11/09/2014 The Papers

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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow. With me is Media Commentator for Forbes.com,

Neil Midgley, and live from Glasgow is Scottish Columnist for The

Observer, Kevin McKenna. Tomorrow's front pages, starting with... The

Times has the results of the new YouGov poll, the paper says support

for an Independent Scotland is on the slide.

The Sun leads with a story about 'strictly', but also carries the new

poll suggesting the No vote have a 52`48 percent lead. The possible

rise on the cost of living in Scotland if the UK were to split is

on the cover of the Daily Mail. Potential price increases also if

independence goes through. The Daily Record headlines the story of a

Jihadi bride, vowing to kill, and to die a martyr. The Daily Telegraph

claims the BBC has told the presenters and stars of the Last

Night of the Proms not to mention the Scottish referendum amid fears

the corporation could be accused of bias. The Guardian pictures Oscar

Pistorius on its front page. The paralympian was cleared of murdering

his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp today, but has to wait until

tomorrow for the judge's final verdict. The Independent features a

striking picture of Oscar Pistorius, leaving court, surrounded by camera

crews. So let's begin... No where to start but Scotland so it is to you

first Kevin. This new poll highlights support for Independent

Scotland on the slide. It is the Times which has probably been the

most hostile and anti`independence papers to describe a situation. We

are two points away from touching distance, away from the just over

50% required, so to describe that as a slide is a bit adventurous, I

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

yesterday within the study also found the politicians. It is a

combination of a lot of things. What is interesting is what the internal

numbers beyond the headlines indicate. The number of undecided

voters is down 24%, down to 6% now. About 10% consistently have been

undecided. Also, people apparently, according to the Times, are being

persuaded by business leaders, the Westminster party leaders and so

forth but they are going to be worse off `` that they are going to be

worse off. There has been a 6`point rise in six days of the number who

think the country will be worse off so whether the business leaders have

been orchestrated or not, it seems they are doing the job for the No

campaign. Alex Salmond is deeply uneasy about some of the headlines

coming`out. The Scotsman says that he demands a probe over the treasury

briefing. He said he would expect there to be an investigation into

this information leaked to the BBC about the plans that a number of

banks and retailers are making in the case of a Yes vote. He is saying

that the leaking of sensitive market data from the treasury to the BBC

ahead of the RBS announcement that it would relocate its headquarters

south in the event of a Yes vote probably broke several rules. But

this also affects the narrative of the last three days. The onslaught

of big business and corporate interests of the right and the

Conservatives, all stampeding North to tell the country... What next,

there will be a plague of locusts if all the headlines are to be

believed. The Guardian had mortgages going up today with a ridiculous

report into Telegraph suggesting that Mark Carney, the governor of

the Bank of England, was claiming that individuals in Scotland would

face tax rises of up to ?18,000 per person. Given that the average wage

in Scotland is around 20,000, we would be going back to the Middle

Ages that that rate. What do you make about this? He is looking at

the Scottish Daily Mail. It says that bread and milk and clothes

prices would all be going up. It is fear `based campaigning. The kind of

negative campaigning that has been proven to work very well, especially

in the US. This is the distinction between the campaigns. The Yes

campaign is built on hope and the No campaign, by necessity, has had to

be built on fear because the No campaign is protecting the stages

quote. `` status quo. President Obama won on three words, yes we

can, and Alex Salmond is not as galvanizing but that is boiling down

to what this campaign is about and it seems that these nuts and bolts,

these daily issues about the price of milk are swaying some voters. We

will move on from Scotland in a moment but first, do you feel we

will see more of a focus on the economics as we have seven days to

go? What will be the overriding line of argument? I don't think the No

campaign has anywhere else to go, they have run a dismal campaign in

Scotland. It is inevitable that things will turn to the economy, it

was always going to be expected by the Yes side. I think you will hear

Alex Salmond paint a more vivid picture in the next few days of what

can be done and achieved in a country that already has the 18th

best and most affluent economy in the world with all its renewables,

the oil, which, depending who you listen to, is a lot, and other

countries who would like to have what's Scotland has. I think they

will say it is a once`in`a`lifetime opportunity to run our own affairs

and also to get the government that we always vote for. We will see but

for now, let's turn our attention elsewhere. The the Independent with

this extraordinary photo of Oscar Pistorius leading court in

Pretoria, cleared of murder. This extraordinary turn of events where

the judge sort of left another cliffhanger. It was almost as if it

was a scripted drama. It is hard to remember that this is about a

horrible and tragic that of a young woman whose family is still

grieving. There is all this theatre and you see these dramatic

pictures, Deezer brilliant pictures, here is one of Oscar Pistorius

surrounded by a pressing crowd of reporters `` these are. There is

this theatre and trauma but there is a very sober business of the law at

the central rabbit. `` centre of it. The judge said that the

prosecution failed to prove that he had the intent to kill Reeva

Steenkamp and what we will hear tomorrow is whether his actions,

which have been described by the judge as excessively forceful,

whether that amounts to culpable homicide. We don't know what she is

going to say tomorrow or what the result of any judgement will be in

terms of a prison sentence but do you think in the light of the

coverage this has had that Oscar Pistorius, his image and his

athletic personality can be rehabilitated? One paper suggested

that by being found not guilty of murder, no matter what happens

tomorrow, he stands to make millions of pounds which would suggest that

they are not expecting a stiff sentence if he gets done for

manslaughter. The Daily Mail says disbelief as he is found not

guilty, not sitting on the fence and telling it like it is. Now, David

Cameron to push for UK strikes on ISIS in Iraq but not Syria. This is

dovetailing President Obama's plans to hit Islamic extremists and it

also shows that David Cameron seems to be slightly at odds with the

Foreign Secretary. It is a curious story. Philip Hammond has said that

there would be no airstrikes and now we see that number ten doesn't have

that exact policy. It would be completely expected that David

Cameron's policy on this would dovetail with the White House,

especially as President Obama has already managed to get a coalition

of ten Arab states to back him which makes it a little bit safer for

Cameron to make this cautious statement about airstrikes. What did

you make of this? It doesn't look right for the government in terms of

the presentation of it. It looks like a bit of a shambles. The

Foreign Secretary seems to be ruling out airstrikes in Syria and then

Downing Street comes out and says that he was talking about the

parliamentary vote they had last year ruling out airstrikes against

Bashar al`Assad. They said he was not talking about airstrikes against

these rebels. It shows just how difficult intervention in the Middle

East is because in Syria, the people who are perceived in the West as the

good or the bad, they keep changing by the month. You think, what would

have happened if we had gone in and made airstrikes? Would that have

strengthened Islamic State who now are the main opponents? Highly

problematic as you say. We're going to finish with the Financial Times.

I know this story caught your eye. Scientists grind coffee bean DNA in

the search for the perfect cappuccino. I am a complete coffee

addict. My is called Starbuck after my coffee habit. What they have done

is sequenced the DNA of a coffee bean. Not the coffee beans that we

have in lot days and cappuccinos `` lattes, but another one that paves

the way to genetically modified coffee. In the 90s, we were worried

about mutant foods and now we are not worried about mutant coffee, if

they decide to genetically modify it, it is a chilling but. They say

it would help producers get over things like drought and they could

make them very resistant. Would you drink genetically modified coffee? I

don't know. Occasionally I want to put in a little bit of whiskey or

Bacardi just to help it along, so what that would do to genetically

modified coffee, I don't know. It is probably immaterial. A nice little

nod to Scotland there. Thank you very much. That's it for The Papers

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

midnight Alex Salmond accuses ministers of bullying regarding

Scottish Independence. But coming up next it's time for Sportsday.

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