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tv   The Papers  BBC News  August 7, 2020 10:30pm-10:46pm BST

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in the south west of england the lockdown has proved costly. the trade body visit cornwall says fewer holidaymakers will mean a loss of £800 million this year — almost half the region's annual tourism turnover. here'sjon kay. cornwall was not designed for social distancing. even on a damp afternoon, the narrow streets of st ives are heaving. a bit crowded! a bit crowded, yeah! hiding in a doorway, holiday—makers ed and margaret. there's that many people coming backwards and forwards, you don't know where to go. does it frighten you? it does frighten me, yeah, because i've got heart problems. so, you know... did you think about staying away? well, if i do that i'd never be able to go on holiday. there are clear warnings and restrictions in place. but some locals want more. none of them are kind of wearing masks...
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michelle and stephen live here but they're not going into town. she lost her retail job during lockdown... we want to get rid of it... ..so knows the importance of tourism to this region. but they feel some visitors are forgetting there's a pandemic. they're packed in like sardines. people are going to be catching the virus. it's going to spread. i personally think, if we carry on the way we are, we're going to have another lockdown. tourism officials say there are actually fewer holidaymakers in cornwall this summer than there were a year ago. but it feels busier because a lot of cornish people have decided to stay at home, so they're here as well. and a lot of attractions have had to shut, which means people are crammed into specific areas. thejudd family have been coming here from kent every summer for half a century. we kept ringing up and saying, can you get us in, can you get us in? they wanted to visit this year to support the local economy. but they are avoiding
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the busier areas to stay safe. it's being selective and reasoning things through. you know, we don't need to go to st ives this year. we'll be back at easter anyway, so we'll go to st ives at easter — it'll still be there. a feeling of normality after a period of great uncertainty. for the family that run this holiday park — relief. they're as full as they can be and all the staff are back. our customers have all been very receptive to the measures we've put in place. everyone's been keeping to their own families and maintaining social distancing. and that's been really reassuring to see. it feels like the coronavirus isn't here any more. it feels like normal. it is a delicate balance for a county that, until now, has escaped the worst. jon kay, bbc news, cornwall. manchester city enjoyed their return of football's
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champions league tonight, beating real madrid 2—1 at the etihad stadium, going through to the quarter finals, 4—2 on aggregate. here's andy swiss. 163 days after their first leg, at last, manchester city and real madrid with unfinished business. city, in case you'd forgotten, had a 2—1 advantage, and it was soon even more. raheem sterling could barely believe his luck. a terrible blunder from raphael varane, but a perfect start for the hosts. with no gareth bale, real looked lacklustre, until this. karim benzema with a goal — game on. if real scored again it was extra time, but after the break — just watch this. another gaffe by varane, a nimble finish by gabrieljesus, and city were on the brink. another defensive howler, but the hosts didn't mind. real now had to score twice, but instead it was still city that threatened. david silva just over
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as they ultimately eased to victory. next up a quarterfinal with lyon and after this they'll feel anything is possible. andy swiss, bbc news. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. hello to viewers in the uk joining those around the world. it's now time for us to take a first look at the national and international front pages in the papers.
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hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me arejohn stevens, deputy political editor at the daily mail, and eve pollard, former fleet street editor. tomorrow's front pages, starting with. .. the times reports uk ministers are studying australian plans for intercepting migrant boats following a record number of crossings in the english channel. uk tourists have been "left in the dark" on holiday quarantine restrictions. that's according to the telegraph, which says some people have cancelled trips over fears that france might be placed on the uk government's red list. the international edition of the new york times claims the united states is the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe and sustained coronavirus outbreak for more than four months. the guardian has learned nearly 40% of a—level grades submitted by teachers will be downgraded when exam results are published in england next week amid criticism of this year's results due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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the paper also features an image of an extremely busy bournemouth beach as people enjoyed the hottest august day since 2003. and the mirror reports the scorching heatwave led to travel chaos, with social distancing measures almost impossible to adhere to due to rammed beaches. so, let's begin. welcome to you both. hope you're keeping cool and home there. luckily iam in an keeping cool and home there. luckily i am in an air—conditioned studio, somewhat cooler that home so that is great. let's start with uk tourists left in the dark by the holiday quarantine on the daily telegraph. do you think i are left in the dark in these decisions are two opaque? the trouble is these decisions are quite late. there are holiday—makers in france as we speak who probably have not gone to france had they known that when they come home they
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would likely face 14 days of quarantine. and this is a terrible problem about this pandemic because here is a government doing everything it possibly can not to have another spike in the autumn or a spike at the end of august when people come home from holiday. and they are watching how these countries, many of them because they have bid invaded and must pay by holiday—makers. the invention, the all right has gone up and the coronavirus illnesses have gone up. and so they are now saying if you wa nt to and so they are now saying if you want to go to france, and you might be going tomorrow, he probably will have books for yourself and your family, you may well have to do quarantine. i don't think it has been hit on the dot totally they had to come back from quarantine. and some tory mps are actually having a go and say we are making people's
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life very difficult. and in the can smith is saying can we not say where in spain you cannot go. for example, there is a problem in barcelona but there is a problem in barcelona but there is a problem in barcelona but there is not one in mallorca. whether that would help people, maybe it would. i think there is a problem for you to people and there's a problem if i don't know how you solve that problem. you are nodding there, john. frustrating for those who are not trying to make trouble plans are brought in those in the government so they have not made a decision about france but many are suspecting that one is imminentabout many are suspecting that one is imminent about having to be quarantined if you are there at the moment or planning on going there shortly. the government is in a rock and a hard place here. everybody wa nts a nswers and a hard place here. everybody wants answers but it is very difficult to give them what we're all waiting on whatever the new statistics are. part of this has been quite confusing and the part that has been the government's fossils up when it's about the scheme it was quite confusing it with, at the last minute, names on
