Transcripts For BBCNEWS The Papers 20240714

Deputy Political Editor at the Daily Telegraph and the economist, and member of labours policy forum, grace blakeley. Many of tomorrows front pages are already in. Its borisjohnsons trip to france which is monopolising many of the newspapers, and its the thorny issue of the backstop which the independent has focussed on. A picture the fires in the amazon is on the front page of the Financial Times, alongside their main article which suggests the eu is planning a crackdown on use of facial recognition in public places. Johnson demands fresh border plan. Boris johnsons meeting with president macron also dominates the front of the Daily Telegraph. And its a similar story on the guardian, the paper focuses on president macron saying the irish backstop is indespensible. And the sun reports the duke of cambridge took a commercial flight with his family on a trip to scotland, thats after his brothers much criticised trip on a private jet for a holiday in the south of france. Radius lets get on with the paper review and start with the i and the headlinejohnson review and start with the i and the headline johnson encounters review and start with the i and the headlinejohnson encounters French Resistance. Pessimistic take on the meeting between them. Pessimistic depending which side you are on but voicejohnson today depending which side you are on but voice johnson today went to paris to have his first meeting with Emmanuel Macron who is very much seen as the ha rd macron who is very much seen as the hard man or has said he is the hard man of the eu 27 and we had Angela Merkel almost plain good cop to his bad cop for sweet and suggesting that there is an opportunity to maybe find some solution to the backstop in the next say 30 days at borisjohnson backstop in the next say 30 days at Boris Johnson can come backstop in the next say 30 days at borisjohnson can come up with something. Emmanuel macron was a more negative on this although frankly, compared to what he was saying last night, where hejust said absolutely no to everything, he actually moved quite a bit for himself today, whether it actually means significant progress is another thing. What is your take on it . Do you think he has moved, the French Resistance and not saying they will reopen negotiations that he seemed more amenable than he . Have to move with regards to what, but voice johnson has not come up with anything as yet to replace the backstop so yes he could be up and out looking at something new but these are weights that are the staff of diplomatic politics ultimately and voice johnson has figured out ingeniously the way economists and commentators and political observers have been trying for the last three years to figure out another alternative to the backstop and has he suddenly managed to do this overnight . What it is doing as it is not the closed door that he could have given voicejohnson which many people were expecting. And which would have been his gift to give but what is happening here is that Emmanuel Macron does not want to be seen Emmanuel Macron does not want to be seen as Emmanuel Macron does not want to be seen as steam rolling towards a new deal brexit and no one in the eu wa nts deal brexit and no one in the eu wants that on their hands and it is still seen as very likely and graded by number ten but what it has done is let him reinvigorate the process and certainly our readers will look at it and say, we have seen theresa may do so many of these meetings to go out and meet Emmanuel Macron and merkel and shake hands and then be maximum you created council meetings. Borisjohnson you could argue, if anyone can find some solution maybe he can and maybe he can convince them and have a good rapport with Emmanuel Macron but as they rightly say, what can they actually come up with in the last 30 days and probably even less. Maybe 29. Lets look at the metro because there headline as there headline as the irony of today, when you look at what he is saying he almost said both things, he has said the backstop is indispensable but he has also said i welcome what Angela Merkel was saying and we can find a solution. Is this solution from an alternative Arrangement Commission and we are seeing all the focus on that does not provide any solution . Anyone who has looked at it says it does not provide solutions. We are ina does not provide solutions. We are in a situation where the only solution to the irish issue at this point is where the checks in the irish city which is unacceptable to most politicians in Northern Ireland or some form of tax on the border between the republic of ireland and Northern Ireland which is also unacceptable. You can talk about Technological Solutions and a report mentions various innovations to get checks on specific items but not building out checks to the extent he would have on an ordinary border but even that is going to be u na cce pta ble even that is going to be unacceptable to a lot of people in the situation that remains quite confrontational and hostile. There is still a legacy of violence and actual real violence continues to this day so unless as you say, he cannot take something out of thin airthat is cannot take something out of thin air that is acceptable to all parties involved that does not seem that this problem is going to go away anytime soon. Your piece here, you talk a new impetus to open negotiations and this is a proper piece of work and sensible people are behind that. Does not make a difference . What my two fine collea g u es difference . What my two fine colleagues from the telegraph, we try to focus on what is number ten and what is the government actually doing now, so we had these meetings and we had these warm words and encouraging words, Boris Johnson today, i do not know if you saw the photo, came back to downing street and did a friend