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this is bbc world news, the headlines the spanish capital, madrid, and the surrounding region are to be put under tighter coronavirus restrictions to deal with a surge in cases. but workplaces will stay open to limit the damage to the economy. uk prime minister borisjohnson has said a second wave of coronavirus is on its way. it comes as the who warns countries in the northern hemisphere that they must prepare for a winter battle against the disease. the trump administration has issued new rules aimed at banning the chinese—owned tik tok and wechat from us app stores. the restrictions will ban the transfer of funds or processing of payments through wechat from sunday. the barrister amal clooney has said she is resigning as the uk's special envoy on media freedom. her decision is over what she describes as the government's "lamentable" suggestion it could violate international law over brexit.
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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are kate andrews, economics correspondent at the spectator, and jason beattie, assistant editor at the mirror. tomorrow's front pages. the times leads with warning from prime minister boris johnson that a second wave of coronavirus is to be expected in weeks to come, with hundreds of daily coronavirus deaths anticipated. the rule of six will be abandoned for tighter restrictions, according to the daily telegraph. as the paper reports plans of a temporary lockdown to act as a ‘circuit breaker‘. the chancellor rishi sunak says any plans of another lockdown can not go to far, according to the daily mail, as he warns the prime minister that stricter measures could cause further damage to the economy. the daily mirror also
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highlights the impact further lockdowns will have on the economy, as it suggests ‘struggling' restaurants and pubs could close once again as the pm admitted a second wave is ‘inevitable‘. and it seems there is only one story in town tonight, as the guardian also leads on new restrictions and says one in five people across the uk face local lockdowns which comes as plans for a national move are underway so, let's begin. why make a pretty significant day. the daily express, it basically sums up the daily express, it basically sums up what we are looking at. boris johnson warns inevitable second wave is coming and so, what we know so far? . all of the data and the
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government group of scientific advisers, it is pointing out a sharp increase in coronavirus cases in every pa rt increase in coronavirus cases in every part of the uk. the infection rate, which is taken to lift control or not is now way above one. it's about1.4 in england, or not is now way above one. it's about 1.4 in england, which is 1.3 in scotland. and it looks like it is going to get worse and therefore, we have a prime minister who just a few weeks ago was saying that it could be over by christmas, if you're lucky is not having to strike a much more despondent and cautious tone. is looking at the super front pages, the language and the warnings are so different than just a couple weeks ago. when they said they were not looking at his second locked down,
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they're looking at it as a circuit breaker, but that is what it was locked down is and now it is very similar language those being used to justify the first one. it is important to break down this data because there is no doubt that increases in positive infections are going up and the international statistics are testing a system which is thought to be one of the most reliable with roughly 60,000 people in the uk being infected, this is going up very notably and it is mainly amongst 17 to 35—year—olds. over 70s category, the most affordable people we have barely seen any uptick in positive infections, does not mean it will stay that way and we simply do not know what is going to happen but there is some news to come out of this which would suggest that we do not need to go into full panic although obviously, you can see across the front pages that the government is very across the front pages that the government is very nervous because government is very nervous because they do not believe they have an alternative in these kinds of lockdowns having told the public that we will not be going into a
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second lockdown, when they say it's good to be two weeks, many people, evenif good to be two weeks, many people, even if they support stricter measures, might be sceptical if it is all in two weeks. let us pick up on that idea because borisjohnson is at pains to say that he really wa nts to is at pains to say that he really wants to avoid a full national lockdown. but if we look at these local lockdowns, they are now impacting so many people anyway. around 15 million people in britain are now under some form of local restriction or local lockdown, however you want to describe it. the measures do vary however you want to describe it. the measures do vary from area to area. there are more severe measures do vary from area to area. there are more severe in some parts than others. you could say that this isa than others. you could say that this is a national lockdown and the difficulty here, in terms of politics is twofold. firstly, people are asking that this looks like it
