tv The Papers BBC News April 16, 2018 10:45pm-11:01pm BST
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a couple of stories dominating the front pages there, with a big focus on the issues facing commonwealth migrants. let's see what our reviewers make of it all. very evocative poker —— photographed there on the front page. yes, the photograph i think for this one is from 1962, when lots of people of his leave from the commonwealth were asked to come over, help with the rebuilding of postwar britain and at the same time as the home secretary had to apologise for the absolutely appalling treatment of the people you know many of whom were children who have been here for 50 or 60 yea rs who have been here for 50 or 60 years and barefaced deportation, lost theirjobs, denied health service and the stress they have been under and finally today amber rudd stood up, the home secretary and apologised for this appalling treatment she said that the home
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0ffice treatment she said that the home office had been too concerned with policy and not with the individuals themselves. and of course people will be a bit confused, these are all people who were welcomed here, we re all people who were welcomed here, were here legally, and said any because of a crackdown on illegal immigrants in terms of housing and benefits and so on, they find they have not necessarily copyright documents. having worked with westminster as much as you have, you know trouble does not always turn up from where you expect it to in any particular date, this has developed almost out of the blue in recent days. it was a slow burner over a numberof days. it was a slow burner over a number of months but it's really got there today and there's absolutely i'io there today and there's absolutely no doubt, one of the papers talk about an unprecedented apology from the home secretary, we have just seen the daily mail of course also seen the daily mail of course also seen questions about amber rudd's future but the person who's really criticised in this is the person who
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introduced these changes for the wind rushed generation and her name was theresa may. and jane, your paper the guardian also picks up on the story, the faces of some of the people who are concerned about their rights and their welfare and running into difficulties cause of this. in a way, those two pictures sum up so much of this. this is what happened, this is the people coming over and these are the actual individuals who have been here who consider themselves british, they were given protection and they have been cheated as illegal immigrants and many of them working in our schools and how services for decades. and 110w and how services for decades. and now being told that they are somehow illegal. it's sort of begs belief really. the confusion has gone on today because on the one hand you have amber rudd saying in the house of commons well i'm not quite sure if anybody is being supported who should not have been. a few hours
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after her own immigration minister had said that some people have been deported who should not have been which is quite extraordinary, goodness knows where number ten has beenin goodness knows where number ten has been in all this, perhaps concentrating on syria. well barely theresa may is with brexit and syria and this very overwhelming all the others. really embarrassing, the timing you mentioned brexit not only have we got meeting the commonwealth heads, they have got the games going on in australia and the commonwealth countries are so important after brexit. we need to make sure these people are not feeling that former citizens who have been living in the ukfor citizens who have been living in the uk for decades are being treated like this. when you are saying you did that quote about amber rudd saying too concerned with policy and strategy and perhaps sometimes have lost sight of the concerns about individuals i wonder how many times over the years governments have lost sight of the impact on individuals.
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0n sight of the impact on individuals. on till sight of the impact on individuals. 0n till the story comes out. and let's ta ke 0n till the story comes out. and let's take a look at the master because of course the real focus of the prime minister had been thinking about and understandably perhaps preoccupied over the last few days, the action on syria. i am not trump's boodle is the headline there. that seems to be was really upset the i minister, she was really her angriest and what i saw of the debate, mid—afternoon and late afternoon today, when this suggestion came for the second time that you know when the president trump tell you it was ok to go ahead with your rate and she stormed back to later —— labour backbencher and said you know it was my decision in out said you know it was my decision in our national interest. of course that issue has echoed the accusation that issue has echoed the accusation that tony blair faced over the iraq
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war with president bush. the shocking thing and surprising thing taking everybody by surprise is the fa ct taking everybody by surprise is the fact that she went ahead and did it without any bottom entry approval and the three and a half hour discussion today. and lots of anger about this happening and this sort of justification for it. about this happening and this sort ofjustification for it. and what is interesting in that session is that although there was a lot of concern about parliament not being consulted it did not seem as though there was a huge amount outside of the leader of the opposition to the actual air strikes themselves. absolutely, and the big issue though is, i thought today was very predictable, most people said what you would expect them to say but are you any of the wiser tonight? whether parliament has to approve any future air strikes because it seems to me that theresa may was saying pretty
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clearly, if it happens again she will do it again and that to me is the most interesting thing. can clark a conservative you may remember he says that there should be much more clarity about this issue going forward. and he's surely right about that. we have got lots of other stories to get through, so and talk about for tomorrow morning. a very striking picture on the front page of the daily mirror after his sentencing on thatjunk driving charge. he's on the front page of nearly every newspaper actually and you know, it really we were talking about it earlier, it's been incredibly difficult time you know £86,000 but his reputation, he's no longer on saturday night tv, what he did was obviously he needs lots of
