the covid rules for northeast england. new rules for the region come into force from midnight — but even the prime minister didn't seem to know exactly what they were all this as figures show the highest daily number of covid—related deaths in the uk for nearly three months. there were a further 71 deaths — the highest since july the first. a million coronavirus deaths across the world — and it's hit the richest and poorest countries alike. those are the main headlines here on bbc news. plenty more on our website.

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the director of thejohn smith centre and former leader of the scottish labour party, kezia dugdale and also matt dathan, who's deputy political editor of the sun newspaper. welcome back to you both. let's go through some of the papers that we've already got in the stack. the telegraph says conservative rebels are on the brink of winning their fight for votes on covid restrictions after boris johnson was forced to apologise for not knowing the rules himself. the mirror says the prime minister's gaffe — when he was unable to explain new rules — sparked anger among two million in the north east who face fines if they break local restrictions. the times says daily coronavirus cases topped 7,000 for the first

time in britain yesterday, dashing hopes that the "rule of six" was weakening a second wave of infection. the daily mail says a million women have missed out on breast cancer screening as a result of lockdown. the huge backlog means the killer disease may have gone undetected in around 8,600 of them. the express also leads with this story. the paper says the nhs has vowed to tackle the screenings backlog. the guardian goes with a warning from a government minister that whitehall has been "infantilised" by an "unacceptable" reliance on expensive management consultants — according to a leaked letter. the financial times says the home secretary, priti patel, asked officials to explore the construction of an asylum processing centre on ascension island, a british 0verseas territory more than 4,000 miles from the uk

in the south atlantic for migrants coming to britain. that was being suggested for migrants coming into britain. well, let's start coming out with that one, kezia, but let's go with the times. the record rates of infection puts britain on red alert. this is very depressing news because the rule of six that had been hoped would have an impactand six that had been hoped would have an impact and it doesn't really seem to have cut through that much. yes, as you see, a high record number of infections, that's a hard number to draw down because we are testing more than we ever have done before and we are —— the worrying statistic is that even over the last seven days, number of people have died has doubled and it's taken ten days for the number of people who have required ventilation to double as well. so it's a really serious developing situation, and you know

it's serious because the boffins are back, the times tells us that sir patrick vallance and professor chris whitty will be taking to the stage with the prime minister tomorrow. it may be that there are further locked on measures to come, but, yes, it's a serious situation. matt, the last of those two men appeared, they did it by themselves, and many cynics thought that they were softening things up for the politicians, but borisjohnson things up for the politicians, but boris johnson with things up for the politicians, but borisjohnson with them as well, and the times predicting that there is going to be more bad news with more lockdowns. what are you hearing? yes, we are told not to expect any new national restrictions announced tomorrow. it's going to be more of like a reset to an attempt of boris johnson to regain control over what's been a pretty shambolic few days. also to possibly prepare the nation for measures to come in the following weeks. also, bit of optimism, just tell the nation that

the government do hope to have a plan for us to celebrate christmas and that comes after gavin williamson today told us that students will be able to go back home for christmas. sol students will be able to go back home for christmas. so i think tomorrow will be more like a reset agenda, not any new national measures, but we could expect more local lockdown such as merseyside. the fact that a decision in london unlikely to be deferred until next week. mrjohnson updated us on the infection rates but warned that he couldn't treat the capital leniently compared to the rest of the country. yes, we are told the prime ministers extremely worried about the economic consequences of a extremely worried about the economic consequences of a local lockdown in london, but like you say it would be a bit unpopular if london had different rules apply to it than the rest of the country. it's extraordinary from that times piece where i said is the first minister of wales in a letter to the prime minister basically begging him to introduce restrictions on people in

england who live in high rate infection areas travelling into wales. mark dra keford infection areas travelling into wales. mark drakeford recognising and believing that the high infection rate that sees much of wales locked down right now is because of people travelling from england into wales.|j because of people travelling from england into wales. i suppose, matt, we saw that at the beginning of the lockdown with cornwall and other places like that with may be people having their second homes down there, and local people being worried about that. yes, it is a lot of deja vu at the moment. i guess, luckily for those areas, we might say that we are going into autumn and winter when it's less attractive to go to these tourist hotspots. i mean, ithink to go to these tourist hotspots. i mean, i think it'sjust extraordinary that we were even thinking that london could be the la st thinking that london could be the last region in the uk, the last big region in the uk to go into lockdown when at the start of all of this, london was the city which saw her rocketing cases and sent the rest of the country in the lockdown at the same time. i think it would be very damaging for the prime minister, prime minister who won an election

