tv The Papers BBC News December 1, 2019 9:30am-10:02am GMT
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later in the tonight most of us dry. later in the night we will see more cloud and patchy rain pitching in to parts of western scotland with cloud into northern ireland. not as cold as last night but for england and wales still another cold night with a sharp frost on monday morning. high pressure and cody are hanging on into monday but a change from the north—west with milder air pushing on. the weather front will bring rain initially across the western half of scotland, nothing particularly heavy, heading eastwards a cross particularly heavy, heading eastwards across scotland. a little bit cloudy in the north with the best of the sunshine further south and temperatures between six and 9 degrees. not as chilly as today. monday night and into tuesday we will see dense fog particularly across southern england will stop some of that mist and fog on tuesday could be slow to clear away but it will eventually left and clear on
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this is bbc news. the headlines: the government is reviewing the licence conditions of every convicted terrorist freed from prison, after the attack at london bridge. two people, including 25—year—old jack merritt, were killed in the attack, by a man who had been jailed in 2012 for his role in an al-qaeda inspired plot. former wales rugby captain gareth thomas says he wants breaking the stigma around hiv to be his everlasting legacy in an interview with prince harry to mark world aids day. we know there's a hell of a lot to do, but what you have managed to do in the space ofjust six or eight weeks has been transformational. malta's richest man is charged with complicity in the murder of investigative journalist daphne ca ruana galizia.
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before the papers, a full round—up of the sport. let's start with cricket, and joe root‘s managed to play himself into a bit of form in england's second test against new zealand. the captain's been short of runs recently, but he's scored an unbeaten century in hamilton overnight — that's just his second 100 in the last year. rory burns also got a century as rain stopped play with england 269—5, still 106 runs behind new zealand. i think it was huge forjoe and he has had a tough year with the bat so far, a lot of talk about him. when you come under the spotlight like that, to respond in the fashion he has today shows a lot of character. i thought it was very convincing right from the word go, his movement and footwork looked really good, he was resolute in his defence, and it was a traditional test match innings. to the premier league now and it may only be the beginning of december, but you get the feeling that
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manchester city might already feel that their title is slipping away. that's after liverpool extended their lead over city to ii points by beating brighton 2—1. two virgil van dijk headers in the space of six first—half minutes enough for the win, which also means they've equalled the club's longest—ever unbeaten run. as for city, they dropped points again, this time at newcastle where they were held to a 2—2 draw. it means pep guardiola's side have have now dropped 13 points this seasons. isaid i said yesterday, it is not a good idea to think about the premier league, think about how many points you have to win. winning games, win games. at the other end of the table, it looks like watford's quiqe sanchez flores is about to become the latest manager to lose his job. his side lost again yesterday — 2—1 to southampton — leaving them well adrift at the bottom of the league table. it's his second stint
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at vicarage road, having only re—joined in september whenjavi gracia was sacked. watford have only won once since flores took over. england will play croatia, the czech republic and a play—off winner in the group stages of next summer's euros. here's their list of fixtures for the group stages which will all be played at wembley. england could bejoined in the group by scotland if they manage to get through the play—offs in march. and some bookmakers have made them favourites to win the whole thing. i think there are eight or ten top nations, if you look at the history of european championships. so many different winners and a lot teams prepare their squads for the world cup and they rebuild after world cups. their margins are really fine. wales are in a group with italy, switzerland and turkey. they've got some travelling to do too — they play their first two group games in the capital of azerbaijan, baku, before going to rome to play italy. northern ireland and the republic
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are in the play—offs and, if they do qualify, they will avoid the group of death. that's group f, which is made up of the world champions, france, the european champions, portugal, and germany. there were some wry smiles as that group was drawn in bucharest. carl frampton is back to winning ways after beating tyler mccreary in las vegas overnight. frampton floored the american twice en route to a dominant points victory. it was his first bout since losing a world title fight tojosh warrington last december, and tees up another shot at the world title next year. it's the final day of the trampoline, tumbling and dmt world championships in tokyo. and there's another medal for great britain — elliott brown powered his way to silver in the men's tumbling final after his second passe scored high on difficulty to place second in this event for
