that it's carrying out human rights abuses against its uighur population. cani can i ask you why people are kneeling, blindfolded and shaven and being led to trains in modern china? what is going on there?” being led to trains in modern china? what is going on there? i do not know where you get this videotape. it is deeply, deeply troubling and the reports and the human aspects of forced sterilization and camps are reminiscent to something we have not seen for a long, long time. president trump has defended his handling of the coroanvirus pandemic, incorrectly telling fox news that the us has the lowest mortality rate in the world. and blast off, and the first arab space mission to mars has successfully launched — the probe being sent to the red planet will study

the weather and climate there. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are harriet line, deputy political editor at the press association, and giles kenningham, political commentator and former conservative party press and former conservative party press chief. tomorrow's front pages. starting with. the financial times reports on the third day of an eu summit where european leaders have been working out details of the proposed 750 billion euro response to the pandemic, below a picture of princess beatrice at her wedding in windsor yesterday — tomorrow's metro reports that rail commuters will be offered ‘fairer‘ season tickets to help with a part—time return to the office, the uk's relationship with china is front and centre in tomorrow's i — with the paper saying relations

with beijing have hit a new low the times follows suit with an image from the protests in hong kong — as the government here announce they will shelve an extradition treaty with the territory as relations with china sour. the telegraph has a story on their front page saying 200,000 extra deaths might be caused by the knock on effects of lockdown in the uk backlog britain says the daily mail who report a slow down in the issuing of things like passports and driving licenses as a result of the pandemic. turning to the express — the paper report that house prices are at a record high — as the property market goes through a mini—boom. a warning from doctors in the guardian the paper say are urging the public to help the uk avoid a second wave of coronavirus. so let's begin...

with the front page of the times. china tensions mount as extradition treaty shelves. this has been kind of, the mood music has shifted quite a lot, has in a? but it seems to have shifted quite dramatically. it is anything as a result of dominic raab being in the far office was mad because he's got a bit of a background in human rights. yeah, one factor. there's been a series of development and the time it sorta sets this all out in quite stark terms. it looks like the uk will be shelving its extradition treaty with china follows australia and canada it will be done the same thing. dominic raab criticising human rights records by china. also the times reporting the us secretary of state will be here tomorrow, he'll be meeting with the prime minister. it also the 20 backbench mps. you'll

note that america taken a particular ha rd note that america taken a particular hard line with china saying countries like the uk need to pick a side. but also what you're seeing is they are rowing alarm bells and concerns about tories and backbenchers. so they are starting now to question, can we reduce their influence at any point? the nuclear power plant. should be a big chinese bigness companies be able to come here and operate here. tick tock the big tech company is now shelved plans to have its headquarters here. there is reports of a tech company also will be shelving. what you're seeing this is the new cold war. you're going to see a lot more of theirs. i suspect it's going to be tit—for—tat. trying to be quite robust and announced they will retaliate accordingly. all of these debates, the debate between economics and security felt up i think in this situation dominic raab is taking a hard line. if that

security will have to trump economics on those. giles mentions, harrier, the potential of economic retaliation for that we seen it with australia with beef and barley, two products the australians were selling and huge quantities to the chinese. the chinese government effectively switches off the market. directly interferes with the relationship between businesses in china and australia. can we expect that and how is that going to play out? the times is talking about potential it's going to get a lot worse when we left the european union, we are looking for big new partnerships, we are having to go into a confrontation as big as china. exactly, i think it's into a confrontation as big as china. exactly, ithink it's really quite an inconvenient timing for the government to have such a big diplomatic crisis with china. where we are leaving the european union looking to strike trade deals around the world. chide it what i've been quite high up that list ordinarily. —— china. now is looking much at

japan and south korea and the us as other countries. of course the un in there as well. really difficult and not least with the coronavirus crisis as well. economies tumbling around the world, britain really wants to be able to pick that up. if you have the chinese investment pulling out of the uk that really doesn't help our situation. it doesn't help our situation. it doesn't look as if that's probably the way that china would retaliate. in their response to these extradition treaty being suspended by the uk. the times talking about hong kong, the guardian talks about the uighurs, the subject we were talking a lot about on the andrew marr show. and it's fascinated by this kind of flat denial by the ambassador. a real poker—faced, the ambassador. a real poker—faced, the ambassador has, doesn't he? shown horrible pictures of guys on their knees, blindfolded apparently f in trains to go to these camps. says don't know where that video came from, could there be anything in a?

yeah, it was extraordinary. the footage this morning to the chinese ambassador these people, uighur muslims being led into trains blindfolds and scenes reminiscent of concentration camps. he says there is actually a beautiful province that people have freedoms and live peaceful and harmonious coexistence with other ethnic groups. and yet the video really does go to stark contrast to that. rob has not gone as faras contrast to that. rob has not gone as far as calling it a genocide but he did call out an egregious human rights abuse. the uk is taking quite strong line on this labour is calling for the government to go further and calling for the government to go furtherand imparts calling for the government to go further and imparts sanctions on individuals who have been in part, responsible for this. i think it has come to the fore again with that video and really quite an extraordinary scene this morning with the chinese ambassador flatly denying that anything is wrong. with the chinese ambassador flatly denying that anything is wronglj have a feeling we are going to be

