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the world health organisation has warned, that too many countries are going in the wrong direction in dealing with the pandemic. the director general said the situation would only get worse, if basic health measures were not followed. the washington redskins has confirmed that it will change its name. it follows pressure from sponsors of the nfl franchise — to stop using a name that native americans have long condemned as racist. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow.
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with me are lucy fisher, defence editor of the times and faiza shaheen from the left think tank centre for labour and social studies. come back to you both. tomorrow's front pages starting with. .. —— welcome back to you both. on the front page of the telegraph, reports that face coverings will be made mandatory in english shops. the government has tonight confirmed an official announcement will take place tomorrow to confirm that the rule will be brought in from july 24th. ‘face it, you have to put on a mask‘ reads the front of the metro. it's reporting that shoppers who don't wear face coverings in stores in england, face fines of up to £100 if they refuse. the daily mail says police will be able to hand out on the spot fines, and that only young children or people with certain
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disabilities will be exempt from the new regulations. the i meanwhile, says the government has accepted that face coverings are necessary to reopen the economy. the guardian says experts are worried there could be up to 120,000 deaths from covid—19 this coming winter. senior doctors and scientists are warning that figures could be that high in a worst case scenario, and are urging britain to start ‘intense preparations‘ for a second wave of the virus. the times reveals that military chiefs have drawn up plans to base one of britain‘s new aircraft carriers in the far east to play a part in countering what the paper describes as an ‘increasingly assertive china‘. and the international edition of the financial times reports that up to 200,000 residents of hong kong — known as hong kongers — are predicted to move to the uk following the chinese crack down.
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so let‘s begin... lucy, let us start with you. in the last hour we‘ve heard confirmation about mandatory face coverings and massively worn in shops from july the 24th. at a £100 fine if you don‘t wear it. big question a lot of people asking now is why delay until july the 24th. yes. i be? why the ten day delay between announcing it and imposing it. that will create a sense of confusion. that‘s a big question as to why. people will be unclear whether they should or have to wear a mask. it is reallyjust the latest in the sort of backwards and forwards in this whole debate. 120 other countries already have made it compulsory to wear a mask in shops and supermarkets which exist that britain is lagging severely
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behind but that we saw scotland last friday make that move. 0bviously behind but that we saw scotland last friday make that move. obviously a british transport and in england, scotla nd british transport and in england, scotland and northern ireland it is compulsory to wear a mask on public transfer. i have been very interested in london to know that a lot of people have not been compliant with that so i wonder about enforcement now that will extend to shops. that will extend the work for police, isn‘t it? the male pointing out that the face coverings don‘t need to be medical grade mask, and also pointing out that it was yesterday that a report to the government applicator ten factory production lines capable of making 5 million mask a week. —— the government had procured it. we need to have enough mask if we are making it mandatory for people to wear them. buti it mandatory for people to wear them. but i agree. why haven't we been so slow to get that to this point? a couple of days ago, government ministers, michael gove, came out saying that this will be a matter of common sense, there has
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been so much indecisiveness and it is really what is happening with the mask and this too and fro undermines a general approach from this government and it reminds us that we really do need to have a public inquiry that looks into what happened at what stage. where we too slow to lockdown? what would too slow to lockdown? what would too slow to lockdown? what would too slow to impose mandatory mass given that countries like spain france have this in place in may? the protect the personal protective equipment that was a mass of the back of there. we need to go through what happened with the care system and make sure what we are in a better place if there is a second way. so it is really important that we do notjust let these things slide and would look at their way in which government is making decisions because right now it is very haphazard. one last point on the daily mail. it goes against the libertarian instincts of the prime minister and of michael gove. they
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are reporting about one mp who says that he will give up shopping rather than have to wear a mask. yes. striking that he wasn‘t willing to be named i thought. it is an interesting debate. michael gove did say yesterday he didn‘t think mask wearing in shops and supermarkets should be mandatory and instead he acknowledged it is that it is courtesy and good manners and it shows considerations for others. he said it should be left to good common sense from british people. i actually think that the flip side is that this move to make it compulsory in shops will encourage more people to go to the shops rather than fewer. it will help people feel more protected and perhaps more co mforta ble protected and perhaps more comfortable and more safe to go outside again to take up shopping and that is really the key to getting the economy going. we know that our economy is based more and
