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:00:15. > :00:17.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers

:00:18. > :00:21.With me are James Lyons, the Deputy Political Editor

:00:22. > :00:23.for the Daily Mirror and Oliver Brown, who's Chief Sports Feature

:00:24. > :00:34.The Metro focuses on our main story tonight, missing five`year`old boy

:00:35. > :00:42.The paper says that his parents are being kept from

:00:43. > :00:46.The FT leads with how Russian president is calling

:00:47. > :00:50.for talks on the question "statehood" southeast Ukraine.

:00:51. > :00:53.Vladimir Putin says it must be a key part of the negotiations to

:00:54. > :00:58.The Telegraph also concentrates on the situation

:00:59. > :01:03.It says that Nato allies are being told to increase

:01:04. > :01:09.their defence budgets due to the growing threat from Russia.

:01:10. > :01:11.The Guardian goes with with news that David Cameron

:01:12. > :01:16.will make it easier for intelligence agencies to access information as

:01:17. > :01:19.part of an effort to stem the flow of British`born jihadis travelling

:01:20. > :01:28.The Express splashes on the claim that EU red tape is

:01:29. > :01:34.costing retired Brits thousands of pounds in pension payouts.

:01:35. > :01:36.The Daily Mail says that figures show customers are

:01:37. > :01:39.being charged at least three times the price their

:01:40. > :01:52.Let's begin. Thank you for joining us. We will start with the Metro

:01:53. > :01:56.newspaper, we have been talking about it all evening, the fact that

:01:57. > :02:01.Ashya King has been found and his parents are being questioned by the

:02:02. > :02:07.police. Their headline is very stark, parents kept from seeing

:02:08. > :02:09.Cancer son, aged five. Oliver, this pulls people in different

:02:10. > :02:15.directions. A desperately sad situation, it is hard not to be on

:02:16. > :02:19.the side of the parents because the instinct fundamentally is to seek

:02:20. > :02:24.out the best possible treatment, wherever that may be. The problem is

:02:25. > :02:31.that both the authorities and the parents claim that the interests of

:02:32. > :02:36.Asher are at heart `` Ashya are at Hardwick is difficult to reconcile

:02:37. > :02:41.when even his closest relatives are being denied access to him. Surely

:02:42. > :02:45.it would be better to have his parents by his bedside rather than

:02:46. > :02:49.being interrogated and awaiting extradition proceedings. We have

:02:50. > :02:53.heard from members of the family, we had an interview with the

:02:54. > :02:58.grandmother, and the family using social media to get their side out.

:02:59. > :03:03.The sons have been speaking out about the parents ahead of the

:03:04. > :03:06.extradition hearing tomorrow morning. They're all sorts of

:03:07. > :03:12.questions about what happens if are sent back to England to face the

:03:13. > :03:16.music. Will they have to go back alone? It is a terribly sad story

:03:17. > :03:20.and I have to admit it is completely the opposite of what I initially

:03:21. > :03:24.thought. When the news broke I thought, oh well, you hear stories

:03:25. > :03:29.about parents who want to stop treatment, or prevent their child

:03:30. > :03:32.being treated for whatever reason, whether it is religious, or

:03:33. > :03:38.whatever. I jumped to conclusions when this broke, thinking back was

:03:39. > :03:43.much must be happening here but we find out it is the reverse, in fact

:03:44. > :03:46.the parents have been tragically told that medics think there is

:03:47. > :03:52.nothing more they can do for the lad and they have gone abroad, seeking a

:03:53. > :03:56.cure. Various suggestions about their motives, looking for a cure in

:03:57. > :04:02.Spain, whether they are going to sell their holiday home to finance

:04:03. > :04:09.some kind of solution. The treatment is pretty exorbitant as it stands, I

:04:10. > :04:12.think ?100,000. Proton beam therapy. Available in the Czech

:04:13. > :04:17.Republic, it will not be available here for at least another six

:04:18. > :04:22.years, so they have come to the conclusion that anything would be

:04:23. > :04:28.worth trying. So many can relate to that. The police have consistently

:04:29. > :04:32.maintained that they are trying to observe the legalities, whether

:04:33. > :04:35.there has been criminality. I think the only thing that should be

:04:36. > :04:40.observed in this case is some common`sense. You feel for the

:04:41. > :04:44.police because clearly they are in a situation that is difficult. Medics

:04:45. > :04:49.in Britain have said that this child was in real danger. They have

:04:50. > :04:54.tracked him down and things may not be as they expected them, either.

