:00:13. > :00:15.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers
:00:16. > :00:28.With us, James Martin from Huffington Post and Melanie Eusebe
:00:29. > :00:30.be from Hult Business School. Apologies for being over
:00:31. > :00:32.co-ordinated, like BBC News cabin crew.
:00:33. > :00:34.The Independent leads with the Mali hotel siege, with the headline
:00:35. > :00:37."Another Bloody Friday", a week on from the Paris attacks.
:00:38. > :00:43.The same story on the FT, showing an injured man being carried away from
:00:44. > :00:51.The Times focuses on a draft resolution presented
:00:52. > :00:53.at the UN Security Council, calling for countries to take
:00:54. > :00:59."all necessary measures" to fight the Islamic State group.
:01:00. > :01:02.The Telegraph says Britain is poised to join air strikes against IS
:01:03. > :01:03.in Syria, after senior Labour MPs publicly
:01:04. > :01:10.Security chiefs are warning Islamic State could be plotting
:01:11. > :01:13.an attack on British ferries, according to the Mirror.
:01:14. > :01:16.The splash on the Express is Chancellor George Osborne announcing
:01:17. > :01:29.And the Mail reports police are to probe a Tory scandal.
:01:30. > :01:38.We will of course begin tonight with the story that has unfolded today in
:01:39. > :01:42.Mali, in the capital, Bamako. Here it is on the Independent, another
:01:43. > :01:46.bloody Friday, with a body being removed from the Radisson Blu hotel,
:01:47. > :01:51.their main picture on the front page, saying that dozens are killed
:01:52. > :01:56.as jihadis attack a hotel and the group is linked to Al-Qaeda. They
:01:57. > :02:00.have said they are behind this. Whether or not it is connected to
:02:01. > :02:04.what happened in Paris we are not sure, but the French certainly feel
:02:05. > :02:10.it is an attack on their interests, as well as those of Mali.
:02:11. > :02:15.Absolutely, and this group, loosely affiliated with Al-Qaeda, is the
:02:16. > :02:21.same group responsible for the Algerian gas plant attack in 2013 in
:02:22. > :02:24.which eight Britons died. It almost seems, to put in perspective the
:02:25. > :02:29.amount of terror and carnage recently, that if there are less
:02:30. > :02:33.than 30 people pulled dead from this hotel, and let's hope the casualties
:02:34. > :02:38.are as low as possible, it almost feels like a victory, especially
:02:39. > :02:43.when you had up to 170 people held hostage. It is a horrible sign of
:02:44. > :02:50.how desperate things have become. 130 dead in Paris, 220 in a Russian
:02:51. > :02:54.plane crash. This is, unfortunately, a sign of The Times that there are
:02:55. > :02:59.now less and less people who have not been directly affected by
:03:00. > :03:03.terrorism in some way. It is extraordinary to think that, but the
:03:04. > :03:07.fact that there were French and US forces already in Mali who could
:03:08. > :03:12.help to bring the siege to an end so quickly is a reflection of the fact
:03:13. > :03:17.that there has been a lot of militant violence to deal with. They
:03:18. > :03:22.have had a lot of militant violence. With the Radisson Blu, there was a
:03:23. > :03:27.UN conference there a few years ago, it is a big site for Westerners,
:03:28. > :03:34.businessmen, businesswomen, aid workers. The Radisson Blu is such a
:03:35. > :03:40.Western Front in Mali, in Bamako. It is a victory, however it is still
:03:41. > :03:44.very much still a target. It just continues the trend, civilian
:03:45. > :03:50.targets, defenceless civilian targets, trains, planes, shopping
:03:51. > :03:54.centres. And how do you protect them all? Absolutely, you can't, and that
:03:55. > :04:01.is the unfortunate, frustrating and terrifying thing about terrorism, it
:04:02. > :04:06.is unpredictable. Moving the Times, looking at how we deal with of eight
:04:07. > :04:13.front group. A UN resolution calls leading nations to action. We had
:04:14. > :04:18.that from the UN Security Council in the last half hour or so, asking for
:04:19. > :04:24.all able states to join the fight against Islamic State. This is not a
:04:25. > :04:30.legally binding resolution, but it does allow governments to consider
:04:31. > :04:33.how they can contribute. Certainly it allows governments to consider,
:04:34. > :04:38.and I think it also lends government some aid. Cameron had to abandon his
:04:39. > :04:43.push a few weeks ago, and so undoubtedly this will help internal
:04:44. > :04:49.governments come together under the same resolution. Essentially, you
:04:50. > :04:52.have have the United Nations being a bystander until now with Isis,
:04:53. > :04:57.possibly the greatest terror threat the world has ever seen. It has had
:04:58. > :05:01.the constant veto of Russia and China hanging over it. Now you have
:05:02. > :05:04.this gruesome statistic this week that every permanent member of the
:05:05. > :05:09.Security Council has lost a national to Isis. Two Chinese citizens
:05:10. > :05:15.murdered this week, the Russian aeroplane incident as well. You
:05:16. > :05:18.almost feel that if they were ever going to act it had to be now if
:05:19. > :05:24.they were going to get the support of Russia and China. Bringing it to
:05:25. > :05:29.Britain, the Telegraph is looking at ramifications for a vote in the
:05:30. > :05:32.British Parliament. Set to strike Isil as Labour MPs defied Jeremy
