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women's World Cup finals in Canada after beating Wales 4`0. And more | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
gold medals for England in the athletic Championships and aquatic | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Championships. That is after the papers. | :00:00. | :00:20. | |
Welcome to our look ahead at what the papers will be bringing us | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
tomorrow, I am joined by Jennie Bond and the journalist Rob Merrick. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Let's look at the front pages. The Metro leads with the comments of | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
a fellow hostage, Didier Francois, He says he "roughly" recognises | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
the man behind the beheading. And the Daily Express saying as | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
many as a thousand British Jihadis who fought in Iraq and Syria could | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
be back on the streets of the UK. The Daily Telegraph says | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
the net is closing in on the Jihadist who killed Foley, | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
with the SAS on standby. And the Guardian leads with | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
a call from MPs to toughen domestic The Daily Mail has the same comments | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
from the fellow hostage, Didier Francois about the identity of the | :01:03. | :01:18. | |
man doing the beheading. The Independent newspaper | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
has an image of the Yazidis who have apparently converted to Islam, it is | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
a video released by Islamic State The Daily Mirror leads with | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
a different story, saying the footballer Paul Gascoigne is in | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
trouble because of his alcohol It is of no surprise that all of the | :01:31. | :01:40. | |
papers apart from the last one are dominated by the news that has been | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
going on this week. The Daily Express, the headline "Jihadist | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
killer on our streets. " The first paragraph, as many as 1000 British | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq are believed to | :01:57. | :02:08. | |
threat in Britain from the jihadists returning but sometimes I think that | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
these headlines, they think of a number and they double it. I don't | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
know where they get the number of 1000 from. The Downing Street says | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
that it's best estimate is that 400`500 have gone to Iraq and | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
Syria, a much lower number. You think that most people who have gone | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
out there to fight will stay there to fight, which is what they have | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
gone to do. There is a threat at home. It strikes me, the Daily | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
Express is talking about ministers being urged to introduce tougher | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
border checks to stop the fanatics coming home, ironic in the week | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
where we have read more about the disaster, the Borders Project, an | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
attempt to toughen the border checks, which failed to do the job | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
and was three costly. `` very costly. This is going to dominate | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
the papers now. Of course, with every reason, but we have to be | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
careful not to have what may be called scare stories. This is a | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
frightening headline, Jihadist killer on our streets, is it backed | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
up? Are they feared to be back? It is frightening to think, to know | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
that this chap, "John", might have grown up in London, but we have to | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
be aware of scaring ourselves and the population. The Daily Express | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
has taken a UK perspective. Indeed, same story, a different angle, | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
hunting for this character, John, the headline in the Metro newspaper. | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
All of the papers will be trying to do their own investigations. Yes, a | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
number of people in the security services say that the net will close | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
quickly on John, with social media the way it is, they can track him | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
down. I think this is quite frightening, the freed hostage, | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
Didier Francois, who was locked up for seven months with James Foley, | :04:13. | :04:20. | |
and one would assume clearly knows who is holding the other hostages | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
and who killed him, he can only say, in a measured way, when asked if he | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
knows John, he would say that knows John, he would say | :04:27. | :04:36. | |
"recognised is a big word. " He is terrified, if he talks, then the | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
guys who are being held, may get it. He was warned of that. An | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
intriguing insight into the mind of the hostages who have been freed, | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
their motive is to try and save the lives of the people who are still | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
out there. It isn't clear, I suppose the quote suggests that he doesn't | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
really have any idea who the person is, he may think that the person was | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
there at the time, that's a long way from identifying him meaningfully. | :05:09. | :05:17. | |
The person may be identified soon. It is indicative of the Catch`22 we | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
are in, this man feels he cannot talk even though he we have two | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
consider whether Ransomes should be paid, a huge ransom was asked. Some | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
countries pay them, we and America don't, should we? Are the terrorists | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
getting more pop the city and spreading more terror by doing what | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
they are doing, instead of us quietly paying the ransom? `` | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
getting more publicity. If you pay it, you will get more Stooges. | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
Talking to the security analyst, he said that this is big business. The | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
same story in the Daily Telegraph, the headline, the SAS put on | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
stand`by. That was in one or two other newspapers, some alleging that | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
they had already gone in. This continues, saying that the net is | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
