Skip to main content

tv   The Papers  BBC News  August 18, 2019 10:30pm-11:02pm BST

10:30 pm
i think some of the heaviest downpours on monday are likely to move into northern ireland, southern scotland, and probably north—west england, maybe north wales as well. scotland will continue to see heavy showers here. and it is going to start to get cooler as well, because the winds in scotland and northern ireland are coming down from polar regions, whereas for england and wales, the air is coming in from the mid—atla ntic. so some temperature contrasts across the country form north to south. a cool 16 in edinburgh, 17 in belfast. across england and wales, still generally around 19—22 degrees. for tuesday, the supply of that really cold air gets cut off. do have a little ridge moving across the uk for a time on tuesday, ahead of this next weather system that will ultimately bring some rain into western areas. so should be a dry start to the day across eastern parts, with some sunshine, clouds gather with rain pushing into northern ireland. perhaps parts of wales, northwest england, and westerns and seeing the rain arriving later in the day. with many eastern areas probably staying fine. fewer showers for the far north
10:31 pm
of scotland, so weather improving here, but still a cool feel to things. heading into wednesday, we have another area of low pressure moving in. that is going to be bringing in some heavier rain to the northwest of the uk. that rain band pushes across the whole of northern ireland to scotland. the whole of northern england, probably north wales as well. whereas across the south, it should stay dry, and the tendency is actually, later on in the week, the weather will be coming increasingly dry and increasingly warm as well. could see 27 in london next saturday.
10:32 pm
hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment — first the headlines. the man in charge of planning for a no—deal brexit, michael gove, says leaked documents showing shortages of goods and a hard border with ireland — are out of date and worst case scenarios. police in kent say a six—year—old boy who fell into the river stour in kent while fishing is "unlikely" to be found alive. funerals are held for the 63 people killed in a suicide attack at an afghan wedding. the islamic state group has claimed repsonsibility. and coming up later, this week's click looks at whether e—scooters are legal, and tests out new fingerprint—based contactless cards.
10:33 pm
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the chief features writer at the financial times, henry mance, and the broadcaster and psychotherapist, lucy beresford. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. and starting with the financial times, there's the impressive picture of the didcot towers getting demolished, alongside their main article about the white house announcing a new round of tax cuts. the daily telegraph is leading on borisjohnson accusing former ministers of undermining brexit talks with eu leaders. "tory divisions over brexit deepen amid row over no—deal dossier leak" — that's the headline for the front of the guardian. brexit themes continue on the front page of the i, saying michael gove plays down leaked crisis plans for brexit. and the mail says the nhs
10:34 pm
is launching a crackdown on gp surgeries which close for half days during the week. well, as ever, and once again, brexit on an awful lot of the front pages. and let's just brexit on an awful lot of the front pages. and let'sjust start brexit on an awful lot of the front pages. and let's just start with the telegraph, no deal leak, blamed on him and's remainders. saying that this leak that we've been reporting all day, talking about what could happen under an ordeal brexit, blaming that on colleagues of the former chancellor film it philip hammond. that makes a lot of sense actually, not least because of some of the stories that came out earlier today with michael gove speaking about how this report was old news, that actually, it's out of date. that in itself, chimes in with reports for example, last week, i think it was the head of the french ports were saying, you know, they were very
10:35 pm
impressed by the activities of the british government in terms of trying to counter any chaotic effects of no deal. so somebody has got to have an agenda for leaking this, and it wouldn't really want to be the government so it may be it's going to be the other slaves, the remainders, whether it's actually philip hammond himself, whether it's his fingerprints all over it, or someone his fingerprints all over it, or someone behind him, i don't know what to say. but the story fits. someone behind him, i don't know what to say. but the story fitsm really underlines just how much bad blood there is at the top of the conservative party. yeah, you have to remind yourself that these people are in theory on the same team. i think philip hammond would reject being called a remainder. he tried to get the uk out of you by now. but the government's argument is that between 2016—2019, preparations for nearly three years, preparations we nt nearly three years, preparations went on, but they were too slow, and the people at hammond were slowing them down. but in the few months since, preparations have sped up, even though brussels... that we are
10:36 pm
