:00:00. > :00:00.hear from India ahead of their first match tomorrow against the West
:00:00. > :00:00.Indies. That's all coming up with me, Olly Foster, in the next 15
:00:00. > :00:15.minutes after The Papers. Hello and welcome to
:00:16. > :00:18.our look ahead to what the papers With me are energy correspondent for
:00:19. > :00:22.the FT, Kiran Stacey, and head of The i leads on the shoot-out
:00:23. > :00:27.in Brussels. Four officers were injured
:00:28. > :00:29.when the raid went wrong, it says. One gunman is dead,
:00:30. > :00:32.and two are on the run. The Metro says a police officer is
:00:33. > :00:35.fighting for his life in hospital after the shoot-out,
:00:36. > :00:39.and a terror suspect is dead. It says
:00:40. > :00:41.the officers had expected the flat The Financial Times looks
:00:42. > :00:46.ahead to tomorrow's budget. It says George Osborne will admit
:00:47. > :00:49.he's broken his own fiscal rules, as he lays out a budget constrained
:00:50. > :00:51.by slowing growth The FT calls it fiscal
:00:52. > :00:55.claustrophobia. The Telegraph says
:00:56. > :00:57.the Chancellor is putting education It says thousands
:00:58. > :01:03.of schools will be able to open The New Day leads on the other
:01:04. > :01:12.education story about plans for all primary and secondary schools
:01:13. > :01:14.in England to become academies. It calls it the
:01:15. > :01:20.Great British Schools Shake-up. The Independent says Western powers
:01:21. > :01:22.believe Russia is preparing to ditch its support for President Assad,
:01:23. > :01:26.as part of a deal to end the Syrian It says Moscow could be ready to
:01:27. > :01:30.force the Syrian leader to allow The Guardian reports that the Church
:01:31. > :01:33.of England is changing the way it deals with allegations
:01:34. > :01:36.of sex abuse, in response to And the Express says there are fears
:01:37. > :01:41.that the UK's baby boom could put It says official figures show that
:01:42. > :01:47.one in six of all all births in the European Union took place
:01:48. > :02:02.in Britain. We will start with the schools story
:02:03. > :02:07.on the front of the Times, school dei extended in one point five
:02:08. > :02:14.Billion Drive for success, it in tandem to make all schools and
:02:15. > :02:21.academies -- schools extended -- billion drive. It would take it out
:02:22. > :02:26.of local authority hands and give power to the groups running these
:02:27. > :02:31.academies. What the Times and the Telegraph have picked on, the
:02:32. > :02:35.eye-catching measure to get one quarter of schools to pay them to
:02:36. > :02:42.open an hour longer to keep kids there and to allow them to stay
:02:43. > :02:45.until 4:30pm, with a great quote from the Chancellor, talking about
:02:46. > :02:51.the end of the Victorian finish time of 3:30pm, which will come as a
:02:52. > :02:55.relief to working parents. It is supposed to be one of those measures
:02:56. > :02:59.that denotes that we have a school system that is very serious, that is
:03:00. > :03:05.there to push British kids right to the top of the international pack,
:03:06. > :03:09.whether it will work or not and what they will do in that extra hour, I
:03:10. > :03:13.am not sure, but I imagine it will be quite popular with a lot of
:03:14. > :03:19.parents. Yes. The suggestion that all schools should become
:03:20. > :03:24.academies, that is a drive towards a different kind of schooling that is
:03:25. > :03:29.for a minority of schools at the moment, and for schools that are
:03:30. > :03:33.failing primarily. Is it really going to be successful for every
:03:34. > :03:38.school? It won't be successful for every school. It is quite a big
:03:39. > :03:44.experiment, this idea of empowering the hands of academy chains. It is a
:03:45. > :03:48.sense of local communities, parents, church groups being able to have
:03:49. > :03:52.their own say over not just how the school is run but the curriculum and
:03:53. > :03:59.what students learn. It is a real change. And is the idea of
:04:00. > :04:03.lengthening schools. We have seen the Far East, with results we are
:04:04. > :04:10.jealous of, especially in maths, and feepaying schools have longer hours
