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:00:00. > :00:00.result. Many have taken place in the annual

:00:00. > :00:09.parades of the Orange Order. It is the most significant stage in the

:00:10. > :00:15.Protestant marching order. `` marching calendar.

:00:16. > :00:18.Welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will

:00:19. > :00:21.With me are David Akinsanya, campaigner and broadcaster

:00:22. > :00:33.and Vincent Moss, political editor of the Sunday Mirror. Tomorrow's

:00:34. > :00:40.front pages. It leads with Archbishop Tutu's support for those

:00:41. > :00:44.issuing `` wanting a change. Criticism of a Channel four drama

:00:45. > :00:49.which fictionalised as the IRA killing of Tory MP Airey Neave in

:00:50. > :00:55.1979. And child abuse victims to sue the

:00:56. > :00:59.government of a lack of victim support.

:01:00. > :01:03.And the Sunday Telegraph says Tony Blair may be called to Parliament to

:01:04. > :01:08.rear `` to explain what advice was given to reassure on the run IRA

:01:09. > :01:14.members that they would not be prosecuted. Let's start with the

:01:15. > :01:19.Independent on Sunday. Child abuse victims to sue government,

:01:20. > :01:25.exclusive. Legal impact `` embattled questioning on the victims. And lack

:01:26. > :01:30.of action. It speaks to one of the alleged victims about the kind of

:01:31. > :01:37.experience he has had a trying to get justice in the criminal justice

:01:38. > :01:43.system. David, this story will have huge interest for you. Yes. Just

:01:44. > :01:46.watching the stuff over the last couple of weeks it has been

:01:47. > :01:50.interesting to see that we are now looking at people `` at the places

:01:51. > :01:56.people have been worried about for a long time. They used to be an

:01:57. > :01:59.association called the National Association of Young people in care

:02:00. > :02:03.and they lost funding from the government because a lot of people

:02:04. > :02:07.were coming to them and say to them about what was going on and giving

:02:08. > :02:11.them names and evidence. And one of the people who worked for that

:02:12. > :02:16.organisation at her house raided for that information. This was going up

:02:17. > :02:21.`` this was going on for a long time. Lots of people like me in the

:02:22. > :02:25.care system who were physically and sexually abused. For people like me

:02:26. > :02:31.it is great to see this happening. I hope they get to the bottom of it.

:02:32. > :02:38.Vincent, it seems that any kind of claim would be made under the

:02:39. > :02:44.European Convention of human rights that they were not given access to

:02:45. > :02:50.justice and not believed. Absolutely the case. Victims have been making

:02:51. > :02:55.this point for decades have have been ignored. This particular case

:02:56. > :03:03.refers to a fitting in a care home in Richmond in south`west London.

:03:04. > :03:07.The point is that this man `` the point is this man says he thought he

:03:08. > :03:13.had built a safe world and it was taken away from him. He says that

:03:14. > :03:17.victims can come forward but there will be afraid of coming forward

:03:18. > :03:21.because all the pain will have to be relived. He is single so he is not

:03:22. > :03:28.in as bad a place as people with families who would be putting them

:03:29. > :03:31.through that trauma. I expect it is only the first tranche of many

:03:32. > :03:36.victims we will see coming forward complaining about abuse in care

:03:37. > :03:40.homes. We are seeing it in schools and my own paper the Sunday Mirror

:03:41. > :03:43.is reporting on Sunday about right at the heart of the British

:03:44. > :03:50.establishment, people involved in abusing young people. What sort of

:03:51. > :03:54.justice to victims won't? We heard from victims of Rolf Harris, they

:03:55. > :04:00.were saying that the sentence did not matter, it was having the story

:04:01. > :04:03.believed. Absolutely. The reason I did not sue Essex social services

:04:04. > :04:10.for what happened to me is because I got a five page apology letter from

:04:11. > :04:17.them. But the local authority were told not to apologise because then I

:04:18. > :04:22.could sue. But they did apologise. When that was enough. I did think

:04:23. > :04:25.about suing, but I thought where will that come from, children and

:04:26. > :04:35.services. Let's move on to the Observer.

