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the trump administration has formally notified the united nations that it's withdrawing the us from the world health organisation. it's due to leave on the 6th ofjuly next year. mr trump has been angered by the who's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. the president of brazil, jair bolsonaro, says he's tested positive for coronavirus. on monday mr bolsonaro said he had a fever and was suffering some pain. he's long played down the danger of the virus, saying it's like a little flu. on wednesday, the uk chancellor of the exchequer will deliver his summer statement, in which he's expected to announce a new programme to try to get 300,000 young people into work. and melbourne in australia is back in lockdown because of a reported spike in covid infections. in the past 2a hours, it's recorded almost 200 cases — that's its highest recorded daily total.
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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are former fleet street editor eve pollard, and laura hughes political and diplomatic correspondent at the financial times. tomorrow's front pages starting with welcome back both of you. let's take a look at the pages we've already got in. let's start with the telegraph leads on the emergency stamp duty holiday set to be announced by the chancellor rishi sunak tomorrow as part of the government's coronavirus recovery plan. the times adds that the chancellor will also reveal a £2 billion "kickstart" work placement scheme for young workers. the guardian also reports on the temporaryjob creation scheme for the under—255.
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the mail leads on a report released tomorrow that will say tens of thousands of women and children were "catastrophically" harmed by three avoidable health scandals. the i writes that the free parking for nhs staff in england is coming to an end, as the government withdraws funding for the lockdown policy. the mirror is one of many of tomorrow's papers covering actor johnny depp‘s libel case against the sun newspaper and its executive editor dan wootton. the metro also reports on the case, which was attended today at london's high court by the movie star and his ex wife amber heard. the couple washing their dirty linen very much in public. let's start. let's start with the financial statement, laura, in the ft, rishi
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sunak divides £2 billion jobs to arrest blight of the covid generation. a pool of free labour —— labourfor generation. a pool of free labour —— labour for how long? well, yes, so this is a huge announcement for the chancellor tomorrow, £2 billion to try and stop the uk's youngest generation so 16—24 —year—olds from becoming a generation that's been com pletely becoming a generation that's been completely blighted by the coronavirus crisis. it will ask for six months from august and it's a pretty generous offer from the treasury and part of a series of really targeted measures to try and help this generation that potentially could really be badly impacted by it, and we are paying the minimum wage, and it's going to be up to 300,000 people aged between 16-24. eve, this chancellor is one of the youngest chancellors, he is in his late 30s, isn't he? he does seem to be the chancellor who keeps
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on giving. well, at the moment, he has no option because if we are going to get the economy back on track, the government are going to have to pay out, but, of course, in a way, this is quite sensible, because this is going to be for kids who are leaving school at 16, perhaps old levels, not many exams, to ones who are leaving university, and you know, we all knowjust by all sorts of surveys over many years, if you can get people into jobs and jobs that they might enjoy at this stage, they will stay in jobs. if you don't and people get to over 24 and never get into a job and never settle, they often become people who are unemployed for much longer in their life and across the country much more in the end, apart from being unhappy that they haven't got a step on the ladder at work. so he is well aware that young people are going to suffer because of covid—19. he is going to try and get
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them started and talk to big companies where he hopes they will help them and also local authorities where he hopes they will help. and they will help, the government will help with the salaries, and actually commit could be the making of the next generation in a way. laura, why do you think he is so determined to and the furlough scheme, the furlough scheme is changing, isn't it? so it continues until october, but is adamant that he doesn't want to keep that one going. at think that the government view is that it's economically not sustainable for the treasury to subsidize people's wages in this country. it's cost them billions of pounds and they felt that it was necessary because of the immediate hits, but the hope is that the as the economy starts to open, the hospitality industry starts to get back up and running, that hopefully companies will be able to start paying their staffs wages and they wa nt to paying their staffs wages and they want to have to let up a bit ago. it was an incredibly generous offer
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from rishi sunak, the chancellor, but he and the premise or has been very clear that they can't just but he and the premise or has been very clear that they can'tjust keep people in this limbo, because, of course, there will be situations where, actually, people will not be reemployed. the furlough scheme will end, and these people will have to try and find otherjobs. i think that they don't want to keep everybody in a sort of halfway house situation. they have supported where they can, then the idea is that companies will either be able to be brought back or they won't. there is also talk about maybe a temporary vat cut. let's go unto the telegraph, eve come alongside that photograph of amber heard with her bandanna, her silk bandanna outside the high court. we will come to that ina minute. the high court. we will come to that in a minute. the main street for the paper though, stamp duty holiday to kick—start economy. again, a measure which is directed at the younger elements of the population perhaps
