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Back. You are watching the Press Preview. A first look at what's on the front pages as they arrive. It's time to see what's making the headlines with broadcaster and commentator, Ali Mirage and daily mirror economist, Susie Boniface. They'll be with us from now until just before midnight. Let's see what's on some of those front pages for you now. The FT leads with the Gaza war, suggesting Israel may be planning for a yearlong offensive. The Guardian says Israel will be escalating the war with a ground attack in the south of Gaza after the truce was suspended. And in the mail, a report says thousands of children will be skipping school to go on protests in support.

Of Palestine.

The Times predictor, Boris Johnson, will be apologizing next week when he gives evidence to the COVID inquiry. Don't Believe doubters, says the Daily Express, as senior officials insist the government's Rwanda deal is still on despite numerous legal challenges. The telegraph leads on the Royal Book Row as pressure amounts on Prince Harry to speak out on the issue. Endgame is the headline for The Sun, as it claims the Royals face a split beyond repair. The eye leads with an investigation into how tobacco companies are lobbying the Prime Minister to avoid an outright smoking ban. Some MPs are urging viewers to boot Nigel Faraj out of the jungle. That's according to The Mirro. And The Daily Stars suggests we should be kinder to bald people. And a reminder that by scanning the QR code you'll see on screen during the program, you can check out the front pages of tomorrow's newspapers while you watch us. And we are joined tonight by Ali Mirage and Susie Boniface. And I felt your eyes burning.

When I read that last story.

On the start. At least there's an upside of being on the press preview tonight. You've been kind to me. Be kind to.

Me, Susie.

Well, let's turn to much more serious issues now. And the front page of The Guardian we'll start with and the escalation of the war, the.

End of.

The truce that has now.

Ended as of this morning, Allie.

Well, the seven-day truth has ended. We knew it would end at some point. There was some hope that it could be extended, but sadly, that has not come to pass. Obviously, there have been hostage releases on both sides. And Israel wants to make sure that it achieves a number of things. It wants to decapitate Hamas's leadership. It wants to ensure that it is completely eradicated as a force. It wants to ensure that this can never happen again. It's an entire underground tunnel infrastructure is also reduced completely to rubble, which is understandable given that heinous attack that took place on October the seventh. But Israel also needs to think about what comes after this. I think that there's insufficient planning going on about that. The Guardian is reporting that the US has got very limited sway over Benjamin Netanyahu, who is under a lot of pressure himself. The New York Times has done an exposé saying that he was worn months ago by his own defense chiefs that his complete obsession with all this nonsense going on within Israel, domestic politics was reducing focus on the military strategy, security issues, and it was actually helping Israel's foes.

That's certainly the case. There has to be sufficient thought given to what comes after this and what peace looks like because two million gardens are not going to be going anywhere. All that's going to happen here potentially is you are going to have derivatives of a mass coming up who are completely disgruntled. So that has to be part of the solution.

And Susie, if we look at the FT.

Weekend.

Their headline, Israel digs in for year-long gas war, the suggestion that really this is not going to be over any time soon. And the point that Ali was making that there is no plan for what happens after. And certainly there isn't any talk of peace.

At this moment. No. Well, the talk that's happening, the rhetoric that's going on is that obviously the troops have collapsed. There have been missiles fired on both sides. Netanyahu's government is talking about they have leafleted in Khan-Yulis in the south of Gaza in order to suggest people move even further south to avoid what looks like they're going to be stepping up the ground war there. And saying that we don't have, as it says in the EFT, we have not yet met our objectives, which include killing some of the top three leaders and seriously degrading about 24 Hamas battalions that they believe are operating in to the border. They say that actually they've damaged about 10 of those 24 battalions. They haven't got nearly enough. They've killed some mid-level commanders, dozens of them, but they haven't got to the top guys, and there's plenty more they want to do. Now, unfortunately, Ali is wrong in saying those guys aren't going anywhere because if they follow the Israel Defense Forces instructions, they're all going to be moving south and eventually end up somewhere near the border, if not across the border into Egypt, across the Rafer crossing.

You've also got a situation where the Israeli government is mostly armed by the US government. If Joe Biden says you have to stop doing what you're doing, then eventually Israel does run out of armaments. So Biden does have the ability to control it. He doesn't appear to have exerted that ability yet, but you've got the clock running down really on international global patience with the way this conflict is going. And like Ali said, if you don't have an idea of where you're going to end up and what peace looks like, if you can't have total complete destruction of an enemy, which never happens with a terror group, never happens when people are fighting for a homeland, then you have to have some way to get to compromise. And Netanyahu's government is under a huge amount of pressure at home. That's not in any of these pieces, but he's under a huge amount of pressure from the family of those 100 or so hostages who have not been released, from the families of those hostages who have been killed as a result of the airstrikes or as a result of Hamas activity. And a lot of this rhetoric that's coming out of Netanyahu and his government is we're going to carry on.

