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13 five—year—old boy. 13 residents have a care home in scotland are feared to have died after becoming infected with the virus. spain records its lowest number of deaths this week as the government says the crisis may be reaching its peak there. there has also been a downward turn in coronavirus death in italy, the country that has suffered highest number of fatalities. meanwhile in new york, the epicentre of america's outbreak suffers its worst day as 630 deaths are recorded in the past 24—hour is. and here, sir keir starmer becomes the labour leader and promises to work with the government to tackle the coronavirus crisis. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are broadcaster
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lynn faulds wood and former pensions minister baroness ros altmann many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the mail reports on the queen's rousing message‘ to the uk ahead of queen elizabeth's historic address on sunday. with the telegraph reporting that the speech will look to ‘invoke the spirit that saw the country through the second world war‘. while the times leads with reports that the queen's speech will urge the uk to be strong as the coronavirus ‘strikes‘ medics. and ‘a generation as strong as any‘ leads on the front of the sunday express you can see the theme coming through there. with me are broadcaster lynn faulds wood and former pensions minister baroness ros altmann. thank you both for being with us.
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starting with the mail on sunday and the speech planned by the queen. i am nervous to ask you about this. i know you are not always a huge fan of the royal family but what do you make of the fact that the queen is made this decision?” make of the fact that the queen is made this decision? i think it is great on so many levels because we need a pep talk and it is really ha rd need a pep talk and it is really hard being shut—ins all the time and the queen, being 93 years old and an inner vulnerable age group, she is isolating herself at windsor and thatis isolating herself at windsor and that is the kind of message that people should get, that we all have to keep away from others as much as humanly possible, especially in the older age groups. and she is commending things that the british are very good at like self—discipline and good humour and fellow feeling was the other one i think that came up. the speeches tomorrow you want to see what they
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think themselves. but i think it is very good and much of it! and although i am tinged with republicanism, i am scottish, although i am tinged with republicanism, iam scottish, i think it is great and long may she carry on giving speeches like this. ros, is this the moment to bring the country together? absolutely and i ama country together? absolutely and i am a big fan of the queen and i think royal family being a —— bring a huge amount of benefit to the country so, sorry, lynn but i think the queen is a wonderful example to all of us have the british tradition and she can pull the nation together in ways that perhaps others cannot and she is not tinged with politics that sometimes can divide people. she is our national figurehead, in a way, and at her age and given her strength and ability to express the
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solidarity of the nation, i think this is a really important moment for her to speak to us. many of the papers are leading on that. the sunday telegraph is no different with a lovely picture of the queen and some quote from the speech. but it isa and some quote from the speech. but it is a different story that we will turn to, this is about protectionism. borisjohnson saying it is time for teamwork and not for countries to start scrabbling for things among themselves. what is he talking about here? it seems there has been if you like, of the masks that are in such short supply across hospitals and care homes and for the public at large. and we had a shipment on order of masks which seemed to have been diverted away from us and other countries in europe towards america. and of
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course this idea of nationalism and each country looking after itself rather than pulling together in this global pandemic is something that i think the prime minister is right to warn against and within europe as well i hope that we may value the cross—border relationships a little more than we have in the past but certainly if you have different countries take away protective equipment from others that already had them on order, if you like, outbidding them or trying to divert scarce and important resources to their own country rather than letting the others who already ordered it have those important supplies, then i think you are on dangerous territory globally and the international order needs to recognise that this is something the whole world is trying to fight together rather than fight against
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each other. lynn, can you take this onto the independent because they have a different angle on coronavirus. uk faces care crisis that could overwhelm the national health service. this is what they call the underfunded social care system. it is a very strong story. you need to go online to read the paper these days and it is worth it because we have several. the queen is the main story in the papers tomorrow but the next most important story is this and what is happening to our care story is this and what is happening to our care services story is this and what is happening to our care services and there is a risk of collapsing within the next few weeks. today we heard 13 people deadin few weeks. today we heard 13 people dead ina few weeks. today we heard 13 people dead in a care home in glasgow, the city of my birth, and that is truly terrible. it sounds like coronavirus striking there. and what the care home owners are saying is that the councils are refusing to give them emergency funding from the
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government so that puts them into more jeopardy. they have staff shortages, they have equipment shortages, they have equipment shortages, they have equipment shortages, the staff have no proper protective equipment, they are worried that these are vulnerable people who are going to fall victim to this horrible disease, this horrible illness and they are not able to do much about it. roz? we already had a care crisis before the covid—19 struck and of course people in care homes, the elderly, are most vulnerable to this disease and it is more deadly for them than anywhere else and if they are in a care home environment where the staff do not have protective equipment and they are going from one patient or one resident to another, the inevitability is that there will be a spread of this virus within the home. amongst residents and staff,
