:00:00. > :00:24.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
:00:25. > :00:27.With me are the broadcaster Julia Hartley Brewer
:00:28. > :00:29.and Associate Editor at The Guardian, Hugh Muir.
:00:30. > :00:38.The Financial Times leads on Syria, reporting that Vladimir Putin says
:00:39. > :00:45.the US is being duped into attacks against the Syrian regime.
:00:46. > :00:47.The I focuses on the diplomatic moves to attempt to punish
:00:48. > :00:50.Vladimir Putin for his backing for Assad and the vetoing
:00:51. > :01:00.The Guardian reports that the American attitude to Russia has
:01:01. > :01:07.hardened. Boris Johnson's failed diplomatic
:01:08. > :01:11.moves also feature in the Telegraph, which says he has been rebuffed
:01:12. > :01:14.by all sides for failure to secure support for sanctions on Russia
:01:15. > :01:16.and described him as being out The Metro's lead story is today's
:01:17. > :01:20.ruling at the High Court that the gravely ill baby
:01:21. > :01:23.Charlie Gard should have his life support machine turned off
:01:24. > :01:25.as soon as possible, The Daily Mail says Charlie's
:01:26. > :01:42.parents are vowing to fight on. The Express quotes an Oxford
:01:43. > :01:45.University study which says eating fresh fruit every day cuts the risk
:01:46. > :02:03.of diabetes despite We are not looking at that front
:02:04. > :02:08.page. The statements of the obvious. The story on the front page of the
:02:09. > :02:11.Daily Mail, it is on the other papers as well, little Charlie,
:02:12. > :02:16.eight months old. A height court judge said it was with the heaviest
:02:17. > :02:19.of heart that he came to this decision that doctors are in the
:02:20. > :02:24.right if they decide to switch off his life-support. There but for the
:02:25. > :02:28.grace. We would want to be the parents, who would want to be the
:02:29. > :02:34.doctors and he would want to be the judge? A horrific story. None of us
:02:35. > :02:38.is a medical expert or a legal ethics expert, but this is a
:02:39. > :02:45.situation no one wants to be in. It is ?1.2 million just in donations to
:02:46. > :02:50.fund this possible treatment that might work in the States, but the
:02:51. > :02:55.judges ruled it is not fair on the baby. He needs to die with dignity
:02:56. > :02:59.and I don't know how, as a parent, or as a doctor, you make that
:03:00. > :03:06.decision but there comes a point when it is kinder to let your baby
:03:07. > :03:12.died. I don't think any of us would ever be happy to make that decision
:03:13. > :03:18.ourselves. I think that is actually what has made this decision easier
:03:19. > :03:23.for the judge and further doctors, because they firmly believe that
:03:24. > :03:28.more treatment would put little Charlie in more pain. I think that
:03:29. > :03:32.is right and I think this is a case where we all have to accept that
:03:33. > :03:38.everyone is acting in good faith and trying to do their best for Charlie.
:03:39. > :03:43.I think it deserves its prominence on the front page because there are
:03:44. > :03:47.important societal issues here. Who can we say it has the best interests
:03:48. > :03:54.of the child at heart? Is it the parents or the judge? The judgment
:03:55. > :03:59.went to the hospital. He did his job. If ever there is a case that
:04:00. > :04:02.needs to go to a higher court, this is the one. The parents say we think
:04:03. > :04:08.there is something else we would like to try. As a society we have
:04:09. > :04:12.exercised our duty of care getting him this far and the treatment we
:04:13. > :04:15.have given him so far, but if the parents do feel there is something
:04:16. > :04:21.else they want to drive, is it right that we should say they cannot do
:04:22. > :04:24.that? It is not about the cost on the NHS or anything like that, but
:04:25. > :04:31.there does come a point when it is not fair to put a child, or for
:04:32. > :04:35.adults, we make this choice all the time, we have been battling for the
:04:36. > :04:39.right to die for adults. There is a point when you need to let people be
:04:40. > :04:43.and let people make their choice. I wouldn't want to be the judge, but
:04:44. > :04:52.they do have the right of appeal. It seems likely they will. They do have
:04:53. > :04:55.the right of appeal. They are considering whether they want to.
:04:56. > :04:59.They are right that there will come a point at which further treatment
:05:00. > :05:03.is inhumane, but he makes that decision, is it the state of the
:05:04. > :05:08.parents? That is something we do need a definitive legal ruling on.
:05:09. > :05:15.These cases do individually go to court because we are talking about a
:05:16. > :05:17.human life you. You mentioned people acting in good faith and doing their
:05:18. > :05:26.best. Let's talk about Boris Johnson. Front page of the eye.
