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hello. this is bbc news with reeta chakra barti. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment, first the headlines: the prime minister says he's marginally more optimistic about striking a brexit deal after meeting g7 leaders in france, saying it the job of everyone in parliament to deliver on time. leaders at the summit pledge $22 million to help tackle the devastating fires in the amazon rainforest. an oklahoma judge rules that drugmakerjohnson &johnson must pay $572 million for its part in fuelling the state's opioid addiction crisis. the largest earthquake thought to be caused by a fracking site in the uk has been felt in lancashire. and record—breaking weather —
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the hottest late august bank holiday sees temperatures hit 33 degrees celsius. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are kevin schofield, editor of politicshome, and broadcaster daisy mcandrew. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the i leads with boris johnson's brexit plans, as he says he will make brexit supporters peers in order to erode support to remain in the eu. the guardian also takes a look at the prime minister's plans and rumours that he would shut down parliament to force through a no—deal brexit. the times front page features controversial plans by the archbishop of canterbury to chair public meetings looking at alternatives
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to a no—deal brexit. the telegraph reports on government plans to boost phone signal and wireless coverage in rural areas by removing planning restrictions on phone masts. the metro focuses on criticism of donald trump after he missed a climate meeting at the g7 summit. the daily mail leads with its investigation into unpaid nhs fees. it says patients from overseas owe more than £150 million. well, shall we start with the guardian and its front page, kevin? grave abuse of power if the prime minister shuts parliament and we've had several days of the prime minister abroad shaking hands on the red carpet, so to speak, and now back to westminster and reality i suppose. mps come back from summer recess next week but already people
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are gearing up for what's going to bea are gearing up for what's going to be a pretty tumultuous parliamentary session. tomorrowjeremy corbyn will meet with other opposition party leaders, the lib dems, the greens, plaid cymru, snp to discuss basically how they're going to stop a no—deal brexit and talk tactics. there already splits overjeremy corbyn saying that he should be the alternative caretaker prime minister if the government is brought down with a vote of no confidence. the guardian is revealing labour have some legal advice from shami chakrabarti, some legal advice from shami chakra barti, labour frontbencher in the house of lords, saying that if there... if boris johnson the house of lords, saying that if there... if borisjohnson tries to peraud or suspend parliament in order to force through a no deal by october the 31st then it would be open to legal challenges. says it would be the gravest abuse of power and attack on uk constitutional principle in living memory. that gives you a flavour of the next few
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weeks, it's going to be political hand to hand combat. also a lot of money going into lawyers' pockets. you've seen the start of the legal advice and we know whatever legal advice and we know whatever legal advice the labour party is getting, the government will be getting twice as much. very expensive legal advice and the labour party pointing to gina miller's famous victory in the courts saying that set a precedent that courts can tell parliament what to in certain cases. may be in this case if parliament was prorogued. he's talking about parading parliament and shutting down parliament and shutting down parliament but only because he would be bringing in a new queen's speech, which we know is rubbish, that's not the real reason he wants to tie their hands and stop them doing this possible vote of no confidence and this idea that jeremy corbyn, possible vote of no confidence and this idea thatjeremy corbyn, as kevin was saying, could be a caretaker prime minister and then call a general election. as you were saying, they got this big meeting tomorrow with the opposition leaders but they are slagging each other
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off. the least cohesive group. there is no unity. jeremy corbyn says as the leader of the opposition position, if the government falls he should become prime minister and it's incumbent on the other opposition parties to support him but that won't go down well with jo swinson, the lib dem leader, who said she won't support making him prime minister. straightaway there isa prime minister. straightaway there is a split in the call it what you wa nt is a split in the call it what you want remain anti—brexit, anti—government camp that plays into boris johnson's and. if they anti—government camp that plays into borisjohnson‘s and. if they are anti—government camp that plays into boris johnson's and. if they are not of that emboldens him and strengthens his position. at the g7 summit in biarritz he refused to rule out provoking parliament. not something he wants to do. the story was revealed on the weekend he asked the attorney general geoffrey cox to provide legal advice if parliament
