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:00:00. > :00:13.years. Coming up on the film review, does Michael Fassbender in a mask

:00:14. > :00:18.turn Frank into art hit? We will find out. Hello and welcome to our

:00:19. > :00:21.look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are

:00:22. > :00:28.the Political Journalist Sean Dilley and the broadcaster Penny Smith.

:00:29. > :00:32.Nice to have you here, most of the time. The Metro leads with a record

:00:33. > :00:35.number of serial criminals being allowed to walk free with suspended

:00:36. > :00:37.sentences, in an effort to keep down the prison population. The

:00:38. > :00:40.Telegraph's front page features celebrating Manchester City players

:00:41. > :00:42.as they lift the Premier League cup. Their main headline claims

:00:43. > :00:44.pensioners shouldn't rely on government plans designed to limit

:00:45. > :00:47.the cost of care. The Guardian reports a sharp increase in the

:00:48. > :00:55.number of soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq seeking help

:00:56. > :00:58.for mental health issues. The Times has more on the Take That tax row,

:00:59. > :01:01.frontman Gary Barlow now facing criticism from the Prime Minister

:01:02. > :01:04.for paying into a tax avoidance scheme. The Daily Mail has more on

:01:05. > :01:06.the government's policy of in`depth questioning for anyone seeking a

:01:07. > :01:09.mortgage. And claims from Stephen Sutton, the teen with cancer who has

:01:10. > :01:14.been fundraising for charity, that doctors initially missed his

:01:15. > :01:16.disease. The Daily Mirror has dramatic claims of loan sharks

:01:17. > :01:20.harassing unnamed mothers outside a school. The FT pictures a woman in

:01:21. > :01:24.the Ukraine casting her vote in one of the self`rule referendums in the

:01:25. > :01:29.east of the country. The headline says they polls will herald a

:01:30. > :01:31.break`up of the country. And finally the Independent claims soap and

:01:32. > :01:44.other household chemicals could be directly linked to a rise in male

:01:45. > :01:51.infertility. Completely new set of front`page stories this hour.

:01:52. > :01:58.Times. The Archbishop calls for talks with Boko Haram. Justin Welby

:01:59. > :02:03.says negotiations are necessary with the extremist who have kidnapped

:02:04. > :02:08.students from a school in Nigeria. What he warned it will be very

:02:09. > :02:12.difficult to do that. Yes, he also warns they are essentially

:02:13. > :02:16.irrational. Anyone who saw that chilling video would agree with that

:02:17. > :02:20.assessment. They would undoubtedly agree with the fact that

:02:21. > :02:25.negotiations there would be extremely collocated. What we forget

:02:26. > :02:30.is that the Archbishop of Canterbury entered the church in his 30s and

:02:31. > :02:39.was an oil executive. So he has dealt with the forerunners of Boko

:02:40. > :02:42.Haram in the Niger Delta, when he was an oil executive. He is

:02:43. > :02:48.well`placed to know what he is talking about. Negotiations seem to

:02:49. > :02:52.suggest compromise and concessions. How do you negotiate with people who

:02:53. > :02:57.think that girls should not go to school? I'm not sure that you can. I

:02:58. > :03:03.am not sure that Justin Welby think so either, I think that what he is

:03:04. > :03:07.doing is being constructive about the situation, when girls are being

:03:08. > :03:14.sold for ?8 effectively. He is saying that we need to start talking

:03:15. > :03:19.to Boko Haram, and get some dialogue going. I suppose if you can get some

:03:20. > :03:23.dialogue doing, you might be able to gain some form of concession. Make

:03:24. > :03:29.such a future less likely. Certainly the talks about sending in the SAS,

:03:30. > :03:33.which people want to do at the drop of hat without understanding the

:03:34. > :03:45.situation. And the massive area. It is an area of vast jungle. All the

:03:46. > :03:47.SAS regiments operate with tremendous prowess, but people

:03:48. > :03:54.expect them to be superheroes. They are highly trained and incredibly

:03:55. > :03:57.brave, but in some situations, they are not the solution. The other

:03:58. > :04:02.thing with groups like this, if you give them a name, the Taliban, or

:04:03. > :04:10.Boko Haram, and we expect them to be a cohesive group, so actually

:04:11. > :04:18.getting a hold of them can be problematic. It is like talks with

:04:19. > :04:23.any organisation which is a loose affiliation, if you like. Let's move

:04:24. > :04:30.on to the Guardian. Ministers call for free schools Budget curb. This

:04:31. > :04:33.is an argument about how funding for schools in England is being

:04:34. > :04:37.divided. The suggestion is that Michael Gove is so ideological eat

:04:38. > :04:44.obsessed that he is diverging money to Free Schools. And locally run

