:00:00. > :00:00.We will be looking ahead to a big weekend of Six Nations action, with
:00:00. > :00:16.England facing Ireland at Twickenham.
:00:17. > :00:24.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing
:00:25. > :00:26.us tomorrow. With me are Anne Ashworth, assistant editor at the
:00:27. > :00:34.Times, and Andrew Harrison, contributing editor at Esquire
:00:35. > :00:41.magazine. Let's take you through some of the headlines in brief. The
:00:42. > :00:45.Independent's headline is a bloodbath in Kiev, with an image of
:00:46. > :00:50.Independence Square, the scene of much of the violence between police
:00:51. > :00:55.and protesters. The Telegraph's front-page photo is taken in the
:00:56. > :00:59.thick of the action. Ukraine's bloodiest day. The Guardian uses the
:01:00. > :01:03.same headline. It is accompanied by a stark picture of bodies of
:01:04. > :01:07.protesters that the paper claims were killed today. Another image of
:01:08. > :01:13.Independence Square on the front of the times. It says Ukraine is on the
:01:14. > :01:16.brink of civil war. The UK's floods dominate the Daily Mail's
:01:17. > :01:20.front-page, on the day the Met Office describe this winter as the
:01:21. > :01:23.wettest on record. The paper claims the organisation is under fire for
:01:24. > :01:35.predicting drier than usual conditions. The Express leads with
:01:36. > :01:41.claims that statins are the route to living longer. Some very stark,
:01:42. > :01:45.harrowing images coming from Ukraine. Quite clearly, some papers
:01:46. > :01:49.have decided to be blunt with their pictures and blunt with their
:01:50. > :01:54.headlines about what's going on. Some of the most sombre front pages
:01:55. > :01:58.I've seen for a long time. People showing you very graphic images of
:01:59. > :02:05.bloodshed, bodies laid out. A country careering towards a Civil
:02:06. > :02:12.War. In carnage. These are really powerful images and stories. When we
:02:13. > :02:14.talk about a Civil War, as Bridget Kendall was explaining this evening,
:02:15. > :02:20.we are looking at a country that could be split up. There's talk of
:02:21. > :02:25.very pro-Russia Crimea threatening to break away. The sanctions coming
:02:26. > :02:32.in, the billionaires are flooding out of the country. There is an
:02:33. > :02:37.excellent piece in the Times by Roger boys, pointing out that their
:02:38. > :02:41.rock Ardron provocateurs suspected of being around, professional
:02:42. > :02:49.snipers being around. It has gone incredibly nasty. NEETs almost over
:02:50. > :02:54.a 24 hour period. There was a lull and then today it has been bloodier
:02:55. > :02:57.than ever, with a huge amount of fatalities. What really spells it
:02:58. > :03:01.out is the front page of the Guardian. A shocking picture of some
:03:02. > :03:08.of the bodies of protesters laid out, in what the Guardian describes
:03:09. > :03:14.as Ukraine's bloodiest day. The age of those protesters does vary. It's
:03:15. > :03:19.obviously hard to tell, but there is clearly a very young man lying among
:03:20. > :03:23.the dead. It demonstrates the picture editor's dilemma. You have
:03:24. > :03:28.to tell the story but at some point the story is too grotesque to tell.
