need to draw a line and move on? lam not we need to draw a line and move on? i am not so sure. you could put tony blairon i am not so sure. you could put tony blair on trial, and that would give some people some sense of satisfaction, to see the past properly prosecuted. on the other hand, you might also feel it gives tony blair more oxygen and continues to keep him as a player within our political system. which by the way he continues to want to be, he has announced his political comeback. finishing with the sun, mission kimpossible. us cyber spooks destroyed missile five seconds after launch, some intervention, the sun would have us believe. sir malcolm rifkind believes there is a possibility, that the us has the capability to interrupt a nuclear test like this, and it is possible,
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who knows, but that might have happened again. it is a fantastic headline and in some ways it is slightly irrelevant. the point is that it failed, and what matters more is what america and china between the two of them are going to do about it. does it matter that it failed? if you didn't fail under its own uselessness, they couldn't fire their own test missile, and it had to be intercepted. incompetency, or something worse, idon't to be intercepted. incompetency, or something worse, i don't know. the us has said it it had been a nuclear test then i think trump would have taken action. i think that is the more important point. and that would have been an extra red line for china. precisely. it would be an act of incompetence if your system could be hacked. so in that sense it is incompetent regardless of whether it took place or not. north korea is probably already in effect a nuclear state. the issue is its ability to deliver them weapons. and one reason
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america has to act is notjust being bellicose, this is a national security issue. if north korea can probably deliver a nuclear weapon across the pacific ocean and strike the west coast, or alaska or hawaii, thenit the west coast, or alaska or hawaii, then it becomes a national security matter. and we have mike pence in the region trying to reassure north korea's neighbours. which was preplanned. we should make it clear that he didn't just preplanned. we should make it clear that he didn'tjust decide to parachute himself in. we were talking earlier, and china is the big issue. what is their role in this, and how do they played? china has supported north korea economically in terms of its energy resources, in terms of its food. let's not forget, north korea's raison d'etre is almost too destroy the country of south korea. the question is, are they bluffing or
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will they see this through?m question is, are they bluffing or will they see this through? it is a paper tiger. its conventional forces are quite weak and could easily be overwhelmed. despite those displays. at some of the stuff being displayed as possibly not even real. it is easy to whip up a crowd like that and put on a big show. that is why they have those big rallies, to intimidate the west. what is interesting is how laid—back south koreans are about all of this.|j koreans are about all of this.” think they are rather phlegmatic about it. you hear the helen furey coming out of north korea all the time, andi coming out of north korea all the time, and i think they have almost got used to it. let's bear in mind soul is only 35 miles away from the border, and they do have thousands of armed missiles pointed at seoul —— seoul. if something happens, seoul, with 10 million souls, would be in the crosshairs. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget, all the front pages are online on the bbc news website,
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