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:00:00. > :00:00.women's World Cup finals in Canada after beating Wales 4`0. And more

:00:00. > :00:00.gold medals for England in the athletic Championships and aquatic

:00:00. > :00:20.Championships. That is after the papers.

:00:21. > :00:26.Welcome to our look ahead at what the papers will be bringing us

:00:27. > :00:30.tomorrow, I am joined by Jennie Bond and the journalist Rob Merrick.

:00:31. > :00:34.Let's look at the front pages. The Metro leads with the comments of

:00:35. > :00:37.a fellow hostage, Didier Francois, He says he "roughly" recognises

:00:38. > :00:45.the man behind the beheading. And the Daily Express saying as

:00:46. > :00:48.many as a thousand British Jihadis who fought in Iraq and Syria could

:00:49. > :00:51.be back on the streets of the UK. The Daily Telegraph says

:00:52. > :00:56.the net is closing in on the Jihadist who killed Foley,

:00:57. > :01:00.with the SAS on standby. And the Guardian leads with

:01:01. > :01:02.a call from MPs to toughen domestic The Daily Mail has the same comments

:01:03. > :01:18.from the fellow hostage, Didier Francois about the identity of the

:01:19. > :01:22.man doing the beheading. The Independent newspaper

:01:23. > :01:25.has an image of the Yazidis who have apparently converted to Islam, it is

:01:26. > :01:28.a video released by Islamic State The Daily Mirror leads with

:01:29. > :01:30.a different story, saying the footballer Paul Gascoigne is in

:01:31. > :01:40.trouble because of his alcohol It is of no surprise that all of the

:01:41. > :01:44.papers apart from the last one are dominated by the news that has been

:01:45. > :01:50.going on this week. The Daily Express, the headline "Jihadist

:01:51. > :01:56.killer on our streets. " The first paragraph, as many as 1000 British

:01:57. > :02:08.jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq are believed to

:02:09. > :02:10.threat in Britain from the jihadists returning but sometimes I think that

:02:11. > :02:13.these headlines, they think of a number and they double it. I don't

:02:14. > :02:20.know where they get the number of 1000 from. The Downing Street says

:02:21. > :02:26.that it's best estimate is that 400`500 have gone to Iraq and

:02:27. > :02:29.Syria, a much lower number. You think that most people who have gone

:02:30. > :02:35.out there to fight will stay there to fight, which is what they have

:02:36. > :02:40.gone to do. There is a threat at home. It strikes me, the Daily

:02:41. > :02:43.Express is talking about ministers being urged to introduce tougher

:02:44. > :02:50.border checks to stop the fanatics coming home, ironic in the week

:02:51. > :02:53.where we have read more about the disaster, the Borders Project, an

:02:54. > :03:01.attempt to toughen the border checks, which failed to do the job

:03:02. > :03:06.and was three costly. `` very costly. This is going to dominate

:03:07. > :03:11.the papers now. Of course, with every reason, but we have to be

:03:12. > :03:15.careful not to have what may be called scare stories. This is a

:03:16. > :03:21.frightening headline, Jihadist killer on our streets, is it backed

:03:22. > :03:29.up? Are they feared to be back? It is frightening to think, to know

:03:30. > :03:34.that this chap, "John", might have grown up in London, but we have to

:03:35. > :03:40.be aware of scaring ourselves and the population. The Daily Express

:03:41. > :03:45.has taken a UK perspective. Indeed, same story, a different angle,

:03:46. > :03:51.hunting for this character, John, the headline in the Metro newspaper.

:03:52. > :03:58.All of the papers will be trying to do their own investigations. Yes, a

:03:59. > :04:01.number of people in the security services say that the net will close

:04:02. > :04:07.quickly on John, with social media the way it is, they can track him

:04:08. > :04:12.down. I think this is quite frightening, the freed hostage,

:04:13. > :04:20.Didier Francois, who was locked up for seven months with James Foley,

:04:21. > :04:24.and one would assume clearly knows who is holding the other hostages

:04:25. > :04:26.and who killed him, he can only say, in a measured way, when asked if he

:04:27. > :04:36.knows John, he would say that knows John, he would say

:04:37. > :04:40."recognised is a big word. " He is terrified, if he talks, then the

:04:41. > :04:47.guys who are being held, may get it. He was warned of that. An

:04:48. > :04:52.intriguing insight into the mind of the hostages who have been freed,

:04:53. > :04:58.their motive is to try and save the lives of the people who are still

:04:59. > :05:02.out there. It isn't clear, I suppose the quote suggests that he doesn't

:05:03. > :05:08.really have any idea who the person is, he may think that the person was

:05:09. > :05:17.there at the time, that's a long way from identifying him meaningfully.

:05:18. > :05:20.The person may be identified soon. It is indicative of the Catch`22 we

:05:21. > :05:27.are in, this man feels he cannot talk even though he we have two

:05:28. > :05:33.consider whether Ransomes should be paid, a huge ransom was asked. Some

:05:34. > :05:36.countries pay them, we and America don't, should we? Are the terrorists

:05:37. > :05:44.getting more pop the city and spreading more terror by doing what

:05:45. > :05:48.they are doing, instead of us quietly paying the ransom? ``

:05:49. > :05:53.getting more publicity. If you pay it, you will get more Stooges.

