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this is bbc world news, the headlines... the world health organisation has announced a dramatic expansion of coronavirus testing in low and middle income countries. 120 million rapid tests have been secured. the virus has now killed almost a million people worldwide. the north—east of england — home to some two million people — is facing tougher coronavirus restrictions following a sharp rise in cases. mixing between households — in any indoor setting — will be made illegal from wednesday. some a0 universities in the united kingdom have now reported cases of coronavirus — forcing thousands of students to self—isolate — as the new term begins. donald trump has firmly defended his handling of his tax affairs after reports that he paid no federal income tax for ten years because of extensive business losses.
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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 proctor, political editor of politics home, and jack blanchard, uk political editor at politico. tomorrow's front pages starting with welcome back to you both. let's put through some of the pages that are already in. 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 across the world. the telegraph warns that elderly people may face delays getting the flu vaccine, as supplies run short and demand surges amid the coronavirus pandemic. according to the times, borisjohnson is facing a backlash from mps in his own party, after a range of new coronavirus offences were introduced.
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the daily mail says borisjohnson is also facing a revolt from mps in the red wall, after new covid restrictions were brought in in the north—east of england. the mirror is critical over what it calls, a "chaotic range of coronavirus rules" — it also carries a picture of crowds gathering on the streets of bristol, once pubs closed at 10pm. and a different story in the financial times. it reports on a surge in the share price of hsbc, after its largest shareholder, china's ping an, increased its stake. so let's begin... kate, do you want to take us through the mirror? coronavirus crisis, deadly chaos. pubs close at 10pm, eve ryo ne deadly chaos. pubs close at 10pm, everyone out on the streets.
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i think the mirror has done a good job here on its front page, showing exactly what the problem is. so the pub shot at ten, and look at all these people on the front page that are milling around together in very close contacts, obviously not in the rule of six. so, itjust shows that what's happening, really is very chaotic and although you've got the cu rfew chaotic and although you've got the curfew which is to try and bring down the transmission within the pubs itself, we have the statistics today that showed it might be around 396, today that showed it might be around 3%, the transmission within pubs for coronavirus at the moment, but you know, what seems to be a problem and what might be very hard to actually get data on is the transmission when you look at images like this and seeing all of these young people gathering together after closing time. i think the mirror has done a good job on its front page story in showing just how chaotic things are. they've also shown here that the greater manchester mayor has said closing them early is doing more harm than good. jack, they were on
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earlier, but they were saying that the curfew was probably misjudged. do think the government might move on that? i think he was advocating him actually bringing the time back to nine o'clock, wasn't he? they will definitely want to move on that, simply because this perception has grown that they pretty much you turn on everything, don't they? they make these rash decisions and then get huge criticisms then try something else instead and no that's not a good look. so they will be keen not to, but if we keep getting images like we are seeing over the weekend, thanl images like we are seeing over the weekend, than i do wonder if the pressure is going to grow on this. it's not a very well thought out idea. it seems very simple to be sat ina room, idea. it seems very simple to be sat in a room, shut the pubs early, that way people will be less likely to mix at the end of the night, but of course, mix at the end of the night, but of course , anyone who mix at the end of the night, but of course, anyone who remembers what throwing out time is to be like 11 o'clock whenever one came out onto the streets at the same time in town centres, it was always chaotic. so it was pretty obvious that it was going to happen. i'm afraid it's indicative of a government that's
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not really thinking clearly or making strategic decisions. it's very coming up with ideas as were going. i remember throwing out the times anyway, but the number of police on the streets now, far fewer, as again, the police were saying earlier today. yes, they are really stretched. they are being able to do a lot of things at the moment, and i wonder if the government's oved marshall plan, which is where us was of local authority workers trying to assist in town centres when a build—up of people. i wonder if the government thought that was the type of role that could assist in all of this, but, yeah, the police have really stretched. it's also not fair on the police, is it? to go into a huge crowd of people like that when people are not supposed to be gathering in such numbers. so yeah, i can understand her concerns. let's look at the times. tourists shout against big brother. ruling by decree, some pretty strong language in the
