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the headlines... the us supreme court has ruled that donald trump's financial records can be examined by prosecutors in new york. mr trump had refused to release the documents, saying the investigation into his tax affairs was a "witch hunt". major cuts and closures have affected two giants of the british high street. boots and john lewis say more than 5,000 jobs are at risk. the who has appointed two former heads of states to lead an independent probe into the global response to the coronavirus pandemic. the former new zealand prime minister, helen clark, and the former president of liberia, ellenjohnson sirleaf, will both head the inquiry. in england, outdoor pools can reopen from this weekend. indoor pools and gyms in two weeks‘ time, beauticians, tattoo palours from monday — and even outdoor theatre is coming back.
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hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are stefanie bolzen, uk corresponednt at german newspaper die welt, and mo hussein, former adviser to the conservative party. great to have you both along this thursday night. looking forward to talking with you about the front pages. let's have a look at some of the papers that we already have. the telegraph — "salons reopen as normality edges closer" is the paper's top story, as england prepares to ease lockdown restrictions further, with the reopening of close contact businesses such as nail salons, besides gyms, swimming pools and outdoor performance venues. the headline for the i is "swimming and games back for summer". england is being urged
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by the government to "get match fit to beat the virus", the paper reports, after the government announced reopening of fitness facilities. "you'd better shape up," reads the front of the metro, which reports that outdoor pools will be able to reopen from this saturday, with indoor pools and gyms opening soon after on 25july. meanwhile, the guardian leads on a warning from the world health organization that the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating. the daily mirror has been tallying jobs lost in the uk because of the pandemic, with boots, burger king, and john lewis adding to the total in the past 2a hours, it says 150,000 jobs have now gone. "boots and john lewis lead job cull" reads the front page of the financial times, as store closures hit 5,000 staff. and finally: "junk food deals
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will be banned," reports the front of the times. the prime minister is expected to take the first steps of a promised anti—obesity drive with a ban this month on supermarket promotions on healthy food. so we are up—to—date with some of the papers, let's begin with our guests. lovely to see you both. let's start with the metro," you better shape up", which comes after the easing restrictions that we've had previously on places like shops and had previously on places like shops a nd restau ra nts had previously on places like shops and restaurants and pubs. now it's for us to keep up — get rid of all the weight that many of us have put on. so gyms, etc are being allowed open, but it's not happening overnight so below it won't be happening overnight, and it won't be
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the fitness studios that we know. you'd probably have to book a slot, turn up in your gym close and leave in them as well. and i think this is all very much about this idea of partially saving summer, but also getting fit. there's been a really, really big public health crisis we've been dealing with, but then, do we want to deal with other public health issues? because we've been in lockdown and not been as active as we could be. it's interesting, the one form of exercise you've been able to do, i think people were walking a bit more and we are more aware of keeping fit. this is all a pa rt aware of keeping fit. this is all a part of continuing that, so maybe something good is coming from all the bad stuff that's been happening, something positive coming from the lockdown that could be continued. but there are so many that need
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something to do when it comes to proper organised activities. while we've got you, what is the german situation like? what kind of businesses, etc are open there? well, i wouldn't say that germany is completely back to business as normal. but the lockdown restrictions have been lifted quite a bit earlier in the united kingdom. and also in germany, it's a little bit different because it is not a centralised country, is a... but pretty much all of it has opened. the big difference between the uk and germany is that you have to wear face masks. so whether it is on public transport or whether it is in shops — everyone is obliged to wear facemasks. and there was a discussion this week about one land, one region wanting to lift that