i'iow even though brussels... that we are now going to be ready, that these warnings of a meltdown at ports of shortages of vegetables and medicines are all overblown, and the thing probably, people will find that slightly incredible. the british machinery of government works sometimes, but could it work that fast since boris johnson got to power? that's the story that vi has picked up on, because saying gove plays down leaked crisis plans for brexit, he was very quickly out of the block to try to reassure people after this leak, which suggested there were going to be cues of the ports and problems getting medicine. my ports and problems getting medicine. my understanding is that actually there have been, there has been quite a lot of activity, notjust in the few weeks since boris johnson has been prime minister, but since the end of march, because there was a moment in time, where we actually thought we were all leaving at the end of march. and therefore, many companies were putting contingency plans in place. maybe the government to was putting certain contingency
10:37 pm
plans in place, and then after march, everything was up for grabs. you cannot actually have a situation where you are not going to plan at all. and i think that's what a lot of believers were so frustrated by, when people like philip hammond were seeing trying to stick his banner in the works, but now i think of the idea is that actually, we have probably done a lot more activity than people realise. and you do get the sense that under theresa may, evenif the sense that under theresa may, even if there were any plans under way for an ordeal brexit, she wasn't going to let us know about them, whereas with the borisjohnson regime has very different approach. yeah, we don't know when theresa may we nt yeah, we don't know when theresa may went under this sort of conversion to no deal is better than a bad deal, too actually, i have looked over the precipice, and deal, too actually, i have looked overthe precipice, and it's terrible. and indeed, michael gove was next to her saying, he knew about what was happening with subsidies, and he decided at that time, no deal was terrible. he subsidies, and he decided at that time, no dealwas terrible. he is i'iow time, no dealwas terrible. he is now in charge of planning and says, well actually, october isn't looking too bad. so i think in some of
10:38 pm
these politicians memoirs, we will see some very sharp turns from no deal is not possible to no deal is possible. and given where we are, they have really got to press on with this, haven't they? exactly. don't you think that in many ways, what one wants from i's leaders is a certain amount of inspiration, but also positivity. you cannot always be asa also positivity. you cannot always be as a boris said, you can't be a gloom stir and a doom star, you have got to sell the message, and part of this is saying that we will succeed at this. whatever the outcome is, whether it's no deal, whether it's a managed deal that we approve of, it we are going to be ok as a country. you need to have people at the top who can sell that vision, and i think that is all they are doing at this, they are not necessarily saying, yeah, we have got absolutely all of our ducks in a row, but we will get there, we will be there, when we come to leave on the 31st. i think one of the things that they have not done, is if there is going to be disruption, i think the government's message will not have
10:39 pm
been helpful, because it has warned that everything is overblown now. and there is going to be a sharp change, legally, if britain leaves the eu on october 31. and it would have been better for the government especially at that time to have learned that there is going to be disruption in terms of longer cues, slight delays and products coming across, may be more difficult to travel your business to european countries. the risk it's running at the moment, is that by down playing every warning about no deal, if there is any problem in november, thenit there is any problem in november, then it will be blamed for not having flagged it. and that in a way plays into the other stories about patty patel‘s announcement. plays into the other stories about patty patel's announcement. let's move on to have a look at that one. because that's the story on the front page of the independent, which is online of course. the free movement will end on day one of brexit. that is such a dramatic announcement. that what you really wa nt to announcement. that what you really want to know is that they do have some strategy in mind for the people
10:40 pm
who are currently already here, the eu nationals are already here, what is actually going to happen to them, are they going to come up between 110w are they going to come up between now and then, create a register whereby those nationals are on some kind of register, for example, if they went off on holiday, or they wa nt to they went off on holiday, or they want to do some work, they would not get caught up in this idea that it's free movement, it's going to end, and you cannot come back. so there isn't enough meat on the bone at the moment and know necessarily how they are going to handle this, itjust seems to be one dramatic headline. and againi seems to be one dramatic headline. and again i worry, i do worry that they are not actually preparing us for what it's going to be like. this does seem to be a change of heart, doesn't it? because the understanding had been that in order to try and reduce the sort of problems we have been talking about the ports and airports, that they would allow free movement to continue at least for the time being. patty patel is coming, someone who has been known for having a hard line stance on justice has been known for having a hard line stance onjustice issues and immigration, and it's very conceivable, and we gather that she has rejected the options that have
