:00:00. > :00:08.that they will be driving with him next season. Max Verstappen Is only
:00:09. > :00:25.17 years old. `` 16 years old. Welcome to the look ahead to what
:00:26. > :00:29.the newspapers will be bringing us. Richard Walker, Glasgow, you have
:00:30. > :00:35.popped up in the nick of time. And in the studio, from the daily
:00:36. > :01:19.record. Thank you the joining us. Some of the front pages:
:01:20. > :01:28.we are going to start with the front page of the Financial Times. Julian
:01:29. > :01:32.Assange, he is looking for an exit, according to the Financial Times,
:01:33. > :01:39.the wiki leaks found is set to quit refuge, he has been deaf to years!
:01:40. > :01:41.This is a farcical episode today. He called a press conference to
:01:42. > :01:48.announce that he would be leaving the embassy soon... Although soon
:01:49. > :01:53.does not mean now, or tomorrow... Julian Assange and his lawyers
:01:54. > :01:57.thought that a change in extradition law, which he welcomed in this long
:01:58. > :02:01.rambling press conference he held, he welcomed the change in
:02:02. > :02:06.extradition law, only to be corrected if you minutes later by
:02:07. > :02:11.the Home Office to say, yes, the law has been changed but it does not
:02:12. > :02:16.apply direct respectively. You were wanted for extradition in 2010, you
:02:17. > :02:20.have got to face the music. The minute he steps outside the
:02:21. > :02:25.Ecuadorian Embassy, there is a European arrest warrant out for him.
:02:26. > :02:30.He will be taken to Sweden to face these serious charges. One rape
:02:31. > :02:37.charge, one charge of sexual offence against a woman. `` sexual assault.
:02:38. > :02:40.His concern is that he will be sprayed onto an aeroplane to
:02:41. > :02:44.America. Julian Assange says it is not for health reasons that he is
:02:45. > :02:48.looking to leave the embassy, the suggestion seems to be that he
:02:49. > :02:56.thought that he would be able to get asylum in Ecuador. Looks that way.
:02:57. > :03:01.The health reports are varied, but at their worst, it was said to be a
:03:02. > :03:04.life`threatening illness that he has contracted while he has been in the
:03:05. > :03:10.embassy, although he denies that now, there is some suggestion that
:03:11. > :03:15.episode was a joke. Whole thing is shrouded in mystery and chaos,
:03:16. > :03:18.nobody is clear about what is happening. He seemed ready to step
:03:19. > :03:21.outside of the embassy but if he does, he will go to Sweden and then
:03:22. > :03:28.you will be Robert be sent to America. It would be a good thing
:03:29. > :03:31.for him to face the charges in Sweden but going to America would be
:03:32. > :03:36.very difficult and dangerous for him. They would throw the book at
:03:37. > :03:40.him. You say it is a good bet that he will be extradited from Sweden to
:03:41. > :03:48.America but that is not clear at all. If I were him, I would not be
:03:49. > :03:53.putting the suggestion is from some people that he should go to Sweden
:03:54. > :03:58.and face justice, he is not thinking along those lines. We have reached a
:03:59. > :04:03.pressure point. Talking about health, he looked pale and drawn, he
:04:04. > :04:08.looks older than 44. These two years have taken a toll. They have taken a
:04:09. > :04:12.toll on the budget of the Metropolitan Police as well, ?7
:04:13. > :04:17.million to keep an eye on the back door of the embassy! But the law is
:04:18. > :04:23.the law, he has got to face these charges, and one day he is going to
:04:24. > :04:27.have to walk out and the minute that he does, the minute that he is back
:04:28. > :04:32.on UK soil, outside the embassy, he is going to go to Sweden. What
:04:33. > :04:40.happens then is not clear. He is wanted by the US, wiki leaks, that
:04:41. > :04:50.is the company that he founded and funded, he has spilled the beans on
:04:51. > :04:57.the most tight secrets that the American military had. The person
:04:58. > :05:02.who stole the information is rotting in a US jail and Julian Assange does
:05:03. > :05:04.not want to be there. Bradley Manning, indeed. Staying with the
:05:05. > :05:10.Financial Times, the Kurdish have read taken eight crucial dam in
:05:11. > :05:17.Iraq, boosting morale over their extremist enemy, it would seem.
:05:18. > :05:21.American air strikes have been pivotal in helping this situation.
