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neck when he died in minneapolis, has had his charges elevated to second—degree murder. three more police officers have been charged with aiding and abetting murder. the us defense secretary has said he opposes invoking a rarely—used law to deploy military troops to put an end to protests, as suggested by president trump. mark esper also said keeping politics out of the military is hard in an election year. a new suspect has emerged in the disappearance of the british girl madeleine mccann — it's a man in prison in germany who was in portugal when she went missing 13 years ago. and those are the headlines here and bbc world news.
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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. —— to what the papers and international papers will be bringing us. with me are the political editor of the daily mirror, pippa crerar and the deputy political editor of the spectator, katy balls. welcome back to you both. as before, let's have a look at some of the front pages we have already got for 50,000 — the striking number on the front page of the metro, as the uk coronavirus death toll reaches a grim milestone. leading scientists are warning that borisjohnson‘s two—week quarantine plans make "no sense" — according to the times — and that the government's own chief scientific adviser has distanced himself from the policy. the financial times reports on the prospect of a no—deal brexit coinciding with a second wave of covid—19, putting
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supplies of drugs — already in short supply — in further jeopardy. alongside a photograph of madeleine mccann who disappeared in portugal 13 years ago — the telegraph lead on what they call the biggest break yet — after investigators identified a german sex offender as a prime suspect. the mirror's front page carries the same story — showing a photograph of the camper van in which the suspect was living when the girl went missing. and under the headline british solidarity for black lives matter — the guardian shows a photograph of some of the thousands of people who gathered in london today, protesting against the killing of george floyd. so, let's begin. welcome back to you both. katy would
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start with the mirror. it is a huge development in this story potentially in the disappearance of maddie? yes and what we are reading and hearing is various reports from separate papers is that this is the biggest break in 13 years, 13 years since madeleine mccann disappeared. we have had various supports saying here is a new week, here is what might happen. but it does feel as though what has happened so far is very substantial, a german suspect, they have lots of edison —— evidence which means this is the strongest lead they have had yet. they're not at the point where they can prosecute. if you look at this person prospect movement, they are near to where madeleine mccann is thought to have disappeared and they have a criminal record which makes him think this would be the type of
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person who would be involved in this. i think it is now piecing the jigsaw pieces together and if they can do that, we can finally have an a nswer to can do that, we can finally have an answer to this. to put the journalistic legwork done by and investigated german tv programme? yes, this is quite an astonishing story. for years we have had front pages with stories about potential leads in the matter when mccann case, potential sightings for probably 13 years ago, there were five or six years where the front pages. she has not been on the front pages. she has not been on the front pages for a long time and this is a significant breakthrough to bring it back after such a long time. it has haunted britain. any parent can relate to the absolute terror and fear he would feel if your little one went missing for some and her parents have had to live with us for a very long time and they put out an emotional statement earlier about
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the breakthrough suggesting that all that they ever wanted to do is to uncover the truth and bring who is responsible tojustice uncover the truth and bring who is responsible to justice and that they had never given responsible to justice and that they had nevergiven up responsible to justice and that they had never given up hope of finding madeleine alive. now time is going on, the likeliness of that happening has diminished hugely but clearly the parents they see whatever the outcome they want to know what happened to their daughter. i think we would all hope that this investigation, this breakthrough might give them some answers which they must be craving for such a long time. and so much speculation for this poor couple and family since her disappearance. it is the main picture in the telegraph, katie as well. what is interesting is that this man is in custody and that detectives from both countries have spoken to him. but he is not cooperating. so presumably do they have the vehicles or forensic tests carried out? they have looked into
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the vehicles, done from the tests, but because it is so far in the past, the complications i would imagine. what is interesting is they know where this person is, where the suspect is. they are injail know where this person is, where the suspect is. they are in jail but they're not going anywhere but ultimately they have not managed at two get the prosecution to charge and now there going through a few final pieces of information which means they might be able to put everything together. and i think notably this person made a phone call around the time madeleine mccann disappeared. not only this person prospect phone number the time but the number of the person they spoke to this is what was seen as the key piece of evidence that could actually move things along and evenif could actually move things along and even if this individual is not cooperating, they can press on. pippa, when you look at the experiences the mccanns had at the hands of the tabloid press, the british press generally and around
