:00:14. > :00:21.Hello. This is BBC News. In a few minutes, we will take a look at
:00:22. > :00:25.tomorrow's papers with our guests, David Akinsanya and Torcuil
:00:26. > :00:29.Crichton. Some of the front pages are already in. The Daily Mail leads
:00:30. > :00:32.on the trial involving TV chef Nigella Lawson and the claims that
:00:33. > :00:37.she allowed her daughter to smoke cannabis. The Independent describes
:00:38. > :00:39.Britain as the land of the homeless. It says numbers are rising sharply
:00:40. > :00:44.because of the Government's welfare reforms and the lack of affordable
:00:45. > :00:47.housing. The Express says that we are now the scrounging capital of
:00:48. > :00:54.Europe, as migrant beggars pocket up to ?36,000 a year on our streets.
:00:55. > :00:58.The Mirror claims that the mother of Baby P, Tracey Connelly, wants a
:00:59. > :01:01.gastric band operation on the NHS. The Telegraph leads on comments from
:01:02. > :01:05.the wife of Marine A, the Sergeant jailed for life for shooting a
:01:06. > :01:09.Taliban fighter. "It was war, not murder", she said. The Times has
:01:10. > :01:11.more on the row over university leaders endorsing voluntary
:01:12. > :01:16.segregation of men and women at guest events. And the FT says
:01:17. > :01:23.Beyonce is in tune with the digital age, after she released her album on
:01:24. > :01:31.iTunes with no pre-launch publicity. Now the weather forecast.
:01:32. > :01:37.Much clearer skies across the British Isles tonight. Colder than
:01:38. > :01:44.last night, which was exceptionally mild. The reason for the clearing
:01:45. > :01:47.skies, a ridge of high pressure to the south. It is this low we are
:01:48. > :01:51.focusing on in terms of the pressure chart coming in from the Atlantic on
:01:52. > :02:01.Saturday, bringing wet and windy weather. First thing on Saturday,
:02:02. > :02:05.clear skies but rather cold. Into the West, the wind picking up and
:02:06. > :02:10.the cloud moving in. Across northern England, plenty of sunshine to get
:02:11. > :02:15.the day underway. The Midlands, East Anglia and the south-east, too. With
:02:16. > :02:20.the breeze starting to lift, we will not have the mist and fog we saw in
:02:21. > :02:23.the previous week. For the South West of England and Wales, milder
:02:24. > :02:29.already, thanks to the south-westerly wind. Notice the
:02:30. > :02:34.numbers in the wind arrows. Already quite high. The wind will strengthen
:02:35. > :02:38.across the South West of England and Wales even before this weather front
:02:39. > :02:43.arrives. For Northern Ireland, a wet start to the day, plastered in
:02:44. > :02:48.torrential rain, moving into the West of Scotland, too, with wind
:02:49. > :02:52.strengthening. Through the day, widespread gales for Scotland and
:02:53. > :02:59.Northern Ireland, gusts of wind up to 70 mph, enough to do damage and
:03:00. > :03:02.potentially cause disruption. That whole system slowly moving
:03:03. > :03:07.south-east. We will not see wet weather into the south and east of
:03:08. > :03:11.England until after dark. Once the rain arrives, it will be pretty
:03:12. > :03:15.heavy. Scotland and Northern Ireland only have a brief break with more
:03:16. > :03:20.showers running through in the small hours. By dawn, a lot of sunshine
:03:21. > :03:23.across the British Isles on the whole, but to the south, the threat
:03:24. > :03:29.of the tale of the weather system bringing more rain on the afternoon
:03:30. > :03:33.of Sunday. More importantly, another low from the Atlantic approaching
:03:34. > :03:37.the north-west, looking like strong wind will be a problem for Scotland
:03:38. > :03:41.and Northern Ireland again on Sunday, potentially stronger than
:03:42. > :03:46.Saturday. For Scotland and Northern Ireland, a stormy outlook for the
:03:47. > :03:59.next couple of days. For England and Wales, relatively quiet.