We're going to fight because that's what they have to say.

Politically at home. Well, he's also bruised. He's also been very bruised because Netanyahu was the hard man of Israeli security, and he's been found absolutely wanting. This is the most egregious failure on Israeli security policy for generations. So it's very embarrassing for him. But I do think that Israel also has to be very careful in its use of language. You hear Elie Coe and the Defense Minister saying that the territory of Gaza will be reduced after this. And you look at what's happening in the West Bank with Palestinian farmers being moved on from their homes. Israel has to be very careful because it had the moral high ground, and it is absolutely right that it has a right to defend itself. But the manner in which it prosecutes that is also very important. 15,000 people have already died who have had nothing to do with Hamas, quite frankly. And I do think she is absolutely right that international patients will.

Wear thin. And that's what America has been impressing upon Israel, the.

Manner in which-Israel is talking about we've got another year to go in Gaza before we hit all our objectives. There is no way the international community will stand this for a year.

Let's have a look at.

The times and the COVID inquiry. The headline there is from Boris Johnson, My COVID decision saved lives. This is what he's expected to say to the inquiry next week.

Well, he's going to be up in front of the COVID inquiry. We know that a number of people have already been up there, including a number of ministers. We had Matt Hancock as well. And Boris Johnson is essentially going to say that with hindsight, they could have acted potentially a little bit quicker, I guess, than they could have. But he's not going to say that any of the lockdowns happened at the wrong time. He's going to completely defend that. He's also going to say that tensions at the heart of government were a good thing that U-turn showed flexibility. Some of the testimony that we've heard so far shows a completely dysfunctional government led by a Prime Minister that was utterly inept for this crisis. Now, let's cut the Prime Minister some slack or the former PM some slack that this was a once in a 100-year event, but he was not the right personality type to deal with it. So it's going to be trying to defend, trying to make sure that his legacy is not completely utterly tarnished by all of this. But what people will remember is those parties going on in Downey Street when people were locked down with a queen at her own husband's funeral, abiding by the rules when people in Downey Street were partying.

And also, I'll never forget this, just before the first lockdown happened, when he actually came on a podium and said, You must be prepared to lose your loved ones before their time. I remember calling my mother straight away saying, You shall not leave the house from this moment. I thought this guy is a complete nutter. I mean, I never heard of... There was no advice to anyone about what to do. It's just like, Oh, be prepared to see your loved ones die.

Yeah. Well, talking in here, this seems to be... So before people appear at the COVID inquiry, they make a statement which gets published to the press in the days before. It seems to be that the Times journalist have had an early sight of what Boris Johnson's statement is going to say. So it's very one-sided. It's all about his view of things and a lot of stuff in here. He is going to say, he is said to believe, all the rest of it, and a few quotes here and there. So it's very much Boris Johnson's version of events. Now, one of the things he says is that all those three lockdowns came at exactly the right time. He also says that the key date was February 28th, 2020, when he became alarmed by the spread of the virus and realized that a lockdown was going to have to happen. Now, the first lockdown didn't happen for nearly a month after that, so there was a month. And I can recall quite clearly at the beginning of March, when I could see what was happening in the papers, we could see what was happening in China and in Italy, we all could.

I remember going home to my parents and saying, Do I come to live with you, or do you come to live with me? Because we decided to bubble before that was a word. I decided I wasn't coming into London because that was the place where I'd get the infection and bring it home. And so that was a week or two before there was a national lockdown announced, and we were already aware that it was coming. Now, if we were aware in Kent, and the Prime Minister apparently knew a fortnight before that, why did we not log down to the end of March? And he's still going to say it was in can't.

Susie, we've also got to mention this killer line. Just very quickly before we- That Boris Johnson says he will argueto you that he had a basic confidence that things would turn out all right based on the fallacious logic that health threats such as BSC and SARS had not proved as catastrophic as feared.

We've just.

Got to move on. We've only got one minute left.

Very quickly. He says that people would have gone against the advice and would have the rule the regional mucked about. They wouldn't have stuck with the rules and everything, but it was Barnard Castle that meant people lost faith in the government and what happened there.

Right. Let's get to the day Telegraph now, and this is the Royal story, that book, Telegraphs suggesting that the pressure is now on Harry to actually speak out. Ali.

Well, look, it's very unedifying, this whole thing. It goes back to that Oprah Winfrey interview when Megan revealed that a senior role figure had questioned what the color of her baby would be when it was born. It now appears that there are a couple of them, and it's being written about here that it's the king and it's the Princess of Wales. Now, I don't think there's any love lost now between the king and Prince Harry, quite frankly. I think that it looks like that that relationship is irretrievably broken down to coin a phrase. And it really is very, very sad to see this all being played out in public. Is it racist to wonder about what a kid would look like?

