:00:00. > :00:00.despite exchanges of gunfire. Jenny Jones becomes the first Briton
:00:00. > :00:10.to win an Olympic medal on snow. She got bronze in snow style -- the snow
:00:11. > :00:23.style at Saatchi. Welcome to our look at head to what
:00:24. > :00:29.the newspapers were bringing tomorrow. With me is Tim Stanley
:00:30. > :00:37.from the Telegraph and Nigel Nelson, the political editor for the
:00:38. > :00:41.Sunday People. The quick sneak preview first. The Daily Telegraph
:00:42. > :00:45.has a picture of Jenny Jones celebrating her medal win in Sochi.
:00:46. > :00:55.The lead story is the flooding. What it calls a winter storm crisis. In
:00:56. > :01:01.an interview, in independent, the shadow education minister says
:01:02. > :01:05.social media has ruined children's education Battention spans. The
:01:06. > :01:14.Times says spy agencies regard the border between Turkey and Syria as a
:01:15. > :01:17.threat to the West. And the Daily Express says a cure for the common
:01:18. > :01:29.cold is on the way. Good news for you! We dragged him off his sick bed
:01:30. > :01:34.to get here. A good read of the Express for you later. Some top
:01:35. > :01:42.tips. I prefer to drink whiskey! It is Lemsip in the newsroom. I know
:01:43. > :01:45.you want to look at the stories in the Guardian but we will start with
:01:46. > :01:51.a political storm that we knew was brewing over the last 48 hours. Eric
:01:52. > :01:56.Pickles on the Andrew Marr Show today. Chris Smith hits back at
:01:57. > :02:01.ministers as the flood crisis intensifies. We are in a blame game,
:02:02. > :02:05.aren't we? We are indeed and it was a matter of time before Chris Smith
:02:06. > :02:09.would have his own say. He has done it very quickly. The moment Eric
:02:10. > :02:16.Pickles gets on television and has a go at him, he has a go back at him
:02:17. > :02:19.in the Guardian. It comes down to a question of money. Chris Smith seems
:02:20. > :02:21.to be saying that he was restricted with the amount of money he could
:02:22. > :02:26.spend on dredging. He says Treasury rules meant he had a maximum of
:02:27. > :02:30.?400,000 and that was it. That is the territory we are about to enter,
:02:31. > :02:34.I think. Could dredging have taken place earlier? Clearly it could have
:02:35. > :02:40.according to Eric Pickles. Did they have the money? That is the
:02:41. > :02:45.question. I remember serious flooding in 2003, sitting in my
:02:46. > :02:49.waders in Kent, with Nick Owen, reporting on a lack of Government
:02:50. > :02:55.spending, a lack of flood defence and dredging. A lot has been done
:02:56. > :02:59.since then, but clearly not enough. The Government did make some putts,
:03:00. > :03:04.that is undeniable and they are bad on that front. I think Smith has got
:03:05. > :03:11.to take the lion's share of the responsibility. His budget has been
:03:12. > :03:18.badly handled. They spent 1.35 million, with 95 million on staffing
:03:19. > :03:22.costs. It is not being handled well. Some people thought he had
:03:23. > :03:26.made a cultural decision not to do dredging because he sees the agency
:03:27. > :03:30.as more about protecting wildlife than the interests of people living
:03:31. > :03:34.in those areas. It is alleged, for example, that he did not act to
:03:35. > :03:37.protect the Dawlish train line in the South West, apparently until he
:03:38. > :03:42.had been allowed to carry out a study of the impact of protecting it
:03:43. > :03:47.on the birdlife. If this is true, if you made a conscious decision not to
:03:48. > :03:50.dredge not because of the money but because of bad management but
:03:51. > :03:56.because they are more concerned with birds than people, that makes him
:03:57. > :03:59.look like the culprit. David Cameron did receive letters from the local
:04:00. > :04:04.authorities on the Somerset Levels two years ago suggesting dredging
:04:05. > :04:10.and who did not go for it. Yes, and nothing seems to happen. Who is to
:04:11. > :04:14.blame for that? The Environment Agency for not doing it? In
:04:15. > :04:18.fairness, there has been a lot since. Chris Smith makes the point
:04:19. > :04:21.that they are playing politics with the whole thing. We still have
:04:22. > :04:27.Environment Agency workers who have not had a proper night's sleep since
:04:28. > :04:30.this started. For weeks. We have got into the blame game here. If it was
:04:31. > :04:36.the Government, and at the end of the day it is the Government through
:04:37. > :04:40.DEFRA who is responsible, and if they decided not to do it because it
:04:41. > :04:44.would cost too much, then the people in Somerset are rightly very angry
:04:45. > :04:51.about it. The Times also reports on the spread of flooding. We are now
:04:52. > :04:54.looking at the River Thames, where in a number of places there is a
:04:55. > :05:00.severe flood warning meaning a risk to property and to life as well. Yes
:05:01. > :05:04.and it is frightening. What is interesting is the expansion of the
:05:05. > :05:09.political argument. Why are we ring fencing foreign aid? Sending ?250
:05:10. > :05:14.million to India when it is building a rocket to go to Mars but we can't
:05:15. > :05:17.spend that money on people here? We need to invest in infrastructure.