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the world, it would be interesting to see how they cope with these latest developments as well.|j to see how they cope with these latest developments as well. i can imagine they probably are very relu cta nt imagine they probably are very reluctant to get their hopes up too much but i suppose inevitably that any sort of glimmer of an answer for them is going to dojust that. they released this statement earlier but it was not directed to cameras, it was delivered by police fairly reserved, i think that they are sort of welcoming the fact that the german and portuguese have been working together. that hasn't always happened, not the smoothest relationships between scotland yard and the portuguese prosecutors in the past. the fact that they're working together on this is a good sign. but as katy says it is a mentor putting the jigsaw together and part of this is about making a public appeal for more information so public appeal for more information so that they can nail down those
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details. papers have hailed this as a media breakthrough because this germanx a media breakthrough because this german x offender is deemed a prime suspect was a —— this german sex offender. this will be more questions for the family and you only hope that they get the answers that they are looking for. katy, the front page of the guardian, madeleine mccann‘s developing of the story but no story. the front page isjohn boy goat the british nigerian actor who spoke very part of the two people today in hyde park. ——john boyega. this is outside westminster. this protest movement following the killing of george floyd spreading right around the world. yes right around the world. today it was the uk bonsai turn. we had a protest that began in hyde park moved to westminster. we don't have an exact number but thousands, a lot of young
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people getting out there to make their voices heard on this and to try and have a show of solidarity. this is as you say all triggered by the killing of george floyd, but i think there are some who also want to ta ke think there are some who also want to take issue with parts of the uk system but what is getting everyone out there is what has happened in america and it comes after we saw similar things america and it comes after we saw similarthings in america and it comes after we saw similar things in france this week with similar protests. i think it is trying to say that everyone where they can wants to stand on this. sense in the states and indeed over that justice isn't sense in the states and indeed over thatjustice isn't always done. it was only a few years ago that stephen lawrence was killed and a description of institutional racism in the metropolitan police but if you look at what's the situation in america at the moment, segregation still exists in all but name, doesn't it, and many areas in big cities where police officers aren't living in the same areas as where
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they are on duty and controlling people. they don't have any first—hand knowledge in terms of living in that community. first—hand knowledge in terms of living in that communitylj first—hand knowledge in terms of living in that community. i think in many cases living in that community. i think in many cases especially in the big urban areas that is true, there is segregation if not racial socioeconomic which has an impact because those committees don't mix. and in the states, there is the prevalence of arms is much higher than here in the uk, the police carry weapons and generally, lots of private citizens do as well. so when there is unfortunate incidents between police and the public, unfortunately they more often than in the uk and in depths. and if you look at the comparisons of figures, it's about 1,000 people in the states being shot dead by police. not all along racial lines year and in british history in recent years,
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there is only a handful of examples. but that is not to say that particularly young black british men don't feel some of the systemic racism that they feel they spent at the hands of the police was up you only need to look at stop and search rates amongst young black men compared to the white peers and to see that they are generally much higher. and you can understand why that alone would make lots of younger men feel aggrieved before younger men feel aggrieved before you even younger men feel aggrieved before you even get to some of the sort of treatments in custody, those cases are rare but they do exist. but those also against the broader sort of systemic disparity that exists for people of colour in the uk. across all society, and this has been sparked off, the anger has been sparked off in this particular case by the death of george floyd but there have been others, trave on martin and others, high—profile deaths in the states that have had
