:02:48. > :02:53.are subject to constant bombardment. In a situation like this, you would
:02:54. > :02:56.kind of think, this sounds like clutching at straws. Certainly upped
:02:57. > :03:03.the ante and broken the truce, but it is hard to see now we are in
:03:04. > :03:05.this, it is just going to be tit`for`tat with what
:03:06. > :03:09.this, it is just going to be tit`for`tat with ever power play
:03:10. > :03:14.each side can grasp. Israel have perhaps said they will respond with
:03:15. > :03:18.crushing force. It is compulsory to be in the army. They have tens of
:03:19. > :03:21.thousands as reserve is too can be called upon at any time, with the
:03:22. > :03:34.promise that what ever happens, they can get you home. Yes, you talk
:03:35. > :03:45.about a crushing force. This young man, his father used to be in
:03:46. > :03:48.Cambridge University. He had his bar mitzvah at Cambridge University.
:03:49. > :03:52.These are points of reference so people can understand to this young
:03:53. > :03:56.man is. Then, toward the end of the story it says at least 62
:03:57. > :04:05.Palestinians were killed and 220 wounded when Israeli tanks began
:04:06. > :04:10.shelling the town of Rafer. Crushing force is exactly it and of course
:04:11. > :04:13.Israelis, the Israeli state is a democratic state, defending its
:04:14. > :04:26.borders, it is supported by the US and indeed by Britain, to an extent,
:04:27. > :04:29.but it doesn't feel the force of the attacks in the same way because it
:04:30. > :04:36.has the iron Dome. All the casualties are on the Palestinian
:04:37. > :04:39.side. This is a day on which the Israeli government has managed to
:04:40. > :04:44.get the PR offensive on its side as well as the massive air bombardment.
:04:45. > :04:49.We have seen the incredible destruction that has been caused in
:04:50. > :04:56.places like a town pretty much levelled in the centre of Gaza city.
:04:57. > :05:01.The cease`fire was meant to last three days, and 90 minutes is barely
:05:02. > :05:11.enough time for people to restock their food supplies, never mind
:05:12. > :05:16.anything else. We have no words as a watching world to describe the
:05:17. > :05:20.horror of this. We are getting really graphic images of what it is
:05:21. > :05:26.like. It is not something that needs to be left to the imagination. We
:05:27. > :05:38.are seeing the bodies of children taken into hospitals. We are
:05:39. > :05:40.watching men who are usually guarded with the language they use saying
:05:41. > :05:49.this is outrageous. We have seen UN officials break down in tears. If
:05:50. > :05:51.you've `` if you need any parallels, we are seeing people
:05:52. > :05:54.break down, unable to stand basically what they are seen in Gaza
:05:55. > :05:56.and we seem to be completely powerless to act. At the same time,
:05:57. > :05:59.bizarrely, it looks as though the peace talks scheduled to go on in
:06:00. > :06:05.Egypt are somehow expected to go on in the midst of this. I appreciate
:06:06. > :06:07.there may well be a couple of attempts to establish a proper
:06:08. > :06:12.cease`fire and there may be stopped and starts but it strikes me that
:06:13. > :06:16.Israel have made it very clear in recent days that they intend to shut
:06:17. > :06:19.down all these tunnels. Now they haven't yet, so it strikes me that
:06:20. > :06:24.that really does look like in military terms their objective
:06:25. > :06:27.before they will stop. Staying with the times just for a quick look at
:06:28. > :06:34.the photo story, very different tone to it. This is Claudia, who has won
:06:35. > :06:43.four gold medals in the Commonwealth Games forced the first Englishwoman
:06:44. > :06:47.for 84 years to do that. Tell us what the impact has been on the city
:06:48. > :06:50.of Glasgow. It is unbelievable. I am sitting here in the studio the
:06:51. > :06:55.moment and I hope you cannot hear the constant thud, thud, thud
:06:56. > :06:59.because there are about 12 bands outside, a TV programme going on
:07:00. > :07:05.beneath as elsewhere in the civic key here in Glasgow. The streets are
:07:06. > :07:08.buzzing. I came from an event night called the Empire cafe exploring
:07:09. > :07:13.Scotland's not very great track record of investing in the
:07:14. > :07:17.colonies, in the Empire and imperialism. There have been some
:07:18. > :07:20.long hard look going on on the fringe of all this and at the same
:07:21. > :07:26.time the streets are absolutely full of people. The Commonwealth Games
:07:27. > :07:30.have set the city alight and actually because TV coverage is so
:07:31. > :07:34.good it is the same across Scotland. Iron free where I was out last night
:07:35. > :07:37.in Edinburgh, they actually turned the music down in a very busy
:07:38. > :07:44.restaurant at the point where a Lee Childs was going in her 800 metres
:07:45. > :07:48.for us all to watch her get the silver medal. Not much turns
:07:49. > :07:53.television set off in pubs these days. What you might know about Neal
:07:54. > :07:56.is that he is a very keen amateur ice skaters so you no doubt will
:07:57. > :08:03.appreciate this sort of athleticism that we see Western Mark yes, that's
:08:04. > :08:08.right. Of course I am almost winter Olympic standard on the ice rink
:08:09. > :08:15.twice a week. Not quite. Let's move on to the Daily Mail. I think Neal
:08:16. > :08:19.was being unnecessarily modest. This is a campaign that the Daily Mail
:08:20. > :08:22.has been running, it has been very cross about the fact that huge fines
:08:23. > :08:26.levied by private parking companies and the suggestion is that some of
:08:27. > :08:32.the fines they levy are not even legal. It seems that they have some
:08:33. > :08:37.have been running stories about this have been running stories about this
