be more severe than those waves will be more severe than others, but a bit of history here. i was reading about the black death in the 13 40s, was reading about the black death in the 13 405, it was reading about the black death in the 13 40s, it was the same sort of path, and we put it on to that one year, because that was the sort of worst wave of that death, but there we re worst wave of that death, but there were subsequent waves of that in the yea rs were subsequent waves of that in the years that followed, right up until about the next 20—30 years. so this is may be how these diseases work. it's something we have to kind of except and be varies troy about. very sobering thoughts, something to think about there. let's look at the front page of the ft weekends now, some eu news, talking about the dutch demanding for a veto and that's holding up the eu coronavirus recovery fund. now, there is quite a division here, isn't there, between the so—called frugal states who want certain conditions in place for this

fund, and also some disagreement over whether these should be grants 01’ over whether these should be grants or loans, isn't that right, benedicte? indeed. so it's interesting to notice is the first face to face summits, eu summits and five months, of course, because of the pandemic, so we saw of course, because of the pandemic, so we saw all leaders wearing masks and elbow bumping, but they do have and elbow bumping, but they do have a very tough task ahead of them, because there is real division, and distention, they could come to an agreement, but that would be according to some quite surprising, and what we are talking about here isa and what we are talking about here is a proposed 750 billion euro post—pandemic recovery plan, and as you said, there's the difference between countries like france that actually want this to be a grant and countries like austria, for example, the netherlands, and others who want this to be alone who also want

reform, and i think there is going to be some very tough talking, but germany has the presidency and chancellor merkel is very much been there done that dent has already played a huge part in the last many years during these kinds of summits, so years during these kinds of summits, so the hope is that she's gone in making a statement where she's very aware, painfully aware that the great divisions and i think that will be interesting to see how with lots of laterals, some sort of compromise will try to be struck, but it could be that actually, it won't work tonight early into tomorrow morning, possibly even saturday, and that it may take another eu summit. it's that tough. in spite of that, jason, there is quite a big time pressure on this, isn't there? because nations are running out of time. they need to

fix some very urgent problems very quickly. yes, and that's the message we are getting from spain and italy that they are two countries which have been most suffered from covid—19. you know, it's interesting that kind of dog the eu in the section between mediterranean the mediterranean state one side and the northern states on my other at the same timea northern states on my other at the same time a kind of added tension and this is the one between the rising states in eastern europe such as poland and hungary, they've been described at times as liberal democracies, and somebody, new countries are saying if you are going to do these financial supports, they've gotta be conditional on countries such as poland and hungary abiding by the eu rules and values. as we know, we

have seen hungary in particular having been pushed to the limits, if not breached, in my opinion, what we regard as a democracy should function, whether it's kind of raining and up records, putting pressure on the free press, closing down institutions he dislikes, so you've got this added tension as well, which could make it more problematic, but as benedicte says, i have sat through a lot of eu summits in my time. i've been up at 4am when prime ministers have given press c0 nfe re nces 4am when prime ministers have given press conferences when deals have been struck in the early hours of the morning, you know, the compromise often does work out when we worked out this weekend or in the future, i don't know, but they usually manage to find a way through it. well, maybe they well this time. a quick look at the front page of the times. they are weeding with botham being given period they say

asa botham being given period they say as a reward for brexit loyalty. jason, your quick thoughts on this. well, my personal policy is that i'm not exactly in favour of having an appointed house of lords, i would rather have an elected one, but if you're going to have kind of nominations, i think he's quite the interesting character to put in there. and he's probably our greatest all around her, he's done some amazing work for charity. he's not the first cricketer to be made appear. the first one was actually the captain of the england women's cricket team, so there is a precedence, you know, i can see it's dividing opinion, which is probably what's he wants anyway. would you agree with that, benedicte? well, i mean, obviously, we should also point out some labour mps, frank field, stewards to much help michael gove and boris johnson field, stewards to much help michael gove and borisjohnson in that campaign in 2016 of what turned out

to bea campaign in 2016 of what turned out to be a successful campaign and the surprise result not predicted by the polls of vote leave, but i also note that ken clark, philip hammond and ed basey are going to be made peers, and what's interesting about that is all three of them have the tory with withdrawn from them for trying to block his efforts to get a brexit deal, so i think that's quite interesting is that to heal party and national divisions, that's very much with the telegraph thinks. sorry, the times, so the telegraph, the times. let's go to the new york times now and there is an opinion piece they're talking about tick—tock, tick—tock has been in the news quite a bit of recent and the message here is don't trust tick—tock, but don't ban it, can you really do both of those things at the same time, jason? two's yarmulke not sure whether donald trump

actually cares, but you infuriates a whole generation of teenagers not to mention certain adults it may be the one thing which would end up kind of costing him a presidency with his handling of covid—19 wasn't bad enough. well, benedicte, facebook appears to be launching something similarto appears to be launching something similar to the tick—tock platform, but it does raise interesting questions around privacy, around trust and how much data and information we are giving and sharing with the platforms that we use. indeed. there have been skewed questions about zoom that we are all using, but to refer to tick—tock specifically, it looks as though president trump wants to ban it, what i'm not quite clear on is his main reason for wanting to ban it, the fact that he doesn't want

