:00:00. > :00:00.coming up on Sportsday, the latest news from the World Cup as Argentina
:00:00. > :00:18.take on Bosnia`Herzegovina. Welcome to our look ahead at what
:00:19. > :00:30.the papers will be bringing you tomorrow. Normally they are at odds
:00:31. > :00:37.with each other. Tony Blair has united at! As he often does. We will
:00:38. > :00:43.come to him in a moment. First, The Indepedent, it leaves with a
:00:44. > :00:48.reported execution of dozens of Iraqi soldiers right insurgent
:00:49. > :00:52.forces. It said Iraqis heading to the Victorian war. The Financial
:00:53. > :00:56.Times highlight the crisis and says Obama is deciding whether to launch
:00:57. > :00:59.air strikes. The Telegraph features and other image from the suspected
:01:00. > :01:07.execution. More coverage of Iraq in the Guardian. The Express claims
:01:08. > :01:13.people could boost their pension pot by working for two years longer.
:01:14. > :01:19.While on Iraq in The i with coverage of Tony Blair's remarks. The Daily
:01:20. > :01:25.Mail says Tony Blair 's intervention has sparked fury. The Times claims
:01:26. > :01:32.that is a row within government over education reforms. We must again
:01:33. > :01:38.tonight with the situation in Iraq. The Iraqi government claiming they
:01:39. > :01:42.seem to have regained the initiative after taking back some territory
:01:43. > :01:46.that had been claimed by ISAs, the Sunni extremists making their way
:01:47. > :01:52.towards Baghdad. We will start with the Telegraph. One of the pictures
:01:53. > :01:57.that have appeared on lines. We are not able to verify that these
:01:58. > :02:05.pictures are authentic. The consensus seems to be that they are
:02:06. > :02:08.probably the real article. Rachel, the reason that people aren't
:02:09. > :02:12.surprised either pictures and think they may be genuine is that ISIS do
:02:13. > :02:18.have a reputation for committing atrocity? This is an ordination,
:02:19. > :02:24.ISIS is so brutal that even Al Qaeda this associated itself from ISIS
:02:25. > :02:30.earlier in the year. Yes, it does have a reputation for being brutal.
:02:31. > :02:36.We cannot verify the pictures although it does seem likely. We do
:02:37. > :02:41.not know how many. ISIS is saying that 1700 Iraqi soldiers have been
:02:42. > :02:47.executed. That does seem quite a lot. Certainly, there have not been
:02:48. > :02:54.any eyewitnesses at any executions or bodies or graves. All that is as
:02:55. > :02:58.yet unverifiable. This is an organisation that is now engaged in
:02:59. > :03:03.a propaganda war as much as anything else. These claims are clearly
:03:04. > :03:08.intended to intimidate Iraqi soldiers who already, we saw how
:03:09. > :03:13.quickly they surrendered when ISIS took over Mosul last week. That
:03:14. > :03:17.people to the Daily Mail. We have not seen this front page yet
:03:18. > :03:25.tonight. Fury at Tony Blair, the warmonger. He is now at peace and
:03:26. > :03:31.weight to the Middle East. He was saying that you can't blame the 2003
:03:32. > :03:33.invasion for this crisis. The situation in the Middle East would
:03:34. > :03:37.have led to this anyway. You get rid have led to this anyway. You get rid
:03:38. > :03:44.of a dictator and all sorts of sectarian interests come to the
:03:45. > :03:47.fore. Of course, he had to get rid of that dictator that allow the
:03:48. > :03:53.uprising to take place. It is interesting to note the loyalty that
:03:54. > :03:56.is Prime Minister commands. John Prescott accused Mr Blair of trying
:03:57. > :04:07.to take the west back to the Crusades. She was outspoken at the
:04:08. > :04:11.time. I think a crusade and allergy has been used by Lord Prescott
:04:12. > :04:17.before. He has not got a lot of friends around? And for very good
:04:18. > :04:21.reason. Not just that people feel, you are personally responsible for
:04:22. > :04:24.this situation and travesty of not properly apologising. Every
:04:25. > :04:29.announcement he makes, even in the future, feels like the justification
:04:30. > :04:35.of the past. People are asking themselves, what it is good ability
:04:36. > :04:37.and what is his right to comment? What have you been elected to that
:04:38. > :04:43.gives him a position to make such remarks. When Gordon Brown commented
:04:44. > :04:48.upon Scotland about a week ago, Gordon Brown has every right to do
:04:49. > :04:52.that. He is a Scottish MP. I want to know what it is that gives Tony
:04:53. > :05:00.Blair the electoral legitimacy to make comments about what the west
:05:01. > :05:06.should be doing. He is a Middle East peace to envoy. Emphasis on the
:05:07. > :05:11.peace. His job is limited to helping improve conditions on the West Bank.
:05:12. > :05:15.Bill Clinton doesn't go around doing this. George W Bush doesn't do this.
:05:16. > :05:19.Tony Blair is the only man in the only man in a way to seems to feel
:05:20. > :05:23.that he is entitled and has some kind of representative role,
:05:24. > :05:31.representing the spirit, a spree of the west. George W Bush has made it
:05:32. > :05:37.clear that he is not going to be... No, he stays at home and paints
:05:38. > :05:47.watercolours! He would be much, and happier. We invited him on to do
:05:48. > :05:53.interviews. I don't know who the Wii is here, it is the collectively. I
:05:54. > :06:05.mean the media. Let's have a look at how the Financial Times is covering
:06:06. > :06:07.this. US sending carriers to golf a few days ago. The government saying
:06:08. > :06:13.they needed international help. Now stepping back a little bit.