promising to level up the rest of the country. 0k, promising to level up the rest of the country. ok, let's go on to the metro. quite a few papers have got this picture of boris. perhaps not the picture he would've hoped to have had on the front pages today. disheveled, kezia, looking like a disheveled schoolboy, really, shoelaces undone. the whole launch of this new education deal com pletely of this new education deal completely hijacked by the fact he couldn't get the details right about what's happening in the northeast. yes, it's a strong headline, but actually the caption on that photo is even better. it says, "have i got confused for you stop to act." it would be funny if it weren't so serious. but you are right, it was supposed to be the prime minister's big day to unveil his huge plans for increasing the skills of qualifications for people across england who didn't have an a—level left in the age restriction taking away the age of 23 is the capper which you can turn to college to get

your skills, nobody is talking about that in the papers today. they are talking entirely about the fact that the prime minister couldn't detailed the prime minister couldn't detailed the covid restrictions within different parts of the country, a very bad day at the office. matt, that expression, tie up your laces, couldn't be more apt for his critics here. did you ever get to the bottom of how he got that so wrong? because early on this morning, just a succession of gaffes by government, ministers and soaks people about this. why on earth did he not get briefed about the facts? 0r this. why on earth did he not get briefed about the facts? or was he? well, we couldn't quite believe it when he made notjust the same error, but even worse, he made to gaffes, he said people in the northeast can make you mad me inside with ina northeast can make you mad me inside with in a group of six, and that's not true. that the rule of six doesn't apply outdoors, which is not true either. as far as i understand it, people can't meet at all in any setting with other households. we couldn't believe it. i think it

would be unthinkable that he wasn't briefed after a couple of hours after his own minister made the mistake on the today programme. so, imean, mistake on the today programme. so, i mean, that's left us all to take from that is that borisjohnson is just not over the details as we have seen before. a picture there of match lucas appearing as the prime minister as well. should we go into the telegraph? same picture, in fa ct, the telegraph? same picture, in fact, exactly the same picture on the front they are, over the rules quickens to tory revolts and the political consequences for number ten on base, kezia, are interesting. so they are going to have to give, it seems, more ground to the supporters of the chairman of the 1922 committee, the brady bunch, as they are known. yes come on the one hand, this could've been a set of bad headlines for the prime minister, but the compounded effect

is that it's really provided a headache for him by giving some ballast to what sir graham brady is trained to do here which is to provide greater parliamentary oversight and scrutiny of the new regulations and laws that are passed in relation to the pandemic. so much control now lies in the hands of the prime ministerjust by declaring it urgent, by declaring it a national emergency. a lot of the details are done by what we call secondary instruments which never really get any scrutiny of mps. so green brady said it's been six months now, i think we are at the point where we should have some more democratic oversight of the process. he's not a national rebel, but is a rebel with a cause here with a strong number of tory mps behind them. he would like to see a little more accountability over the decisions being made. what type they got, matt? well, we don't know for sure. we spent the day trying to work out. at 7pm tonight they were still locked into hocks with at jacob rees—mogg, a rebel

amongst themselves, only about a year and half ago and brags that. so they are all good mates. there is i think, i mean, tomorrow is very likely that the amendment will be chosen by the speaker, but there is a wider aspect to all of this that this isn't going the way at all tory mps, ithink this isn't going the way at all tory mp5, i think will probably get their way and force the government to give mps and the house of commons essay on future measures. the sticking point of the moment is that the government are only offering a vote on retrospective measures, so they will bring in measures and then mps get a say about five days later, which, of course, for mp5, that's not enough. they want the ability to stop them or scrutinise and change them before they come in. just explain if you can as clearly and as brief as possible, why would they not pick this as a motion? because, essentially, he wants to depart from his predecessor, john bercow, who

