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this is bbc world news, the headlines. house democrats are preparing to vote on a police reform bill sparked by the national outcry over the deaths of george floyd, rayshard brooks, breonna taylor and other black americans at the hands of police. on the hottest day of the year so far in the uk — a major incident was declared on england's south coast after hundreds of thousands of people headed to beaches. the world health organisation has warned that the death toll from the coronavirus will reach half a million by next week — and that there will be 10 million infections ending a 30 year wait to be crowned english champions. thousands of fans came out to celebrate, despite being urged to stay home by the city's mayor. those are the headlines.
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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the former pensions minister baroness ros altmann and journalist mihir bose. rages you both. let's get started and have a look at, first of all, sunday the ‘i' focuses on the crowds who headed to the beaches in the south of england — and it says the government warns planned relaxing of lockdown measures will be reversed if rule—breaking continues. the daily mirror says there are fears of a virus second wave — as thousands headed out
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in the sun on the hottest day of the year. the daily mail says britain's beaches could be closed to prevent the resurgence of coronavirus. the new york times reports on the uk emerging from lockdown — and says it comes after months of mismanagement, marked by reversals,climb—downs, and outright failures. (ani)according to the daily telegraph, borisjohnson is under pressure to open air bridges to the whole of europe at once, as he prepares to announce that "dozens" of countries will be exempt from the 14—day quarantine rule. in france, le figaro reports that the world health organization is warning against the risk of a "resurgence" of the pandemic as the number of cases is on the rise in germany, portugal and the balkans. the metro's main story is the uk opposition leader — sir keir starmer — moving quickly to sack one of his frontbenchers rebecca long bailey after she was accused of encouraging anti—semitism. (ani)and the times carries a picture of liverpool fans and the times carries a picture of liverpool fans celebrating tonight — after they were confirmed premier league champions. their first league title for thirty years.
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indeed, ros, mihir, we are going to start with the times. let's start on that picture of those liverpool fans that picture of those liverpool fans that have been out celebrating and mihir, while it comes after a 30 year wait to be crowned english champions, the fans coming out to celebrate, despite being urged to stay—at—home by the city's mayors, but my goodness, 30 years of waiting now over. yes, absolutely, and you can understand, we have social distancing, we have the coronavirus pandemic and so on, when you can understand these fans, for 30 years they have waited, they haven't ever won the premier league title. refer the premier league started, they we re the premier league started, they were the greatest football team in this country in the 70s and 80s, but i was regularly covering football. liverpool would win the title by april. here they were, they had a wonderful season before the pandemic put a stop to the season, and we have this long sort of sensation of
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football, and they feared that the season football, and they feared that the season might be declared null and void or there might be an asterix against their title name, but now they can celebrate and of course, they can celebrate and of course, they can celebrate and of course, they can claim what our wonderful tea m they can claim what our wonderful team this club, who of course one in germany, and i remember when he came to liverpool in october 2015 and i spoke to him, one of the worlds greatest players come and he said, you know, he would be very good for liverpool, he will relate to the team, he will relate to the fans, and we have seen his booming voice from a very tactile person, but is built up a wonderful team, and what is interesting, the players we re very and what is interesting, the players were very good that he bought, like mohammed solid, but some of them hadn't worked in other clubs, he had gotten rid of him, yet in liverpool, he had flourished in florida and produced some very very wonderful football. he has really taken this german has taken with this team english football to a new level.
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mihir touched on the fact that the premier league has had to be paused, 100 days. it must be disappointing for the fans, of course, to not be able see this victory for themselves at the stadium, but also frustration for the sportsmen as well. absolutely. i mean, football is often all about the crowd and the players do get uplifted by the crowd, so it's very hard for them as well to be playing when there isn't the crowd egging them on and cheering them on, and for the fans, of course, football is all about seeing yourteam, being of course, football is all about seeing your team, being part of the action, being part of the excitement and to do it remotely, of course is great, but not quite the same as being together with all the other fans. of course, that's the story of the last few months. you know, so many of us enjoy being with our friends and with our co—workers or people who we want to share great
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experiences with. and when it comes to football in the last few months, you haven't been able to do that, but nevertheless, this is going to be fantastic for the liverpool fans. they watched their team earlier in the season playing brilliantly, and i'iow the season playing brilliantly, and now they can say after 30 years of waiting, they've finally done it and clop will be the hero and deservedly so clop will be the hero and deservedly so and hopefully it won't be too much longer before we find a way to get fans back watching football in the way that we know is the best thing for both the fans and the players. i think this what this shows, if i may say, is that football is a wonderful sport where you suddenly because you are a fan of the club feel you are part of a family. both ros and dier supporters of another club, the tottenham hotspur is, but when tottenham win, we that not that it increases our bank balance commit often reduces mine, but you feel you are part of a community that is out there, and
