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:00:00. > :00:00.Sunday. We will tell you which players are on the move today before

:00:00. > :00:00.Ford ball's January transfer window closes tomorrow, all coming up in

:00:00. > :00:10.Sportsday in 15 minutes after the papers. -- footballJanuary transfer

:00:11. > :00:20.window. Welcome to our lookahead to what the

:00:21. > :00:24.papers will be bringing us tomorrow, with as our author and journalist

:00:25. > :00:28.Rachel Shabi and Kevin Schofield, chief political correspondent for

:00:29. > :00:33.the Sun. Starting with the front pages, then, the Guardian main story

:00:34. > :00:38.is the conviction of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of

:00:39. > :00:41.British student Meredith Kercher. The independent claims one member,

:00:42. > :00:45.one vote in the Labour Party is drawing closer as part of Ed

:00:46. > :00:50.Miliband's reforms. Royal Marines helping with the floods in Somerset

:00:51. > :00:52.dominate the Telegraph's front page. The FT says the Indian central bank

:00:53. > :00:57.governor has hit out at industrialised countries for selfish

:00:58. > :01:00.policies. Detectives hunting the abductor of

:01:01. > :01:04.Madeleine McCann wants to examine bank records of three suspects,

:01:05. > :01:08.according to the Daily Express. And the Metro says a mother of three

:01:09. > :01:14.has become the first woman in Britain ruled to have been poisoned

:01:15. > :01:18.to death by smoking cannabis. So let's begin, we will start with

:01:19. > :01:22.the Guardian, and it was pretty quick off the mark to get this on

:01:23. > :01:26.the front page, the picture of Amanda Knox, waiting at home in

:01:27. > :01:34.Seattle. She wasn't in court for tonight's verdict, and this is

:01:35. > :01:36.Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, her former Italian boyfriend,

:01:37. > :01:40.convicted or having their convictions upheld, having

:01:41. > :01:50.previously been acquitted for the murder of Meredith Kercher in 2007.

:01:51. > :01:53.Well, as you can see, it is the lead story in the Guardian. They have an

:01:54. > :02:04.interview with Amanda Knox, and we can listen to a little of that now.

:02:05. > :02:08.I am a marked person, and no-one, no-one who is unmarked is going to

:02:09. > :02:12.understand that. Like, I don't even know what my places anymore, what's

:02:13. > :02:19.my role in society? Who am I after this? After everyone has branded me,

:02:20. > :02:22.who am I? Part of the interview the Guardian did with Amanda Knox in the

:02:23. > :02:30.United States before this verdict tonight. And most judicial systems

:02:31. > :02:33.take a bit of understanding, but the Italian system seems especially

:02:34. > :02:39.baffling to us from the outside. It goes on. Long. It is seven years now

:02:40. > :02:43.since the murder actually took place. We had the initial trial,

:02:44. > :02:48.conviction, the conviction was quashed, and now the conviction has

:02:49. > :02:51.been upheld, and it is not finished yet. There will be another appeal,

:02:52. > :02:58.which will be heard by the Supreme Court in Rome, and only then finally

:02:59. > :03:04.will it be over. And then, I guess the question will be, will Amanda

:03:05. > :03:09.Knox be extradited from the United States. Particularly baffling to an

:03:10. > :03:13.American audience, Rachel, they don't have this idea that you can be

:03:14. > :03:21.tried twice for the same crime, the double jeopardy rule, so looking in

:03:22. > :03:26.on this, they asked and by this sort of second conviction, if you like,

:03:27. > :03:29.the conviction being upheld. Yeah, it is a very sort of convoluted

:03:30. > :03:34.process, and it has gone back and forth, and you kind of thing, as bad

:03:35. > :03:38.as it is, you know, you think of the family of Meredith Kercher having to

:03:39. > :03:44.deal with seven years of this, just waiting for justice, conclusive

:03:45. > :03:49.justice. And even now it hasn't really reached the end. I mean, we

:03:50. > :03:55.are still going to see an appeal, and then probably an extradition

:03:56. > :03:58.wrangle between the US and Italy. So excruciating for the family. It will

:03:59. > :04:02.be surprisingly a lot of commentators if she is extradited,

:04:03. > :04:05.because the United States do not understand why he would be tried

:04:06. > :04:09.twice for something when you have been acquitted. She has been very

:04:10. > :04:14.outspoken tonight in a statement, saying she would expected more from

:04:15. > :04:18.the Italian justice system, but then you would expect someone in a

:04:19. > :04:22.position to say that. You would not expected to say much else, but it

:04:23. > :04:26.will become something of a cause celebre in the United States, and I

:04:27. > :04:30.do not think the Americans are going to offer her all that easily, and

:04:31. > :04:35.then it becomes quite a tense stand-off between Rome and the

:04:36. > :04:40.American government in Washington. But yeah, this whole saga seems to

:04:41. > :04:45.just go on and on and on. As you say, the sister and brother, Lyle

:04:46. > :04:49.and Stephanie Kercher, Meredith's siblings, were in court yet again.

