the headlines... the democratic candidate for the us presidency, joe biden, has challenged president trump on law and order following the violent protests in portland. he asked voters if they feel safe with a leader who can't control supporters. president trump later hit back at the democrats saying they were to blame for the violence in portland and other cities. he said only he could solve the problem swiftly, if they were willing to co—operate. in the uk, the travel company tui has launched an investigation into claims some passengers were ignoring coronavirus rules on a flight from a greek island linked to 16 covid—19 cases. lebanon's former ambassador to germany, mustapha adib, has been named as the country's next prime minister. his nomination comes as president macron of france arrived in beirut on his second visit since the explosion that devastated the lebanese capital.

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. i'm joined, once again, by susie boniface, columnist with the daily mirror & rachel cunliffe, comment and features editor at city am. tomorrow's front pages, starting with welcome back to both, i'm sorry we had to cut it short a little earlier on. we have a lot longer now. let's have a look at what's already in. the mirror's front page, which says headteachers have spent as much as 216 million pounds adapting schools for children amidst the pandemic — and that this could impact on funds for teaching. the i also reports on a story about schools, focusing on the challenge schools are facing to help students catch up on their work. the telegraph leads

on that story too — adding that the government is considering delaying gcse and a—level exams next summer to give children the chance to catch up on lost lessons. the guardian features warnings from charities calling for urgent, targeted support to help young people in deprived communities as the gap in progress between the richest and poorest widened during the lockdown. meanwhile, the express reports on demands from campaigners to the bbc‘s new director general, to reverse the decision to withdraw free tv licences for some older people. the times leads on worries from uk tourists as portugal is rumoured to be facing possible quarantine restrictions soon — after cases in the country rise above the limit for triggering a travel review. and the daily mail covers a couple of stories — the launch of an nhs low—calorie diet after research showed it could help reverse type two diabetes.

and the controversy over adele's hair braids as she celebrated notting hill carnival. cultural appropriation, she has been accused of. we will comes that moment. i'll come back both of you. susie, let's kick off with the telegraph. labour has been pushing for a delay of next summer's exams. government said it would make sure the exams go ahead without saying it wouldn't delay, but now seems that perhaps they will. talk us through at. well, the government saying that perhaps one of the things they are considering our perhaps they will just delay the exams by a month. now, when you consider the fact that most children have lost three months of schooling and elsewhere, we will see later on that it's been reported that some children in poor areas have suffered the equivalent of losing six months of schooling and

just one month until you have your exams may not be enough for everybody to catch up. one of the things we have seen here with this fiasco this year is that the current system of focusing so much on schoolwork on one single exam day has very badly. it's not away, perhaps, of achieving or a credit sing pupils with the correct amount of work they've done, and how much they actually know. putting so much into one day, a couple of hours, is not necessarily the best way of testing a student to see what they've gained. now, i can remember 1000 yea rs years when i was at school doing these tests and they ended the all levels and replaced it with these because there was a stronger coursework elements, and the concentration on exams was considered to be unfair, and over the course of couple of years commuted lots of pieces of big work, and then you did an exam at the end which gives you a bit more to your mark. since then, we have gone back to this concentrating on the exams,

and an awful lot of subjects, this victorian attitude that what you do on one day will affect the rest of your life and your possible future career. it's not necessary in every subject. it's not the best way to test every child, and as we have seen, teachers who know their pupils best are marking their old —— their children and students higher than the exams are finding that because exams can have a very serious impact on how well a child expresses what they have learned. it may not be the best way forward, next year, at the very least, just for next year, there should be some, you know, innovations in terms of coursework and introducing more coursework into the curriculum so that there is less reliance on exams if we have this same kind of disaster and cast next year, surely. it's interesting, rachel, we were speaking to some stu d e nts rachel, we were speaking to some students earlier on, and the one i spoke to who was going to take a levels next year didn't want to delay and was pointing out about the consequential delays in terms of

being marked, university selections, everything, just pushes everything further down the line. yes, and you can'tjust delay further down the line. yes, and you can't just delay things further down the line. yes, and you can'tjust delay things in further down the line. yes, and you can't just delay things in that way. you are preventing them from having theirsummer you are preventing them from having their summer before university. a time when lots of, it's the first free time they've had at us adults, and that is important in our young adult's life. you are delaying the university application process. we saw the scramble and clearing at newcastle university admissions, possibly you are delaying one student's —— when students can start their university courses. we have concerns over their university courses. we have concerns over that for this year's cohorts given the chaos. so, it's not simply a case of take the exams a month later and everything will be fine, and as susie said, we are dealing with far more than months lost of teaching time. in the government's very very vague defence, and i am never one to remotely defend gavin williamson from i do think putting in place an