:04:00. > :04:09.This is BBC News. We will be taking a look at the papers in a moment,
:04:10. > :04:12.but first the headlines: Amnesty International accuses EU
:04:13. > :04:16.states, including Britain, of failing to provide safe haven for
:04:17. > :04:19.the most vulnerable Syrian refugees as winter closes in, but David
:04:20. > :04:24.Cameron has defended the help that the UK has offered to those fleeing
:04:25. > :04:28.the civil war. Police in Colorado have responded to
:04:29. > :04:32.a shooting at a high school south of Denver. It is reported that a
:04:33. > :04:35.student with a grudge against the teacher shot and injured a fellow
:04:36. > :04:42.pupil before turning the gun on himself. One student confronted the
:04:43. > :04:44.armed student and was shot. That student has been transported in
:04:45. > :04:50.serious condition to a local hospital.
:04:51. > :04:53.One of Nigella Lawson's former personal assistants told a jury that
:04:54. > :04:58.both she and her ex-husband Charles Saatchi have been lying in court.
:04:59. > :05:02.One of the government's flagship free schools in West Sussex is
:05:03. > :05:06.ordered to close amid concerns about the standard of education it is
:05:07. > :05:09.offering. A small bomb has gone off near
:05:10. > :05:14.restaurants and bars in the centre of Belfast. No one was hurt. The
:05:15. > :05:18.Northern Ireland Secretary described the attack as deplorable.
:05:19. > :05:24.In Sportsday, we will hear from both teams ahead of the second day of the
:05:25. > :05:27.third Ashes Test in Perth. England need to find their best form
:05:28. > :05:30.quickly. Also, why Robin van Persie will miss
:05:31. > :05:35.Manchester United's next eight matches. The Christmas period is not
:05:36. > :05:40.the time to pick up an injury. We also look ahead to the Premier
:05:41. > :05:44.League this weekend, and there is rugby action from the Heineken Cup,
:05:45. > :05:48.and we will tell you how great written one gold medal at the world
:05:49. > :05:52.tae kwon do Grand Prix in Manchester. -- Great Britain's
:05:53. > :06:08.athlete. Welcome to our look ahead to what
:06:09. > :06:12.the papers will bring tomorrow. With us for the first time, David
:06:13. > :06:16.Akinsanya, broadcaster and campaigner, and Torcuil Crichton,
:06:17. > :06:19.Westminster editor of the daily record. You have got a season
:06:20. > :06:22.ticket! The Daily Mail leads on the trial
:06:23. > :06:25.involving TV chef Nigella Lawson and the claims that she allowed her
:06:26. > :06:29.daughter to smoke cannabis. The Independent describes Britain as the
:06:30. > :06:31.land of the homeless. It says numbers are rising sharply because
:06:32. > :06:35.of the Government's welfare reforms and the lack of affordable housing.
:06:36. > :06:37.The Express says that we are now the scrounging capital of Europe, as
:06:38. > :06:43.migrant beggars pocket up to ?36,000 a year on our streets. The Mirror
:06:44. > :06:47.claims that the mother of Baby P, Tracey Connelly, wants a gastric
:06:48. > :06:50.band operation on the NHS. The Telegraph leads on comments from the
:06:51. > :06:53.wife of Marine A, the Sergeant jailed for life for shooting a
:06:54. > :06:58.Taliban fighter. "It was war, not murder", she said. The Times has
:06:59. > :07:00.more on the row over university leaders endorsing voluntary
:07:01. > :07:04.segregation of men and women at guest events. And the FT says
:07:05. > :07:15.Beyonce is in tune with the digital age, after she released her album on
:07:16. > :07:20.iTunes with no pre-launch publicity. Let's make a start, and we begin
:07:21. > :07:25.with the Daily Mail and the headline, Nigella let the children
:07:26. > :07:29.smoke cannabis. Torcuil Crichton, this is another day of extraordinary
:07:30. > :07:34.evidence in this case. We have to remember this is a court case for
:07:35. > :07:39.fraud of the Grillos sisters, Elisabetta and Francesca, who
:07:40. > :07:48.allegedly differ ordered Nigella and Charles Saatchi of ?685,000. --
:07:49. > :07:52.defrauded. One of them has alleged that Nigella let the children smoke
:07:53. > :07:57.cannabis, and that she was allowed to buy cigarettes for the underage
:07:58. > :08:02.children at New York airport. Perfect fodder for the front pages.
