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tv   The Papers  BBC News  July 3, 2019 11:30pm-12:01am BST

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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are deputy political editor of the sunday times, caroline wheeler and dawn foster, columnist for the guardian. we have most of tomorrow's front pages now. we begin with the daily telegraph and writing in the paper, tory leadership contender jeremy hunt says he's the one best placed to defeatjeremy corbyn and promises a vote on fox hunting. a pledge by the other candidate, boris johnson, makes the daily mail's lead story — mrjohnson promises an extra 20,000 police on the streets within three years. jeremy corbyn‘s leadership has taken labour to its lowest level of support in polling history — according to the times. meanwhile, the i claims that seventy labour mps face the threat of being sacked by local activists in the event of an election.
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bondmarkets rally as investors cheer christine lagarde‘s nomination to the european central bank — writes the financial times. in an exclusive interview with the daily mirror — the mother of sarah payne opens up about her emotional return to the place where her daughter was abducted. the guardian cites new research suggesting that1 in 10 people in hospital beds in the uk are alcohol—dependent. the front page also has rufus the hawk, watching over wimbledon, and keeping pigeons away from the tennis. let's look at the story on the right of the front page, to the right of the photo, caroline, uk because it," chinese envoy over hong kong". this isa chinese envoy over hong kong". this is a reference to what has happened. the ambassador has been summoned to the foreign office because they have attached the commentsjeremy hunt
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made which was basically that he was cautioning the beijing government against using the demonstrations in hong kong at a pretext for repression. basically, that has been dismissed as being unacceptable and there ambassador has been hauled into the foreign office to be hauled over the coles for those comments. —— coals. this is the end of a golden era we have had in terms of the relations. it was started by david cameron with this relationship with china which has been very much thawing for that period of time and suddenly we are back into this tense situation with them. i went to china following george osborne and boris johnson when they were in a joint love in with the chinese government obviously for business reasons. and we had theresa may calling a halt to
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the power project and now we have huawei and gavin williamson and the controversy huawei and gavin williamson and the c0 ntrove i’sy over huawei and gavin williamson and the controversy over that and now this seems to be a serious dent in that relationship and interesting it should be over a subject like human rights when they have been accusations in recent years the government has been soft paddling on china's human rights record. his very phone from britain, basically saying, look, these protests have been going on for weeks. —— this will not be looked unkindly at all. it reminds me as well that jeremy hunt is acting as a foreign secretary that he is still doing a job, he is still carrying on trying to keep it up while vying for the
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conservative leadership as appears likely to get it but whoever comes in and be comes foreign secretary afterwards will have to deal with this fallout. it is a very firm sta nce this fallout. it is a very firm stance the uk have taken so far and fingers crossed it the escalates. written have been firm with china. —— written. can't say —— you can't criticise written for not getting involved earlier. —— britain. judging by the headline, it has taking china's side. instead of revealing the chinese ambassador is being brought in for a ticking off, it doesn't other way round and says china's ambassador to the uk says
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china's ambassador to the uk says china's relationship with britain has been marred. it is the way it has been marred. it is the way it has flipped it. you get the sense that the guardian is sympathetic to jeremy hunt's position whereas it seems to have been used against jeremy hunt that he has been interfering, by the telegraph. it makes people have lighter degree of sympathy on given we are only 30 yea rs sympathy on given we are only 30 years on from the tiananmen square massacre which was commemorated a few weeks ago. it is still quite fresh in our minds. there is always that latent fear, what if the chinese government to take a similar line in hong kong. it would obviously have wider implications as well but james landale was on earlier, we are supposed to be joint guarantors of the whole hong kong system guarantors of the whole hong kong syste m eve n guarantors of the whole hong kong system even if china thinks that is a historic document that doesn't really matter very much. there is a
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long history of diplomacy and colonialism between the two countries. it is fascinating watching the roles flip with the guardian defending jeremy hunt and the telegraph attacking the conservatives. again, you can see a very clear line here whether telegraph have looked at hong kong, decided how to approach it and clearly decide to look at it through the prism of the conservative leadership. they have been backing borisjohnson the whole leadership. they have been backing boris johnson the whole time so they will use it as a stick to beat jeremy hunt with. tomorrow of all mornings because there is a good headline forjeremy hunt on the telegraph tomorrow. it is and also, i think it even more important, the ballot papers are now going out and what we are expecting is people will fill those out fairly quickly. all they will forget it. people were
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anticipating 80% of the ballot papers being filled in within the first few days. this contest could effectively be over by the middle of next week. that was a jeremy hunt criticism. borisjohnson not debating until it is out of the way. a clanger. when the ballot papers sta rts a clanger. when the ballot papers starts landing on the doorsteps, we have the telegraph which is easily the paper that borisjohnson rights for every monday and we wake up to his missives every monday and they have led with a story onjeremy hunt with the headline, "0nly have led with a story onjeremy hunt with the headline, "only i can stay off the danger ofjeremy corbyn". there have been numerous polls which have put borisjohnson ahead in view of the electorate. it is a staggering 12 percentage points ahead ofjeremy corbyn. this serves to remind us that this is actually a leadership contest which only 160,000 people are going to vote in.