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relies more on consumer spending and then some others in western europe. so it is really key now that the lockdown has eased to allow shops and lockdown has eased to allow shops a nd restau ra nts to lockdown has eased to allow shops and restaurants to open and people have that sense of confidence that they can get back out there. one person said today that if you do make it mandatory, may be people wearing mask will rise from 20 to 30% to 80 or 90%. that seems to be the evidence from countries around the evidence from countries around the world. let‘s move onto the guardian newspaper. everybody has talked about and worried about and what we are seeing in the states and elsewhere as a second surge and a second way. this is really quite chilling. experts fear of 220,000 covid—19 desk this winter and the worst case covid—19 desk this winter and the woi’st case scenario. covid—19 desk this winter and the worst case scenario. that‘s 120,000. the worst case scenario is obviously extremely frightening and to all of us, but i'm sure nhs staff and care
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staff and staff that have been on the front line that are key workers, this will be really frightening because it will mean some of what we have seen already here in other parts of the world to shutdown all overagain and the parts of the world to shutdown all over again and the freedoms we are enjoying come of that curtailed and so enjoying come of that curtailed and so it is very important that we get a sense of what could happen and that we use this time to strategically. it is important we get these mask in place. and that we make the investments in the nhs and make the investments in the nhs and make them very quickly. we didn't hear enough about that in the summer statement or the many budget last week from rishi sunak. this is where public trust is again very important. if the government is transparent about the action they will take right now to try as much as possible to curtail that second wave, people are going to be scared and going to go out the shop and are not going to go out. they will be scared of getting it again. this is a really critical time for this
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country lost people feel that we can finally relax and go out and actually this is fundamentally a very important stage in fighting this disease. i don't think many would claim this is the finest hour for the government in the early reaction to this crisis. but presumably now it with uniting a hospital bill and things like that, the foundation has been laid in terms of i suppose hospital treatment anyway. i think it is right. i think looking treatment anyway. i think it is right. ithink looking back, there will inevitably be a major public inquiry into the handling of the covid—19 response in the uk. i think people may have more sympathy for the government handling of the first way because it was an unknown quantity then and many aspects of it in which this government and all governments all over the world were slightly filling their way blind. there will not be that leeway given ahead of any second way. that is why i think it is so key that sir
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patrick vallance, the chief scientific adviser, showing the hundred and 20,000 hospital patients could be killed in britain this year by coronavirus, meets we have to mmp by coronavirus, meets we have to ramp up planning now, we know a bit more about the treatment at the beginning of the first wave and we thought ventilators will play a bigger role than perhaps they have donein bigger role than perhaps they have done in treating it, but clearly more needs to be done to get the country ready and we know that so far the official death toll is almost 115,000 so ijust far the official death toll is almost 115,000 so i just 20,000 potentially dying this winter would bea potentially dying this winter would be a really striking and appalling increase. that‘s 120,000. be a really striking and appalling increase. that's120,000. let's move onto daily telegraph. have the same story. under a picture of kate, johnson will agree to the ban. crime prime minister coming under a lot of pressure from his own mps about stripping out while away from the 5g
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network. —— while way. stripping out while away from the 5g network. -- while way. it is a crossover paper to really detailing the six mps are coming together and very clearly demanding that these plans around the 5g and the link to the chinese company huawei are actually undone and that we move away from that and really the argument being around security threats and two interesting aspects of this. one is the strength of the 60 rebels and the ability to force borisjohnson into a u—turn. we have seen borisjohnson into a u—turn. we have seen several other u—turns in recent weeks. those have been forced from the opposition and the public around free school meals over the summer for example. the other important point about this is the bright attention with china and how that is increasing. that's bright attention. with the coronavirus what is happening in hong kong, but now this added tension now where we potentially are going to roll back out potentially are going to roll back our commitment to working with the chinese company on the 5g.m
