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of the upcoming election in the us. he said he's not sure if the vote can be honest. senior republicans have distanced themselves from his comments. a man has been charged for shooting and wounding two police officers in kentucky during protests over a decision not to pursue a murder charge in the case of breonna taylor. the suspect is named as larynzojohnson. france has reported a record number of new coronavirus cases sinse mass testing began. more than 16,000 cases were confirmed in the last 2a hours. britain has announced new plans to support an economy hit hard by the coronavirus. the scheme to top up the pay of workers unable to work full—time is less generous that the furlough system now in place.
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hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the home affairs editor of the evening standard martin bentham and deputy political editor at the press association harriet line. lovely to have you both back with us. tomorrow's front pages, starting with. .. the telegraph looks at the announcement of the newjob support scheme by the chancellor, rishi sunak, which replaces the furlough scheme due to end on the 31st of october. the front page of the financial times, too, focuses on the new scheme, which sees the treasury subsidise people who work at least a third of their usual hours. the times‘ front page reports on the wave of redundancies expected over the coming months as they announced that the government would now only provide support for viable jobs.
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"a winter of rising unemployment," the guardian writes of rishi sunak‘s warning as he unveiled the job support scheme. "now it's time to live without fear," a different angle from the daily mail, which says the chancellor has upstaged the prime minister with a new battle cry. and finally, the metro shows the prime minister's partner, carrie symonds, enjoying a boat ride with their son wilfred on lake como with friends. so, let's begin. 0nce once again thank you to both of you. let's start with you, martin. the daily telegraph, all the pages in fa ct daily telegraph, all the pages in fact focusing on the job daily telegraph, all the pages in fact focusing on thejob support scheme. this new scheme that will be taking over from the furlough scheme which ends at the end of october. but all the papers are looking also with the fact that jobs will still be lost. this is not some kind of
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magic potion or elixir of some kind. yes, and the chancellor said that. the chancellor cannot prevent any jobs or alljobs or all businesses. no chancellor could it. and of course that is true. the difference i think is that this is a very different situation clearly to any normal situation. sometimes businesses, industries even going to difficult times and there is a change there and that sort of is inevitable. but this is where the government is in effect preventing some businesses from doing their normal activity and raising the normal activity and raising the normal revenues that they would. 0bviously hospitality is a good example of that. night clubs you mentioned in the initial review is another one. he has produced this package of measures today to try to keep some employment going and it certainly will do that but it's nowhere near as generous as the
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furlough scheme that it's replacing. maybe that was inevitable. it was inevitable. but the definition that you rightly and harriet really picked up on the first review of what is viable and what is not viable is a very different situation. there are jobs and industries where it will be viable if it were not for the government in effect shutting down their viability. by stopping them operating altogether in the case of nig htclu bs operating altogether in the case of nightclubs and theatres broadly speaking and so on. and others which are going through long—term change, like my own actually would be an example of that i'm perhaps things will move anyway. so i think the big question here is what is going to have been to the people who just have been to the people who just have not got a job as a result of this with the heavyjob losses that are almost inevitable now and the chancellor is warning of that. where is the retraining of those people and how of the new businesses which in normal times would be generating,
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how are they going to start up? because of economic activity is depressed again because of government edict in effect. and again the guardian also came of the quote you said, the guardian picked that up showing the chancellor saying i cannot save every business, cannot save every job, saying i cannot save every business, cannot save everyjob, no chancellor can. but to become some of those points of the telegraph and the guardian pretty much having that same kind of line with the consent of thejob same kind of line with the consent of the job losses. it's this idea that the job support of the job losses. it's this idea that thejob support scheme is to cut hours not jobs that thejob support scheme is to cut hours notjobs and yet when it comes to those low—paying sector jobs like leisure, like hospitality, isa jobs like leisure, like hospitality, is a difficult one because where is the incentive to keep those jobs? is a difficult one because where is the incentive to keep thosejobs? it is more aimed at those jobs where you need a lot of training and retaining and is expensive to train people. there has been some criticism as to the way the sums
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work out. because if you were to employ two people on both one third of their normal hours, it would actually cost the employer more per hour than it would be to take one person on full—time. so there is kind ofan person on full—time. so there is kind of an element of goodwill i think the government is expecting from employers which hopefully some will do but of course not all employers are full of good spirits. and so inevitably there will be job losses in sectors that are hoped to benefit from this scheme. as you are just saying, there also then going to be job losses in sectors which cannot come back because government is going to prevent them from reopening, so things like theatres and nightclubs were those jobs just simply are not going to be supported because he cannot even do one third of your time working in a bar or nightclub because there are no customers going to the nightclubs. sol customers going to the nightclubs. so i think it is a political choice by the chancellor. he could have
