:00:00. > :00:00.tennis and the best of the day's reaction to the final football
:00:00. > :00:13.transfers in Sportsday in 15 minutes after the Papers.
:00:14. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing
:00:19. > :00:22.us tomorrow. With me is the broadcaster Lynn Faulds Wood and the
:00:23. > :00:26.president of YouGov, Peter Kellner. Tomorrow's front pages.
:00:27. > :00:27.Many papers lead with the apparent murder of the American journalist
:00:28. > :00:31.Steven Sotloff by Islamic State. Many papers lead with the apparent
:00:32. > :00:33.murder of the American The Metro reports the militant's threat to
:00:34. > :00:36.kill a British hostage next. The Daily Express calls it a
:00:37. > :00:39.chilling new threat. The Daily Mail carries comments from
:00:40. > :00:41.the Prime Minister who said the video is disgusting and despicable.
:00:42. > :00:45.The Guardian notes the British accent of the jihadi on the footage
:00:46. > :00:48.is the same as in the killing of James Foley.
:00:49. > :00:54.The Independent pictures Steven Sotloff before his abduction last
:00:55. > :00:57.year. As does the Scotsman, which also
:00:58. > :01:03.features the criminal charges being dropped for Ashya's parents.
:01:04. > :01:07.Another story leads the Financial Times. It says the prospect of a
:01:08. > :01:16.close vote on Scottish independence is sending jitters through the City.
:01:17. > :01:25.We must start with the story of Steven Sotloff, apparently a second
:01:26. > :01:29.American journalist murdered in a video posted on the intranet. It is
:01:30. > :01:33.interesting how the papers have decided to feature the story with
:01:34. > :01:41.their cover photographs of `` Internat. The independent has a
:01:42. > :01:49.photo of Mr Scott lost `` Independent `` Steven Sotloff. The
:01:50. > :01:54.picture ranges from this nice photo to some horrible photos. It is
:01:55. > :02:01.interesting to see the editorial decisions behind this. The Scotsman
:02:02. > :02:09.shows him as the journalist, the man, and well done the Independent
:02:10. > :02:14.for choosing to tell a horrible story in this way because some
:02:15. > :02:18.images were so graphic you think they would appeal to the nasty side
:02:19. > :02:25.of human nature. It plays into the recruiting element that this video
:02:26. > :02:33.is fair to achieve. `` there to achieve. Most people don't go
:02:34. > :02:41.looking at 6`8 papers so closely. I find it numbing. The horrible ones
:02:42. > :02:48.or so horrible, they leave you gasping for understanding. In an odd
:02:49. > :02:51.way, the front page of the Independent and the Scotsman is in
:02:52. > :02:58.some ways more powerful because you see not a victim but a human being.
:02:59. > :03:05.And, the life that has been lost. Not only have the Independent taken
:03:06. > :03:09.a sensitive view, but actually, the front page I think has more in
:03:10. > :03:16.packed than some of the more ostensibly gruesome images. I hope
:03:17. > :03:20.so. These are a horrible people that are doing this, we know that, who
:03:21. > :03:25.are asking the families for a enormous ransoms to spare the lives
:03:26. > :03:31.of their children and they aren't these idealistic people who want
:03:32. > :03:37.this Islamic State, they are thugs and we feed into their thuggery if
:03:38. > :03:41.we show them brandishing knives and we give them the oxygen in
:03:42. > :03:48.publicity. Let's bring up the Guardian front page if we can. The
:03:49. > :03:55.BBC News channel has decided they won't show anything from the video
:03:56. > :04:01.itself. Nothing more than a picture of Mr Sotloff himself. This is the
:04:02. > :04:09.front page of the Guardian. Why do you think the Telegraph has used a
:04:10. > :04:15.more graphic picture? I don't know. Maybe it sells papers. I don't want
:04:16. > :04:22.to buy a paper with a man wielding a knife. I feel I am helping to...
