this is bbc world news, the headlines... one month after the devatstaing blast in lebanon that left more than 190 people dead, rescuers in beirut continue to search in the rubble for possible survivors after some signs of life were heard on thursday. controversial former australian prime minister tony abbott is appointed as a trade adviser to the uk. critics say he is a homophobe, misoygynist and climate change denier. there's quarantine confusion in the uk as scotand and wales impose new restrictions but there's no change for travellers arriving into england and northern ireland. as india registers four million coronavirus cases, with nearly 82 thousand new cases per day experts warn the pandemic in the country, could spin out of control.

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are ben chu, economics editor at the independent and benedicte paviot, uk correspondent at france 24. let's have a look at tomorrow's from pages now. let's start with the most confirmed cases of coronavirus are now in the young, says the times, raising hopes that the uk can avoid further lockdowns and large numbers of deaths. nonetheless, the uk still requires many travellers to quarantine for two weeks upon arrival, with the mail reporting that some conservative mps are involved in a "dramatic revolt" against the measures — demanding testing at airports

to "get britain flying again". borisjohnson has said that post—brexit britain will prosper, whether or not is has a deal with the eu, says the express. the message comes after haulage and logistics bosses warned of a looming crisis in supply chains, possible shortages, and significant gaps in border plans. the pm is on the front page of the independent too, for appointing controversial former australian pm tony abbott as a trade adviser. the guardian outlines the accusations made against him — noteably a record of misogyny, homophobia and climate change scepticism. patients will be told to call 111 before they're allowed to visit a&e under new plans, according to the telegraph. and london staple pret a manger will open more branches in the suburbs, as working from home has

diminished its city centre trading, the financial times says. ben, benedicte, thank you so much for joining ben, benedicte, thank you so much forjoining us. let's start with the times. virus shifts to young as lockdown fear sees. ben, times. virus shifts to young as lockdown fearsees. ben, can times. virus shifts to young as lockdown fear sees. ben, can you tell us about this story? this is a times analysis about public health and configures on who is being infected by the coronavirus in the uk at the moment. so this is sort of new cases. there are only about 2000 a day, and the times analysis suggests that they are mostly in younger people rather than older people. this sort of confirms what we have known and the same that we have seen in the us and france. the import of the story is the suggestion that because young people are suggestion that because young people a re less suggestion that because young people are less likely to be hospitalized, and that is showing up in the figures as well, death is not going

up figures as well, death is not going up even though cases are going up. this is a good thing because it means if we have another outbreak, if the case continues to rise, it doesn't necessarily mean that we have to have local lockdowns or national lockdown, and that would be good for the economy. so they are interpreting this, young people be more effective as young people for the economy. benedict, i know i'm socially observing the social distancing very carefully. do you think this means that that's what a lot of adults are doing around uk? well, there is definitely an age division, and what we're seeing is notjust division, and what we're seeing is not just extra division, and what we're seeing is notjust extra ordinary division, and what we're seeing is not just extra ordinary shift, division, and what we're seeing is notjust extra ordinary shift, as the times closets, but our real reversal. so before, several months ago, it was three quarters of people over 50 who were infected and liable to die, orat over 50 who were infected and liable to die, or at least have very serious consequences. now to die, or at least have very serious consequences. now what we are seeing is that it's young people, certainly people under 40, so people, certainly people under 40, soi people, certainly people under 40, so i think what's underlined in this article is very much that these figures can be attributed to both

the younger people taking advantage of the easing of the lockdown and also because older people are being much more careful, some of them going all the way to keeping on shielding. now, that could be good news if that's continues because it means that hospitality and workplaces, offices and others, could go ahead and return, so much wanted for economic reasons amongst others, by the government, would be one that would have a green light and perhaps gain more trust within the population. interesting to note that the uk returned to work has been far smaller than countries like france or others. benedicte. .. it's actually illegal not to go to work unless you have a jolly good reason in france. benedicte, the daily telegraph, staying with more covid themed news, it's talking about the triple one line here in

the uk, saying that patients will be asked to call 111 before they attend accident and emergency. you think those will be controversial reforms as the paper says? yes, i do. as the paper says? yes, ido. because as the paper says? yes, i do. because as the article points out, the danger is that the new normal becomes not seeing a doctor, a person, a nurse. and i think, what's the matter of actually doing triage? and when i think there is an emergency, your first port of call is to ring, in the uk, the 999 number. will it depend on people's ability to explain either their own or somebody else's that they've witnessed illness? the great danger is that what will continue— which is exponential rise in cardiac arrests that should not be two debts have led to deaths during this pandemic, people not daring, in a sense, to go to any mac. but what we are reassured of in the article is we

