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of those front pages. Well, the lead for
the Guardian. Russian envoys to the EU
and UK are summoned after deadly strikes
in Kev, which also hit British and EU
offices.
DFT hears there's concern among banks
that the chancellor could impose higher
taxes on the sector in order to raise
more money for the public purse.
More wos for the chancellor on the Daily
Mail. The boss of one of Britain's
biggest supermarkets accuses Rachel
Reeves of taxing everything and driving
up prices in the process. The Metro has
news of a chickenpox vaccine being
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teach balloon craft and florestry to
migrants.
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don't want to go into the sea to stop
migrant boats on their way to Britain.
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or actual robots. Anyway, we're joined
tonight by Ava Centina Evans and Angela
Epstein. Thank you both so much for
being with us. It's great to see you.
Okay, let's start. Um, it's a story
that's treated in quite a few of the
papers, that attack that we saw
overnight uh in Ukraine on Kev
specifically. I think the second biggest
of the war so far and it kind of calls
into question where we are when it comes
to any kind of ceasefire. Also, some
specific lines. If we look at the
Guardian, Russian envoys summoned as UK
and EU offices hit in uh key was the
British Council and the EU delegation.
Ava, let's start with you.
>> Yes, this is just two weeks after that
red carpet was rolled out by Donald
Trump for Putin and we were in this
fresh round of negotiations in Kev had
been relatively untouched during this
time and now you've had what what the
second deadliest uh night of bombing
since the conflict began over three
years ago. Um and the big issue now for
the EU and for Britain is that two
buildings belonging to you know each
respective body were hit and there are
questions over was this it's thought
this was a precision missile. So the
question is was this intentional was
this to inflame tensions and presumably
that is why the ambassador has been has
been summoned today. uh details of that
conversation I highly doubt we'll be
privy to uh for quite some time but
presumably the conversation sort of went
did you mean to do it and if so why
>> yeah and and I think the EU or the you
know the Russian ambassador to the EU
was also summoned by the foreign
minister equivalent there
>> was he was and it's a question of you
know we're seeing diplomacy has stalled
as Ava said you know that literally the
red carpet was rolled out and and after
Alaska after Washington after talks of
will there be bilateral or trilateral
conversations Will Trump be the one that
can literally be the matchmaker and make
things happen? How do you on the one
hand have this kind of exercise in
diplomacy? Is it just rhetoric? Is there
any point to it? Does it have any meat
in the sandwich? And at the same time,
not only the attack, but such a
provocative attack by default or by
design, the first Brit piece of British
property to be caught in the crossfire.
To me, what also leapt out about this
latest attack is that we're seeing
really for the first time some of the
humanity of this. We know that thousands
of people, innocent people have been
killed in the war. We know that it's a
drawn out conflict. But then we we get
individual sort of numbers. Four
children amongst the those who were
killed. 21 people, you know, the
civilian cost of this war. It's not just
military hardware, individuals being
caught in this.
>> Yeah. No, absolutely. I mean, civilians,
you know, whether targeted or not,
certainly uh killed and unavoidable in
that case if you strike Keev. Let's just
look at the times uh as well. Uh their
headline star says Putin is trying to
sabotage uh peace hopes because there's
all this talk now about being a sort of
trilateral meeting where Trump would be
as well or getting Zalinski and Putin
meeting together. But there just doesn't
seem to be the will from from Vladimir
Putin.
>> Not at all. And the question is who will
have the power or the muscle to enable
the political muscle, the diplomatic
muscle to make him stop? If he has
enough confidence to continue bombing
within the context of so-called peace
talks, then then how do you rein him in?
And and I think the only person that can
do that potentially is Trump. I think he
was a little bit uh shaken by the idea
of tariffs when he saw what happened
with India. But even so, and Trump has
famously said with with dramatic
understatement, he's not happy with
what's going on. But Putin is he cannot
seem to be controlled. I think Trump is
the only answer to this.
