tv The Papers BBC News August 30, 2020 11:30pm-11:46pm BST
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hello. this is bbc news we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment — first the headlines. university lecturers warn that plans to restart face—to—face teaching in september will be too dangerous without a coronavirus testing programme. we are we a re really we are really worried that we can see universities becoming a care home in the second wave of covid—19 in the uk. arrests in belarus, as tens of thousands protest in minsk against what they say is the rigged re—election of president alexander lukashenko. today's protests a re today's protests are very different from the protests of previous, a lot more police, a lot tighter security,
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they're determined to stop these protests. thousands of people break lockdown rules to attend an illegal rave in south wales. and lewis hamilton wins in belgium — he's now just two victories away from michael schumacher‘s all—time record. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are broadcaster daisy mcandrew and the financial times' whitehall correspondent, sebastian payne. tomorrow's front pages, starting with, the i leads on what it calls a "backlash" from conservative mps and business groups at reports — which we saw on yesterday's front pages — that the chancellor rishi sunak is plotting a string of tax rises this autumn.
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anger over possible tax increases also makes the front page of the telegraph, which says tory mps and business leaders "reacted with horror" to news of a potential rise in corporation tax. the daily mirror, meanwhile, turns its attention to the reopening of schools later this week. the paper hears from teachers: according to a survey, a majority of them think it'll be impossible to keep pupils socially distanced. the guardian says the costs of covid safety measures in schools are stretching their budgets to "breaking point". there's also a picture from this weekend's notting hill carnival — the first time it's been held virtually. the daily mail says there's to be a "new blow" in the war on plastic, reporting that the tax on plastic bags is set to be increased from sp to ten. and the daily star brings news of a "polar plunge" that has inflicted britons to their coldest august bank holiday for decades. so, let's begin.
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let us start with the guardian. this is quite interesting, were talking about the context of the chancellor having spent all of this money, but teachers a warning that many in the union at least, saying that even if the covid—19 measures cost as little as 5% in schools budget and there suggesting it may cost more than that with all that is required, that the budget is still well short of how much schools are having to spend? this comes at a very big week for thejohnson government spend? this comes at a very big week for the johnson government because schools are due to return on wednesday and for the education secretary, his whole political futures based on whether or not people are going back to school and the prime ministers put so much of his personal political capital into this that he very much meets the schools to go back here and there's all sorts of impediments to this,
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some of this his parents being relu cta nt, some of this his parents being reluctant, but our schools would be ready and on the guardian front page, there are questions about the cost involved trying to get all the preparations in place and utilises with social distancing as possible and teachers are the most at risk at catching covid—19 in keeping people as bold as possible within the schools which is far more difficult in secondary schools than in primary schools, i think the key of what they're doing here is the financial strain on local authorities because they have been hemorrhaged by the coronavirus crisis and the fact is that the tax revenues have fallen, because of increased massively and they need all the preparation to make sure that everyone can use those public services and we look at the comments in the story from the teachers union, it does raise questions that are going to see more local authorities without having to pour money into schools to get them back and i do not think anyone has
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questioned whether it was the right of the wrong thing to do, it was absolutely the right thing to do and we know that people need to get back, both for their future and for their parents and the economy, but clearly doing so is going to have a huge cost on society and based on this report, you wonder whether that will be fully counted by central government. i mentioned that the daily mirror has this survey about how teachers feel that it's going to be next to impossible to preserve social distancing in schools. what are you picking up from the people you're talking to, is there a consensus among pa rents you're talking to, is there a consensus among parents to send their kids to school or is there an overwhelming sense of relief? among my parents, schools and all the rest of it, it is a bit of both. there is an acknowledgement that kids need to be at school, the matter concerning
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the health and safety education is the health and safety education is the children risk from covid—19 is very low on their risk from a lack of education is very high, so most people can understand that but we have gone i've got to secondary school children and there's information coming from the heads of the schools explaining how it's going to work and it is absolutely mind—boggling. as i was reading yesterday from my sun possible school that some the teachers are going to have such i , they have had to be completely redone because they cannot have kids all sitting and eating the same meals. my sun will not be wearing school uniforms because they adapting the uniform such as blazers, would be full of coronavirus germs and there's so many not on applications that you would not of thought on a few weeks and months ago and most of those things take money and i completely
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understand that the teachers are worried about finances and their personal safety and they think it is worth bearing in mind that the weeks of the department have been absolutely appalling. there is a lot of bad feeling post the turmoil and complete failure. between the unions and between the department for education, we can see a lot more of that bad feeling coming out and everyone holding their breath to see this is how —— see how this is going to work. working from home, a lot of parents are still working from home and having the kids back at school will make life easier, but they also be tempted to drive their children to school as to alleviate and not what their kids to pick up covid—19 on public transport and that is going to have huge implications for the traffic and there are some neat things that i think will be a problem and we do not quite know which things are going to the worst
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problems. how much truculent is there in whitehall? last week, the firing of the secretary of the department for education, the prime minister saying that there is a need for new official leadership and how many are saying that we think there's a need for new political leadership? i think, a lot would say that, being civil servants, they're very diplomatic and they would not dream of seeing that in public, but the fa ct of seeing that in public, but the fact is, it is quite a risky strategy here which is to blame all of the policy failings on officials. we saw the head of the exams grading party, she was booted out and jonathan slater who was head of the department for education, he was also booted out and a lot of people in whitehall looked was the education secretary, gavin williamson and he was involved in all of the key decisions about masks and schools, the grading fiasco and and schools, the grading fiasco and a lot of people in whitehall and
