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this is bbc world news, the headlines: uk prime minister borisjohnson sets out his plans to help the economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic, with a focus on accelarating infrastructure projects. as coronavirus cases in the us pass 2.5 million, states including florida and texas re—impose restrictions. police in scotland have named the man shot dead by armed officers during a knife attack in glasgow as 28—year—old badreddin abadlla adam who was from sudan. anger on the streets of india over police brutality, after the deaths of a father and son in custody. people in poland are voting in a closely—fought presidential
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election that could result in significant curbs on the power of the nationalist government. and you can't always get what you want. the rolling stones threaten president trump with legal action for using their songs at his rallies. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here'sjohn watson. a close run thing for manchester united, john. a close run thing for manchester united, john. yes it was indeed. they left it late, certainly. it has been a week in which we have sought liverpool when the premier league title, the etiquette returned yesterday. title, the fa cup returned yesterday. manchester united the first team into the semi finals after beating norwich 2—1. harry maguire with the crucial goal in extra time. adam wild was watching. amidst the precautions and delays, the fa cup, like so much else, has been made to wait. norwich against manchester united
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was scheduled for the end of march. instead, this was the first ever fa cup tie to be played injune. the wait for some real excitement, though, went on a little longer. it was the second half before finally an opportunity presented itself. odion ighalo improvising a finish, 1—0 united. but despite their troubles in the premier league, norwich here fought all the way. todd cantwell‘s excellent equalising effortjust reward for those endeavours. they would, though, have to play out extra time a man down. timm klose getting, well... just a little too close. with the prospect of penalties, late drama was becoming inevitable. harry maguire the man to eventually provide it — a winning goal withjust moments remaining. united made to wait for it. but in this year's delayed competition, that perhaps feels fitting. adam wild, bbc news. three more games today and we could see plenty of drama with sheffield united up against arsenal when you consider that these two were involved in possibly the most controversial
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goal in fa cup history back in 1999. arsenal went on to score from this throw in, when sheffield united had expected to receive the ball back after kicking it out so an injured player could receie treatment. player could receive treatment. manager steve bruce threatened to walk off wirh his players in protest at the time. they were left incensed by what they felt was a lack of fair play. it meant that game had to be replayed, arsenal manager arsene wenger saying it wasnt won in the spirit they would have liked. unfortunately, they still lost the rematch. how about that one? and let's not forget david seaman's super save in the semifinals against sheffield united back in 2003 which helped them to reach the final. an unbelievable piece of athleticism. arsenal went on to win it that year, no team has won the fa cup more than arsenal. so sheffield united will be hoping their luck is in later.
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man city play newcastle later, one of three other matches in the fa cup today. manager pep guardiola confirming his side will give liverpool a guard of honour when the two teams face each other in the premier league next week. last season's champions welcome liverpool to the etihad on thursday, and will offer the traditional gesture before kick off, just as city received against huddersfield a few seasons ago. with seven games remaining, liverpool could surpass city's record points haul from 2018 season. northern ireland have named ian baraclough as their new manager, replacing michael o'neill. he's been in charge of their under—21 side for the past 3 years. his first match comes away to romania in september before attempting to guide the squad to next year's european championship through the playoffs in october. andy murray has pulled out of today's 3rd/4th place play—off at the battle of the brits with a shin problem but will be out
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on court in a coaching capacity advising james ward as he steps in to play cameron norrie. it's been murray's first competitive tennis in seven months as he recovers from a pelvic injury. he lost to dan evans in what was a very entertaining semifinal at the national tennis centre in roehampton. and murray says that with the us open on the horizon, this week has been a good gauge of his recovery. dan evans plays kyle edmund in the final. just a precautionary measure for muddy at this stage. —— murray. that's all the sport for now. now on bbc news, it's the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us. with me is the property and finance commentator, and former associate editor
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of the times, anne ashworth. and the political commentator, james millar. many thanks to both of you for being with us. let's run through the front pages then. the observer goes with a warning from the labour party that unemployment in britain could soar to levels not seen since the 1980s unless ministers boost support for businesses struggling because of the lockdown. also turning its attention to the economy, is the express which leads with a pledge from the prime minister that he'll "dramatically accelerate" construction and boost economic recovery. the mail on sunday says borisjohnson has promised to spend tens of billions of pounds to save the british economy from disaster in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic, including the building of hospitals, schools and new housing. the telegrpah says sir mark sedwill, the uk's most senior civil servant, will announce his departure as early as this week under borisjohnson‘s plans for a shake—up of the civil service.
