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tv   The Papers  BBC News  June 21, 2020 10:30pm-11:00pm BST

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hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment police declare the stabbing to death of three people in the southern english town of reading as a terrorist incident. a libyan man — khairi saadallah — has been arrested. officers have found nothing to suggest there was anyone involved in this attack and we are not looking for anyone else in relation to the incident. tributes have been paid to a ‘kind' and ‘inspirational‘ teacher. james furlong is named as one the three victims of the attack. three other people were seriously injured. two have now been released from hospital. eyewitnesses described traumatic scenes.
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they were sat in a circle drinking, a group of eight or ten people, and he darted around, anticlockwise in the circle, got one, went to another one, stab the next one, went to another, stabbed in the next one. the government will set out this week how it plans to safely reduce the two—metre social distancing rule in england. two men have died in a shooting in moss side in manchester after a lockdown party allegedly involving "hundreds of people". president trump stages a comeback campaign rally in tulsa in oklahoma — his first in months — but fails to fill the arena. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are kate andrews, economics correspondent at the spectator and anand menon,
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director of uk in a changing europe. tomorrow's front pages. starting with. .. the daily telegraph says the suspect being held over the killing of three people in a reading park had been investigated by mi5. the daily mirror also reports the libyan was known to security services but no action was taken as he posed no threat. accordng to the i, intelligence agencies were alerted to him last year, but the investigation was scaled down. the guardian reports police say the attacker is thought to have been acting alone. the metro carrries a tributes to one of the victims of the stabbings in reading — james furlong — saying he was a ‘kind and gentle' teacher. the daily mail also carries the story about the reading suspect, and on father's day, has a picture of prince william alongside his dad, prince charles.
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and according to the financial times, the chancellor is drawing up plans for deferred tax rises and cuts to public spending in his autumn budget. so let's begin. the daily telegraph, as we join the daily telegraph, as wejoin our guests. thanks for being with us. kate, let's start with the daily telegraph and the front page story, a very, very striking although not that recent photograph of khairi saadallah. what do you make of what the daily telegraph has to say about the daily telegraph has to say about the knowledge that was hard of this man, that he had been at least come gci’oss man, that he had been at least come across the radar at mis? 50, this across the radar at mis? so, this headline is actually across the papers this evening, the telegraph,
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along with others have led with it that he was on the mis radar and of course he is now the lead suspect in what is being considered to be an incident of terrorism with three people dead and others injured. i think it's important, and the telegraph goes into this, that being a person of interest to mi5 can mean a person of interest to mi5 can mean a lot of different things. we are meant to believe he was on a list of approximately hundred and 30,000 people who can come across the radar of mis people who can come across the radar of mi5 and he was on the radar for a short period of time because of travel plans they thought he had and the front page of the telegraph suggests that it was libya, the sunday merrier suggests area, but there was the thought he was getting involved in terror activity but he was only noticed by the dem and he didn't have the evidence to back it up didn't have the evidence to back it up and he was no longer relevant to them and never made the list of roughly 3000 people considered to be much more prominent dangers. it's a
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very, very sad reminder of the process of how somebody so young, 25 yea rs process of how somebody so young, 25 years old, could turn to such a heinous activity and heinous crime. and something to think about when it comes to the prison system because he had been in prison and let out recently and went on to commit these attacks. very striking hearing the police saying they are not looking for anyone else in connection with this. further information is invert —— emerging from the enquiry and presumably the biggest concern is that he may well have been a lone actor. the police at the moment are saying they are not looking for anyone else in trying to tamp down oi'i anyone else in trying to tamp down on potential fear that he had collaborators. this story is gruesome and not as are worth stressing the point that kate said, the papers are splashing on this kind of mi5 news but they knew him along with other 29,999 others, very long list and he seems to have falle n long list and he seems to have fallen off now. what the papers are
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intimating is that there are a list of people who might have been heading abroad to take part in either radical or terror activities but he never did and fell off the list. but there is so much we don't know about this as yet and i'm loathe to start speculating. at the moment we know he is being held and we know little about motive out anything else. quite right, we shouldn't speculate but there is an interesting debate and lets look at the daily mirror, the bottom half of the daily mirror, the bottom half of the front—page with lots of other stories on the top including about madeleine mccann, the football and a feature about what it's like to be black in britain today, the start of the new series. the bottom half of the new series. the bottom half of the front page, there they have chosen to put a relatively small picture of the suspect and a picture of the first named victims. quite an interesting debate about how much publicity we choose to give to those who commit these kinds of attacks as compared to those who find
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themselves four entirely innocent reasons falling victim to it. yes, really important point and there's been a lot of debate about this and in the us where there are mass shootings, absolutely tragic events, there is a lot of debate as to how much attention you should give to the alleged killer because the concern is that it could accidentally glorify them and give them more attention and you can inspire others who might have the same thoughts but at the same time, these actions need to be covered because they are absolute tragedies and they are very serious incidents. if we go back to the telegraph, they say the police are telling people not to be scared when they go outside but to remain alert. we've already been told to remain alert around a pandemic so it is really just one tragedy on top of another but it's nice to see the prominence given to james furlong today, head of government and politics at his school in wokingham and our reports
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suggest he was an extremely devoted teacher, a kind friend, a wonderful man and many will be mourning him and it's really important we flagged these individuals because it is a tragic incident and of course names are attached to these incidents, people and lives and there will be so many people mourning him on the other two people who have sadly passed away. good, all right. let's move on to the financial times and this is a story and i know you will both be interested in it, in a sense a debate we haven't had very much recently which is the question of what might happen afterwards in terms of the implications for tax and public spending. this is the suggestion that rishi sunak is on the one hand are going to consider further tax cuts and then may be spending cuts later in the year. what do you make of the ft‘s predictions? thisjust underlines
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the fact that in some ways dealing with the health emergency is the easier of the tasks facing the government linked to the pandemic because restarting the economy is going to be very, very difficult and as you say, the chancellor on one hand is turning on tax to get communities out and there are rumours he will cut vat in a bid to get us back to the shops and boost the economy again but also, following on from that in the autumn there are rumours he will start thinking about cutting spending, putting in deferred tax rises because ultimately it sounds and the treasury that people are saying we cannot have this enormous amount of borrowing and not start thinking about how we pay it back so there a real balancing act to be had and a lot of this is outside the purview of the chancellor because it depends on how people react to any loosening to the lockdown, that is to say the government might loosen the rules but if people don't choose to wander around the shops it won't have much impact on the economy.
