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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
With me are James Lyons, the Deputy Political Editor | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
for the Daily Mirror and Oliver Brown, who's Chief Sports Feature | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
The Metro focuses on our main story tonight, missing five`year`old boy | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
The paper says that his parents are being kept from | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
The FT leads with how Russian president is calling | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
for talks on the question "statehood" southeast Ukraine. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
Vladimir Putin says it must be a key part of the negotiations to | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
The Telegraph also concentrates on the situation | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
It says that Nato allies are being told to increase | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
their defence budgets due to the growing threat from Russia. | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
The Guardian goes with with news that David Cameron | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
will make it easier for intelligence agencies to access information as | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
part of an effort to stem the flow of British`born jihadis travelling | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
The Express splashes on the claim that EU red tape is | :01:20. | :01:28. | |
costing retired Brits thousands of pounds in pension payouts. | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
The Daily Mail says that figures show customers are | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
being charged at least three times the price their | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
Let's begin. Thank you for joining us. We will start with the Metro | :01:40. | :01:52. | |
newspaper, we have been talking about it all evening, the fact that | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
Ashya King has been found and his parents are being questioned by the | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
police. Their headline is very stark, parents kept from seeing | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
Cancer son, aged five. Oliver, this pulls people in different | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
directions. A desperately sad situation, it is hard not to be on | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
the side of the parents because the instinct fundamentally is to seek | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
out the best possible treatment, wherever that may be. The problem is | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
that both the authorities and the parents claim that the interests of | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
Asher are at heart `` Ashya are at Hardwick is difficult to reconcile | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
when even his closest relatives are being denied access to him. Surely | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
it would be better to have his parents by his bedside rather than | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
being interrogated and awaiting extradition proceedings. We have | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
heard from members of the family, we had an interview with the | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
grandmother, and the family using social media to get their side out. | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
The sons have been speaking out about the parents ahead of the | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
extradition hearing tomorrow morning. They're all sorts of | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
questions about what happens if are sent back to England to face the | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
music. Will they have to go back alone? It is a terribly sad story | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
and I have to admit it is completely the opposite of what I initially | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
thought. When the news broke I thought, oh well, you hear stories | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
about parents who want to stop treatment, or prevent their child | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
being treated for whatever reason, whether it is religious, or | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
whatever. I jumped to conclusions when this broke, thinking back was | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
much must be happening here but we find out it is the reverse, in fact | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
the parents have been tragically told that medics think there is | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
nothing more they can do for the lad and they have gone abroad, seeking a | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
cure. Various suggestions about their motives, looking for a cure in | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
Spain, whether they are going to sell their holiday home to finance | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
some kind of solution. The treatment is pretty exorbitant as it stands, I | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
think ?100,000. Proton beam therapy. Available in the Czech | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
Republic, it will not be available here for at least another six | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
years, so they have come to the conclusion that anything would be | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
worth trying. So many can relate to that. The police have consistently | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
maintained that they are trying to observe the legalities, whether | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
there has been criminality. I think the only thing that should be | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
observed in this case is some common`sense. You feel for the | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
police because clearly they are in a situation that is difficult. Medics | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
in Britain have said that this child was in real danger. They have | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
tracked him down and things may not be as they expected them, either. | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
Having said that we have heard from the grandmother, whose house has | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
been ransacked by the police, you know, asked to give statements. When | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
you read the family's account it seems a bit heavy`handed. Going to | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
the front page of the Daily Telegraph, " my parents are not | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
kidnappers" say Ashya's older brother, Danny King, who has also | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
been speaking out. It shows, the involvement of the police is | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
problematic because we immediately think that crime is involved. Some | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
people say that the police are the best people to look. They have | :05:31. | :05:40. | |
clearly done nothing illegal as well. Taking your child outside of | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
hospital against doctors wishes is not illegal. This may be more | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
complex. You wonder what grounds they will be extradited under. It is | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
such a fundamental impulse, it is a shattering story, a father who said | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
he would not rest until he found a cure for his son. This is another | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
case, a son suffering from a rare form of muscular dystrophy, saying | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
he would spend any money, and there are parallels to this situation. Do | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
you think there are parallels `` do you think the police shouldn't have | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
been involved? Or are the best police `` are they the best people | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
to investigate? If somebody disappears from the hospital, the | :06:29. | :06:37. | |
police are the best people to investigate, but you cannot see the | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
boy being benefited by his parents essentially being bracketed as | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
kidnappers. We will hear more tomorrow, they may appear in court | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