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and the sunday times leads with the news that the housing secretary robertjenrick failed to inform his most senior planning officials that he had met and texted a tory donor before he overruled official advice and approved a £1 billion property deal. so let's begin. let's go with the mail on sunday. they have that interview with boris johnson. he is doing his press ups on the front page. we will talk about that in a moment. first of all, let's talk about the health of the british economy and this is interesting because it is boris johnson setting out his spending plans, but specifically saying that he is turning his back on the cameron, osborne era of acidity. he is turning his back on the cameron, osborne era of aciditym is very interesting. he is going to try and sort of the crisis that we now face any different way that david cameron and george osborne the mess after the global financial crisis 2008 — 2009. he will spend,
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spend, spend on infrastructure, and housing and job creation and we see in this piece, this interview with the mail on sunday, the first recognition that some jobs will not come back and that there will need to be training. it is a very upbeat interview in which he is saying, i can do this, i can fix this, i can level up britain. and james, spend, spend, spend is the message, but the government has already spend, spent, spent with thejob government has already spend, spent, spent with the job retention scheme, they bounce back loans and tens of billions already spent? it is a really interesting interview this, because it is not a normal recession built up essentially, the government to turn the economy. this is not a natural recession. they switch they cut me off and the key now is to switching it back on again and that will involve spending a lot of money. it is really quite hopeful, i think, and suggest that the government have got that and understand that because there was talk of tax cuts and austerity. the
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question, of course, is whether they then follow through, it is a lot of talk in this interview, as ever with borisjohnson, not a huge amount of detail. and of course, catching other elements, including those press ups, which isjust bizarre, really, when you think about it. well, let's talk about that a bit more because boris johnson says he wants to show the mail on sunday how fit he is supposed his own personal battle with coronavirus, by doing those press ups in his office. the mail on sunday saying, you could not really see gladstone or churchill doing press ups in number 10, but at least he is showing he is fighting fit. he said that he is a fit as a butcher's dog. i wonder whether the expression really m ea ns dog. i wonder whether the expression really means anything to anybody below a certain age, but whatever. he is doing press ups, he is trying to dampen down all of the rumours that he is not well, needing perhaps
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to ta ke that he is not well, needing perhaps to take a nap in the afternoon. he does it into cell, he does press ups. he is also trying to set himself out as a bit of a new man, —— he does it in his own style. there are some amazing lines in there, like i am not so much awoke is working, he is trying to establish himself as mr middle britain —— as woking. they coronavirus pandemic, as he said it was at the lightning, the thunderclap is about to hit the economy and he is trying to pledge to us that he is the man to assert this. it is a very different kind of interview for him. yes. it is interesting, james, isn't it, because when you see him at the downing street playthings sometimes, he does seem quite breathless, —— briefings, he doesn't quite breathless, sometimes when he has just worked up the his hand there
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minders have to coming when he goes jogging. minders have to coming when he goes jogging, detecting a turn of speed. it is completely weird. it shows you the dimension of gladstone, churchill. never mind that, any previous payments would not suddenly drop and start doing press ups in the middle of an interview. you would expect that from the leader of a banana republic, not the british prime minister. itjust shows how far we have come, how far we have fallen, if you like, if you're of that persuasion, but things are certainly different know how they we re even certainly different know how they were even four or five years ago. returning to the health of the economy rather than the health of the prime minister, the observer talks about the jobless total in the uk could hit a levels that we saw in the 1980s unless there is new state support. and i suppose borisjohnson is saying, effectively, that is what we are going to do, give state support to accelerating these infrastructure projects. what the zebras trying to look forward to is the time when the furlough scheme
