02/09/2014

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:00:00. > :00:00.despite a disastrous series against India. The latest from the U.S. Open

:00:00. > :00:19.in tennis and the days reaction from the final football transfers.

:00:20. > :00:27.Welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us

:00:28. > :00:33.tomorrow. I'm joined by a broadcaster and the president of

:00:34. > :00:37.YouGov. Many papers are leading with the apparent murder of American

:00:38. > :00:42.journalist Stephen Sotloff by Islamic State. The Metro reports

:00:43. > :00:46.that the militants threaten to kill a British hostage next. The Daily

:00:47. > :00:51.Express calls it a chilling new threat. The Guardian says the

:00:52. > :00:56.British accent of the jihadi in the video was the same as an early

:00:57. > :01:00.video. The Times says the prospect of a close vote in Scottish

:01:01. > :01:12.independence has sent jitters through the market. We will start

:01:13. > :01:17.with the Daily Telegraph, Stephen Sotloff. I should say that for a

:01:18. > :01:21.while some of the papers are using more detailed pictures from the

:01:22. > :01:28.video. The BBC has chosen not to do that. The Daily Telegraph, Britain

:01:29. > :01:34.will be next warns jihadi John as he beheads a second journalist will

:01:35. > :01:39.stop this is a real problem for journalists, newspapers, television

:01:40. > :01:43.and radio, because you are balancing the need to tell people as much as

:01:44. > :01:52.you can, because we do not believe in censorship and covering things up

:01:53. > :01:59.with the fact that you can play into the jihadist's hands by showing and

:02:00. > :02:04.saying more. The Foreign Office has asked for the names of people

:02:05. > :02:09.involved not to be quoted by the media. As far as I am aware the

:02:10. > :02:14.media have respected this. In a sense it is a subset of this much

:02:15. > :02:20.wider dilemma as to how on earth we deal with these people. The one

:02:21. > :02:25.reflection I have is that through most of our adult life we saw the

:02:26. > :02:31.world moving to greater interconnectedness. We thought it

:02:32. > :02:36.would mean less violence. If Russia and China were trading with the West

:02:37. > :02:41.it we would not go to war. But Russian gas is stopping is acting on

:02:42. > :02:47.Ukraine. We perhaps need to deal with Assad in Syria to see off ISIS.

:02:48. > :02:53.We perhaps need to do more with I ran. We need to have a different

:02:54. > :02:57.relay should ship with Saudi Arabia. `` relationship with Saudi Arabia. A

:02:58. > :03:01.lot of these countries have social Democrats in charge of them. It is a

:03:02. > :03:06.problem with journalism but it is also a subset of a wider strategic

:03:07. > :03:10.problem we face. The is another problem that we might try to behave

:03:11. > :03:13.as well as we can as journalists but social media feels this and puts

:03:14. > :03:17.terrible, grisly stuff out there and we might all decide that what they

:03:18. > :03:23.really want is the optimum publicity. These are not ideologues.

:03:24. > :03:29.First of all they are asking for huge ransoms from the families. We

:03:30. > :03:33.saw that the French did a deal and got their hostages back because they

:03:34. > :03:38.paid a vast sum of money. The British and Americans don't do

:03:39. > :03:41.deals. There are another 20 western hostages. The Telegraph had an

:03:42. > :03:45.interesting bit where they have been looking carefully at the background

:03:46. > :03:51.of these videos. They are very well produced videos. They are

:03:52. > :03:55.speculating that these poor people, these journalists being killed on

:03:56. > :04:02.the same day, and may the British hostage is already dead. Because

:04:03. > :04:07.they are so similar. For reasons you have explained, and you are rightly

:04:08. > :04:12.not showing the horrible picture on the front of the Telegraph, but it

:04:13. > :04:18.is still a very powerful front page, it has a huge amount of impact. It

:04:19. > :04:24.is a front page that the jihadists clearly hope will be a recruiting

