24/02/2018

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0:00:00 > 0:00:06as freezing air, dubbed The Beast from The East, arrives from Russia.

0:00:20 > 0:00:23Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be

0:00:23 > 0:00:24bringing us tomorrow.

0:00:24 > 0:00:28With me are Martin Lipton, who's the Deputy Sports Editor at The Sun

0:00:28 > 0:00:30and Benedicte Paviot, President of the Foreign Press Association,

0:00:30 > 0:00:38as well as the UK Correspondent for France 24.

0:00:38 > 0:00:43Many of tomorrow's front pages are already in.

0:00:43 > 0:00:47Following the UN's resolution for a ceasefire in Syria

0:00:47 > 0:00:52the Observer carries the picture of two children in Eastern

0:00:52 > 0:00:58Ghouta under the heading Syria's endless agony

0:00:58 > 0:01:05Brexit leads the Sunday Telegraph - with Theresa May's de facto deputy

0:01:05 > 0:01:08David Lidington writing that the SNP risks "splitting" the UK's economy

0:01:08 > 0:01:10and damaging trade deals.

0:01:10 > 0:01:12Staying with Brexit - the Sunday Express reports

0:01:12 > 0:01:15that the Prime Minister will declare Britain's "best days really do lie

0:01:15 > 0:01:21ahead of us" in a speech in Brussels this week.

0:01:21 > 0:01:24The Mail on Sunday reports that the Ministry of Defence

0:01:24 > 0:01:26is setting up a helpline for British troops suffering from

0:01:26 > 0:01:31conditions including PTSD.

0:01:31 > 0:01:38So no consensus over the main story, but Brexit

0:01:38 > 0:01:43appears in several guises, perhaps not surprisingly.

0:01:43 > 0:01:50Should we be surprised at that? We will start with the Observer. And

0:01:50 > 0:01:53Syria, the breaking news this evening, good news on the face of

0:01:53 > 0:02:01it.On the face of it, but so long awaited, more people getting killed

0:02:01 > 0:02:07everyday, allegedly 500 this week in this besieged enclave. In the

0:02:07 > 0:02:14outskirts of Damascus. Here we have two children and one shudders to

0:02:14 > 0:02:20think... The Observer calls an endless agony, and so is it going to

0:02:20 > 0:02:25end for 30 days which are not the vote has been delayed so many times

0:02:25 > 0:02:31-- is it going to end for 30 days? Is it going to be countrywide across

0:02:31 > 0:02:38Syria? Easy-going to be implemented? The US ambassador Nikki Haley says

0:02:38 > 0:02:41it needs to be implemented straightaway -- is it going to be

0:02:41 > 0:02:52lamented? -- implemented. 400,000 people in Eastern Ghouta and the

0:02:52 > 0:02:56French UN representative said this is very belated and on Friday said

0:02:56 > 0:03:01that if this was not passed very quickly this really would be a

0:03:01 > 0:03:07failure to act and could spell the end of the United Nations itself.

0:03:07 > 0:03:09Very scary and Wawrinka but these people living on the ground,

0:03:09 > 0:03:15children who have not seen daylight -- very scary, all these people

0:03:15 > 0:03:25living underground. And they do not have medicine.Questions over

0:03:25 > 0:03:31whether Assad is going to comply but Russia really is being pointed at.

0:03:31 > 0:03:35Russia are the force in the Middle East, there has been a disengagement

0:03:35 > 0:03:40by the US, and the Russians have huge sway over the Assad regime as

0:03:40 > 0:03:46they have had for a number of years. Unless they twist his arm he will do

0:03:46 > 0:03:51nothing, clearly, because he doesn't want to stop and he wants to have

0:03:51 > 0:03:54more of his perceived enemies destroyed, no matter who they are.

0:03:54 > 0:03:58It seems that the Assad regime of use anybody as expendable whether

0:03:58 > 0:04:05they are child or adult, it matters not to them, it is collateral damage

0:04:05 > 0:04:11in their ongoing civil war. The UN Security Council can vote and people

0:04:11 > 0:04:15can talk but unless there's a will for something to be done nothing

0:04:15 > 0:04:19will be done and I fear that nothing will be done.We also had three

0:04:19 > 0:04:30Brexit stories. To go through them -- we also have. The Observer has

0:04:30 > 0:04:34bad news for Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Alliance putting pressure on

0:04:34 > 0:04:39Jeremy Corbyn over his Brexit stance.This is one of the Caucasus

0:04:39 > 0:04:42within the Labour Party which feels we should still stay inside the

0:04:42 > 0:04:45single market even though Jeremy Corbyn is likely on Monday to go

0:04:45 > 0:04:50back to officially backing membership of the customs union, to

0:04:50 > 0:05:00try to possibly vote for a compromise deal. Going to the House

0:05:00 > 0:05:06of Commons.If we move to the Sunday press, what is their take on Brexit?

