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:00:00. > :00:00.him in the side. #we6 will show you how Andy Murray had to do it the

:00:00. > :00:00.hard way. That is all in Sportsday, in 15

:00:00. > :00:20.minutes, after the papers. Hello there. Welcome to our lock

:00:21. > :00:23.ahead to what the papers will -- a look ahead to what the papers will

:00:24. > :00:29.bring us tomorrow. Paul Kellner and Zamila Bunglawala.

:00:30. > :00:34.Pretty much all the front-pages are in now. Let's look. We will start

:00:35. > :00:39.with the Independent. It starts on Nigel Evans. It say says senior

:00:40. > :00:43.Conservatives warned him about his behaviour four years before he was

:00:44. > :00:50.charged with sexual offences. He denies all the charges. The Mirror

:00:51. > :00:56.is speculating on the fate of the missing plane. The express says a

:00:57. > :01:01.healthy diet can prevent dementia in later life. On the Metro, lead ping

:01:02. > :01:07.on the trial of a man who ordered the murder of a toddler via webcam.

:01:08. > :01:13.The Telegraph says it has new information on the Lockerbie

:01:14. > :01:19.bombing. The Guardian is covering the prosecution's opening of that

:01:20. > :01:26.trial of Nigel Evans. Free school meal ps plan in disarray

:01:27. > :01:31.after being attacked by -- meals plan is in disarray after being

:01:32. > :01:35.attacked by head teachers. The plane en route from Kuala Lumpur to

:01:36. > :01:41.Beijing. It has completely disappeared. It is an extraordinary

:01:42. > :01:46.Story. Of course, like the of best mysteries, it gives rise to all

:01:47. > :01:51.sorts of rumours and speculation. Little bits of fact that get

:01:52. > :01:54.possibly expanded into something that may or may not tell us

:01:55. > :02:00.anything. Here we have, what the Mirror is saying, is a mystery

:02:01. > :02:05.Iranian man bought the two plane tickets for the two men with stolen

:02:06. > :02:09.passports. Is this true? Question mark! If it is true r they

:02:10. > :02:16.responsible for the blowing up of this plane? Of course this all takes

:02:17. > :02:22.place in the context of Iran trying to real brat its relationship with

:02:23. > :02:26.the -- recalibrate its relationship with the West.

:02:27. > :02:32.My wife has been out, trying to move relations between the West and Iran

:02:33. > :02:37.on to a better footing, which would include Iran giving up plans for

:02:38. > :02:43.nuclear weapons. So, if Iran is involved - a huge if - if - lit up

:02:44. > :02:48.in lights! If it is, it makes things awkward. Of course the suggestion

:02:49. > :02:54.that another country is involved in some way is based on the fact that

:02:55. > :02:59.two people got on to this flight with stolen passports. Yes. It is

:03:00. > :03:03.bound to see speculation several days in when we still cannot find

:03:04. > :03:11.this plane. It would, as Peter suggests, it would be a hugeful leap

:03:12. > :03:15.that it may lead to an entire country being blamed for this jet it

:03:16. > :03:18.is troubling for the families not knowing what is happening.

:03:19. > :03:23.Speculation does not help thesmt If the plane is at the bottom of an

:03:24. > :03:28.ocean and they cannot recover the black box, this will be one of those

:03:29. > :03:31.things which will give rise to all theories and conspiracies and

:03:32. > :03:35.speculation. As you say, let's hope for the families we can at least get

:03:36. > :03:40.closure by finding out what did happen. These black boxes - they are

:03:41. > :03:47.actually orange - they only have a battery life of 30 days. 30 days -

:03:48. > :03:55.the thing will go dead any way. It does not leave much time. P indeed!

:03:56. > :04:02.Let's go on to the Daily Telegraph and the Lockerbie bombers. Carried

:04:03. > :04:06.out by Syrian extremists, claims an intelligence officer. This is a

:04:07. > :04:10.story pushed. According to our security correspondent it has been

:04:11. > :04:14.around for a while. We have not yet seen this documentary. It is news

:04:15. > :04:19.that we are taking second-hand, that we hope to see once the documentary

:04:20. > :04:22.has been alive. This person has been living in Germany for some time. The

:04:23. > :04:26.timing is interesting as to why this is only now coming to the fore.

