:00:00. > :00:00.US-backed fighters in northern Syria are reported to have taken
:00:00. > :00:00.almost complete control of the strategically-important
:00:00. > :00:00.city of Manbij from Islamic State militants.
:00:00. > :00:07.Further south, there's been more fierce fighting
:00:08. > :00:16.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:17. > :00:21.With me are the writer and broadcaster Eve Pollard,
:00:22. > :00:32.She is in many more things than Standard.
:00:33. > :00:37.She is in many more things than that. And we wish we were doing this
:00:38. > :00:43.from Copacabana beach, or anywhere in Rio would be nice, but we are
:00:44. > :00:45.here. Thank you for joining us. Let's look at the front pages.
:00:46. > :00:48.The first day of Olympic action features on most of the front pages.
:00:49. > :00:51.The Telegraph has an image of British swimmer Adam Peaty
:00:52. > :00:53.who has broken the world record in the 100 metre breaststroke.
:00:54. > :00:55.Its lead story says the Prime Minister will launch
:00:56. > :01:00.The Observer also has a photograph of swimmer Adam Peaty but leads
:01:01. > :01:05.on a warning from scientists that a key climate target may be missed.
:01:06. > :01:08.The Sunday Times says the Rio Olympics has been rocked
:01:09. > :01:11.by a new doping scandal in connection with the Kenyan team.
:01:12. > :01:14.The Independent on Sunday claims the Russian team will be banned
:01:15. > :01:21.It has an image of a Syrian refugee competing in Rio.
:01:22. > :01:23.The Sunday Express reports that a percentage of profits
:01:24. > :01:27.from fracking would be paid to nearby households.
:01:28. > :01:30.And the Mail on Sunday has the same story saying the Prime Minister
:01:31. > :01:42.is planning cash payouts to families in fracking areas.
:01:43. > :01:50.This could be front page of Otto because I'm not sure I've got the
:01:51. > :01:56.right order but let's give it a whirl. Let's start with the Sunday
:01:57. > :01:56.Times. We are Olympics rocked by a new
:01:57. > :02:00.whirl. Let's start with the Sunday Times. We are Olympics rocked by a
:02:01. > :02:07.new doping scandal. An official has demanded some kind of payment. This
:02:08. > :02:12.seems to be a Sunday Times story of its own. They sent undercover
:02:13. > :02:18.journalists who dealt with this Kenya and Olympic official and they
:02:19. > :02:22.pretended to have members of the team and he said he could arrange
:02:23. > :02:28.for them to have warning about when Dale were going to be drugs test and
:02:29. > :02:33.of course if you have a warning, if you have taken any drugs, you can,
:02:34. > :02:40.if you have 13 hours, I can't imagine how enjoyable it would be,
:02:41. > :02:46.you can flush them out of your body, and he asked for ?10,000 up front.
:02:47. > :02:54.If this is substantiated, and we have to say there was no evidence
:02:55. > :03:00.that illegal drugs have been supplied, it casts a big shadow over
:03:01. > :03:05.the event. It was a fictional team of British athletes that were part
:03:06. > :03:14.of this device in distant by the Sunday Times stop --. This man
:03:15. > :03:20.apparently has been asked to return to Kenya and so on and it just
:03:21. > :03:25.suggest that despite all the controversy and all the exposure of
:03:26. > :03:30.drugs, cheating by the Russians in particular, that the problem still
:03:31. > :03:33.continues and that it sends a message that people are still
:03:34. > :03:37.willing to try to do something to bend the rules for their own
:03:38. > :03:40.personal gain and in this circumstance not for his own
:03:41. > :03:49.national team advantage, according to this story. ?10,000. Big-money.
:03:50. > :03:53.The issue with the Russian athletes is it was said to be
:03:54. > :03:58.state-sponsored, directly, it was such a widespread thing. You wonder
:03:59. > :04:03.what the can watch any event at all anymore and think how clean is it.
