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:00:00. > :00:00.couple of places. In the south`east, there could be heavy downpours into

:00:00. > :00:00.the evening hours. Whatever the weather, have a peaceful night and

:00:00. > :00:18.day tomorrow. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

:00:19. > :00:26.to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me is pension

:00:27. > :00:35.analyst Ros Altman. And the journalist Mihir Bose. Nice to have

:00:36. > :00:38.you with us. Tomorrow's front pages. The Telegraph leads on comments by

:00:39. > :00:41.Nick Clegg that the Queen should lose her constitutional role as head

:00:42. > :00:44.of the Church of England. The Times has the same story. The paper says

:00:45. > :00:47.senior cabinet ministers are split over the role of the church. The

:00:48. > :00:52.Guardian reports on Russian forces carrying out fresh manoeuvres on the

:00:53. > :00:55.Ukrainian border. The paper also says the Gherkin building in London

:00:56. > :01:02.is for sale. And the price tag ` ?500 million. The Independent says

:01:03. > :01:05.senior executives at Barclays were heckled by shareholders over

:01:06. > :01:08.boardroom pay today at the company's AGM. Three cups of coffee a day

:01:09. > :01:14.could help slash the risk of diabetes. That's according to the

:01:15. > :01:16.Express. And today's court appearance by the Coronation Street

:01:17. > :01:31.actress Barbara Knox dominates the Mirror's front page. She denies

:01:32. > :01:33.drink driving. Something that doesn't give us much

:01:34. > :01:42.information to go on here in de Mirror. Ten British women fighting

:01:43. > :01:46.in Syria exclusive, is the headline. Police in the country have been

:01:47. > :01:51.encouraging British Muslim women to report their sons or husbands, male

:01:52. > :01:55.relatives, to try to discourage them from going to join the fight in

:01:56. > :02:00.Syria. It appears that some women have already joined the fight? They

:02:01. > :02:04.say some women are going with their husbands and joining jihadist

:02:05. > :02:10.factions come as there are several the regime. This one seems to be the

:02:11. > :02:13.Islamic state of Iraq and Syria. So extreme that even the Al Qaeda has

:02:14. > :02:20.disowned it. The worry is that, apart from what they're doing, many

:02:21. > :02:25.are coming back and radicalising here. They have a story about Nick

:02:26. > :02:29.Clegg saying that the security forces are very worried and when

:02:30. > :02:33.they come back from Syria they radicalise the young Muslims here on

:02:34. > :02:39.jihadist slogans and so on. What this exposes is our belief to do in

:02:40. > :02:43.some years ago the rebellion started we thought it was a good thing but I

:02:44. > :02:48.don't think we paid enough attention to all of the forces raging against

:02:49. > :02:58.President Assad, whether they were desirable or not. The removal of the

:02:59. > :03:02.regime could bring out an even worse regime. Some go to Syria to deliver

:03:03. > :03:06.aid and the risk is they could get caught up in it but they are setting

:03:07. > :03:12.out with something noble in mind. Exactly. There are two issues. One,

:03:13. > :03:18.it is really frightening that apparently there are 600 Brits

:03:19. > :03:21.fighting in Syria. Fighting, not delivering humanitarian aid. And of

:03:22. > :03:27.course it is highlighting that there are ten British women. At the role

:03:28. > :03:32.for us should surely be to deliver the humanitarian aid. Joining in the

:03:33. > :03:37.fighting or trying to change regimes... We don't know who is who

:03:38. > :03:44.is better than who. It's not our role. But everything splinters so

:03:45. > :03:51.much. 130,000 people have died, 100,000 children. We need to deliver

:03:52. > :03:57.aid as much is possible to believe their suffering. No sensible person

:03:58. > :04:00.would support the Assad regime but reports are coming out of the sort

:04:01. > :04:07.of collateral effect of the Arab Spring. There is a lot of

:04:08. > :04:13.discrimination faced by Christians and other minorities. These are

:04:14. > :04:16.worrying signs. Don't you have to be fairly radicalise before you even go

:04:17. > :04:22.there in the first place? Seeing pictures might be enough to

:04:23. > :04:26.radicalise people? Absolutely and what sort of propaganda is emerging

:04:27. > :04:29.to radicalise them? What sort of information is coming to this

:04:30. > :04:34.country to make young people want to go and fight for the Syrian rebels?