entirely new exam coursework hybrid curriculum in this space of a few months or even a few weeks for students who are meant to be taking their exams this coming academic year. that has the potential to cause yet more chaos and i'm not sure that that's an ambition i would like this particular education secretary to go for. but i do think... is there an algorithm for it do you think? i think we should talk to dominic cummings about that and see if he can find one for us. super forecasting and all of that. i do think these are issues which were readily apparent in march when schools closed. gavin williamson has had five months to work—out not just how we are going to grade this year's cohorts but how we are going to compensate for the lack of teaching time for next year's. it seems very little work has been done on either of those topics by the education secretary and i really do wonder why he still has hisjob, given it's not really clear what he's bringing to the table at this

point. well, the government says they are not making any moves on that front, and there might be a mini reshuffle after christmas. susie, let's go to your paper. schools to keep our kids say. now, we discussed the last time we were looking at this story, you know, it's not clear, he said, because i thought the government had announced £1 billion for covid catch up, but they have to apply for that. did you manage to get to the bottom of this, why the heads are having to put this bill themselves was alias, and you will be unsurprised to them that what the government has announced is not necessarily whatever but it gets. there was £1 billion which was announced a little while ago which was broken up into catching up from xers tutoring, extra school time for children about two thirds of itjust for every pupil across the border. a next or third particularly deprived schools. at this 260 million the mirror is talking about here, if that money is not available until september. so this 260 million is money they have had to spend now to reopen. the pledge by government doesn't talk about reopening costs.

there's nothing there for nurseries orfor there's nothing there for nurseries or for colleges. there's there's nothing there for nurseries orfor colleges. there's nothing there for preparing or changing anything. and there are many different schools which are going to copein different schools which are going to cope in different ways with making things, whatever you want to college, covid secure, covid cautious. there are going to be fake walls grown—up, hiring her to cabins in some places, extra staff, fewer staff, less equipment you might be able to use in some classrooms come you got to find a way to compensate for that some and the schools are having to find a way to pay for all of this out of their existing teaching budgets and its £216 million. that's not even taking into account the cost of, for example, the mad bubbling which the government has introduced which would say, for example, if a teacher is teaching a secondary school and has a child as a primary school, the child could be in a series of bubbles, the teacher would be in a series of bubbles, and if one of those bubbles happens to touch someone with coronavirus and it's come of the teacher and perhaps the child and perhaps all of the other bubbles might all be infected and

have to come up school or learn from home. it would have huge massive impact all over the place. it's not very clear how that's going to work, but it's going to be cost associated for the outcome and the government really should be sing with the costs are going to be because of covid, we will cover. they have said that to some big businesses, there is no reason they can't say to school. there is a lot which is unknown over the next few months. let's move on, rachel, to the guardian, because the other consequences is is the gap of rich and poor pupils widening and this piece talking about widening by 46%, just under 50% in one year alone. this is the national foundation for educational research that has looked into the impact of those school closures. obviously, all children, children of key workers, but the vast majority of skill -- workers, but the vast majority of skill —— children missed school basically the entirety of the summer term. however, for the children in the most vulnerable and

disadvantaged groups, that actually, they went backwards during that time. it wasn'tjust they went backwards during that time. it wasn't just a case they went backwards during that time. it wasn'tjust a case of they went backwards during that time. it wasn't just a case of they didn't get taught, therefore they stood still, the lack of a school structure, routine, teachers perhaps slightly disruptive home lives, school was the only place providing them with that discipline and that sense of security. they have gone backwards and forgot what they've learned. it says 46% in most disadvantaged areas. the gap between how much time has been lost in afflue nt how much time has been lost in affluent schools versus disadvantaged schools is notjust ten times worse, again, this wasn't difficult to foresee. if you look at the different standards, firstly, in what schools were offering, the amount of teaching time on offer, the amount of remote lessons, the amount of homework being sucked and marked him and then with even within schools, what the pupil was able to do, what their home life was able to support them in doing if they have