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buying their first home or first flat. the question to whether this isa flat. the question to whether this is a holiday or whether this is going to be permanent. as we all know, the stamp duty drove everybody who is interested in moving away from moving because everybody worked out how much the house was and how much you would have to pay on top to the government in stamp duty. of course, the government in stamp duty. of course , we the government in stamp duty. of course, we know that when people move, the finance of it filters through the economy, so, your paying, so buy paint you might redo a bathroom, you might add to it, you might buy stuff. and that affects in many, many businesses you know, from tiles to builders, and 500,000 is a lot of money, particularly if you are up north where property is less expensive. if it means people get a foot on the ladder, it means people will want to go to work properly people will need to go to work, again, it's all to get the economy
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moving. what's quite interesting is a lot of companies have discovered that you can work quite successfully without everybody being in the office all the time. so companies themselves may find ways of saving money, saving rent, having many, many desks for people who are not in every day, and then carry on. sol guess they've realised that companies are starting to work that out for themselves, so they want to give young people who have perhaps never had a job a chance. the stamp duty thing means again that young people will get a chance to buy their first home and not to rely on their first home and not to rely on the bank of mum and dad or the home of mum and dad. laura, doesn't really address what many people are calling for, a sort of correction in house prices, especially in places like london, because £500,000 as a heck of a lot of money for somebody who is working as a paramedic or a nurse.
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yeah, and the telegraph is reporting that actually, this holiday is only temporary. it could last between six months and a year, and there will be a lot of people coming out of this crisis who can't even begin to think about buying their own home. but, of course, if the economy is doing really badly, then potentially, house prices will fall, and there might be an opportunity there for younger people who haven't been able to get on the property letter to do so, and also the suggestion that perhaps this crisis has shown many people they don't want to live in cities, so there could be a move to the countryside, and that will play into whether or not houses become more readily available, yes, for my generation, certainly, the idea of buying a house is really sort of a pipe dream fora buying a house is really sort of a pipe dream for a very long time and. and when you look at the story in the eye, and their headline free parking for nhs staff will be scrapped. if you are a nurse or a porter having to pay 350 — £4 an
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hour, and you are working for the nhs, which we have all been clapping forever weekend recently celebrated the second birthday anniversary four, that is going to make life even tougher, isn't it eve? it's going to make life tougher, and if you have been working incredibly long hours and many of them have, and an incredibly difficult situations which the virus causes. you will feel that you've not been valued very much, and this is pretty ha rd valued very much, and this is pretty hard on you, but the trouble is hospitals make a lot of money out of parking. it's quite appalling in a way, because if you've got a child thatis way, because if you've got a child that is ill or you've got somebody in hospital for a long time with something very serious, you can run up something very serious, you can run up enormous something very serious, you can run up enormous bills. i'm always fascinated to know what hospitals do with this money because there are many managers and hospitals who run quite large salaries, and ijust wonder whether this is going to change a lot of things in the nhs, andl
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change a lot of things in the nhs, and i do think people who have worked their guts out for this, for all of us in this terrible terrible coronavirus, will feel very sad, and also of course it will lead to many more people travelling on public transport, which is what we keep saying please don't travel on public transport, because they can't all get on their bikes, there just want be enough room. you know, old ladies driving their cars will knock them over because they will be in the way. i mean, it's quite scary already. so, ifeel way. i mean, it's quite scary already. so, i feel it's going to be tough. it's sad there can't be a place kept for certainly some of the long time long working hours paramedics. laura commit is a big cash generator, the figures i can see was for 2018, 228 million pounds raised by nhs million —— more than £1 million a year, do you sense a u—turn on this one? £1 million a year, do you sense a u-turn on this one? i think it's on
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the cards, given how this will pay out publicly, i think people will be horrified that nhs workers who have kept hospitals running throughout this crisis and who have had to continue going to wear, whereas the rest of us, many of us have been able to work from home, we have seen the government u—turn over issues like free school meals and very recently, so this does feel like a story that could roll on for a while, and if you have a lot of pressure put on the government take the premise or to test for appearing to cover carers and then for introducing this charge, and then of course, the unions are calling for the loosening of the charge to be made permanent, and they say nhs workers should never be forced to make these payments and, again, the prime minister, you know, coming under a lot of fire today after he
