which means they responsible for it. which means they don't have to have an expensive excuse don't have to have an expensive excuse like not to vote like when borisjohnson discovered he had to be in afghanistan on the time of the third runway vote. hejust had be in afghanistan on the time of the third runway vote. he just had to be in afghanistan on the time of the third runway vote. hejust had to be there. i unfortunately missed the vote. no danger of any of that, no ministers were defined unexpected entries in their diaries saying to have to be somewhere. and also they have to be somewhere. and also they have delayed some of the elements leaking up with others. so the hope is if they are logical about this but they can then tie that into other improvement works across the north. so it's quite early but andy burnham mayor of greater manchester seem burnham mayor of greater manchester seem to making positive sounds evening. and i think this is one of those opportunities for investment that actually does affect people. that's the difficulty. four shots and can pledge this money but less people see a bus, i cannot believe

this is radical in 2020, but not having to know exactly when every bus leaves the bus station. unless people see that they are not going to feel it. that's always been a big political problem. ever since the days of david cameron and george osborne talking about shovel ready projects, however ready your shovel is the process of the shuffling take so is the process of the shuffling take so long that often the government has been and gone for the time the thing the announcers finished. has been and gone for the time the thing the announcers finishedm borisjohnson is thing the announcers finishedm boris johnson is probably thing the announcers finishedm borisjohnson is probably very cutesy attracted by unveiling some first phase of his premiership. it will be there at least five years, he could be launching the hard hat back on, was led new mayor he loves unveiling building projects. this is exactly his jam. and he likes building model buses. and cyclic i'm a big fan of cycling. it's not underplayed the buses as a result. the other thing to bear in mind is

that two try and sweeten the pill is made noises about how he will get closer on the management to make sure they are effective in bringing in their value for money. in the later phases with the buses it's all just part of this general scheme to make sure the sweeteners for the mps. yours has the buses in the front corner. a big story is the virus. and this is very, under british some might say to lock people up if they don't want to co—operate on some quarantine. people up if they don't want to co-operate on some quarantine. for the good of everyone, really. unprecedented powers have been granted if they suspect imminent threat of spreading more of this coronavirus given that we now know the number of cases in the uk has doubled into there's been panic and closure of busy gp practices. two doctors have been diagnosed in an unnamed businessman who has

basically got the so—called nickname of the super spreader who came back from singapore... business people who travel a lot with want to be given that. he has a track record and it shows why... he must be a healthy person. he's been causing panic in his way, at the french ski resort. there's a kind of feeling of us resort. there's a kind of feeling of us is conforming to a storyline. resort. there's a kind of feeling of us is conforming to a story linem is, i mean it's showing how easy come in the modern world, it is for something like this to spread. obviously... a photo of the gp surgery obviously... a photo of the gp surgery and one of the workers trying to do the deep cleaning. the advice is if you feel ill to not stay home. don't go to a gp. but if you are concerned to call the numbers. i think it's interesting,

this idea, that you can be quarantined by force. somebody who was detained managed to abscond and personally if i was being treated i would not to leave, but they obviously had their reasons. but it does make me think of some of the other thinks the government tries to do like the mmr vaccine. matt hancock the health secretary has been very commit some quite strong noises about not necessarily making it compulsory but hinting at that and it is in the same vein that actually in health may the government does know better than individuals. and we have to listen to the man not in whitehall. the daily mirror. since we will come back to the coronavirus. i went will not come back to the front pages here, but a lot of your readers very angry about that. it's quite a

dramatic picture, really. does the river which is swept through £33 million of defences which are unfinished and the people living there feel they have been betrayed and let down. by promises from the government and subsequent governments to sort this out, and i think for some of them is the eighth time in recent years. we have a recent news from couple that with the hardware store and it was the third time they have set this time that that, we cannot have rebuilt our lives twice, we cannot do it again. he shop will go and those kinds of things are really tough. particularly because people feel, they made promises about the future of our defences and have not been met a blue at the same time many

viewers will think this comes up increasingly regularly, and are in the election campaign last year the fish lake was hit floods. and the environment agency quite right cut at their neck because it was advising some areas do not father of the up sandbags. the regularity many experts will suggest this is a thing about the climate crisis, how much more unpredictable this is coming. coming three orfour or more unpredictable this is coming. coming three or four or five years. something equally challenging it fits rather neatly into the title at the ft. which is for decade—long deal reading city access to eu market. and you thought frexit was over. i thought we might have a little bit of a pause to regroup. as we know we have services. the cashier of the uk economy co—quite

right to prize a good deal for this. the chancellor wants to have the scheme of equivalence which means that the uk and the eu would recognise each other's markets and trade, investors could work with the stock markets. dare i say if there was almost not a border. the trouble is the original version of this scheme, patient zero is switzerland. which basically had to scheme exploited by the eu, used as leverage and going to be shutting out the investors from the markets in orderto out the investors from the markets in order to get a point over the in the wider negotiations of a deal. the theory is this with decades locked in and predictability. that's oi'i locked in and predictability. that's on the win, 30 days of markets. we state we had decided this does not work for us any more. original regime was in the power of the

