01/08/2014 The Papers

are subject to constant bombardment. In a situation like this, you would

kind of think, this sounds like clutching at straws. Certainly upped

the ante and broken the truce, but it is hard to see now we are in

this, it is just going to be tit`for`tat with what

this, it is just going to be tit`for`tat with ever power play

each side can grasp. Israel have perhaps said they will respond with

crushing force. It is compulsory to be in the army. They have tens of

thousands as reserve is too can be called upon at any time, with the

promise that what ever happens, they can get you home. Yes, you talk

about a crushing force. This young man, his father used to be in

Cambridge University. He had his bar mitzvah at Cambridge University.

These are points of reference so people can understand to this young

man is. Then, toward the end of the story it says at least 62

Palestinians were killed and 220 wounded when Israeli tanks began

shelling the town of Rafer. Crushing force is exactly it and of course

Israelis, the Israeli state is a democratic state, defending its

borders, it is supported by the US and indeed by Britain, to an extent,

but it doesn't feel the force of the attacks in the same way because it

has the iron Dome. All the casualties are on the Palestinian

side. This is a day on which the Israeli government has managed to

get the PR offensive on its side as well as the massive air bombardment.

We have seen the incredible destruction that has been caused in

places like a town pretty much levelled in the centre of Gaza city.

The cease`fire was meant to last three days, and 90 minutes is barely

enough time for people to restock their food supplies, never mind

anything else. We have no words as a watching world to describe the

horror of this. We are getting really graphic images of what it is

like. It is not something that needs to be left to the imagination. We

are seeing the bodies of children taken into hospitals. We are

watching men who are usually guarded with the language they use saying

this is outrageous. We have seen UN officials break down in tears. If

you've `` if you need any parallels, we are seeing people

break down, unable to stand basically what they are seen in Gaza

and we seem to be completely powerless to act. At the same time,

bizarrely, it looks as though the peace talks scheduled to go on in

Egypt are somehow expected to go on in the midst of this. I appreciate

there may well be a couple of attempts to establish a proper

cease`fire and there may be stopped and starts but it strikes me that

Israel have made it very clear in recent days that they intend to shut

down all these tunnels. Now they haven't yet, so it strikes me that

that really does look like in military terms their objective

before they will stop. Staying with the times just for a quick look at

the photo story, very different tone to it. This is Claudia, who has won

four gold medals in the Commonwealth Games forced the first Englishwoman

for 84 years to do that. Tell us what the impact has been on the city

of Glasgow. It is unbelievable. I am sitting here in the studio the

moment and I hope you cannot hear the constant thud, thud, thud

because there are about 12 bands outside, a TV programme going on

beneath as elsewhere in the civic key here in Glasgow. The streets are

buzzing. I came from an event night called the Empire cafe exploring

Scotland's not very great track record of investing in the

colonies, in the Empire and imperialism. There have been some

long hard look going on on the fringe of all this and at the same

time the streets are absolutely full of people. The Commonwealth Games

have set the city alight and actually because TV coverage is so

good it is the same across Scotland. Iron free where I was out last night

in Edinburgh, they actually turned the music down in a very busy

restaurant at the point where a Lee Childs was going in her 800 metres

for us all to watch her get the silver medal. Not much turns

television set off in pubs these days. What you might know about Neal

is that he is a very keen amateur ice skaters so you no doubt will

appreciate this sort of athleticism that we see Western Mark yes, that's

right. Of course I am almost winter Olympic standard on the ice rink

twice a week. Not quite. Let's move on to the Daily Mail. I think Neal

was being unnecessarily modest. This is a campaign that the Daily Mail

has been running, it has been very cross about the fact that huge fines

levied by private parking companies and the suggestion is that some of

the fines they levy are not even legal. It seems that they have some

have been running stories about this have been running stories about this

last week. What they are talking about is people who take your car

when you are on private property. If you park on double yellow line and

get ticketed by the authority, they are talking about people in hospital

car parks or supermarket car parks who can leave a ticket on your

windscreen which looks very official but isn't actually. They are saying

that an adviser to David Cameron said this ranks alongside the EPI

protections gambol in terms of money they shouldn't have to spend. Having

read almost the full version of this on their website, I don't know what

happens next. Clearly you do not have a right to park for free in

Sainsbury's car park all day and go off and commute to your job and

leave your car for free in somebody else's car park. So there has to be

a balance struck between the supermarkets and the hospitals

having proper rights over their private property and at the same

time people parking, not being gouged by heavy fines. I will move

on to you Leslie for this one on the Financial Times, airlines split on

safety of Iraq roots. Not all are convinced that flying over Iraq

given the fact it is still a war`torn country, it costs more

money as we know for flights to be diverted around conflict zones, but

the reason that this is so pertinent is that the suggestion is that Isis

militant may have some surface to air missiles. And of course what

happens to the Malaysia airline a couple of weeks ago. Yes. In a way

this is fascinating. I must say, very shortly after the Malaysia

airline went down, I began to wonder what we were actually doing, flying

over these areas, but it did seem to be a story. Now it seems actually

British Airways and another rail line have decided that yes it is OK

to go over Iraq where as virgin and Air France have decided that no,

they are not. It is possible to fly higher now, the flights are 20,000

feet, you can at 30 thousand feet. It's the justification that seems to

be interesting to me. BA are saying that basically they would only fly

where it is safe to fly but that rather begs the question how would

you now? How could you possibly know what kind of weaponry terrorist

groups or verbal groups, however you want to characterise it, had in

their possession when let's face it, in the case of the shocking events

around the Ukraine, we still have search and rescue people unable to

even reach the site. The amount of intelligence on the ground is zero.

Very briefly, Neill, when I fly somebody I don't normally care how I

get there but now people will start asking me. I had a friend living in

Dubai for the last few years so I have flown that a number of times.

When you have that flight Tracker on the screen in the seat in front of

you, when we go over Iraqi airspace I've never really been very

comfortable. Obviously I didn't have a reason for my discomfort until

now. Clearly, Malaysia airlines, if you asked them, are you flying in

safe airspace, they would have said yes we are. Moving on, we will leap

across a story we were going to do. I would like to move you on onto the

Daily Telegraph. The headline is that Scots have more disposable

income than nearly all other small countries that Scottish Nationalists

have been comparing Scotland too. But only because the UK provides

that kind of economy of scale, that buying power that allows prices to

be kept down in Scotland. I should say, I intend to be voting yes, you

can take it with whatever pinch of salt you want. This strikes me as

quite extraordinary. It says in the small print, that the Norwegians and

Stockholm residents still have more cash than Scots. That is quite

extraordinary. Their taxation rates are famously quite high. The second

thing is, what can you do with more disposable income? We have the

highest cost of childcare in the European Union, and we have some of

the highest rail fares throughout the whole of Britain. You cannot buy

social goods with any amount of disposable income. The thing that

Scots are trying to say to the rest of Britain, and I think many people

would echo this, any amount of personal disposable income will not

buy us a good society. That is what these other countries have got. We

will talk about that later, the next time we look at the papers. But we

have to leave it there. Thank you both very much. Well done for coping

with being so far away. I hope you stay with us, at 11pm we will be

taking a look at the situation in Gaza. Coming up next, it is time for

sports day. I am only faster, welcome to sports

day from the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Usain Bolt does his talking

on the track, carrying Jamaica into the relay