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was coming, why were preparations not made in time to even mitigated or prevented? and secondly, will people abide by the new instructions? the beginning of the first lockdown, there was a great collective effort and clear message from the government to stay indoors and protect lives and that got through. second time around, it is going to be much harder and the pressure is also coming from the prime minister's on mps, the libertarian streak of tory mps who are resenting and questioning the need for extra restrictions. and we will come to those restrictions later on. taking us up to scotland, the front
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page of the scotsman on saturday, the picture there is the first minister morning for the national restrictions could be needed in the headline sings scotland a tipping point and spread of the virus. is making the same morning that the prime minister is that it looks like new restrictions could be coming in and very notable at the start of the crisis in the uk that the devolved powers are more or less on the same page. sometimes the devolve power would act 24 hours before another, but roughly everyone was on the same page. and then we got into the summer, the virus retreated quite a bit envious the politics come back out and around the bridges in the quarantine exemption list for countries that you cannot travel to, that's when they were really flexing their muscles. it is very telling that they are in real crisis mode when they're working together. politics goes to the side and just
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are working together again. on that working together, how do you feel the messaging, you mentioned the messaging in a difference in clarity between may be the first log data going into the second one. we have had different messaging from all the devolved administrations. how do you think that is worked so far?m devolved administrations. how do you think that is worked so far? it is interesting that nicholas sturgeon has continued to doing daily press briefings, right way through interpol ratings, they have been remarkably solid — — interpol ratings, they have been remarkably solid —— and her pole. and they had for example, the exam creating fiasco before we headed in england. too bad we did not learn from them. it has not been perfect i do not think in government says they
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have with this perfectly with this unprecedented but, the communication in scotland, i think nicholas sturgeon is a natural communicator anyway. a very reassuring presence. i think by comparison with boris johnson. moving to the daily mirror. 56 million set for two weeks of lockdown, you mentioned earlier, briefly talking through what is going on here. and as i said earlier. this, will people abide by this new restrictions and the message, is it clear enough? the rule of six throughout all sorts of anomalies and it is a ridiculous situation where i could go into a pub and say to my mates, spend time
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with five of them and then find another five friends and quite legally have another round of drinks. so, families of two families could not meet up in the streets even could not meet up in the streets evenif could not meet up in the streets even if they were relatives, that would be mingling according to her ofa certain would be mingling according to her of a certain number. the difficulty is that if we are moving to this second lockdown come up with the guidance be clear and understandable was white i'm going to stop you from showing up from made french you've got. friends of the guardian. -- how many friends you've got. on the bottom left—hand corner, it is two p:m., pay a real living wage to1 million care is two p:m., pay a real living wage to 1 million care workers. is two p:m., pay a real living wage to1 million care workers. talk is two p:m., pay a real living wage to 1 million care workers. talk us through this. labour's deputy leader
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who went up against borisjohnson the first time this week in that moment, ask them about care home workers and started to suggest that they should be given a pay raise and clearly they are taking that campaign forward but you can now see on the front page of the guardian that the uk's million plus care workers should have higher pay and many people across the country will be very sympathetic with this idea that they have been vulnerable and looking at the most vulnerable in society but the difficult thing is that we start talking about increasing pay, especially with living wages and minimum wages, if you do so from a political angle, rather than going to the low pay commission which works year on year to make sure that the pricing will not be of any went out of a job, you can putjobs at risk. and on top of that, you do not have the unusual arguments, looking at a series of chronic unemployment problems and in
