tv The Papers BBC News February 23, 2020 9:30am-10:00am GMT
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out or like the beatles have turned out or something. i'm just running on adrenaline at the moment and like i say, this is overwhelming. the support i have had from day one, from... you know what i mean? from families bringing me into their homes and putting me up in hotels and feeding me, it hasjust homes and putting me up in hotels and feeding me, it has just been one big coming together. i'm glad he has got that hat on to keep warm. and we'll be taking an in—depth at the papers with our reviewers david wooding and shyama perera — that's coming up after the latest headlines and a full sport update. now it's time for a look at the weather with tomasz shafernaker. this hello. we've got some sunshine on offer for you today. certainly not for everybody, but i think for much of the country it will turn out to be a pretty decent day once the cloud
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and the rain clears away. there's also some snow in the forecast. overall, it's going to be a very unsettled week but the snow is heading our way tonight and also tomorrow morning, it could be snowing in some parts of the country. but most of us will not be getting the snow, it's just not cold enough. clouds are stretching right across the atlantic, in fact all the way from the bahamas, right across the atlantic and today we are going to be in between weather systems. this brought us the wind and the rain last night. there's a gap here and this is the next low pressure that will be bringing some wintry through tonight and into tomorrow. i think today, the vast majority of the country you can see apart from a few showers, a lot of sunshine, belfast, liverpool and hull. but in the south of the country, i think most of the time will be fairly cloudy, so from plymouth, southampton all the way to the kent coast, it should be a pretty, i think, grey day with some light rain from time to time. through this evening it's going to turn fairly chilly very quickly across the north and the north—east of the country. i showed you that ribbon of cloud across the atlantic. another low pressure is heading our way, it will be
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moving into this colder area, so that means early hours, snow falling across northern england. certainly scotland, southern and central scotland, could be coinciding with the rush hour and there could be snow settling in some of the towns and cities, but mostly across the hills. of course, nothing unusual but indeed it will be pretty wintry. and on top of that we've got the gale force winds so in the mountains for sure, we've got some blizzards on the way. and very blustery around the irish sea coasts and also across northern england. but certainly from northern england southwards, way too mild for any snow. in fact here, there will be sunshine with showers and in the south during the afternoon, notice there is a weather front here so there will be some rain at least flirting with the southern counties. chilly day in the north, of course, with that wintry weather. much milder in the south. and notice, 7:00pm on monday evening there is still wintry weather there across parts of scotland. the week ahead is looking fairly changeable. you can see the weather icons showing a mixture of weather for many of the major centres
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and still remaining above the average for the time of year as far the time of year as far as temperatures go. hello this is bbc news with ben brown. the headlines: tyson fury produces the best performance of his boxing life against deontay wilder to become the new wbc heavyweight world champion. italy's government imposes strict quarantine restrictions in two northern regions close to milan and venice which have been declared hotspots of the coronavirus outbreak. senator bernie sanders wins the nevada caucuses, cementing his status as the democratic frontrunner for november's us presidential election. and a series of events is unveiled to commemorate the 75th
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anniversary of ve day, which marked the end of the second world war in europe. before the papers — sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here'sjohn watson. good morning. britain's tyson fury is world heavyweight champion for the second time after a seventh round stoppage of deontay wilder in las vegas. their hugely anticipated rematch after a draw in los angeles 15 months ago began with tyson fury carried to the ring on a throne — the self proclaimed gypsy king. having promised to knock the american out inside two rounds he made a blistering strart before flooring him in the third and fifth before the fight was stopped in the seventh, the american‘s team throwing in the towel under a barrage of blows. it sets up a possible unification bout with anthonyjosua who holds the divisions other three belts
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later this year. tyson fury has promised more is to come. iam my i am my own worst critic and even though it was a fantastic performance and i got a great win, i know i can do better. performance and i got a great win, i knowl can do better. i have performance and i got a great win, i know i can do better. i have only just started with the style. we have had seven weeks to perfect the style that takes years. i am a quick learner and i that takes years. i am a quick learnerand i aim that takes years. i am a quick learner and i aim to get back to work straightaway. work on my balance and work on my straight punches. we will be putting people to sleep left, right and centre. when i came here, they said i can't punch. deontay wilder himself said i have two pillow fits. not bad fall old, fat guy who can't punch. did all right, didn't i? scotland beat italy in the six nations but welsh hopes of successfully defending their title are all but over after losing to france in cardiff for the first time in a decade. the french remain on course for a first grand slam in 10 years. as wales struggled early on, an uncharacteristic mistake from leigh halfpenny let france in to score.
