:00:00. > :00:00.former midfielder. We will also have the latest from the French Open, as
:00:00. > :00:21.Andy Murray breezes into the third round.
:00:22. > :00:28.With me are David Davis the media commentator and former director of
:00:29. > :00:34.the Football Association, and Anne Ashworth, the assistant editor at
:00:35. > :00:37.the Times. We are starting with the Daily Express, which says that
:00:38. > :00:41.doctors are winning the war against high blood pressure, saving tens of
:00:42. > :00:44.thousands of lives every year. The government is hiring debt collectors
:00:45. > :00:46.to chase hundreds of thousands of people whose tax credits were
:00:47. > :00:53.overpaid, that is according to the Independent. The chief executive of
:00:54. > :00:56.the NHS has told the Daily Telegraph there needs to be more treatment of
:00:57. > :01:02.patients in their local communities. The Metro is reporting that members
:01:03. > :01:10.of East drug smuggling gang have been convicted by a court, but only
:01:11. > :01:17.ordered to repay ?24. `` a drug smuggling gang. The Guardian reports
:01:18. > :01:24.that there is possible problems with the calculations of the cost of
:01:25. > :01:33.independence in Scotland. The Times reports on a woman who was murdered
:01:34. > :01:37.for marrying illegally. The Daily Mail reports on the Chilcott enquiry
:01:38. > :01:43.into the Iraq war. The Daily Mirror shows a photograph from today's
:01:44. > :01:47.vigil for Stephen Sutton, the teenager who raced so much money for
:01:48. > :01:53.cancer charities. We will start with the Times. Outrage grows over woman
:01:54. > :01:58.condemned to hang for falling in love. This is a woman in sedan who
:01:59. > :02:02.is a Muslim, but married a Christian, and now she is being
:02:03. > :02:06.condemned to death. She gave birth this morning in a prison, shackled,
:02:07. > :02:10.she already has one child living with her there. Her husband is a
:02:11. > :02:16.biochemist, she is a doctor, and they are caught up in a story of
:02:17. > :02:22.dark retribution and punishment that would shame the Dark Ages. She is
:02:23. > :02:25.accused of apostasy, that is, denying the fact that she was a
:02:26. > :02:34.Muslim. She says she was raised as a Christian, her husband who is a US
:02:35. > :02:38.citizen originally from South Sudan, and the court in Khartoum has said
:02:39. > :02:44.that she must die in two years after she has finished nursing her baby,
:02:45. > :02:51.for apostasy. For having denied and gone back on what they say is the
:02:52. > :02:54.Muslim faith. One suspects, David, that the majority of Muslims around
:02:55. > :03:02.the world would see this case and would actually be quite appalled by
:03:03. > :03:06.it. I would assume that, and for me, I have faith, and I look at other
:03:07. > :03:09.faiths, and I would think that anybody who has any faith, whatever
:03:10. > :03:16.it may be, would find this almost the comprehension. Not least in the
:03:17. > :03:27.21st century. But here is the story, those are the facts, as were
:03:28. > :03:31.outlined, and there are some extraordinary facts here. She went
:03:32. > :03:36.into labour after two months kept chained in a cell. The judge found
:03:37. > :03:40.she was Muslim because of the faith of her father, was therefore guilty
:03:41. > :03:44.of apostasy for marrying someone not a religion. He jailed her and
:03:45. > :03:51.annulled the marriage that had taken place in a church in Khartoum. The
:03:52. > :04:00.judge delayed her execution by two years so she could nurse her baby.