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exited the furlough scheme and some we re exited the furlough scheme and some were calling for that. he has chosen not to and has chosen to do something dramatically cheaper but still it is incredibly expensive. backin still it is incredibly expensive. back in february and managing this kind of thing being imposed we would think this is extraordinarily generous but in comparison to the furlough scheme it is not. and so inevitably of course there for people are going to lose theirjobs. so because last night we talked about preempting this in the papers in the talking about the options of chancellor had we had the broadcaster henry on who pronounce the german scheme which i'm going to muck up so i will not do it but what why did the chancellor not go down with something along the german scheme or the french scheme for example? i think it helps to have scam i'm afraid. i suppose maybe it was going to a more expensive i'm not quite sure. we have to ask him. but that is the difficulty i think with today's announcement, that simply that there is a question as
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to whether how many employers will be able to take this. not a question of just good be able to take this. not a question ofjust good spirits although in some cases that is relevant but other employers are right at the wall and are struggling to survive as it is. the latest restrictions could easily tip them over the edge. and they have not got the luxury of being any more generous... they cannot be generous because they have got to be able to pay their own bills and their own loan schemes and so on but it is early happy to take out loans and defer costs at the met at some point. so i think this is the great problem, that too many people will be in jobs that won't probably be viable here and now but would not be potentially viable in the future but are not going to be possible. not possible to retain them ina possible. not possible to retain them in a course that depresses economic activity elsewhere as the more are unemployed the more spending power is depressed and the
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harder it gets to generate new economic activity for that region. and the harder it gets to generate new economic activity for that region. in of course others are concerned about how this is going to last with employers concerned about that potential with new businesses concerned about where they're going to get their revenues from. it's not a great environment unfortunately at the moment so what think get to see more the other side of it how to stimulate new activity and how to help people get back into employment and so on. unfair of me to ask you but absolutely. the daily mail is actually championing because negative front pages from the previous two papers with the daily mail championing as he would expect the chancellor. in fact say he is upstaging a cautious prime minister. harriet, they are saying we cannot have our lives or hold any longer. how long will this go on for? but we have to live without fear. are people going to buy that? it's hard to say. of course with the restrictions that are in place and
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face masks and being told to socially distance of people have reason to be fearful and of course to some degree the government needs people to be fearful in order for them to actually follow the restrictions and to limit their social contacts. the kind have to be the element of fear and perhaps we asa the element of fear and perhaps we as a nation were too fearful early on and that's why it's taken a long time for the economy to begin to re cover time for the economy to begin to recover and now we are heading back in to some restrictions. so it is i think a very difficult tightrope for the government to walk because on the government to walk because on the one hand it does need the economy to be ok because that has health and implications as well as the economic implications we are very obvious. but on the other hand you don't want to have tens of thousands of people dying. so it is a really difficult kind of balance for the government to get. unsurprisingly the chancellor dusting to be siding more on the economy side. which as chancellor you would probably expect. it does explain reports we have seen for several months now about differences
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within the cabinet over those restrictions and those who are more liberal and thinking you cannot keep life in order to cheat death. in order to kind of get moving we also need to trust one another in order to do the right thing and when it comes to the financial times, martin, they have an interesting study from king's college london in terms of who would quarantine. talk us terms of who would quarantine. talk us through the findings of this. terms of who would quarantine. talk us through the findings of thism suggests that 11% of people follow and who have been in contact with somebody who they believe has been content with somebody who has got to run only 11% are self isolating as a result of it. an 80% of people actually who have a symptom are self isolating, ie in both cases 80 to 90% of people are not doing that. 0bviously 90% of people are not doing that. obviously the details are still
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being examined of the people are and what the reasons are and it talks they are about people in lower pay jobs and people with dependents for example and people who you can understand if your child in school maybe you should be self oscillating but on the other hand education was disrupted for ages and ages and theirfamily back disrupted for ages and ages and their family back in school sweetie wa nt to ta ke their family back in school sweetie want to take them out for two weeks? it's a matter particularly of thinking and being in contact with somebody i can understand of course is that we should do and it's interesting that people in this survey apparently had good intentions but when it came to it we re intentions but when it came to it were not fulfilling their own good intentions, never mind notjust that people who did not want to do it at all. and i think clearly it's a big problem if that is being replicated around the country in big numbers because that means the infection rate will be spreading more than it obviously would be otherwise. and it does throughout the question in particular in the low—paid area where people are injobs particular in the low—paid area where people are in jobs that they