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winter, we know that many of the people were still on furlough will find that the jobs do not exist in the near future in find that the jobs do not exist in the nearfuture in the find that the jobs do not exist in the near future in the last thing you want really is to start taking people out of work when there is an employment crisis. it's a hard when to handle right now.|j employment crisis. it's a hard when to handle right now. i know this ideal be popular with many of you, so in response to some of those fears that kate was outlining. taking issues with paying people with different wages pushing them out of a job. the care secretary is quite dysfunctional. you have workers being treated incredibly badly in their often having an aversion of zero—hours contracts and incredibly important job and then you have a system of care homes which is uneconomic because it is going to need an awful lot of state
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support and as she admitted, this will resonate with a lot of people because we stood there and we have people that put their own lives at risk for someone who was most vulnerable and time travel or because of, the care workers and we are talking a lot of care workers are talking a lot of care workers are not getting the national minimum wage. moving onto the front page of the daily mail which takes an interesting point of view when compared to the front pages, the plea to board students not go too far. —— borisjohnson. plea to board students not go too far. -- boris johnson. all these lockdown measures of cost a lot of money and not just lockdown measures of cost a lot of money and notjust in terms of the subsidies in the schemes that the government has come up with, but
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also the economy which is taking a major hit in tax revenue is probably not going to be anywhere near as high as the treasury would've estimated back in march. one of the major issues you have is that if you start telling secretaries that it is illegal to be operating again, the big question marks as to whether or not these people are going to be cropped up with subsidy. i think you can so they make the case that if it is illegal for your business to open, should be receiving some kind of top of, some kind of help, perhaps as an incentive for the government to keep certain businesses open. that is also a reason they push forward this semi—lockdown whatever it may be and whatever measures may be in there because people can still be on the list but it is an important reminder that this money does not grow on trees and it's coming directly from the bank of england, which is financing the treasury and i'm sure the chancellor will be wondering just how long that is going to continue. let us move on to the front page of the daily telegraph. i
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wa nt front page of the daily telegraph. i want you to talk us through this because this is a very interesting and slightly different revelation on the right—hand side, the right—hand column. the headline is bar code glitch, plunges covid—19 test centres into fresh chaos and we do not need any fresh chaos at all, do we? one of these test centres is literally down the road for me, i can lean out of the road and i can see it. i live in southeast london. there was chaos in the streets. because people were trying to access tests in the drive—through system did not work because of this glitch on this qr code, the scanning business and therefore, no way did he disappoint people who needed a test, but a gridlocked streets as well. yet another problem with testing regime. what is not clear
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from an article because i have not read the whole piece but whether or not this is the responsibility of the private company which is running it's part of the nhs testamentary system, what are the issues that they've outsourced an awful lot of they've outsourced an awful lot of the testing and a lot of the parliament have not waved a share of how well they are performing. have you seen any signs of this world beating system that we were promised? no, i have not. but i'm not terribly surprised in the government promises a miracle and you should know that very moment it will not get off the ground. it is very important that the government decentralises testing programmes is that able to ramp up testing back in march and april because they were trying to centralise when companies, we do not need to make comparisons to the usa, countries in europe like germany, they are able to ramp up