:04:01. > :04:06.Filled with horror, and the word outrage barely describes how one can
:04:07. > :04:14.feel. What the stories like this, do you think... How do they colour
:04:15. > :04:17.potentially the attitude of non` Muslims to the Muslim faith? It is
:04:18. > :04:24.not just this story, yesterday we had the woman stoned to death
:04:25. > :04:27.outside the High Court in Lahore for marrying someone against her fathers
:04:28. > :04:33.wishes. Stoned to death by her own family. We have this story from
:04:34. > :04:37.Niger, where the African Union is launching a programme to try to
:04:38. > :04:42.prevent the marriage of 14 million underaged girls across the continent
:04:43. > :04:46.every year. These stories, what kind of a picture do you think they paint
:04:47. > :04:50.or non` Muslims of the Muslim faith? I would think that most
:04:51. > :04:56.Muslims would look at this in their heart would sink. They would be
:04:57. > :05:02.horrified. The way their fate is being betrayed, and the way their
:05:03. > :05:07.beliefs are being perverted. It seems to be, maybe there is a
:05:08. > :05:12.pretext for the court in Khartoum, maybe they are using religion in a
:05:13. > :05:23.way that they have decided is expedient in this case. We know that
:05:24. > :05:30.anybody would feel horror at this. And who is going to do anything
:05:31. > :05:33.about it, that is the question? Sitting here in a warm part of
:05:34. > :05:42.central London, what responsibility does our government have, and who
:05:43. > :05:51.can influence those in authority in this country, in Sudan, to do
:05:52. > :05:55.something about what is going on? One suspects it is politicians a
:05:56. > :05:59.long way I fear from the UK and the US, and the European Union. Haven't
:06:00. > :06:06.we just signed off some aid to Sudan? Maybe we should be saying,
:06:07. > :06:14.well it is dependent on human rights. These are deeply
:06:15. > :06:17.conservative countries. Is it for us to be telling them how they should
:06:18. > :06:28.be running their affairs in that sense? You can beat yourself up all
:06:29. > :06:30.night on the sort of subject. It is interesting that and raises the
:06:31. > :06:37.issue of international aid. I am involved in the international legacy
:06:38. > :06:45.of the Olympic Games with Sebastian Coe and others, and this morning we
:06:46. > :06:50.were discussing whether there was an argument that in the future we
:06:51. > :06:57.should be targeting difficult countries, and Sudan would be just
:06:58. > :07:00.that sort of country. Can Sudan so easily dispense with the Doctor?
:07:01. > :07:05.That is what this lady is. This is how cheap it holds the life of
:07:06. > :07:13.someone who could this much good its community. The front page of the
:07:14. > :07:18.Times as well. David, non` apology plunges Lib Dems into fresh chaos.
:07:19. > :07:23.It is only a week to this moment that the election pundits were
:07:24. > :07:28.telling us, disastrous night for the Liberal Democrats! When they went a
:07:29. > :07:34.bit deeper, they said, come the general election next year they will
:07:35. > :07:38.lose around 21 of the 57 seats, and hang on a minute, some good news for
:07:39. > :07:44.the Liberal Democrats, still probably hold the balance of power.
:07:45. > :07:47.Then come forward seven days, and you suspect that here is a political
:07:48. > :07:56.party hellbent on political suicide. Just as I observe it, I
:07:57. > :08:04.find it quite remarkable that the situation they have got in. Any
:08:05. > :08:09.reading of the history of the minority parties in coalitions
:08:10. > :08:14.around Europe tells you that this can be the fate of those minority
:08:15. > :08:18.parties. I also thought that the point that Tony Blair made the other
:08:19. > :08:25.day, that the real problem here is that they had a manifesto in 2010 to
:08:26. > :08:29.the left of the Labour Party, and ended up in coalition with the
:08:30. > :08:40.Tories. So all these problems were bound to build up, not the
:08:41. > :08:43.infighting we have seen in the past with Lord Rennard. What about the
:08:44. > :08:49.timing of Lord Rennard's apology tonight? It confirms the
:08:50. > :08:53.electorate's worst fears and worst suspicions about politicians. We had
:08:54. > :08:59.huge numbers of people who stayed away from the elections last week
:09:00. > :09:05.because they think that they are all dreadful people who can't get on
:09:06. > :09:09.with each other, and this confirms all their worst suspicions. Does
:09:10. > :09:19.anybody hate each other worse than the Lib Dems? I have seen some
:09:20. > :09:28.other... They do private polling on each other? ! What a way to treat
:09:29. > :09:31.your colleague! This is schoolboy stuff compare to what they get up to
:09:32. > :09:38.in the US, let me tell you. Let's go to the mail. Whitewash already
:09:39. > :09:43.appearing in relation to the Chilcott enquiry into the Iraq War,
:09:44. > :09:55.and it hasn't even been published yet. This follows the announcement
:09:56. > :10:01.today that just quotes and gists will be published, and they will be
:10:02. > :10:05.radically censored. Anyone mentioned will be able to have a say as to how
:10:06. > :10:11.they are referred to and as to whether that information or
:10:12. > :10:16.reference can be used. So for the families of the 179 servicemen who
:10:17. > :10:20.died in the conflict, for many of those families this is not enough,
:10:21. > :10:23.because they want to know the full truth, and indeed the full truth was
:10:24. > :10:29.what the Chilcott enquiry was supposed to give us. Sir John
:10:30. > :10:41.Chilcott has seen documents, he has read them all, so he is aware of
:10:42. > :10:51.what is in this, but he said it can't all be public. Cabinet
:10:52. > :10:55.Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood has vetoed the release of these letters.