:03:29. > :03:33.I'm sure this is not the worst photograph they have. It is
:03:34. > :03:37.exceedingly harrowing. The detail on the living surrounding these bodies,
:03:38. > :03:42.the expressions you can see, tells a story all of its own. It's
:03:43. > :03:46.incredibly distressing to read. It's fair to say that a lot of people in
:03:47. > :03:51.Britain thought this was something happening far away, another riot, a
:03:52. > :03:55.former Soviet Union. Now it seems very real and on our doorstep. We've
:03:56. > :04:00.got to know Ukraine very well, it was one of the host nations of Euro
:04:01. > :04:06.2012, a lot of Ukrainians living here in Britain. It's become a
:04:07. > :04:09.holiday destination for many Brits. But there will be people confused
:04:10. > :04:14.because we had the Orange Revolution, it got its independence,
:04:15. > :04:18.it started off on a new future, so people will be confused about why
:04:19. > :04:23.this is happening. Presumably, what a lot of analysts are saying is we
:04:24. > :04:27.are looking at the very young country that is still struggling to
:04:28. > :04:31.find its identity. And doesn't want -- know whether it wants to be a
:04:32. > :04:36.dependency of Russia become part of a greater EU. This is a country that
:04:37. > :04:40.used to be quite vibrant economically. It has seen countries
:04:41. > :04:44.like Poland really race ahead of it in the economic field. So they are
:04:45. > :04:50.wondering which path to take. Back to mother Russia or into the embrace
:04:51. > :04:58.of the EU? Over the next few days we will be asking, has the EU acted in
:04:59. > :05:02.a timely enough manner? There's a lot of frantic diplomacy happening
:05:03. > :05:06.this evening in Kiev, even as we speak some kind of road map to
:05:07. > :05:11.peace, we don't quite know what it is, is being discussed. What do you
:05:12. > :05:15.think we will see happen in the next few weeks? I think it would be a
:05:16. > :05:21.very rash person to predict. One thing we are clear about is Vladimir
:05:22. > :05:26.Putin has played a very wise hand. He's been very clear about what he
:05:27. > :05:29.wants. We, in the democracies, because the EU is a conglomeration
:05:30. > :05:37.of states with different interests and you have to herd cats... It's
:05:38. > :05:45.like 3-dimensional chess. To go back to the peace in the Times, I would
:05:46. > :05:49.encourage everybody to read it. On the BBC News website there is a
:05:50. > :05:55.brilliant 62nd explanation of what's happening in the Ukraine. In other
:05:56. > :05:59.stories, a bit closer to home, the Guardian, proposals to charge for
:06:00. > :06:04.benefits appeals have been revealed in a leak. This would be people who
:06:05. > :06:10.been stripped of benefits that want to appeal. They may have to pay
:06:11. > :06:14.charges for it. 50% of these appeals succeed. How does that work out? If
:06:15. > :06:20.you've got a charge for making an appeal and it succeeds, do you still
:06:21. > :06:26.pay the charge? Do you still pay for the appeal if it is successful? It's
:06:27. > :06:30.a leaked proposal. I think someone has flown a kite and the kite has
:06:31. > :06:34.got out of the room. The proposal is you would pay upfront for the right
:06:35. > :06:39.to appeal. We don't know whether you would get your money back if you win
:06:40. > :06:43.the appeal. According to the leaked document, its 200 to lodge a claim,
:06:44. > :06:49.depending on the type of case being brought forward. It doesn't explain
:06:50. > :06:52.if you get that money back or not. For employment tribunal is that is
:06:53. > :06:58.already in effect. I find it astonishing, the idea that we are
:06:59. > :07:04.sanctioning people for their benefits. Almost 60% of them are
:07:05. > :07:07.finding that the sanction was unfair, so the Government wants to
:07:08. > :07:13.bring in a charge simply, in a very crude way, to stop them appealing.
:07:14. > :07:16.It's being done in the hope that the numbers of independent tribunal 's
:07:17. > :07:27.will be decimated if the Government introduced a charge. It seems rather
:07:28. > :07:35.unfair. And there could be a lot of appeals. But then 58% of appeals
:07:36. > :07:39.challenging benefit claims have been successful in recent months. Let's
:07:40. > :07:45.move on to the Telegraph. This was going to happen, it was beginning to
:07:46. > :07:50.brew during the floods. The front of the Daily Telegraph headline is, the
:07:51. > :07:54.worst flood damage could have been prevented. The buck. At the Prime
:07:55. > :08:00.Minister. But there's going to be a lot of people needing to answer a
:08:01. > :08:05.lot of questions. The blame game is happening big-time. This article is
:08:06. > :08:07.all about maybe when there was building on areas that could flood,
:08:08. > :08:12.it should have been done in a certain kind of way with things like
:08:13. > :08:16.the electricity sockets being further up the wall. Somehow that
:08:17. > :08:21.doesn't seem to have been done. Who is to blame? Is it the planning
:08:22. > :08:25.authorities, the developers, is it that nobody realised these were the
:08:26. > :08:29.regulations that should have been in place? Also, the wider concern that
:08:30. > :08:40.so many of these new properties in flood affected areas will be
:08:41. > :08:43.uninsurable. It is talking about flood prevention and flood
:08:44. > :08:46.management. It is interesting to me that the experts in this open letter
:08:47. > :08:51.to the Telegraph talk about a complete re-think of the planning
:08:52. > :08:56.system and they talk about measures such as replanting forests in the
:08:57. > :08:59.upper reaches of rivers and sustain sustainable drainage. This is left
:09:00. > :09:03.wing and it is in the Telegraph. Very interesting. A bit late in the
:09:04. > :09:10.day. If everybody knew what needed to be done to prevent the scenes and
:09:11. > :09:14.the... That we have seen in the last few weeks, why weren't they saying
:09:15. > :09:19.it before? I think a lot were before. The cuts were brought in and
:09:20. > :09:23.the money not made available. The other frightening thing is a lot of
:09:24. > :09:27.the areas under water, particularly along the River Thames have been
:09:28. > :09:34.marked as places to build more houses as well. Who would want to
:09:35. > :09:39.live there now? You cannot wish away floods. You can manage water. You
:09:40. > :09:44.have to look at it on a large, holistic scale. Moving plugs up the
:09:45. > :09:49.wall is great, but it will not save your house. We stay with the Daily
:09:50. > :09:55.Telegraph. Just under the flooding story - Labour pledge may leave us
:09:56. > :10:01.in the dark. Energy suppliers not happy about political interference.
