tv The Papers BBC News August 11, 2019 10:30pm-11:00pm BST
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we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines. the prime minister pledges two—and—a—half billion pounds to create ten—thousand new prison places — and says all police forces will be given extended stop and search powers. the fbi is investigating the death of the multi—millionaire businessman and convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein, who was found dead in his new york prison cell. police in hong kong fire tear gas at pro—democracy protesters in the tenth consecutive weekend of anti—government demonstrations. an 18—year—old man who got into difficulty in the sea off the essex coast has died — days after his teenage sister lost her life in the same incident.
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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are journalist and author, yasmin alibhai—brown and former conservative advisor, mo hussein. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the i leads on a story we've covered today — borisjohnson‘s promise to expand stop—and—search powers. drug lords are luring children as young as seven into crime, by offering them free food — that's according to the metro. bankerjob cuts make the front page of the financial times. it says almost 30,000 job losses globally have been announced since april. the telegraph reports on a government crackdown on social media which, the paper says, will see tech giants heavily fined for showing harmful videos. and the guardian reveals that hundreds of people deported from the uk were restrained by methods including shackles and belts.
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that information was provided to the newspaper after a freedom of information request. so, a varied set of front pages — let's see what our reviewers make of it all. we're going to start off with the telegraph. why do you talk us through what it is, tech giants to be fined millions for toxic videos. this seems to be often discussed in government in whitehall but not really acted upon, action against tech companies for showing videos that are harmful against children or depicting violence, and it will result in, you know, hit the bottom line of these big tech giants, hit it where it hurts, resulting in fines. when i was in the home 0ffice, fines. when i was in the home office, we did a lot of work with tech giants, in terms of taking down illegal content, terrorist content, and there was a lot of focus on them
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coming up with the solutions. it feels like we have now moved on whether government is creating the solution and imposing it upon them. but i think this raises a lot of questions in terms of how it can be enforced, who will watch these videos and decides what is good, what is bad, and the key thing is it has to be international. it doesn't just exist in the uk so where is the international consensus to try and reel with this problem? that's exactly right this is very interesting, though. quite low down in this story there is an acknowledgement, even in the telegraph, that this move has been made possible by the legislation set out in eu directive, so the eu certainly has been talking about action —— to talking about taking action —— to talking about taking action for a long time. i personally asked nick clegg this march at the facebook headquarters what they were
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going to do about this, and he said well, government should be regulating. i said to him, you know very well, exactly what mo said, a single group of governments aren't as strong as you skies, it has to be much than that. they have been shoving responsivity on to government, will see. are you vaguely optimistic or pessimistic that this will make a difference?” am optimistic, i think it is quite a big step to take for the government. to actually take this step, along with things like the digital services tax that is meant to be coming in, it is quite significant i think the thing to watch, actually, is what the us reaction will be. trump has already spoken about attacking, these are american companies being attacked, will this behaviour played to a future trade deal, and how will it impact them? there is more to come. but the issue is very real, it really impacts on
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people's lives, the live streaming issue, technology can be a wonderful thing but it cannot be without any caveats, these things definitely need to be tackled, and they are the ones who created it so they should know how to do it. it is a huge issue, we will be revisiting it on a fairly regularly —— regular basis. as live under the ft, the financial times, global dance —— banks cut 30,000 jobs as investment climate darkens. reading it through, i got the sense, i mean, you know, there is notjust one sector of the banking industry which is finding it ha rd banking industry which is finding it hard to operate or is it one stage, but i get, as you read on, in new york, injobs in commodities and securities fell by 2%, there are all kinds of sectors that don't seem to be doing as well as they did. but to
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me it felt like this was the first warning sign of a global recession. i felt that very... i don't know. yes, i think so. it struck me that we in the uk are so focused on and understandably on brexit at the end of october, and the impact that will have on the economy here, but there are other things happening around the world as well that we are not immune to. and this showed to me the internet connections that exist already between various economies, various businesses, but crucially the rise of automation. go back to technology and the fact that automation will take over people's jobs in the future and what is the future of work and how does it all play in? these are issues that are not just to be play in? these are issues that are notjust to be discussed here but clearly are happening all around the world. it is difficult, often, to try and rouse sympathy for bankers are losing jobs, given what happened
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in 2008, but the point is, yes, as you were saying, it has ramifications right across the economy. and this whole thing, this myth—making in many countries about let's go back to the good old homely ways, globalisation will have none of it, will go back to our cottage industries and be happy ever after, it isn't going to happen. when the global connectedness, as mo said, begins to crack, everybody suffers, really. so, i'm quite scared, actually, that at this seems to be the first ca nary actually, that at this seems to be the first canary in the mine. those 30,000 job cuts. let's leave the ft for a moment, let's come back to that and go to the metro now. this is quite a difficult story, lots of ways. the headline, chicken shop grooming of seven—year—olds. talk us through what is happening here. so, this is gangs using, or praying on
