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Hello and welcome to our look at the morning's papers. | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
With me are the broadcaster, Anna Raeburn, | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
and Robert Fox - the Defence Editor for the London Evening Standard. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
The Observer has a picture of the flooding crisis - | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
showing a street submerged in West Yorkshire - and reports that | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
The Sunday Express leads with the flooding - calling it a | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
"The Day Britain went under" is the Mail on Sunday's take | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
on the same story - the paper reports that Britain has been hit | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
The Human Rights Act is holding back British troops in Iraq | :00:48. | :00:56. | |
and Afghanistan, according to Defence Secretary Michael Fallon, | :00:57. | :01:04. | |
Meanwhile claims on the front page of the Independent on Sunday... | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
That The Conservatives are set to, as the paper has it, "attack local | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
democracy" by banning councils - from divesting themselves of | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
And the Sunday Times says a Knighthood due this week for David | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Cameron's election chief, Lynton Crosby, is set to spark controversy. | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
Welcome to you again. There are a lot of pictures around, the mail | :01:21. | :01:40. | |
says it all in the shares. This is the best picture because it shows | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
that this is no longer, not that it was ever good, but not happening to | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
small isolated villages but it is happening to bigger cities and it is | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
totally devastating something it is flooding to a level that we have not | :01:57. | :02:05. | |
seen. It is so widespread and it does raise the question about what | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
we should have had in place as a plan. I've listened to people from | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
the various departments that they have been quicker off the mark but | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
the damage has outweighed anything that has been in place that could | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
have anticipated this. That is the case. Going on, we have seen the | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
papers and they have got details that some of the people have left | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
their homes, torrential rain it is awful. The climate is changing. That | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
is the real problem, isn't it? This thing is ongoing but they are on the | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
fourth warning. Not that is the centre of gravity, but you are | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
rightly saying it has got to Manchester, York and this is | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
big-time. I wonder how we are prepared in terms of first-line | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
response as we call them. It is supposedly happening in other major | :03:09. | :03:21. | |
area. Will people know what to do? Distressed animals, which is a huge | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
problem in the circumstances. Other countries have lived with chronic | :03:27. | :03:36. | |
threat. 80% of the Italy is seismic, that is honourable to earthquakes. | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
With almost any other major European ally, of course United States, | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
because the way our armed forces have been hollowed out, there just | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
aren't the numbers to do it. They say that people can volunteer, but | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
they are nowhere near achieving their target. This is a warning. We | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
are going to need the human as well as the physical resources because | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
this is going to happen again and again. The stories inside are all | :04:12. | :04:19. | |
about people's homes being wrecked. It is the most terrible thing. It is | :04:20. | :04:29. | |
a repetitive terrible thing. They will use their -- they will lose | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
their homes, their businesses but they will be grateful for their | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
lives, limbs and pets, but it will take a very long time to sort this | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
out. And dare I say, it will cost and bottom money. And eventually, | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
the insurance companies will say that they cannot pay out to | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
everybody and that will create yet another problem. The Independent on | :04:57. | :05:05. | |
Sunday, don't tend to go for things elsewhere, but this is intriguing. | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
The Tories planned attack on local democracy. This is an investigation | :05:10. | :05:19. | |
done from an old friend of mine and he has been looking into proposals | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
and plans from mission control to stop local councils choosing where | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
they place or don't place things like investments into pension | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
funds, in what they regard as an ethical or antisocial organisations. | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
Remember in the past, the withdraw funds from South Africa and the | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
particular case now, and this is following Foreign Office advice, is | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
that they have been withdrawing funds and holding them back from | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
investing in anything to do with Israel connected with the West Bank | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
settlements. The Foreign Office advice is not to do it because they | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
are risky. Now, the proposal is that they are going to withdraw these | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
powers, that is, fiscal choice in a crucial area from local authorities. | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
They are terribly libertarian government is actually building up | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
big government in Whitehall. Traditionally conservatives coming | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
back to Margaret Thatcher and they don't like local authority very | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
much. Surely there is a point that it all local authorities go around | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
