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hello. this is bbc news with carole walker. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. but first, the headlines. a man in his twenties has died after being stabbed in east london this evening. police have confirmed another death in the same area, following a serious assault. russia demands an emergency meeting of the un security council to discuss britain's allegations into the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter. buckingham palace says the duke of edinburgh has had a successful hip replacement operation. prince philip, who's 96, will remain in hospital for several days. mark zuckerberg insists he is the right person to run facebook, as the social media giant reveals 87 million users may have had their data improperly shared with cambridge analytica. commemorations are held across the united states to honour the black civil rights campaigner, martin luther king, 50 years since he was murdered.
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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us in the morning. with me are the political commentators, jane merrick and jo—anne nadler. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. and one story dominates most of the front pages. the daily telegraph has coverage of the pensioner who's been arrested on suspicion of murder following a burglary at his home. the metro has a picture of that pensioner, richard osborn—brooks, on its front page. it's the top story for the express too, but the paper also headlines news that the former england captain ray wilkins has died at the age ofjust 61. again, the i leads with the burglar attack in south london — pointing out that the pensioner
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is in custody following the death of a 38—year—old man. the daily mail claims that the man being questioned, mr osborn—brooks, was simply defending his wife and home. the times breaks with the consensus. it reports that british security services believe they have pinpointed the russian laboratory, which the paper says made the weapons—grade nerve agent used in the salisbury attack. the ft says that world markets are reeling after the trade war between the us and china deepens. and the guardian — as part of its long—running campaign — reports that 8 out of 10 companies and public sector bodies pay men more than women. so a couple of different stories making most of the front pages. to skip to the stories we have been
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news. —— let's just to skip to the stories we have been news. —— let'sjust kick—off to skip to the stories we have been news. —— let's just kick—off with one of the big stories. quite a significant development given that there has been something of a mess and confusion from the foreign office on this particular aspect of the story. well, i don't think we should overstate that. i think that what has happened over the last couple of days is that somebody who heads up porton down, was a scientist and not a politician, was asked to make a statement which was essentially beyond his purview and he was very specific about it. and the importance of this story in the times, i think, the importance of this story in the times, ithink, is the importance of this story in the times, i think, is that it shows that the government is coming up on the front foot to reinforce the point behind the actions that they have taken quite rightly against russia over the last month. so this is an important story not only because of this cervix of it, which go into exactly where this agent was produced. —— the specifics. but also
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because it tells us something about the political arguments going on. although they still are obviously relying on intelligence and telling people limited amounts about the evidence which they have got. yes, and that is the sort of ace card that the government holds, that they can still say that they have intelligence that jeremy corbyn is not privy to, that the british public is not privy to, and that i actually believe they must have because they would not have just gone on the information from porton down. what the russian government has done is exploit the couple of missteps, the foreign office tweeted and then delete it a tweet, but actually that wasjust and then delete it a tweet, but actually that was just a human error, basically they had misquoted the yiddish ambassador to moscow. but the problem for britain is that russia has exploited the sort of gaps in the story and concocting this conspiracy, and it is feeling all those conspiracy theories when
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actually, who else would have been? i think it is a real pity to watch jeremy corbyn weighed into this sort of almost with glee to say that he was right and that we should proceed with caution, when actually the international community backs theresa may on their. but jeremy corbyn of course has been seizing on those same remarks and says it justifies his concern that the government was too quick to pin the blame on russia. but it is a bit of a concern, i think thatjeremy corbyn is taking the word of the russian government rather than the british government. i think that is quite worrying, actually. 126 countries have kicked out russian representatives, do you think there isa representatives, do you think there is a danger that the wider alliance could be weakened orfractured by what is coming out now? well, i think the sheer size of the alliance would suggest that no, i do not
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think there is too much of a danger of that and hopefully those countries which have taken those actions, quite rightly, that they are not doing itjust on the word of theresa may. they are doing it because they also know the circumstances, they also have security agencies which are looking into this, and they have seen that frankly what all of us have seen, you do not have to be a member of the security services to have seen many of the things that russia has been involved with over the last two yea rs, been involved with over the last two years, from crimea to chechnya, to the ukraine, to shooting down the malaysia aircraft, the goodness knows what they are doing in the middle east, backing up the assad regime, this is a very, very nasty and invidious regime that is not held to any of the same account that we are used to in the west. it is essentially a 1—party state, there is no free media and jeremy corbyn is no free media and jeremy corbyn is in some way aligning himself with this, it is not only worrying as you
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say but it is frankly a disgrace. although, it is there not least the potential that many of jeremy corbyn‘s core supporters and voters will think that perhaps is right to be on this? i think his supporters will but i do not think the wider public will, even though they voted labour last year and obviously they did switch towards labour. i have beena did switch towards labour. i have been a really intense critic of borisjohnson, i do not think he has beena borisjohnson, i do not think he has been a particularly effective foreign secretary. when he said last month that he believed he heard porton down said that it was effectively conclusive, he was referring to the fact that this was novichok, not that it was russia. the interesting thing from this times story is that this is clearly the british government trying to get back on this story somehow sort of win the pr, propaganda war that has been raging. 0k, win the pr, propaganda war that has been raging. ok, let's move on, one