we nt his predecessor, john bercow, who went against the advice of his own commons clerks to side with the opposition and rebels in the brexit debate, whereas lindsay hoyle we are told will very much take the advice of his clerks, they are the experts and will break that precedent and go back to where we were where it's much more productive but what the speaker of the house of commons does. 0k, all right. underneath that story, kezia, care homes facing long waits for test results as backlog grows. this is very alarming, isn't it? not even getting the testing rate in care home. yes, of course. right at the start of the pandemic what was happening in the care homes may prove to be the greatest scandal of the whole affair. people were discharged from hospital into the ca re discharged from hospital into the care homes without having been tested for coping 19 and were then spreading it within the homes, killing a huge number of people. —— covid—19. several months now, there isa covid—19. several months now, there is a new issue in care homes

developing which is how long it ta kes to developing which is how long it takes to get those test results back. there are reports in this story today think that on average commits taking between 3—7 days for test results to come back. i fear being that there is a number of staff and patients in care homes who are infected but asymptomatic and during that time between being tested and the results coming back, it is spreading again in care homes. 0ne care home in particular say it's taking three weeks before those test results are coming back. it is staggering, is it not, matt? that you have a quotation here from professor martin green, chief executive of carrington saying that the problem with testing and care homes is getting worse not better. you would've thought that after 16,000 deaths in care homes in the shambles that we have sort of spoken about at the start of the pandemic where care homers were sent home from hospitals as we say before being tested. we thought that they had learned from their mistakes, but it's clearly not the case. you are

right. martin greene says that and points out that where we are out at the moment, we should be getting tests back within minutes, not weeks. well, within days. it's really, i think, weeks. well, within days. it's really, ithink, it's weeks. well, within days. it's really, i think, it's a weeks. well, within days. it's really, ithink, it's a real, it could be a real trouble ahead for the government here if they get it wrong because i think the public will not forgive a government that makes the same kind of mistake twice, especially when it comes to ca re twice, especially when it comes to care homes and so many deaths involved. just remind us because baroness diana harding is responsible for test and trace, but they have appointed somebody else to mastermind that. s, the pledge has always been to have huge numbers of daily tests being conducted right across the country. but that means nothing u nless country. but that means nothing unless the results are coming back at the same speed for the exact reasons that we have outlined. the longer it takes between a test and a result, the more time there is for a symptomatic people to spread that by rest. if that's happening in a care

home commits going to have devastating consequences. 0k, home commits going to have devastating consequences. ok, let's move devastating consequences. ok, let's m ove o nto devastating consequences. ok, let's move onto the guardian, matt, johnson under tory fire over unfair coalbed curbs. it's just johnson under tory fire over unfair coalbed curbs. it'sjust interesting looking at the pictures, isn't it? this is like old style campaigning 3040 years ago. you would've thought that perhaps you know, party officials would have chosen something a bit more sophisticated for the prime minister. it's a difficult shot, isn't it there on the front page of the guardian. you are right, also today come it's not on the front pages, but the government's on migration advisers —— migration advisory committee came out with recommendations saying that britain is so short of brick layers that we need to recruit more migrants, let more migrants into fill these shortages. at the same time, it does a picture up with bricks. it's quite a pr sort of failure, i think. bricks. it's quite a pr sort of failure, ithink. it's bricks. it's quite a pr sort of failure, i think. it's stupendous failure, i think. it's stupendous failure by the tory government

today. 0k, failure by the tory government today. ok, let's look at the story alongside that's, minister calls on whitehall to end private fees bonanza. this is a leaked letter from lord agnew who is close to michael gove. 0ne from lord agnew who is close to michael gove. one and a half billion, it says, has been spent, 2017-2018 on billion, it says, has been spent, 2017—2018 on consultancy firms. nice work if you can get it. yes, indeed. and there is obvious fury from lord agnew thereabout the amount of money going into these private firms to do what is the business of government. but there is an underlying story here that's perhaps not being told on the front page and that's what really motivates bipartisan civil service and putting these types of works out to consultancy firms, that's because people like dominic cummings don't trust the civil service and believe that the civil service and believe that the civil service is working against the type of things that he wants to deliver under boris johnson's mission of things that he wants to deliver under borisjohnson's mission to reform whitehall. now, the civil serva nts we reform whitehall. now, the civil servants we would say that in by

