:00:00. > :00:00.to defend their Davis Cup title. And we look forward to their women's
:00:00. > :00:14.football team, taking on the US team overnight.
:00:15. > :00:17.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers
:00:18. > :00:21.With me are Miranda Green from the Financial Times and the Telegraph's
:00:22. > :00:34.The i leads with what it calls the "plea to Britain"
:00:35. > :00:39.by France and Germany for a vote to stay in the EU.
:00:40. > :00:41.And the Guardian says that Hollande's comments raised the
:00:42. > :00:46.prospect of the Calais refugee camp known as the Jungle moving to Kent.
:00:47. > :00:48.Staying with Europe, Donald Tusk's appeal to economic
:00:49. > :00:51.migrants not to travel to the EU makes the lead in the Express.
:00:52. > :00:53.Former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond is planning
:00:54. > :01:04.an audacious takeover of his old bank's African arm, reports the FT.
:01:05. > :01:07.The Telegraph says that Chancellor George Osborne is set to abolish
:01:08. > :01:09.pension tax relief for higher earners in this month's budget.
:01:10. > :01:12.The Times reports that a cure for cancer is closer thanks to
:01:13. > :01:14.a ground-breaking new treatment developed by British scientists.
:01:15. > :01:18.That story too on the Daily Mail, it asks whether a cure for cancer could
:01:19. > :01:22.New sentencing guidelines on internet trolls could mean they
:01:23. > :01:36.are sentenced to five years in prison, says the New Day.
:01:37. > :01:46.A lot of stories, the EU dominating today after David Cameron meeting
:01:47. > :01:51.Francois Hollande. It gets interesting, doesn't it? It is about
:01:52. > :01:55.tactics and who says what and who you can believe. Absolutely, the
:01:56. > :01:59.question is whether it is useful to David Cameron, to have Francois
:02:00. > :02:06.Hollande weighing into the British debate. Warning the Brits not to
:02:07. > :02:09.vote for out. He is saying this is not a question of threatening the
:02:10. > :02:12.French are between our nations, but we should point out that various
:02:13. > :02:17.things will change, not least the arrangements to do with immigration,
:02:18. > :02:22.where immigrants through Europe are stopped at the French coast at the
:02:23. > :02:26.moment, hence the Jungle camp in Calais. It is interesting, because
:02:27. > :02:31.obviously they don't want Britain to leave the EU, partly because they
:02:32. > :02:33.have their own domestic problems. Some say that Francois Hollande
:02:34. > :02:38.would have said this anyway with or without David Cameron by his side.
:02:39. > :02:46.Perhaps, but David Cameron has been touring the countries of Europe
:02:47. > :02:52.trying to shore up support. In France, Marine Le Pen, the head of
:02:53. > :02:55.the Front National, which is far right, has said she has been taking
:02:56. > :03:02.inspiration from what has been happening in the UK, and in the
:03:03. > :03:11.presidential election in France she will be promising Frexit, after
:03:12. > :03:16.Brexit. An interesting response from those who want to leave the EU. It
:03:17. > :03:23.quotes Chris Grayling in the Guardian, doesn't it? Yes, who is
:03:24. > :03:31.obviously an outer. He describes the comments as desperate. He accused
:03:32. > :03:34.the Euro elite of teaming up with big business to pile pressure on
:03:35. > :03:44.British voters. This is clearly going to be a strategy. We already
:03:45. > :03:47.have project fear, which, as with the UK Unionists in the Scottish
:03:48. > :03:53.Referendum, were accused of project fear, scaremongering about the
:03:54. > :04:01.possible consequences of Scotland leaving the union. That is what the
:04:02. > :04:05.outers are now doing against the inners. The idea of the Euro elite
:04:06. > :04:13.is interesting, because it plays into that global, apparently,
:04:14. > :04:18.trend. Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, Donald Trump, Nigel Farage,
:04:19. > :04:24.all these men of the people, political figures, on very different
:04:25. > :04:28.sides of national political spectrum is, but all taking a stand
:04:29. > :04:33.apparently against the established political elite. That seems to be a
:04:34. > :04:37.zeitgeist among voters on both sides of the Atlantic, and clearly
:04:38. > :04:40.something Chris Grayling is trying to tap into. Then you have David
:04:41. > :04:52.Cameron fighting back against that by reminding everyone that David
:04:53. > :05:02.Icke is fought out. They say they want to make it a mainstream opinion
:05:03. > :05:07.for the status quo. Business continues to George Osborne,
