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tv   The Papers  BBC News  March 1, 2020 11:30pm-11:46pm GMT

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hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment — first the headlines. a patient in scotland tests positive for coronavirus — bringing the total number of uk cases to 36. 25 british tourists who were on lockdown at a tenerife hotel arrive at the airport to fly back to the uk this evening, after testing negative for coronavirus. borisjohnson says he has "confidence" in his home secretary priti patel — who faces allegations from her departing civil service chief that she bullied staff. greek authorities have been using tear gas as clashes intensify
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with migrants on the border with turkey — they say they've already stopped almost ten thousand from entering. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are bonnie greer, who's a columnist for the new european and byline times, and mo hussein, the former conservative special adviser to amber rudd when she was home secretary. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. like most, the metro focusses on coronavirus, saying the government expects the spread of the infection to continue. no telegraph tonight for some reason, they are usually very quick off the mark. the times says the government is preparing for drastic measures after cases jumped by a third in one day.
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the mail says health officials are searching for those who are carrying the virus without knowing it. the possibility of cities being locked down if things escalate, is the angle taken by the express. the guardian reports on fears that the virus is spreading in britain undetected. the mirror has an investigation on the number of people killed by offenders being monitored by private probation firms, since the service was part—privatised. and the star says a man who assaulted a police officer when he bit him, has been spared jail because he didn't have his false teeth in. we are not doing that one, don't worry. sorry. we will start with the times this time. johnson, we will stop at nothing to tackle the virus. we saw borisjohnson, bonnie, i and
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about today at the public health england laboratory, there he is pictured at the national infection service centre saying that, to reassure people that the nhs is well—equipped, that we are in a good position to be able to cope with coronavirus. interestingly, the times takes a picture of him on the front page with his usual porous expression, that's interesting, i thought. that seems like a kind of signal. i think he is trying to do his best. we don't know what this is. i think actually, if the prime minister would just say that, that is one of the more reassuring things he can say. he says we will stop at nothing, of course he will stop at nothing, of course he will stop at nothing, but we don't know what this is. with reports going around or rumours that cities are going to be locked down, which you can't even imagine anything like that happening, and searching for people who don't know that they don't have it come i don't know how you do that
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either. this is a very chaotic situation, and it needn't be. you give me some wonderful little eye rolls sometimes. i don't even notice that you are doing it, what was that i wrote for? no, that you are doing it, what was that iwrote for? no, ithink, look, it's very much that the government are trying to get on the front foot on this, the cobra meeting tomorrow, the minister wheelchair, this kind of battle plan that will be signed off by him and the chief medical and scientific officer, it's all the language and kind of bits in place, this is what governments do when you don't really know what this is. exactly. 0r exactly. or how it's going to develop, and you need to reassure people and show people that you, somebody is worrying about this, somebody is thinking about this. hopefully, that does reassure people, and that's a good thing, because i think a lot of people, as we are seeing and hearing, will be very worried about
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this, and all this talk, the times talks about the super spreader as well, this talk about trying to find the person identify somebody who may or may not know that they've got it or may not know that they've got it or when they got it, you know, i think, again, some line between public information and causing alarm, and it think it has to be careful. is super spreader as someone careful. is super spreader as someone who careful. is super spreader as someone who seems to careful. is super spreader as someone who seems to infect more people than another person. what a horrible expression. what a horrible expression. you know, but it's a terrible thing to even say. no one knows how this is being spread, no one, in america right now, they have something like... i think this is a medical term of. something like... i think this is a medicalterm of. i think something like... i think this is a medical term of. i think they do know that you have got to be within two metres of somebody for about 15 minutes, have a new? but they don't know where it's coming from, there isa know where it's coming from, there is a thing called community spread, there is no —— they don't know how it's entered, and that is really the search. not looking for people who don't know they don't have it and calling them super spreaders. the daily mail says finding the hidden virus speaks to what you are talking
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about, bonnie, as well. i can take a couple of weeks for people to start to show symptoms, that's the difficulty, is to? but what i'm saying is the subtext of this is a sort of fifth column out here who isn't well or whatever, and they are sort of loose in the community, and look around for them. no one knows how this is being spread. this isn't about being victimizing, is it? you are saying about being victimizing, is it? you are saying someone about being victimizing, is it? you are saying someone is being secret or super or whatever, but we don't know what this is. how worried are you though, really? i am... we talk about the fact that there has been an increase of the third of cases, but that's only gotten, only going to 36 so far. we don't know anything about this. i think it's really important that people in charge of our health tell us that we don't know anything about this, so there is this sort of personalise this as if human beings are walking around. that isn't really what's going on,
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is my point. how worried are you? i'm increasingly worried commanded think that's more because there seem to be people who have now got it without having to any the countries. that's what i mean by community spread. . in terms of where they go to, that's being looked into, it's a third from a small number, granted, but it still, i think i'm a big jump in one day. so we do need to see how this develops. my this develops. my point again, it's not anybody that make this idea, this sort of su btext that make this idea, this sort of subtext is advised —— as if it's someone's fault, it's not someone's fault. we are also in sort of peaks flu season, aren't we? we don't know what this is, and i think that's what this is, and i think that's what the pay minister should say. we don't know, we are trying to find out. the guardian. refugees can most thousands stranded at turkey's eu border, greece saying that they can't cope, they are firing tear gas, there have been clashes. people are trying to get away from the
