tv The Papers BBC News September 8, 2018 11:30pm-11:45pm BST
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hello. this is bbc news with ben bland. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines. labour mp chuka umunna has said jeremy corbyn supporters are driving centre—left mps out of the party, as he urged the leader to "call off the dogs". russian warplanes have launched fresh strikes on the syrian province of idlib. turkey and the united nations have warned of a humanitarian catastrophe in the event of an all—out offensive. new powers designed to end nuisance calls from personal injury and claim management firms come into force today. companies will have to make sure people have opted in to receive their calls. a couple and a child have had a miraculous escape after a tube train went over the top of them at baker street station in london. there are people everywhere. just stick to the plan. let's do this. and we hear the true story of one of the biggest heists in us history in american animals.
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we'll find out what mark kermode thought of that and the rest of this week's releases in the film review at 11:16. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. if you are looking for my team, i'm afraid you have the ben bland bus replacement service. with me are benedicte paviot, france 24's uk correspondent and president of the foreign press association and economist, ruth lea. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in, including the observer, which says a poll has revealed members of britain's three biggest trade unions now support a new referendum on brexit by a margin of more than 2:1. the mail on sunday says borisjohnson has triggered a fresh political storm by accusing theresa may of wrapping a "suicide vest" around britain and handing the detonator to brussels. according to the sunday times,
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the tory party is diving into a bitter civil war over dirty tricks after it was revealed that theresa may's aides drew up a dossier on borisjohnson‘s sex life in an apparent effort to prevent him from becoming prime minister. the sunday telegraph has justice secretary david gauke calling for as many prisoners as possible to be given telephones in their cells in an attempt to help with rehabilitation. the sunday express carries a full—page headline with claims that a former kgb officer has exposed how russia demanded murders of dissidents in an identical method to the salisbury attack. well, plenty for us to get our teeth into theirjust well, plenty for us to get our teeth into their just the front pages alone. let start with the daily mail and thisjive
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alone. let start with the daily mail and this jive i alone. let start with the daily mail and thisjive i borisjohnson that alone. let start with the daily mail and this jive i borisjohnson that a rather unfortunate choice of words perhaps one that gets headlines. macro one —— —— jibe. perhaps one that gets headlines. macro one -- -- jibe. very much like him. he said the suicide vest detonator was headed to michel barnier but obviously an escalation ofa warof barnier but obviously an escalation of a war of words between various factions in the conservative party andi factions in the conservative party and i think and other paper was saying it is almost a bitter civil war breaking out. i do find this very dispiriting. joking apart, it isn't very funny because after all, this country is trying to negotiate one of the most important bit the negotiations it has done for decades, ever since world war two, in other words, an appreciation of oui’ in other words, an appreciation of our new relationship and exit from the european union. so, joking apart, not funny, the country is facing a lot of challenges and to see such disarray within the government ranks, or indeed the
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conservative party, isn't terribly helpful. benedicte, behind the attention grabbing headlines, there are some details in the article about the deep divisions and the split that seems to be getting wider and wider. well, i think this is putting flesh on the bone we have seen for a long time. i agree with roofs, this is typical boris language. —— ruth. in the run—up to the party conference, we have the tuc this week, the labour party, liberal democrats, we have of course the conservative party conference, and these are borisjohnson 's first public comments since it has been made official he is splitting from his wife and a very long 25 year marriage, and this is the mail on sunday pointing out obviously but this is paving the way for a potential leadership did. now, they call it a ferocious attack and it is
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indeed ferocious on his former boss the prime minister —— bid. he said her feeble handling of the brexit negotiations have quite "pathetic checkers deal" and the government 's quote" semi— masochistic relationship with the eu." he is known to his plain speaking and certainly, very true to form. but what is interesting, whereas some observers speculate mrjohnson 's marital crisis would actually torpedo his lifelong dream of becoming prime minister, is this him continuing to clear the decks, really, and clearly beginning or continuing i should say, to set out his stall with this kind of language about wrapping a suicide vest around the british constitution? is also interesting is the fact that jeremy hunt is in the article as well, going head—to—head with boris
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johnson and saying "wait a second. this is the prime minister who is trying to do her best for britain. what everyone should be doing is actually uniting behind her." he then have a third part of this article which is about the so—called numberten article which is about the so—called number ten explosive dirtied dossier oi'i number ten explosive dirtied dossier on bojo. allegedly. allegedly. within westminster it is common knowledge that the whips have a bit of stuff on everyone. you have a fourth part also which basically says there was a chuck checkers proposal. so which basically... postponed. the thing is to chuck it completely but the document drawn up byjacob rees—mogg completely but the document drawn up by jacob rees—mogg is, completely but the document drawn up byjacob rees—mogg is, european research group, has been postponed. i want to move on and don't worry, there is plenty of opportunity to talk about brexit! it is the front page of the independent as well. while all of this is going on in the
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uk, apparently within the eu they came up with an option that would solve, be an answer to the question of the northern ireland border. and according to this exclusive, it was dismissed out of hand by uk cabinet ministers. who knows. who knows. who knows what the up cake but reform eu ‘s suggestions was and what the reaction was that the problem is what every other day we have one story saying "0h what every other day we have one story saying "oh dear, the talks are falling apart and michel barnier hates the deal" and then we have "it is possible to have a perth deal" and then we have "if you pay your £39 billion we can have an agreement on trade agreement" and the next thing you see talks collapse. can you make of all this? as michel barnier who was the commission's main negotiator who i think is doing a very good job for the commission by the way, he keeps telling us the clock is ticking. of course it is.
