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Ferrari F1 team. And we will be hearing why Ronnie Whelan feels the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
race for the Premier League is still wide open. That is all coming up on | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Sportsday after The Papers. Welcome to our look ahead to what | :00:09. | :00:20. | |
the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are Pippa Crerar, | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
from the London Evening Standard, and Hugh Muir, from the Guardian. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Starting with the Financial Times, which is leading with the crisis in | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
the Ukraine. The paper says posturing by Moscow is highlighting | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
how disunited the West is on this topic. George Osborne's Budget last | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
month has failed to translate into potential Tory votes, according to a | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
poll in the Guardian. The Metro has a warning from teachers that primary | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
school youngsters are being left like ghosts at school for long hours | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
because parents are too busy working. A warning from the First | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
Sea Lord that Scottish independence would damage the Navy. That is the | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
lead story in the Telegraph. There is more concern about the rising | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
costs of housing, highlighted in the Express. And the male has more | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
allegations about a possible Lib Dem cover`up over the camp trade `` over | :01:16. | :01:23. | |
the Cyril Smith scandal. Starting with the situation in Ukraine, | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
pro`Russian separatists strengthening their grip, and the | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
West are struggling for unity over this issue. Yes, you will remember, | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
24 hours ago, the acting president in Ukraine, Alexander Turchynov, was | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
very robust in his language, when it came to deadlines for some of the | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
pro`Russian separatists occupying government buildings in ten towns in | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
eastern Ukraine, threatening military action to deal with what he | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
called terrorist elements. And it was suggested that we would all wake | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
up this morning to find that there had been unilateral action right | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
across the East of Ukraine. But actually what has happened is | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
nothing. The Ukrainian forces have not gone in, and actually, the | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
president has taken a much more conciliatory tone today, on | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
realising I suppose that his threats were not working, and has now made | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
the suggestion that he would be prepared for some sort of | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
referendum, to at least let people in the east of the country have some | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
say. How threatened he felt by the fact that their 40,000 Russian | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
troops hovering over the other side of the border... But clearly, he has | :02:42. | :02:51. | |
realised that strongman tactics on his part at least are not working. | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
That seems to suggest that Russia's approach on coming over tough are | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
having some effect. It was always an empty threat, frankly, wasn't it, it | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
was going to have to be, because if they did send in tanks and troops | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
from Kiev, the Russians would have an excuse to march in? Nobody really | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
knows how to deal with Putin. It is a Putin problem. Nobody knows how to | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
assess what he has done, nobody knows what he is going to do next, | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
and they do not know what his endgame is, if it is just to have | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
more territory, or just to extend his influence. Until they know those | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
basic things, I think the international community is going to | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
have a real problem getting to grips with him. They are all piling in, we | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
saw Catherine Ashton saying something, and I think President | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
Obama was supposed to speak to Putin today. But until there is some real | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
sense of what he is playing at, I do not think the international | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
community knows how to read him. But I suspect also, he himself is not | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
sure what the endgame is. He does not want a country which is | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
completely fractured and shattered on his border, but he does want | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
influence in the country as well. So, he is trying to push it as far | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
as he can without going too far, this is what the West seems to | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
assume, but at the same time, the West looks impotent. Yes, just take | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
Britain alone. Yesterday we had David Cameron breaking up his | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
holiday to speak to Angela Merkel and otherworldly does about the | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
situation. There has been talk about signing up to more sanctions. `` and | :04:34. | :04:43. | |
other world leaders. I think it comes down to the fact that Britain | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
does not want to affect the reputation of the City of London as | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
being a major financial centre. I would imagine the Treasury, the | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
government, is coming under pressure from financial and other companies. | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
BP for example has huge investments in Russia, and I think it has a 20% | :05:00. | :05:08. | |
stake in a Russian oil company. They do not want to risk that just being | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
annexed, if you like. And Putin knows this... At one level, all of | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
this diplomacy depends upon personal relationships, and I think nobody | :05:20. | :05:34. | |
has a relationship with Putin. You do not get the feeling that any of | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
our leaders really know how to get to Putin. We are going to stay with | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
the Financial Times, and an interesting story, firms in a ` `` | :05:44. | :05:54. | |
in a dash to beat tax crackdown. The fact is, the partners could be up to | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
40 people. I always thought they were proper partners, but the | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
suggestion is that potentially, a lot of time, they are not! And what | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
this is saying is that if you are a proper partner, your national | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
insurance liability is a bit lighter, because of your status as a | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
partner. So, many of them are going to the banks, because they need to | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
have the money to buy equity. So they are rushing to the banks to get | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
the money so that they can get these national insurance advantages. We | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
were almost running out of villains, weren't we?! We have found them! A | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
whole new set of villains, for people to throw rotten fruit at in | :06:40. | :06:49. | |
the street. We have had all sorts of pledges by the Chancellor to use tax | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
avoidance, to crackdown on tax avoidance, Surrey, and to raise huge | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
amounts for the covers. But people have been sceptical. `` sorry. But | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
looking at how the lawyers and accountants and probably consultants | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
are scrambling to beat the tax crackdown, they at least seem to | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
think that this one might work. But it is not just big fancy law firms, | :07:14. | :07:22. | |
it is cleaners, it is fruit pickers, it is anyone with a company. Yes, if | :07:23. | :07:31. | |
anyone is going to be able to work their way around these things, it | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
