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:00:00. > :00:00.with ease to take her first gold at a major championship. We will also

:00:00. > :00:15.cover Gareth Bale's return to Cardiff. That is all after the

:00:16. > :00:19.papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

:00:20. > :00:22.to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are Sam Coates,

:00:23. > :00:30.Deputy Political Editor at the Times and Randeep Ramesh, Social Affairs

:00:31. > :00:36.Editor at the Guardian. Thank you for coming back.

:00:37. > :00:44.Tomorrow's front pages. Starting with the Guardian. Forgive me, I am

:00:45. > :00:47.getting ahead of myself. A quick look through at the front pages will

:00:48. > :00:50.be showing us. An exclusive from the Independent ` the paper says that

:00:51. > :00:53.TEN different inquiries have been launched into Greater Manchester

:00:54. > :01:02.Police over its handling of rape and sexual abuse cases.

:01:03. > :01:09.This story in the FT, pictures of a Russian aid convoy. That image

:01:10. > :01:12.dominates the front of the paper. While a warning from Colonel Tim

:01:13. > :01:15.Collins is The Telegraph's front page splash. The retired military

:01:16. > :01:23.officer says Britain is failing its moral obligation to intervene. A

:01:24. > :01:27.photo of the late Robin Williams found dead in an apparent suicide at

:01:28. > :01:39.his home on Monday dominates the front of The Daily Star.

:01:40. > :01:45.He was found dead after an apparent suicide at his home.

:01:46. > :01:52.The Metro also has him on the front of the paper. The agony of his final

:01:53. > :02:00.hours have been revealed. Robin Williams is also on the front of the

:02:01. > :02:03.Express. The paper also has an update on its campaign to try and

:02:04. > :02:07.end hospital car park charges. Robin Williams is also on the front of the

:02:08. > :02:09.Scotsman. It also has a warning ` from the United Nations ` that

:02:10. > :02:13.action is needed to avoid genocide in Iraq. While Guardian leads with

:02:14. > :02:16.news that we've been covering on BBC News this evening that Britain is

:02:17. > :02:20.intensifying its involvement in northern Iraq.

:02:21. > :02:27.That is where we will begin our review. Thank you for staying with

:02:28. > :02:32.us tonight. Starting with the Guardian. Britain boosts its role in

:02:33. > :02:39.combating militants. The question is how far it will go. As we discussed

:02:40. > :02:50.earlier, David Cameron has been criticised. Conservative MPs and the

:02:51. > :02:55.Prime Minister. The government has been slowly increasing the

:02:56. > :03:01.pressure, partly as a response to the public, partly because it

:03:02. > :03:07.understands what happened in Syria, which became a big mess. There is a

:03:08. > :03:14.number of problems they face. But the decisive response is probably

:03:15. > :03:22.the greatest. The question is, we are sending in more military

:03:23. > :03:30.material. We have been told that Britain has been sending aid and

:03:31. > :03:38.weapons to the Kurds. At what point does the pressure becomes

:03:39. > :03:44.irresistible for Parliament? It is interesting, we are moving towards

:03:45. > :03:53.military involvement. Ferrying military material from one country

:03:54. > :03:57.to another is a big step. It almost suggests you recall Parliament as an

:03:58. > :04:02.endpoint. You recall Parliament when you have a plan. The government does

:04:03. > :04:09.not know what option they want to go for at the moment. From purely a

:04:10. > :04:21.humanitarian effort all the way through to a full on assault to try

:04:22. > :04:28.and push back and even defeat ISIS. I do not think the government will

:04:29. > :04:34.risk another Syria experience. That brings us to the story that has your

:04:35. > :04:38.byline on the front of the Times. But it feels threatened by

:04:39. > :04:45.terrorists. What is that about? `` Britain. In short, it is a different

:04:46. > :04:56.place to where the public were on Syria. A year ago, only one in four

:04:57. > :05:02.members of the public supported bombing Syria. Now we are looking at

:05:03. > :05:11.something and little more even ski `` keel. We took another poll today.