closing on John. It struck me yesterday, talking to people, | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
government sources, there is a different focus. The media are | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
focused on who he is and how they will catch him. That is part of the | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
government focus but are more concerned about the large number of | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
Britons who have gone out there, and jihadi John is not the first Briton | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
to go to Syria and Iraq and behead someone. Several have done this, the | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
difference is that this person is an American. It isn't just about | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
identifying John, that is the media focus. One has to question the | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
headline. Is the net closing in? I don't know, it seems to be based on | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
a former MI6 chief, who said that the long arm of justice was closing | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
in as the SAS was put on stand`by. That is the sole fact. You are in a | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
sceptical mood! There are other stories but all of the papers are | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
dominated for a second day running. Let us look at some of the other | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
stories, one of them affecting thousands of youngsters and their | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
parents, GCSEs and the legacy of Michael Gove, the former Education | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
Secretary, giving the results and added interest. Definitely, there | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
was great interest. Michael Gove, no longer the Education Secretary, he | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
had to be taken outside and shot, metaphorically, because he was too | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
scary for the voters. His imprint is on the results, in particular the | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
English results, where I gather there is a 2% fall in the number of | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
people getting the right grades, because Michael Gove move towards a | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
focus on the exam rather than modular assessments, no longer | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
speaking and listening. Interesting about the resits, because the | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
government is getting tough on them because they feel it is gaming the | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
system. I spoke to a headteacher who was various about the change, saying | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
that they take pupils who lack confidence in exams, they ask them | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
to sit early, and then they gain confidence to go on and take the | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
exam next year and get the grades, which could be important. It isn't | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
gaming the system, it is giving them the confidence. I am confused by | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
this story because they seem to be suggesting that they are endorsing | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
Michael Gove's legacy. Kids who work incredibly hard for these GCSEs, it | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
means the world to them, you saw the emotions, they should be judged | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
purely on this, the idea that we have league tables and we talk about | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
the stories going `` the grades going up and down, it is imperative | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
that they are given the confidence to go on learning and measuring it | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
the way we do should be stopped. OK, a lot of people shouting and | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
screaming, saying it has to be done. The gap between girls and | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
boys, very gracious of Jenny not to point it out! It goes without | :09:32. | :09:42. | |
saying! Onto the Guardian, this story about the new and passed for | :09:43. | :09:55. | |
safety, a drug to treat the it bowler virus `` the Ebola virus, | :09:56. | :10:04. | |
which is wonderful news. Yes, if I was unlucky enough to contract it I | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
would certainly take an experimental drug. Of course. It takes a long | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
time to process these things, to get the permission to try them on | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
patients and maybe this is a salutary lesson, if there is a | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
chance to use them earlier, it is life`saving. They showed Kent | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
Brantley returning to the States, he couldn't walk, he was being carried | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
by people wearing those dramatic white coats. What we were hearing is | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
that they are far from sure that it is the experimental drug that has | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
caused them to get well. It may be a coincidence. They do think they have | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
learned things that they can pass on. We have heard that Senegal has | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
closed its border with Guinea over the Ebola virus epidemic fears, | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
three months after they reopen them. They have closed the border. Changes | :11:00. | :11:08. | |
going on there. Very briefly because we almost out of time, the Guardian, | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
save British television from US takeover says the Channel four | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
chief. They fear that TV is about to be changed for good, for worse. | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
Another scare story, about television. I say, here, here, save | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
us from an American takeover. David Abraham, who suggests the industry | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
is being brought up almost wholesale by US companies, and please don't | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
let us go down that road. Is it a scare story, or a realistic | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
possibility? He says it is realistic, he says that if you care | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
about creativity, speak up now. Wouldn't you be more worried about | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
20 years ago, when US television was terrible, you think about the Dukes | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
of hazard. Since then we have been bringing those programmes over. We | :12:01. | :12:08. | |
will have more later. My thanks to my guests. They will be back at | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
11:30pm for the stories making the papers. At 11pm, the latest on the | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
attempts to identify the Jihadist who was filmed beheading the | :12:22. | :12:22. | |
American journalist, James Foley. Hello I'm John Acres, | :12:23. | :12:35. | |
welcome to Sportsday. | :12:36. | :12:40. |