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the list and taking names off of it. so right from the start has been quite confusing for people. in defence of the government, part of the reason it is been changing re ce ntly the reason it is been changing recently is because this is a moving thing. so the government does not know what the coronavirus numbers are going to be in france in a couple of weeks' time. so it is really difficult and some looking about going to france and they have about going to france and they have a holiday books, there is no one in the world they can tell them when you come back in two weeks' time what situation is going to be. can i come back and i do quarantine? 0r what situation is going to be. can i come back and i do quarantine? or we had to stay at home for two weeks and isolate ? had to stay at home for two weeks and isolate? some commit me saying i will not go to war but not everyone can work from home. so if you saved to go on holiday you know you are and a tricky position. do you go away or do you stay at home? lifted onto the new york times in their front page article here says the us is alone among peers and failing to contain the virus. it really looks into why that is and what is the
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a nswer into why that is and what is the answer is far as this article is concerned? i was in america for the first six weeks of the lockdown. at the time, new york was very badly hit and andrew cuomo, the governor, took control and stopped the cases in new york and is now very free of coronavirus. but what happened was in areas would close themselves down almost. we were in a part of florida where we close down and there were only six deaths in our entire county. and then the local governor, who is a great friend of the president, open to florida up and now hundreds have died in florida. and the new york times assaying of all the affluent countries who have all the affluent countries who have all made mistakes we have all had lockdowns and somehow over the last four months, they have got that figured out except for america. and
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they say public service people, doctors don't really want to get into partisan politics but of course the new york times blames the president for not closing the country down. it is very clearly in its finger—pointing, saying that president trump deviated from the expert advice and that is one of the key reasons why the death rate there is so high. it is very difficult for donald trump for two reasons. obviously he has the election coming up obviously he has the election coming up in novemberand obviously he has the election coming up in november and one of the key messages he hoped to make was the economy was doing better and with him and charge you are seeing the stock market rise. obviously coronavirus has affected that but also he was hoping in the short term if you manage to start seeing america was getting back on its feet, you can say there is a risk thatjoe biden feet, you can say there is a risk that joe biden might feet, you can say there is a risk thatjoe biden might put that in danger. however it is looking like coronavirus problems will continue and it also means that one of the big aspects of what donald trump
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e njoys big aspects of what donald trump enjoys which is campaigning and big rallies, he is not able to do. so he is losing his campaign message with the economy being back on track and losing his bay tactic of having big rallies and big turnouts. do you think it is too late for donald trump to pull this around notjust in terms of his own rallies but obviously restrictions on numbers of people that can be out there but in terms of his messaging?” people that can be out there but in terms of his messaging? i think it is hard for him because one of the things that worked at the last election was all the drama about him and hillary clinton meeting up and did she do well and did she not do well and of course she did get more votes with the electoral college noted that he was the winner. i feel the fact that we have not really seen or heard joe biden makes it very ha rd seen or heard joe biden makes it very hard for donald trump to
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display trumpisms that appealed to his audience. and also still of course the economy strangely is still doing ok but i think that if you have got your grandmother in florida in an old lady's home and by the way i want to go, if she dies, you may well end up blaming the president because in some ways of course america is interesting because every state has a governor and every state, their libertarian rules actually make it hard to lock down the whole country. but if the voice and come up from the top that we have got to get rid of the virus first and then worry about the economy, they might have had far fewer deaths. let's move onto the daily telegraph which looks at death here in the uk and there a lot down there much talk and speculation and fear of the number of people who we re fear of the number of people who were not seeking medical attention because of the fact that they could not get it and a lot of hospitals and were worried about going to hospitals and now this headline puts a finger on it saying a lot down
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blamed for 16,000 deaths in addition to virus victims. what do you make of this? these are some quite startling figures. they say for every three people killed by coronavirus, there have been another two people who have died because of missed medical care and they say 6000 people who did not attend ana and a lot of them have a concern that hospitals are quite busy and they did not want to go to hospital or might have been scared of it in the virus there and they had gone to die. also great numbers who were discharged early from hospital and ended up in care homes and some of those did not get the medical treatment they needed. part of this is that great success of that slogan the government used at the start of the government used at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, stay at home protect the nhs and save lives, and it looks like because people stuck to that so firmly that they we re stuck to that so firmly that they were so scared to go to hospital that some actually have sadly died. does not just look that some actually have sadly died. does notjust look at people who have died during lockdown but also
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looks at the knock on effect of people not getting help, for example diagnoses with cancer treatment and how that will affect death rates going forward. they look 50 years ahead and then they also look five yea rs ahead and then they also look five years ahead then of course i am seeing people being terrified to go to hospital and people have had many strokes and slight heart attacks and we re strokes and slight heart attacks and were too scared of going into hospital. i think we have learned oui’ hospital. i think we have learned our lesson now. i hope it does nightingale hospitals are still there and i think there should be certain hospitals, perhaps not every area has the amount they can do it, they are non—covid—19 and certain hospitals that will deal with the pandemic. but we did not know how bad it was going to be. it is very easy to talk about it now but i think in the future if they can say in any area if possible you can have one that is dealing with covid—19 and one that won't, i think that
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will help people in the future and

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