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obligation, and it was actually the german chancellor, angela merkel, who went into this debate varies fiercely saying that facemasks need to stay. so i'm waiting for this debate starting in the united kingdom to see more facemasks, because it will be compulsory everywhere. an interesting point, and i'm sure we will come across it and i'm sure we will come across it a little bit later on. when it comes to the daily telegraph, also focusing on these businesses increasingly opening up, of course we are talking about pools and gyms opening up in two weeks' time, but this paper focuses solely on salons, beauticians and tattoo parlors where you are in close proximity to somebody, but they will be opening on monday? yes, they will be, in a slightly surprised announcement today. i think the focus is on businesses, and the government will be saying that businesses need to show that they are covid—i9 secure
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and they are safe places that people actually want to go to. the government can make these decisions and loosen these restrictions, but people also have to follow. and the question will be about confidence, and do people feel comfortable in terms of actually going back into society, going into these other places? and i think that is still to be seen. the other interesting part in the telegraph, the line on care home residences could soon get visitors. this is a big elephant in the room. all these easements of the lockdown, there is still the human contact lockdown, there is still the human co nta ct — lockdown, there is still the human contact — people still want to hug their loved ones and we still can't do that. i think that is something that needs to be addressed, the social side, the family and friends side as well. absolutely. it all very much focuses on how people need to feel confident, but if we look at
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the guardian's front page, which quotes the who, saying that coronavirus pandemic is accelerating. that won't help in terms of making people feel happy about going out and returning back to some form of normality. what is the paper saying? the who is actually saying that the pandemic is accelerating, and there are now 12 million cases worldwide, and 544,000 people have died of the virus, sadly. but what is even more worrying is that the head of the who said that the numbers of cases have doubled in the last six weeks. and while we are very much happy that in the uk and parts of europe now, at least temporarily, the virus seems to be under control. if you listen
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to be under control. if you listen to the news coming from the us, brazil, india, all over the world, israel, you see that there have actually been new waves, or parts of the first wave. and it is very difficult to control. and actually you have seen that in places where restrictions were lifted quite swiftly, and they have paid the price for that. and people here in this country, while numbers are low now, of course everybody is thinking if it is really worth getting my nails done if i could catch the virus? it is a really good point. a lot of good soul—searching. i do just want to move away from coronavirus and keep with the guardian, because at the bottom of the paper, the headline says "police face inquiry into racial bias allegations". this is the
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independent office for police conduct saying that it will be using its formal powers to investigate cases. expand a little bit of what the guardian has found? yes, this is the police watchdog which is looking out where there has been any systemic bias or prejudice in how the police have been using stop and search. so we know that people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds tend to be stopped more, so backgrounds tend to be stopped more, soi backgrounds tend to be stopped more, so i think this watchdog wants to know why that might be, what are the underlying reasons for that. i've worked in the home office, i did a bit of work on this, and i think stop and search is a very effective tool if it is intelligence led and used proportionately and legally. it fit is taking off machetes and knives off the streets, that's a good thing. but i think it is right to question how it is being used. and i think the police could quite
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easily share the data and make the representations. but transparency is a good thing. but if there is a perception that it is flawed and there is bias, is that something that you can't get over, and stop and search needs to be completely rethought? i think these things can a lwa ys rethought? i think these things can always be looked at to see, are they actually delivering the outcomes or just serving to isolate communities in people? are they bringing crime down? these things will always be calibrated and looked at. ultimately, i think if there is a systemic problem, that is quite serious. that is what this watchdog of all police forces, not just the met police. is this a tactic used in germany? stop and search? know, that is something that i have come across
