has suspended travelling for her campaign until sunday after her communications director tested positive for covid—19. a non—staff flight crew member on the campaign has also tested positive. joe biden shared several plane journeys with the crew member, but his campaign says he was not in close contact with that person and therefore there is no need for him to quarantine. europe has been toughening its coronavirus restrictions. a night—time curfew has been imposed in paris, bars have been told to shut early in germany, and in london, a ban has been imposed on visiting other people's homes. large numbers of pro—democracy demonstrators in the thai capital bangkok have ignored and emergency decree banning all gatherings of more than five people.

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the broadcaster john stapleton and editor of politics home, kate proctor. great to have you back. let's start with the papers that we already have. boris johnson pushed towards a national lockdown — that's the telegraph's headline as the prime minister fights to save his local lockdown plans in the face of pressure from labour and his own health advisers. the metro features an image of the mayor of greater manchester who has rejected plans to place the city in a stricter lockdown and accused borisjohnson of using northerners as "sacrificial lambs" in the battle against coronavirus. the financial times has the same story on manchester but leads with the news that borisjohnson is expected to try to force brexit trade talks to a moment of crisis, amid claims that brussels is dragging its feet.

the daily express carries a warning from the nhs that millions of missed gp appointments are "a ticking time bomb". the paper reports that many people are said to be scared of catching coronavirus at the doctor's surgery. and an investigation by the times has exposed a russian disinformation campaign which the paper says is designed to undermine and spread fear about the oxford university coronavirus vaccine. so, let's begin... good to have you both with us, we start with the manchester evening news in which casejohn we start with you seeing as you are originally from oldham. the headline is...a originally from oldham. the headline is... a play on words of the 3—tier system, this covid overt levels of

system, this covid overt levels of system and off the back of that a strong announcement or speech that we heard from the greater manchester mayor early today. it certainly was. andy burnham reflecting the views of other mayors in the reaching and several even some conservative mps had a meeting this morning with the health minister and according to the reader of oldham council it did not get off to a flying start... the health minister said we would do this with you or without you and it will happen and not a great start to a meeting when you're looking for cooperation when you're looking for the cooperation of those mps and mayors in the northwest region. a passionate plea from andy burnham and they are being described as being used as canaries and a coal mine and the principal objections we re twofold, mine and the principal objections were twofold, one that it will not work and he claims that one of the

government's chief medical adviser said it won't work and secondly the financial package that accompanies it is simply inadequate and you can't expect people on minimum wage to accept 60% of what they are before if the government is not putting up enough financial aid. the government can impose this on the region if they wish to. on the other hand andy burnham has said in the past that if they do try to impose it, he will take them to court. so it, he will take them to court. so it is an interesting situation for the mayors in the northwest and many mayors including conservative mps deadly a post of this initiative. the quotes and credit the guardian has him on the front page, they pick up has him on the front page, they pick up on the line... he was really not mincing his words asjohn already mentioned the canaries in the coal mine phrase. really strong, so much at stake here and lots of different issues. local

and lots of different issues. local and national leadership coming to a with this one. i expect this will be one of the defining moments in terms of the coronavirus response. this i’ow of the coronavirus response. this row between andy burnham who is the representative i guess now of northern leaders and the government over how you try and introduce very tough coronavirus restrictions, how you try and stop this virus from growing and growing and how you balance that with the economy and trying to make sure thatjobs are still viable. andy burnham clearly lost his temper very much today and felt he was being bounced into a situation that he doesn't have much control over and for some foremost for him is making sure that people get the financial package that he thinks they deserves, not 66% but 80% laypeople had in the furlough scheme if it means that people will

have to shut because of new restrictions. it's a really tough battle and i think andy burnham has been bolstered apparently today by the number of conservative mps from the number of conservative mps from the northwest and lancashire that are backing him as well saying they do not want to go into tier three at all, it is economically very damaging from that perspective. they also don't feel particularly convinced by some of the scientific justification for it. they put that other parts of the uk in places where they had restrictions and felt they have not made a great deal of headway so why should we be experimented with? that is the phrase coming up a lot today. one of the things i don't like of course is this 10pm closing and i have to say i have been listening to government ministers talking all week and they have been asked continually that this makes a significant difference? and i have yet to hear a single one of them make a good case. all we have seen is poor people out on the