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fear they are very elected not to turn up to for two weeks they might lose theirjob and income and so on if it's just where you're getting paid by the day. again it raises the question about what sort of supports and where the support is being provided and if there is support will it beat sufficient to encourage people to follow the rules. agonising choices to make your people. you mentioned problems potentially with the prime minister having a problem on his hands when it comes to further potential restrictions. the daily mail is looking at the tory rebels, these conservative mps who want more say over the possible introduction of any further coronavirus restrictions in england. with these kind of emergency powers put forward back in march with the sort of sunset clause for six months' time, that time is now up in those powers are now up for being renewed. now conservative
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mps put forward an amendment by sir graham brady who is a chairman of the 1922 committee of conservative backbenchers so about a senior a backbenchers so about a senior a backbencher tory if you can get and he is the person putting forward a minute in which he can give mps a chance to scrutinise these powers more. they're not saying they don't wa nt more. they're not saying they don't want these powers to go through but what they are demanding is some kind of scrutiny and the chance to vote on them which at the moment they are not really getting. they are getting debates but not on the actual substance in the chance to vote these things through as such and i think they can be voted down down the line but not debated in the way that they want. so a bit of a potential problem on borisjohnson's has a low of course the speaker has to select the amendment and there is every chance that he want. so it will interesting to see it and i believe wednesday when this comes up for the house of commons to see if there is a rebellion. but reports
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there is a rebellion. but reports there of some 40 mps to back it so if you get selected and you have la ra if you get selected and you have lara back in yet another opposition backing it and 40 tory potentially more, then you could have the government defeated. what is your reading of this, martin? well, i think it is clearly i think the right step actually that parliament should be debating these issues more. baroness hale of the supreme court made this point only at the weekend that there is not enough scrutiny of what is going on at that again is not to say necessarily that the individual measures if and when they come forward should not be decided upon as being proportionate by parliament but the point is that we have had extraordinary powers that are actually unimaginable people this crisis started. very draconian powers impose a people not able to go to other people's houses and so on and big fines for breaching very tight regulations and
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all these different restrictions and they are all under executive powers which have got a two year life span on them at the moment. and i think it is right absolutely as a matter of fundamental democratic accountability that there should be proper discussion each time something of this order is coming forward. and i think that should not just apply for this time during the coronavirus pandemic but should all apply to all sorts of area policy but especially at a time like this when you are having such major infringements frankly on people's liberty. they might be necessary or just necessary and people have different views about that but we cannot just allow it to be railroaded through indefinitely by an executive government. we'll have that much time left but we need some good news and i would not to say that the times is providing it but it is not. this vaccine that we are all really waiting for some of the scientists have got a warning for us. exactly because of the vaccine easy but the only way that is known
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that my provide a way out of lockdown and these restrictions and kind of busy silver bullet that we are all on. and yet the times reports that it might actually not be quite as good as it sounds and saying that early inoculations are unlikely to protect everyone although they may cut the risk of dying. so basically you could get the germ but the severity of your symptoms might be reduced and of course that is no bad thing but they are talking this article in the article about how the government will try to read people and from thinking that it is they have a jab they are effectively out ofjail for free and that might not be the case. it actually might be of the future jab situation and might wait a while before these kind of restrictions can go away completely. and also the rule of six in england which leads us rule of six in england which leads us onto the metro which has a bit of a play on words with the rule of 600 and pounds a night and make sense when you look at the picture. this
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is the prime minister's partner, carrie symonds, and the baby wilfrid and they are having a lovely time and they are having a lovely time and are in italy on lake como and has to be stressed that italy is still on the government list of travel core doors so you don't have to quarantine coming back from italy but what you make of that. how people react to this?|j but what you make of that. how people react to this? i hope they will just people react to this? i hope they willjust think that people react to this? i hope they will just think that why should she not to be frank. she probably had as a saw new mothers a very difficult time and it's hard work with a young baby and if she gets a chance to have a holiday, she is not in the prime minister and she is not one of the country. she is trying to deal with a newborn baby and in difficult circumstances. and so i think all good luck to her to be frank. italy is lovely and we would all like to go and also get to go in the summer myself so i think it will be somehow
