20/04/2014 The Papers

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the latest technology news. Hello, welcome to our look at what

the papers will bring us tomorrow. Let's have a look at the front

pages, we will start with the Financial Times, framing that

Barclays is poised to announce it will pull out of parts of its

commodity does this. It says an announcement is due later in the

week. The Daily Telegraph features the new portrait of the Queen taken

by David Daly, released to celebrate her birthday tomorrow. It leads on a

letter which 55 public figures have signed, accusing David Cameron of

fostering alienation by his insistence that Britain is still a

Christian country. A striking picture of the Pope graces the cover

of the Guardian, greeting crowds after his Easter Mass. It reports on

how the shoot out at a Ukrainian checkpoint is threatening the Geneva

peace deal. The Independent highlights a report which it says

shows teachers are facing an increasing amount of online abuse by

peoples. The Times says the Chancellor may soon find some room

for tax cuts, according to latest research on consumer spending. The

Daily Mail reports on the rise in skin cancer cases since the 1970s

being blamed on more holidays being taken abroad.

We will start with the Daily Telegraph, an interesting story that

we have just mentioned in the headlines, a system of David Cameron

for mentioning his faith. The Labour Party said that the Prime Minister

does not do religion, but David Cameron does. Yes. Some people seem

to take pleasure at being offended, they enjoy it. These people who are

complaining seemed to fall into this category. Last week, in holy week,

David Cameron stated his faith at a reception for Christian people. He

followed it up with a couple of interviews. He did not take a

position that made secular people or people from other faiths unwelcome

in Britain, he just said, I am a Christian, this is where I stand.

Auditions are often criticised for not saying what they believe, he

says he does, and he is criticised. He is accused of alienating other

people. When you have a Prime Minister who is nailing his tongue

to the church door, it begs the feel a bit nervous. Why? The idea that

politics should be free of religion. There is a right place for

that, and it is not the House of Commons. Really? We both think so.

Most people who have a belief, that affect them political beliefs. I

love of the most important movements in history, the civil rights

movement in America, this has come from people's faith, you cannot

separate food you are from your politics. The letter says, we

respect the Prime Minister's right to his religious beliefs, but we

object to his mischaracterisation of our country as a Christian country,

and the negative consequences from our politics and society that this

view engenders. It is strong stuff. Yes, and I think they have a point.

We are supported by Christian values, but it is a secular

country, we have religious leaders who sit in the House of Lords, but

they sit there, not in the House of Commons. They just comment upon the

law. You are not uncomfortable with what has been said? I would be

unhappy if we had a theocracy, where people of certain views could not

have their perspective heralded inside the House of Commons or in

the media. We do not have that country. We have Moslem schools,

Jewish schools, secular schools, people of all different traditions

in the House of Commons and House of Lords. Britain is one of the most

tolerant countries in the world. It seems to me that you can have almost

any belief you want except Christian. People take a Christian

view, you shot down, they would not have shot down a Muslim leader

saying this. Or a secular person saying this. It is Christianity that

is being forced out of the public square, and I am grateful for the

Prime Minister saying, I will not allow that to happen. From number

ten, a spokesman said, as the PM set out in his speech, the UK is a

Christian country and should not be afraid to say so. He added it was

not to say that to have another faith or no faith was somehow wrong.

He has said on many occasions he is proud that Britain is home to many

faith communities who do so much to make the UK a strong country. Let's

move on to stop `` let's move on. Still with the Daily Telegraph,

these claims that the Bashar al`Assad regime has carried out a

series of chemical weapons attacks using chlorine. The French president

has said they have information but not true. There is an ongoing

concern, that Bashar al`Assad is using chemical weapons, and despite

what Vladimir Putin has said, he asked them to sign the agreement to

destroy the chemical weapons stockpile, do not believe this has

happened. That is the issue. Will we ever find out? This is another

terrible chapter. In a period when we are marking the centenary of the

First World War, chemical weapons have an ugly part in our

continent's history, but if you are a Syrian person being persecuted by

the regime, you do not care whether it is chemical weapons or barrel

bombs, very nasty bombs cropped from the air from Russian supplied

fighter aircraft, or conventional warfare, Asharq Alawsat is one of

the most murderous dictators we have had in our recent history `` Bashar

al`Assad. It seems like he is still being able to continue his reign of

terror. From the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, a spokesman

says, nothing would surprise us, given the regime's history. But the

regime signed up to the agreement last year. It was a get out of jail

free card. It allowed them `` it allowed the Americans to not be

involved and for the Russians to say they have done their diplomatic bit.

The Financial Times, the Easter prayers from the Pope, so many

millions around the world pay great attention to it, but this links up

to Syria and Ukraine. The Pope is the people's Pope,

Orthodox country. It came across at the same time as the Archbishop of

Canterbury. Have a look at the Guardian, it is a lovely photo,

whether or not you are religious. He is a drive`by Pope! He has embraced

the era of the self a. He is humble, he is accessible,

approachable, everything that a modern leadership the. Such a

contrast, one of my images of last year was the man in St Peter's

Square with the disease that made him look like the elephant man. He

had the chimneys. The Pope hugged him, he kissed him and he kept

hugging him. That embrace of people that the world rejects, so much of

that, we are attracted to this Pope, and that smile of his is wonderful.

The main story is about the Ukrainian shoot out, threatening to

bury the Geneva peace deal. It is just getting even more worrying.

Every day, there is a new twist to the tale. My concern is how

intransigence has just meant that Vladimir Putin is invincible. We can

shoot him in the head tomorrow, he can bleed from the lake, he will

leave with a plaster around his finger. He is growing in strength

each and every week. Because the West is not going enough? The West

is not doing anything, and what is NATO for? I have never seen so much

military sitting on the sidelines. It goes back to what we were

discussing a minute ago, Vladimir Putin looked at the West and he

realised that the West was not going to fight. Barack Obama said any use

of chemical weapons is a red line. That would be something that would

provoke a reaction. The reaction was zero. The West could ever think it

could to get out of intervening. It did not want to fight, and Vladimir

Putin saw that, it realised the West was weak, and he said, I will take

Crimea. Now, his eyes are on eastern Ukraine. The domestic story in the

Independent, pupils targeting us, or from a quarter of teachers have been

victims of abuse on social media. We have always had a culture of

ridiculing teachers, we always remember the teacher that reduced to

laugh at. Aristotle was a student of Plato, he laughed at his teacher.

But this is taking a more insidious turn. The way that teachers are

being targeted, it is on the Internet, and that is not easily

raised. It is an ongoing, persistent intimidation of the profession.

There needs to be an idea or a contract with an income when you

send your child to school, this figure is not acceptable. It is

difficult to monitor. I am not condoning it, but it is typical to

monitor. Children are often more able to navigate technology and some

of these media and teachers or parents. The controls you put in

place to stop them writing this or that, they will perhaps move on, if

you ban them from Facebook, they will move on. Some of the comments

are pretty awful. I want to allow time for the times and there may

photo portrait, taken by David Bailey to commemorate the Queen's

birthday, which is on Easter Monday. It's a lovely photo. We are talking

about the cult of personality, she is our personality, it is fantastic.

She is a bit different from Vladimir Putin! We have had the stamps from

Finland, those images, people talking about what we put on our

stamps, what about this? Why not have this? Definitely. We had a

lovely letter last week, they said there was no picture of Kate in the

paper today, I hope she is OK! There have been so many pictures of her!

Here we have the Queen upstaging William, Kate and George with her

beautiful smiling picture, it is great to say. On that note of

agreement, we will leave it. Thank you to our guests. Stay here and BBC

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