americans privacy, or private data to be captured, or is he interested in finding a solution for that, in fa ct in finding a solution for that, in fact visits as he sometimes mentions in orderto fact visits as he sometimes mentions in order to punish china in general and punish china particularly because of what he says or the way he pronounces it china, the coronavirus outbreak, and i'm not clear on that, so how politically motivated is it or is it a question of privacy? i'm not a huge user of tick—tock, i find of privacy? i'm not a huge user of tick—tock, ifind it of privacy? i'm not a huge user of tick—tock, i find it quite you're dating sometimes. you are missing out on some great videos, i will tell you that much. let's take a look at some good news to end our paper review with today on the front page of the yorkshire post, isn't that just page of the yorkshire post, isn't thatjust heart—warming, that picture of sir tom, jason. yeah, it's wonderful. and i love the comparison here between the queen

and sirtom comparison here between the queen and sir tom both kind of incredible people who cheered us through the worst pa rt people who cheered us through the worst part of coronavirus, a sense of public duty, sense of modesty, i think it's quite nice for the queen to hang out somebody a little bit older nowadays, it's great. white w011 older nowadays, it's great. white won a quick one for me benedicte as we wrap up. well, 100 years old, congratulations, arise, sirtime, at least you deserve, i hope you're not watching right now for me to march the repeat of the press review you deserve a very good sleep. i hope you had a glass of champagne or two to have some sweet dreams, but it is fantastic and what a way to come back to work after i think 105 days for the queen to be ennobling him and that sword must be quite heavy, her father's sword, so i was watching extensively how she did that, but yes, very good news and what a busy day, she also attended a few hours earlier the secret unannounced wedding of her

granddaughter, beatrice to a rather handsome italian. yes, certainly the kind of news we need to get us through a pandemic, amazing to? well, one thing that we could stay about this obviously is that it's quite lifted the lockdown mood, hasn't it, jason? the knighthood? yes. yes, he became kind of the embodiment of the spirit we were looking for at that time, and many people feel that that may have passed, and i think it's good to be reminded about how people did come together and immunities where in some ways not being built but made stronger. certainly come i think well appreciated that, think you so much forjoining me today, benedicte and records three. we will be back a bit later, that is it for the papers. if you are in the uk, join us papers. if you are in the uk, join us again injust papers. if you are in the uk, join us again in just over half an hour, thanks for watching.

hello there. a good chunk of england and wales enjoyed sunny skies on friday — and in that sunshine, it was pretty warm. temperatures reached 29 celsius towards london and southeast england. and it was a sunny end to what's been a pretty cloudy week. fruther northwest though, we have some cooler and fresher air. and what separated the hot from the cooler was this weather front. it brought some rain to parts of northern england, north wales, northern ireland too. and the front itself — this area of cloud stretches quite a long way out into the atlantic, and indeed, we've got this bump on the cloud just here, that's known as a wave, and what that will do is will essentially stop the weather front from moving very far very fast. so, small changes in the forecast as we get on through saturday. it means over the next few hours, we will continue to see some rain

across northern england, north wales with rather misty conditions over the hills, a lot of low cloud. to the north of this, a few showers in scotland, a few clear spells as well. to the south of our front, it's a warm night, temperatures around 50 degrees for cardiff and london. on to saturday itself, this weather front‘s still with us, slow moving. the rain turns a bit heavier for a time late morning, north wales, northern areas of england. you can see all the while, the front doesn't really move very far very fast, so still bringing some damp weather to wales, northern england, and north midlands into the afternoon. southeast of our front, i think the temperatures could well reach the high 20s and the hottest spots, the further north and west, we've got that cooler fresher feel to the weather. now, for the test match in manchester, well, it's not looking great, really, it's a damper morning here. the rain slowly easing off, i think as we head through the day, there will be some disruptions to play here. through saturday evening and overnight, here is the same weather front only slowly moving down towards the southeast. so, on sunday, we will have a change

in the weather pattern across east anglia, southeast england, a cloudy start to the day with rain at times. behind that front, brighter skies working in with some sunshine and a few showers into the northwest of scotland. what you will notice though, particularly across the southeast of england and east anglia, is a fresher feel to the weather. those temperatures back down generally into the high teens to low 20s. now, beyond that, looking at the forecast into next week, high—pressure looks set to build in, particularly across southern areas, so some dry and bright weather with some sunshine — turning a bit warmer as well as the week goes by. that's your latest forecast. bye for now.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the us government's leading expert on covid—19 has urged all americans to wear face masks to stop a sharp rise in infections. the united states of america has been hit very severely by this. you just need to look at the numbers. the us defense secretary has effectively banned displays of the confederate battle flag on us bases around the world. borisjohnson sets out the next stage of plans to ease and now, it's captain sir tom moore, knighted by the queen, for his remarkable charity work for britain's national health service.