:00:20. > :00:26.A warm welcome to our look at head at what will be in the newspapers
:00:27. > :00:30.political commentator for the political commentator for the
:00:31. > :00:34.Financial Times, Miranda Green, and education editor for the Sunday
:00:35. > :00:39.Times. Thank you for being with us. Let us show you what we have of the
:00:40. > :00:45.newspaper so far. The FT pleads with that dramatic picture of the
:00:46. > :00:49.five-year-old Syrian boy, Omran Daqneesh, whose image has provoked
:00:50. > :00:55.outrage around the world, at the latest bombing in Aleppo. The Times
:00:56. > :00:59.has the same image of the young boy in the back of the ambulance
:01:00. > :01:04.following that air strike in Aleppo. The gaijin leads with the same
:01:05. > :01:13.picture. The newspaper describes it as a new symbol of the horror in
:01:14. > :01:23.Syria. The Express front page says the militantly -- the Metro has the
:01:24. > :01:30.lonely brothers celebrating their gold and silver Olympic medals --
:01:31. > :01:36.the Brownlee Bros. The Telegraph praises the Brownlee
:01:37. > :01:45.Bros for their historic success. The Mail also celebrates them with a
:01:46. > :01:52.call for Sir Matthew Pinsent to have a Victor Vito parade for Team GB's
:01:53. > :02:00.Olympic heroes. -- a effectively police. As a victory parade make
:02:01. > :02:05.get them so why not Team GB? There get them so why not Team GB? There
:02:06. > :02:11.would be a lot of them on the bus because so many have won medals. A
:02:12. > :02:17.convoy. Let us start off more sombrely with The Guardian, they
:02:18. > :02:22.have got that dramatic picture. It is a testament of the power of the
:02:23. > :02:26.single image, to suddenly stop everybody in their tracks and remind
:02:27. > :02:32.them what horror is going on in Syria. It is. It is a heartbreaking
:02:33. > :02:38.image. This little boy. People say he is five but he looks younger than
:02:39. > :02:43.that. He looks bewildered. Probably in shock. Completely alone, sitting
:02:44. > :02:49.on the seat in the ambulance. There is a moment in the video where he
:02:50. > :02:55.puts his hand up, feels the blood. It has gone viral around the world.
:02:56. > :03:02.It could make a difference just like the image of the little boy washed
:03:03. > :03:08.up on the beach in Turkey, the other little Syrian boy. That actually
:03:09. > :03:12.prompted Angela Merkel to open German borders to refugees. And I
:03:13. > :03:17.think the image of this little boy, there will be an outpouring of
:03:18. > :03:22.sympathy. It is strange because this conflict is going on every day. I am
:03:23. > :03:27.sure there are children like this in this situation every day and we do
:03:28. > :03:31.not think about it. The awful thing is that this must be the first time
:03:32. > :03:36.that Syria has properly been on all the front pages for quite a while
:03:37. > :03:40.and given that this is a huge conflict, this deal of the numbers
:03:41. > :03:44.of people who have died, the numbers who have been displaced, it is such
:03:45. > :03:47.that it should be the number one story most of the time but because
:03:48. > :03:50.there is no international plan, there is no international plan,
:03:51. > :03:55.because nobody knows how to resolve it, there is this awful sense that
:03:56. > :03:59.it has been pushed to the back of everyone's mind even though it is
:04:00. > :04:06.going on all the time. The interesting thing about The Guardian
:04:07. > :04:08.front page, as they have run a long interview with the Aleppo -based
:04:09. > :04:14.Syrian journalist who took the footage that has gone viral. He says
:04:15. > :04:18.this child is no representative of the millions of children in Syria.
