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hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are polly mackenzie, chief executive of centre—left political think tank demos, and sebastian payne, whitehall correspondent at the financial times. tomorrow's front pages, starting with. .. a hopeful lead story on the front page of the times, which reports on potential plans for "air bridges" between countries this summer. the transport secretary, grant shapps, says quarantine on all arrivals into the country could be relaxed, with deals between countries with low coronavirus infection rates. the telegraph is leading on the same story, and says quarantine—free travel to and from countries like france and spain will depend on the status of their own epidemics. on the front of the metro, a warning from kings college london that up to 200,000 people may not have self—isolated when they needed

to as loss of taste and smell is added to the list of coronavirus symptoms to look out for. "queen hit by £18 million losses" reads the front of the sun due to royal palace closures during creating a loss in revenue. "new britain, new schools" on the front of the daily mirror, with this photo of a socially—distanced classroom. the daily mail asks "when will they learn" of teaching unions, and highlights how the reopening of schools across europe hasn't led to a spike in coronavirus infections. an exclusive on the front page of the guardian, as the paper reveals "how agency care home staff in the uk spread covid—19". and finally, the financial times leads on the 500 billion euro coronavirus " recovery fund" being backed by france and germany, who have today agreed it should issue grants, not loans, to countries most in need. so, let's begin. we will start with the guardian.

it's exclusive on its front page revealed how the agency care home staff s p rea d revealed how the agency care home staff spread covid—19. polly, the story of care homes is the story of the pandemic in this country really. yes, it does seem that was the government took a really impressive grip of the nhs and expanded capacity. they really took the i off the ball when it comes to care homes. and in fact in order to clear space in our hospitals, the discharge a lot of patients into ca re discharge a lot of patients into care homes who may then have carried covid—19 with them. meanwhile not doing anything near enough to provide personal protective equipment. the guardian is talking especially about agency workers who may work between a whole range of different ca re may work between a whole range of different care homes and just the kind of bio—security measures that you have in hospitalsjust have not been applied in care homes and in

this really has been both kind of print journalism this really has been both kind of printjournalism and this really has been both kind of print journalism and also this really has been both kind of printjournalism and also tv journalism that has put huge amounts of effort into investigating and talking to care home managers and talking to care home managers and talking to care home managers and talking to people who live there and their relatives and exposing how much the government really i think let us down. sebastien, the health secretary and minister said they had thrown a protective ring around care homes. when he read the article and look at other pieces of evidence, what do you make of that government claim? is a clinic does not stand up toa claim? is a clinic does not stand up to a huge amount of reality. it is quite clear that there are many things government have not got right about this crisis. yes, the nhs in the intensive care at bad capacity and the service was not overwhelmed in the testing capacity is where it needs to be in that if the good side of the government response to this crisis with the bad side is this dreadful epidemic in care homes. we learned today that there have been

outbreaks of covid—19 in 38% of the uk's outbreaks of covid—19 in 38% of the uk's care homes which is shocking absolutely. in the story on the front page of the guardianjust reveals how ill—prepared the government was to deal with this outbreak in care homes that there reports over the wicked people getting discharge straight from hospital still with covid symptoms and going back to care homes without being properly tested and without being properly tested and without being isolated. and obviously people in hospitals have to make very difficult decisions about who to keep in and who to isolate and who to send back to the homes be at where they live or be in care phones. but i do think this issue is a battle for the government and it is important to show us they did not grasp the scale of this challenge even though that there were warnings from any care home providers and as polly was just saying that a lot of the media is done digging into this and the stories are harrowing. i know of someone who is in the very situation that was in a care home

and that has caught covid—19 and is i'iow and that has caught covid—19 and is now ina and that has caught covid—19 and is now in a very serious illness without any prospect of knowing what is going to happen next. sol without any prospect of knowing what is going to happen next. so i do think the government is trying to get a think the government is trying to geta grip think the government is trying to get a grip of it and is putting more money into more testing but in fact it is probably alljust a bit too late. we will look now towards the summer late. we will look now towards the summerand late. we will look now towards the summer and the daily telegraph. the headline air bridge plan to save holidays abroad. i must admit i do not know anyone who is planning a holiday but apparently those holidays can be saved if there is an air bridge to countries like spain, france, italy and germany. we may wa nt to france, italy and germany. we may want to go to those countries, polly, but will those countries want to receive us? well that is what we don't know. we have it seems the worst outbreak or if that is not true when the numbers are finalised, certainly close to the worst outbreak in europe. and whilst other

