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tv   The Papers  BBC News  March 21, 2020 11:30pm-11:46pm GMT

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hello. this is bbc news. i'm lewis vaughan jones. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. first, the headlines. more beds, ventilators and thousands of extra staff will be made available from next week after a deal between nhs england and the nation's independent hospitals. another 56 people with coronavirus have died in the uk, bringing the total of deaths in the country to 233. the death toll in italy has seen another dramatic rise — the prime minister has ordered the closure of all businesses, not directly involved in the effort to suppress the coronavirus outbreak. and there's been a dramatic rise
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in the number of deaths in spain too, an increase of more than 300, bringing the total to more than1,300. a senior british government minister has appealed for people to be responsible when shopping. it's estimated one billion pounds worth of extra food has been stockpiled. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. i'm joined by the political commentator jo phillips and nigel nelson, political editor at people and the sunday mirror. we will be chatting to them in just a second. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. let's ta ke let's take a look. the sunday telegraph carries a warning from the prime minister that the nhs
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could be "overwhelmed" — like the italian health system — in just a fortnight — as official guidance paved the way for british doctors to prioritise the coronavirus patients who are most likely to survive. the sunday times reports that more than a million people — most at risk from the coronavirus — are being told to live in isolation at home for three months. the mail on sunday has borisjohnson giving a stark warning about what the nhs — as well as urging britons to celebrate mother's day remotely — by using video calls. the sunday people has a picture of a stern—looking borisjohnson, saying don't go and visit your mum. the sunday mirror carries the same story and adds there is an appeal for 50,000 nurses to help fight coronavirus. the sunday express quotes the prime minister saying the threat now facing britain "cannot be sugar—coated." it also reports the queen will address the nation in a tv speech.
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right. let's chat. thank you for being with us again. a lot to get through. let's start with the sunday people. nigel, the headline, employee, stay away from mom. that's right. a message from borisjohnson to the entire nation. so he has chosen that to say that the best present... nigel, we lost you for a second. could you take a break? i'll just talk to joe while second. could you take a break? i'll just talk tojoe while we try to establish your line. jo, quite a stark message. it's a message that is in absolutely all of the papers, really quite unprecedented we the prime minister's words unadulterated and a very stark warning. if you're thinking of going to see your mum or grandmother, don't. stay away from them, talk to them on the phone, skype them or whatever but don't and
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visit. it couldn't be more stark and brutal, really, because a lot of people will think oh, poor mom is on her own or whatever. but this is probably the kindest thing to do, particularly for the elderly and people with underlying health conditions. so the prime minister's advises stay away and as you said earlier, i mean he said in this letter, there is no sugarcoating, people are going to die, we need to do everything we can to stop that happening or slow down the rate of infection, at least. really powerful, emotional language across many of the front pages. nigel, let's try you again. we have the sunday telegraph with the headline, nhs facing italian style crisis if we don't stay at home, says pm. and again this comes out of the letter
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he sent out today. what he's saying is we are 2—3 weeks behind the italians. and we have seen some horrific images coming through from italy of people who... nigel, we we re italy of people who... nigel, we were doing so well. we were doing so well. we nearly got you. take another breather, nigel and jo will ta ke another breather, nigel and jo will take up the slack. so what is the skill of the crisis we are facing here in the telegraph? most of us have been to italy. we know italy has an extremely good health service. it's still quite mystifying as to why they've had such an enormous number of coronavirus cases and so many deaths. but we've heard doctors, we have heard health professionals, we have heard residents talk about the real effect and it's a warning to us. they are near neighbours, they are on our
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doorstep, they live like we do. and we've got to listen is about because otherwise as the message says in telegraph, our own health service which is creaking at the seams a nyway which is creaking at the seams anyway is going to be absolutely run into the ground and won't be able to cope if we have a spike in numbers like the italians have had. let's move like the italians have had. let's m ove o nto like the italians have had. let's move onto the mail on sunday and touch a little more on the nhs. the big headline, boris nhs is on the brink. what do you make of what the mail is talking about there?m brink. what do you make of what the mail is talking about there? it is a sense we have been alluding to, everything possible is being done to try and enable the health service to cope with what is coming down the road. we know somebody is said the clouds are there, the storm is brewing. apparently there have been deals with private hospitals for thousands of nurses, thousands of
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birds are equipment, i know that's have had their ventilators and oxygen equipment requisitioned —— veterinarians and we know people working in the health service don't have adequate personal protection. we have to remember in the middle of all of this, people are still having heart attacks, strokes, cancer treatment, having babies, breaking legs, having road accidents and things are. though the pressure on the nhs which is huge at the best of times is absolutely unbearable. and it's like a horrible, horrible game. it's a horrible, hideous race against time to make sure we are as well equipped and is set as we possibly can be all in one go. let's ta ke possibly can be all in one go. let's take a look at the sunday times. nigel, we will try you. you are looking crystal clear now so we