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at the same time, they are having to appeal to this very, very small membership of the conservative party. 0bviously their appeal is wider than that because they want to win the next general election which is why i find the next part of the story even more extraordinary. which is that basically one of the things jeremy hunt is coming out today and saying is that he is going to repeal the foxhunting ban and what we know on the last general election, actually, the pledge to do this by the conservative party was universally unpopular amongst the electorate and this helped to propel jeremy corbyn up the ranking in the polls. its an illustration of how things can be seen differently to a particular prism if you are a political activist or strongly aligned. there is something about the foxhunting vote. even though they may not be in a area where foxhunting is ever, you know, urban areas, big cities, parts of the
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countryside that haven't got active foxes. but this is something the new labour government did, it was the nanny state, interfering with traditional liberties and sometimes we have to be the champion in going against it even if we are not particularly interested in foxhunting. especially, they are making one pitch to the membership and at the same time, really, ultimately, if they are going to become a successful prime minister, they have to make that pitch to the country. sometimes we are seeing those things potentiallyjarring which is again why we are seeing these really very strident approach to brexit. the members of the conservative party really want to leave on the 31st of october whereas joe bloggs, the public, is probably less concerned about that and more concerned about the fact that we are truly have a good brexit which supports the economy and we leave safely.
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0ne one of the tories who was the strongest campaigners on the foxhunting situation. the son has depicted this is a big story. it is all over the front cover of the daily mail. and the daily express. in his campaign, told lots of people, they are happy to pick up anything. he has been on the front of the telegraph for years. now he is, all of the other tabloids here, as it shows with foxhunting, neither jeremy hunt or borisjohnson have any new ideas. borisjohnson jeremy hunt or borisjohnson have any new ideas. boris johnson says 110w any new ideas. boris johnson says now he will bring in 20,000 new police officers. and you think we have heard this before? yes. and whenever conservatives come out with ideas, its always, you know, more bobbies on the beat, cut taxes,
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bring back foxhunting. it is interesting contrast with theresa may because theresa may insisted, first as home secretary and then as prime minister, the austerity years, that there was no link between the number of police officers on the beat and whether or not crime was cut. it seems to have gotten to a point where there is some pushback. presumably he is doing this partly because he thinks tory party members think this will be a good thing. absolutely and the argument that policing numbers and crime aren't linked only get you so far as at the end of the day, voters go with their gut was not if they don't. safe ——if they don't feel safe on the street and there are no police officers, if they phone the police and the police don't come, they don't feel safe, they don't feel safe and they vote
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against the party. three pledges, preserving the union, beating jeremy corbyn and this has gone for forest bobbies. whether he had a record in london? he shut down a few police stations. certainly those close as they have been lots of parts of the country. let's move on onto labour's woes. jeremy corbyn doesn't get of lightly. you have been sniffing around this story for some time. what was going to happen to a lot of these labour mps? this has been on these labour mps? this has been on the cards for several years but at the cards for several years but at the labour party conference last year, it was made considerably easierfor them to lodge year, it was made considerably easier for them to lodge this trigger ballot process. you had to wait and they could have done it at any point for the labour party triggering this particular process.