streets not separated and apart as they should be down onto the tube trains and trains up and down the country and they party at home. it is counterproductive in many ways was of a difficult situation i must agree because common sense suggests if you reduce the amount of time that people sit together in an enclosed environment, then you three radically at least reduce the possibility of controlling the virus but it doesn't seem to be having the desired effect. you talk about common sense, the daily mail saying an epidemic of madness with millions more being put into lockdown and as you are retouched upon sparking a fresh crisis for struggling businesses. —— as you already touched upon. it is significant when a sometimes friendly paper of the daily mail really highlights all the government's very many families in terms of its response to coronavirus and particularly to how people are

coping at the moment. it is focusing on businesses and i think that is probably the sensible thing for the daily mail to have done and just different interviews i've done with local leaders this week, they are saying very much that they do need more. west yorkshire for example, the offer from the government is that this is grant of £3000 but they are saying we need £5,000 every three weeks to keep our businesses going if they have to shut down because these restrictions. so when you get down to local council level they can be very specific in terms of the financial asks that they think the money they need from the treasury to get through this. but we are not hearing much from the treasury at the moment and the guardian have said that they understood the treasury might be considering giving more money to regional mayors and local council leaders but i think the government thinks there package is really expensive already and they think

that this tier system is worth in fermenting and worth seeing how it goes. i will also add that the mail have been great fun in any kind of intervention on this subject, they have written several articles in the past few weeks saying that but they highlight the confusion which now reigns which is a fair point because there are so many rules and regulations for different parts of the country, you can understand people saying i am confused and have enough. i was watching people on television this afternoon in the verbal and indeed to manchester saying they had enough and one of the leaders in manchester saying one for real concerns was because of the situation we are in now that no matter what the government does to the northwest or anywhere else, and younger people will say we are not putting up with this any more and defy and go their own way which is really very troubling. i think if the government does

insist on bringing this third tier the highest level, and these regions say absolutely no way, what happens, what is the legal result of that? the government can just move them into tier three and those are the rules that they have to abide by. politically it is really bad for the government because they look like they are doing something without local agreements and is a very frustrating situation for central government. manchester have discussed this legal challenge, i could not quite get to the bottom of what that might entail. however there is something, if you are in tier two and you do not have a regulation review for quite a lengthy period of time whereas if you move into tier three then you have the regulations reviewed after every 28 days and i wondered if for some councils that are kept continuously into tier two whether

they might have a strong legal challenge, it was hard for me to work out exactly what the legal challenge might be around tier three restrictions unless it is the government... sorry unless businesses are effectively failing might there be a class action or something like that that could be brought. the government has made it so brought. the government has made it so difficult for businesses that they need a class—action lawsuit, but i don't think andy burnham has done a good job expanding what legal action he is thinking of leaving also to guess whether it is a hollow threat or it has on the behind it. it is also worth remembering that the north of england was the tourism and the last election broke through that red wall, so there has been slightly — — that red wall, so there has been slightly —— they don't want to impose things on them that they do not want. i was up in darlington when the election happened and that

was quite a shock. we are talking politics but the daily express is looking at the health repercussions not just of coronavirus looking at the health repercussions notjust of coronavirus but the looking at the health repercussions not just of coronavirus but the fact that just so many not just of coronavirus but the fact thatjust so many people are worried, anxious of going to the doctors. 26 million missing gp visits and the daily express, ticking time bomb it describes these myths gp visits s. ticking time bomb it describes these myths gp visits 5. and most certainly is. doctors keep saying on television and quite rightly the nhs is open for this is and in most areas it is where the infection rates are high i think they are reaching crisis point and are worried they won't be able to cope and that the repercussions of covid are that many people through a whole variety of reasons are not being treated for very serious conditions they have had for a very long time. i think it is partly down to that as faras my i think it is partly down to that as far as my generation are concerned people are perhaps resistant to go because they are scared of catching the virus and the doctors surgery and in some cases they have to go

