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Cincinnati Masters. And why Stuart Broad will not let a bloody nose | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
stop him playing in the fifth test. That is in 15 minutes, after the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
papers. Hello and welcome to | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
our look ahead to what the papers With me are Kate Devlin, | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
the Westminster Correspondent for the Herald, and Amol Rajan, | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
editor of the Independent. The Metro's front page has more | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
on the police search of a property in Berkshire owned | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
by Sir Cliff Richard in connection with an allegation of a sexual | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
nature dating back to the 1980s. Sir Cliff says the accusation | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
is "completely false". "Eurozone recovery shudders to a halt" is the | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
headline in the Financial Times, and it reports calls on | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
the European Central Bank to take The Express also has Sir Cliff | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
Richard on the front page, and says That story also features on front | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
page of The Daily Telegraph. The paper also has the headline | :00:55. | :01:04. | |
"Thousands saved from Iraq death Finally, The Guardian reports | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
that the UK is ready to arm Kurds And it pictures teachers jumping | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
with joy after the success Let's begin with the Metro. We | :01:11. | :01:23. | |
clearly can't linger on it for too long as there is only a certain | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
amount we can say. The headline is Sir Cliff's fury over child sex | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
police swoop. This was one of his properties in Berkshire being | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
raided, says the paper, the police. There was no arrest. Sir Cliff is in | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
Portugal at the moment with his sister. He says he has been aware of | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
allegations made against him, but he says they are completely false. | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
Let's move on to the Guardian. The headline is, UK is ready to arm | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
Kurds. Move to help forces facing Isis, or Islamic State, draws | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
Britain back into the crisis. Kate, we firstly heard the government | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
saying, we are just going to be providing humanitarian assistance. | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
No suggestion of any military involvement, but now the story is | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
moving further? It is. Downing Street hinted at this on Monday, | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
when they were asked if they could be involved in arming Kurds. They | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
suggested that they would look at this kind of thing, but this seems | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
to be a clear moving on from that position. You are right, it comes at | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
a time when Number Ten has very much tried to emphasise that we would be | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
involved in the humanitarian end of things. This moves on from the | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
immediate crisis, and starts to look at how we are going to try and | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
tackle Isis, or is Islamic State, in the longer term. It is desperately | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
trying to keep the country together. There is the immediate humanitarian | :02:59. | :03:07. | |
thing, with all these Yazidis who need to be held in the short term. | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
Iraq is a country which has seized to exist in any meaningful sense. | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
This is about working out what on earth we can do to try and | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
consolidate the Middle East and stop it becoming a power vacuum. It seems | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
to be a strategic decision that the people who are best able to resist | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
the Islamic State advance other PKK, and there was a feeling that by | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
arming them, we can do something about it. It is terrifying to look | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
at a map of what used to be Syria and Iraq. You have a quasi state | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
being set up by these fascists. A caliphate, as they call it. It | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
sounds so grand. When it is actually sinister and nasty. Which is not to | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
say that this is not controversial. The Guardian points out that the UK | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
once again bears responsibility for deaths in Iraq, and that will be of | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
interest to the public. The moment when troops on the ground are put in | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
physical danger, that is a much bigger political gambit. This was | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
initially about high`tech equipment and surveillance and technical | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
support, which is a very different cup of tea from saying, here are UK | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
soldiers who are going to be putting their lives in danger. We have not | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
got there yet, but it feels like the momentum and the threat from Isis | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
are such that that could come further down the line. The United | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
States are doing all they can to make sure they do not have to send | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
troops in, although they did talk about the siege of Mount Sinjar | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
having been broken, thanks to to some kind of US personnel. It was | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
not as bad as they initially thought. President Obama got elected | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
off the back of saying Iraq was a dumb war. He has been in charge of | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
try to take American troops out of Iraq. He does not want to be the guy | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
going into his final years as president his second term, sending | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
more troops in. One quick Newsline on this is that Nouri al`Maliki, who | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
has been the leader of Iraq, was deposed. He resisted it and has said | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
tonight that he is actually going to step down. There is a replacement | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
for him, who we hope will be more effective at keeping Iraq more | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
stable. Yes, that came as a surprise to a lot of us, because he had been | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
holding out for a third term. It was inevitable. Let's move on to the | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
FT. Eurozone recovery shudders to a halt. Flat growth prompts calls for | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
action by the European Central Bank. This is Germany's economy not doing | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
as well as they had hoped in the last quarter, and France not putting | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
on any growth in quarters one and two. And Italy. It is astonishing | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
that we have had this huge crisis for a long time, going back five or | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
six years. We thought it was something that attached itself to | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
Europe's periphery, countries like Portugal. But Germany, France and | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
Italy, three of the biggest economies, have not grown in the | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
last two quarters, which is astonishing. After the crisis, there | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
was a lot of quick action by policymakers, lots of fiscal and | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
monetary stimulus to try and help sort the euro area out. The FT have | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
an editorial saying, for goodness' sake, let's not sit on our hands, | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
let's do something like wanted to easing to try and drive the economy. | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
But one of the people driving that was Germany, the beating heart of | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
the Eurozone economy. The problem is, with the dismal numbers coming | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
out of Germany, does she lose her authority, which was very | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
instrumental last time? This is all in the context of incredibly grim | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
stuff to Europe's East, which is Ukraine and Russia. There are | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
currently 300 vehicles being sent from Moscow in a weird convoy | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
towards Ukraine's eastern edge. There is a feeling that actually, | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
war might be about to erupt along Europe's eastern edge, which will | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
have a huge effect on gas prices and so on. It feels suddenly like Europe | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
has plunged into turmoil. Reading further into this article, I did not | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