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they gave mps two weeks in order to say whether or not they were going to stand again for the next general election and if they indicated that they were going to stand again, that triggers a formal process. if the local constituents want to challenge that. it is a potential for the moderate mps although this story does point out, it could impact on some ofjeremy corbyn‘s allies, to deselect those mps and replace them with people who they see as being potentially more like minded. the way in which the i has picked up this story, there are potentially 70 labourmps, a huge this story, there are potentially 70 labour mps, a huge number.‘ this story, there are potentially 70 labour mps, a huge number. a quarter 01’ labour mps, a huge number. a quarter or something? obviously this is going to be an incredibly divisive few weeks for the labour party is this process moves forward because of because this is what they have been fearing, that they no longer
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wa nt been fearing, that they no longer want these middle—of—the—road mps that perhaps served under tony blair and some of the more centrist governments is that they are going to replace them with more left—wingers. to replace them with more left-wingers. other any names they are giving as examples? hilary benn? two there is a big list. when you go through the story. diane abbott is unlikely to be threatened. it mentions laura patek who is a big ally. christie williams. s mentions laura patek who is a big ally. christie williams. 5 yes, a lot of these people don't seem to be facing a massive threat. —— i live in vauxhall and almost all party members there have been trying to deselect kate hoey and it is an ardent process. i think a lot of people who say they could possibly face the selection, you are often talking about the very beginning of the process. ellie reeves.
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talking about the very beginning of the process. ellie reeveslj remember the process. ellie reeves.” remember talking to chris mullin. he wrote a book about how to deselect yourmp wrote a book about how to deselect your mp back wrote a book about how to deselect yourmp back in wrote a book about how to deselect your mp back in the 70s. his argument shows that the selection shows are to be for different reasons. 0ften shows are to be for different reasons. often it has been because mps have been around for a long time and have been lazy or out of touch, it wasn't about a left or right thing. evenjeremy corbyn allies could face it, let alone critics. his mp had been down since the 19305, his mp had been down since the 1930s, this is at the end of the 70s. he owned the officers the local party worked out of, his secretary
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in his office and law firm was also the secretary of the local clp so he had the place looked down and only by getting this process could they have any chance of getting of him. when he put it in those terms, you could feel some sympathy for activists, you could feel they are stuck with an mp that maybe they don't feel represents them. that would be the argument was not if you had jeremy corbyn in here, that would be the argument. this is about making the process more democratic. in terms of letting local people choose the people that they want to represent them. after all, that is what parliament is supposed to be which is a microcosm of society. if you are getting people that don't really reflect the local views held by the constituents, that's a good argument for doing it. u nfortu nately, argument for doing it. unfortunately, there has been this deep suspicion that the reasons behind it... pointscoring. when you see the names of, louise elmund. 0ne of the most painful conversations i
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have had with anybody, talking about the service of which she has made to the service of which she has made to the party. actually feeling utterly devastated that she is being rejected by this party that she loves it so passionately and has worked so hard for. 0bviously, she is also a jewish mp as well some of the tensions around that which have been just truly, you the tensions around that which have beenjust truly, you know, appalling. it can be quite traumatising, can't it? some of the consequences seen in the times story about labour polling, and we have to have all the caveats about polling, but suggesting that the party is at a historic low. labour were doing relatively well off the back of the conservative party kind of collapsing into a kind of end of theresa may's rain, and now it seems as though they have dropped massively, and it will be interesting to see whether or not
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this is actually borne out in a kind of long—term sort of trend or whether it is a small bounce that comes from the fact that they in, day out, all of the media attention at the moment understandably is on the conservative party —— reign. at the moment understandably is on the conservative party -- reign. so basically it has put them fourth place behind the conservatives, the lib dems and the brexit party. almost all the polls have been first and second, but again, it remains to be seen how for instance the brexit party will translate to westminster seats. even if it never... it almost never worked for ukip, did it? seats. even if it never... it almost neverworked for ukip, did it? nigel farage tried many times. and we have first past the post representation. a bit of light relief from politics, although i say light and it is not light at all. the front of the guardian, the massive burden of alcohol. i sort of think we knew
