tv The Papers BBC News April 21, 2018 11:30pm-11:46pm BST
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hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment — first the headlines. north korea's announcement that it's ended its testing of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles has received a largely positive response around the world. the first minister of wales, carwynjones, has announced he's to stand down in the autumn. two weeks after the suspected chemical attack in syria, international experts are carrying out an inspection in the town of douma. a three—year—old boy has drowned in a swimming pool at a sports centre in leeds. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are political commentator jo phillips and political editor of the sunday mirror
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and the sunday people, nigel nelson. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. let's take a quick look at them. the sunday times reports security chiefs are to get greater powers to fight terror following last year's attacks in london and manchester. also on its front page, claims about scotland yard's handling of an investigation into allegations about a tory mp. the observer leads with accusations that government plans to force people to prove their identities at polling stations in next month's local elections risk alienating people from ethnic minority communities. the sunday telegraph has the headline ‘facebook given a week to protect children'. the paper accuses social media companies of turning a blind eye to under—age users. it reports the government is considering new laws to hold firms accountable. the sunday express also carries the same story on their front page.
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it says the health secretary, jeremy hunt, is concerned about the lack of action taken by social media companies to protect young users. and the daily mail says megan markle‘s uncle has accused the bride—to—be of not inviting him to her wedding to prince harry next month. wide range of stories there to discuss with my two guests. thank you both very much forjoining us. thank you both very much forjoining us. let us start with the sunday times. jo, greater powers to fight terror. clearly an important issue. the sunday times seems to have got what it claims is insight into what this new strategy is going to be. what it claims is insight into what this new strategy is going to hem isa leak this new strategy is going to hem is a leak of 120 page draft of the
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government's counterterrorism strategy, which is due to be published in the next weeks. this replaces the counter—terror it —— counterterrorism strategy of 2011. clearly there has been an awful lot that needs ramping up, the way we do with security, not least with cyberspace and, nigel knows more about the security service than most people, certainly of the three people, certainly of the three people he, but it is about how you tackle it. ithink people he, but it is about how you tackle it. i think what comes across really clearly from this is it is about eight step change —— step change. it is controversial. it gives people like town hall is devolved administrations, government departments, giving them an early warning of potential suspects. it is about beefing up security at sporting events and concerts. that will have an impact on all of our lives. it is about arresting people more quickly. there are a lot of
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issues here about human rights, civil liberties, and things like that. but it is only a draft strategy. yes. some quite controversial stuff. very controversial stuff. very controversial stop. first of all, the way the sunday times is putting it, that you arrest suspects before they finalise their attack plans. a kind of think good, i would rather we got them before then after, but it will be controversial because it is difficult to put them in court, how you get the evidence from it. even more so, that are talking about targeting areas where you find the most extremists. if you look at a map of britain, the henryjackson society which monitors terrorism, we look at a map of where terrorists come from. london is the highest, birmingham comes next, and so it goes down, manchester and so on. again, it seems to be sensible to target your resources the most people are. there will then be
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accusations of racism, of moving into communities with too heavy a hand, but it seems to me the situation here is so urgent they have to do something that, perhaps, you would not need to do at a different time. and some of this though is going to be, we will wait to see what actually comes out, because you can imagine some members of the cabinet, perhaps voicing objections to some of this. for all the reasons we just said. i think the reasons we just said. i think the problem is very real. and it is very apparent. anyone who is working within counterterrorism, security, public safety, will tell you that it is all over the place. and the speed at which it is happening, largely because of the internet and because of people who can go into the dark web and access and contact each other, in ways that... before we did not have to deal with. nigel mentioned one hour ago, when we were
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talking about the ira 40 years ago, they were just a small percentage of they were just a small percentage of the numberof they were just a small percentage of the number of people who are known to be on the radar. absolutely. of course, terrorism just one of the security threats facing the country. the telegraph, nigel, saying gchq wa nts the telegraph, nigel, saying gchq wants it cannot stop all russian attacks, this at a time of renewed tension with the russians. yes. ciaran martyn, the head of cyber defence there. it is like stating the obvious. we will not be able stop every terrorist bomb coming in. mis doa stop every terrorist bomb coming in. mis do a greatjob something most of them. but some will get through. the same as applied to cyber attacks. it is the world we live in. quite clearly, there is a new cold war with russia, certainly russia is responsible for cyber attacks
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against us, and i would venture we are against us, and i would venture we a re pretty certain against us, and i would venture we are pretty certain they are responsible for chemical attacks in salisbury. on the basis of that i would say we are in a different kind of world and we can expect more obvious. so the warning coming is that we are not going to be stopped all of them. the danger is how bad they are, because they will try to hit the critical infrastructure, water, electricity, gas, on... it is making it what it means to ordinary people, you know, the rest of us. when you talk about cyber security, you think it does not affect me. of course it does if you what goes for your electricity goes off or your entire bank network suddenly goes down or the nhs, exactly. people don't understand the seriousness of something like that. the ira tried that at one point. when a model that, if they stopped the water in london you would end up with cholera, typhoid, within a matter of weeks, because the water is