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our commitment to working with the chinese company on the 5g. it is not a simple as that sounds, lucy. huawei has been involved in our networks for the past 15 years. that is correct. the balance here as ever is correct. the balance here as ever is between security and the economics of it. so the chinese supporting on the back fence want to see meka to on a stripped out by 2024, a commitment they want to be made tomorrow when the government makes a decision because they wanted to be before the next election so it cannot be reversed. however we have from btm but vodafone officials last week warned that any delivery time table to ship out while way kits on the network that is lower than or shorter than five years could potentially lead to million of the british customers facing mobile signal blackouts. —— strip away
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huawei kits. a difficult line for the government to toe there. let's stay with your story. the splash in the time for the britons set to confront china with new carrier. talk us through the story and how provocative is that going to be for beijing? military chiefs in the uk have torn our proposals to send one a britain proximate to new aircraft carriers into the in the pacific region. so provocative. china is becoming increasingly assertive. that‘s in the pacific. it is one of the beats trading routes throughout the beats trading routes throughout the vast ocean. it is important that we recognised that britain needs to be part of protecting the freedom of shipping for commercial purposes there. i think a really key element of the story is the fact that while britain is looking at sending the aircraft carrier there, it is very much about being part of a wider alliance with other regional allies, not just western nations
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alliance with other regional allies, notjust western nations like the us, but also japan and potentially singapore, and allies such as south korea and part of a defence alliance with malaysia, this is about britain potato lee provided the platform that could be other nations such as america orjapan providing the f 35, aircraft to sit on that carrier or other ally such as canada or australia that are invited to provide more ships to escort the carrier or submarines. this is about both the democratic nations getting together and beginning to stand up for themselves. a quote that lucy, not sure who you come a member of nato, talking about a coalition of the willing. but some of us that has a lot of different connotations of course over the past 20 years. yes. the issue here is really about the way in which the various different tensions are playing out in china and how china is set itself. in one
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of the things that i think if they about the 56 story is why was the decision ever made in the first place? the decision ever made in the first place ? the security decision ever made in the first place? the security issues were always there. there is a lot more unpacking to them on this story and it really is turning into this global fight and we see the other papers today about what will go on with the us and china, this is really a new global tension that is pricing by the day. one last comment on this. are you seeing an escalation in terms of the sort of language and the rhetoric between china and us and how seriously should we take it? we had the chinese ambassador to the uk talking about hong kong for example in what britain had offered hong congress, which i think we can come to now. —— hung congress. how dangerous is that the you think was is a clear escalation and rhetoric. the chinese ambassador to london warned in
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response to britain offering a part of citizenship for meg is a hong kongers, the chinese ambassador called that a gross interference. —— offering part citizenship for millions of hong kongers. the ministry said china reserves the right to take corresponding countermeasures. we also heard china won that britain will have to bear the consequences if it makes the enemy of china. i think we really should sit up and pay attention at the same time, the government clearly feels they cannot be powered by such a war of words and he needs to make a stand. i think the key thing here is as alliances are making sure britain is acting in concert and in strength and unity with other western and democratic nations. in that story in the ft come after 20,000 hung —— hong kongers has already infuriated beijing come interesting to see the
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sort of numbers that the uk government is predicting of the they have never been that good and accurate about their predictions. no. the forecast around how many people would come from eastern europe were notoriously wrong. we had to take this number with a pinch of salt. the big thing here is what the government is effectively saying and rightly so there are issues and human rights, political asylum, basically the grounds in which we are saying that people from hong kong and they fear because of the heavy hand of china and hong kong. at the same time, we are having new immigration rules rolled out which are very stringent and was actually effectively blocked about 750,000 of the key workers that have kept this country going during the pandemic so there is a very interesting contradiction going on. i would say andl contradiction going on. i would say and i think many would agree that it is right that we have people from