:08:03. > :08:07.It has been a drip, drip. There has been so much we have learned, not
:08:08. > :08:12.about the court case but about the couple. That is pretty much what the
:08:13. > :08:15.public want to know about really. It is a good one for talking over your
:08:16. > :08:19.toast in the morning and for the Daily Mail, it is great, because it
:08:20. > :08:26.throws up a dilemma for middle-class parents. Do you let them smoked dope
:08:27. > :08:30.in the house, or in the street? This is all reported from the court case,
:08:31. > :08:33.having been aired in court. That is the difficulty that Nigella Lawson
:08:34. > :08:38.and Charles Saatchi have become the focus, rather than the Grillos
:08:39. > :08:44.sisters. The Daily Telegraph has a clutch of stories for us tonight.
:08:45. > :08:48.Charles Saatchi again. Another piece of evidence that we heard at
:08:49. > :08:55.Isleworth Crown Court today was about his book sales. I think this
:08:56. > :08:59.is hilarious. It says he was sending them out with ?200 in cash three
:09:00. > :09:04.times a week to buy his book so that it would be elevated in the ratings.
:09:05. > :09:10.I think that is hilarious. I wonder if many people who have books do
:09:11. > :09:14.that. If you have that much money. You also have to send out to send
:09:15. > :09:22.out to buy a shed to keep the books in. What would you do with them?
:09:23. > :09:28.Give them away at Christmas. It was war, not murder, says the wife of
:09:29. > :09:32.Marine A. Sergeant Alexander Blackman, who we only knew as Marine
:09:33. > :09:37.A to begin with, and then the anonymity was lifted. This was his
:09:38. > :09:41.wife talking about the fact that he was jailed for executing the wounded
:09:42. > :09:45.Taliban fighter but he is not a murderer, and he reacted in a moment
:09:46. > :09:51.of madness, something he regrets but he has been sent to prison. Murder
:09:52. > :09:56.is murder. It is unfortunate. We train people to go and kill people
:09:57. > :09:59.and this is what has happened. It is a difficult situation. We have heard
:10:00. > :10:04.him, seen the video evidence and heard it, and it is murder. I know
:10:05. > :10:09.there has been loads of support for him and it is a really tricky
:10:10. > :10:14.subject. The case was some time ago and the controversy carries on. This
:10:15. > :10:18.is an interview with his wife. She has spoken through lawyers before
:10:19. > :10:24.but this is heard talking now. He is full of remorse and she thinks a
:10:25. > :10:29.life sentence was too severe. It was war, she says. But we have seen the
:10:30. > :10:32.video evidence, the jury saw the video evidence and heard the audio
:10:33. > :10:37.evidence as well, in which he said himself that he was breaking the
:10:38. > :10:40.Geneva Convention. 41,000 people have written to Downing Street
:10:41. > :10:45.saying that they support him and they do not think it was a fair
:10:46. > :10:49.sentence. The suggestion is that in a theatre of war, when you are under
:10:50. > :10:52.that amount of Russia, but the video evidence was accepted in court and
:10:53. > :10:58.that was the basis of the sentence. -- that amount of pressure. We will
:10:59. > :11:03.never know what it was like to be there, when your life is under
:11:04. > :11:06.threat. But they are highly trained soldiers, professionals. We heard
:11:07. > :11:10.from the audio evidence that he seemed to know quite deliberately
:11:11. > :11:16.what he was doing when he shot this man in the chest. You hear lots of
:11:17. > :11:20.instances of things in war, rape, and all sorts of crimes go up when
:11:21. > :11:24.there is a war going on. It is one of those things. I could never
:11:25. > :11:29.personally kill someone, so I would never go into the Army. I don't
:11:30. > :11:33.think I could do it. Once you have been trained and you have done it a
:11:34. > :11:37.few times, maybe it comes easy. I don't know. Sometimes it is what you