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these fans are celebrating will feel that. you know, they can claim that they are part of this bubble that we are allowed to have in this coronavirus, this huge bubble of 50 01’ coronavirus, this huge bubble of 50 or 60,000 fans. we can feel how supportive of your own clubs as you put it in there that you are both spurs fans, how supportive you are, but let's let the liverpool fans have their moment, but because it's an incredible results. let's have a look at the daily mail, got to go back to coronavirus and touch upon that. the front page talking about don't throw it all away, ros, the helps her secretary is playing and threatening that it's possible beaches will be closed after we saw those crowds, especially in bournemouth today, where they had to create an incident situation, the temperatures, my goodness, record—breaking temperatures, it's a difficult one, this. it is a difficult one, this. it is a difficult one, this. it is a difficult one, and i mean, it's human nature. the weather is great,
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the beach in bournemouth is fabulous, lots of british beaches are wonderful, and if you can't go elsewhere, you would obviously naturally want to go down to the beach, swim in the sea comedian swim anywhere else you know? pools or shots, gyms are shot. so it is something that i think the government made slightly misjudge because it's inevitable. if you haven't got people going abroad, they can't go on holiday elsewhere where they would normally go for the sun mc, and they are going to try and find it in britain, and we do have some wonderful places to go. i would hope that the government won't ta ke would hope that the government won't take this as a sign that we need to clamp—down again, because i fear that actually people are fed up with the whole thing and would be very relu cta nt the whole thing and would be very reluctant to suddenly say, "oh, i'm going to stay at home." clearly, if we have a problem with overloading, there needs to be a system where people can go for a certain length of time ora
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people can go for a certain length of time or a certain number of people can go in and then make sure that there is the social distancing, because what tends to happen in places like bournemouth is that the crowds gather around the peers, whereas if you look along the whole stretch of the coastline, there are areas of the beach not very far away just a couple of minutes walk even where there aren't that many people and where actually there is plenty of space. so what we need to do is make sure that people are spacing themselves out long the coast, we are in island nation with some wonderful coastline, and just having everybody congregate around the peers is not the optimal way to help people enjoy it and has caused the kind of problems we have seen today. just to put you on the spot as a former minister, is the government being clear enough as to what the guidelines should be then?|j being clear enough as to what the guidelines should be then? i think it's more a question of adjusting to
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a situation as it arises, the government can't be in all places at all times. so partly we have to rely oi'i all times. so partly we have to rely on people themselves being sensible and thinking, "welcome it's a bit dizzy around this area, let's move a little bit further down the beast." also, i thick with lots of people on two unemployed at the moment, may be local authorities could take on some more marshall's to help people spread out if it's not happening voluntarily, to encourage people to move further down. part of the issue is you need to open some of the public lavatories because if they are only by the peer, then people will naturally need to go to the peer, but along this stretch of beach, having some more places where people can go and shower and change and so on might be a way of helping. obviously, we've got a problem with social distancing and we need to make sure that there isn't the kind
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of close contacts that we seem to have seen today. but i think there is plenty of room on the coasts, and if there are guidelines and marshall's to help people realise that, you move a few hundred yards down to me will find plenty of space, and it will be more enjoyable, and you can enjoy the sea and enjoy the sun and enjoy the sand. ithink and enjoy the sun and enjoy the sand. i think that would be really helpful and it'sjust sand. i think that would be really helpful and it's just a way of adjusting to this new situation. you know, we have never had this kind of demand from british beaches, because a lot of people in britain didn't tend to go to our own beaches, we have wonderful beaches, but we need to help those areas cater for this extra demand which we are clearly going to be having over the summer, because a lot of people want to be travelling. we will touch upon
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foreign holidays in a moment, but mihirwe are looking foreign holidays in a moment, but mihir we are looking at the daily mirror as well showing again of bournemouth beach the focus on the front page there, boiling point as a down to common sense then as ros was saying this kind of marshalling getting more people out to marshall people, is this realistic? well, no. we need a bit of planning here. if you see what has happened, this week, the prime minister says we need —— we've come out of national hibernation. he announced that on july the 4th, pubs will open open and we have had this long gap in a way, the government has not planned in the middle of the gap how people will react. as ros says we have had this lockdown. something none of us have ever experienced. it's something we didn't know how to cope with, and suddenly the feeling is that now, the moment of liberation has come, so people are taking advantage of it. you have shown a report from spain where your correspondent said how they were
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marshalling on the beaches. the government should have anticipated that there would be a reaction like this, of course, they couldn't have anticipated the good weather we would have, but they could've planted a bit better and anticipated, making the announcement that we are liberalizing freedom is coming, that people would want to ta ke coming, that people would want to take advantage of the freedom, having been, let us praise the british people, been very 9°°d having been, let us praise the british people, been very good in going into a locked on very suddenly end up serving the rules. you can't blame the people all the time, and you can't say they should have better sense about it. what are they going to do? they have never been in this situation before, and many of these people are very young people, they have been repeatedly told that they have been repeatedly told that the young are not that in danger of this pandemic. so i think there is a lot more responsibility in the local authorities and the government in ensuring that he keep the social distancing and ensuring that people have, if you like, the safeguards to make sure that we jones have, if you like, the safeguards to make sure that wejones gets a