bypassing them and using these companies there is a question over due process as well as a lot of private nonprofit going to private shareholder. do get that impression, matt, when you are around whitehall in the palace of westminster how much frustration there is in the civil service? absolutely. we deal with the civil service every day and i think what really struck out for me here was the point he is making that the more you spend on private contractors, the less you are relying and using your civil servants, and that's depriving opportunities for them to work on some of the most fulfilling and challenging crunchy issues of brexit. so the fast stream service, the graduate scheme for university students to work in the civil service was when i was at university seemed like a real gold standard graduate scheme, and now he is warning that the same work that could be done by them to develop their skills and rise up the ladder is actuallyjust being outsourced to

the private consultants using the very same same the private consultants using the very same same age the private consultants using the very same same age people at a vastly inflated cost. what he describes it as completely u na cce pta ble describes it as completely unacceptable and you can completely see why. i suppose, kezia, that for those civil servants that who go into the revolving door into the private sector, they mightjump up a few levels. possibly, but i don't think that's the predominant trend within the civil service. a lot of graduates from the university of glasgow data programmes and go into the fast stream because they want to serve their country and be part of that administration to transform and develop policy right across the piece. now, ithink develop policy right across the piece. now, i think we want to keep it that way, we want the brightest and best minds to go into the civil service to make the best public policy in our of our interest. it's the story needs to be addressed. finally, the express, matt, the male had it on their front page. that's right. breast cancer now warning

that1 million vital right. breast cancer now warning that 1 million vital cancer checks have been missed because of the four months of lockdown from march, this isjust another story months of lockdown from march, this is just another story about how the health advice of facing britain is notjust consigned health advice of facing britain is not just consigned to covid, and the longer we live with these restrictions on society, the restrictions on society, the restrictions on society, the restrictions on hospitals and also the fear and weariness that we have of going to hospitals and a&e, the more problems and health problems that builds up, and they warn that 8600 detections could have gone undetected. and we are thinking about 1300 women dying every year, thatis about 1300 women dying every year, that is really quite worrying, and the start of a pandemic, boris johnson said many will die before theirtime johnson said many will die before their time due to covert, well now i think it's very true that just as many might die because of covid causing such a backlog. briefly, perhaps a lot of people not going to hospital either because they don't

wa nt to hospital either because they don't want to risk getting infected and hospital or burning nhs staff.|j think this is a crucial point, we are talking about screening programmes here, so the voluntary exercises when you get a letter through the doorstep telling you to go to hospitalfor one through the doorstep telling you to go to hospital for one of these screenings. the government strongly strongly urges people to overcome any fear they might have of going to hospital and keeping these appointments, because keeping these appointments, because keeping these appointments saves lives. all rights, kezia and matt, thank you both very much. i'm not sure if you are staying up for the presidential debate, are you? yes, i am. yes. you are. ok, i will have a cup of coffee and carry on watching. we are on for another hour before that. nice to have you both looking through the papers. things very much indeed. that's our second look at the papers. hi there, good evening.

i'm chetan pathak with your sports news. we will start at tottenham where there was late drama in theirfourth round match against chelsea and the efl cup. spurs scored an equaliser seven minutes from time to take the game to penalties — asjose mourinho's side went on to beat his former team. imran sidat reports. tottenham's fixture congestion may have seenjose mourinho play down their chances in the cup, but will are still hopeful of capturing the first true in 12 years. they were facing chelsea there were splashed out over £200 million the summer and one of those acquisitions showed just why. a clinicalfinish to open the scoring. that did little to calm the tensions on the touchline with tempers flaring between old friends. chelsea's well documented goalkeeping problems have seen them bring in edward mendy, and on his first start, he showed his worth immediately. mourinho's frustrations grew further, at one point storming down the tunnel to summon eric back who had left the field for a toilet break.