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their testing yet to throw the whole kitchen sink at something the covid—19 using the public and private sector. the uk has ramped up testing significantly, but the problem is processing and of care homes, the absolute horror of the spring, ifear the homes, the absolute horror of the spring, i fear the testing homes, the absolute horror of the spring, ifear the testing may homes, the absolute horror of the spring, i fear the testing may be the horror of the autumn because it is very clear that we cannot process anywhere near the number of tests that we need to have a massive testing scheme if you have reports of new lockdown measures potentially coming in because without those testing schemes without a vaccine, lockdown is essentially the only other option. i'm sure will do plenty more from pages on testing but as we head towards winter. let's look at the front page of the times. looking at the picture story. this is the picture of her who has quit. one of her jobs is the picture of her who has quit. one of herjobs was the envoy on
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media freedom. she has quit that in protest of borisjohnson's lamentable plans to break the law over brexit. remind us of what this is all about. the internal market bill, which, when we start. can you keep it nice and simple? negotiating it and they say that because it doesn't look or trust them and they're going to bring in this new piece of legislation will give it the right to rewrite the withdrawal agreement and thus, break a treaty which borisjohnson held its fantastic when he signed it and now she has decided is inadequate. it is the breaking of the international law which is obviously caused upset and all former prime ministers who have continued this move as former
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foreign secretaries, it is caused to resignations from the government and did general, really not surprising, a very eminent lawyer has also decided that, you know, governments should not break the law and you should not break the law and you should not break the law and you should not force governments to break the law. i'm afraid we've only got 20 seconds left, but ijust wonder, because as jason did a very good job there explaining is slightly difficult to write issue, is this the kind of issue they get so many people have said but does it cut through and the wider public, do you think? it can do the government com pletely lost you think? it can do the government completely lost control of the narrative as jason points out, this was the withdrawal of the of the borisjohnson was the withdrawal of the of the boris johnson signed and was the withdrawal of the of the borisjohnson signed and negotiated himself. so, ithink borisjohnson signed and negotiated himself. so, i think they have lost the narrative on that but when someone like that the sites to resonate in that celebrity class
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gets involved, the remainder sleeve debate can actually help the government. fastening deer views and thoughts on both of those stories. thank you forjoining us here on bbc news. —— sharing your views. that's it for the papers this hour. goodbye for now. good evening. hello, i'm holly hamilton with your latest sports news. it's already starting to feel like he's never been away. gareth bale was all smiles as he made his much—anticipated return to tottenham's training ground this afternoon, seven years on from signing with real madrid. from enfield, here's our sports editor dan roan. spurs fans have been hoping for years now that one day gareth bale might return from his stay at real madrid,
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and that dream has also become a reality. the 31—year—old welshman flew by private jet from the spanish capital earlier on this morning. he landed at luton airport. then, a short while later, at around 1:30pm this afternoon, he arrived here at tottenham hotspur‘s training ground near enfield in north london, where he reacquainted himself with his old surroundings, met some of his new team—mates. we await confirmation, we await an announcement. that should come later on this evening, i understand, but really the ts are being crossed and the is dotted. just the final elements of this remarkable surprise transfer, being described as the transfer of the summer. there's no doubt that spurs fans are hugely excited, as you can see when bale drove through the ground. and we spoke to a few of the fans earlier on. he is going to make the team better, and he's going to bring a lot ofjoy. the memories, the goals,
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i honestlyjust can't wait. it's really exciting. i remember when, seven years ago, he went, i was gutted. but you can't blame him. he was going to real madrid, really but now he is coming back. it's brilliant. he will walk in there, everyone will look at him, he is a superstar. you can't deny he is a winner. he will lift us. bale returns from his seven—year stint at real madrid as arguably english football's biggest ever export. he won 13 titles, including four champions leagues. but injury and a falling out with the manager meant that he became sidelined and his spanish adventure turned sour. and that is why spurs have swooped of course. he will earn around £600,000 a week, we understand, with real madrid paying at least half of that so desperate they were to get him out of the bernabeu. that relationship had broken down, as i say.
