tv The Papers BBC News April 1, 2018 11:30pm-11:46pm BST
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this is bbc news. our latest headlines: israel rejects calls for an independent inquiry into the deaths of palestinian protestors in the gaza strip. at least 15 people were killed on good friday. in his easter message, the pope appeals for an end to all violent conflict, and what he calls the "carnage" in syria. a shortage of special needs funding means growing numbers of children in england are being left without suitable school places, according to the largest union for teachers. taking to the skies. the royal air force celebrates 100 years of history. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with us are the parliamentary journalist, tony grew, and thejournalist, caroline frost. will continue both. thank you. --
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welcome to you both. tomorrow's front pages. the daily telegraph says that the head of the crown prosecution service, alison saunders, is to leave her post after the government declined to extend her contract following a series of controversies. and confirmation of that has come this evening. the ft says brussels is preparing to crack down on social media companies accused of spreading fake news, issuing a stark warning that scandals such as the facebook data leak threaten to "subvert our democratic systems". the i newspaper leads on eddie izzard's call to stamp out anti—semitism after replacing christine shawcroft on labour's ruling body. the express says britain paid almost £565 million more last year to treat uk citizens in the eu than it got back to care for their nationals. the daily mail alleges that some health bosses have spent taxpayers‘ money on luxury items and services. the guardian's top story is a warning from teachers of a growing child poverty crisis, with the profession struggling to make up a shortfall in funds provided by councils and social services.
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the independent reports that theresa may is accused of breaking her promise to champion the life chances of poorer people by her failure to appoint a so—called social mobility tsar. and finally, the mirror leads on the news that the boxer scott westgarth, who died after a boxing bout, saved seven lives through organ donations. we're going to begin with the guardian and teachers warned of growing poverty crisis, schools struggling to fill the gaps left by this dirty cuts. this makes pretty depressing reading because there is this a new, these figures are out and clearly they are not going well in schools and as they have described it with all the cuts in benefits that we have seen, it reminded me, ithink benefits that we have seen, it reminded me, i think it might have been a year ago that we sat here together and it was mentioned that
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for the first time in a long time, ricketts had reappeared in hospitals, in children, and we were talking about how that was a manifestation of this problem and in certain economic windows, and now they are saying that the schools have become the only agency where children and parents can get help and support that they need and this is real coal face stuff, and support that they need and this is real coalface stuff, where teachers are having to sometimes in the worst cases, provide sanitary products and shoes and coats the winter. i mean, this feels like dickensian reading. yes, it poverty that charities have sprung up about and food banks have to try and help. there is also sajid javid, he said that posterity may have resulted in an increase as well. yeah, if you consistently attacked local government budgets, if you consistently slash social services for example, and the catastrophic change to the benefit system that
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has caused all sorts of changes and increased poverty and desperation frankly, speak to any mp about this and they will talk to about the benefits of universal... in private? i think benefits of universal... in private? ithink in benefits of universal... in private? i think in private, a lot of them will tell you that. there are still pockets of extreme deprivation in the tory seats, and that is an important thing to note. the sort of poverty that we are talking about here, people cannot feed their children, people that cannot afford to watch their children's clothes, will occur in every constituency, to some extent. a shocking thing to me is not that the teachers step up, we do not talk enough about the work that teachers do in the amount of teachers in this country to bring food into their classrooms in the morning because they know the children they are teaching had no breakfast, and one thing we become more and more aware of is that many children in this country, the only
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hot meal they get is that school. the thing that is most worrying about these years, and it has been eight years now, the government was elected and started austerity programme, the effect of it is not just static, they are increasing. this is 60% of teachers survey to say that child poverty in schools has worsened since 2015, that is two, three years. 60% said that it has increased worse in their schools injust three years. has increased worse in their schools in just three years. the government said that more schools —— all schools getting more money to support people in a variety of ways. that has come out in the story we have been running regarding special—needs schools. have been running regarding special-needs schools. how much money and is it enough? the government can turn around, they are doing it at the moment with midwives. we are going to have 4000 midwives, but you have lost over 4000 midwives during the period you have been in government, so what you are attempting to do isjust replace
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the midwives you have lost. so, that is howl the midwives you have lost. so, that is how i feel about that. labour vows is how i feel about that. labour vows to kick—out facebook raises. yeah, it has been an interesting week for the labour party. at least the labour party is now acknowledging that it does at least have a problem, i think a lot of mps and a lot of people care about our politics were really quite shocked by the report sometime back, where it effectively said that they were real problems with anti—semitism within the labour party. acknowledging that there is a problem is the first step on the road to doing something about it. it is distressing for people when they see anti—semitism and they know anti—semitism, when they see that dismissed asjust a ploy, yet another plot to bring down the glorious leader. quite frankly, the issues we're talking about here, anti—semitism and protecting jewish people in our society, is much more
