14/09/2014 The Papers

the contest is still too close to call. Hello and welcome to our look

ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are

Oliver Wright, the Whitehall editor at the Independent, and Angela

Knight, the chief executive of Energy UK. Tomorrow's front pages,

starting with: First, the Independent which leads on the

threat to the second British hostage, Alan Henning, who is being

held by Islamic State militants. The same photo of the 47`year`old, a

volunteer working on aid convoys, is also on the front of Telegraph

though it's main story is the comment made by the Queen about

Scotland's referendum. Tomorrow's Guardian also reports on the Queens

remarks as well the threat to a second British hostage. It says the

prospect of the UK joining military action against the Islamic State is

closer than ever. And in the Sun ` a challenge to the Islamic State

militant, responsible for the deaths of three Western hostages ` "show

your face coward" is the headline. Very powerful pictures and headlines

tonight, a thoroughly sickening story following the death of David

Haines, now concerned turning to this man, Alan Henning. Here are

years on the front of The Independent, holding the hand of a

child `` here he is. Many had known about this man being held captive

for months, but it has only just been released. He has been held

captive for nine months now, up until that point they had

effectively been a news blackout stopped the Foreign Office is very

keen that there would be no mention, a few months ago, and certainly

about their identity. That position has now changed, with that chilling

video released overnight on Saturday, and the Foreign Office

have taken the view that it is legitimate and write for his

identity to be published `` right. And his family speaking out that

hatred would he be easy feeling to have. An appalling thing happening

here. These are people who have gone out to help and assist,

volunteering, they have families here and it is just a barbaric

situation. I think there are so many things that now need to be thought

about, as Bolivar said. Is this keeping quiet about the hostages, as

long as we do the right thing or not `` Oliver. And how do we react? We

can all react in the sense that this is appalling, the sense that

something should be done if it possibly can be done, both to

prevent this type of action on the next hostages, but also take action

against ISIS itself. It is easy to have that automatic reaction that

something must be done, but very difficult to decide what is which

should be done. And the ability to do it as well. Here is the same

photograph. Fears for a second British hostage, David Cameron to

seek authorisation for further airstrikes as another British

citizen is threatened with death. Clearly the resolve and

determination is there to do something. David Cameron has said he

has to go to the UN approval. And he is absolutely right. To seek a

coalition as well, because one of the things that has happened the

past that it has been the US or UK, maybe we have had other western

countries who have said we will form our coalition to do something in

certain circumstances. That is not the coalition that they need to

have. You have to have a coalition here of the countries in that part

of the world that are also affected. It is the Arab countries

as well, in conjunction with the US, with the UK, who I think will form

the group if they will come to the table, that will have a longer

lasting effect. Let me just show the Guardian, because that makes the

point about the Arab states, saying that they are ready to join in the

US led assault. That will be key to this. Getting a wide enough

coalition. What they are looking to do is avoid the mess they got

themselves into over Syria. If that means taking a little bit longer and

not responding to the sort of knee`jerk reaction you were talking

about earlier, I think this is partly, my guess, coming from the

Americans more than the British. David Cameron would have liked to do

something earlier, given his own free will, but he has signed up and

bought into this strategy coming from Obama which is that if it takes

another month or two back months and we get it right, it is far better

than doing it in one or two weeks and getting it wrong. And I think

that is the right approach. Because it does not feel or seem right if

you are in that region for others to just come in and say we are going to

do whatever we are going to do with airstrikes or whatever without your

involvement. That is why it has to be broader. Two I think what western

governments are not saying and perhaps should be saying a bit more

of at least privately is they've got to do something about the support

and funding for organisations like ISIS which is going on in countries

which are nominally at least our allies. And that has been going on

from long`time, that is part of the reason why ISIS was able to develop

so strongly. It is a very sensitive subject, because some of the people

who will be part of this great coalition, close to the

establishment. In more ways than one. And I hope that the SAS or

