:00:00. > :00:00.Louise Hazel, who is returning with the aim of defending her
:00:00. > :00:00.Commonwealth title when the Games begin later this year. That's in
:00:00. > :00:20.Sportsday in 15 minutes. Hello there and welcome to our look
:00:21. > :00:24.ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are
:00:25. > :00:28.broadcaster Richard Madeley and Amol Rajan, the editor of the
:00:29. > :00:34.Independent. We start with the Independent. Its front page has a
:00:35. > :00:39.picture reportedly taken in a Palestinian refugee -- in a refugee
:00:40. > :00:44.camp in Syria of a man holding a child whom it is said died of
:00:45. > :00:53.hunger. The Governor of the Bank of England
:00:54. > :01:00.has given nationalists a choice - sovereignty or the pound.
:01:01. > :01:06.The Metro says self service checkouts are turning Britain into a
:01:07. > :01:11.nation of shoplifters. On to the Mail. It is leading on the
:01:12. > :01:15.Lords vote to ban smoking in cars carrying children.
:01:16. > :01:19.The Times says a think-tank has exposed Labour plans for a public
:01:20. > :01:23.spending spree. We are starting with the Daily
:01:24. > :01:28.Telegraph. Richard, troops sent in to flood-hit areas. We saw the
:01:29. > :01:33.reception that Owen Paterson, the Environment Secretary, got when he
:01:34. > :01:39.visited the Somerset Levels. He was well and truly harangued, that's a
:01:40. > :01:46.polite way of saying it. He didn't even get his hush puppies wet did
:01:47. > :01:51.he. When you are really screwed up, you send the troops in. Quite what
:01:52. > :01:54.they are supposed to do with a this will gallons of water on the
:01:55. > :01:58.Somerset Levels I'm not sure. The Daily Telegraph says they think they
:01:59. > :02:04.might deploy specialist vehicles, which they say will help some of the
:02:05. > :02:08.villages, which are cut off, and help people to get food and fuel.
:02:09. > :02:11.And our old favourite, they will also help with sandbags, which I
:02:12. > :02:16.think are the most useless flood defence devised by man. This is a
:02:17. > :02:21.carapace to give the Government time to wade into catch up really. It is
:02:22. > :02:25.a disaster for them. Every newspaper, whatever it is ilk, is
:02:26. > :02:30.reporting it from the the same angle, the Government screwed up.
:02:31. > :02:35.Sending the troops in, it makes a nice picture. There'll be stories
:02:36. > :02:42.tomorrow as the brave lads wade in and carry old ladies from their
:02:43. > :02:45.cottages. Are you that cynical? This is about the need to give an
:02:46. > :02:52.appearance of authority and control. One of the amazing lessons of the
:02:53. > :02:56.last 10-15 years, when we had crises with foot-and-mouth, bird flu, in
:02:57. > :03:00.the age of social media, if there is a crisis and it affects your
:03:01. > :03:04.environment, you've got to be seen to grab hold of it immediately, show
:03:05. > :03:08.control and be in charge. Something this Government struggled to do
:03:09. > :03:13.earlier in the week over the last weekend and on Monday was to look as
:03:14. > :03:18.if it was in control. It took too long to get down there, too long to
:03:19. > :03:22.assess the situation, too long to react. This is not from my limited
:03:23. > :03:25.understanding of Somerset and what the Army gets up to, I don't think
:03:26. > :03:32.it will make a substantial difference. They are already pumping
:03:33. > :03:38.1 million gallons of water -- tonnes of water a day. The This is about
:03:39. > :03:44.media market of a crisis that's spun out of control. Partly an admission
:03:45. > :03:49.that to some extent there is not a lot you can do. We should have done
:03:50. > :03:53.dredging beforehand. There is a huge amount that could have been done,
:03:54. > :03:58.dredging. My grandfather was a farmer in Shropshire. A river went
:03:59. > :04:03.through his land and every two years he had to dredge. They lost a bit of
:04:04. > :04:08.wildlife and fish in the river, but it had to be done. I have to say
