tv The Papers BBC News April 18, 2020 11:30pm-11:46pm BST
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hello. this is bbc news with me, james reynolds. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines. the uk goverment admits ppe is in short supply in england and that more needs to be done to secure stock. we've got to do more to get the ppe that people need to the front lines. this is an extremely challenging situation. 84 tonnes of personal protective
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equipment is due to arrive in the uk tomorrow from turkey, including 400,000 gowns. the number of people who have died in care homes from coronavirus could be higher than official figures show. doctors injapan warn that the country's medical system could collapse amid a rising number of coronavirus cases. president trump says parts of states could open from monday. the move follows protests in austin. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me arejoe twyman, director of the polling organisation deltapoll, and jo tanner, who is a political strategist. let's start with the sunday times, and it reports that ministers have
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drawn up a plan which could see schools reopen as soon as may 11. it comes as the mail on sunday says political and business figures are urging the uk government to map out a clear exit strategy from the lockdown. the observer leads on a warning from one of the world's top health experts, that there's no guarantee a vaccine for coronavirus can be successfully developed. according to the sunday telegraph, borisjohnson has started issuing orders to his government from chequers, as he continues to recover from coronavirus. and the sunday mirror carries a warning from frontline medics, saying that they fear hospitals may run out of oxygen supplies for coronavirus patients. let us begin with naming lies, easily the hardest papers i think i have ever done. jo tanner and joe twyman. we were considering codenames for you both stop that might be externally hard. instead, i'm going to do that thing you see
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in debates, give you your first and last name in each question. we will start with joe twyman, who was last name in each question. we will start withjoe twyman, who was on the left. the sunday times. the main story. in this main story, it looks like covenant ministers are deciding they have to save the economy. ministers have been spooked by in apocalyptic treasury report warning that many businesses will be out of cash. it seems to matter what the medical advice, there is pressure to start using restrictions of. it's extraordinarily difficult to be in, the choice you have is a government is essentially to choose between more people dying and to choose between more people losing their jobs, their incomes and potentially their livelihoods. and so this is a serious problem at any time. and at the same time, the government cannot simply open the floodgates and allow life to go back to normal. it has to
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be done as a phased approach to ensure that the health service is not overwhelmed. and so the sunday times talks about how this will be done as a three stage process, green, amber and red, done as a three stage process, green, amberand red, with done as a three stage process, green, amber and red, with the first initially starting in three weeks' time. school. primary children returning, along with nonessential shop returning, but crucially social gatherings will only be allowed on small scales and there won't be pubs, small scales and there won't be pu bs, restau ra nts small scales and there won't be pubs, restaurants and concerts and other entertainment venues opening. jo tanner, we can see the government's dilemma here. if eve ryo ne government's dilemma here. if everyone cocoohs and government's dilemma here. if everyone cocoons and shuts down all businesses for a year and a half into the vaccine comes out, might be an economy left or much left. but if people are released in one go, people are not going to be able to be treated. what do you
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think of this traffic light system the government is talking about? what appears to be happening is the prime minister borisjohnson giving a set of choices about when to return full study choosing thing around this whole proposal is there... i don't think it's really being talked about. if you look at things about the downing street social media feed him a lots and lots and lots of focus on the mental health, for example, and what we are not really talking about is the deaths that are related to the cover 19 but not necessarily a direct result of having covid—19. there are growing concerns around safeguarding issues around children, growing concerns about businesses and those people that need those businesses and other people who have really big
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concerns about their incomes? there are issues around suicides. we are seeing a huge growth in the number of domestic violence and issues around women in particular seeking refuge, and really harrowing stories about that. there are other things going on that are not just about managing this with the images but asked about wider problems that are developing as a result of the prolonged lockdown. let's look at the mail on sunday. the headline is pretty similar except it's a more campaigning headline, did britain moving again. joe twyman, we have seen moving again. joe twyman, we have seen spain promise to ease its restrictions on children. 0ur schools the wisest place for the country to start? the suggestion is thatis country to start? the suggestion is that is the wisest place because firstly, it releases the strain on people having to stay home to care for children and so they could return to work longer term if that we re return to work longer term if that were possible. it also, the data
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suggests children are least likely to be affected by the disease. the problem is they may potential is to be carriers. but a person concern for students in years ten and i2 be carriers. but a person concern for students in years ten and 12 is the gcse and a results coming out. the reports are that the students will, potentially on the timing, sit there exams in the summer. the teachers unions have already said they are against teaching during the summer they are against teaching during the summer stuff it's unclear whether they would be willing to do exams or whether they would be needed. certainly, if you were a 16—year—old oran certainly, if you were a 16—year—old or an 18—year—old going into these exams, must be extraordinarily difficult to not know that you want to set them at all let alone when they will be. what you do about revising and things like that? and that's just a plea revising and things like that? and that'sjust a plea one revising and things like that? and that's just a plea one of the many areas that questions are being raised in terms of how do we ease restrictions with mac the times
