:00:20. > :00:24.This is all very exciting, isn't it? We are a little bit early.
:00:25. > :00:31.This is all very exciting, isn't it? We are a little This is BBC News. We
:00:32. > :00:39.will be looking at the morning's front pages. Early but perfectly
:00:40. > :00:43.formed. Britain has the fastest`growing economy of the main
:00:44. > :00:48.developed countries, according to the IMF. The Queen at the
:00:49. > :00:53.Commonwealth Games but not an official portrait this time. She is
:00:54. > :01:00.tapping into the edge of the selfie being taken by two of Australia's
:01:01. > :01:05.athletes. The Independent has a picture of injured children in
:01:06. > :01:09.Gaza. And claims that new government figures show that council tax rises
:01:10. > :01:18.are hitting Britain's for the hardest. Gaza is on the front of the
:01:19. > :01:22.Metro. A grief stricken father, whose son has died in the recent
:01:23. > :01:31.shelling. The Guardian says the Health Secretary is demanding
:01:32. > :01:38.investigation by the Food Standards Agency. This is in relation to a
:01:39. > :01:44.poultry farm scandal. The IMF raises growth forecast to more than 3%,
:01:45. > :01:50.leaving other developed countries are standing, by the looks of
:01:51. > :01:56.things. How real and deep rooted is the economic recovery and who is
:01:57. > :02:05.benefiting and who will benefit politically? In this article, they
:02:06. > :02:10.seem to feel that they accept this IMF report, the same IMF that told
:02:11. > :02:18.us one year ago that the Chancellor was playing with fire with austerity
:02:19. > :02:22.measures, is now saying that the UK is surging ahead with every other
:02:23. > :02:28.member of the G7 group of leading nations. They were wrong but George
:02:29. > :02:35.Osborne was right? That has to be the implication that you would take
:02:36. > :02:39.from it but they are saying that we have to see where we are in one year
:02:40. > :02:44.and so on will stop and then further down the article, quite
:02:45. > :02:46.interestingly, talking about the politics of it, we have Danny
:02:47. > :02:54.Alexander telling us that this confirms again that "our decision"
:02:55. > :02:57.to form the coalition has given the UK the strength and stability to
:02:58. > :03:03.deliver the economic plan, every part of which there is the hallmark
:03:04. > :03:08.of Liberal Democrat very useful top they all want some credit for this
:03:09. > :03:14.in the run`up to the general election. `` Liberal Democrat
:03:15. > :03:19.values. This is very interesting. George Osborne has not jumped on
:03:20. > :03:26.this story. There are quotes from George Osborne everywhere all over
:03:27. > :03:32.these stories normally but this is quite canny of him. He knows that an
:03:33. > :03:36.election is coming up and now is probably not the right moment to
:03:37. > :03:39.make too much of this. There will be plenty of that further down the line
:03:40. > :03:43.as we get closer to the general election next year. The other
:03:44. > :03:50.question is about the credibility of the IMF. We think of it as a gold
:03:51. > :03:55.standard brand, that is the IMF says something, we should believe it. And
:03:56. > :04:05.yet, one year to the next, we have a big change in their own reliability
:04:06. > :04:09.being called into question. One tweet says that some expect the UK
:04:10. > :04:12.economy to be the biggest in the EU by 2050, which raises serious
:04:13. > :04:16.questions for an EU referendum because if that is true, the UK
:04:17. > :04:26.could lead the EU. I don't know where... Inside the EU. It would be
:04:27. > :04:32.a different proposition. It would be. If the Conservatives win the
:04:33. > :04:39.next general election and if there is another referendum in 2017, it
:04:40. > :04:45.will be very interesting to see how this sort of thing plays out. But
:04:46. > :04:51.why is the economy doing so well? One reason is because we're in the
:04:52. > :04:54.EU. And because we get the sort of inward investment that other
:04:55. > :04:58.countries do not have. And the business case against leaving the EU
:04:59. > :05:04.will be as strong as ever despite this. Moving onto the Guardian.