I don't know. They were probably saying, Is he going to be Ginger? And who hasn't asked questions like that?

That's the.

Real.

Story.

Susie and.

Ali, thank you.

Very much for.

The moment.

We are going to take a break. Coming up. Don't Believe, doubters, says the Daily Express as senior officials insist the government's Rwanda deal is still on. Do stay with us. Welcome back. You are watching the Press Previews. Still with me, broadcaster and commentator, Ali Mirage and the Daily Mirror columnist.

Susie Boniface.

Let's have a look at the front page of The Daily.

Express and The Rwanda story back in the news. Don't believe the doubters' Rwanda migrant deal is on. Who is saying this and how do we know it to be true, Ali?

Well, I mean, this is a spokesperson for the Rwanda government has vow to fight basis criticism of its asylum system. And obviously the mood music coming out of number 10 or the briefings are that they are going to go full steam ahead and try and get this Rwanda plan off the ground. But I never thought I'd come on the press preview and quote Elvis, but frankly, I think it's a little less conversation, a little more action, please. Because we keep hearing this nonsense from this government about the fact that it marches us all the way up the hill, like the Grand old Duke of York, and all the way back down again. It never, ever delivers. Now, the Supreme Court, and this has been going on in the courts for the best part of a year, the Supreme Court banged this to rights. It said, Look, we're not comfortable that Rwanda is a safe country. We're not comfortable that people are not going to be actually sent back to their countries of origin and potentially facing persecution. This is out of order. But it's not only we're drawing from the European Convention on Human Rights, which is now the new Silver Bullet that Robert Jenrick and others are pointing to.

We also are members of international conventions. Things like the UN Refugee Convention. There's international law at stake here. So I do not think a single plane is going to take off before the next selection with anyone going to Rwanda anytime soon. It's a very expensive policy. I was willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. I really was. I was behind it. But it's time to just call it quit. It's not going to work.

Well, speaking in Dubai, even as he's at COP, Rishie Sunak saying that the Rwanda Plan was crucial to solving the migrant crisis, but refused to say whether he was willing to take the most extreme measures in order to push the planner through.

Well, one would have thought that one extreme measure to solving the migrant crisis might be talking to the Greek Prime Minister, who happens to know quite a lot more about and is closer to the migrant crisis than Rishie Sunak. Obviously, he wasn't prepared to go that far. The problem with the Rwanda Plan, and what you've got here, they're talking about, as Aliya says, being able to ignore the European Convention on Human Rights or perhaps the Human Rights Act, is the fact that in order to do... Firstly, if you do that, a load of our post-Brexit trade deals are going to collapse because they are predicated upon the fact that we share certain similarities with the countries that we do those deals with. And if suddenly we start regressing in terms of human rights, those deals get rewritten or collapse, and that's that. The other thing is that although there are about 20 MPs in the very noisy, commonsense group end of the conservative Party who really want the Rwanda Plan, who really want to withdraw human rights from refugees and so on. There's about 110 MPs who are in the One Nation Caucus who are a little bit more moderate and who will never, under any circumstances, vote for legislation which would withdraw any part of Britain or British processes from the Human Rights Act to the European Convention on Human Rights.

And so if Rishie Sunak really wants to push for this to say, I want to withdraw the right of judicial review, I want to withdraw human rights. His own government will collapse. I'll predict it right here and right now. If he goes for this Rwanda Plan and has to make it happen, he will have such a massive rebellion on his hand from 110 of his own MPs, probably, or somewhere near that number that he would find that his government collapses and he has to.

Go to the king. The government, you're predicting is not yet. We've just got one minute, Ali. We want to get to the king's tie.

Isn't it awful?

I think King Charles is tailoring is always immaculate. I think he looks very dapper. Obviously, it's a Greek flag on the tie. There's been a whole row going on about this refusal of Rishie Sunak to meet the Greek Prime Minister over the Elgin Marbles or the Partholomew sculptures, call it what you will. I think that was very bad on Richie Sunnac's part because this isn't playground politics. You've got to be an international statesman. Sometimes you have to meet people and have these conversations behind closed doors. The Greeks, they've been talking about the Elgin Marbles for decades.

It's not a new thing. 200 years or so. Exactly.

Very quickly just didn't know exactly.

What he was doing. He knew exactly what he was doing. But can I just say, as a photosensitive epileptic, it really strobes. And I wish that it wasn't being flashed up in my face all this time.

Look away, Susie. Susie and Ali, thanks so much.