:00:00. > :00:00.Sri Lanka the second Test match. And we have news of a winning start for
:00:00. > :00:18.Andy Murray at Wimbledon. This will come after the newspapers preview.
:00:19. > :00:21.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers
:00:22. > :00:25.With me are Jason Beattie, Political Editor of the Daily Mirror
:00:26. > :00:28.and Colleen Graffy, Professor of Law at Pepperdine University.
:00:29. > :00:54.We start with the metro, they are reporting on a young couple who were
:00:55. > :01:06.killed by a speeding car. The express catalogues the EU laws which
:01:07. > :01:14.they say is ruining Britain. ISIS is the fastest`growing branch of Islam
:01:15. > :01:19.in Britain. And we have stories about the care home problems in
:01:20. > :01:29.Bristol. We are going to start with the Daily Telegraph, more tax on
:01:30. > :01:30.savers than sinners. The Daily Telegraph has done a clever
:01:31. > :01:36.comparison, they have taken one tax comparison, they have taken one tax
:01:37. > :01:38.take, which the readers care about, and they have compared it with
:01:39. > :01:44.another one, which the readers probably disagree with. Because it
:01:45. > :01:48.is not them, it is the naughty people who smoke and drink too much.
:01:49. > :02:00.And then they have said, this is appalling. Tory MPs and experts are
:02:01. > :02:05.warning these taxes at the inheritance tax and stamp duty,
:02:06. > :02:13.redundantly hits middle`class families, now you can see why they
:02:14. > :02:21.have gone for it `` predominantly. It is a false comparison? A
:02:22. > :02:25.completely false comparison. It is true, though, it is penalising
:02:26. > :02:28.people who are doing the right thing, they are working hard and
:02:29. > :02:33.saving and they want to give something to their families and they
:02:34. > :02:39.are getting penalised. The threshold for inheritance tax is ?325,000, and
:02:40. > :02:44.that is not very much, if you are taxed after that, especially with
:02:45. > :02:54.housing prices in London. The Lib Dems oppose that. There is as a
:02:55. > :03:07.gesture in the threshold could be moved up to ?1 million, which is a
:03:08. > :03:13.bit fairer in London `` there is a suggestion the threshold. May have
:03:14. > :03:20.gone for the story, this is pressure from the Tory MPs on George Osborne
:03:21. > :03:28.`` they have gone for the story. It is not about equality. The point is
:03:29. > :03:33.right about inheritance tax, with house prices going up so sharply in
:03:34. > :03:41.recent years, the threshold is not high enough. People lucky enough to
:03:42. > :03:46.own their own home, they aren't making a fortune in equity. We
:03:47. > :03:53.should be thinking about the inequality of the tax system `` they
:03:54. > :03:53.are making. The other thing could be to scrap the
:03:54. > :03:57.are making. The other thing could be to scrap stamp duty for everything
:03:58. > :04:05.under ?500,000, that will help everyone. It will make the housing
:04:06. > :04:11.bubble even worse. We need more supply. That is already happening,
:04:12. > :04:21.but at the wrong price, which we discussed last time. And now we're
:04:22. > :04:29.going to move on to something out. I was enjoying that. I would say 30`30
:04:30. > :04:42.at the moment, that is a tennis and allergy. `` tennis analogy. Forces
:04:43. > :04:47.need strengthening to cope with the threat from jihadists, this is at
:04:48. > :04:54.the bottom of the Daily Telegraph? That is right, several stories
:04:55. > :04:59.looking at this, NATO has got to be contributing more, there is a story
:05:00. > :05:02.about that. Some countries are not even contributing the threshold
:05:03. > :05:10.amount for the defence budget and that causes problems. The other,
:05:11. > :05:13.there is intelligence which came out earlier about what was happening
:05:14. > :05:23.with ISIS, and that they were moving from Syria to Iraq and they were
:05:24. > :05:27.planning to take over Mosul and head to Baghdad, we know this from
:05:28. > :05:33.Kurdish informants. They tried to alert the British authorities. We
:05:34. > :05:40.are now in a position where it will be very difficult. President Obama
:05:41. > :05:45.wanted to go down in history as the president who ended wars, but now it
:05:46. > :05:48.is looking like he will be the president who will go down in
:05:49. > :05:52.history as having lost the war and he does not want that. But he will
:05:53. > :05:58.not be putting more troops into Iraq. As a former State Department
:05:59. > :06:03.official, how can you explain the fact, intelligence services knew
:06:04. > :06:08.about the threat of ISIS for at least five months and they did not
:06:09. > :06:18.do anything about it. They wanted Maliki to be more inclusive. And
:06:19. > :06:24.also, trying to encourage the Iraqi and their own troops, but a quarter
:06:25. > :06:29.of them, the training did not take, let's put it that way. The other
:06:30. > :06:34.aspect, those that are joining the fight from Britain, about 500, I
:06:35. > :06:39.wish there was more of a campaign with soft power on how are we
:06:40. > :06:48.communicating with these young people, this is not a good future
:06:49. > :06:56.career choice. I agree. The investment in the Armed Forces or a
:06:57. > :07:00.stronger emphasis on soft power, to win round the hearts and minds of
:07:01. > :07:07.these young men, before they go off and fight in places like Syria and
:07:08. > :07:12.Iraq. I would like to contradict her revisionist idea of history. The
:07:13. > :07:23.most recent problems have come back from the appalling handling of the