:04:36. > :04:40.Bishop Tutu supports assisted dying. This is the story about whether

:04:41. > :04:44.doctors should have the ability to issue a terminal dose to somebody

:04:45. > :04:49.who no longer wants to live. We have heard from George Carey in the last

:04:50. > :04:52.couple of days, changing his mind about assisted dying for the

:04:53. > :04:56.terminally ill, not people with other illnesses from which they

:04:57. > :04:59.would like to escape. Here we have somebody from the world stage,

:05:00. > :05:06.Desmond Tutu, saying something similar. Very much so. The Observer

:05:07. > :05:11.took on this story quite successfully. Desmond Tutu wrote an

:05:12. > :05:15.article for the Observer. He says it is time for a mind shift in this and

:05:16. > :05:21.he says he has revered the sanctity of life throughout his career but

:05:22. > :05:25.not at any cost. And you want this issue looked at. And it is coming up

:05:26. > :05:30.next week in the House of Lords when Lord Falconer will be raising it

:05:31. > :05:34.again and pushing for a mind shift as Desmond Tutu says. And many

:05:35. > :05:37.people, including those in the church who have resisted it for

:05:38. > :05:44.decades, are starting to come round. He talked about how his

:05:45. > :05:48.friend Nelson Mandela was treated and we know he was kept alive for a

:05:49. > :05:54.long time and we were wondering when they were finally going to let him

:05:55. > :05:58.go. He says here that he underwent numerous painful hospitalisations,

:05:59. > :06:03.forced to endure a photo stunt with politicians just shortly before he

:06:04. > :06:07.died. That is something we did not know about. That was shocking to

:06:08. > :06:13.hear that about Nelson Mandela. You can understand why when we know the

:06:14. > :06:17.games that politicians play. It is sad. I could talk about this in

:06:18. > :06:23.terms of people I know. The bottom line is, I cannot imagine wanting to

:06:24. > :06:28.be in a situation where I can't care for myself. I think a lot of people

:06:29. > :06:32.have that thought. If we start talking about it... It is an

:06:33. > :06:37.important issue for the church but a lot of these people dashing a lot of

:06:38. > :06:42.people in this country are not involved in church and they're

:06:43. > :06:47.thinking about personal issues. I would not want to live if I were not

:06:48. > :06:56.able to enjoy my life. We talked about this before from, it is so

:06:57. > :07:02.difficult for the church as well. Judaism and Islam does not agree

:07:03. > :07:06.with assisted dying but religions tried to remain relevant to their

:07:07. > :07:09.congregations. If their congregation's attitude shifts, then

:07:10. > :07:16.the faith has got some thinking to do. It is also important to remember

:07:17. > :07:19.that the church only represents a portion of society. Many people are

:07:20. > :07:26.not particularly religious. Many people would like to have a say in

:07:27. > :07:33.how they spend their final weeks. There needs to be a voice for those

:07:34. > :07:36.as well. That is what Lord Falconer will be trying to do next Friday.

:07:37. > :07:42.The church has an important voice, but not the only voice. Let's go to

:07:43. > :07:49.the Sunday Telegraph. Three stories, they always do us proud. The lead

:07:50. > :07:53.story, Blair must explain IRA deals. Tony Blair coming under pressure to

:07:54. > :08:00.appear before Parliament to expend secret deals he made with the Sinn

:08:01. > :08:04.Fein to assure some people they will not wanted by police. A trial

:08:05. > :08:09.collapsed because this evidence came to light. Tony Blair always says he

:08:10. > :08:15.is too busy to answer questions. That is rather Tony Blair's mantra

:08:16. > :08:20.when it comes all of things! These are related to the so`called comfort

:08:21. > :08:24.letters and the details behind those. Tony Blair has an private

:08:25. > :08:28.explained what went on in those historic days when deals were done

:08:29. > :08:32.to try to get peace in Northern Ireland and he is under renewed

:08:33. > :08:35.pressure to go before the Northern Ireland committee and explain

:08:36. > :08:40.exactly what happened. I am sure he will not be sure to do every last

:08:41. > :08:48.detail of that but there is mounting pressure for him to do that and

:08:49. > :08:52.explain what he agreed to. A loss of us were quite shocked when that came

:08:53. > :08:56.out, that these promises and been made, members of the general public.