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controlling the sewerage and so on. and you get to an almost mediaeval style played. and if you got into things like air traffic control, for instance... you would crash planes. or rail networks. it is hugely serious. another story, on the front of the sunday telegraph, facebook given a week to protect children. a warning from the health secretary. this isjeremy warning from the health secretary. this is jeremy hunt, warning from the health secretary. this isjeremy hunt, who is extremely cross with facebook and the various online things because he is pretty much saying they need to step up to protect children with a far greater scrutiny on policing the underage or the age limits at which children can go onto facebook and instagram and things like that. he wants to bring in government guidelines on how many hours per week children should be online, particularly on things like
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facebook. but his anger is directed at facebook, who are not having a very easy time of it at the moment, because he says "you are collectively turning a blind eye to a whole generation of children being exposed to the harmful emotional side—effects of social media". the twente, he side—effects of social media". the twe nte, he says side—effects of social media". the twente, he says it is morally wrong and deeply unfairon twente, he says it is morally wrong and deeply unfair on parents who are faced with the invidious choice of saying enough is enough —— the twente. you saying enough is enough —— the twe nte. you have saying enough is enough —— the twente. you have the covenant on the one hand saying there should be limits, but it is actually down to parents as well to say put that thing away or you are not allowed to have it. never that easy! never that easy when you have teenagers. have it. never that easy! never that easy when you have teenagersm have it. never that easy! never that easy when you have teenagers. if you start with some kind of guidelines for children about the number of hours it is healthy to be on a screen. . . hours it is healthy to be on a screen... you could say there are guidelines on how much salt and sugar. you can put pressure on companies, as has happened eventually, that companies stop
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making things were so much salt and sugar. what can you do by putting pressure on facebook unless they are going to say you have been on here for over one hour, click. it is like having alcohol limits. if you know that anything above 14 units per week is unhealthy, a number of people will try to restrict their alcohol intake. adults. and parents for police this. lots of other stories to get through to. the independent, interesting story. back to the centre. almost half of voters ready for a new party. interesting one. there is a constant rumour going around that a new party is in the wings and that tony blair might be behind it, bobby keeps denying it. what it sounds like from the survey is that 41% of people don't think they are represented by the existing parties —— although he keeps denying it. therefore there is a place in english politics for another party. i can't see it. i cannot see where that places. there
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used to be the liberal democrats. cannot see where that places. there used to be the liberal democratslj been used to be the liberal democrats.” been there. done that. it was the great hope. the gang of four. shirley williams and so on and so forth. just because people aren't happy with what exists, doesn't mean to say you need something new.” agree with you there. what you need to do is try to change the current parties are working. nobody seems to have come up with a leader for this new centre party so far. they haven't got the leader, but to kick this off you need a group of mps to actually do it. the obvious place we re actually do it. the obvious place were the people in labour who were againstjeremy corbyn, i do not detect any movement in labour to do that. there is another interesting story in the express. jeremy corbyn is trusted less than donald trump.
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another survey talking about the opinion polls, we have to be careful when we talk about the opinion polls. in exactly the same way as the independent, it is a proper survey. they did a survey of over 2000 people. what they found is that they asked if mr corbyn could run they asked if mr corbyn could run the uk well, 53% said no. anneke donald trump rating is higher, the popularity rating is higher than jeremy corbyn's —— and the donald cole. the 18 — 24 —year—olds. he appeals to them. fewer than one in five. 32% of the so—called corbynista generation disagree that he would make a good prime minister. it isa he would make a good prime minister. it is a part of a whole series.” he would make a good prime minister. it is a part of a whole series. i am not sure if this isjeremy it is a part of a whole series. i am not sure if this is jeremy corbyn going down or donald trump going up.
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donald trump, he is not quite as bad recently has been the past. things like the chance of peace with north korea would be an incredible price. jeremy corbyn has had a certain problem with international relations... that is a polite way of putting it. salisbury. it seems to be the security issue feeding into this. certainly open jeremy corbyn made a mistake over salisbury. it seems to be fairly clear, actually, almost 99% clear that the russians we re almost 99% clear that the russians were behind it. and he was dragging his feet on syria. i think it was right. parliament should have been recalled. but it is a different argument completely. very little time left. a look at the mail on sunday. meghan markle's wedding snub to uncles. one of the pitfalls of a wedding, even one of this size. and, really, does anybody care? obviously
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the uncles do because they are furious not to be invited. but anyone who has ever been invited to anyone who has ever been invited to a wedding... what if you only get invited to the evening thing instead of the whole ceremony?” invited to the evening thing instead of the whole ceremony? i am not sure i would go to any of it. what if it was your knees going to? and she saidi was your knees going to? and she said i couldn't come? that seems to be the story that the uncle is cross about. if my niece was getting married and she did not want me at the wedding i would probably accept that in my nose were probably out of joint —— would probably be out of joint. especially she was marrying a prince. we must leave it there. thank you both very much indeed. that is it for the papers. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, nigel and jo. goodbye. hello, welcome to the film
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