:11:38. > :11:43.are called upon to do. The other story, block migrants from poorer EU
:11:44. > :11:46.countries, urges the PM. Stories like this have been in the headlines
:11:47. > :11:52.a lot recently, connected to benefits, which is a real talking
:11:53. > :11:56.point at the moment. We will hear a lot more about them because Romania
:11:57. > :12:01.and Bulgaria get the chance to come and live in Britain and check -- and
:12:02. > :12:05.to claim benefits, if they have stayed here for some time. The
:12:06. > :12:09.government is tightening up on this because they know it will be a key
:12:10. > :12:16.election issue, immigration, in 2015. But they are running into
:12:17. > :12:21.trouble with the EU. Handy Aryan EU commissioner claims again that this
:12:22. > :12:29.is turning Britain into a nasty country. -- the hunger Aryan. There
:12:30. > :12:32.is a suggestion that immigration should be restricted so only people
:12:33. > :12:37.from countries with similar economic strength. How do you assess that?
:12:38. > :12:43.That is not what the EU is about. I know many who have benefited from
:12:44. > :12:49.cheaper properties in Bulgaria. It is a pillar destination for people
:12:50. > :12:53.to buy property. We have to understand there are lots of
:12:54. > :12:58.benefits we get out of Europe. Pensioners who live in Spain and get
:12:59. > :13:01.free health care. There are also economic benefits from Eastern
:13:02. > :13:08.European migration. Not just the economy growing, but skilled
:13:09. > :13:14.professional people who help in our homes and every public service. But
:13:15. > :13:20.is it an indication, do you think, of how David Cameron is going to try
:13:21. > :13:25.to renegotiate our relationship with the EU? We have been hearing he is
:13:26. > :13:30.going to do this for a long time. That is down the road, after the
:13:31. > :13:33.next election. What is in front of them is 2015, focus groups and
:13:34. > :13:37.polling telling him immigration is a key concern for voters. All
:13:38. > :13:44.politicians have to be seen to react to that. Several times in the last
:13:45. > :13:47.few months, various Labour politicians have admitted that they
:13:48. > :13:52.got it wrong on immigration. They are all trying to set the record
:13:53. > :13:54.straight. They are trying to get themselves into position for the
:13:55. > :13:58.fact that there is an election coming and people are passionate
:13:59. > :14:03.about this. They do not want Nigel Farage and the other parties to take
:14:04. > :14:09.votes away from them, I suppose. He is quite quiet at the moment. UKIP
:14:10. > :14:12.have not been quoted in these articles. I am sure he is not
:14:13. > :14:22.quiet, but we have just not heard what he has said. I think he has had
:14:23. > :14:24.a back operation. I am sure he will bounce back and UKIP will bounce up
:14:25. > :14:30.in the polls as the European elections, in May. A related story
:14:31. > :14:35.in the Daily Express, with the headline, migrant beggars on ?36,000
:14:36. > :14:39.a year, why Britain is now the scrounging capital of Europe. Rich
:14:40. > :14:46.pickings to be had, if they are to be believed. I have seen this story
:14:47. > :14:51.over the years. I remember stories about beggars earning ?36,000,
:14:52. > :14:54.?50,000. In fact, a newspaper followed someone begging on the
:14:55. > :14:59.street and saw him get into his Lashkar and drive off. That is a
:15:00. > :15:04.story we have heard before. # his flash car. There is a lot of
:15:05. > :15:11.hysteria around Bulgarians and Rumanian 's. This is happening in
:15:12. > :15:15.January. They are saying they are targeting sympathetic shoppers. And
:15:16. > :15:27.they are really begging on the streets. Hysteria, concern, and
:15:28. > :15:32.newspapers will want to feed into the concerns of their readers. I
:15:33. > :15:36.don't really rate this story. The next thing as the weather stories!