:04:27. > :04:29.Based on the headline, we are looking at Iran on a different

:04:30. > :04:33.light, based on the due political issues we are talking about. The

:04:34. > :04:36.timing is interesting. I think the fact this person is coming out to

:04:37. > :04:41.talk about it now is interesting. This is a former intelligence

:04:42. > :04:45.officer who has defected to Germany. Once in the West you may have

:04:46. > :04:50.different things to say about countries once you have moved. Oddly

:04:51. > :04:56.the headline is very... A great story by the Telegraph. Very good

:04:57. > :05:02.news values. It should Syria's Lockerbie bombers ismts is an ir

:05:03. > :05:07.Iranian official... If you go back 20 years, Libya was in the dog

:05:08. > :05:12.house, and Syria, we were trying to have reasonably normal relationships

:05:13. > :05:16.with. Therefore, it is suited for a wider political agenda to say it was

:05:17. > :05:22.a Libyan bombing, not a Syrian bombing. It looks looks increasingly

:05:23. > :05:27.that Gaddafi had nothing to do with it. Had nothing to do with it. And

:05:28. > :05:35.the suggestion from this article is it was in retaliation, so they got

:05:36. > :05:46.the Syrians to carry it out, for a strike on a jet which killed 290

:05:47. > :05:54.people. So, very interesting. And indeed, al-Megrahi has plead pleaded

:05:55. > :06:00.innocent. And Jim Squire always pointed to the suggestion that it

:06:01. > :06:09.was something else. And lawyers with level heads said al-Megrahi was not

:06:10. > :06:13.the person. Passport checks - 20 million passengers avoid thorough

:06:14. > :06:18.checks. How can that be? 200 million people come to the UK. 10%, that

:06:19. > :06:25.makes 20 million do not have thorough checks T target is 5%. --

:06:26. > :06:31.the target is 5%. There'll always be some. We fly to JFK, into America

:06:32. > :06:36.and we know how long those queues are. We know how exhausting the

:06:37. > :06:41.process is. Perhaps we in Britain should do the same as the Americans.

:06:42. > :06:46.But then you have one or both of two options. Very, very long queues for

:06:47. > :06:50.people coming into Britain or many, many more immigration officials,

:06:51. > :06:55.which would be a greater expense on the public purse. So, if this story

:06:56. > :07:01.is true, then it raises the question - what's the cure? As he was saying,

:07:02. > :07:05.the fact is you cannot count everybody because that would take

:07:06. > :07:15.forever and cause problems at the border. Exactly. I have been to JFK.

:07:16. > :07:19.It has taken me an hour-and-a-half to get out of the front door. We

:07:20. > :07:24.need better security within our airports. We don't have that. We

:07:25. > :07:29.need more desks just to let people out. . The queues in the airports

:07:30. > :07:34.are horrendous. Any change will have to make a logistical nightmare.

:07:35. > :07:40.Going back to the story about stolen passports - the BBC found out today

:07:41. > :07:47.that 160,000 British passports go missing, or went missing between

:07:48. > :07:54.2008-2013 - 160,000. So, these are passports that could get into the

:07:55. > :07:59.hands of terrorists, of money launder launders. Sin any kats. As I

:08:00. > :08:03.understand -- syndicates. As I understand it, in many countries

:08:04. > :08:08.they check the passport. They scan it against the actual database. If

:08:09. > :08:12.the there are people stealing British passports and manipulating,

:08:13. > :08:17.changing the detail, this may be useful if you are travelling between

:08:18. > :08:23.two African or Latin American countries. I'm not sure they are not

:08:24. > :08:31.that useful for getting into Britain. If I am wrong. If checks

:08:32. > :08:36.are so dreadful that forged and distorted passports will pass muster

:08:37. > :08:41.then we have perhaps a deeper prom. Interpol -- deep deeper problem.

:08:42. > :08:46.Interpol and police authorities around the world, for many years on

:08:47. > :08:50.this problem. I think partly the issue of microchiping lots of

:08:51. > :08:53.European passports is to try and overcome these problems. We have not

:08:54. > :08:58.gotten all the countries in the world to do this. In the UK, we are

:08:59. > :09:02.taking it seriously. We cannot stop people coming in if we don't know

:09:03. > :09:10.what we are looking for yet. OK, on to the Independent, Tories knew

:09:11. > :09:16.about senior MP's gay sex assaults - it is in quotation marks. It came

:09:17. > :09:21.out about Nigel Evans, who is accused of a number of sexual

:09:22. > :09:25.offences. All I would say. I know Nigel Evans. I like him. The

:09:26. > :09:30.statement - innocent until proven guilty is not just a form of word -

:09:31. > :09:33.it means something. The trial opened today. This is the prosecution case.

:09:34. > :09:37.Now, the allegation is serious, not just in relation to Nigel Evans, but

:09:38. > :09:46.in relation to the Tory Party, which is why it is on the front-page of

:09:47. > :09:52.the Independent, the Guardian. If it is true, it has wider ramifications

:09:53. > :09:57.than Nigel Evans himself. It is just the prosecution case. When we hear

:09:58. > :10:01.the defence case let's hope it gets all the prominence this does. He

:10:02. > :10:06.denies all the charges He said that from day one.