online to get an appointment and speak to the doctor and are hesitant and nervous about that and don't wa nt and nervous about that and don't want to go to hospitals where there are coronavirus patients being treated. it is a huge problem and one of this slightly neglected areas of this story touched upon in the times and splashed on the daily express this morning it is a very valid point about which we should all be concerned and i have no idea how you resolve it. kate, have you? know, i don't know how you resolve it. i would know, i don't know how you resolve it. iwould point know, i don't know how you resolve it. i would point out that the figures are saying three in ten appointments are not carried out face—to—face. so that means seven of them are over the telephone or a video call. when this is quite a dramatic thing saying there are 26 million miss gp visits so i do not think it is quite clear whether people are not having their visits entirely or whether their visits have been moved onto a phone or video scenario. unless people don't

find that —— a lot of people don't find that —— a lot of people don't find that —— a lot of people don't find that satisfactory but i think we will see a fundamental shift after the pandemic if we can imagine where that point might be. gp visits will be very different and i think that's something that the government would encourage if things can be done over the telephone, it might work better. i note that is not satisfactory probably for a lot of people but that might be the overall direction of travel in the next few yea rs direction of travel in the next few years that you have more of these online appointment effectively. zoom appointments, i dread it already! the times is looking at an exclusive investigation. it is about disinformation campaign coming from russia that is trying to undermine the vaccine that is being trialed by oxford university. what has at times exposed here? this is an amazing story. astonishing, a campaign by the russians according to the times

a nyway the russians according to the times anyway to undermine the efforts of the university to come up with a vaccine to help save us all. they are saying this vaccine, the russians are saying, could turn us all into monkeys, i am not kidding. it could turn people into monkeys because it uses a chimpanzee's virus asa because it uses a chimpanzee's virus as a vector. i haven't the faintest idea of whether that is remotely possible. i was suggested almost certainly is not. this vaccine is being developed by eminent scientists and physicians at cambridge university but it's amazing story. they are selling this information where they the russians are trying to flunk their own vaccine switches we've not called sputnik. whatever will they come with next? as for oxford university the race to get the vaccine, we are talking about oxford and hopefully —— hopefully the russians showing a

picture of an angry monkey in this. quite a sterner and stresses how important it is to be aware of disinformation. let's move onto the financial times because brexit will leave coronavirus for the time being facet leave coronavirus for the time being fa cet b rea ks leave coronavirus for the time being facet breaks it back on the agenda, k two. we had to leaders summit today. not much movement but we have heard statements from the german chancellor ankle of merkel quoting her saying there was some movement in some places. —— angela merkel. in some places she said there was more movement to be done. we will hear more from the prime minister tomorrow and the position we are at at the moment is that the eu have effectively said "we object your intensifying of talks. we don't wa nt to your intensifying of talks. we don't want to have these very intense negotiations every day, we are rolling it back a little bit." they are saying now that they are going to prioritise for their own sake

looking at no deal planning was up the eu is framing this whole situation right now as they are trying to take the foot... sorry, we arejust trying to take the foot... sorry, we are just trying to take a step back and let britain come forward with an offer, what britain fear the anxiety and try to come up with something to effectively strike a deal so we can avoid going onto world trade organisation terms from january. i think we are hurrying a lot of rhetoric that europe is waiting for us rhetoric that europe is waiting for us to cave and rhetoric that europe is waiting for us to cave and come rhetoric that europe is waiting for us to cave and come back with something whether that might be something whether that might be something on fishing remains to be seen. something on fishing remains to be seen. but boris johnson something on fishing remains to be seen. but borisjohnson is meant to make some kind of statement tomorrow to update people on what is happening. it is very difficult to really get an accurate assessment. i feel like we are very much at the stage of rhetoric, smoke and

mirrors, trying to outmaneuver the other one. people say the eu will try to take things down to the wire andi try to take things down to the wire and i wonder if we are seeing a little bit of that at this moment in particular. there is some disappointment from the british side, david frost saying that he was surprised by the suggestion that to getan surprised by the suggestion that to get an agreement on future moves must come from the uk. it is that kind of chewing and flowing from these two sides. it is the brinkmanship with scene right from the very start of this saga and the only thing i heard today was the irish taoiseach who suggested the cove n irish taoiseach who suggested the coven crisis could actually be a key to this in the sense no one from either side wants to impose no deal come on 27 european countries and the uk given the other problems we got. to be quite frank with you, brexit as important as it is is not at the top of most people's to do this right now and although we had to resolve it quickly, i think kate is right. i think they're looking