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but it is fascinating. this remarkable deal comes at a time when clubs are desperate to get fans back inside stadium, and they are lobbying government hard to be able to do that because they are losing hundreds of millions of pounds potentially in matchday revenue. and, of course, it comes at a time when the lower leagues are desperate for help from the premier league to help them survive a unprecedented financial crisis. as exciting a player as he undoubtedly is, i think this deal will raise eyebrows, and it will be fascinating to see whether he can help jose mourinho's side get into the champions league this season. dan roan there. meanwhile, another major premier league signing was confirmed today as spanish midfielder thiago alcantara joined liverpool from bayern munich. he posted an emotional farewell message to the german club and their supporters on social media, and says leaving was the most difficult decision of his career. thiago won the champions league
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with bayern last season, of course, as well as seven consecutive bundesliga titles. before that, he won la liga twice with barcelona. at 29, he's initially costing liverpool £20 million, and that could rise to 25 on a four—year deal. british number one johanna konta has been knocked out of the italian open. ninth seed garbine muguruza won in straight sets as both players continue their preparations on clay for the french open which starts later this month. konta's also announced she won't be working with coach thomas hogstedt on a permanent basis. a try from dan sarginson in golden point extra—time helped salford beat catalans to reach the challenge cup semi—finals. the score was tied at 18—18 after 80 minutes, and salford sealed the victory a couple of minutes into extra—time as sarginson went overfor this dramatic winning effort. just two days remaining of the tour de france, never too late, though,
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for a surprise stage winner. denmark's soren kraow andersen pulled away from a pretty elite group with ten miles remaining and held on to claim his second stage win at this year's tour. primoz roglic retained the leader's yellow jersey while ireland's sam bennett moved a huge step closer to winning the points classification. meanwhile, elisa longo borghini has won the penultimate stage of the giro rosa. the italian held off dutch rider anna van der breggen, who leads the race after her compatriot annemiek van vleuten withdrew due to injury yesterday. and today, australia's national women's team have scored a bit of an own goal with news today that the team's away kit would not be available for purchase in women's sizes until 2022. a post from the matildas' twitter account revealed the issue in a response to a number of fans requesting the team's green away jersey.
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and among those unhappy with the decision was matildas player elise kellond—knight, who tweeted the lack of women's sizes was "a fairly significant problem". you can find the latest on golf‘s us open on the bbc news website. that's all from me for now. have a very good evening. hello. well, i think most of us would agree that the last few days have been pretty decent on the weather front. we've had plenty of sunny spells. it's been pleasantly warm, and this spell of settled weather is going to continue through the weekend. there might be one or two showers in the far south of the country, brought by this low pressure which is actually close to spain and portugal. that's just encroaching into the south of the uk. but on the whole, it's looking absolutely fine, and the advice is make the most of this weekend because next weekend could be very different.
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much more like autumn. so, this is what it looks like early on saturday morning. you can see the showers there crossing the english channel, just about approaching cornwall and devon there by the second half of the morning or around about lunchtime. let's zoom in to the south and see where the showers will be. so, the thinking is cornwall, devon, maybe somerset, one or two possibly sneaking into the isle of wight as well, but certainly north of the m4, it's looking mostly sunny. in fact, a beautiful afternoon on the way. bit of a breeze still blowing out of the east—northeast, but even in the north of the country, temperatures could nudge up to close to 20 celsius. the thinking is that later on in the afternoon, it might cloud over around the aberdeenshire coastline and also the north of england. there's a lot of cloud here in the north sea and that north—easterly wind will push some of that cloud closer to land. but the evening on the whole is looking fine for most of us on saturday. sunday's weather forecast is going to be a mostly bright if not sunny day. the winds will be just that bit lighter in the south and no further showers are expected in the south, so, a dry day and
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a warm one as well. temperatures possibly hitting the mid 20s in the south east of the country, cooler on the north sea coast, only around 15. the outlook for early next week, it is still looking fine, but midweek onwards, it's a complete change in fact, weather systems are expected to spiral up in the atlantic and head in our direction. yep, you guessed it. autumn will be knocking on the door. so, a big change in the way for around about tuesday, wednesday onwards. now, the beginning of the week is looking absolutely fine and on monday, the south of the country with temperatures still hitting around 25 celsius, a little cooler by tuesday and from wednesday, it's all change.
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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. prepare for a winter battle against coronavirus — that's the latest warning for the northern hemisphere from the world health organisation. as cases rise across europe, governments in spain, ireland and the uk have brought in new local restrictions to try and prevent further nationwide shutdowns. i don't think anybody wants to go into a second lockdown, but clearly, you know, when you look at what is happening, you've got to wonder whether we need to go further. in the us, new rules aimed at banning chinese—owned apps tik tok and wechat could come into force by sunday. and the new subarea as global
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