the right equipment, huge variations there. it's not a surprise. all of my friends i know who our teachers have said the children who were doing well before lockdown continued with their homework, and their homework assignments, and did the best they could. the children who they had concerns about who were already falling behind fell even further behind. this is not rocket science. again, the lack of provision for this, the lack of catch—up services that were promised by the government and never materialised and a lack of a plan for how to close that gap now we that we are in this position kind of speaks to a monumental lack of planning. yes, the subject of inequality was picked up by the front page picture of the guardian as well, susie —— susie, marcus rashard who put forth, that you turn over a school meals a few months ago now pushing for another you initiative for uk food poverty. talk us initiative for uk food poverty. talk us through this one. is obviously not waiting for boris johnson to come up with anything himself. so he has formed a task force with some

big supermarket chains to alleviate child food —— child food poverty and talks about meeting some families that have been suffering, especially in the pandemic, one of them was involving a nine—year—old boy who didn't want to reveal how frightened he was about the situation that his family was in but felt he needed to step up and alleviate that situation, do what he could to help his parents and everything and be the man of the house almost and it was kind of heartbreaking for to see a nine—year—old should have to feel and shoulder that responsibility. so marcus has formed this little coalition, quite a big coalition actually unwritten to the prime minister asking for three basic steps to be taken which aren't detailed here on the front page, necessarily, but we will have to see what borisjohnson will necessarily, but we will have to see what boris johnson will do. necessarily, but we will have to see what borisjohnson will do. he's necessarily, but we will have to see what boris johnson will do. he's you turned before and marcus, perhaps prime minister rash bird can get some more out of him. onto the times, rachel. who would be wanting to plan a holiday at the moment, tourists in turmoil over quarantine

restrictions, a lot of criticism here from the portuguese ambassador particular and a crucial meeting i think it's thursday, isn't it when the transport committee is going to be deciding which countries to add to that quarantine list. so the issue with portugal is that it originally wasn't on the quarantine list. on the list of exempted countries, and then when there was a rush to buy flights, the airlines all sold out,... i thought portugal was actually was not included initially and that caused when this whole discussion started at the air corridors. when it initially wasn't put on the exempt list, then there were a big campaign this is a very popular holiday destination for tourists over the summer, and only changed a few weeks ago, and it is now looking like the cases are increasing in portugal and it might be put back up

to the quarantine list or out of the exempted list, and that's puts people in a real difficult situation, people who are important but the moment and need to decide whether they are going to cut their holidays short, but also people who have these trips planned that they thought were going to be safe and wouldn't require them to quarantine now having to decide whether they wa nt to now having to decide whether they want to go on holiday at all. there's a lot of criticism of the government for u—turns and, again, i'm highly critical of the government in numerous ways, i think in this instance though, it isn't a u—turn. they said they were going to look at the cases in various countries and make a calculation based on that. but susie the criticism of the government is that they brought in this printing far later than other countries. yes, and sorry, i was just going to get susie's point of view if you don't mind. it's difficult when we are not in the same place. yes, there got criticised for doing things late and give a bit more warning here. of the issue is that whether or not it's

readable to quarantine from portugal is the confusion for all the people who have booked in the interim into travel insurance will now not cover them and also the fact that this shows a complete lack of coherence on the international community. what we should be doing, we know, it's a global issue, as for global governments to co—operate for there to bea governments to co—operate for there to be a standard regime where every airport around the world come you all get a test, you get a test before you leave to go to the airport in the first place, you can travel, you can have your test, or you can travel at all, but for that rule to be fairly blankets, we've got it at the moment, it's different countries doing different things in different ways. japan are doing 10,000 tested at the airports. in britain they are just doing their testing. japan also treating travellers differently are coming into japan whether they are japanese nationals or non—japanese national. which means that you could be a japanese or not having to take a test also its not like any country is getting this exactly right. there

is getting this exactly right. there is chaos and confusion in the us and across europe and across china, all countries, all governments are having to deal with this problem at airport. ok, what is the fact is what it seems to be anyway in the uk anyway, summer is over and winter is approaching in the ft is talking about the hard rain is coming for whitehall. rachel, take us off on this one. this is the new head of the civil service to replace mark's side well and he is a former private secretary to prince william and also formally a gc hq, so those are two colliding worlds with the civil service that i hadn't particularly expected. a couple of unusual things about him, he's 41 years old, so he's very young for this post, his lack of experience is definitely going to be an issue going forward in this very very pivotal role at the moment. but two, this seems like dominic cummings wider strategy to call the civil service to reform the