:04:50. > :04:52.You just wonder whether they can trust this verdict this time me and

:04:53. > :04:58.they say they want to know the truth, but the truth keeps changing.

:04:59. > :05:02.Well, yeah, the truth keeps evading them, and you know, this report

:05:03. > :05:10.talks about them both looking confused during this lengthy and

:05:11. > :05:15.quite dense verdict, as you would. And probably being too stunned to

:05:16. > :05:21.sort of absorb what is really, you know, it just keeps changing, and to

:05:22. > :05:25.absorb what this actually means, and unfortunately it doesn't mean

:05:26. > :05:30.anything definitive yet. And they still have not got that, they are

:05:31. > :05:38.never going to have their sister back. Let's move on to the

:05:39. > :05:43.Independent, Labour past and present. Ed Miliband here, we will

:05:44. > :05:46.start with his party Revolution, one member, one vote draws closer.

:05:47. > :05:51.Surprising to a lot of people that in 2014 it still is not one member,

:05:52. > :05:58.one vote in elections within the Labour Party. Yeah, I mean, to be

:05:59. > :06:02.honest, I look at this story, and I think, well, yeah, that is all very

:06:03. > :06:08.well, this idea that now they are going to move from having the party

:06:09. > :06:11.like it has got 180,000 members and they only have one third of the

:06:12. > :06:17.boat, and now it is going to be one member, one vote, as you say. But

:06:18. > :06:22.the headline, Miliband's party revolution, the Labour Party finally

:06:23. > :06:27.be coming and opposition, with divisive opposition politics! I

:06:28. > :06:33.don't know, austerity, the economy, migration, youth unemployment, stuff

:06:34. > :06:37.like that. Instead, no, it is a story about... Isn't that rather

:06:38. > :06:41.unfair? He has been doing well with directing the cost of living crisis

:06:42. > :06:46.for months, he has made the other parties dance to his tune a bit,

:06:47. > :06:50.hasn't he? I do not think he has gone anyway near far enough on the

:06:51. > :06:55.whole austerity debate. I mean, we are still talking very much about a

:06:56. > :06:59.framework of necessary cuts, and they are avoidable, they are purely

:07:00. > :07:05.ideological, and the fact that the Labour Party is toying with the

:07:06. > :07:09.conservative line on migration, I find that extremely disappointing.

:07:10. > :07:14.So yeah, I was hoping there would be a different story to this headline,

:07:15. > :07:18.but there wasn't! Leaving the politics, national politics to one

:07:19. > :07:24.side for a moment... Rather than just addressing the article! I was

:07:25. > :07:30.addressing the headline! This, in many ways, is a technical, dry

:07:31. > :07:34.debate, but it is sort of finishing something that John Smith, the

:07:35. > :07:39.previous but one, but two Labour leader, 20 years ago began, one

:07:40. > :07:44.member, one vote. A lot of people probably think, don't they have that

:07:45. > :07:47.already? They have this convoluted electoral college system with a

:07:48. > :07:51.third of the boats going to trade unions. When they are trying to

:07:52. > :07:55.elect a leader. They are going to get rid of that and bring in one

:07:56. > :07:59.member, one vote. However, critics have said that this, are from

:08:00. > :08:04.watering down the influence that the trade unions have on electing party

:08:05. > :08:09.leaders, will actually strengthen it, because there are far more trade

:08:10. > :08:12.union members of the party than ordinary non-trade union members. In

:08:13. > :08:18.some instances, they could have something like 90% of the vote,

:08:19. > :08:24.which might not please the chap at the top, Mr Blair! Yes, let's move

:08:25. > :08:28.on to Tony Blair, we don't seem on the front pages as often as we used

:08:29. > :08:33.to, and here he is talking to one of our opponents, Egypt's general start

:08:34. > :08:37.rounding up dissenting journalists, says the headline, guess who has

:08:38. > :08:43.just announced his support for the military regime. Tony Blair

:08:44. > :08:50.appearing in this interview to support the army and the army

:08:51. > :08:57.generals who have sort of wrested control of Egypt. I mean, he is

:08:58. > :09:02.saying in this article, Kevin, that it is what the Egyptian people

:09:03. > :09:09.wanted. It is not quite what most of us are taken from the situation.