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sort of similar impact in terms of the breadth of that the public are aware of them. —— trayvon martin. we have not seen anything like this for decades it feels like maybe this is a moment where the nation has had enough... what struck me is mark esper the defence secretary in the states doesn't believe that the insurrection wall should be used between troops and private citizens. at the last time that was used was backin at the last time that was used was back in the 90s when rodney king was killed in los angeles. it is interesting how you can get into the states how it was being handled and what donald trump was trying to do and how figures even if his own party are questioning whether this is the way to bring the country together... ido i do get the sense that this is the hope that there is a sea change moment. in the sense that when you
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hear of moment. in the sense that when you hearofan moment. in the sense that when you hear of an incident like this, it is important that this changes things. i think that is what everyone is interested in see how you can drive that going forward. a few scuffles today around westminster when the demonstration got there. the police seemed low—key, is that part of the thing as well because bringing my we are meant to be in lockdown and the policing perhaps could have been much more stricter than it was bearing in mind that people are restricted to the numbers of who can ask her going on the streets?” think there is general recognition that thousands of protesters that we re that thousands of protesters that were on the streets, it was overwhelmingly peaceful. yes there we re overwhelmingly peaceful. yes there were a few scuffles and some behaviour down whitehall but it wasn't anything, but the vast majority of people wanted to make their voices heard and the police we re very their voices heard and the police were very respectful of that. sol
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think that was handled as it should've been. of course you say, we are all social distancing and you're not supposed to have more than six people come together but if you look in the crowd, people were wearing masks and there were gaps between some of them. it was quite a scrum in hyde park, wasn't a? there was by think at the same time... they felt angry about it and wanted to make their voices heard and people understood that. it is countrywide, not a huge number of people. i think rightly, the countrywide, not a huge number of people. ithink rightly, the police are very sensitive to what people are very sensitive to what people are feeling and if they had been stricter about social distancing rules, and then you can imagine things might have not turned out as peacefully as they had. probably the right strategy from the police. from next monday, katy, quarantines are going to be imposed so
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potentially hundreds of thousands of people being forced to self—isolate for 1h days. a lot of the tory party andindeed for 1h days. a lot of the tory party and indeed the opposition of people napping up to work out why this quarantine is being imposed now including from the government's senior scientist. yes, so the government's scientists, there are some questioning it, and others are trying to be a bit more dip a medic. he had a press comes today with borisjohnson he had a press comes today with boris johnson and you he had a press comes today with borisjohnson and you had the chief scientific officer and when he was discussing this, he was going into specifics, i understand that this was not the direct suggestion at least recently... although the government is saying it is being led by the scientific advice, there are questions as to whether this is actually so significant going to be effective. 0ne actually so significant going to be effective. one of the points made today was actually where this might be effective or where it is likely
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to be effective even is in terms of high infection countries coming and visiting the uk. having the two week quarantine which is pretty much a bank in quarantine, there are a few subgroups, any new arrivals have that self—isolate for two weeks. especially if people are visiting from higher infection countries that could change. if you look at parts of europe, the uk comparatively are very high infection country. i think some of the countries that want to have tourism allowed our comparatively low infection countries. 0ne comparatively low infection countries. one of the questions being asked by mps is what is actually the argument because if anything, there is more a risk to those countries if spreading the coronavirus was a priti patel, she was adamant that this policy is now effective because as the uk number of infections has fallen, it would now have an impact whereas earlier
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on in the process there were so many infections and a few fights would not have changed that. i don't think it has been convincing... focus groups from the government suggest that the public has been behind us. are your readers do you think?” that the public has been behind us. are your readers do you think? i did a poll to date not of spectator readers, but it was a commission and of those surveyed over 62% supported this was up there was a higher percentage that said that there had beena percentage that said that there had been a place in area on.” percentage that said that there had been a place in area on. i think there were numbers i think lots of tory mps are getting e—mails suggesting that they're worried about their summer holidays. that might be why it had impact on the airline industry. pretty devastating, that is why a including theresa may today have opposed the quarantine plans. and there was also