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that alcohol abuse was one of the kind of problems that was loading the health service with extra difficulties. what is interesting about this is the actual figures, they are citing that one in ten people in hospital beds in the uk are alcohol dependent and one in five are doing themselves harm by drinking. the interesting thing is to delve deeper in that and to work out what exactly that means. because we we re out what exactly that means. because we were curious to know what it meant to be a problem drinker or what they describe as being alcohol dependent. it seems to suggest that basically you are alcohol dependent if you have... if you drink sort of more than once a week, or certainly the terminology for binge drinking we are looking at is like two glasses of wine. for women, binge drinking is two pints or two glasses of wine in one evening. and is there anything you want to share with us while you are here? it sounds like the life of the average political journalist. this is water, i can honestly assure you of that. it is
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interesting because you think, those are not necessarily the definitions that most punters would use. medics would use them. most would think a drinking problem would be getting up and having sort of vodka on your brea kfast and having sort of vodka on your breakfast cereal or drinking a bottle of wine a night or something. but i think the importance of that story... whiskey in the porridge. perhaps the accepted norms on alcohol that we all think is acceptable, a glass of wine when you come in every evening after work... in other words, we may be deluding ourselves. let's end with a fun story. the funniest it's going to get tonight, let me be honest with you. this is on the front of the times, about bosses' and workers' smartphones. trade unions are wanting that they have had increasing reports that more and more companies are stopping people from bringing their smartphones with them too, you know, throughout work. and obviously this has happened in
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cafe ‘s and a lot of bars, in factory work, et cetera, for a long time. but now it appears people are moving into officejobs time. but now it appears people are moving into office jobs as well. so the plan is to stop you from using social media, from texting friends, all the things you can do on your smartphone. and it seems to be a way for employers to really fully control you while you are in their pat’- control you while you are in their pay. so from 9am to 5pm you are not allowed to check facebook. do you think they might do you a favour if they took away your smartphone in they took away your smartphone in the office? i think my husband would quite like to take away my smartphone at home, as well, actually. i remember when you would come home and watch the television together and actually talk to each other, rather than use it there and one of you, usually me, is flicking through the news, tweeting, whatever else, and that perhaps we are losing a bit of that kind of social interaction. so the moral message
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from tonight's papers, put down your smartphone, turn off the screen, and talk to your loved ones before you go to sleep tonight. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it is all there for you seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers, and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, caroline wheeler and dawn foster. goodbye. good evening, i'm gavin ramjaun. this is your latest sports news. england are into the semi—finals of the cricket world cup. they thrashed new zealand today at chester—le—street, winning by 119 runs. it is the first time they have made
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a semi—final at the world cup since 1992, and they did it thanks to a second consecutive century from england openerjonny bairstow. that set up england for a big total. but they eventually set nz 306 to win, a total that might have been in reach for their opponents had they not lost their key batsman, kane williamson, in such unlucky circumstances. that slight touch from mark wood onto the stumps meant he was run out at the non—striker‘s end, and england went on to a convincing win. it means they are set to finish third in the world cup table, and will meet india or australia next thursday for a place in the final. the way in which we played i think is more satisfying than the actual win, because if you win the game, you go through to the next game or the following test, you know, full of confidence. i'm realising today isa similar of confidence. i'm realising today is a similar instance. i think that we could did change after 25 overs, but in teams i've played within the past, we would have played a com pletely past, we would have played a completely different game to 25 overs and not made the most it. today we did, and it was probably
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the winning of the game. the netherlands will play the united states in the women's world cup final this sunday, after an extra—time win over sweden in lyon. the match was goalless after 90 minutes, but then jackie groenen scored in the first period of extra—time to give the netherlands the lead, and they held on to secure the victory. it is their second successive major tournament final, after they won the european championships, and now face a showdown with the current world champions. manchester city are set to break their club transfer record and sign spain international midfielder rodri. his current club, atletico madrid, say the player's lawyers and representatives from city have paid the release clause, worth £62.6 million, to la liga earlier today. rodri has therefore terminated his contract with atletico, which was due to run untiljune 2023. she shocked the world with her first—round win over venus williams. now, 15—year—old coco gauff is at it again. the teenage qualifier is through to the third round at wimbledon, after another convincing win today. the american beat magdalena rybarikova 6—3, 6—3 0n court number one, under the new roof.