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around the shops it won't have much impact on the economylj around the shops it won't have much impact on the economy. i must admit i was speculating the other day about the implications that used to be common in shops which was browsing which has become more difficult now with the restrictions on the number of people who can go away because if you are a browser who obviously ends up buying something i didn't mean to, i'd feel a bit guilty about browsing when i stop a real bio going in to buy what they meant to. these are big dilemmas for the government. one of the things mentioned is vat and i think i'm right in saying is we are no longer in the european union we have more flexibility with the rates. lets not forget vat was increased during the financial crisis was part of austerity. but i'm not convinced that vat is the most important way to go. we don't have a demand issue in the economy right now. we have an issue with fear. people are nervous to go outside because of a global pandemic and i'm not convinced that cutting vat which would prove very expensive
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to the treasury, tens of billions, i'm not sure that is the number one tax cut to go for. the uk is at a near 50 year high in terms of the tax burden and there is a strong argument that it's time for a few tax cuts but the problem the treasury has is they don't know how much the global pandemic will cost them. the following scheme is still going on and now goes into october and we don't know what will happen around the second wave and the costs are already monumental and it's all been blown out of the water by hundreds of billions of pounds estimated to be needed, so there will have to be a total rethink about how you can stimulate the economy, how you get finances under control and the big problem is that they don't exactly know what the number is they are dealing with. there were reports at the end of last week that boris johnson was prepared to break his manifesto promise on the so—called triple lock to protect pension income. and he also obviously has strong commitments that were in the ma nifesto commitments that were in the manifesto about not increasing the basic rate of tax, national
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insurance, so how narrow have his options become do you think? it's worth bearing in mind that in the manifesto there were some pretty lavish promises about levelling up the country as well, so there is no doubt that the government is facing some very, very difficult trade—offs and some of those manifesto promises are going to be at the very least hotly debated inside cabinet because they need to make the sums add up and at the moment, given the enormous impact of the pandemic in katie's right in saying that we don't know what the bill is yet, they will have to make difficult choices and may be abandoned one of two things. kate, last thought on this? boris johnson and his cabinet have indicated that they do not want to reintroduce austerity but as mentioned, they have promised a lot of spending on top of normal public spending in the march budget and we are now seeing that elsewhere embedding ina are now seeing that elsewhere embedding in a lot of day—to—day spending, so there may be room to cut back but i think cuts to public
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spending are actually going to be something they try to avoid but it does mean really difficult decisions. if you want to cut tax and cut public spending, are you willing to go back to having the structural deficit and borrowing year on year not knowing when you will pay it back? it's not very financially responsible which is what this conservative government said it would be. an interesting story in the guardian and we will talk a lot about whether the government reduces social distancing which is regarded as key if we are going to get pubs and restaurants open again on the 4th ofjuly which some of the papers are suggesting is the target date for the government. scan as you enter plan to allow pubs to be reopened, an interesting idea. lam trying to be reopened, an interesting idea. i am trying to hide my smile at this story. it cheers me up ridiculously. it slightly frustrating because you can't see the rest of the story, but iimagine can't see the rest of the story, but i imagine this is about numbers rather than anything else and just pubs letting in to make sure that evenif
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pubs letting in to make sure that even if the rules on social distancing change that they are not too full, so they need to keep track of the numbers if they are letting people inside and we don't know this yes, whether it willjust be beer gardens. as i understand, some of the other reporting i've seen tonight and i stand to be corrected, but i think the suggestion is that it is to allow them to follow up if somebody in the public, part of the contact tracing as well, so they might want to name and address or telephone number. i suppose there are people who might look at askance at that, but i think most people are so bored of lockdown that scanning your phone to go in is a price worth paying, to be honest. your phone to go in is a price worth paying, to be honestlj your phone to go in is a price worth paying, to be honest. i think that is probably right. you do have to question, given the huge u—turn on the government did on its own virus tracing app this week where we are not ina tracing app this week where we are not in a place that if you handed over the information that the government could probably track and trace if somebody in the pub ended up trace if somebody in the pub ended up having symptoms, if they could