:05:05. > :05:14.Chickens. You will be thrilled with this. A story about the destruction
:05:15. > :05:17.of a school used as a refuge in Gaza. Hundreds of people have been
:05:18. > :05:25.injured in this missile strike, this shelling. Both sides blame each
:05:26. > :05:33.other. Here in the Guardian, it does say that the IDF have responded by
:05:34. > :05:39.targeting the source of the fire, and that in a series of tweets, they
:05:40. > :05:43.later confirmed the deaths were as a result of the Israeli strike. We
:05:44. > :05:48.hear all the time that Israel gives warnings to people who are in
:05:49. > :05:51.targeted areas and that they are pinpoint accurate, but it raises
:05:52. > :05:56.questions over both of those is, that people were not able to get out
:05:57. > :06:02.and for some time, no one was able to find out who had fired this
:06:03. > :06:06.missile. Clearly the UN believes they were not given sufficient time
:06:07. > :06:11.to evacuate civilians from the area. Whether or not the UN accepts
:06:12. > :06:15.that there have been missiles inside their own schools and why they have
:06:16. > :06:20.not done something about it in advance is another question. These
:06:21. > :06:24.stories at the moment don't get onto this. I find it interesting that it
:06:25. > :06:32.used to be that something as as this, people like the IDF would put
:06:33. > :06:35.out a statement. Now they are putting out tweets, which they don't
:06:36. > :06:41.have to update and change as they go along. You would almost think this
:06:42. > :06:46.is too serious for Twitter. I was going to say exactly the same
:06:47. > :06:52.thing. I think that it is really... That any government would use
:06:53. > :06:58.Twitter... But they know people follow it. They do know. They
:06:59. > :07:02.absolutely no. And that is the very reason for making sure that you are
:07:03. > :07:06.right and you are putting out the facts certainly from your point of
:07:07. > :07:11.view. The other thing is that most of the injured were women and
:07:12. > :07:18.children. Among the dead was a mother and her one`year`old baby.
:07:19. > :07:25.And UN staff, of course, as well. Some of them lost their lives in
:07:26. > :07:30.this. Food agency forced to carry out an investigation on chicken
:07:31. > :07:34.factories. The Guardian has been plugging away at this, talking about
:07:35. > :07:38.the standards of hygiene or lack thereof in chicken processing
:07:39. > :07:42.factories. This seems like a resurrection of a story we have been
:07:43. > :07:49.hearing of quite a few times. This talks about how many chickens have
:07:50. > :07:50.this bacteria that none of us particularly want to come into
:07:51. > :08:09.contact with. It looks as if they have almost been
:08:10. > :08:16.pushed into it by the Health Secretary, into doing an enquiry.
:08:17. > :08:19.They do not think it is necessary. I think this could be the beginning of
:08:20. > :08:27.lots and lots of stories about the way in which food is produced. We
:08:28. > :08:32.turn a blind eye to a lot of it. We do turn a blind eye and in other
:08:33. > :08:39.countries they turn both of their eyes in that way. Our standards, I
:08:40. > :08:45.still believe, and the farming lobby believes very strongly, are as high
:08:46. > :08:50.as just about any country in the world. Also interesting, the
:08:51. > :08:58.government has separately been considering proposals to reduce the
:08:59. > :09:01.contamination of fresh chicken. But stories like this do bring matters
:09:02. > :09:08.to a head. Jeremy Hunt's intervention shows. I had chicken
:09:09. > :09:13.for dinner tonight. I will eat chicken again tomorrow. If 66% of
:09:14. > :09:22.the content got this and it has not made me fall and over, why does it
:09:23. > :09:28.matter? `` of chicken. This is Russia under pressure after what has
:09:29. > :09:33.happened in eastern Ukraine, with the plane coming down last week.
:09:34. > :09:40.Retaliation with the threat of greater sanctions. This is the
:09:41. > :09:49.question. How would Russia actually react to David Cameron's threats of
:09:50. > :09:54.significant sanctions? This is a story which addresses that issue.
