tv The Papers BBC News December 9, 2019 11:30pm-12:01am GMT
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we will be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first the headlines: borisjohnson on the campaign trail tonight after a day of being accused of not caring for the plight of nhs patients. it followed a report in today's press about a young boy with suspected pneumonia who had to sleep on the floor of a hospital in leeds. two british women were among those injured after a volcano erupted off the coast of new zealand. five people have died. joseph mccann, who carried out a series of sex attacks, is sentenced to 33 life sentences. the judge says he will always be a danger to society. russia is banned again from all major sports events for doping, this time forfour years.
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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the spectator‘s deputy political editor katy balls, and jack blanchard, editor of the politico london playbook. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the daily mail leads with the news that borisjohnson has hinted that the bbc could face a major funding shakeup, with the license fee on the table. the i has more information on the volcanic eruption in new zealand, and says that safety warnings were ignored for years. the guardian reports that the conservatives have been accused of lying to distract from the growing controversy surrounding a young boy who was forced to stay on a hospitalfloor. the daily telegraph reports on a leaked conservative memo that states that labour leader jeremy corbyn could win the election without a gaining a single seat.
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they say that tactical voting in 12 constituencies could see jeremy corbyn become prime minister. the independent says that there are numerous cases of young children being forced to wait hours in a&e wards for a hospital bed. they say that one young boy with special needs was forced to wait 57 hours for a specialist bed to come available. the metro also leads with the with the story over hospital beds. they say the war over the issue has led to the election heating up as we enter the final days. the ft talks about a major fall in the share price of one of the world's biggest oil firms. and, last but not least, the times leads with the news that british tourists are amongst those injured in the volcano disaster in new zealand. we will begin with the daily mirror, which obviously was the source of that first photo which caused such problems for the prime minister today. another fairly graphic example of a child unable to get a bed ina example of a child unable to get a bed in a hospital. as you say, it is the paper that has really been setting the agenda this week and not
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on the way the prime minister would have wa nted on the way the prime minister would have wanted it. and the last thing the tory campaign would have wanted tonight, having had the sort of holiday they have had today, is to see this drop. another very, as you say, graphic illustration of some of the problems of overcrowding in a&e, and it's so heartrending to see when it is such a young child involved. and what this means, of course, is that tomorrow morning when the tory campaign dutifully sends out its members onto tv shows, this is what they are going to be asked about straightaway. it is the very last thing the tories want to be talking about, with two days to go until polling day. talking about a crisis in the nhs, given they have been in government for nine years and given it is one of the subject on which they are weakest. from a labour point of view, this is their topic. they only nhs initially, they always have done, and for the conversation to be about this sort of thing at this time, frankly, is going to cost the tories seats. it has the
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headline baby forced to wait at a&e for six hours, withjust mother's as it is the type of emotional story where because it is a specific person, in this case a child involved... so it has much more out through. exactly, i involved... so it has much more cut through. exactly, i think it involved... so it has much more cut through. exactly, ithink it has involved... so it has much more cut through. exactly, i think it has a higher chance of cut through, and it is not what the tories want to be focusing on. you also have labour releasing one of their election forecasts, which is all about the nhs. throughout the election campaign, iwould nhs. throughout the election campaign, i would say labour's main attack on the nhs has been this idea that the us uk trade deal would lead to nhs privatisation and linking that with donald trump. for some people, that has definitely caused fear. i think there is evidence of that. to sum it hasjust felt a bit exaggerated. it also feels some way away. it feels a bit distance, whereas i think this story has wider cut through. —— a bit distant. it
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doesn't feel far—fetched and far away. if voters decide that the tories have been in government for quite a long time, and are not sufficiently funding the nhs, i think that is more problematic than what labour have been pushing more during this election campaign. so there is clear risk for the tories here. it'll be interesting to see how borisjohnson tries here. it'll be interesting to see how boris johnson tries to get back on the front foot. is it by addressing this and perhaps giving an interview with more emotional common sense than the one today where he refused to initially look ata where he refused to initially look at a photo of the child, or do they join the conversation, and both options are difficult. you look at this photo and your human reaction is heartrending. and you have just become a father. i have, it is true, and felt it again looking at the picture on the front of the merit yesterday. so borisjohnson‘s reaction, that is what made it so stark to see him waving it away, trying to get back to his parroted party line about getting brexit done. you were saying an hour ago it
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had shades of theresa may about it. it really did, and it is not what voters wa nt it really did, and it is not what voters want to see. they want to see people reacting in a normal human way to something that is clearly not right. now, the sun has taken a more supportive view of this because it says the mum of the boy in the original photograph has now complained that she has kind of being used, really, as an election campaigning tool by labour. so the headline is mum accuses red jez over nhs. it doesn't feel like it is specific to the labour leader per se, if it is about not politicising the story to the level it has. it is clearly being used politically in a way which is hurting the tories at the moment. but it is about privacy, the moment. but it is about privacy, the press regulator. i think what is tricky, though, is because we are now in the final phase of the general election campaign, anything like this is just inevitably political, and i think it is probably quite hard for a party to
