15/03/2016 The Papers

hear from India ahead of their first match tomorrow against the West

Indies. That's all coming up with me, Olly Foster, in the next 15

minutes after The Papers. Hello and welcome to

our look ahead to what the papers With me are energy correspondent for

the FT, Kiran Stacey, and head of The i leads on the shoot-out

in Brussels. Four officers were injured

when the raid went wrong, it says. One gunman is dead,

and two are on the run. The Metro says a police officer is

fighting for his life in hospital after the shoot-out,

and a terror suspect is dead. It says

the officers had expected the flat The Financial Times looks

ahead to tomorrow's budget. It says George Osborne will admit

he's broken his own fiscal rules, as he lays out a budget constrained

by slowing growth The FT calls it fiscal

claustrophobia. The Telegraph says

the Chancellor is putting education It says thousands

of schools will be able to open The New Day leads on the other

education story about plans for all primary and secondary schools

in England to become academies. It calls it the

Great British Schools Shake-up. The Independent says Western powers

believe Russia is preparing to ditch its support for President Assad,

as part of a deal to end the Syrian It says Moscow could be ready to

force the Syrian leader to allow The Guardian reports that the Church

of England is changing the way it deals with allegations

of sex abuse, in response to And the Express says there are fears

that the UK's baby boom could put It says official figures show that

one in six of all all births in the European Union took place

in Britain. We will start with the schools story

on the front of the Times, school dei extended in one point five

Billion Drive for success, it in tandem to make all schools and

academies -- schools extended -- billion drive. It would take it out

of local authority hands and give power to the groups running these

academies. What the Times and the Telegraph have picked on, the

eye-catching measure to get one quarter of schools to pay them to

open an hour longer to keep kids there and to allow them to stay

until 4:30pm, with a great quote from the Chancellor, talking about

the end of the Victorian finish time of 3:30pm, which will come as a

relief to working parents. It is supposed to be one of those measures

that denotes that we have a school system that is very serious, that is

there to push British kids right to the top of the international pack,

whether it will work or not and what they will do in that extra hour, I

am not sure, but I imagine it will be quite popular with a lot of

parents. Yes. The suggestion that all schools should become

academies, that is a drive towards a different kind of schooling that is

for a minority of schools at the moment, and for schools that are

failing primarily. Is it really going to be successful for every

school? It won't be successful for every school. It is quite a big

experiment, this idea of empowering the hands of academy chains. It is a

sense of local communities, parents, church groups being able to have

their own say over not just how the school is run but the curriculum and

what students learn. It is a real change. And is the idea of

lengthening schools. We have seen the Far East, with results we are

jealous of, especially in maths, and feepaying schools have longer hours

as well. When we have failing schools, there are have had to be

people stepping in. We might see that going forward. This is

something the government will push hard. By 2022 they will all be

academy schools and if not they will be taken over by force. The end of

comprehensive education as well. I don't think the idea is... It is not

supposed to be some kind of selective measure. What has been

happening so far is that a lot of schools that have become academies

have got a bit of a boost, they get a bit of cash for it, they might

also get a bit of publicity, the confidence boost, sometimes teachers

like it, sometimes they don't. But what it has meant is sometimes

parents have quite successful children, quite well off families,

have wanted to send their kids to academies instead of local

comprehensives but the question is whether it can work? We will move

onto the Financial Times. George Osborne to break second promise in

budget of fiscal claustrophobia. They mean there is not a lot of

money, George. He is skint. He is. In spite of a set of quite stringent

laws and rules and aims and targets. We have not seen very good

productivity. The world economy is in a tricky position. It has been

put in an ?18 black hole. He announced to the BBC the extra ?4

billion of cuts to departments in 2020. This says he has missed his

meeting, the welfare spending, when he U-turn on tax credits, that big

moment. This story says he will cut debt as a share of GDP. His target

is to run a surplus in 2020. Something we have to bear in mind is

his playing to the instability of the economy is playing towards him.

As we come towards the EU referendum, those who are pro-

Brexit lose out with this sense of uncertainty. There is a sense he is

pushing this line. If the Tories can say, you are safer with us, it could

be worse than this, then they are stronger. But have you tried to push

the austerity message and that cuts message, if the reason you are doing

this is to hit fiscal targets, but you are missing every one of them.

George Osborne has a speciality of missing his own fiscal targets it

last parliament regularly. When he first came in he said he would

balance the books by the end of a certain period of time and that

period of time kept being pushed back every year. He said, by the

next period of time and then again. The same thing is happening here. He

has learnt he is not taking any punishment for it. The Tories had

been elected with a majority government. It helps him in a way.

He says, things are tough but the alternative would be worse. Labour

have failed to pin him down and prove to the voters that the

alternative would improve things. The Independent - Russia is set to

ditch Assad. It seems quite clear and has been Lee for a long time

wait was involved in Syria, with nothing to do with Assad and more to

do with the Kremlin. He never ceases to surprise us. He got his fingers

and indeed the whole of Russia in on this conflict in a very powerful

way. At the same time, instead of targeting ISIS, hitting those

pushing against Assad. He was a real ally of Assad. Suddenly, yesterday,

he pulls the troops out. Massive boost to the peace talks but I don't

know if we can trust anything he says. This story is saying that the

West is pinning their hopes on the idea that he has stitched Assad.