for some concessions from britain and perhaps most important on the fishing front but borisjohnson will be loath to do that given the promises he made to those communities in the past and given the fact he took some seats in fishing communities in the northeast of them and he won't want to lose and scotland a big fishing industry where there is a growing sense among people for independence and they feel betrayed by this government over fishing and they won't be funny for him again or they may be voting for him again or they may be voting for scottish independence. —— won't be voting for him again.|j for scottish independence. —— won't be voting for him again. i want at sake of course. what is finished with the daily telegraph which has her majesty the queen and her first publication outside her royal residence in seven months you think back to her appearance on television when she gave that really uplifting speech. did you know her reduced household staff is called hms bubble? know her reduced household staff is called hms bubble ?|j know her reduced household staff is called hms bubble? i should they are testing almost every day to make

sure the queen can operate in a covert secure way. it is probably a very unpopular opinion but if the queen had decided to wear a face mask today, it might have sent a very strong message for just how important and crucial wearing a facemask can be in stopping the coronavirus. she is not someone to make gestures or pick symbols in that way but i can't help think that it would've been quite a powerful thing for her to have done although there may be many reasons why she chose not to. i do not know what you thinkjohn about that.|j chose not to. i do not know what you thinkjohn about that. i think you're being very diplomatic, kate. go on, john you're not diplomatic. we should point out that it was a cove rt we should point out that it was a covert secure we should point out that it was a cove rt secure area , we should point out that it was a covert secure area, all the people she met today have been tested negative before they encountered the queen but i agree with you quite frankly. they poured on the science parts when it comes to a place that is secure, you parts when it comes to a place that is secure, you can parts when it comes to a place that is secure, you can get parts when it comes to a place that is secure, you can get more secure is secure, you can get more secure than that. kate, john thank you for

yourinput than that. kate, john thank you for your input and taking us through these papers and a lot of interesting stories and insight as always. thank you for giving up your time and thank you to all our inferiors who have been with us for these two editions of papers. hello, i'm tulsen tollett and this is your sports news. the english football league has rejected the proposed £50 million bailout from the premier league. the offer would have helped teams in league's one and two, but not the championship. in a statement the efl said...

earlier, i spoke with the tranmere rovers chairman mark palios and asked him why the bail out was rejected. i think to use the term "rejected" is slightly harsh, i think it has been politely declined. i think the first thing is that it's recognised that the problem facing the efl — and this is the efl as a whole — is the size of about £250 million, and while it is respectfully understood that his is an offer for leagues one and two, there's a real strong feeling of solidarity and the collective, and the collective is 72 clubs, not just the clubs that exist and in league i and league 2.

that's the first thing, it appears this divisive, i'm not so sure it was particularly aimed to be divisive but it could potentially be divisive. that's one of the reasons why, at the end of the day, the premier league rejected the suggestion of the top—six clubs in terms of the project big picture because at the end of the day, there were cognisant of the impact it would have on the pyramid, and i think equally to just go ahead with this type of scenario in leagues one and two, again, iwould personally think would, again, start to reinforce differences and potentially, again, fracture the pyramid. the efl‘s rejection of the proposed bail out comes after clubs in the top flight unanimously rejected the more radical changes proposed by "project big picture". former fa chairman david bernstein is convinced that the governance of english football needs reforming. football may come kicking and screaming into this. it will have to be four—star football. and yes, i mean, history has repeated itself time and time again,

football has not taken up the opportunities that it has had to fundamentally reform and we are seeing the consequences. it is there front of us. everyone agrees something has to be done but people may differ on what that might be. i think the other things you're seeing are potentially, either unworkable or destructive for the game. my feeling is just try to keep this pyramid together, keep the base strong as possible because that is the glory of the english game. in scotland, two st mirren players have returned positive covid—i9 tests and another member of the first team is also self—isolating as a precaution. the cases were detected in routine screening on monday, and all three will miss saturday's scottish premiership match with motherwell. it is the second time this season the club have suffered an outbreak. salford red devils have been dealt a blow in the run up to their challenge cup final at wembley after two players tested positive for coronavirus. dan sarginson and jack ormondroyd will miss out on saturday's match against leeds