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vulnerable and extremely young children with things that are frankly the basis of life, like food, and getting them to go and probably transport drugs, in exchange for food, or other contraband. exchange for food, or other contra band. this goes exchange for food, or other contraband. this goes to the idea of cou nty contraband. this goes to the idea of county lines. a few years ago, people won't talk about this as much but people now are, which is the transportation of mostly drugs from the cities to the rural areas. the people doing the transporting children. and they are vulnerable children. and they are vulnerable children being preyed on by these gangs. when you see all this stuff about gang warfare and turf wars playing out in london, manchester, it feels like these are just the chess pieces on somebody else's board. they are being controlled by people much more powerful and much more higher up the chain, and this is what desperately needs to be broken. i think what is interesting here isa broken. i think what is interesting here is a primary school in east london has been showing a video
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about the chicken shop danger to day seven—year—olds. i mean, i have never come across space for children this young. they are hungry children in our country, there are children who can't afford very much at all and then it is so easy to draw them into place. they are particular vulnerable in that situation. do you think borisjohnson, vulnerable in that situation. do you think boris johnson, today, vulnerable in that situation. do you think borisjohnson, today, trying to talk tough on crime and law and order, is this the kind of issue that people will want dealt with?” think it is because i think this actually goes beyond the numbers in the headlines. the issue here really is it starts early on but it is about how crime is evolving, and how things arejust about how crime is evolving, and how things are just happening, you about how crime is evolving, and how things arejust happening, you know, it's a buzz of the country, but much more across the country in the more rural areas. mo, law and order, and
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priti patel saying we want criminals to feel terror and all of this billions suddenly being spent, where is this money come from? he's spending like it's an indian wedding or something, an endless supply of money! what is he doing? but what you need is care for these children, right up to teenagers. some of the facilities like youth centres genuinely being the parents, they are not often in a position to... to have, that is what we also need to be doing, and the money needs to go into that sector, not just the punitive measures, ithink. sounds good to tory voters. i think both have to happen. there is a case that by the time police get there, it is almost too late. all the stuff that happens before, stop these young people being exploited and being taken down this path into this life of crime is also a very big part of
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the solution. 0k, of crime is also a very big part of the solution. ok, let's move back to the solution. ok, let's move back to the front page of the financial times, but a different story. lawyers for exiting's alleged victims pledged to pursue the state after his death. ijust victims pledged to pursue the state after his death. i just found it really, even i, who has nothing to do with jeffrey epstein, i felt for those who had been complaining, and have been complaining since 2004, i think, and have never had the justice they sought, and now of course it all becomes impossibly difficult. of course lawyers are going to step in and offer them, you know, ways to get compensation, but i feel very strongly that the question only he could have answered he won't be there to answer sol hope they get something out of, some kind of redress. but it is not justice, is it? they should have taken justice, is it? they should have ta ken better care justice, is it? they should have taken better care of him in prison,
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really. mo, what you think? the investigations will now carry on, thatis investigations will now carry on, that is the absolute right from the alleged victims, but on top of that that they will go after the millions and millions of epstein's estate. yes, i mean, ithink there and millions of epstein's estate. yes, i mean, i think there is a lot of symbolism in that. and i think it will go some way towards helping people deal with whatever has happened but not any when it enough. i don't think it is going to make people rebuild their lives, take back what they've lost, emotionally, physically, so it doesn't matter because there are only so many ways that these things can happen now, given the circumstances, but i think it is enough. i was interviewed a victim ofjimmy savile, and she is a middle—class woman, and she said, i wish i had seen him answer questions
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in court. i didn't want his money, i didn't want anything, i wanted to hear him in court. this is really important, and now that has been made impossible. the alleged victim —— the alleged victims have been robbed of that moment. back to the front page of the telegraph, a small story but a much more uplifting one, wheeler praised for cancer revelation, my. yes, this was a story about marina wheeler who has publicly spoken about the treatment she has received and it had luckily been successful, and i think, this reminds me of thatjade goody situation as well, just about raising awareness for women to go and get these tests and just the awareness of the issues so i think that in itself is really, really important. anybody with a public platform who can do that, i think should. i think there is also
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something else very important to be said about this, it was a big store in the sunday times, that she has been going through all of this over this very fractious period when her ex—husband, do we call him? estranged husband has been with his girlfriend. you have to remember the emotional cost that must have been paid, and i'm really angry... it is beautifully written. she wrote it so beautifully. but at the same time, asa beautifully. but at the same time, as a woman, i do feel for her, hugely. she certainly got a lot of support for what she has been through and what she has come out and said yesterday and today. thank you both very much for your time in taking us through quickly all those papers. yasmin and mo will be back at ii.30pm for another look at the papers, and 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.
