tv The Papers BBC News February 9, 2019 11:30pm-11:45pm GMT
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the sunday telegraph says sir philip green's retail empire arcadia is facing accusations of a cover—up after the omission of crucial witness testimonies in a report into sexual harassment. a head teachers‘ union has applauded a planned strike by school pupils who will walk out of lessons on friday over climate change. that's according to the sunday express which also carries tonight's news that the duke of edinburgh has given up his driving licence. the sunday times says a generation of children are at risk of grooming and sexual exploitation due to the failure of tech giants to enforce adult age limits on dating apps. lets start with the front page of the observer and chris grayling, mps are uniting to tell the prime minister to sack him fall his
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various fiascoes. he must be the most accident prone minister almost ever. by this time last year, he was having a real battle to actually survive because you remember the railway times going wrong. he always blames everybody else apart from himself... not the only politician to do so... but he seems to do it with more regularity than others. he hires a ferry firm with no fairies, they had an irish back who had some ferries but the irish back has pulled out so he's back to the situation of no fairies. as a result mps saying this is ridiculous and it has to go. one of the tory remainers says he should be considering his position. my view is he will not go,
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hit theresa may cannot afford to sack anyone. he will stay until perhaps the next mistake. except we are talking about planning rather late in the day for brexit and it is about putting extra ferries on the help bolster and mitigate against the inevitable problems and delays people are expecting on the route. he might get away with it for a little bit longer but if he manages to have the same cock up on the ferries has it did on the train, i think people will be after blood. this is in the event of a no deal. laughter. yes, but this is ramsgate, this company have been advertising,
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recruiting staff, some work done on dredging the harbour which is to be quite a busy port. there are is worked going on that has been a cost to the local council and the best in oui’ to the local council and the best in our stock has any impact. and this is one of the poorest parts of the country. in the sunday express, and other brexit story. all sorts of conspiracies. here is another one. whether this is quite the conspiracy we will have to see. allegedly — it has only happened because the rope pictures to prove it — john has only happened because the rope pictures to prove it —john boko meeting ken clarke. the first thing is that you think about a plot, a rotten is that you think about a plot, a rotte n pla ce is that you think about a plot, a rotten place to pot because it is full of mps and journalists. it is ken clarke's favourite restaurant,
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you will seem on the left—hand side of the last table at the. we know bmb of the last table at the. we know lamb curry and be was on the menu but at one point boko turns around and says we do we go from here... berkow. it is not clear what kind of plot this might have been. andrew regan who is a leading brexiteer saying they are tanned re traitors. it is fantastic advertising. —— tandori traitors many mps thinking that berkow is trying to stop
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brexit... that berkow is trying to stop brexit. .. unhelpful. trying to support mps who want to delay amendments to the vote. i think there have been rows that his wife has anti— brexit stickers on her car. what is great about them as a couple is that, as berkow says, his wife can do exactly as she wants. and she has done! on the sunday times, it has its investigation into the child victims of dating apps. times, it has its investigation into the child victims of dating appsm isa the child victims of dating appsm is a curious one. the issue is an investigation by the sunday times and the discovery that dating apps do not seem to have any age
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verification that works. they quote horrific figures coming from the police. children who did not have any kind of checks. one reporter signed on as a 17—year—old on tender and, again, no checks. i do not understand enough about this kind of technology to know how they would prove it. grinder requires users to state they are over 18 but no checks and then arranges real—life lookups. we know perfectly well that children will say they are over 18. i do not quite understand the technology that you would need in order to verify and, even if he were to scan a birth certificate, you could or somebody
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else's. it is full of loopholes but it comes back to the conversation that we have been having nationally, highlighted last week that concern about the access that young people have two unfettered internet material. this is that the people who want to go on a date and in this case, at—year—old, 14 year olds. as nigel said, it is a conversation that parents and mps need to have, we need to understand the technology because it is very easy to say do not understand and i'm sure what you are doing, dear. your paper, nigel, the sunday mirror and you are going with the story about prince philip. this is the third week running this
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story. last week it was the apology that prince philip had sent to emma fairweather, whose wrist was broken in the accident. we demand that an apology the previous week. now he is off the road and emma fairweather says she feels are lot safer, and a lot of us do. i think, you know, that lots of people who have elderly relatives who are still driving and there are concerns people driving into their70s, there are concerns people driving into their 70s, 80s and 90s who are i'io into their 70s, 80s and 90s who are no worse than people who have just passed their test but i think, again, it is a conversation people find difficult to have about when to use find difficult to have about when to use au should give up driving. mercifully, nobody was seriously
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injured but it was a nasty accident and it could have been worse and obviously prince philip has drivers around but it is about independence. he would have people to be able to drive him around. but it is not the same. that is true. a commentator saying that while chris philip was conducting royal duties with her majesty, he would have been driven with that but now driving independently for himself now that he is retired would have been something he enjoyed but now no longer. a nice photo of elizabeth warren, who has just longer. a nice photo of elizabeth warren, who hasjust declared had candidacy for the democratic party in 2020. she was a republican but switched to the democrats in the 90s.
