tv The Papers BBC News October 4, 2020 11:30pm-11:46pm BST
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it may even be through to christmas. it may even be bumpy beyond. but this is the only way to do it. the cinema chain — cineworld —is expected to close indefinitely in the uk and elsewhere — with more than 5 thousand jobs are at risk here. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are thejournalist and broadcaster, caroline frost and the parliamentary journalist, tony grew. no sign of any cats working into shot just yet anyway. welcome to you both. let's start the guardian. the guardian reveals information from leaked documents which show plans to simplify local lockdowns with a new three tier traffic—light system. meanwhile the mail looks at tonight's news that a "technical glitch" resulted in nearly 16,000 cases of coronavirus being missed from
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the government's official tally. the daily telegraph, too, leads on the issues reporting coronavirus cases which they say mean tens of thousands of people who were exposed to the virus are only being contacted now. the financial times reports a stark warning from the head of the government's vaccination task force that less than half the uk population can expect to be vaccinated against coronavirus. an exclusive for the express with the health secretary matt hancock who says brexit will help save lives by allowing new drugs to be approved faster. "i'll be back soon". the i leads on the statement made earlier by president trump — who could be discharged from hospital tomorrow — after treatment for coronavirus. the times says criminals are avoiding jail or having sentences reduced due to harsher coronavirus measures in prisons.and sentences reduced due to harsher coronavirus measures in prisons. and "horror at the movies" — the mirror reports the news of cineworld's plans to close all its 127 cinemas until next year — with 5,500 jobs on the line.
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so, let's begin. we start with the times and a picture here of president trump are working while in hospital and has been given steroid treatment that is normally only used if you are in a very serious state and on a ventilator, cover—up fears over his health. i want but doesn't add up, tony. as usual with donald trump it is hard to tell what is and isn't the truth. i think that will most concerned the president is the polling contained within this story that says 65% of americans think that says 65% of americans think that if donald trump had taken coronavirus more seriously, he would not now be sick. 90% of those were democrats thinking the case but 50% of republicans, we are less than a month of way from the russian he has tried to pitch about the economy and a strike to avoid coronavirus becoming an issue and now it is the only thing people are talking about.
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—— from an election he has tried to pitch about the economy. people with mild symptoms show symptoms for up with mild symptoms show symptoms for up to 14 days. and i think the dangerous thing could happen here is the president is release and becomes much worse and must be rushed back in the hospital and that would be catastrophic for his campaign at this stage. that's before we talk about something people suffer from long covid where they appear to recover and are poorly for months and months. we have this extraordinary spectacle as well which i think we can show again of the president despite being treated for covid—19 getting into his armoured car and doing a quick sort of tootle up and down pass all his supporters who have been camped out very dedicated fans who wanted to see him just for a moment. very much plane to his base i think is the phrase. as tony said wads of
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questions, one at the conspiracies was that the piece of paper he was signing was blank so he was perhaps practising his signature for when he does leave the hospital but interesting days ahead. let us assume this is all very positive and exactly what they are telling us. even so questions do remain about what he will be able to do, how he will played his illness as the poll says sissy 5% said where were you, you walk straight into this and could have managed this so much better? will he show a humility card for the first time ever and say i understand your pain, but skip people money and learn together and get more sympathy than perhaps he would ever have got otherwise or bill he emerged as the man from atlantis, i have over read a man —— a illness of skilled mere mortals... it is interesting even as a political documentation of the day succumb, ifind it fascinating.
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political documentation of the day succumb, i find it fascinatinglj have been to school, he said. let's look at the telegraph. covid cases lost and tests and transponderfor covid cases lost and tests and transponder for that this is the 16,000 cases which somehow did not get recorded due to some technical glitch. —— test and trace reports loss... they were not part of the test and trace system. my understanding is these people receive the news of their positive test but that was not fit in what people bizarrely referred to as nhs te st people bizarrely referred to as nhs test and trace, it is nothing to do with nhs, it is a private company with nhs, it is a private company with a whitney of failures that is not tracing people as well as a chat. scotland's system traces around 99% of contracts. and this intestine trace system is reaching 5455% so this is obviously concerning but it is concerning in the much wider contests and that the tests and trace system in england is significantly underperforming and makes it very difficult to stop the
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virus because if you cannot trace anyone that has been in contact with someone anyone that has been in contact with someone i tell them they must self—isolate a method that is one of the major ways in which the pirates will spread around. it is called the nhs intestine trace app which is how we are all encouraged refer to it. but if we can't rely on the figures, we don't know how bad the virus is and what the real our rate is, caroline. we don't and as you say without that concrete pillar in the sand what do we base all the other things we hear about? do we have credibility for lockdown messages are continuing restrictions on social and economic behaviour? we are being told always to listen to the government and those messages and follow the guidelines having all oui’ and follow the guidelines having all our best interests at heart but if they cannot rely in the figures than there is nothing to base any of it on. so we go back to that slightly fudge message that borisjohnson had for us this morning which was we are doing the best we can, it's all about the economy and user common
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sense and we will get through this possibly but no longer before christmas. it is been nudged forward i think for some everybody is hoping for more concrete information in days to come stop by the financial times says the task force who is heading up the vaccination programme. . . heading up the vaccination programme... for britain says we are just not all going to get this vaccine even when it comes on stream. this is the twin disaster, these two hauled away to the pandemic had been track and trace and hope of a vaccination, all roads have been leading to those two points where we will emerge from this bunker of doom we have all been living through and now we are told that it living through and now we are told thatitis living through and now we are told that it is not that straightforward, the vaccine when it does arrive will not cover the entire universe as we probably all thought we would be but if that will be adults only and then they will start to have to almost triage who gets it and when. it is very couple gated but in certain
