:00:00. > :00:00.to Stamford Bridge tomorrow. That's in 15 minutes. First, the
:00:07. > :00:18.papers. Hello there, welcome to our look
:00:19. > :00:26.ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me Shazia
:00:27. > :00:30.Awan, entrepreneur and British Library ambassador and Martin
:00:31. > :00:33.Bentham of the Evening Standard. The Financial Times is looking to
:00:34. > :00:35.Wednesday's Budget with the Chancellor saying people are
:00:36. > :00:38.beginning to benefit from rising living standards.
:00:39. > :00:42.The Telegraph is leading on the death of Mick Jagger's girlfriend,
:00:43. > :00:47.L'Wren Scott, saying the musician was devastated by the news.
:00:48. > :00:52.The Express is asking if al`Qaeda hijacked the missing Malaysian jet.
:00:53. > :00:56.The Guardian has news of a Government plan to give families up
:00:57. > :01:00.to ?2,000 a year to help with childcare costs.
:01:01. > :01:05.A health story on The Times which says patients are needlessly moved
:01:06. > :01:11.about between hospitals at night to relieve pressure on wards.
:01:12. > :01:16.We will start with the Financial Times, Osbourne hones in on cost of
:01:17. > :01:20.living. He is going to set out his vision for the Budget on Wednesday.
:01:21. > :01:24.We are going to get lots of little bits in the next couple of days
:01:25. > :01:28.about what he is going to do. He is basically trying to get across the
:01:29. > :01:33.message that the economy is growing, it's getting better. Absolutely.
:01:34. > :01:37.This is classic Osbourne pitching to middle`class families and showing
:01:38. > :01:42.the Conservative commitment to help hard`pressed families. One of the
:01:43. > :01:49.interesting things that they're saying is they're going to be
:01:50. > :01:54.offering up to ?2,000 per child tax relief to working parents but that's
:01:55. > :02:00.extended ` could be extended to families earning up to ?300,000 per
:02:01. > :02:04.couple so I am not sure how hard`pressed those people really
:02:05. > :02:08.are. Is he going to get the balance right do you think? It's hard to
:02:09. > :02:12.know. I suppose he is under pressure from his own side about the 40p tax
:02:13. > :02:17.rate which I don't think he is going to address. I suppose things like
:02:18. > :02:25.this gesture ` I am sceptical as well when you hear it, tax relief on
:02:26. > :02:30.childcare, up to ?300,000, they don't sound hard`pressed. On the
:02:31. > :02:33.other hand they are that group the Tory backbenchers are talking about.
:02:34. > :02:40.At the other end he is going to raise, from what we understand, the
:02:41. > :02:45.personal tax allowance to ?10,500 to take more people out of tax. There
:02:46. > :02:49.is research that shows that people who really benefit from that are not
:02:50. > :02:54.the people at the bottom but people higher up the income scale who get
:02:55. > :02:58.about two of this of `` two`thirds of the benefit from that. We wait
:02:59. > :03:03.and see. Obviously the pitch he wants to make is he is appealing
:03:04. > :03:06.across the board and trying to ` cost of living. The Labour charge
:03:07. > :03:11.that the cost of living has gone up for lots of people, people are worse
:03:12. > :03:15.off in large numbers and Osbourne wants to say the figures are looking
:03:16. > :03:18.better but actually you as individuals are going to feel it in
:03:19. > :03:21.your pockets, as well. That's what he is trying to deliver, whether he
:03:22. > :03:27.can do that or not we wait and see, I suppose. That's the key. He has to
:03:28. > :03:32.sort of say, look, the economy is growing, things are getting better.
:03:33. > :03:36.And you are feeling it. He almost has to tell you that you are feeling
:03:37. > :03:39.it. Is that part of the problem that he has got that perhaps people
:03:40. > :03:43.aren't feeling it or are they feeling it and not feeling it
:03:44. > :03:49.enough? People are really feeling the absolute pinch across the board.
