24/04/2014 The Papers

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

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

day tomorrow. Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me is pension

analyst Ros Altman. And the journalist Mihir Bose. Nice to have

you with us. Tomorrow's front pages. The Telegraph leads on comments by

Nick Clegg that the Queen should lose her constitutional role as head

of the Church of England. The Times has the same story. The paper says

senior cabinet ministers are split over the role of the church. The

Guardian reports on Russian forces carrying out fresh manoeuvres on the

Ukrainian border. The paper also says the Gherkin building in London

is for sale. And the price tag ` ?500 million. The Independent says

senior executives at Barclays were heckled by shareholders over

boardroom pay today at the company's AGM. Three cups of coffee a day

could help slash the risk of diabetes. That's according to the

Express. And today's court appearance by the Coronation Street

actress Barbara Knox dominates the Mirror's front page. She denies

drink driving. Something that doesn't give us much

information to go on here in de Mirror. Ten British women fighting

in Syria exclusive, is the headline. Police in the country have been

encouraging British Muslim women to report their sons or husbands, male

relatives, to try to discourage them from going to join the fight in

Syria. It appears that some women have already joined the fight? They

say some women are going with their husbands and joining jihadist

factions come as there are several the regime. This one seems to be the

Islamic state of Iraq and Syria. So extreme that even the Al Qaeda has

disowned it. The worry is that, apart from what they're doing, many

are coming back and radicalising here. They have a story about Nick

Clegg saying that the security forces are very worried and when

they come back from Syria they radicalise the young Muslims here on

jihadist slogans and so on. What this exposes is our belief to do in

some years ago the rebellion started we thought it was a good thing but I

don't think we paid enough attention to all of the forces raging against

President Assad, whether they were desirable or not. The removal of the

regime could bring out an even worse regime. Some go to Syria to deliver

aid and the risk is they could get caught up in it but they are setting

out with something noble in mind. Exactly. There are two issues. One,

it is really frightening that apparently there are 600 Brits

fighting in Syria. Fighting, not delivering humanitarian aid. And of

course it is highlighting that there are ten British women. At the role

for us should surely be to deliver the humanitarian aid. Joining in the

fighting or trying to change regimes... We don't know who is who

is better than who. It's not our role. But everything splinters so

much. 130,000 people have died, 100,000 children. We need to deliver

aid as much is possible to believe their suffering. No sensible person

would support the Assad regime but reports are coming out of the sort

of collateral effect of the Arab Spring. There is a lot of

discrimination faced by Christians and other minorities. These are

worrying signs. Don't you have to be fairly radicalise before you even go

there in the first place? Seeing pictures might be enough to

radicalise people? Absolutely and what sort of propaganda is emerging

to radicalise them? What sort of information is coming to this

country to make young people want to go and fight for the Syrian rebels?

Moving on. Independent. Berkeley is told to stop `` says to stop moaning

about our bonuses! ?2.4 billion, that is the pot handed out. You

would have got a good lunch! There is an interesting point that the

Independent has focused on. The head of the remuneration committee at the

bank has criticised standard life. They only on 2% but that's a big

amount of money. But what Barclays was saying is, why have you done

this publicly? Why didn't you come to us in the pre` consultation

period and express your displeasure? Isn't that a fair point? Express it

before it has happened? Not really. It sounds like there are these

backroom chats with the institutional investors that block

the small shareholders out of any possibility of having powered here.

Doesn't this show that shareholder democracy is a bit of a farce? You

have a shareholder meeting, invite everyone, the vibe drinks and

canapes and what have you. But at the moment they are ordinary

shareholders. `` provide drinks. You already have the vote in the bad.

That's what they are saying... But they say it is after the horse has

bolted. 30% isn't enough. It is important that the institutional

voters, who represent our pension funds and our money invested, are

able to stand up in public and say that they disagree, if they do. But

they don't stand up. That's why it's important. It is telling that

Barclays expected them not to. But the world hasn't changed since the

banking crisis. We are still paying large sums of money to bankers. And

profits are down and where does that leave shareholders? How do they

justify it? Limit they said they had many people trying to leave and they

would lose people if they didn't pay more money. That's what they always

say. But at the end of the day shareholders should have some say.

