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:00:00. > :00:00.from the women's Super League where defending champions Liverpool have

:00:00. > :00:00.been taking on Manchester City. Tennis and the snooker ball coming

:00:00. > :00:21.up after the papers. Hallow. Welcome to our look ahead to

:00:22. > :00:28.what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me Bonnie Greer and

:00:29. > :00:33.Sam Coates. Let's have a look at some of the front pages. We will

:00:34. > :00:37.start with a striking picture of holy week celebrations in Spain.

:00:38. > :00:41.That is dominating the front page of the Daily Telegraph. Some foreign

:00:42. > :00:47.doctors lacked the necessary skills, it is claimed, to work in the NHS.

:00:48. > :00:52.The trial for Abu Hamza is on the front of the Daily Express. The

:00:53. > :00:57.daily malice reporting on the cost of a 13 year legal battle involving

:00:58. > :01:01.a whistle`blowing NHS cardiologist, who had been sacked. On the front

:01:02. > :01:06.page of the Daily Mirror, it is dedicated to a story about a baby

:01:07. > :01:11.who is reportedly infected by meningitis from the family cat. We

:01:12. > :01:19.will start with the Daily Mail. After the mid`Staffs disgraceful

:01:20. > :01:25.situation, thousands of people apparently dying as a result of lack

:01:26. > :01:30.of care and so on and so forth. We are going to be protected. This

:01:31. > :01:35.story will upset a lot of people. That is probably why it is there. We

:01:36. > :01:41.do not know yet a lot about it. It is one of the kinds of story that

:01:42. > :01:46.the Daily Mail does, man against a woman against the machine against

:01:47. > :01:52.the state. It pretty much fits into their kind of ethers. I was thinking

:01:53. > :01:58.before, it is a strange story in a way. What exactly is the Daily Mail

:01:59. > :02:04.saying other than, here is an example of a person up against the

:02:05. > :02:08.system once again and the state? They do put in there was a 13 year

:02:09. > :02:12.battle because it goes across the time the Labour government was in

:02:13. > :02:20.charge. You wonder why it is on the front page will stop they are not

:02:21. > :02:23.telling us very much about it. We can read it quite narrowly as

:02:24. > :02:28.someone who saw a lot of issues going on in the NHS and felt it

:02:29. > :02:35.should be made public and the system was trying to squash him. It strikes

:02:36. > :02:39.me as a rather good story and quite legitimate front page offering from

:02:40. > :02:46.the Daily Mail. One of the features quite a lot of the NHS scandal that

:02:47. > :02:49.have happened in recent years is the good whistle`blower. Someone who is

:02:50. > :02:54.speaking up and, for whatever reason, concerns were addressed and

:02:55. > :02:59.there was an attempt to silence them. To be honest, anyone

:03:00. > :03:03.interested in the well`being of the NHS would be keen to let the views

:03:04. > :03:07.of these sorts of people percolated up. It is an incredibly difficult

:03:08. > :03:12.issue. We are dealing with people being asked to complain about

:03:13. > :03:17.bosses. No amount of legislation will make that easier. There is a

:03:18. > :03:21.new statute you refer to from Jeremy Hunt. Then we have to complain to

:03:22. > :03:25.the very Boss you probably complaining about. A lot of people

:03:26. > :03:32.would feel their careers would hit the buffers. What I am saying is,

:03:33. > :03:38.this is a 13 year battle. Why is it now? I'd agree you to make an

:03:39. > :03:43.interesting point. The NHS has always been seen as an organisation

:03:44. > :03:46.which cuts across party lines. You do not slag off the previous Health

:03:47. > :03:51.Secretary because of something that might have happened or whatever. In

:03:52. > :03:58.this instance, that is exactly what happened. Jeremy Hunt and, his name

:03:59. > :04:07.escapes me... The former Health Secretary. Andy Burnham. They

:04:08. > :04:13.actually were at loggerheads. It does deal to many people as if that

:04:14. > :04:16.was the first time it happened. Jeremy Hunt got very close to

:04:17. > :04:21.libelling Andy Burnham. He threatened him with proceedings if

:04:22. > :04:25.you did not back off. Jeremy Hunt was saying Andy Burnham knew certain

:04:26. > :04:33.things and, of course, Andy Burnham said he did not know these things.

:04:34. > :04:37.Jeremy Hunt levelled it. As someone born in America, whose whole

:04:38. > :04:41.experience of the medical system, we have no health insurance in the

:04:42. > :04:46.United States. The sort of dismantling of the NHS for whatever

:04:47. > :04:51.reason this particular government thinks is necessary, I find

:04:52. > :05:00.absolutely appalling. It is frightening. This kind of story, we

:05:01. > :05:05.do not have the inside page so I do not know what audience and outs of

:05:06. > :05:13.this are, is another nail in the Coffin of this great institution.

