03/09/2014

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:00:00. > :00:00.The British nurse who contracted the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone has been

:00:00. > :00:20.discharged from a London hospital. Will Pooley said that he is

:00:21. > :00:24.wonderfully lucky to have survived. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

:00:25. > :00:27.to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the

:00:28. > :00:31.Telegraph columnist Tim Stanley and the broadcaster and football

:00:32. > :00:34.commentator Clarke Carlisle. The Financial Times highlights the

:00:35. > :00:41.advance of the FTSE, which is close to a record high despite the unrest

:00:42. > :00:44.in the Middle East and Europe. The Telegraph leads on the warning

:00:45. > :00:46.from one of the world's major investment banks that Scottish

:00:47. > :00:51.independence could provoke a sterling crisis.

:00:52. > :00:53.The Express warns kettles and lawnmowers could be next after the

:00:54. > :00:57.EU banned high`powered vacuum cleaners.

:00:58. > :01:00.The Guardian says Barack Obama and David Cameron will use the Nato

:01:01. > :01:03.summit to forge a military coalition to destroy the Islamic State

:01:04. > :01:08.operation in northern Iraq. The Metro also leads on Islamic

:01:09. > :01:11.State. It says the militant believed to have killed two American

:01:12. > :01:17.journalists in Syria will be hunted like Osama Bin Laden, according to a

:01:18. > :01:20.former security minister. The Independent says Barack Obama has

:01:21. > :01:23.begun to look alarmingly impotent in the face of the international crisis

:01:24. > :01:26.in the Middle East and Russia. And the Mirror has a picture of

:01:27. > :01:29.Brett and Naghemeh King, reunited with their son Ashya. They say their

:01:30. > :01:43.period in a Spanish prison has taken its toll on him.

:01:44. > :01:51.The front page of the Independent is quite arresting. Your move, Mr

:01:52. > :01:58.President. He is arriving for the Nato summit. There does not seem to

:01:59. > :02:07.have been a coherent response to the crisis in Iraq, Syria and also the

:02:08. > :02:11.crisis in Eastern Europe. That is what they are trying to convey with

:02:12. > :02:17.this headline and this question. What amazes me is that there is this

:02:18. > :02:21.expectation for decisions to be made instantaneously. And on as matter as

:02:22. > :02:28.grave and as huge as this, obviously we do not want procrastination and

:02:29. > :02:35.we do need action, but this has to be done from a basis of knowledge,

:02:36. > :02:44.effectiveness and also support. The last time Barack Obama went into

:02:45. > :02:50.some then bullheaded, we had the War on Terror and that ended in

:02:51. > :02:56.disaster, costing lives. President Bush. President Bush, sorry. The

:02:57. > :03:01.last time we tried to attack something like this head on. I don't

:03:02. > :03:05.think that they should mistake patients and searching for some

:03:06. > :03:14.discernment and sagacity as weakness. He is a thoughtful man,

:03:15. > :03:19.who takes his time to think through all of the ramifications of a

:03:20. > :03:24.particular move, but some would say that it is now turning into

:03:25. > :03:29.procrastination. And the suggestion last week that we do not have a

:03:30. > :03:37.strategy, which he now says was a misunderstanding, some say that is

:03:38. > :03:44.dangerous. He was not misquoted. This front page is extraordinary

:03:45. > :03:47.because the Independent is a centre`left newspaper and it says

:03:48. > :03:54.that a coherent response is conspicuous by its absence and

:03:55. > :04:01.President Obama is beginning to look alarmingly impotent. After six years

:04:02. > :04:05.in power, to say that President Obama is looking alarmingly impotent

:04:06. > :04:13.is very surprising. Having said that, I have to come to his

:04:14. > :04:17.defence. First, he has taken action. There have been US airstrikes

:04:18. > :04:23.against ISIS. It is not true that he has done nothing. Second, I'm not

:04:24. > :04:28.sure what a coherent strategy is, what would be appropriate, or if

:04:29. > :04:32.simply having one for the sake of having one is a good thing. The War

:04:33. > :04:41.on Terror was a coherent strategy but it led to the crisis in Iraq.

:04:42. > :04:44.And I wonder if this slightly halting style of President Obama is

:04:45. > :04:53.the only thing that stands between us and world War three. I don't want

:04:54. > :04:56.John McCain. There was a map of countries in the world that Senator

:04:57. > :05:00.John McCain said he would like to go to war with and it covers almost

:05:01. > :05:04.every single continent. I want a careful and deliberate president. I

:05:05. > :05:08.did what action eventually when it is necessary and the President has

:05:09. > :05:10.done that and I don't think it's necessary to lay out some grand,

:05:11. > :05:19.Western strategy especially when you're dealing with band. Very well

:05:20. > :05:25.armed and very well funded bandits but bandits nonetheless. I don't

:05:26. > :05:32.want to lay out a ten year plan. The future is much too uncertain. We

:05:33. > :05:35.have spoken about Tony Blair, George Bush and Iraq. Is this a president