:04:11. > :04:14.as well. When we have failing schools, there are have had to be
:04:15. > :04:18.people stepping in. We might see that going forward. This is
:04:19. > :04:22.something the government will push hard. By 2022 they will all be
:04:23. > :04:28.academy schools and if not they will be taken over by force. The end of
:04:29. > :04:34.comprehensive education as well. I don't think the idea is... It is not
:04:35. > :04:39.supposed to be some kind of selective measure. What has been
:04:40. > :04:42.happening so far is that a lot of schools that have become academies
:04:43. > :04:45.have got a bit of a boost, they get a bit of cash for it, they might
:04:46. > :04:51.also get a bit of publicity, the confidence boost, sometimes teachers
:04:52. > :04:57.like it, sometimes they don't. But what it has meant is sometimes
:04:58. > :05:00.parents have quite successful children, quite well off families,
:05:01. > :05:04.have wanted to send their kids to academies instead of local
:05:05. > :05:12.comprehensives but the question is whether it can work? We will move
:05:13. > :05:20.onto the Financial Times. George Osborne to break second promise in
:05:21. > :05:27.budget of fiscal claustrophobia. They mean there is not a lot of
:05:28. > :05:33.money, George. He is skint. He is. In spite of a set of quite stringent
:05:34. > :05:38.laws and rules and aims and targets. We have not seen very good
:05:39. > :05:45.productivity. The world economy is in a tricky position. It has been
:05:46. > :05:50.put in an ?18 black hole. He announced to the BBC the extra ?4
:05:51. > :05:57.billion of cuts to departments in 2020. This says he has missed his
:05:58. > :06:03.meeting, the welfare spending, when he U-turn on tax credits, that big
:06:04. > :06:10.moment. This story says he will cut debt as a share of GDP. His target
:06:11. > :06:14.is to run a surplus in 2020. Something we have to bear in mind is
:06:15. > :06:23.his playing to the instability of the economy is playing towards him.
:06:24. > :06:26.As we come towards the EU referendum, those who are pro-
:06:27. > :06:32.Brexit lose out with this sense of uncertainty. There is a sense he is
:06:33. > :06:36.pushing this line. If the Tories can say, you are safer with us, it could
:06:37. > :06:43.be worse than this, then they are stronger. But have you tried to push
:06:44. > :06:48.the austerity message and that cuts message, if the reason you are doing
:06:49. > :06:53.this is to hit fiscal targets, but you are missing every one of them.
:06:54. > :06:57.George Osborne has a speciality of missing his own fiscal targets it
:06:58. > :07:01.last parliament regularly. When he first came in he said he would
:07:02. > :07:04.balance the books by the end of a certain period of time and that
:07:05. > :07:09.period of time kept being pushed back every year. He said, by the
:07:10. > :07:14.next period of time and then again. The same thing is happening here. He
:07:15. > :07:16.has learnt he is not taking any punishment for it. The Tories had
:07:17. > :07:22.been elected with a majority government. It helps him in a way.
:07:23. > :07:26.He says, things are tough but the alternative would be worse. Labour
:07:27. > :07:32.have failed to pin him down and prove to the voters that the
:07:33. > :07:38.alternative would improve things. The Independent - Russia is set to
:07:39. > :07:45.ditch Assad. It seems quite clear and has been Lee for a long time
:07:46. > :07:49.wait was involved in Syria, with nothing to do with Assad and more to
:07:50. > :07:54.do with the Kremlin. He never ceases to surprise us. He got his fingers
:07:55. > :08:03.and indeed the whole of Russia in on this conflict in a very powerful
:08:04. > :08:09.way. At the same time, instead of targeting ISIS, hitting those
:08:10. > :08:14.pushing against Assad. He was a real ally of Assad. Suddenly, yesterday,
:08:15. > :08:17.he pulls the troops out. Massive boost to the peace talks but I don't
:08:18. > :08:22.know if we can trust anything he says. This story is saying that the
:08:23. > :08:28.West is pinning their hopes on the idea that he has stitched Assad.