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walk back. and even if labour hasn't kept this going, the media certainly have. you can imagine being mum or dad or uncle or aunt, the number of phone calls you get from journalists, people who want to do interviews and all the rest is probably a bit overwhelming, actually. it reminds me, a bit long in the tooth, but the war of jennifer's year back in the 1980s, where labour had this girl who had a problem with her ear. ——jennifer‘s ear. we discovered it was a lot more complicated, the story, and some members of the family wanted it to be pushed, because they were angry about it. other members of the family angry it was being used by labour. and it never really reached a resolution. there is a feeling with this story that it is a simpler story and in some ways more straightforward, because the photos add to the residence. let's look at the times. —— resonance. you are
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therefore this announcement. announcement is generous. it was borisjohnson riffing announcement is generous. it was boris johnson riffing off announcement is generous. it was borisjohnson riffing off the cuff at an industrial site in sunderland, trying to win over a traditional labour area to his cause. he was asked about the bbc license fee and it was about the only time he didn't parrot this answer about getting brexit done. he suddenlyjust started talking about how, yes, the license fee is something that he thinks might be outdated. do we really think the bbc should be funded in this way in this day and e, funded in this way in this day and age, talking about it basically being attacked. and hinting it could being attacked. and hinting it could be scrapped. he was certainly hinting at that although speaking to people in the campaign tonight i think they are rowing back a bit and suggesting that what they are really thinking about is decriminalising the offence of non—payment. i have to say, the cynic in me felt that this was very much a political move
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by borisjohnson to this was very much a political move by boris johnson to try and stop us all talking about the nhs. sojust to be clear, this came after the publicity had started about his dispute with the itv reporter. and in fairness, he was answering a question about the bbc. a member of the audience brought it up but the way he suddenly erupted into life and the way suddenly, after he had finished, all his aides were giving his words written out for us to make it easier. giving us all sorts of facts and figures about the bbc licence fee, which mysteriously seemed to be just on hand within an hour or two, it felt like an operation. as you have said already, quite a few of the front pages of, we should stress, the tories supporting papers, i going with that story. we are not looking at the daily mail in this review but we did an hour ago. the express, the times, those papers have this on the front and not the nhs story. you have a potential explanation. well, it is a
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tactic we know the tories and boris johnson have used previously, the dead cat strategy. it comes from lyndon crosby. the great australian guru not officially involved this time around, but a dead cat strategy is when you have people talking about something you don't want them to during an election campaign, you throw a dead cat on the table —— lynton crosby. by which we don't meana lynton crosby. by which we don't mean a deceased animal, but you change the conversation not necessarily to something that would be your first choice to talk about, but something that is so distracting that everyone says look at that dead cat, i can't possibly talk about the fa ct cat, i can't possibly talk about the fact the nhs is in trouble with this child. that could be something we know boris johnson child. that could be something we know borisjohnson has done previously. so potentially that, and like we say, it appears to have yielded results, if you look at a few of these front pages today. but i think one of the interesting strands of this election is digital campaigning has risen in importance every election, and ultimately, yes,
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the papers are important, but right now on social media that video of borisjohnson now on social media that video of boris johnson putting now on social media that video of borisjohnson putting the phone into his pocket and avoiding the question initially is going round and being watched by a very high number of people. i totally agree with that, and it is really dangerous for the tories when the big issue is shareable content in that way. a shareable content in that way. a shareable video that people will pass around on facebook and whatsapp and all the rest. you can't even monitor how many people are watching it but you know everyone in the country will have seen it. and if we had had the equivalent in 2001 with the famous press club punch, that might have had much more political impact, if people had been at the stage where they could literally watch a video half a minute or a minute after it happened because it was being shared on social media all over the world. and itjust was being shared on social media all over the world. and it just goes to show that making a mistake like borisjohnson and show that making a mistake like boris johnson and did today, show that making a mistake like borisjohnson and did today, in front of a tv camera, there really is nowhere to hide. the guardian has another twist on this story, not
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about the story itself but what happened afterwards, as always. the tories accused of lying to distract from the boy on the hospital floor. where does this come from? yes, so this relates to after the interview emerged of the video being filmed, you had matt hancock of the health secretary, was sent in in a bid to calm things down, talking directly, being emotive, about what the tories planned to do. he did manage to do that interview. when he was leaving, though, labour supporters outside and things got quite heated. reports began to emerge that matt hancock's aid had been punched. and that circulated on social media, some journalists tweeted it —— aide. then it emerged when the video footage came out that it wasn't a punch. one of those magic moments where somebody walked into somebody‘s hand because they were trying not to engage with the protest going on.