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thank you, yasmin and mo. next on bbc news, it's click. newsreel: stand by, please. stand by, alexandra palace. switch out, regions, switch out. and cut to palace. this is alexandra palace, the birthplace of television. 0n 2 november 1936, the world's first regular high—definition public television service was broadcast from there.
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tvjoined radio and the printed word in bringing us entertainment and information, to bring us together and broaden our minds. but these days, information has another way of getting out. social media has given us all the power to say whatever we want and show whatever we want, and that has caused several governments big problems. some countries like china, iran and saudi arabia block news and discussions about topics they don't want their people to hear about. but many more countries will sporadically block social media sites, slow down internet speeds or even switch off net access altogether to try and stifle unrest and dissent at sensitive times. and the country that shuts down net access the most is? india.
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and by far, the bulk of those shutdowns are in the disputed himalayan region of kashmir. this week, the indian government removed the special status of the part of the region that it administers. it was an unprecedented move that's seen schools closed, demos banned, leaders arrested and, of course, the internet shut down. a couple of weeks ago, david reid went to kashmir to find out more about the regular shutdowns that were happening there. as it turned out, he was one of the last foreign journalists to be allowed in. kashmir might look peaceful — it isn't. authorities here are fighting a long—running insurgency. many kashmiris and others say india is an occupier. almost 50,000 have died in decades of violence. even before this week's clampdown, authorities regularly shut down
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the mobile internet as i found during a recent visit. our business is an online food delivery service, it's the first online delivery service start—up in kashmir. more than 40 times this year, kashmir‘s mobile internet has been cut off or throttled back, not great for sales of chicken wraps or spicy mutton curry. what do you do when the internet is off? every time we have to call our customers, our data base customers and we try to send an smss that we are serviceable. last time, we had pamphlets and we distributed them to colleges and schools. it's going back to the 1950s and working without internet and internet is a very important part of your life right now. normally it's only the mobile internet cut off, not domestic broadband. why don't you just use broadband? it's just too expensive. broadband is more expensive than 46 and everyone can't afford a connection at home. the measure is unpopular and there are suspicions it's less about security than
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just stifling dissent. they are claiming we are the largest democracy in the world, but it's not a democracy because you can't suppress the voice of dissent in a democratic system. i headed over to speak to kashmir‘s police. interestingly, their internet policy seems less about foiling militant operations, but more about preventing propaganda and rumour. we are here fighting a proxy war. we see a lot of content from our neighbourhood coming here and trying to create a propaganda which is absolutely not correct and at times, that leads to a serious law and order problem. kashmiris joke that the internet is just a switch on some bureaucrat‘s desk and there is a feeling that it's all a bit too easy. there is no transparency. some shutdowns in india are frivolous. according to this tracker run by a delhi—based ngo, the mobile internet was cut off 30
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times in rajasthan last year. no insurgency there. and at least four of those were to prevent cheating in police recruitment exams. authorities say shutdowns are signed off by magistrates and audited. we have to take their word for it. the audits are secret. 0ur tracker is built around exposing reality of the internet shutdowns, the quantum of internet shutdowns in india. what we demand of the government is transparency. there is no government published data on shutdowns. but we also have to rely on citizens reportage. india is probably one of the strongest democracies to utilise this policy, which is problematic. india cuts of the internet more than any other country. ok, the population here is enormous and much of the time, india's internet has been pretty open. select censorship, but without
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a china—style content firewall. that said, critics contend that countries are taking india's lead, cutting off comms in a crisis. by the way, they also say shutdowns actually increase violence. what you are doing, if anything, in curtailing access to the internet is disallowing people the ability to organise, again, peaceful demonstrations which are well within the confines of the law. it creates a disrupted communication environment which potentially induces more chaos, more violence. this week's clampdown has meant a complete communications blackout — internet, phone, tv. the un's special rapporteur has called it draconian and kashmir has been gagged, cut off from the rest of the world. the lion king opening theme plays.
