:00:00. > :00:00.have had a second appeal rejected against the suspension of their
:00:00. > :00:14.striker Andy Carroll. That is all in 15 minutes after The Papers.
:00:15. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:20. > :00:22.bringing us tomorrow. With me are Kevin Schofield, Chief Political
:00:23. > :00:32.Correspondent for The Sun, and Peter Conradi, The Sunday Times Foreign
:00:33. > :00:34.Editor. First, let's whizz through some of the front pages.
:00:35. > :00:37.The Independent, like many of the papers, focuses on the floods, with
:00:38. > :00:39.the headline, "An unnatural disaster".
:00:40. > :00:41.The Daily Mail leads on the weather too, reporting on calls to spend
:00:42. > :00:44.foreign aid money on the flooding crisis.
:00:45. > :00:50.Mortgage costs is the lead for the Financial Times. The paper says
:00:51. > :00:52.borrowers are rushing to secure cheap loans, fearing an increase in
:00:53. > :00:55.interest rates. It's back to storms with the Daily
:00:56. > :00:57.Mirror and their headline, "Stormaggedon".
:00:58. > :01:00.The i also leads on flooding, reporting on David Cameron's visit
:01:01. > :01:03.to the Somerset Levels. The Daily Express warns readers to
:01:04. > :01:07.stay safe during the expected weekend storms.
:01:08. > :01:10.The Telegraph shows head of the Environment Agency, Lord Smith,
:01:11. > :01:16.being scolded by a Somerset farmer over the flood response.
:01:17. > :01:21.And the Guardian leads with a photo of the four-ringed Olympic symbol at
:01:22. > :01:34.the opening of the Sochi Games. The snowflake didn't melt into the fifth
:01:35. > :01:39.ring, as planned. I am sure Vladimir Putin was delighted! Good evening,
:01:40. > :01:44.gentlemen. It is difficult, because this is a conveyor belt of storms,
:01:45. > :01:49.ongoing flooding. There are only so many times you can say, flooding
:01:50. > :01:54.crisis, more weather on the way, so the imagination has set in with some
:01:55. > :01:59.of the headlines. Starting with the i, Cameron wades into row over
:02:00. > :02:04.biblical flood. For those in the Somerset levels, it probably does
:02:05. > :02:08.feel biblical. Well, it just seems endless. We have seen in the weather
:02:09. > :02:13.forecast that there is more awful weather to come. Literally, the
:02:14. > :02:19.Prime Minister wading into the row today. It was a carefully
:02:20. > :02:24.stage-managed appearance in Somerset by the Prime Minister, in and out
:02:25. > :02:29.quite quickly, not meeting any angry residents. That was left to Lord
:02:30. > :02:35.Smith, who is on the front page of the Telegraph, getting a bit of a
:02:36. > :02:40.dressing down from a local farmer. I am not sure who his PR advisers are,
:02:41. > :02:44.but for him to turn up and not at least offer some kind of an apology
:02:45. > :02:49.was quite incredible. We will move to the Telegraph in a moment, but
:02:50. > :02:53.staying with the i, David Cameron has defended staying in London,
:02:54. > :02:57.saying he is better off leading the COBRA meetings, making decisions
:02:58. > :03:02.here, rather than being on the Somerset Levels. Do you think he has
:03:03. > :03:06.played it right? I think so. There is a limit to how much time he can
:03:07. > :03:11.spend walking around sodden ground in his Wellington boots. I think it
:03:12. > :03:17.is important to make an appearance, as he has done. But I think people
:03:18. > :03:21.want to see him back in London getting on with his job and
:03:22. > :03:25.coordinating the work from there. You mentioned the Daily Telegraph
:03:26. > :03:28.and we can look at that now. A very downbeat head of the Environment
:03:29. > :03:32.Agency, Lord Smith, getting a telling off from one of the local
:03:33. > :03:38.farmers. As we have seen from our correspondence this week, a lot of
:03:39. > :03:41.farmers in that community have had their businesses ripped apart. They
:03:42. > :03:48.have had to move their livestock. Is his job on the line? I think so. In
:03:49. > :03:52.this day and age, we always look for some kind of scapegoat. We in the
:03:53. > :03:57.media are probably guilty of that, I think. But in this instance, the
:03:58. > :04:02.buck does stop with him. He has been in the job since 2008. There is lots
:04:03. > :04:06.of criticism that there has been very little preparation leading up
:04:07. > :04:11.to the current bad weather, and since it set in several weeks ago
:04:12. > :04:14.nothing has been done. You can't totally blame the Environment Agency
:04:15. > :04:21.and Lord Smith for what is unprecedented weather. I suppose
:04:22. > :04:25.they are supposed to plan for all eventualities. You try planning for
:04:26. > :04:31.the weather in this country! That is true, but we had a succession of wet
:04:32. > :04:35.winters. They have got a lot wetter. This particular winter is
:04:36. > :04:41.exceptional, but I think there is a sense that they have been slow to
:04:42. > :04:46.react and he is the man who should, I think, accept his fair share of
:04:47. > :04:50.the blame. He also fell into a classic trap. He was asked if he is
:04:51. > :04:54.proud of the work of his agency and he cannot say no, but the minute he
:04:55. > :04:59.says that it is used against him and it is a gift for headline writers.