to fist pump in the air which is and did a friend to fist pump in the airwhich is an and did a friend to fist pump in the air which is an interesting photo. He obviously seemed to think it went well. Now the key is what does this now mean and what whitehall officials are going to be tasked to deal and minister is already being instructed to start looking at this report which was put together by two backbenchers. Civil servants already on the case to try as the source said turbo charge finding a solution. The understanding is they do not have enough time to really do anything new or as they said magic something up out of the blue. And so we will probably be something similarto we will probably be something similar to this report, it may be dressed up and shot the reality there has been three years they spent trying to come up with a plan thatis spent trying to come up with a plan that is acceptable. With the Technological Solutions is something that has been repeatedly afforded by theology and brexiteers. This report was slightly different because thinking morgan was the co author who is seen as a morning more unifying voice in the tory party. But it feels like a big gamble frankly, when you have people saying we can return to the troubles and we also have that and the telegraph, can we really risk it, which side do we listen to . Let both politicians are trying to do is project a particular image. Emmanuel macron wa nts to particular image. Emmanuel macron wants to be seen from him but also not placing the eu towards new deal. Borisjohnson wants not placing the eu towards new deal. Boris johnson wants to do everything he can to get a deal and when it fails, and he attempts to green the uk towards a new dale and is stopped by Parliament Hill is getting in the way of protecting the will of the british people and he can call an election and you have to vote me into power so i can take on the eu and parliament. It is a game of appearances right now and the substance as we know has been gone over and over many times in the last two years and that is not changing it, it is a game of politics now. Away from brexit and to the Financial Times and the dreadful fire that is spreading across the amazon, it is 85 increase this year alone and most of them across the amazon. The president of brazil is blaming ngos, charity organisations. What we have to realise about this is not an accident and the reason why he can win over the large part of Financial Press is saying we Welcome International investment in brazil and even if that means tearing up regulatory standards and then we are going to facilitate the clearing of the amazon to help the farmers if that is what we need to do. His whole campaign was based on dismissing Environmental Concerns and favour of short terms growing the economy and this is a result of this. People have taken to actually bringing down the amazon and it is man made. Bringing down the amazon and it is manmade. He is playing politics with the environment and when you also have people like donald trump in america, not far off from him, getting very similar, breaking International Laws and this is where we end up and we think where do we go from here as well. He now said this evening that the country does not have the resources and money to put the fires out so making excuses and blaming other people and also saying that farmers are doing this they are saying he is encouraging them to do this. Because they have to bring land to grow crops. Anyone listening to his campaign for the last year or so would have thought that there was no reason he would be ato that there was no reason he would be a to this. That really he has said repeatedly has absolutely no real ca re repeatedly has absolutely no real care for the amazon and obviously the people that still inhabited. It is not a surprise that people are taking this into their own hands. The eu plans to crack down on the use of facial recognition and public areas and we are hearing about the use of facial Recognition Technology and londons kings cross last week when we. This will be the next frontier, what are the implications for civil liberty, for police. 0ver intrusion into our lives and the old phrase who guards the guards . And an issue that a lot of this is not the state doing this but private corporations. And there is not enough regulation and this is something that can very easily go quickly under the radar and something you wake up and it is being wildly misused. Brussels are looking very much at the ethical laws for all of the ai and much needed. We are at this point where you get on facebook and twitter and you get on facebook and twitter and you walk down the street and you have no idea what kind of data is being gathered on you and what adverts its being used to target. When we talk about the irish border in this Technological Solutions this is the sort of solution or one of them, when we talk about how can we just have everything done by technology and no border checks in no technology and no border checks in no borders and this is the side effect. The difference between this and the personal data laws last year is when you click on an e mail and sign onto well lets say you are physically doing something or not doing something but when you walk down the street you do not know what cameras are on you and it looks like they are all over the place. Daily mirror headline come and katz £73 holidays flight. They have taken a budget flight from norwich up to aberdeen in stark contrast to that of prince Williams Brother harry and Meghan Markle that took the private jet. For private and Meghan Markle that took the privatejet. For privatejets. 