:05:18. > :05:21.Obviously a mistake has been made and the story will only get worse as
:05:22. > :05:26.the weather gets worse. In other news, the West faces a new terror
:05:27. > :05:31.threat from the Syrian border. A fascinating article from The Times
:05:32. > :05:37.suggesting that there are CIA and six macro intelligence officers on
:05:38. > :05:44.the border. -- MI6 intelligence officers. Fascinating. People are
:05:45. > :05:47.coming from all over the place. In this piece, fighters from 50
:05:48. > :05:54.countries, but certainly around 400 that we know of have gone there from
:05:55. > :05:59.Britain. They're go into Turkey. The board is very porous and they slip
:06:00. > :06:03.into Syria. We know what they are doing because they put this stuff on
:06:04. > :06:08.their Facebook pages. There are actually Jihadi Facebook pages. Come
:06:09. > :06:12.and join us, it is a great fight. They talk about luxury living in
:06:13. > :06:16.apartments with swimming pools. Of course a lot of them are being
:06:17. > :06:20.killed as well. The important thing from our point of view is to find a
:06:21. > :06:25.way of identifying them and monitoring them when they come back
:06:26. > :06:29.to this country. The police are questioning people travelling to
:06:30. > :06:35.Syria, potentially through Turkey, and coming back as well, I imagine.
:06:36. > :06:40.A number of arrests have been made. This is why we have so many spies in
:06:41. > :06:44.that part of the world now. You have to identify them going in so that
:06:45. > :06:48.you can then pick them up coming back. Don't you think that you have
:06:49. > :06:52.to investigate what draws them there in the first place? Why are British
:06:53. > :07:11.men and women, because we know females have been arrested as well,
:07:12. > :07:14.why are they getting involved in the so-called jihad in Syria? Well, it
:07:15. > :07:16.is radicalisation, what they feel is happening to brothers and sisters
:07:17. > :07:18.overseas. It is a generational experience, people discovering a
:07:19. > :07:20.radical form of Islam. The other question that have to be raised is
:07:21. > :07:24.why the terror is directed towards us. Why is it possible for people to
:07:25. > :07:33.go and join camps? It is because we sat by. President Assad was not
:07:34. > :07:36.challenged early enough. There was little nervousness over Syria. There
:07:37. > :07:40.has been and we have never been quite sure. We don't like either
:07:41. > :07:44.side very much and we have never been sure what to do about it. The
:07:45. > :07:48.problem is that we are now going to inherit from this the domestic
:07:49. > :07:53.problem because it is the battle to go and fight. If you are young
:07:54. > :07:59.Muslim Jihadi, that is where you go. And then of course you come back
:08:00. > :08:03.here. An issue very close to home that keeps re-emerging, particularly
:08:04. > :08:09.in the press this week. In the Daily Telegraph, the front page, split
:08:10. > :08:12.over smoking ban in cars carrying children. Of course smoking in
:08:13. > :08:21.public service card is banned. You can't smoke in a taxi, bus, company
:08:22. > :08:25.car. This argument emerged last week and it keeps coming back. There is a
:08:26. > :08:29.vote coming up in the House of Commons this week. At the moment
:08:30. > :08:37.politicians are completely split on this. They are worried about
:08:38. > :08:41.becoming a nanny state? Yes, whether or not the state is really delving
:08:42. > :08:46.too deeply into our personal lives. Personally, I would have thought, if
:08:47. > :08:51.you have kids in the car and you are smoker, what you don't do is smoke
:08:52. > :08:54.when the children are there. This will be difficult to enforce but the
:08:55. > :08:58.way the vote will go at the moment is that Labour MPs will back this.
