31/08/2014 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers

With me are James Lyons, the Deputy Political Editor

for the Daily Mirror and Oliver Brown, who's Chief Sports Feature

The Metro focuses on our main story tonight, missing five`year`old boy

The paper says that his parents are being kept from

The FT leads with how Russian president is calling

for talks on the question "statehood" southeast Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin says it must be a key part of the negotiations to

The Telegraph also concentrates on the situation

It says that Nato allies are being told to increase

their defence budgets due to the growing threat from Russia.

The Guardian goes with with news that David Cameron

will make it easier for intelligence agencies to access information as

part of an effort to stem the flow of British`born jihadis travelling

The Express splashes on the claim that EU red tape is

costing retired Brits thousands of pounds in pension payouts.

The Daily Mail says that figures show customers are

being charged at least three times the price their

Let's begin. Thank you for joining us. We will start with the Metro

newspaper, we have been talking about it all evening, the fact that

Ashya King has been found and his parents are being questioned by the

police. Their headline is very stark, parents kept from seeing

Cancer son, aged five. Oliver, this pulls people in different

directions. A desperately sad situation, it is hard not to be on

the side of the parents because the instinct fundamentally is to seek

out the best possible treatment, wherever that may be. The problem is

that both the authorities and the parents claim that the interests of

Asher are at heart `` Ashya are at Hardwick is difficult to reconcile

when even his closest relatives are being denied access to him. Surely

it would be better to have his parents by his bedside rather than

being interrogated and awaiting extradition proceedings. We have

heard from members of the family, we had an interview with the

grandmother, and the family using social media to get their side out.

The sons have been speaking out about the parents ahead of the

extradition hearing tomorrow morning. They're all sorts of

questions about what happens if are sent back to England to face the

music. Will they have to go back alone? It is a terribly sad story

and I have to admit it is completely the opposite of what I initially

thought. When the news broke I thought, oh well, you hear stories

about parents who want to stop treatment, or prevent their child

being treated for whatever reason, whether it is religious, or

whatever. I jumped to conclusions when this broke, thinking back was

much must be happening here but we find out it is the reverse, in fact

the parents have been tragically told that medics think there is

nothing more they can do for the lad and they have gone abroad, seeking a

cure. Various suggestions about their motives, looking for a cure in

Spain, whether they are going to sell their holiday home to finance

some kind of solution. The treatment is pretty exorbitant as it stands, I

think ?100,000. Proton beam therapy. Available in the Czech

Republic, it will not be available here for at least another six

years, so they have come to the conclusion that anything would be

worth trying. So many can relate to that. The police have consistently

maintained that they are trying to observe the legalities, whether

there has been criminality. I think the only thing that should be

observed in this case is some common`sense. You feel for the

police because clearly they are in a situation that is difficult. Medics

in Britain have said that this child was in real danger. They have

tracked him down and things may not be as they expected them, either.

Having said that we have heard from the grandmother, whose house has

been ransacked by the police, you know, asked to give statements. When

you read the family's account it seems a bit heavy`handed. Going to

the front page of the Daily Telegraph, " my parents are not

kidnappers" say Ashya's older brother, Danny King, who has also

been speaking out. It shows, the involvement of the police is

problematic because we immediately think that crime is involved. Some

people say that the police are the best people to look. They have

clearly done nothing illegal as well. Taking your child outside of

hospital against doctors wishes is not illegal. This may be more

complex. You wonder what grounds they will be extradited under. It is

such a fundamental impulse, it is a shattering story, a father who said

he would not rest until he found a cure for his son. This is another

case, a son suffering from a rare form of muscular dystrophy, saying

he would spend any money, and there are parallels to this situation. Do

you think there are parallels `` do you think the police shouldn't have

been involved? Or are the best police `` are they the best people

to investigate? If somebody disappears from the hospital, the

police are the best people to investigate, but you cannot see the

boy being benefited by his parents essentially being bracketed as

kidnappers. We will hear more tomorrow, they may appear in court

tomorrow in Madrid for the expedition proceedings. More to come

on that. A different story now, the Guardian front page, about the

terror threat we are expected to hear about tomorrow from David

Cameron, making it easier for the intelligence agencies to stop

potential British jihadists returning to the country. The

headline, terror threat, spy agencies to vet flight lists.

