tv The Papers BBC News August 18, 2018 11:30pm-11:46pm BST
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hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment — first the headlines. senior figures pay tribute to the former un secretary—general kofi annan, who has died at the age of 80. mr annan rose through the ranks of the united nations to become the first black african to lead it. 29—year—old salih khater from birmingham has been charged with attempted murder after a vehicle was driven into the security barrier outside parliament on tuesday. a huge rescue mission is underway to save thousands of people stranded by floods in the indian state of kerala. more than 320 people have died in the worst monsoon season for a century. as thousands of mourners attend a state funeral in genoa for victims of the motorway bridge collapse, the operator responsible for the bridge says it will rebuild the structure within 8 months. hello and welcome to our look ahead
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to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the playwright and writer for the new european, bonnie greer, and rachel cunliffe, who's the comment and features editor for cityam. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. let's start with the observer which features a portrait of the late kofi annan who has died at the age of 80. it says simply: ‘farewell to the peacemaker.‘ ‘desecration of british war graves‘ dominate the front of the daily mail who report that chinese pirates plunder 10 shipwrecks holding the remains of world war two heroes. the sunday times carries a picture of borisjohnson
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during a visit to a west london mosque. the papers says a new race row is brewing after it's revealed his official facebook page hosts anti—islamic posts. ‘100 tories to rebel on may deal‘ — the sunday express reports that the prime minister will face a back lash in the commons unless she scraps her controversial brexit chequers deal. next to a picture of ben stokes back on the cricket pitch, the sunday telegraph says the government is considering plans to solve the care crisis by launching a new ‘care isa' which is exempt from inheritance tax. let's start with brexit. so we can get it out of the way. all the
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warnings that —— about what will happen in case other no deal. he we have the government setting out project no fear which has ideas on how to make it less worrying. the reason they have to do this is because, i have to say, the scare stories about and no deal brexit have become a bit out of control. if you believe everything, the planes will not be able to fly, we will run out of food ijuly 2019 we will run out of food ijuly 2019 we will run out of food ijuly 2019 we will run out of blood, medicines and according to make love island, we will run out of trees. according to what, sorry? i saw something, when you mentioned brexit, these people walked in a studio, i didn't know who they were but they talked about, she said no trees or no cheese. that's what brexit meant. people are worried about the scare stories, in short. in planning, the government has decided to release some ideas for even if we do crash out of the
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eu with no deal, we would still potentially accept some eu regulations, we will have a flexible approach to things like medicines and chemicals, people are worried about the m20 motorway stacking up and the government is trying to reassure the public that if this happens, it will not be the end of the world. however, they are also trying to say we don't want it because what we want is the chequers deal because that is the government line. it is a difficult line to walk between we are prepared for everything and also it would be a bad deal. let's put it out on the table, we don't know what is going to happen, no one has done this before. the government's obligation to all of us, brexiteer or nothing, is to prepare for the worst. in case it happens! that's what you want to do. there is no sense in telling
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people it won't happen because we don't know. the government needs to have some money set aside. i understood they would have about $100 million, something set aside. we need to do that, anybody would do that. one of the biggest mistakes of this government has been in not putting money aside and not planning for a no deal up until this point because money is running out and we have our trade secretary liam fox saying there is a 60% chance of that. 4096 of people now say it is likely that the uk will leave next month without a deal. and no trees. 0r cheese. 16% believe we won't even leave the e0. 0r cheese. 16% believe we won't even leave the eq. i love british common sense because it does exist. —— eu. it looks like there is a possibility
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that this government may take us out of here without a trade deal which of here without a trade deal which of course is insane. people are saying it probably will happen. there isn't any sign that anything else is going to happen. if the tories are fighting over their own planned, see, what is not on the table is the fact that the eu has to come together. 27 parliaments have to meet to ratify whatever we bring to meet to ratify whatever we bring to them. we ain't got nothing to bring to them. we don't have much time! what about this £1 million donation? would it help? it's not going to do any harm. what the people's vote campaign want to do is do enough polling to show that there is enough support to have a second referendum. usually, to call a referendum, you need a party to be elected in a general election with that in their manifesto. i don't see that in their manifesto. i don't see that happening before march 2019, that happening before march 2019, that we would have a snap election
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and one of the parties would put that on its manifesto and win and that on its manifesto and win and that we would have time to call one. but i have given up making predictions in politics because i just keep getting it wrong. who knows! that's -- let's turn to a sort of political story. racists are a p pa re ntly sort of political story. racists are apparently flocking to boris johnson's facebook page. we had a similar story involving jeremy corbyn earlier in the year. 12 senior staff, very similar, a story that was out. here we are saying that was out. here we are saying that it that was out. here we are saying thatitis that was out. here we are saying that it is borisjohnson, his facebook page and there is a host of really quite unsavoury comments. facebook page and there is a host of really quite unsavoury commentslj live really quite unsavoury comments.” live not far from here, in the west end. i have noticed muslim women now a walking down the street, going shopping, and they have male companions. i have never seen that before. you see the women and that
