hello, this is bbc news. i'm 3 shaun ley. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. first, the headlines. borisjohnson says it would be "morally indefensible" to keep schools in england closed, because of coronavirus, and insists it's safe for children and should be a national priority — a view shared by some headteachers. in terms of routine and structure and systems, they desperately need to get back into some kind of routine, as do their families. the bbc has apologised and says mistakes were made after a news report containing a racial slur was broadcast. more anger and mass demonstrations over beirut‘s catastophic explosion —

and calls that lebanon must not now be allowed to descend into chaos. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the journalist and broadcaster caroline frost, and the parliamentary journalist tony grew. most of tomorrow's front pages are now in, let's look at the main stories they feature. the return to school leads many of tomorrow's papers. the metro reports that experts warn the prime minister has just days to "get a grip" on the test and trace system in england, if he wants schools to reopen next month. teaching unions are drawing up contigency plans, in case there is a resurgence of coronavirus in the uk, according to the daily telegraph, with the possibility of teaching pupils on an alternate week basis.

the time reports that the children's commissioner for england is calling for routine coronavirus testing for pupils and teachers. while the daily mail warns there could be a rush to appeal a—level results when they are released this week — with the paper reporting that exam boards could lower 40% of marks, leaving students missing out on their university places. the daily express reports that there has been a 96% drop in the number of patients needing hospital treatment for coronavirus, with one consultant telling the paper that britain is beating the virus. the guardian has learned that the government is planning to set targets for police and the crown prosecution service in an attempt to increase rape prosecutions. it comes two weeks after it was revealed that prosecutions had fallen to their lowest level since records began. and the daily mirror reports that x—factor judge simon cowell underwent six hours of surgery on his back afterfalling off an electric bike.

right, let's bring in tony and caroline now to guide us through some of those stories. tony, let's begin with the top story on the guardian — targets for police in an attempt to increase rate prosecutions. this has proved a really stubborn problem, hasn't it? yes, rape is a notoriously difficult trying to get a successful prosecution for. i'm glad the government is trying to take some action. i think that setting targets for police is appropriate, but not with the crime prosecution service, as the cps is an independent body. but the fact remains that rape is a very unsavoury crime to prosecute, and that's not just very unsavoury crime to prosecute, and that's notjust in this country, but across the world. we might want to think about the way in which rape trials are conducted because you can have an increase in attempted

prosecutions, but it is unlikely that it'll lead to a boost in people successfully prosecuted. and that is a real problem, isn't it, caroline, that we've almost got into the cycle where great effort goes into things like reassuring women that their complaints are being taken seriously, providing support for rape victims, trying to ensure that there are resources — but in the end, this is still something ultimately judged by end, this is still something ultimatelyjudged by a jury and depends so much on, for example, the kind of cross examination process which is so fun metal and english law, but also for the victims of alleged sex crimes, it is a traumatic experience? yes, the other thing to note, particularly with rate prosecutions, is the average time between charge and possible conviction or outcome is 395 days — so over a year

conviction or outcome is 395 days — so over a year between potentially a victim first walking into a police station traumatised and with all the personal challenges that go with that type of crime, and seeing any kind of outcome. now we know the figures are so low, in comparison with the high numbers of people going through that process. something does need to change. i'm with tony on this, i'm not convinced the government weighing in and deciding some arbitrary target will solve this problem. but i think it is ready for review. tony, just to pick up one interesting detail, with mentioned... we've lost tony. he's back! there you are, tony. just looking at the figures quoted, these we re looking at the figures quoted, these were the ones that originally came out a couple of weeks ago, and perhaps prompted this action by the government. 59% decline since 2016-17 in the government. 59% decline since 2016—17 in the number of prosecutions. and again, concerns over the number of people who are

actually convicted. and again, referrals from police to the cps in the first place, 40% since 2016—17. there's something structurally going on here because unfortunately, it's not that there's no evidence to that fewer women — is not always women the victims of rape — fewer people are being raped was absently not, and not not saying there aren't questions for the cps to answer. there are lots of different ways that we can think about improving those numbers. but police funding has been significantly cut, so it's not as if those cuts don't have a consequence, and that may be one of the consequences of those quite vicious cuts the government has imposed. and other police related story, this is also on the front of the guardian. this is a photograph of don butler who was stopped in a

car being driven by a male friend of hers by two police cars and hackney in east london. she's an mp another pa rt in east london. she's an mp another part of london. and she's pretty unhappy about it, going so far as to record the exchanges with the officers who she stresses were very polite and respectful, but it's the fa ct polite and respectful, but it's the fact that the car was stopped in the first place that was bugging her. can you explain why? it turns out they thought the car was a suspicious vehicle that was listed in north yorkshire. and what happened was the attending officer put the wrong registration number into the system, so mistakes can be made and we know this. however in the current climate, it is very difficult to prove that this is in any way of active racism, but in the current climate it is certainly not a good look. once again, i imagine cressida dick will be out tomorrow morning explaining and apologising of any morning explaining and apologising of a ny offe nce morning explaining and apologising of any offence has been taken. it is

