this is bbc news, the headlines... police in the uk declare a "major incident" in birmingham city centre — after number of people are stabbed in the area — one local bar worker said there was an escalation of violence i've always seen quite a lot of fights and drunken commotions but there was nothing quite like tonight. the uk labour party calls for extensive coronavirus testing at airports and a review on quarantine measures for those returning to the uk from abroad. a coronavirus lockdown in the australian city of melbourne is extended for another two weeks the uk's chief brexit

negotiator david frost says the government is not "scared" of walking away from trade talks and several boats have sunk on a lake in texas while taking part in a parade to support president trump in november s us election let's get all the latest sport now from the bbc sport centre — and katherine downes has all the latest. news of the football last night and england always struggle against iceland? yes, they do, although no thunderclap last night, but yes, as you say. there was a chaotic end to england's opening nations league match — but they did come away from iceland with a 1—0 win. england were reduced to 10 men when kyle walker was given a second yellow card for a lunging tackle. he's onlyjust returned to the side and he said he'd be speaking to manager gareth southgate about his international future. that was just about the most excitement we had until the 89th

minute, when raheem sterling gave england the lead from the penalty spot. but, in injury time, iceland were awarded a penalty themselves, which birkir bjaranason blasted over the bar. i think if we'd scored the late penalty and that had been the end of it, we'd have been talking about a performance of great character and we got through. of course, we then gave a really pert penalty away. it feels like we've got out ofjail. the women's super league season returned with a 2—0 win forformer champions manchester city, against newly— promoted aston villa. england forward georgia stanway said she felt very sorry for villa's keeper, after defensive errors allowed her to score both city's goals. britain's adam yates will wear the leader's yellow jersey for a fourth day, after the first high mountain stage of the tour de france. he came under attack several times on stage eight in the pyrenees, but he finished in a group containing many of the overall race favourites to stay three seconds ahead. it was the frenchman nans peters

who took the honours. lewis hamilton is still looking unstoppable in his bid for a seventh formula one world title, breaking even more records. he posted the fastest qualifying lap in formula one history as he claimed pole position for the italian grand prix, averaging just over 164 miles an hour. his mercedes team—mate valtteri bottas will start alongside him. honestly, it's every weekend, it's very humbling to see what we do asa team. you know, wejust keep going from strength to strength to strength. it's really, really — i'm so grateful and happy with my guys, theyjust do an incredible job every weekend. the england captain owen farrell could miss saracens' champions cup quarter—final, after being sent off in their defeat to wasps in rugby union's premiership. he was dismissed for this high tackle on charlie atkinson. farrell apologised and atkinson appeared to be ok. but saracens must now wait to hear

the extent of his punishment. wasps won 28—18. crowds returned to english rugby for the first time since lockdown, with 2,700 supporters were allowed at the stoop to watch harlequins play bath. it was the latest government test event. but despite the return of supporters, it was the away side who got the victory — bath winning 41—27 to close in on a premiership play—off place. there is still british interest at the us open, afterjamie murray and neal skupski reached the men's doubles quarter—finals. in the singles, serena willams came from a set down to beat fellow american sloane stephens and reach the fourth round. stephens — the champion here in 2017 — took the first set before williams fought back to win in three. she'll face maria sakkari next, the woman who beat her at last month's tournament at flushing meadows. tyrrell hatton is the leading briton at the half—way stage of golf‘s season—ending tour championship in atlanta. he shot a second round of 66, to move to 9—under—par,

four shots behind world number one dustin johnson, who's still out in front. rory mcilroy slipped back to 8 under. there's £11 million on offerfor the winner. britain's georgia taylor—brown put in a brilliant performance to become world triathlon champion for the first time. the title is usually decided with a series of races but this year, because of the pandemic, there was a one—off race in hamburg. taylor—brown broke clear early in the run section and gradually extended her advantage to win by nine seconds. france's vincent luis retained the men's title, with alistair brownlee finishing ninth and brother jonny back in 31st. the british athletics championships in manchester produced a remarkable finish in the men's 800 metres. daniel rowden got the better of jake wightman, powering past him with 50 metres to go. it was a great performance