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as katy suggested this feeling that it is the wrong time. if you done this at the beginning and not stop it as the government then did when the cases took off in the did not have the capacity and tracking trace to continue it, then that might have been one thing but actually it feels a bit like the horse has already bolted and what impact candace have rhythmic especially as katy says with the prevalence of new rates of converters here with the prevalence of new rates of converters here seems with the prevalence of new rates of converters here seems higher than in many other places in europe. 0ur other countries going to want to come here? the prime minister katy singh today he thought the british public would support this and use their bestjudgement. public would support this and use their best judgement. —— public would support this and use their bestjudgement. —— by mr saying today. a thousands of primary schools are subbing the government's call to research classes. 0ne schools are subbing the government's call to research classes. one from the guardian. this is so that we thought that might happen. if you look at watts
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of the feedback in terms of public opinion on whether the lockdown should be eased, one of the big surprises in government is that actually lots of people think they are moving too quickly. they want lockdown to continue lockdown continue over safety concerns... now in primary schools with what the guardian story is a saying in certain parts of the country particularly in the northeast you have a lot of primary schools not reopened in the way that the government guidelines has not suggest they can for some i think if you look into this, they cite the fa ct you look into this, they cite the fact that coronavirus infection was much higher in these parts than some other parts of the country. i think it is one of the reasons for caution. the government is issuing advice that is not being followed by some parts with suggest there is an authority issue, a lack of trust and some of the things they're doing and
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secondly, is it given that we have different levels of infections in different levels of infections in different parts of the uk that feasible to have this blanket policy? we hear about the idea of local lockdowns if you have an increase in the number of infections in the future, we might see specific areas have more social distancing... and yet pepin north in ireland, wales and scotland are doing things tiffany. but northern ireland is talking about opening up all schools at the end of the month as well. -- doing things differently. each default ministration is taking it differently. schools are not going back into the end of their summer holidays in august and wales has pushed theirs up to the end of this month. there is some disparity but he is right and that... there is a disparity in what the government are recommending and because we saw many scientists and members of sage was that easing was happening too soon for some and that we had that intervention from public health
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warning that the test and trace syste m warning that the test and trace system is going to be capable of operating sufficiently until later on this month. it's no surprise that parents and some school staff are concerned about this the government has consistently underestimated... 0verestimated the people who want people to come back to school. the key workers and just vulnerable workers that were going to school, they anticipated about 20% of children would carry on going and it ended up being just 2%. my own primary was potentially 80—100 children who could have gone any point, and there was only a maximum of 20 they're on a given day. people are still whacking that trust in government and believing scientists and public health chief saying they're not sure it is safe yet. they will listen to them instead. iam afraid i am afraid we are out of time. but
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pippa and katy very nice to have you both on taking us through the papers once again here on bbc news. thank you very much indeed. now on bbc news, time for the latest sport news. hello, i am sarah mulkerrins at the bbc sport centre. we are expecting a decision this month and whether the ryder cup will go ahead in september in wisconsin but the captain of the american team steve stricker has been having his say. he thinks fans will be cheated if it goes ahead without them, he said it would be a "yawner" with no one there. let's get the latest on from our golf correspondent iain carter. well, this is certainly ramping up the pressure on the pga at the moment and the european tour because we heard big names in the past, the likes of rory mcilroy, john ramm, brooks koepka, they're the top three players in the world. all say that they wouldn't
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want to play in a ryder cup that didn't have spectators. now, we have the american captain steve stricker weighing into the argument, and he didn't mince his words. he was speaking on an american radio station. he said that, "the fans are who make a ryder cup." he said that, "to cheat the wisconsin fans out of actually being able to go there would be a crime." very strong words, indeed. he is from wisconsin. the match is being played, or do to be played, at whistling straits in september. —— due to be played. and officials are going to decide this month what they're going to do. there are financial imperatives in play, there's no doubt about that. there are logistical problems as well because if the ryder cup is delayed a year, it runs into 2021 when already on the schedule, we have the likes of the solheim cup, the female equivalent of the ryder cup, and the presidents cup when the americans take on the rest of the world outside europe. so, all sorts of problems have to be resolved here.