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beyond are asking the question, how is he still there? because ministers are there to decide, he made the decisions that turned out to be flawed and did a and did a very detailed essay about all the reasons why the fact that you have lost the permit of a mess really been there should be new political leadership as well and boris johnson should be new political leadership as well and borisjohnson has decided that he is backing the education secretary all the way and asi education secretary all the way and as i new of this behind mr williamson but the fact that you've now got thousands of officials across whitehall and the whole of the uk civil service who now know that ministers are happy to shoot the blame off of them when it was their own fault and for government, it isa their own fault and for government, it is a pretty dangerous place to be in that they will come and bite it in the back before the next crisis lands and they‘ re in the back before the next crisis lands and they're going to find themselves in a situation where
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officials won't take the blame any more. also on the guardian, the rush for vaccine can make the pandemic worse. why. it completely makes sense and to or brexit cliche, the problem of the stories that bad vaccine is worse than the vaccine at all. because of bad vaccine on the vaccinates 20 or 30% of the people who get it, but 100% of those people feel competent that they're not going to get it. you can see how that will make a bad situation a lot worse. it will be lowered into a fourth sense of security when in fa ct, fourth sense of security when in fact, we just waiting for the good vaccine and continuing to be socially distant and responsible, washing her hands the rest of it. there will be a better outcome and one of the points of the story they think is very good, we have seen the bravado of your donald trump or your pooch and or your boris johnson bravado of your donald trump or your pooch and or your borisjohnson is, them saying that my country is going to get the vaccine first. a lot of
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political value in being the leader that can produce a verse vaccine. many coming out the donald trump is absolutely determined that by the time of the american election, the american pharmaceutical companies who have come forward with the first decent vaccine. he saw vladimir putin say it was going to be russia and we know how important it is hearing so much about the british on that front, saying how proud of our scientists we are. and there's the money involved. that whatever institution does come up with a sexiness going to be very rich and it's going to be contributing an awful lot and tax to the coffers of that country. and there lots of reasons to be the first, but i completely believe why scientists are warning against it. falls rush in. apart from a very striking
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photograph, but was taken when she had just taken up the job and while she was drinking because apparently, she's quit. a stitch up against bullying claims, there is another story about why people are not going into office but for another reason stop you love this has become a very toxic political story because you have ministers who are urging people to try and get back into the office. you heard matt hancock saying that it's very important for those face—to—face meetings, i think the keyissueis face—to—face meetings, i think the key issue is the commute that for the past couple of months, people have been commuting from the bedroom to the spare bedroom prism to get back up and go on a train or in a car is something people feel quite relu cta nt to car is something people feel quite reluctant to do. there's been some chatter that the government is going to have a three day rail to encourage people to come into the
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office for at least three days a week but you can understand why people are enjoying the flexibility of being back at home. if you like the next month is going to be very crucial on this getting back to work thing because a lot of people are being aware of the summer we haven't had that much time before the summer break, if offices do not start to fill up before september, we are going to be in a place where a lot of companies will really begin to reassess the need for their big city centre and of course, the knock on the fact that we have seen already with them announcing almost 3000 redundancies in the centre many other places on that whole supply chain here. i get with this whole thing will end around the shakedown and things calmed down after the coronavirus crisis and people still wa nt to coronavirus crisis and people still want to go back to the office and they'll still want to see their colleagues, i have those face—to—face meetings and enjoy the perks of being run city, but ultimately, there will be more flexibility and companies will have to allow employees to do more time working at home and not do that commute if they do not want to. i
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have to say, as someone who gets the london underground twice a day, i have enjoyed not doing that for the past couple of days but i'm sort of looking forward to getting back into the palace of westminster a bit more in the coming weeks. remind me . let me move on to the telegraph. the great generous chancellor and many are worried that he's going to be snatching the money back again. many are worried that he's going to be snatching the money back again] of course, he's going to have to because it'sjust a matter of of course, he's going to have to because it's just a matter of when. and lots of rumours about it. picking up slightly on but will obviously be very connected to the chancellor and this talking about working from home. when it comes to this issue, if you think about the different generations of workers, we all have different needs. parents cani all have different needs. parents can i mentioned earlier, not happy
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to go back to work because they have childcare issues, but younger workers, who now know that they're going to one of the most severely damage financially from coronavirus, they are the ones that would really benefit from going back to work what is happening is a lot of companies do not want their employees to come back to work because it is cheaper for them not to have them at work. cheaper for them to be working out of london and we have seen with facebook in the states alike, employers not going to come back until 2021 in may of the city firms are saying that of our employees are are saying that of our employees are a vast majority are not going to come back until next year, so there's a lot of people saying they have to go to work when a lot of employers are quite happy with them not going back to work.|j employers are quite happy with them not going back to work. i will get it brief last word and this is the photo of a riot in the forest by the look of it. tell us why. this is one of those illegal raids to make
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