:04:25. > :04:30.tool as well. Of course. This goes back to the dilemma. Do we sacrifice

:04:31. > :04:38.our belief in openness and information and the risk of giving

:04:39. > :04:44.them publicity. It is not an easy choice. Cameron was saying yesterday

:04:45. > :04:49.that if you carry on with the humanitarian drops, or you could

:04:50. > :04:52.also strike them. Nobody is asking that military question at the

:04:53. > :04:54.moment, do we stay the same or you could also strike them. Nobody is

:04:55. > :05:07.asking that military question at the moment, do we stay the same goal.

:05:08. > :05:12.Thereafter selection of horrible wars. 1 million people displaced in

:05:13. > :05:17.Ukraine who can't get on the front pages because this is happening. ``

:05:18. > :05:22.there are. At the bottom of the Guardian front page. A Spanish judge

:05:23. > :05:29.frees Ashya's parents from jail after a U`turn. Thank goodness. I

:05:30. > :05:32.used to do a programme called Watchdog and there used to be a

:05:33. > :05:36.requirement for a lot of evidence before you put anything on screen.

:05:37. > :05:40.The way these parents have been treated with a durable in warrant,

:05:41. > :05:45.that is a pretty serious thing with a potential ten years in jail

:05:46. > :05:48.hanging over their heads. `` with a European warrant. To be treated the

:05:49. > :05:52.way they have been done in the European system when they have not

:05:53. > :05:59.actually got a charge, what would they charge them with? Child

:06:00. > :06:02.cruelty? It was too nonspecific for the heavy guns that have been

:06:03. > :06:07.trained on this poor family. But at the start of this whole issue, the

:06:08. > :06:12.authorities at the hospital really had no idea what was going on, how

:06:13. > :06:16.far the child had been taken away. They knew the parents had taken them

:06:17. > :06:27.but it was against medical advice. I am playing devils advocate, but a

:06:28. > :06:34.lot of us are having 20 slashed 20 hindsight. This child has a horrible

:06:35. > :06:37.brain cancer. I was president of the European Cancer coalition and we

:06:38. > :06:41.have talked endlessly about how Britain is not as good as most

:06:42. > :06:44.countries in Europe at cancer. I'm presuming these parents might be

:06:45. > :06:48.aware of that kind of thing and the hospital at one point were saying

:06:49. > :06:53.this was a child who was terminally ill. We have no idea what the

:06:54. > :06:58.parents were told or not told. Regardless of that, it was a very

:06:59. > :07:04.heavy tool to use against these parents. They have been in

:07:05. > :07:12.handcuffs, in jail for four days. That is what David Cameron said. I

:07:13. > :07:20.suspect a 99% of the viewers of this programme will disagree with what I

:07:21. > :07:25.will say, but this review process started after David Cameron and Nick

:07:26. > :07:32.Clegg stepped in. It was plainly a ludicrous overreaction by the

:07:33. > :07:36.prosecution service. But hang on a minute, do we really want to drift

:07:37. > :07:41.into being a country where politicians, ministers, start to

:07:42. > :07:46.interfere in legal processes? It is very easy to contain political

:07:47. > :07:51.interference when we don't like it. The real test of when we mean it,

:07:52. > :07:55.when we want to keep politics and law separate, is when we think

:07:56. > :07:59.politicians are right and the law is wrong. Do we still believe in it? I

:08:00. > :08:07.believe it was being sorted before that and I think they were jumping

:08:08. > :08:10.on the bandwagon I believe it was being sought before that and I think

:08:11. > :08:17.they were jumping on the bandwagon to get it sorted.