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could the shutdown for five weeks. until october the 15th, that's a long time. that would be a huge constitutional crisis. —— could be shut down. the times has a different story on the brexit story. this is justin welby. we know he's been a very political archbishop of canterbury since he took office. i have mixed emotions. he is clearly a great guy in many ways and he's an impressive speaker but i'm not sure about... as some have put it political meddling. i don't think it's particularly useful. he's saying he's going to chair these assemblies which would lead to a bit more national unity and saying that there's national reconciliation and it would happen in canterbury cathedral, a symbol of post—world war ii reconciliation. just to make it clear, there is
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plans for a citizens assembly aimed at averting a no—deal brexit. that's what's controversial. he talks about reconciliation, but of course it's extremely controversial because it's a very strong no—deal position. of course, on the other side he's saying there would be all different voices and opinions there, and people like frank field say they support it. his other bishops have been quoted here in support. one of them, the bishop of burnley, says there appears to be a new mood in global politics that delights in division, that's certainly true, and the willingness for the archbishop to exercise his ministry as a bridge builder and to exercise his ministry as a bridge builderand a to exercise his ministry as a bridge builder and a reconcile is a potent way to achieve this but i'm not sure it would do that. it would just irritate a lot of people. is it possible to old bridges whether your the archbishop of canterbury or not? i'm not sure, but it would be difficult. it says the aim is to
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come up with an alternative to no—deal which i don't think it's possible —— build bridges whether you are the archbishop of canterbury or not. i don't think the public will be able to think of things workable and not thought of before inafew workable and not thought of before in a few weeks before the october deadline, that's pretty ambitious. the times, they broke the story this morning that archbishop welby wanted to chair the citizens assembly, they have gone to brexiteers iain duncan smith, mark francois. unsurprisingly they are telling the archbishop of canterbury to get his nose out of their business essentially and to leave brexit to the politicians. also the idea that there can be reconciliation in a few weeks when the country... all the opinion polls tell us the country is still bitterly divided and has been since the referendum. i think again that is pretty ambitious. on a hiding to nothing! i think so. the telegraph
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has another brexit story. the prime minister sends brexit sherpa to brussels to get the deal done. who is the brexit sherpa? his name is david frost, mrjohnson's brexit sherpa. the brexit adviser, heading off to brussels. kevin and i were chatting about this earlier. we know august is a difficult time for news stories and it strikes me that numberio sends their stories and it strikes me that number 10 sends their brexit expert to brussels to talk about brexit... is it news? i'm not sure it's news. another brexit story but it doesn't ta ke another brexit story but it doesn't take the story anywhere really. you heard borisjohnson as well in the headlines they're saying that he is marginally more optimistic that a deal can be done. i read somewhere that the chances of a deal have gone up that the chances of a deal have gone up from 10% to 15%. according to eu officials. this is clutching at straws really. as daisy said, this
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is the guy'sjob. straws really. as daisy said, this is the guy's job. more of a story if he wasn't going to brussels. sunning himself in the south of france, that would be a story! we shouldn't get too excited about the fact david frost is going out there. the mood music has may improved a little bit and there's one thing that is for certain, since boris johnson and there's one thing that is for certain, since borisjohnson has become prime minister, brussels has had to take the prospect of no—deal more seriously and when theresa may was prime minister they suspected her heart wasn't really in it as much as she talked about no—deal being better than a bad deal, when push came to shout they didn't think she had the nerve to go for it. borisjohnson has she had the nerve to go for it. boris johnson has made she had the nerve to go for it. borisjohnson has made clear that he definitely does. david frost is going out there but both sides still appear poles apart on the key issue ofan appear poles apart on the key issue of an alternative to the backstop. borisjohnson once of an alternative to the backstop. boris johnson once it of an alternative to the backstop. borisjohnson once it ripped out but brussels have said give us a look and alternative and thus far there doesn't seem be one.
