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tv   The Papers  BBC News  February 23, 2020 11:30pm-11:46pm GMT

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which is under ferocious attack by forces loyal to president assad. politicians in south wales write to the chancellor to demand more help for those affected by the country's recent floods. with house prices in england hitting record highs, we report on the struggle to make homes affordable, forfirst time buyers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are henry mance, chief features writer at the ft and john rentoul, chief political commentator for the independent. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the metro says a woman in birmingham has been treated
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in hospital after being knocked out as she tried to protect her chinese friend from being racially abused over the coronavirus outbreak. the daily telegraph warns of a pandemic as four new cases of coronavirus are confirmed in the uk, and parts of italy go in to lockdown after a massive rise in the number of new infections there. the i also goes with coronavirus saying there is fury after passengers from the quarantined diamond princess cruise ship test positive for the virus after returning to britain. the guardian warns that the world is fast approaching a tipping point in the spread of the coronavirus. the mirror goes with an investigation into us chicken sheds where birds live what the paper calls a grim life before being killed and washed in chlorine. and the times says the home secretary, priti patel, has demanded a formal leak inquiry into so called ‘hostile briefings‘ by officials
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in her department after claims that intelligence chiefs at mi5 do not trust her. we're starting with coronavirus because we have had a hugejump in the three on friday and 152 today. it is getting closer. the daily telegraph with the british angle that a lot of british people have beenin that a lot of british people have been in italy for half term, the italians don't know where the outbreak comes from, they haven't been able to trace it. i was watching your interview with that doctor from watching your interview with that doctorfrom king's watching your interview with that doctor from king's college very closely. she said the most important thing is to be able to trace these infections so that you know where it is and how to handle it. it seems
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that we are approaching the point where it is about to get out of control. the areas affected in italy are fairly wealthy areas, they generate a lot of the income for italy, the northern regions. you can see where people are saying, how did this get here? it borders with france. these areas near malan. malan fashion show has been disrupted. giorgio armani has held his show behind closed doors. syria are football matches. davis sirie a. —— sirie a. it presents a difficult challenge for authorities how to encourage people without using may be coercion, used in places like china, but to encourage people to act responsibly and show themselves to authorities if they show symptoms. there are people who have
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been detected as having coronavirus in italy who haven't gone to china and haven't had contact with anyone who has been known to travel to china and that is the worrying thing. before we move on, what you make of the criticism japan has had in terms of the confirmed cases from the diamond princess ship, saying that the quarantine on board that ship was got —— not good enough? that the quarantine on board that ship was got -- not good enough? the early signs about coronavirus was that there seemed to be less worrying than sars. in many ways. what has been discovered in the last few days is incubation period might be longer than expected and although it may not have the fatality rates, it may not have the fatality rates, it may not have the fatality rates, it may have the possibility to spread. to single out a country, i am not sure of the validity of that but it is clearly a disease that the re st of but it is clearly a disease that the rest of the world are not across. they are learning to cope with rather than having... still so many questions. let us turn to the front page of the times and priti patel
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furious over claim of loss of trust from m15. these are tensions between mi5 from m15. these are tensions between m15 and priti patel. what do you make? this came to the fore last week. that they would take away the pension. —— this is pretty gruesome stuff. they are there to do the bidding of ministers, there to help formulate government public —— policy. and the country. so this idea that the home secretary cannot get access to full m15 briefings because she is not trusted by the security service is incendiary and not surprising at all that the conservatives have come out and said it is simply not true because it would be hugely damaging to british states in the world if that were the
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case. it is an extraordinary briefing war that has been coming out tween priti patel in this case and her civil servants, it would appear, in the home office. it is not just restricted to appear, in the home office. it is notjust restricted to that department because we have had. this is interesting for them to be briefing quite so viciously. turning to the front page of the daily mail. training nurses to do surgery. did we see something like this...? several years ago. i am sure this was around in new labour days when they were trying to reform the nhs.
