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