:04:04. > :04:10.That is the sad thing. But mags that the back of people's mind when they
:04:11. > :04:17.seem fantastic performances. But most athletes are clean and which
:04:18. > :04:21.give them get great credit and if we find out some of them have cheated,
:04:22. > :04:27.that is very sad, but we shouldn't be discouraged from enjoying a
:04:28. > :04:34.fantastic occasion. That's look at some successes. The Telegraph,
:04:35. > :04:39.Janet. Here, we have a world record that has been set by Adam peaty and
:04:40. > :04:47.this is in one of the heats of the hundred meter breaststroke. He broke
:04:48. > :04:56.his own world record by three tenths of a second, he aptly smashed it,
:04:57. > :04:59.100 metres, two lengths of the pool, he was way ahead of all his
:05:00. > :05:08.competitors. And this was just his warm up. I had no intention of
:05:09. > :05:13.watching any of the Olympics. I like track and field. But having been to
:05:14. > :05:20.the, were discussing this earlier, the bicycle race today was
:05:21. > :05:26.absolutely magnificent. It showed you rear in all its glory. We know
:05:27. > :05:30.there are beautiful beaches but you don't realise how beautiful it is at
:05:31. > :05:38.the back of 30 and how very, very topsy-turvy it is. Terrible hairpin
:05:39. > :05:44.bends all the way down. The steepness was terrifying. No wonder
:05:45. > :05:47.there were quite a few accidents. Coming down those steep slopes and
:05:48. > :05:54.they are all going hell for leather as fast as they can to try and winds
:05:55. > :05:57.the race. An amazing race to watch. I'm trying to persuade Eve to come
:05:58. > :06:07.out cycling with me in Crystal Palace tomorrow. Have you got a
:06:08. > :06:10.tandem! Right, let's go to the Observer. We've got the Paralympic
:06:11. > :06:17.games coming up after the Olympics are over. Those games look like they
:06:18. > :06:25.are going to beat the set for goblins for the Russians. -- beset
:06:26. > :06:30.with problems for the Russians. These are people that have got over
:06:31. > :06:34.terrible disasters in their lives but it seems that Russia has been
:06:35. > :06:38.exceeding its dosage in some of the people and they say they are going
:06:39. > :06:43.to stop the Russians entering the Paralympics, that is the story in
:06:44. > :06:50.the Observer. The International Paralympic decision -- Mitty making
:06:51. > :06:58.the decision of the IOC didn't make. If that is the case, I think it will
:06:59. > :07:05.be the right decision. When you have had such systematic doping, that
:07:06. > :07:14.should have happened. If it is state-sponsored, you probably don't
:07:15. > :07:18.have any say over it. It is still relatively last-minute, though. It
:07:19. > :07:21.is only a couple of weeks away. And can you imagine that you have been
:07:22. > :07:27.training for four years and suddenly you are told you can't go. And you
:07:28. > :07:34.feel sorry for those who are clean because they have been let down by
:07:35. > :07:37.the activities of others. No doubt there will be appeals from
:07:38. > :07:41.individuals. What is crazy is that Vladimir Putin thinks that by
:07:42. > :07:47.winning a lot of gold medals you change the view of the world of your
:07:48. > :07:51.country. Is he playing to the international audience or is it for
:07:52. > :07:56.domestic consumption? The athletes do well and it looks good at home.
:07:57. > :08:01.Because Russia is having a tough time, gold medals will cheer it up.
:08:02. > :08:08.The Mail on Sunday, were you hit the frack pot? The PM is sending cash
:08:09. > :08:13.pay-outs for families in gas fracking areas but it is a postcode
:08:14. > :08:19.lottery. It depends where you live. Well, fracking depends where you
:08:20. > :08:25.live. I don't suppose there is a lot of it where most of us live down in
:08:26. > :08:28.the south-east. You can get up to ?13,000. I think we should be
:08:29. > :08:35.fracking. I think America has cut its American -- energy costs by
:08:36. > :08:40.fracking. What about the environmental costs? In America,
:08:41. > :08:47.they seem to be going really percent bounce ahead of itself by actually
:08:48. > :08:52.checking and doing checks on this. And I also believe it is is right to
:08:53. > :08:57.give it to people and not to the Council or the community, people
:08:58. > :09:00.will feel, and particularly, if you look at it, a lots of places in
:09:01. > :09:06.Britain which could do with some money and work in the middle of
:09:07. > :09:12.Britain, I think it would be great. That is controversial from Eve,
:09:13. > :09:15.isn't it? I don't like the idea of bribing individual people to do
:09:16. > :09:21.something. We bribe people every day. It is either a matter of public
:09:22. > :09:28.policy that we are going to do it or it isn't, not trying to buy people.
