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:00:00. > :00:00.metres at the Commonwealth Games. We will also have the latest from the

:00:00. > :00:17.Tour de France, and the Open championship which begins tomorrow.

:00:18. > :00:20.Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing

:00:21. > :00:23.us tomorrow. With me are the broadcaster Dame Joan Bakewell, and

:00:24. > :00:30.Peter Conradi, Foreign Editor at the Sunday Times. Tomorrow's front

:00:31. > :00:33.pages, starting with: The Mail's main story is that the Minister in

:00:34. > :00:38.charge of Care for the Elderly, Norman Lamb, is now backing a change

:00:39. > :00:42.in the law on assisted dying. The Telegraph leads on the heatwave due

:00:43. > :00:46.to hit the UK this week ` it says stay indoors. And English athletes

:00:47. > :00:49.at the Commonwealth Games have apparently been briefed about what

:00:50. > :00:52.to do if they're booed by the Scots. Consumers are being warned about the

:00:53. > :00:58.health risks of barbecuing chicken in the Scottish Herald, after cases

:00:59. > :01:02.of food poisoning rose by a quarter. The extreme health alert dominates

:01:03. > :01:04.the front page of the Express. The Times say 10,000 suspected

:01:05. > :01:09.paedophiles were identified in the police operation by the National

:01:10. > :01:14.Crime Agency. 660 have so far have been arrested. It also has a picture

:01:15. > :01:18.of punters in the sunshine on the River Cam. The deaths of four

:01:19. > :01:22.Palestinian boys, all brothers, in an Israeli strike on a beach in

:01:23. > :01:26.Gaza, is the main story in the Guardian. The picture shows another

:01:27. > :01:29.boy who was injured in the attack. The Mirror says Nick Clegg is

:01:30. > :01:31.calling for an end to the coalition's changes to the payment

:01:32. > :01:34.of housing benefits, dubbed the bedroom tax by critics. The paper

:01:35. > :01:45.says it is a shocking Lib Dem U`turn, that will create a deep rift

:01:46. > :01:52.in the Coalition. We will start with that, the front page of the Daily

:01:53. > :01:59.Mirror. Nick Clegg says we must axe the bedroom tax. They were all for

:02:00. > :02:04.it awhile ago. It's. Danny Alexander writes a piece going with it, trying

:02:05. > :02:10.to justify this Liberal Democrat U`turn. And one can sympathise with

:02:11. > :02:15.him a bit, in so far as there was a problem that they identified, a

:02:16. > :02:18.housing shortage, the fact that people were receiving the benefit

:02:19. > :02:21.and were living in properties that were too big for them, at the same

:02:22. > :02:24.time as other people didn't have enough space, you can sort of see

:02:25. > :02:29.the logic behind it. But in practice it appears not to have worked.

:02:30. > :02:33.Because the overall shortage of housing, so you get a situation

:02:34. > :02:43.where a parent the only one in 20 people have actually been able to

:02:44. > :02:48.move to a smaller home `` we are apparently. The Daily Mirror is

:02:49. > :02:52.dubbing it is David Cameron's Poll Tax. They are looking to the

:02:53. > :02:58.election. The Liberal Democrats I spoke to a few minutes ago pointed

:02:59. > :03:04.to the report revealing that almost half of tenants with a spare room

:03:05. > :03:07.are now in arrears with rental payments, after a cut in the

:03:08. > :03:11.benefits. It is a dead parrot of attacks. It is completely over. It

:03:12. > :03:17.hasn't worked. As you rightly quote, there is also an announcement

:03:18. > :03:23.that figures last year from 60 councils found they had 160,000

:03:24. > :03:28.homes affected either tax, but only 9000 one or 2`bedroom places to

:03:29. > :03:33.offer. They haven't built enough houses. So even when people respond

:03:34. > :03:38.to what is meant to be the incentive of the bedroom tax, there is no way

:03:39. > :03:47.to solve it. It is a dead tax. It is not working. The spare room subsidy,

:03:48. > :03:52.they call it. They have to pay more than ?40 more. Will the conservative

:03:53. > :03:57.end of the coalition look at this report and say it isn't pursuing? It

:03:58. > :04:02.will be very difficult for them ideological E to give up on it. I am

:04:03. > :04:06.sure they will come back and say there are better ways to implement

:04:07. > :04:11.it `` ideological E. Everyone says to build more houses, it is an easy

:04:12. > :04:16.thing to say in the difficult thing to do. I can't see them dropping it.