countries are further ahead of us in terms of easing the lock down, we are still a long way from allowing even travel within the uk let alone travel outside. we are very belatedly introducing this quarantine rule. probably at the beginning ofjune. just as some other countries are beginning to lift their quarantine for the government is still not clear on the details yet and i think for fear of frightening the beleaguered travel industry and the airline industry the government is trying to provide some hope and optimism and say if there are countries that have really got a there are countries that have really gota grip there are countries that have really got a grip of of coronavirus, where infections levels are as low as ours oi’ infections levels are as low as ours or lower than it is fine and we will create kind of mutual arrangements where people can travel between our country in their country. that does require us to keep our infection rate low. and it is not certain that

in the uk or france or spain or italy that has we open up our economies, our infection rates will stay low. i think there is a huge seal is rent people travelling insurance or existing holidays let alone starting to book new ones and i think alone starting to book new ones and ithinki alone starting to book new ones and i think i want not put my money down for a flight anytime soon certainly. let's go to our necks in the papers now and the i am a damning verdict of the uk missed a critical moment to stop the virus. this from the ft goes back to the 12th of march when britain decided to stop the way it was testing, which the comments science committee is looking at in detail. indeed. this period at the beginning of march is going to become very crucial when there is that big inquiry into the uk government response to the coronavirus outbreak. now obviously everyone is expecting there is going to bea everyone is expecting there is going to be a big formal inquiry that will ta ke to be a big formal inquiry that will take place over many months and

years but mps are very patient about this and want to get investigating now in case there are lessons that apply to dealing with the rest of the pandemic. in this report from the pandemic. in this report from the science committee confirms things that a lot have said that we had this approach that seemed to be working for coronavirus and this is when cases were in the tens and anybody who was diagnosed with covid—19 or a come back to the uk with covid—19 was isolated for 14 days as banana putting into quarantine. but all that contact traced. everyone i spoke to him in contact with was alerted by the government and they had to go into quarantine themselves. now that sounds familiar, what we're doing now and is very bizarre to think we we re now and is very bizarre to think we were doing that right at the beginning of march and now as you said on that crucial date, the 12th of march the government decides to stop that and move from this containment strategy into a suppression one where it acknowledged it was going to spread much more widely and with that very

serious illnesses and more deaths and then it seems six weeks later we have now gone back to where we were before and back to contact tracing and isolation. in the real question people want to know is what change the government mind? was it political or scientific advice or was it at some of the mp5 on this committee suspect the fact that we just did not have the capacity of the tracing and did not have the contact tracers and did not certainly have the apparatus in that situation that we could have done which of course raises big questions about the uk posit resilience but i think that two or three week period where so much more could have been done to prepare us for this next stage of the pandemic is going to be very crucial and a lot more of that will be seen in the investigations and debates to come. let's stay with the science of move to the times newspaper. there is a story there next to a picture of people having brea kfast next to a picture of people having breakfast by the cathedral in that

is on the story about the science. i use that word probably should not use that word probably should not use that word the science because as we have learned scientist in different countries and different scientists in this country have different analysis of the measures to be taken in this article in the times says it is up to politicians to make the final decisions. yes, andi to make the final decisions. yes, and i think the science is quite convinced that tiramisu is of the ideal breakfast but when it comes to epidemiology and the modelling of statistics and especially when it comes to a new virus where we have been speculating and onlyjust beginning to build the evidence about how it transmits exactly, does it transmit by aerosol droplets outdoors or only through these door handles and objects called for lights. all of that, we don't know. we have been building the science as we go and i say we, obviously much more accomplished people that may

have been doing that. and as the evidence has changed so the scientific advice has changed. 0ther the government was excellently right to set up a scientific advisory committee, follow its advice where it could but they have been so clear that they are following the advice as if that is kind of a perfect shield to protect them from any m ista kes shield to protect them from any mistakes when the reality is there we re mistakes when the reality is there were always choices to be made in exactly which scientific advice to follow and whether given that we did not know very much, to take a more cautious or a more risky approach. and what the president of the society was set in the article is a government should not try and put scientists up as a kind to protect them from the mistakes that they themselves made. it is inevitable you make mistakes during an unprecedented crisis like this people should be a bit more humble about them. we will move to europe

