:00:23. > :00:41.With us a and broadcaster, and Andrew Harrison, columnist with
:00:42. > :00:44.Esquire magazine. The FT leads with the news that the European Central
:00:45. > :00:46.Bank has cut the deposit interest rate to below zero in an
:00:47. > :00:49.unprecedented move to encourage lending. The Telegraph has more on
:00:50. > :00:52.President Obama stepping into the debate over Scotland's future, while
:00:53. > :00:55.a photo of a D Day veteran on a Normandy beach dominates the front
:00:56. > :00:58.page. The same image is The Metro's front page with the simple message,
:00:59. > :01:01."thank you". The Guardian has an interview with Jean`Claude Juncker,
:01:02. > :01:04.the front runner to become the European Commission President, in
:01:05. > :01:07.which he says he will not beg Britain for the job. An image of a
:01:08. > :01:10.D`Day veteran dominates The Mail's front page saying the former
:01:11. > :01:12.servicemen were making a trip back to the beaches of death and
:01:13. > :01:16.deliverance. Arrested For Having A Fat Kid is the Sun's headline which
:01:17. > :01:19.claims that the parents of an 11`year`old boy were questioned by
:01:20. > :01:22.police after their son weighed in at 15 stone The Mirror says police are
:01:23. > :01:24.examining clothing found near where Madeleine McCann vanished in
:01:25. > :01:33.Portugal in 2007, for traces of the 3`year`old's DNA. While the
:01:34. > :01:36.Independent has analysis on the European Central Bank's decision to
:01:37. > :01:45.lower interest rates in an attempt to get the banks lending. Let's
:01:46. > :01:48.begin with the Times, which is saying that there is a new battle
:01:49. > :02:27.are coming down in parachutes, the course,
:02:28. > :02:32.same as they used to 70 years ago. I was reading as well that in this
:02:33. > :02:36.particular village there were 300 parachutists who came into this one
:02:37. > :02:41.village. What an extraordinary sight that must have been. It was the
:02:42. > :02:46.first village to be liberated in the war, and one of the parachutists was
:02:47. > :02:53.an 89`year`old. How amazing for him to come back! On his suit it said
:02:54. > :03:00.tandem student. He was attached to someone else. This image, I think
:03:01. > :03:04.this wins the battle of the pictures, because it is such an
:03:05. > :03:08.incredible image. The fields of northern France, the sky, the
:03:09. > :03:13.colours are beautiful. It also is one British soldier alone, and it
:03:14. > :03:19.has that poignant resonance with the beginning of the war. I think it is
:03:20. > :03:24.gorgeous. Potentially award`winning. It is beautiful and very moving. We
:03:25. > :03:38.will come back to the story, but we will deal with the new battle for
:03:39. > :03:45.Europe. This is Jean`Claude Juncker saying that he won't beg Britain to
:03:46. > :03:50.become the new boss of the EU. He doesn't seem to be making the right
:03:51. > :03:59.comments if he is trying to butter rock Europe, he sounds intolerable.
:04:00. > :04:04.Perhaps he doesn't get the fact that the recent elections, people across
:04:05. > :04:09.Europe and the countries that voted have voted to say, please reform
:04:10. > :04:18.Europe. Here we have someone who sounds like a grumpy old
:04:19. > :04:24.thinks there is a campaign against him being mounted by the British
:04:25. > :04:32.media. He is also rambling at his own allies in the party, he doesn't
:04:33. > :04:36.seem to recognise it is not just Eurosceptics but also pro` Europeans
:04:37. > :04:42.who want to see reform. There want to see a more responsive European
:04:43. > :04:44.community. He has quoted here, if they had not capable of making
:04:45. > :04:49.proposals, I will to the Parliamentary Caucus is. It is
:04:50. > :04:53.impenetrable bureaucratic language, and it seems to be quite
:04:54. > :04:59.aggressive. He says that number of the 28 leaders would vote to him.
:05:00. > :05:04.Maybe they didn't want to vote for him, and instead he marches
:05:05. > :05:04.through... To be speaking like this, he must feel that the
:05:05. > :05:19.Then I really rather hope that isn't, because he works for us, not
:05:20. > :05:24.the other way around. He is saying, you better be ready for a lot more
:05:25. > :05:32.dirt, well, I'm sorry, if you have a lot more dirt they don't do the job.
:05:33. > :05:33.It is journalists' jobs to find out what people have been up to. It is
:05:34. > :05:42.want his neighbours being harassed, does he?
