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1 driver. And, all the latest injuries from Rafael Nadal and David | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Weir. Hello, and welcome to our look ahead | :00:00. | :00:19. | |
to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. Joining me | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
from Glasgow is Richard Walker, editor of the Sunday Herald, and in | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
the studio I am joined by Tourcuil Crichton, Westminster editor of the | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
Daily Record. Tomorrow's front pages, starting with the Daily | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
Telegraph, which says the PM could give grandparents who look after | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
children the same rights to paid leave as parents, if they've become | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
primary carers. The Financial Times gives details of the multi`million | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
pound fine the government's had to pay for the early termination of a | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
contract with an American company providing the electronic border | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
control system. The Guardian leads on the same story, calling it a | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
fiasco. The paper also says female bosses earn more than a third less | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
than their male counterparts. The Daily Mail also goes with border | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
issues. It claims that 20 million people arrive or leave without | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
proper checks. The Times has a different lead. It claims that | :01:11. | :01:20. | |
nearly half of GPs give patient antibiotics to get them out of the | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
surgery door. The Daily Mirror takes a different perspective on Iraq, | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
with one former SAS soldier calling for jihadists to be dealt with in | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
Iraq before they reach Britain. With a month to go until the Scottish | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
Referendum, The Scotsman says Alex Salmond is drumming up Yes votes by | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
echoing a declaration once made by Robert the Bruce. And the Herald | :01:37. | :01:47. | |
pictures the Scottish First Minister taking aim on the bowling green. | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
It's lead story says he's attacking those people who are questioning his | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
currency proposals. We will talk about all the latest twists and | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
turns over the debate in Scotland. First, we will start with the Daily | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
Mirror. SAS must wipe out British jihadists, as they will return to | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
the UK and cause comment. This warning comes from Chris Ryan, a | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
former SAS man. Will it be that easy? It is clearly not going to be | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
that easy. This is a mess largely of our own making. There is no public | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
support for boots on the ground, as it is termed. But there was very | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
little public support last time and look what happened. I think we have | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
to be cynical about our leaders who tell us that they are not going to | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
put troops in, because we have a long history of doing just that. | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
David Cameron, not so long ago, was telling us that the main thrust of | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
our efforts in Iraq would be humanitarian. That is clearly no | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
longer the case. We have already had such Villa so`called mission creep, | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
how much more will we have? I think it would be disastrous to send | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
troops in again. There was no strategy of what we wanted to | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
achieve their last time, and we have no strategy now for what our | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
long`term aims are apart from the admittedly laudable aim of stopping | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
slaughter. The Daily Mirror and its front page with Chris Ryan, he is | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
talking about special forces, SAS. We know, or we understand, that | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
there are British special forces on the ground in Iraq. Some would say | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
that the tragedy of the situation in Iraq is that when we went in under | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
Tony Blair, that wasn't the right time to go in. This is now | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
potentially the right time, there is no public appetite because of the | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
mess that was caused before. The long shadow of 2003 prevent any | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
politician of this generation going out of `` prevents any politician of | :04:06. | :04:15. | |
this generation from going in. They are going out of their way to say | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
they won't. This story brings it home, in a way. No one confirms or | :04:20. | :04:30. | |
denies whether the SAS is involved, but this veteran has called for the | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
SAS to go in to target and kill these 500 or so British recruited | :04:38. | :04:48. | |
jihadists, who are fighting for the Islamic State. I suppose if you kill | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
them there, they can't come and kill you hear when they come back. It is | :04:52. | :05:00. | |
also terrifying in terms of extrajudicial killing, like the | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
Gibraltar killings of the IRA, the government sending assassins | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
overseas to do dirty work, and it really doesn't talk to the decision | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
at all. But it talks to the dilemma, this is a big threat. It | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
won't go away, because of the talk about their religion and their | :05:23. | :05:33. | |
ethnicity, that is why they are being slaughtered. As David Cameron | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
said, it will require a military solution. Military assets, but not | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
necessarily boots on the ground. The Pope seems to think the Iraq mission | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
is a good one for Western countries. Particularly given the persecution | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
that is clearly being meted out to some Christian minorities. It has | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
taken him some time to enter the debate, but yes, he has said that. | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
He has said that all measures need to be taken to stop the slaughter. | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
He stopped short of supporting military action, and he is | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
equivocating a bit on that. Nobody would disagree that everything has | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
to be done to save lives, for humanitarian purposes, but I think | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
there are difficult questions to answer and decisions to be taken. | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
The Pope hasn't yet really come to terms with them, and said what he | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
believes the right course of action will be. I think that is true not | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
just of the Pope but of every Western leader. David Cameron gave a | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
broad hint of having to be involved and engaged, and then he has gone | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
away to Cornwall for a week. And humanitarian mission, not involving | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
troops on the ground. The argument is that he doesn't need to be here. | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
It is not just that, it is protecting these people because | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