:06:14. > :06:18.Suggesting that they feel they might be on the front foot with this.
:06:19. > :06:22.But, Barack Obama taking some time to think about how he will respond
:06:23. > :06:27.and getting different messages from Democrats and Republicans as we
:06:28. > :06:31.would expect. Yes, and pushing this aircraft carrier to the golf as
:06:32. > :06:33.well. He is a tricky position because Republicans will always
:06:34. > :06:38.outflanking on this issue and push for and more action. That may well
:06:39. > :06:42.create a division between the Republican leadership and in basal
:06:43. > :06:45.stop Republicans have suffered a blow recently with the defeat of
:06:46. > :06:52.Eric Cantor. The equivalent of Ed Miliband being built in `` beaten.
:06:53. > :07:00.This was a big blow to their morality `` morale. People push
:07:01. > :07:05.exactly this kind of agenda. While this row is going on within
:07:06. > :07:10.Congress, I suspect the average American broker, particularly the
:07:11. > :07:14.average Republican voter properly done want to get stuck in the Middle
:07:15. > :07:21.East again. Rachel, what might happen in Iraq is also very much in
:07:22. > :07:26.the balance, even if the government to feel that they are making headway
:07:27. > :07:30.against ISAs. The conditions that led to these militants making so
:07:31. > :07:34.many games BT, all the ingredients are still in place stop exactly stop
:07:35. > :07:42.that is the trouble. The situation in Iraq, partly because of the 2003
:07:43. > :07:50.invasion and the aftermath and then Syria and Malachy also being very
:07:51. > :07:53.sectarian and corrupt leader. That means that even if ISIS arc weld
:07:54. > :07:59.now, that isn't a long`term solution. You still have those
:08:00. > :08:05.factors on the ground. What is to happen is our much more raw data
:08:06. > :08:10.unity government that addresses these causes that have created the
:08:11. > :08:18.conditions for ISIS to thrive and to take advantage of the turmoil. Let's
:08:19. > :08:24.move on to the times. Gof allied savages and number ten on schools.
:08:25. > :08:27.This is a close ally of Michael Gove, Dominic Cummings who have
:08:28. > :08:33.accused David Cameron of being bumbling and holding back radical
:08:34. > :08:38.school reforms. What will this do to go's relationship with the PM is
:08:39. > :08:41.blue it will reflect his relationship with Cummings a bit
:08:42. > :08:46.more than that. The is quite amusing. He says he has a picture of
:08:47. > :08:51.Macmillan on his wall and that is all you need to know. Michael Gove
:08:52. > :08:55.does not come out of this well. It will damage his reputation again. I
:08:56. > :08:58.cannot believe he has put Cummings are to this. Michael Gove does not
:08:59. > :09:02.need this. He has once apologised to David Cameron because of the row
:09:03. > :09:10.with Theresa May. He has apparently no ambitions. Leadership ambitions.
:09:11. > :09:14.I think they are all limited to policy. Given this could get in the
:09:15. > :09:19.way of implemented policy, you have got to ask yourself, what is Dominic
:09:20. > :09:22.Cummings are to? Is just creating trouble here. Michael Gove would
:09:23. > :09:27.have every right to be angry with his old friend. Isn't he just trying
:09:28. > :09:30.to get a focus on what Michael Gove is really trying to do. The
:09:31. > :09:34.suggestion is that David Cameron has not got the home into enable him to
:09:35. > :09:37.do this with schools? Yes, this is the man who we remember as the voice
:09:38. > :09:42.of reason who suggested that genetics had more to do with success
:09:43. > :09:47.at schools than anything else. It is curious that he has picked this
:09:48. > :09:57.Macmillan being that Damron `` David Cameron has a picture of Macmillan
:09:58. > :10:02.on his wall. Villa that is supposed to be insulting to Cameron. It
:10:03. > :10:08.speaks of that sense that Cameron represents the old Tories and
:10:09. > :10:11.Michael Gove is more radical, a radical muscular liberal. Especially
:10:12. > :10:16.on education policy. I get that is what Cummings I feel. But that does
:10:17. > :10:22.not allow Michael Gove to come out and say that. Let's finish which ``
:10:23. > :10:28.with a picture of a very special little boy. He is a great dribbler,
:10:29. > :10:34.please for Palace. Get him to Brazil! Is only ten months old. That
:10:35. > :10:40.is the genetics argument. I do like is the genetics argument. I do like
:10:41. > :10:44.those overalls. He is very precocious. He is going to have to
:10:45. > :10:49.wait a long time, I hope he does realise that. He has broadly made
:10:50. > :10:55.more football in his eyes than I have. Even at ten months old! He can
:10:56. > :11:01.dribble better than you? Not with my feet, no. That is all we will get
:11:02. > :11:06.out of these two when it comes to the World Cup. Good to have you
:11:07. > :11:12.here. Thank you very much. They will not agree this much they are
:11:13. > :11:19.together. Stay with us, at midnight John Simpson offers his perspective
:11:20. > :11:25.on Iraq as people die in bombings in Baghdad. Coming up next, Sportsday.