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suggested that care homes and care home providers were responsible for the high death rates because they hadn't followed correct procedure, he's faced huge backlash from that, and soi he's faced huge backlash from that, and so i think those two things combined could really put them into a tight spot and another ten might decide it's not worth continuing with this policy if it proves to be so with this policy if it proves to be so unpopular. eve, let's move the times. interesting interview here with the head of the royal society saying not wearing a face mask will be as taboo as drink—driving. he is representing other top scientists. actually, if you've gotta face covering like ember hurt them i think everybody would probably wear one of those, straight out of central casting or some spaghetti western. but it is interesting, isn't it? copies cultural changes really might be coming about very very quickly. welcome it's very interesting, i was driving, didn't drive very far across london, but i drove from one end of hyde park to the other, i saw so many drivers
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driving their cars wearing a mask, and it's quite interesting, of course, in other countries, wearing a mask is absolutely every day. in brazil, everybody was getting off the train that i saw on the news wearing a mask, and if you think about it from i grew up where there we re about it from i grew up where there were no seat belts because i'm 105, were no seat belts because i'm105, and barely any cars. people did have several drinks and get into the car, nobody worried about a designated driver, so the mass thing make outside, and i guess if it stops one person catching the virus because if you sneezed, you can't spread the droplets, i guess why not? laura, it does seem strange, doesn't it, because of course, women go back to the beginning of this pandemic, this was something that the government didn't say was that important then, but it evolved into, you know, it might protect a few other people, because he won't be sneezing over them, i mean, what is your view on
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this? yeah, there really was a sense of british exceptionalism at the beginning of this crisis, where we saw other countries around the world, even america, really sort of adopting masks as a way of preventing transmission, and yet, some of our top scientists where appearing in those daily number ten briefings and telling the public that the evidence was mixed, and that's message may have confused a lot of people who now are unsure when and when they shouldn't be wearing masks, and according to this time story, it's one of the least developed countries to support wearing masks, just from the general public‘s point of view. so, it's a tricky one for the government in scotla nd tricky one for the government in scotland next week is making mask wearing and chops mandatory, so there are a lot of pressure on ministers to consider introducing measures like that in england, and the point of this research in the times says years ago, people would
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drive without seat belts, and that's considered 0k, and they believe that going forward, it will become as anti—social to not wear a mask as it would be to drink and drive or to not wear your seat belt. 0k, well, talking about masks on a slightly later, not later, because let's go u nto later, not later, because let's go unto the mail coming eve coming up the two fashion styles of masks there, one as i say is the sort of western bandit bandanna and then a little g string one around johnny depp's mouth. you must be missing your days as a tabloid editor when your days as a tabloid editor when you have got a high court case like this one. what a joy. first of all, you have to remember the date. if you have to remember the date. if you remember, this is the time, july, people are just starting to go off on holiday, children are breaking up from school, they want a bit of light relief, and i think people will be grateful forjohnny depp for providing it. johnny depp is suing the son who said he was a
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wife beater and the headline in the mail is now that's a hollywood blockbuster, and they have got the picture of amber heard and johnny depp on the front, wearing masks, looking exceptionally theatrical, as a mask will do, and it will be interesting to see. apparently, he says, after so on, this is what's gone on in court. it was reported in court. a make it was reported, as you say, that she severed the top of his finger by throwing vodka bottle. it could happen to anybody, what a waste of vodka, i suppose. they will probably be days of this and the son have stuck to their guns. many newspapers would have just settled quietly and gone away, but the the sun is ibc sticking to their guns, and we are going to hear about all sorts of things about these two private lives, which once again, will remind us that so liberties are not like us. no, and laura, i mean,
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the stakes are very high forjohnny depp to do this, aren't they? because so much personal information is coming out, and actually commit looks as if both are going to come off pretty badly at the end, whatever the result of this action is. yes, and really intimate details of their relationship are already coming out. we have learned that both parties films one another during the course of their relationship, and just looking at some of the front page stories this evening, the times talks about how this trial is laying bare his own childhood, his addiction to drugs and very personal details of his marriage. i wonder if he believed that he would win and that may be the sun would settle out of court, but the fact that they haven't has actually provided all the newspapers with more and more detail and stories about their marriage, and it's really, you know, unpleasant