:05:36. > :05:41.who still has this conflict, which he voted against and argued

:05:42. > :05:50.against, is that what is weighing on him? There is a legacy in both

:05:51. > :05:54.countries for both David Cameron and Barack Obama to contemplate when

:05:55. > :06:01.making decisions. The lack of support for the UK going into that

:06:02. > :06:03.conflict had a huge ramifications on the decision`making process for

:06:04. > :06:12.David Cameron and that is why he is reticent to get into bed on this

:06:13. > :06:15.one. But when we talk about fighting bandits, President Obama cannot go

:06:16. > :06:21.in there and just bomb the nation to hell because they are a Morpheus. We

:06:22. > :06:25.don't know where ISIS is hiding and we cannot go in there and carpet

:06:26. > :06:31.bomb the entire nation because the ramifications would be huge for

:06:32. > :06:33.everyone! Tim Tom is the big discussion that is taking place

:06:34. > :06:38.between Barack Obama and David Cameron, is it really about working

:06:39. > :06:46.out how to get Bashar al`Assad onboard? Is that really what is

:06:47. > :06:51.causing the log jamming? A strategic view of what to do? Because if they

:06:52. > :06:58.are going to go after ISIS, whatever the acronym for this organisation

:06:59. > :07:06.is, its paces are in Syria. `` bases. I don't know. If they were to

:07:07. > :07:09.do that, it would be an enormous mistake. An example of the enemy of

:07:10. > :07:15.my enemy not really being my friend at all. I heard an interesting

:07:16. > :07:22.argument suggesting why they should talk to Bashar al`Assad. Obviously

:07:23. > :07:25.the basis for ISIS are in Syria. But Bashar al`Assad has never directly

:07:26. > :07:34.threatened the US or the UK. ISIS has. But when the crisis started in

:07:35. > :07:39.Syria, one of the first thing Bashar al`Assad did was release the ice

:07:40. > :07:45.star militants from prison in order to split the opposition against

:07:46. > :07:50.him. `` ISIS style militants. This is well documented. He would dilute

:07:51. > :07:55.the democratic opposition by releasing people who would make its

:07:56. > :07:58.politics far more complicated. And that worked very well because the

:07:59. > :08:05.narrative of the Syrian civil war has moved away from the Arab string

:08:06. > :08:12.`` Arab Spring and democracy and has now become him being the last man

:08:13. > :08:16.against extremism. Don't forget that Barack Obama was elected on an

:08:17. > :08:20.anti`war ticket. For people to come down on him and say why are you not

:08:21. > :08:26.being stronger on Iraq is a question of short`term memory loss and we

:08:27. > :08:31.have to remember he got into power to get America out of the Middle

:08:32. > :08:36.East and he is not going to rush to get them back in. With all due

:08:37. > :08:40.respect, or a man who does not like Barack Obama, you have done a great

:08:41. > :08:45.job in defending him. In these last ten minutes, you have defended his

:08:46. > :08:49.policy against some ruthless cutthroats. At this point in time,

:08:50. > :08:57.I'm glad this is not the second term of John McCain. John McCain and

:08:58. > :09:02.Sarah Halen! LAUGHTER Sarah Palin! Why am I laughing? I don't know? We

:09:03. > :09:17.are very balanced. Let's not go there. The Mirror has a fantastic

:09:18. > :09:20.story for this particular family. The Kings have been reunited with

:09:21. > :09:25.Ashya after being in prison for three nights, four nights, and this

:09:26. > :09:30.is a photo that will gladden the hearts of many people. A fantastic

:09:31. > :09:33.story in the end. There will be serious questions asked about what

:09:34. > :09:39.they have had to go through. Not just their fight against the

:09:40. > :09:42.hospital and the police and Interpol or whoever it was who picked them up

:09:43. > :09:47.in Spain but the fact that this has all been put on them on top of the

:09:48. > :09:50.intense trauma that they are having to go through, supporting and

:09:51. > :09:55.looking after their son and finding the necessary treatment for him. I

:09:56. > :10:01.think that there are two issues in this story. Obviously there is the

:10:02. > :10:04.personal and the actual family involved in this story. The hospital

:10:05. > :10:10.have many questions to answer about their processes. And the lines of

:10:11. > :10:15.communication with the family and also the police. That is one issue.