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the second year in a row. looks rather difficult to me. his team—mate jaydon paddock placed fifth. that's all the sport for now. now on bbc news, here's the papers. hello, welcome to the sunday morning paper review. with us, sian griffiths, educating editor at the sunday times, and shyama perera. front pages, it will not surprise you, most focusing on the london bridge attack on friday. the observer leads on boris johnson bridge attack on friday. the observer leads on borisjohnson of announcing those convicted of the most serious terror offences should never be released. the telegraph we paper says the prime minister will order a review of dozens of prisoners released in recent
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years —— the telegraph. the sunday times leads on the terror attack, reports ministers have ignored plans that might have prevented the attack. the sunday mirror has an exclusive picture of usman khan buying fast food shortly before the attack. the sunday people leads with a tribute to one of the victims jack merritt from his father who describes him as a beautiful spirit who took the side of the underdog. another claims adjuster system is playing russian roulette with people's lies. an interview with former top prosecutor who says he warned borisjohnson about terrorists, in the independent. the mail on sunday alleging further impropriety from prince andrew, buckingham palace has defended saying he was representing british companies. let us make a
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start with the coverage of the london bridge attack that took place on friday and we begin with the sunday times, boris vowing to lock up sunday times, boris vowing to lock up terrorists and throw away the key. your office overlooks london bridge, sian, you saw the aftermath. yes, our offices on south side of london bridge and it is pretty tall, we work on the ninth floor, and when the incident happened friday late lunchtime, we were working and our building was put into lockdown. everyone immediately went to the window, we have a view right over the bridge, we could see what was happening, i did not personally see the incident unfolded, but we could see the aftermath, the bridge lockdown, police, the way they cordoned off the area, and dealt with the situation. two and a half yea rs with the situation. two and a half years since london bridge was the location of a previous
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attack, shyama, two died in this, we know the name of one, jack merritt, but the name of one, jack merritt, but the nature of the attack was very different. it was very different because it spilled onto the bridge as farasl because it spilled onto the bridge as far as i understand it and it was not aimed at people on the bridge, aimed at people and the fishmongers' hall. the fact is, he was wearing a fa ke hall. the fact is, he was wearing a fake suicide vest and we know that he isa fake suicide vest and we know that he is a former radical who as far as ican he is a former radical who as far as i can understand has not been de—radicalised in prison. there is nothing sad about that. although it is similarto nothing sad about that. although it is similar to what we have seen before, it is also very different because it was happening in a contained space where something was being discussed that was also of relevance to the killer, which was rehabilitation and education of prisoners. they seem to be all sorts of conflicting things happening simultaneously. but whatever they were, this is the
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outcome. it is horrendous for london and fourjack merritt's family and the family of the other person unnamed and the three people in hospital. this is the response politically. the conservatives are saying in the sunday times, lock them up and throw away the key, a phrase people use, used very glibly, but that is not what usually happens, people are often released, it is about how they are released and what has happened to them while they have been in prison. if they have just been locked up and no rehabilitation, you cannot be sure of the kind of person you are letting out. no, you can't. it is interesting. usman khan was a convicted terrorist. he attended the conference, it was a prison rehabilitation conference at fishmongers' hall, very interesting programme called learning together, graduates from university going to prison to work with prisoners and
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enable them to get qualifications and usman khan had done some of the certificates, some of the programmes, and he was invited to the conference, as we understand it. he went along and there were other ex prisoners there, other academics, a prison, it was a kind of co nfe re nce a prison, it was a kind of conference to celebrate this programme, the fifth anniversary of the programme, so quite a complex set of circumstances. the interesting thing about khan, he was given an indeterminate sentence and he was clearly still on parole, wearing a tad, but he had been given permission to travel is from stoke to london to attend —— a tag. lots of interesting questions about who made the decision that it was safe for him to travel down, not a risk any more. living in the community now. borisjohnson coming out on the front page today and saying, we are going get tough on terror,