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sta rts the time when the furlough scheme starts to change —— observer. when employers have to be a matter the cost. it is not quite clear whether that period will be one where an awful lot of people are made redundant or whether rishi sunak, of whom we do not hear a great deal intraday‘s papers, seemingly, is going to say, right, the furlough scheme is going to be extended for those industries that cannot get up and not running, like theatres, gyms, those trades and industries that need support. but the observer is sending the note of caution that we are going to face unemployment, a lot of people, younger people in the workplace, have never known before andi workplace, have never known before and i was not to be fixed question it is quite clear that a certain level of government subsidy is going to continue towards industry otherwise if furlough is curtailed, people will be thrown out ofjobs. dark times are coming and we need
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the government to be starting a great deal of this out.|j the government to be starting a great deal of this out. i suppose some people, james, might say you have to cut this up at some stage. you cannot keep spending and spending on the furlough scheme. yes, absolutely. it is a really interesting front page from a journalist's point of view because it has come from a house of commons library briefing, which some journalists would regard is not the greatest investigative journalism, but the observer have got very close to the core of this economic issue, which is people. one of the interesting things about what the government has done so far is that it has recognised thatjobs, people have a value. human capital, it is what they call. jobs and employment are going to be the key going forward will sub certainly, it is quite positive today and the suggestion is that the government does get that and hopefully they will apply that thinking to the furlough scheme as it is well down. as farasl furlough scheme as it is well down. as far as i am aware, there was a body that there will be mass redundancies around now, ahead of the furlough scheme, —— a worry. but
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there have obviously been a large numberof there have obviously been a large number of redundancies, but not the large number that people have feared, so there's a lot to be hopeful about. hopefully the government will follow—up its words with actions. there could be some redundancies in whitehall because the sunday telegraph is talking about a whitehall revolution. the top mandarin, sirmark whitehall revolution. the top mandarin, sir mark sedwill possibly be moved out of hisjob mandarin, sir mark sedwill possibly be moved out of his job this week and also interesting that dominic cummings, the chief adviser was quoted yesterday, i think, as saying, a hard rain is going to fall in whitehall because he does not think the civil service has been up to thejob during think the civil service has been up to the job during the coronavirus. think the civil service has been up to the job during the coronaviruslj wonder if a lot of people actually reading the story will think, is that the time to be reorganising the civil service. let's put that aside. if you are mark sedwill, essentially you are reading in the papers that you are reading in the papers that you are reading in the papers that you are going to be resigning,
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whether willingly or not this week. 40 whether willingly or not this week. a0 total reorganisation of how the number 10 works and at the broader whitehall government mission. it is very interesting, we see it again the influence of dominic cummings who we know not to be tremendously impressed with the civil service and its workings. and trying to we organise the whole thing, but i do not know, on one hand, one can only imagine that the sentiments of mark sedwill at reading this as essentially, you're out of a job, mate. he does have anotherjob within government, but a cabinet secretary is a key role and it will be very interesting to know whether that will be replaced within this new structure of committees that are going to run in britain. james, they do seem to be frustration in downing street during the pandemic that they could not get things done when they wa nted could not get things done when they wanted to do them. i think there was a quote that we pull levers of power and they came off in our hands. now they are looking to somehow
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reinvigorate the civil service. they are looking to somehow reinvigorate the civil servicem isa reinvigorate the civil servicem is a remarkable story from top to bottom, this. yes, there seems to be some frustration government that everyone is to blame other than them. for dominic cummings, who has been at the core of some of the suffering coronavirus with his famous trying to —— drive to durham, he clearly does not feel his power has been affected at all. the main thing about this story is i've feel it isa thing about this story is i've feel it is a real my mate job, not because the journalists —— the reasons are journalistic. there is a line saying that the new committees will follow the successful model that the government has been using during the coronavirus crisis. anybody who thinks the word successful should be attached to this government's handling of the coronavirus crisis surely needs their head examined. the numbers have been horrific and that is not a party political point. it does not matter what party is in government, but the government surely do not think they have been successful in the way that they have handed this coronavirus crisis. it suggests
