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:00:20. > :00:22.the contest is still too close to call. Hello and welcome to our look

:00:23. > :00:25.ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are

:00:26. > :00:28.Oliver Wright, the Whitehall editor at the Independent, and Angela

:00:29. > :00:32.Knight, the chief executive of Energy UK. Tomorrow's front pages,

:00:33. > :00:34.starting with: First, the Independent which leads on the

:00:35. > :00:49.threat to the second British hostage, Alan Henning, who is being

:00:50. > :00:52.held by Islamic State militants. The same photo of the 47`year`old, a

:00:53. > :00:55.volunteer working on aid convoys, is also on the front of Telegraph

:00:56. > :00:57.though it's main story is the comment made by the Queen about

:00:58. > :01:00.Scotland's referendum. Tomorrow's Guardian also reports on the Queens

:01:01. > :01:05.remarks as well the threat to a second British hostage. It says the

:01:06. > :01:09.prospect of the UK joining military action against the Islamic State is

:01:10. > :01:12.closer than ever. And in the Sun ` a challenge to the Islamic State

:01:13. > :01:16.militant, responsible for the deaths of three Western hostages ` "show

:01:17. > :01:19.your face coward" is the headline. Very powerful pictures and headlines

:01:20. > :01:23.tonight, a thoroughly sickening story following the death of David

:01:24. > :01:31.Haines, now concerned turning to this man, Alan Henning. Here are

:01:32. > :01:39.years on the front of The Independent, holding the hand of a

:01:40. > :01:44.child `` here he is. Many had known about this man being held captive

:01:45. > :01:49.for months, but it has only just been released. He has been held

:01:50. > :01:53.captive for nine months now, up until that point they had

:01:54. > :01:56.effectively been a news blackout stopped the Foreign Office is very

:01:57. > :02:03.keen that there would be no mention, a few months ago, and certainly

:02:04. > :02:07.about their identity. That position has now changed, with that chilling

:02:08. > :02:10.video released overnight on Saturday, and the Foreign Office

:02:11. > :02:19.have taken the view that it is legitimate and write for his

:02:20. > :02:23.identity to be published `` right. And his family speaking out that

:02:24. > :02:29.hatred would he be easy feeling to have. An appalling thing happening

:02:30. > :02:33.here. These are people who have gone out to help and assist,

:02:34. > :02:38.volunteering, they have families here and it is just a barbaric

:02:39. > :02:43.situation. I think there are so many things that now need to be thought

:02:44. > :02:51.about, as Bolivar said. Is this keeping quiet about the hostages, as

:02:52. > :02:56.long as we do the right thing or not `` Oliver. And how do we react? We

:02:57. > :03:02.can all react in the sense that this is appalling, the sense that

:03:03. > :03:08.something should be done if it possibly can be done, both to

:03:09. > :03:15.prevent this type of action on the next hostages, but also take action

:03:16. > :03:20.against ISIS itself. It is easy to have that automatic reaction that

:03:21. > :03:24.something must be done, but very difficult to decide what is which

:03:25. > :03:28.should be done. And the ability to do it as well. Here is the same

:03:29. > :03:32.photograph. Fears for a second British hostage, David Cameron to

:03:33. > :03:37.seek authorisation for further airstrikes as another British

:03:38. > :03:40.citizen is threatened with death. Clearly the resolve and

:03:41. > :03:46.determination is there to do something. David Cameron has said he

:03:47. > :03:49.has to go to the UN approval. And he is absolutely right. To seek a

:03:50. > :03:55.coalition as well, because one of the things that has happened the

:03:56. > :03:59.past that it has been the US or UK, maybe we have had other western

:04:00. > :04:02.countries who have said we will form our coalition to do something in

:04:03. > :04:07.certain circumstances. That is not the coalition that they need to

:04:08. > :04:10.have. You have to have a coalition here of the countries in that part

:04:11. > :04:15.of the world that are also affected. It is the Arab countries

:04:16. > :04:20.as well, in conjunction with the US, with the UK, who I think will form

:04:21. > :04:26.the group if they will come to the table, that will have a longer

:04:27. > :04:30.lasting effect. Let me just show the Guardian, because that makes the