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cases there is sanction to essential key workers or people with backgrounds because they are more generally... is not as straightforward as we are all thinking. a side bar on the ft says china is rolling out vaccines that are highly risky because the trials have not been finished. but here tony have not been finished. but here to ny eve n have not been finished. but here tony even if we had a vaccine, the logistics of trying to vaccinate on entire population has never been done before, all in one go? the country has long established vaccination programmes for children but are also the flu vaccine... but they had done it bits at a time but we're trying to do it all at once. we won't be trying to do it all at once and one of the failures of government is trying to point out to people isjust because of vaccine has been discovered, it will not be discovered on monday and then monday 670 people will be able to have a vaccination. i have a twofold
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concern about rich people buying vaccines without weenie for the government and there is a significant number of stupid people who are anti—vaccination and think the whole thing is a hoax and both of those issues will cause problems with having some sort of national vaccine strategy. i love having you on, we don't miss our —— mince our words with mr grew. talk to us about shorter sentences. this is at odds with the story we we re this is at odds with the story we were running recently that said the government was going to toughen up on sentences. weiss is happening? the guidelines have been changed to reflect the fact that prisoners who many of whom are already in victorian prisons, one of the is successful governments have talked about building new prisons have not built them and the second thing to note is it is rightly unserious criminals, murderers, paedophiles, though sort of people but in fact britain has the largest prison
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population in western europe, we lock up far too many people compared to our neighbouring countries. and i think one of the issues though it is not particularly trendy to talk about, it is all being easy talking about, it is all being easy talking about being tough on crime but to reduce crime you have to... you need to tackle poverty, therefore million children living in poverty and these are useful headlines that create conversation but the underlying structural issue is something we need to think more about. we hear from the chief executive of prison —— of prisons saying these are bad prisons with back conditions... as tony was talk about is you must deal with how we treat with criminals and we agreed the data does stand that reoffending goes down the better you treat prisoners once they are within the prison system and the more you can educate and more technically you can educate and more technically you ca n afford can educate and more technically you can afford them, i know that sounds horribly softy lefty but it but it
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is selfish because we will be reaping this benefit. when all the structures breakdown and they are left to spend time on their own, all the things we hope for them to emerge into society better and more generous and altruistic, the whole thing falls apart as well as... we all worry quite rightly about care homes and all stretches of society. this group of people should not be escaping people's concern. softy lefty , escaping people's concern. softy lefty, think it's levelled at us quite often. daily mirror horror at the movies, 127 cinemas likely to close until next year at least from cineworld. it seems cinemas have reopened but not as many people fought back to them and i assume this has to do with concerns about infections. this is a wider issue with the cultural sector which is hugely important notjust for our soft power before the economy, dozens of major films are
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produced in this country and this is just the end product of a crisis within that whole sector with millions of people facing uncertainty and unemployment. i feel very sorry for the workers who might find themselves unemployed because of this decision but as i say within the cultural sector, they are one of a small cohort of a very significant numberof a small cohort of a very significant number of people, whose livelihoods are injeopardy. this number of people, whose livelihoods are in jeopardy. this new s-tier system of the highest level of alert, a lot of hospitality and leisure facilities would find themselves in the same but have just been told to shut. yes and to follow on from tony, this came on the back of the james bond film being delayed once again yesterday and that film must be cursed, we have had the week to script, the change of director and now to delays. but as tony said as his tour of the hospitality sector, this is not daniel craig's swimming pole not being built. this is an enormous number of swimming pool —— 20 people in this —— working
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people... it is a great trench of people... it is a great trench of people we can only hope that somehow the switches get levelled because borisjohnson has the switches get levelled because boris johnson has made the switches get levelled because borisjohnson has made it clear the one thing that is not to be compromises returning to schools and school children and all those other industries are having to think how do we through this? finally, the guardian, the most unusual london marathon ever and three women must be crossing their own finish line in the middle of a massive puddle, something that lots of people have shared today if they we re of people have shared today if they were deaf enough to run this! —— daft enough to run this.|j were deaf enough to run this! —— daft enough to run this. i hope they can feel pride in their achievement, it is pretty singular when did you not run the london marathon? i rented in 2020 and circumstances of com plete rented in 2020 and circumstances of complete chaos mostly done with an app and with these atrocious weather conditions just to app and with these atrocious weather conditionsjust to add app and with these atrocious weather conditions just to add further gra nts to conditions just to add further grants to their mill. there were no world records set but plenty of
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money raised hopefully tony for charities that are really needy at the moment. absolutely and i know a couple of people who were running the marathon this year had a delay earlier in the year and they were concerned obviously for their own aspiration of wanting to run the marathon but that they wanted to raise money for their preferred charity. i am raise money for their preferred charity. lam in raise money for their preferred charity. i am in office everybody who did this in this period for some janet who did this in this period for some janetjones on who did this in this period for some janet jones on twitter says you have both been in fine form tonight, never both been in fine form tonight, never mince her words. like reuther, i miss having you here. you never get used to it. loving to see you both, tony grew, caroline frost, thank you for looking at the papers with us. don't forget your back paper in the morning. coming up next, the film review. night night.
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hello and welcome to the film review with me mark kermode — rounding up the best movies available for viewing in cinemas and in the home. back in 2004, bill murray earned his only oscar nomination for lost in translation, written and directed by sofia coppola. hi, dad. hey, kiddo. now the pair have re—teamed for on the rocks, a whimsical father—daughter comedy starring the brilliant rashida jones as laura, a 30—something mother that starts to doubt her husband's fidelity. here. you sure you don't want to use your phone? marlon wayans is dean, whose numerous business trips have increasingly taken him away from his wife and young kids.
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