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brussels will be interested in the other stories where talking about, whether parliament can stop a no—deal because if parliament can they don't need to worry about it as much as if they couldn't, which is borisjohnson's much as if they couldn't, which is boris johnson's argument all along, taking away his lowercase trump card. he was questioned at a press co nfe re nce card. he was questioned at a press conference in biarritz this afternoon, trusting people like john be rcow afternoon, trusting people like john bercow and other parliamentarians will take their responsibilities seriously, in other words not get up to the shenanigans they will discuss in this meeting tomorrow afternoon. that's pretty hopeful from the prime minister, there will be a lot of parliamentary shenanigans between now and october the 31st. is a story like this useful for the prime minister, story or nonstory, you say he would be going but it shows as energy and momentum? exactly, it shows something is happening but not a plan. david frost isn't going out there with a piece of paper saying i've cracked it, this is how we
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replace the backstop. ok. let's go to the front page of the metro, which has got president donald trump on the front. what planet is trump on, what is this about, kevin? the picture tells the story of world leaders at the g7 summit. emmanuel macron and angela merkel but in the middle there's an mdc where donald trump should have been setting and this is where they we re been setting and this is where they were discussing, at macron‘s insistence, the amazon fires and what the global community can do to tackle the situation and the climate crisis -- tackle the situation and the climate crisis —— an empty seat. donald trump was conspicuous by his absence. obviously he's a climate sceptic, but i heard him say at his press co nfe re nce sceptic, but i heard him say at his press conference that no—one knows more about the environment than he does, so we'll take that with a pinch of salt. his excuse for not being there was that he had
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important meetings with the leaders of india and germany. a slight hole in that excuse was they managed to make it to the meeting but he didn't. sounds like he was making it up. clearly he doesn't want to be there and he didn't want to put his name to this agreement that they've come to to try to tackle the problem. once again, huge questionmarks over his environmental credentials despite what he says about his own personal expertise. interestingly, the g7, when you look at those pictures highlighting trump wasn't at that meeting and the famous picture yesterday with them around the... you look at the individual leaders there, it's a lot of lame—duck prime ministers and presidents. apart from raising a little bit of money to save the amazon burning down, they are very weak asa amazon burning down, they are very weak as a g7 at the moment. the italian government falling, merkel about to leave. every single one of
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them has significant problems at home. what on earth could they achieve in this meeting? you wonder whether it wasn't convenient for other leaders that donald trump wasn't there because at least they could then agree to a certain amount of money. not a lot... one of the things trump has consistently said is that america is going to stop picking up the tab for other countries, other countries aren't pulling their weight and you're right, you can see him turning around and saying hang on a minute, we're forever signing cheques for the global community and it's time for you guys to start pulling your weight. boris johnson has for you guys to start pulling your weight. borisjohnson has announced £10 million. that's a drop in the ocean. it is. it isn't terribly much. interesting and hilarious he felt he had time to tweet his denial about this story that's been doing the rounds, saying he suggested firing nuclear bombs at hurricanes. that will show them! that was his genius idea allegedly. he has
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tweeted denying that was his great idea. it is good that we know that then, isn't it? the front page of then, isn't it? the front page of the daily mail, domestic story about the daily mail, domestic story about the nhs. kevin? this is a classic daily mail story. they've done an investigation into how much overseas patients have caused the nhs, and a p pa re ntly patients have caused the nhs, and apparently it's £150 million in unpaid bills. so this is essentially foreign visitors to this country taking — making use of the and adjust for whatever reason and then not paying the bills they were due to pay after they've received the treatment. now in one case, one patient owes £500,000, or at least the country where the patient is
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from owes £500,000. and there is a relu cta nce from owes £500,000. and there is a reluctance on frontline nhs staff to chase these payments which could pay for thousands of heart bypasses or hundreds of junior doctors. so for thousands of heart bypasses or hundreds ofjunior doctors. so this is an issue that has been kicked around a lot. successive governments say they have got to clamp down on it and nothing seems to be done. say they have got to clamp down on it and nothing seems to be donelj do think there are holes in this story. £150 million over a number of years. when you first hear it you think it's injust a single year, but in the story theyjust a several years or a number but in the story theyjust a several years ora numberof but in the story theyjust a several years or a number of years, which is a warning signal. the other thing is the nhs did do a big pilot scheme la st the nhs did do a big pilot scheme last year, doing lots of what checks and they looked at — they take 9000 patients and they found 50 who