:05:08. > :05:13.according to your paper. Osborne under fire over radical tax relief
:05:14. > :05:18.plan. That is coming soon, isn't it? That's right. The budget is
:05:19. > :05:24.March 17, and this is the traditional prebudget row, which is
:05:25. > :05:30.often about pensions, because it is such an enormous part of the
:05:31. > :05:36.expenditure. How we pay for our ageing population. This is
:05:37. > :05:41.interesting also. It looks like George Osborne has fallen out with
:05:42. > :05:47.Roz Altman, who was made pensions minister, even though she used to be
:05:48. > :05:50.a campaigner. She does not want George Osborne to make these radical
:05:51. > :06:02.changes that he seems to be thinking of making in the budget. That is
:06:03. > :06:07.quite interesting. The idea is that if you pay into a pension plan you
:06:08. > :06:17.get tax relief at source, so if you are a higher rate taxpayer and you
:06:18. > :06:21.get up to 45%, your tax comes back and that is invested and grows over
:06:22. > :06:24.the long-term. The idea is apparently to turn that around so
:06:25. > :06:29.you would pay tax on your income as you receive it in your working life,
:06:30. > :06:34.so the amount you would put into your pension pot would be lower, but
:06:35. > :06:39.then the money you would get back out of your pension pot would be
:06:40. > :06:43.tax-free when you retire. So effectively the idea is that it is
:06:44. > :06:46.just a switch, that you would pay tax earlier. For George Osborne,
:06:47. > :06:51.that is terribly convenient because he would get about
:06:52. > :06:54.10,000,000,000-a-year upfront, which is about the seventh of the deficit
:06:55. > :07:03.as it currently stands, which is worth having. You have to remember
:07:04. > :07:07.that these changes in pensions... Pensions very competent thing.
:07:08. > :07:11.Gordon Brown did a very famous tax raid on pensions when he first came
:07:12. > :07:14.into office as Chancellor. It was supposed to cost 5 billion a year,
:07:15. > :07:20.and Vote 2014 it was costing double that. Combined with increases in
:07:21. > :07:27.life expectancy and changing investment yields, the British
:07:28. > :07:31.salary pension system, which was the envy of the world, was almost
:07:32. > :07:37.completely destroyed. So, you tamper at your peril. And the incentives as
:07:38. > :07:41.well. If you are trying to deal with incentivising people to save, it is
:07:42. > :07:49.extremely sensitive. There is also the issue of the Conservative Party
:07:50. > :07:57.whacking their own voters. And a concern about people spending their
:07:58. > :07:59.pensions too quickly. If you are middle-class conservative voter in
:08:00. > :08:04.the south-east of England, had you provide to your retirement without
:08:05. > :08:08.George Osborne bashing you? You wouldn't do this in a budget just
:08:09. > :08:31.before a general election, I think it is fair to say focus on Adam
:08:32. > :08:36.Johnson here,. It is a slightly mischievous story, suggesting he
:08:37. > :08:43.will play with a team while he is in prison. The question today is about
:08:44. > :08:47.what Sunderland football team knew, or didn't know, and why they allowed
:08:48. > :08:53.him to carry on playing when they knew about his allegations. The
:08:54. > :08:56.question of course is that he said he would contest all the
:08:57. > :08:59.allegations, and the fact that he changed his plea on some of the
:09:00. > :09:04.minor charges on the eve of his trial, they say came as a complete
:09:05. > :09:13.shock to them. If that is true, then they were entitled to conclude he
:09:14. > :09:17.was innocent until proven guilty. The presidential candidate race
:09:18. > :09:25.hasn't featured as much as I expected. It has been quite
:09:26. > :09:29.fascinating, hasn't hit? Yet another extraordinary day in the American
:09:30. > :09:33.race to select the candidates for the presidential race. This
:09:34. > :09:38.afternoon, Mitt Romney, who failed to become president last time
:09:39. > :09:42.against Barack Obama, has launched an extraordinary attack on Donald
:09:43. > :09:46.Trump, saying his promises are worthless, that essentially a con
:09:47. > :09:49.artist. This is part of the operation that is being mounted by
:09:50. > :09:56.the Republican Party to save America from their own man. It is
:09:57. > :10:02.extraordinary to watch, because on one level you anticipate that an
:10:03. > :10:08.intervention will be made to stop Donald Trump, but attacking him
:10:09. > :10:15.doesn't seem to work. It is getting a bit late, isn't it? It is on the
:10:16. > :10:19.cusp. Imagine if Jeremy Corbyn was massively ahead in the up union