deciding on their investment choices, but their own Preferment in | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
the way they dish out their money. Lotta people might find that odd. | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
Shouldn't everybody be following a central policy? That is the idea of | :06:56. | :07:03. | |
the central policy. This is about 70 million people in a country are not | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
going to be governed by one set of ordinance or organisation. Is can't | :07:09. | :07:17. | |
be and it isn't. -- it. Why shouldn't we have different | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
authorities making different decisions if those other decisions | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
that their members are comfortable and happy with always presuming they | :07:25. | :07:33. | |
know about them. The other the that track the art -- the other thing is | :07:34. | :07:42. | |
about preparing to slip through Parliament and unprecedented curve | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
on councils to make them do it without having any debate about it. | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
It is just got to become an act of law. That is the way relations are | :07:55. | :08:03. | |
put in. I do think she is right. 2016 is going to be where devolution | :08:04. | :08:11. | |
is going to come up. If it goes a certain way, Scotland will | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
immediately go for a referendum. Once you get the Scottish people | :08:17. | :08:27. | |
involved, the question raised by old friends, that Simon's point about so | :08:28. | :08:36. | |
many areas of the North feel disenfranchised is absolutely right. | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
We're not governing and we cannot go on governing a country of 70 million | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
as if it is just over 40 million. The Sunday Telegraph, Minister | :08:47. | :08:55. | |
suspend Human Rights Act. Michael Fallon has some very strong opinions | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
about this. He argues that there is a strong case for suspending the | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
human rights law when sending forces into action overseas. He says we | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
don't need these ambulance chasing British law firms, it is not only | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
expensive, but it inhibits the operational effectiveness of our | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
troops because they start to worry about whether they will end up in | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
court or not. You know a lot about this, Robert. Is it true? To British | :09:24. | :09:34. | |
troops worry about legal action? It sounds doubtful but it is an | :09:35. | :09:44. | |
important issue. They are more concerned with the wall will be the | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
person closer to the rear. The kind of people that I'm not supposed to | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
say who will be operating in those areas as we speak. There will only | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
be a few dozen. They are up for it because it is their job and they | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
believe it is a duty and they hope that their commanding officer, the | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
chain of command should protect them. Actually, I hope that Michael | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
Fallon has not been properly quoted here. As he is quoted, he is being | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
grossly oversimplistic about this. Yes there are the end of this | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
chases, yes they do cost a lot of money, but things do go wrong. The | :10:23. | :10:38. | |
case of because -- the case of the young recruits. They do have a human | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
rights, Mr Fallon. They are taking up an awful lot of time and money? | :10:47. | :10:56. | |
Yes, they do. That is what he is getting at. He's getting at a | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
European Community, that the Prime Minister says he would like to take | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
a view on and this is a nice convenient to flag up and say we can | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
be out of this. I think this is true, -- too, located. We can't tell | :11:11. | :11:27. | |
them that they are not cobble. They are -- culpable. This is all about | :11:28. | :11:38. | |
the plight. Christians in the Middle East and the rise of the Islamic | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
State. They have written a lot about the ethics of war and they are very | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
experienced. What do we have here fresh and blue particularly in | :11:53. | :12:02. | |
Syria. What has happened to the Christian minorities, and there are | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
tiny splinters of this where they made at the gander opportunity of | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
this. It should always be remembered because it is just about the only | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
village on planet Earth that still speaks the language of Jesus | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
Christ. These people have been absolutely rolled over. The people | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
we do not hear about enough of the Christian Palestinians who are a | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
minority of the Palestinian. They have a horrible time. These are MPs | :12:35. | :12:49. | |
calling on... They talk about the persecution of Christians in Syria | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
is genocide. Somebody should be culpable for it. Does it make a | :12:56. | :13:04. | |
difference at all? I think we will disagree here but go on. I think it | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
will say some into the world that this may be now a minority religion, | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
but it is a religion like all other religions, held dear. Therefore, | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
nobody should be simply killed because they are different. Robert? | :13:22. | :13:37. | |
I think the facts on the ground so, -- complicated. We heard about the | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
breakdown and we have hundreds militant group. You hear from | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
conferences about a peace plan if only for groups can get together. It | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
is not about four group. It is the brutal realist of me that has | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
travelled as part of the world the nearly 50 years is that these people | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
are regarded as people who get in the way. That is the thing we need | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
to think about what we can do about it. Thank you very much for joining | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
me this evening. That is it. Coming up next is reporters. | :14:21. | :14:23. |