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tv   The Papers  BBC News  January 25, 2020 11:30pm-11:45pm GMT

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travel for lunar because millions travel for lunar new year. a newly appointed member of the grenfell tower enquiry panel resigns after being linked to the child will arm of the firm that supplied the towers cladding. donald trump ‘s lawyers have begun their defence of the president in his impeachment trial in the senate. they say he has done nothing wrong. they say he has done nothing wrong. the search for survivors continues after a powerful earthquake hit turkey. more than 1200 people have been injured. hello and welcome to tonight's edition of the papers. joining me this evening a martin lip from the sun and the broadcaster's susie. a
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lot of front pages are already in let's have a sense of what is making the front pages. the sunday telegraph leads with a story about the firm behind the high bed rail project. so too does the observer. they say scrapping it would cost £12 billion in write—offs and compensation. the mail on sunday claims the government has evacuation plans for britain's stuck in were hand in china. the sunday people has a special investigation. and the sunday express devotes its front page to borisjohnson‘s plans for post exit written. the sunday times reports the prime minister could go on because for a diplomatic war with donald trump. some good news, some bad. let's have a look at what should be capturing our attention tomorrow morning. lucy, let's start with the sunday telegraph and
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picture there of a passenger in a facemask arriving at heathrow. the foreign office is telling the british to leave wuhan. originally they gave the advice the people in we re they gave the advice the people in were hand should stay put. and they are thought to be around 200 or may be between 200 and 300. no—one is really sure. it goes up, it goes down. if they don't know how many people, you worry about whether this new advice which is that they might actually airlift them out is a sensible one because will they be able to get hold of everybody? and what is the implication of ringing people from known infected sites back into the uk, what precautions will be taken. they going to be allowed to go on their merry way? people in were hand, british people there have complained that other nationality people have been contacted nationality people have been co nta cted by nationality people have been contacted by their embassies and the britons have felt abandoned. so i
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don't know whether the foreign office has been stung into making some kind of arrangements but ijust do not understand why they would suddenly think it would be a good idea to take them out. there are a few q u otes idea to take them out. there are a few quotes in this article from people who clearly feel a bit worried and a bit anxious about what is happening. the main message that comes across is that they feel a little isolated and unsure and they are looking for support. we have seen 110 are looking for support. we have seen no real attempt from the british embassy or the foreign office to reach out and offer support says this someone there. people are feeling a bit lost. apparently there were up to 500 french citizens offered a bus service to get away. only 72 hours long! the problem is that this is a very fast moving situation and there are many unknowns and therefore i would have thought that the advice
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to sit put does seem, and other papers cover the story as well, that actually the foreign office are considering an airlift. so very old—fashioned but considering an airlift. so very old —fashioned but if considering an airlift. so very old—fashioned but if they think it will get these people out it may be the thing but then what do you do? we don't know whether these people are infected. the headlight on the mail on sunday, headline is airlift to save britons trapped. but of course the good news tucked away in here as well is that the 31 people tested here in the uk have come back all clear. and let's hope that continues. 41 dead in china, 11100 receiving treatment. there have been tested in many countries around the world but the government now has a wood hand plan which is good. there has been a document that clinicians have been given in this country to give them advice about how to handle people when they come to see you,
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how you are meant to interact with them. of course, if you are not showing symptoms that may be because you are yet to develop them. people coming from these areas could then be allowed through and potentially then be infectious. this is a real issue. i was in thailand christmas and before christmas they had a heat detector and they expect everyone to go through it or perhaps certain airlines because they worry about certain diseases. the other thing that unsettles me is that this is a very gripping right now but there are other diseases such as malaria which killed hundreds of thousands of people still every year and suddenly this, admittedly 41 people is 41 too many but it is nothing like the scale of malaria and yet is on the front page stop and some strong language as well. the mail on sunday with their airlift suggested
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and says the has performed sunday with their airlift suggested and says the he in |erformed "' "1 47"; whatever the death sentence. whatever the here i is being criticised from all of being criticised from all sides. leave people there and if they were to co ntra ct leave people there and if they were to contract this and heaven forbid and up dying, they would be accused of inaction. bring them over and risk extending the scope, it is a dilemma. and whatever you do you'll be wrong, it seems. and are so many unknowns at the moment you are battling with a virus we do not know much about. but a lockdown of a city where you knew it started and containment of that city has got to be better than perilously taking people. this it will die out. viruses have a life and if there is no creek in terms of the spread of
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the disease... it will be a shame if the disease... it will be a shame if the foreign office were aiding and abetting that. but at the same time people are saying get me out of here! they feel like they have been thrown under a bus. we know it is a bit dodgy for you... sorry. what is extraordinary in all of this is this huge city that many people, including myself, we are not familiar with wood hand. 11 million people in the fact that the chinese authorities have been able to effectively shut down a city... you can tell people to do something and they do it. it is an unbelievably social bull —— sociable time of year for the chinese, their equivalent of christmas. millions of people moving around the country and the leaders have said you cannot. we need to stay where you are. my worry is how do you feed yourself if wuhan is in