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they're out of touch. let's look at they're out of touch. let's look at the front page of the sunday times. an interesting story about a potential spike in leicester. the idea that he might have a local lockdown just there to deal with that particular problem. this is quite interesting. we were told that there was the possibility of local lockdown is, or even just there was the possibility of local lockdown is, or evenjust a small area or a town or city and this is quite clear that if the threat that is hanging over leicester, which has 600 plus cases currently. and they may lockdown there, and how this would work, whether they need to test large numbers of the population, but i think this is a bit of a warning shout for everybody ahead of independence day on the ath ofjuly that if people do not stay alert and stay cautious, we may go back into lockdown. and i wonder
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whether reading the story and thinking, gosh, per leicester, just as we thought it was all ending, will start to think about moderating their behaviour because how the nation behaves when the bars and pubs to be opened next saturday is crucial to as being able to get out of this crisis in some sort of orderly fashion. james, the bars and pubs of the opening and also an easing of the travel lockdown in the sense of air bridge is being announced with various countries. according to the mail on sunday, it isa according to the mail on sunday, it is a mad dash for the med? here comes the... well i think it is better news that we may be able to go on holiday. we'll have to wait and see. a key point is downing street said it is ready to put the brakes on the travel, if they have to. i cannot say there —— i cannot
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see them having people booking holidays and then taking it away again. when they open up foreign travel, will people want to travel? it seems to be a resounding yes because at the travel websites have had a bumper saturday of people rushing to get holidays and there are bargains to be had and i know because i was looking yesterday. did you find one? there are certainly bargains out there. the question is whether i want to do it. i think it is like a lot of people, do i want to sit on a plane. what is it going to sit on a plane. what is it going to be like when you get there, it will not be like a normal holiday. i think that stuff is all still to be determined. there are certainly bargains out there, £150 a head you can get yourself a coffee in september. my advertising on the bbc. i do not know who that is with. —— you can get yourself to corfu in september. have you any plans for a mad dash to the med? may in september. but i am concerned about
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is me notice have any place in britain rely on tourism. i wonder whether any of those people in places which have been terrified of having an influx of visitors, we saw those pictures of the beaches in dorset during the week, needs to start thinking, maybe how do we make, open our doors and that your back free staycation because i think, when i talk to people, there area think, when i talk to people, there are a lot of people who feel that they will not be welcome in various parts of britain where, indeed, they should be opening up tourism and allowing all the people who work within that to return. we have hardly talked about the payments are's health and his presence. the sunday times have a story about how he wants to fight obesity —— the prime minister's health. and gastric bands are on the menu as the prime minister puts the nation only diet, as the sunday times says.
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minister puts the nation only diet, as the sunday times sayslj minister puts the nation only diet, as the sunday times says. i can see where they put us on the front page, it is intriguing. because he was overweight, that affected how coronavirus affected him back in the spring. now he wants the nation to get fit. this is a tory prime minister who is all about individual liberty, but apparently he is talking about buy one get one free, which those of us of certain generation have seen that study come around again and again and nothing ever happens. and his party, a huge pa rt of ever happens. and his party, a huge part of his party are opposed to the sugar tax on sugary fizzy drinks, yet he is talking about having family health eating plans, and yes, all the way up to surgery, including gastric band surgery. it is really intriguing as to what will happen here and what the thinking is because it seems not a natural fit for a libertarian tory prime minister, but there is clearly something going on there so it will be interesting to see how it plays out in the weeks and months to come.