10:41 pm
been put forward, but that doesn't give officials a lot of time to prepare new ones before the end of october. in the warning that they have given, is that there is a potential repeat of wind rush year, we re potential repeat of wind rush year, were just the bureaucratic capacities of the office are overwhelmed by the number of people they have to deal with than the complexities of their cases. and i'm just going to stick with you henry, because it's the front page of your paper, the ft, and looking at some of the other stories that we have got. monday's front pages. an interesting one here. blue—chip buses suffered pay cuts, as top companies real from investor revolts. so the poor old fat cats are suffering, and the nation will be weeping. yeah, i've got the bad news for everyone out there. this is interesting, because for years we have had people complaining about the high pay at the top of britain cosmic best—known companies, banks, etc. nothing ever seems to change. the pay seems to keep going up 10-20%, the pay seems to keep going up 10—20%, and it's all gentleman at the top of these companies. s, but it was a kind of unintended consequence i think from the fact
10:42 pm
that actually a lot of the pay was set by external advisers, and at what you got was that none of the companies wanted to be in the lower quadrant, so they would leapfrog each other, so it wasn't them who was choosing their own pay, but it has now changed for the better. so this is the first year since companies that have been publishing their overall pay for executives, that that number is now the lowest, it's now 3.4 million last year, and that's down from 4 million the previous year. so these guys are not on the street, and they don't need your money, but i think if you are angry investors, and anyone who has angry investors, and anyone who has a pension has a stake in this, or has an ability potentially to influence this, they have been calling for changes in companies like barclays, della rue, to the frustration of these executives. so finally is something is starting to change. the ice is cracking. let's just take a look at a couple of other stories. back to the telegraph, lucy. drink—drivers
10:43 pm
getting off due to police cuts, well we know that the government is trying to reverse the police cuts. yeah, this is extraordinaire. we hear lots of stories about police cuts, and as a very recent victim of crime, having been burgled last week, i know full well that actually the resources, they are so stretch, evenin the resources, they are so stretch, even in central london. so what this article is saying is that particularly in rural areas, what you have got is people committing crimes let's say drink—driving offences, the police involved have got to drive sometimes nearly two hours to take the person who has committed the crime to some, you know, local station, or the committed the crime to some, you know, localstation, orthe place where they can actually talk to them and read them their rights i guess. there are so many police stations that have been closed down, and obviously the numbers of bodies on the beat is also being reduced, so we have a real work crisis, where we just do not have enough people doing thejobs just do not have enough people doing the jobs that they are meant to be doing. soi the jobs that they are meant to be doing. so i feel terribly sorry for the police, they have argued that 20,000 extra police are going to be put in place, but is that
10:44 pm
the number that was originally cut? fundamentally, i always feel that the government's sole responsibility above all else is to keep its citizens safe. and if you are not able to do that, if you are not investing in the police organisation, then really what are you doing as a leader? and of course for the police, drink—driving, just one of the things on their agenda, they have obviously got to deal with an awful situation like lucy went through, the where people are being burgled at home, then their cyber crime, the problems of allegations of historic abuse and so on. drink—driving is an area in which the numberof drink—driving is an area in which the number of accidents related, and at the numberof the number of accidents related, and at the number of convictions has been going down sharply over decades, a slight rise in the number of drink—driving accidents i think la st of drink—driving accidents i think last year. so if you are campaigning on this, you can say there is cause to be worried about what is happening. one lovely fact in this is that it's fear, and not really
10:45 pm
evidence, but the fear that drink—drivers may drive to a custody suite is so long, that a driver might be able to sober out before he gets there. he or she gets there. i think that would obviously be a very unjust situation. about our big story, and obviously lots more to come on police cuts. lucy, henry, thank you very much indeed for now. that's it for the papers this hour. henry and lucy will be back at half past eleven 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 — 7 days a week at bbc.co.uk forward slash papers. and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. next on bbc news it's click.
