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