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but it is very clear from the video that the person whose hand actually hit him was not doing it on purpose. they were talking in an exaggerated way, like this, and it happened that way. i think there is some question as to where that briefing came from suggesting it was a punch in the first place, and we have been talking about dead cats. perhaps we have... i don't know what the term for many cats is, but perhaps... we should be clear, no cats, dead or alive, i ever hurt in the course of an election, as far as i know. that's about tory tactics. let's talk aboutjeremy that's about tory tactics. let's talk about jeremy corbyn's that's about tory tactics. let's talk aboutjeremy corbyn's tactics, because that also makes the front page of the guardian. an interesting suggestion that people are worried he might have left some of his vulnerable seats exposed. there has beena vulnerable seats exposed. there has been a lot of questioning of labour tactics over the last couple of weeks as it became seemingly apparent, although we don't know for sure and we might have it all wrong, that they are probably not going to wina that they are probably not going to win a majority on thursday. they certainly started the election
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acting like they were going to. of course you are trying to win every seat in the country, but the reality is you have a limited amount of resource in terms of people and also funding, and so you pour those into your main targets, and they can be seats that you are attacking to try and win seats you are trying to defend. and labour really went all out attack early on, trying to win 80,90, out attack early on, trying to win 80, 90, however many extra seats. and it appears they are starting to realise that a lot of those seats are looking pretty unwinnable in terms of the response they are getting on the doorstep, in terms of their own polling. and they suddenly realised that actually they might lose some of the seats that they weren't fighting very hard because they thought were already in the bag. so they have had to restructure a little bit, or at least that is how we understand it. it is difficult to be wise before the event. have you got your tactics right? well, you only really find out on election day, don't you? heroes and villains are made at a stroke when the results come out. and then we decide jeremy corbyn was
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a genius all along, or he got it completely wrong. and the truth is, i don't know, katie doesn't know, jeremy corbyn doesn't know. the front of the sun includes a commentator who thinks he knows. in some ways the equivalent of donald trump, although i am not suggesting he is planning to run for office. he is young enough, he could still do it. he has a pretty withering verdict onjeremy corbyn. i suspect not entirely surprising. you do get a slight sense of deja vu in terms of alan sugar being critical of jeremy corbyn. i don't think that is a new thing. and we had the case of... it escapes me, the former spy chief who basically condemned him in the previous election as well. but i do think that one of the interesting themes this election is people who have been critical of jeremy themes this election is people who have been critical ofjeremy corbyn have been critical ofjeremy corbyn have almost gone one further, as alan sugardid, have almost gone one further, as alan sugar did, saying not only are they not going to vote forjeremy
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corbyn, they are suggesting others should vote for the tories. a couple of years ago these people were not really... like ian austen, for example, who stood as an independent, if you had told them ten years ago that they were going to be advocating that not only they should be voting for the tories but others should, i think they would find it hard to believe. the rubicon has been crossed for some people, hasn't it? let's talk about what's in the telegraph. this photo is everywhere. the extraordinary moment where the volcano erupts, minutes after a group have left the island on their motorboat, knowing people are still on the island. you can imagine the horror and drama of that and of course when these things happen now, there is always high quality digital footage of it, isn't there? only some years ago, this wasn't the case. you really get a sense of the drama of it and these are
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spectacular photos in all the papers, but this is not an event to be celebrated. they are saying 13 people are feared dead in the most horrific circumstances. it just people are feared dead in the most horrific circumstances. itjust puts a bit of perspective in all of the nonsense we're sitting in with our politics, then something like this happens out of the blue and so abruptly. it has been an extraordinary for new zealand in terms of man—made natural disasters, the awful shootings, and now this. and ina the awful shootings, and now this. and in a place where we think of as quiet and tranquil. i think on these common new zealand as a tourist attraction, they said they — everyone left on the island they think is no longer living. the death count, they think that will rise because the reason is they haven't identified who the victims are, but the suggestion is there is no point sending help because of health risks and the volcano could still do more.