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uncharitable to be frank to be sort of sniping at her for going uncharitable to be frank to be sort of sniping at herfor going on a holiday when she has got the chance to. why should she not? and yet we hear nicola sturgeon from scotland saying don't take foreign holidays abroad, harriet, over the saying don't take foreign holidays abroad, harriet, overthe upcoming 0ctober half term. abroad, harriet, overthe upcoming october half term. that's right. so a bit different message north of the border about going on holiday and you wonder if that might also change here although it does seem that we have got our own problem in the uk of rising cases and perhaps we will not worry too much about this but i think the problem here with this story is that it isjuxtaposed against what rishi sunak said today andl against what rishi sunak said today and i think your summit will be really uncomfortable reading about the prime minister's fiance coming on holiday somewhere that is £600 a night while you get the chancellor warning there will be a pretty severe economic impact from coronavirus in the next six months. so some people will say she is very much entitled to a holiday but probably had a pretty tough year
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given her experience herself having coronavirus and boris johnson given her experience herself having coronavirus and borisjohnson public experience and having a newborn baby but at the same time that the people who think this is perhaps not the best look for the prime minister's fiance at a very difficult time economically for many people. picture of the baby though so there you go. so as always, thank you so much talking us through tonight's final addition of the papers. good to have you with us and thank you for giving it your thursday night and as always thank you to our viewers also forjoining us. the hashtag is hashtag bbc papers. good evening. i'm chetan pathak with your sports news. we start with liverpool, who thrashed league one side lincoln city to set up a fourth round match against arsenal in the efl cup. the night started brightly
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for liverpool, and look at this. in spectacularfashion thanks to xherdan shaqiri, the premier league champions raced into a 4—0 lead. man of the match curtisjones scored twice, as did takumi minamino. jurgen klopp's side conceded two goals, though, before wrapping up a 7—2 victory with that final goal from divok 0rigi. in the night's other games, aston villa were 3—0 winners at bristol city and will host stoke in the fourth round. the holders manchester city will travel to burnley after beating bournemouth 2—1. phil foden with the winner. tottenham are into the final round of europa league qualifying after a hard—fought win in north macedonia. they were being held i—i by shkendija before son heung—min put spurs back in front. he then put in a great cross for harry kane to get the all—important third forjose mourinho's side, who'll play maccabi haifa next for a place in the group stage. and celtic are into the europa league play—offs. they needed a last—minute winner to get past the latvian champions riga.
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mohammed elyounoussi coming off the bench to get the goal which prevented extra time. they'll face bosnian side sarajevo next. a good victory for celtic, then, and also for their old firm rivals rangers this evening. they beat dutch side willem ii by 4—0. defeats, though, for aberdeen and motherwell, fan were able to attend tonight's european super cup in budapest, which was won by the champions league winners bayern munich. 20,000 tickets were sold for their game against the europa league winnners sevilla. the vast majority of supporters were localfans in hungary. the stadium was around a third full, and those inside saw javi martinez score an extra time winner as bayern came from behind to win 2—1. the national league season could still start next weekend as planned despite more than three quarters of clubs in one division saying they can't afford to play in empty stadiums. the league's authorities say they're in communication with the government for substantial financial support, which combined with an online
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streaming service could help clubs get matches on sustainably from october the 3rd. national league side stockport want the season to go ahead. the government needs to recognise the importance of these clubs to the towns and cities that they're located in. it's not just the financial contribution they make to the community, the social community, it's a huge part of each of these locations‘ identity. and i think to allow a lot of these clubs to disappear, some have been around 100—150 years, to disappear into the abyss would just be a travesty. next to tennis, andy murray will face fellow three—time grand slam champion stan wawrinka in the opening round of the french open, which begins on sunday. it'll be his first appearance at roland garros since having two operations on a hip injury that almost ended his career. the british men's number one dan evans meets japan's kei nishikori, but kyle edmund has pulled out with a knee injury. in the women's draw,
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ninth seed jo konta will face the american teenager coco gauff. the world snooker champion ronnie 0'sullivan, who recently questioned the standard of young snooker players, has had to eat his words tonight after he was knocked out in the second round of the european masters by 18—year—old aaron hill. the irish teenager, who's ranked 115th in the world and only turned professional in march this year, beat 0'sullivan by five frames to four in milton keynes. hill wasn't even born when 0'sullivan won the first of his six world titles. next, one of australia's finest batsmen, dean jones, has died at the age of 59. his international career spanned ten years up until 1994. he played in 52 tests, averaging over 46, but he was also credited with changing the approach to playing one—day cricket. he was capped 164 times in that format. he died in mumbai after a sudden heart attack. he'd been working as a pundit in the indian premier league.