:03:50. > :03:53.Everyone's feeling the pinch. It's very difficult for people to relate
:03:54. > :03:57.to somebody like George Osborne, up there telling them it's getting
:03:58. > :04:03.better, it will get better and of course I am a former Tory candidate
:04:04. > :04:07.and, you know, even I can understand it's difficult to have that
:04:08. > :04:11.conversation with people. People find George Osborne very difficult
:04:12. > :04:15.to relate to, I think. It's fair to say that. You are a former Tory
:04:16. > :04:19.candidate, what should he be saying? What should be the basic pitch he
:04:20. > :04:24.puts forward come Wednesday? I don't think it would be a bad idea to look
:04:25. > :04:27.at sort of completely reforming something like stamp duty, for
:04:28. > :04:31.example, because so many people struggle to get on the housing
:04:32. > :04:34.ladder, buying and selling homes and I think that is actually something
:04:35. > :04:40.that would significantly help but the Government makes so much money
:04:41. > :04:45.from that. It would be worth looking... He needs a big, bold
:04:46. > :04:48.gesture. Something really quite big for people to go right, OK, that's
:04:49. > :04:53.interesting. That's really something for us, that's going to help me in
:04:54. > :05:00.my day`to`day life and that would be something, rather than help to
:05:01. > :05:03.buy... I think actually, on the Government's side on this, I think
:05:04. > :05:10.what they have... And there's nothing wrong with that, Martin! Are
:05:11. > :05:15.we having a role reversal, Martin? Not at all, I am thinking the only
:05:16. > :05:18.thing that ` or the main thing that's positive for them is whether
:05:19. > :05:21.people feel it or not the question is how you think your life is going
:05:22. > :05:25.to be over the coming years and that's still where, for Labour it's
:05:26. > :05:28.more tricky, because they have the backdrop of what happened when they
:05:29. > :05:32.were in power and maybe people think even if it hasn't come through to me
:05:33. > :05:36.yet f the economy's picking up that the next few years might be better.
:05:37. > :05:39.Really, that's going to be part of his pitch. I would have thought what
:05:40. > :05:45.the Labour Party are going to say is look, are you better off now than
:05:46. > :05:50.four years ago? Well, they are. Are they feeling it? The phrase will be,
:05:51. > :05:55.are you feeling better off? They're right to make that point for a lot
:05:56. > :05:58.of people. That's a valid point. Whether it's political traction in
:05:59. > :06:02.the long`term because people will be also thinking well, who is
:06:03. > :06:07.bestplaced to deliver a better future for me over the next few
:06:08. > :06:10.years? I am not sure yet that Labour has counted the negative effects of
:06:11. > :06:14.what its record in power was and that the Tories having got the
:06:15. > :06:19.figures looking better, at the very least, might have something saleable
:06:20. > :06:23.there. Who knows? There is a year to go before the next election. I don't
:06:24. > :06:29.think people are going to feel better with Ed Miliband. All right.
:06:30. > :06:34.On to The Express. Did al`Qaeda hijack the missing plane? Passengers
:06:35. > :06:38.could still be alive. Two sweeping statement there is. I suppose what
:06:39. > :06:42.these statements indicate is that while there are no facts, and if
:06:43. > :06:47.there are no facts you can come up with all kinds of stuff now. I
:06:48. > :06:52.hesitate to be definitive in anything to this story, the answer I
:06:53. > :06:58.would say is no. But only because... They would have said so by now, you
:06:59. > :07:01.think? I don't think there's been any al`Qaeda`related incident where
:07:02. > :07:05.they haven't claimed responsibility fairly rapidly. There is also what
:07:06. > :07:10.the intelligence community ` talk of chatter going on, there's been no
:07:11. > :07:17.indication of that. And I think it's a sort of sex sexy theory to put
:07:18. > :07:21.about. There doesn't seem to be ` the theorys there are about what's
:07:22. > :07:26.happened to this plane, there doesn't seem any evidence as yet,
:07:27. > :07:28.and of course the Americans and all the world's intelligence communities
:07:29. > :07:32.have been looking into the background of the individuals on
:07:33. > :07:38.this flight, nobody's found any links. That doesn't doesn't mean to
:07:39. > :07:43.say it's not possible that they don't exist. It seems unlikely. The
:07:44. > :07:51.story says, for example, that links ` the plane could have landed in the
:07:52. > :07:54.Taliban areas, southern Afghan heartlands, you think how have they
:07:55. > :07:58.got in there with the Americans and ourselves. All kinds of military
:07:59. > :08:02.hardware would have spotted it, you suspect. The bottom line there,
:08:03. > :08:05.passengers could still be alive, I mean, that's something that
:08:06. > :08:10.obviously the families are going to cling on to while there is no clear
:08:11. > :08:17.indication that unfortunately they are dead. Yeah, there is hope whilst
:08:18. > :08:19.we have all this speculation and no hard actual facts about what
:08:20. > :08:28.happened. There is hope. That's only a good thing for the friends and
:08:29. > :08:36.family of those 239 people. As far as this headline goes, did al`Qaeda
:08:37. > :08:38.hijack the plane? No. I think that's typical Express, at least they're
:08:39. > :08:43.talking about something other than the weather. It's an arresting
:08:44. > :08:46.headline. There is nothing that says 100% that they didn't hijack that
:08:47. > :08:51.plane. It is possible. That's the point. It seems unlikely. What would
:08:52. > :08:57.they be doing with these passengers for two weeks? If they had hijacked
:08:58. > :09:01.it they would have come out with it by now, surely. There was a point
:09:02. > :09:06.today, while there's been no, etc, etc, there is still hope. Of course
:09:07. > :09:12.the opening up of these two admittedly vast corridors, one to
:09:13. > :09:18.the Indian Ocean and one across the central Asian land mast, the latter
:09:19. > :09:23.gives the prospect of them having landed somewhere, there are air
:09:24. > :09:31.strips they could have landed on, never mind some stretch of central
:09:32. > :09:36.Asian terrain. With 26 countries, there's hope. But it does seem
:09:37. > :09:41.absolutely bizarre to most people that in this day and age when
:09:42. > :09:45.supermarket will know exactly what you eat, what you buy, what your
:09:46. > :09:56.habits are and they can't find a plane. Well, it is lost somewhere.