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but it certainly feels as though steve stricker is jumping on the bandwagon which is suggesting that really, you can't play the ryder cup this year if there aren't going to be fans present at whistling straits. the bundesliga in germany say there will be no further action againstjadon sancho and other footballers following antiracism gestures last weekend. this after the death of george floyd in police custody in the usa. sancho, who plays for borussia dortmund, revealed a t—shirt with the message "justice for george floyd" after scoring in their game against paderborn. 0ur reporterjohn bennett has more. jadon sancho was booked at the time, the incidents were all being investigated, and that there was a fear that there will be punishments handed out. there is a history of a footballers being sanctioned for slogans and messages on t—shirts. but it would've been very, very controversial and the german football authorities have said that there will be no proceedings because of their solidarity and antiracism messages.
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there is a fifa rule about messages and slogans which does have a few grey areas. but the fifa president gianni infantino spoke about this this week, and he said that the demonstrations by the four players in the bundesliga deserve applause, not punishment. so, german football has perhaps followed his lead. i think we can expect more incidents like this, more players showing messages like this across the european leagues over the next few weeks. and the english football association have said they will take a common—sense approach if anything like that happens when the english premier league resumes later this month. three west indies players have chosen not to travel to england for the three test series next month. batsman darren bravo and shimron hetmyer and all—rounder keemo paul have opted out due to coronavirus fears. jason holder will captain the side leading a squad of 1a players and 11 reserves. they arrive next tuesday and they will be based at old trafford for the initial quarantine and then training before the first test in southampton
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starts on the 8th ofjuly. both venues are biosecure, and the matches will be played without spectators. ok, that is all your sport for now. goodbye. hello there, we are going to end this week on a very different note than we began the week certainly. we have lost our area of high pressure and low pressure starting to take control, it is going to bring windier, wetter, and cooler conditions and thursday looks like being another cool day, cooler than it was on wednesday in fact, and we will have some spells of rain at times too. 0ur area of high pressure is continuing to retreat away westwards, low pressure is beginning to develop to our east and that is going to bring further spells of rain. northerly winds as well for which is why it is going to feel on the cool side for the time of year. so, for thursday we start off on a grey note across the south—east with early rain. that should clear away and turn dry for a time but we will have areas of showers or longer spells of rain moving down from the north —
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scotland, northern ireland, into northern england and it will turn breezy as well. windy across the far north of the country as temperatures range from 10—17 or 18 degrees in the south. so, much cooler than how we started the week off. through thursday night, it stays rather breezy, variable amounts of cloud, further showers or longer spells of rain at times and those temperatures falling to lows of around five or 10—11 in the south. now, as we head on into friday, we start to see our area of low pressure to the east of us developed further and it starts to pushing towards our shorts. you can see the isobars squeezing together indicating the winds will turn stronger through the day on friday. so, it looks like being a blustery one with a bit of sunshine around. there were also be plenty of showers, some of which will be heavy and thundery particularly across the north and central eastern areas. and then later in the day, an area of more persistent heavy rain starts to push into the north of scotland. here, it will really feel cold for the time of year, nine or 10 degrees. further south, 14—17 degrees. when you factor in the wind, it's going to feel more
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like autumn than it willjune. gusts of 50 miles an hour in the north, 30 miles an hour in the south, and those winds pick up further friday night into saturday as you can see our area of low pressure will squeeze in the isobars across central and northern parts of the country. don't be surprised, you could see gusts reaching 60 mph and places. various sorts of gusts this time of year could lead to some disruption around the trees and full leaf. it stays very blustery on the cool side on saturday with further showers and longer spells of rain, then starts to quieten down a little bit as we head on into sunday. those winds begin to ease down, too.
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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm tim willcox. all four officers involved in the death of george floyd are formally charged. but the state says it's only one small step towards justice. what i do not believe is that one successful prosecution can rectify the hurt and loss that so many people feel. what lies behind the prevalance of police brutality in the us? we have a special report. china warns britain not to interfere in its plans to impose tough national security laws in hong kong and — 13 years after the british girl madeleine mccann disappeared in portugal — a german prisoner is

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