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And coming up: The new technology that allows people to read faster | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
using smaller screens. Hello, welcome to our look ahead to | :00:00. | :00:19. | |
what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the journalist | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
Samira Shackle and broadcaster, Henry Bonsu. Thank you both for | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
joining us. Tomorrow's front pages, let's have a look. This evening we | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
start with the Financial Times. That leads with the referendum result in | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
Crimea and says the poll sends Russia deeper in international | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
isolation. On the Telegraph - an image of Mo | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
Farah who collapsed after completing the half-marathon in New York City | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
today. The I - the long awaited Higgins | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
report on HS2, which calls on the Government to build the northern | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
section of the railway link faster A new device for monitoring diabetes | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
could replace the need for daily jabs associate the Daily Express. -- | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
says the Daily Express And the five richest families own | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
more than the poorest 20% of the population. | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
And the Daily Mail - pressure is mounting on George Osborne to raise | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
the 40 p tax threshold. Plenty of different stories to have | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
a look at. Let's begin and the first one I think we'll look at is really | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
the story that has been dominating our news agenda today and Crimea. We | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
will start with the Financial Times, with the headline: Crimea poll ice | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
rates Russia. That's just about all that West and America seems able to | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
do. Yeah, it does. I was reading in this piece about the EU moving to | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
introduce sanctions. While we've seen the rouble falling, there's a | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
question mark over how much sanctions can effect as big as | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
economy as Russia and how quickly. The rouble has been at its lowest | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
level against the dollar. Henry, this is something that Putin doesn't | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
really think is that important in comparison. Absolutely, despite what | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
the Financial Times and some of the other papers are saying, Russia | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
isn't really that isolated. We're talking Britain, France, the EU, the | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
United States, OK, some of the biggest economies in the world, | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
there are lots of other big economies, like the Chinese, | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
Brazilian, Indian economy who are perfectly happy to do business with | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
Russia. The might be isolated on the yuz Security Council, but -- on the | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
UN Security Council, but Britain and the Germans will do business with | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
Russia. Vladimir Putin will be thinking, O'-Kay, how serious was | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
this reaction. -- OK, how serious was this reaction. Lots of money | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
will be coming back to Russia. People are worried about whether or | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
not their assets will be seized. They're bringing it back to mother | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
Russia. Affecting stocks and shares in this country and the property | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
market, possibly. It has ramifications. Is there anything | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
else that you've raed in the Financial Times or-- read where | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
other avenues could be for the West to explore? I don't think so, | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
looking at this. Plauz we know -- because we know that military action | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
is a no-no. We are all thinking of great wars past. We don't want a | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
future confliation in Europe. -- Conflagration in Europe. The only | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
thing is if the they felt they could go further on the economic front. | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
Not just a number of Crimea officials and even Vladimir Putin | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
himself from travelling, though I'm not sure if they would ban him. I | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
think if they wanted a trade war with Russia, if they wanted to close | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
the Russian economy down, they probably could do so, but I doubt | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
very much whether or not they would see it's in their self-interest to | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
do so, given the intertwining of the economies Russia, the EU and the | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
United States. The Financial Times looks at it with the financial hat | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
on. The Daily Telegraph, the same story with the headline: West | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
condemns illegitimate poll. That seems to be the line from America | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
and Britain. This was illegitimate, so the result doesn't matter. That | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
seems to be what they're saying. I think it's quite an interesting one | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
from an almost, the ideas behind it, because it's an argument when it | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
comes down to between the limits of Democratically-expressed self-rule | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
versus territorial integrity and sovereignty. It's quite clear that | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
obviously Russia and the West are coming at that from two completely | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
different sides. It's just such a complicated picture that I think | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
it's certainly true that there's limits to what claim can you make | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
for a free and fair referendum, when there's tanks and guns there, but | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
there is also clearly a large contingent of the population which | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
wants to be part of Russia. It's quite a complex moral web there. | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
Building on what Henry was saying earlier, Putin obviously has made an | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
assessment about how much the West's disapproval matters. In this case, | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
not that much. The reason why the West condemns this as illegitimate | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
was we had those two choices, join mother Russia or autonomy from the | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
Ukraine. There was no third option of the status quo. There were no | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
outside observers. There were some from neighbouring countries, which | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
are very close to the Kremlin, close to Moscow. When it Toms to -- comes | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
to how look at this from a geopolitical point of view, we have | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
to remember that we, the West, regularly intervene in other parts | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
of the world, sometimes in flagrant breach of international conventions | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
because we think we're doing the right thing, because it's the West. | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
We're always on the side of right. The Russians have the right to see | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
themselves in the same light. Increasingly Vladimir Putin as he | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
looks towards his legacy, what is he leaving behind. He will be the guy | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
who managed to claw back some of the territory they lost. Argument of | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
legal interventions... What is international law any way! Yes. | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
Let's move on to another story. Osborne, I will build for Britain. | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
News that Ebbsfleet in Kent is to become a major new garden city with | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
at least 15,000, interesting this has come out just a couple of days | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
before the Budget. Yes, because he wants to present himself as a | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