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hong kong coming here but there are other countries who have historical ties with and a hand with current conflicts. given for —— yemen from iraq and afghanistan for people who have won it for asylum and we have been reluctant. there is really a contradiction with the immigration syste m contradiction with the immigration system because it is right that we should put humanitarian instincts and values first, but we should apply that across the world. and values first, but we should apply that across the worldlj suppose the point would be michael andi suppose the point would be michael and i seen as entrepreneurs and have the business background so the general feeling is that however many would come to the uk would be a force for good. —— i guess it is seen force for good. —— i guess it is seen that hong kongers are entrepreneurs. yes. the home office dream when compared to some of the thresholds for other migrants looking to come to the uk after brexit unveiled by the government today. as she said, hong kong has
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famously high level of education across the board and many hung congress have good technical digital skills and future technologies. and borisjohnson skills and future technologies. and boris johnson wants skills and future technologies. and borisjohnson wants the uk to increasingly pivot towards this fourth industrial revolution. —— hong kongers have good technical skills. technology of the future. echo one fits in very well with that narrative. the daily telegraph maxwell and extreme flight risk allegedly according to the prosecution, ghislaine maxwell, to manhattanjudge. prosecution, ghislaine maxwell, to manhattan judge. a lot of fascinating detail about who she was guarded by and what measures she has alleged to have taken to avoid detection in the last few months since jeffrey epstein died. very quickly i want to say this because there's a lot of care workers in this country that are immigrants and you have to be very careful in this argument hong kongers and adding up
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to the economy when we had so many multiethnic working—class immigrants and working—class population give so much to this country so we have to be careful in the way in which we consider the contribution that people make to this country. point taken. we people make to this country. point ta ken. we have people make to this country. point taken. we have a minute and a half left. give us your response to this story. this is a very important story. this is a very important story. a number of women waiting for justice. epstein, very wary of circumstances in which she died or apparently committed suicide. now we have a potential witness who has been very good at avoiding arrest and have the money behind her. the story is really about this flight risk and from this woman and we need to make sure that we hold on to her and getjustice to make sure that we hold on to her and get justice for the to make sure that we hold on to her and getjustice for the woman. to make sure that we hold on to her and getjustice for the womanm really does grab the imagination when you hear the details about who was looking after her and some of
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the financial transactions allegedly. yes indeed. to hear that she had former british soldiers guarding her hideout and that she herself didn‘t leave the premises for months at a time and instead giving one of these private security guards a credit card to go out for her and the prosecutors who have applied to a man had ingested a two prevent her getting bail believe she has access to £16 million. —— a manhattanjudge. has access to £16 million. —— a manhattan judge. they can has access to £16 million. —— a manhattanjudge. they can —— believe she can live in luxury if she goes abroad. the proposed well i think was 5 million. —— proposed bail. prosecutors don‘t think that is enough. we will leave it there. thank you both again on again. thank you us through taking us to that first edition. that is 0utlook.
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—— that is in the papers for now. hello, i‘m gavin ramjaun and this is your latest sports news. manchester united missed the chance go third this evening after a late stoppage time equaliser by their opponents southampton. united were looking good for the points, when anthony martial put them 2—1 up at half time. and it stayed like that right until the sixth minute of added time, when michael 0bafemi got the crucial touch to make it 2—2. united missing the chance to leapfrog leicester and chelsea and stay fifth. manchester city have managed to overturn a two—year ban on taking part in european football — meaning they can compete in next season‘s champions league. uefa issued the ban earlier this year after ruling the club had broken financial fair play rules, by disguising the source of some of their income. but the court of arbitration for sport has cleared the club of that allegation. 0ur sports editor dan roan reports.
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they‘ve become accustomed to winning but this is among manchester city‘s biggest victories yet. the club had been facing an unprecedented two—year ban from the prestigious champions league for a serious breach of financial rules but today the punishment was lifted by the court of arbitration for sport. they always pleaded innocent from day one, and it‘s good to see it‘s actually finally come to a conclusion, because to have that hanging over your head for so long, the fans, the player, the management staff, it has been difficult. the saga began two years ago when german magazine der spiegel published leaked e—mails they said showed manchester city had misled uefa over break—even rules. the documents appeared to suggest that of a £67.5 million sponsorship deal with etihad, just £8 million had been paid by the airline with the rest coming from the club‘s owner, the abu dhabi united group, an investment vehicle of sheikh mansoor.
