a un—backed court has found a member of the his brother militant group guilty of involvement in the assassination of lebanon's former prime minister, rafik hariri. thejudges said the man had a central role in the murder 15 years ago, but that there was no evidence linking hezbollah‘s leadership to the killing. the postmaster general of the united states has said he's suspending changes to the postal service, which had led to claims that he was trying to interfere in november's presidential election. louis dejoy said he expected postal ballots to be delivered on time. tens of thousands of british students, who've now got higher exam results after the government's u—turn yesterday, have spent the day scrambling for university places. but with many courses already full, some students remain unsure about their academic futures.

hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are sian griffiths, the education editor of the sunday times, and polly mackenzie, the chief executive of demos. welcome back. let's have a look at some of the other front pages that have come in now. according to the metro, the education secretary, gavin williamson, is managing to cling onto hisjob, as a—level students scrambled for university places and gcse pupils faced more uncertainty over their exam results on thursday. the i reports that borisjohnson rejected the minister's offer to resign, while senior conservatives call for regulator quual to be abolished. the daily mail says gavin williamson has enraged tory mps with a desperate bid to shift the blame for the exams fiasco, in an attempt

to cling on to hisjob. the daily telegraph reports universities have told the uk government they will need more money, if they are to take more students this year following the climb—down over a—levels results. while the times says thousands of students will be forced to defer their university courses for a year, despite institutions offering an unprecedented expansion of places. and the guardian carries a warning from trade unions, saying says parents and teachers have lost faith in gavin williamson's competence to lead a safe return of pupils to england's schools within the next two weeks. the daily express says pressure is growing to save uk high streets, as experts warn 300,000 retailjobs may be wiped out in a matter of weeks. while the financial times reports stocks on wall street have struck an all—time high,

rallying more than 50% from the lowest point of the coronavirus crisis, despite persistent investor unease about the us economy. let's kick off with gavin williamson, who is on a lot of front pages this morning. the man who won't take the blame — i think you as the education editor of the sunday times, one detail that caught my eye was that his officials had held crisis talks with the regulator last month about the flawed computer model. that's new, i didn't know that. and if they did hold crisis talks last month, why didn't they realise what would happen and do something to stop it happening? that's my point! is the first levels had been alerted to this, he can't say he didn't know about this until the weekend. there was an report by

the weekend. there was an report by the education secretary that made it absolutely clear injuly the education secretary that made it absolutely clear in july that this was a disaster waiting to happen, and the very youngsters who would be worst hit would be those high—flying youngsters in tough schools in disadvantage areas. because this algorithm that 0fqual used to award grades this year was very much based in the end on a school's historic exa m in the end on a school's historic exam performance. so if you were in a school which had a bad results and has had better results for 2—3 years running, it didn't matter if you had aora running, it didn't matter if you had a ora star running, it didn't matter if you had a or a star predictions from your teachers, or if you are holding places in oxford or cambridge. you would get pulled out, that's what happened. i must say the daily mail does put the boot in, rightly so. it

says that there are 57,000 a level pupils that are heartbroken, and there are 57,000 pupils who don't have the places at the universities that they should have got. they were holding offers at very good universities, and those places didn't go to them on thursday because their grades had been downgraded and they hadn't met their offers. now there's this massive u—turn, we've gone back to the grades that the teachers predicted, and those 57,000 teenagers are now eligible for those university places that they were holding. but the problem is many of those have been filled up already. so a bit of a catastrophe, really. this is a tory supporting paper. what does it say about the modern political culture, not necessarily with this government but over the last 10—15 years that when you are asked a direct question, of will you offer your

resignation, you can't say no, you have to form words that moves the conversation on. yes, it's that "never explain, never apologise, just blustar on through" way of doing politics. it's depressing, really. it's not a kind of leadership that i think inspires much confidence amongst schools. gavin williamson kind of charged ahead with trying to reopen the schools not in a spirit of collaboration and challenge, but basically by beating up on the trade unions and complaining about them from months in, and then blaming everybody else. now he's blaming 0fqual if without recognising the whole point is that he's the secretary of state for education, it is hisjob he got on top of that. that's not to say it isn't complicated, it is, but it is your job to figure it out and ask the

right questions, read the reports of the education select committee. they're not technological experts who know about algorithms, they are just people who know how to ask the right questions and come up with the right questions and come up with the right conclusions. it is a lack of willingness to accept blame, it is all 0fqual's fault, and the health department are saying it is all the nhs's fault. i would like him to resign and have some time on the back benches, some time with his family to think about how to be a better leader, and how to be a better leader, and how to be a better minister. i wonder how many civil servants in the future will recommend this is a good algorithm for this. moving to the guardian, "confidence in williamson draining away." boris johnson's "confidence in williamson draining away." borisjohnson‘s on holiday in scotla nd away." borisjohnson‘s on holiday in scotland at the moment and is still recovering from coronavirus, but

