:00:18. > :00:20.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers
:00:21. > :00:33.Including how often should you wash your genes? -- jeans?
:00:34. > :00:36.With me are Martin Bentham of the London Evening Standard, and
:00:37. > :00:41.Tomorrow's front pages, starting with: The FT says that
:00:42. > :00:43.George Osborne will announce ?4 billion worth of spending
:00:44. > :00:47.That story also leads the i, which says that the gap
:00:48. > :00:50.between Britain's rich and poor is now wider than ever.
:00:51. > :00:52.The Metro says that campaigners attacked Mr Osborne over proposed
:00:53. > :00:56.Boris Johnson has called Barack Obama's plan to warn Britons
:00:57. > :00:58.against leaving the EU a piece of outrageous and
:00:59. > :01:00.exorbitant hypocrisy, according to the Daily Telegraph.
:01:01. > :01:03.The Sun says that the BBC show Top Gear was accused of disrespecting
:01:04. > :01:09.the war dead after filming a stunt near to the Cenotaph.
:01:10. > :01:12.The New Day has an investigation on the cost of childcare.
:01:13. > :01:15.It says nursery care for two children costs more than
:01:16. > :01:20.The Daily Mail leads on the German regional elections,
:01:21. > :01:22.reporting that voters have delivered a crushing verdict on
:01:23. > :01:26.The Times also splashes with that story, reporting that the hard-right
:01:27. > :01:36.Alternative for Germany had upended the political order.
:01:37. > :01:44.That is where we are going to begin. And the regional elections for
:01:45. > :01:49.Germany on the front of the Times. Angry voters flocking to a new anti-
:01:50. > :01:54.immigrant party who not so long ago Angela Merkel didn't seem to be too
:01:55. > :01:59.concerned about. They didn't exist not so long ago. They were set up a
:02:00. > :02:05.bunch of academics who wanted to oppose the single currency, the
:02:06. > :02:10.euro. Three years later they say things like... They have beaten her
:02:11. > :02:15.and a lot of the areas,", which is very worrying for her because the
:02:16. > :02:17.position is clear. They don't want any refugees and also they have said
:02:18. > :02:21.that one of the things they might like to do if they couldn't stop
:02:22. > :02:27.them coming in was shoot them at the border. Is this truly what they say?
:02:28. > :02:32.Yes, and it says that in The Times, it must be true! This is a party
:02:33. > :02:36.that is very right wing. They have never had such a right wing,
:02:37. > :02:41.populist party do well in Germany before, and they are a serious
:02:42. > :02:46.threat to Angela Merkel who is up for election nationally next year.
:02:47. > :02:51.Even her own party, her own government, has thought again about
:02:52. > :02:59.the massive immigration on such a huge scale. They did have another
:03:00. > :03:04.populist party in the 1930s as I recall. Angela Merkel had a
:03:05. > :03:08.generous, well motivated policy which has rather backfired
:03:09. > :03:15.politically and indeed in general, because as you have said, the
:03:16. > :03:17.government has to try to find solutions to this absolutely
:03:18. > :03:22.unstoppable flow of people coming over, that is not just Germany, but
:03:23. > :03:26.other countries in the European Union which are struggling to cope
:03:27. > :03:29.with and are finding it very hard. You have had similar attempts to
:03:30. > :03:33.restrict the arrival of anti- refugee policies in various other
:03:34. > :03:38.countries on the route to Germany, and you have now got a new plan, of
:03:39. > :03:46.course, where she wants to innocence have people being sent back from
:03:47. > :03:50.arriving in Europe and returning to Turkey. She is trying to sell that
:03:51. > :03:56.plan to the rest of the EU. This comes at that time, and basically
:03:57. > :04:01.there is an enormous problem, on top of which she is now paying an
:04:02. > :04:04.enormous price back home because although they have not won the
:04:05. > :04:07.majority of the vote or anything of that sort but as you have said it is
:04:08. > :04:13.a very significant vote for people who are from a perspective that
:04:14. > :04:16.doesn't really... It is also an area that doesn't have many migrants in
:04:17. > :04:22.it which has delivered the biggest vote towards this new party. To fill
:04:23. > :04:29.you in on that, they once said that they should be shot at the border as
:04:30. > :04:37.a last resort. Very moderating! Looking at the Telegraph, Boris
:04:38. > :04:41.complaining about hypocrite Obama. This is Barack Obama, who is due to
:04:42. > :04:47.come over here and will be reiterating that the US would like
:04:48. > :04:51.us to stay in the European Union. Boris is saying actually, coming
:04:52. > :04:54.from the United States which resist any kind of international
:04:55. > :04:58.jurisdiction, and is very protective of its ability to run its own
:04:59. > :05:02.affairs and so on, this is great hypocrisy and shouldn't be listened
:05:03. > :05:08.to, in effect. That is in essence the argument he is putting across.
