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:00:00. > :00:00.has been suspended, and they have had their Champions League team cut

:00:00. > :00:16.to only 21 players. We will have more sport in 15 minutes.

:00:17. > :00:25.Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:00:26. > :00:27.bringing us tomorrow. With me are Jennifer Howze, journalist and

:00:28. > :00:28.co`founder of Brit Mums and the Sunday Post's Westminster

:00:29. > :00:38.correspondent James Millar. Tomorrow's front pages, starting

:00:39. > :00:41.with The Mail leads with claims that migrants who don't speak English can

:00:42. > :00:43.buy language certificates, helping them en route to British

:00:44. > :00:46.citizenship.The Independent has a picture of a British`born man it

:00:47. > :00:52.says is suspected of masterminding Boko Haram bomb attacks in Nigeria.

:00:53. > :00:55.The Mirror claims NHS bosses pocketed hundreds of millions of

:00:56. > :01:03.pounds in extra pay last year, as nurses were hit by a 1% fall in

:01:04. > :01:06.their wages. The Express says the taxpayer is paying for asylum

:01:07. > :01:09.seekers to be secretly housed in hotels. The number of people being

:01:10. > :01:15.investigated by the HMRC has doubled according to the Telegraph. The

:01:16. > :01:18.Financial Times leads with India's election and the historic victory by

:01:19. > :01:20.Narendra Modi and the BJP. The Guardian's headline has allegations

:01:21. > :01:25.that child protection services are going to be privatised. And the

:01:26. > :01:27.Times leads with a report from war correspondent Anthony Lloyd

:01:28. > :01:33.describing the moment he and a colleague were kidnapped in Syria

:01:34. > :01:47.this week. So let's begin. We will. With `` we

:01:48. > :01:53.will start with the Scotsman. This is a terrible story, there have been

:01:54. > :01:59.two explosions. They have gotten hundreds of holidaymakers back into

:02:00. > :02:02.the UK, they have cancelled flights until October. In addition to the

:02:03. > :02:06.effects on the families of those involved with the bombings, there

:02:07. > :02:11.are going to be long`term effects because of the tourism. Tourism has

:02:12. > :02:20.been hit. People are not going to resorts, safari parks, I think it is

:02:21. > :02:25.too bad for Kenya overall on both elements. Very much so. And for

:02:26. > :02:28.innocent and hard`working Kenyon is connected with the tourism industry,

:02:29. > :02:31.it is their second biggest industry and will take the floor out from

:02:32. > :02:39.underneath their feet. It is an arresting picture on the front,

:02:40. > :02:44.people being taken to hospital, it sums up the situation in Kenya.

:02:45. > :02:49.Kenya is in pain. It has been hurt as a country by this. They are going

:02:50. > :02:52.to suffer for sometime because of this through no fault of their own.

:02:53. > :02:56.It is disappointing for British tourists out there but it looks like

:02:57. > :03:00.the Foreign and Commonwealth office is did the right thing at this stage

:03:01. > :03:05.of getting people out. On to the Telegraph, the headline "innocent

:03:06. > :03:11.victims of tax raiders". Tell us what this is about. This is the news

:03:12. > :03:16.that HM RC have investigated a lot more people for potential tax fraud.

:03:17. > :03:23.The Telegraph seems to think that this is a bad thing and suggests

:03:24. > :03:26.that these could be innocent people making innocent mistakes. They do

:03:27. > :03:29.not have a lot to back that up, there are no figures about the

:03:30. > :03:34.number of people who have been convicted as a result of these

:03:35. > :03:39.investigations. Given that the country is bust, surely we should be

:03:40. > :03:43.collecting as much tax from all of the people who owe it as possible?

:03:44. > :03:47.Whether they are so`called soft targets or anyone else? Nobody would

:03:48. > :03:53.dispute that, Jennifer, but the thing is, filling in a tax return

:03:54. > :03:58.self assessment is complicated and this is arguing, I think it lists

:03:59. > :04:01.doctors and teachers, they may have innocently made a mistake and being

:04:02. > :04:05.pursued. That is the tone of the article. Exactly, these are soft

:04:06. > :04:15.targets, I think, individuals who make mistakes on their taxes. They

:04:16. > :04:19.all... Not that regular folk do not make mistakes. But, pursuing

:04:20. > :04:24.individuals, we have heard similar stories about tax avoidance from

:04:25. > :04:30.wealthy individuals and corporations. It seems to me that it

:04:31. > :04:34.is harder of course for HM RC or the government to close loopholes or to

:04:35. > :04:40.go after the big guys, who are based in other countries. And make it more

:04:41. > :04:45.difficult. But, reaping returns every year, let's go after these

:04:46. > :04:49.people who have made mistakes. They know that most law abiding citizens

:04:50. > :04:56.will not fight it or complain but just pay. If they are law`abiding

:04:57. > :04:59.citizens, they will do it. If I got a letter saying that my tax return

:05:00. > :05:05.was wrong, I will say, "no it is not. " it takes up a lot of time,

:05:06. > :05:09.anyway. Some people would just settle if it takes up a lot of time.