:04:55. > :04:57.Having said that we have heard from the grandmother, whose house has

:04:58. > :05:04.been ransacked by the police, you know, asked to give statements. When

:05:05. > :05:08.you read the family's account it seems a bit heavy`handed. Going to

:05:09. > :05:15.the front page of the Daily Telegraph, " my parents are not

:05:16. > :05:20.kidnappers" say Ashya's older brother, Danny King, who has also

:05:21. > :05:22.been speaking out. It shows, the involvement of the police is

:05:23. > :05:30.problematic because we immediately think that crime is involved. Some

:05:31. > :05:40.people say that the police are the best people to look. They have

:05:41. > :05:45.clearly done nothing illegal as well. Taking your child outside of

:05:46. > :05:49.hospital against doctors wishes is not illegal. This may be more

:05:50. > :05:55.complex. You wonder what grounds they will be extradited under. It is

:05:56. > :06:01.such a fundamental impulse, it is a shattering story, a father who said

:06:02. > :06:09.he would not rest until he found a cure for his son. This is another

:06:10. > :06:14.case, a son suffering from a rare form of muscular dystrophy, saying

:06:15. > :06:19.he would spend any money, and there are parallels to this situation. Do

:06:20. > :06:24.you think there are parallels `` do you think the police shouldn't have

:06:25. > :06:28.been involved? Or are the best police `` are they the best people

:06:29. > :06:37.to investigate? If somebody disappears from the hospital, the

:06:38. > :06:41.police are the best people to investigate, but you cannot see the

:06:42. > :06:46.boy being benefited by his parents essentially being bracketed as

:06:47. > :06:53.kidnappers. We will hear more tomorrow, they may appear in court

:06:54. > :06:56.tomorrow in Madrid for the expedition proceedings. More to come

:06:57. > :07:02.on that. A different story now, the Guardian front page, about the

:07:03. > :07:06.terror threat we are expected to hear about tomorrow from David

:07:07. > :07:10.Cameron, making it easier for the intelligence agencies to stop

:07:11. > :07:15.potential British jihadists returning to the country. The

:07:16. > :07:20.headline, terror threat, spy agencies to vet flight lists.

:07:21. > :07:25.James, the suggestion that they can see passenger lists and get a look

:07:26. > :07:31.at the names. We are expecting David Cameron to announce all sorts of

:07:32. > :07:35.things in what a roundup of the EU summit over the weekend, he will

:07:36. > :07:42.touch on the Ukraine, and spell out what the government are going to do

:07:43. > :07:47.about the jihadi threat after the official security terror level was

:07:48. > :07:52.raised last week. One thing he is going to announce as the Guardian is

:07:53. > :07:58.reporting here, the fact that they will bring in a new law which will

:07:59. > :08:02.compel airlines for the first time to share their passenger lists with

:08:03. > :08:06.the security services. Unbelievably this is being done on able and very

:08:07. > :08:10.basis until now and there have been issues with some of the carriers who

:08:11. > :08:16.only produce the lists half an hour before the flights take off, no real

:08:17. > :08:19.time to see who is on board. This will help to stop, give the

:08:20. > :08:27.opportunity to stop people who may be travelling out to Iraq and Syria

:08:28. > :08:31.to fight with ISIS. That will be a boon in that area. The airlines will

:08:32. > :08:38.have two provide better information `` have to provide. It will give the

:08:39. > :08:44.Security service is a bit more of a head start as they tried to head off

:08:45. > :08:50.these people. `` security services. One story that is covered in the

:08:51. > :08:55.Telegraph, the front page, ever since the coalition did away with

:08:56. > :08:59.control orders, reform of home arrest that used to be imposed on

:09:00. > :09:07.terror suspects there has been a long row about what will replace

:09:08. > :09:11.them, such as the TPims, which critics have always said are not

:09:12. > :09:17.strong enough. Recently the governments own adviser, the review

:09:18. > :09:19.of terrorism the deflation has agreed `` terrorism legislation. He

:09:20. > :09:24.said that one of the important things that control orders did that

:09:25. > :09:31.TPims don't, they allowed you to relocate terrorists, you can make

:09:32. > :09:38.them move to Norfolk for example where they will be less dangerous.