:04:09. > :04:14.over the last three or four days, looking at this pusillanimous
:04:15. > :04:19.reasons for not dredging the rivers are, frankly I would be surprised if
:04:20. > :04:23.there wasn't a public inquiry into this. It is a massive scandal. There
:04:24. > :04:26.is a strong sense that the Government doesn't care about them,
:04:27. > :04:32.that rural community is diminishing as a proportion of the population,
:04:33. > :04:36.and elections are decided in the big cities. Part of this is the rural
:04:37. > :04:40.community of south-west England saying guys, we matter too. They
:04:41. > :04:44.don't occupy the headlines. They don't generate as much media
:04:45. > :04:50.attention. When in story or scandal hits, it is only after it becomes a
:04:51. > :04:54.big problem that those people are taken seriously. It is part of their
:04:55. > :04:57.frustration as well. I had lunch in Somerset today and was approached by
:04:58. > :05:02.a Somerset farmer, and he was speaking for him, the Environment
:05:03. > :05:06.Agency cares more about voles than humans. That's what they are
:05:07. > :05:11.thinking down there. Very interesting spxt let's stay with the
:05:12. > :05:15.Daily Telegraph. Amo, will, Carney stem cells Scots choose independence
:05:16. > :05:19.or the pound. We've got to make it clear the Scottish National Party
:05:20. > :05:25.said they had a fiscal commission that looked into this and they would
:05:26. > :05:27.be willing to have some fiscal pact that does cede a certain amount of
:05:28. > :05:32.sovereignty to Westminster. So they've seen this coming. That's
:05:33. > :05:35.their argument. They would say it is consistent with what they said was
:05:36. > :05:40.going to happen before. The Governor of the Bank of England, a dashing
:05:41. > :05:45.Canadian, has come in and created a huge impression. He's gone off for a
:05:46. > :05:49.meeting with the First Minister of Scotland to talk about some of the
:05:50. > :05:52.implications. He has used astonishingly provocative language.
:05:53. > :05:57.He talks about ceding national sovereignty. When you are talking
:05:58. > :06:01.about issues to do with nation states and it's, these are emotive
:06:02. > :06:04.words. It is not that Mark Carney has or hasn't said the obvious but
:06:05. > :06:09.he is an extremely political Governor. If you look at the
:06:10. > :06:15.previous two, Eddie George's nickname was Steady Eddie. Mervyn
:06:16. > :06:23.King was a Cambridge academic, dead straight. This guy has given a huge
:06:24. > :06:26.fillip to those that would argue that Britain is better together, to
:06:27. > :06:31.use the unionist campaign. People can say hang on, if Scotland goes
:06:32. > :06:36.independent and you are controlled by the Treasury in London, what's
:06:37. > :06:41.the point? The substantive fact of what he said, the core, is factually
:06:42. > :06:47.correct. Yes, and it is consistent with what Alex Salmond has said in
:06:48. > :06:51.the past. It is more of a give to the unionists. This is the Daily
:06:52. > :06:55.Telegraph's second lead. They say unionists say Mr Carney's
:06:56. > :07:05.devastating intervention - everybody is taking what they want out of
:07:06. > :07:09.this, has left Alex Salmond to share the reins. It is in tatters. The
:07:10. > :07:15.best thing he could have done was avoid making the trip up there. That
:07:16. > :07:21.train ride was probably funded by the taxpayer. It is an impossible
:07:22. > :07:25.thing to do. If you are going up there and state the obvious, you are
:07:26. > :07:30.going to be used by people who use your words for their own arguments.
:07:31. > :07:36.That really was Tyne might, to compare what happened if we have
:07:37. > :07:44.separation, to say eurozone? It is a hand grenade. He didn't do it like
:07:45. > :07:49.that did he? The front page of the Scotsman, a the SNP accepted. They
:07:50. > :07:56.can't not say that now, can they? They didn't say look at the EU...