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all terrorists will have to serve a full sentence, 14 years minimum. but the point is, this happened under boris johnson's watch, after several years of conservative government. in a sense, it is no good saying now, we are going to sort it out because it should have been sorted out already. this is what they are going to say because we are days away from an election. it is. we have heard in previous elections, tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime, life means life. what is absolutely clear as these events are random, you don't know who is going to reoffend, precisely why organisations like that supported by jack merritt exist, it is because you don't know what happens to people in prison and whether they are going to come out and the rate of reoffending are still very high because there was not enough support. promising to put more people away, promising they will never come out, it is utterly
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meaningless, as we have found that in election after election after election. but it has a resonance with people, if you are living close to where an attack takes place, you are inevitably going to be afraid, even though the likelihood of it happening again there very soon. the people who live around london bridge could not have imagined two and a half years later this is what they would be living through. half years later this is what they would be living throughlj half years later this is what they would be living through. i was all —— i was working there than in 2017, the idea that has happened twice... i have noticed you think these things don't affect you but i have stopped cycling over london bridge, they have put barriers so you cannot drive onto the pavement, after pedestrians were knocked down, but it starts to change your behaviour, and we have lived through a lot of this in london and people's behaviour is starting to be
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affected by it. the point here is that these are terrorist prisoners and i think what people are saying, in the sunday times today, he wrote a report in 2017 warning that the pa role system report in 2017 warning that the parole system cannot cope with terrorists and he made 69 recommendations and hardly any have been acted upon. there is a distinction between prisoners and prisoners who have been convicted of terrorist offences and maybe we need to treat them differently. the former counterterrorism official who wrote the report. the observer, the thrust terror attack into centre of election battle, only a short pause, really, in campaigning, and it is inevitable, shyama, politicians will be asked for a response, what will you do? of course, but this is a prime minister who has failed to win every important vote, so how likely is he to change anything? if he gets a majority, he would. no doubt he would add 50,000 prison officers
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including the 22,000 already there and in dangerof leaving. including the 22,000 already there and in danger of leaving. he can make every promise under the sun. at the end of the day, the system has broken down. this is the absolute pinnacle of awfulness but there are levels underneath for different types of crime, rape, murder, whatever, and we need to look at the whole system again and huge amounts of money need to be put into it. people should be punished and we should be kept secure but they need to be turned into better citizens for all of us. how great is public support for that idea? until something like this happens. support for that idea? until something like this happenslj support for that idea? until something like this happens. i think it is greater than we think but i don't think anybody makes the argument, the problem is the only argument, the problem is the only argument they hear is, lock them up. and yet we see constantly fewer crimes are solved. if you look at rape, 3% of all rates actually
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responded to by the police, which is a tiny number, actually lead to a conviction —— rapes. it is mirrored in everything. but —— burglary and carcrime, in everything. but —— burglary and car crime, they no longer bother with it, you just ring your insurance company. this is the worst symptom of malaise that goes right the system. the mail, page 15, give mea the system. the mail, page 15, give me a majority and i will keep you safe from terror, borisjohnson writing in the mail on sunday. of course, this is what people want to hear from whoever is in power, course, this is what people want to hearfrom whoever is in power, but it isa hearfrom whoever is in power, but it is a promise nobody can be sure they can make. or keep. difficult to keep because we do have there are a number of people convicted of terrorist offences who are coming up for release over the next two years so we have a batch of people coming through and it seems from this there
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isn't. .. we can't through and it seems from this there isn't... we can't be sure they will be released safely into the community and that isn't enough being done to check they are no longer a threat. boris johnson, obviously setting out his stall this morning, very worried about being blamed for what happened, his party being blamed, for what happened on friday, and in a sense it is almost tragic that it is electioneering about something so serious that has affected the lives of families like jack merritt and immediately both parties are blaming the other and electioneering over it. it is sad. one of the things we are not recognising so much in the papers today which have moved onto the political battle is how brave some members of the public were in stopping the attacker on friday and included in that were x prisoners inside fishmongers' hall attending the rehabilitation conference, the attack started in the