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the dutch rider anna van der breggen won the women's elite individual time trial at the world championships in italy. she finished 15 seconds ahead of switzerland's marie reusser, with her compatriot ellen van dijk in third. american favourite and defending champion chloe dygert crashed out after losing control on a corner and hitting a barrier. usa cycling later tweeted that she was conscious and talking. the formula 1 world champion lewis
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hamilton has set up a group, in his own name, to improve diversity in motor sport. the hamilton commission's 14 members with a range of backgrounds across sport politics and education will look to address the issue. hamilton is the first and so far only black driver to race in formula 1 and has set the group the target of identifying "key barriers to the recruitment and progression of black people in uk motorsport". ireland's most decorated rugby union player has retired. full—back rob kearney was capped 95 times in a 12—year international career, winning four six nations titles, two of them grand slams in 2009 and 2018. he played in three world cups and toured with the british and irish lions twice. the 34—year—old was also four—time european champion and six—time pro—14 champion with leinster. he says he has ‘lived the dream‘
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ac milan forward zlatan ibrahimovic has tested positive for coronavirus. the announcement came just hours before the italian giants were due to play in the europa league third qualifying round. ibrahimovic is the second player at the club to test positive this week. and ibrahimovic, who‘s never short on confidence, tweeted about the situation this afternoon. "i tested negative to covid yesterday and positive today. no symptoms whatsoever. covid had the courage to challenge me. bad idea." and that‘s all the sport for now. more on the bbc sport website, but that is all for now. goodnight. hello again. if you went outside on thursday, i‘m sure you noticed a certain autumnal chill in the air. but was it really cold enough for snow? well, actually, this wasn‘t snow, it was a massive hail storm that went through the bradford area and the 0tley area, quite close to leeds in west yorkshire. and you can see the roads and the pavements turned white as those accumulations of hail built up. it must‘ve been quite some storm. now, the satellite picture shows low pressure over the uk with storm clouds rotating around it, and over the next few hours, we are going to see plenty more of those big showers.
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areas to watch out for, well, west wales in pembrokeshire and also into cornwall, could see some particularly heavy showers here. we‘re also going to see a band of persistent rain affecting parts of east anglia. now, as we go on through friday, pressure builds actually in the west, and this area of low pressure‘s slow—moving. so, the isobars are going to pinch together. the winds are going to blow even more strongly. it will feel even colder. yes, a day of sunshine and showers, but prolonged outbreaks of rain across parts of eastern england. and there‘s going to be some very strong winds in east anglia. gusts could reach in excess of 60 mph, strong enough potentially to bring down a tree or two, so there could be some transport disruption. and there‘s heavy rain in the forecast, too, particularly lincolnshire into parts of east anglia with around 20—40 millimetres or so, perhaps a bit more in places. we could also see some localised flooding, but away from the east, some sunshine, feeling really cold, though, given the strength of those northerly winds. and those northerly winds continue to blow into saturday, albeit slightly less strongly. it‘s going to be another cold start to the day, and there‘s the threat again of a bit more rain running down into parts of east anglia in particular. futher west, actually, pressure‘s building a bit, so it should be a drier kind of day, showers fewer and farther between.
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temperatures, though, still struggling and still feeling cold in the wind, and we‘re going to have cold nights around as well. as we head through saturday night, it‘ll be cold enough for some frost patches in the countryside in scotland. we‘ve still got those northerly winds with us as well across eastern parts of england. still potentially a few showers or spots of rain. further west, it‘s brighter with some sunshine. the winds turning a little bit lighter here, so perhaps not feeling quite as chilly. now, looking into the forecast into next week, it stays unsettled with low pressure with us. those temperatures coming up, though, a few degrees. that‘s your weather.
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