:05:27. > :05:32.Johnson loses fight for Russian sanctions. I spoke to the former
:05:33. > :05:36.Foreign Secretary today and I said if you had a particular policy you
:05:37. > :05:40.wanted the rest of your colleagues in the G-7 to come on board with,
:05:41. > :05:44.would you talk to them about it first before saying that this was
:05:45. > :05:50.the policy and I want these guys on board? He said yes, but that clearly
:05:51. > :05:54.didn't seem to happen in this case. We are a really been a lot of what
:05:55. > :05:59.we have something that we do not appear to have a functioning
:06:00. > :06:06.diplomatic operation at the moment. We have a buffoon as Foreign
:06:07. > :06:11.Secretary. I think many would disagree with that characterisation.
:06:12. > :06:15.Theresa May would be won, she gives him the job. The point is that he
:06:16. > :06:20.has a relationship with other nations, the Foreign Secretary is
:06:21. > :06:24.that would allow him, when we need him to strike sums of arrangement,
:06:25. > :06:27.that we as a nation think is desirable, to get that done and he
:06:28. > :06:33.clearly cannot get that done because they clearly think he is a bit of a
:06:34. > :06:37.joke. I personally think foreign -- Boris Johnson was a terrible
:06:38. > :06:44.appointment and is out of his depth. This shows that. I don't think
:06:45. > :06:49.foreign policy is made by Foreign secretaries. It is made number ten.
:06:50. > :06:53.The problem is, we have France, Germany and Italy refusing to take
:06:54. > :06:58.action. They dragged their feet over economic sanctions over Crimea. What
:06:59. > :07:02.happens if Russia marks -- marches troops into an allied country? They
:07:03. > :07:06.are happy for innocent children to be gassed and they will do nothing.
:07:07. > :07:13.They should be ashamed. This is a collective failure of British
:07:14. > :07:18.diplomacy. It is a failure of Germany, France and Italy. The point
:07:19. > :07:25.is we have to persuade. If we have to persuade Western democracies to
:07:26. > :07:28.take action against a man who is it a tottering demagogue supporting a
:07:29. > :07:34.mass murderer, I'm not sure I want those people to be my allies.
:07:35. > :07:39.President Obama didn't do anything. He has blood on his hands. I think
:07:40. > :07:44.President Obama has a lot to answer for. A failure to take any action.
:07:45. > :07:49.That is the one blot on his presidency. We are not going to
:07:50. > :07:55.analyse the legacy of President Obama. I would have voted for him
:07:56. > :08:00.but I don't think he was a great president. Sometimes you don't get
:08:01. > :08:04.to choose your allies, sometimes you have to say what is the objective we
:08:05. > :08:08.all want and see if you can persuade them of the course of action?
:08:09. > :08:12.Talking about the objective that most people would want, the front of
:08:13. > :08:24.the Financial Times. Russia ramps up Syria tension with claims US tricked
:08:25. > :08:27.into action. To drive a wedge between Moscow and Damascus, that
:08:28. > :08:34.clearly hasn't worked. In fact, it is driven them closer together.
:08:35. > :08:38.Putin is Dublin done. This is it, you are not quite a shame Vladimir
:08:39. > :08:44.Putin on this. This is a man who is happy to kill his own people. He has
:08:45. > :08:50.done it on London streets. This is a man who is shameless in every sense.
:08:51. > :08:54.There is no question. The claim that America was duped into an air
:08:55. > :08:58.strike, I think Donald Trump might have accidentally done the right
:08:59. > :09:01.thing but for the wrong reasons. He wanted to get the aclaim, to be
:09:02. > :09:07.thought of as a strong man. He wanted to get rid of the niggling
:09:08. > :09:10.issues about whether he is just the puppet of Vladimir Putin? He thinks
:09:11. > :09:15.he has dealt with that. The big issue is Rex Tillerson is in Moscow.