:08:57. > :09:00.We are pleased that things can't down in Northern Ireland and there

:09:01. > :09:04.was a long period that we were very happy. You saw people shopping

:09:05. > :09:08.without fear of bombing. But when it comes down to it, people need to

:09:09. > :09:11.explain themselves and because this is going to cause us lots of problem

:09:12. > :09:18.in the future, he should come forward and explain himself. You

:09:19. > :09:22.wonder what impact it will have in destabilising different communities

:09:23. > :09:28.if questions are asked of him and he explains some of the background?

:09:29. > :09:32.Exactly. Although Tony Blair has a good track record of appearing on

:09:33. > :09:38.stands and appearing eminently plausible so he will find a way of

:09:39. > :09:42.talking his way out of trouble. I am sure `` I am not sure how much it

:09:43. > :09:47.will benefit the situation to go to much into the anatomy of all of

:09:48. > :09:51.these talks. I am sure people would like to have historical reasons, to

:09:52. > :09:58.see people involved in terrorism brought to justice, but be careful

:09:59. > :10:05.what you wish for, sometimes. The Home Office did say that if any new

:10:06. > :10:08.evidence were to come to light, it is not covered by these previous

:10:09. > :10:13.assurances. It did not mean that they could not in future be

:10:14. > :10:19.prosecutions. Exactly. That remains the case. Whether or not Tony Blair

:10:20. > :10:27.appears before these MPs. Another story, take therapy or have your

:10:28. > :10:33.benefits cut. Thousands of benefit claimants with `` stripped of their

:10:34. > :10:37.benefits unless they have treatment for anxiety or depression. People

:10:38. > :10:42.who are unemployed have complex needs and reasons why they do not

:10:43. > :10:56.have a job, not just the reason that they have not been able to keep a

:10:57. > :11:04.job. And does the maths and up? It was up in the long one? It is

:11:05. > :11:11.punitive. A lot of the people I know who cannot go for work still under

:11:12. > :11:16.the same rules as other benefit claimants, so they are not let off

:11:17. > :11:22.completely. No idea from this article where the money would come

:11:23. > :11:26.from? Exactly. And talking about people who are on employment support

:11:27. > :11:30.allowance who have anxiety or depression and with treatment, you

:11:31. > :11:34.could get them back into work. We have seen this in the bedroom tax.

:11:35. > :11:41.Iain Duncan Smith is very good at coming up with the first part of the

:11:42. > :11:45.agreement which is coming `` cutting people 's money, but the therapy,

:11:46. > :11:51.I'm sure they will be encouraging people back to work who have severe

:11:52. > :11:55.depression but will they provide the therapy that is needed? I severely

:11:56. > :11:59.doubt it. What about other people who might think therapy is nonsense

:12:00. > :12:07.and we should just sort themselves out, pull themselves up and get on

:12:08. > :12:10.with it. I suspect that is closer to Iain Duncan Smith's Andy Department

:12:11. > :12:17.for Work and Pensions's feed. But suggesting therapy is the opposite.

:12:18. > :12:22.They are not suggesting how they will pay for it. And Norman Lamb has

:12:23. > :12:28.already been quoted as not thinking it is a sensible idea. Finally with

:12:29. > :12:34.the Telegraph, cometh the hour, day of destiny for Lionel Messi. The

:12:35. > :12:39.world's most lauded footballer will line up at the Maracana Stadium in

:12:40. > :12:48.the World Cup final to take on the Germans. Your money on? The Germans!

:12:49. > :12:51.I wonder how many people in Brazil will want Argentina to win because

:12:52. > :12:56.they are their neighbours or whether there is a rivalry like there is

:12:57. > :13:03.between England and Scotland as Mac it is hard to say but I think it is

:13:04. > :13:08.hard that I think it is interesting that the Telegraph shows and a

:13:09. > :13:13.picture of Lionel Messi celebrating. I had Brazil in the sweepstakes so

:13:14. > :13:21.I'm already out of it. Will you be watching? No. Not bothered? If

:13:22. > :13:29.England were playing. Only because I felt I had to. No? I don't think so,

:13:30. > :13:34.I have lost interest now. I shall be glued to it. Believe that, you'll

:13:35. > :13:42.believe anything! That if the papers for now, but David and Vincent will

:13:43. > :13:46.be back with us at 11:30pm. For another look at the stories making

:13:47. > :13:52.the front pages. Stay with us because missiles continue to fly.

:13:53. > :14:03.Coming up next, reporters.