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commons today, it's interesting, someone was comparing commons today, it's interesting, someone was comparing the britain out to george orwell's 1984. someone was comparing the britain out to george 0rwell‘s1984. the someone was comparing the britain out to george orwell's 1984. the act the out to george 0rwell‘s1984. the act the government is using to get all of these emergency measures through is the public health act of 1984. it's a nice symmetry, isn't it? i think when the government announced at the start of this pandemic that it was going to keep these emergency powers and reserve, and it might need to do things to react quickly to events, i think most people accepted that that could be necessary in such a big crisis and such a fast—moving crisis, but the way they are going about it, they are really not helping themselves. so they slipped out these changes to the law in the dead of night last made on the website, no proper announcements, it wasn't told to parliament, suddenly people wa ke told to parliament, suddenly people wake up that they are going to be fine for doing this that or the other that they wouldn't have been vying for the day before, parliament hasn't even had a chance to debate this. there is no need for a government that is thinking clearly and thinking ahead to act in that
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way, and of course it's really upsetting mps. tory mps in particular who hates all of this stuff, they hate all of these draconian crackdowns on people's lives. some of them think the government is going too far anyway. so the government needs to do a much betterjob of bringing parliament with it if it wants to do this sort of thing, or it's going to pay some pretty big rebellions. of course, the majority of 80 sounds big, and you should be able to do what you want, but we have seen several times this year that the one tory backbenchers get together, they are capable and prepared to defeat this government. i think we are going to see that again and again into the autumn if ministers don't improve the way they are approaching this. kate, matt hancock hinting at a copper mine, what kind of compromise do you think would be offered? well, imean, i do you think would be offered? well, i mean, iwould do you think would be offered? well, i mean, i would assume that they come back to say that, you know, if measures are introduced, then there would be coming in maybe 24 hours later so that there could be an emergency debate within parliament.
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william's is conservative and he has tweeted this evening that things are going well and that the ministers are listening and ministers do understand their concerns. it sounds to me like we are going to see a shift. what i don't understand is that the government knew that this was brewing all of last weekend yet it still did that sunday night into monday release of all of these new rules which had these huge fines attached which for anyone under any kind of normal income is under a huge amount of money to pay. so i don't understand when all of this seems to have been coming to a head a nyway seems to have been coming to a head anyway that the government went ahead and slipped out a whole load of regulations on sunday. so i'm not surprised that we had a slightly more bonkers session in the house of commons today with people saying that boris johnson had commons today with people saying that borisjohnson had been kidnapped by doctor strangelove. it all got very weird in their today. but it just shows all got very weird in their today. but itjust shows how all got very weird in their today. but it just shows how frustrated they are. we have had a lot of bonkers sessions heavily over the last year or so. jack, onto the express , last year or so. jack, onto the express, a peace deal to head off virus
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express, a peace deal to head off vi rus revolts express, a peace deal to head off virus revolts from of the expressing that matt hancock pledged the government would move fast to curb the virus‘s spread, but they haven't gone into any specific detail, have a? we haven't got the detail yet, but as kate as alluded to, some of the troublemakers on the tory backbenchers if you like have been giving out noises tonight sing to journalists that the government is listening and that they are expecting some sort of deal. ministers alluded as such. when the troublemakers are led by the chairman of the 1922 committee. exactly. and that shows you the scale of the unhappiness on the tory backbenchers, so select committee chairs as well as involved in this. these are senior backbenchers, they are notjust a these are senior backbenchers, they are not just a few randoms. these are senior backbenchers, they are notjust a few randoms. what these are senior backbenchers, they are not just a few randoms. what we are not just a few randoms. what we are releasing with the tory party this year is they are in unruly lot. they are not prepared just to bow down and let the government do as it once. they are prepared to defeat it, too humiliated to come to force the primitive string to your turn —— u—turns. we have seen it only times already and the problem is that
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every time he gives intimate gives them more confidence to do it again, andl them more confidence to do it again, and i think we are going to see a much unruly or parliament and the prime minister with a lot less power than we expected when he won that big victory last year. let's look at the guardian, kate. good news, it seems, may be a game changer in terms of the testing of covid—19. global deal to roll—up snap covert tests worldwide. this announcement from the who and indeed the white house just a few hours apart. these tests aren't really promising. they are pregnancy style tests, they can take 15—30 minutes to get the results back. that's extremely quick. —— these tests are really missing. they are around $5. so part of this test is that they are could be rolled out in middle income countries. to get that mess testing sorted. in the really amazing thing about this test as you do get that results back very quickly, so that is the difference between going to