Houthi new leader could be is such... No one could step in -- to

the new leader could be. He just can't afford the war he is waiting

in Syria. He has Ukraine to contend with as well. I don't know what

could happen going forward. The plan was for elections in Syria next

year, hopefully. Whether it is possible, we don't know. It could

change the landscape. Yes, it would. But of course, whoever replaces

Assad would have to be someone who is friendly with Russia. Well,

someone who would be acceptable to Russia and the US. And European

powers as well. I struggle to think who it would be or how it would

work. It would be a country in civil war, whoever takes over. So much of

the country still under the rule of Islamic State, even if you sorted

out the Assad faction... And moderate Sunni rebels opposed to

Assad as well. We constantly misread what Putin is trying to do. When he

went in, commentary was saying what he was doing was making sure Assad

stays in power. I think he changes his mind about what he is trying to

do. There is a sense he is just annoyed with Assad and that he is

not doing what Moscow tells him to do, so he is willing to cut his

losses. He has achieved embarrassing the west. He has attacked Sunni

rebels and the West has not defended those moderates, so he has caused a

division between the West and the allies in Syria, and achieving that

he is now happy to step back. The suggestion is President Assad was

buoyed by the fact his forces have taken back territory, helped with

airstrikes from the Russians, and has played The Hard Man that the

peace talks, saying they won't negotiate with this or that rebel

group. Well, now they have been forced into a position where they

might have to make deals they did not want to originally. Possibly.

Everybody is so compromised that Putin gets away with it because of

that. Every one has performed U-turns, the UK, the US, Europe. No

one is sure which way to go. He can play the strongman. He has brought

Europe to crisis point. Look at Angela Merkel and how destabilised

she is. We just had the elections last weekend. There was some very

strong quotes from the Nato chief in Europe a couple of weeks ago saying

he is weaponising the migrant crisis, Putin, to destabilise

Europe. That narrative rings true. And it that he is funding anti-

Merkel agendas in Germany and across the continent, which is part of his

political game. Interesting. The Guardian, sex abuse case forces

Church of England to overhaul rules. You might have felt like you have

heard this before. So many sex abuse cases have rocked the Church of

England. This one stands out. A gentleman in the 1970s, a child at

that point abuse by two senior clerics, he tried to raise the

issue, and it reaches 2014 and last year, he is trying to talk to the

Archbishop Justin Welby's office and he is being ignored. They are so

worried by the financial fallout of him suing that they are ignoring

him. This was revealed in a report commissioned by the church but it

shows they are still not and don't know how to deal with child sex

abuse. This is not something they can say they didn't deal with in the

70s, the 80s and the 90s. They are going to overhaul the rules? Yes.

There are some recommendations. They say they will listen more carefully

and the victim has to be at the centre of everything. It will feel

mealymouthed. We need culture change. That cannot be done on

paper. I just watched Spotlight, fantastic film about child abuse in

the Catholic Church, and it is so interesting, these parallels you

see, with the cover-up. Still, now, uncovering these things we did not

know existed. This reminds me of great corporate scandals, when the

first thing management does is call in lawyers, and the lawyers say

don't say anything. So, they shut up shop, and that can make the

situation worse. Don't listen to lawyers. That is life advice. Just

giving messages cost charities millions in tax. This will upset a

lot of people. This is an extraordinary story I had not heard

of before. Apparently, what's been happening is, this is what

JustGiving is, you can go on a website, you can quickly raise money

by following a link and pledging money. It is a business, by the way,

not a charity. Apparently, what has been happening is there is tax

relief on charitable donations, and JustGiving has been going around

removing gift aid if someone has signed it for more than one person.

One of the rules about tax relief is it has to relate to one donor, one

National Insurance number. JustGiving has been removing that if

for instance you sponsor your friend for a marathon and you said, from

Ciaran and Fay, they say, that's more than one person, we will take

it off -- Kiran. They say that this is because they have been told to

buy HMRC, and HMRC says it has nothing to do with them. -- by. If

it is the HMRC, they are pushing at the wrong end of thing. Oh, yes.

Let's not mention apple or Facebook. You are taking some grainy's name of

50p given to a charity?! -- Apple. I love this story, why do TV chief put

the male presenter on the left of the sofa? Louise Minchin! LAUGHS.

Louise Minchin, if you are watching the TV, she is always on the right,

and Dan, as was Bill Turnbull, is on the left, and the left tradition has

been seen traditionally as the most senior position. And Louise is angry

about this. She looks angry. I don't work in broadcasting so I don't know

this, but the theory is your eyes go to the left first and then to the

right, so that would be white you are the most important person --

why. I don't think normal viewers know this. Maybe they do it some

consciously. In the papers we have the same thing. The right-hand page,

when you turn, you open, you see the right-hand page first, so you put

the most important story there. And we put men only on the right-hand

page and women on the left. LAUGHS. I would point out that you are on

the left. And on the news channel we swap the men and women around each

day. We are totally, totally PC. Everybody else, sexist pigs!

LAUGHTER. Eamon Holmes, ITV, we've got ITN

News. All of the men are on the left. Interesting, Dan Walker is new

and Bill Turnbull was very experienced. Dan Walker should have

the poor position. They are both good friends of mine, so I'm not

saying anything. You will both be back, I hope, at some point in

future, to discuss much more on the papers.

Coming up next, it's time for Sportsday.