are told that even if this is being piloted across the country, before it will be rolled out by december, and we are in september, so that's interesting in itself and it will focus minds. —— a any mac. that actually nobody will be turned away from a any mac if they actually go a any mac if they actually go to into a&e. to think that people will think this is a positive develop into terms of trying to reduce the pressure in hospitals was yellow yes there was a quote making the point that it could work well, no one likes hanging around in a any mac for many, many hours to be seen. they argue that if this can come of this triage telephone line can get to the point where they can go in later that day and be seen immediately, that would work for them. so the key is, if it works in practice, especially, of course, because people don't want to wait around and a waiting room where people might have covid as well, so i don't think it's a bad idea in principle, but it has to work in

practice. as benedicte says, the real danger is that people who really need treatment urgently will not get it because there's another barrier being put in the way of them getting that treatment. ben, moving onto covid—i9 issues overseas in french paper, large delays in covert testing. yes. it's heartening in a way that it's notjust testing. yes. it's heartening in a way that it's not just the testing. yes. it's heartening in a way that it's notjust the uk, in a weird way, that does notjust have problems with testing and getting on top of the coronavirus in that way. you know, we have been focusing on oui’ you know, we have been focusing on our problems of ramping up testing, but france, as this headline and story shows, is having some similar problems. i think this is important because testing, as a lot of people have been saying, is the absolute key to this. we need to trap —— track, with public health measures. so, ina track, with public health measures. so, in a way, the fact that testing

is being ramped up in countries in france and the uk, and also the us isa france and the uk, and also the us is a good thing, because it means that we are getting to grips with this and we are learning more about it. benedicte, you are with france 24, so i would imagine this issue has been discussed a lot, but what is behind these delays? well, let's be clear about something, if we are talking about 1 million tests be clear about something, if we are talking abouti million tests per week, that is a first in france, for similar populations between the uk and france, ithink similar populations between the uk and france, i think that's a record that should be underlined and is good, what is going wrong, so to speak is that the results are coming 5-6 - speak is that the results are coming 5—6 — seven days later, that delay between the testing, which is dangerous because you can go around and infect other people from your family, your friends, etc, and infect other people from your family, yourfriends, etc, if you are going back to where, that can be are going back to where, that can be a problem as well. what an editorial points out here is, and we have to say there is a resurgence about 9000

people infected patients new cases today. and of real concern of french authorities. similar populations, again, i must underlined that the death toll is about 31,000 compared to 41 or higher in the uk. it's all down, says the editorial, it reminds us down, says the editorial, it reminds us rather than telling us, reminds us us rather than telling us, reminds us to us rather than telling us, reminds ustoa us rather than telling us, reminds us to a collective and individual responsibility. it's not a question of age. we really must not make assumptions, we must wear masks. they call it in french the barrier, social distancing, masks, you must ta ke social distancing, masks, you must take responsibility for your own behaviour and by doing that, you are helping everyone else. benedict, i don't know how much you are planning to travel, but the daily mail is very keen on airport testing. now we

have heard the transport secretary and the government saying, look, this is not a panacea. we are thinking of rolling it out, but it's not the solution. what's interesting, again, if we compare there is airport screening in france, but it is not applied indiscriminately or in all countries of the world, it select in a sense, identified by the french authorities as being a danger, posing a danger, and therefore, there isn't a huge traffic between those countries at the moment and france, it's mainly french people coming back from holiday or residing there, coming back. the us is some of the countries targeted. again, there is a problem, because you go home for 24-48 a problem, because you go home for 24—48 hours, and you don't know the results. so, there is some improvement there, and some people's temperature is being taken in airports as well. random testing. airports have airlines and really suffer through out this pandemic. so

they would be really keen for something like this. they are. and you can sort of see from the quote thatis you can sort of see from the quote that is in this campaign that it's being heavily influenced by the concerns of airlines and airports about what the impact this quarantine policy is having on their financial viability, you know, if people think that there's a risk that they may be quarantined for 14 days coming back from holiday, a lot of people are thinking i'm not going to ta ke of people are thinking i'm not going to take the risk of going in the first place in, and that is obviously a disaster for those companies. in terms of the policy itself, i think there is probably a case, you know, if other countries have managed it and are doing 0k, then we should learn from that. we shouldn't be afraid to change policy on the basis of that. i get the impression that the government is very very wary after what happened in march when it was seen to be too slow and not to take the threat seriously enough. to be easing off now it will be a battle, it would be

