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:00:00. > :00:00.round results and the latest from the US Open, where Heather Watson

:00:00. > :00:16.has failed to enter the second round.

:00:17. > :00:28.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing

:00:29. > :00:30.us tomorrow. With me are Isabel Hardman, Assistant Editor of the

:00:31. > :00:32.Spectator, and journalist and broadcaster Henry Bonsu. Tomorrow's

:00:33. > :00:35.front pages. The Daily Telegraph leads with the story about

:00:36. > :00:40.paedophile gangs preying on more than 1,400 children in Rotherham

:00:41. > :00:46.over a period of 16 years. The Sun's headline is: 1400 victims of PC

:00:47. > :00:53.brigade. The Guardian features the same story, saying the Report damns

:00:54. > :00:56.politicians and police. And like the Telegraph, it also carries a picture

:00:57. > :01:04.of Kate Bush, who returned to live performance tonight after an absence

:01:05. > :01:06.of 36 years. As well as those two stories, the Times reports the World

:01:07. > :01:16.Health Organization, suggesting people should be banned from smoking

:01:17. > :01:19.e`cigarettes indoors. Scotland's Daily Record reports that Gordon

:01:20. > :01:24.Brown and Alistair Darling put their bitter feud on hold for the campaign

:01:25. > :01:27.to save the union. The Financial Times has the story of Burger King

:01:28. > :01:30.transferring its headquarters to Canada as part of its $11 billion

:01:31. > :01:33.acquisition of coffee and doughnuts chain Tim Hortons. And The Daily

:01:34. > :01:39.Express says Britain is now home to two million illegal migrants. Let's

:01:40. > :01:42.begin. This striking headline, 1400 victims of PC Brigade, a reference

:01:43. > :01:50.to the story that has emerged today from Rotherham. Give us your take on

:01:51. > :01:54.their coverage of this. They say these 1400 victims of the PC

:01:55. > :01:59.Brigade, this is probably one of the few stories where the word

:02:00. > :02:03.politically correct does apply. Police and council officers were

:02:04. > :02:06.failing to pass on allegations of rape, sexual abuse and sexual

:02:07. > :02:12.exploitation of children being threatened violence and doused with

:02:13. > :02:40.petrol, partly because they were worried of being accused of racism.

:02:41. > :02:43.My concern is the importance of the Asian link. If they had the

:02:44. > :02:47.evidence, they would have followed it. But it could well be that what

:02:48. > :02:53.was most important in their minds but that these were children who

:02:54. > :02:56.were probably looked after, that it would be a lot of hassle to deal

:02:57. > :02:59.with these cases and they couldn't be bothered. They didn't listen to

:03:00. > :03:05.them and follow`up the complaints and let it go. The fear of being

:03:06. > :03:10.branded racist is an alarming element in this story. If we are

:03:11. > :03:15.talking about a situation where somebody thinks something is wrong

:03:16. > :03:20.but because of the racial background of the perpetrator they decide to

:03:21. > :03:26.say nothing about it... They might say that afterwards but if we had a

:03:27. > :03:32.fight now and the police came... Please don't do that. But they

:03:33. > :03:44.wouldn't hold back and say, we are looking for a blackmail in his

:03:45. > :03:47.middle 40s. `` black male. The report said some superiors had set

:03:48. > :03:50.not to include a description of the men who were alleged to be carrying

:03:51. > :03:56.out these offences. Even though it could help them find the perpetrator

:03:57. > :04:00.and solve a potential crime. This is where it becomes strange because

:04:01. > :04:05.it's not fear of the crime, fear of what's happening to the children,

:04:06. > :04:09.but fear of being labelled a racist. It becomes more important than fear

:04:10. > :04:15.of a vulnerable 11`year`old being sexually exploited. The other point

:04:16. > :04:21.being made here, it's the last sentence on the Sun, they said none

:04:22. > :04:23.of this stuff would be disciplined. Apparently because there wasn't

:04:24. > :04:29.enough evidence to act against them. The council has stepped down but I

:04:30. > :04:33.understand the professor, who carried out the report, is writing

:04:34. > :04:36.to people who have moved onto other bodies and authorities to point out

:04:37. > :04:41.that they were involved in this report, so there were aware. What we

:04:42. > :04:44.have seen in many cases where social work has gone wrong is that they

:04:45. > :04:49.haven't been talking to the police, the police haven't spoken to them,

:04:50. > :04:54.the authorities weren't working in a joint away. We saw this when there

:04:55. > :04:58.has been no racial element. That is the key to this story. Organisations

:04:59. > :05:04.promise to do this, as this will never happen again that they don't

:05:05. > :05:12.talk to each other. Take us through a different story. The Express, to

:05:13. > :05:17.Gaza, what might be slightly more encouraging news from that part of

:05:18. > :05:21.the world? It needs to be because we've had seven weeks of fighting.

