02/09/2014 The Papers

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Welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us

tomorrow. I'm joined by a broadcaster and the president of

YouGov. Many papers are leading with the apparent murder of American

journalist Stephen Sotloff by Islamic State. The Metro reports

that the militants threaten to kill a British hostage next. The Daily

Express calls it a chilling new threat. The Guardian says the

British accent of the jihadi in the video was the same as an early

video. The Times says the prospect of a close vote in Scottish

independence has sent jitters through the market. We will start

with the Daily Telegraph, Stephen Sotloff. I should say that for a

while some of the papers are using more detailed pictures from the

video. The BBC has chosen not to do that. The Daily Telegraph, Britain

will be next warns jihadi John as he beheads a second journalist will

stop this is a real problem for journalists, newspapers, television

and radio, because you are balancing the need to tell people as much as

you can, because we do not believe in censorship and covering things up

with the fact that you can play into the jihadist's hands by showing and

saying more. The Foreign Office has asked for the names of people

involved not to be quoted by the media. As far as I am aware the

media have respected this. In a sense it is a subset of this much

wider dilemma as to how on earth we deal with these people. The one

reflection I have is that through most of our adult life we saw the

world moving to greater interconnectedness. We thought it

would mean less violence. If Russia and China were trading with the West

it we would not go to war. But Russian gas is stopping is acting on

Ukraine. We perhaps need to deal with Assad in Syria to see off ISIS.

We perhaps need to do more with I ran. We need to have a different

relay should ship with Saudi Arabia. `` relationship with Saudi Arabia. A

lot of these countries have social Democrats in charge of them. It is a

problem with journalism but it is also a subset of a wider strategic

problem we face. The is another problem that we might try to behave

as well as we can as journalists but social media feels this and puts

terrible, grisly stuff out there and we might all decide that what they

really want is the optimum publicity. These are not ideologues.

First of all they are asking for huge ransoms from the families. We

saw that the French did a deal and got their hostages back because they

paid a vast sum of money. The British and Americans don't do

deals. There are another 20 western hostages. The Telegraph had an

interesting bit where they have been looking carefully at the background

of these videos. They are very well produced videos. They are

speculating that these poor people, these journalists being killed on

the same day, and may the British hostage is already dead. Because

they are so similar. For reasons you have explained, and you are rightly

not showing the horrible picture on the front of the Telegraph, but it

is still a very powerful front page, it has a huge amount of impact. It

is a front page that the jihadists clearly hope will be a recruiting

tool as well. Of course. This goes back to the dilemma. Do we sacrifice

our belief in openness and information and the risk of giving

them publicity. It is not an easy choice. Cameron was saying yesterday

that if you carry on with the humanitarian drops, or you could

also strike them. Nobody is asking that military question at the

moment, do we stay the same or you could also strike them. Nobody is

asking that military question at the moment, do we stay the same goal.

Thereafter selection of horrible wars. 1 million people displaced in

Ukraine who can't get on the front pages because this is happening. ``

there are. At the bottom of the Guardian front page. A Spanish judge

frees Ashya's parents from jail after a U`turn. Thank goodness. I

used to do a programme called Watchdog and there used to be a

requirement for a lot of evidence before you put anything on screen.

The way these parents have been treated with a durable in warrant,

that is a pretty serious thing with a potential ten years in jail

hanging over their heads. `` with a European warrant. To be treated the

way they have been done in the European system when they have not

actually got a charge, what would they charge them with? Child

cruelty? It was too nonspecific for the heavy guns that have been

trained on this poor family. But at the start of this whole issue, the

authorities at the hospital really had no idea what was going on, how

far the child had been taken away. They knew the parents had taken them

but it was against medical advice. I am playing devils advocate, but a

lot of us are having 20 slashed 20 hindsight. This child has a horrible

brain cancer. I was president of the European Cancer coalition and we

have talked endlessly about how Britain is not as good as most

countries in Europe at cancer. I'm presuming these parents might be

aware of that kind of thing and the hospital at one point were saying

this was a child who was terminally ill. We have no idea what the

parents were told or not told. Regardless of that, it was a very

heavy tool to use against these parents. They have been in

handcuffs, in jail for four days. That is what David Cameron said. I

suspect a 99% of the viewers of this programme will disagree with what I

will say, but this review process started after David Cameron and Nick

Clegg stepped in. It was plainly a ludicrous overreaction by the

prosecution service. But hang on a minute, do we really want to drift

into being a country where politicians, ministers, start to

interfere in legal processes? It is very easy to contain political

interference when we don't like it. The real test of when we mean it,

when we want to keep politics and law separate, is when we think

politicians are right and the law is wrong. Do we still believe in it? I

believe it was being sorted before that and I think they were jumping

on the bandwagon I believe it was being sought before that and I think

they were jumping on the bandwagon to get it sorted.

Does this undermine all the work at Southampton hospital as if they

don't know what they are doing? It is crazy. It has been revealed that

99 children already this year have been taken abroad for protein

therapy. That is about ?10 million already and we're only halfway

through the year. We need to have a much better system of looking at how

the rest of Europe deals with its serious cancers and get on the

bandwagon earlier. Lots of countries have got this. It is never too late.

Please get second opinions out there if you are told a child is terminal

and it sounds as if some point that was said and the parents have

believed that there are children and some... There are new facilities

being built. But we are late. We probably think we are better than

the Czech Republic but we are not. We are worse than most countries in

Europe when it comes to cancer. We need to catch up. Moving on to the

Financial Times. In Scotland, it is the YouGov poll that has rattled the

markets. The reason is, for most of the year, YouGov have been at the no

end of the scale. We have been showing no beating yes. In the last

two polls, we have shown to marked increases in the no votes. It is

showing that. Let me say, when I first saw the figures yesterday

morning, I was a bit twitchy. The law of probability. All polls can

get wonky samples. It is the law of statistics. You thought there was a

problem? I thought there might be. We found that of the 1000 people in

our poll, half of them are questioned early in the year at some

point or another. We could look and compare what the same people had

said a few months ago with what is being said now. There has been a

shift from no to year. That is absolutely real. I am confident that

something is going on. Sure. It is fascinating. If Scotland does say

yes, it is YouGov that has encouraged by the sound of it. She

is yanking your chain! The Scottish people are making the change. The

trend is... This is serious. The Financial Times is saying that banks

are losing shares. The most terrifying thing is that a top

Treasury civil servant has said he has not made any contingency plans

for a yes vote. He will wait till the day after the referendum. I

still big blue `` think that's probably the no campaign will win. I

am saying there is now a 20% to 30% chance of victory. In no victory is

more likely than a yes victory. Given the consequences of a possible

yes victory, it is criminal that in the Treasury in Downing Street they

are not doing anything about it. What they have to understand is the

Scottish psyche. I love Scotland a long time ago but I am... The

proudest thing about me is I am Scottish. The Indus people and I am

assuming `` the English people, to talk like that with no contingency

plans, it sounds so arrogant and the Scots hate it. I do not think you

can say anything any more. Is the BBC telling me what I can and cannot

say? Yes. Lots to talk about at around 11:25pm. We will have a

second look at some other headlines on the papers and all the stories

behind it. Stay with us here on BBC News. At the top of the we will have

much more on the release of that video by Islamic state militants

which is claiming to show the killing of another American

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