:10:07. > :10:10.It will be something to watch, as Peter said. It has made several

:10:11. > :10:19.papers. It will be a big story for some time. The Daily Mail - infants

:10:20. > :10:23.making menu choices - parents chopping vegs - what is this about?

:10:24. > :10:27.This is an interesting story of where we think the disarray will

:10:28. > :10:31.happen in our school system and where the food is coming from. The

:10:32. > :10:37.policy was a good policy because we do have good free school meals for

:10:38. > :10:43.lots of neighbourhoods now I has worked as a good poll -- now. It has

:10:44. > :10:47.worked as a good policy. There are free breakfasts as well. If it does

:10:48. > :10:51.not work on the ground, someone has to revisit why they think it is a

:10:52. > :10:57.good policy and what is going wrong. Two very good friends of mine wrote

:10:58. > :11:01.a book called The Blunders of our Governments. Things well meaning

:11:02. > :11:06.that went wrong. Could this be another one? Feeding kids properly,

:11:07. > :11:13.you cannot overstate the importance of this. It really is absolutely

:11:14. > :11:18.vital. The policy must work. It's no good just having an announcement and

:11:19. > :11:23.the right motives. You have to get down and look back at the poll tax,

:11:24. > :11:28.or this Government's health reforms - the list goes on of things which

:11:29. > :11:34.seemed a good idea at the time, but were not properly thought through.

:11:35. > :11:40.When will we ever learn. You were from blar's Number Ten. You

:11:41. > :11:44.thought about things clearly or very deeply before you put them to your

:11:45. > :11:50.master, didn't you? We test things as well. That is why we have pilots

:11:51. > :11:54.for policies. When you have rollouts on this scale, there are planning

:11:55. > :11:58.things which need to be dealt W if those things are not taken care of,

:11:59. > :12:01.lots of people do suffer and I mean, children going hungry is not a good

:12:02. > :12:17.sign. Have there been pilots of this? At

:12:18. > :12:25.the borough level. Nationally we're talking about thousands of schools.

:12:26. > :12:28.It is not just about timing as well. At borough level there is a

:12:29. > :12:32.manageable number of schools and you can get by and talk to them about

:12:33. > :12:37.how it is done and make sure it happens properly. National roll-out,

:12:38. > :12:42.you are going from 50 schools to 2000 or whatever. We can forgive a

:12:43. > :12:48.few teething troubles, can't we, with a policy as big as this? No! We

:12:49. > :12:53.have to think about starving children. Precisely because what

:12:54. > :12:57.Nick Clegg announced was so important and will be so worthwhile,

:12:58. > :13:01.we jolly well have to get it right. I know personally if my belly is

:13:02. > :13:09.full, I am concentrating more in this studio. So if you are tiled,

:13:10. > :13:15.there you go. Onto the Guardian. -- if you are a child. UKIP facing

:13:16. > :13:19.questions from European allies. This is really interesting because we had

:13:20. > :13:24.the time is turning them over and raising questions. UKIP is part of a

:13:25. > :13:29.grouping of like-minded parties from a number of countries that get

:13:30. > :13:32.together in the European Parliament because they have certain procedural

:13:33. > :13:38.and financial rights if they join up. It is not UKIP MEPs, but MEPs

:13:39. > :13:44.from parties they are associated with. Saying terrible things about

:13:45. > :13:49.child-bearing most women being compared to Osama Bin Laden.

:13:50. > :13:56.Precisely because UKIP is fighting for first place, Nigel Farage said a

:13:57. > :14:00.couple of weeks ago that they can expect a lot of scrutiny. Just ten

:14:01. > :14:04.weeks from the European elections, it will be interesting to see

:14:05. > :14:10.whether the scrutiny in the end undermines UKIP's appeal. With a lot

:14:11. > :14:16.more press coverage has to come more scrutiny. As a slim woman, I find it

:14:17. > :14:24.quite incredible that we are talking about Muslim women in this way. --

:14:25. > :14:27.Muslim woman. We need to look at why UKIP is supporting these groups and

:14:28. > :14:36.what it says about them and what tolerance levels we have. Are we out

:14:37. > :14:40.of time? I think we are. We sped through that and did not get to

:14:41. > :14:44.Kelly Gallagher, the brilliant success on the slopes of Sochi. We

:14:45. > :14:49.will talk about that later, in an hour, for another look at the

:14:50. > :14:53.stories behind the headlines. At 11 o'clock on BBC News, we will have

:14:54. > :14:59.the latest on the search operation for that missing Malaysia airlines

:15:00. > :15:15.aeroplane bound for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. First, Sportsday.

:15:16. > :15:16.Hello and welcome to Sportsday. I'm Katie