their lives are at risk simply because of who they are. A quarter | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
of Iraq's Christians are on the run from ISIS, and that is a generation | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
of people being prosecuted because of their religion, and it requires a | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
bigger response. If you don't respond, you are seen as walking by | :07:30. | :07:38. | |
the other side. I don't think the world can afford to do that. Let's | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
go to the Times. An independent Scotland has no guarantee of a place | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
in Nato. This is the times. `` this is the Times. You might suggest that | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
is the kind of scaremongering that is putting people off. Is there any | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
credence to this story? There may be. It is the head of Nato who has | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
said this. I think he has said that we would need to apply again for it. | :08:11. | :08:20. | |
He doesn't say what country would object, and it is hard to see any | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
reason for a member of Nato to object. At the very question of Nato | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
membership is very divisive within the independence movement itself. It | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
was divisive for the SNP when they agreed to support Nato membership. | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
There are many people who wouldn't shed many tears if we weren't | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
allowed in Nato. That is a good point, isn't it? The SNP changed its | :08:44. | :08:51. | |
policy. It had changed its policy, I think its heart was still anti` | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
Nato, anti` nuclear. That is part of the modern nationalism. Richard said | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
no Nato member would object, why would they? I can see the rest of | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
the UK and the US objecting in Scotland didn't agree to keep the | :09:08. | :09:17. | |
Clyde a nuclear deterrent, on the Clyde. If Scotland goes it alone, | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
and then begins to negotiate its terms of partnership with the rest | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
of the UK, or it terms of partnership with Europe or the rest | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
of the world, that card would be placed against it. You can do | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
whatever you want, when you have the weapons. There are Nato members that | :09:37. | :09:44. | |
are not nuclear powers. There are plenty. Surely, that would be a red | :09:45. | :09:55. | |
line for Alex Salmond, wouldn't it? They wouldn't say, let's keep | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
Trident so we can get into Nato, are they? No, they wouldn't. But any | :10:02. | :10:10. | |
reasons forth staying part of Nato have been entirely cooked up in the | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
last three minutes. It is not, because it has been talked about by | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
defence strategist in the UK government for a long long time. | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
Should tell viewers, Richard, it you used to be his boss. I was, | :10:25. | :10:33. | |
sometimes I wish I still was. The Scotsman. Alex Salmond uses the | :10:34. | :10:43. | |
spirit of Bruce to drum up support. Explain all this for us. Well, for | :10:44. | :10:53. | |
me and many people in favour of independence, it is more about the | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
future than the past. The Robert the Bruce allusions have an audience and | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
resonance for some people, but for me, it is more about the future. I | :11:03. | :11:13. | |
think the aspirations set out seemed to me very strong aspirations and a | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
strong blueprint for the kind of country we want to live in. The | :11:22. | :11:31. | |
Labour Party south of the border has expressed its great concern about | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
the erosion of the NHS and privatisation. Creating a culture of | :11:35. | :11:43. | |
fear in schools, and protecting vulnerable people from things like | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
the bedroom tax that have been imposed on them `` imposed on them | :11:49. | :12:02. | |
in the name of austerity. But, we are not showing two fingers to | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
Westminster, it is not a personal thing, I don't know why some people | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
say they are taking it to heart. We want control of our own money and | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
our own Parliament. OK. The problem with that is that it is the sterling | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
that Alex Salmond wants, so it is not control of your own money. Is | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
this an appeal to the heart invoking Mr Bruce? Is it a start of the push | :12:27. | :12:37. | |
to sentiment Scots, can not lose this historic moment. Yes, we are | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
one month out, 30 days, this is the emotional beginning. If you look at | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
your history, I know history is important, but if you look at | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
history from a nationalistic point of view, this was Scotland's first | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
declaration of nationhood. Alternatively, you can look at it as | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
the struggle of power and control, with the 50 barons deciding they | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
wanted to control Scotland's destiny instead of the King of England. And | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
that continued through the 13th and 14th and 15th centuries. This will | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
be appealing to the emotional side of the debate. We are almost | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
exhausted talking about the pound, defence, currency, borders, it is | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
now about how much he loved Scotland, and that is what is trying | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
to into. I think the aspiration thing about protecting the | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
vulnerable and saving the NHS from privatisation, is a complete canard. | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
He himself described it as a desperate act by a desperate man. | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
The truth is that the NHS is no more under threat today than it was last | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
year. It is completely devolved and run by the Scottish government. The | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
last story. The front page of the Guardian. Female bosses apparently | :14:03. | :14:10. | |
earn 35% less than women. `` mail bosses. It continues to happen in | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
the UK, and there is no justification for it. There is | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
legislation that stops it, so it is unclear why we are not prosecuting | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
companies that pay female bosses less than their male counterparts. | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
How has coming out in favour of independent effect of the | :14:33. | :14:40. | |
circulation of the Sunday Herald? Our figures should be published in | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
the next few weeks. They will be for the first six months of the year, | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
and remember also that we did not declare support for independence | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
until the beginning of May, so although six months only two months | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
are post declaration. A lot of caveats in their. I'm about to the | :15:00. | :15:09. | |
answer to your question... The Sunday Herald got a boost from the | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
independence front cover. It is clear that marking your position | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
when you are a small... Would you like me to answer the question. We | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
expect to see a small rise in circulation. Richard, it is good to | :15:25. | :15:25. | |
see you. Good to have you both. Stay with us. More coming up on the | :15:26. | :15:36. | |
top of the hour. Now it is time for Sportsday. | :15:37. | :15:49. | |
Hello and welcome to Sportsday. I'm John | :15:50. | :15:51. |