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only being a correspondent here. it isa very only being a correspondent here. it is a very tragic and worrying, i would almost say phenomena, the stabbings in london and so many young people dying of this, and this almost becoming a part of young people's lives to carry a knife around, and also at the same time being afraid of getting into a fight. in germany, there are other types of crimes, and unfortunately there are far more fire weapons. i understand it is not so easy to obtain fire weapons in this country, their the stabbings are more of a problem. but we do not have stop and search in that sense. what you have a lot of it is police checking on the legal status of foreigners, and that of course is also very controversial of the criminalization of people being stopped who don't look german and getting their papers
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checked. thank you for letting us know that. back to the coronavirus, the daily mail, "they've sunk our cruises" is the headline. we've had the announcement of our travel corridors, that england will be able to travel to 59 countries, but when it comes to cruise ships, and we have those really high figures of people contracting coronavirus on cruise ships at the beginning of this pandemic, the foreign office has a warning for british tourists who have potential thoughts of taking a cruise with yellow gas, and i think it is quite right because there are real issues with cruise ships towards the beginning of this pandemic. the key line in the story besides the dramatic headline is that this is based on medical advice from public health england. and i think it is the case that all these changes being brought in will be brought in incrementally, slowly and
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cautiously. so we won't go back to normal overnight, and we shouldn't prepare to make her pretend that we are. these things are being done to give people a sense of normality, having a bit of a summer again. but that won't be staying and this is for our benefit, because the public health concern, as we've seen in the guardian piece, is still quite a problem. anybody still planning a holiday is really lucky potentially in having to think about that. the other implications of this are of course the hugejob other implications of this are of course the huge job cuts. the financial times focusing on the latest round of job financial times focusing on the latest round ofjob cuts. another 5000 latest round ofjob cuts. another 50 0 0 staff latest round ofjob cuts. another 5000 staff losing theirjobs in store closures. a bad day when it comes to keeping jobs, which is ultimately what rishi sunak wanted to do in his announcement yesterday.
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yes, yesterday's announcement then today's really big names, thousands ofjobs getting lost. and at the same time, i think it is interesting how much more now the criticism is picking up, especially from the labour party. so while in the beginning of the pandemic, obviously also because the labour party only had a new leader in sir keir starmer, he was very cautious and there was a national crisis. so there was a national crisis. so there wasn't as much criticism coming from the opposition. but now it is really picking up. it is also picking up a lot of criticism from think tanks, economic experts who are saying that johnson's approach is wrong in the sense of giving companies money to keep people on after the furlough, while those who really understand the labour market are saying that there are lots of firms who would keep on these workers anyway. so billions are put in the furlough schemes and another
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billions into keeping workers on who actually could hopefully luckily do their jobs, actually could hopefully luckily do theirjobs, and actually could hopefully luckily do their jobs, and the actually could hopefully luckily do theirjobs, and the company making theirjobs, and the company making the turnover to pay their salaries. the fiscal studies —— institute for fiscal studies, one of the think ta nks fiscal studies, one of the think tanks being referred to, highlights what they described as poor targeting of rishi sunak‘sjob protection bonus. with the chancellor not have spoken to them and gotten advice from them before announcing something like this? i'm sure there would've been some consultations normally before these types of announcements, you talk to a range of your stakeholders. but i think the key things are there are economicjudgements and political judgements. and what the chancellor has sown is that, in terms of his substance dashed substance but also the approach is taken, there is a real concern about seeing lots and lots of unemployed people in the country again, and avoiding those scenarios. so actually doing things