:10:56. > :10:59.You sense that Tony Blair has got the blame for this, and he
:11:00. > :11:06.vehemently denies that he has had anything to do with what should be
:11:07. > :11:11.published and what should not. You suspect that Sir Jeremy Heywood
:11:12. > :11:17.would come into the enquiry. If you are the father or mother of a
:11:18. > :11:21.soldier who has lost his or her life in Iraq, you would absolutely take
:11:22. > :11:28.the attitude that some of them appear to be taking tonight. Having
:11:29. > :11:35.said that, I do listen. When you travel abroad, and people do follow
:11:36. > :11:40.British army news, 24`hour news, world news, et cetera, and they say
:11:41. > :11:46.he go the British again, saying that private conversations involving the
:11:47. > :11:54.president of the United States should be made public. A lot of
:11:55. > :11:59.people in America don't agree with that, and which other countries
:12:00. > :12:02.would be open to that? It leaves the families of those who have died in
:12:03. > :12:10.Iraq in a very difficult situation indeed. We are going to go to the
:12:11. > :12:15.Independent. We are going to end on the Sun talking about Ed Miliband,
:12:16. > :12:22.but we are going to the Independent. A story about debt is hounding the
:12:23. > :12:25.poorest over tax credits. People who overpaid tax credits are being
:12:26. > :12:30.chased by private debt collectors for this money. In many
:12:31. > :12:34.circumstances these are very poor people who possibly can't afford to
:12:35. > :12:42.repay the money, and in some cases these overpayments a rise from HMRC
:12:43. > :12:47.mistakes, that they gave these people too much money, and I know
:12:48. > :12:54.from some letters we have had at work that these families try to say
:12:55. > :12:59.to HMRC that they are paying too much, and they say no, we don't make
:13:00. > :13:03.mistakes. Now they are coming after them. I don't does agree with the
:13:04. > :13:07.principle getting back overpaid money, but it is a futile attempt,
:13:08. > :13:14.and it should be done in a decent way. This is a potential scandal
:13:15. > :13:20.that the WGP can't allow to get any bigger. I agree with all but one
:13:21. > :13:25.point that has been made. She just said the revenue said that we don't
:13:26. > :13:32.make mistakes, I cannot believe that HMRC have ever said that. There are
:13:33. > :13:37.some mistake here in this story. We are going to go to the Sun. Page
:13:38. > :13:45.six, Ed Miliband, I don't read papers, David. He doesn't watch TV,
:13:46. > :13:49.either! I had some England manages over the years, he used to say
:13:50. > :13:54.publicly, I don't read the newspapers. In certain cases that
:13:55. > :14:01.was somewhat economical with the truth, I have to say, but the
:14:02. > :14:04.problem is, he says he relies on his aides, and they have to get
:14:05. > :14:07.absolutely everything right because you can end up in a situation where
:14:08. > :14:12.somebody, particularly on the election trail, says something you
:14:13. > :14:16.know nothing about... Yes, but he says he insists he likes to follow
:14:17. > :14:24.his own path. I'm not sure what that path is. He is not informed... You
:14:25. > :14:28.are the leader of the party that could potentially hold power, it
:14:29. > :14:33.could come PM, would you want to admit that you don't read the
:14:34. > :14:38.papers? Also that you are taking your news from American websites
:14:39. > :14:43.which follow progressive American politics. Is he not supposed to be
:14:44. > :14:51.in touch with the cost of living and all these other crises? It is
:14:52. > :14:54.interesting. The last person who potentially admitted they did not
:14:55. > :15:02.read newspapers was the woman running against Mr Obama. Her name
:15:03. > :15:22.has escaped me completely. Canada, Alaska, Sarah Palin! That's it!
:15:23. > :15:45.Now it is time for sports. Hello and welcome to Sportsday. I'm Lizzie
:15:46. > :15:47.Greenwood`Hughes, the headlines this evening...Still