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help. there wasn't only a mea culpa speech at westminster today, it was a mea culpa speech in a court and outside a court in southwest london him andl outside a court in southwest london him and i think most people don't realise the level of popularity of him who has one year after year awards as the best entertainers of their generation. and you know, on a personal level i hope that he's back oi'i personal level i hope that he's back on saturday night television where he's immensely talented. let's take a look at the times which has got a couple of different stories. we are all struggling to try to reduce our consumption of plastic because of those very vivid images about what happens to the stuff that does not decompose but the times says we could have a breaker with plastic eating enzyme. you redo this and you
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think as somebody has been really trying to reduce their plastic use, this is incredible. this enzyme it says instead of it works so well that instead of taking centuries to reduce the time it takes for plastic decompose it could take days. i mean if true this is incredible. a whole new era in recycling. this look at the other story in the times because there's been a lot of concern about how russia might respond to the strikes in syria and the latest heightening of the rhetoric against russia. the times saying that russia has hacked into millions of computers. even former luddites like myself are concerned now about this because we are fiow so
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myself are concerned now about this because we are now so dependent, so many of us and all the generations are concerned about how susceptible we would all be to a breakdown of new media as i term it. this meant that new any more. let's stick with it. it is extraordinary, if the russians are as talented as you said that they are, at interfering with this, they can cause chaos and it's interesting some of the papers advising about updating your passwords and not relying on the factory settings. that's a bit old—fashioned, old hat, there are so many new things i'm led to believe that one can do but if a state sets about interfering with your bank account, with the transport system with the national health service, at goodness knows what mayhem they could create. this is a real concern
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about it's not just could create. this is a real concern about it's notjust perhaps hacking in to yourwi—fi about it's notjust perhaps hacking in to your wi—fi box but organisations such as the nhs we've seen organisations such as the nhs we've seen what can happen when viruses get there. national security centre here the us department of homeland, fbi, white house, all saying this gives them an incredible weapon which at the moment given the state of relations between russia and the us and the uk is not really a co mforta ble us and the uk is not really a comfortable place to be. but equally, the americans and the british and the french can of course interfere with russia if they choose to. fascinating to quickly touch on the cartoon which picked up on this. i think that matt is such genius to say it's a fabulous cartoon. i'm not sure if we can see it. it's
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hilarious because i've got teenagers at home and the constant cry of the wi—fi is down! can you imagine the russian cyber terrorist saying all it's down again. we will have to leave it there, thank you both very much, 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, david, and jane — goodbye. we have been promising you some very warm weather and it's certainly on the way. the warmest days will be wednesday, thursday, and friday and staying quite warm really to the weekend as well. our warm is it going to get, we're expecting
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temperatures in the mid—20s across the midlands, possibly 26th in london and even in the north of the country the high teens approaching 20 as well. in the short term there isa 20 as well. in the short term there is a bit ofa 20 as well. in the short term there is a bit of a bit in the weather in fa ct is a bit of a bit in the weather in fact it's all —— cloudy and rainy across some western parts of the uk here and that's really the story for the rest of the night. a lot of damp whether waste here we are eastern and southern areas will stay dry and the wind will be pushing as well. 0vernight temperatures 10 degrees expected in belfast and around eight oi’ expected in belfast and around eight or nine dear in london. but have a look at using's weber then and the weather front has not made a lot of progress towards the east, it's not moving in an easterly direction it's sort of sliding towards the northeast. and this is what it looks like 17, eight in the morning so it has not reached, a stamp between the peninsula i ran the irish sea and the weather front is going to belfast here and the heaviest of the ring is in southwestern parts of scotland. that will be the trend for the day so that to weather front
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will be sliding northeast missing many areas towards the south and east places like portsmouth, london, norwich, hold, much of the midlands will stay dry. might be cloudy here in parts of the midlands. temperature is just shy of 20 in london, 15 degrees there in belfast where it will be breezy and there will be a shower chance as well. wednesday still some rain forecast to sweep ireland here, maybe clipping northern ireland and western parts of calm —— scotland the vast majority of england and wales it will be a fine day getting caught for it to actively speaking, 23 in london and the high teens at least across northern parts of the uk. that is wednesday. 0n least across northern parts of the uk. that is wednesday. on thursday that's when it will rise. this is the high pressure across central parts of europe pushing them very warm airfrom parts of europe pushing them very warm air from germany parts of europe pushing them very warm airfrom germany and france into the uk and it's going to be a sunny day as well in the north or the south of those temperatures in many areas exceeding 20 degrees and probably as high as 26 celsius in
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the cell. goodbye. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11: the government admits terrible mistakes in the treatment of caribbean migrants threatened with deportation after decades in the uk. a home office task force will help those who can't prove their immigration status. the prime minister insists she was right to approve military action before consulting with parliament against the assad regime in syria. but in an emergency debate in the commons, opposition mps say the government must come up with a plan for peace. mps are still debating in the commons. they have been there all evening. the government says they need a comprehensive plan for peace in syria. and an £86,000 fine plus a driving ban for 20 months after the itv presenter ant mcpartlin pleads guilty
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