:04:31. > :04:36.point about the Arab states, saying that they are ready to join in the

:04:37. > :04:40.US led assault. That will be key to this. Getting a wide enough

:04:41. > :04:46.coalition. What they are looking to do is avoid the mess they got

:04:47. > :04:50.themselves into over Syria. If that means taking a little bit longer and

:04:51. > :04:52.not responding to the sort of knee`jerk reaction you were talking

:04:53. > :04:57.about earlier, I think this is partly, my guess, coming from the

:04:58. > :05:02.Americans more than the British. David Cameron would have liked to do

:05:03. > :05:06.something earlier, given his own free will, but he has signed up and

:05:07. > :05:10.bought into this strategy coming from Obama which is that if it takes

:05:11. > :05:13.another month or two back months and we get it right, it is far better

:05:14. > :05:18.than doing it in one or two weeks and getting it wrong. And I think

:05:19. > :05:23.that is the right approach. Because it does not feel or seem right if

:05:24. > :05:27.you are in that region for others to just come in and say we are going to

:05:28. > :05:30.do whatever we are going to do with airstrikes or whatever without your

:05:31. > :05:33.involvement. That is why it has to be broader. Two I think what western

:05:34. > :05:37.governments are not saying and perhaps should be saying a bit more

:05:38. > :05:40.of at least privately is they've got to do something about the support

:05:41. > :05:46.and funding for organisations like ISIS which is going on in countries

:05:47. > :05:50.which are nominally at least our allies. And that has been going on

:05:51. > :05:54.from long`time, that is part of the reason why ISIS was able to develop

:05:55. > :05:56.so strongly. It is a very sensitive subject, because some of the people

:05:57. > :05:59.who will be part of this great coalition, close to the

:06:00. > :06:05.establishment. In more ways than one. And I hope that the SAS or

:06:06. > :06:10.others are trying to get to the hostages first while all the rest of

:06:11. > :06:14.the political, and how we are going to form these coalitions, while

:06:15. > :06:17.these discussions take place in the big picture, I hope the small

:06:18. > :06:23.picture is that the SAS and others are actually managing to get these

:06:24. > :06:30.hostages, to get them out. On the Sun, a truly shocking picture. Show

:06:31. > :06:37.us your face, coward. The man known as Jihadi John, who we have heard

:06:38. > :06:42.speaking on S`Video, and have only shown stills of, as David Haines was

:06:43. > :06:48.beheaded. Obviously this man speaks English with what sounds like a

:06:49. > :06:52.British accent. A sort of south`eastern accent. I hesitate to

:06:53. > :07:01.put it like this, but this is what the Sun does so well. " Alaves

:07:02. > :07:09.something. I agree. This guy with his face entirely covered apart from

:07:10. > :07:15.slip for his eyes, and hasn't got the nerve to show his own face. I

:07:16. > :07:19.agree with the Sun very much. They have hit the nail on the head with

:07:20. > :07:23.this. Let's see who you are, this man who is doing these appalling

:07:24. > :07:29.things. He is deliberately trying to terrorise. Let's see who he is. The

:07:30. > :07:44.Daily Express with a very visceral headline as well. Destroying

:07:45. > :07:48.jihadist monsters. In the context of the rhetoric we have heard on this,

:07:49. > :07:51.this is still remarkably strong. But getting to a point which is that

:07:52. > :07:57.this doesn't represent any kind of faith, in any way, shape, , or form.

:07:58. > :08:01.Alan Henning was an aid worker, he had gone into Syria to deliver

:08:02. > :08:06.medical equipment to keep people alive, to help civilians caught up

:08:07. > :08:12.in the conflict, to help people who had been terrorised by ISIS. And the

:08:13. > :08:16.Muslim leaders here in the UK, they have all come out and condemned,

:08:17. > :08:20.they are prepared as well to stand there and say this is wrong. This is

:08:21. > :08:26.not representing any religion, this is terrorism. This hostagetaking, we

:08:27. > :08:31.don't agree with any of that. I think that is brave of them. This is

:08:32. > :08:37.a different thing, if you are a leader of the Muslim community,

:08:38. > :08:40.saying this, then if you are... Also strangely, if you talk about