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of many that has as its main headline this story of the pensioner arrested over the death of a burglar. an awful lot of the papers seizing on this one. well, and not surprisingly because it is a very good... it is a very bad, but it is a very... there is a very strong human interest to this story, it touches a nerve with so many of us, frankly, for whom the idea of somebody on breaking into your home is just about one of the most terrifying things you could consider. also, the relative age of this pensioner and the person who has ended up losing a life over this. and clearly, this is something that politicians will and have done in the past comic in the case of tony martin, back in the 1990s, sorry, the early 2000 is, it will be very concerned about this, but we
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are limited in what can say the specific. yes, obviously, it is a story that is still unfolding. the pensioner has been arrested, it is still alive investigation but clearly, a lot of the papers picking up clearly, a lot of the papers picking up on the parallels with that tony martin case, the case of a farm in norfolk who also attacked intruder. yes, it is a fascinating case, it became a huge story because the law case was slightly vague and it was backed up by the argument about reasonable force. tony martin was initially convicted of murder but it was reduced to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, which is actually slightly different to the reasonable force argument. we'll have to wait and see in this case, but i think it is of the idea that you have an intruder in your home is terrifying to me and this is a pensioner, i understand he had a wife who was
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disabled and he looked after her, and it is quite a common a very horrible story really. we have already seen quite a few politicians weighing in, expressing their concern about the fact that this man should have been arrested under such circumstances. well, yes, exactly, priti patel, who as we know takes a strong line on and order has said, made a quote to the and obviously, it wants to support, to make sure that the pensioner involved is not the one that ends up being seen as the one that ends up being seen as the person who did the wrong thing in this case. 0k, the person who did the wrong thing in this case. ok, so let'sjust take another look at another of the telegraph's story. travellers face new offences for a legal sites, this isa new offences for a legal sites, this is a move to stop travellers just moving into places where they are not entitled to be. —— illegal. it
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has caused concern in quite a few parts of the country. yeah, it does have an impact on communities where the illegal pictures are set up. the law on trespassing is seen as a law where the burden of proof is slightly different other criminal areas, so slightly different other criminal areas, so i think what the housing minister, who also has a background in justice, minister, who also has a background injustice, is minister, who also has a background in justice, is trying to do is sort of firm in justice, is trying to do is sort offirm up in justice, is trying to do is sort of firm up the law and make new offences for illegal sites. at the moment, there are legal sites across the country and the traveller community is a specific community whose rights are respected, and as he says, the vast majority of the travelling community are decent law—abiding people but there are insta nces law—abiding people but there are instances where legal sites are set up instances where legal sites are set up and there is antisocial behaviour and littering, and i think that has been the concern. especially in the north, if we go back to the naughties again, this a huge issue for michael howard when he was tory leader actually, and i think it is
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going back to that same law and order agenda. and there was a big issue about travellers in the run—up to the 97 election. and it has proved quite difficult to prosecute people for these sort of offences. and that has been the reason for changing or reviewing the law, this is looking at reviewing the circumstances and having a consultation on the best way of making the terms specific enough to be able to bring these prosecutions where it is appropriate. 0k. let's have a look at the guardian. the guardian, of course, made a lot of the running on the facebook data scandal, as they call it. this revelation that cambridge analytica are managed to acquire the date on millions of people. we now hear that it is even bigger than we had thought. yeah, this is the news that came out today in a statement on
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facebook, a very long statement and the final line is then conceding that initially they said when the story first broke that 50 million people could have had their day to harvested or scraped unwittingly, that people had not given their permission for this to happen. they have now revised this number up to 87 million, which is quite an extraordinary figure. it is still not the majority of people who are on facebook, but i think itjust shows how badly facebook have handled this scandal. they went to ground, mark zuckerberg went to ground, mark zuckerberg went to ground for 48 hours after the story first broke and i think facebook users will be quite alarmed actually that this is happening, although i remain on facebook. you have not joined those large numbers of people who are apparently deleting their accounts. i should but again, in a way, it is shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted. and mark zuckerberg has come out tonight and said that he still thinks is the right person to the country but it has done a huge amount of damage to
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the country, hasn't it? i think it has done a lot of damage. the curious thing about these companies is that they are valued based on intellectual property, it is not tangible assets, as such. and hence something like this can really make a very fundamental difference to the success or otherwise of the company. and quite rightly so, really. because they have grown so quickly. they have grown exponentially. and they are not really held to account in the way that other traditional forms of companies are. they don't have shareholders, as such. as far as i am aware. i'm not sure of the exact nature of the facebook setup. it is important, i think, nature of the facebook setup. it is important, ithink, that nature of the facebook setup. it is important, i think, that users of facebook to register their concern, because that is the way that advertisers will take a stand, and other issues include the way it has
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been dealt with. they have been casual in not clamping down on people that are using facebook for quite nefarious purposes. really, i think this is a sort of overdue corrective, really. and apparently we can all turn around and challenge facebook and asked them if they have stolen our details are we went on holiday. i did that. there is a lengthy using kliq, and out, and i was alarmed to find that the data included every single phone number in my address book. —— click, an app. and quite sensitive phone numbers, people not on facebook, but because it had accessed via information, it had all those phone numbers of quite sensitive people. i think it is outrageous is that they haveis think it is outrageous is that they have is data on law—abiding, ordinary people, and yet have been