They own the business. But it ends up with lots of ordinary small

shareholders thinking they don't have any power. Moving onto the

Times. Coalition split on role of church. Nick Clegg calling for an

end to links with the Anglican state, claiming the Queen should no

longer be the head of the church. I can't quite pin down why that would

make any difference and how it would be a good idea. I can't see any

difference between the Queen remaining the head of the church. Of

course this was an historical legacy, what Henry VIII did for his

own personal benefit, but that's a long time ago. I don't see how...

Nick Clegg suggest if you do that churchgoing will increase. I don't

see how that would work out and I don't see what effect it would have

on the church. There are larger questions of the church being part

of the state, of the state being the head of Whitchurch, and whether we

should have a ships in the House of Lords. That's a political question

but he doesn't raise that. That are much more import and question that

whether the Queen remains the head. `` we should have bishops in the

House of Lords. Everybody who lives here should have no problems

accepting that, provided the country doesn't discriminate against

Christians. But it relies on the monarch being a believer. It does.

But Nick Clegg's intervention strikes me as being political.

Against David Cameron, who encouraged people to have more faith

and bring religion perhaps more into their lives. I actually think the

Prime Minister is right on this one. David Cameron has kind of expressed

the view that many people think, whatever your religion, the fact

there is a head of state who is also a religious figure and that we are a

country that is tolerant of all other religions I think is something

we should be proud of. For political reasons, the Deputy Prime Minister,

to come along and say to get rid of this idea, that somehow there is a

connection between the state and religion, I think would detract from

something really important. In the past, prime ministers didn't say

that. Alastair Campbell's famous phrase, we don't do God. My

ministers didn't talk about religion. Like in the United States.

The president going to church is something you see every weekend. But

as long as we are tolerant of it we can be proud that we want to have

the kind of traditions and history that this country has always done,

which is bound up... What would other faiths feel more included in

public life if the head of state were not attached to one particular

religion? I doubt it. We have such a pluralistic society and such an

inclusive society. We respect all other religions as a nation. I

think, in a way, trying to take religion out of the game is a threat

to people. You might make the Christians feel that they are being

discriminated against and are being targeted, which would be a bad thing

to do. Moving onto the Guardian. President Putin warning... Soldiers

on the board again after the deaths and violence in Slavyansk.

Pro`Russian supporters were killed there by Ukrainian forces. We have

just been listening to John Kerry rebuking Russia for its actions.

But, in the view of many, there is an interim government bear which got

there by illegal means and overthrew an elected president. `` government

there. It is difficult when the West goes on and tries to impose its

views on other countries, when there are complex circumstances. But, at

the end of the day, it looks like President Putin is going down the

gauntlet and saying to the West, what are you going to do? John Kerry

has just said, we will punish you because you will pay. It will be a

financial problem. Your markets are down, your currency is down. But

there is more here. This is actually a fundamental threat. Ukraine wanted

to be part of the EU and part of the problem is a rose from Russia

wanting to stay with Ukraine or the Ukrainians wanting to stay with

Russia. And not join the EU. What has the interim government in

Ukraine properly insured ethnic Russians in Ukraine, there are many

across the country, do they feel their position is safe? I think

interim government has been caught on the wrong foot. It didn't

anticipate what the Russians would do and it hasn't done enough.

Clearly Ukraine can't be sustained as it is. We be careful. If you look

around the world, the onto the West, not all countries are supporting the

western attitude. Let to a couple of health stories. Coffee helps fight

diabetes. That is music to my ears. I have tried to stick with only two

cups. Previously we have had all these warnings, don't drink too much

coffee. Having three would be fine by me. I grew up being told aides

were good, and then they were bad. And then we have heard for years

that coffee is bad. `` eggs. Green tea and raw fish, is at a price

worth paying? Possibly no alcohol. Is that appeal to you? Green tea?

You get green tea at the BBC, don't you? Green tea is all right, but no

fish, and no dairy... And all you get is four more years of life. Is

it worth it? I don't think so. That's it for The Papers this hour.

Thank you both. Stay with us here on BBC News. At midnight, as violence

escalates in Ukraine, we will bring you US Secretary of State John

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