:05:22. > :05:30.It would seem that way. The news tonight is good news. I think that
:05:31. > :05:32.it still puts great pressure on Barack Obama and David Cameron to
:05:33. > :05:35.have a long`term strategy because the government is clearly did not
:05:36. > :05:41.have that strategy when they invaded Iraq. Right now they still do not
:05:42. > :05:44.have one. I think it is a very difficult and fluid situation. We
:05:45. > :05:49.like to look at these conflicts as good guys and bad guys. In this
:05:50. > :05:54.situation it is impossible to say who is who. We know who the bad guys
:05:55. > :05:57.are, but who are the good guys? Anything that can be done to stop
:05:58. > :06:03.the brutal killings is clearly a good thing. I'm not quite sure what
:06:04. > :06:07.happens after that, I am not quite sure how stability can be brought
:06:08. > :06:12.back into the area, I do not think putting troops on the ground would
:06:13. > :06:18.be the way to do that. David Cameron and Barack Obama are not ruling that
:06:19. > :06:23.out. `` ruling that out right now. You never know what could happen in
:06:24. > :06:26.the future. Mission creep, Barack Obama has said that because they are
:06:27. > :06:28.working together to get a sustainable government on the
:06:29. > :06:35.ground, that would prevent mission creep. This generation are
:06:36. > :06:40.reluctant, because of the shadow of 2003, the invasion of Iraq, they are
:06:41. > :06:46.reluctant. And the losses that were sustained in Afghanistan. Reluctant
:06:47. > :06:49.to take people in. Also, Barack Obama tonight, has said that they
:06:50. > :06:54.will not put boots on the ground, but there is talk of a generational
:06:55. > :06:59.struggle, as talked about on Sunday. The Tornado jets, the British
:07:00. > :07:05.Tornado jets being used in a reconnaissance role, just now. That
:07:06. > :07:09.role may expand, we do not know. It is to OPEC for me and lots of other
:07:10. > :07:12.people, that is why we are getting demands for a recall of Parliament
:07:13. > :07:16.and Labour calling for a clear start, to spell out where we are
:07:17. > :07:22.going to be in the next three weeks, three months, and from David
:07:23. > :07:27.Cameron has said... Echoing what Tony Blair said in 2001, after the
:07:28. > :07:30.twin towers, that we will be involved in this titanic struggle
:07:31. > :07:34.against terror, for the rest of our lives. The government at the moment
:07:35. > :07:38.is making it clear that it is a humanitarian effort that Britain is
:07:39. > :07:43.involved in and therefore, no need to recall Parliament. According to
:07:44. > :07:49.the Daily Telegraph, the Pope is giving his blessing to the Iraq
:07:50. > :07:54.mission. He is giving his blessing to certain procedures, certain
:07:55. > :08:06.attempts to stop it, but he seems to be stopping short of supporting US
:08:07. > :08:09.bombing raids, and I'm not quite sure how safety can be brought back
:08:10. > :08:18.in without those things. But he seems to be stopping short of
:08:19. > :08:21.confirming those things. A quarter of Iraq's Christians have had to
:08:22. > :08:26.move their home in the last two weeks. These ED 's cult, a religion,
:08:27. > :08:39.has been wiped out, on the mountain tops. `` the Yazidi cult. People are
:08:40. > :08:41.being persecuted across the world, and in Iraq they are being
:08:42. > :08:47.persecuted because of their religion. The Pope is weighing in on
:08:48. > :08:51.that. There was a day of prayer, Sunday was a day of prayer for Iraq
:08:52. > :08:56.all around the world. You can see why he has come in. Quite a good
:08:57. > :09:02.Pope, new juices his words quite carefully. But he is late coming to
:09:03. > :09:06.this one. And you can see, when it is being played, played this way in
:09:07. > :09:21.the Telegraph, you can imagine how it will be played by Isis
:09:22. > :09:27.themselves. Going to debt threat spells weaker pound. Keeping the
:09:28. > :09:31.sterling may only be a stopgap as markets get jitters over risks of
:09:32. > :09:35.default. You are the editor of the Sunday Herald, it has come out in
:09:36. > :09:41.favour of independence. Scary headline? There is hardly anything
:09:42. > :09:49.that Alex Salmond can say that will not result in a scary headline. What
:09:50. > :09:56.is basically happening now, Alex Salmond is coming up with the much
