:00:00. > :00:00.And coming up: The new technology that allows people to read faster
:00:00. > :00:19.using smaller screens. Hello, welcome to our look ahead to
:00:20. > :00:23.what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the journalist
:00:24. > :00:26.Samira Shackle and broadcaster, Henry Bonsu. Thank you both for
:00:27. > :00:30.joining us. Tomorrow's front pages, let's have a look. This evening we
:00:31. > :00:34.start with the Financial Times. That leads with the referendum result in
:00:35. > :00:39.Crimea and says the poll sends Russia deeper in international
:00:40. > :00:44.isolation. On the Telegraph - an image of Mo
:00:45. > :00:47.Farah who collapsed after completing the half-marathon in New York City
:00:48. > :00:52.today. The I - the long awaited Higgins
:00:53. > :00:58.report on HS2, which calls on the Government to build the northern
:00:59. > :01:03.section of the railway link faster A new device for monitoring diabetes
:01:04. > :01:09.could replace the need for daily jabs associate the Daily Express. --
:01:10. > :01:13.says the Daily Express And the five richest families own
:01:14. > :01:16.more than the poorest 20% of the population.
:01:17. > :01:21.And the Daily Mail - pressure is mounting on George Osborne to raise
:01:22. > :01:24.the 40 p tax threshold. Plenty of different stories to have
:01:25. > :01:29.a look at. Let's begin and the first one I think we'll look at is really
:01:30. > :01:33.the story that has been dominating our news agenda today and Crimea. We
:01:34. > :01:40.will start with the Financial Times, with the headline: Crimea poll ice
:01:41. > :01:48.rates Russia. That's just about all that West and America seems able to
:01:49. > :01:53.do. Yeah, it does. I was reading in this piece about the EU moving to
:01:54. > :01:58.introduce sanctions. While we've seen the rouble falling, there's a
:01:59. > :02:02.question mark over how much sanctions can effect as big as
:02:03. > :02:07.economy as Russia and how quickly. The rouble has been at its lowest
:02:08. > :02:11.level against the dollar. Henry, this is something that Putin doesn't
:02:12. > :02:15.really think is that important in comparison. Absolutely, despite what
:02:16. > :02:18.the Financial Times and some of the other papers are saying, Russia
:02:19. > :02:21.isn't really that isolated. We're talking Britain, France, the EU, the
:02:22. > :02:23.United States, OK, some of the biggest economies in the world,
:02:24. > :02:28.there are lots of other big economies, like the Chinese,
:02:29. > :02:35.Brazilian, Indian economy who are perfectly happy to do business with
:02:36. > :02:39.Russia. The might be isolated on the yuz Security Council, but -- on the
:02:40. > :02:41.UN Security Council, but Britain and the Germans will do business with
:02:42. > :02:45.Russia. Vladimir Putin will be thinking, O'-Kay, how serious was
:02:46. > :02:48.this reaction. -- OK, how serious was this reaction. Lots of money
:02:49. > :02:54.will be coming back to Russia. People are worried about whether or
:02:55. > :02:59.not their assets will be seized. They're bringing it back to mother
:03:00. > :03:03.Russia. Affecting stocks and shares in this country and the property
:03:04. > :03:05.market, possibly. It has ramifications. Is there anything
:03:06. > :03:11.else that you've raed in the Financial Times or-- read where
:03:12. > :03:15.other avenues could be for the West to explore? I don't think so,
:03:16. > :03:20.looking at this. Plauz we know -- because we know that military action
:03:21. > :03:28.is a no-no. We are all thinking of great wars past. We don't want a
:03:29. > :03:33.future confliation in Europe. -- Conflagration in Europe. The only
:03:34. > :03:37.thing is if the they felt they could go further on the economic front.
:03:38. > :03:40.Not just a number of Crimea officials and even Vladimir Putin
:03:41. > :03:45.himself from travelling, though I'm not sure if they would ban him. I
:03:46. > :03:49.think if they wanted a trade war with Russia, if they wanted to close
:03:50. > :03:55.the Russian economy down, they probably could do so, but I doubt
:03:56. > :04:00.very much whether or not they would see it's in their self-interest to
:04:01. > :04:03.do so, given the intertwining of the economies Russia, the EU and the
:04:04. > :04:07.United States. The Financial Times looks at it with the financial hat
:04:08. > :04:14.on. The Daily Telegraph, the same story with the headline: West
:04:15. > :04:18.condemns illegitimate poll. That seems to be the line from America
:04:19. > :04:22.and Britain. This was illegitimate, so the result doesn't matter. That
:04:23. > :04:30.seems to be what they're saying. I think it's quite an interesting one
:04:31. > :04:38.from an almost, the ideas behind it, because it's an argument when it
:04:39. > :04:42.comes down to between the limits of Democratically-expressed self-rule
:04:43. > :04:46.versus territorial integrity and sovereignty. It's quite clear that
:04:47. > :04:49.obviously Russia and the West are coming at that from two completely
:04:50. > :04:53.different sides. It's just such a complicated picture that I think
:04:54. > :04:57.it's certainly true that there's limits to what claim can you make
:04:58. > :05:01.for a free and fair referendum, when there's tanks and guns there, but
:05:02. > :05:06.there is also clearly a large contingent of the population which
:05:07. > :05:11.wants to be part of Russia. It's quite a complex moral web there.