10:46 pm
here's something that splits opinion, you either love these or you hate them, depending really on whether you ride one, or whether you've had a close encounter with one. these e—scooters are powered by electric motors and that leads to something really interesting that not many people know. in the uk, these things are not legal on public roads and they are not legal on public pavements. so, although they're getting more and more popular, and companies are hiring them out to ride on private lands like here at the queen elizabeth olympic park in london, where they're geofenced
10:47 pm
and speed—limited, the law varies hugely around the world. one of the issues is that these things can reach speeds of over 30 miles an hour, which is very cool, but also very dangerous, again, depending on your experiences with them. not long ago, presenter emily hartridge died while riding an e—scooter. it was the first fatal collision involving one in britain. there have been similarfatal cases around europe. in france, there have been three e—scooter deaths in the last four months, and there have even been deaths in los angeles where these are completely legal. so, whether it's e—scooters, segways, one—wheelers or e—skateboards, there's a lot of confusion over the legality of these new modes of transport. as omar mehtab has been finding out. here, at one of the busiest
10:48 pm
intersections in london, the metropolitan police are on the lookout for electrically—powered scooters. these eco—friendly and easy to ride vehicles have exploded in popularity and are rapidly transforming the make—up of road traffic in cities around the world. however, as spencer pointed out earlier, with e—scooters freely available to buy in stores, many people don't know that they're actually illegal to ride on public streets. when i bought it online they should have told us that there are legal to ride here. i mean, ijust spent £500 for nothing, basically. the problem is, these e—scooters are electrically powered, so they're classed as motor vehicles, which means you can't ride them on pavements or in bike lanes. and to ride them on roads, you need insurance, licensing, tax. things you can't get for light e—vehicles at the moment. and if you get caught? well, in the uk, you could get up to six penalty points
10:49 pm
on your driving license and a fine of up to £300. stops today was just about education, about letting them know you can't ride these things on the road, you can't use these things on the road. recently, just down the road, there on rosemary avenue, was a fail—to—stop collision involving an e—scooter and a 125cc scooter. i think it sends out the message that this needs to stop and the vehicles can only be used on private property or land. but, there's some confusion in the uk. the law states that personal transport devices powered by motors are prohibited for use on roads, pavements and cycle lanes. however, in the different categories listed, they don't specifically mention e—skateboards, and that is catching some people out. this man was stopped by the police on his way to work, given a written warning, and while he got away without the hefty fine,
10:50 pm
he was informed that his e—skateboad was illegal to ride. all the information i can find is that this one's are not illegal, like the electric skateboard is in the grey area, kind of, there's not really legislation that actually bans it. until today, you know? and the police told me and i was like what? very upset. i said i bought this, it cost me a lot of money, i've been riding it for nearly five months now, no issues at all, no accident, no issues. and now from tomorrow, i think from this afternoon, i have to take underground, exactly. there will be queries with regards to e—skateboards as well as e—scooters and other types of powered transport but we recognise there was a growing trend with the use of e—scooters around london and awareness that people weren't necessarily educated to the fact that they are illegal to use on the roads and footpaths. so we have issued a number fines and also seized some e—scooters, but we are maintaining that message that we would like to educate
10:51 pm
the public first and foremost and sort of spread that message wide that they are actually illegal to ride on roads, on the pavement or in cycle lanes. we contacted the department for transport and they told us they are actively examining how these light e—vehicles can be regulated for safe use on the roads. but, for now, they are still illegal. so, this is michael. he's the one who first introduced me to e—skateboards and he is a part of the community. so, that is the official line of the met, they're illegal to use on the roads and pavements. what do you think of that? i mean, they're not wrong. as a mechanically—propelled vehicle they are illegal on the road because we don't have things like insurance or licensees for these devices. the problem is, there is no legislation out the moment for that, so we can't get insurance, we can't get licenses, and at the exponential rate the boards are being used, legislation needs to be put in place so we can get insurance. it's not like we don't want to, it's just that we can't. if we can legally ride on the roads with every other road user,
10:52 pm
whatever the cost, if it's legal, i'd say go for it. right. michael, thanks a lot for chatting with me. appreciate it. now, this is the bbc, it's private land. so, i'm out of here! right, let's talk money now, or more specifically, plastic. now, the last time technology touched one of these things was more than ten years ago when they made them contactless. wave—and—pay uses nfc or near field communication technology and it's really convenient, but not exactly secure. not if you have your wallet nicked. anyway, that's why they limit contactless payments to £30 or roughly the equivalent in other currencies. but that limit could be extended by quite a chunk if a new security feature is added. dan simmons has been invited to test the uk's first debit card that can read your fingerprint. it's a big moment in
10:53 pm
the world of money. natwest and rbs are launching this — although the real—life ones will probably be smaller. and they should help wave goodbye to fraud. what we're learning from customers is they want experiences to be simple and easy. this means they don't have to remember their pin, it means from a safety and security perspective, they don't have to worry about standing at a cash point and someone looking over their shoulder and seeing what their pin is. and we think customers are really going to the experience. could they not get an imprint? no, it's not csi, it doesn't work that way. it doesn't? 0k. so, a photograph? nope. if i go hi, theyjust go, oh, yes, excellent there's enough pixels there and nick that? that won't work. on a glass, you know, like police evidence kind of things? the powder? no, that doesn't work. no? nothing? no, sorry, your television dreams are shattered. if something goes wrong and i find that somebody‘s got my money but shouldn't have my money, will you give it back to me?
