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this is bbc world news, the headlines. the uk's prime minister boris johnson has addressed the nation after announcing tighter restrictions to try to stop the spread of coronavirus. pubs will have shorter opening hours and spectators won't be allowed to return to sporting events. the measures are expected to remain in place for six months. the united states has passed 200 thousand coronavirus deaths — according to a tally by thejohns hopkins university. it also shows there are almost six million 900 thousand people infected in the country. president trump has called on the united nations to hold china accountable for its actions, which he says contributed to the global spread of the coronavirus. a court in karachi has sentenced two men to death for starting a fire
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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. joining me are the former pensions minister, ros altman and the writer and broadcaster, mihir bose. tomorrow's front pages. starting with. let's start with the telegraph — it carries a warning from the prime minister, that there are tough times ahead — as he introduces new restrictions to fight the virus. borisjohnson is urging the nation to summon discipline and resolve, in order to beat the virus. the financial times reports that mrjohnson has abandoned attempts to persuade workers to return to the office, as covid cases spike. the pm has refused to rule out a second lockdown, if people don't follow the new rules. that's in the daily mail. according to the i, scientists say the new restrictions will not be enough to stop
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the resurgent virus. and, the mirror reports that business leaders fear huge job losses, as the prime minister says the new covid curbs could last six months. good to see you both. thanks for being with us. we are going to start when we start with the financial times. the front page the financial times. the front page the headlines is johnson the financial times. the front page the headlines isjohnson warns of perilous time as curbs imposed for six months. interesting in his top line and always an economic focus its opening line is borisjohnson held a bleak economic winter. yeah, basically what this and many of the other papers are saying is with these further restrictions coming after months of earlier lockdown and restrictions and after businesses have spent so much money in trying
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to reopen the outlook for many firms is really bleak. it's bleak for families as well. it's bleak for businesses. but what the prime minister is warning is that he is trying to balance the problems that we are facing with coronavirus against the problems that businesses are facing and trying to survive. and he is warning that if we don't have success with the current measures, he would consider even more draconian lockdown restrictions oi’ more draconian lockdown restrictions orfurther more draconian lockdown restrictions or further restrictions. more draconian lockdown restrictions orfurther restrictions. in more draconian lockdown restrictions or further restrictions. in the future. so there is a clear warning here. what do you make of the economics of this, what they're trying to draw out on the front page? the consequences could be absolutely enormous. yes they could be. there's been an argument going oi'i be. there's been an argument going on right from the moment we had the lockdown whether we need to go down the road of lockdown or we need to
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go down the swedish route. which of course has definitely had a virus and it seems now the swedish route has proved more beneficial than perhaps the route we took in the long run. of course it's easy to say this after six months. of course the financial times as you say, concentrates on economics. the director general of the ceebeeis saying it's going to be a devastating blow on firms. which had already ta ken devastating blow on firms. which had already taken measures, it was slowly coming out, the hospitality sector was trying to benefit from the eat out measures and so on. as ros, says there is the threat that if the rate of infection does not fall, remember the scientists have said that they wanted more draconian measures like scotland has done. and therefore, if it doesn't work we could have more severe measures. and then what will it do to business?
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where will it leave our economy which is already seen more than a quarter percent fall in gdp. you use the word draconian so let's go straight to the front page of the daily mail. it says their pms draconian orders to last six months. not talking about any future possible measures. its labelling the existing restrictions that we just heard about today as draconian. what do you make of this overall impact of the daily mail front page? the daily mail has been very critical all along. of the extreme measures that have been taken. he's talking about boris, talking about boris giving everybody both barrels. i think what strikes me here is two things, one, the prime ministers seems to be suggesting that it's the publics fault that this is happening. and there have been too
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many breaches of the current rules. and he's also then talking about needing discipline, resolve and a spirit of togetherness. the spirit of togetherness is the interesting bit because if you're trying to tell people they are not allowed to get together, it's difficult to have the spirit of togetherness. if you're talking about snitching on neighbours i find it difficult. i'm certainly of the opinion that it is worth studying very carefully what has happened in sweden where they have managed successfully without these draconian measures. without giving it both barrels. without blaming the population itself for breaking rules. of course rules are difficult for many families and many loved ones. people are so desperately lonely or need to meet other people. and this is a very difficult balancing act and eight
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difficult balancing act and eight difficult moment. there are other models that we could follow that might be worth looking at. interesting. i'll tell you something thatis interesting. i'll tell you something that is worth looking at the front page of the daily star. this is your chance. i don't even know where to start with it, to be honest. the headline on the bottom says, that it? what is it getting out here? actually, what it is getting at is the various u—turns we have had in government policy. it reminds us that we were told we should go back to work well we actually don't mean you go back to work. we were told you go back to work. we were told you don't wear a mask, no, we mean you don't wear a mask, no, we mean you have to wear a mask and you'll be fined £200. we were told to watch a football match, no you can't go do that. so they go through all of that. so they go through all of that. we've told go to the pal, you've got to leave by ten p:m.. remember boris johnson saying you've got to leave by ten p:m.. remember borisjohnson saying he was looking forward to christmas being normal. and christmas is going to be canceled. and in 12 weeks we could all be an even worse. this is