:05:33. > :05:36.Corbyn. He has always said he is opposed to air strikes, because his
:05:37. > :05:41.concern is that our intervention in the Middle East has actually created
:05:42. > :05:43.more radicalisation, created more problems. Difficult for him to
:05:44. > :05:51.backtrack from that, I would imagine. He is being exactly what he
:05:52. > :05:54.should be, which is the voice of opposition, saying, let's look at
:05:55. > :06:03.the results of air strikes before. Does this work for us? He has
:06:04. > :06:07.received quite a lot of slack from Chuka Umunna, other MPs who have
:06:08. > :06:11.said he is unqualified if he can't protect the safety of Britain, not
:06:12. > :06:16.qualify for office. However, he is doing exactly what he should be
:06:17. > :06:20.doing. You are seeing a huge ground shift. This morning we had talk of
:06:21. > :06:25.upwards of 20 Labour MPs prepared to rebel. Now the Telegraph is saying
:06:26. > :06:31.up to 60 are prepared to vote against Jeremy Corbyn. If you think
:06:32. > :06:34.around 20 Tory MPs might be prepared to vote against Cameron, there is no
:06:35. > :06:39.doubt the momentum is definitely with David Cameron. Moving on to
:06:40. > :06:45.other stories, which have a connection. Boris clashes with
:06:46. > :06:50.Osborne over cuts to police funding. We have the spending review this
:06:51. > :06:53.week, lots of departments braced for pain. Boris Johnson is saying in the
:06:54. > :06:58.light of what has happened in Paris and in Mali, we can't afford to cut
:06:59. > :07:04.police numbers in London. Absolutely. You get the feeling that
:07:05. > :07:07.Boris and Theresa May are not going to play nice with the spending
:07:08. > :07:11.review next week. With every other department signed up to these cuts
:07:12. > :07:16.of up to 30%, the Home Office is the standout. The question posed by Andy
:07:17. > :07:21.Burnham from Labour and others is, how deep will these cuts be with the
:07:22. > :07:26.police force. He sets anything more than 10% would be dangerous, he
:07:27. > :07:29.wants less than 5%. Here you have Boris, defying his Chancellor,
:07:30. > :07:35.saying he is prepared to back the police on this. Let's move on to the
:07:36. > :07:39.Financial Times. Osborne set to meet deficit target. Ahead of the
:07:40. > :07:44.spending review, the prediction is that he will miss the target. At the
:07:45. > :07:48.same time, under pressure as well not to be so tough in his
:07:49. > :07:54.implementation of the cuts to the welfare reforms, to tax credits.
:07:55. > :07:57.Exactly, is a big tax decreasing terms of classic income tax,
:07:58. > :08:03.National Insurance VAT, corporation tax. He is going to have to figure
:08:04. > :08:07.out how to make it up. With working tax credits under attack, he will
:08:08. > :08:11.have to try to replenish them. Now they are suggesting that perhaps
:08:12. > :08:14.they are looking at your contractors and self-employed and raising tax
:08:15. > :08:19.there, so it will be interesting to see what the resolution will be.
:08:20. > :08:23.Economists are saying he will need a miracle to hit the target, and he is
:08:24. > :08:27.not going to get that. He is good, politically, and it will be a bit
:08:28. > :08:30.embarrassing for him, but politically he could probably blow
:08:31. > :08:34.the deficit by 100 billion and Labour cannot hurt him on the
:08:35. > :08:38.economy at the moment. Where it will hurt is front-line services like
:08:39. > :08:41.policing and libraries. The final story, still on the Financial
:08:42. > :08:49.Times, Cameron DeLay 's Cabinet reshuffle to deter waverers from
:08:50. > :08:54.backing British exit. People will have to wait to see which Cabinet he
:08:55. > :08:59.might get, according to this article. In light of what is going
:09:00. > :09:02.on, frankly, I would say it is a wise move. Over you could also make
:09:03. > :09:06.the point that if it is David Cameron saying it, he will be out
:09:07. > :09:11.before the next election, who cares? Maybe Boris or Theresa May
:09:12. > :09:14.will run wild. His main issue heading up to the next election
:09:15. > :09:20.before stepping down as leader is instilling discipline. Maybe Boris
:09:21. > :09:26.will just defy him, even with this politically savvy move from Cameron.
:09:27. > :09:29.I suppose he wants to keep people guessing, maybe people keep all in
:09:30. > :09:35.the Cabinet who are more on the side, if David Cameron decides to
:09:36. > :09:39.campaign for staying in the EU. I'm not sure if that will be a very
:09:40. > :09:43.successful tactic, really. We've seen that before with regards to
:09:44. > :09:47.Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and I don't think that worked, in terms
:09:48. > :09:51.of, let's keep everyone on tenterhooks until the very last
:09:52. > :09:55.moment. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, so I will
:09:56. > :10:00.reserve my judgment. That is what I'm going to say, I do not have an
:10:01. > :10:06.opinion yet. I never have an opinion! I am tipping Boris
:10:07. > :10:12.defiance. I have plenty of opinions outside, just ask them at home.
:10:13. > :10:21.That's it for now, but stay with us because at 11pm, Islamist attack a
:10:22. > :10:24.hotel in the capital of Mali. Coming up next, Sportsday.