:05:12. > :05:21.It has gone up to 40%. An interesting margin of error. What

:05:22. > :05:25.has underlined, it is a bit more neck and neck. Why is there a

:05:26. > :05:32.difference between Iraq and Syria? There is a difference between the

:05:33. > :05:42.feeling. 80% feel threatened because of Islamic militant behaviour. There

:05:43. > :05:48.is that worried the activities in Iraq may spill over. You do not see

:05:49. > :05:56.that in Syria. You have also got a clear enemy in ISIS. The other

:05:57. > :06:00.difference is, there are questions under threat. That has been a

:06:01. > :06:12.feature. That has been picked up by backbench MPs. And since the famous

:06:13. > :06:18.truck on in February, we have had the drumbeat of Islamic extremism

:06:19. > :06:25.coming into British public life. That has changed. Things all play

:06:26. > :06:34.into this atmosphere that we are under threat. It is definitely

:06:35. > :06:39.there. There is the idea that maybe there is a shift moving towards

:06:40. > :06:47.intervention. There is an opinion piece by the former Conservative

:06:48. > :06:52.defence secretary Liam Fox. He says, public opinion is split on

:06:53. > :06:57.military intervention. But this is an occasion where we need to lead

:06:58. > :07:08.public opinion, not follow it. He has never been a dove. It goes back

:07:09. > :07:14.to that question, is there a plan, and if there is a plan, we need to

:07:15. > :07:21.be leading public opinion. You cannot just say, OK, now we will do

:07:22. > :07:24.something. The government was suggesting bombing, but they were

:07:25. > :07:29.not able to explain what would happen. This is the same question

:07:30. > :07:39.that needs to be answered. We may bond ISIS a bit. `` attack. How do

:07:40. > :07:46.we contain this problem? Do we set ourselves more realistic goals that

:07:47. > :07:52.the public can support? Nobody wants the sense of entering a conflict

:07:53. > :08:00.without end. Moving on to the FT. We talked a little bit about this and

:08:01. > :08:06.hour ago. What do you make of this Russian convoy? It is quite a

:08:07. > :08:16.striking image. Is what is inside the trucks that is the question.

:08:17. > :08:21.This is a sign of Putin being a clever operative. He senses the

:08:22. > :08:28.western attention is in the Middle East. He has objectives that he

:08:29. > :08:32.wishes to achieve. Not least, aiding the separatists, the Russian

:08:33. > :08:36.speaking minority that he wants to succeed. Or at least give them some

:08:37. > :08:46.kind of autonomy from the Ukraine. He is testing the country's

:08:47. > :08:55.resolve. I think the Russians are playing this quite cleverly. This is

:08:56. > :08:59.an interesting contrast between the intervention, the action being taken

:09:00. > :09:05.by countries like Britain under the label of humanitarian assistance and

:09:06. > :09:11.President Putin using the same language in Ukraine. A lot of

:09:12. > :09:18.Russian analysts have said it is a question of when, not if he goes

:09:19. > :09:24.into eastern Ukraine. You need a screen split three ways. Gaza,

:09:25. > :09:33.Ukraine and Iraq. That makes it difficult for the international

:09:34. > :09:40.community. EU foreign affairs councils have never been easy going.

:09:41. > :09:45.Looking at different opinions on everything from Russian sanctions to

:09:46. > :09:52.the position in Gaza and how you deal with Iraq. It is very hard to

:09:53. > :09:57.see how you get a common position. And the United Nations summit coming

:09:58. > :10:02.up in September. A lot of these positions will have to be thrashed

:10:03. > :10:06.out. Let us talk a little bit about Robin Williams. It is almost exactly

:10:07. > :10:14.24 hours since the news came through of his death. The Scotsman has what

:10:15. > :10:22.looks like a recent photograph of him. A mischievous or beatific

:10:23. > :10:28.expression on his face. A what the papers are putting it in their late

:10:29. > :10:31.additions. They still think this is a story that has some life in it.

