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:00:00. > :00:00.Controversy in the speed skating has Elise Christie was disqualified from

:00:00. > :00:00.her third event at the games. More on that in Sportsday after The

:00:00. > :00:22.Papers. Welcome to our look ahead to what

:00:23. > :00:26.the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me, Yasmin

:00:27. > :00:29.Alibhai-Brown, columnist for the Independent. Also, David

:00:30. > :00:35.Williamson, political editor of the Western mail. Thank you for joining

:00:36. > :00:38.us, David. Some of the headlines. Big changes are coming to the Labour

:00:39. > :00:41.Party, according to The Independent. It says that the party leader, Ed

:00:42. > :00:44.Miliband, is promising to devolve power to ordinary members on an

:00:45. > :00:47.unprecedented scale. And the Mail has a story about a delayed Ryanair

:00:48. > :00:50.flight at Stansted Airport. The paper claims that furious passengers

:00:51. > :00:54.called police from the tarmac after waiting hours without food or drink.

:00:55. > :00:58.The Telegraph says Princess Anne has entered the debate over the need for

:00:59. > :01:01.affordable new homes. She apparently told a conference that villages must

:01:02. > :01:04.bear the brunt of thousands of new homes if the countryside is to be

:01:05. > :01:13.protected from "large-scale" development.

:01:14. > :01:18.The Express leaves on a Court of Appeal ruling on housing benefit.

:01:19. > :01:20.The Times reports on what it calls a silent epidemic of anorexia among

:01:21. > :01:26.teenage girls at independent schools. The Sun has the story of a

:01:27. > :01:31.woman it claims is blaming her weight gain on benefits. Wayne

:01:32. > :01:44.Rooney's new pay deal at Manchester United is on the front page of the

:01:45. > :01:47.daily mirror. Ukraine is heavily featured, as you

:01:48. > :01:52.can imagine. We start with the Independent with a picture of

:01:53. > :01:58.Rebekah Brooks, after describing her car crash personal life. She talked

:01:59. > :02:03.about this not being an affair with Andy Coulson but sporadic intimacy,

:02:04. > :02:08.which is a new phrase. This will be an interesting case as it proceeds.

:02:09. > :02:18.She denies the four chargers and it is her defence that continues at the

:02:19. > :02:22.Old Bailey. Moving on, my changes are bigger than Claus four, says

:02:23. > :02:26.Miliband. These are new rules for the party that will devolve power to

:02:27. > :02:32.ordinary people. Is this Ed Miliband trying to make politics more

:02:33. > :02:36.interesting and engage the public? It is striking that so many years

:02:37. > :02:42.after clause four was scrapped, here we are with this image of Blair. It

:02:43. > :02:45.shows how the Blair years, in some ways, still continue. The central

:02:46. > :02:51.idea is interesting, of getting people to be engaged. It is a bit

:02:52. > :02:54.like in America people talk about being a registered Democrat or

:02:55. > :02:57.Republican. That does not mean they hand out flyers at weekends but they

:02:58. > :03:03.have some affiliation and can vote in primary is. If it goes through

:03:04. > :03:07.whatever procedures they have to go through, it gets through this

:03:08. > :03:14.constant accusation that they are owned by the unions. The unions that

:03:15. > :03:20.got him into power in the first place. I know, but fair enough.

:03:21. > :03:25.There is this Russell Brand stuff going on, people feeling

:03:26. > :03:32.disconnected. My worry is that too much is being promised. You might

:03:33. > :03:34.get a million more people. Remind us about Russell Brand, because some

:03:35. > :03:39.people might have missed the interview. He was basically saying,

:03:40. > :03:42.I do not vote but I have political values and I represent people who do

:03:43. > :03:48.not want to vote because they are bored. Exactly. I totally disagree

:03:49. > :03:52.with that, I have to say. It is childish and a little bit spoiled,

:03:53. > :03:56.because we do have a system and we should all be involved one way or

:03:57. > :03:59.another to try and change it for the better. We have a coalition

:04:00. > :04:05.government because people did not turn out to vote. People are bored

:04:06. > :04:10.of politics. Do you think that is the case? I do not think people are

:04:11. > :04:13.bored with politics, but in the internet age, everyone seems to

:04:14. > :04:17.think that every policy has to be the one that I want. It can't work

:04:18. > :04:23.like that, and that is my fear for this. He is making too many

:04:24. > :04:28.promises. In the end, there has to be a collective decision about what

:04:29. > :04:33.policies the party chooses. What is interesting is who this is going to

:04:34. > :04:37.appeal to. Before, the Labour Party was the party of organised labour.