:04:45. > :04:52.schools are missing out. This language, they should be given

:04:53. > :04:59.detention! The quote unquote lunacy and pathetic, you work in the mother

:05:00. > :05:03.of all parliaments. I appreciate that standards have been very low in

:05:04. > :05:07.terms of debating, not with the select committees but in the

:05:08. > :05:12.chamber, but Lord Almighty! What you are seeing here is politicking at

:05:13. > :05:21.its very worst. Let's run over the main issues. They are important

:05:22. > :05:26.issues, and ?800 million black hole, criticism of ?400 million for

:05:27. > :05:29.the free school meal programme, and if we look back to the 2010

:05:30. > :05:37.election, with all parties promising, particularly the Lib

:05:38. > :05:44.Liberal Democrats. What you are seeing here. Watch this. This is

:05:45. > :05:47.important. These are the acyl lines upon which the Liberal Democrats

:05:48. > :05:51.will be fighting the Conservatives at the next election. Their argument

:05:52. > :05:54.is that they are not taking money away from school places at creating

:05:55. > :06:00.school places in a different way. Are, but hold on a second. In this

:06:01. > :06:06.article, Michael Gove is accused by the Liberal Democrats of raiding the

:06:07. > :06:10.Budget by ?400 million to help prop up the Free Schools programme.

:06:11. > :06:16.Meanwhile, Conservatives of cost`saving nick Clegg can't ring in

:06:17. > :06:22.free school meals for five or seven `year`olds because it is too

:06:23. > :06:26.expensive `` Nick Clegg. I think money is found when he wants to find

:06:27. > :06:30.it. There is a lot of talk about protecting the schools Budget. And

:06:31. > :06:35.we are talking about the back office, as we know, the back office

:06:36. > :06:42.and the front office can be separate. Staying with the Guardian,

:06:43. > :06:51.we have one. Iran claims victory in the war. They say that all they have

:06:52. > :06:57.done is encourage radical groups. This is Iran and its close ally

:06:58. > :07:02.Assad claiming they have won the war in Syria. Senior Iranians officials

:07:03. > :07:08.have told the Guardian. They have one in Syria, the regime will stay,

:07:09. > :07:16.the rebels have lost. This is of course the slightly more complicated

:07:17. > :07:22.than just that. Shia Muslim Iran is their main backup. They have propped

:07:23. > :07:32.up the regime since the first revolt in 2011. They have continually

:07:33. > :07:37.bolstered Assad in the teeth of attempts to destroy him. It does

:07:38. > :07:44.seem that Syria and Assad have held on to power, at what cost? They say

:07:45. > :07:47.they want easily, tell that to the victims. However, most people would

:07:48. > :07:54.surely have known that when we saw the Arab Spring in other places, we

:07:55. > :07:59.knew that Syria would be a very different prospect. Absolutely, and

:08:00. > :08:04.historically, militarily in the region. What is fascinating about

:08:05. > :08:14.this, America is doing jolly well in this war. You talk about the Arab

:08:15. > :08:17.Spring, you look at Egypt, and is Mubarak did terrible things, but

:08:18. > :08:23.actually intelligence sources say the one thing he did do is deliver

:08:24. > :08:28.some form of stability to the Middle East, which at the moment is in such

:08:29. > :08:33.a state of flux. To a degree, you wonder what extent we want to be

:08:34. > :08:44.involving ourselves with it. Let's look at the Mail. What a mortgage?

:08:45. > :08:47.Don't eat steak. These are bizarre questions you will be asked if you

:08:48. > :08:53.want a mortgage. They are cracking down. You will be asked about

:08:54. > :09:01.whether you play golf, how much you eat, whether you are planning to

:09:02. > :09:09.have another child. Absolutely. I wasn't actually offering, I was

:09:10. > :09:13.transposing myself. moving on, I wonder whether he is looking at a

:09:14. > :09:19.post` prime ministerial thing. If we were to lose Scotland, not that he

:09:20. > :09:26.says he will be going. Maybe he is trying to get a mortgage. But

:09:27. > :09:29.actually, the serious point here is finance is being stretched. We will

:09:30. > :09:35.see interest rates on the rise towards next year. You could, but

:09:36. > :09:38.that is what will happen. There is stress testing going on to see what

:09:39. > :09:44.the effect is going to be economically. The question is

:09:45. > :09:49.whether you can often a mortgage even if the interest rate goes up.

