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:00:00. > :00:15.Don't forget the Olympic coverage begins today on BBC One at 1pm.

:00:16. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to our Sunday morning edition of The Papers.

:00:19. > :00:20.With me are Political Commentator Vincent Moss, and Prashant Rao,

:00:21. > :00:22.Deputy Europe Business Editor from the International

:00:23. > :00:32.The first day of Olympic action features on most of the front pages.

:00:33. > :00:34.The Telegraph has an image of British swimmer Adam Peaty

:00:35. > :00:36.who has broken the world record in the 100m breaststroke.

:00:37. > :00:39.And it's lead story says the Prime Minister will launch

:00:40. > :00:46.The Observer also has a photograph of swimmer Adam Peaty but leads

:00:47. > :00:49.on a warning from scientists that a key climate target may be missed.

:00:50. > :00:52.The Sunday Times says the Rio Olympics has been rocked

:00:53. > :00:55.by a new doping scandal involving a Kenyan official.

:00:56. > :00:58.The Independent speculates that the Russian team

:00:59. > :01:00.will be completely banned from the Paralympics -

:01:01. > :01:06.a decision we are expecting this afternoon.

:01:07. > :01:09.And it carries a picture of a Syrian refugee competing in Rio.

:01:10. > :01:11.The Sunday Express leads on fracking, reporting that

:01:12. > :01:14.according to a consultation due out tomorrow as much as ?10,000 could be

:01:15. > :01:19.And the Mail on Sunday has the same story, saying the Prime Minister

:01:20. > :01:21.is planning cash pay-outs to families, marking

:01:22. > :01:29.a departure in approach from the previous government.

:01:30. > :01:38.So let's begin with fracking. The mail on Sunday has, will you hit the

:01:39. > :01:49.frat pot? Stunning pay-out to families in fracking areas. And it

:01:50. > :01:59.has Theresa May's cash pay-outs. This is an interesting story. It's a

:02:00. > :02:03.great headline, "Frackpot". It's important for Theresa May to be

:02:04. > :02:07.spelling out what she's doing an energy policy particularly with the

:02:08. > :02:12.hiatus of Hinkley Point and the nuclear drive. What's happened is

:02:13. > :02:17.the government are trying to spell out that to try and ease some of the

:02:18. > :02:22.residential fears of people who live near the sites, not the dangers but

:02:23. > :02:30.this anti-nimbyism view, instead of the money going to councils, it

:02:31. > :02:35.could go direct to householders. David Cameron said in 2014 it would

:02:36. > :02:39.go to community projects, Theresa May said instead it will go directly

:02:40. > :02:43.to households. If you live near one of the sites you could get up to

:02:44. > :02:51.?13,000, says The Mail. Inside The Mail it looks that certain areas

:02:52. > :02:55.such as Manchester where you may only get ?1000, it really is a

:02:56. > :02:59.postcode lottery. It reminds us that we have got a new government. We are

:03:00. > :03:08.finding out new things and new policies. Exactly. This is Theresa

:03:09. > :03:12.May's theoretically going to make this policy announcement soon. We

:03:13. > :03:15.are learning things about how we'd would have lent in a leadership

:03:16. > :03:22.election but we didn't have a leadership election for the Tory

:03:23. > :03:25.party. She sent a lot of time at the Home Office but that was a focused

:03:26. > :03:31.portfolio. It's interesting to find out things now. The United States is

:03:32. > :03:37.obviously a much bigger country but is there the same kind of green

:03:38. > :03:46.anti-fracking protests, and does paying money to local people help

:03:47. > :03:52.ameliorate that? To a certain extent it does. The Mail refers to this

:03:53. > :03:59.about the fact that in the United States, it has changed the debate on

:04:00. > :04:06.fracking. There are also environmental concerns about

:04:07. > :04:09.providing money to households, which lessens the opposition. It has

:04:10. > :04:13.changed the debate in the United States where fracking is a bigger

:04:14. > :04:23.provider of energy. Let's move on to The Sunday Telegraph. It's got May

:04:24. > :04:26.to lift ban on grammar schools to promote social mobility, that is

:04:27. > :04:30.their take on the story. This has been talked about, the Conservatives

:04:31. > :04:33.have said this for a long time. The catch is, if you have selection

:04:34. > :04:39.there is always winners and losers. Some people go to excellent grammar

:04:40. > :04:43.schools, under the old system some people went to secondary moderns