from rowden, who didn't run a single race last year after suffering serious illness and being forced to undergo major surgery on his stomach. european bronze medallist holly bradshaw dedicated her win to her biggest fan, her grandfather — who died on friday. thisjump of 4.35m meant she became british pole vault champion for the eigth time. i struggled a little bit on warm up and felt a little bit flat. i didn't get much sleep last night. trying to, like, rally the family together but it was important for them as well for me to come and i'm glad and still got british champion. he would be really, really happy. england face australia in the second t20 of the series later today — more live cricket on the bbc for you. but one england legend announced his retirement from the sport yesterday. ian bell scored 22 test centuries, won 5 ashes urns and is celebrated as one of the most stylish batsmen the sport has seen — but he'll retire at the end of the season with warwickshire, the county he's played for since he was 10 years old.

the day after england team—mate graham onions announces his retirement, ian bell announces his retirement. you're up to date with the sport. now on bbc news, it's time for the papers. hello and welcome to our look at what is in the sunday newspapers. with me are sian griffiths, education correspondent at the sunday times and shyama perera, writer and broadcaster. before we chat about the papers today, let's run you through the front pages. the observer leads with the contents of a leaked public health england report which suggests covid is now endemic in deprived parts of the country. following the blockade

of newspaper printing plants by extinction rebellion, the sunday telegraph claims the pro—environment group could be treated as an organised crime group by the government as part of a crackdown on its activities. that story also the lead for the sunday times, which tells of a cross—party rebuttal of extinction rebellion‘s latest action, and the resulting political consensus on the need for both freedom of speech and freedom of the press. the mail leads on its interview with the uk's chief brexit negotiatior, lord frost, who's told the paper britain ‘will not blink‘, ahead of crunch talks next week with his eu conterpart, michel barnier. brexit also the lead for the express, and borisjohnson‘s warning to the eu that it must be realistic about what brexit means, insisting: oursovereignty is non—negotiable. and the sunday mirror features harry and meghan‘s deal with netflix, there are suggestions the couple are in talks over a film about princess diana.

right, let's begin, shyama, why don't you kick us off with the sunday times? this blockade of the printing plants which meant one and a half million newspapers were not delivered. clearly there is a freedom to protest and demonstrate but also freedom of speech and it's an interesting debate, isn't it, about the balance? yes, i think it's interesting and the sunday times saying you know, cabinet ministers speaking up for press freedom and we've even got emily thornberry speaking up for press freedom. complaining about what these protesters d id. complaining about what these protesters did. but to me, this is a fairly simple protest of 100 or 150 people and i sure the general public must look at this and think, why could it not just must look at this and think, why could it notjust be diffused much more gently and pleasantly earlier? so the newspapers could have got out. and why are we not listening to

these protesters, quite interesting, ifind these protesters, quite interesting, i find obviously, the these protesters, quite interesting, ifind obviously, the times these protesters, quite interesting, i find obviously, the times story is finding a new angle on it and saying everybody is angry and that continues throughout the paper. i'm not entirely sure when you are reading through, what exactly the problem is, beyond, as it says, the failure i'm sorry, to interrupt you, there is a bit of crackling on your line, maybe oh i think it could be because i am holding the newspaper up! i was looking at the front page while i was talking to you. iam front page while i was talking to you. i am so sorry. all i was saying was, i think, you. i am so sorry. all i was saying was, ithink, this you. i am so sorry. all i was saying was, i think, this isjust, you. i am so sorry. all i was saying was, ithink, this isjust, it's you. i am so sorry. all i was saying was, i think, this isjust, it's an insta nt was, i think, this isjust, it's an instant response from our politicians, on both sides, emily thornberry adding her voice to this. claiming that this is some sort of breach of our right to freedom of speech and are not really sure how invading a newspaper printing plant

which many of us did in the 1980s as pa rt which many of us did in the 1980s as part of journalist protests, actually counts as you know, some form of terrorism or blogging freedom of speech. it's actually to argue forfreedom of freedom of speech. it's actually to argue for freedom of speech. i'm glad we sorted out the technical issue, we were about to get our top technical boffins under that but we sorted it out! keep that newspaper away from your microphone! let's go, sian, to the sunday telegraph, the same story, extinction rebellion they say facing curbs, they would be treated as an organised criminal gang, but is that going too far, do you think? i think the sunday times and the sunday telegraph have this line on the story. i should say, they were news uk printing plants, it was my paper, the sunday times, the sun, which were affected although the printing plants that we re although the printing plants that were located also print telegraph