:04:35. > :04:44.Moving on. Independent. Berkeley is told to stop `` says to stop moaning

:04:45. > :04:50.about our bonuses! ?2.4 billion, that is the pot handed out. You

:04:51. > :04:56.would have got a good lunch! There is an interesting point that the

:04:57. > :05:07.Independent has focused on. The head of the remuneration committee at the

:05:08. > :05:13.bank has criticised standard life. They only on 2% but that's a big

:05:14. > :05:19.amount of money. But what Barclays was saying is, why have you done

:05:20. > :05:23.this publicly? Why didn't you come to us in the pre` consultation

:05:24. > :05:29.period and express your displeasure? Isn't that a fair point? Express it

:05:30. > :05:32.before it has happened? Not really. It sounds like there are these

:05:33. > :05:35.backroom chats with the institutional investors that block

:05:36. > :05:40.the small shareholders out of any possibility of having powered here.

:05:41. > :05:43.Doesn't this show that shareholder democracy is a bit of a farce? You

:05:44. > :05:50.have a shareholder meeting, invite everyone, the vibe drinks and

:05:51. > :05:56.canapes and what have you. But at the moment they are ordinary

:05:57. > :06:02.shareholders. `` provide drinks. You already have the vote in the bad.

:06:03. > :06:09.That's what they are saying... But they say it is after the horse has

:06:10. > :06:11.bolted. 30% isn't enough. It is important that the institutional

:06:12. > :06:17.voters, who represent our pension funds and our money invested, are

:06:18. > :06:22.able to stand up in public and say that they disagree, if they do. But

:06:23. > :06:30.they don't stand up. That's why it's important. It is telling that

:06:31. > :06:34.Barclays expected them not to. But the world hasn't changed since the

:06:35. > :06:42.banking crisis. We are still paying large sums of money to bankers. And

:06:43. > :06:48.profits are down and where does that leave shareholders? How do they

:06:49. > :06:51.justify it? Limit they said they had many people trying to leave and they

:06:52. > :06:55.would lose people if they didn't pay more money. That's what they always

:06:56. > :07:01.say. But at the end of the day shareholders should have some say.

:07:02. > :07:04.They own the business. But it ends up with lots of ordinary small

:07:05. > :07:08.shareholders thinking they don't have any power. Moving onto the

:07:09. > :07:13.Times. Coalition split on role of church. Nick Clegg calling for an

:07:14. > :07:18.end to links with the Anglican state, claiming the Queen should no

:07:19. > :07:22.longer be the head of the church. I can't quite pin down why that would

:07:23. > :07:26.make any difference and how it would be a good idea. I can't see any

:07:27. > :07:30.difference between the Queen remaining the head of the church. Of

:07:31. > :07:35.course this was an historical legacy, what Henry VIII did for his

:07:36. > :07:40.own personal benefit, but that's a long time ago. I don't see how...

:07:41. > :07:45.Nick Clegg suggest if you do that churchgoing will increase. I don't

:07:46. > :07:49.see how that would work out and I don't see what effect it would have

:07:50. > :07:54.on the church. There are larger questions of the church being part

:07:55. > :07:57.of the state, of the state being the head of Whitchurch, and whether we

:07:58. > :07:59.should have a ships in the House of Lords. That's a political question

:08:00. > :08:04.but he doesn't raise that. That are much more import and question that

:08:05. > :08:08.whether the Queen remains the head. `` we should have bishops in the

:08:09. > :08:11.House of Lords. Everybody who lives here should have no problems

:08:12. > :08:15.accepting that, provided the country doesn't discriminate against

:08:16. > :08:21.Christians. But it relies on the monarch being a believer. It does.

:08:22. > :08:29.But Nick Clegg's intervention strikes me as being political.