now into the financial times. the headline of germany and france unite to call for a 500 billion euros eu recovery fund. sebastian, this is your paper. i recall in march the anger in italy and spain against the rest of the eu. they felt let down and each of those polls starting to rise in italy, should we really be pa rt rise in italy, should we really be part of the eu any more? this surely is an attempt to address those concerns in southern europe. indeed in this whole thing has echoes back to the official crisis of 2008— 09 and the eurozone crisis that followed in admitted her busy between the northern european countries which have stable financial systems and smaller debt piles and the southern european countries and particularly portugal, spain and italy who are in a much more precarious position. and during the euro crisis there was this sense developed that the south of europe was not being treated fairly by the northern countries and of course

they were all in the eurozone together initial the same currency in the same difficulties, too. shiva had netted the economic shutdown that followed due to the coronavirus shutdown and it is the same arguments all over and italy especially at the very beginning of the crisis was calling to brussels for help, saying we need help getting to the situation because we do have a lot of debt and there is a lot of questions about the sustainability of some of the smaller italian banks as well and their request fail on a lot of deaf ears until now when it is decided that the age—old thing that often happens in europe which is countries don't necessarily want to hand over cash that they think is not necessarily deserve. but i think will be if he and not with this package being developed and huge sums of money that will be sent to these countries in the form of grants and not loans and is that old axis of france and germany that really shows where the power bounces on europe and they have almost got this package together and we had to

wait and see what the details are about how it pans out but generally as you said it is trying to address those growing euro sceptic concerns from those countries that felt brussels really was not doing enough for the smaller states and they are not entirely happy but i think they will get to a compromise and it will do something in the longer term and has big financial consequences for europe as well because were talking about billions and billions of debt being piled onto the balance sheet here and somebody down the line will have to pay for that. and that black hole from which britain used to contribute to the eu budget hasjust got a lot bigger. does this agreement hold the eu together, pauly? i think it will take an extraordinary force actually to tear the european union apart. where the brexiteers argument was it britain left the entirety of the eu would crumble and that would be a tremendous thing will stop but actually we have seen the european

union through the brakes and negotiations being incredibly united. there are some differences of opinion around money and around this and the chancellor of austria in particularly leading the charge to the char said that you should not be granting money, only lending it. but the european union is slowly finding its feet. because it started asa finding its feet. because it started as a public health crisis which is of course not a competence of the european union, i think that is one of the races while they were so slow and of course every country distracted by the huge amount of work they had to do simply to keep citizens safe. we will move on back to the uk and look at schools and do so to the uk and look at schools and do so with two papers now who have different ways of seeing this. first of all, the daily mirror, new britain, new schools in preparation for children posit rich about worries that many parents and teachers remain and submit it towards those worries and towards those teachers who might not know whether or not they have to wear

face masks. and let us contrast that with the daily mail which has the question when will they learn? underlined there. the 22 eu countries and opening their school has not been harming that harmful so every pa rent has not been harming that harmful so every parent question fort britain posit militant teaching unions is that. two different ways of seeing the same issue. sebastian. indeed the same issue. sebastian. indeed theissue the same issue. sebastian. indeed the issue about schools has gone awry into the classic political left— right divide here where teachers attend to be on the left of politics and they are saying they will not commit to be sending teachers back into the government's test, track and trace scheme is up and running and is proven and until they have more reassurances about ensuring social distancing and the agreement for all staff in schools as well. on the other side of this you have got the government who wants to get the economy moving again, get kids back to school so that parents can get back to work and also to help the education of those kids who want to go back now.