and the mail, so 1.5 million papers, it's a lot of papers and i should say, they weren't delivered and they we re say, they weren't delivered and they were recycled. both of the papers suggest there could be new laws to crack down on extinction rebellion protests in future and i think this is partly because i agree with emma two, of course we need to have the ability to protest in this country. —— i agree with shyama. but it has to be within the law. i think there we re to be within the law. i think there were 80 arrests at the printing plants on saturday, friday night and saturday. you know, local businesses we re saturday. you know, local businesses were disrupted. it was an unpleasant occasion. and i think if you are going to protest it has to be within the law and the idea is, i think, that there might be new powers taken to protect freedom of the press,

there could be changes to the public order act and that would prevent protest groups entering defined areas outside sites like courts or parliament or places that produce new papers like printing presses or i guess, television stations. and thatis i guess, television stations. and that is an attempt to protect the freedom of the press and i think thatis freedom of the press and i think that isjust as important freedom of the press and i think that is just as important as protecting the right of protesters to protest in this country. let's go to protest in this country. let's go to the observer, shyama, talking about coronavirus and how it could be endemic in deprived parts of the country, in other words, some of the local lockdown clinic we've seen have not really worked. what do you think? in bootle, manchester, oldham, think? in bootle, manchester, old ham, rochdale, think? in bootle, manchester, oldham, rochdale, high—density areas in terms of multiple occupation of homes, very strongly bame and if the

original lockdown did not bring the problem under control that nothing will because it is part and parcel of life in those communities but the question is, is there any way of managing it, they are talking a lot about track and trace and i presume that means if you can find any super spreaders within those communities you could isolate them but i do quite a lot of work with mutual aid association and we are delivering to families living in high—density estates, miles from anywhere, built alongside main roads, no real local resources . alongside main roads, no real local resources. if you told people within those large family groups to self isolate, there would be no where for them to self isolate and really, but the observer has asked for, the report is also asking, what do we need to do to think about housing and poverty? to prevent, excuse me, these sorts of problems arising? the problem is here, now, the question is do we lockdown those communities even though it is making no difference to them, on the basis it

might makea difference to them, on the basis it might make a difference to us? sian, let's go to the other main story in the observer, report the boris johnson is going to step up personal attacks on the labour leader keir starmer, a feeling that boris johnson is not doing too well against keir starmer in prime minister's questions and is quite frustrated about that, that is the account in the observer. this stems from prime minister's questions last weeks, apparently, according to the observer, were boris johnson weeks, apparently, according to the observer, were borisjohnson was asked by the speaker to withdraw comments he made about keir starmer and the ira. and after that, he refused to apologise, and after that sort of spat, he told people, boris johnson told people at conservative headquarters he wanted to go after keirstarmer 's headquarters he wanted to go after keir starmer 's legal records and double down on personal attacks against him. i mean, keir starmer, a human rights lawyer, former director

of public prosecutions, he spent five years of his legal career prosecuting ira terrorists so it was perhaps, and misplaced attempt to attack him so as you say, this is against a background for boris johnson 's personal popularity is falling and keir starmer 's is rising and a lot of people asking questions about the competence of this government after a whole series of u—turns and everything from the a—level exam grading fiasco to free school meals. i think, and we got a difficult winter coming up, we know there is a possibility of a second covid19 spy, possibility also of no deal brexit, i think there are questions being asked about is boris johnson the right person to lead the country? and there are many people i'iow country? and there are many people now suggesting that rishi sunak, the chancellor, might be a safer pair of hands. shyama, while we are on boris johnson, let's look at the telegraph, a story about how chris

johnson was praising donald trump saying he was making america great again. —— how borisjohnson. absolutely, taken from 2017, a conversation borisjohnson was having and you can tie that into the story that sian has just discussed, i wish to personalise and attack individuals, that is a tactic of donald trump so it's quite interesting, boris, when he slipped from number one to i think number 18 in the conservative home website favourite tory list, bearing in mind it is his website and he was number one and he should be number one as prime minister, i think it's quite interesting he is backing off and starting to think it's time to personalise and i would also tie in, actually, the extinction rebellion, thatis actually, the extinction rebellion, that is a typical trump response to people who are saying or doing something he does not like and one