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wales responded through dillon lewis after the break. but there was another welsh mistake as nick tompkins pass was intercepted, by man—of the—match romain ntamack, who had a clear run to the line. wales got one more through dan biggar but france held on. 27—23, the score. obviously, it is disappointing the result didn't go our way. but i thought after everything pretty much went to plan in terms of the momentum shift and got back into the game at 17—16. but we felt that we'd done enough to come back into the game. scotland had their first win of this year's tournament. they scored three tries against a poor italy side in rome. captain stuart hogg scored the first from his own half. chris harris and adam hastings went over the line to seal the 17—0 win. we had to stick in at times in defence and to see their plays with the first victory of the
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championship against a difficult opponent, we are delighted. we will go into our last two games with confidence. we can take a lot of confidence. we can take a lot of confidence in how we defended today. there's only one game today and it's a big one, england up against ireland at twickenham, as father and son go head to head. england captain owen farrell looking to end the grand slam hopes of his father andy — the ireland head coach. it will be the first time the pair have been in opposition to each other. it is quite a unique family. if you look at the tree of the farrell family, it is a unique family. their ability to be professional and play for their team and not get involved in that other stuff, is probably unique. in the premier league, there was more var controversy — at chelsea, frank lampard complained spurs‘ giona lo celsco should have had a red card in their 2—1 win.
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and at bournemouth, eddie howe was unhappy with var after they had two goals chalked off in their defeat at burnley. the first came whenjosh king thought he had given them the lead, var ruled it out for a handball in the build up. burnley then went 1—0 up before this happened, bournemouth broke and thought they had equalised through harry wilson, only for the referee to bring play back to check for a handball, that was given. jay rodriguez stepped up to make it 2—0. dwight mcneil added a third to complete a miserable day for eddie howe's side. after the game he said they were mentally unable to come back from those decisions. the first decision probably dictates the rest of the game. because it is a clear goal, i think it came off phil's shoulder. i think it is a perfectly good goal and without the
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first decision, i don't think decker—macro getting involved in the second incident, which is a two goal swing against us. i feel psychologically we couldn't come back again. it was difficult for the players. but up until that moment, i thought we played very well. manchester city have tightened their grip on second place — moving seven points clear of leicester in third, after beating them i—o. city had a chance to go ahead from the penalty spot — but sergio aguero saw his effort saved by kasper schmeichel. but they did manage to score late on — gabrieljesus snatching the win. next up for city it's real madrid on wednesday in the champions league. it was really good to play against madrid with this opening. we are stronger, it is better to prepare. 12 days off in this break in february. we are going to play
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against the king of the competition. we will wait and see. england start their campaign at the women's t20 world cup later this morning when they face south africa in perth, in a tournament they've won once before. heather knight leading the team who will be hopeful of success, a win in their opening match a against a side with a strong batting line up, would set them up nicely. after australia the hosts and holders had lost their opening match. we have just wanted to get going, has been a bit of a weight hanging around. we have had good preparation the last month we have been here but the last month we have been here but the main event has kicked off now. we are excited to get going. you a lwa ys we are excited to get going. you always wa nt we are excited to get going. you always want to start well in a tournament and get into it really quickly. in rugby league. st helens were beaten by the sydney roosters in the world club challenge.