civil service, too twisted about debates, reshape it in his image, blow it up, crazy destruction. talk about his lack of experience can he was offered knighthood by david cameron. was told by the then head of civil service, the cabinet officer, not to take it because he was too young. do you think though, susie, that he is in tune with dominic cummings on this because he isa dominic cummings on this because he is a diplomat, he's come from the palace, he's got some quite difficult things to do, hasn't he, if dominic cummings's plan is going to be executed. i thinki if dominic cummings's plan is going to be executed. i think i will be more interesting that it's being reported elsewhere tonight that he didn't even apply for thejob. he was made for the job. he was made to tickets by borisjohnson who boris johnson who rang borisjohnson who rang prince william, apparently, in person and said do you mind if i take your chap and prince william said, anything i can to help, because simon case was working at the palace and came to number ten for a bit, working at the palace and came to numberten fora bit, once working at the palace and came to number ten for a bit, once he was there, borisjohnson said he wanted him to stay. but if this guy did not apply for thejob him to stay. but if this guy did not apply for the job and it is not

going to be a job where he's got to do it dominic cummings wants them to do, to be as hard range, to rebuild this entire civil service remember, we have had in the last six months, a government which has lost five permanent secretaries, the civil service, the top of departments. not one single minister. the servants are taking the hit for anything that happens to go wrong in the government, and he is not going to be in charge of all of us and trying to get the civil service back on track, doing what he wanted to do and to be reformed, but at the same time for them to be safe and post, ata time time for them to be safe and post, at a time when borisjohnson as well reported today he is going to try to cut public spending. notjust government under pressure from a baby bbc under pressure as well, daily express, rachel, tim davey must save free tv licenses, campaigners renewing their appeal for that move not to be carried forward to reverse the tv licenses forward to reverse the tv licenses for over 70 fives.

it's not cruel, in my opinion. i think free tv licenses for all over 60 fives as a universal benefit is deeply regressive. there are working age households individuals who cannot afford to buy their own home, that can never afford to buy their own home who are being taxed in order to pay for the state pension who are below the poverty line who are meant to fund the tv licenses over 75 who have housing and generous pensions, i don't understand why it's a universal benefit. there are lots of stuff over 75 who are honourable and obviously we should pay for their licenses in the same ways that we pay for benefits for other braunfels that gutknecht —— blue honourable people in society, but the fact that it's universal come into general —— intergenerational inequality, see young people who are worse off than the old. i cannot understand why this is considered in any way progressive. it isn't. it's transferring wealth from the to the

wealthier and i completely support the bbc. do you want to comment on that, susie? i think the bbc. do you want to comment on that, susie? ithink we the bbc. do you want to comment on that, susie? i think we need to remember that free tv licenses is not something that's was sort of decided on by the bbc. it was something that it was hoisted on that decided to take on the payment of and was given to by a conservative government that knew full well over 70 fives were the biggest fans of the bbc, and it couldn't afford to keep paying for those licenses. it should be a government benefit if it's going to bea government benefit if it's going to be a benefit, the terms that rachel has just described or otherwise, be a benefit, the terms that rachel hasjust described or otherwise, but it's something that the state should be funding if it is funding it, not the bbc, not a corporation. ok. couple of stories in the mailjust to end with, first run, rachel, diabetes revolution, nhs will launch soup and shake diabetes linked with obesity, patients on a diet of 850 calories a day or fewer went into remission. is not very much, is a? given that

the recommended calorie for women is 2000 and for men 2500. it seems highly ineffective, so type two diabetes can go into intermission, people can be cured of its, and that is this new radical diet that is going to be prescribed initially to 5000 adults across the uk, and half of them in a trial that were put on this diet did indeed go into remission which is good news for cova 19, remission which is good news for cova19, good news for a number of other conditions. just to buff that story, two—for—one meals out tastes ca rd story, two—for—one meals out tastes card unusualjoining story, two—for—one meals out tastes card unusual joining of story, two—for—one meals out tastes card unusualjoining of two stories. yes, of course, rishi sunak two—for—one deal, but you've got to rememberas two—for—one deal, but you've got to remember as well, anyone who went out and have their £10 ahead of may well be paying 100 or 200 out of their taxes in the next two years. so, you know, don't regret the regret of any of that scheme too much. i don't think it's that, forgive me, two—for—one meals out, new taste card every day of the