and this will continue to play out through this and i hope the government is keen to get agreement with the teacher unions because so far everything is done in the coronavirus pandemic has been cross party. generally from the labour party as well and it wants to try and keep that momentum going there. and i thought there is been two interventions on this that were striking with the first being tony blair of the former labour from minister who said he supports schools going back in the second being the new labour party of kier starmer also seems to agree that schools going back but if he's trying to tread that careful lot of not going against the trade unions but also speaking to people who do sin to want to schools to go back and isa sin to want to schools to go back and is a difficult line there. for the job and the government to try and convince the teaching unions to get them on board as possible to re—up in schools and it still wants to do that byjune the ist and will get a clear decision this week on when and what primary schools can open again but it is actually an example of politics returning back

to normal after the kind of... it is a funny is that because any look at the daily mail and pick it up and you say when will they learn and to the the daily mail against what they call militant unions and this could be any mail addition over the last ten or 20 or 30 years. it is almost like we are back as sebastian tended to suggest towards a pretended —— pre—pandemic conflict or world. to suggest towards a pretended —— pre-pandemic conflict or world. but looking to see the daily mail and express looking to see the daily mail and ex press a looking to see the daily mail and express a particular charging very strong allegations against the unions in this town. but also being quite hysterical about people travelling or people walking around in parks and they are not really showing much consistency. it is not i don't think about the epidemiology but about the fact that they don't like the teachers unions. children do need to go back to school and the need to learn and this a lot and is clearly children the most. but giving that in a kind of steady and managed way is going to be

incredibly important. children may themselves not be enormously at risk but of course their parents or their grandparents may be and the teachers of course made even if they themselves don't have to shield may have relatives or members of the family at home who do. so we have to proceed carefully and cautiously and i think one question is whether pa rents i think one question is whether parents will be punished if their children do not go back to school. lots of pa rents children do not go back to school. lots of parents i know simply don't feel safe sending kids back yet and with much of their weight. and we know in the end the indian you control the virus is a successful treatment potentially in the form of a vaccine will in the guardian talks about its front page. the first human trial results raise hope for vaccine with a lot of talk about the vaccine with a lot of talk about the vaccine projects at a peer college london and austin university as well but this story is about a company in america. indicative of the global efforts in they are being coordinated with an organisation called the cep i wear all the universities are sharing research and even government has put out

hundreds of millions of pounds of funding into this and many of the government's trying to get to that vaccine because within the government has been very clear about is that the social distancing in the lock down and all this is in a holding pattern until they get a vaccine to cure covid—19. but also university are being very bullish saying that they are hoping to have a breakthrough by this autumn and this news coming out of america which is referenced again is very positive. if either of these projects to come to fruition it is an amazing achievement for science here asa an amazing achievement for science here as a ladder for a vaccine being produced is about four years and that was back in the 19605. the idea that was back in the 19605. the idea that covid—19 i5 that was back in the 19605. the idea that covid—19 is going to be barely a euro and we actually have a vaccine that can be produced is quite outstanding but of course once a vaccine is there is proven the next challenge is getting it produced in high enough numbers and 5tarting produced in high enough numbers and starting a huge vaccination programme and a5 starting a huge vaccination programme and as we have seen with te5ting programme and as we have seen with

testing and discussion about the antibody te5ting testing and discussion about the antibody testing that becomes very political very quickly and i5 obviously different countries are involved. and into our final picture in the guardian and the front page of people having breakfast in milan and forgive me for the criminology public at this picture, they are drinking from the take away mugs with no respect would ever done that with no respect would ever done that with the best crockery so that shows would take away mugs things have changed was that there is a enormous pastry they tend to be eating there andi pastry they tend to be eating there and i question what that is presumably a treat in a post—endemic world and which preface would you like to have, polly? just anything away from my children to be honest. i love them very much... sebastian, your ideal breakfast equipment salmon, scrambled eggs on some nice sourdough toast. you've thought about that. sebastian and polly, thank you both so much. that's it for the papers this hour.

goodbye for now. good evening. i'm holly hamilton with your latest sports news. and celtic have been crowned scottish premiership champions for the ninth year in a row after the top—flight clubs agreed that the spl season could not be concluded. well, that also means that hearts have been relegated. celtic manager neil lennon is determined to set a record and make it ten titles in a row if and when the season starts next. some supporters of a certain vintage will have remembered the first time that celtic achieved nine in a row, so for them to see it again must be, you know, brilliant for them. and i grew up on stories of that team. so, i'm stood here as the manager, you know, we've won our ninth title in a row, it's very, very special for me personally. it probably won't sink it for a long time because we've planned this, you know, for a year.