:10:16. > :10:19.The second one, which is almost an umbrella issue, is that of

:10:20. > :10:25.paediatric brain tumours and how we treat and diagnose and research them

:10:26. > :10:32.in England. It has the highest mortality rate of all cancers but

:10:33. > :10:34.less than 0.7% of the funding for cancer research goes into

:10:35. > :10:41.researching paediatric brain tumours. This is why I'm humbled and

:10:42. > :10:46.honoured to be a patron of the Katie Holmes trust, a poor young girl from

:10:47. > :10:50.Preston who died from paediatric brain tumour. The treatment she

:10:51. > :10:54.needed was not available in the UK. And they are now researching

:10:55. > :10:58.themselves and trying to raise the various funds to launch research

:10:59. > :11:03.themselves. And this is another question. Why is the research not

:11:04. > :11:09.there for paediatric brain tumours when it has the highest mortality

:11:10. > :11:11.rate of all cancers? This whole debate has resurfaced about the

:11:12. > :11:18.quality of the nature of the cancer care in this country because of the

:11:19. > :11:21.situation regarding the Kings. Is it some then that you think Jeremy Hunt

:11:22. > :11:26.and the government should look at now? Or is this something that

:11:27. > :11:33.happens, is talked about for five minutes and then disappears? I don't

:11:34. > :11:36.see why the treatment should be available in Spain and the Czech

:11:37. > :11:43.Republic is not available in this country as well. I think the thing

:11:44. > :11:47.they have to immediately deal with is the use of the European Arrest

:11:48. > :11:49.Warrant, the role of the CPS and the NHS is chasing down the family.

:11:50. > :11:53.There are some more pressing political things they have to deal

:11:54. > :11:58.with as soon as possible. It has not been a good few days for the welfare

:11:59. > :12:02.state. In Rotherham, we had the welfare state letting people down by

:12:03. > :12:06.not stepping in on their behalf. In this story, we have the welfare

:12:07. > :12:10.state doing too much, pressing themselves on the private lives of a

:12:11. > :12:14.family who should have been left alone. Why were these people hounded

:12:15. > :12:20.across the Channel by the welfare state when they were trying to do

:12:21. > :12:24.the best thing for their child? Lots of questions. And I have to say that

:12:25. > :12:29.over the last couple of nights, I have had to play devils advocate for

:12:30. > :12:35.the hospital and they were doing the right thing for this child. But why

:12:36. > :12:42.did the CPS become involved? Why did this become a police matter? And our

:12:43. > :12:49.NHS, how is it able to exert that much political and judicial

:12:50. > :12:55.influence? Now, this story, an issue that could be interesting, bearing

:12:56. > :13:02.in mind that the police were involved in the story with the

:13:03. > :13:05.Kings. And some other things... The police are telling victims to solve

:13:06. > :13:09.their own crimes. It is absolutely extraordinary. And the person

:13:10. > :13:13.running it says that a large number of crimes are being decriminalised

:13:14. > :13:17.because the police are not dealing with them. That is very worrying. I

:13:18. > :13:21.would like to think if I called the police, not only would they listen,

:13:22. > :13:25.they would actually take action to solve the crime that has occurred.

:13:26. > :13:29.But there are some crimes that have to be without a doubt investigated

:13:30. > :13:33.by the police but if it is a minor crime, a vehicular crime or

:13:34. > :13:41.whatever, this is... Again, I'm playing the devil 's advocate...

:13:42. > :13:45.Perhaps there are some offences that are minor to the point where, you

:13:46. > :14:24.know, the police cannot get involved completely? Minor

:14:25. > :14:29.national government and police crackdown. It is interesting. The

:14:30. > :14:44.turnaround in New York City under the rule of Rudolph Giuliani, it was

:14:45. > :14:48.a zero tolerance policy. And the EU are trying to steal our kettles.

:14:49. > :14:56.That is a crime, according to some. The Express. God bless them. We use

:14:57. > :15:04.kettles to make tea. This is the very fabric of British society. What

:15:05. > :15:12.is going on? A certain wattage is too strong for some devices and so

:15:13. > :15:23.they have been outlawed. Will we have maters? The Tetley maters? ``

:15:24. > :15:27.matyrs? This is a European assault on the very nature of British life

:15:28. > :15:32.full of the right to a cup of tea without interfering busybodies. It

:15:33. > :15:37.has to be said that this is not Brussels. We signed up to this. Yes

:15:38. > :15:43.and these decisions must be made. This is playing devils advocate

:15:44. > :15:48.but... LAUGHTER. This is a ridiculous headline, it really is.

:15:49. > :15:54.What is the worst that will happen? An extra 12 seconds to boil your

:15:55. > :16:00.cattle? Yes! It could ruin a cup of tea! The whole issue is undermining

:16:01. > :16:06.the whole climate change philosophy or science. Headlines like this make

:16:07. > :16:10.people think that this is nonsense. That there are things we can do in

:16:11. > :16:14.our daily lives that can help change the speed of climate change.

:16:15. > :16:29.Stay with us here on BBC News to

:16:30. > :16:35.Stay with us here on BBC News because we will have much more on

:16:36. > :16:37.the government response to the continuing crisis in the Middle

:16:38. > :16:53.East. Now, it is time for Sportsday. Hello and welcome to Sportsday. I'm

:16:54. > :16:56.Nina Warhurst. Captain Rooney seals a 1`0 win for

:16:57. > :17:04.England in their friendly against Norway at Wembley. But only 40,000

:17:05. > :17:06.are there to watch it go in. Not quite the World Cup final, but

:17:07. > :17:07.Argentina take some