James, the suggestion that they can see passenger lists and get a look

at the names. We are expecting David Cameron to announce all sorts of

things in what a roundup of the EU summit over the weekend, he will

touch on the Ukraine, and spell out what the government are going to do

about the jihadi threat after the official security terror level was

raised last week. One thing he is going to announce as the Guardian is

reporting here, the fact that they will bring in a new law which will

compel airlines for the first time to share their passenger lists with

the security services. Unbelievably this is being done on able and very

basis until now and there have been issues with some of the carriers who

only produce the lists half an hour before the flights take off, no real

time to see who is on board. This will help to stop, give the

opportunity to stop people who may be travelling out to Iraq and Syria

to fight with ISIS. That will be a boon in that area. The airlines will

have two provide better information `` have to provide. It will give the

Security service is a bit more of a head start as they tried to head off

these people. `` security services. One story that is covered in the

Telegraph, the front page, ever since the coalition did away with

control orders, reform of home arrest that used to be imposed on

terror suspects there has been a long row about what will replace

them, such as the TPims, which critics have always said are not

strong enough. Recently the governments own adviser, the review

of terrorism the deflation has agreed `` terrorism legislation. He

said that one of the important things that control orders did that

TPims don't, they allowed you to relocate terrorists, you can make

them move to Norfolk for example where they will be less dangerous.

So that power has gone. The government watchdog would like it

back. There are concerns that there may be reprisals, and the Liberal

Democrats. They are not ready to sign up to anything that may be seen

as Draconian. When David Cameron comes to give his statement, he is

still negotiating. We will return to the Daily Telegraph, not their main

story, curbs on terrorist suspects rejected. Oliver, this is coming

down, as James said, to the legality. This is always the

stumbling block. The other issue has been about citizenship and whether

we can take people 's passports from them when they come back from

fighting in Iraq. Legally flawed, I imagine the lawyers will be having a

heavy weekend. A lot of lawyers are about to come very `` about to

become very rich indeed. At our expense. The suggestion of a

temporary bar on jihadi re`entry. Very little clarification on what

that means. Menzies Campbell has been quite this difference today in

arguing that it would render people stateless. It is understood clearly

that the measure that David Cameron will put forward will fall short of

rendering people stateless. How that is legally achievable seems a very

nebulous area. Some people having a late night tonight! The Financial

Times, a different story, talking about it through the evening, the

situation of escalating tension in Ukraine and the headline, Putin's

statehood comments raising fears. James, Vladimir Putin making what

some people would say are provocative comments. He has made

quite a few of those on Friday he said "don't mess with Russia, we

have a nuclear arsenal"! Compared to that, this seems more tame, but more

worrying if you are in the Ukraine. This seems to be yet another land

grab by Putin. We don't seem to know what to do to stop him. Talk of

sanctions in Brussels at the weekend. One expert said that there

is no way the EU can hurt Russia with sanctions because they have the

Oil and we are basically dancing to their tune. Some of the hawks in

Washington are taking up the Ukrainian call for NATO to supply

them with arms. If we do that, goodness knows where it may end. It

is difficult to see what you can do to counter this. It is a very grim

situation. It is not hard to see what the endgame of Putin is here,

talking about statehood, clearly it is politically charged. There are

rebels in eastern Ukraine now who say that they want to go through to

the West. Nobody is sure where it's going to end. The official spokesman

says that it would be absolutely wrong to interpret this as calling

for the independence of eastern Ukraine, but it would seem it is

about partition. The mixed messages, the spokesperson trying to

tone things down. Not long ago the Russians said that there were none

of their troops in the Ukraine. It seems to be on the one hand you have

the rise of ISIS, they would like to get to the borders of NATO if they

could, Turkey, and you have what's going on in Eastern Europe. It seems

to be an extraordinary and frightening time. On many fronts in

deed. On many fronts it does not make happy reading but we will be

back at half past 11 for another look at the stories making the news

tomorrow. In other news and the parents of Ashya's