:09:29. > :09:33.It will be public policy. We have been faffing about fracking four
:09:34. > :09:40.years. It doesn't get us away from using fossil fuels either. No. But
:09:41. > :09:45.when you see the affected as had one -- in America, on energy costs,
:09:46. > :09:50.let's talk to the average person who lives in a house where they will get
:09:51. > :09:54.?13,000, they have done leaps and bounds checking water levels, also
:09:55. > :10:04.saw things. It is largely unknown what the consequences are. This also
:10:05. > :10:07.plays in to the whole point in that fracking is an alternative source of
:10:08. > :10:12.power if we are not to proceed with Hinkley Point generally, we haven't
:10:13. > :10:19.yet got alternative obvious solutions in turn of -- in terms of
:10:20. > :10:27.renewable energy. The Prime Minister is looking at a way of dealing with
:10:28. > :10:32.it. I don't think they will find it. I think it is great for people and I
:10:33. > :10:35.think it is also, if you look, it is up in the Midlands and the North.
:10:36. > :10:41.We'll come back to it later. I haven't heard of it house collapsing
:10:42. > :10:47.in America yet. All these scare stories. Me to lift ban on grammar
:10:48. > :10:51.schools, the Prime Minister seeking to reverse the block that was put on
:10:52. > :10:57.selective education to promote social mobility. How effective our
:10:58. > :11:05.grammar schools in promoting social mobility if parents can afford to
:11:06. > :11:10.pay to have their children tutored so they passed the exam ration Mark
:11:11. > :11:16.the real question with grammar schools has been what happens to the
:11:17. > :11:20.people who don't go. The question is what happens to other people who are
:11:21. > :11:26.going to comprehensive schools. I followed on from that and obviously
:11:27. > :11:31.the comprehensive system was set up because the secondary modern system
:11:32. > :11:34.was failing. At that time, secondary moderns got less resource, not more,
:11:35. > :11:41.as perhaps should have been the case. It seems unlikely that of
:11:42. > :11:45.course it is it great cause celebre Rafah lot of Tory backbenchers in
:11:46. > :11:52.who will be to that this happens, whether it really... Tour with back
:11:53. > :11:56.benches are sending data kids to private schools. I would not have
:11:57. > :12:06.been here if it wasn't for a private school. I was taken out and my life
:12:07. > :12:09.was changed, and I am 105 so many people are buying generation, our
:12:10. > :12:16.lives were totally changed by grammar schools. How acceptable is
:12:17. > :12:23.it in this day and age when you have to pass an entrance exam on the
:12:24. > :12:27.state? How acceptable is that? Have you seen where we come in the list
:12:28. > :12:33.of the educational league? I think it is something like 48. Millions of
:12:34. > :12:37.countries much poorer than us, their children do better at school.
:12:38. > :12:44.Anything we can do to improve... I'm not convinced that by that argument
:12:45. > :12:49.that we do so badly at education. We do good at everything else, it has
:12:50. > :12:53.to come from somewhere. The day after Brexit, you had very sad
:12:54. > :12:57.Eastern European people running supermarkets, you had them talking
:12:58. > :13:00.and then you have the local people talking, and the guys who lured
:13:01. > :13:08.English often spoke much better English, much longer words than the
:13:09. > :13:12.ones who had been taught at school. This is a scientific survey? It was
:13:13. > :13:19.my scientific survey because I was riveted by the TV. My feeling is
:13:20. > :13:22.we've got free schools now, academies, all sorts of different
:13:23. > :13:27.schools, anything we can do that makes children realise that actually
:13:28. > :13:33.you do need education to get on and the sooner you learn... Died all
:13:34. > :13:37.children need education? Of course. All children need a better education
:13:38. > :13:40.than we are giving them right now. They might do but I'm not
:13:41. > :13:44.necessarily sure that the grammar school is the solution to it. There
:13:45. > :13:47.has been plenty of success with raising standards here in London
:13:48. > :13:52.with some schools that were previously not doing well. The
:13:53. > :13:56.aspiration you are talking about has been in cognate id in a different
:13:57. > :14:01.way, it hasn't been through the school structure, it has been in
:14:02. > :14:06.convincing them and... Getting their parents involved in all sorts of
:14:07. > :14:11.things. I'm not knocking that but why stop anything that works and it
:14:12. > :14:17.did work? We got there. Five papers in the right order. Hurrah. Well
:14:18. > :14:27.done everybody, especially Janet. Art in an evil be back again at 11
:14:28. > :14:37.o'clock. Next it is Reporters.