single incident of something being stopped or ruined for two days, and suddenly, this is the reason to turn them into organised crime, effectively. i mean, all of these crazily extreme responses to every day bad behaviour and every day bad luck, it's all a bit crazy. sian, i suppose the political fate of boris johnson has been inextricably bound to brexit and the mail on sunday have a good scoop, really, interview with lord frost, the prime minister ‘s chief brexit negotiator, ahead of some crucial talks on trade with the eu, potential trade deal with the eu this week. some pretty strong words, actually, from him as an official. saying we are not scared of the eu, we will not blink. yes, that is the headline, this time, brexit, we will not blink and i think that is a bit ofa not blink and i think that is a bit of a swipe at theresa may, he says,

lord frost says theresa may 's government did blink in previous brexit negotiations and as a result had its plot called by the european union. it's incredibly defined language, very bullish rhetoric, we are not going to become a state of brussels, it comes before the eighth and final round of talks with michel barnier, lord frost 's counterpart for the barnier, lord frost 's counterpart forthe eu, barnier, lord frost 's counterpart for the eu, arriving barnier, lord frost 's counterpart forthe eu, arriving in barnier, lord frost 's counterpart for the eu, arriving in london on tuesday. i think there is still a lot of sticking points and a lot of commentators now saying it is looking as though we may end up with ano looking as though we may end up with a no deal brexit and in turn we will not reach agreement by december the sist. not reach agreement by december the 31st. but this rhetoric in this interview in the mail on sunday has already been dismissed by the eu with one eu source calling itjust, the kind of muscle flexing that one would expect before these kinds of

negotiations. shyama, look at the sunday mirror with the latest on the harry and meghan sager, the netflix deal they had done, a bit of speculation show they might produce for netflix could be a show about princess diana ? for netflix could be a show about princess diana? i have to say, they haven't got a lot of usp s, if it goes through they will tell prince william and i think you might have spotted it in the papers today! i think it's an interesting story. not a story you can analyse, it's a story on which you have an opinion. these are two young people with absolutely no sense of direction and as far as absolutely no sense of direction and as farasi absolutely no sense of direction and as far as i can see, not that great as far as i can see, not that great a panoply of skills between them. i mean, he is following where the other young prince went, prince edward, with his production company, thatis edward, with his production company, that is what harry is doing and it makes you think the media must be a very easy and sleazy place to get

into, maybe we are right to be blockading them, every now and then and asking them if they are as honest as they should be because quite frankly, how are these two doing production? all right, tell it as it is, shyama, fine! but sian, let's end with your story, why not, front—page story on the front of the sunday times which has been distributed today and it's about the lockdown legacy, twitchy fingers in the classroom is the headline. about the classroom is the headline. about the children who have spent so much time on games consoles at their fingers won't stop twitching. yes. well, last week i talked to a number of head teachers because children we re of of head teachers because children were of course returning to school after six months, some of them, out of the classroom. while it was fabulous to see a lot of very happy faces going back into schools, head teachers did have quite a few concerns and i spoke to one primary school and they were saying that they had noticed that the children's

fingers were twitching, some of them, quite young children and when they ask the children what is the matter, the children said they really missed the games consoles, they were missing their smartphones, their screens. and i thought, the teachers in that school were absolutely brilliant, they decided, every time i see little fingers twitching like that, they are going to take them out and run them around the playground, to calm them down. but it wasn'tjust the playground, to calm them down. but it wasn't just that school, there were a number of schools were there were a number of schools were the they were worried people were, the they were worried people were, the children coming in were tired, even teenagers coming into secondary schools, putting their heads on the desks and falling asleep and i think there is that sense among heads and teachers that they have got quite a task on their hands, they've had children out of class for a long time, a lot of catch—up learning to be done, i think they wanted to send a message to parents tojust, get back with the routines, you know? get your kids to bed on time. limit