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building, they a p pa re ntly attack started in the building, they apparently tackle to usman khan, got him out of the building, surrounded him out of the building, surrounded him until the police came. some of the names of those people have not emerged because i understand they fear a backlash and it is a shame because... because they have done something very positive. very heroic. this is what borisjohnson is saying. jeremy corbyn talking about the lack of funding for prisons, rehabilitation, probation services. we were hearing earlier from the man who is to be with the met police, not just from the man who is to be with the met police, notjust police officers but civilian support staff also, 18,000 being cut, we heard from del babu. you cannot keep running down the system. all of the stories we are hearing, last week it was the nhs, this week police and crime and prisons. if you keep cutting down budgets in real terms, at a time when actually our society
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is larger, more complex, more technical, you are going to have holes that people fall through and this is the legal penal system with its holes. taxpayers have to accept we have to pay more? yes, of course. of course we have got to pay more. where we have not got, sorry to quote mrs may, we have not got a magic money tree, i wish we did, i would be sitting under every day with a large bowl, but sadly, it does not exist. the sun on sunday newspaper, killed by beastie try to help. we get the opportunity to hear about jack merritt, beautiful spirit, opportunity to hear about jack merritt, beautifulspirit, his dad said, sian, always on the side of the underdog. beautifultribute from his dad, he said he had lost a champion for underdogs every where, people who were dealt a losing hand by life. he said something
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interesting, jack would not wish his death to be used as the pretext for more draconian sentences or detaining people unnecessarily. brilliant young man, a degree from manchester and a degree from cambridge, working in cambridge at the institute of criminology as a coordinator, as i understand for the learning together programme which sends graduates into prisons to work with prisoners to get qualifications and he was passionate about it and passionate about the cause of prisoner rehabilitation. he was 25. he had done so much already. the sun very cleverly juxtaposing his he had done so much already. the sun very cleverlyjuxtaposing his photo with the photo of usman khan, three yea rs with the photo of usman khan, three years older, who tookjack‘s life. that is the appalling part of this. asa parent, that is the appalling part of this. as a parent, you look at this, i have a 28 82 and a 25—year—old, you just think how extraordinary these lies had taken them in such different directions —— i have a
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28—year—old. what a hero he was and it isa 28—year—old. what a hero he was and it is a shame he has to die to become a poster boy for rehabilitation, but that is what he is, nota rehabilitation, but that is what he is, not a poster boy for more draconian measures against prisoners, a poster boy for rehabilitation during the punishment of prisoners. the fact his parents, the apple does not full far from the tree, the fact his parents have said, do not use this as an excuse to make a bad problem worse, use it as an opportunity to make it better. it isjust as an opportunity to make it better. it is just amazing, as an opportunity to make it better. it isjust amazing, actually. respected this young boy and to all of those young people, actually, who work like him to make a better world. we don't know the identity of the other victim who died yet but when we do, we will pay tribute to them too. the sunday newspaper, bloated tories as the lead shrinks despite photos distrust ofjeremy corbyn —— pelota tories. it is based
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on the nhs. i don't know ifi am missing something. itjust says it has happened in the last week. nhs week. i think it is a 2% drop for the tories and the brexit party is down to 2% which is great but labour are up. great for you as someone who does not support them. you don't know who i support! youjust does not support them. you don't know who i support! you just said does not support them. you don't know who i support! youjust said it is great, i am assuming you don't if you are thinking they are shrinking... parties created just for the moment. you are right, i don't know. you might be surprised. but, yes, it isjust really interesting, i feel as a voter as well as a journalist, i feel it is exciting now, we are suddenly coming into the final... they still have a nine point lead. a straw poll in my