obviously, you know, the supporters are talking about ten. now, i can safely say we can go for the ten if and when that, you know, football restarts. but to have nine in a row, to equal that records fantastic. premier league clubs have voted to start training again this week after clubs voted unanimously in favour of a set of medical protocols to make players safer. it's the first stage in a proposed return of the league, but all are in agreement that the next steps will be much tougher. here's our sports reporter laura scott. so, the clubs unanimously agreed today to return to the first phase of group training. so, it won't be anything like normal training, but it is a start. so, what it will mean is group5 of a maximum of five players will be able to train together, but there'll be no tackling, no contact and no use of the same equipment. they'll be under strict restrictions on the fact that they all have to be tested. they have been tested actually, today and yesterday. they'll have to have have daily temperature checks. they'll all have to arrive

in their own kit and park three car— parking spaces apart, and this is all part of the first phase. so, the phase two will be much more of a normal form of training. that'5 yet to be approved. that could come later this month. but, yes, this is an important milestone that they've taken today. laura scott reporting there. now, the football association says it's continuing to consult with clubs on the possibility of terminating the women's super league season. club representatives and the fa are understood to have held a meeting today, but no final decision on how to conclude the campaign was reached. the fa says it's clear that there will be significant challenges in completing the season. no wsl fixtures have been played since february. well, in cricket, players are likely to be banned from using saliva to shine the ball when the sport returns. the international cricket council has received new medical advice due to the coronavirus pandemic,

but the icc says it will still be ok to use sweat to polish the ball. the recommendations, which also suggest the use of home umpires, will be presented for approval in earlyjune. well, england's men return to training this week. their three—match test series against the west indies could be rescheduled to take place injuly, but windies' captainjason holder says his players' safety is of paramount importance. i think each player has to be comfortable in making this step. certainly from my perspective, i wouldn't be forcing anybody to go anywhere. and it's been made clear that if we are to hop on a plane and go over to england, it must be safe, you know? we've been given a55urance from cricket west indies that we would only go over to england unless they deemed it safe for us to go over and play. and that is all the sport for now. from everyone here, goodnight.

hello there. on monday, the temperature reached 25 celsius in suffolk, and over the next couple of days, the heat will continue to build. the peak of the temperatures is likely to be on wednesday. things start to break down a bit after that. chance of thunderstorms on thursday before we all turn cooler and windier by the end of the week. pretty mild out there at the moment away from northernmost parts of scotland. these are the temperatures by the end of the night, and as you can see, still a lot of cloud around. some outbreaks of rain, too. that rain continuing to affect the northern half of the uk mainly during tuesday morning. slowly petering out, many places becoming dry during the afternoon. the cloud thinning and skies brightening. the best of the sunshine likely to be across wales, the midlands and southern england, where temperatures will peak at 25 or 26 degrees. but on the whole, it should be a slightly warmer day across the uk than it was on monday. and those temperatures continue to climb for wednesday. that area of high pressure is sitting over the uk. it's pushing the cloud and rain away, and we're going to be drawing

up a gentle southerly breeze that will bring the heat northwards all the way from spain and france and move its way across the uk. northern areas start quite cloudy on wednesday. some rain to clear away from the northern isles, the cloud thins and breaks, and sunshine develops more widely. and in the afternoon, we're likely to find temperatures of 23 degrees through central scotland, 20 or so for northern ireland, the highest temperatures across the midlands to the south east of england, 27 or 28 degrees. things start to break down a bit on thursday. there's a bit of rain trying to come in from the west. that may not make it too far. these showers are likely to break out from the south east of england and heading towards the midlands, lincolnshire and east anglia, and they could be heavy and thundery. and that will knock the temperatures down. for many of us, it's still quite a warm day on thursday, just not quite as warm as wednesday. and then things start to change more widely, i think, for the end of the week, because we've got this area of low pressure. it's winding itself up, the winds will be strengthening and this weather front will be

bringing some rain. that's going to move its way eastwards across the uk during friday, but there won't be much rain for england and wales, and the more persistent rain soon sweeps away from mainland scotland. the winds, though, will be stronger. gales likely in the north west, and this is where we'll see most of the showers. 0therwise, there'll be some sunshine, a cooler and fresherfeel, but still 21 in eastern england.

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