:05:22. > :05:27.Israel, which has one of the best equipped military is in the world,

:05:28. > :05:31.and Gaza, led by Hamas, and we've seen 2200 people dead, the vast

:05:32. > :05:37.majority of them civilians of Palestinian background. Around 80 or

:05:38. > :05:40.so is Raleys, the vast majority soldiers. Of course whenever Israel

:05:41. > :05:46.is involved in a conflict with the Palestinians, the US, the UN, they

:05:47. > :05:51.always say they have to back Israel pretty much no matter what. At there

:05:52. > :05:59.has been criticism of Israel this time. `` but there has. But not

:06:00. > :06:04.enough. This ceasefire has to hold and this blockade has to end and we

:06:05. > :06:11.need to see a proper two state solution and we need to see the end

:06:12. > :06:14.of this blockade. It has been interesting politically in terms of

:06:15. > :06:20.the British government's response. It has been confusing for those

:06:21. > :06:21.observing from Israel and foreign capitals because the coalition

:06:22. > :06:26.response has been split between the Lib Dems, who want to take a much

:06:27. > :06:30.harsher line with the Israelis over the way the IDF has been responding

:06:31. > :06:36.to Hamas, and the Conservatives, who still want to support Israel's right

:06:37. > :06:41.to defend itself against a mass, a group which doesn't believe in the

:06:42. > :06:45.state of Israel at all. `` Hamas. So the messages have been mixed. The

:06:46. > :07:01.government hasn't been speaking with one voice. Nick Clegg has spoken

:07:02. > :07:06.about it. One of the things, I have been contacted about this on

:07:07. > :07:10.Twitter, the generation that feels so strongly linked to Israel and

:07:11. > :07:13.will defend it no matter what will gradually disappear and those people

:07:14. > :07:18.who haven't got such a close allegiance to Israel, either from

:07:19. > :07:23.what happens during the horrific Holocaust or what has happened since

:07:24. > :07:28.1948, I suspect Israel will find it has fewer friends in the future than

:07:29. > :07:34.it has had. We shall see. Turning our attention to domestic politics.

:07:35. > :07:38.Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson, double trouble, a great headline in

:07:39. > :07:43.the Guardian. I think Boris Johnson is helpful for Cameron in the Nigel

:07:44. > :07:47.Farage respect, in that he is quite good at countering Nigel Farage. He

:07:48. > :07:52.appeals to people who aren't that interested in politics. He is his

:07:53. > :07:56.own man. In that respect, Boris Johnson announcing he will stand as

:07:57. > :08:02.it Tory candidate is a good thing for Cameron. But him getting closer

:08:03. > :08:05.to the Commons and having more opportunities to make life difficult

:08:06. > :08:23.for Cameron isn't good in the long`term. It will be mayhem. But

:08:24. > :08:35.it's a government. He is basing his bullets... What about Nigel Farage?

:08:36. > :08:38.South Thanet has decided that Nigel Farage will be their candidate for

:08:39. > :08:41.the 2015 election and this is interesting because it's a marginal

:08:42. > :08:45.Tory seat. What could actually happened is that UKIP could split

:08:46. > :08:52.the conservative vote and labour could get the seat, or Nigel Farage

:08:53. > :08:55.could return as UKIP's first MP. He said if UKIP doesn't get an MP in

:08:56. > :08:59.2015 he will stand down as party leader and he hasn't hosted the

:09:00. > :09:08.easiest thing to win. Rotherham is much easier for him to win and South

:09:09. > :09:12.Thanet. I was about to raise that. He has represented Kent at European

:09:13. > :09:17.level already, so you can understand why he would go in that direction,

:09:18. > :09:19.it interesting he is targeting a currently Conservative seat, whereas

:09:20. > :09:24.in recent times there have been taking a lot of votes from labour as

:09:25. > :09:31.well. I think deep down he believes this is their heartland. People have

:09:32. > :09:34.come along and made false promises and on `` I think he feels that if

:09:35. > :09:40.they can't win them, they can't win anywhere. It is a barometer.

:09:41. > :09:44.Although they topped the poll at the last European elections, their vote

:09:45. > :09:48.tends to drop significantly in subsequent elections and that could

:09:49. > :09:52.happen again. He is clearly talking confidently about winning a seat but

:09:53. > :09:55.he is very confident that UKIP will have representation in the next

:09:56. > :10:01.houses of Parliament. You think they will? I think they have a good

:10:02. > :10:05.chance of returning one MP but I'm not sure about the 12 target seats

:10:06. > :10:12.they've got. It's very difficult for UKIP. The system is against any

:10:13. > :10:17.party like this. And we are voting for a government. When you look at

:10:18. > :10:23.Nigel Farage, do you see a Prime Minister in waiting? Probably not.