:08:29. > :08:35.Houthi new leader could be is such... No one could step in -- to
:08:36. > :08:38.the new leader could be. He just can't afford the war he is waiting
:08:39. > :08:43.in Syria. He has Ukraine to contend with as well. I don't know what
:08:44. > :08:46.could happen going forward. The plan was for elections in Syria next
:08:47. > :08:53.year, hopefully. Whether it is possible, we don't know. It could
:08:54. > :08:56.change the landscape. Yes, it would. But of course, whoever replaces
:08:57. > :09:02.Assad would have to be someone who is friendly with Russia. Well,
:09:03. > :09:08.someone who would be acceptable to Russia and the US. And European
:09:09. > :09:13.powers as well. I struggle to think who it would be or how it would
:09:14. > :09:18.work. It would be a country in civil war, whoever takes over. So much of
:09:19. > :09:23.the country still under the rule of Islamic State, even if you sorted
:09:24. > :09:31.out the Assad faction... And moderate Sunni rebels opposed to
:09:32. > :09:37.Assad as well. We constantly misread what Putin is trying to do. When he
:09:38. > :09:40.went in, commentary was saying what he was doing was making sure Assad
:09:41. > :09:46.stays in power. I think he changes his mind about what he is trying to
:09:47. > :09:50.do. There is a sense he is just annoyed with Assad and that he is
:09:51. > :09:54.not doing what Moscow tells him to do, so he is willing to cut his
:09:55. > :10:00.losses. He has achieved embarrassing the west. He has attacked Sunni
:10:01. > :10:05.rebels and the West has not defended those moderates, so he has caused a
:10:06. > :10:09.division between the West and the allies in Syria, and achieving that
:10:10. > :10:16.he is now happy to step back. The suggestion is President Assad was
:10:17. > :10:21.buoyed by the fact his forces have taken back territory, helped with
:10:22. > :10:25.airstrikes from the Russians, and has played The Hard Man that the
:10:26. > :10:29.peace talks, saying they won't negotiate with this or that rebel
:10:30. > :10:32.group. Well, now they have been forced into a position where they
:10:33. > :10:38.might have to make deals they did not want to originally. Possibly.
:10:39. > :10:43.Everybody is so compromised that Putin gets away with it because of
:10:44. > :10:48.that. Every one has performed U-turns, the UK, the US, Europe. No
:10:49. > :10:56.one is sure which way to go. He can play the strongman. He has brought
:10:57. > :10:59.Europe to crisis point. Look at Angela Merkel and how destabilised
:11:00. > :11:05.she is. We just had the elections last weekend. There was some very
:11:06. > :11:10.strong quotes from the Nato chief in Europe a couple of weeks ago saying
:11:11. > :11:15.he is weaponising the migrant crisis, Putin, to destabilise
:11:16. > :11:23.Europe. That narrative rings true. And it that he is funding anti-
:11:24. > :11:27.Merkel agendas in Germany and across the continent, which is part of his
:11:28. > :11:33.political game. Interesting. The Guardian, sex abuse case forces
:11:34. > :11:37.Church of England to overhaul rules. You might have felt like you have
:11:38. > :11:42.heard this before. So many sex abuse cases have rocked the Church of
:11:43. > :11:47.England. This one stands out. A gentleman in the 1970s, a child at
:11:48. > :11:51.that point abuse by two senior clerics, he tried to raise the
:11:52. > :11:56.issue, and it reaches 2014 and last year, he is trying to talk to the
:11:57. > :12:02.Archbishop Justin Welby's office and he is being ignored. They are so
:12:03. > :12:06.worried by the financial fallout of him suing that they are ignoring
:12:07. > :12:11.him. This was revealed in a report commissioned by the church but it
:12:12. > :12:16.shows they are still not and don't know how to deal with child sex
:12:17. > :12:21.abuse. This is not something they can say they didn't deal with in the
:12:22. > :12:27.70s, the 80s and the 90s. They are going to overhaul the rules? Yes.