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so ordinary people, and yet have been so slow and so determined and stubborn not to do anything on terrorism or child pornography. they have been so slow on that, and are only doing that now. that's look at another story in the guardian. men paid more in 80% of firms. the size of that gap varies on the sector. and indeed what company we are looking at. this is a great thing, obviously, to have this transparency. the lord is not that it will certainly change and committees will pay ever in italy, but it is such a thing that we will notice in a year or five years time, if there is still a huge gender pay gaps, these committees will be shamed and will not be attractive place to work. —— the law is not that it will certainly change and ever on will be paid equally.
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that it will certainly change and ever on will be paid equallylj think ever on will be paid equally.” think this issue has been polarised in some ways, the way it has been cove red. in some ways, the way it has been covered. 0r in some ways, the way it has been covered. or rather, people's reactions to it. on the one hand, some people say it is an outrage that the gap exists, and on the other side, people said is down to choice. and i think clearly the truth, as far as i am concerned, is more complicated than that. to my mind, what this legislation will achieve, or could achieve, is workers and employers really asking themselves how this gap has arisen, what is it about the nature of the jobs in those companies that means that somehow the skills of women are perhaps being overlooked for those jobs that are more highly paid? although there is huge discrepancy. some firms have huge pay gaps, and
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others have gaps of more than 30%.” not surprised that a legal firm might have a lower pay gap. i think it is partly based on the medium level of income. —— median. if you have highly educated people doing similar jobs, have highly educated people doing similarjobs, you would hope that the pay gap would be nothing, or very small, depending on the particular experience of those people involved. but where you have a company that has a much bigger range of skill sets, that is where theissues range of skill sets, that is where the issues arise, and where you, for instance, ina the issues arise, and where you, for instance, in a supermarket, as we have seen recently, with women bringing actions against supermarkets, what they rarely want to get down to is why is it that the jobs that seemed more naturally be offered to men have a higher salary? is there an endemic sense that a woman for that work is of less use? i think lily people are still going to be going through the huge amount of data that has come out today. because we are only still tenants away from the final deadline, and
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some companies seem away from the final deadline, and some companies seem to have lifted until the very last minute to actually... yes go about something that it would not notice because it was ina that it would not notice because it was in a last—minute flurry. but if you will be interesting to show the cultural promotion within firms, because this is not, obviously, about equal pay, but about whether there are enough women in senior positions, and if women are being promoted? are they asking for promotions and more money? that focus will be welcome. fascinating, there is another story in the times, about the mail voice choir being told that they should let people join. -- told that they should let people join. —— male. should they be allowed to keep and all male quire? absolutely they should. i remember learning that one of the tenets of a free society is free association. so if they male quire cannot continue as one, that is silly. that does not
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mean that they could not be a subset, where men, women, and anybody else could join, but this is to be what people in the past might have described as political greatness nomad. —— correction is gone mad. they do have a choir separate for men and women, so it is not like women are being excluded in any case. the are different is able. when ngo straightens good women altogether, that is wrong, but one association, having an all male voice quiet, there is nothing wrong with that. association is different from premises covered too, isn't it? just one other story that is their on the front page of the metro. ray wilkins died at 61. we have had some
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moving tributes to him as both a player and as an absolute gentleman. he is only 61, and i think a lot of people remember him playing for england and chelsea. as you say, he was a fantastic footballer because he held the team together. he was a classic midfielder. but he was also ina sky. classic midfielder. but he was also in a sky. and i think that is quite a rare thing in football to be such an all—round good person. a rare thing in football to be such an all-round good person. -- also a nice guy. the tributes that we have heard from so many people who knew him, played with him, or were coached by him. the thing is that football, there is a whole culture and industry. it is quite removed, sometimes colour from the game itself. those that turn up at school
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to watch games at the weekend, we would like to have more of this kind of ambassador for the sport. we hear so of ambassador for the sport. we hear so many negative stories about corruption in the industry, the foul behaviour of some of the players. it isa behaviour of some of the players. it is a pity to lose and relate this to raise as the game up to something which we can all aspire to. an inspiration for many. my thanks to both of you. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, jane and jo—anne. that is at for tonight. good evening. —— it. as we have just been discussing,
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tributes have been paid to the former england football captain, ray wilkins, who has died aged 61. he'd been critically ill in hospital after suffering heart problems. in a long and distinguished career he played for chelsea, manchester united and glasgow rangers, as our correspondent reports. commentator: wilkins has curled one! and that's absolutely magnificent! goals and glory weren't the biggest part of ray wilkins' game, but he provided plenty of them nonetheless, such as here in 1983 fa cup final. for club and country, he was the oil in the team's engine, emphasising passing and possession long before those qualities were as widely appreciated as they are today. that was my philosophy of the game, keep the ball. make the opposition work, so when they receive the ball you know, they're tired because they've had to work hard to get it back. don't give the ball away cheaply. normally as a player, you have one thing that you can do quite well. and i would like people to say that i could pass the ball well.