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talked about the fact that there was this apocalyptic prediction, six out of ten businesses could run out of cash within 12 weeks if the restrictions are not used. the enormity of that is almost beyond comprehension, and the mail is basically suggesting if we don't ease up restrictions, we won't have an economy left by the end of this to recover. and so they turned to people like iain duncan smith, david davis and keir starmer on the other side to trying get things moving. we are going to look at the sunday telegraph now. the headline, johnson start to take back control. this is rather interesting. i might be wrong but i seem term ember and a headline a few weeks ago, johnson taking control of testing —— i seem to remember. this issue of personal protective equipment, it's rather interesting, one of the men who ran the london olympics, jo tanner, is being called in to try to take
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charge of the effort to supply ppe to medics. yeah. they are bringing in paul dayton, who was involved, he was involved in the organising committee i think it was for the 2012 olympics and they brought him into head up the effort because there are concerns about how this is working and lots of mixed reports of the ppe availability in the distribution. it was something that hancock himself had said he was taking charge of and that they made a helpline for anybody having difficulties. the army and other forces have been brought into assist, but it clearly still is a major issue. there's not a day gone by we have not heard reports and concerns about ppe and then on top of that, there are also suggestions in some of the papers for tomorrow that in part of this phase returned from lockdown, there could be
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communities being asked to wear masks. now, we have already seen there are not enough of the people in the front lines, so the idea there was only be every lewis number communities could wear them, it's two a miraculous number. all the time, amazing nhs care workers, putting them in harm's way. be sunday times now. there's a story on the top right, revealed how the government sleep walked into pandemic catastrophe, from the well—known insight team. from the internet, that is all people are talking about, what the paper perceives as extreme feelings in the last couple of months. joe twyman, i would've you been able to read that story. yes. i have. it's astonishing
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in its depth and how comprehensive it is, covering 70 aspects of what is clearly going to be a very difficult situation. from the outset, it talks about there will have to be an inquiry inevitably into what happened and it talks about the kind of missing weeks that are about the kind of missing weeks that a re often referred about the kind of missing weeks that are often referred to in the united states as well. the end of january to the beginning of march wear very little was done in this country and very little was done in america. the suggestion there could have been used, for instance, to build up supplies of ppe, ventilators and tests. these crucially important elements of any fight, but as it saysin elements of any fight, but as it says in the article, this was not done, borisjohnson says in the article, this was not done, boris johnson himself says in the article, this was not done, borisjohnson himself is personally criticised. downing street sources talk about the fact he was really not leading and instead enjoyed his weekends. he is described as a local chief executive ofa described as a local chief executive
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of a council from 20 years ago. it is very critical of him but also of the government in general. the question, would anyone else, another government have tentatively? we don't really know. talks about the fa ct don't really know. talks about the fact there was a test of the whole process back in 2016 which predicted that the health service would collapse, but from 2016 to 2018, i9, 20, really, a lot of planning went on instead. a lot of questions to a nswer on instead. a lot of questions to answer and inevitably, elaine will be apportioned. the question remains where. acro one, thanks. let's move tojo where. acro one, thanks. let's move to jo tanner, the where. acro one, thanks. let's move tojo tanner, the concept of the missing weeks, is that how you see a? -- joe twyman, thanks. there is a sense of what is emerging the uk and other countries were not taking this threat seriously and what we don't really know is why. but we cannot quite work out is, there were
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meetings going on, certain ministers appear to be attending, others were not present, and even the health secretary went on record after one meeting saying every thing was under control. and what is inevitably going to happen, there will be inquiries, several inquiries, and several global questions asked. but theissue several global questions asked. but the issue is really, were the scientistsjust the issue is really, were the scientists just appearing to be the issue is really, were the scientistsjust appearing to be over reacting? were they actually given not enough? were they given ample opportunity to be heard? already, the blame game is starting. there is a sense of, i thickly have to treat these stories very carefully because there are people working right now trying to deal with this emergency in this situation, which is awful and requires their focus, in this situation, which is awful and requires theirfocus, and in this situation, which is awful and requires their focus, and to be honest, i think it's right people are being question. however, this people working very hard now, many of them could use theirjobs, and i
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would rather focus be on getting us out of this. if people have to answer questions about what happened if humans ago, absolutely right. answer questions about what happened if humans ago, absolutely rightm tanner, thinks there. we are going to gallop along. the observer. this headline is one of the most pessimistic we will find. it says, don't bet on the vaccine to protect us don't bet on the vaccine to protect us from virus threats, world health expert. when you see that, joe twyman, how do you react? this fees back to the first story we talked about. green is for school kids, perhaps to go back, and red is for people over the age of 70. it suggest if a vaccine is not available, they will have to stay at home for up to a year, but the thing is we civilly don't know how long it will take for a vaccine to develop. some people are saying six months, some people are saying years, some people are staying longer. a
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professor at imperial college in london and an envoy for the world health organisation has said that it could be up to a year and that's been reported in the observer today. that would clearly be extremely bad news or if the case, but it could be worse. will the vaccine indeed work continually? we don't know. our next story, and possibly ourfinal story, lockdown shaming being used to settle feuds. police saying people are calling up notjust breaking a rather compact rules but just are calling up notjust breaking a rather compact rules butjust to settle neighbourhood disputes. jo tanner, did you inspect this might happen? not really, but the great british public to have a habit of surprising us, and actually sadly i think, there's been a lot of reports about calls to police and how the police had actually managed this process. the idea people would use
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