:05:00. > :05:05.Many homes have been saved, as David Cameron pointed out. Yes, but many
:05:06. > :05:08.others have not. It is those people, you can understand their anger,
:05:09. > :05:15.particularly farmers whose livelihood is a risk and is being
:05:16. > :05:19.washed away. But you do want to ask who was his PR adviser who
:05:20. > :05:22.encouraged him to stand there. You would think the first thing he would
:05:23. > :05:28.do would be to hold up his hands and show some level of apology. It is
:05:29. > :05:31.reminiscent of Gordon Brown being ambushed by the woman he accused of
:05:32. > :05:42.being a bigot. There were shades of that. Let's move on to the Daily
:05:43. > :05:46.Mirror. It is a staggering headline, really. We were talking
:05:47. > :05:52.about this earlier, before we came on air, this millionaire's home,
:05:53. > :05:56.which you can see in the top right of your screen, where he built his
:05:57. > :06:01.own flood defences which are just about holding off the water around
:06:02. > :06:05.his home in Somerset yesterday. The wider picture on the front page of
:06:06. > :06:11.the Daily Mirror, showing more storms to come. It is just
:06:12. > :06:15.relentless. If you live in Somerset and wake up tomorrow morning to this
:06:16. > :06:19.front page you will just think, this is never going to end. It is a
:06:20. > :06:25.pretty stark satellite image and it speaks for itself. There is another
:06:26. > :06:31.huge storm coming our way. It is quite a remarkable picture of the
:06:32. > :06:39.house which has been cut off. He spent ?1 million, apparently, making
:06:40. > :06:43.this house. And he also has ?10,000 of his own money to build his own
:06:44. > :06:47.defences which, until now, appeared to be working, but who is to say
:06:48. > :06:51.that will not change? Do you think this could be the start of seeing
:06:52. > :06:56.some more serious investment in flood defences, modernising many of
:06:57. > :07:01.what are described as Victorian defences, particularly on the coast?
:07:02. > :07:06.Is this when David Cameron has to take long-term leadership over this?
:07:07. > :07:12.I think you are right. There has been a succession of mistakes. Not
:07:13. > :07:16.just by him. I suppose it is bound to happen, he is blaming labour for
:07:17. > :07:21.not doing enough during the 1990s and the last decade. The rivers were
:07:22. > :07:31.not drenched, so they were more prone to flooding -- they were not
:07:32. > :07:36.drenched. They have to try and find the money to make sure this kind of
:07:37. > :07:40.thing does not happen. The Daily Mail is one for you, Peter,
:07:41. > :07:44.suggesting we should spend foreign aid on British victims of flooding,
:07:45. > :07:49.rather than foreign victims, often of flooding, in countries like
:07:50. > :07:53.Bangladesh. This is a huge budget, in ?11 billion. Is this a case of
:07:54. > :07:58.where perhaps charity should begin at home? It is a difficult question.