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they aren't sure if there is a sta ble they aren't sure if there is a stable situation, and they don't know if they are going to be finding people who are injured, ultimately they expect everyone to be diseased. i was struck by some of the coverage today, not just how i was struck by some of the coverage today, notjust how quickly pictures came out, but also the way that people are now using that device they have, so many people now carry in their pockets. they are notjust taking pictures of something, they are recording almost video diaries of the moment, there is a young couple, maybe they are italian, they have described what has happened a nut has gone viral as well and is being used in news coverage. it is this citizen journalism being where all of us, ordinary people with nothing to do with journalism, if they happen to be at the right place and the right time, they are not only an eyewitness to the story, they are contributing to the coverage of it. an impact of this technology is so powerful.‘
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coverage of it. an impact of this technology is so powerful. a planet of journalists now, technology is so powerful. a planet ofjournalists now, aren't we, in a sense? and talking about the incident, in a completely different context with the suppose it finds of matt hancock, well clearly there was footage. and the terror attack on london bridge, someone recorded that. and the footage was extraordinary. stuff you never would expect to see. there is always someone with a camera, and so we a lwa ys someone with a camera, and so we always very quickly get a sense of the drama. it fills the gaps for us because you think even an organisation like the bbc can't have journalists everywhere, and then it has this rich opportunity with people, thank you if you do it, we call it ugc, user generated content, and we wouldn't be able to do our job without it. thank you from all of us at the bbc and other parts of the media as well. let's and on the
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financial times. katie, this is a kind of symbolic issue in terms of what is happening in age and gender in politics this is the youngest female premier to lead front lines, about to take leadership in finland, she is 34. i think that counts as a millennial. does that mean she beat that bloke in austria? yeah. he was in his late 30s. i think she takes the title from him. yes, i think what is also interesting in the country of finland, so many female leaders in terms of other parties, it does feel like a sea change. if you think about the number of conversations we have had in the past, there are enough women in senior positions in politics, it does feel like this is a strong counter to that. i wonder if there will be changed enough in the labour
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party. plaid cymru has had a woman leading in westminster, the lib dems, jo swinson, labour party is the outlier in all of this. as a source the outlier in all of this. as a source of embarrassment when you talk to them about it. and should label is heavily on thursday and jeremy corbyn is going to walk the plank, as we probably expect to happen, ithink plank, as we probably expect to happen, i think would be a huge boost to ensure the next leader of labour party as a woman. maybe someone from the younger generation, perhaps in their305 someone from the younger generation, perhaps in their 305 or 405 as the lib dems have done. and then john mcdonnell perhaps being caretaker in the interim. you may be the last. jack and katy, thank you for being
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with us this evening. always a pleasure. 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, katy balls and jack blanchard. the sport is coming up next, then the weather and news day at midnight. from all of us here, goodbye. good evening, i'm chetan pathak with your latest sports news. russia have been given a four—year ban from all major sporting competition, by the world anti—doping agency. athletes who can prove they are clean will be allowed to compete under a neutral flag. this is a story that's been rumbling on for five years now, and goes back to russia's state—sponsored doping scandal at the winter olympics in sochi. wada's executive committee met today and voted unanimously to impose the ban, after russia's
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own anti—doping agency was found to have manipulated laboratory data. some say the sanctions don't go far enough and are calling for a blanket ban. yes, you can argue this isn't enough. what i says this. every world championship for four years, not just the olympics, world championship for four years, notjust the olympics, notjust any other word games are similar, eve ryo ne other word games are similar, everyone championships, there won't bea everyone championships, there won't be a russian president there, no government officials, no team, you know, neutral athletes only, government officials, no team, you know, neutralathletes only, no russian flag. you know, that is a significant sign and significant message that says you, by your conduct, have forfeited your place at the top of world sport. now if that isn't enough, we'll have to go again next time. but yes, we want to try and get a punishment that does do enough to send that message without punishing innocent athletes. arsenal have their first win under freddie ljungeberg since he took interim charge as they came from behind to beat west ham at the london stadium.