:04:38. > :04:40.These are now presumably going to be people who enjoy programmes like

:04:41. > :04:44.this, who are politically engaged and take an interest. Many of those

:04:45. > :04:47.might be the people the Conservatives are trying to target

:04:48. > :04:52.with the big society rhetoric, those who volunteer in the local church

:04:53. > :04:56.and food banks and things like that. It could be a whole wedge of people

:04:57. > :04:59.who are suffering under various policies, feel that nobody is

:05:00. > :05:04.speaking to them because they are not the hard-working squeezed

:05:05. > :05:09.middle. ?3 is not a lot of money. Maybe it will bring in the truly

:05:10. > :05:13.disenfranchised. It sounds like both of you are saying that because of

:05:14. > :05:16.the state of the economy, because of the amount of cuts people are

:05:17. > :05:20.suffering from, because of immigration being such a fuelled

:05:21. > :05:24.issue, turnout at the general election might not be a concern

:05:25. > :05:31.among today's leaders right now. Indeed. This is the ultimate

:05:32. > :05:36.referendum, really. People are saying, this is my chance to

:05:37. > :05:41.actually expressed some indignation or excitement, perhaps, if they can

:05:42. > :05:45.galvanise that. I hope that immigrants, who have been feeling

:05:46. > :05:49.very angry at the way things are discussed, join the Labour Party and

:05:50. > :05:54.change the discourse. We all need to get more involved. Too many people

:05:55. > :06:01.have this helplessness, I think, which is not good. Speaking of

:06:02. > :06:05.people's bad feeling about cuts, particularly to benefits, the Daily

:06:06. > :06:07.Mail reports on ATOS wanting to pull out of the government contract to

:06:08. > :06:14.vet those claiming disability benefits. Sickness benefit tests

:06:15. > :06:20.firm pulls out after death threats to staff, is the headline. I am sure

:06:21. > :06:29.it has happened. But I think ATOS has not had a very good record of

:06:30. > :06:33.late. A lot of these tests have been criticised by various groups and

:06:34. > :06:36.people, ministers, MPs. I think it is a way of getting out of this

:06:37. > :06:45.thing. They don't want to be there any more, I think. Do you think that

:06:46. > :06:50.maybe it? I think so. There were jokes in Parliament about how ATOS

:06:51. > :06:53.had found Richard III ready to work. It was becoming a liability. In

:06:54. > :06:58.recent weeks we have seen Westminster debates raising the fact

:06:59. > :07:03.that so many of the cases have been overturned that it has become a

:07:04. > :07:08.liability to the government. So I think this is a quiet divorce that

:07:09. > :07:12.both sides will be happy about. Last night we were talking about another

:07:13. > :07:14.story from a leaked document that was proposing chargers for those who

:07:15. > :07:18.wanted to challenge their benefits being taken from them, that they

:07:19. > :07:26.would be charged for it as well. Something like 58% end up being

:07:27. > :07:29.challenged. Let's move on to Ukraine. It is in all of the

:07:30. > :07:37.papers, as you would imagine. The Daily Express takes a slightly

:07:38. > :07:42.unique angle on the story. Truce as protesters are told, agree, or you

:07:43. > :07:46.will die. And there is a picture there of Yulia Tymoshenko, the

:07:47. > :07:51.imprisoned former prime minister of Ukraine, very much seen as a symbol

:07:52. > :07:57.of unity in Ukraine. That is an interesting take by the Express.

:07:58. > :08:01.Yes, and they do not do this kind of story, so that is even more

:08:02. > :08:06.interesting. But it is true that this woman has been imprisoned for

:08:07. > :08:11.how long now? And we have almost heard nothing, after some stories

:08:12. > :08:15.about how she was being treated. If she has managed to survive all of

:08:16. > :08:21.that and come out, this is her moment, perhaps. I don't know. The

:08:22. > :08:24.memories of the Orange Revolution. It is almost as if people in the

:08:25. > :08:29.Ukraine are saying, this is one more chance to get the house in order.

:08:30. > :08:33.You look at the history of Ukraine, if anybody had a miserable

:08:34. > :08:40.experience of the 20th century, going from civil war to occupation,

:08:41. > :08:46.to... But their revolutions were very peaceful, remarkably peaceful.

:08:47. > :08:51.That is what raised the hopes that it was possible for some ex-Soviet

:08:52. > :08:56.countries to come through this change without violent disorder. But

:08:57. > :09:02.now we have come to this point. And this is a very quick resolution, if

:09:03. > :09:06.it is going to be taken seriously. It is not trusted just yet. Many

:09:07. > :09:11.protesters still in shock and in Independence Square this evening,

:09:12. > :09:17.not rushing to go home. Let's have a look at the daily Mirror, with a

:09:18. > :09:26.picture of Chris Moyles the former Radio 1 breakfast show presenter. He

:09:27. > :09:31.falsely claimed he lost ?1 million trading as a used car dealer. He

:09:32. > :09:36.accepts full responsibility, according to the newspaper. He has

:09:37. > :09:42.issued a statement, hasn't he. What is there to say? Why? Why do people

:09:43. > :09:48.with money always want to not pay tax? And why do they get away with

:09:49. > :09:53.it? We were punishing benefit scroungers, as we call them, and

:09:54. > :10:00.here are all sorts of people. There is an organisation, a tax avoidance