between caution and a lot of conservative mps who are getting very concerned about the impact of the policy and the economy. let's move away from all of the covid—19 news. the guardian is talking about the story that is become quite controversial from both sides of the aisle. em appoints misogynist abbott as trade adviser. —— pm. why do you think, ben, the government would wa nt think, ben, the government would wantan think, ben, the government would want an appointment like this. well, tony abbott is part of that, sort of, anglo australian right—wing group who have the similar mind, worldview, if you like them and i suspect that is where the motivation to appoint him to this post comes from, but let's be honest. this isn't a particularly influential position, despite the sort of many headlines it's generating for understandable reasons, given some of the things that tony abbott has

said over the years. the board of trade does not decide watch trade deals the uk does. it meets only four times a year. it is not the kind of body which has this, sort of, power that some people are attributing to it. and i think it's important to bear that in mind as we have this reasonable debates about whether someone like that should be in government —— government adviser. benedicte, why do you think this appointment, given ben is talking about, why do you think it's been so controversial? well, it's clear why it's been so controversial. it's controversial. it has been for the la st 48 controversial. it has been for the last 48 hours, so the government confirming that appointment today, thatis confirming that appointment today, that is not a u—turn, that is a confirmation. it's not very influential, as indeed a band was pointing out, it's interesting that it isa pointing out, it's interesting that it is a board that was revised by theresa may to, "help shape

post—brexit trade policy." how he will feel when the uk's negotiating, orany will feel when the uk's negotiating, or any advice about australia, it will be interesting. will it be the cricket test? anyway, moving on, the reason it's so controversial is because opposition parties, amongst which the labour party, sir kier stamer has clearly said today, no fudging at all whatsoever from the labour party and its leader —— labour party and its leader —— labour party, and they would not have made this appointment if they we re have made this appointment if they were in government. charities, lgbt, environmental activists have come out, saying this is not the right thing. interesting to note that other unpaid advisers who will be meeting four times a year on the board including former conservative mep daniel hannum, a further brexiteer of course, and the former labour health secretary, patricia hewitt. let's stay with trade agreements, looking at the daily express front page. boris, britain

will prosper out of the eu, what do you think about that? mightily prosper, i think, is the quote in the daily express. that's not a small word to be ignored. well, does he mean if there is a deal or isn't a deal, i suspect he means neither. when we hear about the supply chains, the just—in—time, whether it's for the car industry, whether it's for the car industry, whether it's for the car industry, whether it's medicines, whether it's road whole ears, whether it's the emergency measure | road whole ears, whether it's the emergency measure i believe taken late last night —— holier, to requisition yet more land in kent ken's to actually store with car parks with lorries. he think there's a real concern with that lead to document we saw yesterday that the supply chain will he problematic, and that this will not go smoothly whether there is a deal or isn't a deal. of course, that 31st of december date looming not helped by the pandemic and this huge economic

challenge for the uk and for other countries. 0ne challenge for the uk and for other countries. one has to hope that the eighth round of talks this week will go eighth round of talks this week will go better between mr frost and mr barnier in london. there is certainly of you on both sides, something that the uk will do well out of the eu, others less sure. regardless, how easy is it going to be for the uk to strike these new trade deals and prosper? well, traditionally, trade deals have not been very easy for countries to conclude because they involve a lot of domestic interests having to accept more imports in their area. it's very politically sensitive. so, imean, it it's very politically sensitive. so, i mean, it can be done, that doesn't necessarily mean you are going to get a very good beneficial trade dealfor get a very good beneficial trade deal for your own country if you try and rush it through. so, they take time. that's been the experience of the eu when it's trying to do trade

deals with other countries and other blocks around the world. that's been the experience of countries like australia, new zealand. so, i don't think the rules are going to change just because britain has left the eu. the view of most trade experts is that it will be tough. it's certainly tough to get good deals coming toa certainly tough to get good deals coming to a bad deal very quickly, but i don't think anyone would advocate doing that. as benedicte says, everyone is looking to those eu negotiation deadlines to see what is going to happen. let's and with the final paper, the financial times weekend. the sandwich and salad chain have been told —— it's been described to me as upmarket, depending on how you view your sandwiches. they are going to move out of london to the suburbs will stop ben, tell us why. well, it's been the iconic the office lunch company, and it's served them well