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lockdown in the supermarket lorries are not allowed to go in stores. there are huge political issues in this story will clearly run for some time. we will park it there because we wa nt time. we will park it there because we want to move on to the sunday times and another angry trump casts cloud on boris's big day. this is looking ahead to next friday, when brexit comes to a head but maybe president trump will come to blows with borisjohnson. president trump will come to blows with boris johnson. this is all about the sg with boris johnson. this is all about the 56 network and huawei. it is actually yes —— less than a year ago that we lost a defence secretary over the contracts in question over the security aspect. this story says the security aspect. this story says the borisjohnson the security aspect. this story says the boris johnson is the security aspect. this story says the borisjohnson is on course for a diplomatic war, understated as ever, with donald trump and if you wish cabinet row over plans to hand
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huawei access to the sg cabinet row over plans to hand huawei access to the 56 phone network. and this is about the ongoing view and concerns of us government that this would allow a trojan horse into the communications network, particularly between us and the americans. and their whole security apparatus. this and the most unlikely scenario is that donald trump has suggested that britain willed an alternative to huawei together with the us. if only it were that easy. and i think that has been dismissed as a little overambitious full but three us senators including marco rubio, a potential presidential contender himself until he was beaten by donald trump a few years ago. brandon lewis actually said a few days ago that he was minded to accept what our security services had said and it is clear that gchq are comfortable that they will be
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able to contain any of the possible threat that could conceivably occur if china were to put some backdoor thing into the kit. but more importantly from a commercial point of view. companies like vodafone are already using some by way kit in 4g and they are comfortable about it as well. if we were not allowed to use it it would put the roll out of 5g back and there are not very many other very impressive alternative. ericsson, nokia, that type of thing. the borisjohnson is never going to wa nt the borisjohnson is never going to want to look like he is trumps poodle. the decision is apparently on tuesday. probably one of the most ill—conceived source quotes i have ever seen. whoever ill—conceived source quotes i have ever seen. whoever said this should be ashamed. huawei's next weeks chinese virus. that should not... somebody would have said that because no—one would make it up. it is obviously comes from someone who
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thinks they are being clever. it you made the point that it is notjust a row with trump but there is tension within the cabinet. absolutely. and other issues as well. a huawei decision on tuesday, government sets nationalised northern rail, final meetings on the fate of h s two, all in the build up to 11 o'clock on friday and laser shows. will this spoil brexit if he has these other things that are not coming together? it gives him the opportunity to be assertive. if he says yes or no to hsz assertive. if he says yes or no to h52 and if he says yes to huawei it will amplify the idea that he is adding things done. i also think we need to recognise that donald trump may not even have any issue it might just be that he wants to put china's nose out ofjoint. this could still be linked to that us china trade war
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and have nothing to do with security at all. for that reason alone, borisjohnson says needs to say back. patel is on the wall par. there clearly is a schism at the heart of government and that is a big issue. months ago we lost a defence secretary because of this very issue. you made the pointjust briefly, lucy, that may be boris johnson needs to show he is not trumps poodle. on the other hand with brexit looming he has pressure to say i can get a trade deal with the americans because they are my best friends. can he afford to irritate trump? that is a downside. another tight rope he is walking. to be able to say they are still my friends but i will ignore their advice. it will be a big week i
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think coming up. a total change here, back to the sunday telegraph, tucked down the right—hand side here, no epidural in an nhs cult of natural birth. cross your legs. apparently there have been a couple of, maybe even a decade or so of nhs clinicians encouraging women to have a natural birth and issuing epidurals, even if they are in agony. telling them it is not called labour for nothing. people are beginning to say that it is a woman's right to choose. it is your body and you can decide how much relief you get. what is being said here is that there are actual guidelines as to watch nhs hospitals orto guidelines as to watch nhs hospitals or to encourage women to have but clinicians are ignoring it. let's move on. i wanted to mark that because it was interesting but we will finish back on the sunday
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times, martin, and this is a great picture ofjk rowling but it is a story about tax. she says it is wizard to pay her £50 million tax bill. £50 million. this is a tax was that the sunday times put together andjk that the sunday times put together and jk rowling apparently, that the sunday times put together andjk rowling apparently, she doesn't use any tax avoidance mechanisms which would allow her to wade off. because that is illegal tax evasion. and she stomps up over £50 million. i mean she must have earned at least £115 million and an ongoing subject has been travelling todayis ongoing subject has been travelling today is about restrictions on gambling and sport but 365 founder
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contribution of £276 million, that is why i suspect the government will not ban advertising from gambling because £276 million from a single company is a rather large amount to go in. but interesting that this tax list, we have always had a rich list. there are other names like james dyson in their so big people we have heard of. people like to know that people who are very rich are paying a fair share. but this story is that one of the reasonsjk rowling is happy to pay this amount of monies that was once a single mother on and if it and it was a safety net that enabled her to write the books that she has now been famous from. as far as she is concerned, she isjust paying back to society because they really helped her. final point is that there are questions about the a ccu ra cy there are questions about the a ccu ra cy of there are questions about the accuracy of the list and that it

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