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switched to the democrats in the 905. a switched to the democrats in the 90s. a harvard law professor, massachusetts senator, she is 69 and quite a significant player in financial compensation schemes in america and she needles donald trump which i think... the most important thing... he has been a very quick to tweet— obviously— as soon as she announced her campaign and he has rehashed the row that she has apologised for and will probably still be damaging claiming she has native american heritage and went through a dna test which native american cherokees said it was not enough to say you are a cherokee. he calls the fate pocahontas —— fake. another woman, a californian,
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harris, a frontrunner for the democrat it candidacy. the trouble is the cherokees thing is a problem. it is not sure footed. you claimed native american heritage, doing a dna test which shows you only have a tiny even a, like we have neanderthal dna, and when the cherokees turnaround and say heritage is about culture, joining in and being part of it, that seems to mea in and being part of it, that seems to me a bit ofa in and being part of it, that seems to me a bit of a blunder, not good when you are launching a campaign to start with a blunder. the sunday times, bafta favourite stars. we have both seen the films.|j
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times, bafta favourite stars. we have both seen the films. i am seeing at tomorrow. olivia colman looks fabulous because she did not looks fabulous because she did not look glamorous as queen. rachel bites and a mistake, three leading ladies in what is a fabulous philon andl ladies in what is a fabulous philon and i hope they win. i will watch tomorrow i hope i enjoy it. and i hope they win. i will watch tomorrowl hope i enjoy it. you will! olivia colman had to transform herself so much but what i think is interesting, you suddenly think, i didn't know very much about queen and or the politicians around her. i cannot believe you will know all about them when they appear. i thought they were excellent, all performances. let's go to the front page of the mail which is no natural
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fan ofjeremy corbyn but has assembled quite a list of ajit keeps to describe him. it has really gone to describe him. it has really gone to town on this one because they bought up tom bower‘s biography of jeremy corbyn and he has turned off a lot of people are now he's giving jeremy corbyn a real hairdryer treatment. the paper no great friend ofjeremy corbyn and the labour party and they are having a field day. what we see there, nothing hugely new. or that you would not expect. the instance, thatjeremy and corbyn is following lennon and trotsky to seize power. some staff that you think is terribly funny.
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for example, jeremy corbyn was on the brink of retiring and keep bees had. i think that is very amusing. he went to meet cuban leader, fidel castro, and was offered meat and abandoned his well— known castro, and was offered meat and abandoned his well—known vegetarian stamps. in the current political climate, it is everything to play for. if there was a sensational allegation, may be the other 19 pages we have not seen, but they think they would put it at the front. many thanks indeed. that is it for the papers tonight. you can see the front pages on the website. and if you miss the programme, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer.
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a big thank you to my guests this evening, nigel nelson and jo phillips. next, it is the film review. hello there and welcome to the film review here on bbc news. taking us through this week's cinema releases, we have mark kermode. what have you got in store for us this week, mark? something for everyone. we have the lego movie 2, i know you're a huge lego movie fan. we have if beale street could talk, the new film by barryjenkins. and alita — battle angel, fantasy set in a dystopian future, is there any other kind?
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