for many, many years, but now, obviously, when a lot of london, virtually all london office workers are now working from home, they have seen the bottom fall out of their custom market. so, they are trying to, sort of, very very hastily reorient either whole business, as you say, going out of london, going to the suburbs, putting products in supermarkets, doing delivery, basically pulling every single lever they can think of to try to salvage their business. you know, it's been a very very tough time for them. they had to fire a third of their workforce last week. so, let's hope for their sake that one of these levers actually works. benedicte come i don't know how you feel about sandwiches, but is it a hasty move, given that the uk government is trying to get people back into the city? it's a hasty move, but a necessary one, which over alarms

london which has suited ben and certainly suited me. needs to be... ready to change. it has been completely whether it's in london are commuting to london, it needs to widen that base. needs to future itself, i think it's a big opportunity and when it doesn't seize it, when other rivals have been far less reliant on london, it's meant to have a problem. sol think been summarised it perfectly. it's about making deliveries, having hot dinners that can be delivered to you, it's about looking at suburbs. and about changing the menu. they have laid off 3000 staff, but is really... benedicte. i'm so sorry that we have to ended therefore stopping to lead to say that i got a bit of a french lesson today. thank you so much. that is it for the

papers. that's it for the papers. my thanks to ben and benedicte. i'm back at the top of the hour with the main headlines. first it's all of today's sports news. goodbye for now. hello, i'm gavin ramjaun, and this is your latest sports news. northern ireland scrambled a late equaliser, to salvage a point in their nations league encounter in romania. their luck was in, but it was a frustrating night for scotland — who were held to a draw at home to israel. 0ur sports correspondent andy swiss reports. his first game as northern ireland manager, and ian baraclough will do well to see a more dramatic one. at half time, his team looked beaten. george pushing romania ahead, before even deeper trouble for the visitors. a second yellow forjosh mcginnis, and he was off. a goal down and a man down, there was surely no way back. but bailey peacock ferrell's goalkeeping brilliance kept them in it and, with just minutes left, remarkably they conjured an equaliser.

gavin whyte, the late hero, to give northern ireland a draw — but it barely seemed possible. at hampden park, meanwhile, a more disappointing night for scotland. it began well enough — israel conceding a penalty, which was emphatically dispatched by ryan christie. scotland ahead at the break — but after it, israel found an equaliser — and how! a net—busterfrom eran zahavi — not a bad way to earn a draw, but for the hosts, an ultimately frustrating result. andy swiss, bbc news. lionel messi is staying at barcelona, just ten days after telling the club he wanted to leave. the sticking point is a release clause in his contract of over £600 million. barcelona insisited that it could not be waived that was contested by messi and his fatherjorge, who also acts as his agent. they said that he was entitled to a free transfer. messi has now said that he won't take the club he loves to court so will stay. although the six times world player of the year has attacked

the barcelona hierarchy calling the management of the club under josep maria bartomeu's presidency a disaster. translation: i was sure i was free to leave. the president always said that at the end of the season, i could decide if i stayed or not. now they cling onto the fact that i did not say it before 10 june. it turns out on that date, we were still competing for la liga in the middle of this coronavirus. this is the reason i'm staying out of the club, the president told me the only way to leave was to pay the 700 —— staying at the club. million euros release, and that is obviously impossible. there was another way and it was to go and try, but i would never go to court against barcelona because it is a club that i love and has given me everything since i arrived. well, one deal that has gone through, is that of german international kai havertz to chelsea — in a deal worth around £71 million. havertz becomes the seventh signing for frank lampard this summer. and joins on a five year

contract from bundesliga side bayer leverkusen. the 21—year—old is chelsea's second most expensive signing after kepa arriza balaga joined from athletic bilbao two years ago. mo fair has broke the landmarks that by gabrielle selassie 13 years ago. he covered the time in 21 km and 330 metres, beating the previous distance by 45 metres, the four—time of the big champion increased the pace alongside belgium and the latter half of the hour in the event that the athletes tried to cover as much distance impossible —— as possible in 60 minutes. that was incredible, i'm very happy to break the record today. i'm so pleased for him and for myself. what an amazing way to do it. and to show the people what is possible.

