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on tuition fees and a more recent anti—brexit stance, he admits will take time. are you in this for the long haul? i think it's the national level where the listening exercise by the party really needs to be focused on, for months and months and months. i don't think this is, there's no quick fix to this. but listening to voters can only last so long. elections are the ultimate test for any leader, especially one with a limited voice. jonathan blake, bbc news. restrictions on visiting people in care homes, particularly those residents with dementia, have been a very difficult challenge for many families. with the prospect of further restrictions on movement, there are growing calls for relatives of care home residents to be made a priority for testing so that they can continue to visit their loved ones. our social affairs correspondent alison holt has been speaking to two families about the distress and difficulties they've faced. this is suzanne amos. her mother, doreen, has dementia and is in a care home in kent.
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you know, your mum's crying. she wants you to hug her. you want to hug her. but you can't. so... and this is suzanne smith. her mother, barbara, is also in a care home and also has dementia. if mum is still alive in six months' time, she may not recognise me by then. so time with her now when she knows the time there isjust crucial. like so many relatives of care home residents, both women believe restrictions on visits are robbing them of precious time with the people they love. i'm loaded down with chocolate biscuits, flowers, because this is the first time i've seen herfor a while, and it also may be the last time that i see her for a while. with coronavirus cases rising nationally, suzanne amos is making a four—hour round trip to see her mum for an hour in case the home locks down.
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the care home has been in and out of lockdown for various reasons. we've filmed with her mum in the past. suzanne knows care staff are doing all they can to protect a residents, but she says official guidance which only allows a very limited, socially distanced visits, is too restrictive. i love lavender. that's better. there's got to be a different way. what about testing? test me every week. test me every day if you want. just test me so that you're confident in me as a daughter that i'm not going to bring the virus into the home. this is cory. she oversees the visits when families and friends come to see their relatives. the latest government guidance says only essential visits should take place in care homes like this, with one designated family member, supervised by care staff. we have a wash station outside where family members can come and wash their hands. but suzanne smith feels the importance of family
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is being forgotten. she too wants priority testing for relatives. her mother's partner is the designated visitor, so she doesn't know when she'll see her mum again. the carers do their absolute best. they're wonderful. but they're not family members. they cannot understand the core of the person as we do, what makes my mum tick, what she really loves. and she loves family. mind the corner of this. to the government says it understands the pain of families unable to see enough of their relatives, but that it's doing all it can to protect residents from the virus. alison holt, bbc news. the plight of so many families gci’oss the plight of so many families across the uk today. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night.
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welcome to bbc news. hello to viewers in the uk joining those around the world. it's now time for us to take a first look at the national and international front pages in the papers. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are kate proctor, political editor of politics home, and jack blanchard, uk political editor at politico. welcome to you both. let's look at what's already in so far. let's start with the guardian. it reports that a new coronavirus test that will give results in minutes is about to be rolled out
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across the world. the telegraph warns that elderly people in the uk may face delays getting the flu vaccine, as supplies run short and demand surges amid the coronavirus pandemic. the international version of the financial times reports on a surge in the share price of hsbc, after its largest shareholder, china's ping an, increased its stake. the new york times reports that school closures, due to the pandemic, has resulted in millions of children in developing countries being sent out to illegal, unsafe work. according to the express, ministers in the uk are close to placating conservative rebels, who are calling for more scrutiny over covid restrictions. we will have more on that in a moment. but the daily mail says borisjohnson is facing a revolt from mps in the red wall over
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the covid curbs, after new measures were brought in in the north—east of england. let's kick off. welcome to you both again. kate, should we look at the telegraph first of all? "elderly face winter flu vaccine shortage." this is really rather important, and the chances of death for covid—19 patients with the flu doubles. yes, that was the shocking statistic that i wanted to pull out and highlight. this is more bad news really all overfor this is more bad news really all over for the coronavirus response, there's a shortage of flu vaccine. so boots and lloyd's have said they've had to suspend bookings for those over the age of 65, that's a high risk group that are supposed to get it. it's very difficult to understand how this has happened.
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there was a huge plan to try to immunise more people this year than ever before, but already it seems to be failing at the first hurdle. they are running out of stocks and some of these chemists here are saying they don't know when they'll be able to reopen the bookings again. the reason this is so important, as you highlighted, is that if you have the flu and covid—i9 at the same time, it is an extremely dangerous combination and your risk of death is far higher. so really, really worrying that this vaccine is not available. i'm sure jack feels the same. and the aim is to vaccinate 30 million. what struck me as interesting was that even though public health england is in charge, it sat down to every individual surgery it sat down to every individual surgery to request the numbers they need. that's right, and that is how it normally works. obviously they're trying to do something on a much bigger scale this year than what they've done before with the flu, and it makes perfect sense to do so.
