16/07/2014 The Papers

the OK and he will compete in the 5000 metres and the 10,000 metres at

the Commonwealth Games, and we will also look ahead to the Open

Championship which begins tomorrow. That is after the newspapers.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

With me, the broadcaster Dame Joan Bakewell and Peter Conradi,

The Financial Times carries details about the rejection of an $80

billion bid from Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox for Time Warner.

The Telegraph leads on the heatwave due to hit the UK

And English athletes at the Commonwealth Games have apparently

been briefed about what to do if they're booed by the Scots.

But in their Scottish edition it doesn't

instead it leads with the norovirus bug hitting workers

Extreme Health Health Alert is the headline in the Express.

Singer Tulisa's trial is the front page for the Metro.

The former X Factor judge allegedly helped supply cocaine to an

undercover reporter after he said he could get her a part in a big movie.

The deaths of four Palestinian boys, all brothers, in an Israeli

strike on a beach in Gaza, is the main story in the Guardian.

The picture shows another boy who was injured in the attack

Clegg calls the axe of the bedroom tax according to the

Mirror, in what it calls a shocking Lib Dem u`turn that will create

Some very short words in that last piece. We are going to stay with the

Guardian and a very serious story, for boys ran for their lives, and

then a second shell exploded, there's a sense that this could be a

tipping point `` four. It was caught on camera and has already been

played and replayed, and every time it is awful, it is a particular

story about four little boys who are killed and that goes to the heart of

everyone, this is a global story, it has prompted an Israeli cease`fire,

but not for long. Israel had to react because of the power of those

images, if we had not had those, I doubt we would have had the

cease`fire. Interesting. I was told they can do a lot in five hours,

that is what someone from the United Nations told me. Hamas, at the

moment, they have not signed up to this. Yes, just as they did not sign

up to the previous sees via proposal `` cease`fire proposal from the

Egyptians. They did not like that first proposal because it came from

the Egyptians and because it did not give them any concessions, and that

is their position, they have suffered enormous losses, but they

do not just want to stop the conflict, they want to emerge from

it having gained something. What they had gained, universal focus on

their crisis once again, and it is the most unresolved problem, it is

the thing which is quoted across the Middle East, the whole conflict

between the Israelis and the Palestinian, it is the world against

itself, quintessentially, and something as tragic as this, the

death of four little boys, it goes around the world and it upsets

everyone and quite rightly. We have had more than 200 people killed on

the Palestinian side, but the very fact that people can see the

footage, four small boys, they can see them running. It brings it

home, and to actually see this, to think that these could be my

children, people can identify with this. And now the Daily Express, we

are going inside, this is about cutting child benefit for super size

families. This has an election campaign written all over it. And

policy exchange. As ever, this story starts, this kind of story, with

plans likely to be submitted, from a think tank, which is close to the

government, and its six a lot of boxes in terms of feeding to

concerns about welfare scroungers `` it ticks. It also mentions

immigrants, it goes through many of the boxes. Something very

distasteful about pricing children, the idea of distinguishing one child

as earning more money than another, and the only parallel I can think of

is when I was in China in the 1980s, when you had a one child family and

if you wanted a second, you were heavily penalised, we thought this

was a very moral thing. These are proposals to penalised and to make

the fourth child worth less. Something distasteful about that.

Yes, but the majority of people, according to this poll, they think

this is a good idea. In straight times, you have got to do this,

perhaps. Is it cheaper to feed and clothe for children? `` four. I just

think that is such a terrible way to trade family relationships. 70% are

backing this, because how many people have actually got four

children? A small minority actually have four children. The rest think

that they are not going to pay for someone else's kids. That is right,

it is a minority of families that are in this position, this might

look like the government is getting tough on welfare and benefits and

that plays well to a section of the population. They will lose the four

children family vote, but they probably think that is quite small.

This will appeal to Iain Duncan Smith, no doubt. And now the

Financial Times, Time Warner rejects $80 billion offer from Rupert

Murdoch's Fox. This is an amazing story, $80 billion, it has been

rejected by Time Warner, which plays a heavy game. What I admire about

Rupert Murdoch, he is a G3 and he is playing the biggest game of his

career, he wants to roll the world `` 83. `` he wants to rule the

world. Time Warner is CNN, and he has had to say that he would

dispense with that, because of course it is Fox News which is his

pride and joy, I think this is an amazing story, an old man playing

hard until the end. What is interesting, what Rupert Murdoch has

decided is that he cannot compete with Google, Amazon, Apple, these

are the great media companies, and he needs Time Warner to help him

take on these other media outlets. He does. Rupert Murdoch is the

ultimate owner of the Sunday Times, I should make a disclaimer.

Obviously there is consolidation going on in the media world. If you

look at the traditional media powers, with the likes of Google, it

is a very different situation from how it was ten years ago. What is

quite telling, this is the final stage, as it were, in the merger of

America Online and Time Warner, that created this company, and when that

happened ten years ago it was worth $164 billion, but now it is worth

half that, it is a complete mismatch to start with. Yes, but they are

saying this is undervalued, ?80 billion, and it will have to be a

big increase or a hostile takeover. I do not think he will get up to

$180 billion. There would also be anti competition ramifications, he

owns Fox News, and Time Warner owns CNN, which one is he going to flog

off? It will be CNN. I'm a great fan of CNN and so I watch its destiny

with care. He has made that calculation, CNN must be truly

alarmed at this prospect, hoping that Time Warner holdout in

perpetuity, $80 billion is small beer. And now the Telegraph. Wind

farms. They go together like strawberries and cream, maybe

strawberries and sour cream. We have more articles here, number of

turbine fires could be ten times greater than for. LAUGHTER

This is perfect for the Daily Telegraph readers, sitting out in

the shires, contemplating the horrors of the turbines around them.

It turns out that the total number globally of wind turbine fires is

11.7 each year, and so that is not a very big number. It is a perfect

scare story, though. We get a longer version of this in the Scottish

Telegraph, which has a line about a group of turbines catching fire in

Anglesey, which became flaming Catherine wheels, as it was

described. We're done a `` we are going to go to President Obama,

sorry to break