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:00:00. > :00:00.international duty could have been avoided. A record`breaking day for

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:00:15. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:20. > :00:21.bringing us tomorrow. With me is Media Commentator for Forbes.com,

:00:22. > :00:29.Neil Midgley, and live from Glasgow is Scottish Columnist for The

:00:30. > :00:33.Observer, Kevin McKenna. Tomorrow's front pages, starting with... The

:00:34. > :00:36.Times has the results of the new YouGov poll, the paper says support

:00:37. > :00:42.for an Independent Scotland is on the slide.

:00:43. > :00:45.The Sun leads with a story about 'strictly', but also carries the new

:00:46. > :00:59.poll suggesting the No vote have a 52`48 percent lead. The possible

:01:00. > :01:11.rise on the cost of living in Scotland if the UK were to split is

:01:12. > :01:17.on the cover of the Daily Mail. Potential price increases also if

:01:18. > :01:21.independence goes through. The Daily Record headlines the story of a

:01:22. > :01:24.Jihadi bride, vowing to kill, and to die a martyr. The Daily Telegraph

:01:25. > :01:27.claims the BBC has told the presenters and stars of the Last

:01:28. > :01:30.Night of the Proms not to mention the Scottish referendum amid fears

:01:31. > :01:38.the corporation could be accused of bias. The Guardian pictures Oscar

:01:39. > :01:40.Pistorius on its front page. The paralympian was cleared of murdering

:01:41. > :01:43.his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp today, but has to wait until

:01:44. > :01:45.tomorrow for the judge's final verdict. The Independent features a

:01:46. > :02:00.striking picture of Oscar Pistorius, leaving court, surrounded by camera

:02:01. > :02:11.crews. So let's begin... No where to start but Scotland so it is to you

:02:12. > :02:18.first Kevin. This new poll highlights support for Independent

:02:19. > :02:24.Scotland on the slide. It is the Times which has probably been the

:02:25. > :02:31.most hostile and anti`independence papers to describe a situation. We

:02:32. > :02:40.are two points away from touching distance, away from the just over

:02:41. > :02:51.50% required, so to describe that as a slide is a bit adventurous, I

:02:52. > :02:57.would say. 48% Yes and 52% No. They are referring to the big visit

:02:58. > :03:04.yesterday within the study also found the politicians. It is a

:03:05. > :03:11.combination of a lot of things. What is interesting is what the internal

:03:12. > :03:26.numbers beyond the headlines indicate. The number of undecided

:03:27. > :03:33.voters is down 24%, down to 6% now. About 10% consistently have been

:03:34. > :03:40.undecided. Also, people apparently, according to the Times, are being

:03:41. > :03:48.persuaded by business leaders, the Westminster party leaders and so

:03:49. > :03:53.forth but they are going to be worse off `` that they are going to be

:03:54. > :03:59.worse off. There has been a 6`point rise in six days of the number who

:04:00. > :04:02.think the country will be worse off so whether the business leaders have

:04:03. > :04:10.been orchestrated or not, it seems they are doing the job for the No

:04:11. > :04:16.campaign. Alex Salmond is deeply uneasy about some of the headlines

:04:17. > :04:20.coming`out. The Scotsman says that he demands a probe over the treasury

:04:21. > :04:25.briefing. He said he would expect there to be an investigation into

:04:26. > :04:29.this information leaked to the BBC about the plans that a number of

:04:30. > :04:36.banks and retailers are making in the case of a Yes vote. He is saying

:04:37. > :04:42.that the leaking of sensitive market data from the treasury to the BBC

:04:43. > :04:47.ahead of the RBS announcement that it would relocate its headquarters

:04:48. > :04:52.south in the event of a Yes vote probably broke several rules. But

:04:53. > :04:58.this also affects the narrative of the last three days. The onslaught

:04:59. > :05:04.of big business and corporate interests of the right and the

:05:05. > :05:16.Conservatives, all stampeding North to tell the country... What next,

:05:17. > :05:23.there will be a plague of locusts if all the headlines are to be

