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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
With me are Randeep Ramesh, who's the Social Affairs Editor | :00:19. | :00:26. | |
at The Guardian and the Political Correspondent | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
The Sunday Times, which carries pictures of some of the 25 children | :00:29. | :00:41. | |
who died in the plane crash in Egypt's Sinai. | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
But it leads with the suggestion that ministers have U-turned | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
on tougher school tests in the face of teaching union opposition. | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
The Observer leads with the government's internet | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
surveillance plans - it says the Home Secretary has been forced | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
The Mail's focus is the Iraq War - it claims that ministers | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
at the time were told to 'burn' a top-level document questioning | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
The Sunday Telegraph carries a picture of Prince Harry | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
handing the Rugby World Cup to New Zealand's captain - | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
after his side's historic victory over Australia. | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
And public spending cuts is the top story for the Sunday Post | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
- it says that teachers have been forced to hand out bookies' pens | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Let's begin with a story we have been leading on all day, and that is | :01:24. | :01:37. | |
the Russian airliner which came down in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, this is | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
the Sunday Times headline, did Isis down the plane? There are a number | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
of pictures of the children who are thought to have died. Over 100 | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
bodies have been found. This question of whether there was any | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
terrorist or militant activity, the authorities seem to have batted that | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
away. It is the right question to ask is the first thing everyone | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
thinks, given the background, with Russia in Syria, bombing Isis | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
positions, but I always was under the oppression that the Americans | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
did not think they were doing enough to fight Isis -- I was always under | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
the impression. We don't know. The Sinai Peninsula has been the subject | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
of some action, but we will have to wait and see, the black box and the | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
debris which has been collected, that will have to be gone through, | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
and this is one of the awful reminders of the trouble that we | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
face in that part of the world. Other airlines have said they will | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
not fly over that Essbase, and there is some worry at the very least that | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
this has been a terrorist incident -- will not fly over that air space. | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
The fact that this is a Russian airliner, and the involvement of air | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
strikes we have seen against Isis targets by Russian aircraft, that | :03:02. | :03:10. | |
leads us to the statement that Isis are making, saying they are | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
responsible for this. It is an obvious question to ask, even though | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
the evidence is slim, but they are reporting tonight that there was no | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
SOS. Possibly that might suggest that what ever happened came as a | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
surprise to the people flying the plane. The Sunday Times has put the | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
pictures of the kids on the front, because we are increasingly led to | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
believe that the Russians are the bad guys. I was brought up on that | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
in the 70s and 80s, but here are little children, the little girl in | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
the main picture, holding a my Little pony toy, the same as my | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
daughter, and it reminds you that these people do not deserve to be | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
blown out of the sky, if that is what has happened. They have just | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
gone on holiday to a popular part of the world, and they were on their | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
way home. It makes them look more like us, which we can forget, were | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
not allowed to remember. That's right, the power of the narrative, | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
we saw that with the child that was washed up on the beaches of Greece, | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
that is a powerful moving picture, but I wonder if Isis's reach is such | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
that it can down a large airliner and long way away, as well, with a | :04:31. | :04:40. | |
missile, it seems far-fetched. The view seems to be from experts that | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
they do not have that power and capability because the plane was too | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
high. The thing with Isis, so much is not known, we can't get immediate | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
there to find out what is going on and we don't know what military | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
people are finding out in the area, and so we don't know what their | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
capability is or isn't. The Daily Mail has really gone to town with | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
this story. The Iraq war cover up. The article is about how ministers | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
were told they must destroy a document which showed the war was | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
illegal. This was a document which was written by the then Attorney | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
General Lord Goldsmith. This is a complex one. Straightforward | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
headline, though. The claim is by a senior number ten figure at the time | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
which could be a politician or civil servant, anybody. The claim is that | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
the Attorney General came forward with the legal advice, which we know | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
about, there was legal advice and then there was new legal advice a | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
couple of weeks later. It said the conflict to be challenged. And | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
apparently someone said, burn it. It sounds slightly amateur for what was | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
a very slick operation at number ten at the time. But not many people had | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
sight of that document in the first place. No, and the people that did, | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
maybe not the people that you expect, they gave it to Jeff home, | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
the Defence Secretary, and his name comes up a lot in this, and they let | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
him see it, but not Gordon Brown, even though Gordon Brown was very | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
much number two in that government. It seems Tony Blair was prepared to | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
sack Jeff Poon at the time, so why you would give him an initiative to | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
use against him, if he did sack him a few weeks later, it is not quite | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
ring... There is something missing. Something quite fishy, but no firm | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
facts really. The first legal advice the Attorney General gave was that | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
going to war in Iraq could be challenged because there is not a | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
legal basis for it through the United Nations and he changed his | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
mind about that a few days later. Yeah, the question for Chilcot, | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
which is being investigated, what provided the change? Why did anyone | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