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isa before. you see the women and that is a disgrace. these are women and if they feel that they can't go shopping, they can't go out on the street without having a brother or a friend or a husband or son, we all should hang our heads in shame. that isa should hang our heads in shame. that is a disgrace. these women have done nothing, nothing. and forthis is a disgrace. these women have done nothing, nothing. and for this clown to actually make a statement that he thinks is a ha ha and be picked up for the people who have ill intentions, he should apologise and it is incredible that he hasn't. this is beyond free—speech. these are women, these are women, this tory mp, this conservative mp, she has felt also the backlash on the street. it has been told about four years, the problem of islamaphobia in the conservative party. none of arthur should feel happy or
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complacent about women being afraid to walk down the street —— none of us to walk down the street —— none of us should feel. is it facebook boris johnson at fault here? it is a whole host. it is facebook‘s fault for creating these echo chambers we have seen creating these echo chambers we have seen across creating these echo chambers we have seen across the political spectrum. we should blame borisjohnson foreign using the dog whistles and that's exactly what he wants. it is the fault of the people for writing these ugly islamaphobic messages. borisjohnson these ugly islamaphobic messages. boris johnson knew these ugly islamaphobic messages. borisjohnson knew exactly these ugly islamaphobic messages. boris johnson knew exactly what these ugly islamaphobic messages. borisjohnson knew exactly what he was doing. he didn't carelessly used language and dismiss it as a joke. the reason he hasn't apologised is by making the comments that he did he is appealing to exactly the part of the conservative party that he wa nts to of the conservative party that he wants to appeal to to make his future leadership pitch which i am expecting some time. it is a dog whistle. it is a very calculated show. it is all of peace. we
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surprised that these comments absolutely not. he is personally not responsible for the comments but it does say here that the members of the team who administer the groups could yet and delete these comments and they haven't done so. let's turn to the independent. another party having problems. there is an anti—semitism training course which should be run at the labour conference. 0ne should be run at the labour conference. one of the groups part of it are pulling out. i should say that this is just in the independent and they should be another side to the story. it looks like the group that was there to run the anti—semitism training was told that they had to take out its offcourse that they would have used in the training. in particular, labour wa nted training. in particular, labour wanted it to ken livingstone who
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park —— sparked this debate, he said that hitler supported zionism. that is one of the core events that brought attention of anti—semitism in the labour party into the public and the idea that the labour party is trying to censor that from being involved in its own anti—semitism training is frankly shocking.” involved in its own anti—semitism training is frankly shocking. i also have to say, after african—americans bringing me into political life and getting the interested in political life, it was all the jews and they we re life, it was all the jews and they were the left and that is howl life, it was all the jews and they were the left and that is how i came in. i have no idea what is going on here but to put labour and anti—semitism even in the same sentence makes anti—semitism even in the same sentence makes me anti—semitism even in the same sentence makes me physically ill and i hope somehow that this just gets sorted. i don't know what happens here, they need to clean this up. let's turn to the telegraph. police fears as major crime probe. the
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metropolitan police employs 42 civilians at a cost of £22 million. west midlands employs 126. the scary bit is that somehow they think that this is a new trick scenario where you got civilians investigating crimes even though they may have beenin crimes even though they may have been in the police force. you have got problems with miscarriage of justice, these things have to go to court and if they find one little inch that is a mistake, it is thrown out. this is a real scare story. it's frightening. some of those cases they are talking about, we are talking about tried to work on serious investigations including child—abuse, terrorist offences, even homicide. the implications, maybe there are more later on, it is
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about cuts to police funds. the conservative party's last bid to save money. whatever happened to the home secretary? what was her name ain? home secretary? what was her name again? the home office that has said it isa again? the home office that has said it is a operational matter. we are just the civilians, right. let's finish on the mirror. a fabulous story. this is so fabulous. this is lucy clark who is now going to be, nick has transitioned to lucy and is now the first ever transgender
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rapper re—. now the first ever transgender rapper re-. people know her now. she has billing with all of this and coming out to herfans —— dealing. she is not worried about the players and says she will be as tough with red cards. she is hoping that the fa ns red cards. she is hoping that the fans will accept her. and they will, this is a wonderful story. everybody will love her. when you get out on that pitch, lucy, injoyous. she looks fantastic. we are ending they are. “— looks fantastic. we are ending they are. —— enjoy it. 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 — 7 days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers — and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. a big thank you to my guest this evening, bonnie greer, and rachel cunliffe and goodbye.
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