:00:00. > :00:19.Now on BBC News it's time now for The Papers
:00:20. > :00:22.Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be
:00:23. > :00:25.With me are the political commentator Vincent Moss
:00:26. > :00:31.Today's front pages, starting with...
:00:32. > :00:33.The Sunday Times leads on North Korea AND says
:00:34. > :00:39.President Trump is prepared to strike Korean nuclear sites.
:00:40. > :00:42.The Mail on Sunday also leads with the rising tensions around
:00:43. > :00:46.North Korea and their threat to wipe out the United States armada.
:00:47. > :00:49.The Sunday Telegraph goes with the potential threat to America
:00:50. > :00:54.It says that North Korea possesses the capability
:00:55. > :01:01.The Express simply calls it the Deadliest Stand-off.
:01:02. > :01:03.And the Observer leads on an education story,
:01:04. > :01:07.saying that free schools will benefit wealthier regions.
:01:08. > :01:22.The Sunday Times. Sean, this very emotive headline next to a
:01:23. > :01:26.photograph of a soldier saluting at this big display of military
:01:27. > :01:34.hardware in Pyongyang. Trump ready to strike Kim's nuclear sites.
:01:35. > :01:37.Really? President Trump is not afraid to use his military
:01:38. > :01:42.resources. We have seen that as a matter of fact in the past two
:01:43. > :01:45.weeks. What is interesting is that we have seen tensions ratcheting up
:01:46. > :01:56.in the United States and North Korea. Specialists would say that
:01:57. > :02:01.China has got North Korea under control, but the danger is we have
:02:02. > :02:05.had various missile tests. It's like the son and daughter of Star Wars,
:02:06. > :02:16.the notion of missiles being shot down midair. That is causing tension
:02:17. > :02:25.with the North Koreans. We have this described by the Americans overnight
:02:26. > :02:32.as a failed missile launch. Can we relax? No, they will keep trying.
:02:33. > :02:40.The papers are reporting about how dangerous North Korea is, but there
:02:41. > :02:44.were printed before the missile fail. Most experts think that within
:02:45. > :02:53.two or three years they will have the capability to strike at America
:02:54. > :02:57.and this is what the Sunday Times story is talking about. North Korea
:02:58. > :03:01.will do anything when it comes to America. We have not seen any
:03:02. > :03:10.evidence though, apart from increasing American concern. At the
:03:11. > :03:15.moment the issues seems to be that they have the capability to fire
:03:16. > :03:18.missiles, but they don't necessarily have the capability to put a nuclear
:03:19. > :03:25.warhead onto a missile, but they could get that. The US is a big
:03:26. > :03:28.country. It doesn't have to reach Washington, there are places like
:03:29. > :03:35.Hawaii, which are nearer. That's right. One thing that North Korea
:03:36. > :03:41.has missiles that launch satellites into space. There is the
:03:42. > :03:45.technicality of going into the earth's orbit and coming back and
:03:46. > :03:55.striking downwards. They have theoretically got the ability to
:03:56. > :04:00.deliver a nuclear tipped missile. It is a bit precise. The question many
:04:01. > :04:03.people must ask is why are we concerned today and ten months in
:04:04. > :04:07.the future or ten months in the past? That's a good point, one that
:04:08. > :04:18.is echoed on the front of the mail on Sunday. Quite a dramatic
:04:19. > :04:29.headline. Kim's threat to annihilate Trump's Marder. These missiles don't
:04:30. > :04:33.need to reach America or Europe, they could just reach South Korea or
:04:34. > :04:43.Japan to be a threat and that is what makes this escalation is a
:04:44. > :04:55.dangerous. The Chinese are now starting to get a bit more muscular
:04:56. > :05:02.and interested in it. The papers seem to be trying to make Britain
:05:03. > :05:07.part of this, but when not. -- but we're not. We've never been more
:05:08. > :05:14.impotent when it comes to conflict like this and our place at the table
:05:15. > :05:22.is different and Brexit will make it worse. We do still have an
:05:23. > :05:27.international profile. It could be a bigger profile because we run her to
:05:28. > :05:37.coordinate constantly our response with the EU. But we will have two
:05:38. > :05:41.coordinates with Nato, and we are one of the biggest members, along
:05:42. > :05:52.with the United States. Vincent, you make a big point. The Russian
:05:53. > :05:57.ambassador said that Britain is irrelevant and we don't have an
:05:58. > :06:10.independent view. But we do still have a lot of influence.