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pick—up in the infection rate. make sure that wejones gets a pick-up in the infection rate. 0k, let's turn away from coronavirus for a moment and have a look at the guardian's front page. it's talking about the labour leader, circular starmer, sacking rebecca long bailey after she shared an article which contained an anti—semitic conspiracy theory. —— kier starmer. rebecca long bailey had retweeted an interview with an actor and said —— labour supporter maxine p, and well, rise, this is now opening up a rift within the labour party's left. yes, and this was coming, this was always coming. rebecca long bailey was corbyn's candidate for leadership of the labour party. she didn't get the leadership, cure starmer did, and i think he wants to assert his authority and make a sharp break with the policies and the perceptions that surrounded the labour government and led to their disastrous election defeat at the
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la st disastrous election defeat at the last election. you know a lot of the vote rs last election. you know a lot of the voters were voting against the far left and corbyn and the anti—semitism that seemed to has been associated with all of that. now would cure starmer wants and what he needs to do to revive the electoral chances of labour is to distance himself from all of that. i think it's a real shame that the whole anti—semitism issue has come back to the forefront in this way, because actually, the important elements of difference are predominantly for the whole country around the far left agenda versus kier starmer relatively more moderate stance and the anti—semitism issue is only one moderate stance and the anti-semitism issue is only one of a far left type of politics that seemed to have crept in underjeremy
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corbyn. but all credit to kier starmer for saying we are not going to tolerate this and for taking rapid action where as in the past, the last 2—3 years, we have often seen what were really astonishingly obvious anti—semitic either tweets or tropes or lakes or even articles by prominent labour supporters which we nt prominent labour supporters which went unpunished, leader members who weren't really sanctioned or promised inquiries which drag down and dragged on and not much seemed to happen. so this is a sharp difference now. we are good to make a sharp turn and look atair we are good to make a sharp turn and look at air bridges on the telegraph. mihir we don't have much time, but telus are we going on holiday or not? yes, the government is under great pressure to have air bridges to many countries but they are talking about countries like germany, the netherlands, belgium,
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norway, finland and several other island nations, again, problem here, if you remember, we only opened up quarantine a few weeks ago when everybody else was getting rid of their quarantines, we didn't have a quarantine for people coming in before that. and we may be able to go to island nations, where again, there's a problem in portugal which is great favourite destination for many of us and a lovely country to visit and has had a rise in it coronavirus cases, report on the list, but certainly, i think the johnson government will be having air bridges if for nothing else to make sure that our beaches don't get overcrowded and as ros assange, we like to go abroad and there will be places to smile there. particularly liverpool fans will want to buy and celebrate. let's touch base as and when we get more details on that.
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for the time being, mihir, ros, thank you so much forjoining us on the papers, and also thank you very much to our viewers forjoining us on this bbc addition of the papers. hello, i'm holly hamilton with your latest sports news. you join us on a historic night in the premier league as liverpool are crowned champions for the first time in 30 years. manchester city failed to get the win they needed at chelsea tonight to keep the title race alive for another week, ending that wait for liverpool fans with seven games to spare. our sports editor, liverpool fans with seven games to spare. oursports editor, dan liverpool fans with seven games to spare. our sports editor, dan roan reports from enfield. liverpool have really be defined premier league excellence, effectively, they won this title months ago it seems. they haven't just won the this title months ago it seems. they haven'tjust won the league, it's been something of a procession, consider the numbers there —— they are 23 points ahead of manchester city, a team widely regarded as one
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of the greatest and premier league history. they won it with seven games to spare, no team has come close to that, and a huge amount of credit must go to the manager, juergen klopp, great managers, great players and great moments over the last 30 years, but he has proved decisive. it's him that has been the difference both off the field in terms of identifying big transfer targets and then developing his own talent as well and doing it with the charisma and the smile that has really transcended the game. would liverpool have desperately wanted to do this in front of their own fans? absolutely. would they like to be planning a victory parade through the streets of the city? of course. but all talk of attainted title or an asterix next to their name really should be dismissed. the margin of victory, the style of victory means that nothing can be taken away from this team, nor the pride in the excitement as i'm sure you can hear at home by their long—suffering fans who now finally know their team is the best in the 73:2: you
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who now finally know their team is the best in the 2 you know, the best in the land. you know, liverpool's 30 year quest to revive the best in the land. you know, livt glory s 30 year quest to revive the best in the land. you know, livt glory days year quest to revive the best in the land. you know, livt glory days of ar quest to revive the best in the land. you know, livt glory days of the jest to revive the best in the land. you know, livt glory days of the 70s to revive the best in the land. you know, livt glory days of the 70s and evive the best in the land. you know, livt glory days of the 70s and 80st the glory days of the 70s and 80s when they were the dominant force, not just when they were the dominant force, notjust in this country, but also perhaps the continent as well him as one of the prevailing most important and compelling narratives in sport in the modern age. now, finally, the quest is over and it's been accomplished in a way that none of the great liverpool signs of the past would've managed. yes, liverpool crown champions after manchester city lost 2—1 at chelsea tonight. city had to be chelsea to deny liverpool the title for a few more days, but went behind at sta mford more days, but went behind at stamford bridge when christian put them ahead, kevin bruno then got city back into the match with that exquisite free kick, but city's recovery was over when fernandina was sent off for handball. penalty. the will
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