Chancellor with a plan, a chance who's presided over a double-dip | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
recession, but now very strong growth. The Office for Budget | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
Responsibility has revised up its forecast as has the Bank of England. | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
People are saying, where is the accelerated growth going to come | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
from. I'm sceptical about this. We've heard announcements like this | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
before, about big infrastructure projects. This is a drop in the | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
ocean compared to what is needed. The Labour themselves are talking in | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
this piece about trying to build around 200,000 homes a year from | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
2015, if they get in. There's no doubt, the Government now pledging | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
longer on this help to buy scheme, helping people get on the housing | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
ladder at the start. Maybe this is a way of generating more work, more | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
jobs, more building, more infrastructure. It is. I don't think | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
anyone would argue that building more homes is a bad thing. I agree | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
that it's a drop in the ocean and it's also been three years of this | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
Government without many new homes being built at all. They really need | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
to be stepping up. The scale of the housing crisis, 15,000 is nothing | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
really. But it's a good thing. It is interesting. Of course, the | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
Chancellor, any Chancellor before a Budget will choose to leak the most | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
positive stories. Much room for manoeuvre. This is repeated on | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
Wednesday and the picture story on the front, a distressing picture of | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
Mo Farah, of course, the two Olympic Gold Medal winner at London 2012. | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
You were watching. I was. I did that extraordinary thing and I pressed | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
the red button to watch this race. The coverage wasn't of the level of | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
Brendan Foster, it was an American commentator. I was concerned how Mo | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
Farah would make the transition from the track to the road. Some people | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
said it was a disastrous attempt. He didn't do anything wrong apart from | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
getting clipped from behind a few miles in. He worked hard to catch up | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
with the eventual winner, who has broken 60 minutes for the half mare | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
thorn on several occasions. -- marathon, on several occasions. I | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
think he overcooked it. Previous live he was training in the valley | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
above Kenya. I think the transition from nice, warm Kenya to subzero | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
temperatures in New York really damaged his system. He collapsed. He | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
was actually in tears. You can see the picture. I didn't know if it was | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
tears or sweat, but very distressing for his family who were there. It's | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
sad and he's such a national hero, since the Olympics. He occupies a | :09:17. | :09:26. | |
warm place in the public's hearts. They're concerned about the London | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
Marathon of course. His first full marathon and he goes up against the | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
same guy. You sound like you're going to be watching. The I - brakes | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
off for HS2. I will let you start with this being a Manchester boy. I | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
am. I should be in favour of this, because the journey from London to | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
Manchester currently takes two hours and eight minutes. When I want to | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
see my parents, family and friends, that's how long it takes. If this | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
goes ahead and it works it will come down to one hour and 20 minutes. The | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
question is, at a time of post-austerity, no still in | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
austerity, but growth is weak, can we afford to spend about ?50 | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
billion? The guy who is going to oversee this, he oversaw the | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
Olympics on time and on budget says, we have to be bold. We have to make | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
this, do this infrastructure much more quickly. Six years earlier, | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
transport hub in Crewe, going beyond Birmingham to Crewe and that means | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
it will be much more secure as a financial investment. And not just | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
that, but also starting the building at both ends, as it were, starting | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
in the north and the south to connect in the middle. Yeah. Are you | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
a fan to get going on this? Well, I don't think there's any chance | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
they're going to abandon it. It's a good idea to think about ways of | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
making it more useful. I think the fact that it was going to stop at | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
Birmingham, I think extending it further north is good. I was | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
interested to read over the weekend a poll in the Observer that a | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
majority of people actually would support improving connections | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
between northern cities rather than a north-south link. I want to | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
shuffle along onto the Express. The heading about diabetes. Jab-free | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
test for diabetes. This would be, if it's true, a breakthrough, a | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
stick-on sensor, about the size of a 2p piece, to replace daily finger | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
pricking jabs. That would be a great comfort to anyone who is diabetic, | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
butch also the fact that it would -- but also the fact that it would save | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
a lot of money. Anything that makes it easier to monitor diabetes is a | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
good thing. My mum is diabetic. Constantly pricking at the fingers, | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
but it's easy to forget to monitor your blood glucose levels after | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
meals, even if you've been living with it for years. Anything to | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
improve that is a good thing. Seems good news. I want to get to the | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
Guardian. That looks at the divided Britain, where it says five families | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
in the UK actually own more than the poorest 20%. It is a staggering | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
figure. It is staggering. But it's real Britain and it's by Oxfam, | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
which probably surprised a lot of people. It's called a tale two of | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
Britains. Those five offending families the Duke of Westminster, | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
David and Simon Ruben, the sports director and retail boss, the | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
chairman of Newcastle united and two other. They have 28. .2 billion in | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
assets. That's more than the poorest 20% in this country. That number of | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
people. It's amazing. You say "offenders", in some senses... I'm | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
not jealous of wealth. I'm totally relaxed about wealth. It depends | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
which percentage you are. Indeed. The timing of this report is not | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
unrelated to the Budget as well. It comes down again to this debate | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
about who the Government should be helping. That's the balance George | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
Osborne is trying to strike before the Budget, not seeming too much to | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
help those wealthiest families. Building up to the Budget on | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
Wednesday. Thank you both very much for that. That is it for for papers | :13:18. | :13:28. | |
this hour, a big thank you to you both. | :13:29. | :13:45. | |
Let's get started on this. Not bad. A bit slow in the middle. Not bad. | :13:46. | :13:52. |