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the match pits the winners of super league against the nrl champions and it was the australian side who triumphed — luke keary‘s try making sure of the 20—12 victory. the roosters have now won the title twice in a row — and for a record fifth time overall. and finally, how about this for skill. women's basketball side jackrabbits from south dakota in the united states were practising half court shots during a session. up steps the first player and sinks theirs. impressive. surely another player couldn't do it as well? they could. how about a third? and a fourth. no pressure on the fifth and final player. no way. and would you believe it, they did it as well. that's all the sport for now. hello and welcome to our sunday morning paper review.
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with me are the political editor of the sun on sunday david wooding, and the journalist and author shyama perera. let's take a look at the front pages. the observer goes with a warning from sir keir starmer, who is running to lead labour, calling for the party to unite or face its longest period out of power since the second world war. the sunday telegraph says the prime minister wants to replace a series of senior civil servants over claims that they are at odds with tory ministers and advisers. the mail on sunday raises questions about prince andrew's "alibi" for the night he is alleged to have had sex with virginia roberts — claims the prince has strongly denied. and the express goes with a downing street warning ahead of trade talks with the european union. number ten says that the eu appears distracted, divided, and not focussed on trade issues. the sunday mirror says police investigating the disappearance of madeleine mccann have quizzed
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a british barmaid about her german ex—boyfriend. and the sunday times says house of lords spending is out of control reporting that peers paid themselves almost one third more last year and the house of lords is set to swell to its largest in two decades. so, let's start with that story, the house of lords in the sunday times. expenses spiral out of control, david? yes, they have been looking at the claims of the noble gentlemen and ladies in the upper house and they found they have risen 30%. interesting figures in here. 31 lords who claimed more in expenses than the standard take—home pay of an mp. just to give you a bit of detail, you get £323 tax—free for signing on and some of the piers... when you say signing on you mean
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turning up? turning up. signing on might be appropriate. turning up? turning up. signing on might be appropriatem turning up? turning up. signing on might be appropriate. if you attend at the lords for the day, you don't have to say anything. lord coming m, have to say anything. lord coming in, the former labour cabinet minister, he cost taxpayers millions of pounds and only made seven speeches in the chamber last year. with the number of peers about to increase to 834, which is the largest since they were whittle back by tony blair, there is some concern. there is talk all the time about reforming the house of lords? his 17 speeches for 70 more than lord bhatia and he did make a single one and claimed 44,000. we should move the house of lords up north and that would soon test who cared and who was turning up to supplement their pension. it would also stop
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their pension. it would also stop the cross pollination between the commons and the lords, so that you have two independents, even those who were partisan were forced to actually try and be a little bit independent of policy. i think it is certainly time for reform, but i can rememberarguments certainly time for reform, but i can remember arguments for reform for the last 50 years. but this sort of story i think we'll stick in the craw of a lot of people. they gave themselves a 3% pay rise when we are getting an extra 79p a week, compared to what we got years ago in the average salary. it is outrageous. in the sunday times we have got the prime minister's vanishing briefs. not a story about his underwear but what the civil serva nts his underwear but what the civil servants sent to him in terms of briefing documents and he wants them a little bit shorter? he wants his briefs a bit shorter, yes. he wants
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it on two pages of a4, four maximum, otherwise he will not read them. it is quite well—known, boris is not a detail man, but his aides, dominic cummings, his most senior adviser has said four pages maximum and if it is any more than that it will not go in the red box. i have a bit of sympathy with this. i people will ask why he doesn't read them but prime ministers have to read a lot of stuff. i was in use at that wants abbas khan are you comparing yourself? not at all. i know what i had to read in thatjob and people would pitch an article and all you wa nted would pitch an article and all you wanted was people to pitch their main points and if you needed more detail, you would send for it. shyama, do you have to be a good