tomorrow in Madrid for the expedition proceedings. More to come | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
on that. A different story now, the Guardian front page, about the | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
terror threat we are expected to hear about tomorrow from David | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
Cameron, making it easier for the intelligence agencies to stop | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
potential British jihadists returning to the country. The | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
headline, terror threat, spy agencies to vet flight lists. | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
James, the suggestion that they can see passenger lists and get a look | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
at the names. We are expecting David Cameron to announce all sorts of | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
things in what a roundup of the EU summit over the weekend, he will | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
touch on the Ukraine, and spell out what the government are going to do | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
about the jihadi threat after the official security terror level was | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
raised last week. One thing he is going to announce as the Guardian is | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
reporting here, the fact that they will bring in a new law which will | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
compel airlines for the first time to share their passenger lists with | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
the security services. Unbelievably this is being done on able and very | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
basis until now and there have been issues with some of the carriers who | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
only produce the lists half an hour before the flights take off, no real | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
time to see who is on board. This will help to stop, give the | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
opportunity to stop people who may be travelling out to Iraq and Syria | :08:20. | :08:27. | |
to fight with ISIS. That will be a boon in that area. The airlines will | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
have two provide better information `` have to provide. It will give the | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
Security service is a bit more of a head start as they tried to head off | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
these people. `` security services. One story that is covered in the | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
Telegraph, the front page, ever since the coalition did away with | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
control orders, reform of home arrest that used to be imposed on | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
terror suspects there has been a long row about what will replace | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
them, such as the TPims, which critics have always said are not | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
strong enough. Recently the governments own adviser, the review | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
of terrorism the deflation has agreed `` terrorism legislation. He | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
said that one of the important things that control orders did that | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
TPims don't, they allowed you to relocate terrorists, you can make | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
them move to Norfolk for example where they will be less dangerous. | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
So that power has gone. The government watchdog would like it | :09:39. | :09:53. | |
back. There are concerns that there may be reprisals, and the Liberal | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
Democrats. They are not ready to sign up to anything that may be seen | :09:57. | :10:05. | |
as Draconian. When David Cameron comes to give his statement, he is | :10:06. | :10:21. | |
still negotiating. We will return to the Daily Telegraph, not their main | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
story, curbs on terrorist suspects rejected. Oliver, this is coming | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
down, as James said, to the legality. This is always the | :10:32. | :10:39. | |
stumbling block. The other issue has been about citizenship and whether | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
we can take people 's passports from them when they come back from | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
fighting in Iraq. Legally flawed, I imagine the lawyers will be having a | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
heavy weekend. A lot of lawyers are about to come very `` about to | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
become very rich indeed. At our expense. The suggestion of a | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
temporary bar on jihadi re`entry. Very little clarification on what | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
that means. Menzies Campbell has been quite this difference today in | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
arguing that it would render people stateless. It is understood clearly | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
that the measure that David Cameron will put forward will fall short of | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
rendering people stateless. How that is legally achievable seems a very | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
nebulous area. Some people having a late night tonight! The Financial | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
Times, a different story, talking about it through the evening, the | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
situation of escalating tension in Ukraine and the headline, Putin's | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
statehood comments raising fears. James, Vladimir Putin making what | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
some people would say are provocative comments. He has made | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
quite a few of those on Friday he said "don't mess with Russia, we | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
have a nuclear arsenal"! Compared to that, this seems more tame, but more | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
worrying if you are in the Ukraine. This seems to be yet another land | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
grab by Putin. We don't seem to know what to do to stop him. Talk of | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
sanctions in Brussels at the weekend. One expert said that there | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
is no way the EU can hurt Russia with sanctions because they have the | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
Oil and we are basically dancing to their tune. Some of the hawks in | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
Washington are taking up the Ukrainian call for NATO to supply | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
them with arms. If we do that, goodness knows where it may end. It | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
is difficult to see what you can do to counter this. It is a very grim | :12:45. | :12:54. | |
situation. It is not hard to see what the endgame of Putin is here, | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
talking about statehood, clearly it is politically charged. There are | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
rebels in eastern Ukraine now who say that they want to go through to | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
the West. Nobody is sure where it's going to end. The official spokesman | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
says that it would be absolutely wrong to interpret this as calling | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
for the independence of eastern Ukraine, but it would seem it is | :13:22. | :13:30. | |
about partition. The mixed messages, the spokesperson trying to | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
tone things down. Not long ago the Russians said that there were none | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
of their troops in the Ukraine. It seems to be on the one hand you have | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
the rise of ISIS, they would like to get to the borders of NATO if they | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
could, Turkey, and you have what's going on in Eastern Europe. It seems | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
to be an extraordinary and frightening time. On many fronts in | :13:56. | :14:14. | |
deed. On many fronts it does not make happy reading but we will be | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
back at half past 11 for another look at the stories making the news | :14:19. | :14:33. | |
tomorrow. In other news and the parents of Ashya's | :14:34. | :14:34. |