:05:54. > :06:01.Talking to the security analyst, he said that this is big business. The

:06:02. > :06:06.same story in the Daily Telegraph, the headline, the SAS put on

:06:07. > :06:10.stand`by. That was in one or two other newspapers, some alleging that

:06:11. > :06:18.they had already gone in. This continues, saying that the net is

:06:19. > :06:22.closing on John. It struck me yesterday, talking to people,

:06:23. > :06:27.government sources, there is a different focus. The media are

:06:28. > :06:32.focused on who he is and how they will catch him. That is part of the

:06:33. > :06:36.government focus but are more concerned about the large number of

:06:37. > :06:40.Britons who have gone out there, and jihadi John is not the first Briton

:06:41. > :06:45.to go to Syria and Iraq and behead someone. Several have done this, the

:06:46. > :06:50.difference is that this person is an American. It isn't just about

:06:51. > :06:56.identifying John, that is the media focus. One has to question the

:06:57. > :07:00.headline. Is the net closing in? I don't know, it seems to be based on

:07:01. > :07:06.a former MI6 chief, who said that the long arm of justice was closing

:07:07. > :07:14.in as the SAS was put on stand`by. That is the sole fact. You are in a

:07:15. > :07:19.sceptical mood! There are other stories but all of the papers are

:07:20. > :07:23.dominated for a second day running. Let us look at some of the other

:07:24. > :07:28.stories, one of them affecting thousands of youngsters and their

:07:29. > :07:33.parents, GCSEs and the legacy of Michael Gove, the former Education

:07:34. > :07:40.Secretary, giving the results and added interest. Definitely, there

:07:41. > :07:45.was great interest. Michael Gove, no longer the Education Secretary, he

:07:46. > :07:50.had to be taken outside and shot, metaphorically, because he was too

:07:51. > :07:54.scary for the voters. His imprint is on the results, in particular the

:07:55. > :08:00.English results, where I gather there is a 2% fall in the number of

:08:01. > :08:08.people getting the right grades, because Michael Gove move towards a

:08:09. > :08:14.focus on the exam rather than modular assessments, no longer

:08:15. > :08:18.speaking and listening. Interesting about the resits, because the

:08:19. > :08:24.government is getting tough on them because they feel it is gaming the

:08:25. > :08:29.system. I spoke to a headteacher who was various about the change, saying

:08:30. > :08:32.that they take pupils who lack confidence in exams, they ask them

:08:33. > :08:37.to sit early, and then they gain confidence to go on and take the

:08:38. > :08:42.exam next year and get the grades, which could be important. It isn't

:08:43. > :08:47.gaming the system, it is giving them the confidence. I am confused by

:08:48. > :08:55.this story because they seem to be suggesting that they are endorsing

:08:56. > :08:59.Michael Gove's legacy. Kids who work incredibly hard for these GCSEs, it

:09:00. > :09:07.means the world to them, you saw the emotions, they should be judged

:09:08. > :09:10.purely on this, the idea that we have league tables and we talk about

:09:11. > :09:15.the stories going `` the grades going up and down, it is imperative

:09:16. > :09:22.that they are given the confidence to go on learning and measuring it

:09:23. > :09:26.the way we do should be stopped. OK, a lot of people shouting and

:09:27. > :09:31.screaming, saying it has to be done. The gap between girls and

:09:32. > :09:42.boys, very gracious of Jenny not to point it out! It goes without

:09:43. > :09:55.saying! Onto the Guardian, this story about the new and passed for

:09:56. > :10:04.safety, a drug to treat the it bowler virus `` the Ebola virus,

:10:05. > :10:08.which is wonderful news. Yes, if I was unlucky enough to contract it I

:10:09. > :10:13.would certainly take an experimental drug. Of course. It takes a long

:10:14. > :10:17.time to process these things, to get the permission to try them on

:10:18. > :10:21.patients and maybe this is a salutary lesson, if there is a

:10:22. > :10:27.chance to use them earlier, it is life`saving. They showed Kent

:10:28. > :10:30.Brantley returning to the States, he couldn't walk, he was being carried

:10:31. > :10:37.by people wearing those dramatic white coats. What we were hearing is

:10:38. > :10:43.that they are far from sure that it is the experimental drug that has

:10:44. > :10:49.caused them to get well. It may be a coincidence. They do think they have

:10:50. > :10:54.learned things that they can pass on. We have heard that Senegal has

:10:55. > :10:59.closed its border with Guinea over the Ebola virus epidemic fears,

:11:00. > :11:08.three months after they reopen them. They have closed the border. Changes

:11:09. > :11:14.going on there. Very briefly because we almost out of time, the Guardian,

:11:15. > :11:18.save British television from US takeover says the Channel four

:11:19. > :11:23.chief. They fear that TV is about to be changed for good, for worse.

:11:24. > :11:28.Another scare story, about television. I say, here, here, save

:11:29. > :11:33.us from an American takeover. David Abraham, who suggests the industry

:11:34. > :11:40.is being brought up almost wholesale by US companies, and please don't

:11:41. > :11:45.let us go down that road. Is it a scare story, or a realistic

:11:46. > :11:50.possibility? He says it is realistic, he says that if you care

:11:51. > :11:55.about creativity, speak up now. Wouldn't you be more worried about

:11:56. > :12:00.20 years ago, when US television was terrible, you think about the Dukes

:12:01. > :12:08.of hazard. Since then we have been bringing those programmes over. We

:12:09. > :12:14.will have more later. My thanks to my guests. They will be back at

:12:15. > :12:21.11:30pm for the stories making the papers. At 11pm, the latest on the

:12:22. > :12:22.attempts to identify the Jihadist who was filmed beheading the

:12:23. > :12:35.American journalist, James Foley. Hello I'm John Acres,

:12:36. > :12:40.welcome to Sportsday.