:06:11. > :06:16.The second any missile start flying, Britain will be involved. Let's get
:06:17. > :06:21.back to the Sunday Times for a change of tempo, as it were. As
:06:22. > :06:27.everyone will know, it is Easter Sunday. Some people will be taking
:06:28. > :06:37.advantage of having a lying, eating Easter eggs. Have you started? Not
:06:38. > :06:49.yet. I'll wait to choose day when they are cheaper. I've got a real
:06:50. > :06:52.chocolate addiction. Now, Theresa May speaks out for Christian
:06:53. > :07:01.Britain. She is the daughter of a vicar. Well, her message is quite
:07:02. > :07:04.similar to that of David Cameron last year. Religious tolerance, let
:07:05. > :07:19.everyone practice their faith without interference. You suggesting
:07:20. > :07:29.that someone is wrote it for that? -- that someone else wrote it for
:07:30. > :07:48.her? Possibly. She has weighed in about the meaning of Easter. Some
:07:49. > :07:52.politicians have been reticent. It is Easter Sunday and the Sunday
:07:53. > :08:01.Times, quite rightly that other papers, reflects on that. If you are
:08:02. > :08:15.a tabloid, you have a bonny, if you are able broadsheet, there is some
:08:16. > :08:29.religious content. Now, a story about builders who have an earth --
:08:30. > :08:37.on earth some hidden remains of five archbishops of Canterbury. As I
:08:38. > :08:49.understand it, they winched the smartphone down.
:08:50. > :09:01.They say there is an app for everything! It seems they have seen
:09:02. > :09:11.the Archbishop's feel on 30 Coppins. It is a genuinely Easter exclusive.
:09:12. > :09:18.The best quote is from one of the people who found it. He said, we
:09:19. > :09:23.come across a lot of bones in this job, but we knew it was different
:09:24. > :09:32.when we found an Archbishop's crown on one of them. People try to be
:09:33. > :09:40.respectful, but there is a lot of building work going on and it is
:09:41. > :09:48.possible that maybe they did not notice it. One of these archbishops
:09:49. > :09:56.could have overseen the King James Bible. It's a great find. Hopefully
:09:57. > :10:01.at some point we will see the images of this mobile phone being lowered
:10:02. > :10:08.into this sort of vault. Did anyone filmed the people filming it? I
:10:09. > :10:13.often accidentally pressed the video instead of the still because I'm a
:10:14. > :10:16.bit hopeless, even with the smartphone, so they could have done
:10:17. > :10:25.inadvertently. If you are watching and you have the moving pictures,
:10:26. > :10:38.send them to us. If you discover any historical Coppins anywhere, then
:10:39. > :10:44.tweet us. Let us go back to the Observer. As they go back, we
:10:45. > :10:56.haven't looked at it yet. Let's start with this story. Putin set to
:10:57. > :11:02.lose EU crown jewels. I didn't know that the EU had crown jewels. Two of
:11:03. > :11:07.them you may not be familiar with, but it is from the Observer's source
:11:08. > :11:11.correspondent. He is pointing out there could be a double humiliation
:11:12. > :11:19.because we could lose the European banking authority and the European
:11:20. > :11:26.medicines agency, which employs about 1000 people. What does it
:11:27. > :11:37.matter? It's about a talent drain. The Observer is so this is the
:11:38. > :11:40.start, another impact of Brexit. EU -based bodies will go somewhere
:11:41. > :11:47.else. It is making the point that it comes at a time where we will not
:11:48. > :11:56.get the backing from Brussels and the 27 member countries. There is a
:11:57. > :11:59.box and to play devils advocate slightly, they will have two sort of
:12:00. > :12:05.move when Britain is no longer a four member of the EU. Is it a
:12:06. > :12:14.double humiliation that they have moved 18 months early? Maybe it is.