the cut—and—paste line now when these incidents, when so many people have the power of recording and incident, and butler, someone of such high—profile, is heard to switch on the phone. these things do not go unrecorded and unshared, and i think that is a healthy thing, but something for police to take into consideration that they are dealing with so many different aspects of vigilance in this black lives matter accentuated period that we are going through. tony, butler has leverage their because she's an mp, she's made it to conscious decision to highlight it. people say she has the privilege because she's an mp, so it would be hard for cressida dick to turn her down. it is a curious story because the car was stopped because it was thought to of been registered in north london, but nobody suggest you can't drive a car from in north london, but nobody suggest you can't drive a carfrom dark yorkshire in london —— north

yorkshire. it is clear that stop and search, which is different but similar, isa search, which is different but similar, is a blunt tool. if you wa nt to similar, is a blunt tool. if you want to reduce the amount of stop and search, you need intelligence and search, you need intelligence and community policing, and that costs money. and police have been seriously caught by this government over the last ten years, so there are fewer over the last ten years, so there a re fewer resources , over the last ten years, so there are fewer resources, so over the last ten years, so there are fewer resources, so they have to fall back on these methods. but i think miss butler is right, she's been stopped three times since she became an mp, so it cannot be right that someone is stopped and repeatedly search when they've not broken the law. moving onto the daily mail, caroline. university places parol amidst chaos. essentially the chaos comes in terms of people getting places to go off to the university if they don't get the results they thought they would get based on the predicted grades at their teachers have given for the exams. more important, it's the lack

of exams because in absence of the exams being taken this year, a—level students have had to have their grades estimated — i'm sure with best intentions — by teachers. and what's happened is there's been a broad brush stroke downgrading of up to 40% of grades by computer systems, now the onus will go back oi'i systems, now the onus will go back on students to appeal those grades if they think they are too low to get their ideal optimised university place. the thing is that there's this deadline of september the 7th for that all happened. the students will presumably all be rushing in to do this, but as you can see this is a totally predictable chaos which was always going to happen not only for a—level students, but i'm guessing this will come up in the gcses level as well. the amount of guessing and airing, some people will feel they've been to unfavorably treated by the process this year, meanwhile other people

will skim through and be very lucky because of what's happened, and there are people in a different year saying this was not fair to them. this was never going to be an ideal situation. it is intriguing when you look at the mail on the front pages, nearly 40% of grades being made using a computerised marketing scheme. in scotland, it was a quarter, which caused enough anger amongst scottish parents and pupils. this is quite a big difference in terms of the percentages that they might be suggesting they trust teachers less than their computerised counterparts. normally it's about grades being too high, this year it is grades too low. i think 40% is a huge number of results to overturn because some computer algorithm told you to. this shows a lack of trust in teachers and ability and to predict the great their children will have. but one of

their children will have. but one of the tragedies of not having exams this year is that if you are lazy, you cram it in all of the last minute like me, you can get better grades. i must say, iwonder minute like me, you can get better grades. i must say, i wonder how different the grades would be if some of those home teachers got to give their assessments of what a levels their children should be getting. let's go on to the ties —— the times. oh no, and other migrants crossing the channel in summer story. it's hard to get the truth of this, given that we don't know the numbers. and of course, this is the bit that journalists and numbers. and of course, this is the bit thatjournalists and tv cameras film, but it is not the only way that people come into the country in a clandestine matter? of course not. i'm notan a clandestine matter? of course not. i'm not an expert in this, but i would imagine one of the reasons why there is a significant rise in the number of pressings is because it is summer number of pressings is because it is summerand number of pressings is because it is summer and the weather is better —— crossings. the government needs to

be slightly more careful about how they deal with this issue, because blaming it on the french might be politically astute in terms of the uk, but don't forget that britain comes out of the transition period at the end of december and all the eu rules about how migrants are dealt with say that people have to claim asylum in the first country will not apply to the uk any more. we need to think of a new arrangement with france, but we also have to realise that france itself has significant problems with large amounts of migrants in temporary accommodation or tent cities in calais. so i think we need to be a bit more understanding of how they view it. what do you make of this, caroline? this appointment of a new job, a clandestine channel threat commander, apparently modelled on australia's efforts to push back

migrants? presumably the australian situation is quite different from ours where we are, after all, only talking about one stretch of water which is narrowest at 23 miles wide? yes, that title to me sounds like something out of 20,000 leagues under the sea, or thunderbirds, something out of 20,000 leagues underthe sea, orthunderbirds, or something. he sounds like he has an awful amount of power for one person. however i think priti patel also wants to be seen as taking this extremely seriously, it is playing to the tory base as it were. i don't think it is potentially the best, most humane prototype to be following the australian pushback methods. they've come under an awful lot of international criticism for being quite so harsh in their dealings with people who stray into their waters. it is a problem and i think this is a nautical nimby situation where everybody feels enormous amounts of compassion and wa nt enormous amounts of compassion and want to be seen doing the right thing, but nobody wants to deal with the problem, they're pushing it back

the problem, they're pushing it back the way that we saw you battling with tokyo a few years ago. last word to you, tony, this is a happier return to the water story — wonderful photograph on the front of the times, tell us about as scapula it isa the times, tell us about as scapula it is a photo of... it has been released into an open sea water reserve in iceland. i read somewhere that those whales haven't been in the water for ten years. so it is nice to see that there is still some i°y nice to see that there is still some joy in the world. it almost looks like he's smiling. you've made us both smile, thank you both very much for being with us on bbc news. next, it's the film review with anna smith. but from me, it's goodnight.