:05:24. > :05:31.believed. The Guardian had mortgages going up today with a ridiculous

:05:32. > :05:37.report into Telegraph suggesting that Mark Carney, the governor of

:05:38. > :05:43.the Bank of England, was claiming that individuals in Scotland would

:05:44. > :05:50.face tax rises of up to ?18,000 per person. Given that the average wage

:05:51. > :05:53.in Scotland is around 20,000, we would be going back to the Middle

:05:54. > :06:03.Ages that that rate. What do you make about this? He is looking at

:06:04. > :06:09.the Scottish Daily Mail. It says that bread and milk and clothes

:06:10. > :06:13.prices would all be going up. It is fear `based campaigning. The kind of

:06:14. > :06:19.negative campaigning that has been proven to work very well, especially

:06:20. > :06:29.in the US. This is the distinction between the campaigns. The Yes

:06:30. > :06:43.campaign is built on hope and the No campaign, by necessity, has had to

:06:44. > :06:53.be built on fear because the No campaign is protecting the stages

:06:54. > :07:00.quote. `` status quo. President Obama won on three words, yes we

:07:01. > :07:04.can, and Alex Salmond is not as galvanizing but that is boiling down

:07:05. > :07:10.to what this campaign is about and it seems that these nuts and bolts,

:07:11. > :07:15.these daily issues about the price of milk are swaying some voters. We

:07:16. > :07:21.will move on from Scotland in a moment but first, do you feel we

:07:22. > :07:27.will see more of a focus on the economics as we have seven days to

:07:28. > :07:33.go? What will be the overriding line of argument? I don't think the No

:07:34. > :07:38.campaign has anywhere else to go, they have run a dismal campaign in

:07:39. > :07:43.Scotland. It is inevitable that things will turn to the economy, it

:07:44. > :07:50.was always going to be expected by the Yes side. I think you will hear

:07:51. > :07:54.Alex Salmond paint a more vivid picture in the next few days of what

:07:55. > :08:01.can be done and achieved in a country that already has the 18th

:08:02. > :08:08.best and most affluent economy in the world with all its renewables,

:08:09. > :08:17.the oil, which, depending who you listen to, is a lot, and other

:08:18. > :08:22.countries who would like to have what's Scotland has. I think they

:08:23. > :08:25.will say it is a once`in`a`lifetime opportunity to run our own affairs

:08:26. > :08:32.and also to get the government that we always vote for. We will see but

:08:33. > :08:38.for now, let's turn our attention elsewhere. The the Independent with

:08:39. > :08:44.this extraordinary photo of Oscar Pistorius leading court in

:08:45. > :08:53.Pretoria, cleared of murder. This extraordinary turn of events where

:08:54. > :08:59.the judge sort of left another cliffhanger. It was almost as if it

:09:00. > :09:03.was a scripted drama. It is hard to remember that this is about a

:09:04. > :09:08.horrible and tragic that of a young woman whose family is still

:09:09. > :09:12.grieving. There is all this theatre and you see these dramatic

:09:13. > :09:20.pictures, Deezer brilliant pictures, here is one of Oscar Pistorius

:09:21. > :09:29.surrounded by a pressing crowd of reporters `` these are. There is

:09:30. > :09:39.this theatre and trauma but there is a very sober business of the law at

:09:40. > :09:47.the central rabbit. `` centre of it. The judge said that the

:09:48. > :09:52.prosecution failed to prove that he had the intent to kill Reeva

:09:53. > :09:55.Steenkamp and what we will hear tomorrow is whether his actions,

:09:56. > :10:02.which have been described by the judge as excessively forceful,

:10:03. > :10:06.whether that amounts to culpable homicide. We don't know what she is

:10:07. > :10:12.going to say tomorrow or what the result of any judgement will be in

:10:13. > :10:16.terms of a prison sentence but do you think in the light of the

:10:17. > :10:20.coverage this has had that Oscar Pistorius, his image and his

:10:21. > :10:28.athletic personality can be rehabilitated? One paper suggested

:10:29. > :10:32.that by being found not guilty of murder, no matter what happens