:05:10. > :05:17.I don't know, it is not a problem I have! Onto the times, and the story

:05:18. > :05:23.about Syria, I thought of him as a friend, but then he shot me. What an

:05:24. > :05:32.arresting headline matters. This is the very disturbing story that I

:05:33. > :05:38.liked. `` that is an arresting headline. This is from one of the

:05:39. > :05:41.journalists, it shows how chaotic and framing it is for journalists

:05:42. > :05:47.going into these war zones. We can become complacent as readers, they

:05:48. > :05:52.ended up being abducted by people they trusted and worked with.

:05:53. > :05:57.Someone who had been part of the Islamic front, and then other people

:05:58. > :06:03.from the Islamic front came in and demanded their release and helped

:06:04. > :06:07.them. It shows how confused those situations are. And what journalists

:06:08. > :06:11.go through to get us a story. It is a good Saturday story, it does not

:06:12. > :06:19.have to be hard news. It almost reads like a novel. You get dragged

:06:20. > :06:23.into the story, and then when you get to the fourth column, you get

:06:24. > :06:26.hit by the horrible stuff, it is ready horrible, but you have to read

:06:27. > :06:32.on because it is so well written and you want to learn what happened, it

:06:33. > :06:36.makes you care, it makes you care about Syria. It seems far away and

:06:37. > :06:43.is complicated. They had known each other for two years. It was not like

:06:44. > :06:49.they just picked up these people. It is a very well written piece, isn't

:06:50. > :06:54.it? It is a good Saturday story. Onto the Guardian, this suggesting

:06:55. > :07:00.that child social services are for sale. But, reading through this, it

:07:01. > :07:04.is quite difficult to see that that is a definite proposal, possibly one

:07:05. > :07:09.of several proposals by the look of it? Perhaps, I hope though it is

:07:10. > :07:14.something that does not go through. We deal with all sorts of families,

:07:15. > :07:18.we have more than 6000 members, we deal with specific problems. It

:07:19. > :07:22.seems wrongheaded for the government who is involved in taking kids away

:07:23. > :07:26.or safeguarding them in the family environment, to outsource that two

:07:27. > :07:37.companies who answer to shareholders, or answer to owners.

:07:38. > :07:42.``to. Putting that into the market seems like the wrong idea for me. It

:07:43. > :07:45.seems that you are essentially privatising it and would encourage

:07:46. > :07:49.innovation and outcomes, but for every innovation in the privatised

:07:50. > :07:52.companies like energy and railways, people have stories of things that

:07:53. > :07:59.have gone horribly wrong, and trains are later than they have ever been,

:08:00. > :08:02.and more full. I am not sure that privatisation is necessarily a good

:08:03. > :08:05.idea, and certainly when you are dealing with vulnerable children and

:08:06. > :08:09.families, you have to be definite that it is going to work. Jennifer,

:08:10. > :08:17.you speak to a lot of different mothers, the services are far from

:08:18. > :08:21.perfect. What are the sorts of things that might, looking at the

:08:22. > :08:28.story, could be improved? That might be improved with...? With the

:08:29. > :08:32.service as it stands. You heard of social workers getting the wrong end

:08:33. > :08:37.of the stick in terms of family situations. And intervening at

:08:38. > :08:42.runtimes, or not intervening, we have heard those high`profile

:08:43. > :08:46.stories. `` intervening at the wrong times. We are struggling as a

:08:47. > :08:50.society with how to safeguard children in a better way. This

:08:51. > :08:55.philosophy as to whether it is better to keep children with

:08:56. > :09:00.families and parents, or always take them out, when it looks like there

:09:01. > :09:04.is any danger... Yes. It is not an exact science. It is very

:09:05. > :09:08.difficult. Resources shrink, they need to find a better way of doing

:09:09. > :09:14.it. Anyway, I am pretty positive that it is not getting private

:09:15. > :09:18.companies involved. Let's move on to the Financial Times, we touched on

:09:19. > :09:24.this story earlier, they are the only paper I have seen so far and

:09:25. > :09:30.have got the election of Modi in India on the front page. It says

:09:31. > :09:37.sweeping to power, and it looks that way. Absolutely, it is a landslide.