:12:28. > :12:31.There are some recommendations. They say they will listen more carefully
:12:32. > :12:35.and the victim has to be at the centre of everything. It will feel
:12:36. > :12:42.mealymouthed. We need culture change. That cannot be done on
:12:43. > :12:46.paper. I just watched Spotlight, fantastic film about child abuse in
:12:47. > :12:51.the Catholic Church, and it is so interesting, these parallels you
:12:52. > :12:56.see, with the cover-up. Still, now, uncovering these things we did not
:12:57. > :12:59.know existed. This reminds me of great corporate scandals, when the
:13:00. > :13:05.first thing management does is call in lawyers, and the lawyers say
:13:06. > :13:08.don't say anything. So, they shut up shop, and that can make the
:13:09. > :13:16.situation worse. Don't listen to lawyers. That is life advice. Just
:13:17. > :13:20.giving messages cost charities millions in tax. This will upset a
:13:21. > :13:23.lot of people. This is an extraordinary story I had not heard
:13:24. > :13:31.of before. Apparently, what's been happening is, this is what
:13:32. > :13:34.JustGiving is, you can go on a website, you can quickly raise money
:13:35. > :13:39.by following a link and pledging money. It is a business, by the way,
:13:40. > :13:47.not a charity. Apparently, what has been happening is there is tax
:13:48. > :13:51.relief on charitable donations, and JustGiving has been going around
:13:52. > :13:56.removing gift aid if someone has signed it for more than one person.
:13:57. > :14:00.One of the rules about tax relief is it has to relate to one donor, one
:14:01. > :14:06.National Insurance number. JustGiving has been removing that if
:14:07. > :14:12.for instance you sponsor your friend for a marathon and you said, from
:14:13. > :14:16.Ciaran and Fay, they say, that's more than one person, we will take
:14:17. > :14:22.it off -- Kiran. They say that this is because they have been told to
:14:23. > :14:28.buy HMRC, and HMRC says it has nothing to do with them. -- by. If
:14:29. > :14:33.it is the HMRC, they are pushing at the wrong end of thing. Oh, yes.
:14:34. > :14:44.Let's not mention apple or Facebook. You are taking some grainy's name of
:14:45. > :14:49.50p given to a charity?! -- Apple. I love this story, why do TV chief put
:14:50. > :14:58.the male presenter on the left of the sofa? Louise Minchin! LAUGHS.
:14:59. > :15:02.Louise Minchin, if you are watching the TV, she is always on the right,
:15:03. > :15:06.and Dan, as was Bill Turnbull, is on the left, and the left tradition has
:15:07. > :15:13.been seen traditionally as the most senior position. And Louise is angry
:15:14. > :15:18.about this. She looks angry. I don't work in broadcasting so I don't know
:15:19. > :15:22.this, but the theory is your eyes go to the left first and then to the
:15:23. > :15:26.right, so that would be white you are the most important person --
:15:27. > :15:32.why. I don't think normal viewers know this. Maybe they do it some
:15:33. > :15:36.consciously. In the papers we have the same thing. The right-hand page,
:15:37. > :15:43.when you turn, you open, you see the right-hand page first, so you put
:15:44. > :15:48.the most important story there. And we put men only on the right-hand
:15:49. > :15:52.page and women on the left. LAUGHS. I would point out that you are on
:15:53. > :15:58.the left. And on the news channel we swap the men and women around each
:15:59. > :16:04.day. We are totally, totally PC. Everybody else, sexist pigs!
:16:05. > :16:13.LAUGHTER. Eamon Holmes, ITV, we've got ITN
:16:14. > :16:17.News. All of the men are on the left. Interesting, Dan Walker is new
:16:18. > :16:21.and Bill Turnbull was very experienced. Dan Walker should have
:16:22. > :16:25.the poor position. They are both good friends of mine, so I'm not
:16:26. > :16:29.saying anything. You will both be back, I hope, at some point in
:16:30. > :16:30.future, to discuss much more on the papers.
:16:31. > :16:35.Coming up next, it's time for Sportsday.