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prime minister? in a way, this particular prime minister is that chief executive of an organisation. he is the big ideas man and delegates absolutely everything, and i think often the detail. what worries me about this is dominic cummings will see other detail but the prime is not. which seems to me, the prime is not. which seems to me, the balance is wrong and i was hoping when i read this, it was about his peccadilloes, but it is not about how often he has taken off when he shouldn't have, but about the fact he hasn't even got enough concentration to read something that is more than two to four pages. because they wanted two sides of a4, but a maximum of four. i love the fa ct but a maximum of four. i love the fact somebody has apparently accuse them of running government by adhd, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, because theyjust cannot stop long enough to try to
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understand what it is they are looking at. what is your impression of what is going on in downing street in terms of the balance of power, how much power does dominic cummings have? he is the man who gets the special advisers in on a friday night and he runs them. he has got the ear of the prime minister. but there has of late been one 01’ minister. but there has of late been one or two disagreements. there was this weird and wacky adviser they called in who had to be removed a couple of weeks ago, who was brought in at the behest of dominic cummings and then fired, or forced to resign by the prime minister. so there will bea by the prime minister. so there will be a bit of friction. but nevertheless, taking control of the treasury, bringing it all under one roof. some people might say, it is centralising so we are all singing from the same hymn sheet, but traditionally we have had a treasury and number ten working as a
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partnership rather than one unit. and shyama, in the sunday telegraph we have more friction in the sense of borisjohnson we have more friction in the sense of boris johnson wanting, we have more friction in the sense of borisjohnson wanting, they say, to replace top civil servants, mandarins and dramatically change the approach of some of whitehall‘s biggest departments? this is a natural lead on from the story about him wanting shorter briefs. he is not a man who enjoys detail and the whole point of civil servants is their whole life is about the detail. itjust their whole life is about the detail. it just seems to their whole life is about the detail. itjust seems to me they are the corporate memory, if he is the ceo, his mandarins are the corporate memory and they understand what is happening. he has only been an elected prime minister for two months and is trying to dismantle something that is upheld are institutions for decades, possibly even centuries. i think really, this is quite a worrying story because while i am sure there are lots of
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fussy mandarins in whitehall trying to stop prime ministers from doing what they want, if you bear in mind we have had three elections in the la st we have had three elections in the last five years, plus a leadership hustings and all this sort of thing. there has been so much discord and change and regime change, the only thing that has been constant to all of that is all civil service. let's talk about the labour party, the observer have got a story saying keir starmer, one of the contenders for the leadership, is warning labour to unite or face a generation out of power. obviously, they are reeling from their election defeat, where do you think we are with the labour party at the moment? we are about a month away, i think the voting starts tomorrow because the ballot papers are going out to the membership. there is only lisa nandy, sir keir starmer, and the shadow business secretary rebecca long—bailey left in it. keir starmer
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is ahead in the betting odds, certainly as favourite. mustn‘t forget, he is a man of the pretty ha rd left. forget, he is a man of the pretty hard left. he has got a pretty left—wing past. so he will appeal to a lot of the called ministers who joined the labour party. whether he is the right man to move it into an election winning position, is another thing. he says borisjohnson isa another thing. he says borisjohnson is a dangerous man so we will have five years to see how dangerous borisjohnson is before keir starmer has a chance, if he wins, to take him on. keir starmer against boris johnson, could you see him winning that battle? possibly. i don't see that battle? possibly. i don't see that keir starmer has the charisma of borisjohnson. i do think we are i'iow of borisjohnson. i do think we are now into personality politics. the labour party's now into personality politics. the labour pa rty's problem now into personality politics. the labour party's problem is they don't have somebody who has the star
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quality. you both being liverpool fans, did you not notice how much billy corkill he looks in that photo. i didn't, actually but thank you for pointing that out. he might win some votes if he brings back brookside. he is speaking sense. labour does need to unite and it is in the grip of the hard left. i don't know how you move it into a situation where it may unite behind that, but there will still be people within the labour party who either leave or don't vote for them. back to the telegraph, shyama. they have a front—page story about the government being under pressure to end the" witchhunt" against vetera ns ? end the" witchhunt" against veterans? this is a former soldier he has been named as eddie murphy