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the idea of embracing something that took what technology has to offer to create a photo real version of this story, as told through the eyes of what would feel like a documentary, a live action documentary crew, was an exciting prospect for us. disney refers to this as a live—action film, which is a bit misleading, but i think it is tonally correct, because we did use those techniques, and hopefully it does feel like something that was actually photographed, even though every shot — with the exception of one, actually, every shot in the film is completely computer—generated. and every performance is animated. we built it using tools to create essentially a completely digital 3d environment, and then you have 3d digital animals that are in that environment, and that's how you would do the final render of it, whether it was a marvel movie or whether it was a film like this. but since we already have those assets we could bring that into this consumer facing vr system,
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using in this case the unity game engine, and because we now have this environment and vr, we can have people enter into the digital set and be able walk around and look at it as though we were on a scout, and it allowed me to hire someone like caleb deschanel, who is a great cinematographer, who i've known for a long time and wanted to work with, but had no background in visual effects — and we made it user—friendly, so he could walk around with us, with the production designer, the visual effects supervisor and the director, look at the set, say, 0k, we should put the camera here, let's see the lion rehearse the scene, and the ad would hit the button and run the animation cycle, we would watch like you would in a regular set, you think about where he wants the light, we could move the sun if we had to, move some trees around, so we had a full live—action film crew in vr, operating camera equipment as though it were a live—action set.
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but we always tried to limit ourselves in what you could achieve in real life, and that is what gave it the aesthetic that people are reacting so well too. all right, let me see what we are dealing with here. it's a lion! phase one is this whole virtual shoot, where we do rough animation, we build rough versions of the sets, they look like rough video games, and you put it together, and you shoot every shot, and now you have a complete edit of the whole movie with dialogue and temporary music, and you really have every shot. it is notjust a study, these are choices that jon and caleb and the other filmmakers were putting into place. every one of those shots is like a 3d file, a data file, that comes here to mpc london and we have a layout department that works out all the space and all, and imports all those cameras and lines it up and makes sure the scene is going to work. animation department jumps right on the characters and starts creating the super delicate, fine performances. the environments and sets department creates the entire african savannah, painstakingly making literally thousands of plants and trees and rocks. life's not fair.
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is it, my little friend? and the lighting department and the simulation departments which add the movement of the water and the movement of the fur, they all come in and complete the realism, so the world, the character in the world, the way the light works off those materials, the way every blade of grass is moving, everything has to be just right. we're here! everyone, calm down, we are here. the backup has arrived! at its core, cinema comes from the tradition of illusion, and melies, and using all of these tools to make the audience believe they are seeing something that they are not. and that is part of the delight, i think, of something that is effects driven, especially if there is a wonderful story behind it to carry it. you must take your place... in the circle of life. lion roars. that was fascinating, wasn't it. if you liked that, then you might
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like to watch the full 20 minute chat with jon favreau, which is on our youtube channel. there he goes into everything from iron man and star wars to digital doubles and deepfakes. well worth a look, that's at youtube.com/bbcclick. that is the short version of this week's programme, you can find the full version on iplayer. don't forget we also live on facebook, instagram and twitter. that's all for now, thanks for watching and we will see you soon. the deepening. we've had further reports of flooding today, it is no
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surprise, in parts of northern england and southern scotland we've had a month's worth of rain in the last two or three days and the warnings persist through this evening, there is more rain due so your bbc local radio will have the travel disruptions and warnings on the website. tonight, the rain is slow to clear away, but the sharp showers do, so acquire to enter the night in scotland and northern ireland, quite chilly, actually, the low pressure pulls away and high pressure builds to the west and allows a north—westerly breeze across the uk coming right the way down from the poles so temperatures, actually, for quite some considerable time will be a little bit below average, both by day and night this week. as we go through monday, we have the risk of showers across northern areas still and the potential for heavier showers running into southern england, perhaps a few thundery outbreaks as well. the uncertainty is to how far north they will push. don't be
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surprised if you see some short sharp showers. a lot of dry weather tomorrow, northern ireland, much of scotland, central and southern parts of england and wales, those showers should dwindle across the country. it is cooler, but they should be more sunshine, lighter winds, so despite temperatures being a couple of degrees below average i think it will feel strong —— pleasant enough with a strong august sunshine. showers this evening fading overnight, a cool night, single figures, potentially some mist and fog at dawn and already the next weather system approaching from the south and west side tuesday looking like the driest day of the week, monday and tuesday the drier days, but we have shower still in the north and west, rain creeping along southern counties later on, still pleasa nt to southern counties later on, still pleasant to love, 18 or 20, despite being below par. tuesday night
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this is bbc news. the headlines at 11pm: new measures on law and order, saying it's serious about fighting crime, the government promises 10,000 more prison places in england and wales and extends police stop—and—search powers to tackle knife crime. the use of stop—and—search in right legal and professional way drives the use of stop—and—search in right legal and professional ways drives the right kind of outcomes and that's effectively what we are seeking to do. these are fairly empty, headline—grabbing promises that have no evidence or resource to back them up. we've not heard a whisper on where the money is going to come from. china tells the uk to stop interfering in hong kong's affairs, as police again use tear gas on thousands of protesters. china'sjust made it clear it will not accept what it calls british meddling. the influence of hong kong's one—time colonial power these
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