15/03/2014 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing

us tomorrow. With me to do that is Eva Simpson and Emily Ashton. Good

evening. We're going to be going through all the front pages, but

let's have a quick sneak preview. There is the Observer. Leading with

Vince Cable intervening in the debate on the controversial HS2

high-speed rail line, calling for the North-South gap to be closed.

Torment of hope if the headline on the Independent.

The questions whether we are really any closer to finding out what

happened with the missing Malaysia Airlines flight.

The top story in the Sunday Times is also the hunt for flight MH370.

The Mail on Sunday focuses on the pilot he was a supporter of a

controversial Malaysians opposition leader. The Sunday Telegraph is lost

plane, it has picture of the Towers in Kuala Lumpur next to the New York

Twin Towers. The revelations today make a great

headlines. The truth is, we have still got nowhere near to knowing

exactly what happened. There is still a lot of speculation. At the

today for the first time, there was something to go on, some concrete

information coming out from the Malaysian authorities. But the Mail

on Sunday, they have an interesting line, they claim the plane was

hijacked by a pilot who was eight political fanatic. -- who was a

political fanatic. They have gone into some detail. They have an

amazing graphic insight, which is their version of what seems to have

happened. We have interviewed one of his close friends who says anything

like that would be totally out of character. Yes, he said if he had to

choose any pilot to fly the plane, he would choose this man. So it is

out of character. There is be the lots of theories around. The papers

have gone for different angles because nobody really knows what has

happened. The flight veered West, nobody knows why, it looks like

somebody has taken control, but who is it? If it is somebody with the

expertise, it looks like you would turn to the pilots first and say,

why do you think they might want to do it? The bill on Sunday said one

of them white -- might want to do it because he is a political fanatic.

That lack the Mail on Sunday. -- the Mail on Sunday. Nobody Willie knows

the truth. There is a new line which has emerged about how the plane

ascended rapidly to 45,000 feet... The Mail on Sunday had phoned their

graphics department! They say he did this in order to knock everyone out.

You do not want to be on a jet that climbs to that height, then descends

unevenly to 23,000 feet. We will be beating to experts later this

evening, but my experience of flying at that height is, it is pretty high

to go, you would be talking about a loss of pressure, a lack of oxygen,

then falling to 23,000 feet, the GeForce would be very great. Sun

violent changes in altitude might have been done to a struggle in the

cockpit. -- violent changes in attitude -- altitude. There would be

a loss of oxygen, a loss of pressure, and people lose

consciousness. MH370 but it is fascinating to read. When we look at

the area they are searching, it is a vast area. And the agony continues

for the families. They must still have hope, possibly unreasonable

hope. That is all you're left with. But that questions as to why

Malaysian authorities have waited seven or eight days to come back

with this. This Sunday Telegraph also agrees with this story. The

headline is not one that anybody wants to read. Nobody would ever

want to read that. That kind of organised terror plots. And Al-Qaeda

supergrass has revealed in court that he was in touch with potential

Malaysian men who were preparing to take control of a plane and use it

as a bomb. There are no specifics of when this was meant to have

happened. But a pattern is emerging of terrorism emerging from Malaysia.

That is why they have the pictures of the Petronas Towers, as a

possible target. Yes, it is one possible target. But this is another

fairly. -- theory. But they are being told that there are so many

securities, so difficult to get near the cockpit. But if the pilot is the

one who is doing this, what can you do? You presume there are power

checks on -- there are checks on pilots. But if somebody did use a

bomb hidden in a shoe, there was no media call from the pilot. There is

no suggestion that up passenger has gone in there takeover. Let's move

onto some of other stories. In the Sunday Telegraph. David

Cameron on Europe. He has written an article for the Daily Telegraph

saying he will campaign for Britain to stay within the EU if Europe

agrees to his terms. He says this a lot. There are European elections in

May. People are fed up with the lack of action on Europe. They feel like

Europe is dictating what Britain is doing and Cameron needs to take

action. But rehashing arguments, people get bored with that. They see

through that. It won't necessarily help them. Is it the EU that will

become a central issue during the general election campaign, or the

migration issue? Immigration is a massive issue for people who feel

their jobs are being taken. This is a massive debating point. They

possibly feel Nigel Farage understands them more, understand

their anger. The worry for the Conservatives is that UKIP takes

votes from them. We have at least a year to go, and they need to talk

tough now. One of those seven targets is tighter immigration

rules, new rules, less interference and more power flowing from Brussels

to Britain. We have heard it all before. Our political team was going

through it, but he saw nothing new there.

Onto the times, and Ukraine is the other big story. Putin goes to the

brink of war. Some of our crews have been filming military activity and

Islands on the course of Crimea. It is really heating up. After the

referendum vote tomorrow, you have the sense it could turn very nasty

very quickly. I hear talking about military action? -- are you

talking? More Russian troops are coming and, and in the Sunday Times

piece, you have the Ukrainian acting president seeing the next step is to

invade Ukraine its self. Presumably there isn't another tight for

military intervention? -- an appetite. Now, but there is a

feeling not enough is being done. We did a piece about the charge of the

lightweight brigade, all the diplomatic measures so far would not

do anything to remove Russian troops from the Ukraine. They will probably

agree asset freezes and travel bans, but Putin and his officials will not

be affected. Everything is very slow and Putin knows that and he is

possibly taking advantage of the weakness of the rest at the moment.

David Cameron is talking about easing the hunting ban. This is a

peculiar one. I haven't heard this story being raised before. He is

searching for MPs who will help them reintroduced fox hunting by the back

door, something that will play well to rural communities. But there was

such a few Rory last time when the ban came into force, to try and

bring it back on again, it could be a vote loser for him. Fox hunting

does continue in some shape or form. It doesn't really exist anyway.

Farmers think... You have to think, how will this help in the run-up to

the elections? Let's look at the Observer. Vince Cable demanding the

high-speed rail link is thought through to ease the north-south

split. It lot of jobs and investment and commuters at the line on this.

There is a lot of debate about the way HS2 is being built. The first of

these of it is only from London to Birmingham, and then years later, to

Leeds. The think tanks has said, should it be but the other way

around? Build it first in the North to get jobs at their, the

infrastructure up there. It kind of looks as if London is getting

everything. But why build it, is it for jobs or to improve links? And

London is an international hub, people fly in from all over the

world to London. A lot of people think sometimes, London to

Birmingham, two hours on the train, an hour and a half, let's get it

down to an hour, great! But how will it benefit those people in the

North? Couldn't you bring some of that workforce down to London to

start building it? No one can afford to live in London. It's a huge

project. I was staggered at the time scale of it. If this all goes

according to plan, the second phase would be completed until 2033. Vince

Cable does mention the property market to being a huge issue about

moving workers down. He is ahead of us.

That's it for The Papers this hour. Thank you, Eva Simpson and Emily

Ashton, you'll both be back at half eleven for another look at the

stories making the news tomorrow. Stay with us. We will have more on

the developments in Ukraine and on that Malaysian Airlines plane.