:07:59. > :08:02.Being cynical, you would say this prince together two of the Daily
:08:03. > :08:11.Mail's favourite subjects, the floods and the iniquity of foreign
:08:12. > :08:14.aid. -- the iniquity of foreign aid. There are arguments that you could
:08:15. > :08:18.spend the entire foreign aid budget at home, or you could spend none of
:08:19. > :08:22.it. It is a question of looking at flood defences, the economics of
:08:23. > :08:26.flood defences, and finding money within the money we spend at home
:08:27. > :08:31.and diverging it to more spending on floods. I think they are bringing
:08:32. > :08:35.together two completely separate things. It is another example of
:08:36. > :08:40.UKIP forcing the political agenda in Britain. Nigel Farage, UKIP leader,
:08:41. > :08:45.said yesterday that this should happen. At the time, it did not get
:08:46. > :08:48.much of a pick-up, because you always expect Nigel Farage to say
:08:49. > :08:53.something like that, but now it has become more mainstream. You have
:08:54. > :08:58.Conservative MPs, nervous about UKIP, making the same call. You can
:08:59. > :09:01.understand where it is coming from but I think it would be a
:09:02. > :09:05.controversial thing. There is no prospect of the Prime Minister doing
:09:06. > :09:09.it. Flooding is going to become political in the weeks ahead. There
:09:10. > :09:20.are some other stories on the front pages. Let's go on to the financial
:09:21. > :09:23.Times weekend. The rate fears prompt a rush to fixed mortgages. Many
:09:24. > :09:28.people worried about mortgages and interest rates going up, and many
:09:29. > :09:32.people very happy about it as well. If you are a pensioner on a fixed
:09:33. > :09:36.income, relying on savings, the prospect of ink -- interest rates
:09:37. > :09:43.going up is probably quite pleasant, but if you have a mortgage
:09:44. > :09:51.it is scary. We were told by the Bank of England governor, Mark
:09:52. > :09:56.Carney, last year, he introduced this idea which was supposed to calm
:09:57. > :09:59.the markets and make us be reassured that interest rates would not go up
:10:00. > :10:04.quickly. Unemployment has come down so fast that there is now a major
:10:05. > :10:08.concern that interest rates will go up. I suppose it causes other
:10:09. > :10:11.problems because if people are making money out of savings they are
:10:12. > :10:16.less bothered about spending it. That is another thing the government
:10:17. > :10:26.want us to do, to go and spend money. But I suppose it will settle
:10:27. > :10:30.house prices in some areas. It will dampen them down. Such low interest
:10:31. > :10:34.rates in the last few years have been extraordinary, and we'll got
:10:35. > :10:39.used to them, which is dangerous, because they can only go up. The
:10:40. > :10:44.fact they are going up is a sign of economic health, that the economy is
:10:45. > :10:49.recovering, and it will be a bit more painful for those who have
:10:50. > :10:57.mortgages. But they will have a bit more disposable income. I am a play
:10:58. > :11:02.it safe guide! Fixed rate. They probably won't be such good deals.
:11:03. > :11:07.Just staying with the FT, we have a picture there of some of the
:11:08. > :11:11.fantastic scenes from the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic
:11:12. > :11:18.Games. The most expensive Olympic Games ever to be staged. This was,
:11:19. > :11:22.hopefully, Russia's time to get back at the critics, really, and show
:11:23. > :11:27.them what they were made of. But it is such a huge cost. This is a real
:11:28. > :11:37.prestige project. More than ?30 billion. An enormous cost. A huge
:11:38. > :11:42.amount of Russian prestige is resting on it. We've had the first
:11:43. > :11:47.hiccup, one of the rings not lighting up properly. Probably will
:11:48. > :11:51.not be the last. The boycott, the controversy around it... It's not
:11:52. > :11:58.going as smoothly as it could've done. We can show that. It's on page
:11:59. > :12:04.seven the Daily Mail. A lot of our BBC correspondent there, some of our
:12:05. > :12:08.coverage team, were tweeting it earlier. You can see what was meant
:12:09. > :12:14.to happen. One of these snowflakes was meant to become the fifth Ring
:12:15. > :12:18.of the Olympic symbol, and it just didn't happen. Somebody is going to
:12:19. > :12:24.be in trouble tonight in Moscow! We can afford to be a little bit smug,
:12:25. > :12:29.given how successful the Olympics in London were, so we can maybe laugh a
:12:30. > :12:33.little bit. But on the scale of things that could go wrong, that is
:12:34. > :12:43.not the worst thing. It was a very enjoyable is ceremony to one. -- to
:12:44. > :12:49.watch. Yes, with opening ceremonies, the bar is always raised. London,
:12:50. > :12:53.Beijing... It was spectacular. I think we can forgive them that
:12:54. > :12:58.little hiccup. A huge global audience for the Olympics as well.
:12:59. > :13:04.Is there as much enthusiasm for it as with other Olympics? It is never
:13:05. > :13:07.as big as the Summer Olympics, but with all the controversy that
:13:08. > :13:12.surrounded it this time around... Who remembers the last Winter
:13:13. > :13:17.Olympics? Was it thank you the? And we have all this again when the
:13:18. > :13:25.World Cup goes to Russia, and there will be more controversy. It will be
:13:26. > :13:30.fascinating to see how they handle it. President Putin will be hoping
:13:31. > :13:34.it passes off without incident. My favourite line in the coverage was
:13:35. > :13:40.that Prime Minister Medvedev apparently fell asleep during the
:13:41. > :13:45.ceremony! It is a long flight, and a huge time difference. You will be
:13:46. > :13:50.back at 11:30pm. But for now, thank you very much to our guests. Join us
:13:51. > :13:56.later. Still to come on BBC News at 11pm,
:13:57. > :13:59.more on the floods afflicting the south of England. David Cameron
:14:00. > :14:03.visits one of the most worst affected areas of Somerset. Coming
:14:04. > :14:18.up next, it is sports day. Hello and welcome to Sportsday.
:14:19. > :14:21.Here's what we have for you tonight. The World is welcomed to Sochi, as
:14:22. > :14:22.the 22nd Winter Olympics are