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really get in touch with people who went to the pub, but i completely agree. people will be willing to sacrifice some of their personal details in their e—mail and the rest of it just to details in their e—mail and the rest of itjust to have a point. details in their e—mail and the rest of it just to have a pointlj details in their e—mail and the rest of itjust to have a point. i think you are right. on the front of the telegraph, 400,000 phones cannot beat two distances rules. last thought of this, as part of all the changes, expanding those support bubbles to reunite grandparents with theirfamilies. this bubbles to reunite grandparents with their families. this will go down very well, won't it? it will and families have been confronted with some really tricky choices about which grandparents to see perhaps with a new grandchild because of the current rules on the sort of expanded bubbles, so the government is apparently investigating ways of expanding those bubbles further and of course, everything is hedged at the moment and the language is very, very cautious and the government talks about putting the handbrake straight back on if the r goes up again and the virus takes hold again, but the government is showing signs of being aware of some of the
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very heart breaking decision is that families are making and to try and do something to make their lives easier which has to be a good thing. and the heartbreaking decision i have to make is to end this paper review, but thank you both and i know you will dock at half 11. that's it for the papers, but we will be back at 1130 for another look at the papers. we have another programme coming up for you. it is click and after that it will be the weather and i will have the full news with you at 11. welcome, welcome, welcome to click. come on in, everyone.
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i hope you're well, and ladies and gentlemen, here comes lara lewington. hello! now, spencer. tiktok — huge platform, hundreds of millions of users making short—form, quirky videos. have you ever made one? no. laughs i have been watching it with interest, though. but i don't know about you, but the problem for me is thatjust when i start understanding a new social media platform, you know, start understanding the language and start getting followers, along comes another social platform. and it's almost like there is a new platform for each new generation. parents, that's why your kids aren't on facebook — because you are. true, and that's probably why, when i made this video for tiktok last year, i realised i wasn't really in the right place. # slam it to the left, if you're having a good time. # shake it to the right, if you know that you feel fine. # chicas to the front, go round...
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it was a true work of art, it has to be said. what's funny, though, is even that song and that dress are completely culturally irrelevant to anyone who's under the age of 20. laughs absolutely. i did feel at the time i had to be totally and utterly shameless, though. but things could be changing, as tiktok may be becoming a little more serious. browsing can admittedly be quite compelling, but making content left me want to hide under the table. tiktok‘s popularity has rocketed once again in lockdown, but it's not just about the fun. now the platform's got a really captive audience, it's time for them to learn. whilst its emphasis on fun and entertainment over news or politics had made it a welcome distraction during the pandemic, this week, tiktok is announcing a new strategic direction, with the education—focussed feature learn on tiktok.
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going forward, learn on tiktok is going to be a long—term programme which is about us investing in partners and content creators from across the breadth of professional content creators, educational institutions like english heritage and cambridge university, all the way through to the breadth of creators who exist on tiktok. we're working with some kind of more educationally focused partners, so cambridge university is one of those. so there are some, you know, for either school age or university or postgraduate age, but a lot of the content will be much more focused. it will be focused on life skills, and things that are interesting for people. and how are you going to deliver that education? because presumably it's going to be in short, bite—size chunks, in the same way that any tiktok video is presented. we think this is about applying the power of tiktok to learning. and what i mean by that is it's about effects, it's about audio, it's about engaging transitions, using all the tools that make tiktok videos so engaging and fun.
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amongst tiktok‘s partners is english heritage, a charity that manages hundreds of historic sites in the uk, and can see the importance of reaching a younger audience through social media. we think that tiktok's a really safe place to explore some of the stories that perhaps matter most to young people. so things like black history, for example, lgbtq stories from some of our sites, women's history as well. it feels like a very safe, welcoming environment to explore those stories. this is reminding me of youtube's journey. both platforms started off being all about viral video, all about the fun. and gradually, as time went by, a lot of youtube's content became more structured, more produced. and could it be that tiktok is going to start to push that sort of content, too? until then, i'm sure we can all learn something useful — or not. if you fancy a spot of escapism
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right now, then the chances are it's not by playing a videogame set in the midst of a global pandemic. and it's for that reason that the launch of part ii of the last of us, the massively successful, genre—defining game, was delayed. but then a spoiler was released online and that meant, pandemic or no pandemic, it needed to be released. it's received critical acclaim, but does it live up to the hype? marc cieslak has been finding out. 25 years after a devastating global pandemic, nature reclaims the earth. buildings lie empty. the wreckage of the world before surrounds you. inside every derelict shop, every creamy creepy asement,
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