0ne does not want to be sceptical but thatis does not want to be sceptical but that is that this a pr stunt there . Are getting on this budget airline. What is going on . They could use positive pr at the moment so i would not be surprised if i had something to do with it but i think the contrast between this and carries flight contrast between this and carries flight raises an important issue which is the vast majority of the lifestyle Carbon Emissions come from a small number of people. Not domestic plates like these but long haul flights, that is Something Like a very long haul flight, long haul flights, that is Something Like a very long haulflight, a large chunk of the icecap just disappears for the amount of carbon that goes into the atmosphere. Perhaps the fact that we are having this discussion is a positive one. How many states to make seats did they take up at their security and assistance and i cannot imagine that there was the neighbours from wherever you are in the back seat behind them. They have taken up quite a few seats, when they . Do you think that this sort of division now between the way that the press are treating william and kate versus harry and megan is very stark . |j think harry and megan is very stark . think is it the way the press is treating them or is it. I find it very ha rd treating them or is it. I find it very hard to believe there has not been some sort of site pr move and that the palace, kates people would not realise this would put her on a collision course with Meghan Markle. Ido collision course with Meghan Markle. I do not know. Frankly the more they fly economy or dominic this is not particularly new we had press andrew onjanet particularly new we had press andrew on janet prince particularly new we had press andrew onjanet Prince Andrew onjacks and private jets. The royal family and private jets. The royal family and actually they deserve a bit of privacy and protection some would say. They get quite a lot already. Thank you very much for now. We will see you back shortly. Anna and grace will be back at ii. 30pm for another look at the papers. And dont forget, you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. Its all there for you, seven days a week, at bbc. Co. Uk. And if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. But for now, from all of us, goodbye. Hello there and our weather pattern is changing and the jet stream is making its way northwards in the upshot of that is that temperatures will be rising especially as we head into the weekend, we will get 30 or even 31 degrees the First Time Since the heat wave back at the end of last month. No heat wave earlier on today but a lovely day across the south coast air for the north we had more clout around and even a bit of rain and drizzle as well. A look at the radar picture shows the rainfall over the past three hours and you can see we have a little bit of that heading its way out away from Northern Ireland and pushing its way into scotland and beginning to dry for a bit into scotland and beginning to dry fora bit in into scotland and beginning to dry for a bit in Northern England but we still have some south westerly breezes and dragging and a fair bit of cloud across the western side of the uk and that will be well enough to get some nest and drizzle around some of these Western Hills and further north that rain continues to push its way across the highlands and some heavy rain here but elsewhere generally it is going to be dry with temperature 13 to 15 degrees anterior to the southeast corner of england and quite a quality start elsewhere and the nest and drizzle will tend to lift the cloud and it moves away from mainland scotland and semiarid skies coming up and across into east anglia and that will give the temperature are left up to 27 degrees in southeast england and further north we will hang onto my cloud and it should be a dry day for the test match all the rather cloudy. Drying up a lot of warmth from europe pushing its way northwards across the uk and the Little Leather front obviously in the northwest and that is where well see a few showers and then northwest of scotland and perhaps the branches of Northern Ireland as well. Much my sunshine on saturday and the sunshine again for the south and the sunshine again for the south and that he will build and it will push its way further north into the central belt of scotland and in the midlands 30 or so in the southeast of england and maybe one or two road showers continuing in the northwest of scotla nd showers continuing in the northwest of scotland and never really hitting the high temperatures here. Elsewhere a lot of sunshine and light winds from england and wales, warmth pushing further north into scotla nd warmth pushing further north into scotland again and higher temperatures midlands choice the southeast around 30 or 31 in the london area on saturday. That is the peak of the heat as we head into it monday and it looks like it will be dry very warm sunshine and high temperatures will be in that southeastern corner of england and whether eventually starting to change probably on to change probably on tuesday. Threat of thunderstorms coming in from the continent and it looks unlikely that the rain will be heading down from the rain will be heading down from the north. This is bbc news. Im samantha simmonds. The headlines at 11 00 the french president tells borisjohnson the irish backstop is indespensible, despite the pm wanting to scrap it. Under no circumstances will the uk government be instituting, imposing checks or controls of any kind at that border. Why a no deal brexit could lead to more domestic waste ending up in landfill sites in england. Guess where it will end up . The gcse pass rate is up slightly, and thats despite warnings from teachers that some students struggled. And no river in england is currently safe to swim in thats the stark warning from scientists about the levels of sewage in waterways. And at 11 30, well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers, anna mikhailova, from the Daily Telegraph,