:09:39. > :09:53.So that power has gone. The government watchdog would like it

:09:54. > :09:56.back. There are concerns that there may be reprisals, and the Liberal

:09:57. > :10:05.Democrats. They are not ready to sign up to anything that may be seen

:10:06. > :10:21.as Draconian. When David Cameron comes to give his statement, he is

:10:22. > :10:24.still negotiating. We will return to the Daily Telegraph, not their main

:10:25. > :10:31.story, curbs on terrorist suspects rejected. Oliver, this is coming

:10:32. > :10:39.down, as James said, to the legality. This is always the

:10:40. > :10:43.stumbling block. The other issue has been about citizenship and whether

:10:44. > :10:47.we can take people 's passports from them when they come back from

:10:48. > :10:51.fighting in Iraq. Legally flawed, I imagine the lawyers will be having a

:10:52. > :10:57.heavy weekend. A lot of lawyers are about to come very `` about to

:10:58. > :11:03.become very rich indeed. At our expense. The suggestion of a

:11:04. > :11:08.temporary bar on jihadi re`entry. Very little clarification on what

:11:09. > :11:12.that means. Menzies Campbell has been quite this difference today in

:11:13. > :11:19.arguing that it would render people stateless. It is understood clearly

:11:20. > :11:24.that the measure that David Cameron will put forward will fall short of

:11:25. > :11:30.rendering people stateless. How that is legally achievable seems a very

:11:31. > :11:35.nebulous area. Some people having a late night tonight! The Financial

:11:36. > :11:40.Times, a different story, talking about it through the evening, the

:11:41. > :11:45.situation of escalating tension in Ukraine and the headline, Putin's

:11:46. > :11:49.statehood comments raising fears. James, Vladimir Putin making what

:11:50. > :11:55.some people would say are provocative comments. He has made

:11:56. > :12:01.quite a few of those on Friday he said "don't mess with Russia, we

:12:02. > :12:07.have a nuclear arsenal"! Compared to that, this seems more tame, but more

:12:08. > :12:14.worrying if you are in the Ukraine. This seems to be yet another land

:12:15. > :12:18.grab by Putin. We don't seem to know what to do to stop him. Talk of

:12:19. > :12:25.sanctions in Brussels at the weekend. One expert said that there

:12:26. > :12:30.is no way the EU can hurt Russia with sanctions because they have the

:12:31. > :12:35.Oil and we are basically dancing to their tune. Some of the hawks in

:12:36. > :12:39.Washington are taking up the Ukrainian call for NATO to supply

:12:40. > :12:44.them with arms. If we do that, goodness knows where it may end. It

:12:45. > :12:54.is difficult to see what you can do to counter this. It is a very grim

:12:55. > :13:00.situation. It is not hard to see what the endgame of Putin is here,

:13:01. > :13:03.talking about statehood, clearly it is politically charged. There are

:13:04. > :13:10.rebels in eastern Ukraine now who say that they want to go through to

:13:11. > :13:14.the West. Nobody is sure where it's going to end. The official spokesman

:13:15. > :13:21.says that it would be absolutely wrong to interpret this as calling

:13:22. > :13:30.for the independence of eastern Ukraine, but it would seem it is

:13:31. > :13:35.about partition. The mixed messages, the spokesperson trying to

:13:36. > :13:40.tone things down. Not long ago the Russians said that there were none

:13:41. > :13:46.of their troops in the Ukraine. It seems to be on the one hand you have

:13:47. > :13:51.the rise of ISIS, they would like to get to the borders of NATO if they

:13:52. > :13:55.could, Turkey, and you have what's going on in Eastern Europe. It seems

:13:56. > :14:14.to be an extraordinary and frightening time. On many fronts in

:14:15. > :14:18.deed. On many fronts it does not make happy reading but we will be

:14:19. > :14:33.back at half past 11 for another look at the stories making the news

:14:34. > :14:34.tomorrow. In other news and the parents of Ashya's