:00:00. > :00:00.Indonesian island of Sumatra. Officials there fear the death toll
:00:00. > :00:23.could rise. Welcome to this weekend's edition of
:00:24. > :00:26.The Papers. Looking ahead to the spreads on Sunday. I am joined this
:00:27. > :00:33.evening by Vincent Moss, the political editor of the Sunday met
:00:34. > :00:36.Mayor basher drew the Sunday Mirror and Matthew Green, foreign
:00:37. > :00:41.correspondent for Reuters. The Observer leaves on the Lib
:00:42. > :00:45.Democrats. -- leads. That is in the wake of the
:00:46. > :00:53.dismissal of the Ofsted chief. That is also the top story in the
:00:54. > :00:56.Independent on Sunday macro. The Sunday Times also giving prominence
:00:57. > :01:04.to the sacking of the Labour peer Baroness Morgan as the head of
:01:05. > :01:07.Ofsted. The Mail on Sunday says a million British woman who take the
:01:08. > :01:11.most popular contraceptive to be told they are at risk of developing
:01:12. > :01:16.potentially fatal blood clots. And the NHS watchdog warns the
:01:17. > :01:19.organisation will go bust unless it adopts radical changes to drive up
:01:20. > :01:25.standards according to the lead in the Sunday Telegraph. We will look
:01:26. > :01:31.at some of those stories. Let us start with The Observer. A picture
:01:32. > :01:36.of Michael Gove, the Education Secretary. Angry Lib Dems accuse
:01:37. > :01:43.Michael Gove of a bid to prioritise education. This is from David laws,
:01:44. > :01:48.his deputy. The schools minister. Like Baroness Morgan who was sacked
:01:49. > :01:58.effectively as the chairman of Ofsted, David Laws has said, he that
:01:59. > :02:04.severely furious at these attempts to politicise parts of the civil
:02:05. > :02:09.service. He is angry about it and does not want to. That is reflected
:02:10. > :02:13.by Labour, Sally Morgan herself and other elements of the Liberal
:02:14. > :02:18.Democrats. Michael Gove has spun out to deflect this with a story about
:02:19. > :02:21.how he wants people to crack down on discipline in schools. I do not
:02:22. > :02:25.think schools need to be told to do that. It is a problem Michael Gove
:02:26. > :02:31.has had before. He likes people around him he can trust. Maybe he
:02:32. > :02:35.has overreached here because Sally Morgan is very highly regarded and a
:02:36. > :02:41.big supporter of many of the schools he is a fan of himself. He is the
:02:42. > :02:45.Education Minister. Yes, he does have a say. When Labour were in
:02:46. > :02:48.power they put many of their own people into these jobs. Some might
:02:49. > :02:52.say what is wrong with putting people you can trust into these
:02:53. > :02:57.positions but has caused a huge problem. Sally Morgan was appointed
:02:58. > :03:02.in 2011 by the coalition and it has caused surprise that she has been
:03:03. > :03:05.sacked. It comes after The Sunday Times last week reported that the
:03:06. > :03:10.chief inspector was spitting blood over what he saw was criticism of
:03:11. > :03:16.Ofsted by Michael Gove's hours. This is a big political row that will not
:03:17. > :03:20.go away. Do you think there is pressure on all Cabinet ministers as
:03:21. > :03:24.we get closer and closer to this election? It feels far away for us
:03:25. > :03:32.but not for them to deliver results of a drive up standards and meet
:03:33. > :03:35.targets. The long game has started. The Lib Dems and Conservatives are
:03:36. > :03:48.trying to pretend they are different. It is a genuine row. Now
:03:49. > :03:56.The Sunday Times. A couple of stories here to focus on. Firstly,
:03:57. > :04:05.the Afghan leader is scorning the UK. We have spent a lot of time in
:04:06. > :04:08.Afghanistan. That is right. Indeed, the president of Afghanistan has
:04:09. > :04:11.come out once again and said that Helmand province, which was the
:04:12. > :04:14.focus of the British monetary effort, would have been safer if
:04:15. > :04:18.British troops had never been there in the first place. That issue Julie
:04:19. > :04:28.calling for the British monetary and the families of those who lost their
:04:29. > :04:31.lives -- issue Julie upsetting. And whilst not wanting to dismiss that,
:04:32. > :04:35.there is a bigger context here. For the last few months of the Americans
:04:36. > :04:40.have been desperately pushing President Karzai to sign a security
:04:41. > :04:43.pact which will govern the terms of future international Military Cross