0:05:06 > 0:05:14Quite extraordinary.-- Sunday express.Theresa May is very upbeat

0:05:14 > 0:05:18and she said ministers have set the Brexit course and UK's best days lie

0:05:18 > 0:05:29ahead. On page four, it shows Theresa May with some papers on her

0:05:29 > 0:05:33lap and on the other side of the cosy fire is David Davis who is said

0:05:33 > 0:05:40to have taken back control of taking back control. Ollie Robbins and

0:05:40 > 0:05:49Jeremy Helan -- Hayward seems to be running the show, but now David

0:05:49 > 0:05:54Davis was being listened to according to the Daily Express by

0:05:54 > 0:05:59the Prime Minister and they seem to be in unity.Happy days are here

0:05:59 > 0:06:06again.LAUGHTER The Sunday Telegraph says that the

0:06:06 > 0:06:15deal could be ruined.Oh, happy days are here again! This is David

0:06:15 > 0:06:20Lidington accusing Nicola Sturgeon and also the Welsh assembly of

0:06:20 > 0:06:24potentially putting up barriers to a smooth Brexit by daring to argue for

0:06:24 > 0:06:30their own power on things like food safety and other such things. The

0:06:30 > 0:06:33only thing that is certain about Brexit is the fact that all the

0:06:33 > 0:06:44major parties love fudge, whether it is British fudge, European fudge, it

0:06:44 > 0:06:49is a big mess and it will continue, but happy days are here again.

0:06:49 > 0:06:57Talking about things continuing... He thinks he's going to get clarity.

0:06:57 > 0:07:03Staying with the Telegraph, the aid charities story, and I want to put

0:07:03 > 0:07:07this to you, many charities have said it is all about putting

0:07:07 > 0:07:12safeguards in place to protect the vulnerable and to stop the

0:07:12 > 0:07:19perpetrators of abuse.Why has it taken this for them to act? These

0:07:19 > 0:07:26things were happening under the edict and they did nothing about it.

0:07:26 > 0:07:29The question is, should you be looking at the people who allowed

0:07:29 > 0:07:33them to continue higher up the structure?One of the things about

0:07:33 > 0:07:37the scandal which I have been covering a lot, and it is absolutely

0:07:37 > 0:07:41fascinating but also terrifying, but basically there is fantastic work

0:07:41 > 0:07:46done by British aid charities and French and international charities,

0:07:46 > 0:07:49whoever, they do install the rework and they going to difficult

0:07:49 > 0:07:58countries, war-torn countries -- they do incredible work. The work is

0:07:58 > 0:08:00commendable but as rules have tightened up in the UK and

0:08:00 > 0:08:06elsewhere, it would seem that these aid charities have been targeted by

0:08:06 > 0:08:11people who want to pray on the vulnerable and abuse their power.

0:08:11 > 0:08:15The reason why this is coming out now in the last few days, is because

0:08:15 > 0:08:23penny mordant, very clearly has said, you put everything on the

0:08:23 > 0:08:29table, so it's not just about what has been the allegations which

0:08:29 > 0:08:33happened, it is the way these aid charities have actually covered it

0:08:33 > 0:08:36up and not being transparent and taken the money from the government

0:08:36 > 0:08:41and from individual donors. We know from the Parliamentary committee,

0:08:41 > 0:08:46with Save the Children and Oxfam, just on Tuesday 7000 individual

0:08:46 > 0:08:51donors had already cancelled their checks, and we don't know whether

0:08:51 > 0:08:55corporations are reserving their judgment. They have got until Monday

0:08:55 > 0:09:03to come clean.We will see, when we. We will finish off with the Sunday

0:09:03 > 0:09:11mail. The Mail on Sunday has great news for those supporting the Fire

0:09:11 > 0:09:22Service. What is this helpline for? Troops who suffer from PTSD, stress

0:09:22 > 0:09:27disorder, they will have somewhere to go, a permanent line that they

0:09:27 > 0:09:31can dial up any time 24 hours a day, to get some help and advice, because

0:09:31 > 0:09:38the levels of suicide from Armed Forces personnel is exceedingly

0:09:38 > 0:09:41worrying and there has long been a view that those returning from the

0:09:41 > 0:09:44battlefield with the help of that and the damage it can do to them,

0:09:44 > 0:09:52some have been left.They have not had this service?They might have

0:09:52 > 0:09:57been a service but it is not being one which is on demand, seemingly.

0:09:57 > 0:10:01This is something I've been talking to various Jewish sources about this

0:10:01 > 0:10:02in the past months

0:10:05 > 0:10:11-- this is something I've been talking to various British sources

0:10:11 > 0:10:15about this in the past few months, and this helpline is great, that is

0:10:15 > 0:10:20some progress, but it will be about proper care and support and that can

0:10:20 > 0:10:24take weeks and it can take months, and that is what is needed. It is a

0:10:24 > 0:10:28scandal that that hasn't been done before, and they need to be treated

0:10:28 > 0:10:32properly and they need to be cared for.Many of the public don't

0:10:32 > 0:10:35realise that our service men and women are not being treated in such

0:10:35 > 0:10:40a way, so when the public hear the stories there is shock.Quite a few

0:10:40 > 0:10:46of them are on the streets, through some of the homeless work I've done,

0:10:46 > 0:10:55it has huge personal effects, consequences.So much -- thank you

0:10:55 > 0:10:56so much for that.

0:10:56 > 0:10:58That's it for The Papers this hour.

0:10:58 > 0:10:59Martin and Benedicte will be back at 1130

0:11:00 > 0:11:04for another look at the Papers.

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