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obviously pointing out this is true, the government has done several u—turns. this is a remarkable government where it was made to do a u—turn on the basis of what a footballer marcus rashard of manchester united in england had suggested. in the daily star is having great fun with it. anyway it rightly so because we've had twists and turns of policy, difficult in this time but it is certainly not shown a government in the best light. | shown a government in the best light. i think shown a government in the best light. i think they're taking things literally as well. this one bit it was upside down. you literally have to turn it over and says confidential master plan, blah blah blah, blah blah blustar. blah blah blah, blah blah blustar. blah blah blah, blame others. and one of the best ways to make the point is often to find the humor. i must admit that this is a very humourous way of portraying the fact that actually we have had a consistent inconsistency here. it's a hokey covid policy. one
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minute you do this, put it out. of course, this is our lives. and this is business who are trying to adapt as each change comes. we are all trying to do what we think we are being told to do. and trying to behave in the way we are told to behave. and then the changes, all of a sudden. and i know it's difficult. there are no easy answers here. this is unprecedented. but you have to look at what people are saying. although the public are generally supportive of the measures, there is starting to be this undercurrent where people are saying, let's just have a policy and stick to it. let's just make up our minds what were going to do. are we going to focus just on this one illness, covid? or are we going to open up the health service to other illnesses? worrying about cancer, are we going to save
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jobs and livelihood, i would get help families get together? that's the balance. isn't it. that's the balance. of course it's a difficult one for politicians right across the world to try and deal with. let's go from the daily star to the times front page. a little more sober as you'd imagine. a struggle humanity will win. with a big picture of borisjohnson delivering will win. with a big picture of boris johnson delivering his will win. with a big picture of borisjohnson delivering his message inatv borisjohnson delivering his message in a tv address a couple of hours ago. we dealt pretty much with that story so i want to stay with the front page of the times but down in the bottom left—hand corner is a short tease of what a story they've got inside. nurses want to quit. which is interesting. there's more of that inside on page two. have you got that, can you talk is there a? this is quite a disturbing report from the commons public accounts committee. which says a third of the
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nurses want to quit. remember, there are 40,000 unfilled vacancies in nursing. what they have found is 36% of the nurses were considering leaving in the next year. up to 28% up leaving in the next year. up to 28% up before the coronavirus was stopping a very disturbing figure that a quarter of the new nurses leave within three years and a tenth leave within three years and a tenth leave in the first year. and the reason for leaving according to what this story says, is low pay, low staffing levels and also a great deal of lack of attention, lack of direction from the departments of health and social care who gave evidence to the committee and were often not able to say what their policy was in nursing. remember, nurses obviously, we have nurses from this country but we also get nurses from overseas. we have to recruit nurses from overseas who play a big part in recruit nurses from overseas who playa big part in our recruit nurses from overseas who play a big part in our national health service. if this report turns out to be true then given how
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important and absolutely essential to our lives the national health service is and how much we value them, this shows a very very big hurdle in the way of the national health service is... and yes, there is also serious and the social care sector. i care generally. in the government has promised 50,000 new nurses in the next five years. but we are starting from a big deficit position. in the new immigration rules may welljeopardise our ability to bring in nurses from overseas. i think the governments can have to look at this one again. let's move on to the eye. the sport actually, we will take you back to yourformer stomping actually, we will take you back to your former stomping ground, six more months with no fans will be devastating. what's this all about? what's happening is, before the prime minister made the announcement that the expectation was we've been
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having sports without anybody watching, few spectators had gone to racing and the expectation was from october slowly spectators will be allowed back in all signs two types of schemes being arranged and of course that is all been canceled. and football matches, rugby matches are facing the prospect of having no spectators. while the premier league with its massive income from television and merchandise and so on can do all right. though it has shortfalls. but down the football league in league 1 and lead to, these clubs will not be able to survive. because without spectators come in through the turnstile and this is true of rugby clubs, they just don't have the money to survive. and that is what the story is all about. the football clubs are facing in 2000, this season that is started a 200 million deficit. of
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course they are hoping for government handouts. and probably a bit of premier league hand—outs as well. you can pick this up roz, this is the mirror sport. armageddon is the headline there. kind of theme to what he was picking up on there. he's talking about the devastating for lower leg. frank lampard former chelsea player now manager calls on premier ship to have a heart. what we are talking about here is what they called the virus fan van. which means that the lower leaves who don't have a lot of money to fall back on and who rely on the ongoing income as he was describing from fa ns income as he was describing from fans coming in and buy merchandise and so on, what frank lampard is rightly saying is whether the premier league clubs who have got a huge amounts of money and who pay an