:09:38. > :09:41.As interesting as it is that it is only on the front page of one

:09:42. > :09:45.paper, it is a huge election. India is one of the rising countries, one

:09:46. > :09:52.of the bricks, with Brazil and Russia. What happens here has an

:09:53. > :09:58.impact everywhere. With our historic links, it is a big trading partner

:09:59. > :10:01.for us. It was on the issues here, and with the issues we have been

:10:02. > :10:07.talking about, there was a large youth vote, it was about innovation

:10:08. > :10:10.and corruption. And basically, the economy. The economy has been

:10:11. > :10:16.faltering in India, this election will be interesting to see what he

:10:17. > :10:21.is going to do now and whether he will fulfil those pledges. I am no

:10:22. > :10:24.expert on the Indian economy, but the global country is picking up and

:10:25. > :10:28.he could be lucky that he has this power at a good time. And he will be

:10:29. > :10:33.able to deliver jobs and investment and cutting in bureaucracy. It is

:10:34. > :10:41.the same issues we are having here. Even down to, as described, a"

:10:42. > :10:47.tectonic shift". UKIP love to talk about tectonic shifts if they win,

:10:48. > :10:51.head of the election. There is a lot of similarities. Staying with the

:10:52. > :10:55.Financial Times. And the second story there that they have. This is

:10:56. > :10:58.about mortgages, there have been these new regulations, have a

:10:59. > :11:04.mayor, to try and make the whole process of those borrowing money and

:11:05. > :11:10.needing finances to make sure it is done aboveboard and everything. ``

:11:11. > :11:15.haven't there. It is now causing a logjam, and putting deals at risk?

:11:16. > :11:19.Many people said that as it should be, they are looking into these

:11:20. > :11:23.finances more and making sure that you can pay them back when you get

:11:24. > :11:27.them. Last time I was on, the story had just broken and we were talking

:11:28. > :11:30.about it, one of the things pointed to was that if you are taking more

:11:31. > :11:35.time and you have these interviews that last up to three hours talking

:11:36. > :11:39.about your background and how much you are spending on personal

:11:40. > :11:48.grooming, then that is going to take more time and basically the story is

:11:49. > :11:51.all about that. With several estate agents quoted as saying that the

:11:52. > :12:00.market is moving so fast but mortgages take too long. Sales are

:12:01. > :12:05.falling through, as agents are worried about the buyers finances.

:12:06. > :12:10.These finances are being checked more thoroughly, so they are a sound

:12:11. > :12:14.of that than they were originally. There was a headline about do you

:12:15. > :12:22.stay? When you go to the gym? It seems that there is a more rigourous

:12:23. > :12:30.process `` do you eat steak? But up to a point. Newspapers are pulling

:12:31. > :12:35.out a bit, some of the crazy thing is to highlight it, like spending on

:12:36. > :12:41.pets. It is hard to imagine that breaking anyone's bank! Yes, it is

:12:42. > :12:45.good that we are looking into mortgages and they are trained to

:12:46. > :12:49.lead properly. Just very briefly slipping back to that story we were

:12:50. > :12:51.talking about with the Guardian, there is a statement now from the

:12:52. > :12:56.government Department of education, saying they want to improve the

:12:57. > :13:01.government and efficiency of social care. They are trained to use

:13:02. > :13:05.expertise to improve their work, and extend these freedoms we can look at

:13:06. > :13:15.and better ways of delivering services. They will take into

:13:16. > :13:21.account responses. We will finally move to the times. This is the story

:13:22. > :13:27.we have been looking at on E`ON. What is interesting in the Times is

:13:28. > :13:35.that the Chief Executive's bonus has been slashed by a quarter. It is

:13:36. > :13:42.still quite significant. This is the E`ON story through the prism of pay

:13:43. > :13:52.packages. His pay package, his bonus has been slashed by a quarter to a

:13:53. > :13:55.mere ?510,000. I suppose in comparison to some of the other

:13:56. > :14:08.bonus is we have seen, it is not that big a deal. It is fun to see a

:14:09. > :14:15.possible that `` bitterness. The most vulnerable customers are going

:14:16. > :14:22.to get ?35 back. This chap is walking off with half a million in

:14:23. > :14:26.bonuses. Something is wrong. What I am struggling with is that there is

:14:27. > :14:34.a litany of problems. But they say, there was no organised attempt to

:14:35. > :14:39.mislead. Isn't that worse? Then the CEO gets this kind of bonus. It is

:14:40. > :14:46.the innovation through privatisation. And with regard to

:14:47. > :14:53.E`ON, it is the biggest fine, but everybody has been investigated and

:14:54. > :14:59.sanctioned in some way. ?100 million in fines in the past four years.

:15:00. > :15:08.Thank you very much. That is it for the papers. Thank you to our guests

:15:09. > :15:12.this evening. Stay with us. At midnight, as hundreds of British

:15:13. > :15:18.tourists are evacuated we bring you more on today's attacks in Kenya's

:15:19. > :15:19.capital. Coming up next, it is