:07:57. > :08:01.I'm summarising him. Most people who saw him speaking live on your
:08:02. > :08:06.channel, it took half an hour for analysts to get round this dry
:08:07. > :08:10.techno speak to work out what he meant. He is more political than he
:08:11. > :08:16.appears to let on. Personally, reading the papers now, I think it
:08:17. > :08:20.was a much more a series of statement than you might think. Of
:08:21. > :08:24.course I'm being a bit jocular when I say look at the eurozone, but
:08:25. > :08:29.that's what he was doing. As you say, people can read into what he
:08:30. > :08:32.said and decide their own views on some of the words and the language
:08:33. > :08:37.that he used. We are going to your paper now,
:08:38. > :08:42.Amol. After 1885 days, people are eat using cats and weeds. Bread is a
:08:43. > :08:50.dream for children. The inside story of a Syrian siege. There's a lot of
:08:51. > :08:55.things that go through one's mind and you think to a certain extent
:08:56. > :09:00.Syria's been on the front page a huge amount, is there appetite for
:09:01. > :09:04.any more of this stuff. Patrick has got into a refugee camp in the south
:09:05. > :09:09.of Damascus, which has 20,000 people, which not many people know
:09:10. > :09:14.about. At the moment in Syria there's a sense that people get war
:09:15. > :09:18.fatigue, and we are talking about people in an incredibly vulnerable
:09:19. > :09:22.situation. It is a wonderful piece. The other reason it matters is
:09:23. > :09:27.because Syria I think are increasingly understanding that the
:09:28. > :09:31.core - this might seem as a controversial these tis - a battle
:09:32. > :09:37.in Islam between Sunni and Shia forces. It juxtaposes Saudi Arabia
:09:38. > :09:42.on the one hand and Iran on the other. Syria is the crux or the
:09:43. > :09:47.proxy for a major battle in Islam, which has huge implications for the
:09:48. > :09:51.wider world, not just Syria. For the past several weeks there's been a
:09:52. > :09:55.debate in this country which put the Government against the opposition
:09:56. > :09:58.about whether or not Britain would sign up to a special UN humanitarian
:09:59. > :10:02.programme. The UN wants to get 30,000 particularly vulnerable rfies
:10:03. > :10:06.into various countries. Britain initially resisted and we felt
:10:07. > :10:10.strongly as a paper this was wrong. We are talking about extremely
:10:11. > :10:15.vulnerable people. Yes Britain has done amazing stuff for Syria's
:10:16. > :10:18.refugees. ?600 million in aid. But there is a major domestic
:10:19. > :10:24.development this week. Britain has said they will in effect sign up to
:10:25. > :10:34.the UN programme and accept more refugees. A moral victory for us and
:10:35. > :10:39.for refugees saved is. Is that the kind of move that the majority of
:10:40. > :10:45.people will accept? I am sure they will largely because it is not a
:10:46. > :10:49.very big concession. Talk about the tip of the iceberg. It is this or
:10:50. > :10:53.nothing. They were facing defeat in the Commons, so they caved in.
:10:54. > :10:58.Personally I think they have done the right thing and I think your
:10:59. > :11:01.newspaper has been campaigning along the right lines. That should be more
:11:02. > :11:04.humanitarian aid. But it is insignificant other than its
:11:05. > :11:09.political dimension. Passports for profit. Private companies could make
:11:10. > :11:19.50 million by selling EU citizenships to people with lots of
:11:20. > :11:26.cash. I love dodgy passport stories! It is the 90s Maltese Vulcan. That
:11:27. > :11:30.should have been the headline! You have two islands getting it
:11:31. > :11:34.together, and a private company registered in Jersey is
:11:35. > :11:39.specialising, and I love these modern centres, in citizenship
:11:40. > :11:44.solutions. Everything is a solution. Eyewear solutions. In effect, if you
:11:45. > :11:57.go to them and give them just over 1 million euros they will go to Malta,
:11:58. > :12:00.and you will get the European Union passport and you can live wherever
:12:01. > :12:04.you like in the EU. France, Germany, Italy, passport to Pimlico if you
:12:05. > :12:11.have got a million quid. Basically, citizenship for sale if you are rich
:12:12. > :12:15.enough. Indeed, if you are Syrian refugee it might be difficult to
:12:16. > :12:20.find a million quid but there you go. You will be joining us in an
:12:21. > :12:23.hour for another look at more stories behind the headlines. Stay
:12:24. > :12:28.with us on BBC News because at 11 o'clock, the army is on stand-by.
:12:29. > :12:33.Property owners in western Britain have been warned for further
:12:34. > :12:34.flooding and to prepare for the bad weather. First it is time for
:12:35. > :12:48.Sportsday. Hello and welcome to Sportsday. I'm
:12:49. > :12:54.John Watson. On the way this evening: Manchester City are top of
:12:55. > :12:56.the Premier League tonight as they put five past Tottenham at White
:12:57. > :12:59.Hart Lane. England Captain Charlotte Edwards
:13:00. > :13:00.calls her side's Ashes win over Australia the best of her