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that may be unexpected, maybe not conservative orthodoxy, and may be new creative ways of helping people. there are some reports that the chancellor has accepted that some of these people will probably go back tojobs these people will probably go back to jobs anyways, but you have to look at the systems wide approach, and if this will save a significant number ofjobs and if this will save a significant number of jobs in the and if this will save a significant number ofjobs in the immediate to midterm, that i think that is the judgement that the chancellor will have taken beyond just beyond the economics. but in terms of saving jobs, they are not, because the daily mirror is focusing on today's announcements regarding job losses. it just feels like. .. announcements regarding job losses. itjust feels like... what's your reading of this? what is your reaction to how the government is coping with unprecedented times, but difficult times and so many people are infected when it comes to their job losses? well, it is only
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starting to show what economic damage the pandemic will bring over this country, and over all countries in europe and beyond. of course this is the daily mirror, and they are rather on the opposition side. so it is no surprise that they are very, very critical of what the government is doing. but they are focusing on 150,000 jobs already being lost due to the pandemic, and there's also a point that i read in this article that i thought was worrying, they say that currently people are waiting up to five weeks to get universal credit. so once they have lost theirjobs and have no income at all, they might have to preach five weeks without any income at all. and that might lead to really widespread poverty, and this is something that everybody has to be really worried about. yes, and we need something monetary, as well. our last paper, the times, we had
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rishi sunak talking about this meal deal that was described by the labour party, now borisjohnson is saying that junk food labour party, now borisjohnson is saying thatjunk food deals will be banned in this assault on obesity. what can we expect from this? banned in this assault on obesity. what can we expect from this7m banned in this assault on obesity. what can we expect from this? it is fairto what can we expect from this? it is fair to say this has been somewhat ofa fair to say this has been somewhat of a journey for the prime minister, who is described in this piece... i think he was probably of the view that the government shouldn't be dictating this level of detailing and peoples lives. but i think his own experience with this horrific virus has changed his mind. there's a link to this with transmitting the virus, andi a link to this with transmitting the virus, and i think then, we will see a lot more government action on actually tackling obesity, whether it is advertising of food, where food is placed on supermarket
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aisles. so i think this announcement is coming and this could be the first part of a much wider action in getting people more active and fit her again. and one person that actually did make a concerted effort through the lockdown was the work—out superstarjoe wicks. he was at number 10 downing street today to discuss fitness, this whole national fitness drive with the prime minister. just briefly if you would, we need to start moving now the gyms are open, so we need to start moving now the gyms are open, so it goes hand—in—hand?|j mean personally, he really made my day because i used to do it every morning with my daughter, and i thought it was a phenomenal programme and very creative, very funny for kids. and the truth was that my daughter and myself after ten minutes, we were in a much better mood at 9am. so i think for everyone to do a bit more activity, it is obvious that it makes you
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healthier and happier. a really, really good, positive note on which to end tonight's paper review. it's been really great to have you both, thank you for your insight. i keep putting you on the spot but it is fascinating to hear the comparisons with germany, it is really insightful. have a lovely evening to you both, thanks forjoining us here on the papers. if you'd like to get involved in the conversation, use the hashtag bbc papers. good evening, i'm chetan pathak with your sports news. we start with manchester united's relentless pursuit to qualify for next season's champions league. they are now within a point of the premier league's top four after beating aston villa 3—0. the home side held united for a while before going 2—0 down to a bruno fernandes penalty,
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and this superb strike from mason greenwood. paul pogba scored the third. united are just a point behind leicester now, whilst villa are second from bottom and four points from watford and safety. bournemouth remain in trouble in the relegation zone too, after they were denied a late win over tottenham. callum wilson was convinced he'd won the game in the last minute, only to see his goal disallowed for handball. it touched joshua king on the arm. bournmouth are third from bottom, three points behind watford. everton drew 1—1 with southampton. leeds united are back on top of the championship. they thrashed stoke city 5—0, patrick bamford capping off the win to move them a point above west brom. stoke meanwhile are just a point above the relegation zone. england's cricketers are facing a real battle after the second day of their opening test against west indies in southampton.