:04:44. > :04:46.rate in. If that is not signed, it might be the case that Washington
:04:47. > :04:52.just decides to give up on this and pull the troops out. That was not
:04:53. > :04:57.the Plan A few years ago. If that agreement is not signed soon, there
:04:58. > :05:02.is a real possibility of an abandonment of Afghanistan by the
:05:03. > :05:07.wider international community. Has he been misquoted perhaps? Is he
:05:08. > :05:14.perhaps saying that lives are in danger because of a presence and a
:05:15. > :05:17.conflict that presence created? That is a narrative the Afghan government
:05:18. > :05:22.has promoted but I do not think his words have been taken out of context
:05:23. > :05:25.here. President Karzai has consistently clashed with the West
:05:26. > :05:29.over the past few years. He seems to be getting more belligerent as his
:05:30. > :05:33.term draws to a close. The presidential elections are coming up
:05:34. > :05:36.in April. There is concern amongst the political elite and the wider
:05:37. > :05:40.public in Kabul about this. If that deal is not signed to get the troops
:05:41. > :05:47.guaranteed, all bets are off for the future. A picture here of a deflated
:05:48. > :05:51.looking England rugby team on the front page of the Sunday Times
:05:52. > :06:00.macro. The Telegraph. They feature the NHS on the front page. Alarming
:06:01. > :06:02.culture of NHS care is the headline. This is the damning verdict on what
:06:03. > :06:09.it calls a dysfunctional health service. A week does not seem to go
:06:10. > :06:15.by without a headline about the NHS. This is from David prior, the boss
:06:16. > :06:20.of the quality care commission. He is highlighting the problems in the
:06:21. > :06:25.NHS. There are big problems with A, waiting times, doctors
:06:26. > :06:28.surgeries. That is feeding into that general narrative that the NHS is
:06:29. > :06:34.struggling. There is a fear amongst many professionals that it does not
:06:35. > :06:36.boost morale and that it feeds into the general view that the
:06:37. > :06:39.Conservatives are trying to run down the health service because they are
:06:40. > :06:44.looking at increasing private sector involvement in it. These stories
:06:45. > :06:49.undermine public trust and means they are being softened up for the
:06:50. > :06:57.increasing involvement of private firms which many see as a bad thing
:06:58. > :07:00.and others is a good thing. Weaken or highlight problems in the NHS
:07:01. > :07:06.everyone has a horror story but others have good stories to tell.
:07:07. > :07:10.They are not as front-page stories. Three weeks ago it was in The
:07:11. > :07:14.Independent that the ombudsman of the NHS was saying that when the NHS
:07:15. > :07:17.is good it is great and when it is bad it is terrible but let us give
:07:18. > :07:23.it some praise because it is to reflect. Yes, that is broadly true
:07:24. > :07:26.but it is under huge pressure and is struggling. You will see more and
:07:27. > :07:32.more of the stories. We have not yet had a terrible winter chill which
:07:33. > :07:40.always exasperates problems. We will stay with the Telegraph. There is a
:07:41. > :07:47.story about the floods. The worst of the weather is over for now but
:07:48. > :07:50.there was more to come. The Sunday Telegraph is entering into the
:07:51. > :07:55.inevitable row of could it be prevented and could more have been
:07:56. > :07:58.done and who is to blame. I wonder if we are asking the right
:07:59. > :08:03.questions. There is a lot of talk about dredging as if by clearing out
:08:04. > :08:07.the bottom of the River will find a place to put this inland sea which
:08:08. > :08:13.has enveloped parts of southern England. It is of the us that will
:08:14. > :08:16.not be a solution. It is one of the classic stories of human folly
:08:17. > :08:19.weather is a huge political row which blows up because no one has
:08:20. > :08:23.been taking it quite consistent action in terms of putting trees in
:08:24. > :08:25.upland areas and are the sorts of measures that could have done
:08:26. > :08:30.something to stop this. We must leave it there. We will be back at
:08:31. > :08:33.11:30pm with more stories from the Sunday papers. Thank you to my
:08:34. > :08:37.guests, Vincent Moss and Matthew Green. Still to come on BBC News,
:08:38. > :08:42.reporters.