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despite exchanges of gunfire. Jenny Jones becomes the first Briton | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
to win an Olympic medal on snow. She got bronze in snow style -- the snow | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
style at Saatchi. Welcome to our look at head to what | :00:11. | :00:23. | |
the newspapers were bringing tomorrow. With me is Tim Stanley | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
from the Telegraph and Nigel Nelson, the political editor for the | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
Sunday People. The quick sneak preview first. The Daily Telegraph | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
has a picture of Jenny Jones celebrating her medal win in Sochi. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
The lead story is the flooding. What it calls a winter storm crisis. In | :00:46. | :00:55. | |
an interview, in independent, the shadow education minister says | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
social media has ruined children's education Battention spans. The | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Times says spy agencies regard the border between Turkey and Syria as a | :01:06. | :01:14. | |
threat to the West. And the Daily Express says a cure for the common | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
cold is on the way. Good news for you! We dragged him off his sick bed | :01:18. | :01:29. | |
to get here. A good read of the Express for you later. Some top | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
tips. I prefer to drink whiskey! It is Lemsip in the newsroom. I know | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
you want to look at the stories in the Guardian but we will start with | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
a political storm that we knew was brewing over the last 48 hours. Eric | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
Pickles on the Andrew Marr Show today. Chris Smith hits back at | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
ministers as the flood crisis intensifies. We are in a blame game, | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
aren't we? We are indeed and it was a matter of time before Chris Smith | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
would have his own say. He has done it very quickly. The moment Eric | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
Pickles gets on television and has a go at him, he has a go back at him | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
in the Guardian. It comes down to a question of money. Chris Smith seems | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
to be saying that he was restricted with the amount of money he could | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
spend on dredging. He says Treasury rules meant he had a maximum of | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
?400,000 and that was it. That is the territory we are about to enter, | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
I think. Could dredging have taken place earlier? Clearly it could have | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
according to Eric Pickles. Did they have the money? That is the | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
question. I remember serious flooding in 2003, sitting in my | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
waders in Kent, with Nick Owen, reporting on a lack of Government | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
spending, a lack of flood defence and dredging. A lot has been done | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
since then, but clearly not enough. The Government did make some putts, | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
that is undeniable and they are bad on that front. I think Smith has got | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
to take the lion's share of the responsibility. His budget has been | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
badly handled. They spent 1.35 million, with 95 million on staffing | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
costs. It is not being handled well. Some people thought he had | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
made a cultural decision not to do dredging because he sees the agency | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
as more about protecting wildlife than the interests of people living | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
in those areas. It is alleged, for example, that he did not act to | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
protect the Dawlish train line in the South West, apparently until he | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
had been allowed to carry out a study of the impact of protecting it | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
on the birdlife. If this is true, if you made a conscious decision not to | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
dredge not because of the money but because of bad management but | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
because they are more concerned with birds than people, that makes him | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
look like the culprit. David Cameron did receive letters from the local | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
authorities on the Somerset Levels two years ago suggesting dredging | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
and who did not go for it. Yes, and nothing seems to happen. Who is to | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
blame for that? The Environment Agency for not doing it? In | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
fairness, there has been a lot since. Chris Smith makes the point | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
that they are playing politics with the whole thing. We still have | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
Environment Agency workers who have not had a proper night's sleep since | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
this started. For weeks. We have got into the blame game here. If it was | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
the Government, and at the end of the day it is the Government through | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
DEFRA who is responsible, and if they decided not to do it because it | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
would cost too much, then the people in Somerset are rightly very angry | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
about it. The Times also reports on the spread of flooding. We are now | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
looking at the River Thames, where in a number of places there is a | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
severe flood warning meaning a risk to property and to life as well. Yes | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
and it is frightening. What is interesting is the expansion of the | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
political argument. Why are we ring fencing foreign aid? Sending ?250 | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
million to India when it is building a rocket to go to Mars but we can't | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
spend that money on people here? We need to invest in infrastructure. | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
Obviously a mistake has been made and the story will only get worse as | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
the weather gets worse. In other news, the West faces a new terror | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
threat from the Syrian border. A fascinating article from The Times | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
suggesting that there are CIA and six macro intelligence officers on | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
the border. -- MI6 intelligence officers. Fascinating. People are | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
coming from all over the place. In this piece, fighters from 50 | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
countries, but certainly around 400 that we know of have gone there from | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
Britain. They're go into Turkey. The board is very porous and they slip | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
into Syria. We know what they are doing because they put this stuff on | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
their Facebook pages. There are actually Jihadi Facebook pages. Come | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
and join us, it is a great fight. They talk about luxury living in | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
apartments with swimming pools. Of course a lot of them are being | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
killed as well. The important thing from our point of view is to find a | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
way of identifying them and monitoring them when they come back | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
to this country. The police are questioning people travelling to | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
Syria, potentially through Turkey, and coming back as well, I imagine. | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
A number of arrests have been made. This is why we have so many spies in | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
that part of the world now. You have to identify them going in so that | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
you can then pick them up coming back. Don't you think that you have | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