:04:44. > :04:48.which weren't very good. A lot of this is about investment. The world

:04:49. > :04:53.has changed, it is a hugely popular issue among conservatives grass

:04:54. > :04:57.roots. We live in a different world to when these schools were hugely

:04:58. > :05:01.popular and very successful, certainly by those who benefited by

:05:02. > :05:05.them. In areas like Kent where you have a lot of these schools,

:05:06. > :05:10.families move into the area inflating house prices, they also

:05:11. > :05:15.get private tutors to make sure they pass the relevant exams. There is an

:05:16. > :05:18.argument that to expand grammar schools now we'll just entrenched

:05:19. > :05:23.that elitist role rather than benefit the people who most need it

:05:24. > :05:28.which are bright children from disadvantaged families. Unless there

:05:29. > :05:32.is an element that guarantees people from less well-off backgrounds can

:05:33. > :05:36.go to the schools I think it's hugely problematic. Theresa May as a

:05:37. > :05:42.very small majority, is hugely popular amongst Conservative MPs,

:05:43. > :05:46.but whether in fact she would need a new law and whether a majority of 12

:05:47. > :05:50.would be enough to get that through Parliament is a big question. One of

:05:51. > :05:54.the arguments in favour of grammar schools is that for those lucky

:05:55. > :05:58.enough to go to them, they are an engine of social mobility. They have

:05:59. > :06:02.helped people get on, get into parliament and even become Prime

:06:03. > :06:07.Minister. Theresa May went to a grammar school. She alluded to this

:06:08. > :06:11.in her first speech, she talked about trying to help the less well

:06:12. > :06:16.off, consideration for people to move them up the social chain. It is

:06:17. > :06:20.interesting now we are learning about Theresa May bits and bobs

:06:21. > :06:24.about what she believes in which is kind of interesting how it's coming

:06:25. > :06:31.out. It is. One story which fascinates people around the world,

:06:32. > :06:35.a good take on this is inside The Sunday Telegraph. Trump's Beek of

:06:36. > :06:43.calamities may finally be his downfall, I wouldn't hold my breath

:06:44. > :06:47.to be honest -- trump's week of calamities. He still seems to be the

:06:48. > :06:51.Republican nominee, what do you make of that Prashant? It is dangerous to

:06:52. > :06:55.suggest this might be the week that is the end of Donald Trump. That may

:06:56. > :07:01.have been last week, the week before or the week before that. Or next

:07:02. > :07:05.week. It's so hard to tell. What further calamities can befall his

:07:06. > :07:13.campaign, we don't know but he still soldiers on. It's amazing. These

:07:14. > :07:17.ones are just in a nutshell, he didn't endorse the leading

:07:18. > :07:19.Republican in the country, the Speaker of the House of

:07:20. > :07:22.Representatives for real election. He did endorse him, then there were

:07:23. > :07:31.comments he made about the family of a Muslim service man killed in

:07:32. > :07:34.action. Along with the comments it is the intransigence in the face of

:07:35. > :07:41.the opposition to the comments and the refusal to back down. When

:07:42. > :07:44.you... When you put it in a list of things that have happened, it is

:07:45. > :07:49.kind of remarkable. There was a great list I read which is Donald

:07:50. > :07:55.Trump got into a feud with a crying baby. It's got incredible at this

:07:56. > :07:59.point. Politicians are supposed to kiss babies! LAUGHTER The Telegraph

:08:00. > :08:06.talks about women in his top teen comedy any person he mentions is his

:08:07. > :08:11.daughter Ivanka and he didn't seem to be aware of Russia had taken over

:08:12. > :08:15.the Crimean peninsula. He said Russia wouldn't be invading the

:08:16. > :08:19.Ukraine any time soon! Apart from the fact as journalists this is the

:08:20. > :08:22.gift that keeps on giving, Gerald Ford years ago when talking about

:08:23. > :08:28.Poland and not knowing it was a member of the Warsaw Pact, that

:08:29. > :08:32.seemed to finish him. He is the Energizer Bunny, he keeps going.