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the slovak had no answer for gauff, who tookjust over an hour to get thejob done. up next is slovenia's polona hercog. yes, i think i played well, especially on the pressure points. she was serving amazing, so it was kind of hard to return sometimes. sometimes i was up 110—15 and she would return somehow. does reputation, experience matter to you? does reputation, experience matter to you ? does it reputation, experience matter to you? does it matter who is on the other side of the net? no, not at all. i think i can beat anyone who's across the court. if i don't think i can win the match, i won't even step on the court. novak djokovic eased into the next round with a convincing display, beating american denis kudla in straight sets in just over an hour and half. djokovic is the defending champion, and won 6—3, 6—2, 6—2. the world number one is chasing
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a fifth wimbledon title. poland's hubert hurkacz is up next for him. british men's number one, kyle edmund, is out though. he was three games from victory before a slip and fatigue derailed him in a five—set loss to spain's fernando verdasco. british women's number two, heather watson, was also knocked out, by anett kontaveit. andy murray will be in action tomorrow when he plays in the men's doubles. however, it is his mixed doubles partnership with serena williams that has everyone talking. their first—round opponents will be andreas mies from germany and alexa guarachi from chile, and murray has been explaining just why he decided tojoin up with the legendary american. you know, the opportunity to play with serena, she is one of the best tennis players of all time, but one of the biggest female athletes ever. something that i may never get another chance to do, and i also
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might not potentially play mixed doubles again. so if i'm going to do it once, the chance to play with her is obviously, you know, brilliant, and not something i expected to happen. that's all the sport for now. goodnight. and a good evening to you from the bbc weather centre, a last look at the weather before you head to bed, perhaps, and for some over the next couple of days there's going to be someone than some sunshine. for others, well, not so much. this is how it looked across scotland today. a lot of cloud overhead today. you can see that on the satellite picture. that cloud is going to continue to work its way in as we go
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through tonight and into tomorrow, and that cloud will eventually bring some outbreaks of rain. the rain confined to the northern end western isles as we go through the small hours. some extra cloud into scotla nd hours. some extra cloud into scotland and parts of northern ireland. further south we give them clear spells, turning a little bit chilly for some rural spots in england and wales, but the vast majority of places holding up to between nine and 12 degrees. for tomorrow, the best of the sunshine will always be found across southern areas. for the north we have this cloud moving across scotland into northern ireland, the far north of england, and outbreaks of rain particularly across the northern half of scotland. the heaviest rain a lwa ys half of scotland. the heaviest rain always to be found over heels in the west. but further south, where we have that sunshine, tomorrow is going to be a warmer day than today was. 2a degrees in birmingham and cardiff. when essex and london, i think that's the sort of temperature we could well attain at wimbledon. tomorrow afternoon, as you can see from our graphic here, largely blue skies overhead. a very pleasant day if you are heading in that direction. then through tomorrow evening, southern areas will end the day with sunshine and then see clear spells further north. we have these cloud and patchy rain associated with a few different frontal systems wriggling across the north of the uk. this cold front here is going to become pivotal as we head towards
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the weekend. the front bringing some rain across northern scotland on friday. cloud into northern england, northern ireland. the further south you are, the midlands, wales, southern england, again a very warm 27 degrees in the london area, whereas further north it will be cooler under the cloud, with the outbreaks of rain. it is those temperatures that really set the scene for the weekend. because this cold front then slips its way southwards as we get into saturday. then gets stuck across southern england and south wales for a time. behind it the wind switches north—westerly as the attendance cooler. here is ourfront on saturday. at the end of cloud, the odd spot of rain sinking across the south of the uk. elsewhere, patchy cloud and sunny spells, but with those coming from the north and north—west, not especially brisk for most of us. the wind bringing that cool air across the uk. 13 degrees in aberdeen, 20 in plymouth by this stage. looking ahead to sunday, still with a slightly lower temperatures, there will be a lot of cloud but some spells of sunshine as well. there is more weather through the night, but from me, for now, it is good night.
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i'm mariko 0i in singapore, the headlines: an international row over hong kong. britain summons china's ambassador as a war of words erupts over the protests in the territory. hands of hong kong and show respect of what has been achieved in hong kong and the one country, two systems. more than a million people are told to leave their homes injapan because of torrential rain and flooding. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme: a nailbiting finish in lyon sees the netherlands go through to the final of the women's world cup. they'll face the us. diagnosing dementia in under an hour —

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