:04:17. > :04:19.Which means the rift within the coalition will continue. But that is

:04:20. > :04:24.something which perhaps the Liberal Democrats want as we get closer to

:04:25. > :04:29.the election. They want to put distance between the two. And this

:04:30. > :04:33.is a good way to do it, it sounds though it you have softened towards

:04:34. > :04:36.people who are suffering. And it is interesting in politics and

:04:37. > :04:40.reporting, when you name something the bedroom tax, not that they

:04:41. > :04:50.called at that, but once the media referred to it as a bedroom tax, you

:04:51. > :04:57.have used the word itself, which is enough to make it a headline. I

:04:58. > :05:01.tried to balance it. It will always be a headline, and everyone knows

:05:02. > :05:06.what it is, like the Poll Tax was not called a poll tax. It is a bad

:05:07. > :05:11.mannerism, and the Lib Dems have left it late to make their views

:05:12. > :05:17.felt. Not too late for the next election. Perhaps not. Perfect

:05:18. > :05:22.timing for the next election. Going to the Daily Mail, an issue which is

:05:23. > :05:26.something that you have written about and care about. The care

:05:27. > :05:35.Minister is acting the right to die bill. The vote on a bill on assisted

:05:36. > :05:41.dying. The vote is exciting in the House of Lords. There is a great

:05:42. > :05:46.deal, I have never known so much lobbying. And people changing their

:05:47. > :05:50.minds. The Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey, Desmond Tutu, people are

:05:51. > :05:54.beginning to shift their point of view. What seems to be emerging from

:05:55. > :05:58.what I have learnt in the house is that people who oppose the bill feel

:05:59. > :06:02.that it is worth having a debate about the issues. Because it has

:06:03. > :06:09.exercised such interest in the press, among the church, which is up

:06:10. > :06:16.in arms and against it. Popular opinion polls show a general

:06:17. > :06:20.favour. So it looks as though it will get its second reading and we

:06:21. > :06:25.can go on to actually debate the misinformation, the nuances of the

:06:26. > :06:29.bill, which are quite specific, with detailed safeguards. It is a very

:06:30. > :06:35.modest oppose all, and I think that may now happen. So that it will be a

:06:36. > :06:41.very interesting day. 130 people are coming to speak in the house of

:06:42. > :06:48.laws. It will go on into the night. `` the House of Lords. The Mail, the

:06:49. > :06:53.man in charge of care for the elderly has shifted on this

:06:54. > :07:02.particular issue. That is interesting. We didn't expect that,

:07:03. > :07:10.but it is such an important issue, by definition it can touch all of

:07:11. > :07:16.as. It is interesting the intervention from Desmond Tutu ``

:07:17. > :07:20.all of us. He was responding to what he believed was the way Nelson

:07:21. > :07:24.Mandela was treated. People have been writing to me in great numbers

:07:25. > :07:33.saying they watched that parents suffering in great pain and asking

:07:34. > :07:39.me to vote for the bill. Others say it that they watched their mother

:07:40. > :07:42.suffer and they died in a Christian way and they want me to vote against

:07:43. > :07:45.it. Everyone is using personal experience to come to different

:07:46. > :07:51.conclusions. It is extremely personal. It is a matter of

:07:52. > :07:55.conscience, a conscience vote, there is no government direct to make

:07:56. > :08:02.directive on it. It is one to watch. Onto the Times. Police tracked down

:08:03. > :08:09.thousands of suspected paedophiles. 660 people arrested, but they think

:08:10. > :08:13.that 10,000 in all suspected paedophiles have been targeted by

:08:14. > :08:20.the police in this operation. It is an extraordinary story. 660 arrests,

:08:21. > :08:24.10,000 in the headlines, read down on the story, we get the agency

:08:25. > :08:28.estimating that there are 50,000 people in the UK who access child

:08:29. > :08:32.abuse images. One wonders, by the time one get to the end of the

:08:33. > :08:35.article, what figure we will have reached. It is a shocking figure.

:08:36. > :08:39.For those of us in the last few weeks who have watched the latest

:08:40. > :08:43.revelations about historic sex abuse, we think of it is something

:08:44. > :08:49.in the 70s and 80s, and now here we are with all these people, according

:08:50. > :08:53.to this report, apparently, who at accessing this material. There are

:08:54. > :08:58.some quite interesting quotes in here. The deputy director`general of

:08:59. > :09:02.the National Crime Agency is saying that we have to be... We have to

:09:03. > :09:07.think very carefully what this means about society. How we tackle it,

:09:08. > :09:12.extraordinary. That is the thing. This is something that the police

:09:13. > :09:15.cannot arrest their way to a conclusion in this particular issue.