:10:20. > :10:24.polls, if the Labour establishment decided they had to stop him. This
:10:25. > :10:28.is the equivalent of wheeling Ed Miliband out. Mitt Romney was a big
:10:29. > :10:34.loser in 2012, and if he is the best the Republican Party has got to save
:10:35. > :10:38.itself from itself... You have done a bit of research, haven't you? It
:10:39. > :10:43.looks like it could step back into this campaign. He has been
:10:44. > :10:52.speculating in the mass media. On his website, it says that it is paid
:10:53. > :10:58.for by his campaign for president, which may be vestigial. It says he
:10:59. > :11:05.and his wife are praying for the future of the country. And it talks
:11:06. > :11:12.about a brokered convention to try to block him, as well. I was just
:11:13. > :11:16.going to say, it is extraordinary. The psychology of it. The Jeremy
:11:17. > :11:23.Corbyn comparison is quite a good one, because normally in a political
:11:24. > :11:33.race... I wonder how the Jeremy Corbyn feels about being compared to
:11:34. > :11:39.Donald Trump! There was a stop Jeremy Corbyn campaign, because
:11:40. > :11:43.people don't like the idea of a stitch up. Interestingly, the vote
:11:44. > :11:48.goes to the public on which is a real insight into American feeling
:11:49. > :11:53.right now. And the way they do it, the fact it goes on for months, and
:11:54. > :11:58.it is caucuses where people meet up and talk about it as well as
:11:59. > :12:03.primaries, where they vote. The US pundits are saying that a week on
:12:04. > :12:10.Tuesday, when Florida and Ohio vote, both of them are winner take
:12:11. > :12:15.all states, so all of Florida's delegates go to whoever wins that
:12:16. > :12:21.state. In the Democratic primary they split all the delegates
:12:22. > :12:29.proportionally, so if you win a state 55 -45, you get 55% of the
:12:30. > :12:34.delegates, not 100%. This has gone to lawyers in the past, hasn't it?
:12:35. > :12:41.It has gone to litigation, to the Supreme Court, in the year 2000.
:12:42. > :12:46.When we get to it, this is probably a fight against Hillary Clinton.
:12:47. > :12:52.Could Mitt Romney beat Hillary Clinton? He couldn't beat Barack
:12:53. > :12:58.Obama? We have months to talk about this. I think you have to be careful
:12:59. > :13:14.of cancer stories, haven't you? Sometimes take over egg it -- they.
:13:15. > :13:20.This seems to be a personalised treatment where you can take an
:13:21. > :13:25.injection and it will destroy every malignant cell in your body, even if
:13:26. > :13:33.you are the final stage of terminal cancer. This is from a repeatable
:13:34. > :13:37.institution. The doctor in charge says, I will be disappointed if we
:13:38. > :13:41.haven't treated a patient within two years. If this doesn't work I will
:13:42. > :13:45.probably hang up my hat and do something else. And we squeeze in
:13:46. > :13:51.the Daily Telegraph, because this is a story close to my heart. I am
:13:52. > :13:57.moving out into the sticks and a couple of months and I'm worried
:13:58. > :14:03.about broadband. I don't know what I'm going to do. Good luck with
:14:04. > :14:11.that. You might need a satellite. There is a place in
:14:12. > :14:20.Gloucestershire, which has miserly broadband speed. It would take five
:14:21. > :14:25.days to download a film. It is hilarious, isn't it. It would be
:14:26. > :14:31.funny, but it is a real problem. The state of broadband and connectivity
:14:32. > :14:37.across the UK has become a huge issue. There is an argument, a very
:14:38. > :14:42.strong one, for saying that actually broadband should be treated like any
:14:43. > :14:47.other essential utility, and part of the infrastructure, if you actually
:14:48. > :14:54.want the economy to structure -- function properly. Many more people
:14:55. > :14:59.work from home these days. If you can. There is broadband, but not as
:15:00. > :15:04.you have got used to it if you live in the city. There are variations in
:15:05. > :15:10.speed, et cetera. And strange dead spots. Didn't David Cameron say
:15:11. > :15:19.there would be fast broadband in every home in the country by 2020?
:15:20. > :15:24.Yes, that was part of the agenda. Brian Miller... The battle goes on.
:15:25. > :15:26.Unless they decide this is an essential service, like the
:15:27. > :15:35.utilities, it is not going to happen. It will be expensive to
:15:36. > :15:39.cable the entire British Isles. Everyone needs to gang up in a
:15:40. > :15:41.village and get it installed. Thank you for joining us. Sportsday is
:15:42. > :15:53.next. Hello and welcome to Sportsday,
:15:54. > :15:57.I'm Sarah Walton. Three medals for Great
:15:58. > :16:01.Britain on day two of the