others are trying to get to the hostages first while all the rest of

the political, and how we are going to form these coalitions, while

these discussions take place in the big picture, I hope the small

picture is that the SAS and others are actually managing to get these

hostages, to get them out. On the Sun, a truly shocking picture. Show

us your face, coward. The man known as Jihadi John, who we have heard

speaking on S`Video, and have only shown stills of, as David Haines was

beheaded. Obviously this man speaks English with what sounds like a

British accent. A sort of south`eastern accent. I hesitate to

put it like this, but this is what the Sun does so well. " Alaves

something. I agree. This guy with his face entirely covered apart from

slip for his eyes, and hasn't got the nerve to show his own face. I

agree with the Sun very much. They have hit the nail on the head with

this. Let's see who you are, this man who is doing these appalling

things. He is deliberately trying to terrorise. Let's see who he is. The

Daily Express with a very visceral headline as well. Destroying

jihadist monsters. In the context of the rhetoric we have heard on this,

this is still remarkably strong. But getting to a point which is that

this doesn't represent any kind of faith, in any way, shape, , or form.

Alan Henning was an aid worker, he had gone into Syria to deliver

medical equipment to keep people alive, to help civilians caught up

in the conflict, to help people who had been terrorised by ISIS. And the

Muslim leaders here in the UK, they have all come out and condemned,

they are prepared as well to stand there and say this is wrong. This is

not representing any religion, this is terrorism. This hostagetaking, we

don't agree with any of that. I think that is brave of them. This is

a different thing, if you are a leader of the Muslim community,

saying this, then if you are... Also strangely, if you talk about

radicalisation, you go back to the question of identity and revealing

who these people are. I think this does more to dispel the notion that

somehow joining ISIS is a glamorous, exciting, and just been to do. These

kinds of stories and headlines thankfully undermine that argument

to any section of the population. And it is only a week ago, maybe two

weeks, that we started to hear stories of people who have gone out

there with the idealism to join, and found it is not that, and how do you

come back? So I think you're right, what we are seeing is something that

is really horrific. It has been revealed for what it truly is.

Turning to the referendum, a stark message from the Queen, as described

by this newspaper, is also on the Telegraph. Queen breaks silence over

Scottish independence. People should think very carefully about the

future before casting their votes. How wise was that of her to say

anything, even as that? It will be surely perceived as prounion. To my

mind, what are commonsensical statement to say. We have wall to

wall commentary. Wall`to`wall commentary going on about the

Scottish vote, and it is going to be 24`hour Scotland for the next few

days. And for the Queen to say it might be a good idea to think how

you vote, well, if you are asked your view, I think that is pretty

good common sense reply. I'm in favour of that. She is very good,

isn't she, about keeping quiet about things. One journalist on Twitter

said in the public eye there is no such thing as a private

conversation. She knows that. Exactly. Will she be subject to a

torrent of vitriolic abuse to the same extent as those who went after

JK Rowling. Is it safer to say nothing? It doesn't make it right to

say nothing. And in the Telegraph, it does give reference to her speech

in 1977, when Scotland and Wales were voting on devolution, and she

said I cannot forget the day I was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom,

Great Britain, and Northern Ireland. I think it is good that we have a

head of state, and she is a good one. What is curious is that really

strong statement put out earlier in the week making it clear the Queen

does not get involved in Constitutional affairs, it would be

utterly wrong. It does, when you read this copy, it seemed that she

decided to say something, rather than being put in a position where

she had no choice. So the two things don't quite square to me. But maybe

she doesn't agree with her aids. Thank goodness we have someone like

this is head of state. You like Her Majesty, I think we have established

that. She goes there a few months for her summer holidays, and says

this. Anti` tech backlash, Google and Facebook conceding they need to

do more to prevent damage to their image because people are upset about

data protection. No kidding! In short. This has been a long time

coming. I think so. I love the understated comment at the end. It

says some in our industry have understated and underestimated the

degree to which people care about rip a C. Have they only just found

that out? What is the world which Google inhabits `` care about

privacy. Thank you both very much for joining us to look through the

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