tv The Papers BBC News April 28, 2018 11:30pm-11:46pm BST
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hello. this is bbc news with carrie gracie. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment — first the headlines. sainsbury‘s and asda are at an advanced stage of merger talks. if the move is approved by the competition and markets authority the combined business will become britain's biggest supermarket chain. hundreds of balloons have been released in liverpool as a tribute to alfie evans, the toddler who was at the centre of a legal battle over his treatment. the 23—month—old, who had a degenerative brain condition, died nearly a week after his life support was withdrawn. cabinet colleagues defend the home secretary, amber rudd, after she apologised for not knowing her department had targets for removing illegal immigrants. she said she had not seen a memo detailing the objectives. tens of thousands of people have demonstrated for a third day in the spanish city of pamplona, after a court acquitted five men of raping a teenager at the annual bull—running festival. the group were found guilty of the lesser charge of sexual abuse.
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iron man, the hulk and 20 more superheroes unite in avengers: infinity war. here was mark kermode thought of it and the rest of this week's cinema and dvd releases in the film review. hello and welcome to our look ahead to tomorrow's papers. with me is bonnie greer, playwright and writer for the new european and anne ashworth, assistant editor at the times. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the observer leads with london mayor sadiq khan — calling for the home secretary to resign over what he says is her "inhumane treatment" of immigrants. the mail on sunday reports on allegations regarding the tory mp
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charlie elphicke. he denies any wrongdoing. the sunday telegraph's front page includes the news that asda and sainsbury‘s are in talks about a merger. the sunday times claims russia used the internet to try and influence the result of last year's snap election in jeremy corbyn‘s favour. and the sunday express says an sas solider and his wife stood in as prince harry and meghan markle during a secret security rehearsal for their wedding. so a mixture of stories on the front pages, let's have a closer look. let us take a closer look. anne and bonnie, where do you want to start? this extraordinary story at the front of the sunday times. it is extraordinary. there are about 6500 twitter, apparently, people, all with female english names who were in fact russian albot is tweeting on
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behalf of mr corbyn in the run—up to the election —— russian bots. it is interesting that they choose women's names. are we more credible when the tweet or something? or more friendly. every single opportunity, it seems, as they took from the sunday times investigation, to deride mrs may, to big upjeremy corbyn. it did not sway, it did not mean he won, but it definitely changed the vote. i think this is an extraordinary example of the intrusion of social media and the russians into our political life. but you see what is fascinating is i don't know how they know change the vote since they don't understand how the bots change the brexit side, if it did not, they claim they do not know that. how did they come up with this information? what i would suggest is that the secretary of
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state or digital actually investigate the whole thing. it is notjust investigate the whole thing. it is not just about what happens at the snap, it is what happened at the eu referendum. we have to look at the landscape. i know that there were bots online for the eu referendum and they were tweeting for leave. and they were male. so we need to look at the whole thing. this is kind of reminiscent of what we have been hearing about in the us with the robin gill indictments. been hearing about in the us with the robin gill indictmentsm happened in france as well at their election —— robert mueller. we need to look at the whole landscape, not just one part of it. if we only look at one part of it will not get the whole picture. anne, take danny pate on the sunday times. we have a perilous moment according to reporters for theresa may —— take us down the page. an extraordinary high immune moment in number 10, it seems, david davis, it set him or
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me. the him on me is the chief civil servant in charge of brexit negotiations to david davis regards asa negotiations to david davis regards as a malign influence. david davis is the brexit secretary. we are suggesting he is at war with the chief civil servant. also the story claims. in this story it claims that this robin stieger is as a malign figure on mrs may as alan day was on mrs thatcher —— robbins figure. those who remember alan walters, a huge influence on her thinking. he was a eurosceptic, was he not? anyway, it will be david davis saying are you going to support this figure or are you going to support your cabinet colleagues? actually the funny part of this is that david
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davis reacted when he found out that other robbins forgave him out of the picture. it is actually quite funny. the bottomline is that is they are fiow the bottomline is that is they are now threatening her with her the eu under the bus technique that they used with margaret thatcher and there will be a showdown next week over the whole thing. what she is guessing is guessing advises. over the whole thing. what she is guessing is guessing advisesm that what happens in every office now, wargames? it is a bit sinister. how now, wargames? it is a bit sinister. h ow exa ctly now, wargames? it is a bit sinister. how exactly do they... ? they should happel ward end brexit. how exactly do they... ? they should happelward end brexit. we are not going to war game brexit —— they should have wargames brexit. he is just doing hisjob. should have wargames brexit. he is just doing his job. let us to the front page of the observer. there is
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a suggestion from the london mayor that it a suggestion from the london mayor thatitis a suggestion from the london mayor that it is time for. home that it is time for the home secretary to not be there circular sadiq khan, the london mayor, said he was in two minds as to whether amber rudd should quit. this is over the windrush affair, whether she knew or didn't know or should have known about these memos. he is now firmly of the view that she should quit. and she should have done at the beginning. we are talking about citizens. we are talking about people who understood themselves to be citizens, were citizens, and suddenly best actress was changed to the point where they were facing deportation, their benefits were taken deportation, their benefits were ta ken away. the deportation, their benefits were taken away. the home secretary, or which he should have done for the honour of the department, was to go to the prime minister and offer her resignation. whether she got her memo or not is irrelevant. we are not talking about some small office. we are talking about british citizens. she should have done it. what theresa may would have done