:12:15. > :12:18.One were covering the campaign by Britain to get the Olympics, which
:12:19. > :12:22.was a long time ago, Jacques Chirac said there was an argument about
:12:23. > :12:28.whether the European food agency will be based. I think he was
:12:29. > :12:31.fighting with the Norwegians. It's completely overshadowed his attempt
:12:32. > :12:36.to lobby for Paris because he said some rude things about Norwegian
:12:37. > :12:40.food in the headlines followed him to Singapore. Staying with the
:12:41. > :12:45.Observer, an interesting story about schools, Sean. What you make of
:12:46. > :12:53.this? Free schools boom helps the richest. It's a claim by the
:12:54. > :12:58.National Union of Teachers that money is wasted, to use the words,
:12:59. > :13:01.on free schools and technical colleges and academy schools that
:13:02. > :13:07.have either closed or not opened in the first place. To put it into
:13:08. > :13:13.context, what is not tangible and what is not reported is out of the
:13:14. > :13:20.investment that was made, some good seeds as well as bad seeds were
:13:21. > :13:26.sown. We'd know to what extent it is a total waste of money, but it's a
:13:27. > :13:29.lot cash. There are about 800 of these schools, free from local
:13:30. > :13:35.authority control. But Italy's into the wider issue as well, as we
:13:36. > :13:38.discussed was so much money being spent on free schools, obviously at
:13:39. > :13:44.the moment moving forward with grammar schools as well, it is a
:13:45. > :13:50.politician's dream, isn't it? Yes. Education is becoming a hot potato
:13:51. > :13:57.for the government. Labour research says that 20 of the most deprived
:13:58. > :14:04.areas would get just 12 of the gnu free schools announced. It is
:14:05. > :14:08.middle-class, sharp elbowed parents who can set these up. David Lloyd
:14:09. > :14:16.wrote a good piece in the Observer. He argues for evidence led
:14:17. > :14:28.arguments. People should look at the evidence. Lord Baker, the former
:14:29. > :14:33.Education Secretary, one of his successors Michael Gove thought that
:14:34. > :14:36.these free schools were a failure. There is a big debate about them.
:14:37. > :14:42.They are saying we are good value and are helping children who would
:14:43. > :14:50.not otherwise get a good education, but it seems that the government are
:14:51. > :14:56.less enthusiastic. Free schools are getting far less oversight. You
:14:57. > :15:05.often see people saying, I went to a grammar school and it was great.
:15:06. > :15:12.People who went to secondary modern that seemed to do that. Where did
:15:13. > :15:23.you go? I went to a comprehensive. Comprehensive as well.
:15:24. > :15:32.There is a valid point though that people from the media are from
:15:33. > :15:35.grammar schools. Now, you both have opinions on this. Kelvin MacKenzie's
:15:36. > :15:42.column on Friday. A stackable offence? Yes. Anything stackable in
:15:43. > :15:49.the world of commercial paper is because what you have to look at is
:15:50. > :16:00.the bottom line. There are all sorts of suggestions about what he said.
:16:01. > :16:03.It needs to be investigated. For someone who has worked on tabloids,
:16:04. > :16:10.I do know the oversight that would have gone into that. It should have
:16:11. > :16:15.been seen by sub editors. When Kelvin says the L Word, as in
:16:16. > :16:22.Liverpool, that should set alarm bells ringing. Thank you both. Happy
:16:23. > :16:29.Easter to you. You can go off and relax and read the papers.
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