:05:12. > :05:17.Building on what Henry was saying earlier, Putin obviously has made an
:05:18. > :05:24.assessment about how much the West's disapproval matters. In this case,
:05:25. > :05:30.not that much. The reason why the West condemns this as illegitimate
:05:31. > :05:34.was we had those two choices, join mother Russia or autonomy from the
:05:35. > :05:38.Ukraine. There was no third option of the status quo. There were no
:05:39. > :05:43.outside observers. There were some from neighbouring countries, which
:05:44. > :05:49.are very close to the Kremlin, close to Moscow. When it Toms to -- comes
:05:50. > :05:55.to how look at this from a geopolitical point of view, we have
:05:56. > :05:58.to remember that we, the West, regularly intervene in other parts
:05:59. > :06:01.of the world, sometimes in flagrant breach of international conventions
:06:02. > :06:05.because we think we're doing the right thing, because it's the West.
:06:06. > :06:08.We're always on the side of right. The Russians have the right to see
:06:09. > :06:12.themselves in the same light. Increasingly Vladimir Putin as he
:06:13. > :06:16.looks towards his legacy, what is he leaving behind. He will be the guy
:06:17. > :06:20.who managed to claw back some of the territory they lost. Argument of
:06:21. > :06:26.legal interventions... What is international law any way! Yes.
:06:27. > :06:32.Let's move on to another story. Osborne, I will build for Britain.
:06:33. > :06:35.News that Ebbsfleet in Kent is to become a major new garden city with
:06:36. > :06:40.at least 15,000, interesting this has come out just a couple of days
:06:41. > :06:45.before the Budget. Yes, because he wants to present himself as a
:06:46. > :06:49.Chancellor with a plan, a chance who's presided over a double-dip
:06:50. > :06:52.recession, but now very strong growth. The Office for Budget
:06:53. > :06:58.Responsibility has revised up its forecast as has the Bank of England.
:06:59. > :07:03.People are saying, where is the accelerated growth going to come
:07:04. > :07:06.from. I'm sceptical about this. We've heard announcements like this
:07:07. > :07:09.before, about big infrastructure projects. This is a drop in the
:07:10. > :07:13.ocean compared to what is needed. The Labour themselves are talking in
:07:14. > :07:19.this piece about trying to build around 200,000 homes a year from
:07:20. > :07:23.2015, if they get in. There's no doubt, the Government now pledging
:07:24. > :07:28.longer on this help to buy scheme, helping people get on the housing
:07:29. > :07:31.ladder at the start. Maybe this is a way of generating more work, more
:07:32. > :07:35.jobs, more building, more infrastructure. It is. I don't think
:07:36. > :07:41.anyone would argue that building more homes is a bad thing. I agree
:07:42. > :07:46.that it's a drop in the ocean and it's also been three years of this
:07:47. > :07:52.Government without many new homes being built at all. They really need
:07:53. > :07:57.to be stepping up. The scale of the housing crisis, 15,000 is nothing
:07:58. > :08:01.really. But it's a good thing. It is interesting. Of course, the
:08:02. > :08:06.Chancellor, any Chancellor before a Budget will choose to leak the most
:08:07. > :08:11.positive stories. Much room for manoeuvre. This is repeated on
:08:12. > :08:15.Wednesday and the picture story on the front, a distressing picture of
:08:16. > :08:21.Mo Farah, of course, the two Olympic Gold Medal winner at London 2012.