after returning positive tests. it comes on top of a spate of injured players also being ruled out of one of the biggest games in the clubs history. on the pitch this evening leaders st helens took the outright lead at the top of the super league with a comfortable a8—6 win over bottom side wakefield trinity. saints tommy makinson ran in a hat—trick of tries. they're two points clear of wigan, whose match against catalans dragons was postponed after several wigan players tested positive for coronavirus. and one rugby union line to bring you. ulster captain iain henderson will miss the remainder of ireland's six nations campaign after getting a three—match ban for his red card against ospreys in the proili. he was sent off for a dangerous tackle last weekend. ronnie o'sullivan has crashed out of the english open in the third round after a comprehensive four frames to one defeat to matthew stevens welshman stevens wrapped up victory with an impressive break of 116.

since winning his sixth world title in august, o'sullivan has struggled — he also lost in the second round of the european masters. three days after winning the women's french open, 19—year—old iga swiatek says she's still not recovered from the whirlwind of taking the title. the pole beat sofia kenin in the final at roland garros, becoming the only unseeded player to ever win the french open. actually, i didn't have time to reflect. even have time to unpack from the whole trip. so, really, it's pretty crazy here in poland, and being around fans is also new for me, so i have to learn a lot about that. and i'm still going to need some time to look at the whole tournament from a different perspective. finally chris gayle — the self styled universe boss — has been back to what he does best smashing the ball out of the ground. gayle hadn't played since january but showed no signs of rust

hitting a quick 53 as his kings eleven punjab side beat royal challengers bangalore in the ipl holding the bat upside down while celebrating his fifty was just about the only thing he got wrong. and everything else you can go to the bbc sport website. and that's all the sport for now. hello there. we're moving into a quieter spell of weather. it may only be short—lived, mind you. essentially we've got high pressure dominating but again the centre of the high pressure is towards the north of the uk, hence those winds off the north sea as we've seen over the past few days bringing with them a few showers as well. probably not as many showers today compared with what we had yesterday. and more places will be dry with a little sunshine. but it will be a chilly start to the day on friday especially where we've got the clearer skies in the west. we start with a few showers mainly for the eastern parts of england.

they'll run their way through lincolnshire through the midlands towards parts of wales and some showers in the extreme south—east of england, the odd one possibly in northern ireland too. but more sunshine for south—west england and more sunshine for northern england. and the best of the sunshine in scotland, i think, will be across the western side of the country. for many parts of scotland, it looks cloudy. it's going to be a cool day as it was yesterday. that cloud continues to push down across scotland into northern england. one or two showers continuing into the night, may be a few more showers arriving in the far south—west of england as well but probably not quite as cold early on saturday morning compared with friday morning. those temperatures under the cloud around 6—7 celsius. the weekend looks quiet, little or no wind. the winds very light, we have a lot of cloud around, many places will be dry and still quite cool. got a few showers towards the south coast of england, the south west. the odd one from the cloud across england and wales and a bit of drizzle coming in across northern and eastern scotland perhaps into the north—east of england. that's going to make it feel quite cold. temperatures struggling to make

double figures in northern scotland. i2—i3 again is going to be a fairly typicalfigure, a lot of cloud around too. and on the whole, it looks quite cloudy on sunday but if anything, the cloud is a little bit thinner for many areas, so a better chance of seeing some sunshine. a better day for the south west of england for example. but signs of a little rain just beginning to arrive in northern ireland, perhaps the north—west of scotland, and that's a sign of things to come really because if we look further ahead into the early part of next week, instead of high pressure dominating the weather, the pressure is falling and low pressure is going to take charge. you can see we've got a number of weather fronts on the scene as well. so, we can tidy that up really into just this sort of headline because the early part of next week looks like it's going to be a big change in the weather to wet and windy conditions, maybe not quite as chilly as the weekend.

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