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and, do you think this every time for a renewed against obesity? because we know there is a link between that and coronavirus. there isa between that and coronavirus. there is a very worrying story on the inside pages of the sunday times about how many schoolchildren have become obese during lockdown. because they have not been running around in the playground and because they have been setting merging classes. i think, they have been setting merging classes. ithink, possibly, it is something we are going to have to tackle dash makes eating more during classes. there is very little detail as to exactly how we will do this. gastric bands is not the answer, more exercise and eating less is the answer. we also need the prime minister to lead the way and a few press ups in an interview with the mail on sunday may not do it. we also do not want to get into fat shaming with its out to be ok to save and look at people who are overweight, say, sort it out, rather
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than giving them the mechanisms to sort it out. one of which would be a sugar tax. james, let's end with good news only corona medical in the sunday mirror. this is an nicu nurse and her husband who have had a baby —— miracle it is a cheeky story and a nice good straight story. she is an nicu nurse. —— cheerful study. proper heaters over the last few months. she has had four years fighting breast cancer and took a year off of hormone treatments, to get pregnant, got pregnant and then got coronavirus right at the end of pregnancy and then the baby they thought had caught coronavirusjust after it was born, but now all is well, there all at home, baby is happy and healthy and it is a cheerful, nice story and any current climate it is exactly we need. first night, it has a picture of the baby inside wedding a baby—gro saying, i was born in lockdown 2020, but
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obviously it is scary when people had the virus during pregnancy. we know there has been an awful lot of incidents of pregnant women catching coronavirus and this study should be a lesson to the other newspapers in that you have got to give people some good news. send them away, making them feel that life is worth living and we can come her problems. this is a really heart—warming, great story. with a picture of a baby, which always gets me any newspaper study. and we need, the newspapers need to do more of this ona newspapers need to do more of this on a general basis and on a regular basis. more good news. james, as we come out of lockdown, justin a minute, are you becoming a bit more optimistic about things?” minute, are you becoming a bit more optimistic about things? i think it is an optimistic set of front pages today. the economics of, if the government follows through, it's really hopeful. it does need to be understanding that if we switch the economy back on again, we will be a
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not too bad a place. yes, studies like this but a human side on it has well so i think it is quite a fairly optimistic sunday, but clearly there isa optimistic sunday, but clearly there is a lot to be thought about what the government has done wrong so far and things were not out of the woods yet. coronavirus is going to be on the front pages for many, many weeks to come. james miller, plato commentator and anne ashworth, a property and finance commentator and former editor of the times —— political commentator. that's it for the papers this hour. goodbye for now. for some of us today, if you can put up for some of us today, if you can put up with the wind there will be sunny spells, you may catch a shower, or may not. at other times —— for others and they will be persistent. a big contrast across the uk,
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depending how close you are to this area of low pressure through parts of scotland, northern ireland, north—west england. this is when it is looking where to stay. the brighter skies are further south, i suppose close together. it will be a blustery day, windier than yesterday. this is how it looks this afternoon. a wetter to northern ireland in the west, north wales for snowdonia and into north—west england, especially the pennines, la ke england, especially the pennines, lake district, western scotland, this is where we will see most of the rain. this is the gusts. many 230 and a0 miles per. many could be approaching 50 mph. some showers across south wales, the midlands and east anglia. a few spots creeping into the low 20s. nowhere near that where you are so wet, snowdonia, north—west england, western and northern scotland. eastern parts of scotland, eastern england, plenty of cloud. patching and occasionally, but also some drier spells. 1a of the top temperature in belfast and
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glasgow today. into tonight, we will keep the rain going, where the day has been so very wet. winding down tomorrow, higher parts of cumbria and lancashire may well be over 100 millimetres so there is a risk of seeing a bit of flooding or disruption as a result of this. overnight temperatures around ten to 13 celsius. a and into tomorrow, not as windy tomorrow, but make no mistake, it will still be very blustery out there. more rain when it has been so wet over the past 2a hours, but it does is done gradually during the day tomorrow. some of us will be turning die. more cloud in south wales in southern england compared with today and then look at this —— turning drier. last week we had him it is in the 30s, mandy does not look like anybody will be getting into the 20s. as we look at the picture into tuesday, where elephants creeping into the southern half of the uk bringing cloud and the chance of seeing a bit of rain
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