10:54 pm
what you can always do is block your card with one phone call. is that a yes or a no, georgina? we review all customer experiences on a case—by—case basis. right. it's arrived. i've got a — sort of of like a card reader and the card itself. i'm going to need that little black box to kind of register my thumbprint on the fingerprint reader. i've been invited to take part in a three—month trial. the small battery in the reader is enough to power the card. after seeing my thumb from five different angles, it's happy it's got my print. now, of course google and apple pay systems using our mobile phones linked to a debit card and credit card offer similar biometric security for payments. but your phone costs a lot more, needs to be charged and it's a lot bigger. my new card is no thicker than a standard debit
10:55 pm
card. a strip down of it shows what's going on. on the right is the fingerprint reader, there's no battery inside, instead an inductive loop, shown here in red, acts as an aerial for the card to receive power from the card terminal. the six dots at the top are the programming port. and it's here, in the microcontroller, when my fingerprint is stored and verified. all on the card, so our biometric data never leaves our hands. a coffee please. now using the card is pretty much as easy as it is at the moment, except you have got to put your thumb, or whatever finger you've registered, over the golden box, so it can recognise it when you make the payment. a green light flashes to show all‘s ok, and that's my plastic is not in some trickster tv producer's mitts. now the other big bonus i found is my new spending
10:56 pm
limit. normally, contactless payments cap out at £30. but this allows me to spend up to £100 because of the additional security, and i'm told that by the time it comes to market, that limit could be limitless, which means i could get my weekly shopping, fill up my car, and buy a bike just with a tap of my card. so knowing all that — will the card be secure? gemalto is behind the tech. the actual sensor we use is dynamic, which means each time it reads your fingerprint it needs to be a 98—99% match. if there is a slight variation, a micro—slash on your finger it will take that into account, so next time it knows that micro—slash will be there. but does it then allow for someone with a similar fingerprint to get into the system? no, not at all, the variation is so small, there is not two people that would be within that level of variation. this would be the biggest change to payment cards for a decade,
10:57 pm
if the banks back it. that's it for now. for the next couple of weeks we're going to be recharging our batteries, so we will give you the chance to see again a couple of our favourite recent shows. we will still be here though, on the end of youtube, facebook, instagram and twitter, at @bbcclick. so feel free to get in touch. thanks for watching and we will see you soon. hello, again. showers have been a really
10:58 pm
widespread today, particularly across the northern half of the uk. and of course, with the showers, we get rainbows, like these. this was spotted earlier on in the day in rossendale in lancashire, thanks to beverly for sending us that. the radar picture shows the extent of the recent showers then, you can see, absolutly caked in showers. scotland, northern ireland, northern england and north wales. even in the south, there are big gaps, there will continue to be sure is on and off through the night, pushing right the way eastwards across the uk. so nowhere is immune from escaping, the shower could be a dump or anywhere, but it will be most frequent across the north of the country. temperatures 10—13d overnight, and it will stay pretty breezy. a look at the weather picture into monday. and it's another shari showery set up, showered is heaviest across northern island, northern england, southern scotland, plenty of charts for northern scotland, and a cooler field to the air across scotland and northern ireland, with temperatures just run 16—17d. heavy dumpers for england and wales, highest temperature is about 22.
10:59 pm
11:00 pm
this is bbc news. the headlines at 11:00pm: the government says it's ready for a no—deal brexit, after claims there could be food, medicine and fuel shortages. ministers say the leaked details don't reflect current plans. this is an all document that since it was published and circulated, the government have taken significant additional steps to ensure
11:01 pm
that we are at prepared to leave a october the 31st, deal or no deal. organisers say 1.7 million braved monsoon rains for hong kong's latest pro—democracy march. police warn it's unlikely a 6—year—old boy, who fell into a river in kent, will be found alive. the hiv tests on glasgow's streets, to counter the worst rise in infections for decades. and, early wickets for england, but a thrilling final day in the lord's ashes test, ends, in a draw. we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers are henry mance from the ft and the broadcaster lucy bereford — stay with us for that.

39 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on