:05:14. > :05:15.The fact is, it is a conservative coalition Health Secretary who has

:05:16. > :05:24.brought in a law to protect whistle`blowers. And he should. That

:05:25. > :05:30.seems quite right. The NHS is going to be a very big battle ground at

:05:31. > :05:36.the next election. We saw quite a significant moment in the NHS today.

:05:37. > :05:40.We saw the target of seeing people within 18 weeks of a GP referral

:05:41. > :05:43.breached for the first time. The Government confirmed that had

:05:44. > :05:48.happened because of the pressures on the NHS. It does feel like we are

:05:49. > :05:53.going to see quite a lot of them to and fro over the way the coalition

:05:54. > :05:58.have overseen the changes in the health service over the next year.

:05:59. > :06:03.It is a very difficult picture to get a handle of. It is unclear to

:06:04. > :06:07.me, as an observer, quite who is winning this battle and how dramatic

:06:08. > :06:16.the changes are that have been made so far. There is a lot of rhetoric.

:06:17. > :06:22.I would not want to referee. I do not know what happened in Andy

:06:23. > :06:29.Burnham 's office and I do not know if what Jeremy Hunt is saying is

:06:30. > :06:34.rhetoric. In the end, we are going to just be watching the data to see

:06:35. > :06:42.whether NHS hospitals country people in the time they are meant to and

:06:43. > :06:47.look at the structural changes. Only a certain number of places will have

:06:48. > :06:54.this 24`hour NHS service. That is what is happening now. This is going

:06:55. > :06:58.to be ten, 20 years. Will be talking about the NHS a hell of a lot in the

:06:59. > :07:04.run`up to the election. We are going to go on to Page two of the Daily

:07:05. > :07:12.Mail. Can a fragile truce prevent Ukraine falling into the abyss? They

:07:13. > :07:15.seem to agree on something. John Kerry, the US Secretary of State and

:07:16. > :07:24.the Russian Foreign Minister to seemed to have come to a deal that

:07:25. > :07:27.has seen compromises on both sides. Vladimir Putin has agreed to try to

:07:28. > :07:31.help disband some of the gangs that are roaming around eastern Ukraine

:07:32. > :07:38.that are seen as militia, who are stoking up popular discontent. They

:07:39. > :07:41.are saying we need to go in there because of the unrest and take

:07:42. > :07:47.control of another portion of eastern Ukraine. In terms of what

:07:48. > :07:53.John Kerry has had to give, they have had to concede a restructuring

:07:54. > :07:57.of Ukraine, giving different local areas different regional control,

:07:58. > :08:01.which does allow Putin to say he got something out of this. You have to

:08:02. > :08:06.remember that not all of the cards were on the side of John Kerry. You

:08:07. > :08:11.look at the tough rhetoric coming out of America about sanctions and

:08:12. > :08:19.such, but then again, Europe has not really been anything like as tough.

:08:20. > :08:22.What is interesting to me, any sovereign nation that says

:08:23. > :08:30.basically, we have the right to protect our language nationals is

:08:31. > :08:34.the same as if the French president said we are coming to London because

:08:35. > :08:41.the French speakers are not happy. That is what we are not tackling.

:08:42. > :08:43.That is the basic premise. That is what Adolf Hitler used before World

:08:44. > :08:51.War II about the German`speaking people. We cannot let that kind of

:08:52. > :08:57.rationale though past. The UN has already condemned it. It is

:08:58. > :09:00.ridiculous. There are schools in predominantly Russian speaking areas

:09:01. > :09:12.where you are not allowed to speak the language. Absolutely. It needs

:09:13. > :09:15.to be challenged. The basic idea he has been putting forth to the

:09:16. > :09:20.popular press is that these people have been asked to come in. These

:09:21. > :09:28.are our language speakers and we have the right to protect them. It

:09:29. > :09:32.has to be deeper than that. Foreign doctors lack skills for the NHS,

:09:33. > :09:39.according to the front of the Daily Telegraph. One wonders why they are

:09:40. > :09:44.now doing in the first place? I have foreign doctors around me. I do not

:09:45. > :09:51.know what this is about. Someone who has come over from the United

:09:52. > :09:56.States. When did this happen? I saw a foreign doctor this morning. I do

:09:57. > :10:00.not know what they mean by what skills they lack. They do not have