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who took his life last week. he was under investigation by the army for misdemeanours while on manoeuvres, in the field of battle. the argument comes back to what happens in a war is often unfortunate, it is often heat of the moment and things are done that would not happen in everyday life and do we go back historically and investigate and charge soldiers who we believe may have done something that they should not? i think what is interesting, this time last week it was caroline flack and it is all about people who are in the public eye, in public service, you know, who are in public roles. do they get, or should they get some sort of special consideration? should they be investigated in the same way? historic crime of murder would be
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investigated today, historic crime of assault against a partner would be investigated, so i think, it is a difficult one because all you can think of today is this poor man, irrespective of what has happened, should not have felt so terrible. let's look at the observer. interesting inside feature about greta thunberg, the environmental campaignerand greta thunberg, the environmental campaigner and what it's like being her mum and talking about life in the family as greta struggles free of her teenage torments, to become a global icon. we forget she is a very young girl who has become this globalfigure? young girl who has become this global figure? her young girl who has become this globalfigure? her mother young girl who has become this global figure? her mother describes how greta was quite a troubled child. in fact, the environment issues have turned her life around. she had eating disorders and it was only when she went and ate some
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vegan noodles, thai noodles that she suddenly started eating again. in fa ct, suddenly started eating again. in fact, she went and did a demo outside a school and political offices and her father wanted outside a school and political offices and herfather wanted her to stop. in fact, this is something that has given her a purpose and it has turned her life around. that has given her a purpose and it has turned her life aroundm that has given her a purpose and it has turned her life around. it is really interesting. as a mum, irrespective, i hate people who cannot stand greta thunberg, but i think she is fantastic. how wonderful that a child who appears to be failing and being failed by a syste m to be failing and being failed by a system that isn't quite right for her, suddenly finds a way of making herself understood and heard. girls, please step up to the mark. i now feel my own children have become failures. because they are not global icons? they don't have twitter spats with the us president? and they don't go on nice sailing
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trips across the world. seriously, it is an interesting story. it is also about autism, in its own way, because it is about how she changed her life and came alive, after having struggled. 0k, her life and came alive, after having struggled. ok, let's look at the mail on sunday. britons get a passion for 50 shades of grey. i know it is 9.55 in the morning, david, so keep it clean. it is not what you think. 50 shades of grey in the bedroom is paint on the world. it seems the colour great has become trendy. —— grey. one in five people think, when asked, that gray is the best quality paint your kitchen or your bedroom. someone who has an elephant's breath, through her house, it is the colour of the moment. what colour is elephant's
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breath? it is a really, really pale grey. everything has been put in the grey. everything has been put in the grey pallets, even though it is not that grey. who knew, elephant's breath is grey. thank you for being here. just to say a big thanks again to our paper reviewers today, david and shyama. you can see different pages online on our website, seven days a week. and if you missed the programme, you can catch it later on the bbc iplayer. thank you again to dave and shyama and good from us.
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the weather isn't looking too bad. we have some wintry weather on the way through tonight. in fact, the next low pressure moves of the atla ntic next low pressure moves of the atlantic and the will increase and it start to see rain falling as snow across southern, central and northern parts of scotland. some of the towns and cities could get a covering of snow and across the scottish hills and mountains, we will have blizzards for a time as well. before all of this, it will turn to rain as well. it will stay wintry across northern parts of scotland, central and northern parts of scotla nd scotland, central and northern parts of scotland through most of monday. in the south, it is too mild for any snow and rain is expected for the south and the south—east on monday. goodbye.
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this is bbc news, i'm ben brown. the headlines at 10.00am: tyson fury produces the best performance of his boxing life against deontay wilder, to become the new wbc heavyweight world champion. when i came here, they said that i can't punch. deontay wilder said himself that i've got two pillow fists. but, you know, not bad for an old, fat guy who can't punch. the government defends its response to the flooding across the country — as the prime minister defies calls to visit affected areas. italy imposes strict quarantine restrictions in two regions declared as hotspots in the biggest coronavirus outbreak in europe. bernie sanders cements his status as the democratic front—runner to take on donald trump in november's us
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