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city furiously denied wrongdoing and appealed, and today they found the club did not disguise equity funding at sponsorship contributions, but did fail to co—operate with uefa‘s investigation. that‘s cost city a reduced 10 million euro fine, but a ban that could have seen star players leave and been devastating for the club‘s finances and reputation has been avoided, and instead it‘s the credibility of european football‘s governing body facing scrutiny. there‘s huge implications for uefa here, in respect of how they go forwards with financial fair play, because it is a huge defeat for them. the allegations they made against manchester city were very severe, and city will feel completely vindicated. today uefa said it remained committed to rules it says have helped to stop clubs overspending, but one of the architects of the regulations say he now fears for football‘s future. manchester city can receive billions from the emirates and the whole contest will become basically a tournament, in europe, between saudi arabia, qatar and the united arab emirates,
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that is the enormous danger that professional club football is facing in europe. relief for a club that has been the dominant force in english football over the last decade. and if city can win the champions league this season they know they will be allowed to defend it too. there was a fairy tale story in the football league, as wycombe wanderers were promoted to the championship for the first time in their history. they were tipped to be relegated at the start of the season, but they managed to beat oxford united 2—1 to win the league one playoff final. there were scenes ofjubilation at full—time as wycombe make into the second tier of english football for the first time in 133 years. sale sharks have signed england centre manu tuilagi until the end of next season. the 29—year—old left leicester tigers earlier this month having failed to agree terms on an amended contract. he had been linked with a move to france, but his switch to sale on a deal until the end of next season ensures he will remain available for england.
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sharks are currently second in the table and face harlequins on the 14th of august, the first domestic rugby union match to take place since the season was suspended because of coronavirus. that‘s all the sport for now. hello, fairly quiet on the weather front out there right now, a lot of cloud across the country. a fairly mild morning. how about tuesday? a few sunny spells around, but a pretty cloudy day ahead and quite a wet one for some of us, particularly in northern ireland. you can see the cloud on the satellite picture coming this way and the next few days will be overcast. the good weather, the high pressure is not far away. we have to wait for it to build across the uk. it‘s going to not happen immediately. this is what it looks
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like early hours on tuesday, it is mild, around 15 or 16 degrees across the south and south—east. in aberdeen, around 12 degrees. so a lot of cloud moving across the uk during the morning, but notice in northern ireland, grey and wet and this rain will hang around for much of the day. the rest of the country, cloudy at times with a few sunny spells. 0n the whole, not a bad day, i guess. brighter spells on the south coast. this is what it looks like on wednesday. wednesday could be an overcast day across the uk, with bits and pieces of rain or drizzle, so grey for some of us, disappointing temperatures. whether in the north or the south, around 17 or 19 degrees. i mentioned the high pressure and good weather. it is very slowly building in towards the uk. on thursday, low pressure
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to the north, high pressure to the south. where we are closest to the low pressure, cloud and increasing breeze and rain in the western isles, but in the south, the high trying to build in, push the clouds away. so on thursday, it will start to turn brighter. you can see the temperatures recovering. and then friday and the weekend, watch these warm colours, these oranges spread. that‘s the warm air from the south, so friday and the weekend, it will brighten up and turn quite a bit warmer. if you look at the south of the country, temperatures by friday could be hitting the mid—20s. bye— bye.
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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. a surge in coronavirus cases sees restrictions re—imposed in america‘s most populous state. california‘s governor orders tens of thousands of businesses to close. restaurants, wineries, tasting rooms, movie theatres, family entertainment centres, zoos and museums, card rooms, and the shuttering of bars. in england, face coverings will soon be compulsory when visiting the shops. the world health organization warns that the pandemic will get far worse if basic health precautions are not followed. and in american football, the washington redskins say
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