:09:16. > :09:21.Because as you have said, the numbers just go up and up and up. We

:09:22. > :09:25.can't arrest our way out of it, we have to understand it. This is a

:09:26. > :09:32.crime type we need to understand better. I don't understand it. It

:09:33. > :09:35.doesn't affect my kind of life, but it is clearly expensive, in its

:09:36. > :09:40.operation. And with all the technology, it will leap ahead of

:09:41. > :09:45.the attempts to stop it. Because people are even now trying to defeat

:09:46. > :09:50.police attempts to run it down. So it is with us to stay, and it needs

:09:51. > :09:58.understanding. It is very mysterious to me. Indeed, very much so. Staying

:09:59. > :10:05.with the front page of the Times. Cameron's man in Brussels, Lord

:10:06. > :10:09.Hill. It is hoped he will help him get reforms to institutions in

:10:10. > :10:14.Brussels. But people in Brussels haven't heard of him. We have heard

:10:15. > :10:18.of him because he was Leader of the House until recently. He was

:10:19. > :10:28.extremely courteous, he didn't want to leave by all accounts. He was

:10:29. > :10:33.that that ``... He was mild`mannered, he was not a great

:10:34. > :10:42.mighty beasts, roaring away. So we were sorry to see him go. So here is

:10:43. > :10:47.your man for Brussels, is that what you are saying? What David Cameron

:10:48. > :10:51.want someone in Brussels to do, I suspect he might know more about

:10:52. > :10:55.Lord Hill's skills as a negotiator which have not been required in a

:10:56. > :11:01.House of Lords. At the veto threat is a suggestion that from some

:11:02. > :11:07.technocrats in Brussels that this man clearly has the ear of Mr

:11:08. > :11:09.Cameron, obviously, he is his man, therefore he is potentially someone

:11:10. > :11:15.who doesn't particularly careful rustles, Europe, and will therefore

:11:16. > :11:24.not yet the requisite votes `` care for Brussels. There are two things

:11:25. > :11:27.at work here. One is the technocrats in Brussels. What Jean`Claude

:11:28. > :11:33.Juncker thinks of it, because he will be the man who decides which

:11:34. > :11:39.job he has. But before he even gets his job, there is the problem that

:11:40. > :11:42.the European Parliament, elected members of Parliament, they have to

:11:43. > :11:45.decide whether to endorse him or not. There is a danger that they

:11:46. > :11:49.won't. I think the best thing in the story here from the Times is that

:11:50. > :11:55.Jean`Claude Juncker had to search Google for Lord Hill's name when he

:11:56. > :11:58.heard the name. Some might say the same thing about Jean`Claude Juncker

:11:59. > :12:02.when we first heard his name as well. Very much so. I should add

:12:03. > :12:08.that David Cameron is in Brussels trying to introduce him. He is his

:12:09. > :12:14.chaperone, trying to introduce Lord Hill to the assembled politicians

:12:15. > :12:17.over there. There were discussing specifically the foreign affairs

:12:18. > :12:21.post in the EU this evening. They haven't come to a conclusion with

:12:22. > :12:26.that, as far as the other jobs are concerned, and certainly the ones

:12:27. > :12:33.that David Cameron would like Lord Hill to get, trade and so on, the

:12:34. > :12:38.big economic posts, that decision will not be taken for a few months.

:12:39. > :12:43.This is going to run and run. Indeed, a bit like the Commonwealth

:12:44. > :12:48.Games, which is where we turn to now. Front page of the Daily

:12:49. > :12:53.Telegraph, what do we do if we get booed by the Scots? They gave them

:12:54. > :13:01.some enormously valuable advice. They tell them not to react. Stay

:13:02. > :13:07.cool and stay calm. I'm sure if they are rude, there would be an element

:13:08. > :13:10.of good humour about it. I can't imagine it will be violent, and of

:13:11. > :13:16.course it will be aggressive, because doing is. But I think it

:13:17. > :13:22.might be rather good humoured, in the spirit of the games `` booing.

:13:23. > :13:26.We want the English to know that we are Scots. In the crucible of the

:13:27. > :13:31.independence vote, it might be less good`natured? The idea that it makes

:13:32. > :13:35.a headline, a whole paragraph about them being worried, and they are

:13:36. > :13:40.told not to react. Probably good advice. The most amusing thing about

:13:41. > :13:44.it for me is someone who works in newspapers, looking at the Scottish

:13:45. > :13:48.edition, they don't actually put that story in there. Certainly not

:13:49. > :13:52.on the front page. It shows some wise decision`making at the office.

:13:53. > :13:56.That's it for The Papers this hour. Thank you Joan Bakewell and Peter

:13:57. > :13:58.Conradi. Stay with us here on BBC News. Coming up next it's time for

:13:59. > :14:00.Sportsday.