:05:43. > :05:44.to feel sorry for him, he's making it easy. He is badly in need of a
:05:45. > :05:51.media training course. There was a BBC reporter who was
:05:52. > :05:56.chasing him around Parliament, the reporter was
:05:57. > :06:04.Britain? And he was snapping at him. Go and hide
:06:05. > :06:08.because that looks terrible, and it looked terrible. And people have
:06:09. > :06:13.long memories, too. The Daily Mail, special D`Day anniversary edition,
:06:14. > :06:17.back to the beaches of death and deliverance. The man featured here
:06:18. > :06:22.is Gordon Smith, who is 90 years old, a former Royal engineer, and
:06:23. > :06:30.understandably feeling very moved on the speech today. Always a
:06:31. > :06:34.bittersweet place of these meant to be. They have seen a lot of death,
:06:35. > :06:39.these poor men. He would have been 19 or 20 when he went, it is
:06:40. > :06:44.shocking. Our 18, 19, 20 `year`olds would be horrified that they might
:06:45. > :06:56.be sent into battle, because we haven't had a war for 60 or 70
:06:57. > :07:03.years. It is rare that a partisan paper like this has what is
:07:04. > :07:09.effectively a consensus on the front page. We can all agree with this,
:07:10. > :07:12.recognise the debt we owe to people like these guys. I think it is a
:07:13. > :07:16.particularly well put together pages well. The weather has done the
:07:17. > :07:21.photographers an enormous favour, because it looks like a piece of
:07:22. > :07:24.history. And the break of the weather enabled it to go ahead when
:07:25. > :07:29.it did. One of my colleagues is fronting the commemorations for us,
:07:30. > :07:33.and he commented several times today on how many young people are now
:07:34. > :07:38.really interested in these commemorations. They learn about it
:07:39. > :07:42.at school, get taken to battlefields, a lot of schools have
:07:43. > :07:48.already met some of the soldiers that go back. There is a lasting
:07:49. > :07:53.fascination my nieces and nephews are fascinated with from history,
:07:54. > :07:57.but also because their dads, people like me and my brothers, we grew up
:07:58. > :08:02.with war comics and we talked about it with them. It is handed down, and
:08:03. > :08:10.it is something that all generations can recognise. The reason we are
:08:11. > :08:15.having Jean`Claude Juncker and people squabbling over what Europe
:08:16. > :08:19.will look like, is because of all these people who went and fought for
:08:20. > :08:24.Europe. I wonder what they think of it, if they take an interest in
:08:25. > :08:28.modern European politics. They would probably hate it, and I wouldn't
:08:29. > :08:34.blame them. Every so to look back on, 100 years since the outbreak of
:08:35. > :08:43.the First World War, a lot of that centred later in France. There is a
:08:44. > :08:51.lot for us to mull over. There are the world wars, and the EU, they are
:08:52. > :08:53.not separate. How will Europe organise itself and maintain the
:08:54. > :08:58.peace? I think there is poignancy in the fact that we are seeing the new
:08:59. > :09:00.battle for Europe, within the EU it is not really a battle but a
:09:01. > :09:05.squabble between political leaders. This is the real thing. We will go
:09:06. > :09:11.back to Jean`Claude Juncker, Quetta can't get enough of him, can we? It
:09:12. > :09:25.is important who effectively runs Europe. `` because we can't get
:09:26. > :09:28.enough of him. The Guardian, Cameron led opposition, angry broadside. It
:09:29. > :09:34.is not just David Cameron he is cross with, it doesn't seem to be
:09:35. > :09:37.pleased with anyone. I don't think he has done an interview with the
:09:38. > :09:41.Guardian, but he was making these remarks in the interview at the G7
:09:42. > :09:44.and it was reported by somebody to the Guardian, and I think he would
:09:45. > :09:51.not have said these things to the Guardian. I sincerely hope. Or, he
:09:52. > :09:57.needs even more media training. He is a gift to journalists. He is
:09:58. > :10:03.grumpy, he lashes out verbally at journalists. It is very interesting
:10:04. > :10:16.that the European Guardian, and the eurosceptic Times, essentially have
:10:17. > :10:20.the same story. The message is, we don't like the way you are behaving,
:10:21. > :10:25.you are too high`handed, or we will vote against you. He does seem to
:10:26. > :10:33.have the patronage of Angela Merkel, and she is someone who carries a
:10:34. > :10:38.great deal of weight. They must have twisted around, because she seemed a
:10:39. > :10:44.bit lukewarm for a while, but now she says she does support him. He
:10:45. > :10:49.may have the patronage now, but I don't know if he will have much
:10:50. > :10:51.longer if he continues toIs it an opportunity for people who wouldn't