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important to me thanjeremy people in our society, is much more important to me than jeremy corbyn's fleeting leadership of his party. hopefully tonight, people will lease thing that the party is taking it seriously. the guardian, we have eddie izzard here who has been appointed to the national executive committee after christine shawcroft resigned after a row that she had supported a candidate who had been involved in holocaust denial. he has been very clear about what needs to happen. yes, he is of a high-profile figure, which i think is a good move because he will draw attention to what is hopefully the beginning of a solution, rather than the continuation of fudging an issue in calling at iffy about up. it is more than just needing to reach out to a natural political audiences, he has said that they need to stamp out the standard anti—semitism after replacing this person on the national ruling body. they are strong, fighting words, he now needs
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to be seen to be backing that up with some strong actions. it is like a meeting of two separate wars, you have the anti—semitism battle, and you have the whole kind of social media, rabbit hole that we have seen over the past few weeks when people behave in social media in a way that they would never behave to somebody‘s face, we would hope. is eddie izzard the person to do something about it? here's hoping. it is insidious, it has gone on for a very long time and it has now reached a spoiling point. you mentioned social media, he is the european polls. next you's european parliamentary elections are vulnerable to mass eurosceptic, online this information, says this article. a real concern about how they assert that is scraped from our social media presence can be used to
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interfere with elections, caroline. absolutely, there has been all the talk of what happened in the us before the trump election, i think there has been much more suspicion rather than anything concrete. we do not have the dater. i'm not quite sure how we measure the dater, of how somebody‘s dater turns into a vote for one party or another because we all at the mercy of echo chamber ‘s. nevertheless, there is a stain now across social media. we talked about anti—semitism but it goes so much wider than that. we have seen the short cycle stuff that has proven to be incredibly effective, the nt hillary clinton stuff, we do not know what in this country. they have acknowledged that could be a problem and they do not wa nt to could be a problem and they do not want to suffer from any of that pending the european elections, that cracking down on that, they are giving judges powers to remove content. giving judges powers to remove co nte nt. we
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giving judges powers to remove content. we will potentially hit the social media giant is the most is in their wallet. they introduced laws this year that force social media platforms to quickly remove content that promotes terrorism, xenophobia, or face fines. the problem we have had with social media has been a lack of regulation, coupled with the idea that they have us ideas of freedom of speech that do not apply in this country. there is no unrestricted right to freedom of speech in the uk. it is interesting that people have been warning for years about social media, about the psychological tools and techniques they use in the target us and our children to effectively make us addicted to their products. politicians say there is no problem. people are starting to wake up and they are starting to take notice. elections are being directly influence, now the politicians are suddenly become very interested in the topic. you old cynic. sorry. i
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don't mind. the daily telegraph, half of expert voices on bbc will be female next year. i am only going to begin the tone because i began with caroline on this last year. yes, one of the things i found is that men think that they are experts in everything, women who are experts sometimes need to be encouraged to put themselves forward, encouraged to regard themselves as an expert, encouraged to run for office. there are issues in parliament at the moment about just encouraging women to run for parliament. there are many mediocre men who never thought for a second about whether or not they would be qualified to do that job. i know that the producers i work with work very hard to think is there a female voice that we can get on these specific stories, in particular stories which tend to be so particular stories which tend to be so dominated by men, so science and technology. it is about a mindset as much as anything. absolutely, and
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one of the things, as were talking about earlier, the biggest gaps, you see it on things that perhaps we do not even notice we are seeing, like comedy panel shows. producers struggle to get female guest. what needs to happen is someone needs to make a stab at this. we could argue about how it has come to pass but i think we need to say right, let's set these quotas in motion, not to shoehorn a box but because there are equally talented people being overlooked and perhaps then it will ripple down and we will see new people coming through and it will be balanced organically and will not have to be policed to this extent. and a better range of new voices as well. just a very quick comment from both of you on this one. councils spending money on stars, producers, to do what? to like the christmas tree. meanwhile, services are being cut. i wonder how much it appeals to
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their ego to be photographed alongside these so—called celebrities. i am alongside these so—called celebrities. lam not alongside these so—called celebrities. i am not exactly sure who that is. they were on strictly come dancing. it is such a bizarre, lack of priorities, what was —— with what we discussed in the crisis in local government funding. we had just a moment to discuss the nero, an article looking at the past loves of meghan markle. shock, horror, a lady of 36 years old and a very professional actress, who has worked ha rd professional actress, who has worked hard and got top of her tv acting career on the other side of the world, has had other relationships. i know. we are going to be all negged out by the time we get to the end of this. he's got form. he has
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got form, and it will no doubt be a bestseller. that is all, i do not wa nt to bestseller. that is all, i do not want to talk about that for some reason. that was the end of the papers for tonight. you did not bring chocolate, even though it is the day. it is in contract as well. coming up next, the film review. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. so mark, what do we have this week? a very exciting week, we have ready player 0ne, steven spielberg adventure, stop motion from wes anderson in isle of dogs, not that one! and journeyman, a paddy considine
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drama that really packs a punch. steven spielberg, what did you make of it? the setup is that real life in the future is squalid and people spend their time in second life as avatars in this great big computer game called the oasis, where they can get possessions and accrue things. but if they get killed in the game they will lose everything. easter eggs in the game are hidden within it
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