:09:57. > :10:01.called for plan B, which he now says is sterling for a transitional
:10:02. > :10:06.period. Using the pound as a formal currency, and then there would be a
:10:07. > :10:09.period of transition before another decision is taken, I do not know
:10:10. > :10:13.what that decision would be, it could be a new Scottish currency, it
:10:14. > :10:16.could be using the euro, although politically that is probably not the
:10:17. > :10:23.best course of action to advise currently. This is his plan B but
:10:24. > :10:27.plan B is not good enough. Now there will be calls for a plan C and they
:10:28. > :10:38.planned the end we will go all of the way to Z and back again! . ``
:10:39. > :10:44.for a plan C and a plan D, and we will keep going. The pound sterling
:10:45. > :10:49.is the big millstone around the independence plan, and it is dancing
:10:50. > :11:03.on the head of a pin. The keywords used today, adopting sterling may be
:11:04. > :11:07.a transitional option. You are going to weaken the pound, shadow it's
:11:08. > :11:14.like Panama... It will come crashing down... The keywords to use today,
:11:15. > :11:18.he would still like to use the pound in a currency union, that is plan
:11:19. > :11:23.A, that is the best result for Scotland. And the best result for
:11:24. > :11:28.the UK. We should be asking, why is the Westminster government ruling
:11:29. > :11:34.that out so decisively? Why is the Labour Party joining in with that?
:11:35. > :11:38.And indeed the Liberal Democrats. I think that he was full to come up
:11:39. > :11:45.with a plan D, because of the debate a few weeks ago. He has now done so.
:11:46. > :11:49.`` plan B. He has still said that plan A, formal currency union, is
:11:50. > :11:56.the best course of action and the best result. A lot of voters, after
:11:57. > :12:00.the debate, which Richard was talking about, where Alex Salmond
:12:01. > :12:04.was pressed repeatedly on what the currency would be of an independent
:12:05. > :12:12.Scotland, a lot of voters think that Westminster is bluffing. Most of
:12:13. > :12:15.them do, most of them do. Perhaps that is the messenger as much as the
:12:16. > :12:21.message, when you tell George Osborne up to Scotland `` when you
:12:22. > :12:23.send George Osborne up to Scotland to tell people what they cannot
:12:24. > :12:29.have, people are disinclined to believe them. People do not believe
:12:30. > :12:34.the Westminster parties, in a poll 45% people did not believe that post
:12:35. > :12:40.independence the UK Government would not share the pound within
:12:41. > :12:45.independent Scotland actually, I think that misses the point. The
:12:46. > :12:51.point is, the English people, would they share the pound and the Bank of
:12:52. > :12:54.England share it? No politician in Westminster could sell that idea to
:12:55. > :12:59.the electorate, and survive, it would be a resignation issue. It is
:13:00. > :13:05.a kind of unknown. Richard, very briefly. There is very little
:13:06. > :13:10.evidence to support that. As Alex Salmond has said, and it has been
:13:11. > :13:14.said repeatedly, pound is as much Scotland's as it is England's and
:13:15. > :13:19.the rest of the UK, there is no reason why you should to be able not
:13:20. > :13:22.to use it. The Telegraph is putting forward scarce glorious about what
:13:23. > :13:29.would happen if we defaulted on the debt. `` scare stories. The westerns
:13:30. > :13:33.to government is arguing the pound does not belong to Scotland, it
:13:34. > :13:35.belongs to the UK... And if you walk away from the UK, you walk away from
:13:36. > :13:52.the pound. just the logical extenuation of the
:13:53. > :13:53.argument. Richard, it is good to speak to you both.
:13:54. > :13:55.Both of my guests will be back at 11:30pm
:13:56. > :13:58.for another look at the stories making the news tomorrow.
:13:59. > :14:03.Richard, I want to talk to you about your circulation and your favour of
:14:04. > :14:05.coming out independent. At eleven David Cameron defends
:14:06. > :14:11.his Iraq strategy, as Kurdish forces move to regain territory won
:14:12. > :14:16.by Islamist militants. But coming up next it's time
:14:17. > :14:36.for Sportsday. Hello and welcome to Sportsday,
:14:37. > :14:38.I'm John Acres. Diego Costa scores on his Chelsea
:14:39. > :14:44.debut as the title favourites get He's not old enough to drive on the
:14:45. > :14:49.road, but 16`year`old Max Verstappen