Sunday Live This Week

By Adam Boulton SkyNews - Sunday, July 20 01:01 pm

Tim Marshall presented Sunday Live this week, and spoke to Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond , about the British hostages in Iraq. The latest video shows a Scot - only known as Alan - pleading with the government to make a deal with the kidnappers. Mr Salmond, who has had contact with some of the hostages' families, said: "It is an inhumane and dreadful way to treat people and their families. This has been a 14-month agony for all the families." Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg explained his plans to cut £20 billion from public spending, but denied he was moving to the right of the Labour Party. Labour is due to hold talks with the union movement over the party's future manifesto. Unite union's leader, Derek Simpson, told Tim he was not holding the government over a barrel with employment law demands. With hundreds of thousands of school children still awaiting their SAT results, Schools Minister Jim Knight insisted that no decisions have been made over whether the private company marking the papers, ETS, will keep its contract. 'Car Bomb' is the new documentary made by former CIA agent Robert Baer (George Clooney played him in 'Syriana'). He explained that Iran could scupper John McCain's chances as President if it chose to let off a hundered car bombs in Iraq during the election campaign. In sport, former Liverpool star Phil Babb spoke about his 'Loaded for golfers' magazine Golf Punk. He also predicted Greg Norman would fail to win the Open. And the Chair of the British Olympic Association, Lord Moynihan, said he hoped the International Olympic Association would follow the BOA lead in banning drug cheats from the Olympics for life. Time magazine's London bureau chief Catherine Mayer , and Conservative MP Ed Vaizey reviewed the newspapers.

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