:04:23. > :04:25.There are hard judgements to make because we have both been
:04:26. > :04:30.journalists for a number of years and I don't think on this situation
:04:31. > :04:35.that editors and news editors take the decision which will send the
:04:36. > :04:38.paper flying off the shelves tomorrow morning. They might on
:04:39. > :04:42.other occasions but this time I think they are making... They are
:04:43. > :04:49.wrestling with a difficult judgement as it were to get the full truth,
:04:50. > :04:54.which is the horror and the knife, or finding another way to tell the
:04:55. > :05:00.story that is less brutal and perhaps if you take the view of the
:05:01. > :05:04.Independent, they don't want to play into the hands of the Islamist
:05:05. > :05:11.agenda. I don't think there is a clear right or wrong I just refer
:05:12. > :05:14.the Independent's approach. I am not sure the Telegraph are doing it to
:05:15. > :05:20.sell copies. I think they have the view that I disagree with. It is a
:05:21. > :05:27.powerful and legitimate front page. I think the jihadis use these videos
:05:28. > :05:30.for recruitment. One paper has studied them carefully and think
:05:31. > :05:34.these people have been killed on the same day at around the same time
:05:35. > :05:40.because all of the backgrounds are the same, the filming is the same,
:05:41. > :05:44.the editing is the same. It is quite likely that the British hostage is
:05:45. > :05:54.also now dead and there are another 20 hostages there that... Western
:05:55. > :05:57.hostages. The Times mentions about the British hostage who isn't being
:05:58. > :05:59.named by British media at the request of family but has been
:06:00. > :06:08.identified by the international press. As far as I can tell, they
:06:09. > :06:14.named him in tomorrow's papers, the name is out there, it is no secret.
:06:15. > :06:18.This is a judgement of taste, decency and respect for the family
:06:19. > :06:22.as much as anything. There is the question of the photos, the naming,
:06:23. > :06:27.and anyone who says there is an absolute right or wrong way to do
:06:28. > :06:33.this and some papers have it right and others don't, I am jolly glad I
:06:34. > :06:38.am not having to decide the front page the night. Any suggestion of
:06:39. > :06:47.other hostages being killed is speculation, we don't know. It does
:06:48. > :06:51.look quite possible. Working in TV, if something looks the same in every
:06:52. > :06:56.shot, it is likely it was done at the same time. The front page of the
:06:57. > :07:02.Guardian, again, Spanish judge frees Ashya King's parents from jail after
:07:03. > :07:08.a U`turn from prosecutors. This is an extraordinary saga. We reported
:07:09. > :07:13.minutes ago with the hospital bringing out a statement. The story
:07:14. > :07:18.isn't over. I have a feeling there are a feeling there are labourers to
:07:19. > :07:21.the story that we don't know. What we do know is that the Crown
:07:22. > :07:25.Prosecution Service went for the parents and they have now pulled
:07:26. > :07:30.back. We also know that David Cameron and Nick Clegg and the
:07:31. > :07:36.Guardian leans into this, say they shouldn't be prosecuted. In terms of
:07:37. > :07:41.the substance, my sympathies are with David Cameron and Nick Clegg,
:07:42. > :07:45.in terms of process, it worries me. I don't think politicians should
:07:46. > :07:47.tangle themselves with legal decisions even if the politicians
:07:48. > :07:53.are right and their lawyers are wrong. This is slippery slope
:07:54. > :07:57.territory. Although I am glad the case has been pulled back, and I
:07:58. > :08:05.support the sentiment expressed by the Prime Minister and his deputy, I
:08:06. > :08:07.feel queasy about the way... (CROSSTALK) there has been criticism
:08:08. > :08:11.of the hospital involved in Southampton. Bafflement. We don't
:08:12. > :08:19.know what went on. Not understanding. Not until you read it
:08:20. > :08:23.out. The hospital has released a statement making it clear it was
:08:24. > :08:30.concerned for the well`being of this five`year`old for a number of
:08:31. > :08:33.reasons, for instance, because a power cable for the nasal gastric