>> And speaking of Trump, we are waiting to
hear from him. I mean, we we heard from
his spokesperson uh that he wasn't
happy, but we are waiting to hear from
the statement as well. Uh yeah and well
actually there was an extraordinary line
from him a couple of days ago which is
that he was uh he's rather happy when
he's on the phone to Putin and then an
event like this happens and he can't
quite believe that the two things you
know it's in congrent he says with this
sort of line of conversation but it does
you know you know it brings about again
this conversation that we're having
about how on earth is this going to be
resolved? What is the international
peacekeeping going to look like? who is
going to police these, you know, the the
the current frozen lines that we, you
know, we have the frozen uh sort of uh
you know, in Ukraine, what territory is
going to be given up? There are still
huge rows over the Crimea and the
Donbass that seem, you know, completely
unsolvable. And last night is just proof
that Putin does not want to end this war
anytime soon.
>> And it also says something about I mean,
you know, not not wishing to to bash the
government too much this early in the
program, but um but give me time. But
you know, David Lammy summoning, you
know, he's been the foreign um the
Russian ambassador, as it says in the
Times, has been summoned and he's he's
explained that he's not happy. The
killing has to stop. Sometimes we we
almost feel diplomatically irrelevant
because where is where is Britain's
power in all this anyway?
>> Yeah. I mean, the European powers are
trying to get together with the UK, but
obviously, and it was interesting with
Karen Lev, the spokesperson, the White
House spokesperson, where she kind of
almost made the moral equivalence when
she said, you know, Russia's attacked,
but Ukraine has attacked, too. And
that's what we've seen a lot.
>> And that was disturbing because Ukraine
has attacked um oil refineries and we
military targets and we're not talking
about civilian casualties and yet the
moral equivalence is all lumped
together.
>> Well, we'll see how it develops and I
guess we'll see what Trump says if he
says anything of any impact on this.
Let's go to the Daily Telegraph and some
home news. Headline here. Asylum seekers
write Trump uh people of Eping says
Cooper Eva. What does Iette Cooper say
here?
>> Well, so this is Ivet Cooper wasn't
originally involved in the the trial
that placed this injunction on the Bell
Hotel in Eping, which meant that that
hotel could not serve as a um a location
for asylum seekers to be housed while
they're waiting for their applications
to be processed. And the Home Secretary
has launched uh an appeal at the court.
This judgment actually will be handed
down tomorrow around 300 p.m. Um, and
the home secretary is arguing that
actually this will set a precedent if
you ban asylum seekers from being housed
at the Bell Hotel. This will have a
domino effect around the country. And
actually, she has a a moral duty to
house these people while they're waiting
for their applications to be processed.
And this could be extraordinarily
dangerous if there is nowhere to house
these people during that time. But also
that I mean the fact is that that
Starmmer did say he pledged that by the
end of this parliament he would close
asylum hotels. And what the government
are saying is we're not saying that we
endorse this but we want to do it in our
own time. We don't want to be handcuffed
by leg the legislative process, but
they're in this very difficult double
bind because as as Ava says, you know,
the the home secretary has this
statutory duty to say, well, we we
provide somewhere for asylum seekers to
stay. And yet the law is saying, but no,
that in terms of the planning situation
that this this this transformation of a
hotel into somewhere to to accommodate
asylum seekers is is legally um not
tenable. And it it is really a loophole,
isn't it, that the council have found
because obviously there have been these
these tensions, these rising tensions
outside that hotel now for for a number
of weeks and they sort of, you know,
reach excruciating levels and they are
extraordinarily dangerous for both the
people outside the hotel and the people
who are being housed inside. And this
loophole was never um explored by the
council in the you know near decade that
these hotels have been used to house
asylum seekers. So sort of the argument
that's being presented by the home
secretary and the home office is that
actually this is totally inconsistent
with the last decade. And so why on
earth do you get to do you get to use
the planning laws now when you never
cared about it before?