:10:01. > :10:04.organisation. We are talking about tax avoidance, not evasion, which is

:10:05. > :10:07.different. This is something the Inland Revenue have been clamping

:10:08. > :10:10.down on. There are a number of schemes that have been available and

:10:11. > :10:15.they are challenging them in the courts. This feeds into the whole

:10:16. > :10:19.narrative that if you are very clever and very wealthy, you will

:10:20. > :10:25.not be paying tax in the way that we all are. It just adds that to the

:10:26. > :10:32.fire. I want to read the statement Chris Moyles from. Upon advice I

:10:33. > :10:37.signed up to a scheme I was assured was legal. My knowledge of the

:10:38. > :10:40.scheme was naive. I am not a tax expert and acted on advice. This was

:10:41. > :10:44.a mistake and I accept the ruling without reservation. I take full

:10:45. > :10:50.responsibility and have learned a valuable lesson. The BBC also add

:10:51. > :10:53.that it is not a party involved in this tribunal and they understand

:10:54. > :11:02.Chris Mono has taken full responsible T for his tax

:11:03. > :11:09.arrangements. -- Chris Moyles. Moving onto the Daily Mail, English

:11:10. > :11:14.is the second language in one in nine schools. They have done a lot

:11:15. > :11:19.of research. Yes, and what is wrong with that? The more languages we

:11:20. > :11:24.speak, the better it is for us, our country, business interests. When

:11:25. > :11:29.does knowing another language become a disability? It is mad. I speak for

:11:30. > :11:39.macro languages, plus English. Does that make me a pariah. This shows

:11:40. > :11:46.the changing population because of migration. I think Brits in

:11:47. > :11:50.particular, and this is a big thing in Wales where they are bilingual,

:11:51. > :11:55.but the English in particular do not learn other languages. That is going

:11:56. > :12:00.to push us back in a lot of ways as the world changes. If we have kids

:12:01. > :12:02.speaking some kind of language, and British kids are picking some of

:12:03. > :12:11.that up, I can't think what is wrong with that. Do you think that

:12:12. > :12:16.migrants should learn English? Of course, and if you don't, your own

:12:17. > :12:21.future is held back, if for no other reason... What is amazing is how

:12:22. > :12:25.many migrants, I have been listening to Ukrainian migrants here in

:12:26. > :12:29.Britain today on the phone in programmes. Their English is

:12:30. > :12:33.astonishing! I have travelled around Eastern Europe, all over the place,

:12:34. > :12:39.and English is the second language in most countries now. And they

:12:40. > :12:42.speak so well! There is something heartbreaking, when you go abroad

:12:43. > :12:47.and see advertisements in English in the middle of a city, as if English

:12:48. > :12:53.speakers find it hard to experience the other! English is the world

:12:54. > :12:58.language, which is also making this all happen. We don't always do

:12:59. > :13:03.this, but we will look at the back pages of the Guardian, Wayne Rooney,

:13:04. > :13:08.one of the big headlines. I wish I was good at football, I wish. I was

:13:09. > :13:14.always picked to be linesmen. You don't want this amount of money, you

:13:15. > :13:21.do not want it! Is he worth it? That is the question. He's a player under

:13:22. > :13:27.now. He will, but I guess the signal it sends out is that the golden

:13:28. > :13:32.years and the symbols of Ferguson and so on... What do you do with

:13:33. > :13:37.?300,000 per week? What do you do with that amount of money? There is

:13:38. > :13:44.only so money ice cream is you can eat. You smoke the notes. I don't

:13:45. > :13:48.know! I was distraught when I realised he will be 33 when this

:13:49. > :13:53.contract comes to an end, it makes me feel ancient by comparison. Think

:13:54. > :13:58.about it, this kids will never have to work. There is something quite

:13:59. > :14:01.distorted about that. I am sure he is a very talented footballer, he

:14:02. > :14:07.has made his money, not inherited it, but there have to be limits. He

:14:08. > :14:11.will be, you know, in the history books as one of our greatest

:14:12. > :14:15.players, and a lot of fans will be thinking, yes, he is worth it,

:14:16. > :14:19.Manchester would not be the same without Rooney. But there must have

:14:20. > :14:24.been a time when you could be a good footballer and not in this amount of

:14:25. > :14:28.money. There was, 1960! Many thanks for taking us through the papers.

:14:29. > :14:33.Stay with us here on BBC News. At 11 we will get the very latest from

:14:34. > :14:37.Ukraine as the country signs a peace plan designed to end the political

:14:38. > :14:41.crisis and hopefully the violence as well. Coming up next on BBC News:

:14:42. > :14:55.Sportsday. Hello and welcome to Sportsday, I'm

:14:56. > :14:58.John Watson. On the way tonight, Wales revive their hopes of winning

:14:59. > :15:07.a record third Six Nations title with victory over France in Cardiff.

:15:08. > :15:08.Great Britain's men's curlers settle for silver as they're beaten