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Coming up, Suicide Squad, we look at the verdict on that, and what else | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
is in the cinema. Hello and welcome to our look ahead | :00:09. | :00:22. | |
to what the the papers will be With me are Martin Bentham | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
from the Evening Standard The first day of Olympic action | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
features on most of the front pages. The Telegraph has an image | :00:29. | :00:44. | |
of British swimmer Adam Peaty who has broken the world record | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
in the 100m breaststroke. Its lead story says | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
the Prime Minister will launch a new generation | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
of grammar schools. The Observer also has a photograph | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
of swimmer Adam Peaty but leads on a warning from scientists that | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
a key climate target may be missed. The Sunday Times says | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
the Rio Olympics has been rocked The Independent claims | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
the Russian team will be banned It has an image of a Syrian | :01:08. | :01:16. | |
refugee competing in Rio. The Sunday Express leads | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
on fracking, reporting that a percentage of profits will be paid | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
to nearby households. And the Mail on Sunday has the same | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
story, saying the Prime Minister is planning stunning cash payouts | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
to families in areas affected We will start with three of the | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
papers that are looking at the Olympics in various ways. The Sunday | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
Times says, real Olympics rocked by new doping scandal. There is an | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
official, and we went into too much detail about who it is, but he was | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
said to have asked for a ?10,000 bribe to do what? The allegation is | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
that it was a Kenyan official. The Sunday Times has done sting, gone | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
out there and suggested they have a team of fictional British athletes, | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
although obviously the relevant official didn't know that, and he | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
has apparently offered for a 10,000 downpayment to give them warning of | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
drugs tests, and told them that Kenya is a good place to get away | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
with cheating. He apparently knows an official who does drug tests, and | :02:26. | :02:37. | |
can have 12 hours notice. This official has been asked to return | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
home to face allegations, and he was suggesting that he could manage to | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
help people avoid the drugs testing regime, which is designed to expose | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
cheats. He denies all of this, but there are obviously serious | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
allegations. Is not suggesting there is any supply of the illegal | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
substances. You could take actions to read your body of drugs if given | :03:03. | :03:12. | |
notice, predominantly, or presumably stop sign it all sounds terribly | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
unhealthy, the idea that you take drugs and then get rid of them | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
before you are tested. There is a semi- rebuttal of this after similar | :03:23. | :03:31. | |
question last week, the idea that he was investigating them. He says he | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
was not a sell-out, he was doing this for the future. I have heard | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
that in a few stories in my time, and I'm not sure... People who were | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
victims of a sting were aware of it the whole time and were playing | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
along. The Observer, looking ahead to the Paralympics, where Russia is | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
facing a complete ban, it would seem. The IOC, as we know, have let | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
quite a lot of Russian state part in the Olympics, but the group that run | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
the Paralympics say they are going to actually banned Russia as a team | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
from entry. This is quite scary, because the Paralympics take place | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
straight up to the Olympics, which is in three weeks, and if you | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
imagine you have been spending the past four years of your life | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
training for the Olympics, and because Russia has had | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
state-sponsored drug testing, tampering with drugs, giving people | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
drugs, etc, because for some reason Russia thinks that it means a lot if | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
you have a lot of gold when medals. Well, it does, but honestly... Look, | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
it is a great thing when your team walks in and they have a lot of gold | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
medals, but it doesn't mean that you think that country is better, but | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
the Russians are still stuck in this outmoded view. It may be an issue of | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
national pride, but this is a much clearer cut decision on the IOC | :05:06. | :05:14. | |
managed. Yes, and one that I think many people will welcome. The IOC | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
rather passed the buck saying that the federation is good decide | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
whether or not to allow Russia to take part. You have suddenly got a | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
nation which has engaged in systematic doping, covering up, | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
trying to use their own intelligence services to help in that, and very | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
well documented, and yet their athletes are still out there | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
competing against people who clearly didn't want them to be competing. | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
Whereas the paralympian is, they have said, or they appear to be | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
going to say, no, one out all out. Let's celebrate something from the | :06:00. | :06:07. | |
Olympics. In the form of Adam Peaty, celebrating after setting a new 100 | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
metres breaststroke record in the heat. He beat his personal best, | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
which is fantastic. The reaction from the commentator was fantastic. | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
It was a brilliant achievement and it is only the heat. If he does | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
manage to win the gold medal, which obviously he is hot favourite to do, | :06:28. | :06:36. | |
he will be the first male gold-medal swimmer since 1988. We have had | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
great success with women, but the men have not been quite so | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
successful recently. Good knowledge. Brazil got a medal today, the home | :06:44. | :06:53. | |
nation, in shooting. And Belgium in the cycling, which is great. Shall | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