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one of the things you have to do in reforming a public service like the nhs is to reduce the sort of demarcation between the professions. the problem is i suspect that the doctors' trade unions, the royal colleges and the bma will fight this. because they want to retain that special role in the nhs but it is obviously a sensible direction to move in. if you are going to take... it isa move in. if you are going to take... it is a two—year training course that the nurses will be asked to do. how will you fill the vacancies? they are already there at the moment. we don't have enough trained doctors and nurses and that is medium term problem, it is about finding people. making them feel like it is a secure profession that they want to go into. and the nurses will be asking if they will be paid accordingly? yes but it is important because it does provide career progression which is one of the things that might be putting people off going into nursing is that, you
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know, you sort of feel that you can't actually make much progress beyond a certain point. 0k. the front page of the daily telegraph and saunders, sanders, a big win in nevada. he really led the pack. bernie sanders, yes. it is a very strange election now because we have got used to, even in this country, used to watching american politics and working out that it is actually about winning delegates to the national convention. that is the sort of slow, painstaking progress. in previous elections, by this stage evenit in previous elections, by this stage even it was more 01’ in previous elections, by this stage even it was more or less decided but there is a long way to go in an election where you have to accumulate delegates and try and get accumulate delegates and try and get a majority at the convention but sanders is out in front. where were his key voters? he did pretty well
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among latino voters. he got half of latino voters, he got some african—american votes. didn't do as well asjoe biden african—american votes. didn't do as well as joe biden but african—american votes. didn't do as well asjoe biden but did ok. this isa well asjoe biden but did ok. this is a guy that had a hard time on the campaign trail, he is 78. for him to be here as a front runner with no really established rivalry, there are several people way behind him in this race, it is pretty astonishing. but the field is still so big. the names in the hat. league until it gets to super tuesday, you will have candidates who feel like they and their supporters, they want to shop. you get super tuesday on march three and then they want to see how it all talks up. you have billionaires who put their own money into this. it looks pretty clear that the next president of the united states will bea president of the united states will be a white guy in his 70s. just explain super tuesday. that is a
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whole lot of states. it is huge. it is more or less the whole primary election. and the key there is it is diverse states. we are going to turn to the mirror and i'm fascinated about your time to the mirror and i'm fascinated about yourtime in to the mirror and i'm fascinated about your time in a chicken shed. you have experience. about your time in a chicken shed. you have experiencelj about your time in a chicken shed. you have experience. i suppose, i mean, it is a bit sanctimonious of mean, it is a bit sanctimonious of me but i was put off chicken as a result of that experience was not one of the things you had to do was the big the chickens. you had to slice the tips of their big soft to stop them picking —— taking each other but henry tells me that actually free range chickens do that as well so maybe this is all more difficult than i thought in my teenage years when i worked in a chicken shed. why should i be
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worried rush why should we be worried rush why should we be worried about this? this is chicken coming in as part of a chat —— trade deal? it is just like coming in as part of a chat —— trade deal? it isjust like chicken in this country, i suspect. but there is the fear that they have lower standards, hygiene standards, in america, and that they cover it up by, in essence, correlating, cleaning the chicken afterwards. chlorine is not a problem. it is the fa ct chlorine is not a problem. it is the fact that it is, it might be masking welfare. lower welfare. because we swim in it, don't we? the government, it is illegal. the government, it is illegal. the government have not ruled out changing it. they are saying they are not massively clean on these methods. how are you going to get a trade deal between the us in the uk thatis trade deal between the us in the uk that is meaningful, that really reduces some of the barriers but doesn't reduce welfare standards, it
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isa doesn't reduce welfare standards, it is a question. people may not think about this when they have chicken eggs but it is something that government doesn't want. this is reminiscent of the debate back in the 80s when we were first made aware of welfare, the welfare of our chickens and push for free range and the british public were educated. and let us go to the guardian. tyson fu ry‘s and let us go to the guardian. tyson fury‘s win in boxing. john, you are not a fan of boxing. sorry, i am being a puritan. free range chicken and ban boxing. i have to admit, i have been a huge fan of american football which i have stopped watching because of the brain damage but foxing is far worse. just watching two blokes trying to damage each other, it is just, watching two blokes trying to damage each other, it isjust, it watching two blokes trying to damage each other, it is just, it is not edifying. henry, give us a bit of
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balance in terms of what is achieved. this is a huge performance bya achieved. this is a huge performance by a british boxer. one of the greatest performances by british heavyweight. he beat an american and absolutely hammered him. he set up a fight between two great british stars, anthonyjoshua being the other one potentially this year if they can get the money together. this is a guy coming back from mental health and alcoholism. and you have interviewed him. answered one or two questions are not the rest. —— and not the rest. this is as good a performance as anyone would have expected him to put in. he said he had punches that couldn't crack experts of his certainly cracked eggs was not thank you very much, we are going to end there. thank you. chicken and eggs, very good, very good. that's it for the papers tonight. thank you, henry mance and john rentoul. don't forget you can see the front pages online
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on the bbc news website at bbc.co.uk/papers — and if you miss the programme you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. from henry, john and myself, good night. next on bbc news, it's the film review. hello and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode, as ever. hello, mark, what have you been watching? interesting week. we have greed — the devil is in the retail.
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littlejoe — a sci—fi thriller, or is it? is it all in the mind? and like a boss, a comedy that needs to be a lot funnier than it actually is. the devil is in the retail. good tagline. it's a great tagline. so steve coogan stars as sir richard ‘greedy‘ mccready who is kind of a loathsome british retail mogul who has recently been hauled up in front of a bunch of mps to account for himself. this is a fictional tale. fictional, yes. but it will obviously it will ring certain bells for news viewers. he's sunning himself on a greek island, building a coliseum at which he is going to lord over all his toga—clad friends at a party which is meant to be some kind of huge roman spectacular, including wild animals. however, people are dropping out left, right, and centre, so they're having to turn to not real celebrities, but look—alikes. here's a clip:

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