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jason holder led the way with a career best six—wicket haul, as the tourists bowled england out for 204. the windies were 57 for one as bad light stopped play. joe wilson was watching. high above hampshire, beyond the empty seats, and the team huddle, the sun sort of shone... ..and the ball flew. commentator: gone! that wasjoe denly, gone. shannon gabriel puts everything into bowling at 90mph. it's worth it. england's up—and—coming batsmen fell away. ollie pope, the fifth man out. but the big wicket was ben, captain stokes. before lunch, he should have been out but wasn't. dropped catches are expensive, a rapid rate of inflation. stokes was dropped againjust after lunch. frustration for the west indies. and he got to 43, building another essential innings. but here came the west indies captain. jason holder is officially test cricket's best all—round player and both captains sensed
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the significance of that moment. jos buttler helped to raise a lot of money for the nhs during lockdown. he was out for 35 here, and england were soon 204 all out. six wickets in all for jason holder, in his best ever performance as a bowler. west indies made a solid start to theirfirst innings. players don't give their caps to the umpires to hold, for example. it's why mark would ended up wearing two. headband and lockdown here is james anderson's latest look. campbell finally out lbw, and then that look. the anderson emotion — haven't you missed it? joe wilson, bbc news. the four—time tour de france winner chris froome is leaving team ineos at the end of the season after they decided not to renew his contract. he's joining another team — israel start—up nation,
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where he'll be sole team leader. at ineos, his role's been challenged by geraint thomas and egan bernal, who've won the past two editions of the tour. froome says he's still be focused on winning another tour title with ineos before he leaves. novak djokovic is the latest player to cast doubt on his appearance at the us open later this year. it's due to start in new york at the end of august. our tennis correspondent russell fuller says the world number one's also annoyed at the criticism he's faced after several players tested positive for coronavirus at a tournament he helped to organise last month. yes, four players tested positive, including djokovic. but he feels this is a witchhunt against him, that some of it is malicious in nature, and that he has been appointed as the fall guy. on the us open itself, he's always expressed quite strong reservations ever since the us open were suggesting they'd like to stage the event as planned in new york from the end of august. his latest comments are fairly
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noncommittal either way, he says he's not made up his mind yet. he has said he will play in madrid and rome, then the french open. that all takes place in the four weeks after the us open, so it's a very reasonable question to ask as to whether he feels he's able to play in all of those events and play at the top of his game. the problem is, with someone like djokovic — it's not a problem most of the time — is that he starts an event and he tends to finish an event. so it's not a question of bailing out halfway through the allotted tennis in a six—week period. and that is all your sport for now. a reminder, more and all those stories are available on the bbc sport website, including all the reaction to the night's premier league football matches. but for me and the team for now, thanks for watching. good night. hello. we've had a real mix of weather across the uk so far this week. but things are now beginning to settle down. and certainly by the time we get to the weekend, it should be dry for the vast
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majority, with some spells of sunshine, because high pressure is going to build its way in. now, that area of high pressure is currently down to the southwest of the british isles. and for friday, we've still got low pressure fairly close by, so that means we have got one more showery day to contend with in many areas. now, those showers could crop up just about anywhere. they're most likely across northern and eastern areas, so through parts of scotland, northern england, down the eastern side of england as well. some of the showers here could be heavy and thundery, some being blown into northern ireland on this northwesterly breeze. parts of wales, the south west, yes, one or two showers, but most places here should be dry with some spells of sunshine. but i mentioned the northwesterly breeze. that's going to make it feel fairly cool, 15—20 celsius. now, some of those showers will continue during friday evening. into the night, northern scotland will continue to see some. most other areas will turn dry, with some clear spells and light winds as well. it's going to turn into a rather cool night for the time of year,
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temperatures for many spots getting down into single digits, 7—8 celsius quite likely. but as we head into saturday, here comes our area of high pressure building its way in. now, notice the way in which the high—pressure is focusing itself to the south of the uk. so that's where we're going to see the best of the sunshine. the further north you are, there will be more cloud and perhaps just 1—2 showers. north west england, northern ireland, particularly scotland, you could catch a shower, but most places won't. most places will be dry. i think by the afternoon, we'll see a fair amount of cloud bubbling up in the sky, and temperatures, if anything, still a touch below par for this point injuly, 16—21 celsius. now, on sunday, temperatures are set to climb, particularly across england and wales, where we will see long spells of sunshine through the day. dry to start for northern ireland and scotland, but cloud and rain will then spread up from the west. temperatures, 18 celsius in glasgow but 24—25 celsius possibly down towards the southeast. and monday is going to be another
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dry and warm day the further south you are across the uk, some rain further north and west. and it looks rather cloudy for most of us on tuesday.
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