:10:24. > :10:29.Moving on. Talking of politicians who enjoy life, there's a photograph

:10:30. > :10:33.on the front of the daily Record that's dealing with actually the

:10:34. > :10:36.relationship between Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling but we can't

:10:37. > :10:40.avoid seeing Alex Salmond tucking into a chocolate bar above them,

:10:41. > :10:47.which isn't the main thrust of the story. Take us into this one. This

:10:48. > :10:50.is a fascinating story. It isn't the story about Alex Salmond's diet

:10:51. > :10:56.going wrong but that Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling could battle

:10:57. > :11:00.together to save the union. This is so interesting because Gordon Brown

:11:01. > :11:12.has spent the past year and a bit doing B, if they want my advice,

:11:13. > :11:16.kind of act. `` doing the. In the last few weeks of the campaign, he

:11:17. > :11:20.is going to step alongside Alistair Darling. I wonder who ran food. I

:11:21. > :11:30.suspect Alistair Darling probably pick up the phone. `` who rang who.

:11:31. > :11:37.I know they will get together in Dundee, which is supposedly the most

:11:38. > :11:41.Scottish Nationalists place of all other cities in Scotland. You can

:11:42. > :11:48.see why the bad blood runs so`called between them, it goes back to the

:11:49. > :11:52.time when Alistair Darling refused to step down as Chancellor. He gave

:11:53. > :11:58.an interview and was really honest about the depth of the crisis. And

:11:59. > :12:10.Gordon Brown unleashed the dogs of war. The dogs of war. If Gordon

:12:11. > :12:15.Brown comes in in a more prominent way, clearly the man pictured above

:12:16. > :12:22.the headline will make a. He will say, this is a sign that they aren't

:12:23. > :12:28.going according to plan. `` make hay. We don't want to look at this

:12:29. > :12:33.through too much of a Westminster perspective. At Westminster, Gordon

:12:34. > :12:35.Brown is like the useful idiots, which is a bit unfair. But in

:12:36. > :12:42.Scotland he is still hugely respected. The effect it can have on

:12:43. > :12:52.the Labour photos is huge. You are right. Westminster view is so

:12:53. > :12:58.different. `` voters. They will say that he was the man to do things for

:12:59. > :13:06.the union and there will be more people like him to come. But stick

:13:07. > :13:10.with the Times. A ban on smoking e`cigarettes indoors would cost

:13:11. > :13:15.hundreds of lives, it says. This is what the WHO says. And they say it

:13:16. > :13:19.has stepped into and issue counter`productive advice. Because

:13:20. > :13:22.lots of us who have never been a smoker have sat in relaxed fashion

:13:23. > :13:41.next people smoking my face almost. At night hotels.

:13:42. > :13:44.They say there's a of "vaping". `` there's a danger of "vaping" . We

:13:45. > :13:51.don't know if the paper harmful pollutants. What I thought these

:13:52. > :13:55.were safe. Or safer. Yes. I suspect one of the things they aren't happy

:13:56. > :13:58.with is that some of the major manufacturers of the e`cigarettes

:13:59. > :14:02.are the big tobacco companies. Suspect there is an industrial

:14:03. > :14:05.point. A modern way of getting the paper because you are inhaling

:14:06. > :14:13.nicotine, which is still bad for your heart. But these e`cigarettes

:14:14. > :14:14.are hugely useful to people trying to give up smoking. But we don't

:14:15. > :14:21.have the figure on those. It is have the figure on those. It is

:14:22. > :14:25.anecdotal. The WHO says is it a gateway alt, rather than a gateway

:14:26. > :14:27.in? It looks cool as well. I shouldn't promote it. I think it

:14:28. > :14:47.looks strange. I think you are A final word on Kate Bush. She looks

:14:48. > :14:52.magnificent, resplendent, there is a great deal of mystery among men of a

:14:53. > :14:57.certain age, who are fascinated in Kate Bush in the mid to late 70s,

:14:58. > :15:02.how successful she was. How unusual. And then to disappear for such a

:15:03. > :15:07.long time. If you have not seen someone perform for 36 years, it is

:15:08. > :15:17.a good way of drawing a crowd. She has definitely kept people waiting.

:15:18. > :15:21.She seems to be anti` Miley Cyrus. She has not oversold or overexposed

:15:22. > :15:25.herself, which a lot of stars do today. She has kept her fans

:15:26. > :15:40.waiting, and it was still there for her. I have been trolled about my

:15:41. > :15:47.chest hair, I was unaware that it was so repellent. I would have

:15:48. > :15:56.thought it would be about your shirt! Thank you for sorting that

:15:57. > :16:01.out. Thank you to Isabel and Henry, and we will be back at the same time

:16:02. > :16:03.tomorrow. At midnight, more on the report that has revealed that 1400

:16:04. > :16:27.children were abused in