:08:59. > :09:04.The coalition MPs have been given a free vote. They will decide which
:09:05. > :09:09.way to go. You shouldn't do it, it is immoral, you are a joke if you do
:09:10. > :09:13.it. But where does one draw the line between private spaces? If this is a
:09:14. > :09:19.private space in your car with your kids, so is a room in your house.
:09:20. > :09:23.Why can police invade that private space but not another? It is a war
:09:24. > :09:29.on smokers, and smoking is a bad thing, but it is also wore on
:09:30. > :09:39.privacy. You are saying that parents have common sense? I don't actually
:09:40. > :09:44.trust the parents. But it have to be down to the parents. We don't send
:09:45. > :09:48.people into people's houses when it comes to seeing if they are smoking
:09:49. > :09:51.in the room with children. It is interesting that this has
:09:52. > :09:54.cross-party support because this is a class issue. This is about
:09:55. > :09:58.middle-class weekends, anti-smoking, who want the
:09:59. > :10:05.Government to tell people how to leave our lives and doing compulsory
:10:06. > :10:09.yoga. It is also about young children not having a say. Of course
:10:10. > :10:15.they don't have a say, but they don't in a private room in our
:10:16. > :10:20.house. This is nannying at the most officious level. There has to be a
:10:21. > :10:23.common-sense approach. To enclose children in a smoky environment in a
:10:24. > :10:30.car is wrong. Do have a law against it is not a problem. If adults are
:10:31. > :10:33.being banned from smoking in cars, I take your document. The same would
:10:34. > :10:37.apply if we were arguing about whether you can smoke in your own
:10:38. > :10:42.home but we are not. There is clearly a serious health risk for
:10:43. > :10:45.children who have no say. There is a health issue as well. It is quite
:10:46. > :10:53.dangerous to smoke in a car because it can cause an accident. Why are we
:10:54. > :10:56.always looking for ways to dull the individual what to do? This
:10:57. > :11:01.conversation is finding justifications were telling
:11:02. > :11:08.individuals how to run their lives. Perhaps this is why politicians are
:11:09. > :11:14.so divided! Children need lessons in how to concentrate. Shall we just
:11:15. > :11:18.move on to the Telegraph? ! This is because of social media. Some
:11:19. > :11:24.schools ban mobile phones and the iPad. It is a difficult thing to do.
:11:25. > :11:27.My general feeling is that children now intellectually because they have
:11:28. > :11:31.so much technology to deal with are probably better equipped than in our
:11:32. > :11:35.day. I think scare stories like this are bit worrying. The more they get
:11:36. > :11:40.to know how a computer works and are able to work it, the better their
:11:41. > :11:43.working life will be in the future. This is coming from Tristram Hunt
:11:44. > :11:48.and he has been caught cheating, stealing someone else's idea. The
:11:49. > :11:52.chief of Ofsted said this back in December, that there is low-level
:11:53. > :11:56.disruption in classrooms. Michael Gove is pushing reforms that give
:11:57. > :11:59.teachers the power to instil discipline in classrooms. Labour is
:12:00. > :12:03.desperately trying to come up with the policy and trying to sound hit
:12:04. > :12:10.by proving they know what Twitter and Facebook are. And now the power
:12:11. > :12:14.to oust headteachers. Ed Miliband in general election mode, very much. He
:12:15. > :12:19.would like to give parents more power. It is part of a wider thing.
:12:20. > :12:28.We have heard this before from everyone. You probably have! You
:12:29. > :12:33.would call into hits broad -- a hit squad, separate to the schools, but
:12:34. > :12:37.it is a wider thing that Ed Miliband will be outlining during the week
:12:38. > :12:42.with his shadow ministers. It is the idea of taking power, winning the
:12:43. > :12:51.election to give it back to people. So he will call in manger
:12:52. > :12:57.inspections credit-macro Ninja inspectors. He wants to give parents
:12:58. > :13:01.the power of hamster wheels to make the electricity come on. Support
:13:02. > :13:05.free schools and faith schools if he wants to give people power. It is
:13:06. > :13:10.Labour doing what the Tories are doing but with different words to
:13:11. > :13:23.describe it. Very much about general election pledges, we are hearing
:13:24. > :13:29.slowly but surely. They are coming up with announcements fetching on a
:13:30. > :13:33.daily basis. Thank you to our guests.
:13:34. > :13:40.At 11pm we'll have more on the imminent threat of flooding to homes
:13:41. > :13:52.on some parts of the Thames. But coming up next it's time for Click.