:09:50. > :09:53.And it is difficult, because the trouble is there is this tension

:09:54. > :09:59.particularly in the south with a huge bubble. You don't have much

:10:00. > :10:07.choice to take out a great big loan if you want to buy a house. it is

:10:08. > :10:11.worth talking about this whole thing in terms of houses anyway. People

:10:12. > :10:17.money, they have not been spending money, they have not been spending

:10:18. > :10:23.on the mortgage. You see a lot of houses going cheap, potentially

:10:24. > :10:28.crashes. It is bad news, I'm afraid. It is a huge worry. Is it a huge

:10:29. > :10:36.worry? When normal people, how are normal people even going to afford a

:10:37. > :10:41.house. What is a normal person? Well, just normal people doing

:10:42. > :10:47.normal jobs. I saw a flat the other day which was essentially what I

:10:48. > :10:53.would call a cupboard. It did not even have a loo. Can you sell such a

:10:54. > :11:06.property? Here is the window, it is that. Let's go back to The Wife of

:11:07. > :11:14.Bath's Tale. This is an extra ordinary man who has raised over ?3

:11:15. > :11:19.million for charity. He says his cancer was initially missed by

:11:20. > :11:23.doctors. He will always be angry that the doctors missed his cancer.

:11:24. > :11:28.There is something else which struck me here. He says I don't measure

:11:29. > :11:33.life in time, at what you can do. That is a moving thing to read. All

:11:34. > :11:38.of this, I don't think I can read it out because it kept making the well

:11:39. > :11:42.up, because so much of his blog just makes you want to go and grab life.

:11:43. > :11:48.In many ways, it is awful and terrible, but in the same way, that

:11:49. > :11:53.you were saying I don't measure life in time but by what you can do, and

:11:54. > :11:59.you could live to be 100 and is never achieve what he has. Exactly.

:12:00. > :12:04.And on his bucket list, he says ?10,000 is what he wanted to raise,

:12:05. > :12:10.and he has raised ?3.2 million. An amazing chap. Everybody has

:12:11. > :12:15.legitimate concerns in this world. We all have our worries, but it is

:12:16. > :12:19.life`affirming. The fact that he says, why would you waste your life

:12:20. > :12:24.saying it is not good? Worrying about these menial things, this is

:12:25. > :12:28.somebody who is going to die, potentially, and let us hope there

:12:29. > :12:35.is some miracle, around the age of 19. He says to grab life and live

:12:36. > :12:42.it. Amazing. The Independent. Chemicals in soap can cause mail

:12:43. > :12:51.infertility. That's it, I am not washing ever again. You won't be

:12:52. > :12:57.welcome here. I think when I am on the Chew, I know men who probably

:12:58. > :13:05.don't have any problem with this `` on the tube. This has concerned

:13:06. > :13:11.people for a long time. You think about it, in your home, you are

:13:12. > :13:14.stuck with the vapours and fumes of all these chemicals without really

:13:15. > :13:18.thinking about what you are breathing in. We know there is

:13:19. > :13:23.oestrogen in the water supplies in the United Kingdom, that is why many

:13:24. > :13:27.people drink spring water, but some of these chemicals are found in

:13:28. > :13:33.substances like toothpaste and soap. Toothpaste, soap, children's

:13:34. > :13:43.plastic toys. And this is a man whose name we like. I am just trying

:13:44. > :13:48.to find it. An excellent name, from the Copenhagen University Hospital

:13:49. > :13:54.in Denmark. He has noticed a 50% drop in low sperm count in the last

:13:55. > :14:00.50 years. What are you supposed to do? I know there are more natural

:14:01. > :14:06.alternatives. A lot of them say this, but as you say, the trouble

:14:07. > :14:19.is, it is those things like when flame retardant material et cetera.

:14:20. > :14:24.In short men live longer. They may have jokes at their expense of but

:14:25. > :14:38.they will have the last laugh after all. If you are under five foot two,

:14:39. > :14:49.and I don't know many who are. Tom Cruise is five foot five. And many

:14:50. > :14:58.famous men are short. So there we are. But the argument is that

:14:59. > :15:08.shorter men are more likely to have longevity genes leading to a smaller

:15:09. > :15:23.body size and a longer lifespan. I don't know about that, being at

:15:24. > :15:33.around six foot. Thank you both for being here. That is all for

:15:34. > :15:37.tonight. Stay with us here on BBC News: At midnight we'll have the

:15:38. > :15:40.latest from Ukraine ` where at least one person has died after government

:15:41. > :15:43.forces opened fire near crowds in the east of the country. But coming

:15:44. > :16:05.up next it's time for The Film Review with Gavin Esler and Mark

:16:06. > :16:09.Kermode. Hello. Welcome to the Film Review. To take us through the

:16:10. > :16:13.cinema releases, Mark Kermode. It's a very good week, Frank, a film

:16:14. > :16:14.inspired by but not based on the character of Frank