:09:16. > :09:20.Looking at economic sections, which is of the American company with the
:09:21. > :09:24.biggest investment in Russia? His old company ExxonMobil. The
:09:25. > :09:26.tentacles of Russia and American business and the trumpet
:09:27. > :09:33.administration are so closely entwined now. We are in dangerous
:09:34. > :09:36.territory. Whether Rex Tillerson can strong arm or Sweden something with
:09:37. > :09:41.Vladimir Putin, I do not know. I don't hold much hope. What makes you
:09:42. > :09:44.nervous at the moment is the problems seem subacute and the
:09:45. > :09:50.people you are relying on notice of them don't seem up to it. I don't
:09:51. > :09:54.have that particular faith in Rex Tillerson. In some ways he might be
:09:55. > :09:58.conflicted. Trump seems to make policy completely on the hoof. It
:09:59. > :10:02.might be the last week he did the right thing for completely the wrong
:10:03. > :10:07.reason. I think the thing that makes me nervous is not even the ideology,
:10:08. > :10:11.the ideology makes me nervous, but what really makes me nervous is that
:10:12. > :10:17.all the people we seem to be relying on to get us out of the sticks are
:10:18. > :10:22.pretty incompetent. John Spicer, the American President's press
:10:23. > :10:25.secretary, went into a former press briefing and said how awful, awful
:10:26. > :10:33.Assad was because not even Hitler had gassed his own people. You could
:10:34. > :10:38.see everyone looking around. These people cannot walk straight and chew
:10:39. > :10:43.gum. He doesn't even know basic history. Alexander Litvinenko, his
:10:44. > :10:51.death in London streets, Moscow of course denies that. I love that the
:10:52. > :10:59.BBC feels the need to say that. The Russians did it. You wanted to
:11:00. > :11:03.mention the Telegraph. It is laying into Boris Johnson's seeming failure
:11:04. > :11:09.of diplomacy here and Boris Johnson used to be a writer for the
:11:10. > :11:17.Telegraph. He did. ?250,000 a year. It was chicken feed that. I wouldn't
:11:18. > :11:24.get out of bed for that money. We could pay all the stuff on the
:11:25. > :11:27.Guardian for that. He is in the cold from the G-7 and the United Nations
:11:28. > :11:32.and his own government. I think Theresa May doesn't trust for
:11:33. > :11:38.minute. Let's go to the Times. A breaking story this evening. This
:11:39. > :11:41.explosion, some kind of blast, involving the Borussia Dortmund
:11:42. > :11:46.football team on the way to the ground for the Champions League game
:11:47. > :11:51.against Monaco. Very worrying. One of the players has been injured. All
:11:52. > :11:54.the people, the spectators honoured in the stadium waiting for the game.
:11:55. > :12:00.They were told to wait at least half an hour. They have rescheduled the
:12:01. > :12:05.match now for tomorrow night. Very worrying. Germany has had so many
:12:06. > :12:09.terror attacks. Lots of speculation about who is behind it. Certainly
:12:10. > :12:12.very worrying. Roadside bombs appeared to be aimed at the
:12:13. > :12:20.travelling from the hotel to the stadium. Very nervous time.
:12:21. > :12:24.Westminster, Sweden, now this. There is a heartening element, that is how
:12:25. > :12:30.people responded. There was a ground full of people who left in an
:12:31. > :12:36.orderly fashion. There were fans from Monaco to work given beds for
:12:37. > :12:40.the night in Germany. They were cheering for Dortmund in the
:12:41. > :12:44.stadium. I think that is the way forward. You just can't stop these
:12:45. > :12:48.things. I was speaking to the cab driver on the way here and he said
:12:49. > :12:54.it is a high profile game, what would not protected? How can you
:12:55. > :12:56.protect against that? I am fed up with candlelit vigils when people
:12:57. > :13:03.die. I think we should start getting angrier. A lot of people get very
:13:04. > :13:09.angry when they saw the video uploaded online of the United
:13:10. > :13:15.Airlines staff driving a passenger who paid money to be on the plane,
:13:16. > :13:21.they dragged him off and, frankly, this is the kind of PR blunder that
:13:22. > :13:28.is in every PR person's worst nightmare. It is absolutely
:13:29. > :13:32.extraordinary. The incident itself was so problematic in terms of the
:13:33. > :13:35.decisions that they made, the questions they have to answer about
:13:36. > :13:40.what made those decisions, how they chose people to take off the flight.
:13:41. > :13:44.We know one of the reasons the fight was over but was because the airline
:13:45. > :13:47.was flung its own staff and they were distancing paying customers to
:13:48. > :13:51.get their own stuff on. It is all very problematic. The stuff
:13:52. > :13:57.afterwards, the way the company reacted, it has been extraordinary.
:13:58. > :14:01.They said this guy was belligerent. I would be belligerent. It is a
:14:02. > :14:06.textbook example of how not to do it. I like the fact that the Pepsi
:14:07. > :14:11.chief executive but we had the worst PR disaster this month and United
:14:12. > :14:19.Airlines said how that beer. The statement has changed. There is
:14:20. > :14:23.accusation that they were accommodating this passenger. It is
:14:24. > :14:28.sold and nothing else. The staff did nothing illegal and nothing against
:14:29. > :14:33.company policy. It was all according to procedure. You can drag someone
:14:34. > :14:37.this. It is different in America. They double click and overbook
:14:38. > :14:42.morphemes in America. We tend to get fights for longer journeys, but even
:14:43. > :14:45.here, what they have done in the EU, they have upped the compensation
:14:46. > :14:54.parents after plate which means they are less likely to do it. If they
:14:55. > :14:59.had paid someone have $1 million to get off that plane, they would still
:15:00. > :15:04.be quids in right now. This is America. Someone would have cut off
:15:05. > :15:05.the fight for some money. We have to live there. It has been great having
:15:06. > :15:05.in. Don't forget you can see the front
:15:06. > :15:10.pages of the papers online It's all there for you,
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:15:18. > :15:23.Thank you Julia and Hugh.