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details, and very personal issues are being broadcast. it is unedifying, and it is of their own making and it's reported with absolute privilege. yes, absolutely. and also, i sense that he has been married before, he has got children by his first marriage, and perhaps he really cares what they think about his life and his first wife, vanessa, another actress, is standing behind him. so, it's complex, isn't it? it's not straightforward. 0f it's complex, isn't it? it's not straightforward. of course, it's to do with very famous people who have money and time on their hands. yes, 0k. money and time on their hands. yes, ok. we have got time forjust one more, i think. ok. we have got time forjust one more, ithink. the ok. we have got time forjust one more, i think. the guardian, ok. we have got time forjust one more, ithink. the guardian, laura, a picture ofjohnny depp in his mass, the guardian preferring that over the red silk number. but the story below that, cutback exams or risk pupils help, say heads. after
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so much time without formal tuition, they are predicting that there will bea they are predicting that there will be a mental health crisis among pupils facing gcs ease and a levels next summer. yes, so these head teachers are suggesting that the government's assumption people are going to be up to catch up with all the work that they've missed, and then sit gcs ease and a levels in then sit gcs ease and a levels in the normal way, it's just then sit gcs ease and a levels in the normal way, it'sjust not possible. and the stress that that will put u nto and the stress that that will put unto the children could be too much to bear, so they are saying that actually the curriculum reduced so that people have less to learn, and that people have less to learn, and that there could be less exams, so instead of of rushing them through their curriculum and trying to cram all this information in, actually, they should just slow it down and make it a little bit easier. we know that children have really, whilst they haven't necessarily picked up this virus, they have suffered enormously when it comes to
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education and disparity between schools and those from wealth backgrounds have really been made stark. having to live sometimes in you know, difficult circumstances under lockdown as well, but, surely, there has to come a time when the normal status quo returns, and we are looking at next year, aren't we? i think we are, and i also think that these children will be labelled, you know, covid—19 kids and will suffer always because they can't do their gcs gcses and of course they've got to be nurtured, of course they've got to be looked after, but i think a much shorter christmas holiday, much shorter easter holiday, a lot of input from teachers and a lot of enthusiasm from teachers would be much better than heads from 78 local authorities, i would love to know which ones, who are saying we don't wa nt which ones, who are saying we don't want to be judged, we don't want to
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push this through. if you don't help these kids who are going to take exams next year, they will be behind for the rest of their lives, should they do another year? should they not get a levels? should they not get a levels? to they want to get to university? we should be saying we need to put more teachers on, more one—to—one education, we should be doing is we're doing everything to help 16—24, we should be doing everything to help dickstein or 15 to 18—year—olds pass their exams in the year they were meant to, as much as possible. all right, we are going to have to ended there. lovely to speak to both again. eve, laura, thank you very much indeed for taking us through that look the papers. hello, here is your sport news.
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we'll start with the premier league, where chelsea have strengthened their hold on the champions league places after a hard—fought win over crystal palace at south hurst park. after a hard—fought win over crystal palace at cellhurst park. the visitors were 2—0 up within half an hour, pallas pulled one back before tammy abraham here restored the two run advantage with a smart finish, scored shortly afterward, but they held on for three — two win which moves them up to third place in the table. a man we have to get three points here to stay on and stay in the top four, that will be our battle come again monday now. it is all going to be tough. we showed a bit of character, finger tips on that header on the end. he makes a great tackle at the end. so couple of great moments in there for us. in there for us, but we still have to learn from certain parts of the game, we can be better. good result for his side. lester meanwhile herfourth behind chelsea after they drew 1— all at arsenal, pulling the home site inference, but late
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all at arsenal, pulling the home side in front, but late in the second outcome arsenal sent offjust minutes after coming on the pitch, straight red card for catching justinjames on the knee. six minutes from time, who else, jamie vardy equalising for leicster with his 22nd league the season. at the other end of the table, a huge win for watford in their bid to avoid relegation, what a finish from danny wellbeck, goal for the win as they came from behind to be the bottom side norwich city to have been won. that result takes watford four points clear of the relegation zone whilst norwich will be relegated if they lose to west ham on saturday. ahead of the return of international cricket tomorrow, england's captain ben stokes said he will lead his side in a gesture of support for the black lives matter movement, but stopped short of confirming if they will take a gesture of support for the black lives matter movement, but stopped short of confirming if they will take any, both england and the west indies