realise this, the Netherlands economy actually contracted at the | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
beginning of this year. So as you say, it is those economies that you | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
normally think were stable and robust, even they are suffering. And | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
this is at a time when you have an implement in Spain `` use an | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
implement in Spain is over 50%. There was a feeling in Britain that | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
maybe we are through the worst of it. This would suggest that some of | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
the systemic problems that 2007 showed up around Europe and the way | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
its banks were operating have not gone away and we need urgent action | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
to address that. And there are still some banks teetering on the brink in | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
these countries. The problem is, while we think it is great that we | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
have managed to recover and we are leading the way, Europe will be a | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
drag because we are also interconnected. There is a political | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
dimension, which is that lots of people on the right of British | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
politics argue that Britain ought to remain outside the euro. This is a | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
vindication for them that it is a good thing that we were not dragged | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
into this euro hell. Let's move on to the Daily Express. Page seven, | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
patrol boats on stand`by to head off channel migrants. Apparently, there | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
is a feat of Border Force ship that are going to try to intercept | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
migrants trying to reach Britain from Calais in small boats. We have | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
seen boats of Lampedusa, the island of Italy's coast, having to do this | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
on a daily basis. Malta is being swamped by people desperate to get | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
away. But they have clearly come a very long way if they have managed | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
to cross the English Channel. Absolutely. They are desperate to | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
get here if they are crossing one of the most busy shipping channels in | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
the world in these tiny little thingies `` beanies `` dinghies. It | :09:28. | :09:36. | |
looks like a toy. A child's toy that you would use in the swimming pool. | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
It is a perfect story for my comrades at the express. It has got | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
war, patriotism, migrants. And these huge military vessels. The idea that | :09:49. | :09:58. | |
what we have to do is used military vessels strikes me as mildly | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
ludicrous. But the Daily Express are worried that these people are going | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
to take their jobs and so forth. But what happens to them when they are | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
picked up? They enter an asylum system, which we have got incredibly | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
good at running in this country. If they are fit for asylum, they are | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
given asylum. If not, we send them back. But because our asylum system | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
has been so terribly underfunded and badly run, you end up with a lot of | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
people who either end up becoming illegal migrants, or they are stuck | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
in asylum centres for years. If we could sort that out, this would be | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
less of a problem. But this is going to be the kind of story that many | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
people will point to, because we know immigration will be a massive | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
subject in the run`up to the next general election. Absolutely, and | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
this kind of thing, stopping boats with refugees on them from trying to | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
land, has dominated Australian politics for the last ten years. One | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
of the people involved in that has been Lynton Crosby, who is now | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
advising David Cameron. It has had a really divisive impact on Australian | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
politics. But actually, you could argue that it has very much help | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
them right in that country to power. Kate has just come back from | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
Australia. I am not envious at all(!). The Daily Telegraph | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
front`page has a couple of stories. Everyone was so shocked earlier in | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
the week when we heard that Robin Williams had died and it appeared | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
that he had taken his own life. Now, his wife says he was in the early | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
stages of Parkinson's disease. And this may have worn a relation on the | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
fact that he chose to commit suicide, we don't know. Very | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
difficult for somebody like him to have to face up to that and tell the | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
public about. And very difficult for his family, because his wife has had | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
to say he was sober when this happened. So in the 48 hours after | :11:55. | :12:02. | |
losing her husband, she is having to make very public statements about | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
what happened. I feel for the family. It must be very difficult. | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
And above that, the abuse on Twitter. It is astonishing. You look | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
at social media and think, what sort of person feels that the thing they | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
really want to do when Robin Williams commits suicide is abuse | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
his daughter? There was a story it today when his daughter thought | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
about leaving Twitter because of the abuse she got. She closed her | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
account for a while. It is astonishing that social media, which | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
gives us so many opportunities and has been so in reaching in so many | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
ways, also means it is quite hard to have a private family tragedy these | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
days. Robin Williams is clearly an exceptional case, but the fact that | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
his wife has to manage this media operation at a time when she should | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
be grieving for her husband is appalling. This is the story about | :12:52. | :13:06. | |
A`level results. Record numbers of students going to university even | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
though there has been a small drop in the grades and no one seems to be | :13:10. | :13:20. | |
troubled about that? It is interesting as has happened under a | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
Conservative led government. They oppose the Tony Blair opinion of 50% | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
of children going to university. It will cost a lot of money. One way we | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
are supposed to be providing for these children under student loans | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
is that we were going to sell off the student loan book. Vince Cable | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
admitted that was not going to happen. There is a danger here. On | :13:47. | :13:54. | |
the other hand, investing in education is a good thing. The guide | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
for whom this is bittersweet is Michael Gove, the former Education | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
Secretary. These results are a triumph for him and he wanted more | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
people doing tough subjects. Lots more people are doing those partly | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
because they have taken up the baccalaureate. He also wanted more | :14:16. | :14:24. | |
people going to university but he wanted to expand access and there | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
seems to be a suggestion from these statistics that has happened. It is | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
sad for him. He wanted people getting more top grades and that has | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
happened. He will be looking at the headlines tomorrow morning and | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
thinking that should have been his glory. It is time gone. Just a | :14:44. | :14:53. | |
little voice in my ear! That is all from the papers. It is a sign of | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
madness, Boyce is in your ear! My guests will join me at 11:30pm. | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
Thank you both for now. Stay with us on BBC News. We will focus on the | :15:06. | :15:17. | |
police search of a part went `` of an apartment belonging to Sir Cliff | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
Richard. Now it is time for Sportsday. | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
Two days before the first ball is even kicked, the Premier League | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
Crystal Palace boss Tony Pulis has parted company | :15:35. | :15:37. |