:08:41. > :08:43.radicalisation, you go back to the question of identity and revealing

:08:44. > :08:47.who these people are. I think this does more to dispel the notion that

:08:48. > :08:52.somehow joining ISIS is a glamorous, exciting, and just been to do. These

:08:53. > :08:56.kinds of stories and headlines thankfully undermine that argument

:08:57. > :09:00.to any section of the population. And it is only a week ago, maybe two

:09:01. > :09:04.weeks, that we started to hear stories of people who have gone out

:09:05. > :09:11.there with the idealism to join, and found it is not that, and how do you

:09:12. > :09:15.come back? So I think you're right, what we are seeing is something that

:09:16. > :09:25.is really horrific. It has been revealed for what it truly is.

:09:26. > :09:29.Turning to the referendum, a stark message from the Queen, as described

:09:30. > :09:34.by this newspaper, is also on the Telegraph. Queen breaks silence over

:09:35. > :09:39.Scottish independence. People should think very carefully about the

:09:40. > :09:46.future before casting their votes. How wise was that of her to say

:09:47. > :09:55.anything, even as that? It will be surely perceived as prounion. To my

:09:56. > :09:58.mind, what are commonsensical statement to say. We have wall to

:09:59. > :10:04.wall commentary. Wall`to`wall commentary going on about the

:10:05. > :10:08.Scottish vote, and it is going to be 24`hour Scotland for the next few

:10:09. > :10:12.days. And for the Queen to say it might be a good idea to think how

:10:13. > :10:17.you vote, well, if you are asked your view, I think that is pretty

:10:18. > :10:22.good common sense reply. I'm in favour of that. She is very good,

:10:23. > :10:28.isn't she, about keeping quiet about things. One journalist on Twitter

:10:29. > :10:30.said in the public eye there is no such thing as a private

:10:31. > :10:37.conversation. She knows that. Exactly. Will she be subject to a

:10:38. > :10:44.torrent of vitriolic abuse to the same extent as those who went after

:10:45. > :10:51.JK Rowling. Is it safer to say nothing? It doesn't make it right to

:10:52. > :10:56.say nothing. And in the Telegraph, it does give reference to her speech

:10:57. > :11:02.in 1977, when Scotland and Wales were voting on devolution, and she

:11:03. > :11:06.said I cannot forget the day I was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom,

:11:07. > :11:11.Great Britain, and Northern Ireland. I think it is good that we have a

:11:12. > :11:16.head of state, and she is a good one. What is curious is that really

:11:17. > :11:19.strong statement put out earlier in the week making it clear the Queen

:11:20. > :11:23.does not get involved in Constitutional affairs, it would be

:11:24. > :11:27.utterly wrong. It does, when you read this copy, it seemed that she

:11:28. > :11:31.decided to say something, rather than being put in a position where

:11:32. > :11:40.she had no choice. So the two things don't quite square to me. But maybe

:11:41. > :11:47.she doesn't agree with her aids. Thank goodness we have someone like

:11:48. > :11:53.this is head of state. You like Her Majesty, I think we have established

:11:54. > :12:00.that. She goes there a few months for her summer holidays, and says

:12:01. > :12:03.this. Anti` tech backlash, Google and Facebook conceding they need to

:12:04. > :12:11.do more to prevent damage to their image because people are upset about

:12:12. > :12:16.data protection. No kidding! In short. This has been a long time

:12:17. > :12:21.coming. I think so. I love the understated comment at the end. It

:12:22. > :12:24.says some in our industry have understated and underestimated the

:12:25. > :12:30.degree to which people care about rip a C. Have they only just found

:12:31. > :12:35.that out? What is the world which Google inhabits `` care about

:12:36. > :12:40.privacy. Thank you both very much for joining us to look through the

:12:41. > :12:42.front pages tonight. Stay with us on BBC News. Coming up next, The Film

:12:43. > :13:08.Review. Hello and welcome to The Film Review

:13:09. > :13:12.on BBC News. To take us through this week's releases, Jason Solomons.

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:13:17. > :13:18.Man, based on the novel and starring the late, great Philip