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shouldn't have been getting free treatment and got charged —— spot checks. the person who owes £500,000, she is a nigerian woman who was on her way to america to have her quadruplets. she went into labour when she landed. she was accidentally here, and then two of them died prematurely and the other two were in neonatal. it was an extraordinary case, it wasn't the tourism it was betrayed to be. the aid is free to anybody, that is the rules. then the eu claims it. doctors have gotten very upset about this, saying docs not cops, they aren't meant to be investigating who is who and who is what and who can get white, and i agree. i don't
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think it should be doctors who should have to do it, it should be management or someone else should have to do it, it should be management or someone else rather than the clinical staff. yeah, the entrance to the story is sort of people taking advantage of the incredibly generous nhs, but the details below change things. and brits abroad getting treatment costs foreign countries five times more than what we give for free, partly because brits abroad are older. so they need more, again. lets go to they need more, again. lets go to the telegraph. aims to harness mobile blind spots. cavern? this is nikki morgan, —— banish mobile blind spots. so they are going to rip up the planning rules to allow mobile phone companies to get rid of these
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blindspots. there are parts of the country where mobile phone reception is patchy at best, particularly in the countryside. these rules limiting the size of masts will be torn up, allowing bigger limits were in the hope —— in the hope that they will get a better reception in the countryside regardless of who they hold their mobile phone contracts with. it's fine on the face of it, but you can imagine it will cause a lot of people to say, this is beautiful, rolling countryside and i will have a massive own mast in the middle of it. so on one hand, it's a blight on the landscape to get a better phone reception. i'm not sure about it. rural areas suffering
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reception, mobile phones used to be a luxury, now they are a necessity. businesses will struggle if they can't get coverage. i like this is a plan the network providers came up with. they are actually going to work together rather than work against each other, which is something. but there will be people complaining about the look of them. there are so many people sceptical about the health impacts. nothing has ever really be improved, but there are lots and lots of people who believe there are cancer clusters around these mast and things. so i expect we can hear more about that. let me take you back to the front page of the times. the news for optimists. optimists live longer. but there isn't a great many of them, these days. so despite
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evidence, you could look to living perhaps 285 and beyond. you would imagine that if you have good health, you would be a more cheerful person —— 85 years old. health, you would be a more cheerful person -- 85 years old. so it is a bit of a chicken and egg situation. 50% more likely to live longer. 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's 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 kevin schofield and daisy mcandrew. goodbye. good evening, i'm eleanor roper,
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here's your latest sports news. johanna konta is through to the second round of the us open. she's beaten russia's daria kasatkina over three sets. since losing in the quarterfinals that wimbledon, johanna konta's form has gone missing. new york is at the easiest way slow to try to find it. lost in the opening round advising matters for the last two years. the first it looked like it would be third time lucky quite quickly against daria kasatkina. the writ is number one was dominant, aggressive and consistent as he pouted away through the first that in just 2a minutes —— powered through at flushing meadows. but then this allowed the russian opponent back in. cons exploded in a row with the umpire, she wasn't happy with him overruling calls —— konta. however,
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kasatkina kept her cool and look over the second set. ultimately, this match was decided by unforced errors. a double fault handed konta victory, and more importantly, some confidence that she has the resilience to succeed. nick parrott, bbc news. britain's harriet dart lost in her us open debut — she was beaten in straight sets, 6—3 6—1, by ana bogdan. dan evans has made it through though. the british number two had a tough encounter against frenchman adrian mannarino, beating him in four sets. world number one novak djokovic also won his first round match. he had a comfortable victory over the spaniard roberto carballes baena. the three—time champion won 6—4, 6—1, 6—4 to kick off the defence of his title. it's seven years since andy murray won the us open but despite not making this year's competition, he's just picked up his first singles win since hip surgery.