we move on and look at the Mail on Sunday? Will you hit the jackpot if | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
you are sitting above some gas that could be extracted by fracking? The | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
express go so far as to say people are sitting on a goldmine. I don't | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
know if you think that ?13,000 is quite a jack pot. It depends how | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
near Christmas it is. It is not a goldmine, but I think we should be | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
fracking. The US has cut their energy costs astronomically by | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
fracking. I know people are worried about what it does to the | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
environment, but I think we are learning from countries like America | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
and we have done it successfully. I think it is great if you can provide | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
your own energy and don't have to buy it from anyone else. It | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
certainly ensures energy security, but there are massive environmental | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
concerns. There are, and personally I am not very keen on the idea of | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
bribing people to take the decision to grab some cash upfront. Isn't it | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
just compensation for inconvenience? Wouldn't you rather it go to the | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
council where the money will vanish? I think you have to persuade people | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
that it is the right thing to do, rather than bribe them. I'm also a | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
bit excessive, because when I look at it, in Scarborough, where my | :08:20. | :08:29. | |
mother lives, she would only get ?221, not the 13,000. Let us move | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
back to the Sunday Times. Students are offered by one get one free | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
degrees. Supermarkets have given off a lot of these, how do you do this? | :08:44. | :08:57. | |
In this case,... I think you should work on the Evening Standard. In | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
this case I think there is a danger, because it is talking about things | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
like discounts off your courses and so on, or indeed buy one get one | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
free, which is particularly related to an offer of doing the | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
undergraduate degree and then get free Masters tuition. Or reduction | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
in the cost of the Masters. One of them is offering it free. Sheffield | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
University is offering, is that right? You get a Masters course | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
worth up to ?10,000 if you sign up for your undergraduate course first. | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
I think it is great if you don't have to pay tuition fees, the whole | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
thing is a disaster from that point of view. But the danger here is that | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
universities are desperate to scramble people into their | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
particular courses. They are worried because of Brexit. They are worried | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
that a lot of foreigners who would normally have come to do degrees in | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
this country will now not. If you have a three-year course and you are | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
out of Europe, what happens to your third year? I don't think students | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
will be disappearing after Year 2 years, but that is another issue. | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
There is a decision to make about what university to go to, and it | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
will be sad if people are saying, I will go to that one because it will | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
be slightly cheaper. You want to make a choice on the basis of what | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
is the right university. I think students are much cleverer than we | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
used to be, much smarter about money. They are customers now. What | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
universities are doing is like everything. If you are selling | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
something, the more attractive you make it the better you will do. It | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
should be attracting on the basis of the course, not perks. I don't | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
believe kids will go into courses that won't lead to jobs. We are | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
already changing courses that don't lead to jobs. It depends what kind | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
of course leads to a job. It doesn't necessarily have to be completely | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
vocational, many people do well after just having arts degrees. A | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
view to being on before together? No we haven't, but we are going to sign | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
up as a double act. Can I just say, less boys are applying than girls. | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
Fewer. Those comprehensive pupils! I didn't go to a comprehensive. We are | :11:31. | :11:42. | |
not going to talk about... This is primary schools wanting to promote | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
social mobility by removing the block on grammar schools. Many | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
children like the idea of parents -- their children going to -- many | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
parents like the idea of their children going to grammar schools. | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
Of course they asked top science think parents are much more aware of | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
education these days, and there are free schools in all sorts of | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
choices, but I would not be here without grammar school, and I will | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
not be loyal to the fact that a grammar school changed my life. If | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
you went down that road, you would have to make sure that they are | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
better resourced, not under resourced. I agree, I agree with all | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
of that. It is still... Either way, in lifting you out of where you will | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
born... There are plenty of schools that do a good job of doing that. | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
That have even more can't be a bad thing. It looks like that is what is | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
going to happen, but whether it will be across the entire country. I | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
think local councils will vote for whether they want them, and I guess | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
the places in Britain that will really go for them, as they will | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
vote for that. I'm not sure they will, actually, we'll see. I don't | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
think we will get any agreement on this, I can tell. We have ran out of | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
time. Martin and Eve, lovely to have you both, come back, will you? Thank | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
you everybody for watching. Up next, Film Review. Boys are not less | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
clever than girls. | :13:21. | :13:23. |