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work and not, quarantine and not, so it will be a really, really big game changer. ijust it will be a really, really big game changer. i just noticed it will be a really, really big game changer. ijust noticed in all of this, though, that germany, france and switzerland are among the countries that have already been interested in this, putting in some quite big orders to try and get a hold of these. it says that germany has ordered 20 million of these tests. uk government is keen to get a rapid test as well, but i don't think it's put an order in for these ones. and instead, it's looking at a british made saliva test as well as rapid antigen tests which take about 90 minutes, trials happening in sa lfo rd. 90 minutes, trials happening in salford. so it sounds like the british government is doing its own thing. seems a little bit strange to me that you wouldn't fully get on board and put orders in for these $5 tests as well like some of the other european countries are doing. that isa european countries are doing. that is a problem, isn't it, jack? there's a lot of national pride with this, you can see the road of the various vaccine programmes as well. yeah, maybe. we don't exactly know
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the uk position on this particular test, but we are certainly spending lots of money on lots of different tests, desperately trying to catch up tests, desperately trying to catch up with where the better prepared countries started from that have been able to deal with this pandemic so much better than we have because they are testing and creating systems that are much more advanced. we pretty much started from scratch. you hope that we will be in a place ina few you hope that we will be in a place in a few months' time where the vast majority of countries are doing a lot of very rapid testing. unless we get a vaccine, that's the only way we will ever get a handle on this virus and start to get back toward some sort of normality. it means a lot of people getting tested all the time, basically, so they can go about their daily business. kate, and that a vaccine programme, russia has already started inoculating, as has already started inoculating, as has china. we haven't, but i presume, it's going to put pressures on countries, isn't it? of these vaccines do work, other countries will be pressurised to actually take
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some short cuts to rolling out their own programmes. yeah, i don't think british scientists would ever advocate any kind of short cuts and it might be the case that anything that comes through the british university or a laboratory goes through some really, really rigorous testing and things ta ke really rigorous testing and things take a little bit longer. personally, i'd rather that approach than any kind of race to a vaccine which hasn't gone through, you know, although very very many stages of testing that can exist out there. yeah, alongside the story, the main picture for the guardian, the picture for the guardian, the picture of him with his partner, sue bushby. he was killed in the custody suite in croydon last week. very human side to this story. his partner talking about how much she mrs him, a gentle giant. a lot of questions still, jack, about how this shooting took place inside of
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police station. tomorrow morning it's going to be carrying this picture in this moving tribute to this brave police officer. as you say, i don't really want to speculate about what could've happened. obviously we don't have the faculty at, and the investigations are going on, but it's very hard to see how this could have happened without some serious mistakes being made by somebody. all you can say in the positive is how rare it is that we do see police office rs rare it is that we do see police officers killed in their line of duty in this country and i think we can be grateful for that. —— that it's not happening in every country. we are able to take the time to stop and think about what has happened and think about what has happened and hopefully try and address you know, whatever caused the woes behind this. kate, when you look at the picture and realise how rare it is, of course, the home secretary keen to push forward legislation and to make the killing of any
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subserving police officer punishable by the highest, longest custodial sentences. i'm sure the public would back the home secretary in that, and i'm sure that something that she should be able to get through parliament without much difficulty at all. i've been really moved by lots of the really lovely tributes to this officer in particular, but there were lots of photographs as well of him with his rugby club. he was a coach there, and some of those images are in the papers as well. so it's a lovely tributes, nice for the guardian to put it so prominently on their front guardian to put it so prominently on theirfront page. guardian to put it so prominently on their front page. let's go back to their front page. let's go back to the express, jack. there's also a story about top the times as well, the express has got a nice headline, multiple ones george's tooth fossil back. for those viewers who don't know what it's about, talk us through it. so this was a gift to prince george from no less than david attenborough
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who i think collected this shark tooth fossil in malta decades ago, sort of treasuring it for years, and then gave it as a gift to the prince. obviously the prince is thrilled as any little boy or indeed grown man would be, a gift like that, and its copy i of the maltese authorities who have been starting to wonder whether actually it's appropriate for britain to have and try to keep its hands on what appears to be quite a valuable fossil. i have to say commit seems a bit far—fetched about the maltese cops are going to be coming over and frisking prince george to get a shark tooth back, but you know, we do live in strange times, don't be? so who knows. 23 million years old. it's not really, up there with the bro nzes, it's not really, up there with the bronzes, i wonder if the maltese are aiming at here. mean, they're probably using this, this is