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after that was up to theresa may. but that is what she should have done. to be hanging on now causes more distress for these people, the victims of this, and their families. that is a view on what a minister should have done. looking at the politics of this, which the papers are circling around, is this question of how vulnerable a departure by the home secretary would make the prime minister. there area would make the prime minister. there a re a loss would make the prime minister. there are a loss of wild west analogies are a loss of wild west analogies are metaphors in the papers denied. a p pa re ntly are metaphors in the papers denied. apparently they are circling the wagons around amber rudd for fear that her departure words, by a domino effect, have many worse consequences. i tend to feel about this whole thing that we need to start looking at whether the home 0ffice start looking at whether the home office is too big for anybody to run effectively. it is a department that has a link with every part of our
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lives, maybe people need to think is it fit for purpose? talking about things that are getting too big, let us things that are getting too big, let us go to the front page of the telegraph. the story we have been running all evening about the merger of the supermarket that will potentially create the biggest supermarket giants in the uk. potentially create the biggest supermarket giants in the ukw potentially create the biggest supermarket giants in the uk. it is a monster. it will eat up everything. we have to remember we have tesco, walmart is involved. this is a huge american company that has squeezed in assets by amazon. are we going to do bricks and mortar orare are we going to do bricks and mortar or are we going to have things delivered to us? —— squeezed by amazon. we are going to post—brexit landscape. we will be bringing in a huge american conglomerate. what effect will that have? vince cable says it should be referred to the competition commission. we have to
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see how it will affect the landscape. this is an important part about the deal between asda and sainsbury‘s. it is not a done deal yet. somebody could intervene. we had to wonder whether walmart can have that much power. there are so many thousands and thousands of stores. and also to question whether it should ever be allowed that between them, asda, sainsbury‘s, and tesco's, would have about 60% of supermarket business. presumably thatis supermarket business. presumably that is what the competition authority will look at. the newspapers talk about it as though it isa newspapers talk about it as though it is a done deal. we will him on monday. i this will bring out a series of deals and takeover bids. staying with the telegraph, the right—hand side of the page,
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unannounced raids on companies suspected of involvement in illegal harvesting personal information. that sounds like an echo of the story with the russian bots. we go back to cambridge analytica, watching the commissioner to see if she could get a warrant to search the offices of cambridge analytica. you're thinking does this woman not have these kind of powers and why is this? it was almost a week before they were able to read those offices. now it seems as though nobody is able to knock on the door. you could have a surprise visit. this is the kind of action we need in order that we should get a lead on this data. that is why it be put into one box. the left him verema has changed massively. we need to understand more and more and more. you need it because if you don't haveit you need it because if you don't have it they destroy the data. this
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is new legislation coming. let us have a quick look through what we have a quick look through what we have in this stack. the mail on sunday is looking at the slowest growth in europe, which will a p pa re ntly growth in europe, which will apparently be in scotland's. this is the scottish mail on sunday. there will be a 20 mph speed limit on every road in towns and cities in scotland's. and villages are. and villages! people are not necessarily happy about this. apparently there isa campaign happy about this. apparently there is a campaign group called is 20 is plenty for us and they seem to have won the day. business chiefs are warning it would be a disasterfor the economy. what is the average speed of traffic in cities?|j the economy. what is the average speed of traffic in cities? i don't drive. i don't know. the scottish government is behind it. they can't be. the expectation is if it works there it will be coming to the rest
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of...ican there it will be coming to the rest of... i can understand why it exists. but business can't actually function at that level. that is the problem. bonnie, take a quick look at the sunday it was for me. sas soldiers act out harry's wedding. at the sunday it was for me. sas soldiers act out harry's weddinglj don't know why this is a headline, actually. i will be honest, don't know why this is a headline, actually. iwill be honest, i don't know why this is a headline, actually. i will be honest, i don't wa nt actually. i will be honest, i don't want to know that the sas is wall gaining theirwedding. why want to know that the sas is wall gaining their wedding. why it is on the front page? this is stuff, i don't know this. ijust don't want to know. it is good, it is nice, we hope it is happening, why is it a headline? they think it will sell papers. i think it will not be the most desperate attempt between now and the wedding. ok. that is good. i think there will be many weak excuses to write about meghan markle and that wedding. what do you think
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about this one, anne? and sas hero and his wife, central role in preparations for the wedding. it is getting into the mood. it is a wedding rehearsal, they will be able to talk about it. like so many other people i freely admit that i am reading everything about this wedding and they cannot get enough of it. i'm not. we did not bring you both in so you could agree on everything. thank you so much are coming in this evening. and thank you the staying so late. —— antifa staying so late. 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, bonnie and anne. the film review is next. goodbye. hello, and welcome to
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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? very interesting week, we have beast, a psychological thriller set on jersey. we have avengers: infinity war, the latest in the mcu series. and the wound, a coming—of—age movie with a difference. i love the sound of beast, i love a psychological thriller.
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