week, so... the sale is that it's replacing rishi. .. cultural appropriation. you've got two minutes to talk about adele. do you think she was right to be criticised, rachel about her hairstyle or not, people just need to get a life? i think in the current political environment, it might have been an unwise decision when issues of race and racial inequality and cultural appropriation are very much in the foreground, but she also defended, david lemi came out and defended her and said that this is actually totally within the spirits of notting hill carnival and sometimes it's appropriation, sometimes its appreciation for my will leave it to him to decide. naomi campbell, alexander burke supported her as well, susie. yes, i think it's alexander burke supported her as well, susie. yes, ithink it's all about context, really. if you can be offended by this, then you need to get out a little bit more. she's

obviously not mocking any kind of culture and what she's doing, she's just joining culture and what she's doing, she's justjoining in with a festival theme. let her do it she likes. there are lots of things that you can wear something from a different culture, or eat something from a different culture or anything else and it doesn't indicate that you are appropriating anything or mocking it in anyway. someone who gets upset about adele's hair or bikini in that particular picture probably needs to stay at the window and have a deep fresh breath i suppose that's the dangers of social media as well. suddenly you face the deluge. that's it for the papers this hour. susie and mentor to come i thank you both very much indeed for taking us through those papers here again on bbc news. —— rachel. hello. it's as if august was so full of headline making extreme weather it ran out of weather right at the end of the month. it was so quiet on monday.

but quiet weather for some means increasing activity. this is a suitable picture as we move out of august into september and autumn. now, also quiet because of high pressure but that's now moving away. low—pressure approaching from the atlantic will bring some wetter and windy weather again later in the week, although, nowhere near as stormy as it was last weekend. and there is, as we start tuesday, a weak weather system close to northern ireland with some rain clearing away eastwards as a brightens up. patchy rain then feeds across parts of scotland, england and wales with a repeat of monday, dry, quiet, variable cloud, sunny spells, more of a southerly breeze now, and temperatures heading up a couple of degrees. more vigorous area of low pressure with weather fronts approaching from the atlantic for wednesday, could turn very loosely speaking some of the energy from what was once hurricane laura. what does that mean? it willjust pep up some of the rainfall that some of us will get on wednesday from it moving across northern ireland into scotland, northern and western england and parts of wales. not much rain reaching eastern parts of england and here quite late in the day. it will be a windier day

for all of us, these are average speeds around the northern and western isles of scotland, maybe some gusts approaching 50 mph on into wednesday night, particularly, and temperatures still reallyjust into the high teens. so on thursday, we have that area of low pressure close to iceland, these weather fronts moving south across the uk, and this cold front will be weakening as it does so. so, initially on thursday, some heavier bursts of rain around parts of northwest england and wales, for example, but not a huge amount of rain left on that as it moves further southeast. behind it, it brightens up, but for much of northern england, scotland and northern ireland thursday, it will be bright, breezy and the chance of seeing a few showers more especially in western scotland. a little bit warmer in parts of central and eastern england before that weather front clears through, but it is just a one day wonder. and that weather front does, well, try to clear through going into friday but it may well linger across parts of southern england and south wales, there may be another pulse of energy running along it which could bring some rain back. so someuncertainty in that, we will keep watching that

and keeping you updated. looks like much of north wales, northern england, northern ireland and scotland will see some sunny spells. heavy showers particularly into northwest scotland on the breeze. that takes us onto the weekend. the front to the south eventually dies away. high—pressure's beginning to move towards us from the atlantic, but its position at the start of the weekend means the flow of air is coming at us from the northwest — not a particularly warm direction. high—pressure isn't over us enough to prevent a few showers around on saturday. so, sunny spells, a chance for a few showers. remember, that decaying weather front to the south, it may still have a little bit of wet weather associated with it and parts of southern england. remember that northwesterly flow, that's why it it is still not particularly warm out there. nor will it be for a time, even though high—pressure then as we look to sunday and into the start of next week begins to build and move more bodily across the uk. and that means a lot of quiet, settled, dry weather as it does so as the week begins. so a mainly dry start to next week, still on the cool side, some chilly nights around. it may well be later in the week we see it turning

where unsettled again. a weather system trying to feed rain down from the northwest, but moving into the high—pressure may well weaken as it does so. but it may also briefly bring those temperatures back up again a few degrees. so, weather on the way back as we start a new month, meteorologically speaking, a new season. that's your forecast, bye—bye.

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