hello, welcome. you're watching bbc world news. the headlines: people in beirut have expressed anger at the government over what they say was negligence that led to tuesday's huge explosion. many have accused the authorities of corruption, neglect and mismanagement. french president emmanuel macron is the first foreign leader to visit the country since the disaster. he was mobbed by crowds in beirut, people pleading with him to help them and to ensure those responsible face justice. the state of new york is suing the powerful gun lobby the national rifle association, with the intention of dissolving it. state attorney general letitia james accused the organisation of financial mismanagement. the nra has called the lawsuit "baseless and desperate". and the bank of england has predicted the economic slump caused by covid—19 will be less severe for the uk than expected,

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. we are joined by economics commentator grace bla kely and rachel cunliffe, comment & features editor at city am. so it's really great to have you with us. we will crack on in just a moment, but first of all, let's bring everyone up—to—date with the front pages we have a. the times leads with a warning to british tourists travelling to france that they may have to quarantine on their return amid fears of a second wave there. the telegraph says pupils will be allowed to challenge their a—level and gcse results if schools feel they are being incorrectly marked down by the statistical modelling being used to calculate their grades. the mirror reports the couple

who saw dominic cummings on a second lockdown trip to the north east say police did not investigate their claims properly. the daily mail says that the home secretary priti patel was left "furious" after a record number of migrants reached britain. according to the ft, microsoft is chasing a deal to buy tiktok‘s global business, according to insiders with knowledge of the talks. the daily express reports borisjohnson saying the country needs to get back to work in order to help the economy recover — after the bank of england said the impact of the coronavirus crisis might not be as bad as initially feared. and the metro headlines the inquest into the tv presenter caroline flack, who took her own life after learning she would go on trial for assaulting her boyfriend. just some of the papers that we have here already at the bbc and we are going to start with the independent, which dedicate different

—— it's from page two the devastation in beirut, the aftermath of what happened after that explosion on tuesday, the paper focusing on the... the images, you can see, the many, many people who met with president macron, pleading with him to do something, rachel, to help them, and also very angry with the permit and the political elite within lebanon. there is real anger in lebanon and rightly so. we've all seen the horrific pictures over the last few days of the explosion and of the aftermath and of the recovery. that we are seeing pictures of the protests, the antigovernment demonstrations, the anger at the corruption that the officials who knew about this store officials who knew about this store of ammonium nitrate for six years, we re of ammonium nitrate for six years, were warned that it was a powder keg that could and potentially would explode and who did nothing. lebanon

is facing an incredible, incredible tough challenge. the economic minister has said this is a greater challenge to lebanon that indeed the civil war was. faced with £15 billion of the estimated damage, hundred of thousands of people have lost their homes, hundreds have died, thousands have been injured, and now the focus i think needs to be, and this is something that macron said, making sure that the recovery aid that the international committee provides to taco to the corrupt hands. that's what macron said, making sure that the aid goes where it is needed and that the people who knew about this risk and did nothing or held accountable in some way. and a spotlight being shown, the situation economically very difficult, very high unemployment. grace, you touched uponin unemployment. grace, you touched upon in the previous edition of the

papers... for lesson on that was a. lebanon has been in a deep economic crisis for at least six months now, but really it started to take its toll at the beginning of the pandemic, when, basically, and lebanon was indicating it was about to default on a huge amount of its sovereign debt. obviously, when that happened, that catalysed a degree of... part of a much broader trend that we have seen over the course of the last several months of a lot of money fleeing many countries in the global south, particular those perceived as a high credit risk and flying into the united states, which is thought of as more safe. in lebanon, the depreciation of the currency lebanon, the depreciation of the currency and makes it hard for countries to settle its debts and also, lebanon defaulted on $1

trillion worth of debt earlier this year and the process, the negotiation process that is still under way as to how that default is going to work, whether or not certain creditors are going to be taking a hit, how big that hit will be at how easy could be for load onto access capital markets in the future. these are all issues that are being negotiated at the time does explosion took place, see about the pandemic, you have got that debt crisis and now you have this explosion that lebanon is dealing with. of course, a lot of lebanon's problems come down to corruption and i think these are often linked structurally to the nature of its political system and the kind of rifts that exist between different populations and the way those are managed by politicians, and obviously not very effectively, but i think there a danger here of the people of lebanon, as indeed people in the global south living in countries living in debt distress,

those people being punished for the wrongdoing of politicians. and it is really important that we get, yes, a lot of aid delivered to those affected but also a lot more movement on an agreement, basically, deal with the lebanese debt crisis, yes, but also the wider debt crisis that had been engulfing many parts of the global economy. thank you so much for that. definitely, a lot of soul—searching and a lot of more analysis and, of course, the clean—up operation, the search for the missing as well. we will leave that to one side and move to the daily telegraph which has images, borisjohnson, showing strength in the economy, but the store and want to focus on is the exams, a u—turn because pupils want a reprieve over appeals. we have been hearing so much, rachel, about how people are unhappy about their exam results. firstly ca n unhappy about their exam results. firstly can we should not call them exams because these are exams... the