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should be able to hear you. we will look at this article on the right—hand side of the front page of the sunday times. small headline. even in wartime, nobody did to do this. absolutely. the whole thing is, the government is throwing an extraordinary amount of money at this whole problem. now, john mcdonnell is promising all sorts of things. people didn't believe him, and asa things. people didn't believe him, and as a result labour lost the general election. now rishi sunak is talking about £300 billion, which is a phenomenal amount of money. and david's livers is right in the sunday times —— david is right. this wasn't even contemplated in wartime, we ran a 20% deficit in world war ii, nothing like this. when the government so they will do whatever it takes, they are certainly putting their money where their mouth is and doing just that. yeah. let's move away from the sunday times and go to the sunday express. because, we've
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seen the sunday express. because, we've seen the headline, or your mother's sake, stay home, that sentiment is across all of the front pages only tomorrow. but the picture at the top, elvis shoppers told you should be ashamed, and more pictures of empty shelves —— selfish shoppers. the government is trying to connect emotionally to guilt people into not stockpiling. i'm not entirely sure it's working. i think the problem is although as nigel rightly said, the government is now apparently doing all it takes to address the crisis, and the measures from the chancellor underlined that, there are a lot of people understandably panicked and frightened. you have another portion of people who actually think oh, it doesn't matter, it's like a bad dose of flu, i will carry on as normal,
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and then you've got other people being quite sensible in the middle. and then if you show pictures of empty shelves, it makes people think, that is all i'm going to find when i go to the supermarket, so i better... that's the point, isn't it. the public can't suppose they canjust the it. the public can't suppose they can just the supply chain because they see empty shelves whenever they go intoa they see empty shelves whenever they go into a supermarket. it feeds the panic. so the important thing at the moment is to try and keep those shelves stocked and it's quite to restrict people to only a few items, that kind of measure, but if the shelves were constantly stocked, what would then happen is the people wouldn't panic buy. there is an interesting element of human psychology. we have been told by experts and government officials that the supply chain is fine, there is absolutely loads of food there,
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but as soon as you see those images, some people stockpile as you say. so what is actually happening is that people are now going to supermarkets and spending 50% more than they would normally do at this time of the year, they span £1 billion filling up their fridges and larders over the next three weeks. that would value 65,000 ventilators, for instance stop yeah. jo, let's stick with the sunday express front page. and the picture on the right—hand side of the queen there and the small headline, queen will boost the nation's morale with 0stle tv speech. what's going on there? there are thoughts apparently under way between the palace and broadcasters, that in this time of grave national emergency, the queen, who usually manages to get it absolutely dead
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right, she is regarded with a lot of respect by a lot of people, a lot of people have no time for the monarchy. but she is our head of state, she is ourfigurehead leader andi state, she is ourfigurehead leader and i think we have never been in a situation like this. it is like a war, but in many ways it is probably worse for a lot of people. and she is the right person to give a message. you know, whether that message. you know, whether that message is — it's very difficult to get the message right because the idea of calling on the little brits and we can all come through and all of the positive thinking doesn't really was when you are saying to people you really got to be on your own at home and not see anybody for three months —— blitz brits. and we're talking about most of us who are we're talking about most of us who a re fortu nate we're talking about most of us who are fortunate enough to be able to go to supermarkets. what about food banks and rough sleepers and people
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at the very bottom of society? if the queen is anything, she is a unifying voice. so i don't think they work out exactly when she is going to do it, she is in windsor castle, i believe, at the moment. that may be the next stage. and maybe people will listen to her more than they will to borisjohnson. i think party politics have been quite rightly thrown to the wayside. what downing street are actually saying is they are going to let the queen decide when the best time for this address to be. the argument is really, she is the most experienced public figure in this country and it should be down to her when she thinks the right time to actually calm the nation will be. all right. well, thank you very much both. it is an external reset of papers when you think about it. the emotional language across the front of it there. nigel, pixelated and dropping out to begin with, it's never how
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you start, it's always how you finish. so thank you as well tojo. right. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget, you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you, seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. so, ourthanks again to jo and nigel. next on bbc news: the latest information and health advice on coronavirus, including what the symptoms are and how to self—isolate, presented by victoria derbyshire. coronaviruses are a type of virus. the one we are all talking about is new and it causes a disease called covid-i9. now, new and it causes a disease called covid—19. now, most people will only be mildly affected by it, but it can
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kill. it starts by infecting our upper respiratory tract, which are the airways from your nose to just above your vocal cords. you may develop a fever as your immune system cells divide the virus, and a dry cough. that's one where you don't produce any plan. the virus can then spread to the lungs, making it harderfor people can then spread to the lungs, making it harder for people to breathe and it harder for people to breathe and it can cause pneumonia. in the most serious cases people can die from the coronavirus. this is because the immune system can go into overdrive and that can lead to organ failure. so, we need to do what we can to stop the virus from spreading. as it gets into your body by breathing it in or through your eyes and mouth, the best thing to do is wash your hands regularly and properly for at least 20 seconds. catch your calls and sneezes in the tissue and avoid touching yourface. we know the most common symptoms of coronavirus are a persistent cough and/or a fever, but what else is there to look out for?

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