talking about china and hong kong and their relationship again on the papers tomorrow night. probably put a small amount of money on that one. the telegraph, lockdown may cause 200,000 extra dots. as if the news wasn't bad enough with coronavirus itself. absolutely haunting report. suggest that the lockdown may trigger an extra 200,000 hours. they are putting it down to things such as the backlog in terms of people going undiagnosed and receiving acute trains men for things like cancer. also talking about a wave of suicides and also sadly some people falling victim to mental health and committing suicide. so yes, really, really stark. i think some of this also doesn't sort of lead us to the wider context of how does the nhs start tackling the backlog? i think where it leads me to is they need to speed up the digitalization of the

nhs. we bank online, you shop online should be evidence er doctor online also gp surgeries. itjust ate now the bow of bad news. harrier, how do you feel about that idea of doing your initial consultation online rather than actually going in and seeing somebody face—to—face behind closed doors? it does seem like a good idea. and i think cgp is rolling out at a faster pace than they would've done ordinarily because of coronavirus. the fear is that people aren't going to the doctor when they have something small that they wouldn't ordinarily mention unless they were going for a consultation otherwise will stop and having online consultation means that you don't have the fear of correct delete not catching coronavirus because you're able to do it in the comfort of your own home. hopefully people will get diagnosed with type i think it something that will be rolled out quickly, and probably can't really come sooi'i quickly, and probably can't really come soofi enough. quickly, and probably can't really come soon enough. to help reduce that lockdown deaths, excess deaths

caused by people not getting help. also probably to make life much more convenient for us and for doctors. that is a fair point giving of the cu es that is a fair point giving of the cues and getting appointments and when people have to go into surgeries. the daily mail, under the photos from saturday of princess beatrice is a secret garden wedding. as they discredit. we got backlog britain story, it's not usually surprising in some sense as a? cut because quite a lot people who protest things like driving licenses and passports will themselves not be in the office because they are affected by the pandemic like the rest of us. quite obvious as expected knock on with bureaucratic the highest number of issues that you might have to wait for months to get a new passport. sadly it's taking people a long time to tie up the estates of loved ones who may have lost. also the fact that 150,000 babies who technically don't

have legal status because they haven't registered births. not surprising i suppose in the current climate. at the end of the day, it comes down to priorities. what comes first? 0bviously comes down to priorities. what comes first? obviously it's going to have to be the nation's health in these issues although there are important they're going to take time. the question that we all don't know is, what is the knock on effect going to be for the economy of all these things and how quickly can a backlog be tackled? i suppose the other fear lurking in the back of 1's minds is if we do have the second wave, god forbid in october, we one of the first backlogs have tackled before then. before we create a second one. the telegraph, we should give priority to health over everything else. ministers to increase master class to the nhs to conduct weight loss surgery. it's intriguing because partly we discovered is also

an issue when you're talking about peoples abilities, to fight off the virus. exactly. i think peoples abilities, to fight off the virus. exactly. ithink britain is classed as the second most obese country in all of europe. and that is being a contributing factor to a very high. told that we had in the uk. if something actually, that borisjohnson has personally said a factor in why he was put into intensive care with coronavirus and why he was so ill. and seems to have had a shift of is passed more libertarian wants to be more of an interventionist on this. the telegraph reports it's defined as a chronic disease and incentives could be offered to nhs hospitals to perform bariatric surgery. things like gastric band. quite an interesting figure, less than 1% of patients who could benefit from such surgery are patients who could benefit from such surgery are actually being offered it. so it looks as if there's going to bea it. so it looks as if there's going to be a drive to try and encourage the nhs to take a more interventionist approach. so that

people basically, their waistline slimmed down and we are a healthier nation as a result. it's one of those things, feels like for some people it would be better to do other things like exercise and improved diet and all the rest of it. the gastric band was supposed to be for those people who really have struggled with any other option. 0r have a medical reason why they have a real problem with their weight. it's an interesting thought, isn't it? if we start offering it much more widely. and presumably, there's a cost to doing it. there's always this trilemma where where intervene and as you said there are options people take more exercise, checking their diet. i think covert has bore this into sharp focus. and saying people are thought to be more susceptible as prime minister had his own very well documented brush with death over covid—19. that's the

backdrop to basically there is a huge cost of the nhs. is this the right thing to do because ultimately, people need to change lifestyles as well. when it comes to issues around obesity. a bit more positive news on the front of the metro. about innovation. we've heard a lot of grumbles about rails ways trait delete not charging full fares during the pandemic and sometimes people can't buy a ticket they have to buy on the day and a cost more. they got the message it seems according to the metro. yes really welcome news for commuters. no surprise that it's on the front page of the metro, commuter paper. part—time is going to be offered season—ticket deals where they will be able to have a season ticket for three and seven days of the week. that means that workers will be able to return to work some days of the week was because people who have been enjoying aspects of working from home but want to get back to the house delete mac office as well will be able to do it on a more flexible basis. good for the economy

because borisjohnson has announced that tried to get people back into work at the 1st of august. people of course reluctant to do that if the not to be back five days a week. and yet going to have to fork out for inexpensive season—ticket. i think this will be really welcome by commuters they can save money, go back to work and but on a slightly moist flexible and affordable basis. it's going to be welcomed by ministers, is annette? yes essentially saying that some rail company said they will do this. i think western and mercy well. dft are not expecting other real countries to follow suit. a franchise, as harriet said, for once potentially some good news in railway was that we are not just trying to hike costs. with overcrowded trains and reduced services. there speaks a computer. thank you both very much. lovely to have you both on. thanks for staying

up have you both on. thanks for staying up to look to