:10:01. > :10:08.the credentials are a British doctor has, how did they get in here? It is

:10:09. > :10:12.another anti`NHS story. They say they have a series of tests which

:10:13. > :10:15.are not as stringent for foreign doctors as British doctors. If that

:10:16. > :10:25.is the case, why are they allowed in? The bottom line is there and not

:10:26. > :10:30.enough doctors, particularly in A It is not the case that there is a

:10:31. > :10:36.huge extra number of foreign doctors in this country than, say, ten or 15

:10:37. > :10:40.years ago, but there is a huge increase in the number of foreign

:10:41. > :10:44.doctors stories in the papers. One of the things that is perhaps worth

:10:45. > :10:49.thinking about, though, is as you look overseas to bring people do

:10:50. > :10:53.Britain, it is getting harder with changes to the visa regime, but you

:10:54. > :10:58.get a lot of people training in Britain and going overseas

:10:59. > :11:02.themselves. Florida and the United States. Something like half of the

:11:03. > :11:08.trainees in Western Australia are British expats. And in America, and

:11:09. > :11:14.NHS training in the United States is considered a supreme, and you can

:11:15. > :11:18.ask for top dollar. So it is quite... So is it a story to say

:11:19. > :11:24.that foreign doctors are allowed in this country, and they don't have

:11:25. > :11:30.the skills of British doctors, yet they are legally, officially allowed

:11:31. > :11:37.in? Is that a story? Well, it is... It is a story if they mess it up. It

:11:38. > :11:45.is a story by university College London. One wonders why they did

:11:46. > :11:48.that. They are a hospital and an academic institution, they would

:11:49. > :11:53.look at the evidence and come to a judgment about an issue that is

:11:54. > :11:58.quite important, because I think it is worth academic examination of

:11:59. > :12:01.this. People have an emotional and pragmatic reaction to foreign

:12:02. > :12:06.doctors, some worry they are not as good, so it is worth looking at the

:12:07. > :12:13.extent to which that is true, and they have found some grounds for

:12:14. > :12:19.agreeing with that. Language, of course, is a big issue. It is a

:12:20. > :12:25.subject that merits careful and not hysterical looking at. It always

:12:26. > :12:29.did, that is my question, why now? All right, OK, the front page of the

:12:30. > :12:40.Daily Mirror, baby given meningitis by a cat. This is, you know,

:12:41. > :12:44.this... I don't know about these kind of stories. This little child

:12:45. > :12:49.on the front cover of this paper, I don't quite understand what that is

:12:50. > :12:54.about. Out of the deepest level of it, what is it for? I would not have

:12:55. > :12:58.my child pose like this, that is my first point. What are we saying?

:12:59. > :13:05.This is what I am trying to understand. This is another story,

:13:06. > :13:11.another paper, cats and meningitis, is there something deeper going on?

:13:12. > :13:17.Is it's just a scare story? Anyone with a cat should be worried about

:13:18. > :13:21.it? I think we have had a couple of cats and baby stories in the last

:13:22. > :13:26.month. I think if there was a genuine problem, we would have known

:13:27. > :13:31.about it. University college might have done a study about it! The

:13:32. > :13:34.reason that you read about them is because there is something quite

:13:35. > :13:40.deeply ingrained in our sort of societal psyche about cats, babies,

:13:41. > :13:45.and parts they do not sit comfortably together. But actually

:13:46. > :13:47.that pretty much is an urban myth. There is some evidence that dogs are

:13:48. > :13:55.more dangerous than cats when it comes to babies, the suffocation

:13:56. > :14:01.myth is not true. And as both a parent and owner of two cats, they

:14:02. > :14:06.are perfectly happy cohabiting, and there is no issue there. This is an

:14:07. > :14:11.individually very tragic case, occasionally papers focusing on one

:14:12. > :14:19.thing that is shocking, but I would draw any wider conclusions. It makes

:14:20. > :14:26.a... A horrible story, terrible story. You guys will be back an

:14:27. > :14:30.hour. I suppose, yeah! We have pretty much knocked every headline,

:14:31. > :14:34.haven't we? Stay with us on BBC News, because the top of the hour

:14:35. > :14:38.will have much more on the talks in Geneva to try to resolve the

:14:39. > :14:52.situation in the east of Ukraine. But now it is time for Sportsday.

:14:53. > :14:56.Hello and welcome to Sportsday, I'm Katherine Downes. Cardiff City call

:14:57. > :14:59.for action against Crystal Palace amid allegations of spying before

:15:00. > :15:01.their Premier League match earlier this month, we'll look at the

:15:02. > :15:02.investigation facing the Premier