commission so they could shut it down whenever they wanted to. it's equivalence plus plus. the problem is we are very much dependent on the initial services sector. something like 80% is based on this. we focus a lot on, notjust in television, but that proportion of our economy is significant and it's all the things that we cannot necessarily show you that of the things that we are not providing to the world. this is the element of any deal that would be really key in terms of the actual numbers for the economy. but that you know that. so although this is such a javid making a mark they are well aware that this is our wea kness are well aware that this is our weakness because we need that.“ there levers were that it is ours. yes and it's interesting because

politically for boris johnson he yes and it's interesting because politically for borisjohnson he is going to be, he is going to have to make choices, and obviously this brings ina make choices, and obviously this brings in a lot more money than the fishing industry, for example, intimate a very emotive topic and will he hold up for that when the competing issue is this? not the interesting trade—off because eu leaders have these links which is just saying give us a fair shake. the fishing industry is .4% gdp. most reviewers would care about the fate of our fishermen than bankers. for those of us that have never been if you go to the conservative party conference the state are british based reception is with the most popular. the free fish and chips have something to do with that i'm sure. emotionally that's what really does affect people. we have these

setting out can we have a new director general. would you like to see a philip schofield or somebody, somebody that can be the face of the bbc or someone else running the organisation? we need somebody that is competent and the challenges are huge. we are all aware of them and some of them seem to have been years in the making responding. i think the temptation is to go for something like that and a name that people respond to. it actuallyjust wa nt people respond to. it actuallyjust want someone that's going to get on with it and may be quietly and sorted out. someone with a very large check of their own. they need to be well paid for these big jobs, make sure it's fit for the new era with netflix and competition on the doorstep. netflix did not do very well at the oscars, but guarding on the front page of the oscars, triumph of foreign—language films. a future for the things other than the hollywood vision. so we now have the

film a parasite which neither of us have been. i thought last night, go see it. my expectation is going to be sky high. just raving. very disappointing if it's not. bong joon ho is the next director general of the bbc. we have had mark from canada, let's have bong joon ho as the next director general. that's it for the papers this hour. nicola and asa will be back at half past eleven for another look at the papers, and don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you 7 days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer.

a very good evening to you. yesterday we nearly got blown away courtesy of storm ciara and now things have turned wintry. what is in store for tomorrow? a little bit of both. build strong winds convey cold wind at that and to reach showers. i'm spilling across the northern half of the uk, there's ciara across scandinavia for we have all of these isobars and for remaining windy, and if we put on ourair masks we remaining windy, and if we put on our air masks we can see we are in the blue and the polar air will follow the arrows back all the way to greenland in the arctic. so it is cold enough for snow out there across the hills again overnight tonight. even across the moors of the southwest. anything above 100 or 150 metres. the key relations possible and also where we've had showers through the day—to—day. a risk of ice developing for first thing on tuesday. quite a wintry picture and then more snow showers to come on tuesday. that could mean regulations of snow at ten or 15 cm

for some areas and don't forget we still got the win to come with a strong gusty wind and with snow showers that can be blizzards and can also mean drifting snow which is particularly dangerous. quite a bit of sunshine away from the showers initially feel to proceedings because we are sitting in a polar air. top temperatures five to 7 degrees but the wind will make it feel colder. through tuesday evening andl feel colder. through tuesday evening and i into wednesday subtle changes but you might start to notice the wind eases back and the showers also start to calm down to the north of the uk. so the widespread frost for first thing on wednesday and a risk of patches of ice, but the change for wednesday is a little bump of high—pressure coming in from the atla ntic high—pressure coming in from the atlantic that means you will have later wins out the day. still showers the north but not as many for a chance of a few showers to the far south but overall much quieter day in the last few. notice how the wind gusts have fallen away by wednesday afternoon. not a breeze

with much quieter day, quite chilly however our temperatures again six or7 however our temperatures again six or 7 degrees. cast your eye there towards the southwest and here we are again. should not be a severe this area of low pressure will affect all parts of the uk on thursday, seth and the smell of wet and windy weather and a bump of high—pressure for friday but that come the end of the date the winds pick up again commit some heavy rain comes marching in and unfortunately looking ahead to the coming weekend it looks things could turn stormy once again. ultimately four at the moment but do stay tuned.

this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 11pm: the bbc has learned the high—speed rail link, hs2 will be given the go—ahead by the government, linking london to birmingham, manchester and leeds, with drastically cutjourney times. today we have our confirmation that we will build the railway that will close the north—south divide and bring our country together again. but opponents are angry at the cost, the damage to the environment, and the disruption to residents near the route. the front of your very eyes, you can see sort of treasured landscape disappearing. taxpayers' money would be far better spent on local, regional transport projects. four more cases of coronavirus are confirmed in the uk,one of them