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point of london, not representative of anything apart from part of london, everyone turned against labour over anti—semitism, london, everyone turned against labour overanti—semitism, and i london, everyone turned against labour over anti—semitism, and i was accused the other day of only knowing condemn as, which is the new term —— condemers. i'm starting to hear people switch back, loading corbyn, but switching back. we know how unreliable the polls have been a people do not always tell the truth to pollsters. the last poll in the last election, the polls got it badly wrong. interesting to see the effect on donald trump's visit here, that will affect the polling, particularly if he decides to tweet something or enter... through regent's park, where the american ambassador live, that whole area is cordoned off for donald. whether
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people take kindly to foreign intervention again in our political situation, we don't know, didn't work with barack obama in the referendum. the observer, quickly, shock poll showing dominic raab in danger of defeat, foreign secretary, dominic raab, michael portillo moment, back to 1997, lost his seat. possibly, yeah. interesting because he had a massive majority, more than 23,000, at the last election. the poll says he holds only a five—point lead over the liberal democrats with two weeks to go. it would be actually amazing if the massive majority was dismantled and then the foreign secretary lost his... the excitement you talk about, the unknown, the unexpected. stories from ealing to say the prime minister is in danger of losing his seat. i don't know if he is. that is what spies tell me. you know interesting folk. that is it
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for the papers this morning. you can see the front pages online. on the bbc website. if you miss the programme, and evening or only morning, you can watch it later on iplayer. lovely to have you here, sian and shyama. coming up next, the weather. hello, it was an appropriately cold and frosty start to the first day of meteorological winter today, 1st of december, quite a sharp frost. mist and fog. for the rest of the day, foremost, looking dry and sunny. still cold because you can see we are in the blue colours, high pressure keeping things predominantly dry, some rogue showers in the midlands. east anglia as well. quite a bit of sunshine and as well. quite a bit of sunshine and a little bit of low cloud here
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and there as mist and fog patches are slow to clear. largely dry northern england, northern ireland, much of scotland. breezy in the north—west of scotla nd scotland. breezy in the north—west of scotland driving showers into the northern isles and northern highlands. some showers still persisting in parts of lincolnshire, east anglia, far south—east. elsewhere, dry, sunny, temperatures 2-8d, elsewhere, dry, sunny, temperatures 2—8d, particularly chilly in the morning mist and fog slow to clear. this evening and tonight, dry foremost. later in the night, more cloud and patchy rain pushing into parts of western scotland, cloudier northern ireland as well, not because cold here as it was last night, for england and wales, another cold night with a sharp frost for monday morning. high pressure and cold air mass hanging on for monday but a change from the north—west, milder air pushing on with weather fronts as well bringing rain initially across the western pa rt rain initially across the western part of scotland, but east, nothing
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heavy, light and patchy rain. the rest of the uk, little bit cloudy in the north, best of the sunshine further south. once morning frost and fog clears away, temperatures 6-9. not and fog clears away, temperatures 6—9. not quite as chilly as today. monday night into tuesday, we will see scenes like this, fairly dense fog, particularly in southern england. some mist and fog tuesday morning could be quite slow to clear away in the south. eventually lifting and clearing and tuesday looks dry across the board. long spells of sunshine in the afternoon. still chilly, 7—10d foremost. a little bit cloudy in the far north—west and things turning milder with patchy rain in the north and west towards the end of the coming week. goodbye for now.
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this is bbc news. the headlines at 10am: the government is reviewing the licence conditions of every convicted terrorist freed from prison after the attack at london bridge. i think it's ridiculous. i think it's repulsive that individuals as dangerous as best man should be allowed out after serving only eight yea rs allowed out after serving only eight years and that is why we are going to change the law. i think there has to change the law. i think there has to be an examination of how our present services work and crucially what happens to them on release from prison. two people, including 25—year—old jack merritt, were killed in the attack by a man who had beenjailed in 2012 for his role in an al-qaeda inspired plot. former wales rugby captain gareth thomas says he wants breaking the stigma around hiv
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to be his "everlasting legacy" in an interview with prince harry to mark world aids day. we know there's a hell of a lot to do, but what you have managed to do in the space ofjust six or eight weeks has been transformational. pro—democracy protesters in hong kong march towards the american consulate to thank washington for its support for their movement. joe root returns to form in new zealand, hitting an unbeaten century, as england edge themselves back into the second test on day three in hamilton. and talking movies celebrates its 20th anniversary by travelling to mumbai for a bollywood special.
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