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and that is exactly what is happening. that is why it is so important to get the testing improved so that we know who in the ca re improved so that we know who in the care home may have it and which members of staff have it and have to isolate. and also the protective equipment so that we have our care home staff, whether they are nurses oi’ carers, home staff, whether they are nurses or carers, protected and able to keep working because what you see oui’ keep working because what you see our wonderful stories of dedicated staff in dementia homes, some of the staff in dementia homes, some of the staff have decided to live in the home because they were not enough of them and if they go home they may catch something and not be able to return stop some of these stories are so return stop some of these stories are so heart—wrenching but also heartwarming. what we must do is not focus solely on the nhs because if we ignore the social care issue that will both rebound on the nhs but also because increased suffering and
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possibly fatalities which may have been avoided had we looked at this seriously and urgently. lynn, move us seriously and urgently. lynn, move us on, back to the sunday telegraph with a different angle on the story. all about the conspiracy theories doing the rounds about 56 masks —— masts been connected to coronavirus and tech giants being asked to step in and stop this nonsense. there has been all sorts of stuff on twitter and conspiracy theories about coronavirus and this particular one is about 56 masks, maintaining that they spread it and people have been spreading rumours of this. this is com plete spreading rumours of this. this is complete rubbish, as was said by michael gove and the medical director of the nhs england this morning at their daily briefing. but that has not stopped people setting fire to these masts, attacking the people who work for the company that
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puts the mast there and looks after them and it is really frightening that people can believe such weird and scary things about this disease. and tech giants are being called on to ta ke and tech giants are being called on to take this stuff down. the sunday times, right at the bottom but a big day for keir starmer, the new leader of labour. does not quite make the front page but he is already weighing in and saying that the coronavirus crisis has been mishandled. it is interesting but of course the leader of the opposition, ata time course the leader of the opposition, at a time like this has to make a stand and has two speak out about what is the most important issue of out what is the most important issue of ourtime and what is the most important issue of our time and what he is saying is that he wants to hold the government's feet to the fire, and i think that is right and fair. at the moment the media has been doing that but now we have a leader of the opposition one would expect him to
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do that. he has come up with four tests that he willjudge the government by. getting the nhs to have more equipment, obviously we have more equipment, obviously we have been talking about that. more testing and again we are talking about that. vaccination centres, not sure what that really means because we do not have a vaccination yet for the coronavirus but he is also talking about what is going to be the exit strategy again, i think many people are asking the same questions and he is articulating what most of the country is thinking or asking now, which is what happens next? the government has to keep us informed. what is happening around out informed. what is happening around our country and informed. what is happening around ourcountry and in informed. what is happening around our country and in all our lives and millions of people's livelihoods and, of course, the health of so many people. it is vital to our
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future. the government must be held to account and keep coming back and explaining, as it has been doing every day what is happening, why is it happening, what is coming next, what are the plans? and keir starmer is now, i assume, going to be focusing on that and let's see what happens next and how that may impact oi'i happens next and how that may impact on the government. he has stepped into a role he did not imagine looking like this when he first stood for leadership. a different story photo from the mirror focused onjacob rees story photo from the mirror focused on jacob rees moulds story photo from the mirror focused onjacob rees moulds that make jacob rees mogg who they say is trying to make money from the crisis. is that fair? they call it coronavirus vultures. classic staff. the opening paragraph is poor it offjacob rees mogg's firm stands to make a fortune. he was a director of a
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company which he helped to set up called somerset capital management and he has at least 15% of the shares. but because he became leader of the house he had to stand out from the directorship that he is still involved and will make money from it and the people who are running it now say there is a once ina running it now say there is a once in a generation chance of supernormal returns and they are focusing on their clients long—term security full i wish they would focus more on us because i seem to remember that the company moved to dublin, so that it is still in europe, and they are making a lot of money out of companies which were hit by falling share volumes and values at a time like this we should be striving to support everybody, not how to make fast money. ros, i
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know you will have something to say on pensions and fund managers but we must squeeze in the sunday times looking at the situation basically for the prime minister and his fiancee because they have both been struggling along a little bit. an interesting one because carrie is pregnant and what she is quoted as saying in this piece is that it has not affected her pregnancy and she has been in bed for about one week that she has had a temperature and the general symptoms but she is making the point of saying she has not been tested for the virus, and i think that is quite interesting because many people are saying the important people are being tested and prime ministers are being tested but what about ordinary workers? she has made the point that she has not been tested and does not feel she needs to be. but borisjohnson, the prime minister, seems to be infected much worse and he is taking another few days off. i'm sorry to cut you
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off. i wish you were with us but hopefully in the months to come. that is it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can catch us on the front pages online on the bbc news website seven days a week@bbc.co.uk. if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, lynn faulds wood and baroness ros altmann. next on bbc news, it's the film review. hello and welcome to the film review with me, mark kermode. now, with cinemas closed and everybody being urged to stay indoors due to coronavirus, new films are still opening in the uk through streaming services, being made available
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