will be accountants. Yes, accountants and lawyers. Let's move | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
on to the Guardian, and this one about the Tories struggling in the | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
polls. This is surprising, isn't it? Yes, after the Budget, the media | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
narrative was that it has been a great success for the Chancellor. | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
The few polls immediately afterwards seemed to suggest that that was the | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
case. Now, what has happened is that there is this ICM poll which | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
suggests the opposite, that in fact, the Budget has failed to boost the | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
Conservatives with voters. It puts them on 32 points, compared to 37 | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
for Labour. In tandem with this, Ed Balls, who has written for the | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
Guardian, it looks like, says Labour is going to continue with its cost | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
of living strategy right up to the election. This is interesting, | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
because with all of the elements of good news which have come out | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
recently regarding the economy, there has been a lot of questioning | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
at Westminster as to whether that strategy would stand the test of | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
time. They have got to get all the way up to the election. Ed Balls | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
seems convinced that people will not be better off in 2015 and they were | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
at the last election, and that therefore, that strategy, the cost | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
of living agenda, will continue to have resonance with voters. This | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
poll would seem to back that up. It is completely a deception. It is not | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
whether or not the indicators look at, you have got to feel it, and I | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
do not think that people do feel it yet. I am not sure that it is a bad | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
policy for Labour to plough ahead with that. If you are a Tory, | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
looking at this, you are thinking, what have we got to do?! That is a | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
good point. They will think, the last couple of weeks could not have | :09:34. | :09:52. | |
gone better for us. There is that, but they might be thinking, will we | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
ran out of time? There might be some backbenchers who might be thinking | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
about other things they can do, transferable skills! But | :10:00. | :10:07. | |
interestingly, the problems of the Tories are visible to UKIP, and UKIP | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
could potentially split the vote and let Labour in? Well, it could. The | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
maths is the problem for the Tories all the time. They are struggling to | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
draw level with Labour. But in fact, they have got to do a lot better. So | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
they are looking at the egg timer and watching the grains of sand run | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
out, and thinking, this is not going to be good for us. Of course, UKIP | :10:31. | :10:40. | |
take votes off Labour as well. Staying with The Guardian. Guardian | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
wins Pulitzer prize, so it was worth it! We are all proud this evening | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
because this was a very difficult story to do. I take no credit, my | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
colleagues were responsible for it. They've done an absolutely | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
magnificent job. I think we will also feel that we have given an | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
important voice to issues that really needed to be raised in | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
public. We gave a voice to Edward Snowden. I think that we have raised | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
some issues of historic importance about the web, about where | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
information goes, about who has access to it. It's always good to | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
win awards, but to win such a prestigious award for something as | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
important as this is absolutely marvellous. We won't mention those | :11:28. | :11:36. | |
people who feel you have undermined national security I am not sure | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
Obama says that. Of course, that's right! . On to the Metro. The ghost | :11:40. | :11:48. | |
children at school. Ten hours a day. There is a conference on this week | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
and a couple of teachers quoted as saying children are turning up | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
absolutely frazzled, falling behind at school and asleep. This story has | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
been in the headlines for months, though, as the Government ` a | :12:03. | :12:11. | |
Schools Minister has been looking at how they can help with childcare | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
issues. I think children shouldn't start school at five or in four in | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
some cases, in England, anyway, children start school at four, I | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
think that's too young to have a formal education. That's a separate | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
argument but one many feel strongly about. The suggestion that in | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
helping working parents at either end of the day that children would | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
have to ` that means children would have to be in this formal | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
environment isn't necessarily the case. After`school clubs at the | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
moment which start at 3. 15 aren't about learning maths or learning to | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
read, they're about drawing and playing with Lego and stuff like | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
that. The Chinese may be looking at a headline and say, well, yeah, | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
that's the price you have to pay. I am not sure we want that sort of | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
system or put our children through that. The worry I have is that we | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
will move to a system where you elongate the day, we are in primary | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
schools and it's happened in many secondary schools, as well, but | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
without resources. If you talk to many schools, talk to teachers | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
they'll say it's all very well expecting us to pick up the slack | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
but we can't do that and you say OK maybe they'll buy in help and that | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
costs money and schools' budgets are being squeezed. We talk about these | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
things in isolation but often when someone says where is the money to | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
back this up, it isn't there. He speaks as a school governor, I speak | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
as a parent of young children at school. In an ideal world I would be | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
able to pick them up myself at 3. 15pm every day or have them at home | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
with a child minder, but the reality for many working parents and in | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
particular mothers who tend to be the one who make compromises with | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
their career to make it all work for the family, they can't afford to do | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
that. All right. We will continue this conversation in an hour's time. | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
You are going to be back to look at more stories behind the headlines, | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
many thanks. Stay with us here, at the top of the hour we will have the | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
latest on the crisis in Ukraine as EU Foreign Ministers agree to expand | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
sanctions against Russia over its actions in the east of the country. | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
Now it's time for Sportsday. Hello and welcome to Sportsday. Is | :14:28. | :14:46. | |
Phelps set to make a splash in Rio? The most successful Olympian is | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
history has come out of retirement. There was another night of | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
record`breaking in the pool at the British Championships with Jaz | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
Carlin swimming the fastest time this year in the 800 metres | :15:00. | :15:00. |