:09:10. > :09:15.Well, no, or someone who was a three times elected leader here to be an

:09:16. > :09:18.opponent of giving ordinary Egyptians their say, they did elect

:09:19. > :09:24.their government, they may not have agreed with the government, but they

:09:25. > :09:28.did elect one, it was properly recognise. The military obviously

:09:29. > :09:32.opposed that and have thrown that properly elected government and have

:09:33. > :09:35.set up running the country themselves. And Tony Blair, who has

:09:36. > :09:45.almost become a parody of himself in lots of ways, is now backing a coup,

:09:46. > :09:48.essentially, by the Egyptian army. And this is a man... The Middle East

:09:49. > :09:53.Quartet envoy is supposed to remain impartial on matters to do with the

:09:54. > :09:57.Middle East. Yeah, I'm sure Palestinians wake up every morning

:09:58. > :10:01.and whether whether it be still, unfortunately, the envoy. This man

:10:02. > :10:05.has an amazing capacity to get the wrong end of the state when it comes

:10:06. > :10:14.to the Middle East. And the fact that he is supporting a military

:10:15. > :10:20.coup, and a melody of regime that is authoritarian -- a military regime

:10:21. > :10:22.that is authoritarian, that has branded the Muslim brother had at

:10:23. > :10:27.the democratically elected president as traitors, killed a thousand of

:10:28. > :10:32.them on the streets, and then had a crackdown on journalists and anyone

:10:33. > :10:36.who dares to protest them, and Tony Blair says this is the voice of hope

:10:37. > :10:49.and democracy? I mean, parody does not even cover it! Moving on to the

:10:50. > :10:54.Telegraph, and the main picture story of the Marines in Somerset.

:10:55. > :11:01.And we are expecting more rain as well. The idea of having the army on

:11:02. > :11:05.stand-by at this point, when some villages have been cut off for a

:11:06. > :11:09.month, seems a little bit too late for some people wanted yes, you look

:11:10. > :11:18.at this picture, it really sums it up. You have these two Royal Marines

:11:19. > :11:27.wondering what exactly they are supposed to do. The fact that the

:11:28. > :11:30.villagers have had to wait a month of dealing with floods, of having to

:11:31. > :11:35.cope not only with the damage of the floods, but now the aftermath of

:11:36. > :11:38.trying to get to school and work, seemingly forgotten, and you have to

:11:39. > :11:44.wonder if it was in the Home Counties, if the story would be

:11:45. > :11:49.different. I am sure people in Somerset are tinkering that, what

:11:50. > :11:54.took so long? It is as if they have only just remembered that the Armed

:11:55. > :11:59.Forces have amphibious vehicles. And there is also this thing about

:12:00. > :12:05.sending the Army and it looks like they are doing something. But

:12:06. > :12:09.clearly, I think even these two Royal Marines are thinking, heavens

:12:10. > :12:15.above, what are we supposed to do?! We were not trained for this! Well,

:12:16. > :12:23.the Fire Service apparently are helping as well. This is the

:12:24. > :12:27.cartoon, a police officer, in a boat, going up to a couple in a car.

:12:28. > :12:52.Completely swamped by the water. He always manages to hit it on the

:12:53. > :12:56.head. The smoking in cars thing is quite an incredible move by

:12:57. > :13:02.petitions, really, I think. Anyone who smokes with a kid in the back,

:13:03. > :13:10.you are crazy. But surely people can make up their own minds about things

:13:11. > :13:14.like that. Let's look at the last story, middle-class mothers decide

:13:15. > :13:17.to stay at home. Mothers, if they can afford it, have decided they are

:13:18. > :13:20.going to stay at home. But the Government has been trying to push

:13:21. > :13:24.as many people back to work as possible. This is an interesting

:13:25. > :13:31.choice by women, if they can afford it. That is the crucial line,

:13:32. > :13:37.according to this article, it is the families which are able to live on

:13:38. > :13:42.one income, where these women are choosing to leave employment. That

:13:43. > :13:51.is a major qualifier. I do not know how many families can afford to do

:13:52. > :13:55.that. They want to spend time with their kids, that is a good thing,

:13:56. > :13:58.surely. It is perfectly understandable, fathers want to

:13:59. > :14:04.spend as much time with their kids as well. But it is a big if. Maybe

:14:05. > :14:12.20 or 30 years ago, it was easier for a family to have only one

:14:13. > :14:15.income. But not so much now. It is not so much that mothers and fathers

:14:16. > :14:21.want to go out to work, it is necessity. The cost of living crisis

:14:22. > :14:25.that we are in is obviously contributing, but obviously, if it

:14:26. > :14:30.was easier, if there were more child benefits, if there was more in place

:14:31. > :14:33.to allow for that, I am sure mothers and fathers would be able to stay at

:14:34. > :14:41.home and look after their children. That is it from the papers for this

:14:42. > :14:46.hour. We will be back within the next hour to have another look.

:14:47. > :14:52.Coming up at 11 o'clock, we will have more on that reinstatement of

:14:53. > :14:55.the guilty verdicts against Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox. Coming up

:14:56. > :15:14.next, Sportsday. Hello and welcome to Sportsday - I'm

:15:15. > :15:17.John Watson. On the way tonight... Michael Schumacher is to be brought

:15:18. > :15:18.out of his medically-induced coma as treatment continues