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will also carry the black lives matter symbol on their collars during the first test at the ageas bowl, with stokes capping england for the first time whilst regular skipperjoe root takes time out for the birth of his second child. it is all about doing, you know, what i normally do, which is to try and influence the game as much as i can so that won't be changing, but obviously making decisions under different kinds of pressure that we know that test matches can throw at you, but i have got experience to look back on from being senior player tojoe. he's very open and asks opinions from other people around him, and also having the experience of what he's done in situations like that so i know it is not going to be plain sailing but i'm really looking forward to the challenge as well. next, british open will go ahead in august behind closed doors. the championship will be held in scotland in august. it's now going to be the first women's major of the year, following the cancellation
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of the championship in france. strict protocols to be followed is expected, including the creation of a bio secure zone for players, caddies and officials. it's also been confirmed that lady's scottish open will take place behind closed doors a week earlier. fernando alonso is set to return to formula 1 with rando next year. sources have told bbc sport the spanish double world champions move will confirmed soon. he left f1 in 2018 and is due to make a third tend to in the indianapolis 500 with mclaren in august. i can't afford to put on a feigned shocked face, but i don't think many people are that surprised he is coming back. i suppose when his adviser said at the end of last year that he was motivated and ready to return to formula 1, that should have been the clue that he was coming back. so, yeah, i mean it's remarkable, i think more than surprising,
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remarkable that a man of his stature who is a two—time world champion would want to come back, not saying that rhino are a bad would want to come back, not saying that they are a bad team, but it's not like he's walking back into one walking back into one of the top—top teams. it's going to be a struggle. that is all your sport for now, justa reminder, more on all of those stories on our support website, including reaction to lester 1— all draw arsenal. for me and the team for now, things were watching. goodbye. hello. well, we've got another dose of rain on the way for wednesday. it's more southern parts of the uk that'll get the rain. now, this is the satellite picture. notice it's actually a conveyor belt of cloud, stretching from the north sea across the uk, ireland and out into the atlantic. and out here in the central north atlantic, not that it's of any huge significance, but this is actually an old tropical storm that's just feeding in warmth and moisture into this band of cloud and rain that's kind of gradually slipping across the country
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from west in an easterly direction. there's also a lot of mild air to the south. in fact, 15 degrees, that's the early morning temperature on wednesday, whereas in the glens of scotland early on wednesday, it could be close to freezing in a few areas. remember that cloud stretching out into the atlantic. it's kind of spreading across the uk. certainly, some rain around at times for wales, the midlands, southern england, eventually into east anglia and the southeast. but i think much of yorkshire, northern ireland and scotland in for a bright day with just a few showers. and that trend continues into thursday. it's more southern parts of the country that get the cloud and the outbreaks of rain, so i think for some of us, once again, not a pretty picture. it isn't going to be cold. 20 degrees in london. actually fresher in scotland with the sunshine, where temperatures will be between 14 and 18 celsius. now, on friday, there is a weather front out in the north sea. it's actually a low pressure with its weather front and it will be close enough to drive our weather,
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so i think showers for the northeast of england, certainly through yorkshire and into east anglia, and a bit of a breeze as well. the winds actually coming out to the north west on friday, so it could feel a little on the chilly side in some northwestern areas. the best of the weather, i suspect, across western wales and the south as well, as well as the south west, on friday. now, here's the good news. high pressure is expected to build towards the weekend. not particularly hot weather heading our way with this high pressure. i think it's just going to be pleasantly warm with some sunny spells. so, here's the outlook for saturday and sunday. temperatures mostly in the high teens across more northern part of the country, whereas further south, it'll probably get up to around the low or maybe the mid—20s. that's it. goodbye.
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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. the president of brazil, jair bolsonaro, tests positive for coronavirus — a reminder that the pandemic affects everyone. the virus doesn't really know who we are, whether we're prince or pauper. we are equally vulnerable. and i think what it really highlights is our collective vulnerability to this disease. after the threat, the us gives formal notification that it's leaving the world health organisation. millions in melbourne are ordered back into lockdown for six weeks. police checks at the state border between victoria and new south wales. at the uk's high court, the hollywood actorjohnny depp
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is suing the sun newspaper for calling him

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