mass downgrading in scotland, the schools came up with grades for the stu d e nts schools came up with grades for the students not able to take their exams and in the exam board used a statistical model and ended up downgrading over 100,000 of those marks, many of them, the majority of them pupils in disadvantaged, low income areas, and so there were fears that next thursday when the a—level results come out to mobile faced something similar. and the u—turn from the exam board was they we re u—turn from the exam board was they were not really would let schools and pupils challenge this downgrading. now they are "in exceptional circumstances" ... downgrading. now they are "in exceptional circumstances" come back to that in a minute. i did not realise what they had done this week, the exam board, was compared to previous years. if you are a pupil at a school that hasn't been doing particularly well for the last three years, your grades will be downgraded through no fault of your own but purely because of the past

performance of the school you're at, which is horrifically unfair to the individual pupils and it is also particular unfair if it is a school that has early made an effort to turn around or had new leadership, which is why this new appeals process has been announced. personally, i think that exceptional circumstances probably applies to the vast majority, if not all pupils, who had their education dramatically disrupted. we have not had a host of national exams —— a halt of national exams before, so etiquette is exceptional for everyone, but the fact that we are only really hearing about this now, as the results come out, and for weeks before schools are meant to go back, just shows how lax the government has been on the impact of education, exams and schools more generally, as a result of the pandemic for some we saw tremendous progress when it comes to tend to hospitals in a very short amount of

time —— tend to hospitals. they been working on track and trace. virtually nothing for education. nothing for the students who are unable to do proper home—schooling, don't have the necessary equipment, nothing on those who are falling behind. now if at the summer holidays. no summer camps, no catcher programmes, and they can't even get the exams right now we are talking to whether or not schools being able to open in september, so this is shocking and shambolic, and honestly i'm surprised people on the left and right are not more up in arms and furious about the detrimental educational impact this has had on our children. that is interesting, so that is outlining that statistical modelling being used. at least now pupils will be allowed to challenge that but, my goodness, what a heartache for them, so many children who, as your absolute rightly say, were able to —— unable to take their exams. a0 for correcting me. going to the

times, grace, france potentialand risk coming to that list of countries having to go into quarantine. not yet but fears that it could be. friends very popular. it will potentially join it could be. friends very popular. it will potentiallyjoin belgium, andorra and the bahamas, which was announced earlier. not quite on that list yet. so i think there were two major issues here. first, there the process used decide which areas are on that list, which countries are on that list, which countries are on that list, which countries are on that list and which ones are not, and there are lots of concerns about the transparency of that process or the lack of transparency about that process and the inconvenience that it has caused many tourists over the course of the la st many tourists over the course of the last couple of weeks, but there's also this other issue here which i think the story highlights, which is that a lot of the countries that we nt that a lot of the countries that went to delight in before the uk and that have eased lockdown since have

started to see an increase in cases. pa rt of started to see an increase in cases. part of that is down to the increased testing, which means you're going to see an increase in the results being reported, but it does also look as though using lockdown measures has potentially lead to an increase in cases and if thatis lead to an increase in cases and if that is reflected in the uk, which is look as though his might be, that again poses a serious health threat but also economic type. using lockdown is all about to do the economy back on track, but we cannot get the economy back on track without dealing with the virus because people are not going to go out and spend, businesses article to invest unless they are really confident this is handled, so it the experience of all of this european countries that have been placed on these lists is perhaps a warning for these lists is perhaps a warning for the uk and something the government should be concerned about very much indeed. indeed. the guardian looking at, urging doctors to not stop

normal nhs care. we are so overwhelmed and dominated by coronavirus that, rachel, the usual, the kind of cancer tests, all the rest of it, needs to continue in order to not suffer rater stress and on health. this is doctors themselves saying the situation in lockdown, were non—coven care physically ceased, cannot be allowed to happen again. —— non—covid care. the governor of the college of surgeons. . . the governor of the college of surgeons... they had to adapt quickly and were keeping patients safe, in non—covid conditions. millions of people had their operations cancelled in their treatments postponed or cancelled while the