:10:33. > :10:41.tomorrow, he stands to make millions of pounds which would suggest that

:10:42. > :10:50.they are not expecting a stiff sentence if he gets done for

:10:51. > :10:54.manslaughter. The Daily Mail says disbelief as he is found not

:10:55. > :11:02.guilty, not sitting on the fence and telling it like it is. Now, David

:11:03. > :11:10.Cameron to push for UK strikes on ISIS in Iraq but not Syria. This is

:11:11. > :11:16.dovetailing President Obama's plans to hit Islamic extremists and it

:11:17. > :11:23.also shows that David Cameron seems to be slightly at odds with the

:11:24. > :11:27.Foreign Secretary. It is a curious story. Philip Hammond has said that

:11:28. > :11:36.there would be no airstrikes and now we see that number ten doesn't have

:11:37. > :11:40.that exact policy. It would be completely expected that David

:11:41. > :11:47.Cameron's policy on this would dovetail with the White House,

:11:48. > :11:51.especially as President Obama has already managed to get a coalition

:11:52. > :11:56.of ten Arab states to back him which makes it a little bit safer for

:11:57. > :12:03.Cameron to make this cautious statement about airstrikes. What did

:12:04. > :12:08.you make of this? It doesn't look right for the government in terms of

:12:09. > :12:13.the presentation of it. It looks like a bit of a shambles. The

:12:14. > :12:19.Foreign Secretary seems to be ruling out airstrikes in Syria and then

:12:20. > :12:23.Downing Street comes out and says that he was talking about the

:12:24. > :12:29.parliamentary vote they had last year ruling out airstrikes against

:12:30. > :12:35.Bashar al`Assad. They said he was not talking about airstrikes against

:12:36. > :12:40.these rebels. It shows just how difficult intervention in the Middle

:12:41. > :12:46.East is because in Syria, the people who are perceived in the West as the

:12:47. > :12:53.good or the bad, they keep changing by the month. You think, what would

:12:54. > :12:58.have happened if we had gone in and made airstrikes? Would that have

:12:59. > :13:04.strengthened Islamic State who now are the main opponents? Highly

:13:05. > :13:12.problematic as you say. We're going to finish with the Financial Times.

:13:13. > :13:15.I know this story caught your eye. Scientists grind coffee bean DNA in

:13:16. > :13:23.the search for the perfect cappuccino. I am a complete coffee

:13:24. > :13:31.addict. My is called Starbuck after my coffee habit. What they have done

:13:32. > :13:41.is sequenced the DNA of a coffee bean. Not the coffee beans that we

:13:42. > :13:48.have in lot days and cappuccinos `` lattes, but another one that paves

:13:49. > :13:53.the way to genetically modified coffee. In the 90s, we were worried

:13:54. > :13:59.about mutant foods and now we are not worried about mutant coffee, if

:14:00. > :14:05.they decide to genetically modify it, it is a chilling but. They say

:14:06. > :14:10.it would help producers get over things like drought and they could

:14:11. > :14:16.make them very resistant. Would you drink genetically modified coffee? I

:14:17. > :14:23.don't know. Occasionally I want to put in a little bit of whiskey or

:14:24. > :14:27.Bacardi just to help it along, so what that would do to genetically

:14:28. > :14:35.modified coffee, I don't know. It is probably immaterial. A nice little

:14:36. > :14:55.nod to Scotland there. Thank you very much. That's it for The Papers

:14:56. > :14:58.this hour. Thank you Kevin and Neil. Stay with us here on BBC News: At

:14:59. > :15:01.midnight Alex Salmond accuses ministers of bullying regarding

:15:02. > :15:15.Scottish Independence. But coming up next it's time for Sportsday.

:15:16. > :15:19.Hello, welcome to Sportsday with me, Katie Gornall. Coming up: Louis Van

:15:20. > :15:22.Gaal parades his new signings at Manchester United and says he

:15:23. > :15:24.released Danny Welbeck because he wasn't up to