24/02/2018 The Papers

as freezing air, dubbed The Beast

from The East, arrives from Russia.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me are Martin Lipton, who's

the Deputy Sports Editor at The Sun

and Benedicte Paviot, President

of the Foreign Press Association,

as well as the UK Correspondent

for France 24.

Many of tomorrow's front

pages are already in.

Following the UN's resolution

for a ceasefire in Syria

the Observer carries the picture

of two children in Eastern

Ghouta under the heading

Syria's endless agony

Brexit leads the Sunday Telegraph -

with Theresa May's de facto deputy

David Lidington writing that the SNP

risks "splitting" the UK's economy

and damaging trade deals.

Staying with Brexit -

the Sunday Express reports

that the Prime Minister will declare

Britain's "best days really do lie

ahead of us" in a speech

in Brussels this week.

The Mail on Sunday reports

that the Ministry of Defence

is setting up a helpline for British

troops suffering from

conditions including PTSD.

So no consensus over

the main story, but Brexit

appears in several

guises, perhaps not surprisingly.

Should we be surprised at that? We

will start with the Observer. And

Syria, the breaking news this

evening, good news on the face of

it.

On the face of it, but so long

awaited, more people getting killed

everyday, allegedly 500 this week in

this besieged enclave. In the

outskirts of Damascus. Here we have

two children and one shudders to

think... The Observer calls an

endless agony, and so is it going to

end for 30 days which are not the

vote has been delayed so many times

-- is it going to end for 30 days?

Is it going to be countrywide across

Syria? Easy-going to be implemented?

The US ambassador Nikki Haley says

it needs to be implemented

straightaway -- is it going to be

lamented? -- implemented. 400,000

people in Eastern Ghouta and the

French UN representative said this

is very belated and on Friday said

that if this was not passed very

quickly this really would be a

failure to act and could spell the

end of the United Nations itself.

Very scary and Wawrinka but these

people living on the ground,

children who have not seen daylight

-- very scary, all these people

living underground. And they do not

have medicine.

Questions over

whether Assad is going to comply but

Russia really is being pointed at.

Russia are the force in the Middle

East, there has been a disengagement

by the US, and the Russians have

huge sway over the Assad regime as

they have had for a number of years.

Unless they twist his arm he will do

nothing, clearly, because he doesn't

want to stop and he wants to have

more of his perceived enemies

destroyed, no matter who they are.

It seems that the Assad regime of

use anybody as expendable whether

they are child or adult, it matters

not to them, it is collateral damage

in their ongoing civil war. The UN

Security Council can vote and people

can talk but unless there's a will

for something to be done nothing

will be done and I fear that nothing

will be done.

We also had three

Brexit stories. To go through them

-- we also have. The Observer has

bad news for Jeremy Corbyn, the

Labour Alliance putting pressure on

Jeremy Corbyn over his Brexit

stance.

This is one of the Caucasus

within the Labour Party which feels

we should still stay inside the

single market even though Jeremy

Corbyn is likely on Monday to go

back to officially backing

membership of the customs union, to

try to possibly vote for a

compromise deal. Going to the House

of Commons.

If we move to the Sunday

press, what is their take on Brexit?

Quite extraordinary.

-- Sunday

express.

Theresa May is very upbeat

and she said ministers have set the

Brexit course and UK's best days lie

ahead. On page four, it shows

Theresa May with some papers on her

lap and on the other side of the

cosy fire is David Davis who is said

to have taken back control of taking

back control. Ollie Robbins and

Jeremy Helan -- Hayward seems to be

running the show, but now David

Davis was being listened to

according to the Daily Express by

the Prime Minister and they seem to

be in unity.

Happy days are here

again.

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The Sunday Telegraph says that the

deal could be ruined.

Oh, happy days

are here again! This is David

Lidington accusing Nicola Sturgeon

and also the Welsh assembly of

potentially putting up barriers to a

smooth Brexit by daring to argue for

their own power on things like food

safety and other such things. The

only thing that is certain about

Brexit is the fact that all the

major parties love fudge, whether it

is British fudge, European fudge, it

is a big mess and it will continue,

but happy days are here again.

Talking about things continuing...

He thinks he's going to get clarity.

Staying with the Telegraph, the aid

charities story, and I want to put

this to you, many charities have

said it is all about putting

safeguards in place to protect the

vulnerable and to stop the

perpetrators of abuse.

Why has it

taken this for them to act? These

things were happening under the

edict and they did nothing about it.

The question is, should you be

looking at the people who allowed

them to continue higher up the

structure?

One of the things about

the scandal which I have been

covering a lot, and it is absolutely

fascinating but also terrifying, but

basically there is fantastic work

done by British aid charities and

French and international charities,

whoever, they do install the rework

and they going to difficult

countries, war-torn countries --

they do incredible work. The work is

commendable but as rules have

tightened up in the UK and

elsewhere, it would seem that these

aid charities have been targeted by

people who want to pray on the

vulnerable and abuse their power.

The reason why this is coming out

now in the last few days, is because

penny mordant, very clearly has

said, you put everything on the

table, so it's not just about what

has been the allegations which

happened, it is the way these aid

charities have actually covered it

up and not being transparent and

taken the money from the government

and from individual donors. We know

from the Parliamentary committee,

with Save the Children and Oxfam,

just on Tuesday 7000 individual

donors had already cancelled their

checks, and we don't know whether

corporations are reserving their

judgment. They have got until Monday

to come clean.

We will see, when we.

We will finish off with the Sunday

mail. The Mail on Sunday has great

news for those supporting the Fire

Service. What is this helpline for?

Troops who suffer from PTSD, stress

disorder, they will have somewhere

to go, a permanent line that they

can dial up any time 24 hours a day,

to get some help and advice, because

the levels of suicide from Armed

Forces personnel is exceedingly

worrying and there has long been a

view that those returning from the

battlefield with the help of that

and the damage it can do to them,

some have been left.

They have not

had this service?

They might have

been a service but it is not being

one which is on demand, seemingly.

This is something I've been talking

to various Jewish sources about this

in the past months

-- this is something I've been

talking to various British sources

about this in the past few months,

and this helpline is great, that is

some progress, but it will be about

proper care and support and that can

take weeks and it can take months,

and that is what is needed. It is a

scandal that that hasn't been done

before, and they need to be treated

properly and they need to be cared

for.

Many of the public don't

realise that our service men and

women are not being treated in such

a way, so when the public hear the

stories there is shock.

Quite a few

of them are on the streets, through

some of the homeless work I've done,

it has huge personal effects,

consequences.

So much -- thank you

so much for that.

That's it for The Papers this hour.

Martin and Benedicte

will be back at 1130

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