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and our people understand this, and i'm sure we will stand till the end. that end for her is new elections, ones that are free and fair. only then, she tells us, will bela russians know who their president truly is. jean mackenzie, bbc news. the manchester united captain, harry maguire, has been arrested while on holiday on the greek island of mykonos. let's talk to our sports correspondent olly foster, who is at old trafford for us tonight. bring us up to date with the latest on all this. good evening. the world's most expensive defender is spending a second night in a greek police cell. the club this morning confirming that their captain was fully cooperating with the greek authorities. we know that harry maguire and two other british men we re maguire and two other british men were arrested at around midnight last night after an incident on the
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greek island of mykonos. the greek police said they were called out to an altercation between two groups. they had to break up a fight and it was then that three men rounded, they claim, on one of their officers, verbally abusing and assaulting him. the three men were then escorted to a local police station. it is then that police claimed that upon arrival, they strongly resisted, pushing and hitting three police officers and one of the detainees tried to offer money to avoid any further action. the police then opened a file on this case. it includes accusations of violence against officials, bodily harm, insult and attempted bribery of an official. we do not know the specifics of the accusations against harry maguire but today, the three men were transported by boat to the neighbouring island of syros and another police facility there. i have spoken to the greek lawyer representing maguire and he says
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they will appear in court tomorrow morning at ten o'clock greek time. he says maguire denies all the allegations that he is confident that his client will be released without any charges. 0k, thank you for that. the last few weeks have been uncertain for many school leavers hoping to get into university, but for one student, her dream is a step closer, thanks to the kindness of a very special stranger. vitoria mario, who's 18 and from london, set up an online fundraising page, and who decided to chip in, none other than the us pop star, taylor swift. here's david sillito. i...i couldn't believe it. i feel like, even now, i'm still processing it because ijust can't believe it. it began with this text message. 18—year—old vitoria mario was in church and a friend wanted to let her know that there had been a donation to her university gofundme page... ..from taylor swift. 2a hours on, it's still rather difficult to process.
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i was overwhelmed, i was happy, of course, very happy. i was thankful, grateful. i wanted to hug taylor swift, i guess! i wanted to say thank you — just so many things at the same time. i didn't even know how to feel, or even how to handle my feelings. taylor swift had also left a message saying she'd been inspired by vitoria's story. vitoria had arrived from portugal on her own, aged 14. four years on, she has two a*s and an a, but couldn't see a way of affording university. so, you're not eligible for any maintenance grants? no, no. because you arrived here in britain on your own, aged 14? yes, that's correct. speaking no english. no english at all, yeah. i learned mostly through netflix, i will not deny. you learned english watching netflix? yeah, watching films, like, with the subtitles, so i can learn how to say it and learn how to write it. of course, this isn't the first pop charitable donation.
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ariana grande, rihanna, and stormzy, with his scholarship programme for black students, have all made large donations for those who are struggling. and taylor swift, who does have a new album out, has a track record of surprise gifts. but why vitoria's story touched her in particular is a mystery. were you a taylor swift fan? erm, of course... you're a fan now? of course i know who she is, of course. i wouldn't say i'm a super—fan, like, i'm not one of those who keep contacting her, like, every day, if that makes sense, or disturbing her. no, but... ijust don't know, i still don't know. i don't know. david sillito, bbc news. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night.
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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. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are conservative commentator, tim montgomerie, and jason beattie, assistant editor of the daily mirror.. tomorrow's front pages starting with. .. starting with the pandemic here in the uk, the daily telegraph warns of a second lockdown, as the r—rate rises for the first
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time since restrictions were lifted. since the uk lifted portugal from its quarnatine list, the i reports on the ‘last minute dash‘ to the country for british tourists seeking a ‘sunshine break‘. following the exam result controversy in england. the guardian reports that the boss of quual has threatened to quit — unless the education secretary backs the exams regulator on his u—turn in grading. elsewhere, the financial times says russia's opposition leader, alexei navalny, is ready to be air—lifted to a hospital in germany after a suspected poisoning. turning to uk politics, the express says tory mps have urged brussels to ‘wake up to the threat of a no—deal brexit, after trade talks came to a halt‘. and the daily mirror reports that manchester united captain, harry mcguire, is spending a ‘second night behind bars‘ following his arrest in greece. so let‘s begin... we will start with the daily
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telegraph. this rather scary thought ofa telegraph. this rather scary thought of a second lockdown. jason, how possible do you think this is? this is the government‘s worst nightmare. i think it they are reluctant to do this. primarily because the consequences for the economy. right at the beginning, they‘ve had to do this very difficult balancing act between putting public health first and then putting the economic health second. and you have seen in the last three or four weeks have become less, not less concerned about public health but more concerned about the economic consequences of a second, well first lockdown, a second, well first lockdown, a second lockdown and what that will entail book one thing i would caution is these are numbers from the government scientific advisory group sage. and they do say there is