:08:38. > :08:42.last week. What they are talking about is people who take your car
:08:43. > :08:46.when you are on private property. If you park on double yellow line and
:08:47. > :08:50.get ticketed by the authority, they are talking about people in hospital
:08:51. > :08:53.car parks or supermarket car parks who can leave a ticket on your
:08:54. > :08:59.windscreen which looks very official but isn't actually. They are saying
:09:00. > :09:08.that an adviser to David Cameron said this ranks alongside the EPI
:09:09. > :09:14.protections gambol in terms of money they shouldn't have to spend. Having
:09:15. > :09:19.read almost the full version of this on their website, I don't know what
:09:20. > :09:23.happens next. Clearly you do not have a right to park for free in
:09:24. > :09:26.Sainsbury's car park all day and go off and commute to your job and
:09:27. > :09:30.leave your car for free in somebody else's car park. So there has to be
:09:31. > :09:34.a balance struck between the supermarkets and the hospitals
:09:35. > :09:39.having proper rights over their private property and at the same
:09:40. > :09:44.time people parking, not being gouged by heavy fines. I will move
:09:45. > :09:51.on to you Leslie for this one on the Financial Times, airlines split on
:09:52. > :09:54.safety of Iraq roots. Not all are convinced that flying over Iraq
:09:55. > :09:58.given the fact it is still a war`torn country, it costs more
:09:59. > :10:04.money as we know for flights to be diverted around conflict zones, but
:10:05. > :10:09.the reason that this is so pertinent is that the suggestion is that Isis
:10:10. > :10:15.militant may have some surface to air missiles. And of course what
:10:16. > :10:22.happens to the Malaysia airline a couple of weeks ago. Yes. In a way
:10:23. > :10:26.this is fascinating. I must say, very shortly after the Malaysia
:10:27. > :10:29.airline went down, I began to wonder what we were actually doing, flying
:10:30. > :10:34.over these areas, but it did seem to be a story. Now it seems actually
:10:35. > :10:38.British Airways and another rail line have decided that yes it is OK
:10:39. > :10:43.to go over Iraq where as virgin and Air France have decided that no,
:10:44. > :10:50.they are not. It is possible to fly higher now, the flights are 20,000
:10:51. > :10:54.feet, you can at 30 thousand feet. It's the justification that seems to
:10:55. > :10:57.be interesting to me. BA are saying that basically they would only fly
:10:58. > :11:01.where it is safe to fly but that rather begs the question how would
:11:02. > :11:06.you now? How could you possibly know what kind of weaponry terrorist
:11:07. > :11:09.groups or verbal groups, however you want to characterise it, had in
:11:10. > :11:15.their possession when let's face it, in the case of the shocking events
:11:16. > :11:21.around the Ukraine, we still have search and rescue people unable to
:11:22. > :11:26.even reach the site. The amount of intelligence on the ground is zero.
:11:27. > :11:29.Very briefly, Neill, when I fly somebody I don't normally care how I
:11:30. > :11:34.get there but now people will start asking me. I had a friend living in
:11:35. > :11:38.Dubai for the last few years so I have flown that a number of times.
:11:39. > :11:42.When you have that flight Tracker on the screen in the seat in front of
:11:43. > :11:46.you, when we go over Iraqi airspace I've never really been very
:11:47. > :11:50.comfortable. Obviously I didn't have a reason for my discomfort until
:11:51. > :11:58.now. Clearly, Malaysia airlines, if you asked them, are you flying in
:11:59. > :12:11.safe airspace, they would have said yes we are. Moving on, we will leap
:12:12. > :12:23.across a story we were going to do. I would like to move you on onto the
:12:24. > :12:28.Daily Telegraph. The headline is that Scots have more disposable
:12:29. > :12:33.income than nearly all other small countries that Scottish Nationalists
:12:34. > :12:38.have been comparing Scotland too. But only because the UK provides
:12:39. > :12:43.that kind of economy of scale, that buying power that allows prices to
:12:44. > :12:48.be kept down in Scotland. I should say, I intend to be voting yes, you
:12:49. > :12:52.can take it with whatever pinch of salt you want. This strikes me as
:12:53. > :12:57.quite extraordinary. It says in the small print, that the Norwegians and
:12:58. > :13:02.Stockholm residents still have more cash than Scots. That is quite
:13:03. > :13:09.extraordinary. Their taxation rates are famously quite high. The second
:13:10. > :13:11.thing is, what can you do with more disposable income? We have the
:13:12. > :13:16.highest cost of childcare in the European Union, and we have some of
:13:17. > :13:22.the highest rail fares throughout the whole of Britain. You cannot buy
:13:23. > :13:25.social goods with any amount of disposable income. The thing that
:13:26. > :13:30.Scots are trying to say to the rest of Britain, and I think many people
:13:31. > :13:33.would echo this, any amount of personal disposable income will not
:13:34. > :13:37.buy us a good society. That is what these other countries have got. We
:13:38. > :13:44.will talk about that later, the next time we look at the papers. But we
:13:45. > :13:50.have to leave it there. Thank you both very much. Well done for coping
:13:51. > :13:55.with being so far away. I hope you stay with us, at 11pm we will be
:13:56. > :13:58.taking a look at the situation in Gaza. Coming up next, it is time for
:13:59. > :14:18.sports day. I am only faster, welcome to sports
:14:19. > :14:24.day from the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Usain Bolt does his talking
:14:25. > :14:25.on the track, carrying Jamaica into the relay