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We will be looking ahead to a big weekend of Six Nations action, with | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
England facing Ireland at Twickenham. | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
us tomorrow. With me are Anne Ashworth, assistant editor at the | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
Times, and Andrew Harrison, contributing editor at Esquire | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
magazine. Let's take you through some of the headlines in brief. The | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
Independent's headline is a bloodbath in Kiev, with an image of | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Independence Square, the scene of much of the violence between police | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
and protesters. The Telegraph's front-page photo is taken in the | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
thick of the action. Ukraine's bloodiest day. The Guardian uses the | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
same headline. It is accompanied by a stark picture of bodies of | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
protesters that the paper claims were killed today. Another image of | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
Independence Square on the front of the times. It says Ukraine is on the | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
brink of civil war. The UK's floods dominate the Daily Mail's | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
front-page, on the day the Met Office describe this winter as the | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
wettest on record. The paper claims the organisation is under fire for | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
predicting drier than usual conditions. The Express leads with | :01:24. | :01:35. | |
claims that statins are the route to living longer. Some very stark, | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
harrowing images coming from Ukraine. Quite clearly, some papers | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
have decided to be blunt with their pictures and blunt with their | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
headlines about what's going on. Some of the most sombre front pages | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
I've seen for a long time. People showing you very graphic images of | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
bloodshed, bodies laid out. A country careering towards a Civil | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
War. In carnage. These are really powerful images and stories. When we | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
talk about a Civil War, as Bridget Kendall was explaining this evening, | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
we are looking at a country that could be split up. There's talk of | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
very pro-Russia Crimea threatening to break away. The sanctions coming | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
in, the billionaires are flooding out of the country. There is an | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
excellent piece in the Times by Roger boys, pointing out that their | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
rock Ardron provocateurs suspected of being around, professional | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
snipers being around. It has gone incredibly nasty. NEETs almost over | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
a 24 hour period. There was a lull and then today it has been bloodier | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
than ever, with a huge amount of fatalities. What really spells it | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
out is the front page of the Guardian. A shocking picture of some | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
of the bodies of protesters laid out, in what the Guardian describes | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
as Ukraine's bloodiest day. The age of those protesters does vary. It's | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
obviously hard to tell, but there is clearly a very young man lying among | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
the dead. It demonstrates the picture editor's dilemma. You have | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
to tell the story but at some point the story is too grotesque to tell. | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
I'm sure this is not the worst photograph they have. It is | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
exceedingly harrowing. The detail on the living surrounding these bodies, | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
the expressions you can see, tells a story all of its own. It's | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
incredibly distressing to read. It's fair to say that a lot of people in | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
Britain thought this was something happening far away, another riot, a | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
former Soviet Union. Now it seems very real and on our doorstep. We've | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
got to know Ukraine very well, it was one of the host nations of Euro | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
2012, a lot of Ukrainians living here in Britain. It's become a | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
holiday destination for many Brits. But there will be people confused | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
because we had the Orange Revolution, it got its independence, | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
it started off on a new future, so people will be confused about why | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
this is happening. Presumably, what a lot of analysts are saying is we | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
are looking at the very young country that is still struggling to | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
find its identity. And doesn't want -- know whether it wants to be a | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
dependency of Russia become part of a greater EU. This is a country that | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
used to be quite vibrant economically. It has seen countries | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
like Poland really race ahead of it in the economic field. So they are | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
wondering which path to take. Back to mother Russia or into the embrace | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
of the EU? Over the next few days we will be asking, has the EU acted in | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
a timely enough manner? There's a lot of frantic diplomacy happening | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
this evening in Kiev, even as we speak some kind of road map to | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
peace, we don't quite know what it is, is being discussed. What do you | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
think we will see happen in the next few weeks? I think it would be a | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
very rash person to predict. One thing we are clear about is Vladimir | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
Putin has played a very wise hand. He's been very clear about what he | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
wants. We, in the democracies, because the EU is a conglomeration | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
of states with different interests and you have to herd cats... It's | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
like 3-dimensional chess. To go back to the peace in the Times, I would | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
encourage everybody to read it. On the BBC News website there is a | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
brilliant 62nd explanation of what's happening in the Ukraine. In other | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
stories, a bit closer to home, the Guardian, proposals to charge for | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
benefits appeals have been revealed in a leak. This would be people who | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
been stripped of benefits that want to appeal. They may have to pay | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
charges for it. 50% of these appeals succeed. How does that work out? If | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
you've got a charge for making an appeal and it succeeds, do you still | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
pay the charge? Do you still pay for the appeal if it is successful? It's | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
a leaked proposal. I think someone has flown a kite and the kite has | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
got out of the room. The proposal is you would pay upfront for the right | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
to appeal. We don't know whether you would get your money back if you win | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