—— health service turned its attention onto covid. there was a study looking at lockdown debts, not covid debts. there were issues with the figure, but there were... —— covid debts. i think cancer referrals are down 6%. that does not mean 60% fewer people have cancer or a risk at developing cancer. he means they were not able to get the test that they needed. 30—40,000 people, their cancer treatment was postponed, and honestly their host of other conditions. i know somebody who, his father, if he does i can really tested, there is a risk he could be properly blind. that is not a life—threatening condition but it certainly is a life altering one and his tests were stopped and i think are still paused while the health service focuses purely on covid, some think there is a real concern among medical professionals that, if

there is a second wave, and if we do have to reimpose my various lockdown conditions, we don't leave other patients behind. that is only we cannot see again. certainly wish them all the best. the express now, focusing on the economy. it's got a picture of boris johnson focusing on the economy. it's got a picture of borisjohnson with those weights. this is him, in fact, in a gym in uxbridge, in his constituency, grace, the idea that the economy is showing signs of strength. i know you both feel quite strongly about this, it is not potentially quite as clear—cut as that. yet. i think there's been a great deal of hyperbole when it comes to reporting on this story, andindeed comes to reporting on this story, and indeed for people who are not... the drop still anticipated in output, unfortunate, it is simply a downgrading of the severity, the

slowdown, which still gives us a very severe slowdown indeed, so we we re very severe slowdown indeed, so we were looking at perhaps 12, 13% of a drop in output. now, looking at about 9%, which is still externally large, and pretty much unprecedented in modern economic history, really. so the way in which the government deals with this is going to be very important in determining how severe that recession does become and also when there are not it actually does devolve into a depression. obviously, the thing that the bank of anglin has said is, yes, the initial shock when not be as severe but the long—term impact will be severe indeed —— the bank of england. you get this issue of people long—term on employed struggle to get back into the labour market. we've also seen the recovery since the financial crisis was very

weak, low productivity, low incomes and high rates of corporate debt, already coming to this pandemic, so if we see a continuation of those trends we will be looking very different recovery indeed, it certainly not enough growth, not enough income growth in particular, to provide an equitable and sustainable transition, recovery from this crisis. which leads us to the financial times. because rishi sunak, the chancellor, under pressure to extend the furlough scheme, and this follows on, you touched upon, grace, the bank of england talking about jobs, touched upon, grace, the bank of england talking aboutjobs, but rishi sunak no, rachel, is... that furlough scheme, quite commended to begin with, will come to an end. do you think you will submit to the pressure? because it has to be paid for somewhere along the line. the pressure is going to be intense, and it's coming in this article from the snp, and also from the liberal

democrats. i imagine it will come from labour as well when the furlough scheme, it's already being wound up already, it will be wound up wound up already, it will be wound up fully wound up already, it will be wound upfully in wound up already, it will be wound up fully in october. the point of the furlough scheme was to keep the economy on ice and was to protect viable businesses for a temporary period of time so that when lockdown eased and they were allowed to go back to normal, they could just pick up back to normal, they could just pick up from where they left off, rather than having to make other people unemployed, because grace is exactly right. the impact when you have long—term unemployed people, is very severe. that was the point of it. it does not work if the businesses, which made use of the furlough scheme, are no longer viable either because long—term surgeons have to last for much longer than expected or because consumer habits have changed. if were not going to be travelling as much, travelling abroad, flying, visiting large

gatherings and large events, and quite the same way, if we're going to be more working from therefore using transport in a different way, a lot of businesses that would be viable pre—coven will not be. —— pre—covid. all is going to prevent the inevitable, and at great cost to the inevitable, and at great cost to the taxpayer. i think rishi sunak is right to man he's back here... rather than trying to save jobs, which, sadly, go to disappear. on that point, we are going to have to leave it. out of time. so much to discuss. rachel, grace, great to have your analysis. do hope to see you again on the papers. and if you wa nt to you again on the papers. and if you want to get involved in the

discussion, the hashtag is #bbcpapers. hello and thanks for joining us on the show. wolves are through to the quarterfinals of the europa league, by the slenderest of margins. their 1—0 victory over greek champions 0lympiakos enough to book their place in the mini tournament which kicks off in germany next week. rauljimenez with the only goal of the game just eight minutes into the match from the spot at molineux. it means wolves will take on sevilla on tuesday, after the spanish side knocked out roma. but rangers' european adventure is over. they had a difficult task to overturn a 3—1 deficit at bayer leverkusen, but the german side ran out 1—0 winners on the night in the second leg. rangers return to scottish premiership action on sunday. two aberdeen players have tested positive for coronavirus, just days before they're due to face stjohnstone in the scottish premiership on saturday, but the club say the match will go ahead.

following a rise in new cases of covid—19. it's after additional restrictions were imposed on the city itself following a rise in new cases of covid—19. six other players must self—isolate for 1h days after being in close contact with those players who have tested positive. to old trafford next, and problems for england in the first test against pakistan, who are on top following a flurry of early england wickets on day two. andy swiss reports. the furled brow said it all. joe roofs the furled brow said it all. joe root‘s side began the day in desperate need of wickets and a first and found some. will, that cheered him up. pakistan's star batsman barbara babar azam gone babarazam gone in babar azam gone in the first over. the bar from stuart babar azam gone in the first over. the barfrom stuart broad, the cut ben