:10:02. > :10:07.I am just astounded by this. It seems to be that the cost of living
:10:08. > :10:13.campaign, being led by Mr Miliband, may end up leaving us in the dark.
:10:14. > :10:18.Well, I take this as a man who runs a power company which makes ?571
:10:19. > :10:24.million profit from customers. Well he would say that, wouldn't he? It
:10:25. > :10:28.was less than last year though. Uncertainty is the enemy of
:10:29. > :10:33.investment. Isn't it some kind of certainty? He knows what framework
:10:34. > :10:37.he's in. A Conservative or a Government which may... What is the
:10:38. > :10:42.argument there? Energy companies say it is more expensive to produce
:10:43. > :10:46.energy and they have to produce more environmentally-friendly ways of
:10:47. > :10:49.doing that and it costs money. And they are not going to get the
:10:50. > :10:54.investment or so they are threatening if the City, if the
:10:55. > :10:58.finance industry sees these companies and there's insecure
:10:59. > :11:01.investment, they will not get the money they need to build new power
:11:02. > :11:04.stations and make the changes they need to.
:11:05. > :11:09.We are going to stay with the Daily Telegraph, but Scotland's version of
:11:10. > :11:19.the Daily Telegraph, a different front-page story. The headline,
:11:20. > :11:23."Wake up to the threat to economy," sol Alex Salmond is told. He was
:11:24. > :11:26.told that if it becomes an independent country. He's been
:11:27. > :11:32.battered this week, hasn't he, Mr Salmond. Suddenly all the big guns
:11:33. > :11:36.have turned on this guy. This is a threat to jobs. Companies we
:11:37. > :11:41.associate with Scotland not wishing to be based there. We have seen the
:11:42. > :11:47.TSB move its HQ and there is a suggestion in this story that
:11:48. > :11:51.Standard Life, that great assurer we associate with north of the border
:11:52. > :11:56.could be thinking of taking the road south. It is early days yet, though
:11:57. > :12:04.Anne. There is a way to go before the vote. It is interesting to me
:12:05. > :12:08.that the truths be told, the more it seems to strengthen the "yes" vote.
:12:09. > :12:12.The yes block seems to reject hard logic like this and treat it as
:12:13. > :12:17.bluff and bluster and bullying from George Osborne. Those of us who want
:12:18. > :12:28.to see the retaining of the United Kingdom... Stay with us, Scotland,
:12:29. > :12:32.as David Bowie said. It says cyberpeople message David Bowie. If
:12:33. > :12:36.he says that, it is good enough from me. He got stick from a small pop
:12:37. > :12:41.star and terribly unfair. It only means if we are having this now, it
:12:42. > :12:46.means it will become a very interesting referendum. You will
:12:47. > :12:50.both be back with me at 11. 30pm. Thank you to my guests. They will
:12:51. > :12:56.sifting through the papers to bring you more at 11. 30pm. Coming up at
:12:57. > :12:59.11pm, we'll have the latest on the crisis in Ukraine. Coming up next
:13:00. > :13:20.though - Sportsday. Stay with us. Hello. Welcome to Sportsday, with Mr
:13:21. > :13:21.John Watson. Here's what's on the way. Great