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tv   The Papers  BBC News  February 16, 2019 11:30pm-11:46pm GMT

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hello. this is bbc news with vicki young. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment with henry mance and anne ashworth. first, the headlines: regional airline flybmi has announced that it has suspended all flights and is filing for administration. thejustice secretary has said the government's main priority has to be the safety of the public, when considering the case of shamima begum. the funeral of the footballer emiliano sala, who died last month in a plane crash, has taken place in his native argentina. a 27—year—old man has appeared in court, charged with the murders of three elderly men in exeter. and thousands of criminals in england and wales will be tagged with gps trackers to allow authorities to trace them 2a hours a day. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
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bringing us tomorrow. with me are henry mance, political correspondent at the financial times, and anne ashworth, associate editor of the times. most of tomorrow's front pages are now in. the sunday times claims that britain's richest man and prominent brexiteer, sirjim ratcliffe, is working on a tax exile plan which could save him billions of pounds. the us is warning european governments to take backjihadists captured in syria, or risk a surge of terror attacks. that's in the sunday telegraph. according to the observer, the home office is selling the services of its immigration officials to private companies, as part of the hostile environment strategy. the mail on sunday reports on labour's deepening anti—semitism row. and the sunday express says brexiteers are furious over a plan by the eu to send food aid
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to feed britain's poor, in the event of a no—deal brexit. so, a varied set of front pages. let's see what our reviewers make of it all. we are going to start with the sunday telegraph and the story about 800 jihadis willing to unleash isil on the west. this is a warning from america to take these people back. it seems to be a call to action, other than to repatriate, to take some other measures for all the jihadis that are held by the kurds, we re jihadis that are held by the kurds, were backed by the americans somewhere northern syria. there are several thousand former isis fighters being held by those forces and america says europe, you have got to sort out this problem. now, easier said than done because nobody
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really knows how to deal with these people, whether they should be taken back will try and, at the americans and possibly want to send there is to guantanamo, and this comes against the backdrop of all the questions that have been posed by the shamima begum issue. remember, thatis the shamima begum issue. remember, that is this young girl who married in shamima begum fighter, she now wa nts to in shamima begum fighter, she now wants to come back to britain and two cabinet ministers are opposed as to what we should do with this young woman. who knows what we should do with all these seasoned fighters, these people have committed acts of terror and being part of a death cult? now, it is very interesting, the kurds started to raise this at the kurds started to raise this at the end of last year with the americans and the americans seem to be thinking right, the issue is coming to the top of the agenda but nobody has any easy answers to this oi’ nobody has any easy answers to this orany nobody has any easy answers to this or any answers nobody has any easy answers to this oi’ any answers at nobody has any easy answers to this or any answers at all. no, do you think the government has thought through what they might do? as you
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say, even agreeing about what they do with a 19—year—old teenage girl, let alone seasoned fighters. do with a 19—year—old teenage girl, let alone seasoned fightersm do with a 19—year—old teenage girl, let alone seasoned fighters. it is the same two sides of the argument. one is these people have forfeited their right to british, so they can't come back, and that is the approach we have with the associates ofjihadijohn, approach we have with the associates ofjihadi john, that their citizenship was taken away and they are due to be tried in the us, and the other line is that, we can't do that, we can't leave people status. imagine another country said that people who have committed crimes in other countries, we are not taking them back, poland, for example. i think we would be very unhappy with that. i think we want to avoid is a trial on british soil that will turn into a circus, it would be very difficult to prosecute people, and would turn into potentially a propaganda opportunity. we do not wa nt propaganda opportunity. we do not want these people in britishjails, where they potentially might radicalise other people. let's move
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on to the sunday times and their story is richest man quits the uk to save billions, this is about the brexiteer sirjim ratcliffe, and they are saying that he is planning tax exile. now, what do we know about this? well, the sunday times is reporting that he is in discussions with pwc, his accountant about moving the business. he owns most of these chemicals firm, seek and basically do what he likes with it and even though britain is heading for brexit, which is something he supported and said we will be great on our own, at something he supported and said we will be great on our own, et cetera, he has decided that the tax might be better, in one occasion he might save up to £4 billion in tax, that is money that otherwise would be going to the treasury and being spent on public services. so you have a list of politicians were very unhappy with that, vince cable of the lib dems, chair of the parliamentary committee and the labourmp. parliamentary committee and the labour mp. these are the sort of
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people in business who do not seem to have any loyalty to the country, this is something that theresa may pointed out last year when she gave her speech. perhaps we should not be surprised, i think people will start to say that there is an interplay between government and business. government asks for favours, jim ratcliffe got a knighthood last year that he is also asked walks changes to fracking policy, he gets government grants occasionally. —— he has also asked for. pwc is advising him, this is tax avoidance, not evasion, is something that can be done legally and he is getting advice about at. pwc, one major accountancy firms, there are conniptions over this because if they are seen to sanction this very effective tax saving scheme that they have devised for him and his business, they would be at risk of not winning the public sector contracts. also, they would be
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associated with tax avoidance, which, you know, it does not go down well politically and we have got some of the politicians pointing out that the tax money he is pursuing, a freelance workers and others, a very small sums, meanwhile this man is going to avoid billions possibly. his company is a massive company, worth about £35 billion and has received government grants for some of its activities in the past. look, this is a great story because it gets everybody talking and he has been one of the cheerleaders brexit. he should be staying and paying his tax here, both for his business and personally. let's talk about brexit. theresa may's unity plea shattered by lea ked theresa may's unity plea shattered by leaked whatsapp messages, this is the famous whatsapp grouping. there are so many that are going on, this