:15:37. > :15:39.There is actually bad weather on the way as well this weekend, so we
:15:40. > :15:47.could have put that on the front pages. Moving on to the Independent.
:15:48. > :15:53.Britain, land of the homeless. This is a story based around a report by
:15:54. > :15:56.the Joseph Rowntree foundation, suggesting there has been an
:15:57. > :16:02.increase in homelessness in various parts of the UK. It is from the
:16:03. > :16:07.political editor, who is always solid on these things. It is an
:16:08. > :16:13.annual report that shows that homelessness has gone up 6% in
:16:14. > :16:18.England this year, and over 60% in London in the last two years. That
:16:19. > :16:23.is the hard statistics, but you feel that anecdotally, you remember the
:16:24. > :16:26.80s when there were beggars on the streets of London, and then they
:16:27. > :16:33.went away, and now they are back. Being blamed if the government's
:16:34. > :16:37.welfare policy. I work with young people who go through the care
:16:38. > :16:40.system, and a lot of the hostels - they used to be places under Ken
:16:41. > :16:45.Livingstone where tramps and vagrants could go and wash and shave
:16:46. > :16:50.and get their clothes washed. All of those projects have been closed
:16:51. > :16:55.down. It is hardly surprising we are visually seeing it on the street.
:16:56. > :16:59.Coming here tonight, I saw a lot more people sleeping in doorways
:17:00. > :17:03.that I have done for a while. This report specifically blames it on
:17:04. > :17:08.welfare, things like the bedroom tax. Things causing a squeeze on the
:17:09. > :17:14.private sector, and consequently, people have nowhere to go. We all
:17:15. > :17:20.saw those headlines of those families living in ?500,000 houses,
:17:21. > :17:25.in wealthier areas, on benefits. That appeal to lots of people, the
:17:26. > :17:28.idea of clamping down on that, and allowing people to live in houses
:17:29. > :17:33.they could never afford if they had a job. If you happen to be a
:17:34. > :17:37.resident in Islington or Chelsea, if that is where you were born and grew
:17:38. > :17:42.up, there is no reason you shouldn't stay there. People are being moved
:17:43. > :17:47.from those errors, being moved out to Dagenham and Essex and other
:17:48. > :17:53.areas. Some people would say that they can't afford to live in those
:17:54. > :17:56.areas. But do we want a city that is exclusively for people with money?
:17:57. > :18:02.We have always had mixed dwellings in London. This report is not just
:18:03. > :18:05.about London. It mentions the Midlands and the North as well,
:18:06. > :18:11.where people are falling into rent arrears. What is the number -- what
:18:12. > :18:18.is the answer then, apart from spending more money? Public housing.
:18:19. > :18:24.It is one of these virtuous economic circles, where if you build the
:18:25. > :18:29.houses, you pay people, they pay taxes, the economy gets better...
:18:30. > :18:34.Even for the people who want to buy, it is a sellers market in London at
:18:35. > :18:41.the moment. Even those who want to buy a finding it hard to get on the
:18:42. > :18:46.housing ladder in London. Some very interesting stories tonight. We will
:18:47. > :18:52.have some more later. Stay with us here on BBC News, because coming up
:18:53. > :18:57.at 11 o'clock, we have more on the criticism that is being heaped on
:18:58. > :19:00.the UK and other EU countries for their pitiful response to the Syria
:19:01. > :19:11.refugee crisis. Coming up, the sport.
:19:12. > :19:16.Hello, and welcome to Sportsday. I'm James Pearce.
:19:17. > :19:20.Life's not getting much better for England's cricketers. They're
:19:21. > :19:22.heading into the second day of the third Test in a familiar position -