:09:57. > :10:01.Onto the Daily Telegraph. World Cup chief and family paid millions by a
:10:02. > :10:05.Qatari firm. There have been allegations swirling around FIFA and
:10:06. > :10:09.corruption for years and the BBC has done a lot of investigating. Part of
:10:10. > :10:14.the problem is the impression that can be given that there is
:10:15. > :10:18.skulduggery or something allegedly going on behind the scenes because
:10:19. > :10:23.of the bidding process and the way they conduct their business. Yes,
:10:24. > :10:29.and as you say it is a long`standing concern. Every time there is a World
:10:30. > :10:34.Cup bid, and in the last one I think they allocated Russian and Qatari
:10:35. > :10:41.World Cups the same time, meaning allegations of trade`offs between
:10:42. > :10:47.voting for the different world cups. This story, we can't say the
:10:48. > :10:52.allegations are correct, but it is suggested that Jack Warner, the
:10:53. > :10:59.former Vice President of FIFA, received money from a Qatari former
:11:00. > :11:02.football official. We don't know the rights and wrongs of that allegation
:11:03. > :11:08.but it is the sort of thing that regularly crops up after the World
:11:09. > :11:11.Cup. It looks like the whole process has to be looked at. The
:11:12. > :11:16.International Olympic Committee has had its own problems in the past
:11:17. > :11:20.with these allegations and it seems to have got its act together and it
:11:21. > :11:26.is strange that FIFA can't do the same. Sporting beards over the years
:11:27. > :11:36.have been full of corruption and all kinds of things. `` bids. It is
:11:37. > :11:41.alleged that Jack Warner has got ?2 million in his bank account from
:11:42. > :11:44.this. The only reason this has cropped up is because a bank in the
:11:45. > :11:48.Cayman Islands saw the red lights and raised this. They said it is
:11:49. > :11:53.happening. It is a shame that it takes something like this for it to
:11:54. > :12:02.come out. If it is true, of course. These are all allegations. Right!
:12:03. > :12:11.Onto the Guardian. Very sad news of the partner of Mick Jagger, L'Wren
:12:12. > :12:16.Scott, who has died at her apartment in New York. She is on the front
:12:17. > :12:20.pages with Mick Jagger, a number of the front pages. But we have got to
:12:21. > :12:26.remember that she was a very successful woman in her own right,
:12:27. > :12:32.as you point out. Absolutely. I think a lot of people will think of
:12:33. > :12:38.L'Wren Scott as Mick Jagger's other half but she was a famous model,
:12:39. > :12:42.highly successful, and a very famous designer. Her clothes are in Harrods
:12:43. > :12:49.and Selfridge's, the high`end stores. This is absolutely tragic.
:12:50. > :12:53.They have been dating for 13 years and it is unexpected. We have to be
:12:54. > :12:57.very careful what we say about this because of the circumstances
:12:58. > :13:00.surrounding it. But of course a big tragedy and it is filling
:13:01. > :13:08.practically every front page that we have got. He is on tour in
:13:09. > :13:13.Australia, I think. Yes, in Perth. It is striking because you think
:13:14. > :13:17.they are couple who have got everything and then it ends in this
:13:18. > :13:21.terrible way. To go to your point, one of the things that has been
:13:22. > :13:26.speculated is that she was concerned about the losses that her business
:13:27. > :13:29.was in caring, and one of the reasons she was concerned about that
:13:30. > :13:34.was because she was determined the business should stand on its own two
:13:35. > :13:39.feet and not rely on the vast wealth that Mick Jagger has. That is to her
:13:40. > :13:42.credit really. Indeed. They look like a picture perfect couple. It
:13:43. > :13:47.goes to show that you don't know what is going on behind the scenes.
:13:48. > :13:51.You will be back in an hour for another look at the stories behind
:13:52. > :13:55.the headlines. Stay with us on BBC News for much more at the top of the
:13:56. > :14:03.hour, including the latest on the shenanigans going on in the Ukraine.
:14:04. > :14:12.Now it is time the Sportsday. `` for Sportsday.
:14:13. > :14:19.Good evening. I'm Ore Oduba and welcome to Sportsday. Coming up on
:14:20. > :14:23.the programme: It's a no`go for a Hull City name change. The FA are
:14:24. > :14:30.set to reject the proposed the club's change to Hull Tigers.
:14:31. > :14:33.Great Britain's went to Paralympic athletes return home from Sochi
:14:34. > :14:34.after their