the appeal. According to the leaked document, its 200 to lodge a claim, | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
depending on the type of case being brought forward. It doesn't explain | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
if you get that money back or not. For employment tribunal is that is | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
already in effect. I find it astonishing, the idea that we are | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
sanctioning people for their benefits. Almost 60% of them are | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
finding that the sanction was unfair, so the Government wants to | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
bring in a charge simply, in a very crude way, to stop them appealing. | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
It's being done in the hope that the numbers of independent tribunal 's | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
will be decimated if the Government introduced a charge. It seems rather | :07:17. | :07:27. | |
unfair. And there could be a lot of appeals. But then 58% of appeals | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
challenging benefit claims have been successful in recent months. Let's | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
move on to the Telegraph. This was going to happen, it was beginning to | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
brew during the floods. The front of the Daily Telegraph headline is, the | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
worst flood damage could have been prevented. The buck. At the Prime | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
Minister. But there's going to be a lot of people needing to answer a | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
lot of questions. The blame game is happening big-time. This article is | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
all about maybe when there was building on areas that could flood, | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
it should have been done in a certain kind of way with things like | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
the electricity sockets being further up the wall. Somehow that | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
doesn't seem to have been done. Who is to blame? Is it the planning | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
authorities, the developers, is it that nobody realised these were the | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
regulations that should have been in place? Also, the wider concern that | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
so many of these new properties in flood affected areas will be | :08:30. | :08:40. | |
uninsurable. It is talking about flood prevention and flood | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
management. It is interesting to me that the experts in this open letter | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
to the Telegraph talk about a complete re-think of the planning | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
system and they talk about measures such as replanting forests in the | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
upper reaches of rivers and sustain sustainable drainage. This is left | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
wing and it is in the Telegraph. Very interesting. A bit late in the | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
day. If everybody knew what needed to be done to prevent the scenes and | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
the... That we have seen in the last few weeks, why weren't they saying | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
it before? I think a lot were before. The cuts were brought in and | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
the money not made available. The other frightening thing is a lot of | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
the areas under water, particularly along the River Thames have been | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
marked as places to build more houses as well. Who would want to | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
live there now? You cannot wish away floods. You can manage water. You | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
have to look at it on a large, holistic scale. Moving plugs up the | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
wall is great, but it will not save your house. We stay with the Daily | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
Telegraph. Just under the flooding story - Labour pledge may leave us | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
in the dark. Energy suppliers not happy about political interference. | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
I am just astounded by this. It seems to be that the cost of living | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
campaign, being led by Mr Miliband, may end up leaving us in the dark. | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
Well, I take this as a man who runs a power company which makes ?571 | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
million profit from customers. Well he would say that, wouldn't he? It | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
was less than last year though. Uncertainty is the enemy of | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
investment. Isn't it some kind of certainty? He knows what framework | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
he's in. A Conservative or a Government which may... What is the | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
argument there? Energy companies say it is more expensive to produce | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
energy and they have to produce more environmentally-friendly ways of | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
doing that and it costs money. And they are not going to get the | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
investment or so they are threatening if the City, if the | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
finance industry sees these companies and there's insecure | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
investment, they will not get the money they need to build new power | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
stations and make the changes they need to. | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
We are going to stay with the Daily Telegraph, but Scotland's version of | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
the Daily Telegraph, a different front-page story. The headline, | :11:10. | :11:19. | |
"Wake up to the threat to economy," sol Alex Salmond is told. He was | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
told that if it becomes an independent country. He's been | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
battered this week, hasn't he, Mr Salmond. Suddenly all the big guns | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
have turned on this guy. This is a threat to jobs. Companies we | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
associate with Scotland not wishing to be based there. We have seen the | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
TSB move its HQ and there is a suggestion in this story that | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
Standard Life, that great assurer we associate with north of the border | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
could be thinking of taking the road south. It is early days yet, though | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
Anne. There is a way to go before the vote. It is interesting to me | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
that the truths be told, the more it seems to strengthen the "yes" vote. | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
The yes block seems to reject hard logic like this and treat it as | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
bluff and bluster and bullying from George Osborne. Those of us who want | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
to see the retaining of the United Kingdom... Stay with us, Scotland, | :12:18. | :12:28. | |
as David Bowie said. It says cyberpeople message David Bowie. If | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
he says that, it is good enough from me. He got stick from a small pop | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
star and terribly unfair. It only means if we are having this now, it | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
means it will become a very interesting referendum. You will | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
both be back with me at 11. 30pm. Thank you to my guests. They will | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
sifting through the papers to bring you more at 11. 30pm. Coming up at | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
11pm, we'll have the latest on the crisis in Ukraine. Coming up next | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
though - Sportsday. Stay with us. Hello. Welcome to Sportsday, with Mr | :13:00. | :13:20. | |
John Watson. Here's what's on the way. Great | :13:21. | :13:21. |