:05:09. > :05:12.Lots of world leaders, the Chinese have also been asked what they think
:05:13. > :05:18.about Britain's future, should we be in or out? Of course we will ask
:05:19. > :05:22.them, and Obama says we should stay in because we would have an
:05:23. > :05:33.influence on the world stage but here in the Telegraph, Boris, the
:05:34. > :05:36.aforementioned he, is giving a whole lot of reasons why the Americans
:05:37. > :05:39.don't kneel to almost any international jurisdiction and he
:05:40. > :05:44.gives all sorts of examples of why the Americans do not and we have two
:05:45. > :05:47.in Europe, which he is citing is one reason why he thinks we shouldn't be
:05:48. > :05:52.staying in that, and he thinks the Americans should get off turf. And
:05:53. > :05:56.actually, what the Americans think, and part of the reasons the
:05:57. > :06:01.Americans want us skin is so they can exercise an influence with a
:06:02. > :06:06.State which is sympathetic to their worldview, not in terms of economics
:06:07. > :06:10.and International relations, which can exercise influence which they
:06:11. > :06:14.will like the rest of the European Union. In other words, it is in bear
:06:15. > :06:19.interest and not necessarily ours. And actually, with all these other
:06:20. > :06:26.countries we might want to stay it is really our decision -- in their
:06:27. > :06:33.interest. Before or after he had been to Cuba, I can't remember
:06:34. > :06:45.which. Obama, not Boris. They don't get a chance to vote, but we can.
:06:46. > :06:50.New attack in Ankara. Officials quick to blame the Kurdish group for
:06:51. > :06:56.the latest outrage. There are various Kurdish groups, of course,
:06:57. > :07:00.at which the Turkish government is trying to clamp down on. Well, there
:07:01. > :07:05.is a massive problem with Kurdish groups in Turkey at the moment,
:07:06. > :07:11.according to the politicians who run Turkey, they have a severe problem.
:07:12. > :07:16.And this is their third considerably horrible attack in the capital and
:07:17. > :07:20.the last six months. And Kurdish groups, of course, would say that
:07:21. > :07:25.they are not treated fairly, not treated equally. Some arguing, some
:07:26. > :07:29.commentators saying that this might push the government towards some
:07:30. > :07:34.kind of negotiation with these groups. Well, they did have a
:07:35. > :07:38.ceasefire agreement with the Kurdish groups until last year, it didn't
:07:39. > :07:43.break down completely, as a result of the bombing carried out by
:07:44. > :07:49.Islamic State, it was blamed on the Kurds. Was responsibility on the
:07:50. > :07:53.Turkish government, the people themselves, or the Kurdish groups
:07:54. > :07:59.responsible for these attacks subsequently, this one is one of
:08:00. > :08:04.several, they have reacted against that crackdown by the Turkish
:08:05. > :08:09.authorities in this sort of fashion. If this particular attack, which is
:08:10. > :08:13.unconfirmed, is by them. Of course, the Turkish government has often
:08:14. > :08:17.pinned the blame on them and so on. So it is a very, very difficult
:08:18. > :08:24.situation which seems to be being inflamed and getting worse rather
:08:25. > :08:28.than better. We are about to lose The Independent, which probably
:08:29. > :08:34.means eventually it is not going to exist. Let's hope not. I hope not as
:08:35. > :08:39.well because I think that front-page picture is probably the best of any
:08:40. > :08:46.of the papers today. Let's go back to the Times, with three stories,
:08:47. > :08:49.The Times is doing well out of it tonight, mathematics crisis is
:08:50. > :08:53.putting British pupils at the back of the class. I feel like I have
:08:54. > :08:58.read this headline many times. That is part of the point. This is the
:08:59. > :09:01.OECD which is saying that we have a curriculum which is a mile wide and
:09:02. > :09:06.an inch deep and the pupils only have a shallow grasp of the subject.