the screen time. and just get them back into a place where they are coming to school, ready to learn, focus, and not absolutely semi—addicted to gaming. focus, and not absolutely semi-addicted to gaming. shyama, last minute, what is your comment on to what extent do you think those children who have been out of the classroom for so long, they have been called a lost generation, is that an exaggeration, will they be able to catch up, do you think? my children are long past that stage 110w children are long past that stage now but when i think back, i would certainly have been using the tv as a baby—sitter certainly have been using the tv as a ba by—sitter and a certainly have been using the tv as a baby—sitter and a teacher and mentor, if i had been locked up with them for several months. and i don't doubt that they with every privilege would have struggled and fallen behind so i cannot imagine what it has done to those kids where parents had to leave them to do whatever it was, for whatever reason, could not police them. i think we have got the risk of a lost generation and how we manage that is something that we

will no doubt be looking at, or sian will no doubt be looking at, or sian will be looking at, for years to come. shyama, sian, many thanks to both of you for discussing different pages, good to have you with us. we will see you again very soon, i hope. that is it for the papers today. headlines coming up for you at the top of the hour. stay with us. at the top of the hour. stay with us. quick look at the latest weather. hello. the weather over the next few daysis hello. the weather over the next few days is looking fairly quiet. a lot of cloud around, patchy rain, probably not amounting to a great deal. some occasional sunny spells breaking through the cloud from time to time. let's look at the satellite. the area of cloud coming for the weekend is just here, to the south of greenland and as it moves across the atlantic, it's going to be weakening but nevertheless we

will probably get patchy rain from that, particularly across the north west. saturday morning, showers from the word go, across saturday morning, turning cloudy across northern ireland, the north west of england and wales with patchy rain working on, i think elsewhere, there will often be quite a lot of cloud in the sky, some bright sunny spells coming through, some areas staying dry, southern england, parts of eastern england, parts of eastern scotland, not looking too bad. the second half of the weekend, a lot of cloud around, some patchy rain developing across parts of england and wales, this time the rain could actually affect some more eastern areas of england as well. in scotland, with the wind direction, the central belt, probably staying dry with bright or sunny spells coming through. into the early part of next week, low pressure continuing to run to the north of the uk, windy conditions, weather fronts crossing the country, this one sector bringing us a milder air as we go into the early stage of

next week. rain at times to start the day on monday, the rain heaviest across the north and west of the country, the rain weakening as it gets towards wales and northern england, probably towards the south—east staying dry stop eventually starting to turn milder, the milder air will be with us through tuesday. might well be milder but not necessarily try for eve ryo ne milder but not necessarily try for everyone because across some of the western coasts and hills on tuesday, as the air becomes more moist and humid, we see some of the cloud moving in, could thicken to bring patches of light rain or drizzle across the west at where the cloud brea ks across the west at where the cloud breaks and we see sunshine, it will feel a good deal warmer, temperatures moving into the low 20s, temperatures moving into the low 205, 23 temperatures moving into the low 20s, 23 or so in the london area. the milder air still loitering to the south of this cold front. on wednesday, the front is very weak, bringing rain across southern scotland, northern ireland, into the far north of england and wales, weakening all the while so no great

rain amounts but to the north of the uk turning fresher, but with more sunshine. in the south, probably quite a bit of cloud, again with the sunshine comes out, temperatures into the low 20s. as we delve deeper into the low 20s. as we delve deeper into next week, thejet into the low 20s. as we delve deeper into next week, the jet stream will continue to bring low pressure generally to the north of the uk but however as we get to next weekend, you may well see more of a dip in the jet stream that could develop an area of low pressure closer to our shores and that could bring more general cloud and rain but there is a lot of uncertainty about the evolution of the forecast as we get towards next weekend. for the time being, often going to be a lot of cloud around, generally temperatures drifting a little bit closer to average after that brief, warm spell as we head into next weekend. in summary, the next few days looking pretty cloudy. not going to be dry for everyone, some rain around, most of it light and patchy, there will be biased towards the north—west of the uk, although cloudy, occasional bright or sunny spells coming

through. that is your latest weather. for now.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. police in the uk declare a "major incident" in birmingham city centre after number of people are stabbed in the area. one local bar worker said there was an escalation of violence. i have always seen quite a lot of fights and drunken commotions, but there was nothing quite like tonight. tougher coronavirus restrictions have come into force in bolton — the area which now has the highest infection rate in england. a coronavirus lockdown in the australian city of melbourne is extended for another two weeks. the uk's foreign secretary dominic raab warns the government is ready