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