:08:30. > :08:33.Against David Cameron, who encouraged people to have more faith

:08:34. > :08:38.and bring religion perhaps more into their lives. I actually think the

:08:39. > :08:41.Prime Minister is right on this one. David Cameron has kind of expressed

:08:42. > :08:48.the view that many people think, whatever your religion, the fact

:08:49. > :08:53.there is a head of state who is also a religious figure and that we are a

:08:54. > :08:57.country that is tolerant of all other religions I think is something

:08:58. > :09:04.we should be proud of. For political reasons, the Deputy Prime Minister,

:09:05. > :09:06.to come along and say to get rid of this idea, that somehow there is a

:09:07. > :09:11.connection between the state and religion, I think would detract from

:09:12. > :09:14.something really important. In the past, prime ministers didn't say

:09:15. > :09:18.that. Alastair Campbell's famous phrase, we don't do God. My

:09:19. > :09:24.ministers didn't talk about religion. Like in the United States.

:09:25. > :09:31.The president going to church is something you see every weekend. But

:09:32. > :09:34.as long as we are tolerant of it we can be proud that we want to have

:09:35. > :09:39.the kind of traditions and history that this country has always done,

:09:40. > :09:44.which is bound up... What would other faiths feel more included in

:09:45. > :09:50.public life if the head of state were not attached to one particular

:09:51. > :09:54.religion? I doubt it. We have such a pluralistic society and such an

:09:55. > :10:00.inclusive society. We respect all other religions as a nation. I

:10:01. > :10:07.think, in a way, trying to take religion out of the game is a threat

:10:08. > :10:11.to people. You might make the Christians feel that they are being

:10:12. > :10:15.discriminated against and are being targeted, which would be a bad thing

:10:16. > :10:22.to do. Moving onto the Guardian. President Putin warning... Soldiers

:10:23. > :10:27.on the board again after the deaths and violence in Slavyansk.

:10:28. > :10:31.Pro`Russian supporters were killed there by Ukrainian forces. We have

:10:32. > :10:37.just been listening to John Kerry rebuking Russia for its actions.

:10:38. > :10:41.But, in the view of many, there is an interim government bear which got

:10:42. > :10:50.there by illegal means and overthrew an elected president. `` government

:10:51. > :10:55.there. It is difficult when the West goes on and tries to impose its

:10:56. > :10:59.views on other countries, when there are complex circumstances. But, at

:11:00. > :11:02.the end of the day, it looks like President Putin is going down the

:11:03. > :11:06.gauntlet and saying to the West, what are you going to do? John Kerry

:11:07. > :11:11.has just said, we will punish you because you will pay. It will be a

:11:12. > :11:15.financial problem. Your markets are down, your currency is down. But

:11:16. > :11:20.there is more here. This is actually a fundamental threat. Ukraine wanted

:11:21. > :11:27.to be part of the EU and part of the problem is a rose from Russia

:11:28. > :11:33.wanting to stay with Ukraine or the Ukrainians wanting to stay with

:11:34. > :11:36.Russia. And not join the EU. What has the interim government in

:11:37. > :11:42.Ukraine properly insured ethnic Russians in Ukraine, there are many

:11:43. > :11:49.across the country, do they feel their position is safe? I think

:11:50. > :11:54.interim government has been caught on the wrong foot. It didn't

:11:55. > :11:57.anticipate what the Russians would do and it hasn't done enough.

:11:58. > :12:01.Clearly Ukraine can't be sustained as it is. We be careful. If you look

:12:02. > :12:09.around the world, the onto the West, not all countries are supporting the

:12:10. > :12:20.western attitude. Let to a couple of health stories. Coffee helps fight

:12:21. > :12:27.diabetes. That is music to my ears. I have tried to stick with only two

:12:28. > :12:31.cups. Previously we have had all these warnings, don't drink too much

:12:32. > :12:39.coffee. Having three would be fine by me. I grew up being told aides

:12:40. > :12:49.were good, and then they were bad. And then we have heard for years

:12:50. > :12:59.that coffee is bad. `` eggs. Green tea and raw fish, is at a price

:13:00. > :13:06.worth paying? Possibly no alcohol. Is that appeal to you? Green tea?

:13:07. > :13:14.You get green tea at the BBC, don't you? Green tea is all right, but no

:13:15. > :13:21.fish, and no dairy... And all you get is four more years of life. Is

:13:22. > :13:25.it worth it? I don't think so. That's it for The Papers this hour.

:13:26. > :13:28.Thank you both. Stay with us here on BBC News. At midnight, as violence

:13:29. > :13:30.escalates in Ukraine, we will bring you US Secretary of State John

:13:31. > :13:45.Kerry's comments on today's developments. But coming up next

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