:08:33. > :08:37.There is a view in the world now that, I don't care what the papers

:08:38. > :08:41.say or the BBC says, we've got our view and if we like them, there's

:08:42. > :08:47.nothing you can say, it's all a conspiracy, and I'm sure he didn't

:08:48. > :08:54.mean that! If you like Donald Trump they really like Donald Trump in the

:08:55. > :09:05.United States. He has still got a huge residual support. On that note,

:09:06. > :09:10.let's move on to the Olympics. Adam Peaty, it's great that he beat his

:09:11. > :09:14.own world record. He hasn't won the medal yet, we hate later today he

:09:15. > :09:21.might. Endless fascination with this. -- we hope later today he

:09:22. > :09:25.might. It's great what he's done. From my perspective, because of all

:09:26. > :09:30.the things happening in Rio and around the world it's not as

:09:31. > :09:33.enthusiastic a time to be excited about the Olympics. The

:09:34. > :09:37.infrastructure problems, the chaos in Brazilian politics and the

:09:38. > :09:43.craziness in the world generally, I feel like this Olympics is not the

:09:44. > :09:50.kind of... Let me go on the others. The Observer has got "Russia faces

:09:51. > :09:56.ban from the Paralympics" and The Sunday Times has got an excellent

:09:57. > :10:01.story, Rio Olympics rocked by new doping scandal. That's part of it.

:10:02. > :10:05.The Olympics brand, however much we enjoyed the Games, we want to see

:10:06. > :10:10.athletes compete fairly and we wanted to be clean. We get endless

:10:11. > :10:15.stories, The Sunday Times has great journalism on this. So many people

:10:16. > :10:21.cheat but we can't take on face value but the winners are the best?

:10:22. > :10:26.That is a problem. One of the any ways around that is to see a massive

:10:27. > :10:29.expansion of testing and where everyone who wins a medal gets

:10:30. > :10:33.tested immediately so you know all the winners are clean. The Sunday

:10:34. > :10:40.Times has returned a lot of great work on this in the past and it's

:10:41. > :10:45.gone to a Kenyan official called Major Michael Rotich, a sting when

:10:46. > :10:50.they have asked him if he would introduce us to people who can get

:10:51. > :10:56.surround doping rules. Apparently for ?10,000 he said he would do

:10:57. > :10:59.that. He he was only playing along but it looks like serious

:11:00. > :11:05.allegations and a huge potential for corruption. One of the problems the

:11:06. > :11:08.paper 's face is because of the time difference, we four hours ahead,

:11:09. > :11:12.it's difficult for them to look current on the Olympics in the way

:11:13. > :11:17.the BBC can. Because the deadlines of papers tend to be temp Yemen on a

:11:18. > :11:24.Saturday night, maybe midnight. A lot of the big events happen at 2am.

:11:25. > :11:27.A lot of the Sunday papers have lots of big pieces on the opening

:11:28. > :11:34.ceremony which seems like a long time ago! It seems like ancient

:11:35. > :11:43.history! Wythall sport now, with Lance Armstrong and cycling, with

:11:44. > :11:48.Fifa, and now we've got this. We want sport to be clean and we want

:11:49. > :11:53.to believe in something good. The Sunday Times has an editorial, 2016

:11:54. > :11:56.the year of the doping Olympics. What is normally a really wonderful

:11:57. > :12:03.sporting event where everyone gets very excited and lots of emotional

:12:04. > :12:06.things happen, it doesn't feel like this is going to happen this year.

:12:07. > :12:12.It feels like everything will be a bit tainted by the idea that are

:12:13. > :12:16.these guys clean. Especially when you know a lot of them aren't clean

:12:17. > :12:21.and what they have to give up in order to do this, is extraordinary.

:12:22. > :12:26.The dedication of someone like Peaty to set a world record is

:12:27. > :12:30.extraordinary. Equally extraordinary is the idea he just gave a thumbs

:12:31. > :12:35.up. He clearly expects to do a lot better than this and probably break

:12:36. > :12:43.the world record again. His family sounded incredibly grounded. His

:12:44. > :12:48.father said Sheffield was the furthest he's been, and suddenly

:12:49. > :12:55.he's in Rio watching his son. We tend to judge this through the prism

:12:56. > :13:01.of British success. British people do really well, fantastic. If they

:13:02. > :13:02.do less well, I suspect will be less interested! LAUGHTER Fingers crossed

:13:03. > :13:04.for Adam Peaty. Thanks to Vincent Moss

:13:05. > :13:07.and Prashant Rao. Just a reminder we take a look

:13:08. > :13:10.at tomorrows front pages every evening at 10:30 and 11:30

:13:11. > :13:15.here on BBC News.