:07:24. > :07:33.Republican Administration. It was a disaster. Maliki was an American
:07:34. > :07:37.puppet. The forces were left without any civil service and any police
:07:38. > :07:44.force. That was because of a botched job. Balmer wanted a legacy, that he
:07:45. > :07:49.brought the American troops out of Iraq `` President Obama. Now it
:07:50. > :07:56.looks like he will be the president who lost Iraq. 2009, people said it
:07:57. > :08:03.was a stable country. He cannot have that as his legacy. To pick up on
:08:04. > :08:13.that point, you say the president could go down as the man who lost
:08:14. > :08:20.Iraq, but wasn't it lost in 2003? 2009, after the surge, people said
:08:21. > :08:41.it was stable. No one said everything was rosy. Maliki was not
:08:42. > :08:48.inclusive enough, they said. They have people in different towns from
:08:49. > :08:54.the different factors in Iraq. You are placing the blame on what has
:08:55. > :08:59.happened in this country, where hundreds and thousands of people
:09:00. > :09:08.have died, as a result of a war, and a situation which was created
:09:09. > :09:20.entirely in 2003 by George W Bush. You are escapades in `` that is a
:09:21. > :09:30.very strange theory to posit. This is another programme. 40`30? No,
:09:31. > :09:41.40`40, now we go to the front page of the Guardian. Peter Greste, he
:09:42. > :09:45.has been imprisoned as an Al Jazeera journalist, but he is well`known to
:09:46. > :09:55.many of us, he was at a barbecue at my house a few years ago. This is
:09:56. > :10:04.the further unravelling of what looked like was going to be hope in
:10:05. > :10:14.Egypt's and other countries, they have the travel of the Muslim
:10:15. > :10:19.Brotherhood. We now have this country which seems to be slipping
:10:20. > :10:27.backwards, a country of great promise, a very young population,
:10:28. > :10:35.and it seems to be, or is committing human rights abuses. This awful
:10:36. > :10:42.situation, where international pressure does not seem to have any
:10:43. > :10:47.bearing on what the Asad regime, the elected government, are doing. The
:10:48. > :10:59.Americans give Williams to the Egyptian military. `` millions.
:11:00. > :11:05.Qatar is the country where Al Jazeera is based, and Qatar is
:11:06. > :11:13.supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, and we can see that Peter Greste, he
:11:14. > :11:18.just a two weeks per four, he is an award`winning Australian journalist.
:11:19. > :11:25.He can hardly be seen as being in cahoots with the Muslim Brotherhood.
:11:26. > :11:33.`` he just arrived two weeks before. It is a big play to say that they
:11:34. > :11:35.are sending Qatar a message, and their support of the Muslim
:11:36. > :11:39.Brotherhood, they say, is not sustainable, and so they are going
:11:40. > :11:43.to play it out with their journalists. They'll so claimed it
:11:44. > :11:49.was because they did not have appropriate presidential, but that
:11:50. > :11:53.should be easy to establish. `` they also claimed it was because they did
:11:54. > :12:00.not have appropriate press credentials. Other journalists have
:12:01. > :12:04.been sentenced. One of them, Dutch journalist, was able to get out and
:12:05. > :12:14.do her embassy, otherwise she would be in there, as well. `` get out
:12:15. > :12:27.thanks to her embassy. There was a lot of hope. The court appearances
:12:28. > :12:29.today, everyone is expecting they will be released.
:12:30. > :12:33.today, everyone is expecting they When they went to the court for
:12:34. > :12:37.sentencing, there was a sense of optimism, there really was. That
:12:38. > :12:59.disappeared pretty quickly and pretty brutally. This was the
:13:00. > :13:06.Sudanese women sentenced to death. She was brought up Christian. She
:13:07. > :13:12.never considered herself a Muslim, so how could she have converted? The
:13:13. > :13:17.hardliners are saying if you have a Muslim father you are a Muslim and
:13:18. > :13:21.nothing else changes that. It is a horrific story and we know the
:13:22. > :13:25.worldwide outcry about it so it is extremely good now she has been
:13:26. > :13:30.freed. I would compare that with what is happening in Egypt to say
:13:31. > :13:42.that international outcry was able to get some traction in Sudan
:13:43. > :13:45.because she is an individual woman, but for the Egyptians this is going
:13:46. > :13:53.to be fundamental for their control of the media. It is fantastic news
:13:54. > :13:58.she has been freed. What she faced was horrific. I was worried about
:13:59. > :14:03.this story because there was almost an element that because it was
:14:04. > :14:09.Christian in a Muslim country, some people campaigning for release for
:14:10. > :14:16.using that almost as a proxy to fight an older battle. A lot of the
:14:17. > :14:27.protests demanding her release came from within Sudan. This is not such
:14:28. > :14:30.a simple crusade. It is good that the government has listened. It is
:14:31. > :14:35.an interesting contrast to what is happening in Cairo but you have to
:14:36. > :14:41.recognise that was domestic pressure as well. That is a really important
:14:42. > :14:48.point. You are going to be with us in an hour.
:14:49. > :14:52.At the top of the hour we are going to have much more on the situation
:14:53. > :14:57.in Iraq and the situation in Egypt involving those three journalists
:14:58. > :14:58.who have been sentenced to seven years in prison for backing the
:14:59. > :15:19.Muslim Brotherhood. Brazil look to be on their way
:15:20. > :15:23.into last 16 as group winners.