:08:22. > :08:25.You were watching. I was. I did that extraordinary thing and I pressed
:08:26. > :08:31.the red button to watch this race. The coverage wasn't of the level of
:08:32. > :08:35.Brendan Foster, it was an American commentator. I was concerned how Mo
:08:36. > :08:39.Farah would make the transition from the track to the road. Some people
:08:40. > :08:42.said it was a disastrous attempt. He didn't do anything wrong apart from
:08:43. > :08:46.getting clipped from behind a few miles in. He worked hard to catch up
:08:47. > :08:51.with the eventual winner, who has broken 60 minutes for the half mare
:08:52. > :08:54.thorn on several occasions. -- marathon, on several occasions. I
:08:55. > :08:58.think he overcooked it. Previous live he was training in the valley
:08:59. > :09:03.above Kenya. I think the transition from nice, warm Kenya to subzero
:09:04. > :09:07.temperatures in New York really damaged his system. He collapsed. He
:09:08. > :09:11.was actually in tears. You can see the picture. I didn't know if it was
:09:12. > :09:16.tears or sweat, but very distressing for his family who were there. It's
:09:17. > :09:26.sad and he's such a national hero, since the Olympics. He occupies a
:09:27. > :09:30.warm place in the public's hearts. They're concerned about the London
:09:31. > :09:34.Marathon of course. His first full marathon and he goes up against the
:09:35. > :09:40.same guy. You sound like you're going to be watching. The I - brakes
:09:41. > :09:44.off for HS2. I will let you start with this being a Manchester boy. I
:09:45. > :09:48.am. I should be in favour of this, because the journey from London to
:09:49. > :09:51.Manchester currently takes two hours and eight minutes. When I want to
:09:52. > :09:54.see my parents, family and friends, that's how long it takes. If this
:09:55. > :09:58.goes ahead and it works it will come down to one hour and 20 minutes. The
:09:59. > :10:02.question is, at a time of post-austerity, no still in
:10:03. > :10:10.austerity, but growth is weak, can we afford to spend about ?50
:10:11. > :10:16.billion? The guy who is going to oversee this, he oversaw the
:10:17. > :10:21.Olympics on time and on budget says, we have to be bold. We have to make
:10:22. > :10:26.this, do this infrastructure much more quickly. Six years earlier,
:10:27. > :10:29.transport hub in Crewe, going beyond Birmingham to Crewe and that means
:10:30. > :10:32.it will be much more secure as a financial investment. And not just
:10:33. > :10:35.that, but also starting the building at both ends, as it were, starting
:10:36. > :10:41.in the north and the south to connect in the middle. Yeah. Are you
:10:42. > :10:47.a fan to get going on this? Well, I don't think there's any chance
:10:48. > :10:50.they're going to abandon it. It's a good idea to think about ways of
:10:51. > :10:56.making it more useful. I think the fact that it was going to stop at
:10:57. > :11:00.Birmingham, I think extending it further north is good. I was
:11:01. > :11:05.interested to read over the weekend a poll in the Observer that a
:11:06. > :11:10.majority of people actually would support improving connections
:11:11. > :11:16.between northern cities rather than a north-south link. I want to
:11:17. > :11:20.shuffle along onto the Express. The heading about diabetes. Jab-free
:11:21. > :11:27.test for diabetes. This would be, if it's true, a breakthrough, a
:11:28. > :11:33.stick-on sensor, about the size of a 2p piece, to replace daily finger
:11:34. > :11:37.pricking jabs. That would be a great comfort to anyone who is diabetic,
:11:38. > :11:41.butch also the fact that it would -- but also the fact that it would save
:11:42. > :11:47.a lot of money. Anything that makes it easier to monitor diabetes is a
:11:48. > :11:52.good thing. My mum is diabetic. Constantly pricking at the fingers,
:11:53. > :11:57.but it's easy to forget to monitor your blood glucose levels after
:11:58. > :12:00.meals, even if you've been living with it for years. Anything to
:12:01. > :12:06.improve that is a good thing. Seems good news. I want to get to the
:12:07. > :12:12.Guardian. That looks at the divided Britain, where it says five families
:12:13. > :12:16.in the UK actually own more than the poorest 20%. It is a staggering
:12:17. > :12:20.figure. It is staggering. But it's real Britain and it's by Oxfam,
:12:21. > :12:25.which probably surprised a lot of people. It's called a tale two of
:12:26. > :12:30.Britains. Those five offending families the Duke of Westminster,
:12:31. > :12:35.David and Simon Ruben, the sports director and retail boss, the
:12:36. > :12:41.chairman of Newcastle united and two other. They have 28. .2 billion in
:12:42. > :12:46.assets. That's more than the poorest 20% in this country. That number of
:12:47. > :12:51.people. It's amazing. You say "offenders", in some senses... I'm
:12:52. > :12:57.not jealous of wealth. I'm totally relaxed about wealth. It depends
:12:58. > :13:01.which percentage you are. Indeed. The timing of this report is not
:13:02. > :13:07.unrelated to the Budget as well. It comes down again to this debate
:13:08. > :13:10.about who the Government should be helping. That's the balance George
:13:11. > :13:14.Osborne is trying to strike before the Budget, not seeming too much to
:13:15. > :13:17.help those wealthiest families. Building up to the Budget on
:13:18. > :13:28.Wednesday. Thank you both very much for that. That is it for for papers
:13:29. > :13:45.this hour, a big thank you to you both.
:13:46. > :13:52.Let's get started on this. Not bad. A bit slow in the middle. Not bad.