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probably using this, this is probably other treasures out there which i can't name right now which are actually much more an issue that the maltese government is concerned about. i mean, this story isjust absolutely fascinating. it does seem, i wouldn't say it seems petty, but it does seem to be a small thing for them to have really gone in quite hard putting this stories in the times of malta, which has then been picked up. but ijust think that he was probablyjust trained to do something kind, what an amazing gift to be given a fossil by david at burrell himself. itjust seems to have offended —— david attenborough. a diplomatic row with malta. i'm sure it will go away, this one. i don't think that faso will go anywhere, but we will see.|j don't think that faso will go anywhere, but we will see. i don't think prince george is going to relinquish it very easily. look, we we re relinquish it very easily. look, we were talking about the good news, it seems, about coronavirus today with this rapid test which provides results in 15 minutes. but let's just finally turned to the metro,
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jack, because it's still pretty chaotic, isn't it? forstudents jack, because it's still pretty chaotic, isn't it? for students who have not only gone through the exam fiasco, but now a lot of freshers are being locked down at university and the metro is sort of summing it allup and the metro is sort of summing it all up with carry on campus. and the headline shows the farce all of this, just seems so practical that all these young people get held into these holes of residence together, freshers' week and all the re st of together, freshers' week and all the rest of it, and anyone who spends university knows what that's like. the idea that they were all going to socially distance very carefully and stick to these slightly obscure rules that are different in different parts of the country when they have just arrived you know, young people, it's all a bit, anyone who thought that was really going to happen, possibly, needs to grow into the real world and take a look at what's going on. ijust feel like the government should've seen this one coming. for the students who have already had the pretty tough summer, to find themselves locked in
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their halls of residence and be paying nine grand a year in tuition fees for the pleasure, and be told you may not be able to go home for christmas, i mean, it doesn't really seem to right way to treat people. i just feel like that there should have thought about this a lot earlier and try to think about ways they could've avoided getting into this pickle now. is supposed those people who have been missing gavin williamson on their screens and in the papers every day will be happy, because he's going to be giving a statement tomorrow about this. yes, and the rumours over the summer were that gavin williamson would be in place to field all these really difficult questions that would come in september about schools. he was being kept on despite the a—level debacle because he had to face the music on what it was likely to be a very difficult to return to school. we have actually seen a really high u pta ke we have actually seen a really high uptake in school returns, but then this university issue sort of came, might actually say it like it's came out of the blue for the government and it might be to the point that they concentrated so much on primary
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and secondary school that they didn't foresee these issues with universities. although, that does feel a little bit difficult. it's williamson once again facing the questions in the commons tomorrow and will no doubt be on the tv screen. and will no doubt be on the tv screen. he's being kept around by government to own these questions.|j think it might mean more viewers for us, actually, with freshers not being able to go to the bars, maybe have the tv on in the background. that's it for the papers this evening. thanks to kate and jack. thank you very much indeed for taking us to our second look at the papers. hello, i'm chetan pathak and this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. we will start at anfield, where liverpool had made it three wins out of three to start the season after a 3—1win over arsenal
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the champions had to come from behind, but were worthy winners. defendants may be missing, but it remains a fortress, liverpool are unbeaten and 60 premier league games here, sue can maybe forgive arsenal for asking for some special help. both sites have a 100% record so far this season and it was the home site who wins close early on. but under our data ‘s arsenal have a new—found belief and they soon had the lead with alexandra benefiting from a defensive mistake. it didn't take liverpool long to respond though, on hand for the easiest of finishes. that seemed to spur the champions on is just that seemed to spur the champions on isjust moments later, that seemed to spur the champions on is just moments later, the fullbacks combined and andy robinson making amends for his earlier mistake. what a finish. arsenal refused to give in, though. wasting a great opportunity to drown the gunners level. will that come back to haunt them? the
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level. will that come back to haunt them ? the answer was level. will that come back to haunt them? the answer was soon evident, new signing diego coming off the bench to seal the victory on his debut. 3—3 forjuergen klopp's site, and on this evidence, they may take some stopping. i'm completely happy with the performance, to be honest. we were flexible, we mixed it up, we played long, short, in between, behind. so football wise, it was... yeah, a bit trained, obviously. but of course it's more difficult in the premier league games, but the boys did it and they really delivered tonight. we were in the game for it big, big part of the game. the reality is that they are superior to us in many aspects. i think you could see that in some phases of the game. but i'm really pleased with the way the team competed. we stayed there, and this is the standard, you know, that we have to reach.