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whether it be sideways or forward. i'm not too sure! a natural leader, he captained chelsea while still a teenager. after six years at stamford bridge, it was onto manchester united, which incorporated that fa cup win. he then signed for rangers after a spell at ac milan. commentator: ray wilkins scores for england! but it was arguably england where he set himself apart, winning 84 caps over the course of a decade. his sending—off at the 1986 world cup demonstrating the passion that was always a part of his play. he lived for the game and he loved the game, ray. and he was massively passionate when he played. he had high expectations of you when you played alongside him. people genuinely loved the man. he was a great guy and a wonderful footballer. after retiring as a player, he naturally progressed to managing and coaching, assisting chelsea to a premier league and fa cup double in 2010. ray wilkins will be remembered as a gentleman of the game, who did the little things for some of the biggest clubs. perhaps the ultimate team player.
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the former england football captain ray wilkins, who's died aged 61. now, let's's lied to members, because tonight, there are commemorations continuing to remember 50 years since the death of martin luther king. we can take you there live, now, to see some of the latest tributes that have been continuing throughout the evening. so many people, community leaders, others, contemporaries, some who remembered some of those favourite and famous speeches of martin luther king, talking about his legacy, talking about the power of his words, and the difference he made to the lives of so many black
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americans. this is rev michael flager, speaking live in the event in memphis, tennessee. this has been the biggest national commemoration, 50 yea rs the biggest national commemoration, 50 years after martin luther king was killed by a white supremacist. let's again listen to some of the latest tributes. because of that, 50 yea rs latest tributes. because of that, 50 years ago, while standing on this balcony, evil and the forces of hate, sought to stop him and shut him up. only to find out that a bullet could silence his voice, but not his message. nor the truth that lived in him. forthis
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not his message. nor the truth that lived in him. for this reason, i challenge you, brothers and sisters, and myself, on this 50th anniversary, that we do not make the mistake that america would like us to make, and that is to gather here and around the world and simply remember doctor king. and relegate his life to some nyst article historic event, and then continue on with business as usual. because if we do, we become the present—day co—conspirators of his association. —— rev michael flager. the worst in just as we can do to doctor king is to simply remember him, but if we wa nt to to simply remember him, but if we want to honour martin luther king jr” want to honour martin luther king jr., then we must be willing to pick up jr., then we must be willing to pick up his mental, except his prophetic call, and continue his uncle
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promoting mission. —— nostalgic and historic. we must reach the sermon he never got a chance to preach. —— preach. and remind america that she might go to hell if she does not repent for the evil, it injustice, and the abandonment of the poor in this country. for america has too long reneged on her promise to ensure life, liberty, and happiness, to all the citizens, and thus america risks being sent to hell by the very guide that they say they honour. brothers and sisters, we live in a day where the chains of injustice continue to hold masses of brothers and sisters in captivity. we live in a day where morality has been downgraded. and we are experiencing a spiritual blackout. we live in a day where truth has been tucked away in the closet, and hate and supremacy and entitlement has been given a new breath. that
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was rev michael flager, a social activist, paying tribute to martin luther king in the midst of those special commemorations continuing in memphis, tennessee. will be shortly joined by viewers on bbc world as the tributes continue to martin luther king. at a country that has love affair —— and a country that has a love affair with guns, and wear black lives still not make do not matter. you're watching bbc news. we are live in memphis in america, where the life of martin luther king is being remembered. —— black lives still do not matter. 50 yea rs black lives still do not matter. 50 years after he was killed, bills will toll around the country, 39 times, honouring the number of years that he lived. we are crossing to
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oui’ that he lived. we are crossing to our correspondants live on the scene. but let's listening to what is happening. speak to the sa is like to sump wrote and and injured. the place

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