:04:19. > :04:24.That is the point. Every day children are being bombed out of the
:04:25. > :04:27.homes anti-presents all of them. The video clip is almost unwatchable, it
:04:28. > :04:31.is so upsetting. This is the power is so upsetting. This is the power
:04:32. > :04:34.of the newspaper and the front page and the big dramatic picture on the
:04:35. > :04:40.front page. Let us move on. The Financial Times
:04:41. > :04:46.has got the same picture on their front page. Child of war is the
:04:47. > :04:49.headline. The lead story is interesting, a post Brexit story
:04:50. > :04:54.about what kind of Brexit it is going to be. Theresa May said Brexit
:04:55. > :05:00.means Brexit. What does Brexit mean? We still do not really know. This
:05:01. > :05:03.story seems to be suggesting that the city is abandoning the hope that
:05:04. > :05:09.they will have complete access to the EU single market, and there seem
:05:10. > :05:12.to be alternative plans being put forward. What seems to be emerging
:05:13. > :05:20.as a model which has been cold Swiss plus, which might give us access
:05:21. > :05:25.along the lines that Switzerland enjoys at the moment. Which is just
:05:26. > :05:30.short of the Norwegian model, and that is part of the single market,
:05:31. > :05:34.even though not in the EU, but then they have to accept three movement
:05:35. > :05:43.of people. That is the crucial point. In this story it sees that
:05:44. > :05:46.they now think the Norwegian model is politically unacceptable, so this
:05:47. > :05:50.idea that pro-Europeans have been clinging onto since the night of the
:05:51. > :05:53.referendum results, that there may be some way off still maintaining
:05:54. > :05:58.freedom of movement in exchange for access to the single market, it
:05:59. > :06:03.looks as if the City of London consensus is that that idea is dead
:06:04. > :06:07.because it is not politically saleable. This is an interesting
:06:08. > :06:11.story because they are proposing something that they called Swiss
:06:12. > :06:15.plus, but they also say they do not want it to be branded Swiss plus. So
:06:16. > :06:21.they are going to propose it, but they do not want it called Swiss
:06:22. > :06:26.plus honour because in Brussels there is some unhappiness at what
:06:27. > :06:30.the Swiss position is. This idea of negotiating for your favoured
:06:31. > :06:34.sectors without having obligations of EU membership is becoming
:06:35. > :06:39.controversial in itself. Let us talk about economic performance of this
:06:40. > :06:43.UK economy post Brexit because The Express has got a story, following
:06:44. > :06:51.the jobs figures of yesterday, saying retail sales bonanza defies
:06:52. > :06:58.the fears that there will be an economic slowdown post Brexit. This
:06:59. > :07:04.story is interesting. It's easy retail sales grew last month by 1.4%
:07:05. > :07:08.compared with June which is above economists average forecasts. It
:07:09. > :07:13.looks as though people are going on a post-referendum shopping spree.
:07:14. > :07:16.There are all these amazing seals still online and I am finding it
:07:17. > :07:28.hard to keep my credit card in my bag. One of the things that they are
:07:29. > :07:33.seeing, the feel-good factor from the Olympics is spreading people on
:07:34. > :07:37.to buy, but there is a big question about House prices, whether they
:07:38. > :07:42.will go up or down, whether people will buy houses. That is more
:07:43. > :07:48.worrying. Also, the feel-good factor created by the Olympics puzzles me.