:09:55. > :10:01.And the Russians do not want to get into a tit for tat reaction. The
:10:02. > :10:09.Russians have their own economic robins. `` problems. The solution
:10:10. > :10:17.for Russia is not very optimistic, put it in its mildly. `` putting it.
:10:18. > :10:20.There was a story we were talking about which shows a downgrading of
:10:21. > :10:26.growth prospects for the Russian economy. This is an idle threat from
:10:27. > :10:30.Russia. Vladimir Putin likes to throw his weight around, but he is
:10:31. > :10:37.the head of a very weak and fragile state. An economy that could not
:10:38. > :10:41.sustain this. He does have a lot of people in parts of Ukraine who are
:10:42. > :10:46.looking to him to look after them. Absolutely. As he has a
:10:47. > :10:58.responsibility to his own people and to the world. I think the Russians
:10:59. > :11:07.are comforted by the situation of the reliance on the Germans and that
:11:08. > :11:11.relationship. How Angela Merkel and the Germans handle this situation
:11:12. > :11:19.going forward is very interesting. Staying with the daily Telegraph.
:11:20. > :11:27.Scotland's gold rush is under way. Medals in the judo. We have been
:11:28. > :11:31.looking at the English edition of the Telegraph. This is the Scottish
:11:32. > :11:40.version. A different selection of photographs. Again, a tussle for
:11:41. > :11:45.prominence on the front pages. The Scottish women were not given a look
:11:46. > :11:50.in on the English edition. I do not think the English are given a
:11:51. > :11:55.built`in on the Scottish version. `` look in. I was always the person
:11:56. > :12:02.accused of making sure that England never played Scotland unless we
:12:03. > :12:11.absolutely had to. There is some truth in that allegation, I have two
:12:12. > :12:20.say. For me, yes, our coaches always wanted to play the game. It `` but
:12:21. > :12:27.recently, the rivalry was so intense. I still remember an England
:12:28. > :12:32.team going to Hamdan, not a happy experience, even though we won. We
:12:33. > :12:41.have got the referendum only a few weeks away on the future of
:12:42. > :12:49.Scotland. This cartoon brings sport and politics together. Glasgow 2014.
:12:50. > :12:56.Two people tangled up in each other in judo. Is this judo, or a
:12:57. > :13:06.discussion about keeping the pound? This is such a ripe subject for all
:13:07. > :13:09.of these puns and rivalry. Absolutely. We often debate the way
:13:10. > :13:16.in which sport gets entangled in politics. And apparently sports
:13:17. > :13:20.people hate that. They want sport to be pure and just about the game. But
:13:21. > :13:29.of course it get involved in politics. I remember the days in
:13:30. > :13:38.which people said, sport and politics must never mix mingle.
:13:39. > :13:49.There was a prime minister, didn't he have a competition with Kevin
:13:50. > :13:54.King? We have seen the Prime Minister on the tennis court. That
:13:55. > :14:10.also caused controversy. Do not mess with the red arrows. This would have
:14:11. > :14:13.been an outrage. The Ministry of Defence have told us that the red
:14:14. > :14:21.arrows are ambassadors for the UK. So it was appropriate that red,
:14:22. > :14:30.white and blue smoke was used. Apparently it was never a formal
:14:31. > :14:34.request. It is a bit of a nonstory. It seems that somebody who was
:14:35. > :14:37.involved in the promotion of the games thought there might have been
:14:38. > :14:45.some suggestion that perhaps the Redwood have been taken out of the
:14:46. > :14:50.red arrows. `` red would. There is also a line in the story. The BBC
:14:51. > :14:53.understands the production company only became aware of the possibility
:14:54. > :15:00.of the change in colour the day before the opening ceremony. This
:15:01. > :15:07.may have gone a little bit further than some are suggesting. One quick
:15:08. > :15:19.look at the Queen. She is at the Commonwealth Games. She has photo
:15:20. > :15:32.bombed a selfies. There she is looking extremely happy. It reminded
:15:33. > :15:38.me of that day. Do not do it again, your Majesty. Thank you for being
:15:39. > :15:40.with us. It is time for Commonwealth Games Sportsday.