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tv   The Papers  BBC News  June 7, 2020 11:30pm-11:46pm BST

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hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment — first the headlines. thousands of protestors havejoined anti—racism demonstrations in cities in the uk. in bristol, protestors pulled down a statue of a 17th century slavetrader. it is utterly disgraceful and speaks to the act of disorder, public disorder that have now become distracting from the cause in which people are actually protesting about. and actually protesting about. trying to empathise and sympathise and trying to empathise and sympathise with. in london, police and protestors are currently facing off in whitehall. the prime minister denounces the violence saying the demonstrations have been subverted by thuggery. large numbers of people continue to ta ke large numbers of people continue to take part in protests in the united
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states. the number of people worldwide who have died from coronavirus has passed 400,000. more than a quarter of the deaths have been in the united states. in brazil, hundreds of anti—government protesters demonstrate against their president over his handling of the virus and in support of george floyd. no new coronavirus deaths have been reported in scotland in the past 2a hours — for the first time since lockdown began. but the uk death toll has risen by 77. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the journalist and broadcaster, caroline frost and the parliamentary journalist, tony grew. tomorrow's front pages, starting with the march for change — the mirror shows the statue of a 17th century slavetrader being pushed into bristol harbour during anti—racism protests earlier today.
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the same picture of the statue of edward colston is seen on the daily mail which echoes the words of the home secretary who condems the act as lawless and reckless. the times looks at mps‘ claims that the police could have done more to stop acts of criminal damage at black lives matter protests across the country. meanwhile the guardian reports that during the coronavirus pandemic many people have died alone at home with some bodies not being found for up to two weeks. campaigners say this highlights the isolation and vulnerability of older people living alone during this period. the i focuses on mayors in the north of england urging people to stay at home — despite government guidance — because of a rise in r rates there. the daily telegraph writes the government's quarantine scheme "won't work" — according to leaked documents seen by the paper. and the express looks at steps being made by the prime minister from tomorrow to save 3.5 million jobs by reopening sectors of the economy such as hospitality.
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let us begin. we have you both, caroline, tony, that is wonderful starting with the story of the statue. the daily mail all this at, clearly taking a side alongside the home secretary who said always those exact same words. the daily mirror which we have not featured here has the same picture with a different headline. caroline frost, how do you see this? i thinkl am headline. caroline frost, how do you see this? i think i am with the mirror on this one because i no longer believe a word priti patel says so just by total instinct i will look the other way. but i think what we have seen today is that in the middle of a coronavirus, even when people have been told to stay at home, all bets are off because nobody is staying home anymore including members of the government and these people have a course that, to them, is a bigger one than any personal risk to themselves. i don't necessarily think anybody yesterday
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would have said that they had a beef with edward at one mac as such, this is not about past injustices, he has just become an arbitrary figurehead for the injustices of today that seem to be coming to a head across the world. tony, earlier when we spoke i think you suggested this was a distraction but caroline said this goes right to the heart story about injustice. one of the things that this expose is how ignorant most british people are about the empire and slavery reddens part in and the wider history of the empire which in many ways is quite shameful. i also think there is some sort of poetic justice and the fact that the statue ended up at the bottom of the river along with the tens of thousands of africans who died in that passage across the atlantic who were thrown overboard. there is some justice there. but the wider issue here is not best served by focusing on one
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statue. let's look at a similar issue in the guardian, racism. again it features the toppling of the statue into the river in bristol and the main story there, the government accused of ignorance on uk racism. caroline, senior black politicians and campaigners have rounded on the government. it lists two labour figures add but you get a sense that this accurate station of ignorance is cross—party, do more people supported? according to the great bible social media today it seems that the opposition aligning itself with the protesters while the government is very much taking the outline of law & 0rder government is very much taking the outline of law & order and it is a mirror of what we see in the united states over the last week where you have donald trump presenting himself as the president of law & 0rder have donald trump presenting himself as the president of law & order and everybody in opposition to that. this is what always happens. the
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story becomes about the disruption in the protesting and the anger and the rage and i think it is a deflection tactic to put the handbrake on any meaningful change. whether this will just handbrake on any meaningful change. whether this willjust be this week's hashtag and move on to the problems of next week. brexit seems to have been forgotten and we will see how far this goes. it will be interesting to see if it results in any significant change to the people to whom it means the most. picking up to whom it means the most. picking up on that question, will it lead to change? will it lead to a difference in how people are taught about the part? it is good to hear from matt hancock, the racism expert, representing a 70% white constituency. it there is something interesting happening politically which will there are more tory mps
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i'iow which will there are more tory mps now from black and white already ethnic backgrounds and they see theseissues ethnic backgrounds and they see these issues differently because they are conservatives. the government still need to listen more and talk less and we all need to listen more, rather than follow the social media temptation. just briefly staying with the guardian on a heartbreaking story on the front page, people dying alone, often left forup to page, people dying alone, often left for up to two weeks. caroline have you had a chance to look at this?” read it and it is yet one more heartbreaking small subtalar of the great tragedy that is the coronavirus. it is not actually statistically proven how many of those people are victims of the virus itself, it isjust those people are victims of the virus itself, it is just as likely that they are people who followed the government instructions do not attend gp surgery and avoided hospitals because of the fears of contracting the virus and what that means is that they died alone in