:09:07. > :09:10.We have had numerous attempts to rewrite the maths curriculum. All
:09:11. > :09:13.sorts of changes including more algebra and so on and yet here is
:09:14. > :09:17.this conclusion is saying that actually we are not doing very well
:09:18. > :09:23.at all. That actually one thing it says here which is quite
:09:24. > :09:26.interesting, to our concern with financial education, one of these
:09:27. > :09:29.things that they say everybody should be doing about, they are
:09:30. > :09:33.saying actually we are spending too much time on the practical things
:09:34. > :09:37.rather than actually understanding the real concepts of maths. It is
:09:38. > :09:44.saying we spent too long on memorisation, and I think we learned
:09:45. > :09:48.by rote, or we used to. I can still do my times tables. This is an
:09:49. > :09:52.incredibly... I can't remember anyone like the OECD, the
:09:53. > :09:55.Organisation for economic co-operation and development, and
:09:56. > :10:01.this is their head of education who are saying it, so it is an
:10:02. > :10:04.incredibly strong source. I look at secondary school maths, it doesn't
:10:05. > :10:11.look that different from the maths I did. It is very different from the
:10:12. > :10:14.Chinese, that is the point he is making. The Chinese learn for
:10:15. > :10:19.example love of maths and using it in their lives. The evidence is
:10:20. > :10:23.these days in grounding it in real life examples. That is what they are
:10:24. > :10:27.saying is actually wrong, and that we need to know the theory and the
:10:28. > :10:32.depth of the subject rather than practical things and how to apply
:10:33. > :10:35.it. It says Chinese students can think like scientists. We are often
:10:36. > :10:40.made to think that what the Chinese do is a very traditional, old-style
:10:41. > :10:43.learning, with at all drummed into them and not actually thinking so
:10:44. > :10:48.much in that sense. They are saying it is the opposite. If we looked at
:10:49. > :10:52.our schools, it is very difficult to get good maths teachers and in fact
:10:53. > :10:56.they are trying to offer bribes to get good people to become maths
:10:57. > :11:00.teachers. I bet if we looked at the gender analysis we would find fewer
:11:01. > :11:05.women do matter and certainly far fewer women become scientists so we
:11:06. > :11:17.do have a problem. Now the question of the day, how often do you wash
:11:18. > :11:23.your genes? -- jeans? I am slightly concerned that Daniel Craig is the
:11:24. > :11:27.picture here. The thing you looked up was that you shouldn't wash them
:11:28. > :11:32.at all. I had a quick look online about how often you should wash your
:11:33. > :11:39.genes. Does Daniel Craig not wash his at all? I'm sure he does.
:11:40. > :11:45.According to the CEO of Levi Strauss, the answer to how often you
:11:46. > :11:55.should wash your genes is never. He never washes his. -- wash your
:11:56. > :12:01.jeans. It has more to do with environmentalism than hygiene. You
:12:02. > :12:08.should put your genes in the freezer once a month to kill off the
:12:09. > :12:14.bacteria. Imagine how grubby and smelly they would be. We are
:12:15. > :12:19.fascinated by this, aren't we? I am fascinated because I have learned a
:12:20. > :12:23.lot about Martin and a straw poll of one person, two to three times it
:12:24. > :12:27.gets worn and then washed. It is a great tease because it makes you
:12:28. > :12:31.want to read the article so it has worked very well. I am a bit worried
:12:32. > :12:39.about Daniel Craig. If I ever met him I shall ask him. It has worked.
:12:40. > :12:44.And finally, Best in show. The picture on the front of the Times is
:12:45. > :12:53.a very cute fluffy West Highland terrier who has won top prize at
:12:54. > :12:57.Crufts. We have picked this because someone on Twitter asked us to say
:12:58. > :13:01.something chirpy. It has been so horrible today. So this is your
:13:02. > :13:08.chirpy bit. And of course I am Scottish and it is a West Highland.
:13:09. > :13:12.Do you watch this? Know, and I don't have a dog however that is a very
:13:13. > :13:17.good dog and deserves to be on the front page. It does look very
:13:18. > :13:20.sweet. I imagine it has been washed and shampooed and conditioned and
:13:21. > :13:36.blowdried to within a an inch of its life. Very cute, well done Georgy
:13:37. > :13:37.girl. Most people have got elaborate -- Labradoodles.
:13:38. > :13:47.We now know about Martin and his jeans. It was all right, we survived
:13:48. > :13:49.it.