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liverpool joined lester liverpooljoined lester and liverpool joined lester and everton at the top, aston villa a fourth as they cruised to victory against fulham's site who struggled again. jack on the score sheet with a threes — zero when, unbeaten in threes — zero when, unbeaten in three games, just —— they conceded ten goals. this was the word we can in the premier league after three controversial penalties were avoided. tottenham's was the man punished against newcastle, something most people thought was harsh. it? is around the new interpretation of the handball rule in the way it's being enforced. it's something chelsea boss, frank lampard, has been speaking about today. ahead of his match tomorrow, he wants the rule changed. we are all in this game, and i think we all understand that when people jump all in this game, and i think we all understand that when peoplejump in the box, your arms will naturally move into different positions. it's
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a lwa ys move into different positions. it's always been a different role, may be always been a different role, may be a certain bits of grey area in its, the idea of trying to find some clarity, we've actually gone the other way and made something that just doesn't feel right at all. so i'd like to think that something can be done to change it. not a great couple of days for british players at the french open. they are all out, liam brody who was a qualifier was beaten by the czech republic in the opening round. brody who is appearing ina the opening round. brody who is appearing in a main draw for the first time did level the match at one set all. ultimately went down. meanwhile, the british number three, cameron norrie looks like he was in for a trouble—free evening as he raced into a five love lead in the first step that, winning it six, the colombian came back to win in five and make it into the second round.
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the 12th time winner and defending champion, rafael the dog, easing into the second round after beating belarus in straight sets. it took him a little over a couple of hours to make it past the world number 83. the man who has lost the past two finals too rough a on the dull, dominic teen is also into the second round as he beat croatia's chile which in straight sets. in the women's draw, succeed serena williams has ta ken women's draw, succeed serena williams has taken the first step in her quest for that record equalling 24th grand slam title, williams, who celebrated her 39th birthday on saturday overcame a rusty start to beat fellow american, christiane in straight sets. she will play bulgaria in the second round. amyjones helping lynn to another dominant win over the west indies and the 1420 as they won by 44 runs to go 4—0 up. jones made 55 from 37 balls coupled with heather knight's
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42 in what was england's most impressive and —— impressive performance with about so far. it's when you take something special from the west indies to avoid being whitewashed when the final match ta kes pla ce whitewashed when the final match takes place on wednesday in derby. more reaction to that over on the bbc sport website. but for me and the team, that is all your support for now. goodbye. for me and the team, that is all yoursupport for now. goodbye. —— all your support. hello there. a window of fine weather awaits many today — not all, but for most, there will be some good lengthy spells of sunshine and light winds, and it will feel pleasantly warm for late september. the reason, well, we've got a ridge of high pressure moving in behind the cold weather front, which hasn't brought much rain but it certainly brought cloudier skies southwards through the night and some drizzly rain, which will stick across eastern england for a time before finally clearing. the ridge of high pressure towards the north ensuring a pretty cold start to the day again, with temperatures close enough to freezing to give us some grass frost. the other thing we need to be aware of in northern and western areas
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is some patchy fog — of course, it lingers through the rush hour this time of year. now, we have got the cloud, the low cloud, the drizzly rain with our weather front as well in the south, really rather great start for parts of eastern england. as you can see, with time through the day, it's starting to pull away, the skies will brighten. also, just the outside chance of a few showers in northwest scotland, possibly northern ireland. it's more likely the cloud will thicken towards tea—time here. with light winds, despite temperatures a little lower than they were on monday, the north will still feel very pleasant, and approaching 18—19 in southern areas, rather where they should be for the time of year. but that ridge of high pressure is a brief ridge of high pressure, because by the night, as you can see, and tomorrow, we have got more rain rushing in. and it's a slow moving band of heavy rain. some parts of southern and western scotland could see 40—60 mm before this rain finally clears away. you can see, it continues to fall throughout tuesday night and wednesday. strong, potentially gale force winds with it. ahead of it, some drier weather, and this mild air at least,
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but it will be a fairly wet affair wednesday for most parts of the uk. then a brief respite again, potentially on thursday, little ridge of high pressure, still some showers around. now comes the uncertainty. where will this deepening area of low pressure come to lie? potentially southern areas, bringing us increasingly windy and wet weather and lasting into the weekend as well. it certainly looks a lot more unsettled by that stage. so, yes, definitely feeling autumnal, and feeling quite chilly as well after the fact that we've had some sunshine and it's felt quite warm. look at the temperatures — really dipping down by the end of the week. as i say, perhaps a little respite on thursday, but some very unsettled weather as you can see in the outlook. as ever, there's more on our website.
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