calls from him to personally lead the back—to—school campaign because not only have we got gcses results on thursday, but goodness knows how many millions of kids going back to school. that is something which has been set in stone by the government. yes, it is very important that youngsters do go back to school in september — partly because they need to get back to school so their pa rents to get back to school so their pa re nts ca n to get back to school so their parents can go back to work and the economy can pick up a bit. but also for the sake of children, they've had four months out of school, we are hearing in the rise of mental health problems. they've lost so much learning, and teenagers especially need to be socialised, they need other teenagers around them to grow up. so very important that kids get back to school. the front pages are really putting the boot into williamson in tomorrow's paper because the guardian is saying pa rents paper because the guardian is saying parents and teachers have completely

lost faith in williamson's ability to lead pupils and teachers back to safety in september. there are real concerns about if schools will be ready or safe environments for teachers and youngsters to go back, have all the arrangements been made. and that has to be a priority, is williamson up to the job? that is what everyone is asking. polly, i suppose schools will still be sorting out the a level chaos as they are trying to stream and put different year groups in different bubbles? yes, head teachers deserve everyone's praise and compassion at this time as they try to work out how they get kids back, how they give parents confidence, and how they give teachers confidence, and how they manage situations that could easily be teachers who are currently on holiday in france. does that mean they'll miss the first

week because of the quarantine, or will the quarantine arrangements change? will the quarantine arrangements change ? all of will the quarantine arrangements change? all of this is incredibly complicated, and what had teachers wa nt complicated, and what had teachers want to do is get their schools back to teaching the basics of academics. and that'll be difficult. it means that collaborative leadership that we haven't seen from gavin williamson. the best thing johnson could do is to ask the chair of the education select committee to plan a top—quality, excellent conservative thinker... tell us, because you specialise — you specialise in education. is there any support at all for the current education secretary, the people you're speaking to, saying to just give williamson a break, he was just misled? know, there's no support amongst the people i've spoken to. but i don't think anybody really

expects that he will resign. there's an acceptance that he will remain, which i think is quite telling in itself. but no, i think people will present that the blame is being depend on 0fqual. they are far from blameless, they need to be far more transparent about the models they produce every year to award exam grades. and i think they have been less tha n grades. and i think they have been less than transparent, and nearly invisible when they should have been making the case in explaining what they were doing, and publishing the model ages ago when they were asked to do so instead of refusing to publish it until the very last minute. so there is blame on both sides. i think gavin williamson should resign, that would be the honourable thing to do. nobody is going anywhere according to the daily telegraph. boris johnson

going anywhere according to the daily telegraph. borisjohnson isn't speaking publicly, but according to the daily telegraph, the pm is defying tory calls for an autumn reshuffle. there may be a mini change, but a full reset won't happen until the new year, pauly. all these anonymous voices, one mp or senior mp saying that there's a sense the government has lost its grip. and again, from tory supporting paper. absolutely. they won the election in december, 80 seat victory, big election, let's charge ahead. brexit is still not really done, and a massive scaling up really done, and a massive scaling up of customs workers still need to be done, still repurpose seeing the motorways down to dover. not their fault, a global pandemic hits. but yes their fault, they've made a hash of dealing with it. so they've lost all the momentum they had in

december of all the momentum they had in decemberof being a all the momentum they had in december of being a fresh, ambitious government... i must say, the government... i must say, the government did have a world beating test and trace system. just countering your accusation. of course they say that it is world beating, but we have a world beating death toll will stop i'd like to see them be a bit more humble. 0f death toll will stop i'd like to see them be a bit more humble. of course it was difficult, of course they made mistakes. but we should try to aimjust to made mistakes. but we should try to aim just to match the world, not pretend that we are better than everyone else. that doctrine of english exceptionalism, that we are doing different things about masks and distancing, we're just so much better than everyone else — that turned out to be wrong and more people have died to. interesting to see boris johnson's people have died to. interesting to see borisjohnson's personal approval ratings drop, and even magazines like the spectator — bruce anderson writing that under david cameron or margaret thatcher, people we re cameron or margaret thatcher, people were prepared to die in a ditch for

their leaders. but that might not be their leaders. but that might not be the case for borisjohnson. their leaders. but that might not be the case for boris johnson. he's on holiday in scotland and he has an 80 seat majority. i think he feels pretty secure, honestly. his ratings are dropping, but in the long haul, i don't see gavin williamson going anytime soon, i don't think there'll bea anytime soon, i don't think there'll be a big reshuffle, as the papers say, the reshuffle will be in the new year according to the story, maybe i— does make people being shifted around. let's go to the guardian. i don't know if you stayed up guardian. i don't know if you stayed upfor guardian. i don't know if you stayed up for michelle 0bama upon zach speech last night. it was carried on networks, and it was really a full frontal attack on donald trump. 0ne got the perception this is what she's wanted to say for a long, long

