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:00:00. > :00:00.have knocked on a title tilt, and Eva Carneiro could have a possible

:00:00. > :00:14.settlement in her case for constructive dismissal. More from me

:00:15. > :00:21.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

:00:22. > :00:25.With me are Phillipa Leighton-Jones of the Wall Street Journal

:00:26. > :00:33.Welcome, both of you. You look at the front pages first of all.

:00:34. > :00:37.The Independent newspaper leads on the emergency EU Turkey summit,

:00:38. > :00:43.describing a growing sense of dread, it calls, that any deal to return

:00:44. > :00:48.migrants could trigger violence. Its sister title shows figures that

:00:49. > :00:51.40 migrants a day are trying to enter the UK.

:00:52. > :00:55.The EU is planning to enter Britain's control over its own

:00:56. > :00:59.asylum numbers, according to the Daily Express.

:01:00. > :01:03.The Bank of England is preparing to pump billions into the UK colony to

:01:04. > :01:09.stave off a collapse of financial markets in case there is a vote to

:01:10. > :01:14.leave the EU. -- economy. The Daily Mail says that

:01:15. > :01:17.Downing Street phoned the director-general of the BCCI was

:01:18. > :01:19.before he was suspended over comments suggesting that Britain

:01:20. > :01:26.should leave the EU. The Times has figures suggesting

:01:27. > :01:30.that the taxpayer could save ?17 billion if plans are scrapped to

:01:31. > :01:38.build that new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point.

:01:39. > :01:40.Let's discuss some of those with our guests.

:01:41. > :01:47.Before I do that, I will mention that we've had a tweet from Donald

:01:48. > :01:53.Tusk, the president of the EU Council. He says the 28 EU countries

:01:54. > :02:00.are about to resume their meeting" to agree a revised statement".

:02:01. > :02:04.The dinner is off, a reference to what was clearly planned in

:02:05. > :02:08.Brussels. There will be a press conference with the Turkish Prime

:02:09. > :02:12.Minister. There's a suggestion that some sort of resolution could be

:02:13. > :02:16.Brussels. After an earlier Brussels. After an earlier

:02:17. > :02:20.suggestion there will be further discussions over the coming days

:02:21. > :02:24.because they could not arrive a conclusion, the EU leaders and the

:02:25. > :02:28.Turkish Prime Minister. More on that to come, I did not interrupt you

:02:29. > :02:33.both come I did not get as far as talking to you! Let's dip into the

:02:34. > :02:37.front pages. Philippa, the Independent, we mention that at the

:02:38. > :02:41.start. For you, it has a striking image? This arresting image of this

:02:42. > :02:47.little boy walking through razor wire, it's gone with the human cost

:02:48. > :02:51.of the migrant crisis. All we've heard about all day is the political

:02:52. > :02:58.talks, what it means for Turkey and the EU. What it could mean for David

:02:59. > :03:01.Cameron and his EU position. But here, we have a story that is

:03:02. > :03:05.actually saying that if these migrants are forced back to Turkey,

:03:06. > :03:12.there are fears of violence because people are so desperate not to make

:03:13. > :03:16.that move, they are desperate to continue to progress through Europe,

:03:17. > :03:20.there are fears of violence. Migrants are holding up babies and

:03:21. > :03:23.knives to their throats, there are reports of that, threatening

:03:24. > :03:29.different actions not to be turned back. This is reminding us that away

:03:30. > :03:33.from Brussels, in Greece, in the freezing cold conditions, there are

:03:34. > :03:37.still many people tied up in this and an increasing number. The

:03:38. > :03:42.country is getting full. It is an arresting image. It is a reminder

:03:43. > :03:47.that, as you said, the focus on this all day has been political, there

:03:48. > :03:50.are a great many migrants and refugees, hundreds of thousands

:03:51. > :03:58.basically being used as a note by the Turks, Eurosceptics are using

:03:59. > :04:02.them as a threat for all of the things that staying in Europe would

:04:03. > :04:05.mean to us, Cameron says, we are not taking these people. The independent

:04:06. > :04:12.reminds us what we are talking about, a little boy in razor wire.

:04:13. > :04:18.There is a line if European leaders, if you compare an image of leaders

:04:19. > :04:23.and with him, it is not a good luck. The Daily Express has it to take on

:04:24. > :04:27.it. The EU wants asylum control, a suggestion that if Brussels has its

:04:28. > :04:31.way, it would effectively decide where people go, and individual

:04:32. > :04:35.countries would no longer have their say? The Daily Express is never

:04:36. > :04:41.going to give us a front page that says everything is wonderful with

:04:42. > :04:45.migration, but as it happens, they are right, of course EU wants to

:04:46. > :04:50.centralise asylum control, most countries in Europe do because they

:04:51. > :04:53.are where refugees come into and until recently they could move

:04:54. > :04:58.around freely. We have the sea in the way, that is why we have taken

:04:59. > :05:02.few. The fact the EU wants to do this is not new. The EU certainly

:05:03. > :05:06.will not be able to do this, almost certainly, I think it would be

:05:07. > :05:11.fairly devastating for David Cameron's plan to keep us in the EU

:05:12. > :05:16.progress was made in the EU on this. I don't think it will be. Mr Cameron

:05:17. > :05:21.has, so far, said it would not be part of his bidding. He's been on

:05:22. > :05:27.the back foot. He's come out and said look, we have an agreement, we

:05:28. > :05:31.are outside of Schengen, we have a situation where we can stop it from

:05:32. > :05:34.happening. We want to get involved in talks but it does not need to