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he dropped just one game as he beat the 17—year—old imran sibille at the challenger tour event in majorca. sibille is a trainee at the rafa nadal academy, which is hosting the tournament. in less than 2a hours, two of the football league's most famous clubs could be thrown out of the competition. a deal to buy bolton wanderers fell through over the weekend and administrators say the "process of closing down the company will begin on wednesday". the fate of neighbours bury will be decided at the same time. wanderers have until five o'clock tomorrow for the takeover to be completed or, face the process of expulsion. after their takeover collapsed, administrator paul appleton says they're can't carry on trading. and if they go into liquidation then more than 150 jobs will go. nothing would surprise me anymore. there's been so many twists and turns on this whole fiasco that nothing would surprise me. i couldn't even make any predictions, but i just hope couldn't even make any predictions, but ijust hope that if the main
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protagonist here, which is the eddie davis trust and ken anderson, if ever any shred of decency and compassion, that they won't see this clu b compassion, that they won't see this club go under and they'll do the right thing and get the deal done. the scotland manager steve clarke believes rangers having to shut part of their ground this week could be a good thing, in the battle to beat sectarianism. the ibrox club were punished by uefa for the behaviour of fans at a previous game. clarke wants both rangers and celtic to do more to stamp it out. this sectarian theme, you don't need it. if it happens on a football stadium, there's so many people doing it, suddenly is not a crime? that can't be correct. so there's something i feel strongly about. that can't be correct. so there's something ifeel strongly about. i spoke about it at a time. and i would love to think that in the future and in years to come but it would be an issue in scotland and hopefully, with education, with time, we can get better and it will
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become a thing of the past. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories including the latest from the us open on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport. hello. and so for somewhat was a holiday weekend comes to an end and for some, record—breaking temperatures as well. both sunday and monday saw 33 degrees exceeded ina number of and monday saw 33 degrees exceeded in a number of locations, setting new temperature records for the late august holiday weekend. but, by the middle parts of the indeed on towards the end of the week, that is the sort of mark you will be to achieve — 23,21; the sort of mark you will be to achieve — 23,211 as the sort of mark you will be to achieve — 23, 2a as the daytime maximum. the mechanism change for us just waiting on the winds. these weather fronts waiting to introduce cooler, fresher conditions from the elastic. but before some of you even see that we have some cloud producing showers from the word go
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across the south—west and into wales, the west midlands, on towards the north of england. later in the day we may find some thunderstorms a bit further east around about the wash. that's where were going to find the bulk of the heat, over towards the eastern side of england. elsewhere, really beginning to take a bit ofa elsewhere, really beginning to take a bit of a dip. those thunderstorms and quite potent storms that that will drift away from eastern england, the eastern side of scotla nd england, the eastern side of scotland and out into the north e. here we are on wednesday. income is the weather front with its cloud, it's a breeze and some heavy burst of rain you will notice in the mix. here is the mechanism. you will notice the temperatures slide back into the other teams and late sunshine —— proteins. having achieve a change to wednesday, towards the end of the week we will stay cooler and busier and cloudier stop and for some, really quite wet as well as the jet stream fires a succession of lows and frontal systems at the british isles, especially, but not exclusively, the northern out of britain. you see here on thursday
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we're going to sufficient cloud down for there to be pieces of rain on those breezes. temperatures in the mid teens in the north, low 20s a little bit further towards the south. not a dealer change on friday, still unsettled with the frontal system waving its way across the northern half of the british isles, but later in the day, across the rsc and the north and west of wales, the driest of the weather for the longest period of time down in the longest period of time down in the south—east.
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i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. the headlines: the g7 summit ends with the possibility of a meeting between president trump and the iranian leader. drug companyjohnson & johnson is fined over $500 million for its part in america's opioid addiction crisis. i'm rico hizon in london. also in the programme: indonesia is to have a new capital built on the island of borneo as the land around jakarta sinks. and dancing the days away — seoul's seniors disco tackles loneliness.

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