:10:32. > :10:40.The way they cover it is interesting. I wonder what to think

:10:41. > :10:50.of how people have been trained to a tribute explanations. Is there a

:10:51. > :10:54.test issue? `` trying. `` attribute. People need an instant reaction. It

:10:55. > :11:01.is difficult when somebody takes their own life to start describing

:11:02. > :11:08.the cause of the death to all these things. These are things which are

:11:09. > :11:15.delicate at the best of times. There has been a lot of stuff on Twitter.

:11:16. > :11:22.People think this is in poor taste. Trying to find out what happened

:11:23. > :11:26.clashes with questions of tone. The Times has not put Robin Williams

:11:27. > :11:32.onto the front page. We have chosen to look into the issues on page

:11:33. > :11:47.three. Some papers seem to be trying to out do, words like Porgera used

:11:48. > :11:52.quite freely. `` torture. Is it in some people's minds that he would

:11:53. > :11:56.pick up on the sensation? That is not how we approached it. That is

:11:57. > :12:04.the accusation that is being bandied about. What can papers do about

:12:05. > :12:12.this? They can change what they have on their websites, but there is

:12:13. > :12:15.nothing we can do about the paper. There was a tender story when I

:12:16. > :12:23.worked in the West Country when a local paper had the headline, Arthur

:12:24. > :12:28.C Clarke dead. He was a local boy. It turns out it was the wrong Arthur

:12:29. > :12:36.C Clarke. Because it was a weekly paper, it was on the stands for a

:12:37. > :12:41.week. This is a bit more serious. There is a difference between

:12:42. > :12:51.factual errors, and you can correct those. And there is the clear

:12:52. > :12:54.editorial judgement. One of the problems we have to deal with,

:12:55. > :12:58.particularly when something like this happens in America. The

:12:59. > :13:04.American public authorities act in a different way to British ones. They

:13:05. > :13:11.spew out personal details almost immediately. TV viewers often find

:13:12. > :13:17.out the gruesome details. It is almost a question for you guys.

:13:18. > :13:23.These people are very much secondary to disseminating that. That is where

:13:24. > :13:28.the American reveal all culture clashes and little bit. There is a

:13:29. > :13:36.difference between the physical details of someone's last hours and

:13:37. > :13:39.getting into somebody's mind and describing that is the cause of

:13:40. > :13:46.death. That is the problem. Suicide is a different thing. There is an

:13:47. > :13:49.effort under way to try and remind the media about some of the

:13:50. > :13:58.guidelines they get people to signup to in like this. There is a fear of

:13:59. > :14:04.venerating an extremely tragic event. Ending on a happy note, if we

:14:05. > :14:12.can. A happy event that may be coming our way. I think I have heard

:14:13. > :14:22.this before. The UK's first baby panda is on the way. The word may be

:14:23. > :14:26.is featuring a bit too prominently. It is a race between the pandas and

:14:27. > :14:33.the whale couple, as far as I can tell. `` royal couple.

:14:34. > :14:42.The birth of a panda or the birth of a new nation. I think my money is on

:14:43. > :14:52.the panda. I suppose naming the panda cub will be the next step. I

:14:53. > :14:58.wanted about maybe Alex. Maybe we could have a public poll. On that

:14:59. > :15:06.happy note, thank you both for being with us. That is it from the papers.

:15:07. > :15:09.Stay with us. At midnight, a report from northern Iraq, where tens of

:15:10. > :15:13.thousands of refugees walked from the mountain range to flee from

:15:14. > :15:28.Islamic militants. Coming up, Sportsday.

:15:29. > :15:33.Hello and welcome to Sportsday. Coming up: It's gold for Great

:15:34. > :15:35.Britain on day one of the European Athletics Championships, as

:15:36. > :15:36.40`year`old Jo Pavey leads the