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obviously i agree with everything kate said except just obviously i agree with everything kate said exceptjust to obviously i agree with everything kate said except just to say that it is still early days, it is only the start of the autumn. the government is stating that there will be a vaccine, and we just have to hope they are right. but the problem is all year we've heard big promises from the government about big things with its response and not delivering. so it's hard to feel confident that this will go well. and obviously the warning signs are already there. but the government has a stockpile of this stuff, and it is generating them all the time. sol it is generating them all the time. so i guess we have to hope that as into october and the really crucial time for these vaccines in the next 4-8 time for these vaccines in the next 4—8 weeks that they start to come through. it also goes into getting the testing system up and running as soon as possible. we are reporting on what the who was saying, that they are trying to have this pan—
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global test, $5, and one of the companies behind it is the american company the white house is trumpeting today. i'll be curious where the british government is investing its money in these tests? because there was one saliva test, but is not the one they're plumping for? or is it a constellation of tests ? for? or is it a constellation of tests? i think they're going for quite a wide variety of tests from different providers, and they have a huge amount of importance. if it can be british made, british produced, if they can come from a british firm. andi if they can come from a british firm. and i think that is the focus of the government. sometimes i think there's criticism that they do this to the detriment of some of the other international solutions on offer, but i think we will see more from the guardian's story about the tests that are out there. it sounds like it's possible you can get this very quick test in countries, and
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this is part of the government's armoury, if it wishes to use it. but it sounds like germany, france and switzerland have put in a lot of orders and the uk hasn't done that yet for this type of test. jack, let's move on to the new york times, which had the story about the tax returns of donald trump. it'll be interesting to see what sort of impact this has. the papers maintain that trump's taxes are at odds with the image he relies on, although i suppose his supporters would say, "look, it might be morally unpleasant, but it's not illegal. " despite them searching for all these records, i don't think is broken any law, has he? well, they don't seem to have found any evidence of that, though it's not really the sort of behaviour that you might've expected in the past from a president. but this is a president that's been
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breaking all those rules of what you'd expect of an elected official since day one, and my gut instinct tells me this won't really shift that dial any more than any of the other scandals and revelations about his morals or his lack of them have done over the past few years. you are a memberof done over the past few years. you are a member of the scandal that broke about him just before the 2016 election with that access hollywood tape, and the things that he said — you imagine that would've been the end ofa you imagine that would've been the end of a political career before it took off, and of course he was elected anyway. so it doesn't seem to me that this is the sort of thing that'll put off his supporters that voted for them last time, we are well pa st voted for them last time, we are well past that point with donald trump now. kate, presumably this will be something thatjoe biden will be something thatjoe biden will pick on in that first televised debate tomorrow. it's rather blown off his nomination for supreme court, amy coney barrett, of the front pages as well, hasn't it? yes, i'm not sure — jock says it front pages as well, hasn't it? yes, i'm not sure —jock says it might not have a big impact, and that's
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possibly true, but i think trump and spoken a lot really to people on very low incomes in america who work really, really ha rd very low incomes in america who work really, really hard and probably pay their taxes and feel very strongly about paying into a system that can reward them and come back. so i do think there might be some feeling that this isn't fair. and sometimes trumpjust that this isn't fair. and sometimes trump just says such broad things — in response to this, he said it was fa ke in response to this, he said it was fake news, but he says he's paid a lot of tax over the years. but i don't think anyone will see that for novemberjust don't think anyone will see that for november just before november. don't think anyone will see that for novemberjust before november. and i think when it comes to things just about fairness and playing fair, i'm not sure all the people who voted for trump last time might be able to get over this new york times story. just for those who perhaps haven't seen just for those who perhaps haven't seen or just for those who perhaps haven't seen or word the story today, the allegations show he paid $750 of income tax in his first year of the presidency, and nothing for the previous 15 years. the democrats
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also point out an average teacher pays just over also point out an average teacher paysjust over $7,000 a also point out an average teacher pays just over $7,000 a year, nurses pays just over $7,000 a year, nurses pay over $10,000. is there much more detail that caught your dashed your eye? the hairdresser was the one that caught my eye, what was it, $17,000, or something like that was like $70,000 for the x factor —— know, pop idol. and when you look at the results for that money, they saw him coming, didn't they? because i'm not sure he got his money's worth. the details extraordinary, as you go through it all. it'sjaw—dropping stuff. but as i say, if you like to some extent this has already been factored in. does anybody really think donald trump above board with his finances? to me, he's operating ina different his finances? to me, he's operating in a different place to where normal
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politics works and seems to be able to get away with things that politicians on this side of the atlantic would be sunk by the sort of thing. he just seems to be able to convince his support is that all the negative stories about him in the negative stories about him in the news aren't real. and in the past he's had enough support to carry him through. it doesn't feel like he'll win this time, but obviously there's a few weeks to go and he's proved he can do it before. 36 days to go. let's go to the daily mail. prime minister borisjohnson relying very much on the redwall in the last election to get his majority of ad. redwall revolt over the new curve on freedoms. again, there do seem to be quite a few inconsistencies with these semi—lockdowns and what people can and cannot do. i think the rules for the northeast of england are really difficult for people. it's going back to the things we saw in march,
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which was no household mix things. so you can go to the pub but you can only go now with members of your own household no mixing. northeast of england, it's going to be a big curb on their lives. what the daily mail is trying to show with this front page story is that those mps that helped boris johnson page story is that those mps that helped borisjohnson get his huge majority are the mps that will have to face questions from constituents every day when they go back on friday and do surgeries, whether that's virtually or whether they are able to do anything. and these are the difficult questions that they'll actually have to face, and some of these mps run really timely majorities, as well. so it's really now up to these conservatives to go back and defend some of these lockdown measures. we heard simon clark today, the conservative mp, and paper that dashed seat that was labour previously, saying this‘ll be really difficult for people, and he
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