time. it seems to have drawn blood from mrtrump, who time. it seems to have drawn blood from mr trump, who was pretty peeved by some of these comments. absolutely, she repeated the refrain in 2016, "when they go low, we go high." and in 2016, "when they go low, we go high. " and trump in 2016, "when they go low, we go high." and trump has gone low in his response to her, most republicans haven't responded to her all—out assault on trump. but he has because he's the human being in the entire world with the thinnest skin. so he retaliates, saying he wouldn't even have hisjob if barack 0bama hadn't been so dreadful. the reality is he is getting more and more behind in the polls, and i think what they're trying to do is bait him — there's been interesting tactics from this republicans against trump movement called the lincoln project to wage psychological warfare against him to do political campaign efforts,

talking about people who are briefing against him, building mistrust in this campaign. because the more he lashes out like this, the more he lashes out like this, the more he lashes out like this, the more petty he sounds and appears. and i think in the end, that place into the more serious responsible democrat portfolio. maybe it'sjust wishful responsible democrat portfolio. maybe it's just wishful thinking because he won in 2016. we've only got a few minutes left, the daily express, 300,000 jobs face the acts on the high streets. this coinciding with the ending of the original furlough scheme. yes, we've seen marks & spencer is saying it is shutting 7000 jobs, about 42,000 jobs have already gone. the retail sector again is asking for a government bailout. i think it is because people have just changed their habits since march, and very much everyone now is buying online much everyone now is buying online much more, not going on shopping just for groceries but for

everything. that will probably continue, this is a long—term trend and change in our shopping habits which is very bad news for high streets in the retail sector. and it's probably affecting more women working on the front line in the retail sector. i wonder if we should just end with the telegraph — one of their stories is testing for air passengers in line to replace the two week quarantine. so apparently next week the government will be considering ways of trying to shorten that two week quarantine, but just the shorten that two week quarantine, butjust the picture they shorten that two week quarantine, but just the picture they which caught our attention — "keeping their cool." jacob rees—mogg and the tory mp for south dorset, richard directs, sharing an ice cream. what struck me was just how similarly dressed they are and eating same ice cream, and the same number of

buttons on their blazers. it was just a striking picture. what do you think was blue i think it is gloriously absurd. who eats ice cream and a double breasted blazer? maybe that is a look i should try, i'll go shopping after this and buy myself a double breasted blazer with gold buttons so i can give it a go. jacob rees—mogg has a fleck of ice cream on his left lapel, which i'm not sure he'll be completely pleased about. richard is doing that thing where you bend over so you don't get theice where you bend over so you don't get the ice cream drips on your smart clothes, isn't he? it's a very funny image, but there's a serious message — they're promoting this enjoy summer safely campaign, so even if you are out and about on the beach, in the parks, do remember to do the social distancing and don't call crowds together. it's a very lovely

image, it made me laugh. one final thought about the communication now of the government because we've got these spikes of course, lester is opening nail bar and swimming pools, but we are now embarking with the return to school and the country needing to brace itself for what be quite a difficult season i had. absolutely. they are faced with real challenges because the messaging has to be more complicated than it was at the beginning. that's a practical challenge, but also really problematic because so many people feel resentful that they don't understand the rules, they think that the rules don't apply to them ortheir that the rules don't apply to them or their circumstances affair. we've seen or their circumstances affair. we've seen that around the travel bands in particular, so we can get individual groups input places feeling angry. as we go into the autumn, it'll be ha rd as we go into the autumn, it'll be hard to sustain that. all right,

thank you both very much for coming back and having another look at the first editions of the papers. coming up first editions of the papers. coming up next is the sport news. but that is our look at the papers. hello there, i'm tulsen tollett, and this is your sports news. we start with football, and paris saint—germain are through to their first—ever champions league final after a 3—0 win over rb leipzig. the result was almost assured by half time, as marquinhos picked up the opener after 13 minutes, before angel di maria got a slice of luck prior to half time, allowing him to score the second. and thomas tuchel‘s side will now play the winner of tomorrow's second semifinal between bayern munich and lyon. celtic are through to the second qualifying round of the 2020—21 champions league after a 6—0 win over rekyjavik in glasgow. three goals either side of half time

proved more than enough, with 0dsonne eduard getting two for neil lennon's team, who now face the winner of tomorrow's match between swedish side djurgardens or ferencvaros of hungary.