:08:34. > :08:41.tube used to feed the five`year`old had been left behind. It can work on
:08:42. > :08:48.a battery but only occasionally. The child still seems to be OK. Yes, but
:08:49. > :08:55.if you are a hospital trust, will you take that chance? This is the
:08:56. > :09:00.dilemma. They have known this for four or five days. It happened last
:09:01. > :09:04.Thursday, was it? Why haven't we known any of this before now. Why
:09:05. > :09:13.did they issue an arrest warrant, a terribly heavy pool to use to get
:09:14. > :09:19.this family back. `` tool. Let's invert that. I don't know if we know
:09:20. > :09:25.the truth. Supposing the hospital said, we disagree, but they are the
:09:26. > :09:31.parents and supposing heavens above, he died, will we not be saying, why
:09:32. > :09:39.were you so laid`back? I am not saying laid`back. Don't take a
:09:40. > :09:43.sledgehammer. You and I have been through enough stories to know that
:09:44. > :09:47.this kind of thing was probably a lot more to come out on both sides
:09:48. > :09:56.and I am not going to... I don't want to rush to judgement. They now
:09:57. > :10:04.say they are appealing for a second appealing `` opinion. There is no
:10:05. > :10:12.right or wrong necessarily. They often have five options. With this
:10:13. > :10:15.family... I have seen the data for Europe and Britain isn't great with
:10:16. > :10:20.cancer. We have seen stories in the press about that. These parents
:10:21. > :10:24.thought they could go elsewhere for a second opinion and better
:10:25. > :10:28.treatment. The impression from the statement is that they were in the
:10:29. > :10:32.middle of this discussion as to what the next course of treatment should
:10:33. > :10:38.be and it seems according to the hospital that the conversation came
:10:39. > :10:41.to an end. Why doesn't everybody stop talking about it? You parents
:10:42. > :10:44.have suffered four or five days in prison, they have been handcuffed,
:10:45. > :10:49.their trial has been without parents for several days, why do they stop
:10:50. > :10:52.until the parents return to Britain, kept them together with
:10:53. > :10:57.hospital and have someone sort out the truth. At the moment, we are
:10:58. > :11:02.speculating. At the heart of it is a little boy. This information is
:11:03. > :11:06.difficult to put in the public domain. Patient confidentiality. The
:11:07. > :11:11.hospital felt it was backed into a corner and had to put this stuff out
:11:12. > :11:15.there. It seems to be explaining the reasoning behind their actions. They
:11:16. > :11:21.could have put some out. I think there have been mistakes made all
:11:22. > :11:25.round and what the... The way they have resolved those mistakes was
:11:26. > :11:32.heavy`handed. Let's move on to the Financial Times. Scots vote, fears
:11:33. > :11:37.rattle City. I am sitting here, you are sitting there, we are looking at
:11:38. > :11:41.this man, a man who can wipe billions of stock markets. With the
:11:42. > :11:45.flick of a finger. I teased him about that earlier because I am
:11:46. > :11:51.Scottish. But, I didn't mean it. Billions probably have been wiped.
:11:52. > :11:55.It is the fact that the YouGov poll yesterday came out and suggested
:11:56. > :12:01.that this rate is very tight indeed and YouGov has been Conservative
:12:02. > :12:06.with the small seat in its predictions with the vote. Your
:12:07. > :12:13.pollsters have changed things a little bit. The Scottish people have
:12:14. > :12:16.changed it. We genuinely simply report what is happening. Since we
:12:17. > :12:20.got figures yesterday morning, I have been speaking with people on
:12:21. > :12:25.the ground, people with their ear to the ground who know what is going on
:12:26. > :12:31.and everyone says, yes, on the ground, they can tell it is
:12:32. > :12:33.tightening. They can see that in working`class areas, traditional
:12:34. > :12:39.Labour voters, as the poll suggests, have been switching in large numbers
:12:40. > :12:44.from No to Yes. Alex Salmond has broken through on the issue of being
:12:45. > :12:51.run by Tory London, dangers to the NHS, real or fantasy, that argument
:12:52. > :12:57.is beginning to get... And, winning voters as well. To a small extent.