:10:52. > :11:00.have had a chance before to swoop in and out our `` mount a charm
:11:01. > :11:06.offensive? Angela Merkel is too well known in Europe. The last guy,
:11:07. > :11:23.Robbie Pompey, whatever his name was, he kept a very low profile. It
:11:24. > :11:26.is a low`profile, and they think that Christine Lagarde and some of
:11:27. > :11:32.the other names who have been mentioned are two high`profile, and
:11:33. > :11:37.will bring their own corpse. His profile has risen for all the wrong
:11:38. > :11:40.reasons. One of the key problems is that we don't know who it is who is
:11:41. > :11:47.running our affairs. Would it be such a bad thing to be able to put a
:11:48. > :11:52.face, to have a technocrat, perhaps, but at least have the idea of who
:11:53. > :12:00.they were. Put into a media training course first, because he is the
:12:01. > :12:06.architect of his downfall. Are you available to help in? I would be no
:12:07. > :12:14.use, because my mind is made up. The Daily Telegraph, Obama encourages
:12:15. > :12:20.Scotland not to leave the extraordinary union. He says it has
:12:21. > :12:27.worked pretty well having Scotland part of the UK. A lot of people
:12:28. > :12:31.seizing on the use of the word United. I don't think this is Obama
:12:32. > :12:40.waiting in at all, I think it is an anodyne thing to say. We all like
:12:41. > :12:48.strong, united things. I'm sure that Obama barely understands Scotland's
:12:49. > :12:52.relationship with the UK anyway. What he really said was that there
:12:53. > :12:57.is a referendum coming up, and it is up to the folks of Scotland, which
:12:58. > :13:00.he did say. Any carried on and said another paragraph about them being
:13:01. > :13:03.great partners, and he would like them to stay united. I'm
:13:04. > :13:09.paraphrasing. He didn't say very much, and I don't think... He could
:13:10. > :13:14.have said less. He could send an awful lot more. Both sides, yes and
:13:15. > :13:19.no, neither of them have seized upon this as a massive declaration of
:13:20. > :13:32.intent. I think he was very phlegmatic about it. I think he just
:13:33. > :13:37.reacted the way you would expect him to react. Alex Salmond picked up on
:13:38. > :13:44.it and said, yes we can. That is double`edged, because the optimism
:13:45. > :13:47.of the Obama years failed to do that, I don't know that Alex Salmond
:13:48. > :14:05.should be drinking a deep draft of that . A very shallow draught, I
:14:06. > :14:10.think. Show us the front page. This is the one with all the flags. And
:14:11. > :14:16.89`year`old veteran who took part in the Normandy landings. Those are
:14:17. > :14:20.thousands and thousands of thank you messages from families in Britain,
:14:21. > :14:28.which were planted on the beach by the Royal British Legion. Another
:14:29. > :14:33.beautiful picture. There was another 19`year`old who went off up a hill
:14:34. > :14:40.to take a very important point overlooking the beach, and he is
:14:41. > :14:43.using words like, there were skirmishes along the way. I think
:14:44. > :14:47.these guys were such understated heroes. They were 19 years old, and
:14:48. > :15:01.so sensible. A radical plan for teenage voting
:15:02. > :15:05.will see compulsory signups in schools and colleges. Is this the
:15:06. > :15:12.way to go? Compulsory signups? It is not compulsory voting, it is
:15:13. > :15:15.compulsory registration. Right. It is a different thing. Personally,
:15:16. > :15:20.I'm quite persuaded by the idea of compulsory voting for everybody. To
:15:21. > :15:24.be fined if you don't vote? I think that we have a duty to participate
:15:25. > :15:28.in a democracy. We have terrible problems with participation at the
:15:29. > :15:33.moment. But if we have a duty to, don't we also have a right not to
:15:34. > :15:38.vote? If that is what democracy is? The British are a nation of
:15:39. > :15:44.individualists. We should probably rebel against saying thou shalt
:15:45. > :15:49.vote. In Scotland, Alex Salmond has 16 `year`olds. And Labour have come
:15:50. > :15:56.out saying they would like National 16 `year`olds. Most will probably
:15:57. > :16:00.vote Labour. That is all we have time for. It is too short, as I
:16:01. > :16:04.always say. Lovely to have you here, thank you very much for
:16:05. > :16:20.joining us. Stay with us here on BBC News. Coming up next, it's time for
:16:21. > :16:24.Sportsday. Welcome to Sportsday. I'm Nick Marshall`McCormack. Alex
:16:25. > :16:29.Oxlade`Chamberlain says his fingers are crossed he'll recover in time
:16:30. > :16:32.for England's World Cup opener. Fresh faces for a new England.
:16:33. > :16:38.Alistair Cook heaps praise on three uncapped players vying for the
:16:39. > :16:40.chance to play Sri Lanka. And