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fighting in syria, and turkey is once again battling against notjust syria but russia. yes, exactly, and turkey is very much at the forefront of this, having taken in millions this year and refugees, and the loss of life they have been in their old armed forces, and they have got to the point where they have had enough, you know, thinking about domestic challenges and then thinking about this deal that they have signed with the eu, and the turkish view of the eu has not played up to their part of the bargain whether it's financial or other kinds of support. sol bargain whether it's financial or other kinds of support. so i think that this is, again, but to show of strength in terms of what turkey can do by letting all these people pass, and the impact it may have. in turkey once, it seems, for the european union to lean on vladimir putin and stop him from being involved in the syrian civil war a. turkey ‘s geography has always been its destiny. it's always been the definition of it. they know this
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as well as anyone. he knows that turkey is the border between europe and asia, it always has been. this is one of his attempts to keep control of his political agenda, what's going on inside of turkey. he lost big in the last elections, so this is a way to be the strong man, and also to show that he is in somehow control of what ever he can't control. it's a ploy, and it's a tragedy, it's an utter tragedy, because these people are hanging in between two countries and they are refugees, and nobody is taking response ability for them. let's go to the metro, not a lot to read on the front page, but it's more about these bullying claims that pretty patel has faced, and prime minister secretary it says not looking pi in the commons. i'm not sure that she will. i think that mostly because labour are asking for her to do it, but i think
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there is a lot more going on behind there is a lot more going on behind the scenes in the home office, it's always been quite an unwieldy department and clearly, there has been quite a big personality clash between the two people at the top of the political side in the civil service side. there is probably a lot of history there as well, i think when it comes to its, there will be questions whether there civil services on board with direction the government wants to go and the government would say that we have a mandate now we have a majority actually these are the priorities, and the civil service has to help us deliver them, and in that, there will always be tensions, and there will always be debates. but they are usually private, they are not usually come live reservations on television are all over. the norm is command labour is absolutely correct, asking the home secretary to come to comments and why the you civil servant has
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resigned, and naturally has resigned, and naturally has resigned, is going to sue for constructive dismissal. this is an absolutely rational question for the opposition to ask. the home secretary is not willing to do that, it shows you what kind of game they are playing in this place, it's ridiculous. it's about who is trying to assert control, isn't it, is welcome after we saw just to assert control, isn't it, is welcome after we sawjust sajid javid stepped down because he would not fire the staff that he was being asked to get rid of. yes, i think there is an of that certainly commanded think there is also a push within government around also a push within government around a wider reform of how things work. and civil service and how it departments deliver what they, with the politicians want them to do, but i think this has come almost by accident, because there were other issues in the home office, and that lends itself to this wider narrative of bigger reforms. but this isn't the private business of a
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government, this is the business of the country and the opposition is absolutely in its rights to ask the home secretary to show up. but she's not doing it. the times, at half past ten, about an hour ago, i promised you don't make don't make that noise. you make i'm saying oh...i that noise. you make i'm saying oh... iget that noise. you make i'm saying oh... i get what you are saying here. what did we miss? the dogs noses, you have come have a new? you've lost the paper. mo and i will talk about it. hot news. i'm sorry, she says. iam! she says. i am! why have dogs got cold noses, do you want to talk us through mo?|j will help you out. they have cold noses because it helps them to detect heat. so if there is a war mammal nearby, they would be able to detect it. exactly, which is why they like to go on walks so much. the thing i thought was quite interesting we were discussing before was that their sense of smell
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is 100 million times better than oui’s. is 100 million times better than ours. that... wind to blow your mind just to have a dog sense of smell just to have a dog sense of smell just for a few minutes? you may not like it. no. i don't think our brains could cope with it. also they do stick their nosesin with it. also they do stick their noses in some pretty revolting places. you own it but that's how they see. is how they make sense of they see. is how they make sense of the world. you will make everything. but it's nice to have a story like that making the front of the pages with everything else.|j that making the front of the pages with everything else. i thought so, mo. i think mo. ithink in mo. i think in a country which adores dogs, i think this is really an important breakthrough, because that's a very complex mechanism, their nose, seriously. it's all thanks to researchers in sweden and hungry, friend of mine says that when a dog was for a walk and has a good old sniff them it's like they are reading the newspaper. and they have decades and that sniff as well. triggers all sorts of thoughts. that's it for the papers tonight.
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can't talk about cold noses all night. 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 big thank you to my guests this evening, mo hussein and bonnie greer. that's all from us, goodnight. next on bbc news it's hello command a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news command to ta ke the film review on bbc news command to take us through this week's top cinema releases is james came to you, james. what have you been watching? a new version of a classic tale, the invisible man, but is it a
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