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enormous amount to their players might be able to chip in to save some of the lower leagues. in the amateur sport in the junior sport and other sports, rugby is in real trouble, the general environment in sport as it is in all entertainment industries, is that without the paying public going to watch, and of course the paying public would love to go and watch if they could. we have a serious meltdown and a potential loss of this part of our national heritage and our usual weekly enjoyments for so many people. yeah, normal lives. absolutely. front page of the guardian, story at the bottom, german style scheme could replace furlough. in simplest terms as you can of what's going on here. we had the furlough scheme which had been
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very, very beneficial in the current climate for businesses. it's about to come to an end. what the guardian is suggesting is the treasury is looking at the german scheme which i'll try and pronounce it in german short work payment is made. our work for a particular time the employer pays it and for the other time he doesn't the government pays. but the worker is made to have some sort of education during that time. improve his skills and so on and maybe that is the next step forward to replace the furlough. yet that's certainly one of the ideas kicking around. we will see if it arrives on these shores. ros your specialist now state pensions to rise as triple lock survives. what's going on? just a few months ago and the governments ma nifesto a few months ago and the governments manifesto it promised to protect the triple lock of for pensions to guarantee pensioners an increase of at least two and a half percent in
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state pension. and the law at the moment would preclude that. so the government tomorrow is going to be laying new legislation that will allow the state pension to increase even though average earnings this year are falling. even though average earnings this yearare falling. normally, if average earnings fall then we don't increase sent patients. but in this current exceptional environment where —— state pensions. the furlough scheme and so on has really cause problems. the government is it might be quite rightly saying, well we do still need to protect the state pension and we do need to keep the promise we made to pensioners that we will protect the state pension and make sure that pensioners don't fall way behind the cost of living. as they otherwise might do. important story and brilliant you could talk us through that. thank you ros. before we finish we are going to state with a front page of the daily telegraph. a
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slightly less important story perhaps. talk us through this one. the headline old tv set blamed for village losing internet. yes. this village losing internet. yes. this village in wales a farm every morning at seven o'clock it lost its broadband and internet service. this couldn't work out it employed a crack team of technicians to look at it. and it found that there was a middle—aged couple using a second—hand television set watching at that time and it was because they we re at that time and it was because they were watching it that was causing interference and that would lead to the collapse of the broadband in the village. so you know, it was watching, don't watch your second—hand watching, don't watch your second— hand sets. give watching, don't watch your second—hand sets. give it away because that can cause interference to modern technology. itjust sounds on to modern technology. itjust sounds unbelievable doesn't it? exactly. it's such a hilarious story you can imagine people looking all over the place in these complicated wires and connections and in the
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either wondering what's going on with our broadband? at some very old television set some terrestrial tv thatis television set some terrestrial tv that is interfered with it. this little couple who turn on their tally at seven o'clock to watch the news have been causing this mayhem. now they've made the news. they are on the front page of the daily telegraph. shout out to them. we will leave it there. great to speak to you both as always. thank you so much for coming back on and speaking to us on the papers. that's it for the papers this hour. back of course same time tomorrow with the papers. this is bbc news, bye— bye. hello, i'm gavin ramjaun — and this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme...
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manchester united are through to the third round of the efl cup after the three know at luton. the manchester united surround for the past but george monk fouled brandon williams in the box just before halftime. george monk fouled brandon williams in the boxjust before halftime. and one matt converted from the spot. luton continue to compete bravely but united sealed victory with two late goals from fractured and mason green. here are the rest of this evenings league cup third round score the match between tottenham was postponed the because of a number of players testing positive for coronavirus to stop is still to be decided whether that match will be rescheduled. programme lucked out on penalties and west ham beat hall 51. west ham manager david moyes was forced to miss his side's league cup match in england — after testing positive
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for coronavirus. two other players, including defender issa diop also returned positive tests before the match. they will miss training and the league game against wells on sunday. western said the three were all asymptomatic and the assistant manager took charge of the whole match. whales have lost one nailed to norway in their women's qualifier in oslo. which was their first game since march. norway had won all floor of their group game so far. chelsea's brighton scored the only goal as they made a five when out of five. oslo leaves wales second in group c7 points behind norway. five. oslo leaves wales second in group (7 points behind norway. we know it was going to be a tough test against norway. they are a great side and ranked above us. i thought the girls put in a great shift. we had to work hard because norway were obviously going to have a lot of the ball. we had to defend really well. the goal, they took it well. i think we did have chances that we probably
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could have electrical to potentially get the draw but obviously it didn't go our way. one game in rugby union this evening and bath are almost guaranteed their spot in the playoffs after a bonus point win. the game was due to have 1000 home fa ns the game was due to have 1000 home fans in attendance but they were told not to come just a few hours before kick—off due to the rise in coronavirus cases. ask gave their fa ns coronavirus cases. ask gave their fans something to cheer about from home coming back from a 17 point down to take a massive 31 points to 20 win. fans say they're not able to return to sporting events until the end of march. at the earliest. the permanent league has voiced its concern in a statement. it says. the permit league is certain...