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some a high degree of uncertainty about the figures. in the latest r rate. there are three parts of england, london, the southwest in the northwest where it is floating between 0.8 and 1.1. anything over one is where we get worried for rise exponentially. and it is not necessarily above one and all parts of england. and again, there was a lag in the collecting of the data. soi lag in the collecting of the data. so i might not be yet time to start panicking. but daily cases are nearly doubled the number at the beginning ofjune when lockdown measures for ease. tim, the major concern is that the uk will follow the example of spain and in this year and the example of spain and in this yearand a the example of spain and in this year and a rather bumpy note. the example of spain and in this year and a rather bumpy notelj year and a rather bumpy note.|j think that is true but i agree with what jason had said. we have to be cautious about these numbers. they have gone up as she said to levels
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that are equivalent to spain, but what we do not know really is how much some of the increased numbers simply because we are testing a lot more of our citizens and so we are picking up more cases that probably where there a month or so ago but weren't identified. i think there is also an element with what the government is spending, communicating in the health authorities also are frightening the public into behaving and just saying if you don't behave now, if you don't maintain the social distancing guidelines that we are giving you, there will be a second lockdown. and i think there is worry across government and across the health authorities that all sorts of groups and societies are not abiding by the rules any more and we had reports of mass parties and parts of the uk. so this is probably a little bit to
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frighten everyone into better behaving through life and i agree, we should be cautious about some of these numbers but i don't think there is any real cause for great panic yet. and what the people are frightened is always a different question, isn‘t it? people seem rather relaxed, more relaxed. some are trying to salvage their summer. this story about the last minute —— for sunshine breaks. is this a good time to be travelling and trying to salvage a summer? it depends what you want to go. it is not a good time to be going to croatia for instance. they have until 4am tomorrow morning to get back from croatia. that is where the latest measures have been imposed. it is getting quite difficult for people and you don‘t want to deny anybody a summer break, to actually go aboard.
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you can say and book a holiday, you can find what you actually are out there two weeks later that the infection rate has gone up in the country and they are imposing this new quarantine measures which the main problem with this is your insurance become problematic, you could pay a lot of money to come back and for people who cannot quarantine because of work, they may need to get back across and that may cost a lot of money. so yes, it can suit your working lifestyle and you think you can come back and sell quarantine if necessary, i go boy to soon as i could. but if you are not in that situation, it is a much harderjudgement call. one of the think that is mimicking is quite ha rd think that is mimicking is quite hard there is often little notice between the time you offer your holiday in a time to rule change. —— there is often but that that‘s what makes this quite hard. that makes it
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very difficult for people. particular because you have to plan i'iow particular because you have to plan now to not onlyjust be away for a seven day holiday, but then 14 day quarantine afterwards. should the rules change. and that makes going abroad for people incredibly difficult. when you don't know that the government guidelines could change at the last minute for the i think this is what the travel industry has been so concerned with. they've had enough a few months for reasons we don't need to rehash now but the thought that they might have a good summeras but the thought that they might have a good summer as people wanted to —— off to the sun given the traditional british weather, but because of the la st british weather, but because of the last minute notice, of the government changing the rules, people have been very reluctant to break a holiday which can be lost at the last minute. understandably so. let‘s ta ke the last minute. understandably so. let‘s take a look at the daily mail.
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the big headline on the front page, don‘t let children down again. they have done a poll and say that voters are sending a strong message to borisjohnson are sending a strong message to boris johnson that are sending a strong message to borisjohnson that his government must not let down children again in schools must reopen in next month. it is not been a great month for borisjohnson it is not been a great month for boris johnson and his it is not been a great month for borisjohnson and his government at far as children and exams are concerned. what is interesting here is, it‘s been a particularly bad month for the government in terms of the reputation for competence which is very, once you start losing confidence you lose it permanently you could and it‘s been a bad month for gavin williamson, the education secretary, who had a forewarning these problems might happen, not least because it‘s got his government got into the same pickle a week before he did. what is interesting is that the daily mail
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was a right—leaning newspaper to a borisjohnson when he became prime minister. they have become increasingly aggressive towards him. —— the scottish government. that is probably what would worry downing street more necessarily in the polls which in some way are fairly obvious. when you mess up on such a scale on so many people are affected, the public will not be appreciated of it. they may be concerned when they start the cheerleaders are starting to turn on them. in this way. are you saying them. in this way. are you saying the same sort of aggression, tim, from the daily mail? absolutely. i think it is predominate. jason represent a paper that is on the left of the political spectrum in britain. you would expect jason parchment paper to be given the government the kind of gnashing that the daily mail is giving to the government every day. there have been editorials in the daily mail
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this week which i thought i could have read in the mirror. it has been that surprising. why is this happening? i am a conservative. when the conservatives won the majority of 80 in the general election last december, i had this great hope of five—year parliament after all of the chaos of the parliament before when parliament was so tired, i think here we go, majority of 80, solid conservative government and we can really get things done. and i had this huge disappointment, this huge sense of a government that whatever is seems to turn its attention to, it isn't doing what their level of competence that a tory government, we associate with. and what you are seeing with individuals like myself cut with newspaper titles like the daily mail, it is feeling let down by the people of that you believed in. so the mayor will attack the conservatives opponents
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