to investigate what draws them there in the first place? Why are British | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
men and women, because we know females have been arrested as well, | :06:53. | :07:11. | |
why are they getting involved in the so-called jihad in Syria? Well, it | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
is radicalisation, what they feel is happening to brothers and sisters | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
overseas. It is a generational experience, people discovering a | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
radical form of Islam. The other question that have to be raised is | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
why the terror is directed towards us. Why is it possible for people to | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
go and join camps? It is because we sat by. President Assad was not | :07:25. | :07:33. | |
challenged early enough. There was little nervousness over Syria. There | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
has been and we have never been quite sure. We don't like either | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
side very much and we have never been sure what to do about it. The | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
problem is that we are now going to inherit from this the domestic | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
problem because it is the battle to go and fight. If you are young | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
Muslim Jihadi, that is where you go. And then of course you come back | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
here. An issue very close to home that keeps re-emerging, particularly | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
in the press this week. In the Daily Telegraph, the front page, split | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
over smoking ban in cars carrying children. Of course smoking in | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
public service card is banned. You can't smoke in a taxi, bus, company | :08:13. | :08:21. | |
car. This argument emerged last week and it keeps coming back. There is a | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
vote coming up in the House of Commons this week. At the moment | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
politicians are completely split on this. They are worried about | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
becoming a nanny state? Yes, whether or not the state is really delving | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
too deeply into our personal lives. Personally, I would have thought, if | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
you have kids in the car and you are smoker, what you don't do is smoke | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
when the children are there. This will be difficult to enforce but the | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
way the vote will go at the moment is that Labour MPs will back this. | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
The coalition MPs have been given a free vote. They will decide which | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
way to go. You shouldn't do it, it is immoral, you are a joke if you do | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
it. But where does one draw the line between private spaces? If this is a | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
private space in your car with your kids, so is a room in your house. | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
Why can police invade that private space but not another? It is a war | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
on smokers, and smoking is a bad thing, but it is also wore on | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
privacy. You are saying that parents have common sense? I don't actually | :09:30. | :09:39. | |
trust the parents. But it have to be down to the parents. We don't send | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
people into people's houses when it comes to seeing if they are smoking | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
in the room with children. It is interesting that this has | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
cross-party support because this is a class issue. This is about | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
middle-class weekends, anti-smoking, who want the | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
Government to tell people how to leave our lives and doing compulsory | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
yoga. It is also about young children not having a say. Of course | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
they don't have a say, but they don't in a private room in our | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
house. This is nannying at the most officious level. There has to be a | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
common-sense approach. To enclose children in a smoky environment in a | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
car is wrong. Do have a law against it is not a problem. If adults are | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
being banned from smoking in cars, I take your document. The same would | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
apply if we were arguing about whether you can smoke in your own | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
home but we are not. There is clearly a serious health risk for | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
children who have no say. There is a health issue as well. It is quite | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
dangerous to smoke in a car because it can cause an accident. Why are we | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
always looking for ways to dull the individual what to do? This | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
conversation is finding justifications were telling | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
individuals how to run their lives. Perhaps this is why politicians are | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
so divided! Children need lessons in how to concentrate. Shall we just | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
move on to the Telegraph? ! This is because of social media. Some | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
schools ban mobile phones and the iPad. It is a difficult thing to do. | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
My general feeling is that children now intellectually because they have | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
so much technology to deal with are probably better equipped than in our | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
day. I think scare stories like this are bit worrying. The more they get | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
to know how a computer works and are able to work it, the better their | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
working life will be in the future. This is coming from Tristram Hunt | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
and he has been caught cheating, stealing someone else's idea. The | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
chief of Ofsted said this back in December, that there is low-level | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
disruption in classrooms. Michael Gove is pushing reforms that give | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
teachers the power to instil discipline in classrooms. Labour is | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
desperately trying to come up with the policy and trying to sound hit | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
by proving they know what Twitter and Facebook are. And now the power | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
to oust headteachers. Ed Miliband in general election mode, very much. He | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
would like to give parents more power. It is part of a wider thing. | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
We have heard this before from everyone. You probably have! You | :12:20. | :12:28. | |
would call into hits broad -- a hit squad, separate to the schools, but | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
it is a wider thing that Ed Miliband will be outlining during the week | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
with his shadow ministers. It is the idea of taking power, winning the | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
election to give it back to people. So he will call in manger | :12:43. | :12:51. | |
inspections credit-macro Ninja inspectors. He wants to give parents | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
the power of hamster wheels to make the electricity come on. Support | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
free schools and faith schools if he wants to give people power. It is | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
Labour doing what the Tories are doing but with different words to | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
describe it. Very much about general election pledges, we are hearing | :13:11. | :13:23. | |
slowly but surely. They are coming up with announcements fetching on a | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
daily basis. Thank you to our guests. | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
At 11pm we'll have more on the imminent threat of flooding to homes | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
on some parts of the Thames. But coming up next it's time for Click. | :13:41. | :13:52. |