:05:35. > :05:38.necessarily involve us in the same way it does other EU countries. At

:05:39. > :05:44.the same time, trying to get closer to the EU, and prove it is still a

:05:45. > :05:49.viable proposition. It is difficult for him. The migrant story on the

:05:50. > :05:55.front of The Guardian newspaper as well, it is a reference to events

:05:56. > :05:59.back to early autumn last year? It is shocking and quite powerful. It

:06:00. > :06:03.is oddly buried along the bottom after this stuff about the

:06:04. > :06:07.millennial is. It is talking about people who came across the Channel,

:06:08. > :06:11.often came through the Channel Tunnel, and where they were held in

:06:12. > :06:16.Britain. Hundreds were held in a shed with a concrete floor, with no

:06:17. > :06:20.food or clothing. Using the blankets of the last lot for up to and over

:06:21. > :06:26.24 hours. It included children. Hundreds of people. It is always

:06:27. > :06:31.worse because we are talking about so few people, we could have done

:06:32. > :06:35.better than that. To treat people like this, when they have got here.

:06:36. > :06:40.When they managed to get here. Never mind whether we will keep them or

:06:41. > :06:43.not. To take someone who has managed to crawl through the Channel Tunnel

:06:44. > :06:49.and keep them on a concrete floor without a cup of tea for 24 hours, I

:06:50. > :06:52.hope that is not a country we are. There are children involved here,

:06:53. > :06:59.unaccompanied children, they have no clothes -- wet clothes, illnesses,

:07:00. > :07:06.they don't have access to basic sanitation facilities when they have

:07:07. > :07:09.dehydration, diarrhoea, and no facilities and the fact that some of

:07:10. > :07:13.these children are unaccompanied. We are supposed to be a well-run

:07:14. > :07:19.country. Let me stay with you, Philippa. Another EU related story,

:07:20. > :07:22.but a different angle. We mentioned a moment ago The Daily Telegraph

:07:23. > :07:26.talked about what the Bank of England is preparing to do in

:07:27. > :07:30.advance of the referendum? This is a story that the Bank of England said

:07:31. > :07:34.today that it would run more liquidity auctions around the

:07:35. > :07:37.referendum time, before and after, it basically means that it will have

:07:38. > :07:40.cash available for banks in case there are fears of a run on the

:07:41. > :07:47.banks. It may look like scare tactics. I'm sure plenty would say

:07:48. > :07:53.that they are in camp fear, George Osborne is strong arming them into

:07:54. > :07:57.seeing these banks are at risk. But actually, it is quite sound planning

:07:58. > :08:00.by the Bank of England. All it is saying is that the trading partners

:08:01. > :08:06.need not be worried that the cash will run out. There were similar

:08:07. > :08:10.plans around the Scottish referendum, it did not reveal them.

:08:11. > :08:15.The rhetoric around the referendum did not happen like this, it was not

:08:16. > :08:18.as forceful. Today, the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney,

:08:19. > :08:23.was in front of the Treasury Select Committee, he will be asked about

:08:24. > :08:30.it. It is sensible to talk about it now. It is sound financial planning,

:08:31. > :08:36.I'm sure a lot of people will jump on it. There is the suggestion that

:08:37. > :08:39.will be made that the second half of that story is that the bank is doing

:08:40. > :08:43.it frighten people. I don't think that is how the central bank would

:08:44. > :08:47.work. I think they would develop stability higher than whether they

:08:48. > :08:54.would want to score a few points in the referendum debate. It is

:08:55. > :08:58.interesting that Mervyn King, that -- the ex-governor of the Bank of

:08:59. > :09:06.England has come out and talked about it. Hugo, going back to The

:09:07. > :09:11.Independent newspaper. It is a story about legalised cannabis, which

:09:12. > :09:19.could raise "One billion pounds per year". It is a new study involving a

:09:20. > :09:28.panel of experts and academics. On one level, it is interesting and

:09:29. > :09:31.almost exciting, on another side it is about the Liberal Democrats, you

:09:32. > :09:35.can fit all of them in a small car. We should not be carried away. Two

:09:36. > :09:40.cars for everyone else. It is the idea that the cannabis policy in the

:09:41. > :09:44.UK should follow the model as established in the US. So far, it

:09:45. > :09:48.has been a success. The effectively close Asian of cannabis, it is

:09:49. > :09:57.different to decriminalisation. That is what people are talking about. --

:09:58. > :10:03.the legalisation. Spain and Denmark have done this in the past, Holland

:10:04. > :10:09.in particular. They talked about decriminalisation. All it does is

:10:10. > :10:13.keep the supply chain illegal. It is a boom for organised crime. In

:10:14. > :10:18.America, they've legalised the whole process, stripping crying out the

:10:19. > :10:27.industry, raising tax revenue. -- crime. It could happen here and

:10:28. > :10:30.under this government. In our final 30 seconds, if Maria Sharapova was

:10:31. > :10:38.looking for sympathy in the papers tomorrow, she should not read the

:10:39. > :10:44.Metro. This is their headline. It seems that she was claiming it was a

:10:45. > :10:50.mistake on her part, she did not open an e-mail about a drug that she

:10:51. > :10:55.was taking had been banned. We should point out it is in no way

:10:56. > :11:03.linked to The Independent newspaper story. Completely different. It was

:11:04. > :11:05.to do with magnesium levels. On that note, let's hope she does not read

:11:06. > :11:10.the Metro. Thank you to both of you.

:11:11. > :11:13.They will be back in one hour. In the meantime, you will be watching

:11:14. > :11:20.Sportsday.