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it's their first win in ten matches in all competitions and moves them to ninth in the premier league, within two points of manchester united in fifth. patrick geary reports. models, bubbles, toil and trouble. these have been worrying times for arsenal, they arrived disoriented and about to be made dizzy still. angelo, west ham's scorer, making an u nfortu nate angelo, west ham's scorer, making an unfortunate touch. nothing was going away arsenal intended it. they stumbled, relying on west ham's mercy. the next goal seemed a matter of time. from that site it took around five minutes and amazingly came at the other end. gabrielle started something remarkable, his strike really a forgotten energy. six minutes later, arsenal's pepe delivered a goal that until now he had rarely delivered. embalming and
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with the third, after weeks of gloom, nine minutes of glory. patrick gearey, bbc news. we have a lot, a lots of work on and a lot of things that we can see. we need to get on the training pitch to fix, but they have been under pressure for weeks and weeks and weeks but haven't won. so to have the mental strength to do that away from home, i'm extremely proud. amazing work, and i know the pressure they have been under. i just want to enjoy the day today and enjoy the evening and we will work again tomorrow. centuries from danni wyatt and tammy beaumont helped england's women to a 75—run win over pakistan. that was in the first one—day international in kuala lumpur. the pair shared a first—wicket stand of 188, as england made 284 for six. kate cross then took four pakistan wickets. these three one—dayers are are england's last fixtures
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in the icc women's championship. i'm really happy with that and exceptionally happy for danny wyatt today to get her first international one—day 100 as well. so, yeah, that was really tough and really hard. out there in the heat, i thought it was quite a hard wicket but danny was quite a hard wicket but danny was playing differently and even palestine got some in at the end there. so that is one of the more ugly runs, may be a that one, but you've just got to get them sometimes. that's all the sport for now. hello there. monday brought us brief respite from the wet and windy conditions which are going to dominate our weather through much of the coming week. we've been under a transient stream of pressure which building from the west, but look at what is waiting on the winds. yes, it is going to be turning milder, you can see this wedge of motor air setting out the atlantic, but with that comes wet and windy conditions. over many it's
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been a fine and to the day. clear skies initially as we head into the overnight period, but cloud will start to increase from the west. so while temperatures plummet initially, gradually as we had through the night, particularly through the night, particularly through the night, particularly through the west, they will start to recover. east anglia and the far south—east of england will hang onto clear skies for much of the night, and here we could see a patch frost. but the winds will strengthen out towards the west, accompanied by rain which will turn heavy and persistent as we head towards dawn. temperatures close to freezing in east anglia, more like 10 celsius on the far south—west. so, tuesday, wind and rain will dominate the scene. some of the rain will be heavy, the winds will be gale force in some areas, likely to cause some disruption. the strongest of the winds will be in the western facing coasts, the hills over the northern half of the uk and up into the northern isles. the rain would be persistent and heavy, particularly for the western half of the uk, and the winds turning squally a little
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later on in the day. temperature—wise, well, we've seen those temperatures back up into double figures but add in the strength of the wind and really it would be irrelevant. the milder air that we have throughout tuesday get squeezed away overnight. we still have low pressure in charge, but cooler conditions following behind. through wednesday, closer to that area of low pressure we're still expecting to see gales northern scotland. elsewhere, the winds won't be as strong as tuesday, it will be noticeably breezy, and we'll start off with some sunshine, showers will get going throughout the day, some of them could be heavy with the risk of them could be heavy with the risk of hailand of them could be heavy with the risk of hail and thunder and some winteriness over the northern half of the uk throughout the day. temperatures back in single figures. another area of low pressure will bring a smell of wet and windy weather on thursday, and improving story for most places on friday.
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i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: no sign of life on new zealand's white island a day after a volcano unexpectedly erupted. five people have died and at leasteight are still missing. eyewitnesses describe harrowing scenes. —— at least eight. translation: it was hot, so everyone had turns. somewhere seriously burned, some others a bit less, and i'm not sure they managed to rescue everyone. we hope they did. as myanmar‘s aung san suu kyi is called to defend her country against genocide charges, we've a special report on the plight of muslim rohingya refugees in bangladesh. translation: i'm so
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