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initially the idea was to have the whole negotiation settled by the end of october. now it looks like it is going into november. the truth is they are running out of time to do a deal and the tragedy of the border situation, it has been blown out of all proportion. this could be basically settled electronically but somehow... the eu has... it has become weaponised. can i get your thoughts on the observer front page, benedicte? still on brexit, surprise. massive union backing for a second eu vote. from your role within the foreign press association, do you think there would be an interest and an appetite in following up or do you think it would be a case of rolling the eyes and thinking they cannot make up their mind? the role of the foreign press association which covers correspondence from all over the globe who have often been indifferent postings, including other european countries, are of
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course very interested. i and others course very interested. land others would be reporting on this. we should say it is the uk of poll, it is members of unite, unison and the gmb, andl is members of unite, unison and the gmb, and i think there is great interest and l gmb, and i think there is great interest and i think there is high profile guest such as jean miller only last week —— yougov. we have had the 3 million representing the rights of the eu citizens and of course it is of great interest to out course it is of great interest to our members, not only because we have people who are eu citizens working as correspondence, and their families, and the schooling and all of that but of course we want to report very accurately and so we are talking to a lot of those people as well. i do not think this will come asa well. i do not think this will come as a huge surprise. there is clearly as a huge surprise. there is clearly a momentum and there is talk about possibly because of what is happening within the labour party and the conservative party, that is being watched carefully also by fellow colleagues from around the world with great interest. will there be another type of party that
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will be created in the uk? there we think about that this week. a second recommend, —— referendum, there would be riots in the streets i think. it was made clear the result was meant to be binding and binding means binding. in other words, people voted for it should happen. ireland has a second vote on the joining the lisbon treaty, didn't they? then they have the... that was they? then they have the... that was the eu. we are britain. if we want to behave like the eu, fine. but i think if you had a second referendum, it will be a betrayal of what david cameron promised the british people back injune 2016. but other people feel equally strongly, to make a point on the other side of the argument, that actually what should be voted on ben is the actual deal and of course what we have not even mentioned, putting all that aside, there is no
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majority in parliament, it would seem, four dl... —— fora majority in parliament, it would seem, four dl... —— for a deal. majority in parliament, it would seem, four dl. .. -- for a deal. a binding referendum. putting brexit to the side for a moment. good! the telegraph has a story about rehabilitating prisoners by giving them a phone. did you think it would work? i will revise what he said la st work? i will revise what he said last hour. it is interesting. it seems that quite a lot of evidence that has been given to mr gauke that this would help of the behaviour of —— well, this would help of the behaviour of — — well, overcrowded this would help of the behaviour of —— well, overcrowded prisons —— and it seems that he has visited germany re ce ntly it seems that he has visited germany recently and it has been successful so recently and it has been successful so let us be clear, residents would pay for their own phone calls. they would be limited to set preapproved numbers with prisoners still required to pay, as l
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numbers with prisoners still required to pay, as i said, for their own calls. but it seems the real friction, —— there their own calls. but it seems the realfriction, —— there is their own calls. but it seems the real friction, —— there is real friction because they have to wait for a phone call and they don't have privacy. it's a bloody good idea. the nhs now, the front page of the telegraph. using ai could avoid the need to find 600,000 more staff? this is ian cummings, the chief executive of health education england and he has his crystal ball and is saying the demand for nhs services will inevitably rise in forthcoming years, not least of all because of the ageing population, and says edu use ai much better than we are doing —— he says you need to use. if i am allowed to say this, when i say a i think of a different set of letters so to speak. i always think of artificial insemination. or, 0k! think of artificial insemination. or, ok! i am a farmer 's daughter!
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when i see that, i think... that would be another story altogether, ruth. i said that because i need to think of something to say. keep going. it is recommended that there needs to be a real effort on unhealthy lifestyles which would also be key to easing the pressure is on the nhs. we have seen this before. nevertheless... the sunday times has a story about the defence secretary ordering hundreds of british troops to remain in germany a p pa re ntly british troops to remain in germany apparently to deter russian aggression. as germany really need british troops there? clearly gavin williamson thinks so. he says it would seem that the forthcoming conservative party conference which of course is meant, the sunday times tell us, is a stark warning to vladimir putin and of course we know there is no love lost quite a while between and moscow. it seems the
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defence secretary has decided to tearup the defence secretary has decided to tear up the plans to withdraw all forces from germany by 2020. people keep those forward bases on the central european plane and it seems that that means the 200 or more service men and 400 family members, they will not be coming home as planned in the next year. so for some, it will be bad news. those in germany apparently include an engineering regiment at his nato's leading unit for river crossings and cakes. i think this is pretty observed. —— tanks. does he really expect russian troops to come marching across the border, across poland or the baltic states?|j marching across the border, across poland or the baltic states? i don't think so. i think it is a discussion we can pick up another time. we are out of time. no time for streatley come dancing? -- strictly. it starts
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tonight, we will all be watching it on catch up, i am sure. to benedicte and ruth, thank you. on catch up, i am sure. to benedicte and ruth, thank youlj on catch up, i am sure. to benedicte and ruth, thank you. i have not been asked to go on that show, you know. clearly a n asked to go on that show, you know. clearly an oversight! that's it for the papers tonight. our next edition is at 9:30 tomorrow morning. don't forget, you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. coming up next, it's the film review. goodbye.
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