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has the reaction of chelsea's boss. we all seriously want the fans back in because this is what the premier league is all about. having fans and interaction. home fans away fans whatever it heightens the atmosphere. and we want that. it certainly isn't getting us down. it'sjust we certainly isn't getting us down. it's just we want them back badly. we want them back in a controlled mannerand we want them back in a controlled manner and let's hope we can find that way as soon as possible. scottish first minister has said the phase return of fans in the scottish premiership from the 5th of october is now unlikely. further pilot events a re is now unlikely. further pilot events are on hold with the situation to be reviewed again in three weeks. it means fans inside celtic park for the first game of the season on the 17th of october is also unlikely. while scotland's matches against israel on the 8th of october at three days later it will be behind closed doors. and recreational team spots with his netball won't be able to can
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continue under the new coronas by risk restriction which eliminates numbers taking part 26 was up over 100 sports and leisure leaders have written to borisjohnson calling for a sports recovery fund to help them through the pandemic. one of the first people to sign that letter was paralympic legend thompson. first people to sign that letter was paralympic legend thompsonlj first people to sign that letter was paralympic legend thompson. i can understand the prime ministers and we have to think about the economy at the ledges are needed to build the economy and think about the health of the nation which is incredibly important right now. so it does seem with lots of things going on that the sector has just been sort of forgotten. it's very precarious within 35% of local leisure persia vision has an open. there is potential for 48% of local provision to disappear. it can keep going. and not all centres are in places where other backgrounds come from. at a significant number of them are. so the people you want to be physically active are going to struggle even more. and looking at
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the sector has 600,000 people. who work in it. it's because it's not maybe immediately that the site is not immediately known. people don't necessarily realise the impact it could have on the health of our nation. it has a massive long—term implications to the health of everybody. finally england's archer was in sparkling form this afternoon but this time it was his batting rather than his lightning quick that did the damage. archer hammered for sixes as he made 27 not out from just eight balls. inside he later took a wicket as well as the royals ran out winners by 16 runs against the super kings. that is all the sport for now. hello. tuesday marked the autumn equinox and also the last of these very warm and sunny days.
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we saw 26 degrees in suffolk on tuesday afternoon. by friday looks like temperatures in suffolk will only manage to make around 12 or 13 degrees. noticeably colder as we end the week. and the change comes behind this cold front which is slowly spreading its way southwards in eastwards early on wednesday. ahead of it there will be a lot of cloud around. some showers spells of rain some of which could be on the thundery side. but for scotland and northern ireland skies will be clear and behind the weather front. it starts wednesday off on a chilly note here. but again, for england and wales where we have the weather front the cloud and rain, 12 to 15 degrees. but a lot more cloud on wednesday for england and wales. outbreaks of rain tending to become more persistent as it pushes eastwards. again across the southeast the wins will pick up as well. probably the best of the sunshine through the day will be scotland and northern ireland for them it will be chilly low teens celsius 14 to may beat 19
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across the southeast across the southeast it looks like it could be quite went across the eastern side of england into the evening. persistent rain here wins also picking up across the north sea coast across the southeast and across the south coast as well. that area of low pressure will eventually push off to scandinavia and a new area of pressure will arrive just time for thursday. this one's going to bring windy weather. showers and longer spells which can be quite heavy. sunshine around some sunshine around probably just a bit across the northern part of scotland but the winds will become a feature across south wales and southwestern 40 and 50 miles an hour. cool 11 to 14 celsius across the country. as we move out of thursday into friday that area of low pressure continues to push over towards the northeastern continent. then we are in a run of pretty cool, brisk northerly winds. looks like most showers will be back into northern and eastern areas closer the area of low pressure. further south or west you are the chance of seeing some sunshine. not too bad in the sunshine
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this is bbc news — with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm lewis vaughan jones. new covid restrictions in the uk. more masks, less socialising and bigger fines for those who don't adhere to the rules. never in our history has our collective destiny and our collective health depended so completely on our individual behaviour. another momentous number — as the death toll in america rises — 200—thousand have now lost their lives. digital diplomacy. the first ever virtual united nations general assembly is underway. president trump used the opportunity to criticize china.
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