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is the erg, the famous group of brexit is in the tory party. one of the leading lights have been talking about a split in the party, we're been talking about the possibility of that, but he not happy, he thinks that theresa may's strategies are wrong. will talking about this just a few weeks ago, now it seems to have evaporated. prime minister lost a vote in parliament this week but now privately, steve baker is telling other mp5 that a continued negotiations with brussels are complete waste of time. if you are the prime minister, i think you'll be furious about this because she has written this letter to the tory mps, which outlines all the heads of state and heads of government she is talking to, i'm going to talk to the heads of government of all eu countries, and lobbying for this change the backstop, this controversial part of the withdrawal deal and there are going to more talks this week, and here is a sort of organiser the eurosceptic saying you might as well forget it. and that points towards the end of this month, which is a crucial date, and
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another boat expected in parliament and theresa may at the moment looks like she will lose because she no longer has control of her own party. -- is longer has control of her own party. --isa longer has control of her own party. —— is a sort of organiser of the eurosceptics. i think the prime minister did think the letter would be quite powerful, she said brexit is not easy but we are a broad church, we can deliver it. as henry said, she did detail everybody she was going to see. meanwhile, all the parties are just was going to see. meanwhile, all the parties arejust on was going to see. meanwhile, all the parties are just on their phones like teenagers, sending whatsapp m essa 9 es like teenagers, sending whatsapp m essa g es to like teenagers, sending whatsapp messages to each other and then screenshot in those messages and sending them to the papers. one wonders why the woman above is. meanwhile, wejust wonders why the woman above is. meanwhile, we just see wonders why the woman above is. meanwhile, wejust see reiterated the erg of‘s fear that in combination, mrs may an eu just want
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to run down, get everything to the last minute and so everybody agrees, and they are determined not to fall in line because of the irish backstop. —— mrs may end the eu. and we stand ? backstop. —— mrs may end the eu. and we stand? in the same old confusion ofa we stand? in the same old confusion of a week ago. steve baker, is common to the sunday times is what will it take for the pm to accept that we will not accept the backstop in its current form? question and no answer. we will see in another two weeks's time. it is now look at the observer and the home office is hiring of staff to private organisations, although not quite as clear as we thought about who they are doing this work for, is it? and who they are advising. i think i must be quite a simple person because i like a story to tell me the who, what, where, why very, very simply. i'm quite baffled, essentially the number seems to be
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that in order to make sure that people are not overstaying their welcome in this country, the home office is going to hire out its staff to be there at hospital appointments apparently in other places, where people you may be overstaying their welcome, are present and see whether they should either stay or go. but i am not clear whether this is merely the redeployment of civil servants and various other government departments, or whether they are going out to private companies. now, if we thought that they were going to employers, i think we might be slightly nervous about that. i would just like to know a little bit more about this story. i suppose the question is whether they are just trying to enforce rules and help companies, i suppose. yes, and obviously people like the nhs are employing lots of people from around the world. they may not be experts in what information these people need to have or what documents these people need to have. i think the
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crucial thing here is about the implementation, so we know the home office has been accused of being overzealous in the way that, for example, with windrush migrants, but all sorts of people have stories about i did not have this piece of paper for about i did not have this piece of paperfora about i did not have this piece of paper for a completely valid reason and yet the home office regarded that as a complete failure and kicked me out of the country. so thatis kicked me out of the country. so that is becoming part of applying for a job, then that is becoming part of applying forajob, thenl that is becoming part of applying for a job, then i think some people will be concerned. let's look at the other major story from the observer. anger as minister's speech halts china visit. he is so diplomatic, isn't she? this trip to china no longer seems to be on.|j isn't she? this trip to china no longer seems to be on. i think it is pretty clear that they will weeks of planning indeed for trip for phillip hammond to go to china, took a british exports and all that kind of thing as they do, and that is not
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going to happen now, at least for the perceivable future and the treasury 's the perceivable future and the treasury '5 view is that gavin williamson. these two ministers have a very bad relationship over all kinds of things, but i think it shows a real difficulty for britain's foreign policy. we have people like theresa may and gavin williamson, have a very sceptical view of china, they have security concerns view of china, they have security concerns and people around them with security priorities, and people like phillip hammond have investment and economic priorities and they think would be much more similar to david cameron george osborne back in the day, and global britain does not mean global britain as a guarantor of international law, sending warships around the world, or does it mean britain trading with whoever we can because you want to boost our economy? yes, that tension will a lwa ys economy? yes, that tension will always be there, wanted? it is also always be there, wanted? it is also a sign of the differences, the rift within the cabinet. they do not seem to be able to agree a common, concerted line on anything, and whatever one may think of the
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chinese regime, we will probably need to have closer links with them post—brexit and maybe phillip hammond is willing to go there and hold his nose and makes deals. just finishing on the sunday times, there isa finishing on the sunday times, there is a photo of meghan markle there, the quote from her saying oh my god, a p pa re ntly the quote from her saying oh my god, apparently about male pay at universities. interesting that she is speaking out, showing what she really thinks about things. she is quite outspoken, she thinks that academia is dominated by white men, and that the syllabus is not broad enough, does not take in enough people of colour, and also, i think she was also quite surprised to see that many of these universities do not have many women in professor oriol and other lecture roles. i think this is really interesting that she has got a view on this and she is obviously willing to be outspoken, but good gracious me, what kind of social media reaction is there going to be to this? ——
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