all the brits have been knocked out of singles competition at the us open, after dan evans lost to frenchman corentin moutet. the match resumed after rain halted proceedings in the third set, at one all after evans took the first set, but the 21—year—old closed out the match — taking the next the two sets both on tie breaks. —— putting on 98, aaron finch fell, and after that, they crumbled, some inspired english bowling to fall short. all the brits have been knocked out of the singles condition of the us open after dan evans lost to it resumed after rain halted proceedings. the 21 euros closed out the match, taking the next two sets both on tie—break. moutet takes on felix auger aliassime, who beat andy murray in the second round. just before that, cameron norrie fell in a third—round defeat to spaniard alejandro davidovich fokina. norrie also lost three sets to one. in rugby union premiership, leaders exeter notched up a sixth straight win to further damage

northampton saints' play—off chances. northampton were leading 19—17 with just ten minutes to go before tom 0'flaherty bundled his way over to give the chiefs victory. earlier, bristol had a bonus—point win at worcester. leinster will defend their pro14 title in next saturday's final after beating munster 13—3 in the semifinal. it was a scrappy game with just one try scored by leinster‘s ronan kelleher. you can just see the ball being touched down in the bottom right of your screen there. st helens thrashed huddersfield giants to go top of the superleague for the first time this season. giants have been struggling with injuries and they were swept aside, as saints ran in nine tries. possibly the pick of them was this one from dominique peyroux. it finished 54—6 to the reigning champions. in the late match warrington beat hull fc 37-12. british rider adam yates has retained the yellow jersey after stage seven of the the tour de france. there was a thrilling sprint finish

in lavaur and jumbo—visma rider wout van aert further strengthened his claim as rider of the season, with a stunning burst to win the stage — his second of the race so far. yates kept up with the leading pack and has an overall lead of three seconds with the race heading into the pyrenees tomorrow. that's all the sport from us for now. hello there. it's going to feel rather cool this weekend, certainly for the time of year, and that's because of where our air is coming from — from the northwest on a brisk breeze. that's going to feed in some showers into northern and western parts of uk, but there will be some sunshine around too. the winds maybe not quite as strong as what we had over the last few days. low pressure to the north east of the uk, high—pressure to the southwest, that's why we see these northwesterly winds, which will feed in showers from the word go across northern and western areas. some good spells of sunshine further east, mind you, but then we could see some longer spells of rain and more cloud pushing into northern ireland and then southwest scotland, northwest england, north wales through the day.

some of these showers will be driving through the cheshire gap into the midlands. temperature—wise, 18 celsius at best in the sunshine in the southeast, generally the low—mid teens further north. now, through saturday night, it looks like a weather front will move into western areas to bring more prolonged showery rain through northern ireland and across the receipt into wales and the southwest of england. there could be odd shower elsewhere too, probably driest and clearest across south england, northeast scotland. but it's going to be another quite cool night. now, as we head on into sunday, you will see fewer isobars on the chart, so less windy, but we have had this weather front which would've been moving across the irish sea then pushing into england and wales during the course of sunday. that's going to enhance the shower activity for england and wales. there could be the odd heavy, maybe even thundery one. fewer showers for scotland and northern ireland, and more sunshine here. because the winds will be lighter, it might feel a degree or so warmer, a high of 19 celsius in the southeast. then, as we head on into next week monday, we see a new area of low pressure skirting to the north

of the uk. that's going to bring some wet and windy weather to many northern parts of the uk. some of that rain getting into northern and western england and wales through the day, but not really reaching the southeast here. after a bit of a foggy start, it will tend to stay dry with variable cloud and some sunshine. notice the temperatures creeping up, especially in the south, a high of perhaps 21 degrees. that warmer air mass will be with us as we move through tuesday and wednesday, as you can see with the deeper orange colours here. but it is short—lived — cooler air will make a return from the north by the end of the week. given some sunshine in the south, because it's going to be rather cloudy, i think, next week, we can see 24—25 celcius. then it cools down for all areas by the end of the week.

this is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm reged ahmad. lebanon marks a month since the explosion that destroyed large parts of beirut, killing nearly 200 people. india registers four million coronavirus cases. experts are warning the pandemic in the country, could spin out of control. controversial former australian prime minister tony abbott is appointed as a trade adviser to the uk — despite critics describing him as a homophobe, misoygynist, and climate change denier. and barcelona superstar lionel messi changes his mind over leaving barcelona. now he says he doesn't want to drag the spanish