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their homes unattended and not found untilup to their homes unattended and not found until up to two weeks, as it says. just think an underlying problem in oui’ just think an underlying problem in our society have great loneliness in old age and this is a horrible challenge meeting in a terrible coincidence and that is what we are seeing. away from the tragic story, talking about loneliness, has this crisis exacerbated loneliness and made it worse or has it encouraged people to start looking into neighbours or other isolated people? i think it is a bit of both. loneliness has been something of a political issue in the last few years because of the way in which older people in particular would often go weeks without speaking to another person or seeing another person. i am another person or seeing another person. lam hopeful that another person or seeing another person. i am hopeful that some of the community spirit we's have seen that has been created by coronavirus will continue. a different story now
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in the times, in addition to a close—up of that statue in bristol there is an interesting political story about laws to curb chinese ta keovers. story about laws to curb chinese takeovers. i remember covering the government deal at the beginning of the year with huawei to get 5g going and there were huge protests from some tory back ventures and huge protests in america but now it looks at the government is moving towards those objections. it is interesting because this story has so many onion layers to it because we did have that problem with 5g, the challenges of security. they date to the days of security. they date to the days of theresa may. now we are in an era where everybody has been told by the americans to be very suspicious of any chinese intervention in any way. those republican senators this morning saying he had deep—seated cia intelligence that they were not to be trusted. then we need to boost
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the economy post brexit impose coronavirus and that will depend on chinese trade. it is hinted at division in the cabinet which boris johnson saying we must be secure and that seems to be pitched as a battle early in the week that it seems that the chancellor supporting boris johnson in supporting this and raining it in. and boris johnson has a gun to make that promise to people in hong kong with british overseas nationality that they may be able to come here which is part of this story. absolutely. we are too reliant on china. china is not our friend stop the idea that the government would even consider going ahead with allowing chinese companies to build critical parts of out companies to build critical parts of our infrastructure just because they put ina our infrastructure just because they put in a cheap bed strikes me as deeply worrying and there is a groundswell of opinion from tory mps
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but not just groundswell of opinion from tory mps but notjust the groundswell of opinion from tory mps but not just the tories, groundswell of opinion from tory mps but notjust the tories, that groundswell of opinion from tory mps but not just the tories, that we need to rethink our position and relationship with china, make it more transactional and make it clear to them that we will not let them do what they want in areas like hong kong where britain has historic responsibility stop away from the relationship we will go into something a bit more complicated and impenetrable which is the idea of quarantine for air travellers which lam not quarantine for air travellers which i am not quite sure anyone really understands how this may work. caroline, the daily telegraph says quarantine will not work and the home office agrees. that is due to come into force on monday, what will happen? i hesitate to use the word u—turn ina happen? i hesitate to use the word u—turn in a dismissive term because i always see it as a good sign when people are prepared to change their mind in the face of new evidence. but this is yet another government mandate that seems to interned around ona mandate that seems to interned around on a coin because has been so much opposition from the flight countries, —— flight companies, primarily. they are hoping to sue
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the government over this quarantine business. it makes known sense numbers was because they talk about quarantining people coming in for 14 days and we have one of the biggest oui’ days and we have one of the biggest our rates and that is in comparison to the country that visitors would come from. tony, can you dissect this for us? the home office has the chuckle brothers as the special advisors. another example of a government that appears to have been run by fast. this is not been thought through and they do not have the mechanism to properly enforce this. airlines and travels into low —— tourism business are deeply unhappy about it. it is one of those things that looks good and the science may things that looks good and the science may even things that looks good and the science may even be robust. i understand the argument that if we have low rates of infection you do
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not want to bring infected people into the country. but as far as execution, they have not thought that through. the other half of the story is about whether or not people will leave this country to go abroad. the times suggest holiday firms want to lower people abroad with cheap deals. caroline, does that tempt you ? with cheap deals. caroline, does that tempt you? i am always tempted to get out of this country. what i get on a flight at the moment? probably not. but you can understand where they are coming from. they must be desperate. this is when they generally coin it in and they can go quiet for winter and in theory they are looking at three winters in a i’ow are looking at three winters in a row as are many holiday companies. just flight operators that places around the continent that we normally head off to. so will people jump normally head off to. so will people jump on these flights? perhaps. we see people going out and picnicking at we have no reason that they would
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not extend those plans any further with the carrot of a discount in front of them. i would expect it to happen. tony, a stay-at-home vacation summer oi’ happen. tony, a stay-at-home vacation summer or would you be tempted to take up one of those deals? i am not tempted to take a package holiday. ithink deals? i am not tempted to take a package holiday. i think a state occasion is an option people are looking at but britain is expensive. if you want to holiday in the uk it can be pricey compared to spain or portugal. i am just concerned that the government is being less cautious and i would like it to minimise the possibility of a second wave. tony and caroline thank you to you both for two rounds of newspaper reviews and we shall see you soon. that is it for the papers. thank you to my guests and good buy for now.
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