:12:58. > :13:01.There is still a big gender gap. Until one month ago, men were
:13:02. > :13:08.divided evenly between Yes and No, women were two to one on Yes to
:13:09. > :13:12.know. It is now on balance. There is still a quite wide gender gap. If
:13:13. > :13:21.you tie it back to the first story in Syria and Iraq, there is a gender
:13:22. > :13:25.gap. Well you have a risky option, sending weapons into Iraq or
:13:26. > :13:29.Scottish independence, men tend to be more in favour. Where it is
:13:30. > :13:36.cautious, security, we aren't sure about this... Sensible women tend to
:13:37. > :13:45.be on that side of the argument. It was happening with Afghanistan and
:13:46. > :13:51.Libya. You are a Scot, explain why you think it is time. I left
:13:52. > :13:55.Scotland and awfully long time ago. If you ask what I am, the first
:13:56. > :14:00.thing I say is Scottish. Scottish people are very proud of being
:14:01. > :14:03.Scottish. You get English people... This article in the Financial Times
:14:04. > :14:10.has some quotes in it that will make the Scots go and vote Yes. You can't
:14:11. > :14:13.tell the Scots what to do especially if you are English and especially if
:14:14. > :14:17.it sounds like you are patronising. This is it because a lot of British
:14:18. > :14:21.people are looking at the debate and thinking, all of this stuff about
:14:22. > :14:25.not having the sterling, not being part of the union, the economy going
:14:26. > :14:30.down the tube, the North Sea oil running out, all the economic stuff
:14:31. > :14:36.is trumped by the heart. Is that what you are saying? I was speaking
:14:37. > :14:41.with an oil man on Sunday who said there was lots of oil and there is
:14:42. > :14:45.lots of gas in the North Sea, I love the Scottish line that we have to
:14:46. > :14:51.keep our oil, we needed for our trips. The Scots can take the
:14:52. > :14:56.proverbial apple themselves. They are basically the proverbial out of
:14:57. > :15:01.themselves. We have three polls between now and polling day and I
:15:02. > :15:06.think there is now a battle between momentum, which is clearly with
:15:07. > :15:10.Yes, and something that often happens in referendums around the
:15:11. > :15:13.world, at the last minute, people draw back from change, looking over
:15:14. > :15:18.the cliff edge, they think, I am not so sure about jumping off. I don't
:15:19. > :15:23.know which of those impulses is going to win the day. There is a
:15:24. > :15:28.rocky ride in the polls, possibly their financial markets, have a lot
:15:29. > :15:31.of turbulence over the next few weeks. It started with the Scots
:15:32. > :15:36.saying they thought they wouldn't get a fair deal. If they did some
:15:37. > :15:40.horse trading, some earlier horse trading, it is too late now. They
:15:41. > :15:44.would probably have said that it would do nicely. It has gone too
:15:45. > :15:49.far. Put that on the table. That is one side of the debate. Probably
:15:50. > :15:52.wasn't generous enough. It has been great having you in to look at the
:15:53. > :15:58.stories behind the headlines. Many thanks. Stay with us on BBC News.
:15:59. > :16:01.More at the top of the hour on the release of the video by Islamic
:16:02. > :16:05.State militants claiming to show the killing of an American journalist
:16:06. > :16:18.Steven Sotloff. Now, it is time for Sportsday.
:16:19. > :16:24.Hello and welcome to Sportsday. I'm Nina Warhurst. Given a wildcard for
:16:25. > :16:27.his Ryder Cup debut ` Stephen Gallacher makes the European team,
:16:28. > :16:28.but four`time winner Luke Donald will miss