with time running out, spurs were rewarded for their pressure, erik lamela pouncing for the equaliser to send the game to penalties. seven minutes from time! it came down to mason mount who's miss sent spurs to quarterfinals. manchester city have signed defender ruben dias from benfica for about £65m, with centre—back nicolas 0tamendi moving the other way. meanwhile, liverpool's thiago alcantara has tested positive for coronavirus and is self—isolating. thiago was signed for 20 million pounds from bayern munich and made his debut in the 2— nil win at chelsea last week. macclesfield town have been expelled from the national league, 13 days after they were wound up by the high court. the club had been due to begin their season against bromley on saturday. the national league said in a statement that the notice of expulsion would take effect from the 12th of october,

with the club being suspended until then and their three scheduled fixtures before that date being postponed. the top two in superleague met this evening. st helens hammered wigan by 42 points to nil. regan grace got two of their seven tries at the aj bell stadium as they leapt above their opponents. wigan drop to fourth. earlier, salford edged warrington by 20 points to 18. essex say their bob willis trophy celebrations did not meet their "inclusive values" after a muslim player was sprayed with alcohol. feroze khushi had beer poured over him on the balcony at lord's following sunday's victory over somerset. the club say they'll educate on diversity and that further work needs to be done across both sport and society in general. now, britain's involvement in the french open singles is over as heather watson became the latest to

exit the competition after the first round stage. watson started well but her french opponent recovered and took the first set to a tie—break which she dominated. again in the second, watson allowed early momentum to fade as the french player took the plate in straight sets. no bricks in round two for the first time in seven years. after the match, watson admitted she can't see where future british success will come from. i think, where future british success will come from. ithink, personally, that more players need to get help rather than just helping your selected, i don't know how many there are, handful of players and i feel like there needs to be a bigger pool of support and then that way, you are not spoiled and you are not given everything out a young age and you can, you need to work for it and learn the grind and the hard work of the tour and what it takes.

meanwhile, the fifth seed past four from two sets down against spain to ta ke from two sets down against spain to take his place in the second round. the greek who had flown to paris straight from playing in the european open on sunday plays uruguay next. and the world number one, novak djokovic came through his first round tied comfortably. took the first set 6— love against the next two also went his way, 6—26— three, but his swedish opponent did manage something very impressive. have a look at this. a hot dog, winning a point, playing the ball through his legs. more reaction to that around the bbc sport website, but for me and the team, that's all your support for now. good night. hello there. most parts of the country enjoyed some sunshine on tuesday — temperatures reached 21 celsius in kent. today, though, we are going to find cooler and wetter weather arriving across the uk,

and sunshine will be in short supply. and that's because all this cloud has been massing out in the atlantic and is now starting to stream in, and these weather fronts are bringing with it some outbreaks of rain that will push their way eastwards steadily through the day. now, ahead of that rain, it's a milder start to the morning. temperatures in double figures in most areas. but the winds could be quite strong and gusty through the irish sea first thing, and we have got a wet start to the day across many western areas. some early brightness perhaps across eastern england, but the rain will push steadily eastward through the day. some heavier rain over some of the western hills. and while some western areas may well turn a bit brighter in the afternoon. there will still be some heavy showers around as well — so not a straightforward clearance. temperatures will be lower — 14 degrees in scotland, northern ireland, highest temperatures in the southeast before that rain sets in from mid afternoon onwards. that rain does then move away overnight. thay weather front takes the rain into the north sea.

then behind the outcome of the air gets cooler. so, temperatures will be lower still, i think, on thursday. may be still quite damp in the northeast of scotland for a while, there will be some sunny spells elsewhere, some showers likely to break out, particularly across more southern and western parts of england and into wales, perhaps into northern ireland as well. at the winds will be lighter, there will be some sunshine at times, but the air is still on the cold side with temperatures only 12—15 degrees on thursday despite the sunshine. as we move things into friday, where we have got the threat of some heavier rain coming into southern parts of the uk, together with some strengthening winds, gales, possibly even severe gales as well. looks a bit drier and less windy as you head northwards into scotland and northern ireland, but it's still on the chilly side. some uncertainty as we head into friday and into the weekend as well, because we've got a potentially rather nasty area of low pressure, and essentially over the weekend, we are going to find low—pressure dominating right the way across the uk. so the weekend forecast doesn't look

particularly appealing. it's going to remain on the chilly side, there will be a lot of cloud around, some strong winds and some rain at times.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm tim willcox. just two hours until they go head to head in theirfirst live televised debate — but have us voters already decided who to back in november's presidential election? why was no police officer directly charged over the death of breonna taylor? the deliberations of a us grand jury will be published on wednesday. walt disney in america plans to lay off almost 30,000 theme parks worker — as its resorts struggle through the coronavirus pandemic. and — as the number of coronavirus cases passes the1 million mark worldwide, we'll find out what medics can do, to get the pandemic under control.