:08:18. > :08:22.Does this undermine all the work at Southampton hospital as if they

:08:23. > :08:28.don't know what they are doing? It is crazy. It has been revealed that

:08:29. > :08:34.99 children already this year have been taken abroad for protein

:08:35. > :08:43.therapy. That is about ?10 million already and we're only halfway

:08:44. > :08:48.through the year. We need to have a much better system of looking at how

:08:49. > :08:51.the rest of Europe deals with its serious cancers and get on the

:08:52. > :08:58.bandwagon earlier. Lots of countries have got this. It is never too late.

:08:59. > :09:03.Please get second opinions out there if you are told a child is terminal

:09:04. > :09:08.and it sounds as if some point that was said and the parents have

:09:09. > :09:21.believed that there are children and some... There are new facilities

:09:22. > :09:24.being built. But we are late. We probably think we are better than

:09:25. > :09:28.the Czech Republic but we are not. We are worse than most countries in

:09:29. > :09:45.Europe when it comes to cancer. We need to catch up. Moving on to the

:09:46. > :09:52.Financial Times. In Scotland, it is the YouGov poll that has rattled the

:09:53. > :09:57.markets. The reason is, for most of the year, YouGov have been at the no

:09:58. > :10:06.end of the scale. We have been showing no beating yes. In the last

:10:07. > :10:16.two polls, we have shown to marked increases in the no votes. It is

:10:17. > :10:23.showing that. Let me say, when I first saw the figures yesterday

:10:24. > :10:31.morning, I was a bit twitchy. The law of probability. All polls can

:10:32. > :10:38.get wonky samples. It is the law of statistics. You thought there was a

:10:39. > :10:44.problem? I thought there might be. We found that of the 1000 people in

:10:45. > :10:48.our poll, half of them are questioned early in the year at some

:10:49. > :10:52.point or another. We could look and compare what the same people had

:10:53. > :10:57.said a few months ago with what is being said now. There has been a

:10:58. > :11:04.shift from no to year. That is absolutely real. I am confident that

:11:05. > :11:09.something is going on. Sure. It is fascinating. If Scotland does say

:11:10. > :11:22.yes, it is YouGov that has encouraged by the sound of it. She

:11:23. > :11:33.is yanking your chain! The Scottish people are making the change. The

:11:34. > :11:41.trend is... This is serious. The Financial Times is saying that banks

:11:42. > :11:47.are losing shares. The most terrifying thing is that a top

:11:48. > :11:52.Treasury civil servant has said he has not made any contingency plans

:11:53. > :12:01.for a yes vote. He will wait till the day after the referendum. I

:12:02. > :12:13.still big blue `` think that's probably the no campaign will win. I

:12:14. > :12:19.am saying there is now a 20% to 30% chance of victory. In no victory is

:12:20. > :12:24.more likely than a yes victory. Given the consequences of a possible

:12:25. > :12:30.yes victory, it is criminal that in the Treasury in Downing Street they

:12:31. > :12:33.are not doing anything about it. What they have to understand is the

:12:34. > :12:39.Scottish psyche. I love Scotland a long time ago but I am... The

:12:40. > :12:47.proudest thing about me is I am Scottish. The Indus people and I am

:12:48. > :12:52.assuming `` the English people, to talk like that with no contingency

:12:53. > :13:01.plans, it sounds so arrogant and the Scots hate it. I do not think you

:13:02. > :13:13.can say anything any more. Is the BBC telling me what I can and cannot

:13:14. > :13:16.say? Yes. Lots to talk about at around 11:25pm. We will have a

:13:17. > :13:21.second look at some other headlines on the papers and all the stories

:13:22. > :13:27.behind it. Stay with us here on BBC News. At the top of the we will have

:13:28. > :13:31.much more on the release of that video by Islamic state militants

:13:32. > :13:39.which is claiming to show the killing of another American

:13:40. > :13:44.journalist. Now it is time for the sport.

:13:45. > :13:53.Making his Ryder Cup debut, Stephen Gallacher is given a wildcard.

:13:54. > :13:57.But four`time winner Luke Donald is out.

:13:58. > :13:59.Embarrassment for England at Edgbaston.