'Hounded to her death' and 'Don't be fooled by Putin'

The inquest into the death of soldier Jaysley Beck makes the front of the Daily Express, after a coroner ruled she had been failed by Army chiefs who did not properly deal with harassment by her colleagues. The paper quotes the mother of 19-year-old Royal Artillery Gunner Beck, saying "no apology will ever bring our daughter back" and that "things need to change".

"Hounded to her death," says the Metro, which reports Gunner Beck died by suicide after being sexually assaulted by a senior officer and also relentlessly harassed by her boss. It says the Army is "under the spotlight" for failing to take proper action against either of the men. The Metro adds that the inquest has also led to hundreds of women coming forward to tell of being harassed, abused and raped while in the military.

Gunner Beck is also pictured on the front of the Guardian. But its top story focuses on comments by Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who says the West should not be "fooled" by Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of any peace talks about Ukraine. Lammy said the UK was "ready to listen" to Russia but "we expect to hear more than the Russian gentleman's fabrications". Lammy's warning comes as the UK tries to tread a "fine diplomatic line" between supporting Ukraine and not offending Donald Trump, the Guardian adds.

The i newspaper reports that there are calls for the UK to raise its defence spending to 3% of GDP ahead of his talks with Trump next week. Nato's former second-in-command in Europe, Gen Sir Richard Shirreff, tells the paper Sir Keir "will be laughed out of court" when he meets Trump unless there's a new spending pledge. Defence spending is currently at 2.3% of national income but the Treasury wants to raise it to 2.5%, although it has not said when. But according to the i, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has signalled that it could rise "sooner rather than later".

The Financial Times reports that the US is opposing wording that describes Russia as the aggressor in the Ukraine war, in a statement by the G7 group of countries. The G7 traditionally issues a message of support to Ukraine on the anniversary of the invasion - but the FT has spoken to Western officials who say this year "the Americans are blocking" some of the language.

The Sun's front page story is on disgraced former BBC News broadcaster Huw Edwards who, it says, has broken "cover for the first time" since receiving a suspended sentence. It quotes a passer-by who spotted Edwards as saying: "He was coughing and spluttering a bit. He looked a shadow of his former, super-confident self." The Sun says Edwards is still refusing to return to the BBC the £200,000 he earned after he was arrested.

Daniel Craig's James Bond is the main picture for the Times, after the franchise's long-serving producers gave control to Amazon. But the paper's top story is on a government plan to offer European countries an "Australian-style youth mobility scheme". According to the Times, the plan would see tens of thousands of young EU workers able to come to the UK to live and work for two years, and a reciprocal scheme for Britons going to the EU.

The main photograph on the front of the Daily Telegraph is of Israeli soldiers repatriating the bodies of hostages Oded Lifschitz and Shiri Bibas and her two young sons, Ariel and Kfir, after they were released by Hamas on Thursday. But the main story is on the paper's own investigation which reports that doctors who change their gender are given a new registration number, meaning any past complaints against them are erased from their public record.

The UK's current spell of "bonkers weather" makes the front of the Daily Star. It says the country is split down the middle with "lucky gits living in the South parading around in their budgie smugglers while poor sods up North face a bit of snow". "How very, very British," it adds.

The Daily Mail's front page is dedicated to its own campaign, which it says is to "protect Britain's creative industries from the threat of AI". It says senior figures from music, media and film have now backed the campaign and issued a stark warning over the "potentially devastating" impact of a plan to allow big tech firms to ignore copyright rules when training AI systems.

The Daily Mirror also mentions its own campaign on its front page - this time focused on dentistry. The government is announcing the rollout of 700,000 extra emergency dentist appointments from April, it reports. The paper calls it a "victory" for its campaign called Dentists for All.

Now for a look at the papers, and the Daily Telegraph highlights French President Emmanuel Macron's pledge to challenge Donald Trump to "stand up to Russia" when he visits Washington next week.

The French president says that, on the issue of Ukraine, he will tell Trump that "his interests are the same as ours".

But the Telegraph's editorial column argues that European countries need to wake up to President Donald Trump's policies - and accept that relying on America for security "is no longer a viable approach".

The opinion column in the i newspaper argues that Sir Keir Starmer is facing a "tricky high-wire act", in his forthcoming talks with Trump.

Standing with Ukraine and European allies, while remaining on the right side of the US president is, it believes, an "enormous and possibly impossible task".

The Financial Times says the US is "threatening to derail a traditional show of unity" on Ukraine, from the G7 group of leading economies.

The paper explains that the G7 nations are due to publish a joint statement supporting Kyiv on 24 February, the third anniversary of Russia's invasion. But it says Washington is against calling Moscow the "aggressor".

There is a picture on the front of the Guardian of distraught Israelis who gathered yesterday at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, for the return of the bodies of those who died while being held in Gaza.

The paper was published before Israel said late last night that one of the four coffins Hamas handed over contained the remains of an unidentified person, and not those of hostage Shiri Bibas.

The Daily Mail accuses Hamas of "evil of a different order", for parading the coffins in front of cheering crowds.

The Express leads on the inquest into the death of Gunner Jaysley Beck, the soldier who took her own life after reporting that she had been harassed and abused by more senior colleagues.

The headline is a quote from Gunner Beck's mother: "No apology will ever bring our daughter back."

In its opinion column, the paper calls for "major reform" so that armed forces personnel who are targeted by predators can speak out and be protected, without fear that their careers could suffer.

Under the headline "conduct unbecoming", the leader in the Times states that "the British Army has a problem with women" suggesting that despite numerous inquiries, it still fails to provide them with a consistently safe working environment.

And the paper warns that misogyny also "rears its head" in both the Navy and Air Force.

The Mail warns that artificial intelligence poses a threat to the UK's creative industries. It's concerned about possible changes to the law, that would allow tech firms to use online material such as text, images or music, to improve AI models.

Finally, as the Broccoli family hands the James Bond film franchise to Amazon, a few papers take this as a licence to dust off the 007 puns.

"Will the Skyfall in?" asks the Mirror.

The Express goes for: "Shaken and stirred". The Times comes up with: "We were not expecting this, Mr Bond."

But the winner has to be the Sun, with: "No Prime to die".

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