>> Yeah. I mean you know it's another angle
of what is immigration the biggest story
the big the biggest topic politically
and that people feel very strongly about
which leads us to the front page of the
sun. And I'd love to get your views on
this uh and balloony and a lovely
picture of a little balloon dog. Lessons
in party skills for migrants job ads to
teach flower arranging too. Beyond the
headline, Ava, what are they saying
>> I I I have actually been to a number of
these. I don't I don't believe the ones
that I have been to have been directly
uh directly instructed by the home
office but they obviously do these
charities do receive funds from the
government in some capacity. So course
is to help migrants. It is. And
essentially what it is is it's for
asylum seekers who come with, you know,
extraordinarily challenging perhaps
they've got mental health issues or
perhaps, you know, that you you you
can't sort of people who have survived
war zones need extra help and they need
occupying during the day. And of the way
that this has been written is obviously
off the back of, you know, as I've said,
the months of tension that we've seen
outside asylum seeker hotels. But you
know, I didn't I can't imagine this sort
of furore would have been made if um you
know, during the time of the Ukrainian
refugees who were being brought to the
UK, they all had access to these
services and actually these charities
were used to rehabilitate them after the
experience they just gone through. It's
it respectfully it's slightly different
because there's this has all been sort
of explored within the context of
allegations of criminal activity of
migrants who have come to this country
which has created enormous tension. U
not saying rightly or wrongly about
having courses like this but you can see
why it would be so triggering and such a
kind of flash point. And obviously you
you see and you know this is the power
of newspapers. You've got a little dog
there made out of a pink balloon and yet
it's costing £165,000
to hire four or five people to do this
kind of thing at a time of austerity and
all the other other stuff. That's why it
doesn't really work in the Ukraine
context.
>> I think the argument though would be
that Ukrainians were offered safe
passage whereas people from Afghanistan
had to travel the channel to get here
and so that there was sort of
>> so sorry we're going to have to leave it
there for timings issues. Uh so coming
up, could taxing the banking sector hold
the key to improving the public
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Centina Evans and Angela Epstein. Right.
Uh, we don't have a lot of time, so
let's go straight to the financial
times. Sorry about the economy here.
City fears mount over Reeves' tax rate
on banks to help fill the dreaded 20
billion pound fiscal hole that the banks
fear that they might be targeted.
>> That's right. And and I love this quote
here. It's an easy target. No one likes
banks. They are seen as a whipping boy
for government. And I think at a time
when people are going to be so under the
cush, we've talked about inheritance
tax. We've seen what's happened with the
farmers. um this idea of the the
proposed mansion tax which is they've
they've been muttering about um and
that's all very difficult whereas the
banks have always been characterized as
something fundamentally nefarious greedy
um so I think this is I don't know how
well this is going to work but there is
as it says here unease over the autumn
budget we don't know what's coming up um
in the budget and therefore this idea
that going after the big lenders may be
a way of filling that 40 billion
>> course and the whole issue is how it
would affect growth which obviously the
government needs favor.
>> Well, I mean, the sort of the mystical
growth I I suppose that Rachel Reeves is
uh is vying for, but I mean, she's got
to find cash somewhere. And I'm actually
surprised that we haven't been talking
about this all summer. I thought we were
going to be talking about this every
single day. It's thought that she's
going to, you know, put levies up on sin
taxes like cigarettes and alcohol, the
mansion tax that you just had spoke
about there, possibly on gambling. But
now here the IPR recommending that she
imposes a levy to recruit the windfalls
made by lenders uh following the
quantitive easing program used by the
government. I mean that is going to send
heads spinning in the city. But I
actually do think if you you could sell
that quite well actually to people
around the country of you know big banks
are sort of you know making these huge
profits while the layman has had to cut
back. I actually think that could be
quite a good sell for labor. But it also
says here that she's it says Reeves is
acutely conscious of the risk of overt
taxing the productive parts of the
economy. Well, small businesses are
entirely under the kosh because of
national insurance and various other
things that she's she's introduced the
rise in the minimum wage. So it it's for
the birds this idea that somehow she
wants to sort of you know she wants
growth and yet she's stying it at the
same time.
>> Okay. Well, we'll see what does happen
uh with that eventually. Let's go to the
metro. Uh quite a picture here from
Pedro of the Metro. Chickenpox uh
because chickenpox jabs are to be rolled
out on the NHS and I have to say a lot
of European countries do have it on the
NHS and and we don't. You have to ask
and you have to kind of remember that
your child might
>> we forget. I mean, first of all,
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