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Plus how Rosberg and Hamilton got on in today's practice sessions for the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Italian Grand Prix, all in Sportsday in 15 minutes, after The Papers. | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
Wellcome to our look at what the newspapers will bring us tomorrow. | :00:18. | :00:25. | |
With me is James Miller of the Sunday Post, and joining us from | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
Glasgow is Jean Freeman from Women for Independence. Thank you for | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
being with us tonight. Let's look at the front pages of the morning | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
papers. The Daily Mail leads the story claiming some of our biggest | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
banks have been intimidating customers. NATO leaders gaze at a | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
fly past on the cover of the Independent on the day they set up a | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
rapid reaction force to defy Russia over Ukraine. The FT has the same | :00:51. | :01:04. | |
picture but talks about a new bid by the no camp to halt the charge of | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
nationalists in the Scottish referendum. The Daily Telegraph says | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
Britain could become involved in a three`year battle with Islamist | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
militants. Five yet `` five old Ashya King dominates the front page | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
of the Guardian. He is going to Prague. The express says there is | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
outrage at claims that police are dropping rate prosecutions. The | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
Times carries a picture of the American president at Stonehenge | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
following the NATO summit in Newport. | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
Let's begin with the Telegraph. The headline, three`year battle to | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
degrade and destroy ISIL, the Islamic State, the militants who | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
have been cutting a swathe across Syria and Iraq, Britain signs up to | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
coalition led by the United States, and the Prime Minister of verses a | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
plan to mothball an aircraft carrier. When you read into this | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
article, Jean, it feels like we have been here before, very reminiscent | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
of the Iraq war. It does. I found it quite disturbing an article to read | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
because we have a number of assertions and statements and no | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
clear plan, certainly in the article, no clear acknowledgement | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
that there needs to be some kind of democratic process behind this. So | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
we have the commitment to 1000 troops, the idea of the rapid | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
reaction force, but we do not have much of an idea, so far at least, | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
about exactly what that force would do. The article also tells us that | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
not every member of NATO is as convinced of this as the UK and the | :02:38. | :02:46. | |
US are, and again, that does have a close of having been here before. | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
And indeed Germany and particular is somewhat reticent. They are. | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
Reticent, and also reticent in terms of whether the principal target, if | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
you like, is the Islamic State, or whether in the view of Germany, we | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
shouldn't be more concerned about what is going on in Afghanistan and | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
Ukraine. Certainly it struck me in the past week that we have not had a | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
lot of attention to what was going on in Ukraine, and I wondered if | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
that was the wise course to take, to be so focused on what is happening | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
outside Europe, knowing what might be happening here. Let me turn to | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
James. Often there is talk of a mandate, having a mandate to take | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
action of this type. How is this mandate in comparison with the one | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
they thought they had against Saddam Hussein? There is an element of | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
having been here before, certainly, I was particularly struck by the | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
three`year battle, this sounds like it will be over by Christmas, the | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
three`year figure is picked out of nowhere, but it is different to | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
Iraq, because these guys are baddies... You know, we know they | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
are doing horrific things, beheadings, they have a British | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
hostage. In Iraq they had to come up with a dossier and the evidence, the | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
evidence that these guys need to be dealt with is very clear, and in | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
that sense I think there is a moribund mandate, more of a public | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
feel that something must be done. `` more of a mandate. In the Telegraph, | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
Ashya King, the five`year`old boy who needs brain tumour treatment | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
being given permission to fly to Prague. It has been an extraordinary | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
week for the family, pursued across Europe, then having the arrest | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
warrant dropped. A lot of people still don't really know what this | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
story is all about, what happened, why they were chased across Europe, | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
what they were doing in Spain when they were trying to get to Prague. | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
It sounds like we were going to have a happy ending in the sense that | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
hopefully now they will be left to do what they were going to do in the | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
first place and get on with it and maybe be left alone by the media to | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
deal with at their own way. Briefly, Jean, do police have much choice | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
over whether to pursue the family in this way, given that doctors in | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
Britain were concerned for his health? It depends a little on what | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
information the police were given, and that is still not clear. If the | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
police were told that the medical profession in the hospital believed | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
the child was at risk in terms of how the parents might be able to | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
look after him or not, I don't know if that was the case, but if they | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
had been told something like that and hadn't done anything, we would | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
be criticising them as well. The whole thing is a bit of a sad mess, | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
I think. I suspect that in a sense, at the end of the day, everyone has | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
acted in what they believe were the best interests of the child, but the | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
consequences of that have been a tragic set of circumstances, and | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
hugely distressing for the family, but also for the kids of that | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
family, including the little boy himself. The Daily Mail, shaming of | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
bodily banks, intimidating customers with fake debt collection letters, | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
bosses confess. This is a campaign they have been mounting after they | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
claimed thousands of letters had been sent, which were apparently | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
rather intimidating, to customers. Now it seems the bosses admitted | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
using these tactics. They have, yes. There has been so much news going on | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