:07:49. > :07:53.Why does that make you go shopping? Are people rushing out to buy
:07:54. > :07:58.trainers? Maybe they are. By gold medal? Buy a tennis court. Let us
:07:59. > :08:03.talk about the A-level results which today. Relief or trauma for A-level
:08:04. > :08:14.students around the country, but as education editor, talk to us. In
:08:15. > :08:19.some ways, more people going to university, it is costing more and
:08:20. > :08:24.more to go there, but I guess people are starting to wonder is it worth
:08:25. > :08:30.the money, because they are racking up potentially such large bills, is
:08:31. > :08:36.it worth it? This story is saying that record numbers of students
:08:37. > :08:41.yesterday secured university places. And that is the big question. Is it
:08:42. > :08:46.worth going to university? We have some of the most expensive fees in
:08:47. > :08:51.the world, ?9,000 per year just for teaching and that is going up in
:08:52. > :08:58.some universities next year. People are coming out with average debts of
:08:59. > :09:01.?45,000, ?50,000. Nearly half of all 18-year-olds are now getting degrees
:09:02. > :09:04.after three years. Where are the after three years. Where are the
:09:05. > :09:09.jobs? Where are the jobs that they can pay off these debts? I am
:09:10. > :09:15.beginning to seriously question this entire idea that if you get an
:09:16. > :09:18.English degree or a history degree from a second-rate university that
:09:19. > :09:24.that is a sensible way to spend three years of your life and ?50,000
:09:25. > :09:30.of your money. Are they not the best three years of your life? I do not
:09:31. > :09:34.agree. If you look at the analysis that the Institute for Fiscal
:09:35. > :09:40.Studies have done, earnings value across your life of having a degree
:09:41. > :09:43.is holding up. If people start to ask these questions about whether
:09:44. > :09:45.particular degrees are worth it or not that is quite healthy because
:09:46. > :09:50.all degrees are not the same. If we all degrees are not the same. If we
:09:51. > :09:54.have a situation where people ask more questions before they embark on
:09:55. > :09:58.a degree course that is a good thing. Since there are no other
:09:59. > :10:04.alternatives, high-quality apprenticeships, it would be good if
:10:05. > :10:08.we had more young people in the UK go down that route because that is
:10:09. > :10:13.what the economy really needs. The other side of it is the quality of
:10:14. > :10:19.teaching or not and whether that is worth the money. That is right.
:10:20. > :10:22.Miranda is right. Universities need to be more transparent about what
:10:23. > :10:26.students are actually getting for the money that the RPM. What are the
:10:27. > :10:32.chances of getting a job of a particular greed and why don't they
:10:33. > :10:35.publish more details about that? How many hours of teaching per week? If
:10:36. > :10:44.you are just getting two hours of teaching per week, he matches this
:10:45. > :10:49.costing? Universities have to step up their game. We heard the higher
:10:50. > :10:52.education Minister saying that universities that do not improve
:10:53. > :10:56.quality of teaching will not be allowed to raise their fees. I do
:10:57. > :11:00.happen in a big week but it would be happen in a big week but it would be
:11:01. > :11:04.Olympics. It is a great story. We Olympics. It is a great story. We
:11:05. > :11:11.were watching it in the newsroom this afternoon when Alistair
:11:12. > :11:16.Brownlee and Jonathan Brownlee got Brownlee and Jonathan Brownlee got
:11:17. > :11:27.first and second in the triathlon. It is a good headline in the Metro.
:11:28. > :11:31.It is. Every system or headline. One of the things that has been a nice
:11:32. > :11:36.about this week of the Olympics, and I suppose last week with the diving,
:11:37. > :11:51.these jewels are really quite heart-warming.
:11:52. > :11:58.-- these duos are quite heart-warming. Even though I am not
:11:59. > :12:03.a sports fan I am finding it deletes. Contrast that with the
:12:04. > :12:12.strange story of the American Olympic swimmers who are accused of
:12:13. > :12:16.inventing a story that they were robbed at a petrol station. It is
:12:17. > :12:22.very strange. It is a very confusing story. I cannot get to the bottom of
:12:23. > :12:26.it. There seems to be two conflicting accounts. On the one
:12:27. > :12:29.hand you have American swimmers saying that men jest in police
:12:30. > :12:37.uniforms robbed them of their wallets in the early hours of Sunday
:12:38. > :12:41.and one even pointed a gun. And then the police said one or more of the
:12:42. > :12:45.swimmers had vandalised a petrol station and got into an altercation
:12:46. > :12:50.with a security guard. I do not quite know. And could face charges.
:12:51. > :12:55.It could be serious because giving false testimony can land you in a
:12:56. > :13:07.Brazilian jail for up to three years. Blame it on Rio I think was
:13:08. > :13:13.the fleas. I have had a couple of good night out in Rio. It is a great
:13:14. > :13:19.city. Tell us more. Maybe later. Thank you for being with us. We will
:13:20. > :13:22.be back at quarter past 11 with another look at the newspapers but
:13:23. > :13:33.before that he is that weather prospects.