decide that they did give one opinion and then ten days later give | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
another? The Mail on Sunday has decided that is because there was | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
pressure put on Goldsmith with the words "Burn it". The problem, | :07:28. | :07:36. | |
though, it is a bit better than rumour and innuendo, but not much. | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
They are in the difficult position, they can't name their source, and it | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
appears... Is it just one source? We know the difficulties we face with | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
that. Yeah, it seems to be, although they have spoken to Jeff home, and | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
he has denied that he brought up this Burn it message. He has not | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
many things in the article. His brilliant comment, is, I will not be | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
making any comment, and then he proceeds to make a comment. His | :08:10. | :08:20. | |
nickname was buff Hoon which I had not realised. You hope that this | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
will be explained to us in the Chilcot report, which has been | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
underway since 2009 and we are still not likely to see it until next | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
summer. Yes, I do not know how anyone can do still be essential | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
Chilcot in 2000 words, but I'm sure someone can. -- be essential. The | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
Observer newspaper, Theresa May forced to backtrack over law and | :08:46. | :08:55. | |
snooping over internet use. -- law on. These are plans to give the | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
securities services access to all of our internet browsing history, which | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
many people take issue with. Yes, this looks like a number ten spin | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
operation, it looks like it, certainly to liberty, who say that | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
it is just spin, the Lib Dem and Labour peers will probably knock | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
this back. There has been a pattern emerging. They are emboldened after | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
the tax credit cuts. They don't mind a bit of pink -- ping-pong. There | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
are many stories about this, the main one is in the Sunday Times, | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
they have gone on judges will be given the power to veto the approval | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
sought by ministers, and at the moment they can say, collect all the | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
information on this chap, he's dangerous, but they are saying, put | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
a judging. Veto for surveillance usually means using a rubber stamp | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
and what they want is for a judge to decide on this, and that is what | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
they are not getting from the government. It will not go away its | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
entirety? It looks like spin, it is one of those, we're going to look at | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
everything you do at the internet, but we are not bothered about | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
Facebook. It smacks of spin and this has been kicking around for a while, | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
the Lib Dems claim credit for downing this in the last government. | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
According to this is seems to have downed itself in this government. | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
Which is why it smacks of spin, the way it has been watered down | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
suddenly, but maybe not by that much. I'm always so shocked by how | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
cynical our paper reviewers are! Another Sunday Post. The article, | :10:51. | :10:59. | |
this is on the Scottish front page, exclusive, schoolkids lefty use | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
bookmakers pens as cuts bite -- left to use. This is a great Sunday Post | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
local authority funding, and how local authority funding, and how | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
that is affecting education funding, but my own Sunday Post has gone in | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
and the fact that the budgets have been cut so much that there is not | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
much cash for pens, basic stuff for kids. Just does. Jotter? That is | :11:30. | :11:42. | |
something you use for a shopping list. It is shocking, though, that | :11:43. | :11:52. | |
the teachers have got to get these from the bookmakers. The teachers | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
are running into the bookmakers? Scotland does have a gambling | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
legacy. Be careful with those national stereotypes. The Sunday | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
Post has done very well with this story. There is a serious story, the | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
Scottish election is next year, and the SNP government has got to be | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
judged on the things it has done, rather than just on the referendum, | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
and this is the start. Other papers are not doing this much, but this is | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
the Sunday Post, judging them on their record of cutting budgets to | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
local authorities and local authorities cutting education | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
budgets and that has to be highlighted. And now to the Sunday | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
Telegraph, this is the headline of the night. Why your cat is plotting | :12:39. | :12:46. | |
to kill you. Why is this? Apparently because they are cats, they are | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
related to African lions and Scottish Wildcats. Your cat is | :12:51. | :13:00. | |
genetically programmed to conspire. To be neurotic and aggressive, I | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
will second that, we have a cat which does that. It is an insane | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
story, cats cannot plot, they cannot think like that, but is also a great | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
story because everyone knows a slightly grumpy cat which they think | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
is plotting and they do look at you as if they are potting. It works on | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
two levels. The problem is, the size argument, but you have friends with | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
an enormous cat? Yes, Meme -- they might be watching, they have a cat | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
the size of a dog, but they cannot let it out because people might | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
steal it. Mine is, and if anyone would like to home her, they are | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
welcome. She is the cruellest thing. We are going to look at the Mail on | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
Sunday, and I can't work out how I'm supposed to approach this story. | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
Jerry and Murdoch, what a rugby union, we have a picture from the | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
Rugby World Cup final, Rupert Murdoch with his new squeeze, Jerry | :14:10. | :14:18. | |
Hall. What springs to mind? What attracted you to the | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
multi-billionaire Rupert Murdoch? In the words of Mrs Merton... Jerry | :14:22. | :14:30. | |
Hall can't be hard up, she had a modelling career and what ever Mick | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
Jagger has left her, but they are wearing very cheap scarves. These | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
are the scars that you get outside the ground for ?5, I would have | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
thought Rupert could have his own scarf made for him or and American | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
scar. He could have supported New Zealand. Yes, is the man who always | :14:49. | :14:57. | |
backs winner. Yes, but the underdog... Anyway, that is Rupert | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
Murdoch, Jerry, very happy. That is it for the papers this hour. My | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
guests will be back at 1134 another look at the stories making the | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
headlines tomorrow. Later on, we will have the headlines | :15:13. | :15:23. | |
at 11 o'clock. With more on the aeroplane crash in the Sinai | :15:24. | :15:36. | |
Peninsula. And now we have Reporters. | :15:37. | :15:40. |