with Ukraine, Iraq and Scotland, it has been lost today. This has not | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
been missed by the Daily Mail, which is good, because it is outrageous. | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
If your front`page story is supposed to be dropped your toast stuff at | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
breakfast, this would mind me `` want to make me smash up the | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
kitchen. These banks, their customers, they are looking after | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
people 's money, and they were making up names of solicitors to | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
send them scary letters. It is the will drink how they thought they | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
could get away with it. Is your crockery safe when you read a | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
headline like that, Jean? Just about, but the interesting thing | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
was, if I pretended to be debt collecting firm or a law firm and I | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
sent you that kind of letter, I would expect the police at my door, | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
and what I find extraordinary in all of this is that after everything we | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
have been through with the banks, they still think they are perfectly | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
legitimate in behaving in this way, and the article points out, they | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
have not really apologise. The thing I was surprised that was that the | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
Student Loan Company is part and parcel of this. I don't know what we | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
need to do for people to understand that behaving in this way is immoral | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
and totally unacceptable. Let's move on to the Independent, coalition | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
rocked by bedroom tax revolt, a quandary here with this one because | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
we have to call it the spare room subsidy as well to not cause | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
partiality, but this was the vote not by a backbench Lib Dem MP, | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
Andrew George, to try to CBN is of this tax, which has proved to be | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
very damaging `` see the end of this tax `` damaging for people deemed to | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
have an extra bedroom they don't need. It has indeed, very damaging | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
in terms of the impact it can have in moving families away from the | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
rest of their family and their community and so on. For example, in | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
some parts of Scotland, there simply are not houses with only one | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
bedroom. Here in Scotland, The Scottish Government has acted to | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
mitigate the effects of the bedroom tax, but the thing that struck me | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
about this story was that you can spot a 2015 general election coming, | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
I think. I don't mean to be dismissive of the backbencher who | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
brought it forward, I am sure he is genuine, but we have that coalition | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
emerging between Labour and the Liberal Democrats, and the Liberal | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
Democrats suddenly very much opposed to the bedroom tax, but they were | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
part of the government that introduced it. You pulled a bit of a | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
face, James. There is a Scottish angle to this because the SNP MPs, | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
most of them, didn't turn up for the vote, despite all this talk about | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
vote for independence to get rid of the bedroom tax. That is a decision | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
they took. They obviously thought time would be better is spent | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
campaigning for a yes vote and they might rewrite, but from a PR point | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
of view it has given Labour big win because they are to say, our MPs | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
turned up and voted. The FT has come up trumps with a story about the | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
Scottish referendum, which is fantastic, as Jean is with us from | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
Glasgow. Union camp in push to halt yester, David Cameron warning Scots | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
they will be more vulnerable in a dangerous and insecure world of they | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
vote for independence, as No campaigners try to stop the swell of | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
support for Yes. Gordon Brown also saying there might be an option of | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
greater devolution of powers to Scotland, James, if the No voters | :10:23. | :10:32. | |
successful. I'm not much or how we can offer a guarantee now. The FT | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
have been on the independence referendum from the start. Like a | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
lot of papers who are just waking up to it as it gets tight and closer, | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
I'm not sure there is a huge amount exciting in this story per se. But, | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
it is the big issue now. Despite the other stuff in the papers this is | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
the big issue affecting the country. It seems the momentum is with yes at | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
the moment. We'll know that for sure when we see some pulse at the | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
weekend. They say there is panic in the no camp. `` polls. What will | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
work best at this point? Stand in the other people 's shoes for a | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
moment. More carrot or more stick, to get people to vote no? Certainly | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
not more stick or more scary stories about possible stick. People here | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
don't believe it. Even in the early days when it was said a few months | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
ago there wouldn't be a currency union. Even before there was paper | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
coverage of a government insider who said of course there would be. Even | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
before then the polls showed people in Scotland didn't believe it. What | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
is happening here, and it is interesting, there is not a lot in | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
this story, but it is interesting inasmuch as not particularly the | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
Financial Times because we've also covered the referendum consistently | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
throughout, but there is certainly a mood of, oh my goodness, it is | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
coming very soon. From the no camp, it looks like we might lose. It does | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
look like we might lose. I'm not sure what they can do. They've left | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
it a bit late. They are trying to scare people into voting no. They've | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
tried to tell us how much they love us so please don't vote no. Now we | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
have guarantees that frankly can never be honoured. And the offer of | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
additional powers that contrast sharply with the fact that it was | :12:38. | :12:46. | |
not allowed on the ballot paper because of the stance of the | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
Unionist parties. Just because people don't believe it doesn't mean | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
it is not true. I think that it's worth pointing out on all of these | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
charges. But there has certainly been a lot of scaremongering. But it | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
doesn't mean it is not true. Lots of shoe warning tonight. We will try to | :13:04. | :13:12. | |
do it even more slickly later. `` shoehorning. Stay with us will stop | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
there will be more on the truce in Ukraine which came into effect | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
today. Coming up next, sports stay. `` sports | :13:25. | :13:38. | |
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